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SAN FRANCISCO (JA) When the news o Osama
bin Ladens death at U.S. hands hit the airwaves May 1,
America breathed a collective sigh o relie. Spontane-
ous celebrations broke out in ront o the White House as
crowds gathered to wave the Stars and Stripes and chant
their delight.
But how should Jews respond
when an evil-doer meets his end?
Tere is no easy answer, leading
rabbis say.
Even asking the question is very
Jewish, writes Rabbi zvi Freeman on
Chabad.org.
Its so typically Jewish to eel
guilty about rejoicing, he opined.
A number o prominent rabbis
spoke to JA on the subject, sharing
their conicted reactions borne o a tension within Jewis
teaching itsel.
As the president said, justice was done, said Rab
Eric Yoe, president o the Union or Reorm Judaism
Bin Laden was an evil man. He preyed on the weak. H
killed in the name o God.
But, the rabbi continued, I was not comortable wit
the celebrations. Toughtul discussion and thought
remembrance o recent events are to be preerred to dan
ing in the streets.
Tere are examples within Jewish tradition o celebra
ing an enemys death, o asking God or their destruction
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LETTERs TO THE EDITORTHE RAbbIs TuRn
Society becomes how you act. Eric Liu, co-author of The True PatriotandImagination First , speaking at the Jewish Family Service gala luncheon on May 9.
As I write this column Im
sitting in Israel, a ew days
aer Yom HaShoah and a ewdays beore Yom HaZikaron,
the Day o Remembrance,
and Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel
Independence Day. Israel is
wrapped in blue and white
it seems like every car, street,
and trac circle has Israeli
lags dangling somewhere
prominent. Entire municipal buildings are
lit up in blue.
A program on Israeli television last
night exemplied the character o those
moments when practically every Jew in
the world is overcome with a mixture o
pride and gratitude.
Te program was about Yoseph Good-
man, a young IDF soldier in Maglan, an
elite unit in the paratroopers. On February
6, 2006, during a routine training, Yoseph
jumped out o a plane and somehow his
commanders leg became entangled in
Yosephs parachute. Tey both began an
immediate plummet to their deaths.
Oen when I hear about these moments
o intense crisis, I cant help but ask mysel,
What would I do? Tey were in a situa-
tion where both were certainly going to
die, but there was at least a chance that i
one cut himsel ree he would save them
both.
Again, what i it was me? I can only
tell you what 20-year-old Yoseph Good-
man did. He didnt give his commander
and riend even a chance to decide who
would cut the rope. He immediately cut
his parachute, saving his riends lie. He
tried to open his reserve chute, but was too
close to the ground or it to open. Yoseph
is buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
I have had the unending privilege to
work with injured Israeli combat soldiers
since 2007 through Hope or Heroism. I
am not exaggerating when I tell you that
this level o selessness is something these
young men live with and are ready to act
on today at a moments notice. I have
stopped counting the times I have met a
young man who will spend years o his lie
trying to rehabilitate his body because o
his decision to put himsel between a ter-
rorist and a group o civilians.
In Israel, Hope or Heroism is run
entirely by injured combat soldiers and
the leaders tell me they continue to see
expressions o this seless giving every-
day. When they encounter injured soldiers
in the hospital, the rst and only request
they oen hear rom them is to instead
help a riend who has been injured. I an
injured soldier sufering rom post-trau-
matic stress is in a moment o personal
crisis in the middle o the night, he will
have his brothers by his side
in an instant and they wont
leave him until they eel he isable to manage on his own. It
doesnt matter what his hap-
pening in their own lives that
week, everything is dropped
to help a brother in need.
I dont know what I would
do in Yoseph Goodmans sit-
uation, but I know exactly
what any o our injured soldiers would do:
Tey would ght to be the rst one to cut
their own parachute, no matter the con-
sequences.
In the Jewish calendar we also nd our-
selves in the midst oSeras HaOmer, the
time when we count the days rom Pass-
over to the holiday o Shavuot and the
bringing o the omer ofering in the Beit
HaMikdash. During this time, until we
reach the 33rd day o the omer, there is a
tradition or the Jewish people to observe
signs o mourning, including letting ones
beard grow, as a remembrance o the the
24,000 students o Rabbi Akiva who died
during this period. We not only observe
outward signs o mourning but are also
meant to reect on xing in ourselves what
the almud says was the spiritual cause o
the death o Rabbi Akivas students: Tey
did not accord respect to each other. Dis-
respect and dishonor can only come rom
a spirit o selshness and taking.
I know the reason the television chan-
nel chose the program about Yoseph
Goodman had nothing to do with Rabbi
Akivas students, but the timing could not
have been better. I used to think that the
mourning and reection we do during this
time was only or us to remember to act in
a respectul way toward the people around
us, but I realized last night that its also
about something more.
Even i we show respect to each other,
we do not come into this world simply
to live or ourselves. We are here to go
beyond ourselves or the sake o some-
one else. In Hebrew the word or sacrice
is hakravah. It is not an accident that
hakravah also has the meaning to come
close. We need look no urther than our
precious injured soldiers to see this truth
in action. Tey share a purity and close-
ness that leave anyone who meets them
eeling touched and inspired.
Chaim Levine is Levitan executive director of
Hope for Heroism. The injured Israeli soldiers
will be in Seattle on their annual Hope for
Heroism delegation on May15th23rd. During
this time they will spend two days bonding with
injured U.S. soldiers who have recently been
inspired by Hope for Heroism to start a similar
organization here in Washington State.
