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Tw lcal day schls rciv natinal award
Janis siegel JTNws CorrspondntFor 2012, there’s an extra $25,000 in each o the coers o the Seattle
Jewish Community School and the Jewish Day School o Metropolitan
Seattle to buoy them through the new year.
Te two day schools were chosen, as were 23 other institutions, rom
127 schools in the U.S. that applied or the Partnership or Excellence in
Jewish Education 2011 Challenge Award. Both schools won or imple-
menting creative new revenue streams in their schools to strengthen
Jewish education and Jewish community, which is PEJE’s mission.
“Providing a high-quality Jewish day school education to current
and uture generations o Jewish children is vital to a vibrant and endur-
ing Jewish uture,” said Donna Woonteiler, PEJE’s director o market-
ing and communications, in the organization’s December 2011 award
announcement. “And in today’s economic climate, attaining sustain-
ability and aordability or our day schools is the most essential actor
in meeting this goal.”
Both schools submitted applications or the prize, and according to
PEJE the applications received multiple reviews beore winners were
selected.
Studies have repeatedly shown that one o the best promoters o
Jewish identity and the best antidote to Jewish assimilation in the U.S.
is a ull-time Jewish day school education. Te research reveals that it
grounds children, creating strong Jewish connections. Day schools als
provide enterprising adult education programs that engage parents i
lielong learning.
“Tis list gives us a national picture, not o crisis, but o hope, har
work, innovation, and resiliency,” said PEJE board chair Diane rode
man in the same announcement reerring to the award winners.
Tirteen o the winning schools were community and multi-denom
inational schools — both JDS and SJCS all into that category — an
seven were rom Orthodox communities. Another six schools won ro
the Conservative movement, and one school rom the Reorm commu
nity received the award.
Fourteen small schools, dened by a student body o 200 students o
less, o which SJCS is one, won the award. In total, the PEJE gave $625,00
in Challenge Award money to Jewish schools across the country.
PEJE is a leading resource organization ocused on keeping Jewish ed
cation aordable and ongoing by ostering initiatives that help schoo
boost revenue through annual campaigns, legacies, and endowments.
Last year, SJCS embarked on a strategy to market its new “brand
as a “multi-use community hub and a gateway or Jewish amilies
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Why it is right t scrutiniz Iran’s huan rights abuss
Wendy Rosen Spcil to JTNwsAs Iran ignores the international com-
munity while developing nuclear weap-
ons, the regime’s abysmal treatment o
its own citizens is equally disturbing, and
now is capturing global attention and
action. It is time we all pay heed.UN member states put Iranian human
rights abuses ront and center last month
by endorsing two new reports — one by
Special Rapporteur on the Situation o
Human Rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed
and the other by UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon — that expressed grave
concern about the country’s continu-
ing assault on human rights. A UN Gen-
eral Assembly resolution, introduced by
Canada, gained 89 countries voting in
avor and 30 against, with 64 abstentions.
All o the world’s Western democracies
supported the nonbinding resolution.
Te UN resolution identied a wide
range o heinous acts carried out by Ira-
nian government agents, including:
• Te requent use o torture
• Flogging and amputation
• Inliction o capital punishment
or vaguely deined crimes, oten
through coerced conessions
• Frequent public executions and
secret group executions
• Iniction o the death penalty against
minors
• Execution by stoning, despite a gov-
ernment rule against it, and by pro-
longed strangulation.
It has been reported elsewhere thatIran executed more than 450 people in
2011, one-third o them in secret.
UN members also expressed deep con-
cern at “pervasive gender inequality and
violence against women” in Iran, as well
as a continued crackdown on women’s
human rights deenders and the violent
repression and arrest o women exercising
their right to peaceul assembly. Te UN
reports on Iran both ocused on the per-
sistent arrest o women working or the
“Campaign or Equality,” also known as
the “One Million Signatures” campaign,
which seeks to bring attention to serious
orms o gender inequality enshrined in
Iranian law.
Iran has engaged in “ongoing, sys-
temic, and serious” inringement o
reedom o expression and reedom o
peaceul assembly, according to the UN
resolution. It noted the extensive impris-
onment o journalists and bloggers, the
orceul breaking up o demonstrations,
unair trial practices that prevail in the
Iranian revolutionary courts, and arrests
and death sentences or the vague charge
o “enmity against God.” Te UN resolu-
tion called on Iran to immediately release
those detained “or simply exercising their
right to peaceul assembly and participat-
ing in peaceul protests.”
Iranian violations o the rights o ethnic and religious minorities were also
cited in the UN resolution. It particu-
larly highlighted persecution o members
o the Baha’i aith, noting that they have
been arbitrarily imprisoned and denied
employment, government beneits and
higher education, and that 20-year prison
sentences were reinstated against lead-
ers o their aith ollowing “deeply awed
legal proceedings.”
Te UN also called or Iran to launch
an impartial investigation o allegations o
killings and other abuses in the crackdown
by police and paramilitaries that ollowed
the 2009 presidential elections, which
were widely perceived as raudulent. Iran
was pressed to prosecute those responsible
or the post-election abuses and to ensure
that the upcoming 2012 parliamentary
elections “reect the will o the people.”
Tese ndings remind everyone that it
is vitally important that all member states
support the UN’s eorts to improve the
human rights situation in Iran and the
specic recommendations it has set out as
a needed course o action. Tis includes
pressing Iran to cooperate ully with th
mandate o the special rapporteur and
allow him to visit the country, to allow o
the air investigation o and public repor
ing on human rights violations, to sto
the practice o imprisoning and executinthose who express dissent, and to relea
those already imprisoned. For all o Iran
bluster and denial, its leaders are sensiti
to such criticism. Iran withdrew its appl
cation or a seat on the UN Human Righ
Council in 2010 aer international outc
about how it treats its own people.
Te realization that such a country m
soon possess a nuclear weapon provid
added impetus to highlight its human
rights record and press or change. Indee
we should recall the insight by Sovi
physicist and Nobel Peace Prize winn
Andrei Sakharov, who pointed out th
“the deense o human rights…[is] th
only sure basis or genuine and lastin
international cooperation.”
Iran must be pressured, by the UN, th
U.S., and others, to undamentally alter i
human rights record beore we can hop
to make genuine progress on other issu
o global importance.
Wendy Rosen is executive director of the
Seattle chapter of American Jewish Committe
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Rabbi MaRk spiRo LivingJudisOut o approximately 1.1
million Jews who were impris-
oned in Auschwitz, there areonly two who were known to
have been born there. One o
them was Angela Polgar.
When Polgar’s expectant
mother Vera arrived in Aus-
chwitz in May o 1944, along
with nearly hal o Hungary’s
Jewish population, the death
camp was operating at peak
efciency, liquidating more than 132,000
inmates per month. Te chances o anybody
surviving Auschwitz were already not much
more than one in 10, but or a pregnant
woman they were ar slimmer, which is why
it was standard practice or Jewish inmate
doctors to perorm clandestine abortions as
a lie-saving measure or the mothers, who
were otherwise almost certain to be cre-
mated along with their newborn babies.
Aer one doctor oered Vera an abor-
tion, her mother came to her in a dream,
telling her: “Veruska, you are eight
months pregnant, and you don’t do this
because the etus is already alive and ready
to leave. Believe in God and He will be
with you. Maybe a miracle will happen,
but don’t do it!”
Te next day, Vera reused the doc-
tor’s oer, and barely a month later —
against all odds — her daughter Angela
was not only born, but managed to sur-
vive, hidden until the camp’s liberation by
Soviet troops the ollowing month.
Tis week’s orah reading introduces
us to another child whose birth and sur-
vival seem to dey all odds. Like Angela
Polgar thousands o years later, Moshe,
the uture savior o the Jews, is born in
a brutal labor camp, acing near-certain
death at the hands o his oppressors, and
like Angela, he too manages to survive by
hiding. Although Egyptian genocide was
directed exclusively against the males,
like the Nazis they too pursued a careully
orchestrated plan designed to rob their
victims o all hope, ultimately compelling
the men o that generation to divorce their
wives en masse rather than condemn their
unborn children to death.
But just as Vera Polgar was visited by
her mother in a dream, our oral tradition
teaches us that Moshe’s ather Amram
— the leader o that generation — was
also visited by a amily member bearing
a strikingly similar message: “His daugh-
ter [Miriam] said to him: Father, your
decree is harsher than Pharaoh’s. Pha-
raoh’s decree was only against the males,
but yours is against both the males and the
emales… [As a result o Miriam’s rebuke]
they all remarried their wives” (almud
tractate Sota 14a).
Both Angela Polgar and
Moshe were born as a result
o an act o aith that deedreason and logic. It made no
sense to bring children into a
world where the only choices
were immediate death or a
short lie o pointless suer-
ing and despair. But in both
cases that’s exactly what their
parents did, because when all
is said and done, the value o
even a single moment o lie is beyond our
ability to measure or comprehend.
he inherent goodness o lie has
always been a basic axiom o Jewish belie,
and is arguably one o the most important
concepts we’ve bequeathed to the world. It
actors heavily into our approach to major
lie issues, such as abortion and euthana-
sia. It should also inuence the way we live
our daily lives.
King David exhorts us to “Serve God
with joy” (Psalm 100), because joy is the
emotion that we naturally eel when we see
lie or what it really is, without distortion.
I we could see things as they truly are,
we would realize that the mere act that
we woke up this morning is tantamount
to winning the lottery. Te winner o the
$10 million jackpot doesn’t notice when
he breaks a ew dishes. Similarly, people
who get a new lease on lie aren’t bothered
by things that used to be a big deal to them
because they’re way too happy to be alive
to even notice them.
Tis doesn’t mean that lie is always
going to eel good. Tere is no known anti-
dote to our penchant or eeling down at
times, nor should we ever judge or deny
our eelings when we do. But in order
or us to live productive and happy lives,
we must maintain a healthy sense o per-
spective regarding our emotions. Positive
thoughts and eelings, such as hopeul-
ness, enthusiasm, compassion, a sense o
humor and lightheartedness are all reliable
indicators that we are heading in the right
direction because lie is inherently good.
Negativity in any o its orms, on the other
hand, is a pretty sure sign that we’re not.
Pain and suering are a real part o lie,
and should never be minimized. Tat’s
precisely why we must nurture our under-
lying aith in lie’s essential goodness.
