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Seattle Hebrew Acade rst rader Alza ets rushed b classate Est durn a soccer-stle ae at the schools eld da at Volunteer Park on June 3. Thouh th

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weather to nall cooperate.

o the bitter end, this years legislative session was a nail-biter, with

Jewish Family Service o Greater Seattle and a number o Jewish cultural

and social service organizations holding their breath.

We are cautiously optimistic, Lisa Schultz Golden, JFSs chie devel-

opment ocer, told JNews a day beore the month-long special session

ended on May 25 as the organization awaited word on whether its $9 mil-

lion building-expansion project would receive state unding.

Now, said Schultz Golden, were over the moon. With the approval

o the states Building Communities capital projects und, JFS will receive

$2.3 million, enabling it to continue building.

Were eeling great, she said. Teres great news in the budget or us .

But theres not great news or some o our clients.

Overall, this years legislative session ended with cuts that slamme

K-12 education, public colleges and universities, and health care or low

income adults, the disabled and seniors. But Jewish community organ

zations with programs that aced the chopping block made it throug

relatively unscathed.

For that reason, Schultz Golden noted, it is all the more important o

the building expansion to continue.

We can expect those people to turn to JFS more and more, she said

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in a ar more eective way, ar more e-

ciently, said Zach Carstensen, the direc-

tor o government aairs at the Jewish

Federation o Greater Seattle, who lobbies

in Olympia on behal o the Jewish com-

munity.Rep. Reuven Carlyle (D-36th), who

was instrumental in pushing the capital

budget through, expressed his enthusiasm

over the session results at least regard-

ing JFS.

Its a tremendously positive and won-

derul reection on the ability o the Jewish

legislators to build a coalition among all

legislators to see the unique role that JFS

plays in the community, he said. All o

us, whether Jewish or not, saw at the core

in an era o severe budget cuts the

state has a compelling public obligation

to create the inrastructure o service. And

thats why JFS was unded.

Gov. Christine Gregoires original

budget had eliminated many services or

low-income citizens and immigrants and

reugees, both services provided by JFS.

Legislators and social services lobbyists

such as Carstensen were able to convince

the two chambers to soen the blow by

about hal.

She zeroed out a lot o stu, Carstensen

said. All those programs are not zeroed

out now. From zero to 50 percent, thats

an achievement.

Shane Rock, director o reugee and

immigrant services at JFS said he is happy

that things did not turn out or the worst.

Te actual impact o [the budget cuts]

is a 27 percent reduction rom our current-

year contract, Rock said. However, an

internal discussion is taking place at DHS

to possibly move unds over rom empo-

rary Assistance to Needy Families. Worst

case is a 27 percent cut, best case is same as

what we were, he said.

Freshman Rep. David Frockt (D-46th)

worked this session to pass legislation on

shiing the burden o proo rom women

in cases o domestic violence, providing

aer-school childcare, banning environ-

mentally harmul sealants and oering

options or homeowners acing oreclo-

sure. He said he stood behind the JFS und-

ing aer observing their work frsthand.

Youve got to have institutions like JFS

to step it up and provide more services,

he said.

Despite his legislative victories, how-

ever, his overall sentiment was more glum.

We did what we had to do, he said.

We didnt have many options. Tere were

no revenue options that were viable.

Its been a very challenging session.

We had very dicult budget decisions,

said Rep. Marcie Maxwell (D41st). I

think we worked very hard to consider our

values or our people and our local com-

munities, and the state we live in.

Maxwell, who ocuses on education

and economic development, also sup-

ported the continuation o unding or

the endangered 4Culture, King Countys

public arts and heritage agency.

Lisa Kranseler, director o the Was

ington State Jewish Historical Society, an

Dee Simon, co-director o the Washin

ton State Holocaust Education Resour

Center, both expressed relie with the dec

sion.

I didnt know how we were actual

going to do everything we do without th

unding, Kranseler said. Our membesupport us, but they also support...all kin

o organizations.

Without 4Culture, WSJHS would hav

had to pare down programming or sta

Kranseler said, and we dont have an

sta to cut.

For an organization like ours, th

4Culture unds heritage projects is crit

cal, said the Holocaust Centers Simo

Were delighted we can continue to app

or unding. WSHERC will be able

move orward with projects that includ

the registration o artiacts in a sowa

system or teachers to research the Hol

caust online.

Je Cohen, CEO o the Caroline Klin

Galland Center and Associates, had a tem

pered enthusiasm ollowing the session.

Tis is relatively good news, he said

Due to its large size, the Kline Gallan

Jewish nursing acility is responsible

only $1 per bed per day o a new $11 be

tax enacted to backfll cuts to Medica

and nursing sta which means Klin

Galland will need to absorb about $40,00

Without the tax exemption, Kline Gallan

would have had to make up or aroun

$600,000.

Cohen said he is more concerned abo

how to handle rising operating costs with

static budget. Nursing home costs amou

to about $300 per patient per day. For re

idents who receive Medicaid, the sta

oers only $180.

What they pay us is not equal to wh

we spend, Cohen said. Tis unding di

crepancy is compounded by the cut.

Given a state operating budget that

essence does not raise new money to mak

up or the more-than-$5 billion shorta

in revenues means that all legislators ha

to cut to balance the budget.

We live in a time o seriousness an

reection o the role o public services an

the level o taxes that were willing to pa

And there are prooundly painul implic

tions in these cuts, Rep. Carlyle said. N

one will be spared some eect. Te mor

and spiritual challenge is to educate th

public about the need or reection an

courageous honesty o our willingness

pay or essential public services.

Te decision to und JFS, he said, w

one o the great moral victories o the se

sion.

Te Federations Carstensen tried to b

optimistic about the uture given what w

retained in this all-cuts budget.

From where we started to where we

at right now, there is reason to be hope

and theres a reason to think, as we com

out o this recession, as we rebound, th

were going to be able to restore what w

lost, he said.

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me for my thoughtful letter, and then goes on to totally (and I do mean, totally) distort

what I wrote and what I believe (Providing cover, Letters, May 27). To remind readers, I

wrote to protest his claim that President Obama is weak. I have no idea why, in this letter,

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ULSA, Okla. (JA) For Jen, it all

started in the 8th grade with an invitationrom a riend to a BBYO Shabbat dinner.

Jen had grown up in a non-Jewish area o

Virginia, and the invitation was one o ew

opportunities she had to experience the

warmth and amiliarity o Jewish tradi-

tions in the company o peers.

What happened in the years aerward

highlights the critical importance o the

teen years in solidiying the uture o the

Jewish community.

