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When the directors o local Jewish organization

opened up their email inboxes on June 17, most receive

a pleasant surprise: For the rst time in three years the

allocations rom the Jewish Federation o Greater Seattle

annual community campaign had gone up. In some case

the increase was signicant.

We made some strategic decisions within the Feder

tion budget this past year, and that allowed us to put mo

money into the allocations system, said Richard Fruchte

the Federations president and CEO.

In addition, with a reduction and shi in the way

pays dues to its umbrella organization, Jewish Federation

o North America, the Seattle Federations Planning an

Allocations committee had more money to work with, sa

Amy Wasser-Simpson, the Federations vice president

planning and community services.

All told, allocations to the local agencies and intern

tional organizations through the American-Jewish Joi

Distribution Committee and Jewish Agency or Israel

increased by about 7.5 percent overall rom last year.

Wasser-Simpson gave much o the credit or th

increased allocations to the agencies themselves, most

whom have or the past our years been working on honin

their requests through an objective scoring process base

upon several uniorm criteria.

People are really taking seriously the attributes w

developed, she said. Agencies are achieving higher scor

and thereore increasing allocations.

Wasser-Simpson said the organizations that sa

increases had been able to present themselves more clear

and concisely.

Some o them articulated what their programmat

pieces are in a way that gave Planning and Allocation mem

bers more insight into the work o the agency, she said.

Ken Weinberg, CEO o Jewish Family Service o Great

Seattle, said he received notication about his agency

increased allocation as he began his normal Sunday morn

ing ritual o diving into the New Yorkimes with his wi

I had a great Fathers Day, and it started with read

ing the allocation letter, Weinberg said. I was very, ver

pleased, very excited.

Nearly all o the increase to JFS about $28,000 w

go toward emergency services.

Food, housing, heat in the winter, those are things th

people simply cant live without, and those things are a

enormous challenge or us because the numbers o utilizers

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My mom always reminds me that I was reading the sports section of the L.A. Times when I was 4 or 5 years old.

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israel must act

Israel currently controls the lives of 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank. I therefore

nd it difcult to understand Wendy Rosens dire prediction (The coming Palestinian winter,

June 10) that declaring a Palestinian state will mark an end to Israel as a Jewish state. It

makes signicantly more sense that to secure Israels Jewish majority and character, its lead-

ers should act quickly to relinquish the occupied territories and make real progress toward atwo-state solution.

The West Bank settlements are a huge impediment to this goal. Not only are they an

obstacle to peace with the Palestinians, a security liability and an economic drain, but also a

terrible moral burden and a major contributor to Israels growing international isolation.

It is incumbent upon American Jews who care about the democratic future of an Israel

that is a light unto the nations that they not check their liberalism at Zionisms door (in

the words of journalist Peter Beinart). They would do Israel a greater service by challenging

Israels behavior in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and by doing everything possible to bring

about a Palestinian state.

One cannot help but be concerned, as we watch current events unfold, that if more mean-

ingful progress is not made in establishing a Palestinian state with the 1967 borders as a

starting point, other forces will seize the initiative in shaping the Middle East.

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hoW Will you act?

As an infrequent visitor to the area I was interested in the JTNews and the opinions

expressed in the letters written to your publication.

The letter to Congress written in the J-Teen section (May 27) was interesting in what it did

not say as opposed to what was written. All the ethical reasons for not standing by and getting

involved in Libya were stated. What was missing was a personal statement of involvement, a

statement of what part of we should intervene you personally will make. Will you talk from

the sidelines, as in send in the Marines or will you volunteer to be part of the intervention?

Will you join ROTC? Will you enlist to be an active part of the intervention?

The letter was wonderful as far as it went in ethical thought, but it ended leaving me

thinking you are very willing to send someone elses son or husband or daughter to do what

you are wanting to be done. The ethical act is incomplete without you personally completing

it. The letter by Pastor Niemoller was his regret for not personally acting. I think you missed

the whole point.

There was a time that a president of ours said the same things as your ethical commit -

ment. I believed JFK and volunteered. I was never sorry I did.

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unseal the Fortress

Just back from my seventh Israel teaching trip and read my favorite JTNews section:

Letters.

Re: Mr. Israel Kochins letter, In Defense of Mom (May 11): I agree. Israel desperately

needs safety and security. Ditto Palestine. Mr. Kochin writes: The author writes that my

mothers views imply that she must have no moral compass if she cannot see the mitigat-

ing historical factors that motivate these terrorists.

Mr. Kochin attributes words to me I never wrote regarding terrorism; his inference that I

am a terror supporter is so far out in left eld its outside the park.

I have been a public critic of Israels failed military campaigns and of terrorism: Hamas and

Al-Aqsa for war crimes and crimes against humanity, especially murder-suicide bombings.

In Jerusalem the week of May 9, Haaretzpublished an ad urging Netanyahu to press now

for a Palestinian state. The all-Israeli signatories included former generals, military and civil-

ian intelligence directors, and police heads. Israelis (and Diaspora supporters of Netanyahu)

run the risk of appearing to support terrorism by their rejectionist stance.

Yet the forthcoming (nonbinding) planned UN resolution granting recognition to a Pal-

estinian state is exactly what late Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Jewish and

Diaspora Jews sought: Palestinian recognition of Israels 1967 borders.

If both sides recognized the other today, these still need negotiation:

We just celebrated the hol-

iday o Shavuot, and when

we explain this holiday, wetypically say that we sanctiy

Gods giving us the orah.

But as modern Jews, is it pos-

sible to believe in revelation?

Did any revelatory event in

act take place? How do we

know which o these events

are authentic and which are

not? And what was revealed

a Divine presence? Te Creators will?

And how? In a book? In nature? In histor-

ical events?

Tis holiday led me to explore more

about the nature o revelation, and I ound

superb resources in Rabbi Neil Gillmans

Sacred Fragments: Recovering Teology or

the Modern Jew. I oer three theological

understandings o Revelation, each den-

ing the Eternal and the nature o revela-

tion dierently.

Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, ounder o

Reconstructionist Judaism, believed in

religious naturalism. He saw God as a

salvational activity, an actualization o

personal and social ulllment, and the

elimination o all evils that stand in our

way. Our human discovery o how to

live religiously is the Eternals revelation

to us within the human mind.

But i revelation and orah are out-

comes o natural human activity, what

makes them unique and authoritative?

Kaplan would respond that orah is

unique because it is ours. However, the

locus o authority shied rom the super-

natural God to the human community;

the Jewish community has the power to

dene itsel and to make changes as it

determines appropriate. Some o us may

wonder where our reinterpretations stop,

and i anything can qualiy as Judaism,

how seriously would we take orah and its

hold on our lives?

ackling the nature o command-

edness, early 20th-century philosopher

Franz Rosenzweig employed an existen-

tial theology. Rosenzweig dierentiated

between law and command. He main-

tained that law was not part o the con-

tent o Revelation, but the sense o being

commanded was. While law is imper-

sonal, universal, and written in books,

commands are personal, subjective, and

experienced.

