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JTMarcy Oster
JTA World News Service
JERUSALEM (JA) Israels decision to loosen its
blockade on Gaza is drawing both praise and criticism.
Israels security cabinet on June 20 voted to ease land-
based civilian imports to the Gaza Strip; the naval block-
ade will remain in place.
Te move garnered praise rom the White House,
which released a statement saying it welcomed the new
policy toward Gaza.
Once implemented, we believe these arrangements
should signicantly improve conditions or Palestiniansin Gaza while preventing the entry o weapons, the state-
ment said. We strongly re-arm Israels right to sel-
deense, and our commitment to work with Israel and our
international partners to prevent the illicit tracking o
arms and ammunition into Gaza.
urkey, which lost nine citizens when Israeli com-
mandos raided a Gaza-bound aid otilla determined to
break the blockade, continued to slam Israel ollowing
the announcement.
I the Israeli government really wishes to prove that they
have given up the act o piracy and terror, they should primar-
ily apologize and claim responsibility in the slaying o nine
people on May 31, said Egemen Bagis, urkish minister or
European Union afairs, according to Te New YorkTimes.
Te blockade o Gaza was put into place by Israel and
Egypt in June 2007 ater Hamas violently wrested power in
the Gaza Strip rom the Fatah-dominated Palestinian
Authority. It was designed to thwart the import o weapons or
weapons-capable material into Gaza and pressure the
coastal strips rulers into releasing Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit,
who was taken captive in a cross-border raid in 2006.
An economic blockade had been in place since Shal-
its abduction.
Pressure on Israel to ease the latter blockade, which had
been climbing steadily, increased dramatically ollowing
last months Israeli interception o the Gaza-bound otilla.
Under the new rules, all items except those on a published
blacklist wil l be allowed into Gaza. Until now, only items spe-
cically permitted were allowed into Gaza. Te blacklist will
be limited to weapons and war materiel, including dual-use
items that can be used or civilian or military purposes. Con-
struction materials or housing projects and projects under
international supervision will be permitted, according to a
statement issued by Israels security cabinet.
Te plan also calls or increasing the volume o goodsentering Gaza and opening more crossings, as well as
streamlining the movement o people to and rom the
strip or medical treatment.
Despite the easing o the land blockade, Israel will
continue to inspect all goods bound or Gaza by sea at the
port o Ashdod.
Israel called on the international community to stop
the smuggling o weapons and war materials into Gaza.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague praised Isra-
els plan but took a wait-and-see attitude.
Te test now is how the new policy will be carried
out, he said.
German ocials called or a complete end to the
blockade in the wake o Israels reusal to allow Germa-
nys minister o economic cooperation and development,
Dirk Niebel, to enter Gaza during a our-day visit to the
region.
For their part, Hamas ocials said the easing o the
blockade was not good enough to relieve the distress o
the Gaza population. Tey called the changes cosmetic,
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Klaus Sterns lie is the embodiment o the term Ka-
kaesque. He wonders i a Germany that tormented him
under the Nazi regime is continuing to do the same thing
decades later, despite the political changes that have
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Now 89 years old and living in Seattle, he grew up inpre-war Berlin. When the Nazi party came to power, he
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Jt it too itrtigTe Gaza otilla incident has caused many o us think about our relationship with Israel. What are we to do?
Rabbi JonathanSingerTemple Beth Am
When I was growing up, my sister loved
to share with me the well-known Chinese
curse: May you live in interesting times!
I understood right away why living in too
interesting times is a curse ar better is it
to live in a time dened by the boredom o
peace and economic prosperity, a moment
so monotonous because the elds are rich
with grain, and earthquakes and other nat-
ural disasters are part o a aded memory inthe history o human experience.
his past month, however, was a
reminder we are not in such a time. In
act, things are becoming too interesting. I
am thinking in particular about the news
o Israels attack on the peace activists
trying to break the Gaza blockade and the
worlds condemnation that ollowed.
Unlike the oil rig in t he Gul o Mexico,
this disaster happened in plain sight. We
could see it unolding and might have
assumed it would have been more detly
handled by the Jewish State amed or its
legendary intelligence unit, t he Mossad,
and its military capacity to carry out pre-
cision raids with i ncredible dexterity.
Despite reports by those who hate the
Jewish State, Israel does respect lie and
tries to protect civilians in a man ner rom
which even our army cou ld learn. We now
know too well, however, that the Israeli
government played into their enemies
hands to the point, as Israeli newspapers
have reported, that the army ailed not
only in terms o its intelligence gathering,
but almost had three o its own soldiers
taken hostage on a ship they assumed
was being guided by nonviolent activists.
his past month placed American
Jews in the position o needing to deend
Israel, which is ghting or its right to
exist a right to which we are clearlycommitted against those who mask
their anti-Semitism in the sot tafeta o
a human rights-ocused liberalism,
hiding their steeled objection to the
national aspirations o the Jewish people
during a moment when the Jewish State
has stumbled.
I have no argument with those peace
activists who embrace a two-state solu-
tion, who want to see Palestinians and
Israelis live in sae borders, as neigh-
bors, allowing each other to develop, and
who oppose those who embrace a greater
Israel view or a greater Palestine view.
But many o those on the ships trying to
break the blockade were not, by any de-
inition, peace activists. Teir approach
would have been diferently perceived i
they had rallied against the violence and
hatred promoted by Hamas, just as they
rallied to end a blockade that seems non-
sensical in its current ormation.
hough democratically elected,
Hamas orcibly imposes its leadership on
the people o Gaza. And so we as Ameri-
can Jews nd ourselves between a rock
and a hard place or we want to speak
out or Israel but many o us are emba r-
rassed by what happened on the high
seas in Israels name.
A parshah we read this last month,
Shelach Lecha, sheds some light on how
we might respond. In this section o theorah, God tells Moses to send orth
scouts to bring back reports rom the land
o Canaan on whether it is sae or them
and whether it can support a people as a
true potential harbor or these slaves who
had been wandering the wilderness.
Mordecai Adler commented that Te
land o Promise was not merely a geo-
graphical acquisition, not merely the
name o a place. It represented their
uture. Te twelve men were not sent to
explore a land: they were sent on a mis-
sion to explore the uture o a people.