Deep involvement in her local BBYO

chapter led to regional and national lead-

ership trainings or Jen and, ultimately,

a year deerring college to serve as the

youth organizations international teen

president. Once on campus, Jen became

involved in Israel advocacy with Hillel and

the American Israel Public Aairs Com-

mittee, and she spent a year studying at

Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Aer

graduating in 2005, she came to work or

the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family

Foundation, becoming the steward o

countless Jewish engagement eorts.

oday she is the COO o Moishe

House, an organization that annually

reaches tens o thousands o young Jewish

adults around the world.

In short, Jen Kraus Rosen has spent

her proessional lie paying orward the

investment made in her by our commu-

nity by helping thousands o young adults

fnd a meaningul place in the Jewish com-

munity. In her personal lie, too, she is a

convener and connector, oen bringing

together various groups o riends or her

own Shabbat dinners.

While Jen is certainly exceptional, we

are ortunate that she is not the excep-

tion. Recent research on Jewish teen expe-

riences makes clear that investing in Jews

during their teenage years pays signifcant

dividends toward ensuring their involve-

ment in Jewish lie well into adulthood.

A new study commissioned by the

Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family

Foundation shows, among other things,

that the BBYO experience results in young

adults who, like Jen, are more inclined to

remain involved in Jewish lie, hold lead-

ership roles in their community, invest

time and money in Jewish causes, develop

a strong Jewish network, and give their

children a Jewish education. Moreover,

the study reveals that these individuals

directly credit involvement in BBYO or

their growth on these ronts.

Recent studies rom the Foundation

or Jewish Camp and Moving raditions

support similar underlying fndings: Tat

eectively designed Jewish teen experi-

ences successully reach and engage youth,

helping them eel pride in their Jewish

identity, encouraging them to contributeto Jewish lie and even ensuring a greater

resiliency against the pressures that are

commonplace in the teen years.

It is clear that un, meaningul, aord-

able Jewish experiences have a deep and

signifcant impact on teens. It is clear that

they are vital to ensuring our teens stay

engaged with our community and develop

the necessary skills to lead it.

It is clear that it is time or us to elevate

our investment in the teen years when

individuals begin exploring their iden-

tity, defning their values and shaping who

they will become as adults as a priority

on our communal agenda.

Tink about it: An estimated 75 per-

cent o teenage Jews celebrate a Bar or Bat

Mitzvah. Fresh rom their entry into Jewish

adulthood and with a desire to seek mean-

ing in their lives, they are ripe and ready to

begin the next phase o their Jewish jour-

neys. And yet it is at this particular moment,

when Judaism has so much to oer and

when teens need our guidance most, that ar

too many are turning away rom involve-

ment in Jewish experiences. In act, it is esti-

mated that by the time they reach their last

two years o high school, only hal at best

continue to be involved in Jewish lie.

We have researched, discussed and

lamented at length about why this is hap-

pening. We need to stop ocusing on what

we are doing wrong and instead invest our

human and fnancial resources in replicat-

ing and expanding what we are doing right.

Projects that promote peer-to-peer

recruiting and put the teens in charge o

the programming oer aordable and

scalable models.

It is up to us to ensure that the pro-

grams that work best with teens have the

resources they need to grow and deepen

their impact. Tat is why I am doubling

down on our oundations investment

in BBYO, and why we hope others will

commit to joining us in supporting work

in the teen space.

Tis is the best way we can ensure that

the post-Bnai Mitzvah years become an

on-ramp to, rather than an exit route

rom, urther and sustained engagement

in Jewish experiences.

We can create pluralistic, inclusive

environments where even the least al-

iated will eel sae exploring Jewish lie.

And, ultimately, we can change the tra-

jectory o teen engagement in the Jewish

community or generations to come.

Lynn Schusterman is chairwoman of the

Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family

Foundation.

Uppn the ante:Wh i doubln downon the teen ears

lynn SchuStErmAn JTa World nws Srvi

Te Arab Spring that has already

toppled autocracies in unisia and Egypt

and threatens to do likewise to others,

raises hope or a transition to democracy

in North Arica and the Middle East. But

the process could be pushed disastrously

o track by the Palestinian plan or a uni-

lateral declaration o independence o a

state encompassing Gaza and the West

Bank, to be ollowed in September by a

UN General Assembly resolution recog-

nizing that state.

Te resolution is sure to be backed by

a large majority, including all the Arab

and Muslim states. Leaving aside the

legal questions it raises, the likely disas-

trous consequences on the ground, and

the precedent it sets or other irredentist

movements elsewhere, the initiative itsel

casts grave doubt on the prospects or

democracy in the Arab world.

One would expect emerging orces o

Arab democracy to eel an anity with

the sole existing democracy in the region,

the State o Israel, and at the very least

to lower the decibel o anti-Israel rheto-

ric. Surely the Palestinians seek to build

their new state on a oundation o democ-

racy, with Israel as ace-to-ace negoti-

ating partner and ally. Aer all, Israel

was the only nation that, time aer time,

sought to bequeath the Palestinians a state,

most notably in 1947, when it accepted

the United Nations partition o Palestine

into Jewish and Arab states, and in 2000

01, when the Israeli government agreed,

at Camp David, to evacuate land it had

gained in a deensive war so a Palestinian

state might be set up there. On both occa-

sions Israels oers were rebued, the frst

time by an invasion o Arab armies and

the second by Yasir Araats last-minute

reusal to accept a state.

Tat pattern is now repeating itse

Te Palestinian Authority has reused

negotiate peace with Israel and has instea

entered into an alliance with Hama

which rules Gaza with an iron fst; tram

ples on the reedom o religion, speech an

assembly essential to any true democrac

fres rockets across the border at Israe

civilians; denounced the killing o Osam

bin Laden; and is classifed as a terrori

organization by the U.S. and the EU. It

this unifed PA-Hamas ront that is abo

to declare an independent Palestine an

take its cause to the UN.

Hamass charter not only rejects

Jewish state in the Middle East, but eve

calls or the murder o Jews. As Pres

dent Obama said, Palestinian leaders w

not achieve peace or prosperity i Ham

insists on a path o terror and rejection

While some claim to hear vague sugge

tions that Hamas may now be willing

accept a long-term truce with Israel, th

opposite seems to be closer to the trut

he PA is moving in the direction

Hamass rejectionism.

On May 16, Mahmoud Abbas, wh

heads the presumably moderate PA, in

New York imes op-ed called or a ju

solution to the Palestinian reugee prob

lem not in the hoped-or unilateral

declared state o Palestine, but in Isra

proper.

Flooding Israel with thousands o Pa

estinians would put an end to Israel as

Jewish state and create two Palestinia

states, the antithesis o President Obama

call or two states or two peoples. An

neither Abbas nor Hamas is willing

The con Palestnan wnter

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I called Jewish Family Service because I was desperate. Emergency Services Client, JFS

Weners downfall a render of perls of Jewsh prde

AlEx WEiSlEr JTa World nws SrviNEW YORK (JA) He was sup-

posed to be one o Congress rising stars,

a Jewish boy rom Brooklyn with great

ambition and promise.