What was revealed, then, was not the

commandments, but the act o being

commanded. During revelation, our obli-

gation was entirely spontaneous, a natu-

ral yearning to acknowledge the Eternal

and Gods covenant with Israel. Similarly,

in our deepest relationships, we are com-

manded or personally compelled to dem-

onstrate our devotion and

closeness. In the same way,

Rosenzweig argues, Godslove or Israel inspires Israel

to live in a certain way.

Te challenge is that our

original spontaneous desire

to acknowledge the Eter-

nals command aded, and

human beings changed the

commands into laws, into

an impersonal legal system

empty o the spontaneity and o the

emotion that characterized the original

response to Divine presence.

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel,

another seminal modern theologian, elab-

orated on our understanding o orah.

Heschel maintains that our orah is not

pure orah, but our ancestors and our

own understanding o its contents. Te

orah is midrash, a report about revela-

tion. Authority comes rom our under-

standing o the text, not necessarily the

written words.

Tese theologies raise numerous ques-

tions about Jewish authority and its

implications or us. I the source o our

authority is not the orah itsel, but our

ancestors and our own understanding

o its contents, what i we disagree with

our ancestors interpretation? Is oral law,

rabbinically generated, just as binding as

Divine revelation? I the task or modern

Jews is to repossess the emotional com-

mand to respond, what i rabbinic mitzvot

do not urther that intrinsic desire? Are we

called to observe mitzvot without eeling

an emotional connection?

I believe that certain times call or

observance o mitzvot regardless o our

innate anity. Jewish observance is not

only about what eels good, and uphold-

ing tradition has its place. At the same

time, I connect to the Eternal and experi-

ence revelation in ways that the rabbis did

not prescribe. Without a visceral connec-

tion, Jewish authenticity and signicance

are severely attenuated.

Our orah teaches that the old set o

tablets containing the en Command-

ments were placed alongside the new ones

inside the mishkan, the tabernacle. We

keep the laws with us, but we also carve

our own new set o tablets. I the Eternals

revelation is ongoing, and we are stirred

to be in a relationship, then our everlast-

ing command is to recapture our original

sense o revelation.

Rabbi Jessica Kessler Marshall serves Temple

Beth Or in Everett and the Snohomish County

community. She also ofciates at lifecycle

events throughout the Seattle area.

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so high, Weinberg said. O JFSs allocation

request, he said, I think that we were much

more explicit than we ever have been o the

extent to which there is need in our commu-

nity. I think we spelled that out extremely

careully both or JFS and or the Seattle

Association or Jews with Disabilities.

SAJD, a subsidiary o JFS, receivedan increased allocation o $4,669 that

will help to cover the ees its clients are

increasingly unable to pay.

For an organization that had prepared

itsel or the worst, I know that the entire

board o directors and my sta all eel an

enormous sense o gratitude to the Fed-

eration or this increase, Weinberg said.

Were going to be able to do more o what

we want to do, which is help more people

who are in need.

Judy Neuman, CEO o the Stroum

Jewish Community Center, elt the same

sense o surprise, but also a validation o

the strides her organization has made over

the past ew years. She said the JCC has

been working hard to reach the require-

ments set orth by the Federations pro-

cess, which asks or demonstration o

collaboration between organizations, cre-

ating innovative programs, and adhering

to its stated mission.

Tis allocation is really a vote o con-

dence and allows us to continue along the

wonderul path were on, Neuman said.

he JCCs increase o $23,931, to

$320,131, will go toward inrastructure

and or unding new and existing pro-

grams that Neuman said are necessary but

not necessarily moneymakers.

Te mission-driven programs dont

drive revenue, but they build community,

she said.

Several educational and cultural orga-

nizations actually saw decreases in their

allocations this year. Rivy Poupko Klete-

nik, head o school at Seattle Hebrew

Academy, noted that despite a drop o

$3,300, the school had received several

gis through the Federations Small and

Simple grant program as well as $50,000 in

an emergency grant and loan aer a mud-

slide on the schools property.

I think it all balances out, Kletenik

said. Its more o a package, and when

you look at things like this you have to

look at it as a package.

he agencies that

received more money

did so at a time when

the community cam-

paigns revenue, or the

rst time in many years,

ell under $5 million. A

number o actors came

into play or the smallerintake: Te Federation

closed the campaign

our months earlier than

last year to allow or

a transition to a new

undraising and allo-

cations model; several

larger donors did not

make a donation this

year, costing the Feder-

ation several hundred

thousand dollars in lost

income; and the econ-

omy still played a part.

Most o our donors

either kept their gis fat

or were able to increase

a little bit, Fruchter

said. We did bring new

donors into the mix,

and thats been help-

ul to us. We have more

new donors than many

other communities in

the country.

he Federations

board recognized, how-

ever, that the agency

could not continue to do

business the same way

it had with a $6 million

campaign and needed to

take some drastic mea-

sures that included sta

layos and shedding

several programs that

didnt t into its core

philanthropy model.

wo o these pro-

grams, Hebrew High

and the education ser-

vices department, had

been on the chopping

block earlier in the year but were instead

handed to Planning and Allocations,

which gave the programs line items or the

coming year while a decision is made on

how or i they should continue.

Tose two positions will remain or

this year, even though the unding o

these positions will be coming rom die

ent places, Fruchter said.

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Agency nAme finAl Agency AllocAtions

fiscAl yeAr fiscAl yeAr

2012 2011

HumAn need PillAr

Jewish Family Service $375,575 $347,500

Kline Galland Center and AfliatesPolack Adult Day Center only $11,997 $11,100

Seattle Association or Jews with Disabilities $62,469 $57,800

HumAn need totAls: $450,041 $416,400

JewisH educAtion PillAr

BBYOEvergreen Region $8,862 $8,200

Jewish Day School $122,885 $113,700

Jewish Studies Program at UW $9,900 $13,600

Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder $19,021 $17,600

Northwest Yeshiva High School $52,635 $48,700

Seattle Hebrew Academy $76,200 $79,500

Seattle Jewish Community School $42,700 $43,200

WA State Holocaust Education Resource Center $4,500 $5,500

Education Services $92,610

Hebrew High $28,550

JewisH educAtion totAls: $457,863 $330

JewisH identity/community Building PillAr

American Jewish Committee $5,700 $8,300

Anti-Deamation League $8,000 $9,700

Hillel: Foundation or Jewish Campus Lie at the University o Washington $145,100 $140,300

