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An Israeli national sandwich, coming to a plate near youMichael NatkiN JTNews Columnist

Sabich was a popular Shab-bat food for Iraqi Jews, and when they immigrated to Israel and set up a community in Ramat Gan, the sandwich came with them. It has since gained widespread popularity.

There is something about the creaminess of the egg and the fried goodness of the egg-plant that work really well together, and then the gar-nishes of Israeli salad (toma-toes, cucumbers with a bit of lemon juice), hummus, onions, pickles, parsley, and amba (pick-led mango) give your mouth the full workout of sweet, spicy, sour, herbacious, smooth and crispy.

If you can’t find amba, mix together diced fresh mango with minced preserved lemon and a Sriracha-type hot sauce to taste.

SabichMakes 4 sandwichesVegetarian; vegan if you omit the egg. Gluten-free if you omit the pita and serve as a salad.2 Roma tomatoes, finely diced1/2 English cucumber, finely dicedJuice of 1 lemon1-2 large eggplants, peeled and

sliced 1/4" or so thickVegetable oil for fryingKosher salt4 hardboiled eggs, peeled and sliced

Hummus (store bought or your own)Prepared tahini (store bought or your own)1/2 bunch flat leaf parsley leaves1/2 small white onion, minced1/2 cup pickles, cut into small slices or cubesAmba or hot sauce of your choice4 pieces pita bread

• Make a simple salad with the toma-toes, cucumber, and lemon juice, with salt to taste.

• Fry the eggplant in batches until thor-oughly tender and browned; drain on paper towels and sprinkle with salt.

• While the eggplant is frying, put the eggs, tahini, parsley, onion, pickle, and amba in bowls.

• Toast or grill the pita bread. Let every-one build a sandwich with as much or as little of each ingredient as they please.

Local food writer and chef Michael Natkin is the author of the recently released cookbook, “Herbivoracious, A Flavor Revolution with 150 Vibrant and Original Vegetarian Recipes,” based on his food blog, herbivoracious.com.

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“The person’s primary function is to run the agency that they get paid for, but they cannot have a blind eye to what’s happening in the total community, because what happens to one affects the other.”

Josh Gortler, former Kline Galland CEO, on Seattle’s Jewish leadership changeover. Read the story on page 6.

Spring, rebirth: Life goes onRabbi DaNiel a. SeptiMuS Temple De hirsch Sinai

I have a confession to make. It has been several months since I consistently visited Seward Park in the morning, which was a part of my daily routine from the very first moment we arrived in Seattle. The temptations were there to distract me: The winter was miserable; I wanted to spend more time with my family in the morn-ing; I wanted to get just a few more min-utes of sleep. Just as the weather gets more and more intolerable, as we eagerly antic-ipate spring to reveal itself, nature is a reminder that things do come back to life, despite the length and harshness of winter.

It was a walk through Seward Park that jogged my memory. Though I walked in very cold weather, which necessitated that I bundle up in several layers and put on my gloves, the trees and plants are blooming with beautiful colors, reminding me that no matter how harsh winter can be in Seat-tle, the cycle of life continues.

The reemergence of nature after sev-eral months of dormancy serves as an example of how life goes on. Though times are tough in our lives — we have worries about the continued economic crisis and other complexities of the world — we, as human beings, through our efforts, can reemerge. Or, as we popularly say, “life goes on.”

While it seems we have a “Ground-hog Day” experience in Seattle, we emerge enlightened from season to season. Like a tree, we shed our leaves or a few branches, but the roots grow only stronger and trunks only thicker. In life our wisdom

strengthens as we age. From a Jewish perspective, our understanding of Torah only becomes more complex and sophisticated. We learn from our mistakes and adapt to old and new circumstances.

In times such as these, when our problems seem insurmountable, a positive comes from a challenge. We grow in our wisdom, and

make tough choices for the future. The roots, the Torah and other traditional texts, remain the same. But the commen-tary and perspectives we add serve to aug-ment what has been handed down to us from our ancestors.

Our challenge is to remain positive and optimistic that things will get better. It requires a certain degree of faith, because we ultimately take the initiative. Like the cold and darkness of winter, there is seem-ingly little light to guide us.

But just as God continues to give us the seasons to remind us of the cycle of life, God is with us throughout the good and bad times as well. God provides the light for us; we have to allow it to guide us through dark and cold times. And we have to be thankful for it in good times as well, for this light does not depend on the seasons. God’s light, in other words, tran-scends the natural cycle of the earth and universe, and therefore, is there to lead us at every moment.

May God bless us with light in this season of rebirth. And may God’s light grant us the strength we need to make it through any season, both physical and emotional.

judaism means advocating for human rights

While Jews for Judaism (“Missionary Impossible,” March 22) staff present themselves in

such a straight manner as to make their outreach success to young Jews (who are at highest

risk for victimization by conversion campaigners) unlikely, they do offer an important if sym-

bolic counter to legions of Jews for Jesus and numerous Christian church activists who spend

tens of millions of dollars and untold work and volunteer hours annually targeting young MOTs.

In the last year paid films placed by Jews for Judaism on YouTube have offered an impor-

tant countermeasure to multitudes of Jews for Jesus and Aroodawakening ads placed on

YouTube’s pages where films of Jewish content, especially Shoah subject matter, are viewed.

Using still pictures, Aroodawakening promotes the ancient canard that Jews and Romans

caused Jesus’ crucifixion, and that Jews today are guilty of this crime.

But this was great! I burst out laughing on reading that rabbi Skobac “spent his first five

years at Northwestern University shunning Judaism and advocating for human rights, even

going on a three-week hunger strike.” All power to the people, Rav Skobac!

By advocating for human rights, the rabbi engaged in a very basic core Jewish value. For

him to look back and say that he was “shunning Judaism,” inferred for not observing kashrut,

Shabbat or putting on tefillin, is goofy.

Each of the main groups of American Jews today has no shortage of human rights activism

to choose from. We are landsmen across the denominational divide, from Renewal to Ortho-

dox; the younger Jews who attend independent minyanim; and Jews who synagogue hop for

services; and secular Jews.

To not engage in supporting basic human rights needs is antithetical to Jewishness. Amidst

our new cars, high-tech communication tools, social networking and vacations, there’s need:

Poverty, hunger, insufficient health care, education, literacy, clothing, shelter, homelessness,

drug addiction, alcoholism, youth at high risk, disabled and elderly in need, millions in prison,

and hundreds of thousands of survivors of shootings. Be a real Torah Jew! Help heal the world

(tikkun olam) by volunteering (tzedakah)! If not now, when?

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On Tuesday, April 16, Northwest Yeshiva High School students, staff, and friends participated in the school’s third annual Walk for Israel. They heard from Hen Mazzig, StandWithUs Northwest’s shaliach before walking to Island Crust Café for a pizza lunch. The walk was created in 2011 by NYHS alumna Sarah Varon, and was sponsored this year by the NYHS student council, Island Crust Café, StandWithUs Northwest, Hadassah, and NCSY.

Who bombed Boston? Word for now is cautionRoN kaMpeaS JTa World News ServiceANALYSIS

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The day after the Boston Marathon bombing, President Obama called it an “act of ter-rorism.” What kind of terrorism, no one was ready to say — a caution that derives from years of wrongful speculation that on occasion has ruined innocent lives.

Hours after the attack Monday that killed three and injured scores, Obama in a television address refrained from using the word “terrorism.” He did use it Tues-day, but wrapped it deep in caveats.

“Given what we now know about what took place, the FBI is investigating it as an act of terrorism,” Obama said in a White House briefing. “Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians it is an act of terror. What we don’t yet know, how-ever, is who carried out this attack or why; whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organization, foreign or domes-

tic; or was it the act of a malevolent indi-vidual. That’s what we don’t yet know.”

Jewish groups and officials who track such incidents took the same tack, declin-ing to engage in conjecture given the lim-ited information about the attack.

“We know that unfortunately 30 per-cent of terrorist attacks had Jewish insti-tutions as secondary targets,” said Paul Goldenberg, the director of the Secure Community Network, the security arm of the national Jewish community, on Monday. “However, I must stress that there is absolutely nothing here that indi-cates any connection to an attack on the Jewish community. But based on history, we are standing vigilant for at least the next 48 hours.”

Over the last year, evidence has emerged that Hezbollah and others acting

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WHO HELPED HER FINISH A MARATHON?A Technion alumnus did. In May 2012, paraplegic Claire Lomas finished

the London Marathon in 14 days using ReWalk, a lightweight, computer-

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who is paralyzed from the chest down. Says Goffer of his invention,

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Technion, which is priceless.” And he is developing ReWalk further,

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at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. As one of the world’s

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■ Friday, April 19 to Sunday, April 21Humanistic rabbi to lead Shabbaton in Seattle

Rabbi Binyamin Biber, one of only a dozen Humanistic rabbis in the U.S., will lead a Shabbaton with the Secular Jewish Circle this weekend. At a secular Shabbat service Friday night at 6:30, Biber will speak on “Spirituality: Deepening the Experience of Our Jewishness.” On Saturday night at 7:30, he’ll address “Pursuing Justice: Secular Human-ist Approaches to Tikkun Olam.” On Sunday at 10 a.m., he will present on “Humanistic Jewish Parenting: Identity and Development in a Multicultural Society.”

In the Wallingford, Seattle area. Call Judi at 206-356-1814 for more information and the location.

■ Friday, April 19 to Sunday, April 21Shabbaton with Nigel Savage

Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation welcomes scholar-in-residence Nigel Savage, founder of Jewish environmental organization Hazon, to lead a Shabbaton on “Jews, Food and Contemporary Life.” Savage will lead multiple discussions and study ses-sions, including “The Jewish Omnivore’s Dilemma” on Friday night, “Why Be Jewish if I Can Just be a Good Person?” on Saturday afternoon, and “Eco Judaism and the Art of Bicy-cle Riding” Sunday morning, followed by an Earth Day bike ride.

