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Mini rnts brin bi inititives to locl orniztions

Joel Magalnickedior, JtNwIt could be that the best way to a kids Jewish identity is through his

print-making supplies at the Seattle Hebrew Academy. Or the best place to

send a child to learn about Judaism is at Bet Ale Meditational Synagogues

new BYachad Hebrew school. Or the best way to provide direct, instant

hunger relie to a homeless person is by giving away a sandwich made by

the Mitzvah eam at the Jewish Day School.

I theres anything that can be said about the disbursements made to

local Jewish organizations rom the Jewish Federation o Greater Seattles

Small and Simple Grants program, its this: Te projects that got unded

came rom the ideas that [were] the best o the bunch that seemed to rise

to the top, said Dan Lowen, chair o the Federations Special Initiatives

Fund.

Te Federations Special Initiatives Fund came up with Small and

Simple to und projects costing $5,000 or less that dont rise to the und-

ing level or long-term goals o an annual campaign allocation. Tis year

the Federation gave out a record $68,000, and whats interesting about th

years 21 grants is how interesting they are.

Were trying to provide those small seed und or projects that are ot

erwise unproven and untested or agencies to be able to try something ne

and dierent, Lowen said.

Te Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the University o Washington

or example, received $5,000 to launch its JewDub alks, a series o sho

online videos similar to the popular ED alks, eaturing experts who giv

brie educational talks on their areas o knowledge.

Our goal is to assemble UW aculty members and Jewish Studies a

ulty to present short but important talks that address issues that would b

relevant to our members o the community, said Jewish Studies Progra

chair Noam Pianko.

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letters to the editorthe rabbis turn

The whole thing is essentially a dysfunctional family drama.

Renowned Seattle choreographer Donald Byrd, on his work that tells the story of the split between Abraham and Ishmael. See the story on page 14.

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The bildin blocks of retJewish commnity

Rabbi Jonathan SingeR tmpl Bh Am

A ew weeks ago, I oundmysel in an unlikely place:

Te Bavarian city o Bamberg,

in the medieval cathedral

o that German town which

avoided signiicant damage

during World War II. he

cathedral guide proclaimed

that among the treasures o

the church is a amous sculp-

ture depicting the primacy

o Christianity over Judaism. It does so

by representing the church as a beautiul

woman, holding a sturdy sta, the light o

her eyes gazing toward the uture, while

Judaism is presented as a woman with her

eyes blinded by a scar, unable to see, lean-

ing on a shattered sta.

Tis perception o Judaism as being an

inconveniently persistent relic o the past

was o course not just limited to medieval

Christianity. Arnold oynbee and Karl

Marx also posited that our time had come

and gone, while the Nazis tried to ensure

that such was the case.

And yet there I was, in that place, to

participate in a ritual that would show that

despite the best eorts o those who would

deny us a uture, we persist as a vibrant

people, with ideas and values we share

with the surrounding civilizations and not

just in the connes o our own intellectual

and spiritual ghettos. In this age, we as a

Jewish people have become whole again.

Our sta was perhaps never broken, but by

strengthening the renewal o Jewish com-

munity in various parts o the world, we

are better able to part the seas o compla-

cency. oday our eyes cast the light o the

Jewish spirit, love o learning, and belie

that all people, created in Gods image, can

partner with holiness to bring healing into

a world so clearly in need o it.

Te ritual was the ourth ordination o

rabbis rom the new progressive German

rabbinic seminary, the Geiger School

located near Berlin. I was in attendance

because a student rom Seattle, Paul Strasko,

who has an amazing personal story, was

about to become a rabbi. He had invited me,

as his ormer rabbi, to participate.

Te Geiger School does something that

at the beginning o my rabbinic career I

would never have thought possible. Tey

train men and women or the rabbinate or

the express purpose o serving the needs o

the European Jewish community espe-

cially in the German-speaking world and

the ormer Soviet Union. I used to believe

that in our time Jewish lie in Central and

Eastern Europe was indeed a relic o the

past; that Hitler and Stalin had or the

most part succeeded in making Europe a

place where the sta o Juda-ism was broken and where we

Jews should not live.

But in Germany and East-

ern Europe, Jews have chosen

to make Jewish lie a con-

tinuing presence and have

started to recreate signicant

Jewish community. Chabad,

God bless them, recognized

this reality a while ago, but

so did the principals o the Geiger school,

two charismatic Jewish leaders one

German, Walter Homolka, and one

American, Walter Jacob rabbis who

understood that liberal Judaism would

play a necessary role in this revival o

European Jewry. Tis years graduates will

all serve European communities, with my

student Paul, who converted to Judaism

here at Beth Am, working with Franco-

phone Jewry in Geneva, Switzerland in a

growing congregation.

I hope Seattle Jewry will be inspired

by the example o those Jews who had

the vision to create and support this new

European rabbinical school as we realize

the pivotal role we can take in shaping the

Jewish uture. We are no longer an outly-

ing community, looking to New York or

Los Angeles or direction. We have vision-

ary leaders, rom those in our Jewish Fed-

eration who are developing a new way or

all the community to come together and

support each other to rabbis and teachers

and scholars in our universities and

thriving synagogues.

Tis Jewish community is poised to

become a signicant center o Jewish lie.

What we still need, however, are busi-

ness visionaries and philanthropists to step

orward and take their place as commu-

nal leaders to help to inspire the dynamic

renewal o Jewish lie both locally and

nationally. We are blessed to have the

wealthiest Jews in Jewish history living in

this town captains o industry who have

transormed how we communicate, how

we make third places over a hot bever-

age, leaders in the distribution o goods. It

is a situation not unlike what Isaac Meyer

Wise, the ounder o American Reorm

Judaism, ound in Cincinnati in the 1800

then the Seattle o its day. He was able

convince Jewish leaders in the busine

community to support his vision o crea

ing a transormative, progressive Judais

or America. Now we desperately need th

kind o visionary commitment to step o

ward and und a Jewish Gates Foundatio

in Seattle that could help us create the oun

dation o the New Jewish uture, to suppo

our synagogues and the work we are doin

to und the rabbinical schools Reorm

Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstruction

ist that serve all o our communities,

create centers o Jewish music and creati

ity, including a Center or Jewish Heritag

here in this beautiul city. In our own wa

all o us in the synagogue and non-pro

Jewish communities strive to do this, but o

a paltry budget, because our unding is lim

ited. Just think what we could do to brin

on the real Golden Age o this generation

we nurtured historic philanthropic leade

ship in this community that is so capable

producing it.

I have been here or 17 years and hav

yet to meet those who would help us reac

that next level but I am inspired b

what I experienced in Germany. Tere

was reminded that the sta on the statu

o Jewish lie is beginning to becom

whole again and it is our privilege in th

great Jewish city to be able to continue

strengthen it!

THE pOWER OF OnE

Thank you for your article in the November 25 edition by Diana Brement about

Sharon Kaufman-Osborn of Whitman College in Walla Walla (Advising Jewish students

at Whitman College).