HillelWashington State University $1,000 $1,000

HillelWestern Washington University $2,063 $2,100

JTNews $20,103 $18,600

Stroum Jewish Community Center $320,131 $296,200

Washington State Jewish Historical Society $1,100 $1,300

JewisH identity/community Building totAls: $503,197 $477,500

world Jewry PillAr

Jewish Federations o North America $836,500 $1,107,800

Taglit-Birthright Israel $13,077 $12,100

Partnership 2000/TIPS Unrestricted & Consulting/Programmatic Fees $94,894 $87,800

Elective and Supplemental Giving

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Khabarovsk Chesed Center $21,940 $20,300

Kiryat Malachi - Emergency Medical Clinic $4,646 $4,300

SELAH: Israel Crisis Management CenterPartners in Healing $14,600 $18,900

Leket Israel $16,536 $15,300

YEDID Kiryat Malachi Citizens Rights Center $14,806 $13,700

world Jewry totAls: $1,016,999 $1,280,200

reserves And contingency

Emergency Capital Needs Fund $2,500 $1

Community Contingency Fund $2,689 $1

Community Research Fund $2,500 $1

Community Welare Funerals Fund $- $9,822

reserves And contingency totAls: $7,689 $9,825

totAl: $2,435,789 $2,513,925

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From the Jewish ranscript, June 23,

1983

According to an article that week,

Seattle Jewish couples were starting to

use ketubot, the Jewish wedding con-

tract, much more requently. Artist Victor

Scharhon displays a ketubah that he cre-

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It came rom mud. It took on a lie o

its own. It grew enormous, bigger thananyone expected, possibly changing its

community irrevocably.

It is not a golem.

Its the brand-new Kesher Community

Garden at the Stroum Jewish Community

Center on Mercer Island. And on June 10,

shortly beore the start o Shabbat, dozens

o community members and volunteers

gathered in the garden pathways, amid

already-blooming fowers and ambitious

vegetable starts, or speeches, a little nosh-

ing, a shehecheyanu, and the gardens o-

cial launch.

Te idea or a garden is distinctly

i not exclusively Jewish. Even the

almud (Kedoshim 4:12) says, It is orbid-

den to live in a town which has no garden

or greenery.

Te idea o caring or the earth reso-

nates across all sectors o Judaism, notes

Shannon Cruzen, the SJCCs early child-

hood pedagogical coordinator. And since

the community center attracts people rom

all across the Jewish spectrum, and even

some rom outside o it, there are benets

to something that resonates widely.

Keshermeans connection in Hebrew,

and the SJCC sta, volunteers, and com-

munity members who created the garden

hope connections to other people and

to the earth will make up the gardens

most sizeable harvest.

Te space refects this goal. Te large

mandala-shaped garden, located adja-

cent to the JCCs building, eatures sixteen

P-patch-style individual and amily garden

plots, eight learning garden beds, a shed

with tools and educational materials, a re

pit, and soon a worm bin and solar panel

or educational purposes. Oxbow Farm will

deliver produce boxes or community-sup-

ported agriculture shares. Space or a larger

arm area is still being dug out.

Te result is a therapeutic and nur-

turing garden or children and adults to

gather, learn, share, and take care o the

land. Even the individual P-patch plots eel

more communal than separate; many ea-

ture small plants with tags declaring them

to be gis rom a neighboring gardener.

Its really un because weve got a

whole bunch o other kids helping, said

9-year-old Kiara as she tended her plot

with her brother Antonio, 10, and sister

Eleanor, 6. You dont just work on your

own patch. I someone else is busy, you

can water their patch and help them.

Te idea or the garden was in gestation

or several years. Te space was a mess

an enormous, soggy, muddy stretch o land,

the site o a ormer house that had been

donated. Nobody had thought o a garden

there, not even Lisa Porad; the garden was

her brainchild, born as she sat in a room

with Matt Grogan, the Senior Operations

Director at the SJCC, tossing out ideas.

She gured theyd tear up a modessized piece o lawn and plant a tiny garde

But momentum grew: Te donated spa

by the center was available. Te sta reele

in a committee o individuals and organ

zations.

Once we started, it was one o tho

amazing things that person aer perso

aer person kept coming and saying, Ho

can I get involved? How can I help? sa

Porad.

She was surprised in particular abo

not just how many people have gotte

involved with the project in signica

ways, but who those people have bee

Existing JCC members she would nev

have thought would care about a garde

people who had never been part o the JC

community; Jews and non-Jews.

As the idea grew, so did the need o

space, and JCC leaders began to eye th

plot o land next door.

Te space was a disaster. We had th

mud to begin with, but we picked the rai

iest spring in history to do this, Groga

said.

Te weather pushed work crews behin

by three months, but those aspects th

cant be controlled are just, as Grogan sai

part o the process.

As they worked, the gardeners m

Heide Felton, ounder o the organiz

tion Garden-Based Education, and Ri

Howard, a therapeutic-garden design

and writer who has developed curricula

a number o local school garden program

With Feltons and Howards contribu

tions, the vision expanded beyond a simp

P-patch to a vibrant, educational settin

to support the JCCs school programs an

other existing educational programs.

Support or educational gardens h

blossomed in recent years, sparked in pa

by visible programs like Alice Waters

Edible Schoolyard project in Berkele

as well as local eorts. Northwest group

such as the Puget Sound School Garden

Collective advocate or and support scho

gardens, highlighting educational, deve

opmental, social and nutritional benets

Howard noted that educational bene

o gardening vary by age group, somethin

good curricula must refect. For young

kids, ocusing on hand-eye coordinatio

detail, and sensory experience are critica

Digging builds skills and curiosity. Old

youth can get more into the science o ga

dening, testing soil pH and temperatur

sampling or insect lie, learning abo

ertilization, or analyzing weather. But

garden educates anyone.

Everybody eats, right? Howard sai

So harvesting and eating works or a

ages. Tere are so many people who didn

have the experience o picking and eatin

resh ood.

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On Thursday, June 2, King County

Superior Court Judge Carol Schapira

received the LDor VDor award rom the

Jewish Federation o Greater Seattle at the

Cardozo Societys third annual year-endreception. Nearly 90 members o the

legal community, plus amily and riends,

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Judge Schapiras distinguished career o

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along with lots o hard work by our volun-

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Your Federation strives throughout the

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are pleased to report a positive outcome

to a challenging year, as well as share our

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Perhaps, she said, that will be the key

to its success.

I were really serious about sustain-

ability, we have to make sure kids have an

understanding o the act that ood comes

rom the earth, she said. Tats a real

investment in sustainability.

