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Harnek Pabla, second from left, owner of the Pabla Indian restaurant in Renton, celebrated 10 years of kashrut on July 29. Rabbi Moshe Kletenik, a rabbinical boa
member of the Vaad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle, center, presented Pabla with a certicate, accompanied by Cecelia Benzaquen, left, kashrut consultan
Rabbi Dovid Jenkins, second from right, and Al Maimon, right, the Vaads executive director.
A year rom now, the nancial pictures o many o Western Washing-
tons Jewish organizations could look very dierent rom how they look
today. On July 28, representatives rom the Jewish Federation o Greater
Seattle began the public rollout o its new undraising and allocations
model, a radical shi rom the way this communal unding agency has
operated or much o the past 85 years.
Tough beneciary agencies can expect many changes in the alloca-
tions process, the changes will be most obvious in two ways:
Instead of receiving unrestricted allocations that cover operating costs,
agencies will need to request grant money or specic projects;
Where a handful of local organizations in the past received funding from
the Federation, any Jewish 501(c)3 charitable organization in Western
Washington, including synagogues, will be eligible to apply or these grants.
Tis is very dierent rom our old model. Were now looking
at the broader community, said Jack Almo, chair o the Federations
Planning and Allocations committee. Te statement that were really
making is that were a community tackling community challenges.
But that statement, said Richard Fruchter, the Federations president
and CEO, will need to be proven through action the results o which
are the culmination o more than two years o study and planning.
We are positioning the Federation to be a orward-looking organ
zation, the uture o the community, and trying to say, Heres how w
can take a community thats good right now and really turn it into a gre
community, Fruchter said.
Rabbi Jonathan Singer o emple Beth Am in Seattle, who also si
on the Federations board, has long promoted the idea that synagogu
should be eligible or Federation unding. He said he was impressed wi
the structure o this new model.
All the Jewish organizations can reach out together and work o
fundraising and on development and communal engagement, so Im ve
happy and proud o what the board achieved, Singer said.
What marks this new strategy rom the nationwide standard o ede
ated giving a big pot o money is collected each year, then distribute
to local and international organizations based on various community
directed criteria is how the undraising and allocating are inextricab
linked. Donors will now have the option o directing where they want the
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When I was 10, I thought
my riend Kevin Hennessey
was nuts. Whenever hed get
mad at me, hed scream out,
You Jews are all gonna boin
in hell! To which Id respond,with all the cocky sel-assured-
ness that drove him nuts in the
rst place: Nyaaa! Tere aint
no hell in my religion!
Only decades later did I
learn, to my shock, that his
religion had borrowed hell rom mine!
As Casey Stengel used to say, You can
look it up!
he almudic rabbis, in act, were
convinced that there is a special place
Gehinnom or notorious sinners, such
as Korachs rebels, Jewish kings who spon-
sored idolatry and, lest we orget, a cer-
tain Messiah, who was said to be spending
eternity in boiling excrement.
All this came to mind one recent morn-
ing when my buddy the Archbishop or-
warded me a news item with his own
outraged commentary at an apparent
anti-Semitic slander. Te report claimed
(erroneously, it turns out) that a Haredi
rabbinic court in Jerusalem presided over
the stoning death o a stray dog aer deter-
mining its body harbored the reincarnated
soul o a secular lawyer, now deceased,
who had insulted the court 20
years earlier.
So which do you consider
more bizarre: hat orah
sages would stone a dog to
death or that the same sagesharbor a worldview that
includes metempsychosis (a
ancy Greek term or trans-
migration o the soul rom
body to body)?
Lets begin with metem-
psychosis. As any survivor o
Pro. Jaees UW oering on
Jewish Mystical radition well knows,
rom roughly the 16th-18th centuries, not
only did most Jews Sephardic or Ash-
kenazic believe in the restoration o the
soul to the body at resurrection, they also
held, as a matter o conviction, the idea
that each individual soul, in the course o
millennial wanderings, routinely inhabits
many bodies until it completes the mis-
sion or which God sent it into the world!
Te idea is unknown to the almud and
nds no place in Maimonides. It rst sur-
aces publicly in the Sefer ha-Bahir(around
the 12th century) and, riding the coattails
o the Zohar, makes steady progress among
Kabbalistic adepts. It finally goes viral
among the disciples of Rabbi Isaac Luria, the
great 16th-century theologian o Kabbalah.
In full Lurianic dress, this process of
soul-migration is calledgilgul hanefashot.
Te idea is that every soul has a repair
(tikkun) to make in this world in order to
prepare the world or redemption. And
each soul might take a number o cir-cuits (gilgulim) through this world until it
accomplishes its particular tikkun. Some-
times, the newgilgulbrings one to a higher
orm o lie. Sometimes not.
Consider this story rom the oledot
ha-Ari, a collection o legends about Rabbi
Isaac Luria compiled by his disciple, Shlomil
o Dresnitz, a generation aer the master
sloughed o his mortal coil in 1572:
Once the rabbi went with his disci-
ples to Ayn Zatun.
When they arrived at a grove o
olive trees, a raven came and perched
on a branch near the rabbi and called
out repeatedly.
Said the rabbi: Remember Shab-
betai, the tax collector? Well his soul
has become embodied in this raven!
Because o his cruelty to the poor, he
was punished with this heartache o
being reborn as a raven. And now he
asks me to pray or him!
Immediately, the rabbi rebuked him
and said: Wicked One! Be on your
way! And the raven ew o.
Youll get why this Shabbetai surely ha
coming to him a ew more years peckin
seeds out o cow pies! But lets ast-orwa
rom 16th-century sat to 21st-centu
Jerusalem and the case o the chutzpad
lawyer trapped in the body o a dog.Tis case ogilgulhas drawn intern
tional attention, despite the disclaim
by the Maariv daily, whose editors has
ily apologized or turning a vicious rum
into an occasion or anti-Semitic actoid
Everyone rom PEA (animal rights) to A
Jazeera (Palestinian rights) has weighed
on this latest Zionist assault on human
tarian norms.
Well, in order to set the record straigh
and restore the Jewish peoples reput
tion or humaneness, let me share anoth
story that might reassure the humanita
ian community that there are indeed Jew
who cherish humankinds best riend
even one unwittingly harboring the so
o a shark!
Consider this account o events su
rounding the death o one Nahman Dav
Dovinski, in 2009:
Upon returning to their Meah She
rim at rom the uneral, Reb Dovin
skis amily ound an unamiliar do
Who pt th psychosis back in mtmpsychosis?
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RepaiRing the woRld: does it Replace oR augment a committed Jewish life?
There is a spiritual aspect to business just as there is to the lives of individuals. As you give, you receive. As you help others, youre helped in return.
Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerrys. Read about the ice cream mans philosophy on page 18.
OMAHA, Neb. (JA) A lot o myhometown o Omaha, Neb., was under
water in the nal days o July. Pumps were
set down at various locations, including at
a nuclear power plant located not ar rom
town that had to be shut down. Te Mis-
souri River, which borders our city, rose to
dangerous levels, turning much o the city
into a lake. Some Omaha residents took
to sandbagging to help reinorce critical
locations along the river to little eect.