What woud I do?Rabbi Chaim Levine Hop for Hroism
WORLD vIEW
I was amused and also a bit dismayed by Robert Wilkess chauvinistic piece on why Amer-
icans (not to mention Jews) are exceptional (American Jews are twice chosen, April 29).
He says, Americans are chosen because each individual citizen knows, or should know, he
is responsible for his government, his nation and his neighbors. Surely he doesnt think that
this is true only of citizens in our country. He also says President Obama is wrong in notthinking of America as exceptional and accuses him of being weak, la Jimmy Carter. I just
returned from almost a month in Asia, and everywhere I went, people brought up (unasked)
President Obama, telling me how much they liked him. This was also true when I was in
northern Spain last September.
When I traveled during the years the last President Bush was president, no one ever
volunteered an opinion, which I assume was out of politeness, because when I asked what
they thought, the answer was incredibly and uniformly negative. President Obama is
a beacon for our world, and thats what makes a great leader. We dont have to cringe at a
cowboy mentality or a lack of knowledge of history, current events and culture, or an uncon-
scionable defense of torture all of these attributes to me signify weakness. I am deeply
thankful for President Obama and for his strong leadership by example.
Carole Glickfeld
seattle
In DEFEnsE OF MOM
The editors ofJTNews recently published a letter (Taking Sides, Letters, April 29)
attacking my mother, Rochelle Kochin, for her defense of the State of Israels right to defend
herself from the evil actions of an enemy who specically targets and murders Jewish civil -
ians (A moral compass, April 15). The author writes that my mothers views imply that she
must have no moral compass if she cannot see the mitigating historical factors that moti-
vate these terrorists.
In these times of economic stress, the role of a Jewish communitys paper should not be
to devote its limited resources to apologists for those who murder Jewish infants sleeping in
their cribs. Those wishing to attack the State of Israel suffer from no shortage of nancial
support and forums to publish their deranged views.
Rochelle Kochin has provided many years of seless service and contribution to the needs
of the Seattles Jewish community. An attack on the moral integrity of my mother has no
more place inJTNews than deranged arguments of those who would deny the Holocaust.
On this Mothers Day, I call upon the editors ofJTNews to reect on their decisions.JTNews
should use its limited resources to celebrate people like my mother.
Irael Kochi
new York, n.Y.
OnE MORE OpTIOn
I applaud Rabbi Mirels effort to encourage nonafliated Jews in the greater Seattle area
to join a Jewish community in his article An offer you cant (and shouldnt) refuse (Rab-
bis Turn, Feb. 25). He lists several types of congregations to choose from, including Reform,
Conservative, Reconstructionist, Renewal and Meditative, and he notes, as a caveat, that he
is intentionally excluding messianic synagogues from the list of acceptable choices. One type
of Jewish community that exists in Seattle but is not included in Rabbi Mirels list is Human-
istic Judaism. As a member of the Secular Jewish Circle of Puget Sound, the local afliate of
the Society for Humanistic Judaism, I would like to correct this oversight. Although SJC is
not a synagogue, it provides many of the same services as other Jewish communities, e.g.
monthly community get-togethers, holiday celebrations, Sunday school, adult education,
lifecycle celebrations, cultural programming, etc.
SJC is a viable alternative for people who want to participate in a Jewish community that
offers a world view that may resonate for them. SJC also actively engages in the larger local
Jewish community, taking part in events at the Jewish Community Center, sponsoring cul-
tural events such as the Seattle Jewish Film Festival, and supporting community organiza-
tions such as Jewish Family Service and the Jewish Federation. I appreciate you remembering
to include Humanistic Jewish organizations such as ours in the list of viable alternatives for
those seeking afliation. Were another type of vibrant Jewish community with much to offer
and provide another doorway to afliation.
Jdy blider
seattle
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Eric Miller is the Public Aairs Specialist or QFC. He can be reached at [email protected] or 425-990-6182.
QFC is proud to be the local presenting sponsor
of the Komen Puget Sound
Race for the CureBy Eric Miller, QFC Public Afairs Specialist
Te 18th annual Komen Puget Sound Race or the Cure
will be held on Sunday, June 5th at Seattle Center. We are
just weeks away! Tousands o us will spend that morning
together; connected by our experiences, our love, and
through our shared support o one another. Every hug,
every smile and wave, every pink balloon, wig, ribbon
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For all o us at QFC its about taking an active
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amily member, co-worker or riend has needed your
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Ensuring all women have access to breast cancer early
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Over the past 30 years, Komen or the Cure has helped
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n Have yearly check-ups and mammograms, as
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n Spread the word by talking and sharing with
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So what can you do to help?Please join us on Sunday, June 5th at Seattle Center
or the Komen Puget Sound
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QFC is committed to serving our customers, our
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The help from JFS was a life saver in an ocean of despair. Emergency Services Client, Jewish Family Service
Consider the Purim story, where the
Jews easted aer slaying those who were,
admittedly, arming to slay them. Or Gods
command to King Saul to obliterate the
entire house o Amalek or its wicked ways:
Do not spare them, but kill both man and
woman, and inant, ox and sheep, camel
and donkey (I Sam. 15: 2-3).Conversely, one o the best-known ritu-
als o the Passover seder is spilling 10 drops
o wine when mentioning the en Plagues
to symbolize a lessening o our own joy in
the ace o Egyptian sufering. In Sanhedrin
39b, God admonishes the angels or rejoic-
ing when the Egyptian soldiers drown in the
Red Sea, saying Te work o My hands is
drowning in the sea, and you want to sing?
