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German preoccupation: Why bother with David Irving?Steven Blum Jew-ish.com

When I found out David Irving, noted anti-Semite, Holocaust denier, and widely discredited “historian” was coming to Berlin, I had the kind of reaction I think many Jews can relate to: I groaned and wanted to move on to the next article in Google News.

Why? Because Holocaust deniers, in this day and age, seem like low-hang-ing fruit, sensationalist fodder for any lazy journalist in search of a Nazi-related headline. “Holocaust Denier David Irving Plans to Return to Germany, But Will Hotels Let Him Stay?” is a headline many will click, even if the story is vacuous.

On the other hand, I understand why it’s a very big deal that Irving is coming to Germany: Irving’s “research,” having been roundly rejected by journalists, World War II historians, and laymen the world over, has allowed him — and the entire “revisionist” movement — to fashion him-self as what Christopher Hitchens calls “free speech martyr.”

One need only look at the comments section underneath the Huffington Post’s story to see the supposed “free-speech activists” out in full force.

“I would like to see an open debate on Mr Irvings [sic] findings and make up my own mind if they have any truth in them,” reads one comment. “Why do a group of

self appointed censors think people are not intelligent enough to draw their own conclu-sions?”

In March of last year, when the Daily Mail reported that a Munich court had overturned Irving’s lifetime ban in Germany, more com-menters cheered the decision as a victory for freedom of speech.

“Why is it a crime to deny the holocaust?” one bewildered-seeming comment reads, before going on to deliver a paranoid dia-tribe about Jewish control of the media. “What do they not want us to know? Don’t believe the lies. We are NOT free.”

Inciting hatred, violence, murder and even genocide begins with speech, which is one reason why Germany has made it a crime to openly deny the Holocaust in the first place. I don’t see that as a bad thing, and I think the ban on Irving should have remained in place.

Irving’s minimizing of Jewish death makes him particularly infuriating to read.

He has claimed that “more people died on the back seat of Senator Edward

Kennedy’s motor car in Chappaquiddick than died in the gas cham-ber of Auschwitz.” He’s also said outright that he thinks the Holocaust was a “hoax” invented by the Jews, and made ominous claims about what will happen to them when the world finds out the truth.

“Two years from now, too, the German historians will accept that we are right. They

will accept that for 50 years they have believed a lie,” he said.

In England, the court found Irving to be “an active Holocaust denier, antisemite, and racist, who associates with right-wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism,” and that he had “for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence.”

And yet, even today, Irving contin-ues to enjoy a large following. In 2011, he crisscrossed the U.S., visiting over 30 cities on a lecture tour titled “The Life and Death of Heinrich Himmler, Hitler’s Lieuten-ant, 44 years in 44 minutes.” A few years before, he led his own tour of Auschwitz,

stopping by the gas chambers to lecture about Hitler being “a great man, one of the greatest Europeans for centuries.”

And just last week, when the Huffing-ton Post wrote about Irving coming to Germany, the Holocaust Truther force flocked to the comments section to defend their beleaguered leader.

Part of this is the fault of the journalist who wrote the story. Simply calling Irving a “Holocaust denier” is not enough. With-out providing evidence that contradicts Irving’s claims, the press is essentially saying, “Here’s a bad man coming to Ger-many; why don’t you Google him and see what you find?” They’re not writing that the historians of the world have already “debated” Irving’s claims and come to the conclusion they are entirely made up.

Even the angle of the story is suspect: A league of hoteliers have joined forces to ban Irving from staying at any of their properties? Hooray! Except he’s still being allowed to come here.

Irving is still being allowed to spew his racist, anti-Semitic bile in the former seat of Nazi power. He will be able to sleep on a friend’s bed or at a B&B, eat some Wie-nerschnitzel, walk around the city and talk about how the Jews have been lying all along.

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British historian David Irving in July 2003.

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“He would probably school me.” — Taylor Halperin, an intern for Sen. Maria Cantwell and big basketball fan, on whether he would take the court with President Obama while he’s in the other Washington for the summer. Read about the M.O.T. on page 9.

The test of balancing our communitiesRaBBi alliSon B. FlaSh Temple Beth am

Since becoming a rabbi, I have come to believe there really are five seasons to the year. There are the typi-cal four: Fall, winter, spring, and summer, but for rabbis, there is an additional season called “pre-High Holidays.” It is the time of year when rabbis reflect on the messages we want to give our congre-gants and plan the services in observance of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. As a Jewish educator, I spend this time preparing to open religious school for our almost 600 students, making sure our program is the best it can be.

This year, my attention is being spent on something much more mundane and, ironically, more stressful. With many school districts beginning at the same time as Rosh Hashanah, I find myself preoc-cupied with what to do about the fact my daughter will miss the first day of her high school classes. While I know our family belongs in synagogue, I also am keenly aware she will actually miss an exam being given on the first day. For many, this does not sound like such a big issue, but for my daughter, it is certainly a concern. While I understand that legally she cannot be penalized for missing school due to reli-gious observances, I also understand there are ways in which she will feel punished.

This is but one example of what it means to live as Jews in the secular world. Let’s face it — we don’t live in Israel or even a city large enough that secular school calendars are affected by the Jewish calen-dar. For many of us, we are the only Jew in our school or office. We are constantly being asked to balance our Jewish and sec-ular identities, whether at school func-tions, with social engagements, or at work. The balancing act can be tricky at times. The larger problem is how this constant balancing often makes us feel like an out-sider in our own community.

I recently overheard a teenage girl tell another how she does not like wearing her necklace with a Jewish star on it. She explained that wearing it made her look

“too Jewish” and how she didn’t like to set herself apart from her peers at school. For many, being different is a positive, but for far too many, this feeling of being differ-ent is isolating. This isola-tion affects people regardless of age. Make no mistake — teens are not the only ones who struggle with this issue.

Unfortunately, the chal-lenge of finding a balance between the Jewish and secular parts of our identity will not go away. Navigating these challenges as they occur will be an ongoing process. There will be times when we feel like the outsider, but the answer is not to turn away from our Jewish identity. Rather, we need to turn to our synagogue or chavurah or youth group, to remind ourselves that we do belong, that we are not alone. When we belong to and are active in a synagogue, attend religious school or adult learning classes, take part in Jewish summer camps, belong to Jewish youth groups (regardless of which one), and are active with orga-nizations such as Hillel, the Jewish Com-munity Center, Jewish Family Service, or Federation, we remind ourselves that we are not “the other.” We are, in fact, together. By taking part in a vibrant Jewish community, we surround ourselves with other Jews and are invited into a sense of belonging often lacking in other areas of our lives. I repeatedly hear students tell me they love coming to religious school because, while they are the only Jew in their grade or school, they have commu-nity in our synagogue. They feel validated.

As a rabbi, Jewish educator, and mother, this “pre-High Holiday” season is spent contemplating how important it is to live as a Jewish American — one who straddles both the Jewish and secular worlds and one who proudly belongs to both communities. It is exactly this pride I wish for all Jews to have so when choices must be made, it brings pride — not dis-comfort. May this New Year bring with it deeper connections within the Jewish community for each of us.

He will be able to walk to the places where the storm troopers burned Jewish books, past the businesses that were stoned during Kristallnacht, and the homes from which Jewish families were evicted, dispos-sessed and then murdered en masse as he openly questions whether it was all made up by the Jews for attention, money and

power. He’ll be able to stand where Hitler once gave speeches about Jews being rats and say, essentially, the same thing — and people will listen.

It’s as if nothing has changed at all.