A truculent Democrat with a pen-chant or media attention, Rep. Anthony

Weiner (D-N.Y.) was an unabashed lib-

eral on domestic aairs and a hard-liner

on oreign policy, particularly Israel. Like

his predecessor in his U.S. House o Rep-

resentatives seat, Sen. Charles Schumer,

Weiner had larger ambitions in his

case, mayor o New York City.

But then came his shameaced news

conerence Monday, when the 46-year-old

congressman, who was married last year,

admitted to lying about sending a lewd

photo to a woman he met on the Internet.

It was the culmination o a week o

dissembling since the conservative blog

biggovernment.com had posted the

photo. In all, Weiner conessed to car-

rying on inappropriate online relation-

ships with six women. He said he would

not get a divorce rom his new wie

Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary o

State Hillary Clinton who is Muslim and

announced this week that she is pregnant

nor would he resign.

In the Jewish community, which long

had regarded him with pride, Wein-

ers spectacularly public downall was a

reminder o the perils o associating a par-

ticular persons successes or ailures with

his Jewishness.

Weiners perennial prefxes Jewish

congressman, rom New York, staunch

supporter o Israel clearly identi-

fed him in the public mind, said Susan

Weidman Schneider, editor in chie o the

eminist Jewish magazine Lilith.

Just as Italian Americans worry about

blanket generalizations with Te Sopra-

nos or Te Godather, Jews sigh reex-ively when there is a Jew whose bad

judgment and bad behavior are in the

spotlight, Weidman Schneider

said.

Only this isnt ic-

tion, she said. Teres

a oolishness to Wein-

ers attempted cover-

up, no pun intended,

thats as embarrassing

and cringe-inducing as

the acts themselves.

When the Son o

Sam turns out to be David

Berkowitz or the greatest Ponzi

scheme ever is perpetrated

by Bernie Mado

or a humili-

ated pol-

itician is named Eliot Spitzer or Anthony

Weiner, Democratic political consultant

Steve Rabinowitz said, you can almost

hear it as a community: Why did he it have

to be our guy?

Weiners political identity has long

been intertwined with his Jewishness.

He has been celebrated by the pro-settle-

ment Zionist Organization o America

or his positions on the West Bank, andWeiner routinely introduces a bill that

would deny assistance to Saudi Arabia,

even though that wealthy country

does not receive U.S. assistance

beyond a small program that

trains Saudi army ocers in

democracy.

ZOA President Morton

Klein said the Weiner scan-

dal represents a terrible

loss or the pro-Israel com-

munity.

As long as Anthony

Weiner remains in Con-

gress, his position

on Israel

will be among the best, Klein said. Te

only issue now is whether his inuence

will have diminished and whether his

credibility will have diminished.

Robert Wexler, a Democrat and ormer

Jewish congressman rom Florida, sa

regaining voters trust will have to be a to

priority or Weiner.

Up until last week, Anthony was a

excellent congressman and a fne publservant, said Wexler, who now run

the Washington-based S. Daniel Abr

ham Center or Middle East Peace. T

bottom line is that hes a good and decen

person that made some grave errors.

With sincere and honest repentanc

and a reminder o the Jewish value o

seeing the other person in the image o

God, theres a way or Weiner to put th

scandal behind him, said Orthodox em

nist activist Blu Greenberg.

Judaism appreciates orgiveness, an

Weiner has the chance to atone by makin

changes to his lie and way o thinkin

Greenberg told JA.

He doesnt necessarily have to be

condemned man the rest o his lie, sh

said. I others are big enough to orgiv

him, then his lie isnt over.

Hes not an ax-murderer. Hes a ver

oolish man in power lacking a sense o

appreciation or what he had.

But whether Weiner can recover

the degree where the American Jewis

community will proudly count him agai

among its ranks is a tougher question.

He provided a negative example o

our children, said Rabbi Eric Yoe, pre

ident o the Union or Reorm Judaism

We appropriately eel outrage or that.

JTA Washington Bureau Chief Ron Kampeas

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Remember whenFrom the Jewish ranscript,

June 5, 1967.

1967 was an important year

or the Seattle areas Jewish com-

munal inrastructure. Te grand

opening o the Kline Galland

Jewish nursing acility at its new

home in Seward Park here shows

o its new, modern dining room.

Tis same issue eatured a render-

ing o the new Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island, which was complet-

ing its und drive or the construction o the building that is itsel nearing the end

o its unctional lie.

Yiddish lessonBy ritA KAtz

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Correction

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Having oten kept their sympathies silent or ear o being snubbed, a new local chapter o the Republican

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New Israel Fund law ellow Ruth Carmi came to Seattle last month to talk to local attorneys about the work

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As the third season o the Seattle Jewish Chorale winds down, their last show will be a biggie. Plus, theyv

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This Weeks Wisdom

Light the Way for Othersby Debbie Manber Kupfer

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.

ACROSS

1 With 13-Across, 1967 hit byThe Doors

4 Part o PST

7 Signs or a soothsayer

12 Dollys sound13 See 1-Across14 Quit being such a baby!15 His catchphrase is To infnity

and beyond!

17 Holly o Breakfast at Tiffanys

18 Ftbolcheer

19 Wandering about

21 Pro goler Ernie22 Sit-up targets

23 Genesis garden24 Make money27 German-born actor Kier28 Try

31 Ignites again, as a grill

34 Chicago mayor-elect Emanuel

37 Topps competitor, once

38 Teens bane

39 Burgle

40 Keen on

41 Crossword diagrams

43 Novel set in Forks, Washington

45 Stick around46 Tropical vacation mementos48 Derby, or one50 Pantheon members

51 New Mexico resort town53 Calculate a total

56 Sot toss

58 You can count on it

60 Miss-named?

61 WWII WMD

64 North Carolina license plateslogan

66 In the ___ o day67 Run or the hills

68 Bravo or Grande

69 Theyre abominable?

70 Deliberate discourtesies

71 Powder ___

An anonymous saying reads, A good teacher is like a candle: It consumes itself to

light the way for others. The same might be said of this puzzle.