Tis disaster mirrors the serious chal-
lenge acing the non-Orthodox Jewish
world.
Non-Orthodox Judaism is conronted
by rising levels o secularism that almost
always lead to assimilation a trend that
within a generation or two could render
Reorm and Conservative Judaism largely
irrelevant in North America (and abroad
as well). Non-Orthodox Jews general
discontent with and resulting departure
rom Jewish lie, le alone, stands to bring
Reorm and Conservative Judaism to a
state o obsolescence.
Tis prediction is neither original nor
new. From studies about very high inter-
aith marriage rates to growing assimila-
tion percentages, we should know by now
that the non-Orthodox way o lie is ail-
ing by just about every metric we have at
our disposal. (I am not Orthodox, by the
way.)
Some may not like reading these words
and others may be angered by them, but
like the Omaha ood, its hard to ignore
what one sees.
Tis distancing rom Jewish religious
(i.e., God-based) teachings and ritual
experiences inevitably leads to a distanc-
ing rom Jewish purpose. So Jews increas-
ingly try to nd their Judaic meaning
in social/political causes (immigration
reorm, Supreme Court appointments,
environmentalism, womens rights, etc.).
Putting aside the merit o the positions
taken, lets be honest: Tese tikkun olam
pursuits might eel good and even do some
good, but they do little to build Jewish
communities.
Were losing Jews and the commitment
o Jews ar too quickly to think that we can
aord to continue on as we are. If Jews
continue to prioritize these social/politi-
cal eorts over proven religious practices,
we must have the courage to acknowledge
that we have substituted all these secular
causes or Judaism.
We cant have it both ways. We might
insist that tikkun olam and social jus-
tice are central to our Jewish way o lie,
but they are increasingly taking the place
o serious Jewish education and Jewishpractice. hose are the water pumps
and sandbags employed by the Ortho-
dox movement against the rising tides o
assimilation.
I watch with sadness as the seminaries
o our non-Orthodox movements lay o
employees and close programs. National
non-Orthodox day school attendance rep-
resents only a small percentage o Jewish
children in the United States. And its not
because the economy started spiraling
downward the trends leading to this
point were in place long beore.
Orthodox Jews, or whatever disagree-
ments many non-Orthodox Jews have
with them, have grown in number, and
not only by sheltering themselves in ultra-
Orthodox communities. In contrast to the
ultra-Orthodox, the Modern Orthodox
largely swim in the same secular waters as
other Jews: Tey own televisions, use the
Internet, attend secular universities, and
work and vacation in the secular world.
But they also hold to a religious disci-
pline they believe is lie-improving. Tey
observe Shabbat and the Jewish holidays,
and they study Jewish texts in ar greater
numbers than non-Orthodox Jews. Tey
are more likely to have children, and their
children are ar more likely to marry Jews
and make Jewish homes.
Judaism teaches us how to be better
riends, businesspeople, husbands, wives
and philanthropists. It tells us how to
help the weak and when to ght evil. In
short, Judaism done right makes us better
human beings. It is the discipline of lead-
ing a traditional Jewish lie that also
reminds us how best to engage in repair-
ing the world.
Ironically, by overemphasizing tikkun
olam we could ultimately, through lack
o Jewish knowledge and experience, lose
the very impetus that put us in the tikkun
olam business in the rst place.
Must every Jew become Orthodox to
live a committed and meaningul Jewish
lie? Clearly not. Tere are, o course,
great numbers o highly committed non-
Orthodox Jews. But as a community, at
least or now, well be severely weakened i
we dont acknowledge that we must repair
ourselves ar more urgently than we must
repair the world.
Joel Alperson is a past national campaign chair
for United Jewish Communities. His views do
not necessarily represent those of the Jewish
Federations of North America, formerly known
as United Jewish Communities.
Jdaism is mor thantikkun olam
Joel alperson JtA World news Service
NEW YORK (JTA) I have nopatience or survival Judaism. When-
ever I hear someone talk about what Jews
must do in order to survive, I head for
the door.
Joel Alperson has joined the long list o
Jewish communal leaders oering a or-
mula or Jewish survival. Along the way,
he inorms us that Modern Orthodoxy has
all the answers and Reorm and Conserva-
tive Judaism are on the road to extinction
a point with which I strongly disagree
but that I will not argue here. What does
need to be said, however, is that he shows
a total misunderstanding o what Juda-
ism is about and ails to comprehend that
a Judaism obsessed with survival is a Juda-
ism that will not survive.
Anyone who has urged college students
to care about Jewish survival knows they
will respond with indierence, incom-
prehension and contempt. Tey are not
interested in being Jewish so we can sur-
vive. Tey need to hear the opposite mes-
sage: Jews do not observe orah in order
to survive; they survive in order to observe
orah. And this is the key or such stu-
dents, and or most North American Jews
observing orah means much more
than worrying only about our own souls.
Observing orah involves ullling a
grander purpose. It means taking to heart
the words o R. Hayyim o Brisk, the great-
est almudist o the late 19th century, who
dened the rabbis task as ollows: o
redress the grievances o those who are
abandoned and alone, to protect the dig-
nity o the poor, and to save the oppressed
rom the hands o the oppressor.
Social justice, in short, is required by our
religious texts and is inseparable rom our
religious mission. Tere is no such thing as
a morality that is selectively indignant
that looks within but ails to look without.
And Judaism without ethics, both personal
and societal, is a contradiction in terms.
Do we need to study orah, embrace
Jewish ritual and observe Shabbat? Abso-
lutely, although Reorm, Conservative and
Orthodox Jews will interpret these obliga-
tions dierently. Te work o social jus-
tice, absent text study and ritual practice
as a oundation, is inauthentic and will not
sustain itself. Indeed, I have found that the
work o tikkun olam, or all its rewards,
is lonely and discouraging work, and onby absorbing the light o the Shabbat can
dles and by studying and worshiping wit
a strong, dynamic Jewish community can
immunize mysel against the cynicism an
alienation that surround me.
But the point that Mr. Alperson miss
is that social justice is not, as he claims,
secular pursuit meant to compensate
the absence o God-based Jewish exp
rience. Social justice is God-mandated
precisely the same way that Shabbat obse
vance and orah study are God-ma
dated. In the book of Jeremiah (9:24), w
nd these words: I am the Eternal, wh
exercises kindness, justice and righteou
ness on earth, for in these I delight. Ser
ous Jews know that in the Jewish traditio
healing the sick, clothing the naked, help
ing the poor, pursuing peace, loving m
people and my neighbors these are th
attributes o God, and we testiy to God
existence by emulating God behavior.
And in act, Mr. Alperson cant see
to decide i Jewish education and Jewi
practice are God-based or are instr
ments o survival. Ultimately he appears
choose the latter, reerring to them as th
water pumps and sandbags employed b
the Orthodox movement against the risin
tides o assimilation. Orthodox leade
can speak or themselves on this poin
but I will share with you the reaction
my daughter Adina, a social activist, wh
belongs to an Orthodox congregation an
was incensed by this article.