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Helen Thomas interviewer: Media whitewashed late journalist’s anti-SemitismJacoB KamaRaS Jns.org

On June 1, 2010, the day after the Gaza flotilla incident in which nine Turk-ish militants were killed after attacking Israeli soldiers aboard the Mavi Marmara, famed reporter Helen Thomas didn’t hide her opinions about Israel in a briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

“The initial reaction to the flotilla mas-sacre, deliberate massacre, an interna-tional crime, was pitiful. What do you mean you regret something that should be so strongly condemned? And if any other nation in the world [besides Israel] had done it, we would have been up in arms. What is this ironclad relationship where a country that deliberately kills people… and boycotts, and we aid and abet the boy-cott?” Thomas asked Gibbs.

Little did the public know at the time that just a few days before that press brief-ing, Thomas had uttered anti-Semitic comments that would go on to garner far more attention than what she said about the Gaza flotilla. Adam Nese-noff, the 17-year-old son of Rabbi Dr. David Nesenoff who handled the tech-nology-related aspects of his father’s RabbiLive.com blog, was busy graduating high school. That meant a May 27 video interview that Helen Thomas gave David Nesenoff on the White House lawn — in which Thomas said Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go home, to Poland and Germany, America and every-where else” — would not be posted online until a week after it was recorded.

Thomas, who worked 57 years for United Press International and a decade for Hearst Newspapers, died July 20 at age 92. She covered every U.S. president from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama, and is credited with opening the White House press corps to women. But all it took was a roughly 90-second interview to end her career in 2010 — Nesenoff’s video brought about her retirement shortly after it was posted.

Nesenoff believes that the “first part” of Thomas’s obituary should be her anti-Semitism, because her “poison infected everything she ever wrote.” Yet that wasn’t the type of Helen Thomas obituary Nese-noff saw from the mainstream media after her death.

“I got to hear people like Mika Brzez-inski of MSNBC say that, ‘Helen Thomas is my role model,’” Nesenoff said in an interview with JNS.org. “That CBS News decided to say, ‘Well, it was a little contro-versy, she said that Jews should go back to

Europe.’ They couldn’t even say the word Germany, because they have to whitewash everything.”

“It’s bothersome to see that the news really can’t call an anti-Semite an anti-Semite,” Nesenoff said.

Nesenoff was alerted to Thomas’s death through anti-Semitic email messages he received such as, “Happy now, kike?”

“It tells you the type of people that liked Helen Thomas, and basically it’s kind of emblematic of what my life has been like since being the reporter on the front lawn of the White House who uncovered an anti-Semite,” Nesenoff said.

Nesenoff said the media “didn’t know what to do about” Thomas’s comments because “here’s this sweet old lady, and she’s saying these vile things about Jews going back to Germany.”

Over time, some came to understand Thomas’s statement that Jews should “get the hell of Palestine” as referring to Jewish communities located beyond the pre-1967 lines, not all of Israel. But Nesenoff dis-putes that interpretation, explaining that if Thomas was okay with Jews remaining in parts of Israel, she would have said, “Go back to Tel Aviv.”

“She said tell them to ‘get the hell out’ and ‘go back to Germany,’” Nesenoff said.

Thomas apologized for her remarks to Nesenoff shortly after the interview, saying, “I deeply regret the comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recog-nize the need for mutual respect and toler-ance. May that day come soon.”

Yet it wouldn’t be the last time she uttered anti-Israel and anti-Semitic com-ments. Thomas went on to say that Zion-ists own the White House, Hollywood and Wall Street in an interview for Play-boy magazine, in addition to similar com-ments in other interviews, Nesenoff noted.

Nesenoff said the legacy of his 2010 interview with Thomas was that it “brought down that wall of ‘I’m anti-Israel, not anti-Jewish.’” National legislators, including U.S. Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Steve Chabot (R-OH), took notice and in April 2012 wrote a letter to Palestinian Author-ity President Mahmoud Abbas denounc-ing an award the PA gave Thomas.

Engel and Chabot also warned Abbas that the honor for Thomas might hurt U.S. assistance to the PA due to the parameters

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of the Preparing the Palestinian People for Peace Act.

“This legislation conditioned U.S. assistance on whether the PA was actively

preparing its people for peace through compromise with messages of toler-ance, understanding, and reconciliation,” the letter said, arguing that by honoring Thomas, the PA was undermining pros-pects for peace rather than preparing its

people for it.Although U.S. funding to the PA has

never been abolished — only temporarily frozen at times — Nesenoff was happy to have at least been part of the conversation on the issue.

“I’m very proud of [the fact] that in some ways I might have helped to stop all funding to the Palestinian Author-ity,” Nesenoff said. “It’s the gift that keeps giving, this divine providence interview I did.”

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back on the bus 6The war of words between Israel and Palestine activists on the sides of local buses is back, this time with help from an organization based in New York.

life after the session 7After going into double overtime, finishing up this year’s legislative session was a slog for our state’s four Jewish “freshman” legislators — but despite the drag on family life and summer vacations, they all say the extra work was more than worth it.

The cheder’s new head 8The Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder has brought in a new leader who knows the small day school’s ins and outs better than almost anyone.

Move-in day 11Dropping the kids off at college and helping them move in can be a bittersweet moment for parents, as one leader of a Jewish student organization can attest. But the kids appreciate you more than they’ll ever let on.

new day school digs 12The Torah Day School is moving once again. Now getting ready to open in a converted church in Beacon Hill, its leaders hope their third home’s the charm.

being there for Mom 14Jodilyn Owen found her life’s calling almost by accident, but she’s now making a difference as a midwife and parenting resource.

back at the table 16Peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians have begun in earnest after a three-year break. Just don’t expect to hear much about what’s going on.

The return of the gatekeeper 20That’s an inside joke for “Ghostbusters” fans, in case you’re wondering. Comedian Rick Moranis disappeared from public view for a while, but he’s back with an album that’s all schlock, with some gribenes on the side.

Fifty shades of what? 24The erotic thriller “Fifty Shades of Grey” is the most popular paperback ever. So why wouldn’t a local guy take it upon himself to write a Jewish parody?

MOReCrossword 6M.O.T.: Coming soon to your TV: The local farmer’s market 9israel: To your Health: Simple solutions 10Community Calendar 15Where to Worship 15The arts 19lifecycles 22The Shouk Classifieds 19

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“As the mother, so her daughter,” says the Book of Ezekiel. As the High Holidays approach, we should reflect on our lives, but also on our parents. Mothers give us a path to follow. The six daughters in this grid did just that, following their famous mothers into the acting business. Follow their lead and you’ll see. We will focus on fathers in our next puzzle.

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Back on the busJaniS Siegel JTnews Correspondent

In the latest round of the political ad smack-downs between Middle East advo-cacy groups vying for turf on the sides of King County Metro transit buses, two are once again battling it out in a war of words.

In 2010, after a torrent of public out-rage, Metro Transit removed a bus ad pur-chased by the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign decrying U.S. spending that sup-ports “Israeli war crimes.” A U.S. District judge upheld the ban, agreeing it was dis-ruptive to bus service and it threatened the public peace. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is currently reviewing that ruling.

“The ACLU is representing SeaMAC in the lawsuit against King County Metro for censoring our ad in 2010,” SeaMAC spokesperson Ed Mast told JTNews.

That SeaMAC ad, and others, which included messages such as “Nakba: The ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine” caught the attention of the New York-based American Freedom Defense Initiative, which appears to have become SeaMAC’s most relentless would-be adversary.

One of its latest counter-ads, which claims Palestinian leadership is really calling for a “Jew-free state” went on six Bellevue-based buses last month for four weeks.

Mast rejected these assertions outright and said that any sources the AFDI claims as evidence are simply wrong.