DOWN

1 Idea signifer

2 Labyrinths

3 Legendary BoSox outfelder

4 Strainer

5 Chunnel vehicle

6 Laura o Jurassic Park

7 IM expression o surprise

8 Little Red Book writer

9 Western philosophical movement o the18th century

10 ___ and void

11 Gould/Sutherland CIA spoo

13 Crime and PunishmentauthorDostoyevsky

15 Showy wrap

16 Pink

20 Acquire25 Govt. agency that regulates gun sales26 Put back on the market, as an apartment27 Comortable with

28 Prefx with dextrous

29 Anti-ur org.

30 Iliadsetting

31 Precursor to riches?

32 Oyster shade

33 Shape o Harry Potters scar

35 Perorming ___

36 Scientists question

42 Down in the dumps44 Beacon47 Cryptanalysts grp.49 Mgr.s helper

51 Fities fn eature

52 Land units

53 Tomorrow musical

54 Press a particular dashboard button

55 Send over the moon

56 Like some Victorias Secret purchases

57 Woodwind instrument

59 They might txt each other 200 times aday

62 First year o the 16th century

63 Agricultural catastrophes

65 Bother

Answers on page 28

Te 20 or so moms and dads who came

to the fnal lecture o the parenting seriesat the Stroum Jewish Community Center

kvelled when asked about their chil-

dren.

Tey are sensitive, said one parent.

Tey are kind, loving, curious, helpul,

tender, extremely active, great big broth-

ers, courageous, cheerul, strong-willed,

frecrackers, silly, athletic, and loving, said

the rest, smiling rom ear to ear.

But when those same loving bundles

o joy dont want to leave the park, tie

their shoes, or put down a toy, things can

change very quickly, said Emily Shapiro,

education coordinator or the Inants,

Ones and wos program at the SJCCs

early childhood school.

Tats when modeling, one o the tech-

niques parents came to learn rom the

Fostering Empathy in Young Children

talk, can transorm chaos into communi-

cation, and help kids identiy their eel-

ings frst.

I need to put my rustrations aside and

help them come back beore I deal with

my emotions, Shapiro told the intimate,

end-o-the-school-year group made up o

parents o varying ages who were trying to

glean as many coping skills as they could.

When a child is alling apart, or a child

is pushing another child, we like to think

that theres a reason your child is doing

that, Shapiro said. Its important or us

to help them identiy what theyre doing

and why theyre doing it.

In these high-stress moments, she sai

parents can actually help children bui

an emotional vocabulary.

Maybe your child knocked down th

vase and youre really eeling angry wi

them, Shapiro said. Put that aside or

moment and help them get through th

dicult situation. Ten deal with [you

rustration.

Te SJCC school is one o only tw

pilot programs in the U.S. that uses

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Eric Miller is the Public Aairs Specialist or QFC. He can be reached at 425-990-6182 or eric.miller@qci.com.

QFC proudly supports

the Boys & Girls ClubBy Eric Miller, QFC Public Afairs Specialist

Being able to provide the proper oundation and

support or our children is extremely important. Our

young people are our uture workers, voters, community

members and neighbors. We owe it to them to provide

resources and programs that develop their abilities. Tis

is why QFC is so proud to partner with the Washington

State Association o the Boys & Girls Club as our check

stand charity or June.

Teir mission is to inspire and enable all young

people, especially those who need it most, to realize

their ull potential as productive, responsible and

caring citizens. Every child has the potential to BE

GREA! From nutrition programs that help keep kids

healthy to educational initiatives that enhance school

perormance to character building eorts that instill the

importance o community service, Boys & Girls Clubs

help to prepare the next generation or success.

Boys & Girls Clubs in Washington operate 151 sites

in 17 counties which serve more than 78,600 members

annually. Tey are open ater school and during the

summer to provide children and teens with a sae

place to go where they can connect with caring adults.

Proessional sta and volunteers use a combination o

locally developed programs and those developed and

tested nationally by Boys &

Girls Clubs o America in

the ollowing Core Program

Areas:

n Te Arts

n Character & Leadership

Development

n Education & Career

Development

n Health & Lie Skills

n Sports, Fitness &

Recreation

A very enlightening survey was conducted by the

Boys & Girls Clubs o America back in 2007. Tey

commissioned Harris Interactive to assess the impact

the Clubs had on their members lives. Alumni reported

that Boys & Girls Clubs had both an immediate and

long-lasting impact:

n 57% o alumni said the Club saved their lie!

n Overall, 91% o alumni are satisfed with their adult

lie.

n 92% o alumni believe helping others is a priority

o theirs.

n 75% are actively involved in their community. On

average, alumni were Club members or 5.2 years

attending 4 days a week.

Te eorts o the Washington State Association

o the Boys and Girls Club would not be nearly as

impactul without the support o our communities.

During June, we invite you to make a donation at any

QFC check stand or designate your bag reuse credit go

toward the great work that they make possible. Tank

you or your support!

Tat the frst gathering o the Seattle

chapter o the Republican Jewish Coali-

tion took place just two days aer Presi-

dent Obamas speech at the annual AIPAC

policy conerence in Washington, D.C.

was ortuitous.President Obama started talking

about his ideas about the State o Israel

and suggesting that Israel shrink back to

indeensible borders, said Dan Sytman,

co-ounder o the Seattle RJC chapter. It

really has helped bring attention to what

were doing because the level o dissatis-

action among Jews about the president is

very signifcant.

Te event drew 63 people and recogni-

tion that this minority within a minority,

as Sytman put it, should be legitimately

concerned about the direction the presi-

dent is taking with his Middle East policy.

Sytman and co-ounder Elana Katyal

started the Seattle chapter, the newest o

about 40 around the country, to create a

place or Jewish Republicans, who Sytman

said oen hide their belies because it can

be dicult on business and relationships.

As a 501(c)3 nonproft, the RJC doesnt

raise unds or campaign or specifc can-

didates, but they will invite Republican

candidates to speak at events and create

opportunities to educate members on

their platorms.

Were mostly a group that organizes

people so they can learn how to be more

engaged in politics in general, Sytman

said.

Tough Sytman said he would welcome

the opportunity to have civil dialogues

with le-leaning organizations, doing so

could go against the grain o the organiza-

tions history. Advertisements run at elec-

tion times in JNews and in other Jewish

press over the past decade that have been

critical o Democratic candidates or their

records have requently drawn anger and

protests. However, the JA World News

service reported this week that Jewish

ocials such as Chicago Mayor Rahm

Emanuel and Dem-

ocratic National

Committee chair

Debbie Wasser-

man-Schultz began

a media blitz in pastweeks that denies

a spli t between

Obama and Israeli

Pr ime Ministe r

Benjamin Netan-

yahu. Also, the

White House on

its website posted

a lengthy deense

o the presidents

record on Israel a move JA Wash-

ington bureau chie Ron Kampeas called

unusual. Tese actions appear to be an

eort to end o many Israel supporters

angst regarding Obamas statements on a

two-state solution.

Israel and Obama were the main topic

o conversation at the Seattle RJC inau-

gural event, Sytman said. King County

Councilmember Reagan Dunn addressed

the audience, and organizers expect uture

speakers to include Rep. Cathy McMorris

Rodgers (RSpokane) and state Attorney

General Rob McKenna. Sytman works as

media-relations manager or McKenna.

