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Back to basics for a lovely Pesach dishMichael NatkiN JTNews Columnist

Braising is something of a lost art, which is a shame because it isn’t at all difficult to do. Learn a couple of basic moves and you’ll be rewarded with a succulent, richly fla-vored, rustic dish perfect for Passover.

A proper braise is com-posed of even more basic cooking methods. First you sear the heck out of your main ingredient to develop those beautiful browned flavors. Then you remove it from the

pot, quickly sweat your other vegetables, and return the main ingredient along with a small amount of flavorful liquid. With the lid on and the heat lowered, everything steams until tender while the flavors marry and the sauce emulsifies into silky good-ness.

The most common choice of supporting vegetables is mirepoix — carrots, onions and celery. In this case I omit the celery because it might

muddy the flavor of the fennel.Fennel pollen, if you can get it, is pretty

amazing stuff. The aroma is like summer in Provençe in a jar. It is rather expen-

sive but a pinch goes a long way. This dish is just fine without it, but if you are in the mood to gild the lily, I highly recom-mend it.

Braised FennelServes 4 as a side dishVegetarian, vegan and gluten-free

1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil plus additional for garnish2 medium fennel bulbs, trimmed and halved length-wise, fronds reserved for garnish4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced1/2 white onion, thinly sliced1-1/2 cups sliced carrots (1/4" thick coins)Crushed red pepperFreshly ground black pepper1/2 tsp. kosher saltZest and juice of 1 mandarin orange1/4 cup dry vermouth (kosher for Passover)Flaky sea salt, such as MaldonOptional: fennel pollen• In a pot with a tight-fitting lid, big

enough to hold the fennel in a single layer, heat the olive oil over medium high heat. (A Dutch oven is ideal for this recipe.) When the oil is shimmer-ing hot, lay the four fennel halves in the oil, cut side down. Sear until quite well browned, about 5 minutes. Flip and cook for another couple of minutes on the rounded sides.

• Remove the fennel to a plate, leaving the oil behind in the pot. Lower the heat to medium low. Add the garlic, onion, carrots, a big pinch of crushed red pepper, several generous grinds of black pepper, and the salt. Cook, stir-ring occasionally for about 3 minutes, until the onions start to soften.

• Add the orange zest and juice, the vermouth, and 1/2 cup water and stir, scraping the bottom to incorporate the delicious caramelized brown bits (fond). Put the fennel back in the pot, cut side up, on top of the onions and carrots. Cover the pot and braise until the fennel is completely tender when probed with a knife. This could be anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes, de-pending on the size of the bulbs. Dur-ing the braise, adjust the heat so there is a good, steady amount of steam in the pot, but not so much that all the liquid boils off. Add a bit more liquid if needed.

• To serve, transfer the fennel bulbs onto a serving platter. Spoon the car-rots, onions and sauce over the fen-nel. Garnish with a generous drizzle of good olive oil, more freshly ground pepper, some flaky salt, the fennel fronds, and the optional fennel pollen.

Local food writer and chef Michael Natkin is the author of the recently released cookbook, “Herbivoracious, A Flavor Revolution with 150 Vibrant and Original Vegetarian Recipes,” based on his food blog, herbivoracious.com.

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No more European excuses on Hezbollah WeNdy RoseN Special to JTNews

This past July, a bomb went off in Burgas, Bulgaria, murdering five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian bus driver, and wounding dozens more. After a six-month investigation, the Bulgarian min-ister of the interior recently announced the findings: The atrocity was carried out and financed by the Lebanese-based Muslim group Hezbollah, whose anti-Semitic and anti-Western ideology is well known. Great credit goes to Bulgaria for its thorough and professional investigation, which did not shy away from pinpointing the perpetrator.

Word about a similar plot is now emerg-ing from Cyprus, where a Hezbollah opera-tive has admitted to tracking the location of Jews for the terrorist organization.

Until now, the European Union has refused to designate Hezbollah as a terror-ist organization. Two of its member states — the United Kingdom and the Nether-lands — do designate it as such, as do the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Immediately after the Burgas bombing, the president of the European Union said: “Should there be tangible evidence of Hezbollah engag-ing in acts of terrorism, the EU would con-sider listing the organization.” In light of the information turned up in the Bulgar-ian investigation and the Cyprus interro-gations, can the EU continue to bury its head in the sand?

Hezbollah’s gruesome record goes back three decades. In 1983, its suicide bomb-ers killed 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French peacekeeping troops in Beirut. Among its subsequent acts of violence, Hezbollah was identified by a UN tribunal as respon-sible for the truck bombing that killed Leb-anese prime minister Rafik Hariri and 22 others in 2005. Several years later, Hez-bollah took over West Beirut in what the government at the time called a “bloody coup.” More than 100 people, many of them civilians, were killed.

The group’s activity has even reached

the Western Hemisphere. A special Argentinean prosecutor who investigated the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, which left 85 dead and hundreds injured, identified Hezbollah and its Iranian con-federates as the perpetrators.

Since placement on the list of terror-ist organizations would allow EU mem-bers to freeze Hezbollah’s bank accounts and facilitate cross-border cooperation in apprehending and arresting Hezbol-lah operatives in Europe, its reluctance to do so has made it easier for the organiza-tion to recruit, plan and carry out its hor-rific activity.

Fear of reprisal against EU states might have been psychologically understandable, if not morally defensible, when Hezbollah appeared to be using Europe simply as a base of operations in the Middle East. But unfortunately, the attack in Bulgaria indi-cates that Western targets are already part of these terrorists’ plans, so turning the other cheek has had no real deterrent effect.

Another argument for holding off on declaring Hezbollah a terrorist entity is that the organization also has a “political” wing, one that wields considerable power in Leb-anon, and that weakening it would destabi-lize that country. But Hezbollah’s “political” presence, which includes a private army that makes it a state-within-a-state, in fact desta-bilizes Lebanon. That was clearly the case in 2006, when its missile attacks on Israel started a war that led to many civilian casu-alties and devastated southern Lebanon. Since then, Hezbollah has received new sup-plies of missiles from Iran in preparation for the next confrontation with Israel.

It is time for our friends in the EU to reconsider their excuses and to officially declare Hezbollah the terrorist entity that it is.

Wendy Rosen is regional director of the Seattle office of the American Jewish Committee.

Tefillin: The way to a purpose-driven dayRabbi siMoN beNzaqueN Rabbi Emeritus, Sephardic Bikur holim

To my delight, I have noticed an encouraging trend of people who might not be religiously observant never-theless observing the com-mandment of wearing tefillin.

Why is it important for every male Jew, no matter what level of observance, to consider donning tefillin? For one, it is a mitzvah (a com-mandment). Every mitzvah is an act of love that binds us to God. But tefillin is the paradigm mitzvah in that we literally bind ourselves to the will of God. Tefillin represents a total dedication and union with the Almighty.

As the Torah says, “Bind [these com-mandments] as a sign on your arm, and as totafot [frontlets] between your eyes” (Deut. 6:8).

Tefillin consists of two black boxes, one of which is worn on the bicep, the other on the forehead. Attached to each box are black leather straps. Inside each box is parchment containing four Torah sections: The obligation to remember the Exodus (Ex. 13:1-10); the responsibility to transmit Judaism to our descendants (Ex. 11-16); the Shema, the proclamation of God’s unity and the mitzvah to love God (Deut. 6:4-9); and the implications of our fulfillment of the Torah (Deut. 11:13-21). The outer structure of the tefillin contains three Hebrew letters, which spell out one of God’s names, Shaddai.

Sometimes people won’t know about tefillin, but they know about phylacteries. This is a term used by the ancient Greeks who referred to them as “phylakterion,” which means a protection or a safeguard. Apparently, the Greeks misunderstood the tefillin to be some sort of amulet or charm. Actually, tefillin has nothing to do with superstition, but is considered as a genuine connection to God.

What’s the purpose of tefillin, of wear-ing a sign on your arm and on your head?

On the eve of the Exodus from Egypt, as the Israelites were about to go forth on their journey to freedom, God gave them a number of instructions. Among them was: “V’haya lecha l’eot al yad’cha, ul’zikaron ben enecha” — “It shall be to you as a sign upon your arm and a reminder between your eyes” (Ex. 13:9). Tefillin are to be an insignia on your arm and a crown upon your head, a daily reminder of what God did in redeeming us from the slavery of Egypt.

Tefillin is a daily reminder of the potential for evil within every one of us, personified by the slavery in Egypt, and a

sign of our God-given poten-tial for goodness and holi-ness as personified in the holy scrolls from the Torah within the tefillin boxes.

But why do we have to wear them? “le’maan tih’yeh Torat Hashem be’ficha” — “So that the word of God may be in your mouth” — so that you will be inspired to speak up about your own experi-

ences as if you were in Egypt experiencing the evil of slavery, and help bring God’s light and goodness to the world.

The two boxes represent the two ways we serve God in this world: Thought (the head) and action (the arm). When putting on the arm tefillin, we focus on devoting our strength to the Almighty. It is placed at a level opposite the heart to teach that all our actions must be done with heart and mind. The head tefillin imbues us with the idea of subjugating our intellect for the love of God.

Dr. Steven Schram, a chiropractor and acupuncturist, wrote a fascinating arti-cle in the Journal of Chinese Medicine in October 2002 called “Tefillin: An Ancient Acupuncture Point Prescription For Mental Clarity.” Schram points out that when worn properly, the leather straps and boxes of the tefillin stimulate acu-puncture points associated with improved concentration and inspiration. The con-tact points of tefillin are exactly those points at which acupuncture needles are inserted in order “to increase spirituality and to purify thoughts.”

Schram was not a particularly obser-vant Jew and hadn’t worn tefillin since his Bar Mitzvah. He went to a rabbi for a refresher course. For a while, he would put tefillin on in the morning, sit on his adjustment table, say the Shema, and meditate. Schram wrote, “I hope that more people will do tefillin…I think tefillin is a tool for enhancing consciousness, and I would like to see more consciousness.”