For more information and to register, visit www.h-nt.org/our-congregation/learning/SIR.

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on behalf of Iran have stepped up plans to attack Jewish and Israeli targets, par-tially in response to increased pressure on Iran over its suspected nuclear weapons program. There has also been evidence since Obama’s 2008 election of intensified domestic violence by anti-government and white supremacist groups.

The Anti-Defamation League in an April 8 security bulletin noted that the week of April 20 — Hitler’s birthday — is a period of heightened alert due to the his-tory of right-wing violence that coincides with it. The violence includes the 1993 storming of the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, Texas, and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, both on April 19.

“As a consequence of these anniversa-ries and the symbolism and significance of these dates, anti-government extremist groups, such as militia groups, may target April 19,” the ADL said. “Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups have a history of staging events on or close to April 20.”

The low-tech nature of the device used in Boston — a “pressure cooker” that relays shrapnel upon explosion — sug-gests the attacker was not part of a sophis-ticated network, said David Schanzer, a terrorism expert at Duke University.

“The only thing we do know is the amount of damage and destruction and power these bombs have,” Schanzer said. “It was a successful bomb but it didn’t bring the buildings down. That tells you something about the bomber and the

types of materials used. If a group was determined and capable of planting a bomb in this particular spot, it would want to use the most sophisticated bomb they were capable of creating.”

Schanzer was careful to qualify even that insight, saying there were some sce-narios in which a sophisticated group might consider using a crude device. Such caution derives from multiple specula-tions over the years that ultimately have embarrassed their purveyors and in some cases had dire consequences.

Some experts at first blamed the bomb-ing of the Oklahoma City federal building on Muslim extremists, but anti-govern-ment extremists were found to be the cul-prits. Law enforcement authorities leaked the name of Richard Jewell, a private secu-

rity guard, as a person of interest follow-ing the 1996 bombing attack at the Atlanta Olympics. Though Jewell ultimately was vindicated, he spent the rest of his life trying to regain a semblance of normalcy. Jewell died in 2007 at 44.

Matthew Levitt, a former FBI analyst who now directs the Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s counterterrorism project, said he expected more information would soon become available. Agents were scouring the bombing area for DNA and reviewing the wealth of video likely col-lected by hundreds of marathon watchers.

“When something does go boom, there’s no one better than the FBI at this,” Levitt said. “There’s a tremendous number of people working on this all over the world.”

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Coming upapril 26Grow a Garden

Changing of the guard 6The second in a series about our community’s leadership turnover looks into the hiring process for new executives, and what it will take for them to succeed.

new up north 7Seattle’s North End has the fastest growing Jewish community, and, perhaps, the most innovative one, too.

a musical touch 8Music mogul Charles Fox, of “Killing Me Softly” and “Happy Days” fame, brings his story to the piano at the JCC’s Jewish Touch lecture.

a pilgrimage through text 11During this pilgrimage season between Passover and Shavuot, a lifelong learner takes a Chaucerian journey through Pirke Avot.

until 120… 24Ruth Schocken has seen a lot during her century of life, from the Nazi invasion of her hometown to the blessing of eight great-grandchildren.

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The welcoming committee at Seattle Hebrew Academy holds up its flags on Tuesday in honor of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day. The school held daylong programs to celebrate the Jewish State’s 65th birthday.

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Around these parts, it’s always smart to make your plans as if rain will intrude. This is not a new idea. In 1 Kings 18, King Ahab hears the prophet Elijah tell him, “Eat and drink, for there is the sound of rain.” Seven times, Ahab saw no rain in the sky, so seven times he doubted its arrival. Sure enough, after the seventh time, a mighty downpour rolled on through. In this puzzle, expect that seven times, rain is coming.

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On the lookout for new leadershipJoel MagalNick editor, JTNews

Editor’s Note: This is part two in a series about the turnover in the Seattle Jewish

community’s leadership.With the turnover of so many top-

level Jewish professionals in our com-munity, what should agencies be looking for in their new leadership? Josh Gortler, who spent 37 years as CEO of the Caroline Kline Galland and Associates nursing and senior-care facilities, has a unique insight into this Jewish community.

“It is not a job, it is a commitment,” Gortler told JTNews. “The person’s pri-mary function is to run the agency that they get paid for, but they cannot have a blind eye to what’s happening in the total community, because what happens to one affects the other.”

Three major organizations, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Jewish Family Service of Greater Seattle and the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seat-tle hope to announce new leaders in the coming months. As was reported in the April 5 issue of JTNews, a half dozen syna-gogues are seeking new rabbis or executive directors as well.

A Jewish professional, Gortler noted, “is representing not only their own institution, but they’re representing the entire Jewish community. We’re all part of the kehilla.”

And being part of the kehilla, the com-munity, Gortler said, means support of everyone’s religious observance — or lack thereof — and other organizations within the community.

“Your institution has to be number uno, but you cannot move your eye from the rest of the community,” he said.

Judy Neuman, CEO of the Stroum Jewish Community Center, echoed many of Gortler’s sentiments.

“I hope that they’re creative thinkers [and] I hope that they would put a high premium on true, community collabora-tion,” she said, “both in terms of strategi-cally thinking about the community more holistically and working together to serve those needs.”

Neuman pointed to her own experi-ence of having worked in the corporate world for many years, and as a lay leader in the Jewish community, which gave her good insights into both. She said she hoped that local agencies might take a look at someone with similar experience.

“That gave me a big running start, and it also helped me think communally and not only just the JCC,” she said.

In its search for a new chief executive, representatives from the Jewish Federa-tion of Greater Seattle conducted close to 100 interviews — not of candidates, but of “community members, donors, non-donors, partners, rabbis, etcetera, etcetera,” said Robin Boehler, who with Andrew Cohen co-chairs the Federation’s CEO search committee.

Those meetings resulted in a list of

nearly unanimous attributes: “Thinking and acting strategically, communicating effectively, inspiring others in building commitment, and leading and managing change,” Boehler said.

Given the Federation’s flagging or flat community campaigns over the past sev-eral years, excelling at all of these attributes and growing the campaign could be a tall order, but Boehler thinks the right candi-date is out there.

“The bent of this search is not just to find someone who can manage and run the Federation,” she said. “It’s to lead the Fed-eration and the community, and to be some-one who communicates incredibly well back and forth, in and out, and every direction what the value of having a Jewish Federation in a community like ours can bring.”

The new CEO will replace Richard Fruchter, who stepped down from the position in July 2012 after six years in the position. The Federation’s chief operating officer, Nancy Greer, has held the position of interim CEO while the search has been underway.

The search has narrowed to four candi-dates, Boehler said, with each either plan-ning to visit Seattle or having already visited to meet with the full search committee.

“If all goes well, we’ll narrow it to a smaller field and we’ll bring them again in May,” Boehler said, with the hopes of announcing a new CEO by mid-June and a start date as close as possible to July 1.

Jewish Family Service has big shoes to fill when its CEO of 29 years, Ken Wein-berg, retires from the position in June. Right now, the search, which began in October, has narrowed from 10 inter-viewed to two. JFS hopes to announce its final candidate by the end of this month.

“I’m very excited about the two can-didates,” said Emily Alhadeff, JFS’s board president. “They’re both great and both different from each other.”

They are also very different from their would-be predecessor.

“We’re not even trying to find another Ken,” Alhadeff said, “because that person does not exist.”

Weinberg was instrumental in build-ing up an agency that, when he came on as a geriatric social worker in 1975, had 15 employees and a budget of approximately $500,000. Today, close to 200 people work for JFS, with a budget approaching $9 mil-lion and a much wider array of programs for a much larger population in need of emergency or social services.

“One of Ken’s strongest assets is he really empowers the people who work with him,” Alhadeff said. “Every single staff person in that building, or who works for JFS, truly believes in the mission, and I think that’s what also makes JFS so strong.”

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North Seattle blooms with new Jewish groupsDiaNa bReMeNt JTNews Columnist

In 2000, a Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle demographic study showed Seat-tle’s northeast quadrant as the state’s fast-est growing Jewish community. Recent U.S. Census data suggests it still is. Add to this a trend of young adults turning away from organized religion, and you have a recipe for three new Jewish programs gaining footholds in that neighborhood.

Nicknamed The Hub @ SJCS when the idea germinated two years ago, Jewish Junction launched in January with the appointment of manager Niva Gurewitsch. A Seattle Jewish Commu-nity School initiative, it partners with PJ Library, the Stroum Jewish Community Center, and the Seattle Jewish Coopera-tive Playschool.

Jewish Junction, explains Gurewitsch, was “created in response to a need for young families living in Seattle’s met-ropolitan core and northern suburbs to more easily access community program-ming and activities.” It transforms SJCS into a multi-use communal hub where participants “meet and connect with other families interested in expanding their Jewish community.”

The popularity of programs held during The Hub’s pilot year, like those mentioned above and Community of Mindful Parents lectures, made the need for something like Jewish Junction clear. “Over 50 percent of the participants…weren’t affiliated with the school,” said Gurewitsch. At the beginning of last year, SJCS won a Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education 2011 Challenge Award for $125,000 for the initiative, a competi-

tive grant given to schools driving revenue through innovation.

As a non-denominational, free or fee-for-service organization with no membership, “our hope is to provide a casual and comfortable entry point into the organized Jewish community in ways that support and encourage sus-tained participation,” Gurewitsch added. They’re reaching out through Facebook (www.facebook.com/JewishJunction) and Twitter (@JewishJunction), with a website launching soon.

While Gurewitsch is housed at SJCS, the Junction functions independently of the school and is funded by grants from the Jewish Federation of Greater Seat-tle, local family foundations, and private donors.