Te national RJC, which is supported

by its chapters, will hold a gala on June

in Beverly Hills that will eature orm

House speaker and current presidenti

candidate Newt Gingrich.

Tey have excellent connections wi

all o these national fgures, said Sytmao the national RJC. he majority

Republican presidential candidates w

speak at RJC events throughout the year

Tough events or the new chapter w

generally be open to anyone in the com

munity, there are membership opport

nities that would allow members to atten

special engagements.

Sytman said he also hopes to be able t

educate anyone interested in running

oce about the ins and outs o success

campaigning.

Tough the state has had plenty

Jewish representation rom legislative o

cials to Supreme Court Justice to territ

rial governor (in 1870), only one Joh

Miller in the frst legislative district h

been a member o the GOP. He le oc

in 1993.

It would be nice to have a Jewis

Republican run or oce in the state

Washington, Sytman said.

Ultimately, the Seattle RJC wants to l

its potential supporters know that they a

Seattles Jewsh Republcans start a coalton

JoEl mAgAlnicKeditor, JTnws

coURTeSy RJc SeaTTle

Republcan Jewsh Coalton nauural event speaker Reaan Dunn, a Kn

Count Councleber, left, wth RJC co-founders Elana Katal, center,

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In 1975 at age 16, and a

student at Nathan Hale

High School in Seattle,Rob Rose spent eight months

in Calcutta, India as a Rotary

exchange student. Tat or-

mative experienceopened

up my perspective, my world

view, Rob says.

It also laid the ounda-

tion or his current avocation,

helping disabled kids in Nepal

through Te Rose International Fund or

Children.

It gelled in my mind that I really had

an obligationto give back to those who

dont havebasic needs met, Rob says.

While hed always been an active com-

munity volunteer, in 1997 he read a Seat-

tle imes travel article about the Nepalese

Youth Foundation and its ounder, Olga

Murray. Inspired, he called Murray to

volunteer as a photographer his proes-

sion. It turned out they did need someone

to document their work, so Rob took his

oldest son, then 11, frst back to Calcutta

and then to Nepal. One very cold night he

had an epiphany: I thought, i I just direct

my lie in a way thats ocused on helping

other people, I can really leave a ootprint

and have an impact, he says.

Already a Rotary Club member, Rob

knew grants were available or projects

overseas. Olga introduced him to a Nepal-

ese Rotarian and they started doing proj-

ects with Rotary and Rotary

International.

hat partnership expanded to Rotary clubs

all over Nepal continues

today with grants growing

close to $1 million. Teres

even a disabilities-awareness

campaign designed to prod

Nepalese into shedding their

prejudice against the phys-

ically handicapped, oten

regarded as cursed or having

bad Karma. Projects have

included fxing a drainage problem at an

orphanage or teaching disabled people to

manuacture wheelchairs.

Around 2003I thought I wanted to

have my own non-proft, Rob recalls. He

was collecting donations or RIFC and

wanted to be a legitimate charity, and I

didnt want to monopolize my own Rotary

Clubs unding. (Tanks to his success,

more and more club members were sub-

mitting projects.)

RIFC got 501(c)3 status in 2006.

While he continues to work on the Rotary

projects, the macro, RIFC ocuses on

the micro. Teir best-known project is

providing waterproo backpacks ull o

supplies or blind children, including a

Braille watch and ruler, a olding cane and

books. RIFC has expanded into projects

at a variety o institutions, and you can

read more at their website, www.tric.org.

Rob travels to Nepal about once a year,

sometimes with his wie, Gina, and makes

a point o visiting children theyre help-

ing, many o whom, he says, are in need

o attention.

Back home, he continues to run the

amily business, Brandt Photographers,

the oldest continuously operating busi-

ness in Bellevue. Te studio has moved

to his home and his mom, Arlene, still

helps out a ew hours a week. He belongs

to emple Bnai orah where undraising

eorts have helped purchase Braille books

or Nepalese kids.

2I the name David Shuster rings

a bell or readers, its probably

because David ran the Federation

campaign or a couple o years ending in

2006. In act, he le the Federation three

months beore the tragic shooting there in

March that year.

I was a colleague with all the people

who were thereI heard about it on tele-

vision as the shooting was unolding he

recalls, I went straight to Harborview.

Pam Waechter, who was killed in the

attack, had worked alongside David as

assistant campaign director, and took over

his job when he le.

She was very, very vital, to the work

o the Federation, he says.

Beore working at the Federation,

David was the major gis relationship

manager or United Way o King County.

He le the Federation or private-sector

work, frst at Charles Schwab and now

hes started a new position as managing

director or investment advisory services

at IMS Capital Management. He notes

some similarities between his work in the

two sectors where hes asked to build

relationships, establish credibility, and to

make a cogent argument or what youre

asking or, he says.

Born in Israel, David was raised i

L.A. aer age 5. He got much o his rel

gious training attending Chabad camp

in Caliornia, and while not aliated wit

any particular synagogue, Im tied to th

Jewish people, he says. Im an advo

cate or the state o Israel, I give philan

thropically to Jewish causes, including,

course, the Federation.

Wrestling with God is what defn

his Judaism you wont be surprised t

learn that he has an undergraduate degre

in philosophy rom Antioch (and an MB

rom City University). Married or eigh

years, he has two small children who bas

cally occupy his ree time.

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My late ather, Abe Jaee,

never uttered the choice

words that grace the headline

o this column. But he would

have loved it i he had.Tey are, rather, the prod-

uct o a clever marketer o

baseball caps, looking or cus-

tomers with a taste or irony.

I know. I bought the cap

around our years ago and

wear it religiously, (that is, over my yar-

mulke) rom Pesach till the end o Sukkot,

aer the spring rains and beore the

winter rains, when we are permitted

only the modest request or dew (as i it

makes a dierence in Seattle).

Even though Abe Jaee (better known

as Abenyu, Abele, or plain Abie) was

not the author o these words, he might

as well have been. I chose the cap, aer

all, because it was the kind o thing hed

have said with a wry, ironic grin. Tat is

my way, some 23 years aer his death, o

hanging on to him. I look at the cap and I

can hear his sel-congratulatory chortle at

coming up with yet another vitzthat dely

probes the inconsistencies and illogicali-

ties o human nature.

In act, in recent years Ive taken to

quoting some o my dads one-liners, and

the most apparently absurd the better.