“We’ve looked and we don’t find them, so they appear to be part of the fabrica-tion,” Mast said. “In particular, we find no sources that make the alleged statement on behalf of the Palestinian Authority. In fact, Palestinian Authority policy has been the opposite: A Palestinian state would be open to all ethnic groups and religions.”

On Tuesday, however, while speaking in Egypt, PA President Mahmoud Abbas told reporters that “in a final resolution, we would not see the presence of a single Israeli — civilian or soldier — on our lands.”

Leading the charge is AFDI’s president, Pamela Geller, an author, speaker, inter-nationally syndicated columnist, and an outspoken critic of honor killings in the Middle East who exposes the suppres-sion of free speech in Islam in the U.S. and Europe. She has received awards from the U.S. Marine Corps and the David Horow-itz Freedom Center. But Geller is also a polarizing figure. AFDI and other orga-nizations she has founded have been con-demned by organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center for purportedly anti-Muslim statements.

Geller told JTNews she spent a lot of time proving the veracity of her ads to Metro Transit, whose 2012 revised ad policy is to reject any ad with “any mate-rial that is or that the sponsor reasonably knows is false, fraudulent, misleading, deceptive, or would constitute a tort of defamation or invasion of privacy.”

“I sent [my sources] to Seattle tran-sit and published them on my website, AtlasShrugs.com,” Geller said. “They were

sent June 11, 2013. The back and forth went on for weeks.”

“We requested documentation to sup-port her statement included in the ad and she provided it. The ad is running,” said Metro spokesperson Jeff Switzer. “She complied with the advertising policy that we have. I can’t respond to her characterization.”

Another AFDI ad, which calls for “Equal rights for Jews,” was a direct strike at a recent SeaMAC ad that Geller said she just couldn’t ignore.

“My ads are a response to earlier anti-Israel bus ads calling for equal rights for Palestinians in Israel, which they already enjoy,” Geller said. “When they put lies on bus ads, I will continue to counter with the truth.”

SeaMAC says its strategy is to use what it calls direct education “to discuss how U.S. support for Israel enables Israel’s con-tinued oppression and subjugation of the Palestinian people.”

Rob Jacobs, regional director of Stand-WithUs Northwest, a pro-Israel advocacy group in Seattle, told JTNews his organi-zation wishes none of the ads were run-ning because it reduces what should be an important debate to slogans and one-liners.

“The ads by the anti-Israel group, SeaMAC, that claimed Israeli war crimes or that implies that Israeli Arabs do not have equal civil rights under law are just plain false,” said Jacobs. “And it’s wrong that Metro initially accepted the war crimes ad without asking for proof that the claim was true.”

But Jacobs added that AFDI’s asser-tions are “supported by the claims made by Palestinian Authority President Abbas and numerous senior members of his gov-ernment over at least the past three years.”

StandWithUs is planning what Jacobs called a “positive” ad campaign of its own about Israel, which is set to debut on the insides of Metro buses.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Seat-tle posted its own statement on its website that expressed concern over only the AFDI ads. Federation CEO Keith Dvorchik told JTNews he considers both sides’ ads to be divisive, especially in light of Israeli-Palestin-ian peace negotiations that began this week.

“It ends up not helping in any way, shape or form. It doesn’t encourage dialogue, it doesn’t encourage community,” Dvorchik said. “The Federation works with Jews and Christians and Muslims about creating a better community for everybody, and that’s where we really need to be working.”

The local office of the American Jewish Committee, which advocates world-wide for Jews, Israel, and “human rights and democratic values,” issued its own statement saying that both groups’ ads are “unhelpful to the cause of peace and understanding in the Middle East.”

Wendy Rosen, the AJC Seattle regional director, wrote that “the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be solved on the side of a Metro bus in Seattle, Washington.”

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With its double-over-time, lasting two months beyond its normal con-clusion, our state’s recent extended legislative ses-sion was grueling by all accounts.

But it was necessary, points out Rep. Gerry Pollet (D-46).

“It had, on one hand, a beneficial impact,” he observed recently. In April, “the odds of us winning the investment in higher edu-cation and ending…[the] tuition increase were still pretty long against us.”

Most of the more recently elected mem-bers of our state’s Jewish caucus agreed. Senators David Frockt (D-46) and Andy Billig (D-3), both former House members new to the Senate in the past two years, and Representatives Pollet and Jessyn Far-rell (D-46) have all served fewer than two terms in their current offices. (Frockt and Pollet were appointed to their positions following the death of Sen. Scott White in 2011, but won their elections in 2012.)

All four said the failure of the trans-portation bill was their chief frustration of the session.

“The biggest disappointment was that we were not able to pass a transportation

revenue and jobs package,” said Spokane’s Billig, who says we need investment “in our transportation infrastructure for our state to have a prosperous economy.”

The frustration of working with a divided government — a Democratic majority in the house and Republican majority in the Senate — was shared by all. The problem is complicated, says Frockt, by “a structural budget process that com-pels people to wait each other out…We need to be negotiating and working on [the budget] earlier in the session…not holding each other hostage.”

These legislators agreed, though, that the most positive accomplishments were in education and human services.

Pollet is proud the legislature

“invest[ed] in higher education and…in not having any tuition increase next year,” as well as “our investment of a bil-lion dollars toward our obligations [to]…children’s constitutional rights to basic education in Washington.”

He still gave those efforts a B grade, “not an A,” he said. “We should have done at least 40 percent more.”

Farrell is also pleased with progress in education funding.

“There was recognition that if we want

to close the opportunity gap,” early learning fund-ing needed to increase, she said, adding that she and Billig have worked closely on this issue. Pollet cited further headway on “pro-viding health insurance for 300,000 people in the state of Washington.”

Few constituents com-plained about the extended session, Billig, Frockt, Far-rell and Pollet all said. Most voters understood

the process and wanted the budget to reflect their support of health, education and human services issues, particularly in the liberal-leaning and well-informed 46th district which three of the four represent.

“People are pragmatic,” said Frockt, and “understand it was a compromise.”

But he did field complaints that the Senate was succumbing to “DC-style grid-lock.”

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Devorah Kornfeld moved to Seattle in 1974 and almost immediately became involved with Menachem Mendel Seat-tle Cheder (MMSC), a private Jewish day school and the only Jewish Montessori preschool in Seattle. Now approaching 39 years of service with MMSC, Kornfeld is preparing to move into her newest lead-ership role as the interim head of school.

MMSC was founded in 1974 to pro-vide early childhood education to Jewish children in the greater Seattle area. Over the last four decades, it has grown from a preschool to also include an elementary school, a middle school, and a girls’ high school. Though it was founded with the intent of providing a traditional Jewish education for the children of local Chabad Lubavitch rabbis, MMSC enrolls children from all denominations of Judaism.

“Our goal is to imbue kids with a love for Judaism,” said Tziviah Goldberg, a member of MMSC’s board of directors who handles business and development for the school. Goldberg is the mother of 10 children, most of whom have graduated from or are currently attending MMSC. Goldberg emphasized that MMSC wel-comes all Jews, whether or not they can afford tuition. A majority of the school’s operating costs are covered by the Samis Foundation, which supports Jewish K-12

education in the Seattle area. The remain-ing funds are raised by the school itself through a combination of fundraisers and donations from parents and alumni.

Until recently, MMSC had been led

by Rabbi Yosef Charytan, who moved to Seattle a decade ago to serve as principal of the school’s growing programs. Charytan also oversaw MMSC’s move to its current campus in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Seattle in 2010.

But as Charytan’s duties expanded beyond his original academic role to encompass more of the financial and administrative duties, many in the MMSC community felt it was time to hire some-one who could provide the school with the guidance it needed, both in an administra-tive and educational capacity.

