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In 1995, Jewish Family Service moved into its cur-rent Capitol Hill location on 16th Avenue, renovating a former eye clinic to serve as the center of operations for 40 employees and about 200 volunteers.

Fifteen years later, 200 employees and 1,300 volunteers are crammed into the same structure, with closets and other non-administrative areas having long ago been converted into office space, often shared by more than one employee.

Many other employees and programs are spread across town in rented space, adding a financial burden to JFS and a logistical burden for clients who need to access multiple programs.

The current offices are so overcrowded and outdated that administrators worry client confidentiality is at risk.

“It is very uncomfortable to be here for a confidential appointment and have someone you know walk in and ask ‘What are you here for?’” said Ken Weinberg, Jewish Family Service’s CEO.

But those days of uncomfortable working conditions, awkward moments in the lobby, and other impediments to the high standard of service JFS strives to deliver may soon be a thing of the past.

On April 28, the JFS board of directors unanimously voted to proceed with the construction of a $9 million, 19,000-square-foot building adjacent to the current 13,500-square-foot structure.

Groundbreaking is expected to take place in early 2011.“This has been a long process that was not entered into

lightly,” said JFS board president Dianne Loeb. “It has been a dream for nearly a decade and now it seems like after almost 10 years the pieces have sufficiently fallen into place for us to feel comfortable with moving ahead.”

The plan is contingent on promised money convert-ing to solid donations, something Loeb and Weinberg are confident will happen. Fundraising for the building is also continuing.

Loeb said the funds, which are segregated from the operational monies used for programs, have been actively raised for many years and that a combination of sources available, including some government money, have made the board comfortable with breaking ground early next year.

“Our goal is to raise $11 million,” Weinberg said. “About $2 million of that is to cover interest charges, which we are hoping to not have if enough money is raised to pay for the building.”

The new building, named the Jesse Danz Building, as the current structure is now, will rise above the current parking lot on the north side of the JFS building with the parking being retained at street level below the first floor of the two-story building.

Weinberg said that while JFS is not building an extrav-agant headquarters, it is building a quality facility.

“The building will be LEED certified at the silver level,” he said, referring to environmental building standards. “That is not only good for the broader environmental ele-ments, but it has been shown that LEED buildings are healthier working environments as well.”

Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design is an internationally recognized green building certification system.

The Jessie Danz Building, which will be attached to the current structure, will bring an immediate cost savings to JFS when programs that are currently in rented satellite locations are consolidated under one roof.

New JFS building finally gets green light

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Joel Magalnick

The women of Alpha Epsilon Phi, until earlier this week known as “the Jewish Sorority,” received their colonization into the national organization at a ceremony on Mon., May 10. The 13 University of Washington students, plus Lauren Brown of UW Hillel and Chaya Estrin of Chabad at the UW, who were instrumental in getting the sorority off the ground, received membership ribbons from several of the Jewish sorority’s alumni. AEPhi had a presence on the campus until the 1980s, so this new colony, after it satisfies a number of criteria, will become a full-fledged chapter and retain the previous iteration’s charter.

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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rabbi David Saperstein runs through a shopping list of superlatives on Elena Kagan — “self-evidently brilliant” and “steady, strategic and tacti-cal” — before acknowledging that he doesn’t have much of a handle on what President Obama’s choice to fill a U.S. Supreme Court seat actually believes.

In the Jewish community Saperstein, the head of the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center, apparently is not alone.

Community reaction to Obama’s selection of Kagan, the U.S. solicitor general, is enthusiastic until officials consider what it is, exactly, she stands for.

Kagan, 50, has never been a judge — she would be the first Supreme Court justice without bench experience since 1974. It’s a biography the White House touts as refreshing, but also has the convenience of lacking a paper trail of opin-ions that could embarrass a nominee in Senate hearings.

“When someone’s a solicitor general, it is really difficult to know what is their own position and what is the position of the state they are charged to represent,” Saperstein said.

The White House strategy going into Senate hearings appears to be blame whatever controversy trails her on her employer, on her client — on anyone but Kagan herself.

The first such controversy to emerge since Obama announced the nomination May 10 was Kagan’s defense, as dean of Harvard University’s Law School, of the practice of banning military recruitment through the main career

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Rabbi Olivier BenHaimBet Alef Meditative Synagogue

As my first name suggests, I was born in France. The France I grew up in offered only one Jewish denomination, one form of practicing Judaism: Ortho-doxy. For French Jews like my parents, practicing Judaism was virtually an all-or-nothing endeavor. My parents were uncomfortable — to say the least — with most Jewish Orthodox practices. As Jews firmly grounded in modern French sec-ular culture, they restricted their Jewish celebrations to Passover and Yom Kippur, the purpose of which was to get together with extended family twice a year.

As a good rebellious teenager, I decided to embrace Orthodox Judaism, to the utter dismay of my entire family. I practiced modern Orthodoxy through my teens and into my 20s both in France and, later, in Israel, where I emigrated after graduating from high school. Jewish Orthodoxy was not only all I had ever

known, it was all I ever knew existed. You can imagine my surprise then,

when, having moved to the U.S. in my late 20s, I discovered numerous denominations available to American Jews. I was stunned! I found myself wondering, “How would Jewish life have been different for my par-ents — for French Jews in general? Would they have found it easier to attend syna-gogue had such diversity been available in my youth?”

It soon became apparent, however, that the pluralism I had found so refresh-ing does not necessarily foster harmony. Many conversations taught me that the norm of existing discourse within the American Jewish community is that of discord. Members of the more “liberal” denominations disparage the more tra-ditional ones, while the latter criticize the practices — or lack thereof, in their opin-ion — of the former. Those in the liberal camp are accused of being accomplices to the growing number of intermarriages — raising the specter of Jewish disappear-ance — while those in the Orthodox camp are decried as being anachronistically patriarchal and stuck in an irrelevant iso-lationist past — raising the same specter.

The list of grievances continues from all sides, ad nauseam. Ultimately, every-one believes his or her particular method of practicing Judaism is the correct and authentic way. Most — in the name of political correctness — would not pub-licly admit as much; nevertheless, our Jewish Home is deeply divided.

Where might this divisiveness lead us? The Talmud offers us one particularly dark possibility: “Why… was the second Temple — wherein the society was involved in Torah, Commandments and acts of kind-ness — destroyed? Because gratuitous

hatred was rampant in society.” (Yoma 9b)We have yet to reach this level of conten-tion. Thankfully, even amid great inter-nal rumblings, the House of Jacob is not on the brink of collapse. We might be dis-pleased or uncomfortable with the ways others choose to practice Judaism, but that is a far cry from hatred. Perhaps in our generation we have the opportunity to offer an alternative ending to that of the Talmud’s; we can seed a different vision for the unfolding of the Jewish story, if we heed a profound teaching gleaned from this week’s Torah portion: Bamidbar.

Bamidbar Sinai, in the wilderness of Sinai, “the Eternal spoke to Moses… saying: ‘Take a census of the whole Israelite community…’” (Num. 1:1–2) There, through the census, every tribe is accounted for, each one given a place in the composition of the community as it is about to march through the wilderness. The metaphor of the wilderness, itself, is most telling. Here is a space welcoming of all and belonging to no one. In this space we are able to receive Torah, or metaphori-cally speaking, to awaken to the most fun-damental teachings. This is the spiritual space all of us always travel through. The marching tribes of our ancestors could represent, in our days, both the multiple denominations of modern Judaism, and those of us non-denominational Jews; all wandering through the midbar together. If we are to pay attention to this aspect of this week’s teaching, not only do all of us, affiliated or not, need to be counted as part of the “Israelite community,” but all of us need the unique space we take up in the arrangement of the tribes — in the breadth of Judaism — to be recognized and affirmed by all others, as we march through the midbar as one people.

Trouble begins when we believe we own The Truth. No one does. Rather, each of our denominations expresses a whole but partial truth. By “whole” I mean that, deeply grounded in our convictions, steeped in our unique form of practices and worldview, we hold an absolutely valid and necessary form of Jewish expression — a whole truth. But our truth is also part of a greater whole, the whole we call Judaism. And therefore, it is a par-tial truth on the spectrum of truths that make up Judaism. This is why I believe all the denominations are needed.

The congregation I personally gravi-tated toward, and of which I now lead, is Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue. Though founded by a Reform rabbi — Rabbi Ted Falcon — Bet Alef is an independent con-gregation. As a Jew, I am blessed with being able to find a community that matches my current spiritual orienta-tion and preference. Not only that, but as an evolving human being, I am also well aware that different times in my life may call me to different forms of practice, and, therefore, to different denominations.

In our Torah portion, the Hebrew words usually translated as “take a census,” liter-ally mean: “lift the head.” By accounting for the entire range of denominations, by counting us all as integral whole-parts of the modern Israelite community, we restore the pride and sense of belonging of all Jews, and allow all to hold their heads up high. As we wander through the wilder-ness, each other’s presence enhances the remarkable experience of being Jewish. May we be able to find within our hearts the benevolent love that will unite our people in the essential acceptance of our differences, here in America, and most critically in our time, in the land of Israel.

e Pluribus unumJust as in the Torah, to each his own place

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Definition of insanityThe editorial by Rainer Waldman

Adkins and Teri Citterman (“Sharing Jeru-salem: The key to peace?” April 30) sup-portive of a “two-state solution” and Barack Obama’s public criticism of Jewish construction in Jerusalem reminds me of Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity: “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

The failed Oslo process and past Israeli concessions have not resulted in Palestinian abrogation of violence to obtain its polit-ical goals. Let’s look at the facts. First, to date the Palestinian National Covenant has not explicitly omitted the language deny-ing Israel’s right to exist. Official Palestin-ian pronouncements continue to assert that the Jews have no historic claim to Jerusa-lem and no Jewish Temple ever stood on what they call the “Haram-al-Sharif” — The Temple Mount. Second, all Israeli territo-rial withdrawals over the past decade have been reciprocated not with compromise by Arabs but with increased violence. Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000 was met with an emboldened Hez-bollah, kidnappings of Israeli soldiers, and the bloody second intifada. Moreover, the number of rockets fired at Israel from Gaza more than tripled after Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in August 2005 — with nearly 6,000 rockets and mortars were launched between August of 2005 and the January 2009 Gaza war.

In light of these undisputed facts, Adkins and Citterman now suggest that

a cessation of building in Jewish neigh-borhoods in Jerusalem will lead to peace and a two-state solution — notwithstand-ing the fact that all prior concessions and efforts made by Israel have been met with Palestinian violence. This is insanity.

Jewish blood should not have been shed in vain, and over 20 centuries of prayers to return to Jerusalem dismissed, because of the political left’s severe cogni-tive dissonance. As simply stated by Golda Meir, “We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”

Steven A. Hemmat Seattle

Diversity of opinionThank you for publishing Rabbi Anson

Laytner’s essay on dialogue between and among Jews with differing viewpoints regarding Israel and Palestine (“We need to talk,” April 16). It amazes me, as a com-mitted Jew, just how obvious our dislike of Arabs/Palestinians is when our ancient right to eretz Israel is asserted. In fact, some Jews say there are no Palestinians and no Palestine, even.