Tis belie cannot come rom our intellect
alone, since we can just as easily rational-
ize that lie is bitter and unair. Rather, we
must realize the simple truth that already
lies within us; that no matter how dif-
cult lie can be, it’s worth it. Recognition
o this simple truth brought redemption
to Angela Polgar, Moshe and ultimately,
the entire Jewish people. It can no doubt
do the same or us as well.
WE ALL mAkE mIsTAkEs
I am very disappointed in your response to Martin Jaffee’s article about Myron Cohon (“To
the family of Myron Cohon and our community,” Dec. 23). He made a mistake. I’m sure his
apology is sincere and he should be forgiven for his lapse.
I am the secular Jew he is talking about in some of his articles. I may not go to shul but
I do have many of the values and ideals I learned growing up in a Jewish household, and I
have tried to pass these on to my children.One of those values is forgiveness. Mr. Jaffee is an interesting journalist. I don’t always
agree with him but I nd his articles thoughtful and fun to read.
Firing him or making him resign is a sad day for this paper. I hope you will both recon-
sider. The Cohon family, Mr. Jaffee and JTNews need to take a few minutes to remind them-
selves that we all make mistakes. We can grow and learn from them and become better and
more thoughtful people.
Barbara Cooper
Aacorte
A LATE THAnk yOu
I was saddened and disappointed to read that Professor Martin Jaffee will no longer be
writing his column for this paper. He obviously made incorrect and hurtful assumptions in his
last column about Myron Cohon, and the Cohon family was understandably outraged. But the
paper’s apology and the family’s response raised some issues for me.
First, there was no appreciation of Professor Jaffee’s contribution as a columnist for almost
eight years. I’m sure there are reasons why more wasn’t said, but I would like to take the
opportunity to thank him. I very much enjoyed his columns and looked forward to them. I
found them to be interesting, funny, educational, and thought-provoking. I don’t think the
problems with his last column should completely overshadow an otherwise distinguished
career with this paper, and he deserves better recognition.
Second, I appreciated the family’s heartfelt response because it helped me get to know the
real Myron Cohon, and in that regard I think it did a true service to his memory. But I think it
went too far by personally attacking Professor Jaffee, questioning his piety, and making this
about Reform vs. Orthodox and who is a better Jew. Finally, is there no room in all this for for-
giveness? One thing I would hope we could all agree upon, regardless of our slice of Judaism,
is that we allow each other to acknowledge our sins, to make teshuvah, and to start again.
Professor Jaffee made a big mistake, apologized to the family, the paper, and the public, and
will probably atone for it for many years to come. Doesn’t our faith offer him another chance?
There are serious issues and tensions underlying this situation that our community should
discuss, and Professor Jaffee is an important voice. What do we gain by silencing him? His
columns just might be far more sensitive and insightful as a result of this painful experience,
and we too would benet from keeping the conversation going.
Perr Weiber
seattle
unJusTIFIABLE sTATEmEnTs
Undoubtedly Jaffee made errors. Nothing excuses William Cohon’s “he occupies the
Samuel and Althea Stroum chair in Jewish Studies, at the University of Washington, which
means that both the State of Washington and the Stroum family vouch for him.”
Cohon was trying for more than just an apology, he was trying to destroy the man.
The fact that you published that statement is harder to justify than your publishing
Jaffee’s misstatements.
Pal Baee
seattle
TAkE A DEEP BREATH
Martin Jaffee blew it. Jaffee used an individual’s life and death to illustrate a continuing con-
cern of the Jewish community, the loss of member(s) to the majority culture. Jaffee assumed
incorrectly that in the last part of Myron Cohon’s life, Cohon was lost to the Jewish community.
The JTNews, in printing Jaffee’s piece equally blew it. Jaffee apologizes and is being red, the
JTNews apologizes and continues business as usual. Jaffee is being scapegoated.
Whether Cohon was “the right kind of a Jew” for all of his life is a secondary consideration.
The main issue is, even if Cohon was “lost” to the Jewish community, Cohon was entitled to
live his life as he chose, without criticism.
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I assume Jaffee’s motives were honorable, that he was making the point that the best place
for every Jew is in the Jewish community, for the individual’s good and for the community’s good,
which, for what it’s worth, I agree. To quote a Christian adage, “The road to hell is paved with good
intentions.” An “Onion” t-shirt reads, “Stereotypes are real time savers.” At least in the short term,
assumptions can also be. Longer term, maybe not. Yet, let any who haven’t assumed and unnec-
essarily personalized it when making a point, raise a hand.
Anti-Semitism from those who think they’d like to make the world Judenrein, “clean of Jews,” not
surprisingly promotes in at least some Jews feelings of being under such constant threat and maybethose who don’t have such fears are in denial. The loss of one member can feel like an existential threat.
So, though Jaffee’s religious beliefs aren’t mine — I don’t have any — I think that he has the
interests of the Jewish people at heart, including people like me, and shouldn’t be punished because
of a seriously insensitive gaffe. So maybe the JTNews needs to take a deep breath. Let him write in
the JTNews. Don’t pillory him for an error that any us can make. Besides, he’s a very good writer.
side stoc
Belleve
HORRIFIED
Thank you for the letter addressed to Myron Cohon, his family, and the community, published in
JTNews on Fri., Dec. 23, 2011. I was horried to read the cruel, arrogant column written by Martin
Jaffee, published in the JTNews on Dec. 9, criticizing the obituary and life of Mr. Cohon. The apol-
ogy from Mr. Jaffee was essential, although his carelessness in writing the column in the rst place
was appalling. Such writings create separation within the Jewish community, not commitment. Mr.
Jaffee, in assuming he had the judgment authority of God, brought shame upon the University of
Washington, the JTNews, and himself. Now that his column has been discontinued, I am willing to
renew my subscription. Such a mistake should never be repeated by the JTNews.
Hillar Lipe
seattle
sTILL muCH TO APOLOgIzE FOR
I’m sorry, but while I appreciate your apologies, you have still missed the mark. In fact, you and
Professor Jaffee are still on the same page, though you profess not to be.
W LeTTeRS Page 3 You both apologize, as you should, for both factual inaccuracy, and offensive timing. But thoug
Professor Jaffee claims to, neither of you truly disavows your judgment of those Jews who are n
“Jewish enough” for you. That is wrong.
What if my father was a “secular Jew” who valued Jewish and non-Jewish intellectual and artist
achievements equally? What if he did marry a person he loved and who was not a practicing Jew? Wh
if he did raise a child who chose not to practice Judaism, and two who married gentiles? What if he d
love and accept his children’s spouses and his grandchildren equally, regardless of their religious her
tage or practices? What if “the life of Torah” was not “an existential concern” to Myron or some mem
bers of his family? What if you were factually correct about his life, and if the timing of your criticism
had not been so inappropriate? I’ll tell you: It was still wrong. It was religious and ethnic intoleranceIt was not only Myron’s recognition of his Jewish identity, and the fact that some of his progen
remain active in the Jewish community, that makes the article wrong. It is wrong because you crit
cize those aspects of his life, and those members of his family, that are not Jewish enough for yo
It is wrong because you deny the validity of each individual’s choice as to how they carry forwa
their religious and ethnic heritage. In failing to recognize that error, you still have much to lea
from Myron, and much to apologize for to his family.
keith Coho
seatt
FOWL COmmEnTARy
I want to respond to the article written by Tzippy Wiens titled “Killing Animals” (Jew-ish Mag
zine, Dec. 23). I realize that most people do eat animals and I praise the article for being very ope
and upfront about what happens to animals and how they actually go from being living, feelin
creatures to something presented on a platter. Sadly, most people try not to make the connectio
and are “disconnected from their food.”
As a vegetarian, the article struck me as brutal and disturbing. I found the words in the cap
tion, “Few things bond a group faster than ritually slaughtering and preparing turkeys,” a horr
fying commentary on the human condition. I am reminded of the words of Isaac Bashevis Singe
who wrote, “In relation to animals all people are Nazis; for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka
Something to think about.
Jac Facere
Redo
Deborah Frockt, director o advancement
at the Northend community school, told
JNews. Tis year, the school is celebrat-
ing its 20-year anniversary, marking its
sixth year since it moved into the expan-
sive location in North Seattle. Te school,
which oers a K-5 general and Judaic cur-
riculum, was housed in temporary digs or
the rst 15 years o its existence.
“We’re utilizing what we know parents
want rom our research, looking at what
our community does not yet have, and
proceeding with the notion that SJCS can
be a community in dierent ways or di-
erent amilies,” explained Frockt. “Some
will have a casual and occasional relation-
ship with us…. Some will have a deeper
and longer connection directly with us by
enrolling children in our school. What-
ever the particular journey o an individ-
ual amily, SJCS can be the community
gateway or this geographic area.”
Currently, SJCS collaborates in part-
nership with the Seattle Jewish Coop-
erative Playschool, the Stroum Jewish
Community Center, and the PJ Library,
a national program administered locally
by the Jewish Federation o Greater Seat-
tle that mails Jewish children’s literature
and music to amilies across the country
each month.
Te Jewish Day School’s head o school,
Maria Erlitz, said that the preschool–8th
grade non-denominational academy will
apply the award money toward beeng up
its Discovery Grant program, which helps
nancially struggling amilies pay their
tuition using monies rom community
donors. Te award money will also provide
ongoing unding or the school’s learning-
based inquiry program, which encourag
learning beyond the classroom.
“JDS believes it is our responsibi
ity to oer an exceptional education th
empowers our children to be wise an
compassionate human beings committe
to lie-long learning, and making a pos
tive dierence in the world and their com
munity,” Erlitz said. “JDS is also launchin
an enhanced dierentiated learning pr
gram ocused on gied children to o
expanded programming opportuniti
or local Jewish students to urther exc
in school.”
W peJe AWARD Page 1
Supreme Court rejects Washington State prisoner caseFollowing the U.S. Supreme Court’s
denial to move orward, a lawsuit that
dragged on or more than ive years
was deinitively decided in avor o
Jewish Prisoner Services International on
Monday. Te suit, led by inmate Dennis
Florer in 2006, against JPSI and its CEO,
Chaplain Gary Friedman, intimated that
because Friedman was under contract to
provide services to inmates, he should be
considered a state actor.