Some have likened tefillin to a sophis-ticated device that receives “spiritual-elec-tronic” signals. If one wire or transistor is faulty, the entire system does not function.

It is important that one wear tefillin in 100 percent good condition. Every letter of the parchment inserted in the tefil-lin boxes must be halachically acceptable, written in the right order that appears in the Torah, and not cracked or faded. The ink must be black, not faded to brown or green.

Therefore, if you have an old pair of tefillin (perhaps that you inherited from

your grandfather), you should have it inspected by a scribe. In general, it is a good idea for tefillin to be checked at reg-ular intervals. One should only purchase tefillin from a sofer, a scribe and God-fear-ing Jew, who knows the quality of tefillin.

Why put on tefillin? As the Torah tells us “so that the Torah of God shall be in

your mouth.” So that you will be inspired and live an inspired life. Besides, what a great way to start the day.

Rabbi Benzaquen is a scribe and authorized to check sifrei Torah, tefillin and mezuzot. If you would like him to inspect your parchment, call him at 206-200-6829.

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The changing Middle East, as seen from AIPAC 2013beN coheN JNS.org

WASHINGTON, DC—The razzmatazz at this year’s AIPAC policy conference couldn’t quite mute the background mur-murs about the organization’s declining influence. There was Chuck Hagel’s con-firmation as defense secretary, and there is the ongoing debate about the impact of sequestration on Israel’s defensive capabili-ties. When Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) com-plained that the Obama administration still had not delivered advanced F-35 fighter air-craft to Israel, he inadvertently invited his audience to ponder, “All-powerful Israel lobby? What all-powerful Israel lobby?”

Away from the podium speeches that restated, to standing ovations and thun-derous applause, the critical talking points of Israel advocacy — “Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East,” “all options must remain on the table concern-ing Iran,” “there is no genuine Palestinian peace partner,” and so forth — there was serious reconsideration of Israel’s current strategic position in the Middle East.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) memora-bly summarized the stakes involved when he told the AIPAC crowd, “I have not seen the Middle East and the world in a more dangerous situation in my lifetime.”

What, perhaps, is distinctive about this “dangerous situation” is that it contains a complex of conflicts in which Israel is not an active participant, but a nervous bystander waiting on a series of uncer-tain outcomes. The much-vaunted Arab Spring, more accurately described by Israeli journalist Amos Harel as “the Arab upheaval,” has taken different forms in dif-ferent countries, but the common denom-inator is that, in not a single instance, has a democratic, open society emerged at the other end. In the Arab gulf region in par-ticular, long-established repressive and corrupt regimes, most obviously in Saudi Arabia, remain in place. As the Ameri-can columnist Bret Stephens pointed out, much as we might wish for an end to the Saudi monarchy, in all likelihood what fol-

lows them will be worse. Old certainties—like the position of

Turkey as a friend of both Israel and the western powers—have been dramatically undercut, as demonstrated by Prime Min-ister Erdogan’s vicious assault on Zionism as a “crime against humanity.”

Most of all, there is Iran. While there was little discussion of the one conflict in which Israel is directly involved, that with the Palestinians, the AIPAC parley was dominated by anxiety that Iran is on the cusp of acquiring a nuclear weapon. Speaking at the main plenary, Vice Pres-ident Joe Biden accentuated a signifi-cant, if subtle, shift in the administration’s articulation of its Iran policy. America’s goal, Biden said, “is to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, period.” Then, for added effect, Biden repeated: “Prevent, not contain, prevent.”

The picture that has emerged at AIPAC, then, is of an Israel facing unknown, inde-terminate threats that are far greater than

the known threats it has encountered in the past. As a consequence, detailed policy prescriptions were hard to come by. Absent from the policy conference were recommendations as to how Israel should proceed in negotiations with the Palestin-ians (because there aren’t any) or main-tain its historic 1979 peace treaty with Egypt (because there’s not much it can do should that country’s Muslim Brother-hood leaders decide to tear it up).

Instead, the focus was on Israel as frontline member of the community of democratic nations, the terrain where the cultural, political and perhaps military struggles between western openness and Islamists strictures will be played out.

Ben Cohen is the Shillman analyst for JNS.org. His writings on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics have been published in Commentary, the New York Post, Ha’aretz, Jewish Ideas Daily, and many other publications.

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Passover

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Kita bueno de la boka.Take (say) only good things from your mouth.

From the Jewish Transcript, March 5, 1987.This is a Remember When of a Remember When, as the paper ran

a photo that looked back on a Purim play performed 60 years earlier. Members of the Moses Montefiore Congregation of Everett performed the play in 1927, and its cast was memorialized in the collection of the Jewish Archives Project at the University of Washington libraries.

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Quick news 6A few briefs on honors and promotions in our community.

How tolls would affect our community 7The proposed — and likely inevitable — tolls on I-90 across Lake Washington will have a hugely negative impact on Jewish institutions on Mercer Island, say those organizations’ leaders.

“Crossing Delancey” across Seattle 10The popular play and film gets local treatment with the premiere of a production by the Seattle Jewish Theater Company.

A place for dinner 11If you’re looking for a place to celebrate Passover, look no further than the many synagogues and organiza-tions throughout the state that will be offering seders and more.

Getting in the spirit for Passover wine 14For more than a decade JTNews has partnered with Royal Wine Corp. to bring you the best of real, deli-cious kosher-for-Passover wines so you’re not stuck with the cloying, syrupy wine that has become, for better or worse, tradition.

The cure for seder boredom 16When her niece and nephew got bored at the seder table, one woman invented a Bingo game to keep them interested. Now Passover Bingo is available for everyone.

Finding Jewish Portland 17Portland is a fun destination in general, but there’s a home-grown Jewish store that’s become a community center in its own right.

Documenting Mom 20Soon after Itai Erdal moved from Israel to Vancouver, his mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He filmed her entire illness, right up to her death, but rather than turn his story into a documentary, he turned it into a stage play. That show is coming to Seattle.

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BBYO leaders win multiple awards

At the international convention for the BBYO youth group last month, several members from the Evergreen Region brought home awards.

Jessica Markowitz won the Anita Perlman BBYO Stand UP Award for her consistent work in trying to improve her community. She performed her community service both individually and through her BBYO chapter. Markowitz joined Kate Reinertson and Hannah Stulberg in receiving the Star of Deborah, which honors B’nai B’rith Girls who have made an outstanding commitment to BBG, have dis-played a consistent commitment to the sisterhood, and best exemplify the ideals and principles set forth by BBYO. It is the highest honor a BBG can receive. Reinertson also won the B’nai B’rith Girls’ Eternal Light Recruitment Award, which recognizes girls who have played a signifi-

cant and lasting part in growing their organization.Two boys, Robert Franco and Eli Cohen,

received one of the most historic and prestigious honors, the Shield of David Award, which recog-nizes Aleph Zadik Aleph boys who, throughout their tenure in the organization, have displayed outstanding leadership, a consistent commitment to the fraternity, and have participated across all tiers of the order.

Also, in January, Benjamin Starsky, program associate for BBYO’s Evergreen Region, received the Arnie Weiner Award, established to honor BBYO professionals for their hard work and dedi-cation to the organization.

JFS HomeCare Associates wins national recognition

Home Care Pulse, one of North America’s top quality-assurance firms for in-home senior care,

has given Jewish Family Service’s HomeCare Associates its Best of Home Care award. The award is based on client-satisfaction surveys conducted on thousands of home-care organizations across the continent. Caregivers take part in the research as well. In the past year of surveys, HomeCare Associates was given especially high marks for caregiver ethics, timeliness of services, and caregiver presentation. Home Care Pulse uses a third party to conduct its research.

“This award is just another way for us to show the public that we have been vetted by a third party source — we can be trusted to take care of you and your loved ones,” said Donald Armstrong, JFS’s director of home care and community-based services, in a statement.

One large contributing factor to the award was HomeCare Associates’ Family Caregiver Support pro-gram, which offers free support to unpaid adult caregivers such as spouses or children. Those services include coun-

seling, support groups and occasional financial assistance.“We believe that a healthy care environment requires

that we meet the needs of not only the care recipient, but the family members involved as well,” Armstrong said.

Rob Toren appointed executive director of Samis

In January, the Samis Foundation promoted Rob Toren from grants director to executive director. Toren, an ordained rabbi and former director of Judaica at the Jewish Community Centers of Cleveland, Ohio, had served as grants director since 1997. Founded by Sam Israel in 1987, Samis has granted over $65 million to Jewish camps, day schools, Israel experiences, and projects focused on pov-erty and immigration issues in Israel.

“Our promotion of Rob allows us to fully integrate our programmatic services with the operation and manage-ment of the late Sam Israel’s real estate portfolio,” said Eddie Hasson, chair of the Samis Foundation board of trustees.

Stopsky’s Passover menu captures Bon Appétit’s eye

Two years ago, Stopsky’s opened with the tagline “tradi-tion, updated,” and the community-focused Mercer Island delicatessen seems to have found its groove — if getting the attention of established foodie magazine Bon Appé-tit is any indication. On February 25, BonAppetit.com ran “Brisket and Gefilte Fish Get a Makeover,” which singles out Stopsky’s for its creative approach to standard Jewish fare. Chef Austin Zimmerman shares a revamped Pass-over seder consisting of chilé-braised short ribs, smoked fish fritters with beet vinaigrette, and lime-in-the-coconut macaroons, along with a timing guide so you’re not jug-gling tasks as the guests walk in. “It’s enough to impress today’s chefs and bubbes alike,” wrote Bon Appétit.

To see the story and recipes, visit bit.ly/stopsky.

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The Evergreen Region delegation that attended BBYO’s international convention last month.