I don’t understand how a gap this big could develop from a people known, admired and envied for their history of major intellectual accomplishments, achievements and survival against the odds. That’s our story. Why are Jews split-ting and factionalized, fearful of stating to each other differing opinions on Israel’s political policies?

I applaud the JTNews for running arti-cles from a wide range of rabbinic and intellectual opinions in the Seattle com-munity. Americans live in a democracy. As Jews and Americans, upholding those “inalienable rights” and having the right to express different opinions are essential to maintaining that democratic standard. As Jews, we must also try to respect and care for one another — especially in times of divisiveness. Many rabbinic quotes can be cited, at the very least the great Rabbi Hil-lel’s, ”If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”

That question of the ages remains as rel-evant today as ever. We must strive to find a middle ground. That is what I will pray for.

Charlene KahnSeattle

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CorrectionThe report on the state of the day

schools (April 30) noted the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle has given nearly $450,000 to each of the day schools. That figure was the total amount of money allocated to schools and area education organi-zations in the past year, plus addi-tional emergency grants.

JTNews regrets the error.

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Kristin Maas is the Director of Public Affairs for QFC. She can be reached at kristin.maas@qfci.com or 425-990-6182.

May is here and that not only means spring is in full swing, but it means that we are just weeks away from the 17th annual Komen Puget Sound Race for the Cure®. This year, the Race will be held on Sunday, June 6th at a new location — Seattle Center.

This is the fourth consecutive year that QFC has been the Local Presenting Sponsor of this amazing event and we are looking forward to helping Komen break their fundraising goals for 2010. For all of us at QFC, it is so much more than being the presenting sponsor of the Race; it’s about being a part of our community. It’s about being an information resource for our customers regarding breast cancer. It’s about raising funds for research and treatment of breast cancer. It’s about educating our employees and getting them involved in this cause. It’s about being a good neighbor and doing the right thing.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure began as a promise by Nancy G. Brinker to her dying sister, Susan G. Komen; to do everything she could to end breast cancer. In 1982, Susan G. Komen for the Cure was launched and today is the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors, activists, and volunteers working to save lives. It’s truly amazing how one person’s passion can change the world. In the 28 years

QFC is Proud to be the Local Presenting Sponsor of the Komen Puget Sound Race for the Cure®By Kristin Maas, QFC Public Affairs Director

since it began, Komen for the Cure has helped transform the way in which the world treats the disease and more importantly, how it treats those with the disease.

Early detection is critical. When caught early, the 5-year survival rate for breast cancer is 98% today, vs. 74% in 1982. That is an amazing statistic! But the key is early detection.

First, get the facts and

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n Spread the word. Talk with your sisters, mothers, families, and friends. The power of love and knowledge are powerful weapons in this battle…please use them!

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Center for the Komen Puget Sound Race for the Cure®. You don’t have to be a runner; there will be events for runners and walkers and even a “Sleep In for the Cure” event. To register online, go to www.komenpugetsound.org.

In May, QFC will collect donations through our checkstands to benefit the Komen Puget Sound Affiliate and Race for the Cure®.

We hope you will join us to help make a difference in the lives of breast cancer patients and survivors. We look forward to a day when breast cancer will be a disease of the past.

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Leyna KrowAssistant Editor, JTNews

There are few points on which all Jewish educators, regardless of denomina-tion, seem to agree. But one thing that gets a nod from nearly everybody — be they Orthodox, Reform, or Secular Humanist — is the value of summer camp.

“Statistics show that Jewish camp is the key to Jewish continuity,” said Kim Greenhall, director of community ser-vices for the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. “Kids who go to camp are more likely to be involved Jewishly, give their t ime Jewishly, and grow up to raise Jewish children themselves.”

But like Jewish day schools and Hebrew schools, Jewish camping programs are rarely free. In fact, many charge several thousand dollars per session. And with many families still reeling from the effects of the recession, those fees are enough to keep kids who would otherwise go to camp at home for the summer. That’s why a number of organizations, including the Federation, the Foundation for Jewish Camp, Jewish Family Service, and vari-ous local synagogues offer camp scholar-ships, or “camperships,” to help ease the financial burden and make sure kids who want to spend the summer in a Jewish set-ting have the opportunity to do so.

The Foundation for Jewish Camp pro-vides a variety of camperships to Jewish kids around the country. Here in Wash-ington State, families are eligible for grants

through the foundation’s JWest program, which provides $1,800 to first-year camp-ers in middle school who do not attend a Jewish day school or yeshiva. Additional grants are available for JWest recipients who return to camp for a second summer.

JWest does not take applicants’ finan-cial situations into account. Every camper to meet the JWest criteria receives a grant. So far this year, JWest has given out 798 grants to first-time campers and 329 grants to continuing campers, 95 of whom live in Washington State. JWest grants can be used at any of 20 Jewish camps in the Western United States. JWest is still accepting applications for the upcoming summer.

Michele Yanow, program ambassador for JWest, said the grants are primarily a means of convincing families who might not otherwise be involved in Jewish life to consider Jewish camp when shopping for summer activities for their kids.

“That’s why it’s not a need-based thing,” she said. “People who are trying to decide what camp to send their kids to find out they can get some money for Jewish camp might decide to try it when they wouldn’t have otherwise.”

Since the JWest program began in 2008, more than $2.6 million has been given out in grants.

But does the JWest program really help get otherwise unaffiliated kids inter-ested in Judaism?

“I’ve heard from a number of people who say they weren’t doing Jewish stuff

before, but now they are because their kid got excited about it at camp,” Yanow said. “One mother in Alaska told me her son came home and said ‘I want tot be a rabbi.’ That’s the extreme, but it does happen.”

Another major provider of camper-ships locally is the Jewish Federation’s Jewish Education Center. The JEC part-ners with a variety of local camps and synagogues as well as the Samis Foun-dation, Jewish Family Service and the Foundation for Jewish Camp to provide camperships.

With the exception of the Samis Foun-dation, families can also apply to each of these organizations independently, and many do. The JEC application simply pro-vides a one-stop-shop for campership

seekers, with JEC staff doing the legwork for families by seeking out a variety of available campership options and clus-tering them together to provide each family with as much funding as possible.

T his yea r, t he JEC received 271 requests from families seeking assis-tance to pay for camp, up from 163 requests in 2009. More requests have been coming in each week.

“I’m assuming this is all reflective of a down economy,” the Federation’s Green-hall said. “Jewish families are hurting just like everyone else.”

Greenhall added that almost every family who submitted an application

Camp for allScholarship programs help Jewish kids get to summer camp despite agencies’ and families’ financial woes

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office (veterans were allowed to recruit independently) due to of the military’s discriminatory hiring policies on gays.

Kagan inherited the policy when she became dean in 2003, but she was not shy about agreeing with it. When the Bush administration in 2004 threat-ened to withdraw funding, she rescinded the ban, but wrote to the student body, according to the authoritative SCOTUS Blog, of “how much I regret making this exception to our anti-discrimination policy. I believe the military’s discrim-inatory employment policy is deeply wrong — both unwise and unjust. And this wrong tears at the fabric of our own community by denying an opportunity to some of our students that other of our students have.”

Such stirring defenses are absent from White House materials that have emerged on the matter. Instead, the Obama administration is distributing an Op-Ed that appeared May 11 in the Wall Street Journal by her predecessor at Har-vard Law, Robert Clark.

“As dean, Ms. Kagan basically fol-lowed a strategy toward military recruit-ing that was already in place,” Clark wrote, not mentioning her stated ideolog-ical investment in the matter.

Another debate pertains more closely to an issue that divides Jews: Federal funding for faith-based initiatives.

Kagan clerked for Thurgood Marshall in the late 1980s, and in a memorandum to the Supreme Court justice, she said there was no place for such funding.

In her Senate hearings last year for

the solicitor general post, Kagan outright repudiated the position she had force-fully advanced in 1987.

It was “the dumbest thing I ever read,” she said. “I was a 27-year-old pipsqueak and I was working for an 80-year-old giant in the law and a person who — let us be frank — had very strong jurispruden-tial and legal views.”

Her defense was convenient — Mar-shall, of course, is long dead and unable to defend himself — and troubling to Saperstein, whose group joins the major-ity of Jewish organizations in opposing such funding.

“People aren’t quite sure what to make of that,” he said.

The Orthodox Union’s Washington director, Nathan Diament, on the other hand, knows just what to make of it .

“As strong proponents of the ‘faith-based initiative,’ and appropriate gov-ernment support for the work of religious organizations, we at the Orthodox Union find Ms. Kagan’s review and revision of her views encouraging,” he wrote on his blog.

Saperstein noted that the Religious Action Center — along with other Jewish civil liberties groups, like the Anti-Defa-mation League and the American Jewish Committee — is preparing questions for Kagan to be submitted to the Senate Judi-ciary Committee.

Saperstein, who recalls Kagan from her Clinton White House days, says she brings the same deep understanding of all sides of a debate to the Jewish community.

“She was quite aware of where there were differences — aid to education, gov-ernment funding of religious institu-tions,” he said.

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The Jewish Community Center, says Judy Neuman, CEO of the Seattle area’s Stroum JCC, is “in the outreach business.” What that means, she told a crowd of approximately 400 that filled the gym at its Mercer Island facility, is that where for the past 60 years the Stroum JCC has been in one or two places — Mercer Island and Seattle’s Northend — that model doesn’t necessarily work anymore.

“As compared w ith just 50 years ago, today’s Jews have far fewer Jewish spouses, friends, neighbors and cowork-ers,” she told the crowd on April 29 at the JCC’s Circle of Friends brunch. “Yet it is clear, from a recent [Jewish Community Center Association] national benchmark study that Jewish continuity is directly linked to making Jewish friends and nourishing those connections.”

In her first year, Neuman said she has committed to partnering with other local agencies for programming both on-site and elsewhere in the community using what she called their “new mobile JCC strategy.”

Neuman pointed to a Purim party in which the JCC partnered with the Kavana Cooperative, the Jewish Federation’s PJ Library program and Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, and a part-nership with Washington State Holocaust

Education Resource Center for their Yom HaShoah program last month as examples of how the agency is “committed to filling gaps, not duplicating efforts,” she said.

Neuman, who took over as CEO in September 2009, is putting into play a plan set forth by the JCC’s board that includes expanding its community reach and overhauling its facilities. JCC board

expanding the circleStroum JCC event shows how center is pushing forward

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Popular israeli musician and 2009 Eurovision winner Achinoam Nini, known to her fans as Noa, sings the motzi at the Stroum JCC’s April 29 luncheon.

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I wear glasses. In fact,without them I cannotsee a thing. Every morning I struggle to locate them on my night stand so that I can navigate my way through daily life. They allow me to see my children’s faces, read, work, drive and live a satisfying life. If you also wear glasses to see, you can relate to what itwould feel like to livewithout them—the frustra-tions and challenges thatsurround you wheneverything is a blur.

Now, I want you to take amoment and imagine that theones shown here are yourdaily glasses. These are what youfumble for each morning and put on so that you can move aroundwithout bumping into things. So that you can read. Look at your children.Or simply function. You have had to wrap them, tape them and sew them so that you could makethem last, because you did not have the funds to replace them...for 46 years.