Charytan recently accepted a position with a school in Montreal, opening up the leadership role for Kornfeld. Kornfeld, who has previously served as a Judaics teacher for all grades and as the princi-pal of the girls’ high school, will serve as interim head of school through the 2013-2014 school year and possibly beyond, depending on the outcome of a search for a permanent head of school.

“She seems like the obvious person to take the helm in the interim,” said Gold-berg, who called Kornfeld a “tremen-dous educator” who will “bring a different flavor” to MMSC.

“I like to take the best of the old and the best of the new,” said Kornfeld of her pedagogy, adding that she is looking for-

ward to enhancing the curriculum already in place.

Kornfeld keeps herself up to date on the newest technologies and methods in education by collaborating with fellow Jewish teachers and participating in webi-nars. Two years ago, she attended the first-ever study group hosted by Yad Vashem Holocaust museum for Jewish day school teachers. The weeklong program, which had previously been offered to secular educators but never to Jewish day school teachers, focused on how to incorporate the Holocaust into the school curriculum.

In addition to her duties as interim head of school, Kornfeld has allowed her-self six teaching periods for the upcom-ing year to maintain the student contact that she loves so much. Her primary focus, however, will be on the academic integrity and community of MMSC.

“[I want to] take a good thing and improve what we can, and to make sure there’s communication between students and parents,” she said. “[I want] to make sure everyone’s needs are being met and voices are being heard. And really, my goal is for happy children that feel good about themselves, and working with each child on their level so that they can do the best that they’re capable of.”

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1 Actor, writer, and now television producer Simon Hamlin says

Seattle’s Pike Place Market was always one of his favor-ite places. He has fond child-hood memories of shopping there with his mother and, as a member of the Behar family, “related in some way to half the Sephardic commu-nity here,” he quips, he’s cer-tain that his grandparents and maybe even great-grandpar-ents shopped or worked there.

“I grew up in the restau-rant industry,” he says, adding, “I do love good food.”

His father owned or operated 30 res-taurants, including Simon’s in Tukwila — named after him — and the Brooklyn Café in downtown Seattle.

About a year ago, Simon observed that farmers markets had all the compelling ele-ments for television: “Musicians, interest-ing vendors, [colorful] fruits, vegetables…people walking around” with kids and pets, he says. Talking to the people who worked there he knew “definitely, there were lots of great story lines, a lot of potential.”

In the confluence of these influences it makes sense that the Jewish Day School and

Mercer Island High School alum, 39, should be involved with creat-ing “Locally Grown,” a satirical comedy TV show about life at a farmers market. Work-ing with his partners at Abundant Produc-tions, Simon says they chose it from about 10 potential projects as “the one that had the most mass appeal.”

Set in Seattle — watch the two-part pilot at

www.locallygrowntv.com — the show features the multi-generation Granger family and their struggle to “maintain their unity and their livelihood through every awkward situation” at the fictional Ball-mont market, according to the information packet. You might recognize the Ballard Sunday market in the crowd scenes, but the close-ups were staged on a local parking lot.

Calling it a “mixture of ‘Modern Family,’ ‘Arrested Development,’ and ‘Portlandia,’” a 12-minute pilot has been produced along with a series of one- or two-minute vignettes they call “bonus sprouts.” Now comes the job of “get-ting interest from potential investors and

buyers,” a process that can be “indefi-nite…you hear stories of scripts sitting in someone’s drawer for 10 years.”

In the meantime, Simon, who gradu-ated from UCLA and lived in L.A. before moving back to Seattle a few years ago, balances a variety of jobs to support him-self. He’s appearing in Intiman’s pro-duction of “Lysistrata” and works with Effective Arts, helping to lead improvisa-

tion workshops for corporate lead-ership training.

2 When our Senator Maria Cantwell speaks publicly this summer, Taylor Halperin

writes down every word she says.At least that’s one of his duties

as a summer press intern in her Washington, DC office. His duties are different from other interns, although he sometimes leads tours.

“My favorite thing is the daily clips,” he said last week while on the job. He culls news items relat-ing to Cantwell, selecting the most important and distributing them to

her listserve and local offices.About to be a senior at Williams College

in Massachusetts, Taylor says he applied for “a bunch of internship opportunities in DC and New York City” in January, before he left on a semester abroad program in Mar-seilles, France. Cantwell’s office responded first. That program in France required

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Three dates a day keep the doctor away, and other easy fixesJaniS Siegel JTnews Columnist

Luckily, in addition to the heady, clinical, and highly technical research that goes on in Israeli institutions, there are also some simple and doable everyday changes we can make to our lifestyles that can have a big impact on our health and happiness.

According to Israe l i researchers, simple choices like eating three dates daily lowers triglycerides and cho-lesterol in the blood with-out raising the blood sugar. Breastfeeding appears to lessen the devel-opment of ADHD in children. And using a new, enhanced “talking” version of an application adapted for Android smart phones can allow vision-impaired users to hear all of the same phone functions as their fully sighted counterparts.

Students at the Technion–Israel Insti-tute of Technology developed the phone app, and Prof. Michael Aviram from the Rambam Medical Center and the Tech-nion, along with Dr. Hamutal Boro-chov-Neori from the Southern Arava Agricultural Research and Development Station in Hevel Eilot, collaborated on the date study.

The “date research,” pub-lished in the Journal of Agri-cultural and Food Chemistry, would seem to be the simplest intervention with some of the biggest payoffs.

Aviram’s research group looked for vegetables and fruits that had “highly active antioxidants.”

According to their results reported in May 2013, out of the nine types of dates found in Israel, the most ben-eficial varieties were the Bar,

Deri, Medjool, and Halawi. These variet-ies showed the most promise in delaying cholesterol oxidation, the leading cause of atherosclerosis and related cardiovas-cular diseases, including stroke and heart attacks.

Aviram’s team also found that dates flush excess cholesterol from the walls of arteries, which could potentially stop the accumulation process, possibly reverse it, or, at the least, slow it down. Date extracts were also found to contain highly effec-tive and concentrated antioxidants that cleanse the body of free radicals.

This past spring, Dr. Aviva Mimouni-Bloch of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine

and head of Tel Aviv University’s Child Neurodevelopmental Center at Loewen-stein Hospital found that children who were not breastfed at 3 months old and beyond developed Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder at three times the rate of children who were. The results of her research have been published in the journal Breastfeeding Medicine.

Mimouni-Bloch compared the breast-feeding histories of three groups of children between the ages of 6 and 12 at Schneider’s Children Medical Center in Israel.

One group was already diagnosed with ADHD, a second group was made up of the siblings of ADHD patients, and a third control group included children who were in the clinic, but who hadn’t been diagnosed with any neurobiological or ADHD-related problems.

“One of the unique elements of the study was the inclusion of the sibling group,” Dr. Mimouni-Bloch told TAU staff. “Although a mother will often make the same breastfeeding choices for all her children, this is not always the case. Some children’s temperaments might be more difficult than their siblings’, making it hard for the mother to breastfeed.”

As part of the study, parents were asked

to answer an extensive questionnaire detailing the medical and demographic histories of their breastfeeding habits that are commonly associated with the devel-opment of ADHD.

They were also asked to provide a nar-rative that outlined their child’s breast-feeding history during their first year of life.

After three months, researchers found that in the ADHD group, 43 percent were breastfed, while 69 percent of the sibling group and 73 percent of the control group were breastfed.

After six months, 29 percent of the ADHD group were breastfed, compared to 50 percent of the sibling group, and 57 percent of the control group.

Researchers are not sure why breast-feeding produces this effect, but they spec-ulate it could be the nutrition in the breast milk itself or the bond created between mother and child.