Florer vs. Congregation Pidyon
Shevuyim had been rejected by the 9th
Circuit Court o Appeals, then reinstated
beore it was rejected again last April.
At that point, Florer took the case to
the Supreme Court. His attorney, Leonard
J. Feldman, and a group o University o
Washington law students who had taken
up the case, withdrew aer the 9th Cir-
cuit’s ruling. Te Supreme Court rejected
the case without comment.
“Te net result is it clearly establishes
that a chaplain, whether they’re sta or
contract or volunteer, is not a state actor…
when they’re unctioning in a clerical or
ecclesiastical capacity,” Friedman said.
Tough Feldman told JNews last ye
ollowing the 9th Circuit’s dismissal th
he didn’t believe the case would have wid
signicance, Friedman said that this rulin
should curb predatory lawsuits again
religious entities.
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From the Jewish ranscript , January
9, 1961
Rabbi Mano Herskovitz deplanes at
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eMily k. alhadeff assistnt editor, JTNws“Israel should not be allowed to speak
on behal o world Jewry,” said Omar
Barghouti at St. Mark’s Cathedral on the
evening o January 5. “It’s a colonial state,
it’s an occupier; it cannot speak or the
Jews.” Te room erupted in applause. “Telobby is doing its best to bully or to entrap
the church leaders into an endless, useless
dialogue that leads to absolutely nothing.”
Te Palestinian activist and a ounder
o the Palestinian Campaign or the Aca-
demic and Cultural Boycott o Israel,
Barghouti is the author o a new book,
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: Te Global
Struggle for Palestinian Rights. He was
invited to speak by St. Mark’s Mideast
Focus Ministry, the Episcopal Bishop’s
Committee on Israel/Palestine, and 10other Palestinian advocacy groups rom
around the Puget Sound.
Barghouti’s talk, “BDS Israel: he
Legacy o Dr. King and Mandela,” was ol-
lowed by a boycott, divestment and sanc-
tions (BDS) workshop the ollowing night.
Just beore Christmas, aer news o
the Jan. 5–6 events reached leaders within
the Jewish community, Wendy Rosen o
the American Jewish Committee, Zach
Carstensen o the Jewish Federation o
Greater Seattle, Rob Jacobs o Stand-WithUs Northwest, and Hilary Bernstein
o the Anti-Deamation League implored
Bishop Greg Rickel o the Diocese o
Olympia, o which St. Mark’s is a congre-
gation, to enter into “an ongoing dialogue
to coner on areas o disagreement” with
the Jewish community.
“It elt to us like the straw that brok
the camel’s back,” Rosen said. “Had
just been Omar, that would have be
one thing...but it’s been one event a
another.”Among those events include one
September that eatured Israeli new hist
rian Ilan Pappé o the University o Exet
in Britain and the author o Te Ethn
Cleansing of Palestine, among other boo
critical o Israel. Pro. Mark Rosenblum,
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Queens College in New York, who shared
the stage with Pappé and considers him-
sel liberal and pro-Israel, criticized St.
Mark’s or hosting an unbalanced discus-
sion on the Israeli-Palestinian conict. On
more than one occasion, St. Mark’s has
also hosted Reverend Naim Ateek, a Pal-
estinian liberation theologian who has
compared the Palestinians to Christ and
Israelis to Romans.According to the letter to Bishop
Rickel, “Mr. Barghouti’s activism re-
quently shis to the vitriolic describing
Israel and the Jewish people as committing
‘gradual ethnic cleansing to Judaize their
space;’ ‘apartheid;’ ‘common Nazi prac-
tices;’ and a ‘slow genocide.’”
“We were at the end o our rope,”
Rosen said.
On Jan. 6, Rickel met with Rabbi Daniel
Weiner o emple De Hirsch Sinai to set
the dialogue in motion. Weiner, who has
worked with Rickel in the past on main-
taining good relations with the Jewish
community, wrote immediately ollowing
their meeting that “the group at St. Mark’s
that has spear-headed these programs, and
some within the Diocese, I believe do not
constitute a monolithic reection o the
views o the Diocese any more than any
Jewish group reects the entirety o Jewish
Seattle on Israel.”
Rickel, in an email, said, “I remain
open and hopeul or dialogue.”
But Rosen remains skeptical.
“I’m concerned that the leadership o
St. Mark’s may not be as interested” in that
dialogue as much as Rickel and the Jewishcommunity are, she said.
“I don’t see any evidence that they want
to move this relationship to a positive
place,” she said. “My rustration is that I
eel St. Mark’s — they talk the talk but they
don’t walk the walk. Tey verbally extend
the olive branch.”
Te church’s assistant bishop, Cabell
ennis, moderated Barghouti’s talk.
ennis, who calls himsel “anti-Israeli
government,” was involved with the South
Arican divestiture movement and like
other BDS activists he connects the two
situations.
“At least in the Middle East the Angli-
cans are Palestinians, so we are connected
to our ellow church olks,” he said. “More
and more BDS movements are cropping
up mainly because it’s been so rustrating
to get any real movement.”
Te U.S. Congress, he told JNews, is
not just supportive o Israel, but it is owned
by Israel through big dollars rom the Chris-
tian right and organizations like AIPAC.
“It’s kind o like the gun lobby,” he said.
During his talk, Barghouti repeat-
edly emphasized non-violent struggle and
taking the moral high ground. He encour-aged the Episcopalian and Presbyterian
movements to grow their support o BDS.
“I you cannot help us in the struggle,
do your part to end complicity,” he said
at the end o the talk. “Tis is what Martin
Luther King would have done.”
Barghouti received a standing ovation.
According to ennis, the Anglican
Church does not have immediate plans
to ideologically divest rom Israel; how-
ever, “We have a resolution going through
the Episcopal Church that doesn’t say we
support BDS, but Steadast Hope, which
includes looking at BDS.” (Steadast Hope
is a guide or peace and reconciliation pro-
duced by the Presbyterian Church.)
Weiner noted that while Rickel cannot
control the ideologies o individual church
leaders, he said, “I think it’s very problem
atic. I the church as a whole — i the
vestry decides to [adopt BDS measure
it would be disturbing and problematic.”
Jewish leaders say that i the churc
continues to move in a pro-BDS directio
both the Christian and the Jewish commu
nities will suer.
“You can’t say a dialogue isn’t use
when a dialogue hasn’t occurred,” saCarstensen o the Jewish Federation. “
alienates Jews. It alienates mainstrea
Christians.”
Both groups have a lot in common, h
added, especially in the realm o human
tarian work. “ikkun olam and Christia
social teaching are not ar apart at all.
the Episcopal Church divests ully, the
you shut the door on those opportuniti
where we have a lot o common ground.
“Te most important thing,” Wein
said, is “there is a silent, albeit apatheti
majority that doesn’t know or care th
these [BDS activities] are being done
their name. I they knew more about
they would not be happy about it. Tat
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tiM klass JTNws CorrspondntConcern or minority representation
in Congress has had a peculiar eect on
Washington State’s political map.
In redrawing congressional districtsand adding a tenth to conorm with the
2010 census, the state redistricting com-
mission deliberately made the 9th District
the rst in Washington in which more
than hal the population is non-white. Tis
“majority minority” district, which runs
rom Southeast Seattle through Renton,
Kent, Federal Way, Seattle-acoma Inter-
national Airport and the Port o acoma,
includes areas with heavy Jewish popula-
tions: Mercer Island, Bellevue and Seattle’s
Seward Park neighborhood.
At the same time, but without any indi-
cation o intent, the bipartisan commis-
sion made it signicantly harder or at
least two Jewish candidates — or any other
Democrat — to win an open seat this year
in the drastically reshaped 1st District,
which has ar ewer Jews.
Either ormer state Rep. Laura Ruder-
man, D-45th, or her successor in the leg-
islature, Roger Goodman, who live blocks
apart in Kirkland, would be only the
second known Jew to be elected to Con-
gress rom Washington.
Te rst, representing a more compact
but still overwhelmingly non-
Jewish 1st District, was Repub-
lican John R. Miller, ormerly
a Seattle City Council memberand KIRO television commen-
tator. He served our terms,
then opted not to run or a h
in 1992. He later served as direc-
tor o the U.S. State Depart-
ment’s Ofce to Monitor and
Combat rafcking in Persons.
Te 1st District race became
open when Rep. Jay Inslee, a
Democrat who won increas-
ingly lopsided majorities ater ousting
Republican Rick White in 1998, announced
last year he would run instead or governor.
“I think there were a lot o people who
were expecting the 1st to be a solidly Dem-
ocratic district, and now it is up or grabs,”
Ruderman said.
“It is now the most evenly divided dis-
trict in the United States,” Goodman said.
In 2010, voters in what is set to become
the 1st District avored Republican Dino
Rossi by 51 percent against Democratic
Sen. Patty Murray, who carried the state
52-48. wo years earlier, though, when
Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire handily
beat Rossi in their gubernatorial rematch,
she had signiicantly greater
support in the same geographic
area.
In Miller’s time the districtran rom North Seattle into
southern Snohomish County
and encompassed the northern
part o the suburbs east o Lake
Washington. Redistricting in
1992 dropped most o Seattle
and added Bainbridge Island
and the northern Kitsap Pen-
insula. Few changes were made
in 2002.
Te new 1st appears as an ungainly
blob extending east rom Kirkland and
Redmond to the crest o the Cascades and
north 90 miles through suburbs, towns,
arms and orests to the Canadian border,
including Mount Vernon, while skirting
Everett and Bellingham.
Barring contrary action by the legisla-
ture, widely viewed as unlikely, the new dis-
trict lines take eect in elections this year.
Zach Carstensen, director o govern-
ment relations and public aairs or the
Jewish Federation o Greater Seattle, said
that as a 501(c)3 nonprot organization
the Federation is barred rom endorsing
political candidates, but in his view Rud-
erman and Goodman have “phenomen
track records,” he said. “With either on
we would be proud.”
he new district does not includthe home o Andrew Hughes, a Jewi
tax attorney in North Seattle and polit
cal newcomer who also led or the 1
District seat last all. Candidates are n
legally required to be residents o the di
trict in which they run, but Hughes
reconsidering nonetheless.