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Joel MagalnickEditor, JTNews

While for most the Fourth of July is about spending a day on the beach, at the park, or behind the grill, a select few who love books and education are hoping to bring the local Jewish community inside for a break from the heat this Indepen-dence Day. The event, which will kick off the Association of Jewish Libraries’ annual convention, is being held this year for the first time in Seattle.

While the convention itself is like any other affinity trade group’s — sessions that help people to better do their jobs, networking, and opportunities to catch up with colleagues from around the world — the day the meeting planners have opened up to the public is being billed as “The Fourth at the Fairmont” because it will take place at the Spanish Foyer of the Fairmont Olympic Hotel. On hand will be exhibitors of Jewish books and publica-tions as well as activities such as a presen-tation by the PJ Library, the program that sends Jewish-themed books to small chil-dren, music by Temple Beth Am’s house band the KlezKidz, poetry, and local Jewish authors signing their books.

While a few local Jewish librarians have been involved in putting the con-ference together, they have bigger aims than just three days in July. They want to finally put the Pacific Northwest on the map when it comes to available resources for Jewish librarians and educators.

“I’ve watched, since ’79, when I really got active in this organization, the dif-ference that the organization made in Los Angeles, which is a sprawling place and has no real cohesiveness,” said Rita Frischer, a librarian who now lives in Seattle. She has taken on an advisory role in planning the conference. “The way that having Jewish libraries worked…with the education council, and working with all the schools enlivened Jewish life.”

But the association isn’t just for Jews. “There are actually plenty of librarians

who work in day schools and other places, or higher institutions, who aren’t Jewish, and they come to these conferences so they can learn about what they’re providing,” said Toby Harris, the librarian at Temple

De Hirsch Sinai and co-chair of the Seat-tle conference.

Some of the chap-ter members aren’t Jewish, either. Marion Scichilone, branch library manager for the Seatt le Public L i b r a r y ’s Nor t h-east and Walling-ford branches, joined because “I was just intrigued, interested and felt that this type of professional partic-ipation would be great for me personally as well as profession-

ally,” she said. “Especially for the reading interest and use of our branch, I felt that [in] participation in this group and attending the convention there would be synergy.”

The Northeast branch is located across the street from Congregation Beth Shalom and the meeting place for Con-gregation Eitz Or, as well as within walk-ing distance of three other synagogues.

Scichilone said that as a librarian for a large public system, she can offer many different types of support for smaller institutions while bringing what she learns at events like the AJL convention back to her own staff. At the same time, she has been doing her own learning about Judaism.

“I’m not thinking that [I’m] going to

become fluent in Jewish literacy or mate-rials, but it just helps me to be able to put my work as a public librarian in perspec-tive,” she said.

The conference’s keynote speaker, Dr. Joseph Janes, is a luminary in the library scene: The associate professor in the University of Washington’s Information School was the founding director of the Internet Public Library and has written eight books on the relationship between libraries and technology.

Technology is often one of two big challenges — money, of course, being the other — that keeps a collection of books on a shelf from becoming a useful library. Harris said she hopes the nascent local

The keepers of the books of the people of the bookLocal chapter of Jewish library association launches with upcoming Seattle conference

Joel Magalnick

Librarians Toby Harris, left, and Rita frischer with some of the titles being talked about at this year’s Association of Jewish Libraries conference in Seattle.

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if you go:The Fourth at the Fairmont, the public portion of the Association of Jewish Libraries’ international convention, will take place Sun., July 4 from noon–5 p.m. in the Spanish Foyer at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, 411 University St., Seattle. Local educators are invited to a one-day session that will include a presentation by Liat Zaidenberg of the Jewish Federation’s Jewish Education Center. Contact ajlnw@earthlink.net for rates and information.

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Emily MooreJTNews Columnist

When Shavuot was celebrated in first Temple times, what a celebration it was! It marked the end of the counting of the omer, begun with the barley harvest and the Passover holiday, meaning the wheat harvest was coming in and barley cakes were now joined in the Jews’ diet by real bread (pita and flatbreads), risen with natural yeasts and the gluten in wheat.

Flowers were blooming in the desert and the baby goats and lambs, born early in the spring, were weaned onto new grasses so their mothers’ milk could now be eaten by the people, made into yogurt and cheese. This plenty of the land was brought to the Temple from all over the territory of Israel in commemoration of the giving of the Torah at Sinai and the covenant with Yahweh that made the Jews the people we still are.

Not surprising, of course, that a fes-tival honoring the giving of the Torah would be jubilantly celebrated with food. During those times, most Jews were agrarian and bringing joyful offerings of new foods to the Temple was traditional and natural. We can imagine a lot of fun: Roasting new male lambs for the ritual sacrifices, so the Temple priests receiving their tithes of food also meant a big bar-becue at the Temple for the people, meet-ing old friends for gossip and sharing news, and seeing how the children had grown over the weeks since Passover.

After the Diaspora, the need to keep Shavuot traditions alive created sym-bolic food associations among the differ-ent scattered tribes. The eating of cheese was associated with the holiday because Mt. Sinai looks like a loaf of cheese, or the word for Hebrew word for milk, “chalav,” has the numerological sum of 40 — the same number of days Moses spent on Sinai receiving the Torah. The miracle of

mother’s milk, which nourishes a new-born with everything it needs is like the Torah, which similarly nourishes the Jewish people.

Here are some recipes for Shavuot that celebrate both the old food traditions and the Diaspora: Recipes from the Ashke-nazic and Sephardic cultures.

This is a Russian pancake pie, basi-cally crepe-like pancakes layered with a simple mozzarella and ricotta filling, then baked, cut in wedges, and served with (what else?) sour cream and fruit sauce — like blintzes, but much easier. Great for brunch or any Shavuot meal.

Blinchatky Pirog

Filling:2 eggs6 oz. fresh mozzarella, cut into 1” pieces4 oz. ricotta1/2 tsp. salt or to taste2 Tbs. sugar or to taste1/2 tsp. vanilla1/4 tsp. nutmeg or cinnamon (optional)Place all ingredients in a food processor bowl

or a blender jar and process or blend until smooth. Set aside, refrigerated.

Pancake BaTTer:2 cups all-purpose flour1/2 tsp. salt2 tsp. sugar4 large eggs2 cups nonfat milk4 Tbs. melted butterBlend the eggs and milk in a food processor

bowl or blender jar till smooth. Slowly add the flour mixed with the salt and sugar and blend just till smooth. add the butter last.

if any lumps remain in the batter, strain through a fine strainer. Set the batter aside, covered, in the fridge for a couple of hours or overnight.

Making The PancakeSYou’ll need about 3 Tbs. butter or cooking oil or

non-stick spray and a 6” or 8” non-stick skillet.heat the pan over medium-high heat and spray

with non-stick spray or wipe lightly with melted butter or oil on a paper towel. When the pan is sizzling lightly, take the pan off the heat, scoop about 1/3 cup of batter (1/4 cup for a 6” pan) in a cup measure, and pour in a circle in the middle of the hot pan. immediately tip

and turn the pan around so the batter covers the entire bottom of the pan. Put back on the heat and cook until the top of the pancake has bubbled and cooked till it’s dry.

Just cook on one side and turn out onto a plate. continue making pancakes until all the batter is used.

aSSeMBlYgrease an 8” cake pan or pie pan generously

with non-stick spray, oil or butter. Place a pancake in the pan, spread with a little (about 2 Tbs.) filling and top with another pancake. continue until the filling is used up. (if you have pancakes left, roll them up with sour cream or yogurt and jam for a really yummy treat!)

cover the pan with aluminum foil, place in a 350º oven for 18 to 20 minutes until the filling is cooked and set. Take off the foil. loosen the sides of the pie with a small knife run around the sides and place a warm plate upside down on top of the pie or cake pan. invert the pie onto the plate, cut into wedges and serve with sour cream, vanilla yogurt and any fruit sauce or syrup (applesauce of course is traditional but any fresh fruit, fruit sauce or compote is great). enjoy!

Serves 6 to 8 Here is a traditional Turkish Anatolian

soup often made with barley and leftover roasted chicken. I have modified it to use barley (for the end of the counting of the omer), mushrooms and the traditional yogurt finish.

If you like, you can replace the barley with faro, or spelt grains, an ancient wheat type that has less gluten than wheat and is appropriate for people who can’t tolerate the gluten in wheat. It’s available at PCC, Whole Foods and most grocery stores that sell bulk foods or “Bob’s Red Mill” pack-aged grains. Some historians claim spelt was more commonly used in Biblical times than modern wheat and it is absolutely delicious. If using faro (spelt), increase the cooking time. Faro has lately become one of my favorite dishes. Try it if you can!

Yogurtlu Corbasi Barley Soup with Yogurt

1 large onion, chopped

1 lb. white or crimini mushrooms, cleaned and sliced

1/2 lb. shiitake mushrooms, stems removed and sliced

3 Tbs. butter, olive oil or margarine2 cloves garlic, sliced2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. white pepper1 cup pearl barley or faro10 cups water or vegetable broth or bouillonBig pinch saffron threads2 Tbs. chopped flat-leaf parsley plus 2 or 3

Tbs. for garnish4 Tbs. chopped fresh mint plus 2 or 3 Tbs. for

garnish2 cups plain yogurt (whole milk greek-style is

best)3 Tbs. toasted pine nuts for garnish (optional)

in a four-quart soup pot, sauté the onion in 1 Tbs. butter, margarine or oil until soft and golden. add all the sliced mushrooms, the rest of the oil (or fat) and the garlic and increase the heat to medium-high. Season with salt and pepper and cook for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the mushrooms are golden brown and any liquid they have released has been re-absorbed.

Turn the heat down to medium, add the barley or faro and stir until all the grains are coated with oil. add the water or vegetable broth or bouillon, stir the bottom of the pot to release any caramelization and bring to a boil. crush the saffron with the back of a spoon on a little plate and stir it into the broth.

Turn the heat down and simmer the soup, partially covered, for about one hour or until the barley or faro is swollen and tender (faro will take about 15 to 20 minutes longer to become tender) and the mushroom flavor is pronounced. add the parsley and mint and adjust the seasoning, remembering that the yogurt will add tartness. add more liquid if the soup seems a little thick.

Just before serving, beat the yogurt in a bowl with a few ladles of the soup. Then pour the yogurt mixture back into the soup, beating vigorously with a whisk over low heat. heat just until hot, stirring constantly. Don’t allow the soup to boil or it will curdle. Serve with more chopped mint and parsley and the toasted pine nuts if you like.

Serves 8 to 10

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Erez Ben-AriJTNews Correspondent

“You know, we are Israelis, and we’ve got chutzpah!”

With these words Daniel Biran, admin-istrative ambassador to the Israel Consul-ate of New York, described some of his team’s interactions with the incredible, and often impossible, circumstances they had to deal with during the Haiti rescue operations in January of this year. Biran, who headed the advance Israeli team to Port-au-Prince following the devastating earthquake that struck the area, spoke about his experiences at a presentation for the Maimonides Society, the Jewish Fed-eration of Greater Seattle’s medical pro-fessionals’ affinity group, on May 6.

Biran started his presentation with a video showcasing some of the hor-rific damage suffered by Port-au-Prince during the earthquake. He gave the audi-ence a glimpse of what it is like to rescue lives in a place that can barely sustain human life.