I dont think we celebrate a death,
explained Rabbi Julie Schoneld, executive
vice president o the Rabbinical Assembly,
the proessional association o Conserva-
tive clergy.
In the case o bin Laden there is, she
said, a sense o relie, an airmation
Gods justice has been carried out. Such
an event, however, is a time or sobriety,
not celebration.
Nevertheless, Schoneld added, one
needs to distinguish between an ideal, reli-
giously inspired response and the reality o
human nature.
Sept. 11 was a day o tremendoustrauma, she said, and the raucous street
celebrations can be viewed as a kind
o catharsis. What were seeing is a
reminder o how personally people were
afected. Its an understandable human
response that we as Jews are blessed to ele-
vate to a Jewish response.
Rabbi Basil Herring, executive vice
president o the Rabbinical Council o
America, the proessional association
or Orthodox clergy, also distinguished
between the ideal and the real.
In an ideal world, we serve God
because we want to do His will, not
because he rewards us or we ear punish-
ment, he said. But were human, were
not angels. We live in a world where
people need reinorcement, need a sense
that its all worth it in the end.
Te Jewish way is not to gloat, Herring
said. It is appropriate to rejoice when evil
doers get their just reward, but the rejoic-
ing should be because we are witness-
ing Gods power and justice. It shouldntcome, he said, rom a sel-satised smug
sense o Yes, Ive been proven right.
Its an armation that God is not just
an abstract idea, a Creator, but part o our
lives, Herring continued. God cares.
God loves us. Tats an essential article
o our aith, that God rewards the righ-
teous and punishes the wicked. We rejoice
because our aith is borne out.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow, a Jewish
Renewal rabbi and director o Phila-
delphias Shalom Center, said he would
have preerred that the Navy SEALS had
brought bin Laden back to the United
States to stand trial.
Just as Israeli agents didnt kill Na
war criminal Adol Eichmann when the
ound him in Argentina a hal-centu
ago, but tried him in Jerusalem to expo
the true horror o the Holocaust and giv
its victims a chance to speak their trut
so would putting bin Laden on trial ha
been an opportunity to uncover the re
ace o al-Qaida, he said.Tat would have been an extraordina
act in support o upholding the values w
claim make us diferent, Waskow said.
Pointing to the story o Moses, Wasko
quotes the Midrash as saying that on
reason Moses was not permitted to cro
the Jordan and enter the Promised Lan
was because in his youth he killed a
Egyptian overseer, taking justice into h
own hands without bringing him to trial
rying bin Laden would have bee
messy, Waskow acknowledged, but
the long run Im sure it would have bee
better.
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Az dos medyl ken nisht tantsn, zogt zi, di klezmorim kenen nisht
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From the Jewish ranscript, April 24,
1998: A special section on Israels 50th
anniversary, which preceded a celebra-
tion estival at Seattle Center, included
an exhibit by ninth-generation Israeli
photographer Keren zur o the city o
Jerusalem. Te exhibit later went to the
Stroum Jewish Community Center.
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Pro. Jonathan Sarna o Brandeis University is a perpetual student o Jewish community in the United
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Religion in America runs in cycles.
Sometimes it ebbs, sometimes it ows.
Currently, says Pro. Jonathan Sarna o
Brandeis University, this country is expe-
riencing a religious recession, and the
Jewish community is not exempt.Te number o Americans who claim
that their religion is none has certainly
grown, said Sarna, the Joseph H. and Belle
R. Braun Proessor o American Jewish His-
tory and this years lecturer or the Samuel
and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Stud-
ies at the University o Washington, Reviv-
als and Awakenings in American Judaism.
In the past, every religious decline has been
ollowed by a religious revival. Whether that
will happen now, I dont know.
Sarna thinks o the period between the
rst two world wars as one that best com-
pares to today. Just like now, with easy dis-
tractions like Facebook and the iPhone,
technology back then kept parishioners
out o the pews.
Te automobile, or example, gave
[people] something else to do on Sunday
morning and it took a while or religion to
gure out how to restructure so you make
peace with this new piece o technology,
he said. All o that is a challenge to syna-
gogues and churches, and it will take some
time beore we see how that all plays out.
he economy in this most recent
decline certainly played a role, Sarna said,
but something else is at play.
Clearly when the economy collapsed,
Te rst thing I can save money on is
synagogue membership, Sarna said,
explaining many peoples rationale. Butwe havent seen the kind o recovery in the
religious realm that we have seen in the
economic realm.
Rabbi Beth Singer o emple Beth Am,
who studied under Sarna, agreed there
may be a decline in religious belie.
Most people that I know dont want to
come and sit in services on a regular basis,
they dont want to describe themselves as
religious, they are really uncertain about
their eelings about God, she said.
However, her experience in Seattle di-
ers rom what she and Sarna have both
seen in other communities.
We are experiencing this tremendous
inux in everything that we do at emple
Beth Am, Singer said.
And while she sees her congregants
distracted by online social media, she
said, were seeing that that is not enough,
and there is a place or a real ace-to-ace,
human-connection, meeting place.
Still, denominational organizations
ear or their utures. Te Reorm move-
ment is struggling with how it can increase
its reach and relevance or 21st-century
amilies. he Conservative movement
earlier this year approved the implemen-
tation o a strategic plan that will over-
haul the way it provides services or its
adherents. And in February, the Recon-
structionist movement combined its orga-nizational arm and rabbinical school,
which Sarna called an admission o its sig-
nicant challenges.