He reported more than $140,000
receipts in his rst three months o un
draising, including $57,000 rom his ow
pockets.
Goodman says he has raised abo
$220,000 and expects $650,000 will get hi
through the primary election in Augu
Ruderman says she has collected mo
than $250,000 and anticipates needing
total o $3 million to win in November.
Both present themselves as pragmati
mainstream Democrats with similar pos
tions, rom pro-choice on abortion to sup
port or President Obama’s health ca
program.
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Goodman said.
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man added that the White House should
be “more aggressive and more innovative”
in pushing or a solution to the Israeli-Pal-
estinian conict.
“It’s a lost opportunity i the United
States does not enter into a new kind o
relationship-building,” he said. “I think the
Obama administration needs to be much
more proactive now. I think the Clinton
administration did a much better job.”Teir political backgrounds and the
nature o their Jewish identity are more
varied.
Ruderman said she had little direct
connection with Jewish institutions grow-
ing up on the Upper East Side o Man-
hattan, but with about 70 percent o the
population in the area Jewish, she said, “it
was easy to eel Jewish.”
She said she became more engaged with
her heritage while earning a drama degree
at Wesleyan University in Connecticut,
and aer moving to the Seattle area, “it
became increasingly difcult to maintain
a Jewish identity without some afliation.”
In her rst bid or ofce, aer ve years
working at Microso, she won election in
1998 to the rst o three terms in the state
House rom what had been a Republican
stronghold. She went on to start what has
become a tradition o a legislative Pass-
over seder.
A ew years later she began attending
Kol HaNeshamah in West Seattle. Ten-
Rabbi Michael Latz introduced her to the
man she later married, she had an adult Bat
Mitzvah in 2007, and she regularly sings in
the congregation’s choral ensemble.
She le the legislature to run unsuc-
cessully or secretary o state against
incumbent Republican Sam Reed in 2004,
then ran or state Democratic party chair
and lost to Dwight Pelz.
Goodman said he has always been
“proud o my Jewish heritage…o the long
tradition o philanthropy and the trans-
mission o ethics.” Aer he became Bar
Mitzvah, he taught in his synagogue’s reli-
gious school but now has no Jewish insti-
tutional involvement or afliation.
“Tere are very ew Jews out here,” he
said. “When I grew up in Rhode Island it was
one-third Jewish, one-third Catholic and
one-third WASP.”
His government experience dates rom
1988, when he was on
the legal sta o the
Democratic National
Committee. He later
held congressional
sta positions with
Reps. Bob Wise o
West Virginia and
Rick Boucher o Vir-
ginia, then married,moved west and was
executive director o
the Washington State
Sentencing Guide-
lines Commission
rom 1998-2000.
Goodman was
sworn in as a state legislator in 2007, 100
years aer one o his great-grandathers
became the rst Jewish member o Massa-
chusetts’ state Senate.
Both he and Ruderman are energetic
campaigners.
Ruderman has extensive undraising
experience and says she knocked or rang
doorbells at 12,000 homes in 1998, 15,000
in 2000 and more than 20,000 in 2002.
“She taught me to go door to door,”
Goodman said, then added jokingly,
“Maybe she created a monster.”
Other prominent Democrats who have
led or the race include Darcy Burner,
who lost two campaigns against Repub-
lican Rep. Dave Reichert in the neigh-
boring 8th District, and state Rep. Steve
Hobbs, D-44th. Suzan DelBene, director
o the state revenue department, who lo
to Reichert in 2010, reportedly is conside
ing a 1st District run as well.
Likely Republican candidates includ
James Watkins, who lost to Inslee in 201
and Snohomish County Council memb
John Koster, who nearly upset incumbe
Rep. Rick Larsen in the 2nd Congression
District the same year.
Pelz describes the latest incarnation the district as “ugly but lovable” — lovab
because he thinks it is within the Demo
crats’ reach, especially i voter sentime
turns more Democratic nationwide.
Still, he said, too many strong Dem
crats splitting the vote in the primary ele
tion could put the seat in jeopardy. Wi
the state’s op wo primary system, th
top two vote-getters could end up bein
Republicans who then would appear wit
out Democratic opposition on the gener
election ballot.
Pelz, Carstensen, Goodman and Ru
erman all downplayed any chance th
being Jewish would be a liability to a 1s
District candidate.
Te Washington Legislature includ
eight Jews, two in the 49-seat Senate an
six in the 98-seat House, including on
Rep. Andy Billig, rom Spokane.
“In this state Jewish candidates hav
proven themselves in getting elected
a whole variety o districts,” Carstense
said. “Relative to the size o the Jewis
community in Washington, I think that
pretty darn impressive.”
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This Week’s Wisdom
Treat the Sick with Kindness by 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.
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What do you say to someone who’s terribly ill? The frst step might be removing the word
“terribly” rom your vocabulary. In a June New York Times column, Walking the Bible author
Bruce Feiler details six things you should never say to a sick person, even though you might think
they’re innocent words. One was, “Did you try that mango colonic I recommended?” The other
fve things not to say are in this puzzle.
ACROSS
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9 Falling Skies vessels13 With 17-Across, seemingly comorting words
you shouldn’t actually say to a sick person16 Vivacity
17 See 13-Across18 Wriggly fsh
19 ___ Alley (music publishers’ street)
20 Drags through the mud22 Two times tetra-
23 They pilot 9-Across24 Greek X
27 Blasé comments28 Seemingly comorting words you shouldn’t
actually say to a sick person
33 Bloom County cartoonist Breathed
34 Snitch
35 Seemingly comorting words you shouldn’tactually say to a sick person
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47 Plane that could exceed 2000 KPH
50 Glee star ___ Michele51 ___ Pérignon
52 ___ Tzu53 Like some transers
56 TV host Stephanopoulos58 Sony laptop brand
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63 See 60-Across64 TV’s Warrior Princess
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10 Painted on resh plaster11 Vinaigrette ingredient
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26 One way to sit by
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40 Faucet44 Much ___ About Nothing
45 “Read my lips: ___ taxes” (1988 campaignpledge)
46 Filmmaker’s Apple-ication?
47 Bird that impales its prey on thorns48 Trafc light
49 Where you might work out ater work52 Neighborhood in London or NYC
54 Tomato type55 Jodie Foster role
56 Turn through the wind, nautically57 St. Tropez summers
58 Trouble
59 Lumberjack’s tool61 Monogram o the author o Treasure Island
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1It’s always great when
amilies get along, andmore so when blended
amilies do. Stepbrothers
Raphi Schuster and Daniel
Kaplan are doubly, maybe
quadruply, blessed: hey
enjoy the support o an array
o parents and stepparents,
and shared interests in sports,
school, synagogue and scouts.
Members o Chie Seat-
tle Council Boy Scout roop 662, Raphi
and Daniel were inducted as Eagle Scouts
together last month during a shared court
o honor held at their synagogue, emple
B’nai orah in Bellevue. his highest
scout rank is only attained by a handul
o scouts.
Both young men turned their atten-
tion to the Jewish community or their
required community service projects.
“I built a drainage ditch on the corner
o the temple property,” Raphi told me.
Last winter, rainwater owing down a
hill purportedly ooded a neighbor’s base-
ment. Raphi worked with troop members
to remedy the situation, providing plan-
ning as well as execution.
“It’s more about the leadership…
than carrying out the physical labor,” he
explained.
Daniel’s project was “re-striping the
[Jewish Day School] parking lot,” he said,
because he’d repeatedly “noticed people
couldn’t gure out where the stripes were.”
(JDS and B share a parking lot.)
He also improved some outside stairs
with railings and lights.
“It wasn’t a very sae staircase,” he said.
His work also involved management and
planning, including constructing templates
so volunteers could place stripes correctly.
Daniel is the son o John Kaplan and
Carol Schuster, stepson o Brian Schus-
ter and stepson o Michelle Kaplan, all
o Bellevue. Raphi is the so
o Brian Schuster and erSchuster o Bellevue an
Carol’s stepson. Family an
riends shared reections o
the boys’ lives at the court
honor, which concluded wi
a blessing rom Cantor Dav
Serkin-Poole.
Raphi called the even
“exciting… Everyone wh
helped me get there w
there…celebrating.”
Te boys have deep roots
the Seattle area. Teir grandparents a
Rabbi Arlene Schuster o Bellevue and th
late Dr. Joseph Schuster; Pauline Stuss
o Seattle and the la
Richard Stusse
Sharon Carmody
Seattle and John an
Shar Carmody
Edmonds; and Dr.
Alan an d Marg
Coombs o Salt Lak
City.
Juniors at Be
levue High Schoo
Raphi and Dani
run track and cro
country and a
involved in clubs an
activities. hey a
active in their temp
youth group and th
Reorm movemen
local National Fe
eration o emp
Youth chapter, or which Raphi is the me
chandising and undraising vice presiden
2By his own admission, landing
job with a “West Coast airpla
manuacturer” was the urthe
thing rom Albert (Bert) Goldstein
mind in 1974. But land here the Broo
lyn native and retired Boeing engineer di
Back then, “I was never much o a vo
unteer,” he says. “Work was everything
So on retiring in 1995, “it was time to giv
back.” He joined the Boeing Bluebill
Boeing retirees who volunteer in the com
munity, mostly helping seniors with repa
projects (www.bluebills.org).
In 1998 he helped ound the Olymp
Peninsula Bluebills when he and his la
wie Libby lived in Port Ludlow. Whe
her illness brought them back to the Seatt
area, he helped ound a Bluebills Eastsid
chapter. Tat group decided to becom
active in the local Red Cross.
“We started working in emergen
shelters,” he says. “I wound up bein
trained as a manager or shelter oper
tions.”
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in which thy both arnd th titl o eagl Scout.
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By Henrietta Hadley
I am Jewish
want to be.
Want to be Jewish,
that’s me.I go to temple
try to be.
Try to stop thinki
o how I could be re
My daddy,
mumbling the wrong Hebrew words.
And smiling down at me.
That’s how Jewish
I want to be.
I’m araid to smile
sitting in services.
Araid that someo
will see msee my smbeing just a little ak
But when smiling is too scary,
that isn’t being Jewish that I see
I’m Jewish,
yeah,
that’s me.
I’m just araid,
or perect and ake
being the way people see me
sitting in services
smiling big
or all to see.
The new me.