“Just getting there,” Biran said, “was nearly impossible. The city’s airport was almost completely destroyed, so as I sprung from my home in New York to survey the area, I quickly realized that flying there was impossible.”

Biran and a small crew of rescue work-ers took a flight to Santo Domingo, and realized that even driving to cross the Haitian border, which normally takes six to seven hours, was impossible. With such rescue operations, the first 72 hours are the most critical, so while another team in Israel was looking into preparing aircraft with the required manpower and equipment, Biran tried to rent a private jet as a means of quickly getting to Port-au-Prince.

When this turned out to be impossible

as well, he was able to convince a local American army force to take him and his men on one of their choppers.

“The cooperation with the U.S. Army throughout the operation was great,” Biran said. “They helped us a lot, and were very nice about it, even though we were a constant nag.”

Once they landed, he said, “we found ourselves in the middle of one huge post- apocalyptic ‘battleground.’ Thousands of people were on the street, as their homes [were] destroyed, looking for food and water.

“At that point, we already knew Israel was sending in two aircrafts carrying over 200 men and over 75 tons of equip-ment, but even though the planes were already in the air, we had no idea where to actually land them,” Biran said. “But the Israeli chutzpah helped us out again.”

The airport was partially operating at the time, so Biran and his crew requested a landing slot. They were given a slot, but a week later. They persisted, and eventu-ally got their slots, barely in time to allow the planes to safely land.

The team in Israel decided to dedicate more room on the planes to the medical staff and equipment, which was the right decision, according to Biran. “The rescue team was the absolute elite, crème-de-la-crème,” he said. “Doctors left their pri-vate practices, senior civil engineers and architects left their offices without hesi-tation and flew for 16 hours to spend an unknown amount of time crawling under shaky concrete wreckage. This kind of sacrifice is incredible.”

Once hav i ng la nded, t he tea m deplaned, and instead of taking much-needed rest, commenced in setting up a base and a hospital that started to receive patients the next morning, a mere eight hours past touchdown.

Despite having two large jets at their disposal, the Israeli team had to make some sacrifices to fit all the necessary medical equipment, meaning items like tents and food would not fit and had to be brought in from Santo Domingo.

“We found a kosher food supplier in Santo Domingo, but our rabbi didn’t accept it as it was not kosher enough,” Biran said.

However, the New York Jewish com-munity came to the rescue and shipped $20,000 worth of kosher food. According to Biran, even the patients enjoyed the kosher food, and the improvised hospital quickly became not only the best — and only — hospital in the city, but also the best hotel and restaurant, feeding thou-sands of survivors daily.

The Israeli rescue team ended up spending two weeks in Haiti, and leav-ing was not an easy decision to make. “In most hospitals, once a patient’s life is no longer at risk, you send them home, but in this case, there was no home to send our patients to,” Biran said. “However, once the prime minister of Israel made the decision to discontinue, we insisted on finding a solution to every patient, one by one, no matter what.”

During the operation, the Israeli team treated 1,100 patients, performed 370 sur-geries and 16 emergency baby deliveries.

“This sort of operation is extremely difficult to realize,” he emphasized, “but Israel will always be there to help other nations in time of need.”

into the wreckageHead of Israeli Defense Forces Haiti response team recounts efforts following January earthquake

courtesy summit at first Hill

israeli Administrative Ambassador Daniel Biran met Stan Erlitz, left, Rachel Stone, second from left, and Naomi Henryson, when he presented his review of israel’s on-the-ground response to the Haiti earthquake to residents at the Summit at first Hill independent and assisted living facility during his Seattle visit.

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Andrew Conru

Martin S. JaffeeJTNews Columnist

Readers may recall that about a year ago, my collection of JTNews columns was published as The End of Jewish Radar. It was the subtitle, however, that really tele-graphed the book’s argument : “Snapshots of a Post-ethnic American Judaism.”

My point was that something is hap-pening in Seattle and, indeed, throughout the region we call the “Pacific Northwest” that signals a real shift in the character of North American Jewish culture. Instead of nourishing itself at the breast of the Jewish cultures of New York and L.A., something is happening among us that might in fact be trend-setting in the con-text of American Jewish history. Is Amer-ican Jewish culture beginning to f low from West to East?

Some readers have challenged my point, arguing that — given the number of Hebrew and Yiddish expressions that required a glossary of over a hundred terms — the book’s evidence for “post-ethnicity” among PNW Jews may be over-stated. They may have a point; but, in any case, since I offered my comments in the

spirit of journalistic provocation rather than academic sobriety, my job was to be entertaining rather than right! [Editor’s note: Hey, wait a second!]

That’s why I was fascinated to learn that the U W Press (which declined, ahem, to publish my own book) has just now released a volume entitled Jews of the Pacific Coast: Reinventing Commu-nity on America’s Edge. The authors, Ellen Eisenberg, Ava F. Kahn, and William Toll, are all professional historians with long-standing interests in our region’s Jewish history.

The idea of “reinventing community” at a place called “America’s Edge” really caught my attention. Would I find, in this book, scholarly kindling to feed the fires of my own journalistic intuitions?

In a word: No. Which is both a good thing and, I think, a bad thing. Let me explain.

First the very good news. This book, which traces the history of West Coast Jewish cultural and communal institu-tions from the earliest migrants to San Francisco till about 2005, is the first of its kind that I’m aware of. The authors see the region of the “Pacific Coast” (broadly envisioned as incorporating the states of California, Nevada, Oregon, and Wash-ington, as well as parts of British Colum-bia, Idaho, Colorado, and Arizona) as a Jewishly meaningful cultural entity that has its own “story” within the larger “story” of American Jewish history.

The authors argue, convincingly I think, that just as Northeast, Southern, or Midwestern American culture is part of the larger context that colored the cul-ture of American Jewries of those regions, so too the culture of the Pacific Coast has decisively shaped the Jewish culture of our region.

They point out differences in patterns of migration that distinguish Pacific Coast Jewries from those of the Eastern, South-ern, and Midwestern Jewish population centers. The specific economic opportu-nities of the Pacific Coast wrought subtle differences in areas as diverse as residen-tial patterns, philanthropic projects, and the meaning of “religious” and “ethnic” identity. Even the threat of anti-Semitism and its role in Jewish life are measurably different in the relatively libertarian and “unchurched” Pacific West than in the fabled East.

Not only have the authors done a won-derful job of telling the “story” of Western Jewry in a way that distinguishes it from other American-Jewish regional cultures, they also tease out the nuances of differ-ence within the diverse Jewish cultures of the Pacific West. They tell a multi-dimen-sional tale of many cities and their hin-terlands. San Francisco and Los Angeles dominate the narrative, as well they should. But plenty of attention is drawn to the fortunes of Portland, Seattle, Bell-ingham (who knew?), Spokane, Denver, Phoenix, and other centers of significant

Jewish settlement. And if the generalit y of Ameri-

can Jewish historical memory is domi-nated by the Ashkenazic experience, this book gives the fullest accounting of the Sephardic experience in the American Pacific Coast that I’m aware of in a book not devoted entirely to Sephardic-Amer-ican history.

Complete with archival photos, charts of population shifts, and all the other accoutrements of professional histori-ography (hundreds of notes and a large bibliography), the book is a goldmine of up-to-date information. It is also writ-ten with a light touch and an eye toward the general reader. Its large format and wonderful pictures make it appear like the proverbial “coffee table book,” but it’s much more.

Nevertheless, the book fails, in a way, to deliver on the promise of its subti-tle. Readers expecting textured descrip-tions of Jewish folkways of “community

Judaism at america’s edgePutting Pacific coast Jewry on the cultural map

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jtnews n friday, may 14, 201010M.o.t.: MeMber of tHe tribe

Diana BrementJTNews Columnist

When Judith Shahn isn’t teaching at the University of Washington School of Drama’s Professional Actor Training Pro-gram, she works on public speaking skills with professionals of all sorts through her business, Vibrant Speaking. She recently taught an “Empowering Your Voice” class to lawyers at a Washington State Associa-tion for Justice meeting in Seattle.

“It’s a no-brainer why actors need to work on their voices,” she says — mean-ing speaking voice, not singing voice. “For lawyers it’s also a no-brainer that they need to be really vibrant and using their voices in a skillful way… [and] find their presence and persona in the court-room,” where there is plenty of drama. She’ll repeat that class in Spokane this month.

Judith has taught at PATP for 20 years and carries the title of senior lecturer in voice and dialec-tics. The exclu-s i v e p r o g r a m takes about eight students out of 1,000 applicants every other year. Before the U, she taug ht at Cor-nish College of the Arts and she started out as an actor herself.

Growing up in Great Neck, N.Y., she got her MFA from Carnegie Mellon and worked as an actor in New York for about seven years. She went to a lot of auditions where there were “500 women who looked like me,” she says. Tiring of that, she came to Seattle with its “smaller pond and much tighter community.”

While working at Seattle Children’s Theater, she was asked to teach voice to teens at their drama school. That led to the job at Cornish where, feeling like she needed more training, she became certi-fied in the Linklater method, created by Kristen Linklater in the 1970s.

She and her husband, Jay Lurie, are members of Temple Beth Am, where her daughter, Ella, just became Bat Mitz-vah. Judith credits her mother, Ruth Goldman, who died recently and unex-pectedly, for getting her involved in the synagogue.

“She was the root of my caring about Judaism,” says Judith. “An amazing woman, she was such a strong influence on my life.”

I couldn’t resist asking Judith if she’d had any famous students. She can claim Brendan Fraser at Cornish, and Joel McHale (From NBC’s “Community”) at the UW.

PATP students “have a pretty good working actor statistic,” but, she points out, they “go off to L.A. or New York to a profession where there’s 90 percent unemployment.”

Judith herself hasn’t been on stage recently, but “if that door opens, I would love to.”

One interesting part of her business is accent reduction. “It’s surprising how many calls I get for that,” she says. She’s worked with people from all over the world.

“They want to be more understood,” she says. “It takes a lot of dedication and focus…to change one’s accent, but people can do it.”

Find information on Vibrant Speaking at www.vibrantspeaking.com.

• • •Most of us aren’t lucky enough to

know what we want to do when we are 13, but Melissa Bloom, the new director of administration of Bellevue’s Temple B’nai Torah, says she did.

“I always had a passion for becom-ing an executive director, since I was 13,” she says.

Growing up in Portland, Ore., “I had a very influential executive director in my life,” Sheri Cordova at Congrega-tion Neve Shalom, the city’s Conserva-tive shul.

“I was working with her because I was very involved in [United Synagogue Youth],” Melissa explains. As an organized person, Melissa thought that combining that skill with her “love and passion for Judaism” could come “together nicely to

help an organiza-tion succeed.”

H o w e v e r , her career path d iver ged f rom her passion. Dis-couraged by her p a r e n t s f r o m Jewish commu-nal work, Melissa chose to study g raphic desig n at Cornish Col-lege in Seatt le. Her parents were

committed to their congregation, but they “believed you volunteered at a synagogue, you didn’t work at a synagogue,” she says.

Unsure of her academic choice, Melissa quit school to consider what she wanted to do. Moving back to Portland, she managed a photo studio and took a job as a youth director at a synagogue.

“That’s when I decided to follow my passion,” she says.