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Treehouse

Being a foster child means having to cope with extraordinary disadvantages during some of the most important formative years leading to adulthood. Most often, children enter the foster care system due to abuse or neglect. Foster kids often don’t get the same emotional or financial support that other kids get, or the sense of security that comes from being a part of a biological or adoptive family. This is why Treehouse exists, to counteract some of the disadvantages that come with being a foster child. Treehouse is QFC’s charity of the month for March.

Most people find that getting a good education is an essential step towards leading a productive, fulfilling life. People without a good education are often at a disadvantage in pursuing a career or a landing a good job. Unfortunately, due to the emotional turmoil many foster children have had to endure, they are not primed and ready to do well in school. Treehouse is dedicated to helping the foster child population here in Washington through Education Advocacy and Education Engagement.

Treehouse Education Advocates help students access education support services, stay in the same school whenever possible or help with the transition to a new school, work through issues that might keep them out of school, and help them make up credits, stay engaged and stay on track to graduate.

Treehouse provides education planning, coaching and support through Education Engagement. The Treehouse website notes:

Through weekly monitoring of risk indicators, personalized intervention, building problem solving and self-advocacy skills, proactively removing barriers to school success, and supports to fully engage in school and community, Treehouse paves the way to high school graduation, hope and opportunity.The Treehouse mission of helping foster children goes beyond education to include

many other aspects of youths’ lives. Here are four other programs that Treehouse supports that help make a difference: Little Wishes, Summer Camp, The Wearhouse and Holiday Magic.

Through Little Wishes, Treehouse provides access to extracurricular activities like sports, music, dance and clubs, as well as school activities because kids who

are positively engaged in school and community have better academic and life outcomes. The Summer Camp

program provides access to overnight camps, day camps and other summer programs, giving foster kids a chance to get away and make new friends, while providing a break for their caregivers. Because spare funds are often short or nonexistent, Treehouse created The Wearhouse so that foster kids can get free new and like-new clothing, books, toys and other things to help them feel good and fit in. Eligible participants can use The Wearhouse up to five times a year. The Holiday Magic program helps kids in foster care have a happy holiday by raising resources from the community to provide each child with a special holiday gift.  

QFC is proud to partner with Treehouse to raise awareness about the important work they are involved in and to help raise funds to support the services they offer to their young clients. We invite you to make a donation at any QFC checkstand to Treehouse until March 30th.

How I-90 tolls would affect the entire Jewish communitytiM klass JTNews Correspondent

A plan to collect tolls on the Inter-state 90 floating bridge is raising a double whammy of concern and uncertainty across Mercer Island, not the least among its Jewish institutions.

“Tolling could make membership and access to [Congregation Herzl-Ner Tamid] cost-prohibitive and burdensome for many of our congregants,” wrote syn-agogue president Julie Ellenhorn in an email to members in January.

Rabbi Bernie Fox, head of the Northwest Yeshiva High School, and Judy Neuman, chief executive of the Stroum Jewish Com-munity Center, said their institutions also would be hard hit if teachers, custodi-ans, secretaries, groundskeepers and other employees could not afford to commute.

Nearly all the JCC’s employees live in Seattle or in the Eastside suburbs, and a number have complained that “if this were to come to pass, they can’t imagine how they could make it work financially,” Neuman said.

When the JCC moved from Seattle to the north end of Mercer Island in 1969, the main reasons were land costs and Jewish population growth east of Lake Washing-ton. Two years later, the newly merged Herzl-Ner Tamid, the state’s largest Con-servative synagogue, was built across from the JCC on East Mercer Way.

In 1992, when NYHS relocated from Seattle to the middle of the island, Fox said the deciding factor was that “it’s equally inconvenient for everyone.”

Since then, the island has become even more of a hub for the region’s increas-ingly far-flung Jewish community with the addition of a kosher restaurant and com-prehensive kosher food departments in the Albertson’s and, more recently, QFC supermarkets.

“There’s a tremendous amount of Jewish infrastructure on the island,” Fox said. “It’s definitely going to impact the effectiveness of that infrastructure.”

Mercer Island Councilwoman Tana Senn echoed that sentiment.

“A lot of the Jewish community comes to the island for religious services and for kosher shopping and dining,” Senn said. “This is really a regional issue.”

Approximately 25 percent of Mercer Island’s 22,000 residents are believed to be Jewish. Other clusters of Jews reside in Seattle’s Northend and the Seward Park neighborhoods, and in Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Issaquah and Sammamish on the Eastside. A Census Bureau report last fall listed Mercer Island as the wealthiest city in Washington State, with a median family income of $146,476, compared with $91,898 for Seattle and $62,735 nationwide.

According to estimates the JCC’s Neuman has seen, the state transporta-tion department’s plan to collect tolls on both the East Channel and Lake Washing-ton sections would cost daily commuters $2,000 to $3,000 a year.

With annual tuition and fees exceeding $15,000 at NYHS, Fox said, enrollment is 75 students with about 60 percent paying full fare, down from a peak of about 120 students when tuition cost about $7,000 a decade ago. Half or more come from Seat-tle, a third live on the island, and the rest commute from the Eastside, making car-pooling unlikely, he added.

“I don’t know if it will actually come to losing students,” Fox said. “It’s difficult to predict with so much unknown.”

State officials began talking about tolls on I-90 last year, largely to make up for lower-than-anticipated toll collections on the parallel State Route 520 between Seattle and Bellevue. The new tolls would finance an overhaul of the 520 span.

Rep. Judy Clibborn, a Democrat who represents Mercer Island in the legislature and chairs the House Transportation Com-mittee, declined to comment for this arti-cle, but in a March 6 Op-Ed for the Mercer Island Reporter, she stated that “there is no question that tolling will disproportion-ately affect those of us who live on Mercer

Island.” However, the article makes clear that she expects tolling will be adopted and is working toward alleviating its impact on her district. Clibborn and fellow district representative Marcie Maxwell submitted a

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Signs printed by No Toll on I-90, A Mercer Island-based opposition group, have sprung up around highway entrances.

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Fostering social justice for high schoolers • How to get on the cover of TimediaNa bReMeNt JTNews Columnist

1 As a new member of the Jewish Theological Seminary’s administra-

tive team, Aliyah Vinikoor is looking forward to imple-menting the school’s JustCity social justice summer pro-gram for high school juniors and seniors “who have dem-onstrated a commitment to social change,” according to its website.

The Seattle native took the post of assistant dean of List College, the uni-versity’s under-graduate college, last year, direct-ing the Fellow-ship for Jewish Social Entrepre-neurship.

This i s the first professional Jewish organiza-tion position for Aliyah, who grew up at Congrega-tion Ezra Bessa-roth and taught in its religious school. With a BA from Barnard and MSW from Hunter College, she worked for many years running shelters for homeless LGBT youth in New York City.

Aliyah says she’s excited about Just-City, which launches this summer. The school had always offered an academic summer program, but the social justice curriculum is new.

“High school students are already involved in this kind of social change work,” she says, and the program can give them the leadership tools they need. Plus, she adds, “New York in the summer is such a fun place to be.”

It’s a hybrid program, combining learning and action at the core of “Jewish tradition,” says Aliyah. “You learn in order to do.”

While she misses Seattle and the work-life balance she sees here, New York is “a really exciting place to be.”

“A huge swath of diverse communi-ties” allows for an increasing grassroots movement in interfaith work and there is increased environmental consciousness.

“I’m part of the Jewish Greening Fel-lowship,” Aliyah notes. She also goes to concerts and a lot of gallery openings, and is active in the Jewish meditation commu-nity in Brooklyn, where she lives.

“It’s easy to get booked up,” she says.

2 The cute baby on the cover of the Dec. 24, 2012 issue of Time Mag-azine may have caught your atten-

tion, but you probably didn’t know that

the author of the cover story is Seattle’s Bonnie Rochman.

Bonnie writes a daily blog for Time called “Family Mat-ters,” which she calls “a mix of research and culture, pop cul-ture, society, current events” on parenting and related issues. She’s blogged since 2010, but this was her first cover story.

It came from an on-line series she did on genome sequencing in children, she explains, a five-part series that

appeared on Time.com. The cover story was slated for November, “but then the Petraeus story broke,” she says, and it was bumped.

It was really exciting when it finally came out, Bonnie recalls, despite “a fair amount of stress involved with the whole production,” but she got a lot of great feed-back from family and friends who saw

the magazine in gas stations and airports around the country and sent her pictures.

A news correspondent for many years, Bonnie has reported from the Middle East, Myanmar and Vietnam for the  Boston Globe, and for the  Jerusalem Report and Fortune. She was at the News Observer in Raleigh, N.C., about eight years ago when they assigned her a new parenting blog.

“Newspapers were starting to realize that [they had to] stay current,” she says.

She wrote about her kids, “but not in a ‘my kids are so cute’ kind of way, more in a ‘trying to connect with other parents and talk about universal challenges’ way,” she says.

Bonnie was already a Time freelancer when the magazine launched its Health-land website and asked her to write about

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JustCity administrator Aliyah Vinikoor.

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Bonnie Rochman reads the Time Magazine with her cover story.

Act When Danger Strikesby Mike Selinker

© 2013 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cafe, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle. All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker.

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Leviticus 19:16 tells us, “Do not stand by while your neighbor’s blood is shed.” Recent disasters such as Hurricane Sandy and the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School have shown the true heroism of those who are willing to throw themselves into dangerous situations as they happen before them. This puzzle welcomes some of them into our midst, with rousing applause.

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Positive developments for diabeticsJaNis siegel JTNews Columnist

Although Israel isn’t among the top 10 countries in the world with a high prevalence of diabetes in its population, it is on the forefront of sev-eral research studies that are moving quickly toward finding a cure for the condition while the innovative technology cre-ated in Israel’s labs is trans-ferred seamlessly to the private sector for development.

According to the World Health Organization, 347 mil-lion people had diabetes worldwide in 2012, and it expects the number of those who develop the disease to double by the year 2030. In 2011, the International Dia-betes Federation estimated that 366 mil-lion people had the condition and that number will climb to 552 million by 2030.