We dont observe Shabbat becau
it is a sandbag against assimilation, sh
said, but because it is part o the etern
covenant between God and the Jews th
evokes the miracle o Creation and th
Exodus rom Egypt and links me to Jew
throughout the centuries. Exactly so.
Te essence o Mr. Alpersons arg
ment, and the height o his olly, is th
we cant have it both ways; we cannot, h
says, both insist that tikkun olam and soci
justice are central and also embrace ser
ous Jewish education and Jewish practic
But we can, and in act, we must. o d
one without the other is to retreat rom th
world and distort Judaisms very essence
Rabbi Eric Yofe is the president of the Union
for Reform Judaism.
Jdaism is alwaystikkun olam and mor
rabbi eric Yoffie JtA World news Service
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What God is trying to do with this
world is to gure out who he is through us,
music sensation Matisyahu told the camp-
ers at Camp Solomon Schechter. Tatsreally what Jewish mysticism says.
Matisyahu, known or his usion o reggae,
hip-hop and beat-box sounds with Chas-
sidic Judaism perormed or 200 enthusias-
tic campers at Camp Solomon Schechter on
July 29. Te camp is the only Jewish summer
camp to ever have hosted Matisyahu and
this was his second appearance.
We are so blessed to be able to have
him share his message about peace, being
proud of being Jewish, and pride in Israel,
said Sam Perlin, the camps executive
director. Im thrilled that he feels pas-
sionate about Jewish camping. Its a real
joy to see the aces o our kids when he
enters the amphitheater.
Aer thunderous welcoming applause,
Matisyahu said, Its great to be back and
launched into one o his most popular
hits, Jerusalem. Between songs, Mati-
syahu engaged in warm conversation with
the campers, at times oering humor, as
well as serious and deep messages. He per-
ormed several o his well-known songs in
the 45-minute performance. He capped
o his appearance with his hit One Day,
which has been the camps theme song
since his rst visit last summer.
Beyond the music, however, Matisyahus
message clearly resonated with his audience.
Matisyahu said even rom his childhood
he has always had a strong belie in God,and that God would maniest his destiny.
I wanted to foster a relationship with
God; I wanted to build it, gure out how
to develop it, he said. So I just started
davening. I felt that somehow there was
something real about the Hebrew words
and the Hebrew language and letters. Even
if I couldnt understand them, I felt that
saying those words, saying those letters
was going to open up some doors.
Doing so wasnt always easy, Mati-
syahu said.
In times before I ever thought about
religion or Judaism, when I would feel
disconnected I would just try to recon-
nect, whether that meant going down to
the water, taking a walk, singing a song, or
writing some lyrics, he said. But it wasnt
working well enough or me to just do it
on my own; I needed help with it.
Ater exploring where he elt most
comortable in Judaism, in what he called
a process o discovering himsel, he arrived
at where he is today though he says the
exploration is a lielong process.
Campers said Matisyahus religious
explorations created a powerul message
or them.
Hes not the ste-
reotypical Jew, which
most o us are seen
as, to our non-Jewishriends, said Jacque-
line Schwartz, 14, of
Seattle. Were really
stereotyped at the
public school where
I go. So seeing Mati-
syahu as a religious Jew
who is cool, who rides
motorcycles and tells
jokes, is really cool.
Raael Kintzer, an 18-year-old sta
member also rom Seattle reected upon
the impact o Matisyahus appearance on
the rest o the camp session.
I think Matisyahu injects amazing
Jewish energy and spirit into everyone at
camp, Kintzer said. He gives everyone
a burst o joy to come to camp [and be]
happy rom the start. Tats so important,
because Jewish camping opens doors in so
many ways. Jewish camping changes how
people think about the world.
He has such amazing music, said
17-year-old Merav Rosenberg o Jerusa-
lem, a member o the delegation o the
camps four Israeli scouts. Seeing him
here brings so much spirit and makes the
camp experience so much stronger and
alive.
Relecting upon the origins o h
music, Matisyahu spoke o the bridg
between the music and Judaism.
My whole life all I really wanted to d
is to make music, he said. When I becam
religious and went to yeshiva, I just let go
it. I just said that if this is my destiny, if th
is what God wants for me, then I have
gure out the other parts o my lie rst.
For video of Matisyahus appearance, please
see the Camps YouTube channel at www.
youtube.com/campsolomonschechter. Corey
Salka is a board member of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Seattle and Camp
Solomon Schechter and the founding partner
of Israel Startup Angels.
Matisyah brings msic, spiritality,and lif lssons to Schchtr
coreY salka Special o Jtnews
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Beatbox sensation Matisyahu and his bandmates did a 45-minute set f
Camp Solomon Schechter in Olympia on July 29.
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QFC proudly supports Seattle Childrens HospitalBy Eric Miller, QFC Public Afairs Specialist
Eric Miller is the Public Aairs Specialist or QFC. He can be reached at [email protected] or 425-990-6182.
In early March, members o our QFC Corporate Oce team put a ew hours
o their own time toward helping achieve an extremely important goal raising
$1 million dollars or Seattle Childrens Hospital.
Te event was Jackie and Benders 10th annual One Big Kiss or Seattle Childrens
Hospital Radiothon, a 2-day undraiser which was broadcast live rom the Hospital.
Radio hosts Jackie and Bender brought the stories o Childrens patients, amilies,
sta and volunteers to their listeners across our region, who responded with generous
donations. QFC associates helped answer phones to take pledges rom these callers
and during the event, QFC provided two $5,000 miracle matches:
QFCs frst $5,000 match generated 96 gits totaling $7,894.
QFCs second $5,000 match generated 148 gits totaling $10,440
Overall, our $10,000 match motivated 244 people to donate $18,334 to Seattle
Childrens and the event did meet its goal the radiothon raised $1,090,396.72!
I was grateul or the opportunity to be part o such a worthy cause.
My older brother, Christopher, was diagnosed with leukemia at age
2 and Childrens Hospital was a very large part o the rst nine years
o his lie and the rst seven years o mine. Dr. Barbara Clark was our
primary care physician and she took a special interest in our amily. She
is now retired but will orever be considered a member o our amily.
My brother was expected to not live through the night on more than
one occasion, lost his hair 3 times due to radiation treatment, and the
suering and worry my parents must have experienced with every cold
and fu throughout those years is unimaginable. Te hospital and its sta
were supportive beyond what was expected. Tey helped where it was
truly necessary. I am proud to be able say that my big brother has been in complete
remission since his late childhood and is happily married with a wonderully bright
adopted son.
Josh Dooley, QFC Shrink Manager
Tis summer, we all have the same opportunity to aid Seattle
Childrens in their mission to prevent, treat and eliminate
pediatric disease. Starting August 7th and running through
September 3rd, Seattle Childrens Hospital will be QFCs Check
Stand Charity Partner. QFC customers can donate at any check
stand using the $1, $5, or $10 scan cards, by dropping change
in coin boxes or by designating their 3 cent bag reuse credit as a donation to Seattle
Childrens. In addition, QFC will make a donation o $10,000 to the Hospital. Your
willingness to donate will make a dierence in the lives o children and their amilies,
and that is something to celebrate!
he oldest Conservative congrega-
tion in Seattle is changing up its educa-
tional ormat, trading boutique Judaism
and the Synaplex model o individually
tailored ritual or a holistic generational
approach with the help o its newly hireddirector o congregational learning, Rabbi
Jill Levy.