Finally, it took six months, eight stu-dents, help from Samsung Corp., and a purpose focused on solving problems for others to turn a class computer sci-ence project at the Technion into a free Android app that helps sight-challenged

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Parents as the heroes of their college-aged childrenheRShey novacK Jns.org

After endless shopping trips, anxious parents will soon deliver their children to college for the first time. Some will be cooped up with their soon-to-be-indepen-dent high school graduate for many hours on a road trip. Other families will fly.

While the method of transportation may vary, one constant theme is the appre-hension a parent may experience while bringing a college freshman to campus for the first time. It may be the student’s first time away from home, and for parents, the feeling that “my little one is growing up” can be quite disconcerting. For many, this is their first child, and they arrive on campus with open eyes, voraciously absorbing all that the university offers, excited for their child’s new opportunities.  For some, this drop-off may have a hint of sadness: They

are now empty nesters.In my role as campus rabbi at

Chabad at Washington Univer-sity in St. Louis, I have partici-pated in many move-in days. I have observed numerous tender moments as parents bid farewell to their children after spending most of the day schlepping and unpacking. I have also seen an occasional awkward moment, as parents or students grapple with the realization that they are unready or unwilling to recog-nize the dynamics of their shifting roles.

Fret not, parents. There is good news.In their recent book, “Generation on

a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today’s Col-lege Student” (Jossey-Bass, 2012), Arthur

Levine and Diane R. Dean wrote of col-lege students:

When asked to name their heroes, [undergraduates] didn’t cite celebri-

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Torah Day School prepares for new homeemily K. alhaDeFF associate editor, JTnews

Torah Day School, the Orthodox pre-K–8th grade Jewish day school in Seat-tle’s South End, will welcome the 2013-14 school year in a new space on Beacon Hill.

This is the third building for the school in its seven years of existence. The prior space, a school building in Columbia City, was rented to TDS on a three-year lease that expired this year. The Seattle Public School system will be re-commissioning it as a middle school this fall.

The new space is a former Presbyterian church on Beacon Hill undergoing struc-tural and cosmetic upgrades to meet the school’s needs. Torah Day School admin-istrators have signed a 10-year lease with an option to purchase the property.

“We looked at it creatively and said, ‘You can make a school out of this,’” said Ezra Genauer, chair of the building com-mittee. “It’s a very nice piece of property.”

Other changes are afoot at the school, which is in the process of searching for a new head of school following the recent departure of Rabbi Sheftel Skaist.

Genauer is excited about the increased outdoor space and campus feel. While the school has no immediate plans yet to

purchase the property, which is valued at approximately $4 million, he is hopeful the space will become permanent.

“The future potential was something attractive about this piece of property,” he

said. “It just depends. We have not really put the pieces together yet to launch that kind of campaign. We’re focused on the short term.”

The short term has involved about

$700,000 in upgrades, including a new sprinkler system and bathroom updates to comply with the Americans with Disabil-ities Act. Rooms were reconfigured and the sanctuary was converted into a multi-purpose gym/auditorium. Water damage meant new floors and a new roof. An alarm system was installed and the lights were updated.

The Samis Foundation, which funds Jewish education initiatives in the area, is matching $300,000 raised by TDS. Most of the money has been raised through indi-vidual donors; according to Genauer, time was too limited to conduct a full-scale building campaign.

“We owe gratitude to Samis,” said TDS board president Binyomin Edelstone.

“We had to scramble a little bit, and given our requirements it’s not like there are many options,” he added. “It was important to stay close to Seward Park where most of our families are.”

Now they’re just waiting for the city permits to come through. Edelstone said the plan is to open the doors on schedule, on August 28, to the approximately 130 students enrolled.

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have of you, their parents, has increased dramatically over the past 20 years. When a similar study was administered in 1993, about the same proportion of students admitted to having heroes, yet only 29 per-cent of them indicated they saw their par-ents as their heroes. In their more recent study, the proportion nearly doubles.

There are many reasons for this shift. Simplest is an increase in technologies that allow parents to be a phone call or text message away. Indeed, 41 percent of students admit to communicating with

their parents once per day. (There are also deeper sociological shifts occurring, which deserve their own article.)

Through my many interactions with my students, it has become clear to me that many of them truly adore, respect and idolize their parents. You have no idea how frequently you turn up in con-versations I have with your children, and in conversations they have with each other. Your values, your experiences, and yes, even your occasional cringe-worthy humor, all provide a safe center around which your young adult orbits. You are their sense of balance and their strength,

even if they may seem to chafe at your presence.

College is when your children will attempt to define themselves as emerging adults. Just as your children are maturing, your relationships with your children will inevitably shift as well. The core values and beliefs you instilled in them do not dis-appear in college. Quite the contrary, we often find students coming to our Chabad house for a Friday night Shabbat dinner or Rosh Hashanah services, as that is what their family did back at home. Many others choose to attend, as well, because they know it will make their parents —

their heroes — proud. As you depart campus on that qui-

eter journey home, having delivered your children to student housing, rest assured that you have left them with more than extra-long twin sheets: You have left your children with core values, for them to appreciate, grow into, and guide them for the rest of their lives.

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The unpaid internship is “helping me determine whether I want to go into law or politics,” says Taylor.

He could have had his previous paying summer job in Seattle as music director for the student drama program Broadway

Bound, “but it…didn’t have any relation to the career I wanted to pursue,” he says.

A piano student since age 6, he per-forms with the jazz big band and another small ensemble at school. Among his other interests is baseball and he spent most of 2011 blogging about sabermetrics (statistical analysis of the game) for ESPN.

He grew up in Seattle, where his family attends Temple Beth Am, and graduated from Seattle Academy of Arts and Sci-ences. He’s enjoying seeing the sights,

some family and his friends in DC, although “it’s kind of humid here,” he says.

He does shoot some hoops as well, but the opportunity to play with President Obama hasn’t surfaced.

“That would be awesome,” he says, though he allows, “He would probably school me.”

Taylor’s internship ends next week and he will spend three weeks working in Williamstown and studying for the LSAT before school starts.

3Update: Shoreline’s Bill Cohon, featured last issue, has taken a gold medal for doubles grand

masters tennis in the Maccabiah Games with his partner, Barry Brah-ver. Bill is representing the U.S. at the games in Israel, which conclude this week. He also earned a bronze medal for singles play. You can read his accounts of his matches, and about other fun he’s been having in Israel, at williamcohon.blogspot.com.

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Providing the essentials to new mothers (and a lot more)emily K. alhaDeFF associate editor, JTnews

Twelve years ago, Jodilyn Owen was invited by her sister-in-law to her neph-ew’s birth as a “pseudo-doula” to boss her older brother around.

“The goal was to help him be involved in the way that he could,” she said. “I fell in love with being on that end of the bed, so to speak.”

She didn’t know that a doula was an actual job until her husband, Rabbi Benjy Owen, heard a story on NPR.

“He called me to tell me that people get paid for this thing I was running all over the neighborhood doing,” she said.

Owen is now phasing out her doula services in order to devote her time to midwifery and running the Essential Birth and Family Center, which she opened earlier this year in Seattle’s Seward Park neighborhood.

And her book, “The Essential Home-birth Guide” (Simon and Schuster, 2012) co-authored with colleague Jane Drichta, has already sold out of its first printing and holds a five-star rating on Amazon.

“Women read it and go to bed happy,” Owen said of the response. “It’s not about fear.”

Owen began training as a midwife with the Ancient Art Midwifery Institute

in 2007. “I got exhausted from witnessing

everything and being able to do nothing,” she said. “What I was seeing was a lot of information being pumped into people and a lot of decisions being made without really true, informed consent on behalf of parents, instead of empowering them

to use their own knowledge about them-selves and their babies to move forward in their pregnancy and birth process.”