To guard against the killer disease, doc-tors recommend exercising, not smok-ing, not drinking alcohol, and maintaining a normal body weight to lessen the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, which occurs due to the body’s inability to regulate insulin.

Type 1, often called juvenile diabetes, develops because the pancreas does not produce enough insulin to regulate the blood’s glucose content.

People with Type 1 inject insulin to manage the condition, but Dr. Eli Lewis, the head of the Clinical Islet Laboratory at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in partnership with the University of Col-orado, Harvard, Stanford, and Colum-bia universities, went further. He not only developed a method for successfully transplanting healthy, insulin-producing cells into a diabetic pancreas, but went on to discover a second use for an FDA-approved drug, already in use for other conditions, that prevents the inflamma-tion and subsequent rejection of those new cells that often occurs in these patients, who must then return to injecting insulin.

‘‘We transplant healthy pieces of pan-creas, called islets. Those are the cells that are missing from the Type 1 diabetes patient,” said Lewis in an Israel21c news video. “It’s the closest thing that we can consider a cure.”

When Lewis applied the drug alpha1-antitrypsin to the grafted-in cells, the unex-pected breakthrough was more than he and his team could have hoped for in the lab.

“It turns out, in a study that was done in collaboration with us and Harvard-Bos-ton, that if you induce diabetes in a mouse, and you administer our therapy, you cor-rect diabetes without the need for trans-plantation,” he said. “We found a drug that we are going to use.”

In that study, researchers injected the drug into mice. After two to four weeks, the transplanted cells remained healthy and functioned properly in the pancreas. The study was so successful that research-

ers were able to discontinue the therapy.

Type 2 diabetes patients may also benefit from this technique since inflamma-tion of the cells also plays a part in that condition.

“I’m very optimistic as to the findings,” added Lewis.

In a related develop-ment, BGU scientists and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology’s Prof. Shulamit Levenberg have developed a

three-dimensional blood vessel network to accompany grafted-in engineered pan-creatic tissues that were derived from insu-lin-producing islets and transplanted in a diabetes patient.

Those cells supported by the cluster of blood vessels more effectively lowered the blood sugar levels in diabetic mice.

Levenberg devised this technique because without dedicated blood vessels feeding the transplanted cells, a transplant has been shown to be more prone to failure.

Levenberg and her team are beginning to start trials using human subjects.

And finally, Prof. Benyamin Glaser, the head of Endocrinology at the Hadas-sah-Hebrew University Medical Schools and Prof. Yuval Dor of the Hebrew Uni-versity of Jerusalem’s Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada have been study-ing what makes insulin-producing “beta cells” replicate and regenerate.

Glaser told Xinhua News that he and his colleagues found that the more over-loaded the beta cells there are — that is, the more glucose they are exposed to — the more insulin they will create.

“The problem with the work overload is that it ‘stresses’ the beta cells and many tend to malfunction,” Glaser said. “We’re still working on that — on finding a way to stress the beta cells without any mal-functioning, but we’ve already managed to find the connection between high glucose levels and the beta cells replication.”

The study was also done in collabora-tion with researchers from the diabetes section of Roche Pharmaceuticals.

“We’re not talking here about a cure for diabetes, that’s still far in the future,” Glaser added, “but we have opened a path that can lead to a cure.

“In two years, we could see the first steps to a cure, by using a drug that’s already being developed and by manipulating two or three drugs that are already on the market.”

Longtime JTNews correspondent and freelance journalist Janis Siegel has covered international health research for SELF magazine and campaigns for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

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Participants will explore the roots of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and efforts for reconciliation. Rwandan survivors and educators will meet with the group to provide local insight into how the country understands its own history and how it is working to rebuild a nation.

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Crossing Delancey across SeattleEveryone’s got their eyes on Izzy Gross-

man (Carol Sage Silverstein, lower left), the young woman who’s trying to decide between two suitors: A suave writer from New York or the pickle peddler from the Lower East Side. Izzy’s dilemma pro-pels “Crossing Delancey,” a play by Susan Sandler and produced by the Seattle Jewish Theater Company. Talia Toni Marcus, far right, will perform klezmer music during each show. The production will have five performances throughout the Seattle area, starting on March 16.

Here’s the full schedule:Sat., March 16 at 8 p.m., Kol HaNesha-

mah at Kenyon Hall, 7904 35th Ave. SW, West Seattle.

Sun., March 17 at 3 p.m., Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., Seattle.

Sun., March 24 at 3 p.m., Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.

Thurs., March 28 at 7:30 p.m., The Summit at First Hill, 1200 University St., Seattle.

Sat., March 30 at 7:30 p.m., Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.

For t ickets and further infor-mation, contact each venue or visit www.SeattleJewishTheater.com.

CouRTESy WAShiNgToN STATE lEgiSlATivE SuppoRT SERviCES

Lily, a 4th grader at Seattle Jewish Community School, shakes hands with gov. Jay Inslee after correctly answering who is buried in grant’s Tomb. Her class visited Olympia on Feb. 27 as guests of Sen. David Frockt (D–N. Seattle), whose kids attend the school.

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And you shall teach your children...

All are Welcome to

Temple B’nai Torah’s Community Seder!

Children 5 & Under: Free Ages 6 - 12: $20

Adults: $45

Temple B’nai Torah * 15727 NE 4th St. * Bellevue, WA 98008 * (425) 603-9677 TempleBnaiTorah.org

Vegetarian meal available upon advanced request. Limited space.

Call to make reservations! (425) 603-9677

Walk-ins cannot be accommodated

Tuesday, March 26, 6:30 p.m.

Conducted by Rabbi James Mirel & Cantor David Serkin-Poole

FiRst And second night sedeRs

MoNday 25 MaRch6:30 p.m. — hillel at the university of Washington

Silver at silver@hilleluw.org or 206-527-1997 or hilleluw.org/passoverJoin Hillel undergraduates, Jconnectors, and members of the community for festive, themed seders led by Hillel staff and volunteers. Seating will be provided on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please make reservations by March 18. $54 community, $25 Jconnect, $12 students. At Hillel at University of Washington, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.7 p.m. — Chabad of Spokane

Rabbi Yisroel Hahn at RabbiHahn@gmail.com or 509-443-8770 or www.JewishSpokane.comThe Passover seder, conducted in both Hebrew and English, will be interactive, integrated with Chassidic tales, Jewish humor, songs, and insights into Passover’s relevance for today. Enjoy a festive, full-course, catered holiday dinner in a warm and friendly atmosphere. Suggested donation: $25 adults, $15 children, students free. No one turned away due to a lack of funds. At Chabad of Spokane, 412 East Third St., Moscow, Id.7 p.m. — Chabad Jewish discovery Center, Thurston County

Rabbi Cheski Edelman at rabbi@jewisholympia.com or 360-584-4306 or www.JewishOlympia.comEnjoy a community seder complete with hand-baked matzoh, wine, and dinner. Discover the eternal meaning of the Haggadah. $20 adults, $10 students, 12 and under free. At Chabad Jewish Discovery

Center, 1770 Barnes Blvd. SW, Tumwater.7:20–11:30 p.m. — passover Seder in Russian

Rabbi Yechezkel Rapoport at rabbi@shalomseattle.org or 206-387-3919 or shalomseattle.org/pages.aspx?page=SederConducted by Rabbi Yechezkel Rapoport. Register by contacting 206-387-3919 or rabbi@shalomseattle.org. $16 adults, $8 seniors, free for kids and students. At Congregation Shaarei Tefilah Lubavitch, 6250 43rd Ave. NE, Seattle.7:30 p.m. — Chabad of the Central Cascades

Info@chabadissaquah.com or 425-427-1654 or www.chabadissaquah.comRelive the Exodus, discover the eternal meaning of the Haggadah, and enjoy a community seder with hand-baked matzoh, wine, and a dinner spiced with traditional customs. RSVP by March 18. Suggested donation: $36 adults, $18 children 4-12. At Chabad of the Central Cascades, 24121 SE Black Nugget Rd., Issaquah.7:30 p.m. —Congregation Shaarei Tefillah

Chabad of Seattle at info@chabadofseattle.org or 206-527-1411 or www.ChabadofSeattle.orgCommunity seder and dinner. No one will be turned away if they cannot pay. RSVP online. $20 adults, $8 children, students, seniors. At Congregation Shaarei Tefilah Lubavitch, 6250 43rd Ave. NE, Seattle.7:45 p.m. — Chabad Jewish Center, vancouver

Rabbi Shmulik Greenberg at info@jewishclarkcounty.com or 360-993-5222 or www.jewishclarkcounty.comA meaningful and enjoyable community seder, complete with a gourmet dinner and four cups of fine kosher wine. $30 adult, $20

child. At Chabad Jewish Center, 9604 NE 126th Ave., Vancouver.7:45 p.m. — Chabad of pierce County

rabbi@chabadpiercecounty.com or 253-565-8770 or www.ChabadPierceCounty.comAn in-depth Hebrew/English Passover experience with plenty of translation, traditional songs, and lively discussion. Relive the triumph of Passover and discover the seder’s relevance to today’s modern Jew over a tasty meal. At Chabad of Tacoma, 2146 N Mildred St., Tacoma.8:15 p.m. — West Seattle Torah learning Center

Rabbi Yehuda Greer at rabbigreer@gmail.com or 206-643-6623 or www.seattlekollel.orgJoin the West Seattle TLC for an inspiring traditional first seder in a warm community setting. Please RSVP. Free. At the West Seattle Torah Learning Center, 5121 SW Olga St., Seattle.

tuesday 26 MaRchCongregation Eitz or

Terry at info@eitzor.org or 206-467-2617 or www.eitzor.orgRediscover the feeling of community at Congregation Eitz Or’s community seder. Deepen Passover’s meaning through story, song, and relevant teachings. Registration required for time, location, and cost. At Congregation Eitz Or, Seattle.6 p.m. — Bet Alef Community Seder

Elizabeth Fagin at elizabeth@betalef.org or 206-527-9399 or www.betalef.org

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coMpiled by eMily k. alhadeffPassover begins this year on Monday, March 25. Here is a comprehensive list of the public

seders going on around Washington State, including alternative seders and Passover-related events. Please contact the organizations directly for further details and reservations.