Sarna does not have a lot o data on the
Orthodox community because so many
institutions serve that population. He
noted that while Orthodox Jews have many
more children than the non-Orthodox,
which has provided growth, not all o these
children stay within the old. In addition,
the baal teshuvah movement that began in
the 1970s, which saw many people convert
to Orthodoxy, has markedly slowed.
I you talk to rabbis, they dont see that
much o it, and synagogues are no longer
lled with religious newcomers who are
eager to participate, Sarna said.
he rise o independent minyanim
and similar such organizations he cited
Seattles Kavana Cooperative as one exam-
ple o popular alternatives to a traditional
shul that began growing beore the
recession have also seen a slowdown, i not
an outright stalling out.
Te near uture, at least or American
Jews, will see much more interest in non-
religious ways or people to express their
Judaism, Sarna believes. I there has been a
true rise in Jewish organizational involv
ment, it has been through organization
like American Jewish Word Service, whic
aims to strengthen Jewish identity throug
a social justice lens.
Weve seen this great movement ba
to social justice activities across the Jewi
spectrum, including the Orthodox, h
said.
But, just as the anti-religious ideol
gies o Marxism and socialism seeme
to be capturing the hearts and minds o
lot o young people in the 1920s, Sarn
Th is and dcin of Wstn (igious) civiization
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When three observant Jewish men on a
ight rom Mexico City to Los Angeles in
March alarmed the ight crew by stand-
ing, wrapping black leather straps to theirarms, binding small black boxes to their
heads, and praying loudly in Hebrew, they
were removed rom the ight. A day aer
that event, Seattle-based carrier Alaska
Airlines quickly reached out to the Jewish
Federation o Greater Seattle or a crash
course in Jewish religious practice.
In a series o ongoing meetings between
the airline, the Jewish Federation and the
Vaad HaRabanim o Greater Seattle,
Alaska Airlines hopes to learn about Juda-
ism, and has already taken action by creat-
ing an internal website and related written
documents or its top-level staf so they
may more easily recognize the sights and
sounds o common Jewish practices, as
well as those o other religious groups.
We took this very seriously, said
Bobbie Egan, media-relations manager
or Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, Alas-
kas partner airline, speaking withJTNews.
We had a lot o employees who said they
wanted to be a part o this.
Several o Alaskas senior staf attended
the April meeting, including directors
rom the ight department, which over-
sees light attendants, representatives
rom diversity training, in-light crew
training and crew selection. Employee
resource groups, which include diversity
groups and the human resources depart-
ment, attended as well.
Weve launched a computer-based
training [program] or our 2,600 ight
attendants, Egan said. In addition, we
are nalizing our new employee orien-
tation and will have a handout ocusing
primarily on the most popular religious
practices or the regions we serve.
Immediately aer the incident, Alaska
Airlines issued a swi apology and ofered
to reimburse the passengers airares once
it learned that the small black boxes with
leather straps, known as tefllin, were a
part o daily morning prayer rituals or
observant Jews.
We are including a model o train-
ing on non-verbal communication and
what diferent behaviors could mean,
Egan said. In addition, were producing
another document that highlights some
common prayer rituals.
Te incident was resolved once the
FBI, U.S. Customs and Border Protection,
and airport police met the plane, ques-
tioned the men and searched their bags.
According to Egan, an internal com-
pany review determined that the ight
crew acted appropriately, but she could
not recall, at this time, whether the three
passengers involved have taken any
ormal action against the airline.
While attempting to reund the mens
airares, Alaska Airlines ound discon-
nected or incorrect phone numbers,
Aiin undtaks taining in Judaismfoowing tefillin incidnt
JaniS SiegeL JTNws Corrspondntwhich made subsequent attempts to con-
tact the men, reported by the Jerusalem
Postas Mexican nationals, dicult but still
ongoing, Egan said.Te Jewish Federations CEO Rich-
ard Fruchter and its director o market-
ing and communications, Wendy Dore,
along with Seattle Vaad representatives,
interim director Al Maimon and Rabbi
Simon Benzaquen, collaborated with the
airline to help them become more sensi-
tive to Jewish religious rituals.
In a statement on the Federations web-
site, Fruchter praised Alaska Airlines or
its concern and attention to the matter,
while acknowledging that security is the
priority, even as all o the parties involved
strive to build understanding.
Tey contacted us to learn what this
particular ritual is and what is involved
so that they could learn what is accept-
able, and what might be normal behav-
ior, versus behaviors that they might be
on alert or, Dore told JNews. Weve
already provided them with photos and
articles about tellin, what they look like,
and we had a demonstration by a local
Vaad rabbi.
Although the Seattle Vaad makes
Jewish religious rulings on almost any
issue, including kosher regulations,
divorces, marriages, conversions, and
more, Maimon told
JNews that the
Vaad has never been
called on to help anairline become more
religiously savvy, but
they are happy to
help in any way they
can.
We dont have
an agenda here, said Maimon. But i you
know youre going to be doing something
thats out o the norm, let the staf know
whats coming and make sure that they
agree to the time and the place that it could
be done so that its not disruptive.
Benzaquen agreed and said he believed
that the altercation probably had some-
thing to do with the passengers personali-
ties as much as it did with Jewish law.
Tere are certain rules on the plane
because o saety and you have to be sen-
sitive to that, the rabbi told JNews and
Alaska Airlines executives at the meeting,
rearming the Jewish law on the subject.
I you are already on the plane, and you
didnt take the tellin [out], and you are
already sitting down, you have to talk rst
to the ight attendant.
