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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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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.

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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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Te Jerusalem Post

Crossword PuzzleBy David Benkof

Across

1. It might be humble

6. ___ Blum

10. Whence Ruth came

14. Kabbalist Isaac

15. Musician and Holocaust victim

Nadel16. Philosemite Gregoire

17. Helps

18. New Jersey hoopsters

19. Wind

20. 19th-century German Orthodox

leader Esriel

23. Actress Sobieski

25. Reorm clergy org.

26. Longtime Law and Order star

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35. Street ___

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(Home Inuence)

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Deuteronomy

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22. Real

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places

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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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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

brain, send Rivy an e-mail at

[email protected].

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Maybe its time to invoke a modern

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and title to lands let go. Basically, every

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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.

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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

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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-

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pensation or people like Stern when it

ruled that those who worked voluntarily

were now eligible or a program called

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one-time lump sum payment.

According to Jane Relin, Clinical

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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

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the pain or many survivors because they

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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

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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,

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think they [the German government] are

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