By her willpower and effort she revived a Jewish community dating back to the 1860s that

was slowly dying out. We had been struggling to get a minyan. When Sharon took over we

started running out of chairs for the attendees. It shows what one person or family can do.Ala L. Barer

Kirklad

A HERO nOT FORgOTTEn

On behalf of executive board of the Washington State Jewish Historical Society,

thanks so much for the wonderful article about our recent program, Heroes Making His-

tory(Stories of the front, Dec. 9). The speakers truly represent the best of America,

and we were honored to share their stories.

But I did notice an important omission in your overview: The recipient of our annual Meta

Buttnick award: Eugene Normand, Ph.D. We purposely decided that Sundays program was

an appropriate time to recognize Gene, for he is a highly esteemed veteran, not just in ser-

vice to the U.S. but to the society as well!

As a self-effacing person, I doubt Gene would ever want to call much attention to him-

self. But I had the honor of serving side by side with him for more than three years, so I feel

eminently qualifed to do so. Under his tenure, our society achieved recognition throughout

King County for excellence in programming (some of which he arranged himself before we

hired executive director Lisa Kranseler). He may have been president, but no task was ever

too small for him to perform himself his sense of humor tempered with strategic wisdom

honed over a prestigious career at Boeing propelled us to ever-larger stages.

Please join me in wishing him a hearty yasher koach for an award he so richly deserved!

Betsy R. Scheier

past presidet, Washito State Jewish Historical Society

Courtesy JoNAthAN siNger

Rbbi Jonthn Siner, lower left, trveled to germny to prticipte in the ordintion of the rbbis

who re ledin the rowth of Jewish life in Estern nd Centrl Erope.


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To the family of Myron Cohon and

our community:On December 9, JTNews published

Martin Jaees monthly A View rom the

U column, titled Lament or a Jew lost:

Myron, we hardly knew ya! We never

should have published this column. Pro.

Jaee did not know Myron Cohon orany o his amily and jumped to conclu-

sions about you that were not accurate.

As editor oJTNews, I should never have

allowed the column to be published, or

which I am truly sorry.

While the story Pro. Jaee wrote may

be true o some Jews who came o age

during the Great Depression, it was not

representative o your amily.

As we have learned rom his amily and

riends, Myron was not one o those who

abandoned Judaism during the great

rush to assimilation in American culture.

He was Jewish and thought o himsel as

such, and you, his children and grandchil-

dren, were not lost in the ether o assimi-

lation: Some o you are active in our local

Jewish community, and your children

were raised learning about their heritage.

One o you, Myrons granddaughter, stud-

ies Judaism and its roots at the graduate

level. But the way Myron lived his lie, as

ar as this newspaper is concerned, should

have been immaterial. We had no right

to judge him or your amily, and by pub-

lishing this column we engaged in lashon

hara, the spread o the evil tongue.We did not make any attempt to learn

about the real Cohon amily and instead

published a column based upon statis-

tics, stereotypes and wrong assumptions.

We deeply regret the poor judgment that

allowed this column to be written and

published and apologize or the great pain

we caused to your amily and the many

riends who knew and loved Myron.

We also apologize to our readers and

the community or violating the trust

youve placed in JTNews to be accurate

and air in everything we publish. We

should not have let you down. Martin

Jaees apology to the Cohon amily

appears below, which will be his nal con-

tribution to the paper.

Sincerely,

Joel Magalnick

Editor, JTNews

An apology to the family of Myron Cohon

and to my readersA requently cited passage o the

almud advises: It would be better to

dive into a ery urnace than to humiliate

ones companion in public. Recent events

have driven home to me the wisdom o

this advice.

o those members o Myron Cohons

amily and his many circles o riends, I

ask to be pardoned or the humiliation

my careless words have caused all o you.

Elementary common sense should have

warned me not to comment upon the reli-

gious lie o a person Id never met, and

common decency should have reminded

me not to write about a person or whom

the mourning was still in progress.

I cannot excuse this lapse o judgment,

nor will I deend it here. Perhaps, though,

I can clariy the intention o the article as I

envisioned it, an intention that in act has

been hopelessly eclipsed by my own ail-

ure to properly execute it.

Like many o my columns, this one

took a quick impression o American

Jewish lie and sought to draw out some

thoughtul implications. As I should have

realized, a quick impression has to at

least come close to reality in order to have

any implications worth sharing. Te real-

ity, as I learned, is that Mr. Cohons lie

was as ar as possible rom that slice o

American lie that I thought his obituary

had captured. And what I had intended

as an expression o admiration or Myron

Cohon, the man, and a lament or the

loss o his contributions to the Jewish

community, turned out to imply that he

was less than a good Jew.

In act, I do not believe in the idea that

some Jews have the right to sit in judg-

ment o the Jewishness o others. We are

all, I believe, doing the best we can under

the desperate circumstances which con-

ront those or whom the lie o orah is

an existential concern. Te results o our

struggles, and the way we articulate and

interpret them, is, however, subject to crit-

icism in view o their airness and accu-

racy. Clearly, my column o Dec. 9 ailed

that test.

So, in addition to my apology to the

Cohon amily, I eel an obligation to ask

the pardon o the many readers who have

ollowed my columns in the JTNews or

almost eight years. I regret that I betrayed

your trust in my reportage and may have

been misled by my words. You deserve

better. But in any event you have my

thanks and gratitude or all your com-

ments pro and con over the years. Ill

miss our many conversations.

Martin Jaee

gettin to know Myron: aremembrnce from his fmily

by WilliaM cohon

Many o you knew my ather, Myron

Cohon, and were saddened by his recent

passing. My amily and I are grateul to

you or the support, and kind messageso condolence. Many o you attended his

shiva minyan service at emple Beth Am,

and many others helped celebrate his lie,

at a wonderul ceremony held at his home,

University House.

Martin Jaee did not know my ather,

and was not saddened by his passing; he

just read the obituary because he loved the

comedian with nearly the same name

Myron Cohen. And yet, Mr. Jaee wrote

an article about my ather, without benet

o research, in the December 9, 2012, issue

oJTNews. In sentiment, it was the oppo-

site o a condolence message, and it was

published in the paper! Te inevitable mis-

characterization begs or a response.

Mr. Jaees article dishonors my

athers memory. It misinorms those who

did not know Myron Cohon. It irritates

those who did. And to those or whom my

ather was the real Myron Cohon, to those

o us who loved him, Martin Jaees words

cause pain.

Mr. Jaee strove to make the point that

many o my athers generation seemed to

turn their backs on their Jewish identity,

in order to make it in the mainstream cul-

ture. Tere is no doubt that that is true.

But Mr. Jaee has missed some important

details. While my ather, in many ways,

exemplied the trends o his generation

he did not practice the rituals or attend

synagogue he did not turn his back on

his people.