Besides, Howard added, there arent a

lot o places kids can engage in meaningul

work, and can share the setting and results

o that work with a larger community.

o the JCCs Grogan, its the bringing

in o people new and old that really mat-

ters. Hal the P-patchers had never been

to the SJCC beore, and are now welcomed

into the community.

When we had the rst planting day,

it was everything we could have dreamed

o, he said.

At the gardens opening ceremony, a

woman came up and asked Grogan i he rec-

ognized her. His ace grew into a grin; now

36, she was a mischievous 6-year-old when

she rst started spending time at the SJCC.

Tough Grogan has been at the center a

long time, he said he never would have seen

something like the garden coming 10 or 20

years ago. But the SJCCs ideas have grown

tremendously beore. A tiny soball league

ormed 26 years ago, Grogan said, grew intothe largest league in Washington State.

I the idea is ready to happen, and

theres momentum in the community, the

right people will come along. Be open to

everything, he said.

People have stepped up and donated

their time, supplies and labor, the equiva-

lent o $70,000 in three months, including

$20,000 in cash.

People, Grogan said, want to be part

o something successul probably have

been wanting to be part o something really

good happening at the J. And this is some-

thing really good happening at the J.

Families are on the waiting list or

garden patches as the center builds more.

Catie Morse, a naturopathic student, is

now oering classes on medicinal herbs

and naturopathic medicine. Tere is a lec-

ture series, a senior gardening club, plans

or a shelter, a platorm or gathering and

education, an oven, and other ideas. Once

it is ully completed, the JCC will partner

with local restaurants to serve herbs and

vegetables it has grown.

Bent over a patch, a woman admired

the plants and said to her companion, I

wonder what theyre growing.

It might have been broccoli. It might

have been connections. Well likely see

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Te women who have their breast health

check-ups at Hadassah Medical Centers

new Marlene Greenebaum Multidisci-

plinary Breast Center at Jerusalems EinKerem campus wont only have the con-

venience o some o Israels best medical

proessionals, rom oncologists to plastic

surgeons, in one clinic, they will also have

the peace o mind that comes rom prom-

ising recent statistics: 90 percent o women

diagnosed early will most likely survive.

Te center is a one-stop shop where

both men and women although the

incidence o male breast cancer is rare

can seamlessly visit with specialists, oen

during the same appointment, alleviating

the needless stress o waiting days or ol-

low-up procedures and running rom one

appointment to another.

We try to give the woman the best ser-

vice possible to reduce her stress as much

as we can, Dr. Einat Carmon, a surgeon in

the department o surgery at the Hadassah

University Medical Center in Jerusalem

told JNews. Having everything done at

the same place is much more convenient

or the woman.

Carmon visited Seattle earlier this

month or a Hadassah panel on breast

cancer. A specialist in the diagnosis and

treatment o breast cancer, the 36-year-

old surgeon and soon-to-be mother o

two spoke to a group o 70 women at

Seattle Chapter Hadassahs campaign

kicko or the womens Zionist organiza-

tions all undraising event, Breast Cancer

Exposed!

Te gala undraising event at Seattles

Fairmont Olympic Hotel on September

21, 2011, is designed to raise awareness o

prevention strategies and to raise money

to nd a cure.

Speakers at the event will include

Breast Cancer Exposed! honorary chair

Mary Alhade, a Seattle native who sur-

vived a rare orm o breast cancer as a

young mother o twins and a new baby,

and the galas keynote speaker, Jessica

Queller, writer and producer or the V

show Gossip Girl. Queller is the author

o the memoir Pretty is What Changes:

Impossible Choices, the Breast Cancer

Gene, and How I Defed My Destiny. She

will tell her story o how a single 30-some-

thing woman enjoying her lie in Holly-

wood writing or hit shows that included

Felicity, and Gilmore Girls coped with

her breast cancer diagnosis.

We hope to have a lot o survivors in

the room, said Naomi Newman, market-

ing chair or the event. Our goal is to raise

$200,000 or the center. We are working

on corporate sponsorship to oset the cost

o the event so that the lions share will go

toward the research.

Although breast cancer is at epidemic

proportions around the world and at a

national high in the Seattle-Puget Sound

region, all women, and specically, East-

ern European Jewish women, shou

investigate the incidence o breast canc

in their amily as a rst line o deens

said Carmon.She advised women to rst nd out

they have a amily history o the brea

cancer genes two genetic mutation

BRCA1 and BRCA2, because they corr

late with a signicantly higher inciden

o developing the disease.

Tis is an extremely common disea

that will aect a lot o women, Carmo

said. About 90 percent o cases are n

hereditary, so every woman is at risk. T

non-BRCA [mutation] carrier Jewis

woman has to be screened just as oen

the woman who is not Jewish.

Between 20 and 50 percent o BRC

carriers will never get the disease, Carmo

said. Ashkenazi women with no histo

o breast cancer in their amilies have

one in 10 incidence o developing brea

cancer.

In the general population, one in eig

women, or 12 percent, has a lietime risk

getting breast cancer, continued Carmo

However, in the Ashkenazi Jewish po

ulation, one out o 40, or 2.5 percent

people are carriers o the BRCA mut

tions. For them, there is a 50 to 80 pe

cent chance o getting breast cancer. T

have a much higher risk o being a BRC

[mutation] carrier compared to the ge

eral population and need more close su

veillance or preventive measures.

Recently, Hadassah researchers oun

two additional BRCA mutations in th

Sephardic population, one in BRCA1 an

one in BRCA2, but, she added, they a

not nearly as prevalent as the Ashkena

BRCA mutations.

In addition, about 10 to 15 wome

out o 100 who have a BRCA1 or BRCA

mutation will develop ovarian cance

according to the Centers or Disease Con

trol, but or women who have both mut

tions, the risk or early breast cancer an

ovarian cancer is greatly increased.

Other lesser known risk actors

developing breast cancer include havin

children at the age o 30 or later, whic

Carmon said nearly doubles the risk

developing breast cancer when com

pared to the incidence o cancer oun

in women who had their rst child whe

they were 18.

Similarly, there is no exact statistic o

the incidence o developing breast canc

in women who havent had any childre

but they have an even higher risk, sa

Carmon.

Hadassah researchers want women

consider their own risk actors and choo

the best diagnostic approaches or them

selves. Tey may include breast sel-exam

digital mammography, ultrasound, ma

netic resonance imaging or MRIs, genet

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PaGe 1X

This Weeks Wisdom

Follow Your Parents Leadby Brendan Emmett Quigley

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

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

Answers on page 28

ACROSS

1 Humorist Bombeck

4 First reindeer name-checked byClement Moore

10 Bulk

14 Bill addition

15 Mysteries o the occult

16 Seths frst son

17 Kelly o daytime TV

18 Song in which someone let thecake out in the rain

20 ___ takers?