Her training, which included obstetri-cal emergencies and understanding infant personalities, took her to the impover-ished South Pacific island of Vanuatu, where she gained the “muscle memory” to deal with newborn resuscitation and other life-threatening situations.

But once Owen was nationally certified as a midwife, she hit a wall. Licensure in Washington State is a highly bureaucratic, slow process, even though midwifery care saves the state millions of dollars per budget cycle, she explained.

So she set out to accomplish her other goal.

“I’ve always had this dream of creating a community gathering place for mothers and babies and families,” she said.

The Essential Birth and Family Center is the result of hundreds of hours of con-versations with South End healthcare pro-fessionals. The small building located next to the Seattle Kollel rents space to prac-titioners offering acupuncture, massage, lactation support, nutritional counsel-ing, doula care, and craniosacral therapy, as well as prenatal classes, parent support groups, infant and child CPR, babysitting classes, and more. Girl Sense, which the center developed and helps girls 8-9 years old channel self-awareness and manage stress, has become so popular it’s being introduced in Israel, Uganda, and other parts of the U.S. this year.

In addition, Owen feels strongly about empowering immigrant and minority communities in Rainier Valley.

“Midwifery is a white profession,” Owen explained.

It’s not easy for new immigrant mid-wives, who possibly serviced their entire communities back in Ethiopia or Soma-lia, to navigate the licensure or healthcare systems here.

“Cultural competency matters in birth,” Owen said. For new immigrants, “every time they turn around, something crazy is in front of them.”

After a long wait and some pressure on the system, Owen did receive her license to practice midwifery last fall. Now one of her activities is attending births with an unlicensed immigrant midwife from Ethiopia, so the midwife can still serve her community in some way. She’s also help-ing the woman obtain her license.

“They’re still the women that women bring their babies to,” said Owen. “Any-thing I can do to grow the midwifery com-munity, I’m really into.”

Yet another thing Owen has spear-headed to grow midwifery care is a part-nership with Swedish Hospital. Women who want fewer tests, longer prenatal ses-sions (up to an hour), whole-body care, and perhaps a shorter drive from their South End locations — but still prefer a hospital birth — can receive midwifery prenatal care through the center. They meet with physi-cians once per trimester and develop a rela-tionship with the hospital staff.

“You’re not just a woman in a hospital gown,” said Owen. “You’re somebody that they know…. It’s old school obstetrics.”

There is a cost savings as well for the expecting parents and their insurance companies. Hospital birth costs vary — according to a GroupHealth representa-tive, a vaginal birth with no interventions costs $15,780 and a cesarean with a three-day stay, prescriptions and labs bills at $24,532 — so the hospital doesn’t neces-sarily lose anything by relinquishing pre-natal care. Homebirths and birth-center births can often cost less than $3,000, with prenatal care included.

“I’ve always believed women are safest where they feel safest,” Owen said. “It’s about meeting women where they’re at.”

In spite of the excitement around bringing life into the world and creat-ing a network of natural birth supporters, Owen’s personal life has presented chal-lenges to her work. A few years ago, she lost one of her own children to cancer.

“We really trust in mothers and babies and birth,” she reflected. “It works. People get pregnant and they stay pregnant and their babies usually live. That’s a very fun-damental part of midwifery practice. So for me, coming into Sam’s illness was very shocking because it was the first time… ‘Oh, it doesn’t always work.’

“If it doesn’t always work — and will it ever work, and how can I trust that process again? — was part of my healing.”

Owen took a year off from midwifery school to grieve with her family.

“You just have to wake up and see it’s a new day one time. And then you do it again. And before you know it, time has

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Farrell heard constituents demand-ing “a good budget outcome that…preserves our social safety net…and pre-serves a strong investment in our K–12,” and understood “this was coming from a divided government,” she said.

She said she appreciated voters who came to Olympia to inform her of their views, and says the Jewish community was well-represented in lobbying for human services and homelessness issues.

The long session wreaked havoc with the personal lives of representatives and staffers.

“I survived the session with a lot of help,” said Farrell, who has two young children. She created an “intricate sym-phony of logistics” that included her hus-band, parents, other family members, and friends who chipped in so she could accomplish her “exhilarating and inter-esting” work. That she’s glad to be on summer vacation “is the understatement of the year.”

“I went into a tree,” said Frockt met-aphorically, once the session was over. While on vacation with his wife while his kids were at Camp Kalsman, he recalled that during the session he cut short a trip to a family wedding to return to Olympia

for a vote. “Of course, we didn’t vote,” he said, “I

don’t like to complain…. It’s a real privi-lege to be in public service…[and] it’s part of the deal.”

During the break, these representatives balance other jobs with legislative issues. Pollet runs a citizens’ group that leads cleanup efforts at Hanford and is pushing the Navy to clean up radiation contamina-tion recently discovered in Seattle’s Mag-nuson Park, in the heart of his district.

Farrell, an attorney, does some media-tion, and will explore approaches to man-aging childhood obesity. Billig, co-owner of the Spokane Indians minor-league base-

ball team, will observe day-to-day work-ings of state government that includes riding with a state patrol officer, observ-ing state-funded daycare, and spending a day with a corrections officer. This will give him “practical experience to use as we consider policy changes and budget changes” in Olympia.

Frockt, counsel to a law firm, said leg-islative work continues year-round. A report on education funding is due to the state Supreme Court and he’s “working with staff, [having] a hearing next week; there are things that go on. There are a lot of meetings.”

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Roiling region, pessimism behind Kerry’s urgency on peace talksRon KampeaS JTa World news serviceANALYSIS

WASHINGTON (JTA) — After 20 years of stops, starts and a bloody intifada in between, John Kerry believes he can pull out a final status Israeli-Palestinian peace deal in nine months.

What clock is the U.S. secretary of state trying to beat?

According to his aides, the one tick-ing down as Syria and Egypt roil into unknowable futures and Palestinians fume at the prospect of never achieving sovereignty.

“It’s becoming more complicated on the ground, and a feeling of pessimism is settling in among Israelis and Pales-tinians,” said a State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “It’s getting harder, not easier.”

On Tuesday, Kerry disclosed few details about a process that has been arranged and conducted largely behind a veil of secrecy.

Kerry said the next round of meetings would be conducted in the region and that Israel had agreed to take steps to ease con-ditions for the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

The Gaza reference was new. Since the Hamas takeover of the strip in 2007, Israeli confidence-building measures have focused only on areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

“The parties have agreed to remain engaged in sustained, continuous, and substantive negotiations on the core issues, and they will meet within the next two weeks in either Israel or the Palestin-ian territories in order to begin the pro-cess of formal negotiation,” Kerry said in an appearance at the State Department flanked by the top negotiator from each side, Tzipi Livni for Israel and Saeb Erekat for the Palestinians.

The breadth of Kerry’s ambition is breathtaking given the failure of multiple U.S. administrations over two decades to bring the conflict to a close and end the deep skepticism that exists on both sides. In recent weeks, top Israeli officials have

declared the two-state solution dead and talked of managing, rather than resolving, the conflict.

Kerry did not specify which issues are considered “core.” They would have to include not only the borders of a Pales-tinian state, but also the status of Jerusa-lem and the fate of Palestinian refugees — issues that scuttled the 2000 Camp David talks.

Since the 2000 talks, the conventional wisdom has been to first address borders and only then proceed to the more intrac-table parts of the conflict.

But the clock is ticking loud enough that it appears to have roused Israeli and Palestinian leaders who had not given an inch since October 2010, when the last round of talks stopped.