Singing the prayers all perectly,
being praisedor letting people see that me.
“You’re a ---ing Jewish bitch,
aren’t you?”
A kid shouted in my ace once.
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I am Jewish
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Want to be Jewish,
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Called to the bima: The secular Bat Mitzvah When its members turn 13, like other synagogues the Secular Jewish Circle provides the gateway to adulthood through a Bar or BatMitzvah ceremony. The dierence is that with this humanistic congregation, these teens are not called to the Torah, but they still ascend the bima. Stories rom three recent Banot Mitzvah tell the tale.
Why I became a Bat Mitzvah
By Charlotte GitlemanI don’t think I ever decided to become a Bat Mitzvah. There was never a question
that I wouldn’t. Not because it was expected, but because it was important to me.
Having my Bat Mitzvah was a way o expressing what being a Jew means to me and
saying it out loud to my amily, my riends, and my community.
One o the great things about having a secular humanistic Bat Mitzvah is that you
can choose the topic o your project, which is always tied to a Jewish value. I chose
the value o Jewish learning and, since I’m a writer, I decided to explore Jewish olk
tales. I spent months reading dierent stories. Reading all those stories gave me
insight into the Jewish experience in the shtetl and also showed me how
Jewish values are passed down through generations. At the end o all that reading, I
reinterpreted some o those stories in my own voice.
I have been a part o the Secular Jewish Circle or as long as I can remember. My
Bat Mitzvah was a way to cement that I am a part o that community and to be
acknowledged as a part o it. Working toward my Bat Mitzvah or two years helped
me explore what it means to be a secular humanistic Jew and help me sort out how
I want to express my Jewishness. Since my Bat Mitzvah, I continue to be a part o the community by attending Shabbat gatherings, holidays and volunteering as a
teacher’s assistant or the Sunday school.
What we do
By Libby Otto
In the Secular Jewish Circle we are required to write two essays. The rst essay
is called the identity speech. The Bar or Bat Mitzvah is asked to write about his or
her identity as a Jew. It made me think about my identity, and it really solidied my
relationship with my community and our respective belies. The identity speech is
dierent or every person and it can take on many tones.
The second speech is about a Jewish value, and the community service project
the Bar or Bat Mitzvah does based on his or her unique value. For my Bat Mitzvah I
created and led a seder and tree planting or Tu B’Shevat based on the value o ba’al
taschit , or not allowing waste. Another person raised chickens and talked about
tikkun olam , repairing the world. Then the Bar or Bat Mitzvah teaches the communityabout his or her value and what was learned in the service project. The second
essay is a conrmation that the Bar or Bat Mitzvah is ready to become an emerging
adult in the community.
Aside rom the essays I also wrote a poem in Hebrew and English, and I worked witmy madricha, Susan, to customize the ceremony based on my interests.
Completing the project and writing these essays happens toward the end o the
second year o our Sunday school’s B’nai Mitzvah program. In the program we
learn about Jewish values, traditions, history and culture. Most o us enter into this
program ater several years o attending Sunday school. The entire community is
invited to attend the ceremony and witness our entrance into young adulthood.
How I changed
By Sanna Horn
I have the eeling that I’ve actually achieved something. This process has prepared
me and given me practice or big projects. I studied in-depth on a topic and learned
to do research. I learned how to write a speech, which is dierent in some ways ro
writing a paper that people read. I have now spoken in ront o a large group o over
100 people.
At the beginning I elt nervous and I didn’t eel prepared. I wasn’t sure I wanted tohave a Bat Mitzvah because I wasn’t sure I could do it. I didn’t eel ready to talk in
ront o a crowd and I didn’t eel ready to make big speeches. I didn’t eel ready to
take a big step orward.
My project included my dog. We bonded while I trained him to be a therapy dog. I am
a better owner or my dog. He listens to me and I am better able to react to him and
know how to take care o him.
Now I have gained condence in mysel. I could do research, write and give a
speech on my own i needed. I think I gained adults’ respect as well. I learned a lot
about mysel by listening to what others said about me and paying attention to what
enjoyed. Even though I was nervous about it, I am very glad I did this.
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Life is a cabaret. You can enter stage right.
Over the next two months, the Stroum Jewish Community Center is hosting classes to
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Janis siegel JTNws ColunistUnless you’re the parents
o a Kobe Bryant or a iger
Woods, most moms and dads
probably spend most o their
time and money helping their
children make good grades. Butnew research rom three Israeli
doctors shows that awkward-
ness or disinterest in sports and
physical activities can aect a
child’s success later in lie.
While grades and extra-
curricular activities are impressive on
paper, researchers say it’s what kids are
doing in their daily routines that could
yield clues about debilitating behavior
problems and may even signal a uture
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
It might seem obsessive to analyze your
child’s reactions and moods, on the hunt
or any odd behavioral quirks, but recog-
nizing these general tendencies may signal
a pattern.
Te largest o the three studies, which
looked at sports and aggression, was
conducted at el Aviv University’s Bob
Shapell School o Social Work and was
presented at AU’s Renata Adler Memo-
rial Research Center or Child Welare and
Protection Conerence.
AU doctoral student Keren Shahar
and her team studied 649 children in 25
Israeli schools or 24 weeks. Hal o stu-
dents practiced soccer, basketball, or mar-
tial arts ve days a week, and the other hal
had no physical activities.
Shahar ound that the activity-based
group had less aggressive behavior overall,
and displayed more sel-control and disci-
pline in their daily tasks.
“Te key is to introduce
children to something that
they love to do and in which
they have a compelling inter-
est,” writes Shahar. “Findsomething that motivates
them. A strong connection
with any activity gives chil-
dren a sense o purpose and
decreases the likelihood that
they will ‘act out.’”
Better than talk therapy
or kids who have these kinds
o sel-control issues, Shahar
ound that involving children in a sport
they love actually resulted in “quelling
negative emotions.”
However, Shahar
also ound that a
sports regimen had a
more proound eect
on boys. She posited
that girls are generally
less aggressive than
boys and less likely to
excel in sports.
In mor e ne w
research published in
the Journal o Behav-
ior herapy and
Experimental Psychiatry, Pro. Reuven
Dar o AU’s department o psychology
ound “preliminary support” or “a strong
connection” between hypersensitivity and
ritualism in children and OCD. Adults
with OCD exhibit these two behaviors.
Dar believes that children who are
extremely sensitive to touch or smell, or
are reactive to irritations like a dental
visit or certain abrics, eel threatened and
develop ritualistic behaviors to regain a
sense o control. Tese rituals could be an
early warning sign o adult OCD.
“I you see that a child is very rigidwith rituals, becoming anxious i unable to
engage in this behavior, it is more alarm-
ing,” Dar explained. “Also, age is a actor. A
habit exhibited by a 5- or 6-year-old is not
necessarily a predictor o OCD. I the same
behavior continues to the ages o 8 and
above, it could be a warning sign, especially
i accompanied by anxiety or distress.”
In the rst o the two surveys, parents
o kindergarteners answered three ques-
tionnaires about their children, reporting
any unusual repetition, anxiety, discom-
ort with strangers, worry, object ordering,
attachment to amily members, and reac-
tions to touch, taste, or smell.
In a second online survey, 314 adults
answered questions about their child’s
anxiety levels and their past and current
sensitivity to oral and tactile stimulation.
Te results o both studies were s
encouraging that Dar hopes to study
large sample o these overly sensitive chi
dren all the way through to adulthood.
In a third research project with th
smallest sample, Dr. Orit Bart o AUStanley Steyer School o Health Proe
sions monitored 50 5- to 7-year-olds wit
Developmental Coordination Disord
and 25 without DCD, using motor skil
assessment tests.
According to Bart, an internation
ally recognized expert in DCD, childre
with the disorder ind sports diicu
can’t organize schoolwork, eel lonel
shun group tasks, are at risk or su
stance abuse, and can’t master basic tas
like driving. DCD, adds Bart, can great
impact a child throughout his or her lie
“DCD kids are oten described
clumsy,” said Bart. “Because they’re usual
o average to above-average intelligenc
their disorder is rarely considered grave.”
Her research appeared in the journ
Research in Developmental Disabilities.
Bart said that when diagnosed, chi
dren can learn to participate in groups,
key behavioral indicator o healthy em
tional development.
She also developed a new DCD question
naire, designed to assess 8- to 14-1/2-yea
old children with DCD. Tat may lead
new treatments and interventions.
Longtime JTNews correspondent and freelanc
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and the virgin birth, Isaiah’s suering servant,
creation and the Garden o Eden, the land o Israel,
and the role o Torah. Talk will ollow Kiddush. At
Herzl-Ner Tamid, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
5–10 p.. — Pnts Nt ot
Josh at [email protected] or 206-388-0839
or sjcc.org
Parents can go out while kids have an evening o
un. $30–$50. At the Stroum Jewish Community
Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
7–10 p.. — Jws Twn ext: L
Scvn hnt
Ben Starsky at [email protected] or
206-388-0837 or sjcc.orgGet ready to tour the city o Seattle rom the seat
o a limo. Wrap up the night with pizza. $20. At the
Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
sunday15 JanuaRy
9 ..– 2 p.. — Sp Stts bysttn
Ctfctn
Ben Starsky at [email protected] or
www.sjcc.org
The Super Sitters program teaches young people
ages 11–15 basic babysitting skills and saety.
Super Sae Sitters are better prepared to provide
a saer, more eective and positive babysitting
experience. $50–$60. At the Stroum JCC, 3801
E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
9:30 .. — int t Jds: Tn-W Ss
Jen Fliss at [email protected] or
425-603-9677 or templebnaitorah.org
Rabbi James Mirel will lead this ree intro to
Judaism series. All are welcome to attend. No
need to register, just come to the rst class. At
Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
3–5 p.. — Pn ats Wnd
Wsps
Natasha Ransom at [email protected] or
206-232-7115 or sjcc.org
Each Sunday rom Jan. 15 to Mar. 18, the Stroum
JCC oers dierent perorming arts workshops
or grades 7–12. Price varies. At the Stroum JCC,
3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
7:30–9 p.. — T St t Fs t hll
Wnt gl Esther Friend at [email protected]
or 206-652-4444, ext. 120
The Summit at First Hill invites residents and their
amilies or an evening o ood and live music.