His granddaughter Aviva (whom he

never, alas, met) sagely points out: Tey

sound ridiculous until you think about

them! Would you expect

anything else rom a man who

delighted in announcing, I

love humanity! Its people I

cant stand!In order to appreciate the

ullness o Abe Jaees wit,

you have to realize the phys-

ical plant that generated the

whole production. Stand-

ing perhaps fve-oot-three,

barrel chested with school-girl-

thin legs, and delicate, dainty

size-7 eet, he resembled noth-

ing so much as a miniature hybrid o Wil-

liam Bendix (Vs Riley) and Jackie

Gleasons Ralph Kramden. At least thats

how I thought o him until his true

archetype took on cultural esh and bones

in the orm o Carroll OConnors Archie

Bunker.

Dads smallness was in act the source

o his strength and his humor. He learned,

as a boy growing up in Manhattans Lower

East Side, how to deect a beating with a

joke, as well as how to stand up or himsel

when he needed to.

Tats the message I got, when as a

perennial short kid in seventh grade, I

complained to Dad about being stunted.

His reply was perect: Youre never

too short as long as your eet reach the

ground. Which I translate, perhaps less

colorully, as: I you respect yoursel

youll gain the respect o others.

Later, as a 20-year-old, Id complain

about Dads driving (aer all, he did have

glaucoma!): Dad, youre all over the road!

He dismissed me as ollows: Dont

worry. I take my hal o the road out othe middle!

Which means, o course: When youve

been on the road or 50 years, you little

pisher, you can give me driving advice.

During the decade we now call the 60s

there was, o course, a good deal o tension

in our house. I used to think it was tough

then to be a kid. Now, I realize how much

tougher it was to be my ather.

Dads eldest son (me) would come

home rom college flled with scarcely

grasped ideas but plenty o slogans: God

is Dead! Power to the People! We want

the world and we want it... NOW! Te boy

would eel discomfted by the exploitative

prosperity he enjoyed by virtue o Dads

hard labor; he was flled with dismissive

disdain or the white picket ence men-

tality that, incidentally, supported what

Dad called the liestyle to which you deny

youdlike to become accustomed.

Could he possibly have passed up the

opportunity to dismiss all this hot air as

the callow rantings o a shallow ingrate?

Is it any wonder that hed shut me down

with the backhanded swipe Listen to

the rebel without a clause!

Not a chance! You see, by now, why I

love my cap with its acerbic motto! I start

wearing it during the serah period that

witnesses both hisyahrzeitand that o m

mom. Somehow it restores me to an ea

lier place; a better one in which I can st

hear the down-home wisdom o my ath

and the voice o my mother.Ill leave you with one characteri

tic story. Dad ran his small rerigeratio

business out o a beat-up van. One o h

avorite employees was Big Bob Ogle

bee, a 350-pound Alabaman whod nev

met a Jew until he was hired by Dad. Bo

still may have thought o Flatbush as Jew

town, but he adored Abie.

One day, on their way to a job, Da

and Big Bob were -boned at an interse

tion by a guy running a stop sign. It w

pretty bad. Te van was turned on its sid

and its two passengers were suspende

by their seatbelts, bleeding rom cut glas

and surrounded by seeping canisters

Freon gas.

As the ambulance siren approache

Dad leaned over to Big Bob. Here is wh

he said: Bob, why dont you take the re

o the day o.

Martin S. Jaffee currently holds the Samuel &

Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies at the

University of Washington. His award-winning

columns for JTNews have recently been

published in book form as The End of Jewish

Radar: Snapshots of a Post-Ethnic American

Judaism by iUniverse press.

The beatns wll contnue untl orale proves

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Growing up in Israels version o the

suburbs, Ruth Carmi didnt have a lot o

exposure to ethnic diversity or economic

or religious divides. Yet she always knewshe wanted to attend law school.

I always had that need to help others,

Carmi said.

When she moved to Jerusalem to

attend the Hebrew University, however,

the dierences between the people just

walking down the street came as a shock.

Its very tense, Carmi told JNews.

Coming rom such a protected environ-

ment, I especially elt it.

She attended two legal clinics while in

law school, one on human tracking and

the other on violence against women. She

had also volunteered at an abused wom-

ens shelter during her army service. Te

experience aected her.

While going to law school I was

that weird girl who that would take only

human rights courses, she said. I always

thought that legal aid can make a world o

dierence.

Carmi, 29, is currently a law ellow or

the New Israel Funds Israel-U.S. Civil

Liberties Law Program. She visited Seat-

tle in May to speak with local attorneys

about human rights issues in Israel or the

Jewish Federation o Greater Seattles Car-

dozo Society.

Graduates rom the program have gone

on to win signifcant advances in Israeli

society or women, Arab and Bedouin cit-

izens, and the environment.

Between law school and her two-year

ellowship, and ater she completes it,

she has been promoting the civil righ

o Israeli Arabs through IRAC, the Isra

Reorm Action Center, the Reorm mov

ments Israel-based political arm.In Israel in particular, where the re

gious authority holds a lot o powe

Carmi sees inequities that might not oth

erwise be obvious.

At the end o the day, i youre tal

ing about the separation between state an

religion and saying, What does this hav

to do with Palestinian rights? she sai

a lot o the things weve seen resour

allocation and how money is distribute

its emergingthat there is no separ

tion and then these parties are discrim

nated against.

Carmi sees connections between an

oppressed group, because the peop

doing the oppressing have the same nee

or dominance.

A place where have violence again

women is a place where you end up havin

segregation, she said.

Te issue o segregation in Israel

amiliar to anyone who was involved

All thns ben equal:A fht for everones rhts

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Te primary emphasis o

Western religions is to repeat-

edly celebrate events that

occurred in one place the

Land o Canaan (a.k.a. Te

Land o Milk and Honey,Judea and Samaria, Roman

Palestina). Tat ocus on one

locale provides a counterintu-

itive lesson or our now-glo-

balized world: Everything is

still local. Its where we live,

work, politic, make policy, educate our-

selves, shop, gather, sleep, and practice

our religions. Yes, much o what we do

today is linked to, or depends on, regional,

national and international connections,

which bring us ood, water, materials and

inancing. But those distant links also

brought us economic meltdown; boosted

gas, energy, water, ood and materials

prices; ailed to keep America fnancially

solvent; and avor international war-mak-

ing over domestic health.

So how can we insulate ourselves

against these negative cir-

cumstances? One way is to

shi our reliance away rom

distant connections and

toward more regional and

local ones. Local today isa bigger, more ar-reaching

animal than it was 3,000 years

ago in rural Canaan and the

Greek city-states. odays

population is vastly larger,

and risks killing itsel o

within the next two centuries.

So theres no better time to

take resh looks at our resources and how

to best use them. Weve got several advan-

tages going or us:

Te principles of self-suciency, and the

characters o people are surprisingly simi-

lar to those o our ancestors.