Matriculating at the University of Judaism (now American Jewish Uni-versity) in Los Angeles, she finished her undergraduate degree and went straight into a double masters’ pro-gram in non-profit business administra-tion and Jewish communal studies. She has worked at synagogues and Jewish camps as a kindergarten teacher, a camp director, an administrative assistant, an interim executive director and, most recently, executive director of Congrega-tion Beth Ami in Santa Rosa, Calif.

“I got to stay in California longer than I anticipated,” she says, “[but] I always wanted to come back [to the Northwest]. I just loved the Jewish community here and the city life,” says the Camp Solomon Schechter alum.

Melissa has settled into urban life in downtown Bellevue with her dog and her cat and she looks forward to serving the Eastside congregation.

“B’nai Torah is a large congregation that fits the needs of many generations,” she says, and “will hopefully see a lot

Two people passionate about their workOne teaches for voice while the other found her voice

Answers on page 23

The Jerusalem Post Crossword Puzzle

“Brainy Words”By Matt Gaffney

Across1. Hebrew for “fish”

4. Last word of the last paragraph of

the Shema

8. Exonerate

13. God, to the Jews

14. Pitiful, as an effort

15. “Otherwise Known As ___ the

Great” (Judy Blume book)

16. Former SNL star Kazurinsky

17. Describe

18. Gave a bad review, a la Joel Siegel

19. PART ONE OF A QUOTE

22. Some horses

23. Preordain the outcome

24. One-time El Al rival

27. Verve

28. Katie of “Married...with

Children”

31. Needs for Morgan Pressel

32. Deborah Lipstadt’s university

34. Like Leopold Bloom

35. PART TWO OF QUOTE

39. Sky wonders

40. Make a diving grab

41. Company that provided Blitz

trucks to the Nazis

42. In a playfully reserved fashion

44. Dutch cheese

48. ___ Tag (Yiddish newspaper)

49. 1988 film with Meg Ryan and

Daniel Stern

50. Greenpeace concern

51. PART THREE OF QUOTE

56. Horse-related

58. “Metamorphoses” author

59. “I can ___ it for you wholesale”

60. Ottoman Empire base

61. Adam and Eve’s status

62. Common street name

63. Holders for Ben and Jerry’s

64. Between Passover and Shavuot

65. “Norma ___” (movie with Ron

Liebman)

Down1. Languish in prison

2. Noah’s ark passenger

3. Commentary on mishnah

4. Important island in Jewish

history

5. Common street name

6. Poet Lazarus (“Send these to

me”)

7. Circus structure

8. Tina Cohen-___ (Asian “Glee”

character)

9. Nazi filmmaker Riefenstahl

10. SOURCE OF THE QUOTE

11. Stout

12. Cool, to kids

15. Ruin

20. Moshe Dayan, notably

21. “Rosemary’s Baby” author Levin

25. ___ Bank

26. Tisha B’Av substance

28. “___ Married an Axe Murderer”

(Myers film)

29. Give Uzis

30. Hitler victim

31. Acrobat’s equipment

33. My, to Leon Blum

34. Shapiro and Dershowitz

appeared before him

35. Sulk

36. Nullify a decision, a la Stephen

Breyer

37. Wise bird

38. Reviled attorney Cohn

39. Indicate agreement

42. ___ Island (New York fun spot)

43. Common street name

45. Sandy Koufax was one

46. German Chancellor Merkel

47. “___ in St. Louis”

49. Noted anti-Nazi resisters

50. Less likely to ask the Four

Questions

52. Raise

53. Taboo

54. Egg, to Salk

55. From side to side

56. List-ending letters

57. Quid pro ___

courtesy Judith

shahn

Professional speaking coach Judith Shahn.

courtesy tbt

Melissa Bloom, Temple B’nai Torah’s new administrator.

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She recalled the story at an April fund-raiser of the Seattle Chapter Hadassah to raise money for its hospitals in Israel and for its To Save a Life Program, Pikuach Nefesh.

Even six years after her organ dona-tion to another Hadassah member, Edel-stein’s emotions about the procedure haven’t diminished. She tried unsuccess-fully, several times, to hold back her tears as she spoke.

“Let me ask you this, when you have something to give to another person that would save his or her life, would you help?” Edelstein asked. “It is one of the most meaningful things a person can do and by far one of the most meaningful things I’ve ever done.”

The event at Pacific Science Center’s Mercer Slough Environmental Educa-tional Center in Bellevue drew more than 50 members and guests who came to hear a panel of professionals discuss organ and tissue donation.

Hadassah Medical Organization pio-neered some of the first kidney trans-plants in Israel in 1967, and has continued to perform successful heart transplants, heart and lung combinations, and since then also liver transplants.

They are also at the forefront of embry-onic stem cell research, which has already reproduced beating heart cells coaxed from undifferentiated stem cells in a petri dish. This process could eventu-ally allow doctors to grow various human organs in the lab and theoretically, be

used for transplantation, thus eliminat-ing the need for human donors.

Hadassah Medical Organization is one of the leading research organizations in this field, said Edelstein.

When she donated her own kidney, the waiting list in New York was six years out.

What followed was a rigorous screen-ing process including blood tests, an in-depth physical examination, an elec-trocardiogram, a complete psychological evaluation, CT scans, and more.

Today, she says she is healthy, feels fine, and does not have any restrictions on her activities.

“Donors outlive the general popula-tion,” said Dr. Connie Davis, a professor of medicine at the University of Wash-ington’s Division of Nephrology. Davis is also the director of Kidney Care Line, and the medical director at Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation.

“You’re born with two and you need one,” Davis told the group. “If you take one of the kidneys out, what happens to the other one that’s left is that it gets bigger.”

Davis was one of four panelists that included the Seattle Hebrew Academy’s

Rabbi Ron-Ami Meyers, who spoke about the Jewish ethics of organ donation; Les Olson, who discussed organ recovery; and Edelstein, who shared her experi-ence as a donor.

“There are 28,000 transplants per-formed each year,” Davis said, “and 14,000 donations are from deceased donors. Twelve to 16 people die each day waiting.”

According to Olson, a surgical organ recovery specialist at LifeCenter North-west, a person must not be coerced in any way to do this and must volunteer for the procedure. He or she must also be psy-chologically and financially healthy.

In addition, candidates for organ donation are ruled out if they have AIDS, metastatic cancer, a chronic infection, and certain types of the hepatitis virus, among other exclusions.

But the initial obstacle in the process of organ donation for those facing the death of a loved one, said Olson, is deter-mining when to give up and acknowledge that he or she really gone, with no hope of resuscitation.

“Most people in the throes of facing the possible loss of a loved one are looking for

obvious signs of death, a corpse that is not breathing and not moving,” Olson said. “A person is brain dead when the entire brain is dead, including the brain stem.

The loss of brain stem reflexes are determined by the absence of spontane-ous movement, spontaneous respiration, any heartbeat that can be detected on an EKG, and normal cerebral blood flow.

“The question is, what is death?” said Meyers, an educator at SHA and at webyeshiva.org. “The answer is that Jewish law fundamentally draws on the medical community to make a decision.”

According to Jewish law, Meyers said, the admonition to not “stand idly by the blood of your brother or the blood of your neighbor” instructs Jews to save or defend another person to save his life. In other words, said Meyers, if you can save someone, do it, but not at the expense of your own safety. It is forbidden in Jewish law for anyone to risk his own life to save another’s.

However, that is when rabbinical opinions diverge, he said. The simple test of whether someone is breathing or not breathing is now a debate about whether there is an “irreversible cessation of breathing.”

The danger of declaring someone dead too soon is all too possible, according to some Jewish legal scholars. If doctors rees-tablish an earlier criteria for determining death that allows for the continual circula-tion of blood in a patient kept breathing on a respirator, and therefore provides organs that result in more successful transplants, the temptation might be, some say, to declare patients brain dead, keep them on respirators to facilitate blood flow, and harvest their organs for transplantation to serve a “higher good.”

Traditionally, rabbis have agreed that decapitation establishes certain death, added Meyers, but other rabbis accept

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president Lindsey Schwartz told the crowd that the board had committed to a three-year strategic vision, of which he’s already begun to see results.

“All of this points to a new direction for the JCC and informs and supports our brilliant future,” Schwartz said.

A video created by local company Sadis Filmworks, and posted on the SJCC’s Web site, showed how Neuman and the JCC staff are working to put that vision into practice.

Neuman also made note of the chang-ing landscape when it comes to how JCCs around the country have traditionally operated.

“In pushing ourselves, we have acknowledged the JCC’s traditional busi-ness model could put us at risk long term,” she said. “For those of you who have come to the ‘J’ over the past many months, I believe you are experiencing real change right now. We are addressing tough issues, making enhancements to our programs and services, collaborating more then ever, and bringing Jewish life back to every day at the ‘J.’”

While the meal was a fundraising event, it wasn’t intended to bolster the general operating budget — all of the money raised will be used for scholar-ships for its summer camps.

Local developer Martin Selig, who was given the Sam and Althea Stroum Spirit of Inspiration Award, related two stories about why he has been involved in Jewish causes, and the feeling he got from those experiences. One was of how he had a Torah written in honor of his mother in Israel, and how he personally, carefully carried it back to the U.S.

“It was a wonderful, wonderful feel-ing,” he said.

During another visit to Israel, Selig went early one morning to the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

“If you’re really lucky you’ll be the only one there,” he said. “You get a feeling there, it’s the same as carrying that Torah.”

So when he supports local Jewish causes, it is because of the feeling it cre-ates that reminds him of those two points in his life.

“I do it for no other reason, and that I’m lucky enough to be able to do it,” he said.

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chapter can be useful to provide techno-logical resources its members, particularly smaller libraries in small communities.

“What I think would be really exciting would be to get all our libraries online and to have a centralized place where people can go and see who has which Judaic books, resources and training,” Harris said.

Being the keepers of Jewish resources is important to educating Jewish children and adults about their religion and iden-

tity, Frischer believes. “I think it’s really important that all

our children see our commitment to edu-cation as extending beyond the secu-lar and showing some dignity within the Jewish framework as well,” Frischer said.

Harris agreed.“We’re information centers,” she said.

“We help vet information. We organize it for you. Everyone doesn’t like research-ing. I love researching.”

But the chapter growth comes next — first comes the conference. Most of the

planning is complete. Book award win-ners have been notified; the authors are booked — they include Maggie Anton of Rashi’s Daughters fame and Jacqueline Dunbar Greene, who wrote the Jewish addition to the “American Girl” series — and the sessions are scheduled. At this point they’re dotting the i’s, processing registrations, and picking the menu.

“AJL has always been committed to having kosher conferences,” Harris said. “We do want to have meals together, and if we want to do that we’ve got to be kosher.”

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For the larger community, Weinberg noted benefits that extend beyond the tra-ditional clientele served by JFS.

“We only have one small meeting room at the moment and it is barely ade-quate for our internal purposes,” he said. “In the new building we are planning more space, including a large room that can be divided for various meeting con-figurations. We are planning to make it available for more than just JFS.”

For individual clients, the privacy issue will be answered.

“There will be an entrance for people coming to JFS for confidential meetings and a lobby for just that purpose,” Wein-berg said. “There will also be a new public entrance.”

The building could take 10 to 12 months to complete, meaning a year of adjustments for both JFS staff and clients.