It is true that my ather was not a

member o a synagogue or the last 28

years o his lie. But he was or the rst

65! All three o his children had a Bar/Bat

Mitzvah. His granddaughter is a gradu-

ate student in the Near Eastern and Judaic

Studies Department at Brandeis Univer-

sity. wo o his three children are mem-

bers o emple Beth Am, and are active,

contributing members o the Jewish com-

munity.

My ather identied as a Jew. Tirty

years ago, when my wie and I were

expecting our rst child, my dad was so

worried that he might end up with an

uncircumcised grandson, he took o work

and drove 250 miles to lobby or the prac-

tice o his people. And, as recently as two

years ago, he vigorously led the amily

seder.

Mr. Jaee painted the picture, with my

dad in it, o Jews who abandoned not only

Judaism, but also Jewish communal lie o

any kind. In truth, although my ath

was totally comortable among gentile

his closest group o riends tended to b

similarly secularized Jews. Go gure.But lets get to the heart o the matte

My ather was a righteous man. He w

raised to be so, and in that regard, he wa

a good Jew. He noticed that many o h

contemporaries were smart and intereste

in books, but could no longer read becau

o ailing eyesight. So he read aloud

them. Fiction and non-ction.

He noticed that many o his music-lo

ing contemporaries were unable to ava

themselves o the opportunity to atten

concerts because they didnt walk we

enough to leave University House. So h

began a weekly music-listening grou

And then he arranged or on-site pero

mances o ne young student musician

(including his granddaughters).

He took the bus, three times a week,

see his wie, Lois Molinari (nee Furstman

who is still in a dementia care acility

the Northgate area a mitzvah in itse

When he noticed the proximity o anoth

retirement home, Merrill Gardens, h

began to read there, as well.

Is Mr. Jaee a righteous man? O

he has the bully pulpit. He is a Jewis

expert. He presents himsel as such, an

others concur. He occupies the Samu

and Althea Stroum chair in Jewish Studie

at the University o Washington, whic

means that both the State o Washingto

and the Stroum amily vouch or him. T

JTNews entrusted him with a column. An

I understand rom Youube that he pre

ents himsel as a pious, Orthodox Jew. I a

a Reorm Jew, and I have a ew questions

I know there are dierences in th

siddurs and practices. But dont all Jew

recognize the obligations without me

sure? In his article, Mr. Jaee quoted th

rst line o the obituary, Surrounded b

amily... Did it not occur to him to con

sole the bereaved?

Does Mr. Jaee not care about th

Jewish position on hotzaat shem

(spreading a bad name)? And who is M

Jaee to judge my ather or his desce

dants religious practices?

Several times, Mr. Jaee stated th

my dad was typical. Okay, in some wa

he must have been, although anyone wh

knew him would hardly nd that an a

descriptor. He really was quite singula

Mr. Jaee said he wished hed known

guy like Myron. I wish hed known him

too. He certainly could have learned

thing or two.

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Cardozo Society seeks panel membersTe Cardozo Society o the Jewish Federation o Greater Seattle is seeking local attor-

neys to serve on the Cardozo Judicial Evaluation Committee or the coming election cycle.

Te Cardozo Society has recently created its rst Judicial Evaluation Committee rating

candidates on various actors including integrity, airness, legal ability, as well as demon-

strated commitment and knowledge o issues particular to the Jewish Community, says

committee chair Aaron Kiviat. Tis is a great way to meet current and potential judges and

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Interested attorneys may respond directly to Kiviat at [email protected] or

206-658-2404.

From the Jewish Transcript, Decem-

ber 15, 1995

In a lot o ways, the Biennial o the

Union or Reorm Judaism, which com-

pleted this past Sunday in Washington,

D.C., was like the Biennial that took place

16 years ago in Atlanta. Both conerences

had a change in its top leadership: Rabbi

Eric Yoe, who was installed as president

o what was then known as the Union o

American Hebrew Congregations, gave

his last convocation this year beore turn-

ing the helm over to Rabbi Richard Jacobs. Also this year, President Barack Obama

spoke, but in 1995 it was then-Vice President Al Gore, shown here with emple De

Hirsch Sinai Sisterhood president Carol Homan. Find more coverage on page 22.

Reducing childrens trauma

A new library at a womens shelter in Lynnwood, sponsored by a national Jewish organization, will give kid

who witness domestic violence a respite rom the trauma theyve experienced.

Rebranding rabbis Two Washington State rabbis have been chosen to help guide the conversation between the Jewish com-

munity and everyone else.

Dancing in Jerusalem 1

Seattle dance legend Donald Byrd has been working with dancers in Jerusalem to create a bridge betwee

Israelis and Palestinians.

The changing o the guard 2

This years Reorm Biennial in Washington, D.C. saw a changing o the guard, angst over the uture o the

movement, and a visit rom the president.

Jew-ish in print Center pullou

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child domestic violence advocates at th

YWCA Seattle, King, and Snohomi

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So they know that the rst children

library and study area in Washington Stat

opened in their acility and urnished b

Jewish Women International with the he

o a $15,000 donation rom the Verizo

Foundation, will go a long way toward help

ing a traumatized child relax and grow.

Denise Redord, a domestic violen

childrens counselor at the center, sees th

eects o the household violence on i

smallest victims.

hey are so traumatized, Redo

said. Te eects o domestic violence o

children are similar to men in combat. A

o them have experienced trauma. And o

top o that, theyre trying to go to scho

and learn and interact. Its dicult.

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plete their homework.

At the Dec. 9 opening o the librar

nestled in a corner o the oce lobby o th

YWCA Somerset Family Village in Ly

nwood, administrators and counselo

expressed their sincere thanks, with a lobb

ull o community supporters looking on

A Jewish scholar once wrote, I yo

drop gold and books, pick up the book

rst and then the gold, said Susan ur

bull, chair o the JWI board o trustees

Bethesda, Md., who ew in or the ribbo

cutting. What they read today, they w

carry with them or a lietime.

JWIs National Library Initiative is on

o eight JWI programs. It complements th

organizations domestic violence trainin

or clergy and other proessionals.

Were committed to ending violen

against women, urnbull said.

Te library initiative was launched

2006 to try to break the cycle o domest

violence, help children with schoolwor

and give them a chance at a successul ac

demic career. Te time they spend in th

library not only provides a needed brea

rom the tension at home, but it also pr

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JWIs ocus is on helping young girls

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to leadership training.

Tey hope to expand the program by

adding tutors, but or now, by the end o

2011, they will have opened 38 childrens

libraries in domestic violence programs

around the country. Teir eventual goal isto establish 100 libraries in battered wom-

ens and homeless shelters.

JWIs partner in the project is Veri-

zon Foundation, the philanthropic arm

o Verizon Wireless, which has awarded

more than $28 million in cash grants to

domestic violence prevention and educa-

tion programs across the U.S.

Its HopeLine program recycles and

reurbishes unused and donated mobile

phones and gives them to domestic vio-

lence survivors or emergencies.