From this perspective, the scouts
task was to help the people see what they
could become, how they could make the
transition rom being a nation o slaves
into a thriving people settled on a beau-
tiul land. Tere they could make real t he
vision o becoming a kingdom o priests,
an example to the world o the heights
to which humanity could aspire i they
embraced a system o values that sees lie
as holy and lled with joy.
We know, however, that the scouts
ailed miserably in their mission. hescouts ound a land owing with milk
and honey, but then said in the presence
o their people it was also lled with orti-
ed cities, and they would be too weak to
occupy it. When Joshua and Caleb, who
were also among the scouts, proclaimed
that they could indeed capture it, the
other scouts lost all perspective and pro-
claimed that, Te country we traversed
is one that devours its settlers. All the
people that we saw in it are men o great
size giants and we looked like grass-
hoppers to ourselves and so we must have
looked to them!
Tat last verse is one o the most ot-
quoted verses o orah these leaders,
given the task o motivating the people to
embrace their uture instead let their ear
speak or them, and then instilled ear in
the general populace. Despite Joshua and
Calebs reassurances, panic set in.
It seems the modern state o Israel,
despite the very real threat it aces, is
acting like the scouts who came back with
bad reports. We know the world is a hard
place, that Israel is located in a bad neigh-
borhood, and that there are those who
would like to destroy it. But Israel treated
the approaching Gaza otilla convoy as
giants, and responded in a way that led to
worldwide condemnation when such an
occurrence did not need to happen.
Rather than throw up our hands, weAmerican Jews have a positive role to play
in supporting our riends in Israel. Like
Caleb and Joshua, we can encourage those
who truly want to bring about change
to keep their eyes on the prize by call-
ing upon the Israeli leadership to engage
in a peace ofensive easing restrictions
on Palestinians and continuing the dia-
logue with the American leadership pro-
moting peace negotiations. o be efectivewe have to challenge the extremists in our
midst who dont want peace, who believe
we should continue to rule the Palestin-
ians and build settlements in areas where
millions o them live, areas that even Ariel
Sharon wanted to concede.
At the same time, we have to say we can
have peace but not at the cost o losi ng our
national identity, our right to sel deense,
and to living in secure borders by chal-
lenging those peace activists who want
to achieve peace by delegitimizing the
State o Israel.
Let us call out those who oppose
our right to a state and who claim
that Israel is a center o apartheid whilesupporting regimes surrounding that
democratic country in which the only
ocial religion is Islam, where women
are oppressed, the Bahai are persecuted,
Christians who intermarry are orced to
convert, gays and lesbians are tortured
or what they are: promoters o hate.
Let us proclaim, as did Joshua and
Caleb, that we can work or real peace and
or real reedom, or Jews and Palestin-
ians living in their own states, in that land
so little, but so holy, to so many.
We already see that peace is possi-
ble with Arabs in Egypt and Jordan, and
know that the urkish response o dis-
appointment comes out o a country
that has made a warm peace with Israel,
opened trade ties, and ser ved as a conduit
or negotiations with its neighbors.
We can see the possibility or peace
even as we remain determined to deend
our right as Jews to a sovereign Jewish
nation in our homeland.
Te Midrash notes that many who sup-
ported Joshua and Caleb in the orah story
stayed silent. Tey did not speak out, and
as a result all Israelites over 20 years o age
were condemned to die in the wilderness,
even those who disagreed with the major-
ity and avored Joshua and Caleb.
Why? Because they did not speak up.
In this important time let us not ollow
their example. Speaking up in this way isnot a orm o being critical o Israel but
an embrace o Israels uture. We can be
the vision o hope even in hard times. We
can help our people avoid another pain-
ul 40 years in the wilderness o conict.
LetterS
LetS juSt Sing
How is one to react to a headline like
Evergreen students urge divestment
(June 11)? Disgust? Anger? Worry?
Disgust because the ignorance o
modern Middle Eastern history and the
anti-Israel bigotry o these kids is simply
appalling. They should know better. They
arent illiterates. Anger because the cost
o the education these kids are getting
at that ber-liberal hothouse o a college
they attend comes out o our pockets.
We are being taxed to subsidize this non-
sense. This is almost criminal. And worry
because almost everything Israel has done
lately has played into the hands o the
Israel-haters.
The commando attack on the Mavi
Marmara was a geopolitical and public
relations disaster. Favorable world opinion
toward the Jewish homeland is a hundred
times more important than a ew rockets
in Gaza. Israel must start to concentrate
on the big picture (which I think it will)
or really, really serious problems loom in
the uture.
But no, I dont eel like reacting in any
o these ways. I say why dont we all just
sing? I think we all know the song With-
out You rom My Fair Lady. Eliza sings
these words to Henry Higgins: England
still will survive without you, even Keats
will survive without you... etc., etc. Why
dont we just change the words a little
bit?
Tel Aviv will survive without you,
even the kibbutzim will survive without
you... and end with a rousing Israel will
do very well without you.
Jerey Weiser
Redmnd
Keep tHe bLoCKade
Your ront-page column by Leslie
Susser (Israel acing tough choices on
Gaza as criticism o blockade mounts,
June 11) was quite inormative.
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CorrctioTe photo that accompanied the
piece on the lm Modern Views in
M.O.. (Making movies, making
art, June 11) was incorrectly cap-
tioned. It should have read: Arne
Bystrom, let, is interviewed by lm-
maker Boaz Ashkenazy, ar right,
while John King works the camera,
photo by Erin Lodi.
JTNews regrets the error.
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Events in the Middle East have a
Northwest element to them. Te Corrie
amily o Olympia, whose daughter
Rachel died in Gaza in 2003, is ocusing
their understandable grie on the driver
o the bulldozer under which Corrie died
and the Israeli government, suing both
or negligence.
A ship renamed Rachel Corrie tried to
run the Israeli blockade ater the May 31
otilla incident. Te Israelis let it through
only ater inspecting the cargo, so both
sides made their points.
Perhaps some o the responsibility
or her death lies close to home. Her atal
journey began at he Evergreen State
College in Olympia, and we should askwhat kind o education about the Arab-
Israeli conict Rachel received there.