“Our ability to impact the internal sit-uation in Egypt or in Syria is very limited, but we can potentially impact our rela-tionship with the Palestinians in a way that will increase stability in at least part of our region and perhaps better enable

us to cope with the turmoil occurring elsewhere,” said Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to Washington.

To get the latest round of talks started, Palestinian Authority President Mah-moud Abbas gave up his insistent demand that Israel reinstate a settlement freeze prior to negotiations. Israeli Prime Minis-ter Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to release 104 Palestinians imprisoned for violent acts dating to before the launch of the 1993 Oslo process.

Netanyahu could make such a move in part because he is secure in his gov-ernment and has the backing of Israe-lis who for years have told pollsters that they would accept the terms of a final-sta-tus agreement negotiated by their govern-ment, said Peter Medding, an emeritus professor of political science at Hebrew University.

“He does not have anyone ready to jump ship, not at this stage,” Medding said. “There’s a clear warning sign for people to the right of him who feel he’s

betraying the settlers, but who feel if they jump out, he has the Labor party support-ing him from the opposition.

“Those who are unhappy with what he is doing don’t have much of an option.”

Netanyahu may be following in the footsteps of other Likud party leaders such as Ariel Sharon, Menachem Begin and Ehud Olmert, hardliners who ulti-mately abandoned the idea of keeping all the lands Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War.

“The question is, what is the alterna-tive,” Medding said. “There is a part of Bibi that understands however terrible it is that a two-state solution is the only way to go as far as Israel is concerned. This may be best way for Israel to proceed in an Arab world which is having its own signif-icant problems.”

Kerry has been relentless in pushing the sides to the table, making six trips to the region in recent months and shuttling continuously between Jerusalem, Ramal-lah and Amman.

“This is the man, Secretary Kerry, who showed everyone that nothing can stop true believers,” Livni said Tuesday. “And thank you for that.”

Two factors were central to the strategy pursued by Kerry and President Obama, who met Tuesday morning with the nego-tiators: To reassure the Israelis that they would not be sold out and keep as much as possible under wraps.

Obama’s March visit to Israel, in which he emphasized the closeness of the defense relationship between the United States and Israel, as well as historic Jewish ties to the land, did much to advance the first ele-ment. And Kerry vowed to maintain the radio silence that got him this far, empha-sizing that only he was authorized to speak publicly about the talks, per agreement with the parties.

“That means that no one should con-sider any reports, articles or other — or even rumors — reliable unless they come directly from me,” he said. “And I guaran-tee you they won’t.”

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Israeli President Shimon Peres, left, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, and Palestinian authority President Mahmoud abbas shake hands at the World economic Forum on the Middle east and north africa in amman, Jordan, on May 26. Renewed peace talks began this week.

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Actor Rick Moranis has busted ghosts in the “Ghostbusters” flicks, shrunk the kids in that comedy film franchise, tried not to get gobbled by a man-eating plant in “Little Shop of Horrors,” spoofed Darth Vader as Dark Helmet in Mel Brooks’ “Spaceballs,” and over-parented in “Par-enthood.”

So what’s he doing with his new comedy album, “My Mother’s Bris-ket & Other Love Songs,” complete with klezmer, rhumba, and jazzy ditties includ-ing “Pu-Pu-Pu,” “My Wednesday Bala-busta,” and “I’m Old Enough to Be Your Zaide”?

In a phone conversation from his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the wry, 60-year-old Moranis said he’s been hanging with the Tribe since with-drawing from Hollywood to raise his two kids about 15 years ago. “I noticed that people of my generation were starting to use more [Yiddish] expressions,” he said.

“They were in an odd sort of way becom-ing their parents.

“Twenty years ago, my sister never said, ‘Pu pu pu,’ and now she’s constantly spitting it into the phone. Last Labor Day, I went to a wedding, and I said to a cousin of mine, ‘I saw your grandson’s video on YouTube, he’s so talented — pu pu pu!’ And I thought, ‘That’s it, I’m writing a song.’”

The result is a klezmer-inspired tune that warns, “Before you’re jumping up and down and holding hands and kicking up a hora / consider possibilities of triggering a juicy kanahara [evil eye].”

Another number, “Live Blogging the Himel Family Bris” describes a nosy online journalist who is fressing (stuff-ing his face) with one hand so he can type with the other; “Wednesday Balabusta” was inspired by Moranis’ housekeeper; and “The Seven Days of Shiva,” sung to the tune of “The 12 Days of Christmas,” mar-

vels, “On the first day of shiva, the Stul-bergs sent in/The biggest potato kugel I’ve ever seen. On the second day of shiva, the Katzmans had delivered/Two tureens of borscht and a bigger potato kugel than the Stulbergs’.”

The album’s title song, of course, pays homage to his mom’s prowess with that signature Jewish dish: “When I was a little kid, it was not uncommon for a cousin or an uncle, before they would even say ‘Hello,’ to gush, ‘You know, your moth-er’s brisket is just incredible; it’s so good,’” Moranis recalled. “That was an inspira-tion for creating a love song in that well-worn terrain of the relationship between a Jewish boy and his mother.”

The CD’s cover art depicts a “before” photograph of Moranis getting ready to tuck into Mom’s victuals and an “after” picture of him asleep, with his belt loos-ened, zonked out from all that overin-dulging.

Consider the album a kind of comic revenge: “When I first began writing jokes and sketches with various Jewish part-ners, it was not uncommon for one of us to stop the proceedings and declare, ‘Too Jewish!’” Moranis said. “The songs on this album are all in that category.”

And they’re dedicated to “all of the soon-to-be alter-kackers [old guys]” from his childhood summer camps and “my former fellow inmates of the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto.”

While Moranis admitted to having regarded Hebrew school as “cruel and unusual punishment,” he said he grew up in a “joyful” Jewish home in a modest bun-galow on a street of all-identical houses in Toronto.

“I was really good at impressions,” he said, which was one reason he eventu-ally got into show business. As a stand-up comic in the late 1970s, Moranis mined laughs by mimicking celebrities

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like Woody Allen and George Carlin, and later, on the late-night sketch show “Second City Television” (“SCTV”), he was Bob McKenzie, one of the beer-guzzling Canadian McKenzie brothers, an act he re-created as a guest host on “Saturday Night Live.”

Eventually he got into fea-ture films, working with direc-tors such as Frank Oz and Ivan Reitman. But Moranis made the decision to stay closer to home, switching mostly to voiceover and commercial work, after a family tragedy: In 1991, his wife, Anne, died of breast cancer that had metas-tasized to the liver, leaving the actor alone to care for their two children, then 4 and 2.

“It just got to the point where I felt like I didn’t want to be talking to my kids from airports and hotels, and so I took a break, and then dis-covered I didn’t miss it,” he said of the film biz.

Moranis has loved music since he lis-tened to the Beatles as a teenager and put down his hockey stick for an elec-tric guitar; in 2005 he put out a country comedy album, of all things, titled “Ago-raphobic Cowboy,” which went on to earn

a Grammy Award nomination and made a profit to boot.

One song on that CD, “Mean Old Man,” was inspired by his friends’ Jewish parents, who used to regale an elderly Russian immigrant who whacked them with eucalyptus leaves at the shvitz (steam room). That, in part, whet his appetite to explore more of his Jewish roots with “My Mother’s Brisket.”

The new album features at least a dash of social com-mentary: The bris song, Moranis said, “was a good place to write what I wanted about blogging, which is how I loathe it and how dan-gerous I think it is. There’s no filter, no editing, no any-thing. And I thought a bris would be a perfect place for someone to violate privacy, act immorally, and publish.”