Herzl-Ner amid Conservative Con-
gregations longtime spiritual leader,
Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, said a shi in Juda-
ism is taking place around the world.
Jewish communities, he said, are becom-
ing more proactive, less deensive, and
better at becoming the people who sur-
vived tremendous odds to thrive in the
21st century.
Herzl-Ner amid, he told the JNews,
will ollow that trend beginning this year.
We live in the age o individualism,
and weve been doing that, Rosenbaum
said. A amily service, a teen service, a
main service and we reached people
in new ways. But the sense o commu-
nity needed to be developed a little more
deeply.
So the board and HN leadership
started asking questions about how to
meld the Frankel Religious School, the
membership, and the community to a new
and unied level.
How do we create more connectivity
between the age groups and have a more
deeply connected relationship between
the school and the synagogue? Rosen-
baum asked. We want to create a more
holistic way o thinking about everything
Jewish.Levys role at the synagogue will incor-
porate this new vision, which emphasizes
lie-long learning.
Only onboard a ew weeks, Levy, was
ordained in May rom the Jewish Teo-
logical Seminary. She held the Wexner
Fellowship there, was a Legacy Heritage
Fellow, and also earned a masters degree
in Public Administration rom Columbia
University.
When the board and the congregation
decided to hire a director o congrega-
tional learning instead o continuing with
a more child-ocused education director,
Levy was a natural selection or many rea-
sons, including the act that she received
her bachelors degree at the University o
Washington in Conservation Biology.
Right now were very much in the
planning stages, said Levy. Part o what
Ill be doing over the course of this year is
taking a really serious look at the religion
school programs. What we dont want to
have is independent silos...but we want to
see ourselves as an integrated whole. What
happens in the religious school also has an
eect on what happens in the main sanc-
tuary.
One o the rst initiatives will be a
music program on Sunday mornings, led
by local musician Chava Mirel.
he existing BYachad program, atwo- or three-day-a-week religious school
program or grades 3 through 5, already
includes a amily education component.
BYachad is meant to encourage parents
to get involved and learn with their kids,
in the synagogue.
Rabbi Rosenbaum and I are going to
be teaching classes or the parents while
their kids are in religion school, Levy
said. And there will probably be some
kind o learning together component
where the amily studies together.
Te second hour o the morning, she
said, will be an interactive parent-to-par-
ent discussion time ocused around Jewish
values and amily dynamics.
Levy, her husband, and their two
daughters, ages 2 and 4 months, relocated
to Seattle rom Philadelphia, where she
was attending the Jewish Teological Sem-
inary. She was born and raised in Hous-
ton, exas.
Levy met her husband when the two
were working at Hillel o Georgia in
Atlanta. He has been a student at the
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and
is currently taking time o to be a stay-a
home dad.
Im the parent of two very youn
kids, said Levy. I know that having th
community o other people to speak wi
about dierent struggles that Im goin
through with my own kids is really hel
ul.
One new aspect o this holistic edu
cation program will be the interminglin
Synagog dcators tak a holistic viw
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1A native o our air
state, Sheila (Schain)
Stuart, has just com-
pleted a term as mayor oCambridge, England.
Born in Seattle, Sheila
moved with her parents, Sid
and Vicki Schain, to Yakima
and then the ri-Cities or a
time, beore the amily settled
in Oregon. According to Sid,
Sheila always had an inter-
est in politics and interned in the Oregon
State Legislature.
She moved to England in 1991 to work
or Toby Churchill in his speech-aid busi-
ness. Tey subsequently married and had
a daughter, Lucy, beore divorcing. She
is currently married to Bruce Stuart, an
architect.
Sid explained to me that Cam-
bridgeshire has 42 councilors, or repre-
sentatives, similar to our city or county
councils.
Tey have much more direct import,
on their constituents, he says and, in his
opinion, the political system there is
much more satisactory.
Aer serving on the council in Cam-
bridges Trumpington Ward since 2004,
Sheila accepted the mostly
honorary yearlong position
o mayor or a term that
began in May 2010. She kepther so-called day job as an
accountant, perorming her
mayoral duties during the day
and keeping up with her pro-
ession at night.
Sid says she took the job
with the intent o making
it un, and rom the photos
I received, it certainly looks
that way.
Among her ofcial duties, Sheila has
met the Queen and Prince Charles a
couple o times, opened the 800-year-old
Reach Fair, and rappelled o o ancient
buildings.
As you can imagine, Sheila has received
a lot o press coverage in her adopted
hometown. You can search the Cambridge
News site at www.cambridge-news.co.uk
or articles and photos o Her Honor, the
very photogenic mayor, or see her review-
ing the Royal Anglican Regiment in a
BBC slide show at bbc.in/qB6Pyn (typists
should mind the capital letters).
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This Weeks Wisdom
Speak Words of Peaceby Mike Selinker
2011 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cae, 1538 12t h Avenue, Seattle.
All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb.
Answers on page 14
ACROSS
1 Peace is the beauty of life. (1978)
6 Elroy Jetsons mom
10 Belch
14 Concession speech?
15 Bell Labs creation
16 Give o
17 Let us reach for the world that ought to be. (2009)
18 True happiness comes from a sense of inner peace
and contentment. (1989)
20 How you might eel while sitting shiva
21 Foxx lm
23 Show or orensics ans
24 Guitarists need
25 With 51-Across, The poor people are very great
people. They can teach us so many beautiful things.
(1979)
28 Peace is not Gods gift to his creatures, it is our gift to
each other. (1986)
31 Summer appliances, or short
32 Starlets goal
35 O-kilter
36 ___ Reader(political magazine)
38 Fish-and-chips sh
39 It is time to make peace with the planet. (2007)
40 Peace is a dynamic construction to which all should
contribute. (1978)
42 Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the
world. (1964)
43 Cultural period
44 TVs warrior princess
45 Org. with a ood pyramid
46 Monopoly payment
48 ___ Red Road (thoroughare near Microsot)
49 Global challenges must be met with an emphasis onpeace. (2002)
51 See 25-Across
53 Bad stat or Hasselbeck
54 Hill dweller
55 When youd expect to leave SeaTac, briefy
56 Swelled head
59 Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity.
(1990)
64 The one radical solution is peace. (1994)
66 Neighborhood
67 It has buzzers at its entrances?
68 Word beore Gay
69 Did a cantors job, at times
70 Hebrew word meaning so be it
71 Peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory. (2001)
The Hebrew word shalom means peace. When we speak the word, we encourage those we greet to lead
lives free of violence. Along these lines, weve provided quotations from some of the best Nobel Peace Prize
Lectures. Name the speakers of the quotes in bold, with the years of their Nobel inductions given in parentheses.