At the same time, knowledge is power,
he said. Once educated on the subject, the
planes crew can handle this situation with
calm and ease the next time.
I somebody asks i they can do the
prayers, [ight attendants] can know wh
it is instead o being panicky, Benzaque
said.
While he had the airlines attentio
on the subject o Jewish religious habit
Maimon said he took the opportunity t
lobby, in a riendly way, or more explic
kosher certication symbols to be printe
on the snacks it sells so those who observ
Jewish kosher laws can more easily se
them.
However, he did not lose sight o th
issue that brought the group together an
he ofered his thoughts on the matter.
Tere should be no one eeling entitle
ment to do what they need to do regardle
o the environment or the authority o th
people where they are, he said.
Te group plans to meet again at th
end o May.
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1I covered the story
rom the beginningin
early 2007, says bare-
oot bandologist JacksonHoltz. he Herald o Ever-
ett reporter just released his
book, Fly, Colton, Fly, about
Bareoot Bandit Colton
Harris-Moore, the teenage
Camano Island burglar who
branched out into national
and international the beore
being arrested in the Bahamas.
Te book draws on the 100-plus arti-
cles Jackson wrote working the papers
crime beat. Aer the bandits 2010 arrest,
Jackson elt there was a strong enough
narrative, and certainly enough material,
or a book. His proposal was picked up by
Penguins New American Library.
He wrote the book in just over a
month so it could come to market while
interest still abounded. he pace was
daunting, he says, but as a runner he com-
pared it to any endurance eventyou
have to pace yoursel and
work at it every day. And,
no, he hasnt interviewed
Colton. No one has.A ounding board member
o West Seattle congregation
Kol HaNeshamah, Jackson
is somehowback on the
board again aer almost six
or seven years of [it]. Te
8-year-old congregation got
its start when aer much
talk a group o eight o us
had dinner at Buddha Ruksa
in West Seattle and created the progres-
sive congregation.
Were a synagogue that got its start
over Tai ood, he says.
Its a natural t or Jack-
son, who grew up in Boston
attending emple Israel,
where he and his dad were
both active members.
He inds a Jewish
lesson in Fly, Colton, Fly
about community and com-
munity responsibility. Its a
cautionary tale, he says.
Were captivated by
a story about a modern
American outlaw olk hero,
but its also a sad story
about a child who was
neglected and began steal-
ing to survive.
Jackson has moved to
eatures reporting or Te Herald, but he
still covers the bandit when news emerges.
He lives in Seattle with his partner, Jeremy
Moser, and their cat Emily. I love to
cook, he says, and last summer he and
Jeremy started a pea patch. Find more
inormation at www.jacksonholtz.com.
2Jacob Goren, Ben Spear an d
Zac Zilz have been schoolmates,
riends and campers at Camp Sol-
omon Schechter or many years. Lastsummer that all coalesced into a business.
Tey were emceeing the camps evening
shows and putting on skits. One night they
asked i they could DJ a dance, and a new
DJ business was born.
Back in the Seattle area, Benzacob
a mesh o their names quickly began
getting work in and
outside the Jewish
community. Teyve
played or youth
groups and schools,
or Bar and Bat Mitz-
vah parties and amily
events, and organized
independent dances
or high schoolers,
using Facebook to
publicize the events.
With Seattle resi-
dents Jacob and Ben
g r a d u a t i n g r o m
Interlake High School
in B e l l e v ue and
Northwest Yeshiva,
respectively, and Zac
rom Mercer Island High, Benzacob will
be on partial hiatus or the next ew years.
Jacob will attend the University o Wash-
ington and has access to the equipment
i hes needed; Ben will study at Derech
Eitz Haim yeshiva in Israel; Zac is attend-
ing University o Redlands. Although the
three will be at Schechter this summer,
they can get away or bookings. (Ben will
return to the UW next year.)
Aside rom school and Benzacob, Jacob
has been active in the business leadership
organization DECA. He also plays a lot
o soccer and other sports, he says. Be
plays on the Yeshiva gol team (yes, th
yeshiva has a gol team!). A budding lm
maker, he nds similarities in audio ediing and running a sound system.
Zac is involved in Bnai Brith You
and spent this year helping the Eastsid
chapter increase its membership. A co
noisseur o all kinds o music, he al
plays water polo. He says the best pa
o Benzacob is all the new people w
meet. Its been great, he says, to lear
to approach people and take risks, a
skills he expects he will be able to use
the uture.
A correction: I transposed informati
about Inge Marcus in the last issue. Sh
retired from Saint Martins University
Lacey as an assistant professor in biolog
in 2007 and only taught very briey
Pacifc Lutheran in 198
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Last all our amily bit the
bullet. Ater years o com-
plaining about our cramped
1950s-vintage kitchen, wedecided: Its time! So we hired
an architect-contractor, drew
up the plans, and were ready
to roll. We planned to begin
right aer the autumn esti-
vals and nish up by Hanuk-
kah New Years Eve at the
latest.
Simple, right? Right?
For one reason or another the work
didnt begin until early November. Our
guy projected a three-month time rame
that orecast a nish well beore Purim.
Various delays the most aggravating
concerning the oor guy ultimately
pushed the grand opening till just beore
Pesach. Have you ever moved your kitchen
into your living room or our months?
As those o you whove redone a kitchen
well know, the new kitchen is really a
minor issue; the rst problem is what to do
with the stuf already in your oldkitchen.
For one thing, everything including the
kitchen sink must go somewhere.