My experience with anti-Israel bias at
Evergreen goes back to 1994. I was rec-
ommended as a speaker or Israel Inde-
pendence Day. When the organizers
discovered I held strong pro-Israel views,
they told me I could speak only on the
condition that I share the podium with
a speaker rom the ar let. At the talk, I
asked them, When you invite pro-Arab
speakers, do you require them to be
matched with a supporter o Israel?
I dont recall hearing an answer.
I spoke there again in 2007, one o
seven Jewish panelists in a orum on t he
conict at the Jewish Club. One lawyer
said nothing, an Israeli with poor Eng-
lish tried to deend Israel, and our Jews
vented their venom while I tried to hold
the line.
Ater the talk, students and aculty
told me o hate e-mails and ost racism that
conront anyone trying to present the
Israeli side, asking that their names not
be used. Tis year the ve students who
ounded a pro-Israel group in 2008 all let .
Te rest are inti midated into silence.
One o them let us a tape about his
experiences. Walking into class, he would
be taunted: Have you drunk the blood o
any Palestinian children today?
Tis is one example o the gutter level
o anti-Semitism that underlies the anti-
Israel campaign at Evergreen.
Upon hearing about these problems I
resolved to make xing them a priority.
My main partner now is Robert Wilkes, a
conservative columnist who has written
or theJTNews. I am also in contact with
Israel supporters in the Olympia com-
munity.
History has taught us that when Jews are
araid, all decent people need to be araid,
and it is time to take a close look at what we
are paying or at this college, where a rad-
ical anti-Israel aculty has turned a state-
unded institution into their own private
playground, allowing no opinion other
than theirs to be heard. Once a department
head is selected, he chooses, with no inter-
erence rom the staf, all the other proes-sors in his program.
I these proessors were condent in
what they were teaching, they would wel-
come debate. I tested this when the head
o Evergreens Middle East Department,
Pro. Steve Niva, spoke at the Univer-
sity o Washington in November o 2008.
Given one minute or a question, I asked
him i he could cite a single speech by an
Arab leader to an Arab audience in which
he tells them that they must give up t heir
dream o controlling all the land west o
Jordan, now and orever.
I still c ant believe his answer: Intent
doesnt matter!
He then mumbled a ew words about
keeping commitments, which the Arabs
have never done, looked at his watch,
told us he was tired and rapidly exited
the hall.
When some community members
submitted a paid ad to the Cooper Point
Journal, Evergreens student newspaper,
list ing a ew o Israels undisputed accom-
plishments in honor o Independence
Day, they reused to publish it unless it
was undersigned by a student or student
group. When I met with the leaders at the
campus Hillel, none would stand up or
Israel and they requested we dont bring
pro-Israel programming to the campus.
On June 2, 2010, theJournalpublished
a vicious article condemning the otilla
operation, expressing deep sympathy or
Hamas, whose charter demands not only
the total destruction o Israel but encour-ages Muslims to murder virtually every
Jew on the planet. Te student author
inorms her readers she is Jewish!
I was sick when I read it and began
composing a rebuttal, but stopped mysel.
It will never be published. No student or
aculty member will sign it, and those o
us on the outside, whose taxes support
the college, cant buyspace to reute her
charges. Te pro-Israel voice has been
completely silenced at Evergreen.
Te student body has now voted over-
whelmingly to divest unds rom Cat-
erpillar and companies doing business
with Israel. I have just e-mailed the spon-
sors asking what discussion took place
beore the vote, and am waiting or their
response
In 2007 the play My Name is Rachel
Corrie was perormed in Seattle. Rachel,
quoted rom her diaries tells us; Dr.
Samir (her host) told me that they didnt
have the tanks and the soldiers until the
Intifada. She ollowed this with a state-
ment that orced me into a new respect or
her: I need to think about that.
Despite the violence and anger sur-
rounding her, Rachel was still in student
mode, and was beginning to see t he dis-
connect between the story she had been
ed at Evergreen and the acts on the
ground. Had she attended a college where
the Israeli side o the story was ree to be
heard, is it possible s he would have devel-
oped a more mature view o this complex
conict and still be a live today?ragically, Rachel did not have the
time to think about that, but we do. We
need to nd a way to restore to Evergreen
the intellectual openness that should
exist in any American college. Rachel
was the rst, and so ar the only Ameri-
can student killed supporting the Arab
war against Israel. Lets direct our eforts
to making sure she will be the last.
Robert Kauman has served as Northwest
director or Young Judea and the Jewish
National Fund and was the rst director
o the Jewish Federation o Greater
Seattles Community Relations Council.
He lives in Seattle.
T trgic ioctritio o Rc CorriRecent events at Evergreen College give pause to anyone with a passing interest in Israel
Community newS
Israel rightly insists its naval blockade o
the Hamas-ruled territory will continue. It
was imposed in June 2007 ater Hamas vio-
lently expelled Fatah and seized power rom
President Abbas Palestinian Authority.
Ater hundreds o Hamas rocket attacks
were red indiscriminately on Israeli citi-
zens rom Gaza, Israel was orced to take
deensive measures. This included impos-
ing a blockade to prevent weapons, weap-
ons manuacturing parts, bunker-building
materials, and rockets out o Gaza. The
Israeli government may well ease restric-
tions on the blockade but not lit it entirely
under present conditions.
It is outrageous that Gilad Shalit is still
held hostage by Hamas and not allowed a
compulsory visit by the International Red
Cross in violation o the Third Geneva Con-
vention o 1949. Hamas must be made to
heed the calls by the U.S., European Union,
France, and other countries to ree Shalit.
The Obama administration must
strongly support Israel, its only democratic
and reliable ally in the Middle East during
this crisis created by its enemies. To do
otherwise is to send the wrong message to
terror groups everywhere.
Jsh Bassn
Seattle
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Each year, the Washington State Holo-
caust Education Resource Center holds
its Jacob Friedman Holocaust Writing
and Art Contest to give students in grades
510 rom around the state the oppor-
tunity to explain in the medium o their
choice what theyve learned about the
Holocaust in their education. Tis year
students were asked to consider the tree
Anne Frank wrote about in her diary a
sapling o that tree will soon be planted in
Seattles Volunteer Park.
Excerpts and artwork rom a ew
o the winners o the 2010 contest
are printed here. Find the rest online
at the Holocaust Centers Web site,
www.wsherc.org/writingcontest.