Why is this night different? the Jtnews AnnuAl sedeR Roundup

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Have a Happy and KosHer passoverVa’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle

5305 52nd Ave. S 206-760-0805www.seattlevaad.org

For Passover questions and product information, please visit our newly designed website: www.seattlevaad.org. You may also contact your synagogue or any of the following rabbis: Rabbi S. Benzaquen Rabbi M. Farkash Rabbi M. Kletenik Rabbi Y. Kornfeld 206-723-3028 206-957-7860 206-721-0970 206-232-1797

Rabbi S. B. Levitin Rabbi R. Meyers 206-527-1411 206-722-5500

For Pre-Passover and Yom Tov services and classes please contact your Synagogue.

For general kashrut questions, please visit www.seattlevaad.org. or email us at vaadinfo@seattlevaad.org. You may also call our office at 206-760-0805.

PLeaSe cLiP and Send to YouR RaBBi So He wiLL ReceiVe it BeFoRe tHuRSdaY 3/21/13.

Know Ye that I, the undersigned, fully empower and permit Rabbi............................................................ to act in my place and stead, and in my behalf to sell all Chometz possessed by me (knowingly or unknowingly) as defined by the Torah and Rabbinic Law (e.g., Chometz, possible Chometz, and all kinds of Chometz mixtures). Also Chometz that tends to harden and to adhere to inside surfaces of pans, pots or cooking and usable utensils, and all kinds of live animals that have been eating Chometz or mixtures thereof. And to lease all places wherein the Chometz owned by me may be found especially in the premise located at..................................................... and elsewhere.

Rabbi ....................................................... has the full right to sell and to lease by transactions, as he deems fit and proper and for such time which he believes necessary in accordance with all detailed terms and detailed forms as explained in the general authorization contract which have been given this year to Rabbi ...................................... to sell Chometz.

This general authorization is made a part of this agreement. Also do I hereby give the said Rabbi ............................................. full power and authority to appoint a substitute in his stead with full power to sell and to lease as provided herein. The above given power is in conformity with all Torah, Rabbinical regulations and laws, and also in accordance with laws of Washington State and of the United States. And to this I hereby affix my signature on the .......................... day of Nisan in the year 5773.

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Signature The legal intricacies concerning this transfer of property are many, and only a competent rabbi should be entrusted with its execution.

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delegation of power for sale of CHometz Stopsky’s Unleavened!Don’t “Passover” this opportunity

Bon Appetit magazine is featuring Stopsky’s Delicatessen in its March edition with a “tradition, updated” seder meal created by our chef

Austin Zimmerman. All Passover week we will offer a special 5-course prix fixe menu featuring the recipes from the article. Those items and more

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Explore the mystical teachings of Passover through traditional symbols, story, and songs. Discover anew the spiritual dimensions of Passover. Catered seder and dinner. $38 members, $48 non-members. At Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue, 1111 Harvard Ave., Seattle.6 p.m. — Congregation Kol Shalom

Janice Hill, Temple Administrator, at congregationkolshalom@gmail.com or 206-842-9010 or www.kolshalom.netCongregation Kol Shalom celebrates second night seder with a community potluck. Please bring a vegetarian side dish that is kosher for Pesach. Free. At Congregation Kol Shalom, 9010 Miller Rd., Bainbridge Island.6 p.m. — Congregation Tikvah Chadashah

Roy Hamrick at 206-355-1414 or www.tikvahchadashah.orgPuget Sound’s LGBT chavurah hosts a second night Passover seder. Meat potluck (no hametz, please). Ritual food and wine will be provided. This is a spirited community event where all are welcome. Requested donation of $20 per person, $10 for

students/low income, free for children under 13. RSVP by March 20. At the Center for Urban Horticulture at the UW, 3501 NE 41st St., Seattle.6:30 p.m. — Temple B’nai Torah

Karen Sakamoto at ksakamoto@templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.orgA traditional seder dinner led by Rabbi James Mirel and Cantor David Serkin-Poole. Meet new friends at this community-building event. Open to all. RSVP required. $45 adults, $20 children. Prices go up on March 12. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.7:30 p.m. — Chabad of Spokane

Rabbi Yisroel Hahn at RabbiHahn@gmail.com or 509-443-8770 or www.JewishSpokane.comSee details on page 11. At Chabad of Spokane, 412 East Third St., Moscow, Id.8:30 p.m. — Chabad of the Central Casades

Rabbi Berry Farkash at rabbifarkash@gmail.com or 425-427-1654 or www.chabadissaquah.comSee details on page 11. At Chabad of the Central Cascades, 24121 SE Black Nugget Rd., Issaquah.

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fRiday 22 MaRch7–8:30 p.m. — hametz fest Community Shabbat dinner

Marjie Cogan at marjiecogan@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.orgCome for a delicious hametz-packed Shabbat dinner and keep your own kitchen clean in preparation for Pesach. Catered by Eric Gorbman. Reservations and prepayment required by March 18. $20. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

satuRday 23 MaRch10:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — passover fun with Story and Swimming

Amy Paquette at amyhp@jewishinseattle.org or 206-774-2237 or bit.ly/passoverswimTemple Beth Or and PJ Library will explore the exodus from Egypt through singing, storytelling, and swimming. Geared toward children ages 2-8. Space is limited. Free. At Lynnwood Recreation Center, 18900 44th Ave. W, Lynnwood.2–4 p.m. — passover Workshop

Elizabeth Fagin at elizabeth@betalef.org or 206-527-9399 or www.betalef.orgDiscover ways to move from places of stuckness into deeper meaning and greater joy in your life. Free. At Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue, 1111 Harvard Ave., Seattle.4–6 p.m. — pre-passover family Seder

Elizabeth Fagin at elizabeth@betalef.org or 206-527-9399 or www.betalef.orgAn interactive and fun way to experience Passover. Kid-friendly, family-friendly model seder. Share blessings, stories, singing, fun and a potluck dinner. $25 per family. At Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue, 1111 Harvard Ave., Seattle.5–9 p.m. — Congregation Beth israel

Jennifer Winchell at congregationbethisraelwallawalla@ymail.com Annual potluck Passover seder. Free. At Congre-

gation Beth Israel, 1202 E Alder St., Walla Walla.

thuRsday 28 MaRch11 a.m.– 1:30 p.m. — passover lunches

Silver at silver@hilleluw.org or 206-527-1997 or hilleluw.org/passoverMacaroons, matzah ball soup, gefilte fish, or potato kugel? What is your favorite Passover food? Don’t miss Hillel Passover lunches, a Seattle Jewish community tradition. Reserve online today for discounted reservations. $18 Jconnect and community, $8 students. At Hillel at the University of Washington, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.5–6 p.m. — SJCC Chocolate Seder

bit.ly/chocsederA short, traditional seder, but everything will be made with chocolate. Chocolate-dipped strawberries (instead of parsley) and a chocolate egg for the seder plate. For families with kids of all ages. Kidstown members free. $5 members, $10 non-members, $20 member families, $30 non-member families. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.6–7 p.m. — SJCC young family passover Seder

bit.ly/familysederSeder for families with children ages 6 and younger. Celebrate the Passover story with food, music, and crafts. All families welcome. $15 members age 6-plus, $65 guests. At the Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 Eighth Ave. NE, Seattle.

fRiday 29 MaRch11 a.m.– 1:30 p.m. — passover lunches

Silver at silver@hilleluw.org or 206-527-1997 or hilleluw.org/passoverSee details above. At Hillel at the University of Washington, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.

satuRday 30 MaRch4:30–7:30 p.m. — Congregation Emanu-el Seder

Faith Hayflich at info@spokaneemanu-el.org or 509-835-5050 or www.spokaneemanu-el.orgA friendly community seder with singing, full meal with all the traditional foods. Babysitting by

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info@secularjewishcircle.org or 206-528-1944 or www.secularjewishcircle.orgThis seder tells the Passover story from a non-theistic and Humanistic perspective. Secular Haggadah, plenty of singing and food. $35 non-members. At

Secular Jewish Circle, Wallingford area, Seattle.5 p.m. — Congregation Kol Ami Community passover Seder

425-844-1604With Rabbi Mark Glickman and a meal by Balabuste Catering. After the seder, enjoy musical entertainment by Jewbilee and a live auction to raise funds for the congregation. $35 adults, $17 age 6-12, 5 and under free. At Redmond Ridge Community Center, 10735 Cedar Park Crescent NE, Redmond.

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Leonid Orlov at familylife@jfsseattle.org or 206-726-3619 or www.jfsseattle.orgCantor Marina Belenky will lead the Reform seder in Russian with her own Russian language trio, and a traditional seder meal (kosher with advance request). Tickets must be purchased by phone in advance. $5 adults, under 18 free. Call for location, Bellevue.

5–8 p.m. — Kadima Seder Kathy Gallagher at office@kadima.org or

206-547-3914 or www.kadima.orgA progressive, inclusive, participatory seder. The Kadima Haggadah respects tradition while making the story of Passover accessible and meaningful to modern Jews. Vegetarian potluck meal. $12 adults, $5 children. At Prospect Church, 1919 E Prospect St., Seattle.

bill in the House that would seek to alleviate tolling for island residents. Sen. Steve Litzow submitted a companion bill in the Senate.

The current plan would toll only the floating bridge between Mercer Island and Seattle, leaving free passage to Bellevue, but other mainland-to-mainland or sin-gle-direction options are still on the table.

The Mercer Island City Council has voted to hire an attorney to monitor the process and represent the municipality on the issue. Tolling has by far been at the top of residents’ agenda, Senn said.