“Jewish Junction provides a secular opportunity for engagement of families,” said Amy Hilzman-Paquette, director of community engagement at the Federation, and the “opportunity to connect families” with the organized community.

Renee Cohen Goodwin, Chief Operat-ing Officer of the SJCC, calls programs co-sponsored with Jewish Junction a “mobile SJCC,” and wrote in an email that pro-grams that happen away from their Mercer Island or North Seattle campuses, like summer camp, the preschool co-op, the young families’ Passover seder, and fitness classes, “are important steps in providing the wider community with more avenues to build connections with one another.”

The Junction does not compete with synagogues or day schools, Gurewitsch stresses, but is a “matchmaker” between

families and organizations and resources, letting families “discover how, where, and with whom they want to ‘do Jewish.’”

Attracting participants from young adults with and without children to older adults, Mercaz Seattle (www.mercazseattle.org) is a learning and gathering center founded and run by Rabbi Avi and Rachel Rosenfeld in their North Seattle home. Rachel describes Mercaz as “open Orthodox,” borrowing an idea started by Rabbi Avi Weiss in New York.

“My husband and I have always been interested in different models for Jewish engagement,” she said.

Mercaz began as a monthly melaveh malka (traditional meal after the end of Shabbat) to which 12 to 40 people would come for an evening of music, stories, and

songs. “We saw that it was sparking some-thing,” she said.

Mercaz now hosts one Friday night ser-vice and meal and one Saturday evening meal each month, plus classes. Women and men sit and sing together at the inclu-sive gatherings, but a mechitza (divider) is erected for services.

Bellingham native and University of Washington grad Rabbi Rosenfeld was ordained by Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York, and is a chaplain at Swedish Medical Center. Rachel Rosenfeld has a master’s in education and teaches part-time at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation and Congregation Beth Shalom. They have three children, ages 7, 5 and 2.

“We’re trying to reach whoever wants to come,” and make an effort to avoid schedule conflicts with neighborhood syn-agogues, Rachel said. “We’re not trying to replace [the synagogue],” but rather add a Modern Orthodox outlook not generally found in Seattle.

For young adults without children, Selah Seattle has taken a similar approach, says founder Renna Khuner-Haber. It also doesn’t compete with synagogues, but cre-ates a place for those who don’t find a peer

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“I felt he’d found my letters, and read each one out loud…”

You know why you love that song, “Killing Me Softly.” It’s not just the unabashedly confessional lyrics. It’s that heart-tugging tune that reached up into your life when you didn’t even know you needed it, and hasn’t left you since.

Charles Fox composed that tune, and hundreds more that have defined decades of American life on TV and radio, in the movies, on stage and in the concert hall. The theme songs for “Happy Days,” “Laverne and Shirley,” “The Love Boat,” the fan-fare for ABC’s “Wide World of Sports,” and memorable movie-to-pop-chart hits including “I Got a Name” have earned him Emmy and Grammy awards and a lifetime of creative satisfaction, not to mention a spot in the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame. Who wrote the music in “Barbarella”? In “Good-bye Columbus”? Who wrote everything but the title song in “Nine to Five”? Charles Fox.

On Sunday, April 28, Fox will present a unique at-the-piano visit about his life and his work at the Stroum Jewish Com-munity Center as part of its Jewish Touch lecture series.

“I’m happy to come to Seattle to sing my music,” he said via cellphone from the car as Joan, his wife of 50 years, drove them down the coast from L.A. to visit grandchildren. He reflects on what mat-ters: “Our three children all saw me work-ing day and night, and my wife Joan providing support for this career, so they grew up with this great work ethic,” he said. The couple has a daughter, an attor-ney, and two sons, one a businessman, the other a movie writer.

“I know where I got that work ethic,”

he continued. “My father was a hard-working window cleaner. But he left home and came home every day in a suit and a tie, like he was ready to go to synagogue.”

In 1959, Charles Fox was an 18-year-old musically talented kid from the Bronx, already experienced making Latin music in the Catskills, when he was welcomed into the 20th century’s preeminent com-posers’ training studio, that of the legend-ary teacher Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Back home, his Jewish mother lovingly saved all his sweet letters, and Fox, one of the nicest, most humble guys show business has ever seen, published many of these in his 2010 memoir, “Killing Me Softly: My Life in Music.”

“I was just going to call it ‘A Compos-er’s Journey,’” he confesses, “but some friends made me reconsider.” Good move, obviously, from a publicity point of view. But not just that. “The title really has two meanings,” said Fox — the allusion to the blockbuster hit song, and the sense that, although life does have to end eventually, his life’s journey is as soft as that song.

“I feel so privileged,” said the man who has spent his career among the most com-petitive talents in the world. Educated in the best classical tradition, Fox cre-ates work that transcends popular music and media: He composes and conducts for stages and concert halls around the world. Like Stravinsky and Copland, who also studied with Boulanger, he has cre-ated ballets: First for San Francisco Ballet, and then for its offshoot, Smuin Ballet, for which he is working on something new.

The Polish government commissioned Fox to compose and conduct the 2010 pre-mier of “Fantaisie, Hommage à Chopin,”

for the 200th anniversary of the birth of that legendary Polish composer. He con-ducted it in Gdansk for an audience of 22,000 at the birthplace of the country’s Solidarity movement.

That same year, Fox scored the doc-umentary film “100 Voices: A Journey Home,” a powerful exploration of Jewish cultural history in Poland (it played at the 2011 Seattle Jewish Film Festival). In it, he joined his own synagogue rabbi, Nathan Lam, and over 300 others in walking paths his own father had known as a child. Fox composed an oratorio for orchestra, bari-tone soloist, chorus and children’s chorus

called “Lament and Prayer,” a setting of Pope John Paul’s message of atonement to the Jewish People (the one he tucked into the Western Wall in Jerusalem).

“It was a very significant thing,” Fox said, to conduct the world premier at the Warsaw Opera House with the Poland National Opera Company Chorus and Orchestra.

Right now, Fox is eagerly anticipating a return to Poland. He’s been commis-sioned to compose a piece for the 2014 opening of the new Museum of the His-tory of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

Earlier this month, Joan and Charles Fox celebrated with a synagogue in Stam-ford, Conn., where a Torah from his father’s home synagogue in Poland has come to stay. “Every Jew from that town perished,” Fox said, grateful that his father made it out before the worst. “One man in the town preserved that Torah wrapped in a horse blanket.”

Fox has received a lifetime achieve-ment award from the Society of Com-posers and Lyricists. He chairs the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He’s been honored by the Polish Ministry of Culture for contri-butions to the arts and rebuilding Polish-Jewish relations.

“I have no less an excitement now than I did when I was I starting out,” Fox said. “The work makes me feel just as passion-ate and young.”

if you go“An Afternoon with Charles Fox” takes place on April 28 at 2 p.m. at the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. For more information, visit www.sjcc.org.

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1 The words “Jewish” and “homeschooling” are not frequently seen

together, especially outside of the Orthodox commu-nity, but the idea appealed to North Seattle resident Deb Harrick the moment it was planted in her head.

“It was such an unusual thing…I was always explain-ing [it],” says Deb, adding there is no one way to home-school. Homeschoolers are like Jews, she jokes, with three opinions for two people.

Deb and Tod Harrick’s kids, Jasmine, 9, and Eliana, 7, have never attended a conventional school. When Jasmine was a baby, they joined a cooper-ative preschool at North Seattle Commu-nity College. Deb was getting a teaching certificate (which is not the case for all homeschooling parents).

“I loved being a mom [and] being with the kids so much” that Tod suggested it, she says. “I never even thought about it or knew about it.” But it made sense. “We had always done things a little bit differ-ent anyway.”

She discovered Seattle Homeschool Group (SHG) with a couple hundred fam-ilies, an active listserve, regular meetings, and classes for kids at a community center.

She has been actively involved for eight years. “It’s the only secular game in town,” explains the North Seattle native, an alumna of Hale High School and the Uni-versity of Washington. Most homeschool-ers belong to faith-based communities.

A different issue arose around the kids’ formal Jewish education. “It felt really hard to make the homeschooling choice,” especially with the Seattle Jewish Commu-nity School in the neighborhood.

“I’m leaving community behind,” Deb remembers feeling. “It was sort of bitter-sweet.”

Having worked for Jewish federations, United Jewish Appeal and active in Juda-ism since her teen years in BBYO, Deb

yearned for a Jewish component to edu-cation. She also currently teaches music at Kadima’s Sunday school.

By chance, the family went to a Con-gregation Beth Shalom event where she learned of another liberal Jewish home-schooling family.

Deb says she was “in heaven,” and she quickly started the Seattle Jewish Home-schoolers group, which includes a number of SHG families, several of whom had not been actively Jewish before.

The Harricks have hosted a number of holiday-related events, including a homeschool seder and a Hanukkah party. Deb estimates there are 35 to 40 families involved. Twenty came to the last event.

“It’s still a small group,” but it is outgrow-ing their house.

The whole family enjoys acting, and their flexible schedule allows for weekday afternoon rehearsals. Jasmine appeared recently in “The Music Man” at the 5th Avenue Theater (see the MOT column “We love our music and we love our food,” Feb. 8, 2013), and you can see the whole family this summer in Kitsap Forest The-ater’s spring-summer musical, “Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.”

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2 “What should we talk about, busi-ness or charity?” Joseph Abola-fia asked me when I called him last

week at Salon Joseph, his hair salon. Since the Seattle native had just finished running the annual City of Hope (COH) fundraising Mah Jongg tournament, we started there.

The tournament, held at Bellevue’s Temple B’nai Torah, raised $8,000 for dia-betes research at the California charitable hospital.