Writing, Grades 910, 2nd place
Nicola Morrow. Sehome High School,
Bellingham. Grade 9.
So Anne,
the tree that you brought to lie
outside your window
With your words
Is now our tree,
And it will take more than ink
o sustain it.
It will take the memory o six million
dead,
And a promise.
A promise to change,
And to live with your passion.
[excerpt rom a poem]
Writing, Grades 56, 1st place
Samantha Braman. Lake Washington
Girls Middle School, Seattle. Grade 6.
eacher: Lindsey Mutschler
Does change really begin with me? Did
I change the world when I simply asked
my riend to stop gossiping?...What is
humankinds capacity or injustice? Our
world has never accomplished the taste
o being respectul to diferences. It is
our hunger. We eed upon being a strong,
powerul group. We thrive on releasing
our ury on those innocent people we
orce our aults upon. Propaganda and
scapegoating are actions that sometimesseem impossible to change...
What should I do? I asked mysel. Yes,
I do think that Sara is a bit annoying, but
no, gossiping is not the answer to this
problem. I gulped, and then said, Hey
guys, lets try not to gossip about Sara. It
can hurt her eelings. I knew that gossip-
ing could lead to verbal putdowns, which
could lead to ganging up, which could
lead to worse...
Writing, Grades 78, 1st place
Laylan ahir. Cedar Heights Middle
School, Covington. Grade 8.
eacher: Sylvia OBrien
Do you know the story behind my ace?
What do you see when you look at me?
Do you see a typical teenage girl? Are you
going to judge me without knowing me? I
am a thirteen-year-old Kurdish girl; Anne
Frank was a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl.
Tey say there is no such thing as per-
ection. Although I believe that i people
had more respect and tolerance or one
another, that saying would denitely be
proven wrong. Te world would be better.Anne Frank is a name we wi ll remem-
ber...Anne Frank reminds me o one
person, my mother. During t he early nine-
ties Kurds in Iraq were threatened due to
the cruelty o one person, Saddam Hus-
sein.... My amily would walk days and
days not knowing
whats going to
happen the next
day, where would
we end up, or will
we still be alive.
he harsh sights
people had to see,
the millions o
innocent deaths
that could have
been so easily
prevented...
I think when
Anne Frank was
sitting there writing, she thought, maybe,
just maybe, one day, people will all
respect each other. Tis will soon be over.
I will be ree again. My amily thought
that, too. he only dierence was ourdream became a reality. For me, it began
by one man killing my ami ly and ances-
tors or the diferences in our races, but it
ended in one country reaching out to us,
to save us. My lie changed by the United
States having respect or my amily and
bringing us to saety, I cant imagine
what it would be like i every country had
turned their backs. Sometimes every-
one having respect and tolerance or one
another is just an imaginary thought thatcannot be achieved, but it can be strived
or. Change will happen, it will begin with
me. I have begun to teach tolerance and
respect by sharing my story, I am a thir-
teen-year-old Kurdish girl, and I am a
survivor.
Seeing the tree for the forestAnnual Holocaust writing and art contest announces winners
Artwork, Grades 78, 1st place
Finn Colando. Lake Washington Girls Middle School, Seattle.
Grade 7. eacher: Jennier Zavatsky
Every tree starts as a seed. This tree in a gutter cmes rm
smene r smething drpping a seed in it. Withut realizing
it, a seed can change a building rm smething rdinary t
smething extrardinary. Whether we ntice r nt, all us
change ur wrld in the same way this tree cmpletely changed
this building.
Artwork, Grades 56, 1st place
Anna Fotheringham. Lake Washington Girls Middle School,
Seattle. Grade 6.
eacher: Lindsey Mutschler
In February, the cherry blssm trees start t blssm. My art
piece shws a cherry blssm tree that is a negative. I chse t
d a cherry blssm tree because I think that everynes stere-
type a tree is a brwn trunk. I put numbers in the blssms
t represent the numbers by which the prisners were dieren-
tiated. My sunset represents the dierent cultures, races and
religins, integrating tgether peaceully. At the base the
tree is a Star David, and the rts branch ut t represent
Hlcaust survivrs and the rts they will spread t uture
generatins.
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Nadel16. Philosemite Gregoire
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20. 19th-century German Orthodox
leader Esriel
23. Actress Sobieski
25. Reorm clergy org.
26. Longtime Law and Order star
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Deuteronomy
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DianaBrement
JTNews
Columnist
Local amilies whose kids attend
Camp Ramah in Ojai, Caliornia may
like to know that Portland native Rabbi
Joseph M. Menashe will become the
camps next executive director, succeed-
ing Rabbi Daniel Greyber.
Rabbi Joe has been associate rabbi at
the Conservative Congregation Shearith
Israel in Dallas since 2006. Beore that he
directed Te Johns Hopkins UniversityHillel and helped create the campus rst
permanent Hillel acility.
He rst worked at Ramah Caliornia in
1995 as a teacher and social justice coor-
dinator, later serving as a division head.
He led a group on Ramahs Israel Sem-
inar program and was ounding direc-
tor o Meytiv, a social justice program or
high school students.
Ramah has already played a pivotal
role in my lie and I am thrilled to have
been selected or this sacred role, says
the rabbi.
Back in April, Michele Yanow won a
prize in the Seattle Edible Books estival,
a contest that challenges competitors to
illustrate their avorite book with ood.
Micheles winning entry was Lie
o Pi(e), and it won a gold medal in the
most delectably appetizing category.
She heard about the estival through
iers in Seattles Wedgwood neighbor-
hood about a week beore the contest. Her
inspiration?
I was standing in my kitchen, looking
around at my equipment, and I saw a pie
plate, and the book title popped into my
head, she wrote in an e-mail. I asked
mysel, What is the lie o a pie?, and the
idea or this tableau just unolded. Te
photo [on the Web site] leaves out the best
touch in my entry, which is the empty,
crumb-strewn pie plate at the end.
You can see the photo and all the ot her
clever winnersincluding Te Audac-
ity o oast and Quiche o the Spider
Womanat rybooks.blogspot.com.