Heres how we recongured our living
space: All pantry stuf, pots and pans, and
dry goods are now boxed in
the guestroom. Sorry, guests!
Everyday needs, such as
peanut butter, breakast gra-nola bars, the cofee maker,
and the Scotch, are laid out on
tables brought into the living
room.
Te ridge, dislocated rom
its ormer kitchen post, now
guards the entrance to the
living room. You might recall
seeing it on camera when, in
the comort o my living room,
I was interviewed by KING 5 News about
the blood libel controversy weve all or-
gotten about. Ketzel, the cat, also upstaged
the honored interviewee with a guest
cameo, stalking through the room look-
ing or his bowl.
As or cooking gear, we made do with
a single-burner hot plate, a crock pot or
cholent, a microwave, and a soup kettle.
We ate mostly on paper, to avoid
having to wash the dishes in the bathtub.
Not exactly green, but hey: Look at the
electricity we saved!
Te place may look like Costco, but its
cozy. We lived like this or count em
six months!
But necessity, they say, is the mother o
invention! In order to minimize cooking
clean-up (in a living room with no coun-
ters or sink, and a bathroom with a back-breaking bathtub squat or dishwashing),
we pioneered a way to extend our Shabbos
chicken soup so it becomes the oundation
o a meal that lasts most o the week. We
call it Eternal Soup.
his miraculous soup cooks up or
Shabbos and, like the lechem panim (the
Bread o the Presence) o the emple,
that stayed resh rom Shabbos to Shab-
bos, grows tastier as the week unolds.
Te oundation o Eternal Soup is
your good ol Shabbos chicken soup. Make
it the way you (or Mom or Bubbe) usually
do, but leave the chicken parts to steep in
the broth on the blech over Shabbos. By
Saturday night youll have a thick, gelati-
nous stew which, aer it cools by Sunday,
will be the oundational lead o an
alchemical transormation into the gold
o Eternal Soup.
Te result is a classic minestrone-like
crowd pleaser that, i necessary, can nour-
ish our or dinner MondayWednesday,
with bread and green salad. O course, you
can start dining on your Eternal Soup as
early as Sunday, but thatll leave Wednes-
day and Tursday open. I recommen
using Sunday as Island Crust pizza da
Tat gets you soup through Wednesday.
On Tursday we heat up canned veggchili. On Friday: make another batch o
your mothers (or Bubbes) chicken sou
and repeat the cycle.
Can you think o a better way o eed
ing your amily out o a single pot a
week? Our soup pot gets its bath Wedne
day night, rests on Tursday, and is read
to rock and roll on Friday!
Tis is how the Jafees have survived th
Winter o the Kitchen Remodel. Extra adde
benet: Tat hot plate really cranks out th
heat on those chilly, rainy Seattle evening
Double extra added benet: theres no bett
way to deal with cold cholent.
So any takers or Monday nigh
dinner chez Jafee?
Martin S. Jaffee currently holds the Samuel &
Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies at the
University of Washington. His award-winning
columns forJTNews have recently been
published in book form as The End of Jewish
Radar: Snapshots of a Post-Ethnic American
Judaism by iUniverse press.
Find the recipe in Martys column online at
jtnews.net.
etna soup: Th pofssos guid tosuviving you kitchn mod
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I have given my background to justabout every population except my own,
says Diane Burnett, the new director o
the Alternatives to Addiction program at
Jewish Family Service. I had been told
about the position here at JFS, and I wasnt
even looking. But something told me to
investigate it urther. It just grew to be an
obvious match.
Like several o our other Women to
Watch, Burnett relays a sense o a guid-
ing orce that brought her to her current
position.
It just shows you, you dont always
know the best thing or yoursel, she says.
Burnett comes to JFS with a Master oSocial Work rom the University o Wash-
ington and a Chemical Dependency pro-
essional certicate, as well as experience
working with Harborview and UW Med-
ical Centers, the King County Jail and
King County Drug Court. She has been a
member o several chemical dependency
clinical studies to dene best practices.
Burnett has served veterans, the elderly,
people o color, women and teens, but
never the Jewish community exclusively.
Our program is designed to increase
awareness o drug and alcohol abuse in the
Jewish community, she says. Tere is a
myth in the Jewish community that Jewsdont have a problem with addiction.
Alternatives to Addiction seeks to
remove the barriers between Jews strug-
gling with addiction and the help they
need, connecting them with the commu-
nity at large. Te program is three years
old, and Burnett is the second director.
Among the addictions prevalent in
the community, I think that theres a lot
o alcoholism, she says. Teres a huge
problem with prescription narcotics. A
lot o people have chronic pain...We need
to keep our kids sae rom our medicine
cabinets. But addiction extends to other
No ong aon: Usingxpinc to hp oths
behaviors, too.
Anything we do to try to change o
reality can become addictive, Burne
says. Its a symptom o dissatisaction wi
the world.
Burnett suggests that Jews eel lik
theyre letting down the whole commu
nity, while some may eel too high pro
to get recovery.
I think shame and guilt is a big barri
to Jews getting clean and sober, she says
Burnett also notes that Jews tend
shy away rom 12-step programs, viewin
them as Christian, a myth Burnett tries
dispel. While she promotes them, she al
stresses creative problem solving.
Burnett speaks highly o the 12-ste
programs thats how she got clean 2
years ago.
It never dawned on me that I have
problem, says Burnett, who ound herse
reliant upon alcohol and narcotics in 199
I was completely alone in my misery.