Tanks to new urban economic research,

urban homesteading initiatives such as

City Sense (www.iaac.net), carbon neu-

trality and ood security, and environ-

ment-based protocols such as Cradle to

Cradle and Te Natural Step, were better

than ever at quantiying, analyzing and

changing how urban people and their eco-

nomic systems unction.

We know that:

Every dollar spent at locally ownedenterprises generates at least three times

more local economic beneft than dol-

lars spent at absentee-owned businesses

(www.amiba.net/multiplier_eect.html).

Half the worlds population now lives

in cities.

As an urban area grows, its self-su-

ciency potential increases.

People have been studying, acting on,

and making policy around urban planning

since the Greeks frst built cities.

I we start viewing cities as systems,

and design them to ollow bio-regional

ecologies like nature, we can make them

surprisingly sel-sucient. My approach

is to borrow and build on principles rom

Cradle to Cradle:

1. Make waste = ood. o a large extent,

we can grow and supply our own ood

through urban gardening, hydropon

ics and green spaces and armlands nea

urban and within suburban areas. Ten

like all other species on Earth, we elim

inate the concept o waste, and thin

instead in terms o ood, and renewing it through ood and landscape com

posting.

2. Use current solar income. Fossil ue

embody ancient, inite solar incom

drawn rom long-decomposed plants an

animals, and no city that requires energ

rom distant sources will ever be sel-rel

ant. Geothermal, wind, active and passiv

solar, macro- and micro-hydro, compo

methane, bio-uels, and actual horsepowe

provide energy through current sola

income. Teyre sustainable and (excep

or the horse) inexhaustible.

3. Use current water income, such as rain

water, well and river water, drawn at le

than recharge rates, rather than wate

rom expensive, ar-away sources.

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Esther at estherbogo@msn.com or 206-

525-5011 or riendshipcirclewa.org

The Friendship Circles sixth annual dinner honors

100 awesome teen volunteers and the volunteer

amily o the year, the Kintzers, whose children

work with special-needs kids and their amilies. At

Showbox Sodo, 1700 1st Ave. S, Seattle.

123 .m. Jwst

Wendy Marcus at wendy@templebetham.org

or 206-525-0915 or templebetham.org

A celebration o all things Jewish. Arts, music, ood

in the court yard o Temple Beth Am. Free. At Temple

Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.

79 .m. Stt Jwsh chr au

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Michele Yanow at jewishchorale@live.com

or 206-708-7518

Seattle Jewish Chorale presents its annual season

fnale o choral music representing the breadth and

depth o Jewi sh experience. At Town Hall, 1119 8th

Ave., Seattle.

mondAy 13 JunE7:30 .m. crd St: Ts r

cmtr Rsrh

Beverly Blum at www.jgsws.org

Tacomas Deb Freedman will share tips or doing

genealogy research in cemeteries, including cemetery

etiquette. Learn about photographing headstones,

accessing mortuary records and obituaries, making

virtual visits to cemeteries and deciphering Hebrew

names and dates. Free or Jewish Genealogy Society

members, $5 or nonmembers. At the Stroum

Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way,

Mercer Island.

tuESdAy 14 JunE5:30 .m. 17th au Ru Wbr

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rsvp@nordicmuseum.org or

206-789-5707, ext. 10

The dinner will honor the Swedish diplomat and

humanitarian whose actions saved thousands o lives

during World War II. Guest speaker Huber t G. Locke.

Dinner plus lecture tickets: $50/members, $60/non-

members. Co-sponsored by the Washington State

Jewish Historical Society. $45/members, $50/

nonmembers. At Nordic Heritage Museum, 3014

NW 67th St., Seattle.

WEdnESdAy 15 JunE6:308:30 .m. isr Mttrs: putt th

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Temple oce at shellygoldman@comcast.net

or 425-603-9677 or templebnaitorah.org

Come and get your questions answered and enjoy an

Israeli dinner with speaker Nevet Basker. RSVP required.

$8. At Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.

7:30 .m. nyHS grdut

Michelle Haston at 206-327-9387

At Sephardic Bikur Holim, 6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.

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Jur crt

www.chabadissaquah.com

Tyger Khan, a descendant o the Baal Shem Tov

and natural-born clairvoyant and clairaudient will

lead an interactive talk about how everyone can

hone his inherent intuition, which can can lead to

empowerment in daily lie. At Chabad o the Central

Cascades, 24121 SE Black Nugget Rd., Issaquah.811 .m. yu adut USy Ru

Leslie at leslie@h-nt.org

Attention all USY alumni: Come see old riends and

celebrate with the organization that brought everyone

together at USYs 60th birthday party. First drink is

on USY. $8/$10 at the door. At Amber, 214 1st Ave.,

Seattle.

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Roni Antebi at ronia@sjcc.org or

206-388-0832 or www.sjcc.org

Movie or the entire amily. $5/kids, $10/adults. At the

Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

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Wendy Dore at events@jewishinseattle.org

or 206-4 43-5400 or www.jewishinseattle.org

This years chairs, Joe and Judy Schocken, planned

a special evening to honor board and community

leadership, including outgoing board chai r Ron Leibsohn.

At Urban Enotica, 4130 First Ave. S, Seattle.

thurSdAy 23 JunE6 .m. WSJHS prsts: T cht

Lori Weinberg Ceyhun at assistant@wsjhs.o

The traditional stew made or the Shabbat midday me

is so much more than a stew. Come and learn, tast

and choose the best. Make cholent that is tradition

Sephardic, vegetarian, nouveau. Space limite

register by email. $8/members; $10/nonmembe

At BCMH, 5145 S Morgan St., Seattle.

fridAy 24 JunE68 .m. prd Shbbt 2011

Emily Harris-Shears at amilylie@jsseattle.o

or www.jconnectseattle.org

A celebration o lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgend

and questioning Jews, riends, allies and amilies.

ASL interpreter will be available or the evening. Fr

and open to the community. At Temple De Hirs

Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle.

79 .m. Th gd ts Shbbt ch

Hur d Srs

Orly Feldman at

oeldman@templebnaitorah.org

Nosh and schmooze with other Jews and toast t

start o the weekend. Chappy hour starts at 7 and t

service begins at 8. Melt away the stress o the we

with a little Shabbat! At Temple Bnai Torah, 1572

NE 4th St., Bellevue.

SundAy 26 JunE1011:30 .m. Hw t prsr Rss

Randy Kessler at randy.kessler@comcast.n

or 425-829-9500 or www.shevetachim.com/

events.php

Rabbi Lazer Brody presents an inspiring talk

emunah, or aith, and how it applies to us as Jew

during economically challenging times. The ent

community is invited. Light brunch served.

Northwest Yeshiva High School, 5017 90th Ave. S

Mercer Island.

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The Morris J. Alhade Gol Tournament and the Joa

Alhade Memorial Bridge and Mah Jongg Challen

are a Stroum JCC tradition. The entire commun

is invited to participate. At the Stroum JCC, 3801

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a 3 p.m.