When Michele isnt baking, gardening
and raising children, shes busy direct-
ing the Seattle Jewish Chorale and is the
program ambassador or the JWest camp
oundation, which provides scholarships
or irst-time Jewish campers. (Inor-
mation at www.acebook.com/Seattle.
Jewish.Chorale and www.onehappyca-
mper.org, respectively.)
I cant claim to be any sort o soc cer an,
but I have enjoyed watching some o the
World Cup and looking up team rosters
to see the amazing array o international
clubs or which these at hletes play.
Just in time or theconclusion o that
international competition, erry Keg-
els lm, I Speak Soccer(JTNews, June 12,
2009), has been selected or ree online
streaming on the popular Hulu Web
site (hulu.com). You can now watch the
entire documentary about pick-up oot-
ball right on your computer screen.Find out more about where the lm
has been screening, and nd an interna-
tional soccer pick-up game at the ocial
Web site: www.ispeaksoccer.com.
Four years ago, Communit y Youth Ser-
vices o Turston County, under executive
director Charles Shelan, won an organiza-
tional award rom the county s chamber o
commerce (JTNews, March 23, 2006). Now
Shelan himsel is the recipient o the Non-
prot Business Leader o the Year rom the
University o Washington acoma Milgard
School o Business.
Charles was honored or Youth Ser-
vices, which provides an array o benets
rom the most basic emergency shelter to
oster care, job training, and Americorps
programs serving 3,800 high-risk youth.
aking time out rom a workshop he
was attending, Charles wrote me to say. I
eel honored and humbled to have been
chosen by the University o Washington
School o Business as this years recipi-
ent. Winning the Milgardaward wasnt
a solo efort. I am blessed to have a sup-
portive and engaged board o directors,
high caliber executive staf, dedicated
and talented line staf, and a support-
ive and engaging community in which to
work. I also want to acknowledge the sup-
port and understanding I have continu-
ously rom my wie, Norma.
At the UW Bothell commencement a
ew weeks ago, Donna Oved received the
schools presidents medal or exemplary
academic perormance, and her service to
our country and to the University o Wash-
ington Bothell. Donna graduated Magna
Cum Laude with a B.A. in Business Admin-
istration, with an option in accounting.
Born in Southern Caliornia, Donnas
amily moved back to Israel (her parents
are Israeli) rom her 2nd through 10th-
grade years. Te amily returned to the
States and she graduated rom high school
in Caliornia, then enlisted in the U.S.
Navy. She worked in inormation tech-
nology while stationed in the U.S. and
Europe. Ater leaving the service, and
with her amily now in living in Bellevue,
Donna enrolled in UW Bothells business
program, not only graduating with a 3.95
GPA, but also participating in internships
at Te Boeing Company and working part-
time at the campus career center.
Donnas riends and coworkers
describe her as a proessional and tena-
cious leader who is kind and compas-
sionate.
Ater graduation, Donna plans to
spend the summer passing the CPA
exam, and will join the Everett oce o
Moss Adams next all.
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Janis SiegelJTNews Correspondent
en-year old Heather Johnson donned
the special work gloves her mother
bought just or her, and got serious about
the tasks she was given at the old, ood-
ravaged home in New Orleans where she
came to work.
As the youngest member o emple De
Hirsch Sinais voluntourism trip to Te
Big Easy in April o this year, she knew
there was a lot to do, even though its
been almost ve years since Hurricane
Katrina hit.
I helped plant lowers and I also
helped weed, Heather, a student at
Eaton School, told JTNews. Her mother
and ather also went with her on the trip,
and made sure she was given appropriatelittle girl activities.
I also worked at a ood bank, she
said. Im really good at sorting ood.
Heather rst saw the hurricanes dev-
astation in 2006, on a trip she took with
her parents soon ater it made landall.
Now, she returned with a mission.
Everything didnt look so pretty,
said Heather, thinking back on her rst
time there. Tey didnt have that many
people. But this elt really good because
they need the help. Tey looked happy
that we helped them.
his is DHSs second trip to New
Orleans to help with cleanup and con-
struction in some o the poorest wards
in New Orleans devastated by the hur-
ricane.
Last year, Rabbi Alan Cook, associ-
ate rabbi at emple De Hirsch Sinai, and
DHS education and youth director Leah
Rosenwald acted as chaperones and took
11 teens and three young adults to the
Lower 9th Ward.
Tis year they went back with a group
o 26, ranging in ages between 10 and
73, including members rom Te ribe, a
temple group o young adults whose ages
range rom 25 to 35.
Nearly hal o the
group were amilies.
We worked with
residents o the lower
9th ward, which is
predominantly an
Arican-American
c o m m u n i t y , t o
rebuild the commu-
nity that was devas-
tated by Hurricane
Katrina, Cook said.
We also did some
visiting in the 5th
Ward. Tey are also
impoverished, but
the community has
not given them as
much attention.Te trip was sub-
sidized in part by
the congregation,
but costs were shoul-
dered mainly by the
individual amilies
at about $1,000 per person or ve days.
Voluntourists worked with residents on
the ground, helping them with painting,
landscaping, building ences, repairing
porches, installing sinks, or just about
anything to do with home repair.
Cook also built in some un activities
or the group. During their leisure time
this year, the group went to a basketball
game at the Astrodome, a bowling and
dance party, a Rock Shabbat at the larg-
est Reorm temple in New Orleans, and
Sunday services and lunch at the Baptist
Missionary Church.
We patronized two o the Jewish delis
in town, Cook said. We had Shabbat at
Congregation Gates o Prayer, one o the
oldest Reorm congregations, in Metai-
rie, Louisiana. we took a driving tour o
destroyed synagogues, and we explored
the French Quarter.
Cook was connected to a community
group in New Orleans called the Lower
9th Ward Center or Sustainable Engage-
ment and Development, whose oces are
located at a church there.
Local homeowners submitted proj-
ects or which they needed help to the
church staf, who then assigned the work
to the volunteers or that day.
Lisa Frank Johnson, Heathers mom,
told JTNews that theyve done commu-
nity service with their daughter beore,
but it was nothing like this. Her husband
also wanted to do this as a am ily project.
We had seen the devastation the year
ater the hurricane, Johnson said. I was
walking around the French Quarter and it
was deserted. he place was just shut
down.