Verizon Wireless employees rom

Washington State also donated 200 books

to the libraries.

I think I had the easy part, providing

the unding, said Milt Doumit o the Ver-

izon Foundation. My kids read so many

o these books. Tats what youre giving

these kids an opportunity to escape.

Mary Anne Dillon, the coordinator or

the YWCA o Snohomish County, said she

is proud the agency has helped so man

poor and homeless women since 1894.

We have a $7 million budget, Dillo

toldJTNews. In all o 2010, the progra

helped 135 young people in violent home

Te program saw 118 children who a

living in violent homes between Janua

and October o 2011.

Jo Jo Gaon, the domestic violence coo

dinator at the YWCA in Renton, believthe new library will provide happy mem

ries or many o these children who are n

as ortunate as he was, growing up wit

a grandmother who spent many happ

hours reading to him by the replace.

I was thinking about how blessed

was, Gaon said, and theres a lot mo

need.

Penny Potter, a domestic violen

advocate at the Lynnwood shelter, sees

brighter uture or these amilies.

It gives them the message that the

are people in the community that care, sh

said, and its a wonderul place [or them

to do some bonding with Mom. We

hoping were going to change patterns.

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At the end o each year Magen David Adom,

Israels emergency medical service, compiles the

statistics o ambulance runs, patients treated,

and lives saved. But behind those numbers are

the stories o individual Israelis. The man treated

or rocket attack wounds, the woman in labor

rushed to the hospital, and the child healed ater a car

accident all have MDA to thank or their expert and

compassionate care.

Chanukah is a holiday o celebrations and gits,

but its also a time to reect on the past year and

think about giving back. Getting involved with

American Friends o Magen David Adom, MDAs US

undraising organization, is an excellent way to sup-port the Jewish community at home and in Israel. The

organizations Western Region holds events including

galas, speakers, ambulance dedications, and more. In

March 2012, AFMDA is holding a mission to Israel to

see MDAs work frsthand. To fnd out more about get-

ting involved, contact Yossi Mentz, Western Regional

Director, at 800-323-2371 or [email protected].

Thanks to AFMDAs generous donors, the orga-

nization can ensure that MDA is ready to respond to

every emergency in Israel - rom heart attacks to ter-

ror attacks. Although MDA receives no government-

budgeted unding, the MDA team is mandated by the

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emergency care, including disaster, ambulance and

blood services. The MDA National Blood Services

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rael Deense Forces and 95% o the blood needs o

Israels hospitals.

AFMDA supporters built the MDA National Blood

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with a wide range o medical supplies, equipment and

ambulances. Most o the 900 MDA ambulances and

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Attention budding hoopstersBeginning in January, the Stroum

Jewish Community Center will launch its

Dinky Dunkers basketball league or boys

and girls in grades K3. Te league will

ocus on the basics dribbling, passing,

shooting and teamwork while teaching

strategy and good sportsmanship.

Practices take place Monday or

Wednesday evenings and games are

played Sunday aernoons. Cost includes

the games, trophy and a jersey. For inor-

mation on game and practice times and

to sign up, contact Jessica Wilkinson at

[email protected] or 206-388-0826. All

play will take place at the Stroum JCC,

3801 E Mercer Way on Mercer Islan

Parent volunteers are also needed

coach.

Jewish service organization seeks volunteersYoung adults looking to spend a year

perorming community service can work

with organizations in Chicago, New

Orleans, New York, and Washington,

D.C. to ght poverty through AVODAH:

Te Jewish Service Corps year-long ser-

vice program. Volunteers should be

between the ages o 21 and 26 and have a

passion or social justice and Jewish lie.

Organizations work on issues involving

immigration, hunger, education, public

health, and domestic violence.

Te program oers a monthly living

stipend, travel money, health insurance,

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QFC Meat Donations Help the Hungry

Meat is one o the ew sources o wholesome,

nutritious protein in ood pantry visitors diets. But

or many ood pantry visitors, meat is something that

rarely is put on the table. Food pantries that serve the

hungry oten dont have the resources to provide meat

to the people they serve.

However, or several years now QFC has been

able to help these agencies by donating wholesome

meat products that no longer meet our standards

or appearance or reshness. Last year, QFC donated

560,000 pounds o meat to ood pantries in Washington

and Oregon. Tis is part o QFCs Grocery Rescue

program.

Healthy ood is important or everyone, but

particularly so or low-income people sufering

rom illnesses, as well as children and seniors. QFC

meat donations enable people to maintain healthier

liestyles and give people the energy everyone needs

to care or themselves and their amilies, says Food

Lieline Grocery Rescue Program Manager Laura

Johnson.

QFC stores are allowed to donate any meat product

in good condition that is rozen on or beore the date

on the package. Tis can include bee, poultry, pork,

and seaood, as well as pre-packaged meats such as

ully cooked lunch meats and hot dogs.

When meat products no longer meet QFCs

standards or selling to our customers and become

eligible to be donated, it is critically important that we

maintain sae handling and storage procedures. Tere

are very real cross contamination risks when handling

meat. For that reason, we keep all meat donations

separate by species while awaiting pickup. We use

plastic tubs provided by Oregon Food Bank and Food

Lieline; the bins nest and stack and help us to separate

meat by species in our meat reezer. All meat donations

are rozen solid beore leaving the store.

Practices we ollow

beore donating meat

products include: reezing

to 0 Fahrenheit on or

beore the date on the

package and separating

the meat by species.

A Food Lieline agency

that participates in the

Grocery Rescue program

says, Tanks or the

ood you give to those in

need. We are seeing an

increasing need in our

community and you are

a big part o why we can

help.

By donating product

that doesnt meet our

selling standards, QFC

helped our neighbors

and riends in Western Washington and Oregon eed

their amilies. Tis helps people get back on their eet

ater experiencing challenges like losing their homes

or jobs.

Do you have questions about donations?

Need additional ino? Want to volunteer at a local

ood pantry? I so, please contact Ken Banks at

425-462-2205.

Rebrndin rbbis

eMily k. alhadeff Aian edior, JtNwTis year, 90 rabbis rom around the

U.S. and across the denominational spec-

trum applied or 23 spots to be Rabbis

Without Borders. wo o them come rom

Washington State.

Rabbi Beth Singer o emple Beth Amin Seattle and Rabbi Seth Goldstein o

emple Beth Hatloh in Olympia were

selected as 2011-2012 Rabbis Without

Borders ellows. Te yearlong program, a

project o Clal, the National Jewish Center

or Learning and Leadership, seeks to nur-

ture rabbis as American religious leaders

and to bring Jewish wisdom to a broader

Jewish and non-Jewish public.

It just struck me as a very intrigu-

ing idea, said Goldstein rom one o the

learning sessions in New York this week.

It gives me new ways o thinking, and

new tools.