21 Antibiotic target

22 Bonjour, ___ amis!23 Like an unsuccessul visa

application

25 Lunges toward, as with a ork

29 River in central Germany

30 Star Trekcharacter named ateran Asian sea

32 Show boredom

33 Medicine cabinet staples

37 D.C. baseballer

38 Domino unction

41 Days o ___ Lives

42 ___ the wall (excoriated)

43 Ars Amatoria poet

45 Swear

46 Stun

50 Lions and tigers, but not bears

52 Mosess sister

54 Org. on a toothbrush box55 Belch orth

57 Eureka-to-Seattle dir.

58 In 2010, the Boxing WritersAssociation o America namedhim Fighter o the Decade

62 Reason or a doctors visit

63 Gorilla who can read signs

64 Home o the SuperMall

65 HS dropouts test

66 Jacobs twin brother

67 Jetta alternative

68 Where MDs perorm triage

DOWN

1 Brokerage company with an asteriskin its name

2 Came down in sheets

3 2008 Mark Wahlberg movie based ona video game

4 ___ control (spin doctors specialty)

5 Like a rainbow

6 Harrison Ford has one on his chin

7 Injure

8 Leay Tolkien creature

9 Go team!

10 As a result o this

11 Pawn-capturing move12 ___ all intents and purposes

13 Sound accompanying a fnger wag

19 Lucys Kill Billco-star

24 The Hurt Lockersetting

25 Water park eatures

26 Made some grand adjustments?

27 On vacation

28 Inside the NBA channel

30 The Dog Star

31 Russian range

34 Optimistic orecast

35 Shalom!

36 Small fght

38 Pale purple

39 Home o Radio Ceylon

40 Sound o a souped-up engine

41 Punch to the breadbasket reaction

44 ___ Hear About the Morgans?(2009Hugh Grant flm)

47 Where a surer might end up

48 Less staid

49 Corrects

51 City in Caliornias wine country

52 Ben Stillers mom Anne

53 Forget it!

55 Long lunches?

56 Papal name thats a homophone o aword meaning deeply religious

58 Earn

59 Social Security IDs

60 Word with ice or salary

61 Sine ___ non

We all know the words Honor thy mother and ather. Thats easy to say and sometimes not so

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PA encourage their progeny to ollow close upon their heels.

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When I ask sports anchor Aaron

Levine about his passions outside o work,

he replies: Gol.

Levine, 29, is the lead sports anchor

Monday through Tursday on the Fox

Networks Seattle aliate Q13. He also

hosts his own hal-hour show, Q It Up,

on Sunday nights. Levine pretty much

eats, sleeps and breathes sports.

My rst love was the L.A. Lakers,

Levine says. My other passion beginning

in high school was writing.

Sports journalism uses his love o the

game with his love o writing.

I always wanted to be a sports jour-

nalist, says Levine. My mom always

reminds me that I was reading the sports

section o the L.A. imes when I was 4 or

5 years old.

Levines star is rising. He recently won

the Paciic Northwest Regional Emmy

award or best sports anchor in 2009 and

2010. But as anyone in journalism can tell

you, success comes with grunt work.

Levine covered sports on his college

radio station and in the paper, and then,

in his senior year, he came within inches o

scoring a year-long gig as an ESPN Sports-

Center anchor through the Dream Job

competition.

ESPN did a casting call or anyone who

wanted to be an anchor, but you couldnt

have any proessional experience, he says.

As a nalist, Levine had to take a quarter

o rom school during his senior year to

fy back and orth between San Francisco

and New York. He was runner-up.

In act, Im extremely happy that I

didnt win the Dream Job show, he says.

I didnt have enough experience to start

at ESPN.

Instead, he spent the next two-and-a-

hal years reporting or KBAK in Bakers-

eld, Cali., trying to break in.

I had to do everything or mysel, he

says, spending endless hours on the road

covering stories or Cal State Bakerseld,

ve minor-league baseball teams, and 24

high school teams.

At Fox since 2007, I still do everything

or the most part. I write, edit, produce, on

a daily basis, he says. I put eature pack-

ages together. I go to press conerences,

interview athletes and coaches.

He notes how ortunate he is to have

creative reedom. He begins each edition

o Q It Up with a commentary, some-

thing dierent rom most sports shows.

I consider mysel to be extremely or-

tunate to be a media director o the top-15

media market, he says, adding, I elt

lucky to get a job in Seattle at the age o

25.

Levine was raised in Calabasas, Cali.,

attending Hebrew school and traveling to

Israel three times beore the age o 11. He

considers his Judaism unique: His mother,

who is Filipino, converted beore he was

born. Tough he does not consider him-

sel observant, he says with conviction, I

denitely identiy mysel as a Jew.

Due to the coinciding nature o the

sports calendar and the Jewish calendar,

he adds, I I have a regret its not being

able to go to be with my amily or the hol-

idays.

And no, he never gets sick o sports.

However, when its your job you

dont appreciate sports as much as ans,

he says.

On his days o, when hes not playing

gol, Im a huge homebody, holing him-

sel up with movies and V.

Te industry is more stressul than

people give us credit or, he remarks.

I tend to sleep all day, says Levine.

Im not araid to admit that.

Aaron Levine:Builig his ow fil of ams

eMily k. alhaDeff assistnt Editr, JTNews

Mazel tov on this well-deservedrecognition, Josh!

Your innovation, leadership and vision

have made Jconnect Seattle one of the best

young adult programs in the country.

Thank you for your outstanding commitment to our community.

Hillel UW and Jconnect Seattle Community,

Board and Staff

Josh Furman,

Jconnect Seattle Director

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For the second year, JTNews and jew-ish.com presen

10 members o our Jewish community under the age o

40 who are making a dierence. Whether its in th

realm o Judaism, business, the arts, or even sports

these exceptional individuals have shown a commitment and dedication to what they do, oen or littl

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Both Emily and Aaron Alhade shy

away rom being called the Seattle Jewish

communitys up-and-coming power

couple. But Emily is on the verge o taking

the presidency o one o Seattles two larg-

est and most visible organizations, and

Aaron is a year rom becoming president

o the other.

Tat noted, however, they come by

their titles honestly i we mention how this

story really begins: At the Stroum Jewish

Community Centers preschool, where

these two Seattle natives rst met more

than 30 years ago. Yes, they have known

each other that long.

From there both attended the Jewis

Day School, but then their paths diverge

or a time dierent high schools an

colleges but their paths still crossed

emple De Hirsch Sinais religion schoo

Tat they would embed themselves an

their children into Seattles Jewish com

munity now eels natural to them.

JFS has always been a part o my lie

says Emily, 35, who on July 1 will becom

president o the board o Jewish Fami

Service.