Now, its open, and revitalized, and
it doesnt smell like mildew. Now, it looks
great. Tere were tons o tourists, tons o
shops, and tons o restaurants open.
he whole amily helped the new
owner o an historic, 1800s-era house
reposition a huge cement block back into
its original spot, where it rested beorethe ooding, at the entry way o the home.
Tey also replaced a sidewalk washed
away during the storm.
Tey cant aford to hire people, they
are mostly poor, and they dont have the
unds to do the work themselves, said
Johnson. Tey were telling us that the
irst money that came through wasnt
enough to do any type o repair and a lot
o these people had to use it to make their
mortgage payments.
Cook is already planning next years
trip and will bring people outside o the
congregation who might want to come.
Johnson hopes that between now and
next years trip, the temple can bring ina construction proessional to teach the
participants house-building skills such
as how to hang drywall, how to do ram-
ing, and how to install windows. Without
those skills, Johnson said, it limited the
work they were able to do.
However, because so many people in
New Orleans are still so eager or volun-
teers, Cook said, and because its one o
the ew opportunities in which organi-
zations can participate that doesnt have
age restrictions, its a good t or DHS.
He also believes its also a great way
to immerse the temple youth in real-lie,
real-time charity.
We wanted them to go rom bring-
ing in a quarter or two or tzedakah on
a Sunday morning, to showing them the
recipients otzedakah and that there is a
great need in this world, Cook said. For
some o them last year, this was the rst
time they had been on an airplane, or had
seen poverty, social striations, and racial
divisions rsthand. Hopeully, youve
made an impact and they see there is a
great need in the world.
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Dear Rivy,
Is the world coming to an end? Te
oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the latest
Pandora-like circumstance to plague
mankind. Except Pandora opened her
box out of curiosity while BP drilled the
depths of the sea with greed and reck-
lessness, cutting corners in the pro-
duction and in failing in subsequent
attempts at capping the eruption. Everyday brings me deeper feelings of despair
at the state of the world. Perhaps a
Jewish lens on this epic oil leak and
man-made catastrophe will lend the
issue some perspective. Any thoughts?
Just when we thought it would be sae
to watch the nightly news again, what
with the economic crisis in a supposed
recovery and the world looking possibly
less bleak here we are with perhaps the
most uncontainable and unr uly situation
ever. No amount o resources, bailouts,
taxes, Congressional hearings, peace-
keeping orces, speeches, or negotiations
will get us out o this one. People so unde-
serving o the consequences o this drill-
ing asco are losing livelihood, sh and
wildlie are being destroyed along with
who knows how many ecosystems.
And here we are with nothing to do
but watch it all unold in slow motion. Oil
and tar are slowly washing up on beaches
urther and urther rom the original site
o the imploded rig. We are all eeling
the rustration, dismay and utility. Who
could have seen this coming?
A close reader o the orah might have
had a clue. Sadly, the headline Human
actions destroy world is not unique to
the Gul Coast oil spill. Tere is noth-
ing new under the sun. We humans have
been wreaking havoc with our world
rom the get-go.
Consider this early series o hair-rais-
ing tales rom Bereshit:
Scene One: Creation. God plants a
garden in Eden, places the rst human
into its midst, and causes every beauti-
ul tree to g row delicious or his very con-
sumption. In spite o this, immediately
upon being put in this abundantly lush
garden, the orah tells us that Adam,
paying no heed to the single command
o God to not eat o the ree o Knowl-
edge, tastes o the orbidden ruit and
causes an immediate diminution o the
workings o the world.And unto Adam He said: Because
you have hearkened unto the voice
o thy wie, and have eaten o the
tree, o which I commanded you,
saying: You shall not eat o it;
cursed is the ground on your
account; in toil shall you eat o it all
the days o thy lie. Thorns also and
thistles will it bring orth or you; and
you shall eat the herb o the eld.
What? Adam and Eve, the two humans
on the planet, commit the act o eating
o the ree o Knowledge and as a result
the earth is cursed on their account? Te
good earth that God has created has now
suddenly, as a result o mans actions,
become downgraded it will not yield
produce reely nor bear ruit without
struggle. It will take human sweat to
ourish. Furthermore, the ruit itsel will
come along with thorn and thistle all-
ing short o some original perection now
orever lost to us. At rst this glance this
seems neither air nor logical.
But that is the very point o this rst
essential lesson to mank ind. Dont cross
lines. Do not take what is not yours and
seemingly out o your reach. Te power-
ul, as-yet-unlearned basic core lesson:
Not everything on this earth is or human
consumption. Some say this original
command o not eating o the tree is a
oreshadowing o the laws o kashrut,
which come as well to teach that not
everything is ours to consume.
Scene wo: A ield, east o Eden.
Brother murders brother as rabid jeal-
ousy leads to bloodshed. Cain cannot
bear the pain o being outdone by his
brother. Gods look o avor upon Abel
leads to the very rst ratricide. Again,
the earth is grippingly dragged into the
drama.
And now cursed are you rom the
ground, which has opened her
mouth to receive your brothers
blood rom thy hand. When you
tillest the ground, it shall nothenceorth yield unto you her
strength; a ugitive and a wanderer
shall thou be in the earth.
A ascinating twist o events. Cains
punishment bleeds into his environ-
ment. Te punishment or ratricide is not
limited to perpetrator alone. It is visited
upon its accessory to the crime, the eart h,
which had opened up its mouth to accept
the blood o Abel. Really? Can there be
an authentic culpability in passive soil?
Tey are ar rom being co-conspirators.
Cain has murdered. Te inanimate mud
beneath the eet o Abel cannot help but
relexively swallow up the blood that
pours orth. Is it air that its yield is per-
manently crippled as a result o mans
murderous envy?
Tere seems to be, between human
beings and the earth rom whence they
have been ormed, a proound, inescap-
able symbiotic link: Adam, adamah,
earthling, earth. Humans commit atroc-
ities and the soil beneath his very eet
cannot help but bear the burden. Man
murders and his timeless partner sufers
as a result. A mighty lesson.
Scene Tree: Mount Ararat. Te gig is
up. Mans deeds again have led to crush-
ing results or the world.