Singer admits she only had a vague idea

o the program when she applied. She was

also intrigued by the idea o the ellow-

ship and wanted to work collaboratively

on the process to gure out what Juda-

ism might look like moving orward, as

opposed to working with old models, she

said.

Her irst challenge came rom Clal

president Rabbi Irwin Kula and his vision

or American rabbis: For him, Rabbis

Without Borders was the concept that

traditionally, rabbis have spoken to their

own communities. Judaism has gis and

wisdom, she said. He suggests that

rabbis should be more out there in the

public sphere, like Oprah, like people

everybody listens to.

Program director Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu

explained that in present-day America,

identities mix and change, and they would

like rabbis to help people navigate those

identities.

I you look at whats going on in terms

o religion in America there are people

who are searching or new places o mean-

ing, she said. In 2008 a Pew study ound

that 50 percent o the population polled

had changed its religious aliation over

time.

Were living very much in a melting

pot, Sirbu said.

Singer, or example, noted the missed

opportunity or Jewish religious leaders

aer September 11.

Jews have so much historical experi-

ence with mass destruction. Tat would

have been an appropriate time or rab-

binic voices to be speaking to the nation

about healing and recovery, she said.

dont remember reading op-ed column

by rabbis in the New York Times or eve

in the Seattle Times.

Weve been so conditioned to talk our own communities and not to both

the rest o the community too much, sh

added.

Te ellows meet in New York ou

times a year, and each conerence revolv

around a dierent theme. Te rst mee

ing ocused on the sociology o religiou

identity in America today; the second

which took place this past weekend

ocused on the intersection o technolog

and religion, including social media an

gaming; the third meeting will deal wi

politics and religion; and the ourth w

center around positive psychology.

What increases peoples happiness

asked Sirbu. Te ideas generated ro

these conversations should inuence ho

American rabbis approach Judaism

America moving orward.

Goldstein remarked that the shape

Jewish lie is changing: Its not about th

traditional hierarchical structures, h

said. Its now about groups.

Its also about a new mindulness,

Courtesy seth goldsteiN

Rbbis Beth Siner, left, nd Seth goldstein t lst weeks Cll meetin in New York.

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2012Herzl-Ner Tamid Israel TripTouching the Soul of IsraelRabbi Jay Rosenbaum will be leading a trip to Israel this coming June 24July 2.

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Alhade are alwayshappy to be honored,

as they were Nov. 18, receiv-

ing the Outstanding Family

Philanthropists award rom

the Association o Fundrais-

ing Proessionals, Washing-

ton Chapter, or their work

with the Foundation or Early

Learning.

On accepting the award, Kenny stressed

to those gathered at the local Philanthropy

Day luncheon and to me on the phone

last week that they arent doing this

alone.

I know it sounds trite, he said, but

we werent standing on a podium receiv-

ing an award, we were standing on the

shoulders o our parents and in the

shadow o our children. We are part o a

legacy, a chain o giving.

Its one o the reasons the couple

recently changed the name o their

oundation rom Kenneth and Marleen

Alhade Charitable Foundation to the

Alhade Family Foundation. We elt

strongly [that] our childrens involvement,

and the generations that came beore us,

was so important that we changed the

name, Kenny said.

Te Alhades philanthropic reach is

broad. Tey are passionate about the arts,

the importance o philanthropy, drug and

alcohol rehabilitation and social justice.

Tey support a long list o organizations

including Cascade Land Conservancy, Te

Childrens Museum, Senior Services, the

University o Washington and Washing-

ton State University, Pacic Northwest

Ballet, 5th Avenue Teater, Jewish Family

Service, and Te Northwest School or

Hearing-Impaired Children.

Te work these two have done to con-

tribute to the success o organizations all

across our region touches the lives and

work o so many people, sa

Jenna Barrett o the Foundtion or Early Learning.

As or their passion

early learning, Kenny sa

there are basic skills th

parents can use with the

children rom birth to age 5

and all parents can learn the

which pave the way o

school success. Without them

by 1st grade theres alread

a separation, says Kenny, measured 1

years later by excessive high school dro

out rates in Seattle and nationwide.

2Te Granite Curling Club o Seatt

is no secret and its not tucked aw

in some remote corner o town.

sits on N 130th Street, just east o Auro

Avenue, and Seattle native Ariel Krasi

Geiger says that as a k id he had driven by

thousands o times, just like many Sea

tle north-enders. (I certainly have, and ju

expressed surprise that theres curling ou

side o Canada, and let it go at that.)

But Ari, now 25, had a diere

response. In 8th grade he decided to n

out more and attended one o the club

many open houses.

It just clicked with me, he recalls.

just loved it, and had a natural anit

or this sport which requires a high lev

o strategy.

He became a competitive junior curle

joining a team and competing at the sta

level, and he even went to nationals on

year.

Curling is a good workout, sa

Ari, who grew up in Congregation Be

Shalom, and as physically challenging

[what] you put into it. Its mentally cha

lenging, too, and is oen called chess o

ice. He also admits that curlers have

good sense o humorwe know that it

an obscure sport; we love it nonetheless.

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JANUARY 29 (REGISTER NOW!)

2012 CONNECTIONS WOMENS PHILANTHROPY BRUNCHHYATT REGENCY BELLEVUE

This month, the Jewish Federation

received a very generous bequest rom

the estate o Dr. Charles and LillianKaplan,zl, long-time Seattle Jewish

community leaders and philanthropists.

They gave because there was a need,

said Bob Kaplan, their son. They

believed that being part o a community

meant that one should give o their time,

energy and their nancial resources.

According to their wishes, the Kaplans

git will support both the annual

Community Campaign and provide

scholarships or children and teens to

attend Jewish overnight summer camps

or teens and young adults to visit Israel.

Jane Kaplan noted that her parents

were truly committed to sharing their

own good ortune. What was mostimportant to them was the continuity

o the Jewish community and Jewish

education. And my dad had no

hesitation about asking others to join

him in dedicating

nancial

resources to

support the

community.

Ron Leibsohn,

immediate past

Board Chair,

remembers the

Kaplans or their

dedication to

the community

and or always doing what was right.

Charles and Lillian Kaplan exemplied

all o the positive Jewish values. The

best legacy we can give them is that thenext generation continue to support

and participate ully in the Jewish

community to ensure that we have a

strong, thriving place or Jewish people

to live or generations to come.

The Jewish Federation o Greater

Seattle is launching a comprehensive

planned giving initiative to secure our

Jewish communitys uture. A bequest is

an important way or donors to ensure

they continue to have a positive impact

on the Jewish community or ensuing

generations.

For inormation on how to make

a bequest o any size, contact

Philip Cohn at 205-443-5400, or

[email protected].

$1.3 Million Bequest Received

JEWISH FEDERATION RECEIVES OVER $13 MILLIONIN FUNDING REQUESTS

The Jewish Federation o Greater Seattle announced that it received over $13 million in

requests through the rst round o submissions or unding through the 2012 Community

Campaign.