At The Summit at First Hill, 1200 University St.,
Seattle.
Monday16 JanuaRy
9:30 ..–3:30 p.. — Scl’s ot Cp
Matthew Korch at [email protected] or
206-388-0830 or sjcc.org
Come to the SJCC or Martin Luther King Day.
Enjoy swimming, playing in the gym, art projects
and a community service project honoring MLK.
$50–$55. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer
Way, Mercer Island.
8–9 p.. — mny mtts
Rabbi David Fredman at
206-251-4063 or seattlekollel.org
In this series the Seattle Kollel will delve into the
Jewish view o money and how the Torah’s wisdom
and code or business ethics shapes the Jew
perspective on money and its purpose. Free.
The Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
7:45–8:45 p.. — Tld Stdy
Rabbi Yehuda Bresler at
206-331-8767 or seattlekollel.org
In this beginners’ class, become amiliar with t
structure o the Mishna and Gemara, learn ho
to analyze any given portion and improve Hebre Aramaic reading and translation skills. At T
Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
tuesday 17 JanuaRy
9:30 ..– 3:30 p.. — Scl’s ot Cp
Matthew Korch at [email protected] or 206
388-0830 or sjcc.org
At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Merc
Island.
Wednesday 18JanuaRy
7–9 p.. — Wn Tstn wt t T
Melanie at [email protected]
Join the Tribe or an evening o wine tasting a
schmoozing. Taste wines rom six dierent vineyar
At Urban Enoteca, 4130 First Ave. S, Seattle.
7:45–8:45 p.. — T nd Scnc
Rabbi Avrohom David at [email protected]
or 206-722-8289 or seattlekollel.org
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sunday, January 15 at 1 p.m.
Andy statman
Concert
Current University of Washington artist-in-
residence and Grammy-nominated musician
Andy Statman blends Chassidic melodies,
klezmer, bluegrass and jazz. He will play a
sample from his 20-plus albums and answer
questions about his career and music.At the Stroum Jewish Community Center,
3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. Tickets
are $15/$10 for SJCC members, seniors and
students. For more information contact
Kim Lawson at [email protected] or
206-232-7115, ext. 258 or visit www.sjcc.org.
January 18 to February 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Wedneday–saturday and 3 p.m. sunday
All Through the Night : A seattle Premiere
Play
This modern-day fairy tale follows four German gentile women through the rise
and fall of fascism and Hitler. Based on true stories, the women confront their own
demons as well as those in their country. Directed by ArtsWest artistic director
Christopher Zinovitch. Suitable for children over age 13.
At ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery, 4711 California Ave. SW, West Seattle. Tickets
cost $10–$34.50. For more information call 206-938-0963 or
visit artswest.org.
January 17 at 7 p.m.
Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine
Author event
During a scary hospital stint, a nurse asked Eric
Weiner if he had “found his god” yet. This got the
former NPR foreign affairs correspondent thinking
— and soon traveling and writing. Instead of falling
back on his ancestral religion, he began investigat-
ing Islam, Sufism and Buddhism, attempting to
still his anxiety-filled mind with meditation in the
Himalayas (very Jewish), failing (also very Jewish),
and eventually coming home with an “Ikea God”
assembled from many parts, but based on a Jewish-
Kabbalistic foundation (how Jewish!). Weiner told
NPR that he’s “in perpetual seeker mode, but I think
that’s OK.” Very Jewish indeed. Now he’s got a book out. (I won’t even say it.)
At the University Temple Chapel, United Methodist Church, 1415 NE 43rd St.,
Seattle. $5 suggested donation. Autographed books are available after the talk.
For more information visit www.bookstore.washington.edu.
January 18 at 7 p.m.
Jewih Compoer, The Promie of America: Erich Wolfan von kornold
Lecture
This latest opera lecture focuses on Austrian prodigy Erich Wolfgang von Korngold,
who at the age of 9 per formed his cantata for Gustav Mahler and was a world-
class composer by 11. When fascism arose, Korngold fled to America and found
a new medium in the new world, swiftly becoming the “father of the film score.”
Come hear how the Errol Flynn film The Adventures of Robin Hood saved Korn-
gold’s life and won him one of the first Oscars for original film music.
At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle. RSVP by calling 206-525-0915.
January 24 at 7 p.m.
galya Diment
Author tal
University of Washington professor and chair of
the Slavic Studies and Languages department
Galya Diment will discuss her book, A Rus-
sian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of
Samuel Koteliansky . Koteliansky was a member
of the famed Bloomsbury circle and translated
Russian works for Virginia and Leonard Woolfs’
Hogath Press. The story will appeal to anyone
who loves biography, culture and history.
At Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Ave.,
Seattle. For more information visit
www.elliottbaybook.com.
Friday, January 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Why We Broke Up
Author tal
Written by Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) and illustrated by Maira Kalman,
Why We Broke Up tells the story of Min Green and Ed Slaterton. They fell in
love. Then they broke up. Handler tells the story through objects that Min is
giving to Ed in a box (a comb, a protractor, a movie ticket). Visit
whywebrokeupproject.tumblr.com to share your own breakup story.
At Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle. Tickets free with purchase of the book
from University Bookstore, or $5 at brownpapertickets.org or 800-838-3006.
For more information visit www.bookstore.washington.edu.
January 28 at 2 p.m.
“Between Two World”
Concert
Russia in the first half of the 20th century saw a revival of interest in Jewish
folklore and music. Music of Remembrance’s Sparks of Glory program includes
“Dybbuk Dances” by David Beigelman, the “Dybbuk Suite, Op. 35” and “From
Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79,” a Shostakovich song cycle.
At the Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Wallingford. Free. For
more information contact Micah Shelton at [email protected] or
206-365-7770 or visit www.musicofremembrance.org.
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Providing adults with personal care,
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Jewish Family Service
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Comprehensive geriatric care manage-
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Hills of Eternity Cemetery
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Individual and couple counseling
☎ 206-362-0502
I have more than 30 years exerience
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that this work is a journey and that I am
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Individual, couple, child and family therapy
☎ 206-861-3152
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Expertise with life transitions, addiction and
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light housekeeping, meal preparation and
companionship to older adults living at
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Catering with a personal touch
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Serving the community for over 25 years.
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religion and critical thinking, tradition and
technology. The Seattle Kollel will cover the age
o the universe, evolution, ree will, the soul and
other topics. Free. At The Seattle Kollel, 5305
52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
thuRsday 19 JanuaRy
10:30 ..–12 p.. — T Jws C-nty n kvs, rss: Sccss, Fl
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Ellen Hendin at [email protected]
or 206-861-3183 or www.jsseattle.org
Participants on last year’s JDC-Jconnect trip to
Khabarovsk, Russia, will share why they visited
and what they discovered about Jewish identity in
the Russian Far East. Free. At Temple B’nai Torah,
15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
6:30–8:30 p.. — bcn evl: hw
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206-774-2201 or www.wsherc.org/news/
news.aspxThe past century, dubbed the “Age o Genocide,”
saw more than 60 million people murdered to
meet the needs o the state. Dr. James Waller will
discuss the unassailable act behind this litany o
human confict and suering. Free. At Microsot,
Building 99, 14820 NE 36th St., Redmond.
7:30 p.. — Cnt Jws isss F:
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Janice Hill at [email protected] or
206-842-9010 or www.kolshalom.net
Attorney Filmore Rose, who has visited the Jewish
community o Cuba, will share insights and photos
he has taken. Free. At Congregation Kol Shalom,
9010 Miller Rd., Bainbridge Island.
fRiday20 JanuaRy
8:30 ..–3:30 p.. — Ctn Cn:
Tcn t t hlcst nd gncd
Ilana Kennedy at [email protected] or
206-774-2201 or www.wsherc.org/news/
news.aspx
Teacher seminar with keynote speaker Dr. Jam
Waller, who will speak on “Genocide: Ever Again
Sessions include “Rise o the Nazi Par ty,” “Resc
and Resistance,” “Using Holocaust Literatur
and “Analyzing Artiacts.” Clock hours availab
Register online at www.wsherc.org/new
registrationorm.aspx. $20. At Bellevue Colleg
3000 Landerholm Circle SE, Bellevue.
sunday22 JanuaRy
12:30–5:30 p.. — SJCC Dny Dns
Jessica Wilkinson at [email protected] o
206-388-0826 or sjcc.org
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skills and teamwork or K–3rd boys and girls. One-
hour practices on Mondays or Wednesdays: 5, 6, or
7 p.m.; one-hour Sunday games 12:30 p.m. At the
Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
7 p.. — TDhS kll Lct t n D.
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Janet Rasmus at [email protected] or
206-315-7471 or www.tdhs-nw.org
Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt, renowned Holocaust
historian and scholar, speaks about her new book,The Man in the Glass Booth: Perspectives on the
Eichmann Trial 50 Years Later , plus other topical
headlines. A light reception will ollow. Free. At
Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle.
Monday23 JanuaRy
6:30–8:30 p.. — aln: Pt 2
[email protected] or 206-275-1539
or www.shevetachim.com/events.php
The second paragraph o the Aleinu prayer weaves
in tikkun olam , ridding the world o idol worship,
and allusions to an age o universal peace. What
does this mean or today? Join Rabbi Korneld
or new insights into prayer. At Island Crust Caé,
7525 SE 24th S t., Suite 100, Mercer Island.
6:30–7:30 p.. — W Lss, Lv m
Kim Lawson at K [email protected] or
206-232-7115 or www.sjcc.org
Discover sae ways to lose weight and eel ully
satised without deprivation. Learn about what
works and how overall lie balance aects ood
choices. $10. At the Stroum JCC, 2618 NE 80th
St., Seattle.
tuesday 24 JanuaRy
10 .. nd 4 p.. — SJCC ely Cldd
Scl opn hs
Sarah Adams at [email protected] or
206-232-7115, ext. 250 or sjcc.org
Open house or amilies interested in early
childhood education programs or 2012–13 or
current openings. Tours oered at 10 a.m. and
4 p.m. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way,
Mercer Island.
7–9 p.. — Lv – Cltvtn t rl Tn
Giti Fredman at mrsredman@seattlekollel.
org or 206-722-8289 or seattlekollel.org
Aliza Bulow, national coordinator o Ner LeEle’s
North American women’s program and senioreducator or The Jewish Experience in Denver,
has been teaching practical Jewish philosophy,
basic Judaism and textual learning skills to adults
or over 25 years. Kosher sh dinner served. $20/
person. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way,
Mercer Island.