“We are developing a list of nearby available parking we will make avail-able,” Weinberg said. “Many of our clients

and staff do use transit or other methods of transportation as well.”

JFS hopes to be able occupy the 16th

Avenue facility for at least the next 25 to 30 years beginning in late 2011 or early 2012.

“We have planned for growth of pro-

grams in constructing the Jessie Danz Building,” he said. “It is not like we will move in and suddenly again be out of space.”

Loeb concurred. She pointed out that the board is cognizant of the wave of graying baby-boomers rapidly approach-ing.

“We are planning for that and know that the demand for services is going to rise in the next few decades,” she said. “This is a project that has that in mind.”

Weinberg and Loeb say they are par-ticularly gratified that raising the money so far has been separate from program funding. Weinberg says the community is generous in contributing to those pro-grams and he thinks asking for a new building is not an extravagance, even in the rough economic times that have been part and parcel of the past two years.

“We have been around 118 years and this is the first time we have built a new structure designed specifically for JFS and for our community,” he said. “Once in 118 years doesn’t seem excessive.”

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that the loss of brain stem function is death and that liquefaction of the brain is also death. In any case, he said, the bottom line remains the same.

“The principal in Jewish law is clear,” Meyers said. “If a person is dead then you can transplant the organ in the body. If they’re not dead, then you can’t. You can’t kill a person to save a person because the Torah says you value the person who is alive.”

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ClutchOpen since August 2007, Clutch is Seattle’s original handbag boutique. Stocked with over 20 independent designers, every gal is sure to find a great fit. American designers such as CC Skye, Rebecca Minkoff, Treesje, Kooba, Linea Pelle, Foley & Corinna, Botkier and more. International designers such as Gerard Darel and Belen Enchandia are top sellers across America. From classic to glamorous to tomboy and everything in between, all styles are embraced and adored. Browse or shop at their Web site, clutchboutique.com, call 206-624-2362 or stop by their shop at the historic Fairmont Olympic Hotel in downtown Seattle.

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Friday 146:45 p.m. – Mega Shabbat n

Jacob at jacob@hilleluw.orgJconnect, the Ravenna Kibbutz and the Kavana Cooperative are joining forces for a special Shabbat blow-out. Drinks and schmoozing at 6:45 p.m., followed by two Shabbat services to choose from at 7:15 p.m. $12 for post-service dinner. At Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.

6 p.m. – Edwin L. Bierman Scholar-in- n

Residence Weekend with Prof. Vanessa L. ochsCarol Benedick at 206-524-0075 or carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or www.bethshalomseattle.orgVanessa L. Ochs, professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, offers an explo-ration of new Jewish rituals. $25/person includes dinner and Shabbat service. Member discount available. Children 3 years and under free. Childcare available by pre-registration. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

SaTurday 1511:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. – gLBTQ Shabbat n

BrunchJosh at joshf@hilleluw.orgJoin Kolenu, Jconnect’s young adult GLBTQ group, for a Shabbat brunch/oneg. At Cal Anderson Park.

1:15 p.m. – Edwin L. Bierman Scholar-in- n

Residence Weekend with Prof. Vanessa L. ochsCarol Benedick at 206-524-0075 or carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or www.bethshalomseattle.orgVanessa L. Ochs takes a look at some of the most curious, infuriating, and dazzling passages of Talmud. Free. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

2 – 4p.m. – Seattle Cheese festival n

Josh at joshf@hilleluw.orgIn preparation for Shavuot, Jconnect hosts an outing to the annual Seattle Cheese Festival. At Pike Place Market.

6 p.m. – Cardozo Society L’Dor V’Dor n

End-of-Year Receptionwww.jewishinseattle.org

The Cardozo Society of Washington State’s 2nd annual L’Dor V’Dor End of Year reception, honoring 2010 award recipient Robert Sulkin. At the China Room in the Smith Tower, 506 2nd Ave., Seattle.

8 p.m. – Edwin L. Bierman Scholar-in- n

Residence Weekend with Prof. Vanessa L. ochsCarol Benedick at 206-524-0075 or carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or www.bethshalomseattle.orgVanessa L. Ochs explores what Jewish tradition has to say about dreaming, dream interpreta-tion, and rituals for incubating dreams and chasing away nightmares. Dessert and Havdalah included. RSVP requested. Free. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

SuNday 1611 a.m. – girls Just Want to Have fun n

www.chabadissaquah.com/rsvpA class on making dairy desserts and flower topiary for Shavuot. Also includes a panel discussion about maintaining balance in busy lives. At Chabad of the Central Cascades, 24121 SE Black Nugget Rd., Issaquah.

2 – 3 p.m. – Meditation n

kibbutznik@ravennakibbutz.orgMeditation hour. All are welcome. At Ravenna Kibbutz Gimmel, 6211 23rd Ave. NE, Seattle.

5 p.m. – The Seattle Kollel’s 19th Annual n

gala DinnerMarilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or info@seattlekollel.orgFundraising gala for the Seattle Kollel. At the Marriott Waterfront, 1200 Alaskan Way, Seattle.

mONday 1712:30 p.m. – our Upstairs Neighbors n

Roni Antebi at ronia@sjcc.orgAl Ziontz discusses his memoir, Our Upstairs Neighbors. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

3:30 p.m. – israeli Secret Services and n

Struggle Against Terrorwww.jsis.washington.edu/jewishAn expert on terror and political extremism, Prof. Ami Pedahzur of the University of Texas, Austin, argues in his talk “Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism” that Israel’s strict reliance on the elite units of the intelligence community is fundamentally flawed. At 120 Communications, University of Washington.

7:30 p.m. – The Way to Pray n

info@shevetachim.com Rabbi Kornfeld explains the structure of Shavuot davening. Free. At Northwest Yeshiva High School, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Seattle.

TueSday 1810 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. – Computer class n

Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269

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Four English-speaking Jewish Hungarian high school students arriving in mid-June to partic-

ipate in the Stroum Jewish Commu-nity Center’s summer day camps are in need of home hospitality. Families with teens who reside in ZIP Codes 98040, 98004, 98005, 98006 or 98007 able to host for three weeks or more and can drop them off on Mercer Island by 8:30 a.m. each weekday may contact Zach Duitch at zachd@sjcc.org or Lenny Kashner at lakashner@yahoo.com to volunteer.

beth Shalom Scholar in residence weekend

Cong regat ion Bet h Sha lom’s annual Edwin L. Bierman scholar in residence will be Prof. Vanessa

L. Ochs, professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. Her weekend presentations will include a session on the new Jewish rituals invented in the past 30 years that have taken root, funky, modern new ways of interpreting the Talmud, and what Jewish tradition has to say about dreams. Childcare for some programs available by pre-registration. Fri., May 14–Sun., May 16. There is a cost for some of the programs. Contact 206-524-0075 or visit www.bethshalomseattle.org to RSVP.

Learn the basics of Microsoft Word. Free. RSVP requested. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

8 p.m. – Shavuot n Leil Tikkun and Dairy DinnerCarol Benedick at 206-524-0075, ext. 4 or carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org Dairy dinner and night of learning in honor of Shavuot. Cost for dinner is $20/adult, $10/child 4-12 yrs. Member discount available. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

WedNeSday 1912 a.m. – “All Night Learning Extrava- n

ganza”Julie greene at 207-721-0970 or julie@bcmhseattle.orgAn all-night learning event on the first night of Shavuot for men, women and teens. Free. At Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath, 5145 S Morgan St., Seattle.

12 a.m. – Shavuot All-Night Torah Study n

info@shevetachim.comShavuot all-night Torah study with Rabbi Kornfeld. Food provided. At Northwest Yeshiva High School, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.

ThurSday 2012 p.m. – Jewish Urban Politics in the City n

and BeyondJennifer Cohen at jencohen@u.washington.edu Prof. Lila Corwin Berman of Temple Univer-sity will discuss her new book, Exit City: A Study of Jewish White Flight from Post-WWII Detroit. At the Petersen Room, Allen Library, University of Washington.

SuNday 2310 a.m. – The Cairo genizah with Rabbi n

Mark S. glickmanAlysa Rosen at 206-525-0915 or alysa@templebetham.orgA lecture on Rabbi Solomon Schechter of Cambridge University who, in 1897, found the largest trove of medieval manuscripts ever discovered. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.

11 a.m. – 4 p.m. – Bike Repair Workshop n

and Afternoon Joy RideBicycle repair workshop followed by a neigh-borhood bike ride. At Ravenna Kibbutz House Bet, 6316 23rd Ave. NE, Seattle.

mONday 247 p.m. – Awards and Recognition n

ReceptionJennifer Cohen at jencohen@u.washington.edu A kosher dessert reception and program that includes the awarding of the 2010-11 schol-arships and travel grants to outstanding UW students by the Stroum Jewish Studies Program. At the Husky Union Building, room 310, University of Washington.

TueSday 2510 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. – Computer Class n

Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269 or ronia@sjcc.orgLearn the basics of computer use. Free. RSVP requested. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

7 p.m. – online Dating Profile Writing n

WorkshopJosh at joshf@hilleluw.orgWriting consultant Leah Kaminsky offers advice for the online profile construction process. At Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.

WedNeSday 2610:30 a.m. – Louie Richmond n

Roni Antebi at ronia@sjcc.org A performance by Louie Richmond, founder of the Northwest Chamber Orchestra and former cellist of the National Symphony Orchestra, accompanied by Judith Gordon on the piano. Hosted by the Active Seniors Club. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

ThurSday 2712:30 p.m. – n Love Come Lately

Roni Antebi at ronia@sjcc.orgThe Stroum JCC Film Club presents Love Come Lately, the story of a New York writer whose longtime girlfriend is convinced he’s cheating on her. Free. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

1:30 p.m. – Simplifying Life Transitions n

Trudi Arshon at 206-652-4444A seminar for older adults considering moving to a smaller home or retirement community. RSVP requested. At The Summit at First Hill, 1200 University St. Seattle.

Friday 287:30 – 11:30 a.m. – Personal n Aliyah Planning

MeetingsSarah Kogon at 718-355-8220 or skogon@nbn.org.il or www.nbn.org.ilA chance to meet with a Nefesh B’Nefesh expert for a personal pre-aliyah meeting. Pre-registration required. At Crowne Plaza Seattle, 1113 6th Ave., Seattle.

6 p.m. – B’nai Mitzvah Student-Led n

ProgramKristine ganes at 206-528-1944 or info@secularjewishcircle.orgStudents enrolled in Secular Jewish Circle’s B’nai Mitzvah program will lead the May Shabbat ritual. Location provided upon RSVP.

reinvention” at the “edge” of American culture (whatever that is) will be dis-appointed by a story dominated by the usual cast of conventional characters — synagogue boards, business tycoons, goniffs, philanthropists, and, of course, golden-tongued oratorical rabbis of all flavors.

So, once again, the best is the enemy of the good. But let’s not put the cart before the horse! We have now at hand, thanks to Profs. Eisenberg, Kahn, and Toll, the historical context that will enable more nuanced anthropological studies of the Jewish tribes of the Pacific Coast.