I went to my irst NA [Narcoti
Anonymous] meeting and I recognize
mysel immediately, she says. First o a
they were laughing at their experiences.
ound that to be extremely attractive.
Support and humor gave Burne
the strength to change. I was no long
alone, she says. Tats what I want
any Jews who are eeling isolated in the
addiction.
Burnett says she sees many crossove
between Jewish teachings and addictio
recovery.
Te most obvious is teshuvah, repe
tence, she says. When addicted, were
ull o our own ego, but tikkun middo
repairing personal and spiritual qualitie
is puriying. Te very thing that was yo
very source o shame becomes your sour
o dignity, she says. You can look at th
world with much more appreciation.
I can turn it over to God, to a high
power. I dont have to know where my pat
is leading to walk it. It enables me to hav
my sense o humor, my sense o joy.
To learn more about Jewish Family Services
Alternatives to Addiction program, contact
Diane Burnett at 206-861-8782 or
emiLy k. aLhaDeFF Assistant editor, JTNws
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As Giti Fredman talks, a theme emerges:
Inspiration. She describes how she landed
in West Seattle (o all places), buildingJewish community and leading womens
trips to Israel as a result o inspired choices
and an unusually grounded sense that she
can make change in the world.
Te Lakewood, N.J. native had her lie
more or less planned out during the eight
years she and her husband, Rabbi David
Fredman, spent living in Jerusalem and
Ramat Beit Shemesh, where she ran a
baking business.
We thought we were going to live in
Israel orever, Giti, 29, says.
But aer her husband was inspired
by a going-away party or his best riend,
who had been hired by the Seattle Kollels
Rabbi Avrohom David to lead a Kollel in
Portland, they knew what they had to do.
Te Fredmans picked up and moved to
West Seattle to help build the Jewish com-
munity. Te couple runs the West Seattle
orah Learning Center, where they dedi-
cate their time to hosting Shabbat meals,
leading classes and holding events.
Our goal is just to unite and get to
know the Jews o West Seattle and let them
know there is a Jewish resource here, Giti
says.Te orah Learning Center is one o
two synagogues that have popped up in
West Seattle in recent years. But she tries
to dispel the myth that one can only attend
the institution where he or she pays dues.
Were not just a synagogue, were a
Jewish resource, she says. Its not a contra-
diction. You can be a member somewhere
else and come to our Shabbat dinner.
Besides, she pointed out, they dont
collect dues.
Te same sense o ollowing a calling
that brought the Fredmans to Seattle is
what gave Giti the strength to start lead-
ing yearly trips to Israel or Jewish moth-
ers. Te trip is through the Jewish Womens
Renaissance Project, which ocuses on
bringing Jewish values to a central place in
Jewish homes through womens education.
I knew about this trip or a while,
and I thought, I cant do it, I cant leave
the kids, she says (shes got our). But
aer attending a conerence or women in
kiruv the practice o reaching out to less
observant Jews and hearing more about
the JWRP, she changed her mind. Aer
the conerence she called her husband andher mother-in-law to let them know they
would be taking care o the kids while she
went to Israel.
Its kind o like a Birthright or Jewish
moms, Fredman says.
By taking women with children still at
home to Israel to engage more deeply with
Judaism, she hopes that the women will
return and inspire her husband and her
kids living at home.
All these women are bringing what
they learned back to their amilies, she
says. All the women are more committed
to learning about Judaism.
Whats unique about Fredman as a
woman to watch is her dedication to
Jewish womanhood in and o itsel.
We believe the woman is the ounda-
tion o the home, she says.
Fredman hosts the monthly Lunar
Latte Rosh Chodesh womens discussion
group and until recently was leading a
Jewish Mommy and Me series. Her new
project is Jewish Kids in the Kitchen and
shed like to start a Jewish storytime.
I eel like Im a Jewish woman, I hav
a lot o talent, Im really capable and hav
a lot o energy, she says. I have a dee
desire to share what I know with oth
women. Im very happy with my role.
For more information about attending the nex
Jewish Womens Renaissance Project, which
leaves later this month, contact Shaindel
Bresler at [email protected] or
206-779-4373.
emiLy k. aLhaDeFF Assistant editor, JTNws
Giti Fredman:binging Judaism hom
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This Weeks Wisdom
Avoid Gossipby Mike Selinker
2011 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cae, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle.
All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb.
ACROSS
1 Sound o shock
5 Like road games
9 Stockpile
14 Site o the Kon-TikiMuseum
15 Nutty as a ruitcake
16 National Poetry Month
17 With 27-, 39-, 47-, and60-Across, all three peoplehurt by a piece o gossip
20 Electric start?
21 Mariners goal at the plate
22 Honeycombmanuacturer?
23 Pester
25 Failed 21-Across attempt
27 See 17-Across
31 When it ___, it pours
35 Consecrated
36 Eastern way
37 Jim Hensons rog
38 Australian biped
39 See 17-Across
41 Ring result, briey
42 Blush
44 See 69-Across
45 Celestial body
46 ___ the storm
47 See 17-Across
49 Celestial bodies
51 Celestial body
52 Bashul housemate?
55 Sufx with sex ormulticultural
56 Breathtaking organs?
60 See 17-Across
65 Bumbling
66 Part in a play
67 Paquin o True Blood
68 Vending machine oerings
69 With 44-Across, SeanLennons mom
70 Pleasant, as an outlook
Sages caution against the spread of Lashon Hara, meaning evil speech.More harm can be done with a softly spoken word than with a hundred swords.Three people are hurt by every word of malicious gossip, as this puzzle shows.