While Moranis said he doesn’t much care if the album sells — “I made it for, like, 16 people,” he quipped — he was worried some of the naughtier tunes might alienate segments of the Jewish community.

“There’s a gray area between Conservative and Orthodox people, for whom

you don’t screw around with the mezuzah, you don’t mess with the holy melodies,” he said. “Now, I’m glad I had that compass on me, because that kept me from doing other things that are far worse. But the record came out this past month, and I was com-pletely surprised by the reaction: Nobody found anything to be offensive.”

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gone by,” she said. “We have this question, what will we do with this day? We would look at each day with this question.”

Owen’s work with babies and mothers helped her through the grieving process and reemerged as her calling.

“From that first prenatal visit and that first birth, I knew, I miss this, and this is something that feeds my soul,” she said. “I want to be living, even with this tremen-dous loss in our lives. The way for me to do that was to follow my passion. I really wanted to show my kids that we must live. We must live.”

Owen’s lifelong connection to Seattle’s Jewish community also informs her work. She reflected on a recent trip to Rhodes, Greece, with her family.

“I saw a tombstone for a woman who was taken away by the Nazis and on her stone all of her children are listed by name and age on the day they were taken. There were six children — the youngest of which was only one week old. It was standing there that I felt my Jewish connection to what it means to usher in and protect life,” she said.

“At a week, everything is so tender and new. That woman’s life and death woke something up in me about the important role of the midwife in our community, and it is an honor to fulfill that role.”

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EngagementAtkins-Johnson

Sylvianne G. Atkins (Sylvie) and Joshua E.R. Johnson have announced their engagement.

Sylvie is the daughter of Marci and Riley Atkins of Portland, Ore. Her grandparents are the late Ed and Sylvia (Shemarya) Moskowitz. Sylvie graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in journalism and is a marketing communications manager at Microsoft.

Joshua is the son of Jaqueline Rosenblatt and Garold Johnson of University Place, Wash. His grandparents are the late E. Edward and Mollie (Rosefield) Rosenblatt, Margaret Johnson of Goldfield, Nev., and the late Clyde Johnson. Joshua graduated from Curtis High in University Place and California State University Northridge with a degree in English. He works for Windermere Real Estate.

The couple met at Camp Solomon Schechter’s alumni reunion in June 2011. The two plan to wed in Portland, Ore. in October 2014.

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Carly will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on August 8, 2013 in Jerusalem.

Carly is the daughter of Corbin and Debbie Tudor of Bellevue and sister of Lauren and Joelle. Her grandparents are Carolyn Tudor of Kalispell, Mont., the late Leonard Tudor, and the late Ruth and Norbert Reuben. The family attends Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation.

Carly is entering 8th grade at Chinook Middle School. She enjoys singing, reading, swimming, competitive soccer, and is a member of the National Junior Honor Society. For her mitzvah project, Carly led a food drive for the homeless at Redmond Tent City.

Bat MitzvahJoelle May Tudor

Joelle will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on August 8, 2013 in Jerusalem.

Joelle is the daughter of Corbin and Debbie Tudor of Bellevue and the sister of Lauren and Carly. Her grandpar-ents are Carolyn Tudor of Kalispell, Mont., the late Leonard Tudor, and the late Ruth and Norbert Reuben. The family attends Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer Island.

Joelle is an artist, and she enjoys drama, traveling, track, competitive soccer, and swimming. She is a member of the National Junior Honor Society. For her mitzvah project, she led a food drive for homeless kids who outgrew foster care at The Landing Shelter.

Bar MitzvahDaniel Benveniste Kavesh

Daniel will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on August 3, 2013 at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer Island.

Daniel is the son of Michelle Pierce Kavesh of Mercer Island and the brother of Sabrina Kavesh. His grandparents are Elliot and Lucie Kavesh of Bellevue and the late Albert and Maureen Pierce.

Daniel will be an 8th grader at Islander Middle School. He enjoys baseball, skiing, science, basketball, soccer, sports cars, and playing trumpet. For his mitzvah project, Daniel is supporting the Tourette Syndrome Association.

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WeddingOwen-Benezra

Samara Ann Owen and Jeremy Nathan Benezra were married on July 11, 2013 at Olowalu Plantation House in Maui, Hawaii. Rabbi Peter Schaktman officiated.

Samara is the daughter of Suzanne Owen of Renton and Greg Seaman of Traverse City, Mich. Her grandparents are Helen and George Seaman of Peoria, Ill. and Judy and Bob Owen of Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Samara graduated from Liberty High School and received a Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Washington. She works as an IT consultant at Ascentis.

Jeremy is the son of Debbie and Larry Benezra of Mercer Island. His grandparents are Sandy and Henry Friedman of Mercer Island and Joyce and Ray Benezra of Kirkland. Jeremy attended Newport High School and holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and construction management from University of Washington. He now runs his own construction business focused on remodels, Benezra Construction LLC. The couple resides in Seattle.

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If the biggest question on your mind this weekend is, “Where can I get my hands on a Jewish version of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey?’” well, you’re in luck — sort of.

“Fifty Shades of Schwarz” has “parody” stamped right on the cover. However, a more accurate description might be “inspired by,” since the title, fortunately, is where the similarities between the two end.

In case you missed out on the last three years of literary pop culture: The original “Fifty Shades of Grey” began as Internet fan fiction based loosely on the “Twi-light” series. It took the basic, screwed-up characteristics of Bella and Edward’s rela-tionship, gave them different names and jobs, changed the environment and cir-cumstances, then shot them into begin-ner BDSM territory — providing tons of detailed sex scenes and focusing on the sexual nature of the relationship.

Naturally, this was hugely popular and wildly exciting for “vanilla” folks. For many, “Fifty Shades of Grey” became the gateway drug into erotica and experimen-tation. Erotica enthusiasts rolled their eyes and the BDSM community yawned as the book became the fastest-selling paper-back, ever. Ever. EVER.

“Why not cash in on this massive trend

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Let’s cut straight to it: It’s actually pretty entertaining. In fact, as a self-pro-claimed “parody” of an already terrible book, it could quite possibly benefit from being more, well…terrible. For — unfor-tunately — in “Schwarz,” the action is driven by plot rather than sex.

The main character, Maya Stein, lives in Brooklyn and has a boring boyfriend named Jeremy. She meets a man named Aaron Schwarz through JDate (yep!) and they meet up for coffee. They go out sev-eral times, then things get mildly kinky: He wants to spank her during sex! So he does. But only if she doesn’t answer Jewish trivia questions correctly. It’s a game, see? Never has remembering stuff from Hebrew school been so critically impor-tant.

At that point Harris, surprisingly, takes a progressive turn in his writing and intro-duces another love interest into Maya’s life: A rabbi whom Maya meets through her mother. This is a pleasant diversion from the original “Fifty Shades,” where the main character is completely enveloped by a single controlling man with whom she is involved.

That is not the case here. In “Fifty Shades of Schwarz,” Maya is totally mature and in control. She juggles three men: A boyfriend, a businessman into spanking, and a sexy rabbi. That “juggling” portion of the book is really as exciting as it gets, for at the end (spoiler alert) Maya ends up married to some guy she went to high school with, pregnant and settled

down and happy and boring.

Y a w n - i n d u c i n g ending aside, “Fifty Shades of Schwarz” is fun. There are plenty of (tame) sex scenes, and some comedic, I-know-people-just-like-this characters. If you’re stuck at a family

reunion this weekend or need something to breeze through while sunbathing, you could do worse. And if your mom or 12-year-old cousin happens to be reading over your shoulder, it will only be mildly awkward.

“Fifty shades of schwarz” is available online

from amazon.com and Barnes & noble.

CourTesy ed harris