Her ather, Dennis Warshal, was o

the board when she was growing up. H

amily used JFS or amily counseling. An

resh out o school with a degree in soci

work, Emilys rst paying job was at JFS

From there she worked at the Harbo

view trauma center and or the past e

years has been a stay-at-home to her tw

kids, ages 5 and 2.

But she never really le JFS.

When I was asked to be on the boar

I was just so honored, because to be

closely associated with that agency is

special, Emily says. Every employee th

works or JFS is so completely dedicate

to the mission, and that really trans lates

the work that they do.

As board president, Emilys main ocu

will be on undraising, in part to shore u

the $30-plus million strategic plan th

includes JFSs current $9 million buildin

expansion project.

Everyone is eeling the pinch. O

institutional unding sources are not ab

to und us in the ways that theyve bee

able to in the past, and we need to re

Aaron and EmilyAlhadeff:Th xt gatio of

commual laship

Joel MagalnickEditr, JTNews

LiSi woLF PhoToGra

Fmiy coms rst for aro d emiy ahdff, but th rspctiv orgiztios thy ddict th

ivs to tk cos scod.

Hes still got about a week beore heocially steps into his role as emple De

Hirsch Sinais director o congregational

learning, but participants at an early child-

hood educators conerence earlier this week

certainly got a taste o whats to come.

Rabbi Daniel Septimus spoke anima-

tedly about this weeks orah portion

o the man Korach and his ollowers who

challenged Moses and brought the story

into the context o the evening.

Rather than lash back, he demonstrates

condence in his leadership, Daniel told

the educators. We should model good

behavior as Moses does or us.

Tis young associate rabbi was right at

the point in his career where he could have

ound a pulpit in a smaller city and served

out his career there or used it as a step-

ping stone to lead a congregation the size

o the one where he has spent the past our

years. But Daniel, 32, decided to step o

that track and head in a direction he knew

he should go. His new role means he will

be taking a holistic approach to educating

his congregants.

Its always been a passion o mine,

teaching and learning, and learning to really

create innovative programs, he says. Last

year, in particular, I began to think about a

position like this because this is kind o a

new thing in the education world.

Te temples board agreed, and asked

him to step in as the new director. Te team

that runs the temples religion school will

stay in place, and Daniel will put more o

an emphasis on early childhood and adult

learning to round out the synagogues oer-

ings and unite them where possible.

When Daniel arrived in Seattle resh

rom his training in 2007, he and his wie

Amanda settled in South Seattle.

We really love living in Columbia

City, he says, were proud o the act that

were in one o the most diverse areas o

the country.

From the start, this new rabbi began

building a program or people in his age

group, something that had long been a

challenge or the citys oldest Reorm con-

gregation.

His starting Te ribe has ar sur-

passed any historic success weve had,

says Larry Broder, emple De Hirsch

Sinais executive director. Hes brought

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Although he is running or oce

Seattle City Council Position 1 Michael

aylor-Judd says, Im pretty busy, but

Im not sure my lie is radically dierent

rom beore.

he 36-year-old continues to work

part-time at the oundation or Health

Care Quality, where hes worked or eight

years. Tat organization tracks health-

care practices and progress, advocating or

things like surgical checklists in operat-

ing rooms and standards o cardiac proce-

dures in hospitals.

And aylor-Judd is still the local polit-

ical activist hes been since he moved to

Seattle to canvass door-to-door or state

healthcare 13 years ago.

Growing up in Southern Caliornia, he

was active in USY at emple Beth Emet

in Anaheim. Now hes a board member

o Kol HaNeshemah in West Seattle and

sings in the choir there. He sees a direct

connection between his years o social

activism and religion.

Something about the Jewish educa-

tion that we getwe try to improve the

world we live in, try to get other people on

board to improve the world, and ght or

others, he says. I think that has a lot to do

with religion.

A deep admirer o the late Sen. Paul

Wellstone, a progressive Democratic Party

leader, aylor-Judd eels his motivation

to help others comes rom a deep-rooted

source within.

aylor-Judds campaign ocuses on

three major issues acing Seattle: trans-

portation transportation equity in par-

ticular, aordable housing, and support

or education and youth and amily pro-

grams.

Tere are lots o details under those,

he says.

Hes running against the well-known

Jean Godden and two other candidates, so

his name will appear on the primary ballot

in August. Te top two vote-getters will

appear on the all ballot.

When we spoke last Friday, hed just

wrapped up a particularly demanding

week attending state Democratic Party

endorsement meetings. Hes been active in

the party, too, including trying to resur-

rect the LGB caucus, successully

and being active in the Jewish caucus.

Hes working on the perpetual prob-

lem o events being scheduled on Jewish

holidays and Saturdays, not because o

discrimination but because people dont

seem to be aware, he says. o raise their

awareness he wore his Obamica a

bright blue kippah with the presidents

name emblazoned on it to the state

Democratic convention and tries to make

sure Im always wearing one at Democratic

Party events, he says.

Hes proud o the party or stepping

up to address the issue.

In Seattle, aylor-Judd has been active

in marriage equality and transportation

issues. Hes helped to bring a bus-ser-

vice unding problem to the attention o

King County Metro, in which Seattle was

slated to receive only 20 percent o Met-

ros monies, even though it accounts or

75 percent o bus service. A new plan

passed by a regional task orce will go to

the County Council soon. He also worked

on the Sound ransit 2 ballot measure,

bringing light rail to the University Dis-

trict and Eastside.

No matter the results o the primary,

aylor-Judd will be taking Labor Day

weekend o to sta the admission gates or

the Bumbershoot music estival, as he has

done since 1998.

It makes me eel part o the commu-

nity, he says.

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Diana bReMent JTNews ClumnistMake sure you say Im a very orgiving

editor, says Joel Magalnick as we sit down

to talk near his home in Seattles Ravenna

neighborhood.Ive wondered or years when I could

turn my keyboard on the man who says

yea or nay to my story ideas. Now 39,

this papers editor has been nominated

(not by himsel) as one o our 10 under 40,

giving me my opportunity.

As editor or the past eight years o our

states only Jewish newspaper, Joel works

very hard to promote our community,

to let readers know whats going on and to

give as many people as possible a voice.

Joel also hopes the JNews is shining

light where there needs to be light shined,

exposing problems and issues in the com-

munity. I try to do that the best that I can

given the size and politics within our com-

munity.

Fortunately, theres not a whole lot

thats scandalous thats going on, he says,

but concerns do need to be aired. Some-

times it has to be uncomortable.

O course, being in journalism means

being the target o some vitriol. He most

oen hears the JNews is either too le

wing or too right wing oen consid-

ered a mark o balance. Israel, though, is

one subject that keeps him up at night,

especially i the invective is directed at

JNews.I nd it patently ridiculous that some-

one would call the paper or me anti-Israel,

he says. We have to refect the opinions o

everyone in the community.