COH has been an Abolafia family affair. “My mother [Betty] was involved in City of Hope,” before her death from cancer, says Joseph, and he and his two sisters, Marilyn Shulman and Vicki Lynn Babani were inspired by her. Even

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In 2010, Rabbi Rafael Shmuelevitz, head of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem and a three-decade career educator, could hardly speak, breathe, or walk due to the deadly effects of his advanced stage Amyotrophic Lateral Sclero-sis, commonly known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. This neurodegenerative disease eventually claims the life of its victims.

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Developed by Brain-Storm Cell Therapeutics, an Israeli biomedical company, NurOwn is the company’s “proprietary, first-of-its-kind technology.” According to researchers, in the first phase of the trial several of the 24 patients had “considerable improvement.” Four out of six subjects had significant improvement, according to

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“The early clinical follow-up of the patients treated with the stem cells shows indications of beneficial clinical effects, such as an improvement in breathing and swallowing ability, as well as in muscular power,” he said.

Researchers believe ALS sufferers develop symptoms when their cells simply die off. To intervene in that process, doc-tors took stem cells from the subject’s bone marrow and treated them with the NurOwn stem-cell technology, which accelerated the production of BDNF and GDNF, brain-cell derived and glial-cell derived proteins that support the survival and emergence of dopamine-like neurons.

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As a college English major, I learned the prologue to “The Canterbury Tales.” Chaucer’s 14th-century language invokes the onset of springtime — April with “his showers sweet” — as an inspiration for pil-grimages.

Nowadays, catching up on what I didn’t learn in college, I head out on my own religious journey this season. Unlike Chaucer’s characters’ travels, my pilgrim-age takes me no farther from home than a Shabbat afternoon seat in my nearby syn-agogue and the back pages of my siddur.

This is the season when Jews tradi-tionally learn Pirke Avot. What is Pirke Avot? And why is Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews columnist and Seattle Hebrew Academy head of school, teaching it every Shabbat afternoon?

“I loved my father’s books,” she says, calling her resources “friends that I take out every year.”

The books and the love of teaching are now an inheritance from her father, the late, learned Rabbi Baruch Poupko, who in his last years enjoyed sitting in and watching his daughter’s Shabbat after-noon classes.

“There’s such a wealth of strong opin-ions,” she says of the many commentators

she brings into these springtime spiritual explorations. “Psychological, Hassidic, academic, even Christian scholars.”

Pirke Avot has landed so deeply in our everyday wisdom that its origins around the turn of the Common Era — ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE — have become almost irrelevant:

“Who is wise? One who learns from every person…. Who is rich? One who is happy with what he has” (4:1).

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?” (1:14)

“Find yourself a teacher. Make yourself a friend. Judge everyone favorably” (1:6).

“There are four character types: ‘mine is mine and yours is yours,’ an average character…; ‘mine is yours and yours is mine,’ an unlearned person; ‘mine is yours and yours is yours,’ a very pious person; ‘yours is mine and mine is mine,’ a wicked person” (5:13).

Pirke Avot is often translated as “Ethics of the Fathers,” or “Chapters of the Fathers,” but that title turns out to be mis-leading. In fact, a dozen years ago, a col-lection of Jewish-mother wisdoms called “Pirke Imahot” mirrored the name, but missed the history. Pirke Avot is indeed a

collection of memorable sayings by men who presumably were fathers, arranged in chapters (“Perakim”). But the title engages us in classic Jewish word play.

Does “avot” here really mean “fathers”? Sayings of great rabbis? Actually, as we were reminded in the first class this year, the word “avot” usually means just the forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. So the teachers whose sayings have been col-lected in this classic book — this part of the Mishna — aren’t “avot”? In fact, maybe the title doesn’t refer to people at all.

“Av” (plural “avot”) often means the essence, the fundamental, the original. So these chapters of sayings by teachers from a foundational time in Jewish his-tory are actually “chapters of fundamen-tals” — basically, the ethical bases for a good life, as passed down from teacher to teacher, collected in the critical years of Jewish development that surrounded the 70 CE destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.

Challenged from within by the nascent

Christian movements, and from with-out by the cultures we learned in college to call “classical,” the voices of those who received the tradition’s wisdom remain alive in Pirke Avot.

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Rasheda Ali, the daughter of the famous boxing icon and legend, Muhammad Ali, paid a visit to the company’s laboratories at its site at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem in August 2012. She is also a board adviser to BrainStorm. Her father has been coping with the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s disease for many years.

Rasheda Ali is known internationally for her advocacy work to further research in the area of neurodegenerative diseases and published the book “I’ll Hold Your Hand So You Won’t Fall: A Child’s Guide to Parkinson’s Disease” (Merit, 2011).

While in Israel, Ali met with Karussis and Prof. Tamir Ben-Hur, a professor of neurology at Hadassah to learn about their most recent successes in the treatment of these brain diseases.

In an interview about the visit, Ali told Foxnewsinsider.com she does this work to help everyone afflicted with these diseases.

“Here at BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics, we are trying to get those answers for mil-lions of people,” she said. “I’m their voice. We’ve been in clinical trials for BrainStorm for years. But going from pre-clinical to clinical is major for us. We’re getting there.”

BrainStorm is anticipating the approval of NurOwn by the U.S. Food and Drug

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In this current phase, three cohorts of subjects are receiving increasing doses of combined injections of NurOwn, inside the muscle and inside the spinal cord. They will be followed for six months. Karussis is also leading this second phase.

The company plans to begin Phase II clinical trials in 2013 in three locations in the U.S. — the University of Massa-chusetts Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and The Mayo Clinic, pending approval from the USFDA.

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Joseph’s dad, Jack, is a member. The tournament “is my big project

every year,” Joseph adds.The Franklin High graduate grew up

at Sephardic Bikur Holim and has been a member there in his own right since the age of 20.

“I feel a real connection to my com-munity,” he says. “My family all grew up there.”

Going directly to beauty school from high school, Joseph says, “I knew I wanted to be a hairdresser.” He opened his first salon at age 23 in downtown Seattle and his current salon in 1985.

Still at the same location, Salon Joseph will be doubling in size in its first-ever expansion and will be ready to open in about two weeks. They were able to take over the space next door and “the timing with the economy is good,” Joseph says, explaining that, “truthfully, the hair busi-ness is fairly stable in bad times.

“People need their hair done,” whether they’re working or job hunting. Plus, the salon’s clientele is “a little more estab-lished,” better able to weather the vagaries of the economy.

You can read more about Joseph and his employees at www.salonjoseph.com, and more about City of Hope at www.cityofhope.org.

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My own father’s remembered voice comes alive as I write this. Dave Yellen was a kid in 1920s Beaumont, Texas, one of five sons of a learned immigrant father, the town’s shochet, known as “the Reverend L.M. Yellen.” What I know about our fam-ily’s history of learning at this season is that the little boy who became my dad so badly wanted to go play baseball on springtime Saturday afternoons that he taught himself how to start crying. His soft-hearted father fell for it, and, I’m glad to report, it did his son’s Jewish identity no harm.

But the story speaks to the spirit of the season. The weather improves, the days grow longer. And it is that very spirit that placed the study of Pirke Avot into Sabbath afternoons all over the Jewish world.

Perhaps, considering some of the tales of Chaucer’s pilgrims, a lot more than a kid’s baseball game was at stake. As it says in this intro from the Lehmann-Prins Pirke Avoth, part of Rivy Kletenik’s treasured collection:

When nature awakens from its winter sleep, field and meadow reflect the beauty of spring, the stately fruit trees gladden the eyes and the heart with their splendid blossoms, then man, too, feels a stirring of new life and hidden desires. In this season, there-fore, as a way of restraining those awakening passions, the Sages enjoin us to read the Chapters of the Fathers, a remarkably fine collection of ethi-cal teachings… These ethics differ con-siderably from those of other nations, for the latter are man-made, whereas Jewish ethics emanate from God.

Indeed, the compilers of chapter 1:1 of Pirke Avot trace the lineage of Jewish wisdom from Moses, hearing it straight from God on Sinai, directly to their own teachers.

The often-quoted Hillel, he of the “If I am not for myself, who will be for me” verse, gets the last word here: Not one of his many Pirke Avot quotations, but, con-veniently, his famous voice from that part of the Talmud titled Shabbat. Rabbi Hillel is asked to sum up the whole Torah on one foot. His reply works equally well for a good sport or a good student: “What is hateful to you, do not do to someone else. The rest is commentary. Go and study.”

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be simple and natural, modern and sculptural, laden with flowers, or draped in billowing satin. Dennis Warshal specializes in bringing your vision to reality! You may simply want to rent the chuppah and have your florist decorate it, or Dennis Warshal can deliver, install and decorate the chuppah for you. Dennis is a creative wedding florist, and collaborates with you to design your wedding ceremony and reception with room layouts, linens, and theatrical lighting. Looking for a local chuppah resource for your wedding? Call Dennis Warshal at 206-949-6663.

Embassy Suites BellevueWhether it’s a wedding, birthday, anniversary, Bar

Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah, Embassy Suites Bellevue can help make your special day a dream come true,

featuring a beautiful six-story garden

atrium with lush tropical plants, river and cascading waterfalls, elegantly appointed ballrooms, delicious food, and two-room suites for your overnight guests.

Choose one of their pre-planned menu options, or their executive chef is happy to accommodate custom menu requests. With a great location just off I-90, they offer plenty of free on-site parking.

Book an event and mention this ad to receive 10 dozen complimentary hors d’oeuvres (minimum 50-person dinners). Not good with other offers.

For more information call 425-698-6681 or visit www.seattlebellevue.embassysuites.com.