DOWN
1 Book jacket items
2 Isle between Tuscany and
Corsica
3 Poke and prod
4 Sux with global or hero
5 Whenever Youre ___ (Ace
o Base song)
6 Elroy Jetsons sister
7 Santa ___ winds
8 Zippo
9 Obtains, as revenge
10 Rabbis attribute
11 Thurman o Kill Bill
12 Edge
13 Bake sale grp.
19 Sux with sheep or bull
22 Report card triumph
24 ___ sow, so shall
25 Let a new age dawn! (1993)
26 About 71% o the earths
surace
27 Bigot
28 Gamble
29 Jim, ___ a Tie Today (country
song by The HIghwaymen)
30 O the mark
33 Le___ (French newspaper)
34 Ms legend Martinez
37 They may be withheld
41 Unspoken, as an agreement
42 Dave and Krists Nirvana
bandmate
47 Lipton packet
48 You ___! (Palin exclamation)50 Tenor Bocelli
52 Genetic ino
55 Divisible by two
56 Black, poetically
57 Type o monster
58 Second son o Judah
59 Shell product
60 man ___ mouse?
61 Stimpys pal
62 That guy
63 Garden o Eden resident
65 ___ Arbor
On July 4 last year, we
huddled around res to keep
warm in Seattle. As o this
writing, weve so ar gotten 78minutes o summer tem-
peratures over 80 degrees,
that is. Meanwhile, across the
country in Washington, D.C.,
where politicians are wast-
ing taxpayer money ghting
over a phony debt crisis,
and trying to eliminate the Clean Air and
Water Acts, EPA, and conservation and
alternative-energy programs, theyre swel-
tering under record waves o heat and
humidity.
Is climate change afoot, or are these
weather gyrations just isolated events
that are part o the Earths natural cycles,
as climate change deniers assert? In the
interest o ull disclosure: Tese natu-
ral cycles have wiped out lie on earth a
dozen times. O such cycles, the orah
just mentions Te Flood, as i that was the
only time such an event occurred. It also
notes smaller, devastating environmental
events erasing Sodom and Gemorrah,
the Egyptian plagues, swallowing Korach
and Co. But it doesnt oer much guidance
on how we can address man-made envi-
ronmental dangers, or climate changes
other than to tough them out, or migrate
(i.e., the story o Joseph). We have become
renowned or that latter skill over the ages
as Wandering Jews.
But most o the worlds habitable
places are already settled, so migrating to
new, more promising lan
is no longer a viable optio
Everyone is in the same ar
So in addition to the consquences o natural cycles, c
mate change deniers mig
add a little more previous
unmentioned inormation
their claims, to wit:
Human output of green
house gases is demonstrab
overloading earths carbo
cycle, helping glaciers disa
pear rom South Pole to Nor
Pole, and Himalayas to Andes to Kilima
jaro, eliminating runo water or drinkin
and irrigation worldwide;
Changing ocean currents and weath
patterns are aecting growing season
patterns o rainall, drought and migr
tions, and disease vectors; rising ocea
acidity levels are adversely aecting s
lie, and pose threats o hydrogen suld
blooms;
Uncontrolled human population grow
and poor resource management are run
ning the world out o seaood, game bir
and animals, and depleting resh water an
arable land or growing ood.
o hedge their bets, a large group
Congressional climate change-denyin
politicians is working to cut ederal und
ing or the agencies and programs th
measure, report and take action on clima
change. Its simple logic: You cant prov
Th popl of sstainablimpact
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money used. JNews will provide more
details about the donor side o the strategy
in a uture edition.
his new grant-based model will
include mechanisms to measure how each
project benets its intended population.
Tese measurements will be based on met-
rics set in part by the agencies that receivethe unding, meaning they will be required
to put more work into their requests than
in the past.
Were really looking or the agencies
to help guide us onthe right measurable
objectives that we can all use and agree
upon to measure the success o the pro-
grams that theyre running, Almo said.
Each project that we und is going to have
its own metrics that we look at and evalu-
ate, and well be asking beore their grants
are renewed to really evaluate them in year
two and beyond.
Projects most likely to be unded are
ones that t into our o what the Federa-
tion is calling impact areas: Helping our
community in need, Experiencing Juda-
ism, birth to grade 12, Building Jewish
community, post grade 12, and Strength-
ening global Jewry. Te Federation will
also maintain an unrestricted und to ll
any unding cracks and to account or
emergencies or other contingencies.
Te most important criteria or und-
ing, Almo said, is does the need get met?
Where possible, agencies that partner with
each other on projects could make the
requests more appealing.
Partnership is a mechanism or success
but isnt necessarily a requirement or suc-
cess, he said.
Where Almo said he has seen some ner-
vousness about this new model is in who
and what these grants are intended for: Its
not just or new and innovative programs,
he said. It may be for programs right now
that are being done in a terric way. We
want to continue to encourage that.
Rusty Federman, board president o
the Stroum Jewish Community Center,
said his board and leadership are standing
behind this initiative.
Our hope is that the community will
embrace this new model and see the value
in driving programmatic excellence in
rating the areas that are the highest priori-
ties or the community, he said.
As the second-largest local recipient ocommunity campaign unds, the SJCC is
holding a wait-and-see attitude with how
the overall unding plays out when alloca-
tions are announced in the spring.
Its real money in our budget, Fed-
erman said. All the agencieshave great
need and were all looking to grow our
bottom line as much as possible.
Tough Federman said it was still pre-
mature to comment on how the new
model will aect his organizations budget,
he doesnt oresee any major changes to
the programmatic model the SJCC has
been building over the past ew years.
Federman and Judy Neuman, the
SJCCs CEO, have met with Fruchter and
Federation board chair Shelley Bensus-
sen to discuss the model, and expect to
have more one-on-one discussions with
the Planning and Allocations committee
to get a better sense o how to most eec-
tively apply or grants.
Tose discussions, Almo said, will not
be exclusive to the larger organizations.
He said the Federation plans to hold ses-sions to provide grant-writing instruction
as well as a letter-o-inquiry process that
will give any agency eedback on whether
a proposed request would be likely to
receive unding.
As a lielong member o Seattles Jewish
community, Wendy Rosen looks orward
to seeing this new model put into action.
Im excited about it. Im energized about
it, she said. I think that they have really
responded to what the donors are interested
in thats philanthropy in 2011.
As executive director o the Seattle
chapter o the American Jewish Commit-
tee, however, Rosen is skeptical. Te AJC
would most accurately t into the Buil
ing Jewish community impact area, b
the international organization ocus
on reaching out to other aith and ethn
groups, and not working as closely with
the Jewish community.
We eel like we are doing invaluab
work for the Jewish people and for Israe
but it doesnt t into the Jewish Federatio
o Greater Seattles criteria, Rosen said.Te AJC has seen shrinking allocation
rom the past several Federation cam
paigns, as has its largest undraiser an
community event, the Seattle Jewish Fil
Festival. Its the festival, however, whe
Rosen sees opportunity.
For some people in Seattle, this is the
only experience in the Jewish communi
the entire year, so I think that denite
builds Jewish identity, Rosen said. Give
the difculty in undraising or the ar
these days, Im hopeful that the Jewis
Film Festival will receive more dolla
than it has in the past.