7–9 p.. — hw Cn ac W Twd
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Jennier Cohen at [email protected] or
206-543-0138 or jsis.washington.edu/jewish
Former Jewish Funds or Justice CEO Simon Greer
and University o Washington Communications
Department Chair David Domke will explore the
opportunity to shape a more just domestic agenda
and the role o American Jewish voices in this
process. At 415 Westlake, Seattle.
7:15 p.. — mny mtts: Jws bs-
nss etcs
Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky at
[email protected] or 206-290-6301
Topics include social ethics such as living wages,
insider trading, CEO compensation, and collective
bargaining, as well as personal choices. Nine
CLE ethics credits available. At Friendship Circle
oces, 2737 77th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.
thuRsday 26 JanuaRy
10:30 ..–12 p.. — Spn Tt t
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Ellen Hendin at [email protected]
or 206-861-3183 or www.jsseattle.org
Author Jack Harmann discusses the struggle
between truth and justice, the court-martialing o
Arican-American soldiers at Fort Lawton, and the
verdict reversal six decades later. Free. At Temple
De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave, Seattle.
7:30–9 p.. — bt Sl bt mds
Carol Benedick at [email protected] or 206-524-0075 or
www.bethshalomseattle.org
Study Talmud with Joel Goldstein on the second and
ourth Thursday o the month. All levels welcome.
$5/class, $25/6-class punchcard. At Congregation
Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
fRiday27 JanuaRy
7–9 p.. — Ft St Svcs nd
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Aaron Meyer at [email protected]
Come together in community and prayer or the
Tribe’s 4th Friday Shabbat. Dinner served ater a
musical service. Free. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai,
Jae Annex, 1520 E Union St., Seattle.
satuRday28 JanuaRy
5–10 p.. — Pnts Nt ot
Matt Korch at [email protected] or 206-388-
0830 or sjcc.org
Indoor soccer and basketball, art projects and un.
Dinner and dessert included. For grades K–5. SJCC
members and SJCS students: $30 or the rst child,
$15 or siblings (age 5-plus). Non-members: $40
or the rst child, $20 or siblings. At Seattle Jewish
Community School, 2618 NE 80th St., Seattle.
sunday29 JanuaRy
10:30 ..– 2 p.. — Cnnctns Wn’s
Plntpy bnc: T Pw Pssn
Wendy Dore at [email protected]
or 206-443-54 00 or ww w.JewishInSeattle.
org/Connections
Iris Krasnow, author o I Am My Mother’s Daugh
and Secret Lives of Wives , will share her insigh
into how women can put their passions in
action in the community and maintain ullli
relationships in all aspects o their lives. At t
Hyatt Regency Bellevue, 900 Bellevue Way NBellevue.
10:30–11:30 .. — h rtls
evydy
Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@
bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or
bethshalomseattle.org
Learn how to enhance your home daveni
experiencing with Rabbi Jill Borodin. Free.
Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. N
Seattle.
4–6 p.. — mtn bt mtzv P
Mrs. Shaindel Bresler at mrsbresler@
seattlekollel.org or 206-779-4373 or
seattlekollel.org
A Bat Mitzvah program led by Matan-train
instructors or mothers and their daughters ag
11–14. Share the excitement o discovering a pla
in the chain o Jewish continuity. Five two-ho
sessions. $150. At a private home, Mercer Islan
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Thir littl iracl: 2012’s irst Jwish baby arrivs
Joel Magalnick editor, JTNwsA couple minutes into our conversa-
tion, Jennier Muscatel McLeod had to
turn away rom the phone.
“She’s smiling at us,” she said.
Given that little Joeli Beth McLeod was
all o ve days old when her mom andI spoke, it may have been a little some-
thing burbling in that tiny tummy, but that
doesn’t mean the new mom thinks any less
o her brand new daughter.
“She was our little miracle,” McLeod
said. “We’re totally smitten and absolutely
in love.”
Joeli, born at 9:39 a.m. on January
1, 2012 to Jennier and Jim McLeod o
Mercer Island, is the rst Jewish baby in
Washington State this year. She weighed
a very healthy seven pounds, nine ounces
and measured 19-3/4 inches.
Joeli is the newest member o a amily
that spans several years between kids
— her brother Eli is 11 and her two hal
brothers, Jacob and Aaron, are in their
early 20s. She’s also part o a amily that
spans generations o local Jewish history.
On Jennier’s side, Joeli’s great-grand-
mother, Esther Muscatel, is a native who
now has ve great-grandchildren. Esther’ssister, incidentally, was another rst: For-
tuna Calvo was the rst Sephardic Jewish
baby born in Seattle. Tat’s one branch
o that side o the amily. Te other is
descended rom the Tals, a multi-gener-
ation Ashkenazi amily rom around the
state. Te Jewish ancestry on Jim’s side
is considerably dierent: He and several
members o his amily converted to Juda-
ism many years ago.
he amily belongs to emple De
Hirsch Sinai, and Jennier said that with
Joeli they are “very proud to carry on and
teach her lots o important Jewish tradi-
tions. She’ll go to Sunday school like her
brother, and we look orward to the next
milestone o her Bat Mitzvah.”
Tere is, o course, one Bar Mitzvah to
come beore that, not even two years dow
the road. One would hope that the litt
sister, who at that point will be a toddl
still getting her sea legs, doesn’t upstag
the star o the show.
But as ar as Eli is concerned, he’s veexcited to be a big brother.
“He really, really, really, really wanted
sibling in the house,” Jennier said.
And now that he’s got his wish?
“He is such a good brother… he’s ver
helpul,” Jennier said. “Even during th
pregnancy there was so much that h
helped with.”
Tat included a move into a new hou
while his mom was pregnant, and makin
sure the sleeping conguration was ju
right.
“He chose the bedrooms,” Jenni
said, “and he wanted to make sure [Joeli
room was always between our room an
his room so that she was always protected
LeSLie rubeNSTeiN
Joli, th rst Jwish baby o 2012, with hr o
Jnnir, dad Ji, and brothr eli.
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Shelters are most commonly activated
during severe winter weather — we’ve had
none so ar this year — and or re and
ood. Volunteers were ready, or instance,
to deal with massive ooding rom the
breaching o the Howard Hanson Dam,
but that never happened.
Bert is always supplementing his train-
ing. His current local emphasis is on pre-
paring or “the big one,” a probable major
regional earthquake. Despite eeling the
recent nancial pinch, Bert says the Red
Cross continues to train and deploy volun-
teers to deal with disasters.
Bert had an eye-opening cross-cultural
experience running a South Seattle shel-
ter recently. An apartment re “displaced
about 60 amilies, mostly Somalis,” and
mostly Muslim. Noticing the group would
pray acing north, he learned that the clos-
est distance rom Seattle to Mecca is over
the North Pole, so local Muslims pray that
way.
Bert and Libby raised three children
here. hey, and their three grandkids,
remain “within 10 minutes” o Bert, he
says. Te amily belonged to emple B’nai
orah when their kids were young, but “we
became [more] secular” when they grew
up. Te couple helped start a chavurah
in Port Ludlow and had also ormed one
when they lived in Houston.
“Now that I’ve become a widower
I’ve…reconnected with the Jewish com-
munity,” he says, through the Seat-
tle Jewish Seniors club, administered by
emple Beth Am (but open to all). He us
to climb to Mt. Rainier’s Camp Muir eve
summer, but gave that up as the recedin
glacier has made it more about scramblin
over rock than walking on snow. He st
walks three miles daily on the hills in h
neighborhood.
CourTeSy LeNNy kaShNer
Jai Schwartz, an Honors graduat o Northwst Yshiva High School, t Hrina Ds
ro th Laudr Yavn School in Budast, Hungary whn th Schwartz aily hostd Hrina
or six wks last sur in th Jwish Sur in Sattl progra. Thir rindshi was
rnwd last onth whn th two tns t in Jrusal.
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Bat Mitzvah
Madeline KubastaMaddy will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on January 14,
2012, at Congregation Kol Ami in Woodinville.
Maddy is the daughter o Stacy Schill o Bothell and Ron
Kubasta o Everett and the sister o Ryan Kubasta. Her
grandparents are Stan and Fran Schill o Mercer Island,
JoEllen Schill o Bellevue, and the late Marlene Kubasta.
Maddy is an 8th-grader at Kenmore Junior High. Sheenjoys choir, drama, swimming and cooking.
Wedding
Mali-KahnTamar Mali and Nuriel Kahn were
married on January 8, 2012, at Bikur
Cholim Machzikay Hadath in Seattle. Rabbi
Moshe Kletenik ofciated.
Tamar is the daughter o Alex and Beth
Mali o Creswell, Ore. Her grandparents are
Rivka Stern o Israel and Ruth Ko oCaliornia. She graduated rom the
University o Oregon with a Bachelor’s in
Music Education.
Nuriel is the son o the late Miriam Kahn.
He graduated rom Antioch University with
a Bachelor’s in Leadership and Organizational Studies and Psychology.
The couple met on JDate and enjoys theater, dierent cuisines, taking long walks, and
studying Chumash . They reside in Seattle.
When you let JFS “Tribute Cards”
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wishes and say you care about
funding vital JFS programs here at
home. Call Irene at (206) 861-3150or, on the web, click on “Donations”
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Death
Yosef Uzel
February 29, 1940–December 27, 2011 Yose will be missed by those he touched. Yose, among
many talents, was an exquisitely talented artist. His many
paintings, rom miniatures to realistic works o art, will be
treasured by amily members, riends, and customers alike.
Yose was a proud Sephardic Jew who emigrated rom
Istanbul, Turkey to Seattle in 1963, where he joined his
extended Calvo amily.
Yose was also talented in other ways. He could fx
anything: cameras, jewelry, urniture, musical instruments,
antiques, electronics, among much more. Yose was a
veteran o the Turkish Navy and was proud o his role in
the Navy as a NATO communications specialist. A graduate rom the University o Washing-
ton, he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature in 1984. Predeceased by his
parents Nellie and Raael Uzel o Istanbul, he is survived by his sister Gina Haras (Yusu
Haras) o Mexico City. Those interested in attending a lunch in his honor/memory on January
29, 2012 should call 206-250-1148.