The Fairmont OlympicThe Fairmont Olympic is the center of social events

in the Seattle area. Thousands of residents of the region and their families can remember celebrations that, since the roaring ’20s, have been made all the more beautiful because they took place at The Olympic. They cater intimate dinners and Bar and Bat Mitzvahs with as much care and attention to detail as the largest wedding or gala.

Director of Catering and Conference Services Jana Scopis and her team orchestrate Seattle’s most elite events.

“The ability to seamlessly pair the city’s highest level of service with restaurant-quality cuisine in a private setting is our point of difference,” says Scopis.

Whether your celebration is for 50 or 300, they invite you to rediscover the elegance of “Seattle’s Hotel”—The Fairmont Olympic. Please contact them for more information at www.fairmontolympiccatering.com or email catering manager Dana.Schroader@fairmont.com for a personalized tour.

Hyatt Regency BellevueOn Seattle’s Eastside, nine miles from downtown

Seattle, Hyatt Regency Bellevue offers 732 guestrooms and 70,000 square feet of event space. Ideally located in the heart of The Bellevue Collection, a premier urban

streetscape with more than 250 shops, 45 restaurants and lounges, a landmark cinema, a stylish billiards and comedy club, day spas, and upscale bowling lanes — all connected to the hotel via convenient

sky bridges. With Asian-inspired elegance, the 17,745-square-foot grand ballroom is the largest hotel ballroom east of Lake Washington, and the third largest in Washington State. The hotel specializes in customized menus for your wedding, Bar or Bat Mitzvah, or special family occasion. Group overnight room rates are available. Please contact their catering consultants at 425-698-4240 or visit bellevue.hyatt.com.

Madison Park Café CateringBy Karen Binder, formerly of the Madison Park

Café. Full-service professional catering for all life passages in the Jewish community for over 33 years. Let Madison Park Café Catering help you plan and enjoy your Bar/Bat Mitzvah, wedding, rehearsal dinner, special occasion or any other simcha. Providing delicious, seasonal food, professional service, rentals, flowers, and bar service. Retail wine offered at discount prices at “Binder’s Bottles.”

Contact Karen Binder at 206-324-4411 or madisonparkcafe@aol.com.

Mary FrimerJohn L.Scott Real Estate

Full-service real estateFor all your Real Estate needs — buying or selling

— give Mary a call.Mary has been with John L. Scott since 1996,

achieving every year the President’s Gold and President’s Elite categories.

She specializes in Mercer Island, the Eastside and Seattle.

Born in Guatemala (fluent in Spanish) she moved to

Mercer Island in 1969 and has lived there ever since. First-class service, first-class results.206-391-6161 • maryfrimer@johnlscott.com11040 Main St, #200, Bellevue, WA 98004.

Marriott Redmond Town CenterLocated among the gorgeous scenery of Redmond,

the Redmond Marriott Towncenter has everything to celebrate the perfect wedding. Surround your loved one and all your special guests in the welcoming

warmth of its beautifully decorated reception areas.

With more than 10,000 square feet of flexible space, you’ll have the ideal venue to host an intimate affair for your closest family and friends to a grand gathering for everyone to enjoy. Allow their Marriott-certified event professionals to help you create the day, from the décor to finding the right photographer to setting the menu to your exact desires. They’ll be on hand to make sure every detail is covered and everything runs exactly as you wish. Sit back, relax and let them set the stage for a day your loved one, and all your special guests, will treasure forever. Mazel tov!

Call 425-498-4040 or visit redmondmarriott.com today.

Marriott Seattle Waterfront Hotel

Located on the picturesque Seattle Waterfront in the heart of Emerald city, the Seattle Marriott

Waterfront Hotel is the ideal location to celebrate your special day. Take advantage

of their outdoor patio for ceremonies and receptions, perfect for 150, or celebrate in style in the elegant state-of-the-art ballroom with seating for up to

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Plan a memorable celebration at Seattle's most noted social address.Where unparalleled service and luxury call home.

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BIG CELEBRATIONS ARE ALL ABOUT THE SMALLEST DETAILS.Celebrate your family’s honored traditions at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront Hotel.

Featuring more than 11,000 sq ft of flexible reception space throughout, we’re the

perfect host for weddings, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, parties and more. You’ll love

our incredible catering options, our highly-acclaimed Marriott service staff to see

to every detail, our plush guest accommodations and waterfront location nestled

among the beauty of Seattle’s breathtaking scenery rounding our luxury hotel.

Create the memories that will last a lifetime by visiting

SeattleMarriottWaterfront.com or calling 206.443.5000.

SEATTLE MARRIOTT WATERFRONT2100 Alaskan Way, Seattle, WA 98121Phone 206.443.5000, SeattleMarriottWaterfront.com

A WEDDING LIKE NO OTHER.With a gorgeous location and 10,000 sq ft of beautiful reception space, we’d be honored to host your perfect wedding. Relax and enjoy a day you’ll never forget, while our event professionals see to every detail.

Call 425.498.4040 or visit redmondmarriott.com

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Embassy Suites Bellevue 3225 158th Avenue SE Bellevue, WA 98008

Memorable Moments

Book an event before 6/30/13 and receive 10 dozen complimentary hors d’oeuvres (min. 50 dinners, not valid with other offers)

Contact our professional Catering Department at 425.698.6681 for more information or to book your next event.

Let Embassy Suites Seattle–Bellevue

help you create once-in-a-lifetime memories

featuring delectable catering,

superior service, and inviting spaces.

Whether it’s a wedding, Bar or Bat Mitzvah,

birthday, or anniversary, we can help make

your special day a dream come true.

500 guests. Their experienced staff is committed to authenticity, working with their certified Marriott wedding professionals to plan every detail, from securing the perfect photographer to developing and executing your menu. And, since they’re located just two blocks from Pike Place Market, they have the resources to deliver a carefully crafted farm-to-table culinary experience. In addition, they can accommodate all kosher needs. So, sit back, relax and let them provide everything to set the stage for a memorable event that reflects your taste and honors your tradition.

Catering sales department: Contact the sales administrative assistant at 206-256-1022 or Jennifer.Stiles@marriott.com.

Menashe & Sons JewelersMenashe & Sons is a full-service store featuring

a large estate jewelry department, custom design jewelry, and a complete repair department for clocks, watches, and jewelry. The store has a G.I.A. gemologist on staff for a full appraisal service. It also has one of the largest diamond engagement inventories in the city of Seattle. Menashe & Sons specializes in one-of-a-kind custom jewelry pieces featuring oriental jade, Tahitian pearls, fine emeralds,

rubies, sapphires, and tanzanite.For honest, professional service call 206-932-4272

or visit www.ShopMenasheJewelers.com.

Onionskin Design StudioVoted by JTNews readers as 2012’s Best Ketubah

Artist in Washington State, Joan Lite Miller specializes in one-of-a-kind invitations for weddings and B’nai Mitzvah, custom ketubot,

English and Hebrew calligraphy, expressive hand lettering, original paper-cuts and logo design.

For more information, call 206-527-6320 or visit www.onionskindesign.com.

Pedersen’sThe Event Rental ExpertsStylish party rentals including:• Specialty linen • Glassware • China • Cutlery • Chair covers • Designer chairs • Tables • Unique tabletop items• Catering equipment 4500 4th Ave. S, Seattle. Call 206-719-5400 or

visit www.pedersens.com.

The RuinsThe Ruins is a private event space located near

Seattle Center that has been providing catering service to Seattle and the Eastside for 20 years. They hold weddings, birthdays, business receptions or whatever

event may be called for. The staff takes great pride in fine cuisine, attentive service and custom decoration for each occasion. Guest capacity is 150 for a seated dinner and 250 for a stand-up reception. The party rooms are tastefully decorated, and filled with stylish and attractive antique furniture. They are able to accommodate any catering need away from their premises as well. From beginning to end, The Ruins will offer you and your guests a truly unique and memorable experience. You may request a catering brochure for your reference. Contact The Ruins at 206-285-RUIN or visit www.theruins.net.

Sandra LevinJohn L. Scott Real Estate

Buying or selling, Sandra will be there for you every step of the way! Specializing in real estate on Mercer Island and the Eastside.

A life-long resident of Mercer Island and the Eastside, and an active community leader and volunteer, she understands the needs of homebuyers and real estate investors. Award winner for client satisfaction and sales volume. Committed to providing the highest level of customer service and satisfaction.

Realtor and Managing Broker, 2009 Five Star award206-949-2845 • sandra@sandralevin.com •

www.sandralevin.com

Shalom Spiritual ResourcesRabbi Jay Heyman believes all weddings should

be beautiful, and should reflect the values, dreams, and spiritualities of the couple being married. Let Rabbi Heyman help you meld age-old ideals and traditions to the modern world. Part of his mission

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Madison Park Café CateringKaren Binder (formerly of Madison Park Café)

Full service professional catering for all life passages for over 33 years.

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, wedding, rehearsal dinner and any other simcha.

Retail wine offered at discount price: “Binder’s Bottles.”

Approved caterer of Hillel.

206.324.4411 • madisonparkcafe @aol.com

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Menashe & Sons JewelersShopMenasheJewelers.com

4532 California Ave SW • 206.932.4272 facebook.com/menasheandsonsjewelers

as an ordained Reform rabbi is to create a positive sense of identity for people through the innovative use of traditional ceremonies. When you engage Rabbi Heyman to officiate at your wedding, he takes on the responsibility for the service, so you can be fully present in the magic and power of this unique and precious moment. Each ceremony is prepared carefully and with love, so that whatever happens during the wedding itself — a dropped ring, a crying baby, an airplane flying overhead — becomes part of the joy of the moment. Planning a wedding should be fun and joyful — and so should your ceremony! Contact Rabbi Heyman by phone at 206-484-4340 or by email at rabbi@shalomspirit.org.

Spektor DentalWendy Shultz Spektor, DDS

Best dentist 2012Have your best smile for all of your lifecycle events.