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Te astonishingly cheeky French screw-
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takes on the most sensitive issues rom a
single, calculated direction: Head on.With unbridled enthusiasm and ear-
less wit, co-writers Michel Leclerc (who
also directed) and Baya Kasmi cover the
political-cultural spectrum rom the Vichy
governments deportation o Parisian Jews
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Pairing its goring o sacred cows with
over-the-top aunting o emale nudity,
this audacious and entertaining movie
goes so ar beyond politically incorrect
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approach isnt cynical or irresponsible. If
its goal is to shock, it is to shock us out o
our complacent, passive acceptance o ste-
reotypes, racism and worse.
Te Names of Love opens Friday, Aug.
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Every romantic comedy requires a
cute, contrived meet-up, but this one is
especially and cheerully shameless. A but-
toned-down, middle-age, Jewish environ-
mental scientist named Arthur Martin (an
endearing Jacques Gamblin) is conduct-
ing a staid radio interview when a youth-
ul station volunteer inuriated by his
mealy-mouthed assessment o the risks o
avian u bursts into the studio to ream
him out.Tis incident impels Arthur to directly
address the camera (that is, the audience)
and begin rattling o his socially inept lie
story to this point. An only child, Arthur
was raised by likable yet cautious par-
ents; his mothers parents were deported
and killed in the Holocaust, although hes
never been told the story.
In fact, the subject was taboo in the
Martin house, even when the rest o France
was nally conronting its dreadul his-
tory. In a typically daring and funny ash-
back, Arthurs ather jumps up to change
the channel when coverage o Klaus Bar-
bies trial comes on the V. What does he
nd instead? A Holocaust documentary.
Another turn o the dial and there, thank-
ully, is an innocuous quiz show.
Except, however, a contestant is giving
a Holocaust-related answer. Holocaust
denial may be eradicated in France, but its
alive and well in the Martin home.
Inevitably, Arthur and his amboy-
ant tormentor, whose name is Baya Ben-
mahmoud, cross paths again, with a more
cordial result. She invites him back to her
place, an everyday occurrence or her but
discombobulating or him.
Were primed or a variation on the old
Woody Allen gambit brainy Jew meets
liberated gentile but thats way too
hackneyed or this movie. Liberated, heck;
Bayas a caricature o promiscuity who
sleeps with every conservative she meets to
cure them o their wrong-headed politi-
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she mistakenly thinks hes one o them.)
Te Names of Love is not the kind
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what it tells us about its characters, so w
get an extended scene o the sexually bla
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French Oscar or Best Actress) walkin
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Now its Bayas turn to ll us in on he
autobiography. Te daughter o Algeria
immigrants, she is as steeped as Arthur
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tutional discrimination. With so muc
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embarks on a roller-coaster love aair
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Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat
prformnc
Youth Theatre Northwests 28th season
will feature the beloved Andrew Lloyd
Weber biblio-musical about Josephs
life. The cast is comprised of 30 local
teens and the production is headed upby director Kate Swenson and musical
director Julie Ann Parsons.
At Youth Theatre Northwest, 8805 SE
40th St., Mercer Island. Weekend per-
formances begin at 7 p.m., and Sunday
and weekday matinee performances star t at 2 p.m. Tickets run $13$17 and
are available through the box of fice at 206-232-4145, ext. 109. For more
information visit youththeatre.org or call 206-232-4145.
through augu 21
th tln show
ar inllon
If weird, lonely and vaguely depressing is your kind of thing that is, if youre
into modern art then try to make it to the Henry Art Gallery for The Talent
Show, a reality-TV inspired exhibition of video and photography exploring
public and private space on film and the relationships between artists and
their audiences. One particular segment features 16 simultaneous two-hour
videos, The Intra-Venus Tapes, which depict feminist (and Jewish) artist Han-
nah Wilkes final years as she succumbs to cancer.
Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday and Friday 11
a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave. NE, Seattle. For more
information call 206-543-2280 or visit www.henryart.org.
arts
augu 9 7 .m.
The Food Lovers Guide to Seattle
auhor vn
Keren Brown, of Frantic Foodie
blog fame and author of the newly
released The Food Lovers Guide
to Seattle: Best Local Specialties,
Markets, Recipes, Restaurants and
Events, will speak about her newhungry user-friendly book. Brown is
a self-made foodportunist: After
learning to cook and falling in love
with the art, the 32-year-old mother
started writing and hosting food-
portunity foodie networking events
and was recently named Doer of the
Week by MarthaStewart.com. The
book, apparently, is a must for every Seattle foodie.
At the University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, Seattle. For more
information call 1-800-335-READ.
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Augu s t Winners!Mazels to Chosen Offer
winners Zev Bak, Leslie
Feinstein, Robin Lipsker, &
Deborah Binder! Each of
you has won a gorgeous,
one-of-a-kind Mezuzah
designed and carved by
local artist Al Benoliel.
Mazels!
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I am three years old and can write my name I speak Hebrew
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Fall programs begin in September.
206.275.7609Online registration, www.myparksandrecreation.com
Visit www.miparks.net to download your
Fall/Winter Recreation Guide week of August 22.
Online Registration begins
Friday, August 26
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Chabad Hebrew School
For more informationTelephone: (425) 957-7860
E-mail: [email protected]
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Sunday School Hours9:45 am - 12:30 pm
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AT CHS, WE....Instill a sense of love for Israel,
Judaism and being Jewish.
Master Hebrew skills of reading,writing and grammar.
Experience hands-on appreciation
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Discover & explore the Torah with
an emphasis on Jewish morals and
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Our non-judgmental, friendly and
inclusive policy means every Jewish
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prior knowledge.
Part of the Eastside Torah Center
Visit us online at www.chabadbellevue.org
Hands on learning
generates enthusiasm
and excitement forJudaisms tradition
and culture.
Creative arts and
crafts, stories, special
holiday activities and
much more will allow
the children to
develop and love their
Jewish identity.
chabadhebrewschool
BH
or disprove a claim i theres no evidence.
Its also ironic: Science works if it agrees
with ones ideology (natural cycles), but
not i it doesnt (climate change).
We humans have survived climate
changes beore. We seem to have irst
appeared, as homo ergaster, about 2.3 mil-
lion years ago, during a hiatus in our current
ice age, the Pliocene-Quaternary glaciation,
which started about 2.58 million years ago.
Since then, world ice sheets have advanced
and retreated on roughly 40,000- and
100,000-year time cycles. But another ull
disclosure note to climate change deniers
there were 7,500 percent ewer people, more
ood per capita, and no global, human-
made environmental threats back then. Te
explosions o our population, ood supplies,
inventions, and global pollution threats
have all occurred in just the past 10,000
years, during the environmentally benign
period since the last glacial retreat.
oday, were learning to survive in
new normal Earth climates, with new
patterns o heat and cold, rainall and
drought, etc. And we Jews, who are argu-
ably historys people o the greatest
impact, now have a golden opportunity to
become the worlds people o greatest sus-
tainable impact. As the Manhattan-based
Beavan amily discovered in their docu-
mentary, No Impact Man, the simple act o
living creates impacts on the earth. In fact,
humans and their planet are resilient and
designed or this; appropriate, sustainable
impacts create mutual, positive eects. On
the other hand, neither we, nor our planet
are resilient against traumatic and cata-
strophic injury, carcinogenic and muta-
genic poisoning, acidic waters and soils,
and low-oxygen atmospheres. With the
exception o natural disasters, everything
on the list above is caused by humans
wars, pollution, oil rig and nuclear plant
accidents. And theyre all avoidable.