Be of Fe

The AJC Seattle Jewish Film Festival

and the Stroum Jewish Community

Center present two encore films.

Jews in Baseball(June 19) is about

the historical and cultural contribu-

tions of Jewish major leaguers. It

won the Audience Choice Award at

this years festival. The animated

filmA Jewish Girl in Shanghai(June

26) tells the story of Rina and her

brother, who flee Austria for China

during World War II. Both films are

all ages.A Jewish Girl in Shanghaiis

in Mandarin with subtitles.

At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer

Way, Mercer Island. For more

information call Roni at 206-388-

0832 or email ronia@sjcc.org.

Tickets are $8, $5 for children

under 13, and available through

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Jew Fe

sunday, June 12 a noon

Celebrate being Jewish in the court-

yard of Temple Beth Am with a big

afternoon of music, art, crafts, food

and community. Browse the work of

local artists and craftspeople, enjoy

magician GG Green and musicalentertainment by Josh Niehaus, Ben

Gown, KlezKids, KidsChorus, Shawns

Kugel and the Marianna band, with a

knish in one hand and a falafel in the other.

Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle. Contact Wendy Marcus at 206-525-

0915 or wendy@templebetham.org. Free.

saurday June 11 a 5 p.m.

Being Ana: A Memoir of Anorexia Nervosa

Auhor even

Seattle-based writer Shani Raviv will talk about her

self-published memoir, Being Ana: A Memoir of An-

orexia Nervosa. Being Ana recounts the authors life

in an all-female South African family, in the Israel

Defense Forces, and through battles with alcohol,

drugs, anorexia and cutting, up through a spiritual

epiphany, marriage and motherhood. Ravivs story

was a Book of the Year in the Memoir and Womens

Issues categories for Foreward Reviews, and won a

Next Generation Indie Book Award in the category

of memoir.

At the Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Ave., Seattle. For more informa-

tion call 206-624-6600.

June 9-12

Barbra sreiand songbook

symphony

The Seattle Pops series will conclude its season with the Barbra Streisand

Songbook, featuring some of her most memorable songs as Dont Rain on My

Parade and The Way We Were. Multi-Grammy-Emmy-Tony-Oscar-Golden

Globe award winner Marvin Hamlisch conducts the Seattle Symphony, with criti-

cally acclaimed vocalist Julie Budd taking center stage. Performances take placeJune 9 at 7:30 p.m., June 10 at 8 p.m., June 11 at 2 and 8 p.m. and June 12 at

2 p.m. in the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium at Benaroya Hall. Tickets are

available from $17 to $91 at www.seattlesymphony.org.

arts

thurday, June 16 a 7:30 p.m. and saurday, June 18 a 8 p.m.

Gerard schwarz Farewell Concer

Concer

Maestro Gerard Schwarz will end his career with Seattle Symphony on a high

note with his two passions: The music of Gustav Mahler and of American com-

posers. Schwarz will conduct Mahlers Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, Philip

Glasss Harmonium Mountain and Franz Schuberts Overture to Rosamunde,

D. 644. Schwarz began his first season in 1983 with Mahlers music, com-

pleting a 26-year full circle. On Saturday night the Schubert selection will be

replaced by remarks to honor Schwarz.

S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Benaroya Hall, Third Ave. and Union St.

For more information and tickets, call 206-215-4747 or 866-833-4747 or visit

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When Michele Yanow and Mary Pat

Graham heard Kol Dodi, the Metro-

West Jewish Community Chorale o New

Jersey perorm Not in Our own, wesaid, We have to sing this song, said

Yanow, ounder and executive director

o the Seattle Jewish Chorale. Te piece

by songwriter Fred Small, originally com-

missioned by Seattle Mens Choir, is based

on the reaction o residents o Billings,

Mont. aer the Ku Klux Klan threw a brick

through the window o a Jewish amily. In

response, many o the towns citizens put

pictures o menorahs in their windows to

stand up against the bigotry.

A version o Not in Our own will be

the centerpiece o Seattle Jewish Chorales

season fnale, LChaim: Songs or Lie,

on June 12 at own Hall Seattle.

Its such a powerul story, and the

music tells it so beautiully, Yanow said.

All the choir members have commented

as we rehearsed that they get emotional

singing it. I get verklemptjust reading the

lyrics.

Chorale member Michael Mendelow,

who sang in mens choruses at the height

o the AIDS crisis, said singing this piece

brought back memories o the cantatas

rom that time.

We had to learn to keep the emotion

below the throat to sing properly, he said.

Its a very moving piece.

Te piece will eature Baritone soloist

Jacob Herbert.

Mendelow, who joined the chorale this

season, will have a solo as well, in a new

version o theMsheberach prayer made

popular by Jewish singer Debbie Fried-

man, who died in January.

Tough the Msheberach will be di-

erent, Friedman ans can rest assured

that she will be represented, as will many

genres o Jewish music that pertain to var-

ious parts o the lie cycle, rom lullabies to

love songs to a set o what we call camp-

fre songs, Yanow said, with recogniz-

able tunes rom camp and youth groups.

Were going to invite the audience to sing

along with us.

Tough more mature choral groups

oen have specifc themes to their shows,

at this point in our growth and in the

growth o Seattleites getting to know

about us, were still really trying to keep

the program very broad and very eclectic,

Yanow said.

Tis fnale will be no dierent, with a

little something or everyone. Te music

will be sung in Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino

and English. here will be some olk

music, some jazz, some Israeli tunes, and

even some Jewish American standards.

Tats part o our mission, to show

people the whole breadth and depth o

Jewish experience and Jewish lie, both

sacred and cultural, Yanow said.

Te music is Jewish, but having per-

ormed at senior homes, shopping centers

and o course own Hall, the audience is

inevitably a mix o the entire population,

so the chorale is in many ways an ambas-

sador to Judaism. Tat means education

and context are required. o fll that role,

Jewish music expert and JNews writer

Gigi Yellen will narrate.

A lot o her commentary is going to

contextualize things that were doing or

people who are less amiliar with the texts

or the languages, Yanow said.

As the chorale rolls up the red carp

on its third season, the organization

embarking on a growth plan. Te boar

has been working with consultants wh

are helping them to create a new strateg

plan, trying to take us into the next thre

fve, 10 years and really take the chorale

the next level as an organization and mak

sure its sustainable, Yanow said.

Tat includes expanding the board

people who love music, but dont nece

sarily sing and increasing their outreach

both in and out o the Jewish communi

as well as their undraising and marke

ing eorts. And, o course, theres the pla

to build the chorales artistic uture: Wi

dierent levels o musicianship you hav

to fgure out how to bring the group alon