We were gratied by the outstanding response to our call or proposals. We received

over 200 Letters o Inquiry (LOIs) rom more than 60 organizations 55% o whom have

never beore received an allocation rom the Federations Community Campaign, said Jack

Almo, Chair o the Planning and Allocations Committee. The creativity and cooperation

among organizations demonstrates to us that our Jewish community is thriving and has a

vibrant uture.Volunteer workgroups rom a diverse cross-section o the community read and

prioritized each o the LOIs, making very dicult choices as to which proposals they elt

were most aligned with the priorities and goals within their I mpact or Priority Area. The

Campaign Cabinet and Planning and Allocations Committee hope the community will

respond with increased donations to this years campaign, so we are able to und as

many o these excellent programs as possible.

Submissions were received in every one o the newly dened Community Impact and

Priority areas. It was satisying to see that each o the dened areas has one or more

organizations working on meeting our community needs, said Almo.

We know how much eort was invested in preparing the LOIs and we appreciate

the work that went into every submission, said Amy Wasser-Simpson, Vice President o

Planning and Allocations. All organizations have received notication about the status

o their LOIs. Final Request For Funding submissions or the 2012 campaign year are due

February 7, and announcements o the nal allocations will take place in late spring.

Women are a

strong, driving

orce in our Jewish

community. They

have the power to

build the commu-

nity or our children

and grandchildren.

This year, all women in the Seattle area

are invited to join the Jewish Federa-

tion or the largest gathering o Jewish

women in the region. It will be a day

lled with spirit, philanthropy and the

passion o a Jewish community coming

together.

Featured speaker Iris Krasnow will

share her insights rom r esearching and

writing her best-selling books on the

subjects o women, their relationships

and their passions. She has been a

guest on the NBC Today Show, CBS Early

Showand Oprah Winfrey Show. Her

latest book, The Secret Lives o Wives

was eatured this all on O Magazines

Ten Titles to Pick Up Now list.

Now is the time to gather your r iends

and relatives and reserve your spots at

Connections 2012.

Chairs Andrea Lott and Kim Fisher

promise an inspiring day to be remem-

bered. Join the Jewish Federation

and help make a dierence or uture

generations.

Want to make the day even more

special? Be a table captain or sponsor

and enjoy a private pre-reception with

Iris Krasnow.

Register at www.JewishInSeattle.org/

Connections or by calling 206-443-5400.

The Power of Passion: CONNECTIONS 2012

Still need that one special git or the person on your list

who has everything? This year, give a truly meaningul git

by making a tribute to a specic Impact Area at the Jewish

Federation. Your git can be made in the recipients name,

and designated to address community needs that are mostimportant to that person. Its easyand it will make a

world o dierence. You can select a special holiday card

that will be sent to the recipient.

Visit www.JewishInSeattle.org/Chanukah, or call

206-4 43-5400. Designate a tribute gift today.

This year, more than ever beore, you can make a meaningul year-end git to the

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To those wonderfl peoplewho mde civiliztion possible

MaRtin WeSteRMan JtNw ColumniAs the east months o

this holiday season are in ull

swing, lets thank our arm-

ing and herding ancestors orhelping make our civilization

possible. And lets thank our

current armers and ranchers

or helping keep it so.

Yes, 10,000-odd years ago

in the Fertile Crescent, our

orebears began seriously

tending plants, taming ani-

mals, and storing surplus ood, and con-

centrating so many calories in one place

they could eed 10 to 100 times more

people per acre than hunter-gatherers

could. When Hebrews appeared about

6,500 years later, Abraham, Isaac and

Jacob, Sarah, Rachel, Rebecca and Leah

were born into a planet that supported

about 40 million people, and dined on

grass-ed, pasture-raised meats, sh, veg-

etables, ruit, roots and nuts, and ew

grains, legumes, dairy products or salt, and

no rened sugar or processed oils. oday,

we call this Te Caveman Diet.

Combining arming and herding with

hunting and gathering, humans multi-

plied, congregated in villages, towns and

cities, supported artisans, commerce,

bureaucracies and standing armies, and

built empires all without ossil-uel

inputs and industrialized methods. In

Israelite times, Egypt was the western

worlds greatest power, and among their

ertility and abundance deities, Egyp-

tians worshipped Anuket, goddess o

the Nile, whose dependable oods irri-

gated the crops and livestock that ed the

empire. Te Hebrews worshipped their

mono-deity in the same way, saying i we

ear God and ollow Gods commands,

God may keep us alive and give rain in its

season, so we may gather grain, wine, and

oil, grow grass or cattle, eat and be satis-

ed. I we dont, God will shut up the heav-

ens, and well perish. (Deuteronomy 6:24

and 11:13-17). You may have heard this in

the Shema, created around 100 CE.

In Psalms 128:2, Mishnah scholar

Simeon ben Zoma asked, Who is rich?

and answered, He who is satised with

his lot, as it is said: When you eat the toil

o your hands you are ortunate and it is

good or you.

oday, most o us are ar removed rom

eating the toil o our hands, and thats bad

or us. Less than 3 percent o our popu-

lation provides the abundant ood or all

460 million o us North Americans. Te

other 90-odd percent o us work sedentary

or low-activity jobs, and move rom place

to place in conveyances like cars, elevators

and escalators. Most o us dont even do

simple daily exercise.

And our ood-rich blessings come with

an overeating curse. wo million years as

hunter-gatherers embedded scarcity in

our bones, and even 10,00

years o cultivator-herd

abundance cant change tha

So when we humans see oowe eat it, because geneticall

were never sure o whe

well get our next meal. So

abundant America were su

ering explosive increases

binge eating, obesity, diab

tes, heart disease, cancer, oo

allergies and antibiotic resi

tance. Whole industries ha

grown up to help us resist an

mitigate our urges to overeat therap

groups, psychologists, meal plans, weig

loss clubs. But I see overeating as a symp

tom o the bigger problem: Our mode

lives are characterized by great wants, lim

ited means, and industrial productivi

that seeks to narrow the gap, but alwa

alls short, which results in perennially di

satised societies.

Contrast that with hunter-gathere

(including ancient Hebrews). Resear

anthropologists and ethnographers oun

these societies consumed less energy p

capita than any other human group. An

they achieved afuence without abu

dance: by desiring little (surpluses an

possessions hinder their nomadic live

they met their needs and wants with wh

was available rom their environments.

It makes sense that our journey towar

societal satisaction should begin wi

ood. Repeated studies have ound th

organically grown varieties o produ

are more nutritious than conventional

grown ones, which are also less nutritio

today than they were 50 years ago. In add

tion, most processed oods cater to o

natural cravings or sugars, salts and at

Its a recipe or dissatised living.

Tat healthier menu is in the Cavema

Diet what humans presumably a

beore, and or a ew millennia aer agr

culture developed. Its also what the who

oods and arm-to-table movements are a

about. I we eat nutrient-rich and psych

logically satisying oods, well enjoy mo

quality, and desire less quantity. Adde

bonuses: We build stronger immune sy

tems, and decrease our risks o disease.