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SUNDAY, MAY 23 AT 3 P.M.opening Reading of Drash: Northwest MosaicAuthor readingwww.templebetham.org/music/drashContributing writers read from Drash: Northwest Mosaic, Volume IV. Drash: Northwest Mosaic is a literary review with poetry, prose and photos encouraging the redemptive nature of life from Jewish perspectives. At Ravenna Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave. NE, Seattle.

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SUNDAY, MAY 16 AT 7 P.M. Jon Simon piano concertMusicwww.templebnaitorah.orgPianist Jon Simon will perform an hour-long concert featuring jazz interpretations of music from his Jewish heritage. Admission to the concert is free, made possible through the Hermine Pruzan Endowment Fund. At-will donations will be accepted and directed to the Norm Greenbaum Campership Fund, which provides financial assis-tance to children and teens wishing to attend Jewish summer camps and leadership retreats. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.

SUNDAY, MAY 23 AT 4 P.M.“The Jewish Touch: The 3 Cantors”LectureDavid Serkin-Poole of Temple B’nai Torah, Brad Kurland of Herzl-Ner Tamid, and Isaac Azose, hazzan emeritus of Ezra Bessaroth, will discuss the history and background of cantorial music and its various styles. Part of the Stroum Jewish Community Center’s ongoing arts and culture lecture series, “The Jewish Touch.” For more information, contact Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269 or at ronia@sjcc.org. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 East Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

SUNDAY, MAY 23 AT 4 P.M.Short Stories Live: A Mother’s TaleTheaterTown Hall Seattle presents an afternoon of classic short stories in honor of Mother’s Day (yes, we know it’s two weeks late). The program includes Cynthia Ozick’s Holocaust story “The Shawl.” Advance tickets are $13 for the general public, $10 Town Hall members, seniors and students and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com. At Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave., Seattle.

SUNDAY, MAY 30 AT 7:30 P.M.Fiddler on the RoofTheaterstgpresents.orgThe Paramount Theater presents a production of Fiddler on the Roof, the classic story of a poor Jewish family trapped between the pull of modernity and tradition. Those attending the May 30 show are invited to a pre-show program and special exhibit, Our Village Seattle: Family of Strangers, honoring Jewish Heritage Month. At the Paramount Theater, 911 Pine St., Seattle.

TUESDAY, MAY 18 AT 8 P.M.Steve HostetterStand-up comedyWriter, comedian and Jew-ish.com columnist Steve Hofstetter shares his brand of irreverent humor, including insights into the challenges of being a Jewish redhead. Tickets are $16.50 and are available at picksteve.com. At the Laughing Ladies Café, 17551 15th Ave. NE, Shoreline.

THURSDAY, MAY 20 AT 7 P.M.Steve AlmondAuthor readingSteve Almond reads from his new memoir, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us, about his years as a rock critic and obsessive music fan. Almond is also the author of Candyfreak and (Not That You Asked). At Third Place books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park.

MAY 20-23The American String ProjectMusicwww.theamericanstringproject.orgThe American String Project is comprised of 15 musicians, drawn from the title positions in major orchestras, and includes some of the preeminent soloists and chamber music musicians from across the country and around the world. Under the leadership of co-artistic directors Barry Lieberman, double bass professor at the University of Washington, and Maria Larionoff, concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony, The American String Project operates without a conductor. Instead, the position of concertmaster is rotated among the violinists. Tickets are $20 students and seniors, $30 general admission. At Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle.

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K now n to cinema fans f rom his soundtrack for the 1991 film Tous les Matins du Monde/All the Mornings of the World, composer Jordi Savall’s 40-year career combines scholarship, entertain-ment, and visionary goodwill with virtu-oso performances both in concert and on hundreds of recordings, many from his own label, Alia Vox. Often, his recording projects explore themes, crossing geo-graphic boundaries, like “Lux Feminae” (“Feminine Light,” theme of his recent Town Hall Seattle concert) or “Diaspora Sefardí.”

With his characteristic blend of deep research and virtuosic performance, his-torical accuracy and jazz-like improvisa-tion, Savall and his band have created in “Jerusalem: City of Heavenly and Earthly Peace” a mesmerizing and troubling con-temporary performance piece. Maestro Savall, esteemed creator of more than 160 honored recordings of early music, combines ancient instruments, chants, recitations of sacred texts, folk tunes and even a Sufi dance in his concert (based on his 2008 two-CD set of the same name), which I was privileged to see performed on May 5 as the focus of a three-day “Jerusalem” event at New York’s Lincoln Center. I wanted to share with you some impressions and some thoughts about this most unusual Savall project.

Silhouetted against a huge dawn-like screen, a robed man blows an immensely long, grandly twisted shofar, the flawless opening notes of a fanfare that expands to include half a dozen players of these beautiful ram’s horns and as many play-ers of the equally long, impossibly slen-der Arabic trumpets called annafirs. The shofar, a wake-up call most associated in our time with synagogue High Holi-day services, is played by the Israeli Yagel Harel, one of a collection of multi-ethnic players Savall has carefully gathered to demonstrate how historic enemies can melt their differences in the warm light of their musical similarities.

As he confessed in a pre-concert dis-cussion, Maestro Savall departed from his usual approach to ensemble-build-ing when he set about to create “Jerusa-lem.” To his regular forces — La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Hesperion XXI — he insisted on adding not simply the best players, but the best players from specific backgrounds: two oud masters — one Israeli, one Iraqi; three chant masters — Sephardic Jewish, Palestinian Arab, and Armenian; players of percussion, harps, bells, and f lutes representing most of the Middle East, plus “The Trumpets of Jericho” — those shofars and annafirs, joined by the drumming of tambours.

What to make of this sophisticated musical time machine, a chronologi-cal scrapbook of spiritual longings cre-ated by a virtuoso of immense good will?

Themed around the city at the center of so much terrifying talk, Savall’s “Jerusalem: City of Heavenly and Earthly Peace” aims at nothing less than demonstrating that peace is possible.

As Yo-Yo Ma (who showed up in the “Jerusalem” series audience) has reminded us with his Silk Road project, as the late Isaac Stern demonstrated when he went to China, musicians are mas-ters of peace, intuitive communicators of wordless truths that transcend boundar-ies. Laying aside the question of how this kind of interpersonal, one-on-one peace-making might or might not translate onto that other stage where history per-forms, consider this an effort by one man to contribute what he can to healing the wounds of his time.

Ambitious in its historical scope (5,000 years in two hours), “Jerusalem” trav-els chronologically through the music of the city’s ancient, and less ancient, rulers. The show divides into chapters, like acts of a play, with dramatic readings in Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, Arabic and French, supplemented by giant supertitles. Heartbreaking laments are sung: In Hebrew, in Lior Elmaleh’s twin-ing Sephardic sound; in Armenian, in the sublimely sweet tenor of Razmk Aman; in Arabic, in the haunting echo of Muwafak Shahin Khalil’s chant. And in the middle of it all, a devastating reading, in French, of the papal edict that started the catas-trophe known as the Crusades.

Savall carries the weight of Spain’s1492 expulsion of its Arabic and Jewish popu-lations heavily on his Catalonian shoul-ders. In pre-concert comments, he declared his belief that the roots of today’s conf licts in Jerusalem are in Spain at that moment when co-existence among Christian, Jewish and Arabic cul-tures blew apart. Could be.

But some of his “Jerusalem” program doesn’t make sense. Maybe I’m overly sensitive to this one, but if he has set out to honor Jerusalem, why has he thrown in a Holocaust-related Jewish lament that never once mentions that city? It is the one pre-recorded segment in the entire concert: House lights dim, a single candle is lit, and a concentration camp story is told, of a cantor who begged to be allowed to sing a memorial prayer for himself before being led to his death; of how his life was spared by the Nazi guard who allowed the song, and was moved by it; of how the cantor recorded the song years later. Then we hear that recording, with organ accompaniment. It feels out of place — more politically than aestheti-cally correct.

Yet where Jerusalem is missing from this piece, it is integral to so much Jewish liturgy! If a nod to the 20th-century Jewish tragedy was the point — this was part of the concert’s “City of Refuge and Exile” chapter — why not simply recite

Just like heavenComposition on the city of gold shows both grandeur, oddities of Jerusalem

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NEW YORK (JTA) — Early on in the Talmudic tractate of Taanit, Rabbi Yitzchak causes a bit of a stir when, in the name of Rabbi Yochanan, he declares: “Jacob our father did not die.”

Rav Nachman rejects the idea with a sharp retort, asking: “Was it then for nothing that they mourned Jacob and the embalmers embalmed him and the grave-diggers buried him?”

Most rabbinic commentators essen-tially end up siding with Rav Nachman, albeit more politely, by treating Rabbi Yitzchak’s comment metaphorically, as some sort of moral teaching about the righteous living on through our memo-ries of their good deeds. But what if we were to take the comment literally?

The first question we might ask is, “If Jacob never died, then where exactly has he been all these years?”

Of course, for those of us with a stand-ing appointment Tuesday nights, one potential answer is obvious: He’s living on a mysterious island somewhere in the South Pacific, fishing, weaving and spending the rest of his days saving the world by keeping a satanic smoke mon-ster all bottled up.

No, that’s not from Rashi. It’s a refer-ence to “Lost,” ABC’s groundbreaking show about a plane that crashes on the weirdest not-so-deserted island you could imagine, the keeper of which is an enig-matic, ancient but young-looking man (we think he’s human, or at least used to be) named Jacob. That smoky thing? It’s his dead brother — meaning, like his bib-lical counterpart, the “Lost” Jacob has

serious sibling rivalry issues. And did we mention the series is shaping up to be pri-marily about his search for a replacement? The leading candidate: A plane-crash sur-vivor named... wait for it... Jack Shephard. (Jacob the shepherd, get it?)

OK. OK. It’s a stretch. Yes, the creators of “Lost” clearly want us chewing on the biblical reference. But they have had us chewing on plenty of unrelated refer-ences since the beginning. With just one episode and the 2-1/2–hour finale on May 23 left by the time you read this, it seems increasingly clear that they have no plans (thank goodness) to offer up a unifying theory for the show as an exact metaphor for some other literary or religious work.

So why dwell on the Jacob thing? Because the parallel holds — not so much between the two Jacobs themselves, but the experience of pondering them.

For Losties (think Trekkies, but cooler), watching the show is an exercise in prob-ing a mix of literary, religious and phil-osophical al lusions, w rest l ing w it h existential and moral questions, and, of course, enjoying great storytelling about compelling characters. It’s not much dif-ferent from studying Torah — an expe-rience marked by depth, meaning and intrigue, once you get the hang of it.

Don’t believe me?Next Tuesday night will be the last one

with a new episode of “Lost” (the finale is airing the following Sunday). An hour or two later, many synagogues will be mark-ing the holiday of Shavuot with Torah study throughout the night.

What Jack wouldn’t give for a sign like that. So check out a shul near you.

You’re going to need something to do when “Lost” ends.

Shavuot’s giftWhat to do after ‘Lost’

NEW YORK (JTA) — In the final season of “Lost,” the show has explored an alter-native reality, defined to some degree by what would have happened to the main characters had Oceanic 815 from Sydney to Los Angeles not crashed on the island.

In that spirit, what if the plane had gone down but it had been an El Al flight?

Well, the plane never would have crashed because the El Al pilots would have been able to perform evasive maneuvers. But if it had…

• Jack would not have been the only doctor.