She can whiten teeth, close gaps, and replace outdated dentistry to give you a healthier, vibrant smile!

Trust the dental artistry and expertise of Wendy Spektor, DDS, for your best smile. General, cosmetic, periodontal. Call today at 425-454-1322.

1545 116th Ave. NE #100, Bellevue.teamspektor@spektordental.com or visit

www.spektordental.com.

Tulalip Resort CasinoThe AAA Four Diamond Tulalip Resort Casino is

among the premier destinations in Washington State offering luxurious accommodations, award-winning dining options, a rejuvenating spa, casino excitement, and world-class shopping.

Tulalip Resort Casino offers extraordinary value with more than 30,000 square feet of flexible event space. Options range from the 15,000-square-foot Orca Ballroom to more intimate gathering spaces. Whether it’s customized catering, décor requests or state-of-the-art technology, every need is addressed by a capable and conscientious staff.

For more information about planning a special event at Tulalip Resort Casino please contact sales@tulalipresort.com or 360-716-6570 or visit www.tulalipresort.com.

Viviane Skin CareSavvy women buy Viviane. This is their guiding

principle in manufacturing and selling their premier line of skin care and makeup. Viviane attracts women

who want a proven, water-based line of skin care and a relationship

with a company that respects and values them. It’s so basic it’s revolutionary! Viviane has been doing business for over 50 years, continuing a long tradition of the company known as Viviane Woodard.

Locally owned by in Bellevue by Kathleen Spitzer, 1-800-423-3600.

Celebrations at the WACPersonalized. Memorable. Timeless.Plan your all-inclusive event at the Washington

Athletic Club, a historic landmark in the heart of downtown Seattle. Contemporary elegance and tradition define the Club.

The WAC provides everything you need for a seamless day of celebration and tradition. Their Crystal Ballroom can accommodate up to 200 guests, while other rooms offer more-personalized settings for smaller groups. Whether you want guests to dance all night or enjoy an elegant dinner, or both, they can turn an event into a distinctive experience.

A full-service day spa and 109-room inn offer room for all your guests. Make it a weekend and stay in one of their seven suites. Event packages are available and personalized with your contract. Evening parking included for guests in WAC garage. Make the Washington Athletic Club the choice for your special event. It would be their pleasure to assist you.

For more information, please contact 206-464-3050 or catering@wac.net.

Woodland Park ZooWoodland Park Zoo, one of Seattle’s most cherished

community resources, is the perfect location for your next event! Set on 92 acres with over 300

species of animal, the zoo offers 17 unique venues to host your Bar/Bat Mitzvah, holiday party, picnic, meeting, wedding, family reunion or birthday party. Funds generated by your

event help support the zoo’s quality animal care, education programs, and field conservation projects to help preserve wildlife species and habitats in the Northwest and around the world.

For more information, contact groupsales@zoo.org or 206-548-2590, or visit www.zoo.org.

Woodmark HotelCelebrate your special simcha at the Woodmark

Hotel, voted the best venue for a Bar and Bat Mitzvah by JTNews readers. At the Woodmark, they understand the importance of this cherished rite of passage. Delicious and decorative cuisine created by their culinary staff complements the magnificent shoreline and yacht harbor view seen from the

Marina Room and Bayshore Room...perfect fits for a variety of party sizes.

The Woodmark boasts over 9,000

square feet of versatile event space, with beautiful indoor and outdoor settings for parties, Shabbat dinners, brunches, ceremonies, and celebrations for up to 200 guests. Your guests will savor delicious and unique dishes created specifically for your event, as well as kosher-style cuisine.

Contact 425-827-1986 or celebrate@thewoodmark.com and talk to a Woodmark catering manager to get started on planning your special event.

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community at local houses of worship.Moving to Seattle a year ago to begin

graduate studies at Bastyr University, Khuner-Haber says she was looking for “strong, spirited, Friday night davening.” Not knowing where to find it, she hosted a gathering at her house. Fifteen people came. Now the home-based egalitarian monthly services and Shabbat vegetarian potlucks attract 30 to 40 participants.

S e l a h ( w w w . f a c e b o o k . c o m / SelahSeattleMinyan) is run by a volunteer leadership team and sees itself as part of the independent minyan movement evolving around the country.

“The independent minyan is what the havurah movement was two generations ago,” said Khuner-Haber.

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Whichever candidate is hired will be walking into new financial challenges due to external realities such as the federal budget sequester and likely cuts in fund-ing from the state legislature.

“Institutional funding is way down, so we need to figure out how we’re going to fund our programs and how we’re going to keep funding while doing that,” Alhadeff said.

Weinberg plans to continue to work with JFS in an advisory role. Like Wein-berg, Maria Erlitz, head of school at the Jewish Day School in Bellevue, does not plan to walk away from the academy she helped found more than 30 years ago when she retires at the end of the school year.

“She’s still in the community,” said Robin Castrogiovanni, who with Mindy Geisser is leading the search committee for Erlitz’s successor.

“We’re taking our time,” Castro-giovanni said of the search. “We want someone who has a full complement of skills in order to come into the school. We’re not trying to replace Maria with another Maria. She’s a unique individual, someone who’s left a legacy.”

That said, JDS’s adoption of what’s known as inquiry-based education, which gives students the ability and leeway to use their natural curiosity to help them learn, means “someone who’s coming in new has to buy into the fact this is the education we’re providing,” Castrogiovanni said. “We are taking a stand to make sure that we fit into the future of education and pre-

paring our kids for the future.”That doesn’t appear to be a barrier, as

candidates are still submitting applica-tions for the position despite the search committee having already brought in some potential finalists to visit the campus.

The committee hasn’t ruled out bring-ing in an interim head of school if they don’t find the right permanent candi-date. Castrogiovanni said the committee wants to be sure its next head can prop-erly engage both in outreach to the Jewish and non-Jewish communities as well as be an expert in educational management. And, though it probably should go with-out saying, the right person is someone “obviously who has a passion for Jewish education.”

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Fun that lasts a summer. Memories that last a lifetime.

July 1–July 26, 2013

Camp Gan Israel seattle

Register online before May 12th

www.CampGanIsraelseattle.comfor 15% Early Bird Discount

Connecting Jewish Youth Through the Game

of Basketball

Hebrew Hoops provides a unique Jewish basketball experience which leaves each individual with a better

understanding of what it means to be a Jewish athlete.

Camp dates: June 24–June 27Jewish Day School Gymnasium

Bellevue, WA

To register and for more information, please check out our website

HebrewHoops.com or contact Sam Fein

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For riders ages 6–10 For information: www.theunionhillranch.com • 425-868-8097

Private Lessons

Available

camps and educationCamp Gan Israel Seattle

With an emphasis on the warmth of Judaism, four weekly sessions provide chil-dren with a summer experience that lasts a lifetime. Field trips, creative activities, swimming and more! For ages 4–12, this program is suitable for kids from all back-grounds and affiliations. Special boys’ camp for ages 8–14.

www.CampGanIsraelSeattle.com • Rabbi Kavka – 206-730-2775 • info@chabadofseattle.org

Hebrew HoopsThe goal of Hebrew Hoops is to promote basketball skill development while also

providing a forum for Jewish youth to form friendships among each other. Hebrew Hoops is a platform for Jewish youth to interact with Jewish role models and learn what it means to be a Jewish athlete today.

SamFein.HebrewHoops@gmail.com • 206-856-2528 • www.HebrewHoops.com

Lake Union CrewLooking for something to do during the summer that is fun, exciting and challeng-

ing? Then come row with Lake Union Crew and do something different and positive with your summer vacation. Meet new friends, learn a cool sport, and spend the day on the water. They are dedicated to providing a fun, unique, and challenging experi-ence that you will not forget.

www.LakeUnionCrew.com • 206-860-4199 • info@lakeunioncrew.com

SAM CampThree fun-filled weeks of imagination and creativity for children in grades 1–5!

Each week is a different experience. Kids can attend one week or all three. SAM Camp guarantees they’ll make art and new friends! July 8–26.

Visit seattleartmuseum.org/kids to sign up now. Questions? Email samcamp@seattleartmuseum.org.

The Union Hill RanchThe Union Hill Ranch is offering an “Introduction to Horsemanship” for riders

6–10 years of age. July 9, 10, 11 (session 1) or July 16, 17, 18 (session 2) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The cost is $300 per session.

They also have ongoing private lessons starting at $60 for one hour of instruction. www.theunionhillranch.com • 425-868-8097

URJ Camp KalsmanURJ Camp Kalsman has something for everyone, from sports to the perform-

ing and creative arts, to nature and adventure activities. Kalsman provides camp-ers with the opportunity to live a wholly Jewish life in their newly built facilities. A summer at Camp Kalsman is an unforgettable religious, cultural, recreational and emotional experience.