SJCS GALA 2012
Sunday, February 12th
5:30 pm
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system. It can strike children, but most commonly aects people in the age range o
20 to 50. It is between two to three times more common in women than men and is
more prevalent in northern climates. Te exact causes and a cure or MS have yet to
be discovered, but new treatments and advances in research are giving new hope to
people aected by the disease.
Customer donations will go to two local chapters o the Society: Te Greater
Northwest Chapter which proudly serves more than 12,000 people with MS living in
Alaska, Montana, Central and Western Washington and the Oregon Chapter which
serves more than 7,200 individuals with MS and their amilies in Oregon and SW
Washington.
QFC is proud to support many great charities on a local level. We thank our
customers and our associates or their generosity. ogether, we can make a dierence
in the lives o many o the less ortunate in our communities.
As we begin a new year, we at QFC would like to say “thank you” to thousands o
customers who have not only shopped with us, but who have also been partners in
helping us give back to the communities we so proudly serve through our Checkstand
Charity o the Month program.
Every month, we have identifed a non-proft organization that provides a great
service or multiple services to members o our communities who may be suering
rom a serious illness or condition, need help eeding themselves and their amilies or
have some other important need that the charity can help with. By partnering with our
great customers we can help raise unds to support the work the organization is doing.
Here are the charities we are supporting in 2012:
•January:MultipleSclerosisSociety •February:AmericanHeartAssociation,“GoRedforWomen” •March:Treehouse(Washingtonstores)andTrilliumFamilyServices
(Oregonstores) •April:eNatureConservancy •May:SusanG.Komen,“RacefortheCure” •June:BoysandGirlsClub •July:USO
•August:SeattleChildren’sandPortlandDoernbecherChildren’sHospital •September:LeukemiaandLymphomaSociety •October :YWCA •NovemberandDecember:FoodLifeline/OregonFoodBank
We oer several ways customers may donate to the Charity o the Month i they
wish. We have coin boxes at each checkstand where customers can donate loose
coins or bills. We have checkstand scan cards in three amounts, $1, $5, and $10. And
we oer a 3 cent credit to customers or every bag they reuse or their groceries. Tey
may keep this credit or donate it to the charity o the month.
A word about this month’s charity, the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Multiplesclerosis is a chronic, sometimes disabling disease that attacks the central nervous
For questions or more information, please contact Ken Banks at 425-462-2205 or [email protected].
QFC Tanks Our Customers for Teir Charitable
Community Support.
on Diand, n gld
Matt Robinson Jointmdi Nws Srvicwo recently released CDs highlight
the works o legendary musicians Neil
Diamond and Frank Sinatra, though Ol’
Blue Eyes gets his glory through Jewish
singer Michael Feinstein.
Here’s the lineup:Te Very Best of Neil Diamond: Te
Original Studio Recordings
(Columbia/Legacy)
Few singer/songwriters have had more
sustained success than Neil Diamond, and
ew deserve to be repackaged and reintro-
duced to ans — old and new — as much as
he does. Tat may be why the vault-dwell-
ing denizens at Columbia/Legacy have
seen it t to honor Neil yet one more time.
Tis new collection o one o America’s
most timeless songwriters is a greatest hits
collection in the truest sense o the word.
From original renditions o such cover-
able classics as “I’m a Believer,” “Red, Red
Wine” and “Girl, You’ll Be Woman Soon”
to a delicate duet with Barbara Streisand o
“You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” and such
truly original oerings as the proud “Amer-
ica,” and the ballpark avorite “Sweet Caro-
line,” there is nary a “u” cut on the disc.
Just shy o two dozen tracks, make this a
collection to get lost in or a bit and to come
back to again and again, just as so many
people come back to Neil year aer year.
Michael Feinstein—Te Sinatra Project,
Vol. II: Te Good Life (Concord)
Tough he may have run out o “sig-
nature” songs on this ollow-up to the
Grammy-nominated “Sinatra Project,”
Feinstein brings his own signature voice to
a second set o songs that capture Sinatra’s
sense o style and swing. From the bouncy
last-man-on-earth antasy o “Tirteen
Women,” to the aching loss o “C’est
Comme Ça,” to the richly orchestrated
duet o “Luck be a Lady” and “All I Need
is the Girl,” Feinstein brings a new palette
o mood and tone to these timeless tunes.
While a ew o these selections are
clearly Sinatra songs
(among them “he
W a y Y o u L o o k
onight” and “he
Lady is a ramp”),
Feinstein also paystr ibute to other
master interpreters
(and Sinatra satel-
lites) such as Ray
Charles (“Hallelu-
jah I Love Her So”),
ony Bennett (“Te
Good Lie”) and
even Stevie Wonder
(“For Once in My
Lie”) and om Cat
(a take on “Is You Is
Or Is You Ain’t My Baby?” that also takes
a coda rom “On Broadway”).
Tough Volume II may be more about
the board (o which Feinstein was oen a
humble member) than the chairman him-
sel, Feinstein brings his impeccable musi-
cal intellect and pervasive melodic passion
to his latest well-chosen and beautiully
craed tribute album. Te Voice may be
gone, but Feinstein does an admirable job
o sustaining the spirit that inused it and
helped it dominate the musical universe.
u.S. Navy
Navy ocr Anna Kinr sings “Swt Carolin” with Nil Diaond during
Boston’s nationally tlvisd 4th o July concrt in 2011.
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using nature as a primary inspiration helped
Frank cope with his dislocated reugee expe-
rience. Relocating mid-career, Frank was 55
when he arrived in Manhattan.
Visitors might do well to purchase an
inexpensive ($15) catalog rom a 2007 ret-
rospective o Frank’s lie and art by the
Jewish Museum o Stockholm, available atthis museum’s gi shop. And what would
a colorul design exhibit be without the
opportunity to purchase your own Frank
merchandise? Smaller items range rom
cocktail napkins, paper cubes and note-
cards up to pricier abric pillows, totes and
serving trays.
Te Nordic Heritage Museum represents
the cultural heritage o ve Nordic coun-
tries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway
and Sweden. Housed in a renovated ormer
public school, the inscription o Webster
School is still visible above the entry o the
square-block–sized 1907 dark brick build-
ing. Free parking is available in a parking lot
in ront o the museum; the entry and exhibi-
tion spaces are walker- and wheelchair-acces-
sible. During both o my visits last month, the
acility museum was nicely heated; art exhi-
bition spaces are oen uncomortably cool, a
detracting actor or the older visitor. www www.jtnews.net
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Dsign withut brdrs: Nrdic Hritagmusu saluts Jwish drnist dsignr
chaRlene kahn Spcil to JTNwsReview
A characteristic o timeless design is the
ability or a piece to reappear as i newly
imagined, seamlessly melding its actualorigins with the contemporary viewer and
resisting categorization. An accurately
titled local exhibit, “Te Enduring Designs
o Jose Frank,” on view at Te Nordic Her-
itage Museum in Ballard, le this viewer
visually delighted. Frank’s name is known
to interior designers and the home urnish-
ings trade in his adopted country o Sweden
and in Austria, his country o origin. More
than 30 years o his career were spent col-
laborating with Estrid Ericson, ounder o
the Swedish design house Svenskt enn,
which also unded the traveling exhibit.
“Tis exhibit is a wonderul opportu-
nity to explore the work o this ground-
breaking Jewish designer, who ed Vienna
beore the Second World War and came to
dene Swedish modernism,” Nordic Her-
itage Museum CEO Eric Nelson told me.
“Te core mission o the Nordic Heritage
Museum is to share Nordic culture with a
broad audience.”
Te exhibit pays homage to the works
created during the second hal o Jose
Frank’s long-running career. Frank was
born in 1885 and died at 82 in 1967.
All works shown in the exhibit were
designed rom the 1920s through the
1940s, but produced in 2010. Te revival o
Frank’s Swedish Modern style as a standard
o contemporary design has experienced a
resurgence since the 1980s. While the term
“modern design” is oen eponymous with
cold, sterile severity, Frank emphasized
comort and inormality, producing whim-
sical designs inspired by nature.
Frank’s non-Jewish wie, Anna Sebel-
ius, kept Frank one
step ahead o the
Nazis, moving them
r om Vie nna toStockholm in 1933
and rom Stockholm
to New York City in
1942, when Sweden
became occupied.
In 1946, the Franks
returned to Sweden,
where he remained
principal designer at
Svenskt enn.
Te Seattle exhibit,
at once modern yet
cozy, provides the
visitor an easy amble
through hanging
bolts o colorul abric, clean-lined wooden
cabinetry, well-cushioned upholstery, and
tactile, cast glass. Sinuously designed silver
candleholders called “Te Knot o Friend-
ship” are positioned by the entry. he
bright, curving upholstery o the “Banana”
soa welcomes viewers, though that wel-
come is bit o a tease with the “Do Not
ouch” sign afxed to it.
Everything is warmth, color, com-
ort: A multi-colored oor lamp beckons
the child within. Tere is nothing au
tere about these luscious patterns an
well-appointed urnishings, eective an
dotes to the cold rains o Stockholm
and Seattle.
“A home…must oer comort, rest an
a nice atmosphere where the eye can re
and the mind be rereshed,” wrote Fran
in 1931.
Frank’s brie stay in America produc
botanically inspired textile designs st
popular today. Created during the 1940
the source or “US ree” was a eld manu
the origin o the cheerul “Green Bird
was a sourcebook. Both are included
the exhibit. Frank’s dedication and art
tic single-mindedness probably contri
uted to his survival, and his reputation as
skilled designer brought him to the noti
o Svenskt enn’s ounder Estrid Ericso
I f yo u go:
“The Edri Dei of Joef
Fra” i o dipla throh Feb-
rar 19 at The nordic Heritae
me, 3014 nW 67th st. i
seattle’ Ballard eihborhood.
For ore iforatio, viitwww.ordice.or or call
206-789-5707.
CourTeSy SveNSkT TeNN, SToCkhoLm, SWeDeN
“Archair with mirakl,” on dislay at th Nordic Hritag musu. Th
txtil dsign was cratd by Jos frank in th lat 1920s and th archair
dsignd in 1934. Th chair itsl was roducd in 2010.
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