So rst, lets replace our diets processe

oods with more nutritious whole one

Next, lets replace less nutritious conven

tionally raised oods with more nutritio

organic ones. Finally, lets appreciate tho

ancient cultivator-herders who got the b

rolling, and the modern ones who keep

going. Its thanks to them weve achieve

what we have today.

Author and teacher Martin Westerman

writes and consults on sustainable living.

He can be contacted with questions at

[email protected].

earth

This Weeks Wisdom

Get in the Habit of Dancingby Mike Selinker

2011 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cae, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle.

All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb.

Answers on page 13

Get in the habit of dancing, said 18th century Rabbi Nachman of Brezhlov. It will displace

depression and dispel hardship. Weve given you 16 clues to get in that habit, each answered by

a dance but its not clued as one. So TWIST might be clued as Orphan Oliver. Note the letter

in each square where two dances meet, and reading down, youll get one more dance.

ACROSS

1 Horses gait

5 Celebrity che Bobby9 What a hall monitor, a Girl Scout, and Miss

America have in common

13 Car company that makes the Quattro14 Subtitled language in Airplane!

15 ___ Go?(moon-landing conspiracy flm)

16 Ariz. neighbor17 Leave out18 Everybody Ought to Have ___ (Sondheim song)

19 Toothpaste option20 Spheres

21 Wobble, as an axle

22 Disney World site24 Eliminate the cha rom

25 Enterpriseopening?26 Honey Nut Cheerios mascot, or one

27 I am ___/I am what I play (David Bowie lyric)30 Blow a huge lead

33 Firewood amount34 Projectionists need

36 Acorn, eventually

37 Like the secure verifcation system used byGoogle

40 Playtex purchase41 Good source o fber

43 Silent All These Years singer Tori44 Dangerous

46 Iris setting47 Supermanvillain, amiliarly

48 Ball (up)

49 Light bulb unit51 President dubbed the Father o the Constitution

55 Strait o ___ (Persian Gul outlet)58 Brother/bandmate o Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon,

and Michael59 ___-la-la

60 Cause o tears in the kitchen

61 Last letter o the NATO phonetic alphabet62 Word embroidered on a towel

63 Johnny 5, WALL-E, or Bender64 Change or a fve

65 Step ___!66 Grp.

67 I Love Lucyactor Arnaz68 My Little ___

DOWN

1 ___ & Cash

2 Bruce and Demis daughter3 Entertainment Tonightcohost Nancy

4 Theyll get you into an Ms game

5 Glacially ormed inlets like Hood Canal6 Neither Heaven nor Hell

7 Rental car company

8 So ar9 Comparable10 Eves mate

11 Do one leg o a triathlon12 Samson and Delilahactress Lamarr

15 James and the Giant Peachauthor Roald

20 Beginning21 Elviss blue shoe material

23 Arctic bird24 Brand o breath mints

26 Beantown baseballers, to sportswriters28 They have coming-out parties

29 Jackass30 Its covered in kernels

31 Tortoise opponent

32 You bet!33 Cosmic ice ball

35 Now I ___ me down to sleep38 Best Supporting Actor Christoph o

Inglourious Basterds39 Madrid museum

42 Twilightsequel45 Despot Amin

48 Arican breed o cattle

50 Mothers brothers wie51 A long way

52 Dictation taker53 Senator Hatch o Utah

54 Uncivil55 Sesenta minutos

56 Yoko and kin

57 Thoracic cage components58 Melody

61 Superman IIvillain, amiliarly62 2011 flm about the Easter Bunnys teenage

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Rivy PouPko kletenikJtNw ColumniDear Rivy,

I just read Nathan Eng-

landers short story in the

latest New Yorker and Iound something deeply dis-

turbing about it. On one

hand, I love to read and

see Jewish things out there

in the world. On the other

hand, its almost too much.

Im embarrassed we Jews

dont come o smelling like roses, and

I wonder: Does the whole world have to

know all the ins and outs o our eccen-

tricities? Tank goodness all Jews can

at least identiy with the Holocaust

its something we all share. Who didnt

grow up obsessed with Anne Frank? Its

natural or the Shoah to be uppermost in

our minds. Toughts?

Signed,

Baby Boomer

Dear Rivy,

I just nished reading Nathan Eng-

landers story in the latest issue o Te

New Yorker. I think its spot on. We may

be religious or we may be secular, but

the issue o our generation is that we

lack total direction. We are ounder-

ing in the afermath o the Holocaust.

Is our only uniying point ear o perse-

cution? Im sick o it Judaism is more

than Holocaust, pogrom and inquisi-

tion. Young Jews are searching or a

new vibrancy kudos to the author or

having the courage to say what needed to

be said! We need to stop being paranoid.

Te world is not out to get us. What do

you think?

Signed,

Millennial

Tat was quite the short story to evoke

such drastically dierent responses. Lets

take this rom the top. Like many, I rst

came to know Nathan Englander when

his award-winning collection o short sto-

ries, For Relief of Unbearable Urges, came

out in 1999. I loved the collection though

a number o stories were admittedly a bit

too close or comort. He brilliantly cap-

tures the authentic voices o both men and

women and the observant and the secular.

In his story, What We alk About

When We alk About Anne Frank,

Englander brings together

two girlhood riends, Lauren

and Debbie, who attended a

modern Yeshiva high schoolmany years ago. Teir paths

took them in drastically di-

erent directions. Lauren,

now Shoshana, has been

living an ultra-Orthodox lie-

style in Israel with her hus-

band Yerucham, ormerly

known as Mark, and their 10

children. Debbie took a turn

to the le. No longer obser-

vant, she lives in Florida with her hus-

band, and one son, revor. Tey have

been brought together thanks to Face-

book and a visit to an aging parent in

South Florida.

One thing leads to the next as the

visit progresses. Te two long-lost cou-

ples drink too much and then get high

on revors secret marijuana stash.

One minute they are exchanging amily

updates, the next dancing with exuberant

abandonment in the rain until nally

they enter into some pretty intense inti-

mate conversations ultimately leading

up to a dramatic revelation.

Englander makes no secret o the act

that he has modeled this New Yorkeroer-

ing aer Raymond Carvers short story,

What We Talk About When We Talk

About Love, which is a tale o the inebri-

ated intimate exchanges o two couples

also leading up to some unexpected rev-

elations.

Te reunion begins with the typical

prickly points o contention between the

observant and the secular: Kosher laws,

dress standards, Israeli politics you get

the dri. Englander, a true insider him-

sel, growing up Orthodox in West Hemp-

stead and attending day school, gets these

nuances down pat. But do not be ooled.

Tey are a smoke screen or the real issues

that begin to emerge.