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

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FRiDay 19 apRil5:30 p.m. — Temple beth el Superhero Shabbat

Cantor Leah Elstein at lelstein@templebethel18.org or 253-564-7101, ext. 111 or www.templebethel18.orgHelp Cantor Elstein’s friend, Superman Sam, a 1st-grader from Chicago who has leukemia. Family service; bring a children’s book and be recorded reading it for Sam. Come dressed as a superhero. Pre-service snack at 5:30, service at 6, community potluck following. At Temple Beth El, 5975 S 12th St., Tacoma.6 p.m. — hNT Scholar in Residence Weekend: Nigel Savage

Rebecca Levy at rebecca@h-nt.org or 206-232-8555, ext. 207 or www.h-nt.orgNigel Savage is the founder of Hazon, America’s largest Jewish environmental group. Services, dvar Torah, and dinner. 8 p.m.: “The Jewish Omnivore’s Dilemma.” At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.6:30–9 p.m. — Shabbat with visiting Rabbi binyamin biber

info@secularjewishcircle.org or 206-528-1944 or secularjewishcircle.orgNon-theistic Shabbat and potluck dinner. Rabbi Biber will speak on “Spirituality: Deepening the Experience of our Jewishness.” $10 suggested donation. In the Wallingford area, call or email for location.7 p.m. — Jewish high Shabbaton 2013

Ari Hoffman at thehoffather@gmail.com or jhighshabbaton-efbevent.eventbrite.com/#Jewish High Shabbaton in Seward Park with food and activities, teachers, davening and singing with a rap star, oneg, sushi making, and a surprise Saturday night activity. Prospective students welcome. Counts for Jewish High hours. $75. In Seward Park, register for details.7:30–9:30 p.m. — The Whipping man

Box Office at box@taproottheatre.org or 206-781-9707 or taproottheatre.orgA Jewish Confederate soldier returns from war to his house in shambles. Two former slaves greet him. As they observe Passover and remember the Jewish exodus from Egypt, their shared pasts and secrets threaten the freedom of all three men. Runs through April 27. Recommended for ages 16-plus. $25-$40. At Taproot Theatre, 204 N 85th St., Seattle.

SatuRDay 20 apRil9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. — hNT Scholar in Residence Weekend: Nigel Savage

Rebecca Levy at rebecca@h-nt.org or 206-232-8555, ext. 207 or www.h-nt.orgSavage will lead study sessions throughout the day. Check the website for details. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.5 p.m. — pirke avot with mrs. Chanie levitin

Mrs. Chanie Levitin at chanielevitin@gmail.comFor women and girls (age 12-plus). Come and

explore Pirke Avos/Ethics of Our Fathers, a tractate of the Mishna that details the Torah’s views on ethics and interpersonal relationships. At the Levitins’ home, 6519 49th Ave. NE, Seattle.7:30–9 p.m. — havdalah with visiting Rabbi binyamin biber

info@secularjewishcircle.org or 206-528-1944 or secularjewishcircle.orgHavdalah with Secular Jewish Circle of Puget Sound and a talk by visiting Rabbi Binyamin Biber on “Pursuing Justice: Secular Humanist Approaches to Tikkun Olam.” Free. In the Wallingford area, call or email for location.

SuNDay 21 apRil9:30 a.m.–2 p.m. — hNT Scholar in Residence Weekend: Nigel Savage

Rebecca Levy at rebecca@h-nt.org or 206-232-8555, ext. 207 or www.h-nt.orgSavage will talk on “Eco Judaism and the Art of Bicycle Riding” over breakfast, followed by an Earth Day bike ride. 1 p.m.: Livnot Project think tank on “Creating Healthier and More Sustainable Communities in the Jewish World and Beyond.” At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.10 a.m.–12 p.m. — Chess Club Gathering event

Sasha Mail at sashamail@msn.com or 206-722-1200 or www.tdsseattle.orgPlay chess with community members, students, and a special guest chess grand master. At Torah Day School of Seattle, 3528 S Ferdinand St., Seattle.10 a.m.–12 p.m. — parent program with Secular Jewish Circle and visiting Rabbi binyamin biber

info@secularjewishcircle.org or 206-528-1944 or secularjewishcircle.org“Humanistic Jewish Parenting: Identity and Development in a Multicultural Society.” Learn about the SJC’s K-7 Sunday school that includes preparation (grades 6-7) for a secular Bar or Bat Mitzvah. On Mercer Island, call or email for exact location.12 p.m. — Dodge ball

Ari Hoffman at thehoffather@gmail.com or SeattleNCSY.comCitywide dodge ball tournament for teens in preparation for JServe, a greater Seattle volunteering event for teens. At Jump Sky High, 1445 120th Ave. NE, Bellevue.1 p.m. — bubby’s kitchen

Karen Ovetz at ovetz@comcast.net or 425-893-9900 (box office) or www.kpcenter.orgSeattle Chapter Hadassah presents Shira Ginsburg in “Bubby’s Kitchen,” a show about growing up in a family of Holocaust survivors and resistance fighters. Honoring lifetime members Jen Alterman and Talby Gelb. Reception following. $54. At Kirkland Performance Center, 350 Kirkland Ave., Kirkland.5:30–9 p.m. — Jewish Sisterhood annual Spring Spa

Rochie Farkash at rochie.farkash@gmail.comAromatherapy, Feldenkrais and fashion workshops, an auction, salmon dinner, and guest speaker Miriam Lipskier on “The Beauty of the Jewish Woman.” $18 members, $22 non-members, $28 at the door. At Eastside Torah Center, 1837 156th Ave. NE #303, Bellevue.

WeDNeSDay 24 apRil5:30–9 p.m. — aJC Seattle human Relations award

Becki Chandler at chandlerb@ajc.org or 206-622-6315 or www.ajcseattle.org

Gala dinner and cocktail reception honoring Ray Heacox, president and general manager of KING Broadcasting. $300. RSVP required. At the Grand Hyatt Seattle, 721 Pine St., Seattle. 7–9 p.m. — how Did They Greet alexander? Tel Dor: a Case Study for ancient multiculturalism.

Alysa Rosen at alysa@templebetham.org or 206-525-0915 or Templebe.ejoinme.org/universitylectureseries2013Lecture by University of Washington professor Sarah Stroup on “Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the Ancient World: From Marginalization to Multiculturalism.” Stroup is the director of the UW Tel Dor Archeological Excavations and Field School in Israel. $15. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.

FRiDay 26 apRil6:15–9:15 p.m. — Song of Songs: let us Rejoice and Delight in you!

Marjie Cogan at marjiecogan@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.orgEdwin L. Bierman Scholar-in-Residence Weekend with Rabbi Amy Kalmanofsky. Kabbalat Shabbat 6-7:15 p.m., Shabbat dinner 7:15-8:15, keynote lecture 8:15 p.m. Preregistration and prepayment required for dinner by April 22. Childcare available by pre-registration. $25. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

SatuRDay 27 apRil9:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. — The book of Jonah and The book of Ruth

Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.orgRabbi Kalmanofsky will give a dvar Torah on the Book of Jonah during services. Kiddush luncheon to follow. At 1:15: An exploration of Ruth and Naomi’s relationship as a model for the relationship between God and Israel. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.7–8:30 p.m. — lag b’omer/havdalah in the kesher Garden

Kim Lawson at klawson@sjcc.org or 206-388-0823 or sjcc.orgPizza and s’mores, singing around the campfire, activities for the kids. $5. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.7:30–9:30 p.m. — The Joseph Story: i am looking for my brothers

Marjie Cogan at marjiecogan@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.orgRabbi Kalmanofsky will look at male relationships in the Joseph story. Havdalah and dessert at a private View Ridge home. RSVP for address information. Free. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

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At the URJ Camp Kalsman our intimate camp environment allows campers to embrace the challenge of learning new skills in athletics, aquatics, the arts, and adventure and nature programs. Camp Kalsman offers a fine bal-ance between education and recreation. As a Jewish camp, Kalsman seeks to enhance the experience of our campers and staff with the richness of the Jewish faith and culture. We place a strong emphasis on personal growth and a positive self-image; it is important for our campers to feel good about themselves. For all who attend, it is an unfor-gettable religious, cultural, and emotional experience.

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Spending a summer at URJ Camp Kalsman living, playing, learning, and praying with other children creates friendships that last a lifetime and a kehilah, community unlike any other. There is no homework, parental pressure is significantly dissipated, the chaos of the school year disappears and campers are able to dis-cover and explore their life and their Judaism. Camp is not just a special place; it is a special

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thursday-saturday, april 18-20 and 25-27 at 7:30 p.m.

Letters to sala

theater and art exhibit

After speaking about “Lady at the OK Corral” on April 18,

Ann Kirschner will see her first book, “Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s

Holocaust Story” go up on stage. Seattle Pacific University’s

Theatre Department dramatizes the content of over 300

letters received by Kirschner’s mother, Sala Garncarz, during

her imprisonment during the war.

At Seattle Pacific University’s McKinley Hall, main stage.

Tickets are $12, $10 for students and seniors, through www.spu.edu/boxoffice

or 206-281-2959. Matinee on April 27 at 2 p.m. An exhibition from the Sala

Garncarz Kirschner Collection will be on display in Kreider Gallery in McKinley Hall

through April 30, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is free.

saturday, april 20 at 2 p.m. and sunday, april 21 at 4 p.m.

sparks of glory: another sunrise

concert

In conjunction with Seattle Art Museum’s exhibition, “Morality Tales: American Art and

Social Protest, 1935-45,” Music of Remembrance will perform Jake Heggie’s “Another

Sunrise,” a tribute to Krystyna Zywulska, Polish resistance fighter and satirical poet.

MOR will also perform “Duo” by Erwin Schulhoff, who perished in a camp.

On Saturday at the Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., Seattle, and on Sunday at

The Commons, 402 Bjune Dr., Bainbridge Island. Free. For more information visit

musicofremembrance.org.

sunday, april 21 at 4 p.m.

the souls’ journey

cd release party

Celebrate the release of Rabbi Olivier BenHaim’s CD,

“The Souls’ Journey: Meditation & Kabbalah,” a six-

stage meditation that unfolds the Kabbalistic levels

of the soul as a ways to awakening. CDs available for

purchase.

At Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue, 1111 Harvard Ave.,

Seattle. For more information contact Elizabeth Fagin

at elizabeth@betalef.org or 206-527-9399 or

betalef.org.

thursday, april 25 at 7:30 p.m. and saturday, april 27 at 8 p.m.

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Grammy-award winning violinist Hilary Hahn returns to Seattle for two performances

of Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47 with the Seattle Symphony. Guest

conductor Xian Zhang leads Overture to Karelia, Op. 10; Pascal Zavaro’s La Bataille

de San Romano; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92.

At Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle. Tickets $19-$142. For tickets and infor-

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DeathJack BergAugust 29, 1929–February 25, 2013Jack Berg (Yakov Yoshua Bergazin), born August 29, 1929 in Krasnosielc,

Poland, passed peacefully at home with his family by his side on February 25, 2013. Preceded in death by mother Doba, father Shimshon, sister Ruth (Abzug), and his loving wife Eleanor (Menkov). Jack is survived by his sister Ida (Nabozny), son Zachary and his family, wife Debra, beloved granddaughter Danielle, and his daughter Tamara and loving grandson Adam.Jack lived in Krasnosielc through September 1939, until World War II started

and Germany invaded Poland. He spent his next 11 years in labor, refugee, and displaced person camps. In 1950, relatives in the United States sponsored his family (minus his mother, Doba, who perished in the camps). Upon entering

New York harbor and seeing the Statue of Liberty, Jack described his arrival to freedom: “This specific day will remain in my memory and the sun, which rose on that morning, shall remain unset until my presence on earth shall terminate.” After a short stay in Baltimore, Md., Jack settled in St. Paul, Minn.Jack’s time in the U.S. was short lived, for he was drafted into the army in

1951 as an intelligence specialist. Using his language abilities in German and Russian, the army assigned him to Europe to interrogate Germans released from Russian prison camps to get insight into developments behind the Iron Curtain.After completing his service, Jack returned to Minnesota in 1953. What he

described as a “great day,” he became a U.S. citizen. His own words described

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Bar MitzvahAdam Ilan Flash

Adam will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on April 20, 2013, at Temple Beth Am in Seattle.

Adam is the son of Rabbi Allison and Edward Flash of Newcastle, and the brother of Sara and Daniel. His grandparents are Phil Flash of Seattle, Ed and Sue Shulkin of Los Angeles, Calif., and the late Claire Flash.

Adam is a 7th-grader at Maywood Middle School. He enjoys swimming, travel, music, and reading. For his mitzvah project, Adam worked to support Treehouse, a program that supports foster children.

Bat MitzvahAlexis Sara Agoado

Alexis celebrated her Bat Mitzvah on April 13, 2013 at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue.

Alexis is the daughter of Adrien and Jay Agoado of Mercer Island and the sister of Alyssa. Her grandparents are Merl and Keith Koplan of Vancouver, Wash., Barry and Inga Groberman of Vancouver, B.C., Josie Agoado of Seattle, and the late Myer Agoado.

Alexis is a 7th-grader at Islander Middle School. She enjoys boxing, boating, summer camp, spending time with friends, and shopping. For her mitzvah project, Alexis babysat to earn money to assemble craft kits for patients at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

DeathMarcy Migdal March 3, 1947–March 26, 2013

Marcy Migdal of Seattle died on March 26, 2013 while enjoying a Passover visit with her family. Marcy was born Ruth Marcia Alexander to Reba and Asher Alexander, in Philadelphia, Pa. She grew up in Philadelphia and in Oceanside, Long Island. She attended Douglass College, the women’s college of Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she met her husband Joel Migdal. They married in 1968. They lived in Watertown, Mass.; Tel Aviv, Israel (1972-1975); and Brookline, Mass. and traveled all over the world together before moving to Seattle in 1980. Marcy was an active member of Congregation Beth Shalom, where she regularly attended services and classes, served on the board, and played many other roles. She was also a founding participant and parent at the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle and director and parent at the Community High School for Jewish Studies.

Marcy was an educator who pioneered the field of multi-cultural education. Fluent in Spanish and Hebrew, she taught in bilingual classrooms early in her career and then joined one of the first multicultural education teams in Boston. While living in Israel, she wrote curriculum for the Ministry of Education and taught in the Givatayim Teachers College. In Seattle, she was one of the founding group of the Seattle Children’s Museum, worked for the Wing Luke Museum, taught in Highline Community College, wrote multi-cultural activity books for Uwajimaya, wrote curricula for many institutions including the Jewish Day School and Jewish Education Council, taught an anti-racism curriculum using the Anti-Defamation League’s “A World of Difference” program, and served as the principal of the Community High School for Jewish Studies. From

1992 to 2005 she worked as the director of multi-cultural education, Title IX compliance officer, and director of Indian education for the Edmonds School District, where she won national awards and recognition for her work in multicultural education. She also consulted around the state on issues of religion in schools.

Marcy’s greatest joy was the family she raised with Joel: Her children, Ariela Migdal of New York, Tamar Azous of Seattle, and Amram Migdal of Charlottesville. She loved her children-in-law Ethan Tucker, Paul Azous, and Rebecca Migdal. She delighted in her grandchildren, Eden Migdal, Yitzhak Tucker, Yoav Tucker, and Zahava Migdal Azous, and in her large extended family, including her recently deceased brother Steve Alexander and her dear siblings-in-law, nieces and nephews. Her other great joys included studying and spending time with her many close friends, with whom she liked to take walks around Greenlake, see plays, discuss books and ideas, and share Shabbat and holiday meals. She was a spectacular cook, baker, and hostess who enjoyed welcoming new people and old friends to her home on a regular basis. She was also passionate about travel, social justice, and women’s equality.

Contributions may be made to the Southern Poverty Law Center and to Congregation Beth Shalom in Seattle.

it best: “I am no more a man without a country. I am a member of the largest and happiest family in this world and I am proud of it!”Jack worked days building furniture, utilizing

his displaced person camp training in carpentry. At night, Jack attended high school followed by earning his electrical engineering degree from the University of Minnesota. During this time, Jack met and married his wife of over 40 years, Eleanor Menkov.

After graduation, they moved to Utica, N.Y., where he worked for GE from 1962 to ’64 prior to being hired by the Boeing Company in Seattle. After a distinguished 25-year career, Jack retired in 1990. He also served over 50 years as a Mason and a Shriner. Jack always said he was busier after

retirement, but he was doing what he loved most — helping others. He dedicated his time and talents to tutoring children at the Seattle Hebrew Academy, hosting families from Israel with sick children seeking medical treatment, and donating his carpentry skills to those that

needed his help — just to name a few. Jack was a man of quiet determination and

action who cared deeply about others.He was a survivor with a heart of gold who

loved his family (who greatly loved him), friends, community, and country. Jack will be dearly missed!

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Honoring thy mother: A toast to memory and survivalchaRleNe kahN JTNews Correspondent

During the first weekend in April, guests from California to Connecticut converged on Seattle in honor of Ruth Schocken, whose life story is a poignant reminder of survival. She turned 100 on April 3.

The life of this German-Jewish immi-grant who escaped the Nazis at age 25 and created a new life in the Pacific Northwest can be seen as a testament to family values, hard work and exceptionally strong will, both mentally and physically.

Though all three of Schocken’s adult children live in the area and are actively involved in their mother’s life, she lives independently. Her physical mobility has recently decreased, but Schocken still has a matter-of-fact quality about herself, according to her daughter, Barbara Lahav.

Before offering up a generous slice of marzipan-covered birthday cake, Schocken spoke with JTNews between visits from out-of-town relatives as her daughter helped supply anecdotes. Flow-ers and family photo displays decorated a cozy living space. A framed letter from President and Mrs. Obama shared birth-day congratulations from the White House.

Growing up as the youngest of eight in Bielefeld, Germany, Ruth Hamlet Schocken experienced loss early on. Her oldest brother died during World War I.

Louis, her father, was a meat wholesaler and an active member of the local syna-gogue; of her mother, Schocken said, “the whole town liked her cooking.”

As a youngster, Ruth pitched in, bring-ing bread to the communal oven. She later trained in window display and visual merchandising and went to work for her sister Thea and brother-in-law Fritz at the Leeser Silk Haus in Herford, Westphalia.

“[By that time] we were just lucky we got out,” she recalled. “The SS were already coming around the store and wouldn’t let people go in.”

This was in 1938, just before Kristall-nacht. They couldn’t leave Germany because “they had no liquid assets,” said Lahav. “Everything was tied up in the store.”

But one evening Schocken left work late, forgetting to turn off her iron. By the next morning, “the whole interior burnt down — but my sister ran to me smiling,” she said.

They now had insurance money and a way to leave “because of an iron,” she said. “In less than a year we got out.”

They made it to the U.S., but not with-out some lasting trauma: A fear of uni-forms left Schocken unable to tolerate even a driving test.

After coming to Seattle, Schocken met her husband, another German-Jewish ref-

ugee, through friends. “It’s like little Switzerland [here],” she

said. “I came to Seattle because my sister and brother-in-law were here already; I first came to Cincinnati but didn’t like the heat.”

Her husband Heinz, which he Ameri-canized to Henry, was related to the famed Schocken literary and publishing family through his father, whose older brother Salman established Schocken Books and became publisher of the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. Amos Schocken, a cousin of Ruth Schocken’s children, runs the newspaper today.

Establishing roots in Seattle revolved around synagogue and social connections with other ref-ugees.

“The Jewish Club of Washing-ton was a very important gather-ing place for our family,” said Joe Schocken, Ruth’s son, of the club that reached out to new arrivals and helped provide moral and financial support. The club disbanded last year.

But the Schockens joined another institution that has thrived throughout the years — the Herzl congregation on 20th and Spruce in the Central District, which is now Herzl-Ner Tamid Conser-vative Congregation on Mercer Island. The family is in its fourth generation of

membership — four generations happy to

celebrate the centennial of its matriarch.“It’s obviously very special to have

mother at this age, [for her] to enjoy and participate in the lives of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren,” said Joe Schocken. “It’s great to be able to tell the story and create family history.”

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Above, ruth Schocken with seven of her eight great-grandchildren, and, left, as a young woman.