Joel sees an increasing division and hos-

tility between some local organizations on

the subject. He also worries about the rise

o delegitimization o Israel around the

world and an increase in anti-Semitism

and anti-Zionism.

Joel and his wie Jenn, an early child-

hood specialist or the Union or Reorm

Judaism, met in Israel while doing a year

abroad at Hebrew University. Aer Joel

graduated rom the University o Col-

orado with a degree in journalism, the

couple moved around the country beore

settling in Seattle. He had been working in

web design and moved here or a dot-com

job, just in time or the bubble to burst. He

started reelancing and eventually landed

in his current job.

Joel and print editors everywhere

are preoccupied with moving protably

into the 21st century. Actually, were here

The Young Leadership Division

of the Jewish Federation of

Greater Seattle

congratulates the

10 Under 40

for truly having an impact

on our world.

You are the future leaders

of our community!

new members to the congregation, hes

brought a vitality and a zeal or more to

the congregation and to that community

o young olks.

Emily Alhade, a lie-long emple De

Hirsch Sinai member and one o the other

10 Jews under 40 we recognized, agrees.

Hes such a wonderul asset to his

community, she says. Were so lucky to

have him.

Four years can bring a lot o changes to

a persons lie, and Daniel is no exception.

For one, he now has two children.

Fatherhood is unbelievable, Dani

says. Teres nothing better than watc

ing your kids growing up.

Becoming a parent has meant chang

in his proessional outlook as well.

Certainly early childhood is more o

my radar than it was beore, he says.

Tough Daniel says it hadnt occurre

to him when he received his ordinatio

that he could step o the typical rab

track and ocus on building an educatio

program, it also eels right to him.

Tats where my passion is, he says.

more and more on individual donors,

she says.

[Emily] is truly a person who cares

very, very deeply about people who are

in need, with her whole heart and soul,

said Ken Weinberg, CEO o JFS. Tis is a

young woman who really cares.

Weinberg noted that as a social worker

who worked in the trenches, Emily

understands the needs o people who work

in social service elds.

She did not choose the easy path, he

said. As a result o doing that she not only

developed skills in working with people, it

urther developed her own empathy and it

also developed her own understanding o

what it means to be a sta person.

Aer Aaron returned to Seattle rom

some time living in San Francisco, he went

back to a place that he had spent so much

time during his teen years: Te Stroum

JCC.

When I came back, it was the rst

place I wanted to plug back in and give

some o my time and energy, he says.

As these things oen happen, Aaron,

35, started on a committee and rom there

was asked to join the board. In 15 month

he will become the JCCs president.

here are more and more Jewis

people that arent aliated at synagogues

Aaron says. Te JCC is a natural place

plug in to get Jewish lie and culture.

Proessionally, Aaron is president

Elttaes Enterprises, which ocuses o

investments and owns such local prope

ties as the Majestic Bay Teater in Ballar

His parents and grandparents are lon

time philanthropists in Seattles Jewi

community, and even rom an early a

they instilled in him a desire to help peop

who dont have what he does.

I was always raised that its been

privilege and an honor to give back

our community, Aaron says. Its not

burden or a tax.

Judy Neuman, the JCCs CEO, cal

Aaron remarkable.

Te time and commitment and pa

sion that Aaron has, specically or the

is just unparalleled. His heart and soul a

in this place, Neuman says. I you nee

help, or you need an idea, or you just nee

an extra person to come and sit and thin

with you, hes always there. He alwa

answers the call.

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in the 21st century, he says o the ormer

ranscript, with more online readers than

print subscribers and an iPad app coming.

A companion site developed by Joel or

younger adults, Jew-ish.com, is gaining

traction, and both publications are active

on witter and Facebook.

Te 21st-century challenge is in makin

a prot. Te traditional print advertisin

model doesnt work on screen, but adve

tisers are shying away rom print medi

which is why publications have shrun

Teres not less news, just less advertisin

Electronic publishing could work we

by making publications more ecientocusing more on gathering the news an

less on distribution, Joel says.

Te Jewish publishing world can tak

advantage o being small and nimble,

test ideas like the various guides that com

with the JNews: Te Guide to Jewi

Washington, the Proessional Directo

and Northwest Jewish Family.

Joel jokes that hes been called a mod

o Jewish continuity, with the requisi

years o Hebrew school (Denvers Rod

Shalom) and camp (Ramah in Caliornia

Living in Ravenna with Jenn and their tw

young sons, Joel observes that he is at th

crossroads o rabbis taking walks.

At Tird Place Books, his local boo

store and hangout, rabbis and Jewish com

munity members he runs into might n

pitch him stories, but theyll oen tell m

stu thats going on.

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1Supporters and cli-

ents o Jewish Family

Service in Seattle are

already aware o the construc-

tion project that has domi-

nated the organizations landat the corner o 16th Avenue

and Pine Street or the past

ew months.

Ed Weinstein, architect o

JFSs new oces, just received

the 2011 American Institute

o Architects Seattle Medal o Honor, pre-

sented to him at the annual AIA Honors

dinner in May.

AIA board president George Shaw

recognized the consistently exceptional

quality o [Eds] rms work as well as

Eds generous, open, engaging, down-to-

earth personality [which has] has clearly

made its mark on our proession and our

community.

I elt very honored, said Ed, noting

that while the award is given or lietime

achievement, in many respects I eel that

Im only mid-career.

It was very much a surprise; I consider

mysel to be a young pup.

Ed has been involved in the Jewish

community both as a proessional and a

volunteer or many years. He and his wie

Marcia Friedman are long-time mem-

bers o emple De Hirsch Sinai and o the

Stroum Jewish Community Center, and he

has served on the acilities committee o

the ormer and the board o the latter.

Growing up in Aberdeen, Wash., in a

merchant amily, he was always interested

in architecture.

I enjoyed drawing and

building models, and his

mother suggested the career

over those more traditional

Jewish careers o doctor or

lawyer. She thought his cli-ents might be happier. Ed

shared this anecdote with

the audience at the awards

dinner to quite a bit o laugh-

ter which youll under-

stand i youve been on either

end o a building or remodel-

ing project.

Coming to Seattle in the late 1960s to

attend architecture school at the Univer-

sity o Washington, he added two years o

grad school at Harvard beore returning

to Seattle. He worked or others here or a

short while beore orming his own rm.

Were very experienced in working or

not-or-prots, he says o Weinstein A/U,

which has taken on a wide variety o public

and private building projects, including

DHSs Bellevue building. Designing the

JFS project was particularly challenging

because o the tight space and the need to

keep them in business [on-site], he says.