Te rst is Jewish identity in this post-

Holocaust age o ours. On one hand,

Debbie argues that Tere is such a thing

as Jewish culture. One can live a culturally

rich lie. While on the other hand weve

got the bombastic Yerucham contending

with great verbosity and bravura: Juda-

ism is a religion. And with religion comes

ritual. Culture is nothing. Culture is some

construction o the modern world. It is

not xedin Jerusalem, we dont need

to busy ourselves with symbolic eorts

to keep our memories in place. Becausewe live exactly as our parents lived beore

the war.

Englander keeps it up the Holo-

caust pops up repeatedly like a bad game

o Whack-a-Mole; the retirement home is

like a D.P. camp with a billiards room,

the retirees have numbers on their arms,

the Mormons are posthumously baptiz-

ing the 6 million, there is a silent Holo-

caust in the highly assimilated America.

And o course the subject would not be

complete without Yerucham contending

that Americans use the Holocaust as their

only source o identity.

I youre not emotionally drained

enough by now, wait theres more: Lets

go back to the title, What We alk About

When We alk About Anne Frank. Aer

all the verbal sparring about liestyles,

the two couples end up in close quar-

ters, locked tightly in the pantry, wonder-

ing about living in really close quarters,

about going into hiding; about who would

hide them i there was a need in the event

o another Holocaust. Tis resurrects a

maudlin game o the womens childhood:

Would so-and-so hide them, would they

hide each other? Would husband hide

wie?

Is it disturbing to see Jewish characters

behaving like this drinking, smoking

pot and ragging at each other? Is it painul

to see Jews portrayed in such unappeal-

ing ways? Yes, but such is the path o c

tion in our comortable diaspora. Wev

got volumes o lies that tell our truths

rom Isaac Bashevis Singer to Phillip RothTat ship has sailed. It is a rare contempo

rary portrayal o Jews that has us beam

ing ear to ear.

But heres the upside: We will sur

vive all o these depictions. In act, we wi

thrive. Stories like this are a healthy pal

ette upon which we can do some sorely

needed soul searching. Tese are issue

we all struggle with some o us on

daily basis. In what ways can we remem

ber the Holocaust with respect and honor

learn rom its lessons yet develop, nurtur

and grow a healthy Jewish identity or ou

children? Can anything compare with th

intense experience o the Shoah? What ar

the ways to demonstrate ones love, shor

o literally giving up your lie? Tat I wil

leave to you.

But on the Jewish ront, I suggest tha

the answer lies in balance and atten

tion: Te balance o ongoing, rich Jewish

engagement along with joyous pride in

our traditions, with authentic orah expe

riences and lots o loving attention to how

we transmit all o our history. Yes, th

pain, but not to the exclusion o the pride

Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally

renowned educator and Head of School at

the Seattle Hebrew Academy. If you have a

question thats been tickling your brain,

send Rivy an e-mail at

[email protected].

JQ

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Judy laSh balint spcial o JtNwInstead o arriving to work at the Spec-

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quil Lake Washington Boulevard, artistic

director Donald Byrd has spent the past

two months crossing Jerusalem every day

rom his temporary home in Abu or tothe Machol Shalem independent dance

studio on the seam o eastern and west-

ern Jerusalem.

Byrd, an internationally renowned

choreographer and one o Seattles most

prominent dance gures, is one o our

ellows o the inaugural class o the Amer-

ican Academy in Jerusalem, a project o

the U.S.-based Foundation or Jewish Cul-

ture that sponsors the artists or a nine-

week stay. Other ellows who have been

in Jerusalem since October include David

Herskovits, award-winning director o

the arget Margin theater in New York;

Lynne Avadenka, a visual artist rom

Detroit; and David Karnovsky, general

counsel to the New York City Department

o Urban Planning.

Designed to introduce senior cre-

ative proessionals to the local arts scene

in Israels capital, the ellowship presents

the artists with the opportunity to work

alongside local peers and to pursue but

not necessarily complete a project in

their eld.

For Byrd, this is his second attempt

at creating a project based in Israel. Four

years ago, the ony Award nominee was

disillusioned by the process o getting Pal-

estinians and Israelis together, when he

worked on a piece based on a phrase by

Israeli author Amos Oz. Visa issues pre-

vented the Palestinian dancer rom par-

ticipating, but Byrd says hes not so nave

this time.

At the beginning o his stay in Jerusa-

lem, Byrd conducted auditions at Machol

Shalem and chose one Arab-Israeli and

three Jewish-Israeli dancers Shaden

Abu al-Asal, Anat Yae, Irad Matzkiach

and Or Avishai who have been working

with him on his new piece.

Tis time around, Byrd explains that he

decided to use the Abraham-Ishmael nar-

rative as a source o inspiration.

I believe its about the beginning

the conict, he says. Te whole thing

essentially a dysunctional amily drama

But the use o the biblical narrative w

give the project a less political and mopoetic quality, Byrd believes.

Byrd has been encouraged by the wi

ingness o his dancers to work togethe

and by their honesty and openness. T

artists here are very open with their ee

ings, very smart and very opinionated, b

its been very complicated, like everythin

in the Middle East, he says.

During their time in Jerusalem, the e

lows have met with proessors and lectu

ers rom the Bezalel Academy at Hebre

University and other arts institutions an

toured galleries, museums, theaters an

dance studios all over Israel. What mad

a particular impression on the Seattle ch

reographer is the diversity o Israel: I no

realize how many groups there are with

the Jewish religion, he says, and how litt

Americans know about Israeli Arabs an

Christians in Israel.

We hear only about the extremists

he explains.

While Byrd has no illusions about cu

tural exchange resolving the conict, h

gABriel BieNCzyCKi/sPeCtrum dANCe theAter

In 2008, choreorpher Donld Byrd, in one of his mny collbortions with the Jewish commnity,

creted Mirror of Memory for the rts orniztion Msic of Remembrnce.

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does believe that art can communicate to

people dierently than political discourse

and can help provide another way o look-

ing at things.

Byrd has nothing but praise or his

dancers and or the Israeli dance scene in

general. Te Batsheva Dance Company

and Ohad Naharin are great companieson the international scene, he says, and

the Suzanne Dellal Dance Center in el

Aviv is a place Byrd would like to emu-

late in Seattle.

Byrd is due back in Seattle at the begin-

ning o January with plans to bring some

o his new Israeli dance colleagues to the

Pacic Northwest.

I think its important to create dia-

logue about what artists are doing in

Israel, he says.

He also hopes to nd a way or Spec-

trum Company dancers to come to Israel

to take part in a dance estival in the uture.

Te Foundation or Jewish Culture ini-

tiated the concept o the American Acad-

emy in Jerusalem to promote intercultural

dialogue between artists and proession-

als whose talents could specically bene-t Jerusalem.

Elise Bernhardt, President and CEO o

the oundation, said, We are condent

that this program will provide a signi-

cant contribution to the local Jerusalem

cultural landscape, acilitating relation-

ships between Jerusalemites, Jerusalems

new and seasoned cultural institutions

and the ellows.

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