But in the atermath o the food, the
Lord smelled the sweet savor; and the
Lord said in His heart: I will not again
curse the ground any more or mans
sake; or the imagination o mans
heart is evil rom his youth; neither will
I again smite everything living, as Ihave done. While the earth remains,
seedtime and harvest, and cold and
heat, and summer and winter, and
day and night shall not cease.
his three-stage progression in
Bereshit draws a clear inextricable link
between the earth and mans actions.
hese two irst parshiyot o the orah
were to have provided us with an obvious
object lesson or perpetuity and a cau-
tionary tale to have animated the depths
o our consciousness. Te rst human
eats o the tree now there must be toil
and sweat, ratricide leads to diminish-
ing returns in all eforts put orth on the
arm, and, nally, mans evil deeds afectthe entire world as it is wiped away with
water spilling out rom above and below.
Some might say that these words,
these core ideas, have been orgotten. As
greed continues to take hold o each o
us, we consumers share in the culpabil-
ity o our manic dr ive or energy and our
continued addiction to a lie o luxury
ueled by comorts and liestyles that
our own grandparents could never have
dreamed o.
A murky summer lurks as we continue
to bear witness as this latest man-earth
travesty unolds with these words o
Koheleth Rabbah echoing in our mind:
When the Holy One, blessed be He,
created the rst man, He took him
and led him round all the trees o the
Garden o Eden, and said to him,
Behold My works, how beautiul
and commendable they are! All that
I have created, or your sake I
created it. Pay heed that you do not
corrupt and destroy My universe or
i you corrupt it there is no one to
repair it ater you.
Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally
renowned educator and Head o School
at the Seattle Hebrew Academy. I you
have a question thats been tickling your
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Maybe its time to invoke a modern
Jubilee on the global economy. Jubilee is
the Leviticus concept that every 50 years,
with a sounding o the shoar on Yom
Kippur, debts are orgiven, slaves reed,
and title to lands let go. Basically, every
hal century, we start over.
As the Gul o Mexico lls with oil, per-
sonal and national debts hit unprece-
dented levels, incomes and ownership havebecome so polarized that ewer than 20
percent o the worlds people control most
o its resources, and nearly 5 billion people
live in poverty, somethings got to give.
But rst, lets give some credit to how
ar our amazing economic systems have
brought us since the Industrial Revo-
lution. Tey have so helped smooth out
the inequitable distribution o world
resources and opportunities that ood,
water, shelter, health care and mobility
have never been more widely accessible.
But weve hit a wall: Weve run out o
money to und ourselves. Its the reces-
sion and depression cycle o our boom-
and-bust economy. It doesnt matter
whether were trying to reorm health
care, build green, or buy equipment
to prevent an undersea oil blowout. We
use the same old excuse: We cant aford
this. And with that, we reduce opportu-
nities and stie innovation. What would
happen instead, i we jubilantly let go,
and operated without money?
We know money contains no intrin-
sic value: We cant eat, drink or plant it,
or use it or clothing, shelter or procre-
ation. Money cant express non-monetary
values, such as health, amily, commu-
nity, education, leisure or aith. And
moneys buying power is unstable it
changes daily with supply, demand and
levels o enterprise. Moneys not the root
o all evi l. Its an addictive drug, and were
stuck in the habit. But weve got to kick it.
Perhaps i we go back to the beginning,we can return with new perspectives.
Te basic no-money liestyle is subsis-
tence like hunter-gatherer Israelites in
the wilderness, but without the manna.
Its a sel-sucient and independent lie,
but it requires huge investments o t ime
and labor to secure ood, make clothing
and shelter, raise the young, tend domes-
tic animals, and migrate.
As tribes rst made contact with one
another and established societies, their
members discovered new marvels they
wanted or needed tools, skills, adorn-
ments, even brides and grooms. o get
these items, they had to nd ways to trade
or them, which meant setting values and
prices. As trading evolved into regional
and transcontinental commerce, between
kingdoms, city-states and empires, means
o pricing and trading e volved, too rom
livestock and artiacts, to precious stones
and metals, and, nally, to a representa-
tion o them al l, called money.
Its human to seek the most return or
the least investment. Tus, weve created
everything rom labor-saving devices to
hybrid crops. Around money, we learned:
1. Where a product or service cant be ofered
or trade, money can (which explains why
were perennially unwilling to part with it,
even as our sages long exhorted us to give it
away or the common good).
2. Its possible to make money on money,
through debt instruments (e.g., mort-
gages, stocks, bonds), creating new medi-
ums o exchange (e.g., platinum, taxes,carbon credits), and serving as transer
agents or money, goods and services. Tis
ability has enabled money manipulators to
repeatedly torpedo our economy.
3. Amassing exchange mediums can make
us comortable and even powerul. Tis
time-honored orm o hoarding is driven by
ear o scarcity. It has spawned monumen-
tal deceits and mayhem, and prodigious
catastrophes or societies and ecosystems.
It has also spawned endless legal and taxa-
tion eforts to reign in hoarders and manip-
ulators, and re-distribute their wealth.
4. Money-making ocuses us on the uture
or past, not on present living.
So how can we do things diferently?
hose who promote stable precious
metals ignore its panic pricing, and the
environmental damage its mining does.
Tose who advocate trading chickens or
doctors care disregard the real costs o
our medical systems. Tose who create
local currencies cant move them beyond
their localities. But taken together, these
three views ofer an i nteresting vision or
a new economic model: Base it on intrin-
sic value. Ours is already a largely cash-
less society. Now, lets go money-less.
At its simplest, the system would work
on a nationwide barter and exchange
system, rather like carbon credit trading,
using current nancial and accounting
rameworks. It would be managed through
national syndicates or utilities, and
resources, goods and services would be
consumed, ofered and traded rst locally,then regionally, nationally, and interna-
tionally. Te system would boost local sel-
reliance, restore the environment, and
ree us to innovate and create opportuni-
ties without agonizing over what we could
aford. It would change the natures o or-
tunes, wealth, and riches, but wed all
stay well-ed and healthy. And wed judge
each other based on our contributions, not
our money. It may be crazy and idealistic,
but it would make or a jubilant change.
Author and teacher Martin Westerman
writes and consults on sustainable living.