“We’re hearing so much — I would say 99.9 percent — in opposition of tolling,” she added. “There’s lots of passion behind it.”

According to Ellenhorn, more than two-thirds of those who regularly attend Mercer Island churches on average come from off the island — slightly more than the 60 percent commuting rate at Herzl.

To date she said religious groups on the island have not discussed a coordinated response to the toll proposals.

A decision is probably months away, and officials have said it would likely be next year or 2015 before toll collections would begin.

Ellenhorn said the synagogue board has taken no formal position. Neuman said the same was true for the JCC.

Next to no tolls at all, Neuman said she’d probably favor a Bellevue-to-Seattle tolling option.

“Would that be a great outcome? Prob-ably, for us [at the JCC], but I don’t know that that’s the right outcome for all of Mercer Island,” she said, “or fair and equi-table for everyone.”

In any event, Neuman said she didn’t believe I-90 tolls would have a dispropor-tionate impact on Jewish life in the region.

“I don’t think this is a Jewish commu-nity issue,” she said. “I think this is a citi-zen issue.”

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For those of you who still think kosher wine means kosher-aisle, bottom-shelf Kedem Concord Cream Red, sip on this: Bartenura Moscato has the highest sales of imported Moscatos in the United States. Eighty-five percent of the signature blue bottle dessert wine sells to consumers unconcerned with kosher status.

As it does once a year, JTNews sat down with Michael Friend of Royal Wine Corp. to taste new, high-quality kosher-for-Passover wines to the local market. This year’s flight featured five Israeli wines, two locals from California and Washington State, and — for the first time ever — three spirits: A cognac, a Scotch, and a vodka liqueur. All but the Scotch and vodka are kosher for Passover, and most items are available at QFC Mercer Island and University Village, Albertson’s Mercer Island, and Wine World.

Editor Joel Magalnick and I were joined by esteemed guests Ned Porges, Jerry Barrish, Josh Furman, Jason Dishlip, Elise Peizner, and Tzippy Wiens at the lovely Chai Lounge on the 13th floor of the Summit at First Hill. Without further ado: Our rankings!

Wines marked with an [M] can be con-sidered mevushal.Best local wine: pacifica pinot noir (washington, $25.95): Indeed, the Pacifica ran unop-posed in this category, but it’s worth point-

ing out to you locavores that Washington State does have its own kosher wine, which won “Best New Wine of 2012” at Kosher-fest 2012 USA. This Pinot Noir, unfortunately, pales in comparison to last year’s sumptuous Mer-itage. On a scale of 1 to 5, our reviewers gave it an average of 2.75. Josh called it “mellow and smoky” and tasted notes of “campfire.” “Instead

of being strong, it seems to glow” on the tongue, said Ned. Though a little imma-ture, this is still a good, dry wine.

Best deals: domaine netofa galilee Red (israel, $21.99): Jason smelled vanilla and cotton candy, and Ned found it astringent and deep — a wine to sip, not drink. Pair it with grilled meat or cheddar cheese. Tzippy rated this “best bet for hostess gift” and appointed it the “new Wiens house wine.”carmel Appellation cabernet sauvin-gnon (israel, $20.99): Both wines met equally good reviews (4 out of 5), but evoked different responses. Josh thought it smelled like new rain and picked up a taste of seaweed, and Joel found a bit of anise at the finish. Tzippy called it the “wine

equivalent of an Old Spice commercial.” If this leaves any doubt in your mind, Wine Enthusiast magazine gave it a rating of 90. Best wines for your seder: psagot edom (israel, $33.99): Recom-mended alongside roasted meat, stew, and robust pasta dishes, the Psagot got high ratings from the tasting team, who found in it aromas of chocolate, pipe tobacco, and leather, and flavors of cherry and pepper, even “mild salsa,” contributed Joel. Finally, a wine we can pair with shank bone and roasted egg!Baron herzog white Riesling (califor-nia, $11.99 [M]): If you are sentimen-tally attached to the idea of sticky sweet Manischewitz at your seder table, consider opting for this Riesling. Jerry called it “sweet but not cloying,” and Elise, who picked up honey and peach, deemed it “adult juice.”

“My grandmother would love this,” said Tzippy. “I should send her a bottle.”

“Berrylicious,” said Joel. Remember: You do need to drink four

cups, and two of them are after the meal. This dessert wine is a great way to close the night. Bin chardonnay (israel, $12.99 [M]): Scoring a 4 out of 5, our tasters picked up apricot, melon, honey, peach, even but-terscotch aromas and flavors. Stored in stainless steel rather than oak, Bin is light, smooth, and easy going down.

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“I’m not a huge chardonnay fan, but this was good for a chardonnay,” said Jason. A good choice for white wine drink-ers, or if your seder table is heavy on fish and vegetarian dishes. Best splurge: tomintoul 16-year scotch (scotland, $105.99, not kosher for passover): This award-winning Scotch deserves a dark room, a leather chair, and a special occa-sion. Our tasters picked up hints of caramel and maple. “Cinnamon and nutmeg finish adds depth,” wrote Josh. “Smooth and deli-cate even for a non-Scotch drinker.” Best new find: walders Vodka & Vanilla (holland, $38.99, not kosher for passover): “MUST BUY! WINNER!” raved Josh. “A real treat after a hard day…or an easy day…deli-

cious always.”“Tastes like birthday cake and trouble!”

wrote Tzippy. Good on its own over ice or mixed with

Sprite, Walders is the pancakes and maple syrup of liqueurs. The taste of vodka is barely noticeable, favored by a sweet (but not too sweet), custardy cream. But wait, it gets better: Walders is dairy-, soy-, and nut-free, and it accounts for only one Weight Watchers point. But you have to wonder: What makes it so creamily perfect?

The answer is: We don’t know. Nowhere on the packaging or on the Walder’s website are the ingredients dis-closed. So drink responsibly. Too much, and you may grow a sixth finger.

One more thing: It is imperative that you shake the bottle before pouring.

Best all around: Binyamina special Reserve cabernet (israel, $22.99 [M]): This Israeli Cab-ernet scored 4.5 out of 5 and evoked anise, Indian spices, even a “shouk spice market.” Elise found it “very earthy.”

“Wow on the nose,” Michael observed. He brought up the average when he gave it a rating of 6 — off the charts!

“Great body,” wrote Joel. “Delicious.”

Jerry found it very com-plex and “woodsy.” If you like a nice, bold red that holds back from being too strong, this is for you. And at $22.99, it nearly makes a three-way tie as “best deal.”Best kosher for passover spirit: louis Royer cognac Vsop (France, $85.99): A kosher cognac is an exciting thing, though the Louis Royer did not go over terribly well. Our trusty tasters gave it a dreary 2.3 out of 5, likening it to rubbing alcohol and shoe polish. However, cognac enthu-siasts may beg to differ with these reviews (some people like shoe polish, right?), and we invite you to bring this to your seder tables and get back to us with your thoughts. After all, paired with matzoh and gefilte fish, it might be just the thing. Emily K. AlhAdEff

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You’re starving, you’ve been sitting too long, you’re overtired, and the baby won’t stop screaming.

Sound like a familiar Passover seder scene to you?

Tamara Pester thought so. So she invented Passover Bingo, which will allow seder-goers to become more engaged in the meal. Pester’s game engages both kids and adults during the Haggadah reading — or anytime — for what she hopes is a fun, educational, and anti-boring experi-ence. Players learn about the events and personalities of Passover.

“I have a niece and nephew who are 9 and 12 years old,” Pester told JTNews. “They would get really restless during the seder and I wanted to create a game that would keep them engaged. Passover Bingo seemed to do the trick.”

The game has been in the works for a while.

“I originally made it out of construc-tion paper,” she said regarding its genesis. “Over the past few years I’ve been thinking about how to make this into something bigger. I hired a graphic designer and a manufacturer and it all came together.”

Pester, who lives in Denver, works as an intellectual property lawyer register-

ing trademarks — perfect for an inventor. Being on the creation side of the product showed that things don’t always go as smoothly as planned.

“It took about two years to develop — a little longer than I anticipated,” she said. “I wanted to have it by Passover 2012, but the transportation and communication of work-ing with people across the globe didn’t come together by then.”

There are two ways to play Passover Bingo, which is pat-terned after the traditional game of bingo. To play during the seder, each player fol-lows along with a bingo game board as the Haggadah is read. If a word from a square on the board is read during the story of Exodus, the square can be covered with a marker. The first person to yell out “bingo” as soon as the squares are covered in a winning pattern is declared the winner.

The other way to play is before or after the seder. The back of the instruction card lists all the words on the card in a scram-bled order. Each participant can call out

words one at a time, starting at the top, or give a clue rather than the word itself or even ask for an explanation. Whoever covers the squares in a winning pattern first wins. A detailed instruction sheet is included in each game.

The game can be played with as few as two people. The word list and expla-nations can also be used for independent

study about the key players and events of the holiday.

Each Passover Bingo game includes six boards, 96 foam pieces to act as markers for the bingo squares, and an instruc-tion and word list.

Passover Bingo costs $24.99 plus shipping and is available at passoverbingo.com. Discounts are available for bulk purchases or with a coupon from the dis-tributor. Pester said she has a few boxes still in stock for this year’s holiday.

“We initially made a ship-ment of 1,000 games — we have a couple hundred more games to sell,” Pester said. “We’re hoping we’ll make our initial shipment.”

Pester said that while other holidays can lend themselves to similar games, Passover is unique for gaming.

“I can’t really think of another time we sit down to read a story, like with the Hag-gadah,” she said.

But she added that more games may be on the horizon.

“I want to see how this goes, first,” she said.

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Something for everyone at Portland’s Everything Jewish david J. litvak Special to JTNews

Despite the incessant rain, Portland, the City of Roses, is one of America’s most charming cities. The city is home to weekend markets and microbrewer-ies, a great science center and zoo (part of Washington Park, which also includes the city’s Holocaust memorial), and funky neighborhoods like Haw-thorne, Multnomah Village and the Pearl District.