Its irrelevant whether or not climate
change is afoot. If climate change denie
assert that humans will survive in mo
natural conditions, I can agree. Histo
shows were an utterly adaptable, innov
tive species. And o all peoples on eart
we Jews have been among the best o su
vivors, because weve been so good
making things up as we go along. o gi
ourselves the ghting chance we nee
however, we must create the healthie
possible circumstances or ourselves. An
that means eliminating the pollutant
dangerous processes and man-made cata
trophes that make us less resilient and ab
to ace what the uture will bring.
JeWISH ON eARTHW PAGe 8
WASHINGTON (JTA) A Wash-
ington state appellate court ruled against
an animal protection groups bid to strike
down as unconstitutional a law protecting
religious slaughter.
Te three-judge panel o the Wash-ington Court o Appeals on July 25 was
unanimous in rejecting the suit brought by
Pasados Sae Haven.
Te state law denes as humane stun-
ning an animal beore slaughter, which is
the conventional means o slaughter, and
severing the carotid artery, which it says
is in accordance with the ritual require-
ments o [a] religious aith. Te lattermethod is used in Jewish and Muslim
ritual slaughter.
Pasados said the law was unconsti-
tutional in part because it avored reli-
gious ritual over other methods. Te court
rejected the claim, saying that invalidat-
ing part o an act while upholding another
would usurp the state legislature.
he Orthodox Union, an umbrellabody or synagogues and a kosher certier,
praised the ruling.
Kosher slaughter has been targeted by
various ringe activists, but it is a necessa
component o our communitys religio
lie, it said in a statement. We apprec
ate that elected ofcials, such as those
the Washington legislature, recognize th
humane nature oshechita, and ensure iprotection and thereby the ourishing
Orthodox Jewish lie.
Washington stat cort pholds koshr slaghtr law
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Home owners club Northwest Gelte Fish:A Family Afair
Tuesday, August 16 11am1pm
Dorothy Becker andher amily make their fsh
together. They have it down to a science.
Did you never have the opportunity to learn how to make gelte sh? Dorothy
and her daughter Arlene Azose are experts. Come and learn. Step by step. From
the rst step when Dorothy brings up her large pot and the scar that protects
her hair rom the shy smell, to the taste o the sot, favorul sh ball that is
made with salmon rom northwest waters. Youll go home with a packet o sh
recipes gelte, sweet and sour, pickled and a layered sh terrine.
Space is limited.
Call Lori Weinberg Ceyhun at
2067742277 to purchase
tickets or reserve your spot.
at Congregation Beth Shalom6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle 98115
Co-sponsored by Congregation Beth Shalom
$8 members of WSJHS and Beth Shalom $10 nonmembers
Cae lh tes
Au. 5 .............................. 8:21 p..
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saturDaY6 august1111:30 a.. t Shaa
Irit Eliav at [email protected]
or 206-524-0075, ext. 2503 or
bethshalomseattle.org
Children ages 0-3 (and their parents) are invited to
a un Shabbat morning tot-riendly service! Service
meets on the rst Shabbat o the month. Free. At
Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE,
Seattle.
sunDaY7 august7 p..9 p.. yzkee, reee
he! thee Weeks ves
Rabbi Avrohom David at [email protected]
or 206-722-8289 or www.seattlekollel.org
It is critical to hear the stories and memories o the
last survivors o the Holocaust, vividly connect with
their individual experiences, and transmit their legacy
to uture generations. View this video presenting two
great heroes: Rav Michael Ber Weissmandl o Nitra
and Rav Shlomo Schoneld o the Kindertransport.
Free. At The Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave S,
Seattle.
MonDaY8 august9:30 a..12:30 p.. SEEd Pjec bs
Rabbi Yehuda Bresler at
206-331-8767 or seattlekollel.org
Torah learning or boys grades 2 and up. Tuesdays
and Thursdays extended hours 12:30-2 or baseball
at the park. Registration orms required. $25/week.
At 5305 52nd Ave S, Seattle. Runs throughout the
week.
7:3010 p.. Chausa lea me
a bs
Rabbi Yehuda Bresler at
206-331-8767 or seattlekollel.org
Join the Seattle Kollel or beit midrash chavrusa-
style learning with SEED students rom Ner Israel in
Baltimore. Call Rabbi Bresler to set up a chavrusa.
No charge. At 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle. Runs
throughout the week.8:45 p.. Ee tsha bA
Carol Benedick at
206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org
Congregation Beth Shalom will read the book o
Aicha, Lamentations, by candlelight sitting on the
foor o the sanctuary. Free. At Congregation Beth
Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
tuesDaY9 august2:45 p..7:30 p.. tsha bA ves
Rabbi David Fredman at [email protected]
or 206-722-8289 or seattlekollel.org
Mending Relationships, Rebuilding the World lm
screenings. Video A screens at 2:45 at Bikur Cholim
Machizikay Hadath. Video B screens at 6:30 at
Sephardic Bikur Holim. Suggested donation o $15/
adults and $10/students. At 5145 S Morgan St. and
6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
WeDnesDaY10 august11 a..12 p.. the PJ la S e
a mck bks
Amy Hilzman-Paquette at
www.acebook.com/pjlibraryseattle
Join the PJ Library or music, storytelling and le arning
Hebrew through ASL with Betsy Dischel rom Musikal
Magik, a certied Signing Time academy. Free. At
7220 Woodlawn Ave. NE, Seattle.
35 p.. SECC ope Huse
Leyna Lavinthal at
425-603-9677 or templebnaitorah.org
Temple Bnai Torah Solomike Early Childhood Center
open house. Learn about parent/baby/toddler/pre-
school classes, meet the teachers and learn about the
curriculum. enjoy crats, games, garden play, a song
session with Chava Mirel, snacks and more. Free. At
Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.6:308 p.. Suppe a Su me
Rabbi David Fredman at
[email protected] or 206-251-4063 or
seattlekollel.org
A sup(p)er learning opportunity. Enjoy a succulent
supper and then take some time to study with the
SEED guys. Supper rom about 6:30-7:15, study
7:15-8 and short service. No charge, donations
grateully accepted. Call or location.
7 p..9 p.. Wes nh ou rsh
Chesh A
Mrs. Giti Fredman at
206-852-6418 or seattlekollel.org
The Hebrew month o Av marks a dark period in
Jewish history. Both the rst and second temples
were destroyed in this month as well as a number
o other major calamities. Come hear Rabbi Daniel
Lapin speak on the topic o why bad things happen
to good people. Free. Call or location.
thursDaY11 august8 p..10 p.. Wa, Wha s g F?