Te sta has continued to use the exist-

ing Jessie Danz building and the ood

bank has been operating during construc-

tion, too.

What we remember as the parking lot

provided the ootprint or the new build-

ing. On its completion in December, sta

will move in and renovations on the old

building will begin. On completion, JFS

will be almost double its current size, at

33,500 square eet.

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2We last heard rom

Jake Bobman our

years ago when he

graduated rom Mercer Island

High School and was on

his way to the University oWashington honors program.

As a National Merit Scholar, a

Washington State Scholar and

class valedictorian, we cer-

tainly had high hopes or this

young man who said then that

he planned to blend his aca-

demic interests with a desire

to help others.

Back then he expected to double major

in biochemistry and math. He achieved that

goal, graduating with two degrees, a BS in

mathematics with college honors and a BA

in biochemistry, but bettered his predictions

by adding minors in music, chemistry, and

international studies.

With all that to his credit, its no sur-

prise that Jake is the 2011 UW presidents

medalist or his class, an award given to

the graduating senior with the Universi-

tys most distinguished academic record.

He was presented with the award by UW

interim president Phyllis Wise at com-

mencement on June 11.

While at UW, Jake worked in the Kim

Laboratory conducting behavioral neuro-

science research and wro

his honors mathemati

thesis on cryptograph

research ocusing on a typ

o public key cryptograph

and how it protects patieprivacy, he explained. H

studied abroad in Cos

Rica, sang with the UW

Vocal Jazz Ensemble an

Mens Glee Club, and he

leadership positions with

the honors program.

Jake is the son oKare

and Bruce and grandson

the late Rae and Jack Tacher and Marc

and the late Joseph Bobman. Te Bo

mans are longtime members o emple D

Hirsch Sinai, and Jake is a longtime acti

volunteer in our community.

As anticipated by Jake our years ag

he is headed to medical school, atten

ing Columbia University College o Phys

cians and Surgeons on a ull-tuition mer

scholarship.

Its extremely exciting, he says an

hes looking orward to experiencing

new city.

But or now hes just hoping or tim

with amily and riends and having

relaxing summer beore going to med

cal school.

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Dear Rivy,

I am being urged by just

about everyone I know to get

on Facebook. My riends are

threatening to write me o

saying that I am out o it. Iam not old nor am I not hip

I actually think I am quite

with it. I am just not into

the Facebook thing. I have

ventured onto my riends

Facebook pages and fnd the

whole thing somewhat revolting. I eel

that there is something decidedly not

Jewish about the whole thing. What is

your take on it?

I eel your pain. But its time to come

ace-to-ace with Facebook. Mark Z., here

we come. Your calling it revolting seems

strong; what did you catch a glimpse o,

Anthony Weiners postings? Hope not

thats ar rom the best in show. Tat said,

the time has come to cast the Facebooking

o America under the scorching scrutiny

o the lens o orah.

But rst, what is this thing we call Face-

book? It is at once a rolling marquee o

updates postings, i you will, o all o

your riends who might include just

about anyone youve ever met anytime in

your lie, rom your nursery schoolmates

through your college buddies up to and

including yesterdays new acquaintances.

It is a busy percolating town square where

you bump into just about everyone you

know, exchange a quick hello, a whats

up check-in, and continue on your way

all day long!

It can similarly, suddenly

take on the accoutrements o

a dimly lit salon, a whispered,

urtive, soul-bearing inti-

macy revealed to the whole

world!It is a bulletin board, amessage board, a amily pic-

ture album, a community

newsletter, and a street corner

with many a anatic stand-

ing on a soap box demand-

ing your ear. It is the wave o

the uture!

We humans love to com-

municate, rom cave wall scratches to

high-tech tweets. Tis is who we are and

how we do business. What are the Jewish

values that should inorm our Facebook

usage? o this need I oer you Masechet

Facebook a Mishnaic approach to this

newangled o oibles.

From what time may one post updates

on Facebook? From the time that the rst

morning milk is steamed or lattes at Star-

bucks. No desperate, irresponsible, mid-

dle-o-the-night postings. Tese cannot

be trusted. Te rabbis add: Review your

words careully beore hitting share.

Once it happened that the sons o Rabbi

G. came home so late rom a wedding east

and sharedtoo much!

Mark Z. received the tradition from

those at Harvard who came beore him,

such as Bill G. He should have said three

things: Be not the one to reveal a secret

conded in trust, degrade not the business

rom which you draw a check, and be not

o the students o those who bore us with

their mundane ripperies.

He was wont to say, Let your home page

be modest and open to those you choose;

let your inormation be guarded lest it

incite the jealousies o others or draw you

into bitter waters or once drawn into

such evil, Heavens name may becomeproaned.

Who desires long life? Who loves peace

and seeks to pursue it? Te one who causes

no grie through their postings. hey

guard their keyboard rom harm; they lead

no one down paths o illicit intrigue.

How many postings may a man or

woman post in an hour? Or how many

postings may a man or woman post in a

day? As many as will not bring tedium

to those who ollow them. Whats or

dinner is acceptable to some, others tire

o such news. All agree that marriage pro-

posals are to remain private while engage-

ments must be shared.

Be cautious of braggadocio, our rabbis

teach; blessings are ound only in that

which is hidden rom the eye.

Te rabbis said: Which is the right way

to choose to link videos, to post upcoming

events, or even to Like that which you

see? Te right way is the middle path

not too much nor too ew. Be not the one

to Like it all.

With whom may we connect, with whom

may we not connect? We may connect

with all whom we know; but do not be

ooled real connections need time and

attention. Do not mistake the casual or

the real. Nor be ooled by concern o the

virtual ace time is more precious than

Facebook.

Excellent is Facebook together with

orah, or without orah one might com

to set aside the eelings o others. Hee

yoursel lest you become an addict; to

much time with hand-held devices o pla

tic might put a person out o this world.

It is not incumbent upon you to shaevery video that comes your way; you

chuckle is not always the chuckle o other

rerain rom orwarding all that com

your way.

Find friends who you may know wi

caution and care connect with wisdom

not whim.

Reward is waiting for those who inspi

others to do good, who share words

orah and opportunities to do tzedaka

and righteousness. Tey who bring othe

to mitzvah through postings will hav

eternal lie.

You will not come into the power of s

i you know what is above thee: A clou

that deletes nothing, eyes that see ever

thing where all your postings are orev

recorded; your deeds in data centers an

your actions in search engines will n

you.

Know that whatever the Holy One cr

ated in this world is or His glory eve

Facebook the rest is commentar

Amen.

Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally

renowned educator and Head of School at

the Seattle Hebrew Academy. If you have a

question thats been tickling your brain,

send Rivy an e-mail at

rivy.poupko.kletenik@gmail.com.

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