He can be contacted with questions at
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One o the poorly kept secrets o Jewish
communal work is that while plenty o
people dedicate their proessional lives
to Jewish education and continuity, only
a select ew ever get recognized or their
eforts. Which is why its a big deal when a
national organization recognizes teach-
ers or their dedication to their students.
Such is the case or Beth Huppin, the
5th grade Judaics teacher at the Seat-
tle Jewish Community School. Huppin
was named one o three educators rom
around the country this month to receive
the Covenant Award, bestowed by the
New York-based Covenant Foundation
and given to educators or their creativ-
ity and innovation in raising the bar orJewish education.
I eel very honored, Huppin told
JTNews.
But adding, in what her head o school
said is Huppins trademark humility, Its
not just about me. Nobody does anything
meaningul in lie alone, and I eel like I
work with some abulous people, and Ive
had wonderul teachers and a support-
ive amily, supportive colleagues, won-
derul students, all those things. It makes
me grateul.
Huppin has spent more than 30 years
working in Jewish education, starting as
a teachers aide in her hometown o Spo-
kane as a teenager. She was a camper,
counselor, and, or a short while, director
at Camp Solomon Schechter near Olym-
pia.
As a student at the University o Wash-
ington, the now-well-known Jewish
Studies proessor Deborah Lipstadt
encouraged Huppin to transer to Bran-
deis University so she could earn her
degree in that subject. She received her
Masters in teaching rom the ormer
University o Judaism. She credits many
o her own instructors over the years or
inspiring her to teach not just at SJCS,
where she has been since 1995, but also in
the teen and adult education classes she
leads at Congregation Beth Shalom.
Ive had many wonderul teachers,
Huppin said. Tis whole thing has really
made me think about how lucky I am tohave run across so many di ferent terric
teachers.
he winners are peer-nominated,
and in this case Huppin was nominated
by SJCS outgoing head o school, Debra
Butler. Tough the two worked together
or only a ew years at the school, they
have known each other and worked
within some o the same educational cir-
cles or 20 years. In that time, Butler said,
she has been able to see Huppins growth
as a teacher.
But, Butler added, As much as she
has grown as an educator, its amazing
to watch how much the students grow
because o her.
Butler said shes excited about the rec-
ognition her colleague has received.
Its a well-deserved honor, she said.
Shes passionate about what she does
and the kids eel that and they respond
to her.
One o the programs or whic h Huppin
was cited is a monthly project in which
she takes her 5th grade class downtown
to serve meals to the homeless or Opera-
tion Sack Lunch its a way in which she
said Jewish values like tzedakah can be
lived rather than only learned in books.
Whenever we talk orah, we talk
about how it applies to our lives, she
said.
Once the students reach her class in
their nal year at SJCS, it isnt like Huppin
is teaching these values rom the begin-ning, however.
It trickles up, she said. hey get
to me thinking orah already speaks to
their lie. I just continue what my col-
leagues do.
Te process to becoming a Covenant
Award winner is not necessarily an easy
one. Huppin was up against more than
100 nominees at the beginning. Har-
lene Appelman, the Covenant Founda-
tions executive director, told JTNews
that number was then weeded down to
10 nalists. Te oundation interviewed
several o Huppins colleagues and, once
selected, a camera crew came to Seattle
to lm Huppin or a documentary about
the years winners.
We do a documentary o each o our
award recipients so t hey dont have to talk
about what they do and we dont have to
talk about what they do, Appelman said.
Wed rather show them in action.
Appelman said Huppins unique abil-
ities to reach out to anyone she educates
helped the oundation decide upon her.
Beth has always reached out to kids
and adults and teens, and her ability to
embrace everyone or what they are and
bring that to the whole community or
what it is is the part that isnt displayed in
many Jewish educators, Appelman said.
Te other two award winners are a
Hillel director and a director o Holocaust
education, both in the Boston area. Tey
all receive a $36,000 stipend or them-selves as well as $5,000 or their organiza-
tion. Tey will be honored at a ceremony
in November in New Orleans.
Huppin said that as someone work-
ing in the trenches, so to speak, she
was excited she could be chosen or the
award.
I eel that really recognizes a act that
somebodys got to be in the classroom day
in and day out, she said.
But Huppin was steadast in her view
that the honors are not hers alone.
I couldnt do this by mysel, she said.
Im only successul at what I do because
Im part o a really magnicent team.
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rolls o the eligible.
Stern applied under a program known
as GWPP and was denied.
Tey said that sinc e I went to the arm
voluntarily, I was not eligible, though
once the Gestapo took over it was not vol-
untary, he said.
In 2009, another German court deci-
sion re-opened the possibility o com-
pensation or people like Stern when it
ruled that those who worked voluntarily
were now eligible or a program called
ZRBG. Tat program ofers a pension or a
one-time lump sum payment.
According to Jane Relin, Clinical
Director at Jewish Family Service o
Greater Seattle, the local agency heading
up the efort to identiy possible claimants
and assist them in ling a claim, the latest
opening is hopeul but appears to tread a
well-worn path in the lives o survivors.
From these claims to reclaiming lie
insurance and bank accounts, it has been
a struggle, she said. It also compounds
the pain or many survivors because they
are orced to retell the stories o the worst
years o their lives.
Success has been measured in small
numbers, with only a handul o accepted
claims. Despite that, advocates or sur-
vivors are urging anyone who was previ-
ously rejected, like Stern, to re-apply.
Bet zedek, a Los Angeles-based social
service agency has long been involved in the
efort, going back to the rst wave o claims.
Tey have gone to law rms around
the country and gotten them to ofer t heir
services pro bono to survivors as they
ll out the required paperwork and le
claims, said Relin.
In Washington, JFS is working to con-
nect area survivors with Bet zedek.
JFS will screen survivors to see
whether they are likely eligible, then
connect the person with an attorney in
the area. Locally, the law rms o DavisWright remaine as well as Foster Pepper
and Perkins Coie have stepped orward to
be a part o the efort.
As or Klaus Stern, he is skeptical
about trying again.
It is a lot o efort or maybe $2,500,
said the retired bakery employee. I
think they [the German government] are
hoping we all die of and they can put it all
behind them.
I you believe you or someone you know
may be eligible as a voluntary ghetto
worker in Nazi Germany or occupied
territories, contact Adam Halpern at JFS at
206-861-3152 or [email protected].
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