Rabbi Avrohom David at
[email protected] or 206-722-8289 or
seattlekollel.org
Cholent shiur and book signing: War, What is it
Good For? A Practical Application o the Middah o
Netzach From Moshe Our Teacher. Based on the
new bookThe Seven Waysby Ian Bailey. Followed by
maarivservice. No charge, donations accepted. At
the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave S, Seattle.
friDaY12 august10:30 a..12 p.. PJ la S a
Se a he Seae Jewsh Cu
Sch
Amy Hilzman-Paquette at
www.acebook.com/pjlibraryseattle
Music, singing and storytelling with the PJ Libra
and Je Stombaugh. Come or the songs and sto
and stay or activities and playgroup un. Free. SJCS, 12351 8th Ave. NE, Seattle.
56:30 p.. Fa Hauah Shaa
Matt Korch at [email protected] or
206-388-0830 or bit.ly/oyLzdb
Take a break and enjoy Shabbat with riends. Ha
dinner, sing songs, hear a Shabbat story. Light t
candles and enjoy some resh challah. Open to t
entire community. $5-$10. At the Stroum Jewi
Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Merc
Island.
7:30 p..9 p.. nsha Shaa
Shellie Oakley at [email protected] or
206-577-2391 or
www.betale.org/shabbat.html#nishmat
Bet Ale teachers share their passion or meditatio
mystical chant and the deeper transormatio
messages o Jewish tradition. $10 donation.
Queen Anne United Methodist Church, 1606 5
Ave. W, Seattle.
7 p.. Shaa wh ra See vae
Robin Kroll at [email protected] or
206-276-8346 or on.b.me/nbx3i9
The celebration with Rabbi Steve begins w
Kabbalat Shabbat meditations/celebrations. Plan
arrive early. An onegpotluck will ollow (please bri
a vegan/vegetarian snack to share). Donation
denominations o $18. Email or call or North Seat
address.
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Russ Katz, RealtorWindermere Real Estate/Wall St. Inc.206-284-7327 (Direct)www.russellkatz.com
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saturDaY13august11 a..4 p.. Shaa wh ra See
vae
Robin Kroll at [email protected] or
206-276-8346 or on.b.me/nbx3i9
Shabbat Torah study/meditation/brunch. Begins with
energy work and meditation, then nosh and drash,
ollowed by Spring Forest Qigong class. Please
bring vegetarian/sh dishes to share. Donation in
denominations o $18. Email or call or North Seattleaddress.
bCmH Shaa wh Scha--resece
Sha taa
Julie Greene, [email protected] or
206-721-0970
Mrs. Shani Taragin will speak at a BCMH luncheon
ater Shabbat services in the social hall, and at the
home o Leah Almo at 6 p.m. The aternoon talk
is or women only. Call the ront oce with a credit
card number or send a check. Adults $18/children
411 $10/children under 3 ree. Please be specic
with number o reservations. Ater August 8 prices
increase $2. At Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath,
6070 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
sunDaY14 august5 p.. A tase Eeace he Cu-
a: Cee Che Fuase
Ellen Naor at [email protected] or
206-523-9846 or templebetham.org
Gourmet dinner with well-known ches demonstrating
their art, preceded by wine tasting, appetizers, and
a silent auction, all to benet Temple Beth Ams
Homeless to Renter (H2R) program. $100 per
person. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St.,
Seattle.
4 p.. be Ae Cu Pcc
Shellie Oakley at [email protected]
or 206-527-9399 or
www.betale.org/programs.html#picnic
Join Bet Ale or ood, games, and good times at the
Bet Ale annual picnic. An excellent way to connect
with Bet Ale members, meet new riends, and enjoy
the last days o summer. Open to members and non-
members. Free. At 5902 Lake Washington Blvd. S,
Seattle.
tuesDaY16 august11 a..1 p.. nhwes gefe Fsh: A
Fa Aa
Lori Weinberg Ceyhun at
[email protected] or 206-774-2277Dorothy Becker and her amily make sh together.
They have it down to a science. Come and learn rom
the rst step when Dorothy brings up her large pot
and the scar that protects her hair rom the shy
smell, to the taste o the sot, favorul sh ball that is
made with salmon rom Northwest waters. Recipes
to take home. Space limited; registration necessary.
At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE,
Seattle.
friDaY19august7:30 p..9:30 p.. i be Aes
meae Shaa
Shellie Oakley at [email protected] or
206-527-9399 or www.betale.org/shabbat.html
I you are curious about what a meditative service
is like, but have not yet experienced it rs t-hand, then
the Intro to Bet Ales Medit ative Shabbat is or you! I
you are a regular, this is a great night to bring others
or a rst or second taste. At Unity o Bellevue,
16330 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
sunDaY21 august10 a..12 p.. SJCS Sue Pa dae
Deb Frockt at [email protected] or
206-522-5212
2011 summer un or preschoolers and kinder-
garteners has a summer ull o ree, drop-in activities
that are perect or young children and their parents
or caregivers. Come by or a play date. Free. At
Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 8th Ave.
NE, Seattle.
As or her Seattle bona
des, Sid wrote me that she is
descended rom suitably illus-
trious lines o Seattle amilies,
including Maimons, Schar-
hons, Azoses, Adattos and on
the paternal side, Benders,
Kosins, Abrams. Fitting or anEnglish mayor, yes?
2I never had such an
interesting proessional
development, says
Jewish Day School teacher Margaret
Chasen o the nine days she spent on Cen-
tropas Summer Academy Holocaust edu-
cation European workshop.
Centropa (Central Europe Center
or Research and Documentation) is a
Vienna- and Budapest-based non-prot
NGO that uses advanced technologies to
preserve Jewish memory in Central and
Eastern Europe, the ormer Soviet Union,
the Balkans and the Baltics. Teir inter-
views, photos, amily trees and lms are
available to all on the Internet and through
social media like Facebook.
Margaret rst heard o Centropa when
she received a last-minute invitation to
attend their winter seminar in Los Ange-
les, along with her colleague Nance Adler.
I went toVienna, Sarajevo and
Krakow, with a group o about 75 teachers
from the U.S., Europe and Israel, Margaret
says. Most o the European teachers were
not Jewish and Margaret saw rsthand the
need or Holocaust education in countries
like Hungary, which are only beginning to
publicly explore their Jewish history. Mar-
garet noted a museum she visited in Buda-
pest dealt with World War II but made no
mention o the Holocaust.
Centropas work dovetai
nicely with what Margaret
already doing in her classroom
JDS is a technically sophi
ticated school and I am luck
enough to teach in a wire
classroom where all my stu
dents have school-issued la
tops, she explained.
Her students have alreaddone survivor interviews an
made lms, but shes red u
to do more. Centropa volun
teers conduct audio interview
with Holocaust survivors in
number o countries. Te transcripts a
posted on their site and accompanied b
amily photos and amily trees. At www
centropa.org you can search the databa
by country, surname or city.
Margaret calls the workshop exper
ence incredibly rich. eachers learne
rom each other and the group heard ro
speakers rom Polish, Austrian, Germa
Israeli and Bosnian embassies, as well
rom survivors and rescuers. Tey eve
heard rom the person who kept the Sar
jevo Hagaddah sae.
Every day was amazing and jam
packed, she says.
In Krakow, Margaret was particular
moved by ground-breaking work bein
done in that countr