DOWN
1 Fan o The Cure and Bauhaus, perhaps
2 Like a recently used freplace
3 Go tobogganing
4 Louisiana sandwich
5 Ginger ___
6 Thats amazing!
7 German exclamation
8 Chocolaty beverage
9 Snags
10 Zoo attraction
11 Grouch
12 Walk in the woods
13 Otherwise18 Person, place, or thing
19 Drink daintily
24 Climb aboard
25 Particles o light
26 What a goler tries to break
27 Over yonder
28 Comortably cheery
29 Escape the grasp o
30 Used to exist
32 Right Said Fred hit ___ Sexy
33 Camera brand
34 Platoon director Oliver
37 Theyre ft to be tied?
39 Liberals
40 Conclusion
43 Beehive and pixie cut
45 Where to go or Help
47 Weapons depot
48 Hawaiian dance
50 Poisonous serpent
52 Oenses written up at trafc stops
53 Seattle skater Apolo
54 Like Harvard, ater its 1977 merger with Radclie
57 Impermissible act
58 Second Amendment subject
59 Dont go anywhere
61 Facial location?
62 Rick Derringer hit Rock and Roll, Hoochie ___
63 Big deer
64 The Matrix hero
Candhtn tms
May 6 .............................. 8:09 p.m.
May 13 .............................8:19 p.m.
May 20 ............................ 8:26 p.m.
May 27 ............................ 8:35 p.m.
FRiDay13may7:309 p.m. Nshmat Shabbat
Shellie Oakley at [email protected] or
206-577-2391 or
www.betale.org/shabbat.html#nishmat
At this unique event, Bet Ale teachers share their
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transormational messages o Jewish tradition. Silent
and guided Jewish meditations, ecstatic chanting and
dancing, and Judaisms non-dual spiritual teachings
are alternately oered throughout the evening. $10
donation. At Queen Anne United Methodist Church,
1606 5th Ave. West, Seattle.
7:30 and 10 p.m. Shabbatn wth ga
Mansn
Marilyn Leibert at [email protected] or
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Shabbaton with Gila Manolson, international speaker
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Marriage. $20/adults, $10/children, ree/6 and under.
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morning service. Free. RSVP requested. At Congregation
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129 p.m. Shabbatn wth ga Mansn
Marilyn Leibert at [email protected] or
206-722-8289 or seattlekollel.org
Seudah with NCSY: or details contact Ari Homan at
206-295-5888 or hoar [email protected]. Womens lecture
and seudah shlishit at 7:15 p.m.: Looking Again:
Realistic Expectations o Love and Marriage at the
home o Miriam Levy. Contact the Kollel or details. At
The Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
SunDay15may10 a.m.4 p.m. Bth Sham Bd Drv
www.bethshalomseattle.org
The Puget Sound Blood Center will park their Blood
Mobile across the street rom Beth Shalom. Email to
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6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
10:30 a.m.1 p.m. NCSY 500
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The much-awaited go-kart race. Get team sponsors
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2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Washntn Cntmprary
Bat prsnts Nvsy
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253-474-4312 or www.wcbdance.org
Washington Contemporary Ballet presents this
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program including premieres by two contemporary
choreographers. $18/general, $15/children, senio
military. At Mt. Tahoma High School, 4634 S 74
St., Tacoma.
tueSDay17 may7:30 p.m. Th Chann Mdd east
www.townhallseattle.org
The Henry M. Jackson School o International Stud
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beginning at 6:30 p.m. $5. At Town Hall Seattle, 11
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WeDneSDay18may79 p.m. isra Mattrs Srs
Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg at
Local vendors and David Sokal, owner o Peace O
speak on Israel Buy-in: Using our consumer pow
to support Israel. $5 suggested donation. At Temp
Bnai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellev ue.
911:30 a.m. SHA grandparnts Day
Sari Weiss at [email protected] or
206-323-5750 ext. 239 or
seattlehebrewacademy.org
SHA grandparents and riends are welcome or
brunch, tour and program. Free. At Seattle Hebre
Academy, 1617 Interlaken Dr ive E, Seatt le.
thuRSDay19 may79 p.m. SJCC isra 360 Srs: Znsm
Th Rads Nt Tan
Roni Antebi at [email protected] or
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UW Proessor Noam Pianko will talk about Zionis
and the roads not taken, new perspectives on Jew
nationalism. $10-$15. At Hillel at the University
Washington, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.
FRiDay20may7:30 p.m. Hp fr Hrsm Dnnr
Lauren at [email protected] or
206-691-5096
Join 12 injured Israeli soldiers and Attorney Gene
Rob McKenna or Shabbat dinner. Soldiers will t
their stories over a Sephardic-style dinner. Servic
at 6:45 p.m. Advance payment reserves se
Babysitting services available. $25/adults, $1
children 412, ree/children under 3. At Congregati
Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., Seattle.
SunDay22may11 a.m.2 p.m. la Bomr Parad, BBQ
Cncrt and Far
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Start ing at 10:45 with a parade led by The Tribe t
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BBQ with hot dogs, burgers and ree drinks, l
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Crossroads Park, Bellevue.
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6 p.m., cross the street to Herzl-Ner Tamid or a traditional
Lag BOmer bonre, kosher barbecue and camp songs.
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48 p.m. la Bomr BBQ
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The Seattle Jewish Community Schools annual
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perormance, highlights o the year, sta tributes,
and rereshments. At Seattle Jewish Community
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The Stroum JCC welcomes Richa rd Benton, Hazel D.
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