Portland, the setting for the highly acclaimed sketch comedy show “Portlandia,” is also home to an active and fast growing Jewish commu-nity that includes 17 congregations, a bustling JCC, a Holocaust center and Jewish museum, a variety of Jewish educational institutions, and Every-thing Jewish, the Pacific Northwest’s only standalone Judaica store. But Everything Jewish is much more than just a Judaica store.

Located on SW Capitol Highway in the heart of Portland’s Jewish com-munity, across the street from the Mittle-man Jewish Community Center, and next to the Jewish Federation of Greater Port-land’s offices and Beit Yosef, one of the city’s two Sephardic congregations, Every-thing Jewish is a Chabad-run store that offers not only Judaica like kippot, can-

dles, challah and Shabbat covers, meno-rahs, books and music, but unique, locally made products such as kosher granola bars and Portland Trailblazer winter hats (which feature the team’s name inscribed in Hebrew).

In addition, the store has a wide selec-tion of kosher food that includes gefilte fish and grape juice, mouth-watering kosher goodies and snacks, and well-stocked refrigerators with kosher dairy products and kosher meats. With Passover just around the corner, you will find plenty

of kosher-for-Pesach items as well. And this being Oregon, all of the products are of course tax free.

According to Chayim Mishu-lovin, the Los Angeles-born rabbi who manages Everything Jewish, Chabad of Portland opened the store seven years ago to comple-

ment its efforts to make Judaism easily accessible to Jews of all backgrounds and to help them to connect with their roots. By creating a welcoming environment in the store, Mishulovin hopes to attract Jews who might not connect with their Judaism in any other way.

“Everything Jewish,” he said, “is more than just a Juda-ica store — it is a resource for anyone who wants to learn more about Judaism.”

Everything Jewish ships products all over the world and attracts Jews (most of whom are not affiliated with Chabad) from as close as Washington State and as far away as Montana, Idaho, Alaska, British Columbia and even Alberta. The store acts as a low-key meeting place that even has a “prayer corner” for those who feel inspired to use it.

I met a mish-mash of Jews while visit-ing the store late last year. There was the couple from Coos Bay, on the Oregon coast, looking for menorahs and candles; a woman who recently immigrated to Port-land from Poland who was trying to con-nect with her Jewish roots (and came to the store in search of challah covers); a former Oregon Public Broadcating reporter who has since become an artist; and a local doctor who spontaneously decided to put on tefillin in the prayer corner.

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couple, said Everything Jewish is one of their most important stops when they come to Portland to visit their grandchil-dren. Not only did she and her husband stock up on Judaica while they visited the store, but Mishulovin also answered their questions relating to Jewish traditions and

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parenting. She blogs daily, which can be stressful, but still fun.

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Growing up in a tight-knit Jewish com-munity in North Carolina, Bonnie met her husband, dov pinker, when she stud-ied at Hebrew University for a year. Dov, Bonnie and kids Aviv, shira and orli moved to Seattle in 2010 when Dov took a job here. They’ve become active mem-

bers of Congregation Beth Shalom, where Bonnie coordinates the synagogue’s annual family camp. The weather’s been the biggest adjustment.

“We understand why people drop everything when the sun comes out,” she says.

They’ve been bitten by the Pacific Northwest camping bug, too.

“We moved here with no gear what-soever and now we have Therm-a-Rests galore,” laughs Bonnie. “We didn’t even know that word when we moved out here!”

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In 1999, Israeli-born Itai Erdal moved to Vancouver, B.C. to pursue a film career. A year later, he found out his mother had been diagnosed with lung cancer and had nine months to live. Erdal returned home to care for her and to film the last part of her life. The result, “How to Disappear Completely” merges film, theater, and the grieving process into an honest and uplift-ing performance.

Jtnews: describe your show, “how to disappear completely.” itai erdal: My mom died 12 years ago. She asked me if I would take care of her, because she didn’t want to go to a hospital. I filmed the whole thing. It was actually her idea. Jt: why did you decide to use the foot-age for a theater performance instead of creating a documentary? ie: First of all, at the time, it was just way too close and personal. It takes years to process what I had been through.

I work in theater, and I love verbatim theater. There’s something about real stories that touches me like no other theater does. It’s such a rare opportunity to reflect on one’s life like this through a piece of theater.

Jt: how do you interact with the film onstage?ie: All of the footage is in Hebrew with subtitles. Sometimes I do translations, sometimes I comment in general about what they’re saying, sometimes I say my friend’s words as if they’re mine. It’s a tool and device that moves the story forward constantly. Doing the show is like hanging out with my mom for an hour. I’m get-ting emotional just talking about it. It’s a joy. It’s a gift. Jt: how did the experience of taking care of your mom change you? ie: All the priorities change about what’s important or not important in life. It’s the toughest thing I’ve ever had to do. My mom was such a strong woman; she was a rock. To see somebody like that, to see her fall apart completely, particularly mentally, was horrible. There was never any doubt or question about what was the right thing to do, once it’s somebody that you love. It changed me profoundly.

Jt: did it change you in a religious or spiritual way? ie: I was brought up as an atheist, and my mom was an atheist. But since she died, I have felt her presence many times. Whereas I remain an atheist, I am somewhat more spiritual than I was. I do think that maybe the notion of a soul can exist. My mother is as present in my life in her death as she was [when she was alive]. Jt: in the trailer for the show, there is a part where you are reciting Mourner’s

Kaddish... ie: It might be the first time in my life where I did do some Jewish customs, because I found them useful. My mom’s funeral was such a surreal experience for me. But saying the Kaddish, I get it now. By doing some-thing public in the moment of your biggest grief, it forces you to be present. You can’t not be there. You can’t not feel things.

And same for the shiva: A week later, everybody cooks for you, your house

is open, everybody looks at photos together...It’s a lot of laughter, a lot of joy, a lot of the tension kept in the house for months and months while waiting for someone to die is released. Suddenly, there are children in the house, there’s laughter in the house. Shiva is a fantastic tradition. I also grew a beard that I’ve kept ever since. I didn’t have a beard before. In the 30 days after your parents die, you do not shave. It’s another thing I sort of took with me. Jt: how have audiences reacted to the show? ie: This show has touched so many people. Every time I do it there’s a line of people with tears in their eyes waiting to tell me about parents that have died, siblings that have died. People have written me letters

IF yOu gO“How to Disappear Completely” runs March 21–24 at 8 p.m. at On the Boards, 100 W Roy St., Seattle. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased through www.ontheboards.org/ performances/ how-disappear-completely.

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and emails telling me their whole life story. It has by far exceeded any of my dreams for anything I could create. I don’t want people to think that it’s super depressing; [my mom] had a great sense of humor. The show is very funny! I am funny. A lot of people see the poster, my mom’s shaved head in the poster, and think it’s a depressing show. And it is sad, but it is also uplifting.

Monday, March 11 at 6 p.m.Mark Russ Federman with Tom Douglas: Reflections and Recipes from Russ & DaughtersMark Russ Federman of Manhattan restaurant Russ & Daughters will chat with ac-claimed local chef Tom Douglas. Federman, whose eatery has been described as a “hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar,” will tell his family’s story, starting in 1907 with Joel Russ peddling herring out of a barrel. At Town Hall, Eighth and Seneca, downstairs. $5. For more information and tickets visit www.townhallseattle.org or call 888-377-4510. Doors open at 5:30.

Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m. New Voices Presents: Guy Mendilow EnsembleConcertThe Guy Mendilow Ensemble and the UW Stroum Jewish Studies Department are both pulling Ladino back from the brink of extinction. Guy Mendilow’s songs voyage from ancient Spain to Sarajevo, Salonika, and Jerusalem with tales of sailors and seas, fantastic dreams, and royal intrigue. At The Fremont Abbey Arts Center, 4272 Fremont Ave. N, Seattle. Doors open 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10/student, $12/general, $15/at the door and available through mendilow.brownpapertickets.com. For more information visit stroumjewishstudies.org/newvoices.

Sunday, March 10, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.The Evolving Image of JerusalemArt talkProfessor Shalom Sabar, professor of art and folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and visiting professor at the University of Washington’s Jewish Studies Pro-gram, will discuss how illuminated Haggadot over the ages have depicted the holy city of Jerusalem, reflecting the imaginings of the city and the context of the creators. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle. RSVP to bethshalomseattle.org or contact carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075.

Saturday, March 16 at 12 p.m.The Art of Reconciliation and the HolocaustSymposiumThe Tacoma Art Museum and the Washington State Holocaust Resource Education Center present on art as a tool for healing after major events such as the Holocaust. At 12 p.m., visit the Holocaust Center’s slide project on representations of identity and remembrance. At 1 p.m., the center will screen its documentary, “With My Own Eyes,” followed by a panel discussion on ways to reconcile injustice with art. Free with museum admission or student ID. At the Tacoma Art Museum, 1701 Pacific Ave., Tacoma. For more information visit www.tacomaartmuseum.org or www.wsherc.org/news/news.aspx.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 7:15 p.m.Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Mirror on AmericaArts Lecture Throughout the 1960s Broadway changed and adapted with the turbulent times. Brock and Harnick’s “Fiddler on the Roof” broke new ground and stubborn barriers. Sondheim moved from Borscht-Belt humor in “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” to the sadder sophistications of “Follies.” Theodore Deacon will discuss whether ’60s Broadway was the American musical’s sunrise or sunset.RSVP requested at 206-525-0915. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.

The GatekeepersStarts Friday, March 15FilmSix former heads of Israel’s secret service talk about their successes and failures, and why they came to believe that a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians is the best solution to the ongoing conflict.On Sun., March 17, following the 4 p.m. screening, a discussion facilitated by J Street featuring Israeli Ph.D. candidate Yoav Duman, Palestinian arts educator and commu-nity activist Zaki Abdelhamid, and Seattle Jewish Film Festival director Pamela Lavitt will take place at a coffee shop around the corner from the theater. At the Harvard Exit, 807 E Roy St., Seattle. Visit www.landmarktheatres.com/market/Seattle/HarvardExitTheatre.htm for tickets and showtimes.

Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 16 at 8 p.m.Vadim GluzmanConcertIsraeli virtuoso Vadim Gluzman performs Max Bruch’s romantic Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. The program also includes Michael Tippet’s Ritual Dances from “The Midsummer Marriage” and Edward Elgar’s “Enigma Variations.” At Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle. Tickets $19-$112. For tickets and information, visit www.seattlesymphony.org or call 206-215-4747 or visit the ticket office at Third and Union Streets.

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fRiday 8 MaRch10:30 a.m. — pJ library Storytime at SJCS

Amy Paquette at amyhp@jewishinseattle.orgSongs and a story, activities and playgroup fun. At the Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 Eighth Ave. NE, Seattle.6–7 p.m. — They’ve let my people go! Now What?

Michael Novick at michael.novick@jdcny.org or 425-644-1000 or www.jdc.orgRabbi Asher Ostrin, former director of the

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s former Soviet Union department, speaks about the Soviet Jews who stayed behind after the fall of Communism. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

satuRday 9 MaRch10 a.m.–12 p.m. — The most memorable 30 minutes you’ll Spend This year

Michael Novick at michael.novick@jdcny.org or 425-644-1000 or www.jdc.orgRabbi Asher Ostrin shares his most interesting stories of global Jewish life. At Herzl-Ner Tamid, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.1:15–2:30 p.m. — Jewish Spirituality Experi-ence group

Shelly Goldman at sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.orgThree-class series led by Rabbi Kinberg providing a taste of Jewish spirituality for the curious, the dabbler, the practitioner, and the novice. Series

continues on March 23 and April 27. Free. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.5:30–9:30 p.m. — Black and White Ball gala

Jenna Sytman at jenna@templebetham.org or 206-525-0915 or www.templebetham.orgFood, entertainment, and 299 friends from TBA dressed in their best black-and-whites. $75/person. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.

suNday 10 MaRch1–3 p.m. — Ethical Wills: Writing a legacy for the Next generation

Marjie Cogan at marjiecogan@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.orgInstructor Muriel Dance is a chaplain at Skirball Hospice in Los Angeles and a former professor of English. $30. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.4:30–9 p.m. — NyhS gala dinner and Auction

Melissa Rivkin at mrivkin@nyhs.net or 206-232-5272, ext. 515 or www.nyhsauction.com

Honoring Adina and Jack Almo. Doors open at 4:30. RSVP online. $150. At The Westin Seattle, 1900 Fifth Ave., Seattle.

MoNday 11 MaRch6:45–8 p.m. — The Kabbalah of pesach

Randy Kessler at events@shevetachim.com or 206-275-1539 or shevetachim.shulcloud.comRabbi Yechezkel Kornfeld will help explore new layers of meaning to enrich your Pesach. Free. Food available for purchase. At Island Crust Café, 7525 SE 24th St., Mercer Island.7 p.m. — Rabbi miri gold: Religious freedom in israel

Karen Sakamoto at ksakamoto@templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677Rabbi Miri Gold will present “Religious Freedom in Israel: Making it a Reality, Not an Ideal.” Free. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.7–9 p.m. — i’ve had my dNA Tested. Now What?

Mary Kozy at marykozy@msn.com or www.jgsws.org/meetings.php

For a complete listing of events, or to add your event to the JTNews calendar, visit calendar.jtnews.net. Calendar events must be submitted no later than 10 days before publication.

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A seminar on how to use DNA testing for genealogical research. Members free/nonmembers $5. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.8–9 p.m. — pesach preparation and laws of Chol hamoed

Rabbi Avrohom David at info@seattlekollel.org or 206-722-8289 or seattlekollel.orgLearn what you are obligated to do to prepare your house for Pesach. What can you do or not do on Chol Hamoed? Free. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.

fRiday 15 MaRch8–9:30 p.m. — israel matters 2.0: “Bridges

over Troubled Waters” Shelly Goldman at

sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or www.templebnaitorah.orgRoni Keidar will speak about the emotional and physical trauma of the rockets flying over and landing in communities just north of the Gaza border. Open to all. $5 suggested donation. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.

satuRday 16 MaRch5–6 p.m. — Rabbi Chaim levine Shabbaton

Robert Kahn at rkahn@rdkco.com or 206-236-7200 or www.shevetachim.com“Kiddush Hashem in our times: IDF soldiers who gave everything for Clal Yisrael.” At Congregation Shevet Achim, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.

suNday 17 MaRch11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — parenting mindfully: The middah of Trust

Marjorie Schnyder at familylife@jfsseattle.org or 206-861-3146 or www.jfsseattle.orgLook at both traditional Jewish writings and contemporary research. Facilitated by Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg and Marjorie Schnyder, LICSW; best for parents of children under 12. Free. Limited babysitting with advance request. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.4:30 p.m. — JdS Seattle 32nd Annual dinner and Auction

Risa Coleman at rcoleman@jds.orgJewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle 32nd annual dinner and auction. At the Sheraton, 1400 Sixth Ave., Seattle.

MoNday 18 MaRch6:45–8 p.m. — The halachah of pesach

Randy Kessler at events@shevetachim.com or 206-275-1539 or shevetachim.shulcloud.comThere is a defined order for progressing through the Haggadah. Come review key halachot with Rabbi Yechezkel Kornfeld. Free. At Island Crust Café, 7525 SE 24th St., Mercer Island.8–9 p.m. — pesach preparation and laws of Chol hamoed

Rabbi Avrohom David at info@seattlekollel.org or 206-722-8289 or seattlekollel.orgSee event details on March 11. At The Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.

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Jerry passed away February 3, 2013 at the age of 94. His love for life was shared with friends and family through deeds and stories. His circle of friends was far-reaching and long-lasting. Whether it was lunch, fishing or just schmoozing, you were his friend forever. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. to Sam and Rose Schor, Jerry was one of nine children. He came to the Northwest with the Air Corps. While stationed at Paine Field in Everett, he met Esther Sturman. They corresponded while he

spent a year in Alaska. When he returned, he and Esther were married in 1943. Jerry worked in furniture sales for Funes & Oziel for many years. He was an avid fisherman and engaging storyteller. He was active at Emanuel Congregation and a proud member of the Masons, St. John’s Lodge 9, and a highly decorated veteran.

Jerry leaves behind Esther, his devoted wife of 69 years, and his beloved daughter, Rita Lesher, sister Pearl Goldstein, and many nieces and nephews. Burial was at the Bikur Cholim Cemetery. Donations in Jerry’s memory can be made to Emanuel Congregation or the Caroline Kline Galland Home.

DeathJane Hart FeinMay 12, 1930–February 7, 2013

Jane died comfortably with family at her side. She was born in Cleveland and graduated from Mt. Sinai School of Nursing in 1951. She married Dr. Sherwood (Midge) Fein in 1952 and they moved to Seattle in 1954. They raised five children and until two years ago had 10 grandsons, but no granddaughters. That unusual string was broken by the recent arrival of a granddaughter. From 1984, after a refresher course in nursing, Jane worked as an RN at Swedish Medical Center in the antepartum unit for 10 years, and loved it. Midge Fein died in 1994, and Jane married an old friend, Dr. Robert Rosenberg, in 1998. They enjoyed a new life together with traveling, movies, plays and companionship until her illness progressed.

Jane is survived by her husband; children Laurie Sapir (Shimon), Cindy Strauss (Bob), Warren Fein (Lisa), Elliot Fein (Eve), and Amy Halas (Kamaka), and grandchildren Yoni, Le’or and Elad Sapir; Aaron, Joey, and Danny Strauss; Sam and Jacob Fein; Aryeh and Perry Fein; and Eliana Halas.

Jane was a lovely woman in every respect, devoted to her family, and loved back by them and a multitude of friends near and far. She was always there to help those in need. All will miss her.

A service was held Sunday, February 10 at 2:30 p.m. at Herzl Memorial Park, 16500 Dayton Avenue North, Shoreline.

Remembrances to the Caroline Kline Galland Home, 7500 Seward Park Ave. S, Seattle, WA 98118 or Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98115.

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Shelly Goldman at sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.org“The Bones and the Book” is a moving portrait of Seattle’s Jewish community, past and near present. Landmark spotting, Q&A, and a dessert reception. $5 payable at the door. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.

fRiday 22 MaRch7–8:30 p.m. — hametz fest Community Shabbat dinner

Marjie Cogan at marjiecogan@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.orgCome for a hametz-packed Shabbat dinner and keep your own kitchen clean in preparation for Pesach. Reservations and prepayment required by Mar. 18. Catered by Eric Gorbman. $20. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

suNday 24 MaRch12 p.m. — pre-pesach Car Wash

Ari Hoffman at thehoffather@gmail.com or SeattleNCSY.comHead to Sephardic Bikur Holim for this NCSY fundraiser and leave with a clean car. At Sephardic Bikur Holim, 6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.2–4 p.m. — passover Workshop

Elizabeth Fagin at elizabeth@betalef.org or 206-527-9399 or www.betalef.orgDiscover ways to move from places of stuckness into deeper meaning and greater joy in your life. Free. At Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue, 1111 Harvard Ave., Seattle.

3 p.m. — Crossing delancey Art Feinglass at

seattlejewishtheatercompany@gmail.com or www.seattlejewishtheater.comSeattle Jewish Theater Company presents a romantic comedy about a grandmother and a matchmaker who try to fix up a bookseller in New York with the owner of a pickle store. Free and open to all. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.5–8 p.m. — An Evening with Nancy pearl

Judy Kinney at info@nestseattle.org or 206-525-6378 or www.nestseattle.orgNEST hosts an evening with Nancy Pearl, rock star librarian. Buffet dinner, no-host bar, and live music in celebration of Northeast Seattle neighborhoods. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.

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