• John Locke would have been named Yeshayahu Leibowitz.

• Sayid would have never made it on to the plane.

• Instead of Sayid’s makeshift radio, some of the Israeli passengers would have set up a high-speed Internet link.

• Some Lubavitcher would have shown up before long to open up a Chabad house.

• There would be more than just one reck lessly driven German-made vehicle on the road.

• The existence of a nuclear weapon on the island never would have been acknowledged.

• Gratuitous shots of Kate in her underwear would be replaced by quick peeks of haredi women sans sheitels.

• The island suddenly would have attracted the attention of the entire world, w ith the United Nations accusing the passengers of i l le-gally occupying territory and using disproportionate force to fend off attacks by the Others.

— JTA World News Service

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For peace to be achieved, the involved nations have to want peace. Peace cannot be imposed from the outside; America can act as a facilitator, but should never dictate the terms.

What are the stumbling blocks to peace between the Israelis and the Arabs? Is Jerusalem the issue? Are settlements the issue? Is the security fence the issue? Let us remember history. Prior to 1967 the Arabs never advocated for a Palestinian state. Their sole concentration was the destruc-tion of Israel. I am still convinced that that is their mission, despite the veneer that they desire to have their own state that is Judenrein and to live in peace with Israel.

What makes the Palestinians and other Arab states feel they have the right to dic-tate terms for peace, after losing an offen-

sive war against Israel?Where are those who argue and dem-

onstrate for more U.S. involvement or who take anti-Israel government positions, yet they do not demonstrate against nations and their policies that are far more det-rimental to peace and the stability of the world? Having peace in the Middle East will not create nirvana throughout the rest of the world. Israel should only make peace when it feels totally secure.

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There’s certainly no shortage of par-enting classes being offered in the Seattle area. But according to Yaffa Maritz, very few of these classes focus on the emo-tional connection between parents and their children.

“There are a lot of places parents can go for support or advice, but most classes are dealing with issues like diaper rash, or sleep and eating issues. That’s good and needs to happen,” explained Maritz, a family counselor and the co-founder of the Community of Mindful Parents. “But we deal with a range of emotional issues

as well: People feeling the blues, not sure they love the baby, relationship with their partner on the rocks, not really under-standing who they are because their iden-tity has shifted so much. It’s amazing the kinds of things that come up.”

It’s this broader emphasis that, for Maritz, makes the classes offered by the Community of Mindful Parents so unique.

Maritz and a team of facilitators have been running parenting groups for new mothers and fathers for the last decade. But it was just a year and a half ago that the decision was made to expand the pro-gram into a community — a place that parents could continue to get help and support even after they had completed their courses. The result is a Web site with a blog and articles on all manner of topics, a lecture series, and of course, the parenting classes, all functioning under the Commu-nity of Mindful Parents umbrella.

Maritz said she was originally inspired to lead parenting classes after working as a therapist and talking with clients about their upbringings.

“A lot of the issues we suffer from and deal with as adults can be traced back to earlier relationships,” she said. “When I was talking to patients about how they grew up, I often wished we could go back in their past. I thought, wouldn’t it be better if we could start early raising chil-dren in a way that is healthy?”

In addition to her counseling work, Maritz said much of her motivation to start a parenting program came, not sur-prisingly, from her experiences with her own three children. Although her kids are now adults (with one about to get mar-ried), she still relies on those experiences

when thinking about how best to help new parents.

“I wish somebody would have told me it is okay to take some time and help your-self regulate,” she said. “It can go such a long way. Stepping out energizes you so much. It’s really important to take time to center, regulate and reflect.”

The Community of Mindful Parents regularly offers two different eight-week classes: Listening Mothers for parents of children 6 months and younger, and Reflective Parenting for parents with kids between the ages of 18 months and 5 years. Both programs focus on understanding and reacting to children’s emotions and forming strong bonds between parent and child early on.

Classes meet at a variety of locations in King County, including Swedish Hospital, Ballard Pediatrics, Herzl-Ner Tamid Con-servative Congregation and the Stroum Jewish Community Center.

The Community of Mindful Parents classes have become the cornerstone of the Stroum JCC’s Parenting Center.

“The JCC, when we started doing our groups, didn’t have a Parenting Center,” M a r i t z r e c a l l e d . “Since then, they have rallied in creat-ing a home for fami-lies right from birth. Our program, which was the only one, has become one of many.”

Kara Moscovitz and her husband, Kerry, took Reflec-

tive Parenting at the Stroum JCC during the winter.

“It definitely helped us approach our parenting differently,” Moscovitz said. “We find ourselves being more under-standing of our kids’ behaviors and a little more thoughtful in how we respond.”

Although the class is aimed at parents with children age of 5 and under, Mosco-vitz said she and her husband found the information relevant to all three of their children, who are 3, 6, and 9 years old.

“With our oldest, I think it helped my husband to understand her with her emo-tional ups and down a bit better,” she said.

Moscovitz was so taken with the pro-gram that she is in the process of training to become a facilitator for the Community of Mindful Parents. She will begin leading her first classes next month.

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E r i c w i l l ce l eb ra t e h i s Bar Mitzvah on May 22, 2010 at Temple B ’na i T o r a h i n Bellevue.

Eric is the son of Michael and Susu Moshcatel of

Seattle and the brother of Marc. His grand-parents are Jack and Fran Moshcatel of Seattle, Leonard Wiviott of Seattle, and the late Evelyn “Pickle” Wiviott.

Eric is in the 7th grade at Eckstein Middle School. He enjoys playing baseball, cards, and video games. He also likes listening to music, and is working toward achieving his black belt in martial arts. For his mitzvah project, Eric is collecting supplies and funds to help Ginger’s Pet Rescue, a nonprofit organization specializing in the rescue and adoption placement of dogs that would otherwise be euthanized in animal shelters. He is also donating a portion of his Bar Mitzvah gifts to this organization.

Bat MitzvahKylie Brooke Goldfarb

Kylie Brooke Gold fa rb was called to the Torah on April 17, 2010 at Temple Adath Emanu-El in Mt. Laurel, N.J.

Kylie is the daughter of Linda and Keith Goldfarb

and brother of Alec. Her grandparents are Natalie and Bob Malin of Mercer Island, Kris and Royal Goldfarb of Kirkland, and Marcia and David Glassel of San Francisco, Calif. Her great grandfather was the late Samuel E. Goldfarb, former cantor at Temple De Hirsch.

Kylie is an honor student and a talented artist who enjoys playing soccer on her traveling team, acting, reading, and spending time with her friends. Her mitzvah project is collecting clothes for a women’s shelter. Bat Mitzvah

Richelle Lillian Willner-Martin

Richelle will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on May 2 2 , 2 0 1 0 a t Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Con-gregation, on the same bimah where h e r m o t h e r became the first

Bat Mitzvah when the synagogue opened in November 1971. Her grandfather became a Bar Mitzvah at Herzl in 1938.

Richelle is the daughter of Patricia Willner-Martin and Neil Martin of Bellevue and the sister of Allison. Her grandparents are Kathryn and James Martin of Edina, Minn., Ina Willner of Bellevue and the late Richard Willner.

Richelle is in the 7th grade at the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle. Her interests include attending Camp Solomon Schechter, acting and teching at Youth Theatre Northwest, Facebook, Skype, and texting with friends. For her mitzvah project, Richelle is raising money for the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces Bar/Bat Mitzvah LEGACY Program to send a child whose parent or sibling has been killed in action with the Israeli Defense Forces to summer camp in the United States.

EngagementTamera Farkas and Jeremy Sandler

Tamera and Jeremy are engaged to be married.

Tamera is the daughter of Michael and Francine Farkas of Los Angeles, Calif. Her grandparents are Nat and Elaine Stern of Los Angeles, Shary Farkas of Los Angeles and the late Sammuel Farkas.

Tamera graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 2009 with a degree in History and Jewish Studies. She works as a Judaics teacher at Oakland Hebrew Day School.

Jeremy is the son of Mark and Sharon Sandler of Bellevue. His grandparents are Rose Stalin of Mercer Island, Rose Sandler of Bellevue, the late Max Stalin, and the late Martin Sandler.

Jeremy is a graduate of Northwest Yeshiva High School and holds a degree in biology from the University of Washington. He is starting a masters/Ph.D. program at the California Institute for Technology and currently works doing genetics research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.

Bat MitzvahAbigail Geiger Shifren

Abigail will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on May 22, 2010 at Con-gregation Beth S h a l o m i n Seattle.

Abigail is the daughter of Lisa Geiger and Charles

Shifren of Edmonds. Her grandparents are Iris Shifren and Seymour Shifren of Los Angeles, Calif., Anne Geiger of Millburn, N.J. and the late Harold Geiger.

Abigail is in the 7th grade at Madrona K-8. Abby enjoys playing the viola, swimming, reading, and spending time with her friends and family. For her mitzvah project, she organized and performed with a string trio at the Ida Culver House in Broadview.

received some amount of funding.“There were a handful of people who

applied saying, ‘We don’t really need help, but we heard you were giving out money,’” Greenhall explained. “That’s not really the case and so those kinds of applications we do turn down.”

But every family whose application showed a legitimate need received a campership. The amount of money given varies from family to family depending on which camp the child is attending, and, of course, the family’s financial situation.

In total, $93,256 has been allocated to campership recipients, based on $400,000 in requests. Since then, another $14,006 has been raised to cover addi-tional requests.

According to Greenhall, this year’s JEC campership applications detail a wide range of stories from families who need extra help — sometimes a lot of extra help — to send their kids to camp, including credit card debt, family illness resulting in hefty medical bills, or one or both parents out of work.

“We heard a lot of stories this year that were just heartbreaking,” she said.

The mother of one camper, who asked that she remain anonymous, has been self-employed for several years and saw her business collapse when the econ-omy spiraled downward. Last summer, her daughter went to Jewish camp with friends from religious school for the first time, and fell in love with the experience.

“She loved it, and the independence, and the self-sufficiency,” the mother told JTNews. “All of that is really important.”

Without help, it’s not an experience her daughter would get to repeat this summer, but because of the JEC program, she will receive camperships covering almost 100 percent of her camp tuition for this year.

“I’m grateful that we’re given the opportunity for that assistance to be able to send her,” the mother said, “extremely grateful for that assistance.”

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the tradition’s classic comfort state-ment: “May you be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem”? Now, there’s a connection for you.

A couple of other odd musical allu-sions worth mentioning: Was a 12th-cen-tury Crusader song with an unmistakable resemblance to “Ein Feste Burg”/”A Mighty Fortress,” Martin Luther’s iconic early-16th-century hymn, chosen because of this resemblance? Chosen despite it? And the unavoidable “2001” reference in the fanfare Savall created for the shofars — prehistory, indeed! Jarring, and almost, alas, funny. Those first three notes of Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra can thrill, but they were tough to reconcile with this show.

Jordi Savall is one of my musical heroes. On the Gathering Note blog ear-lier this spring, R. M. Campbell described Savall’s Town Hall Seattle concert, “Lux Feminae,” as “a kind of rare adven-ture.” So is “Jerusalem.” I left the concert haunted by the finale, a single ancient melody which Savall arranged to be sung simultaneously in five different tradi-tional versions, with the entire ensemble, some two dozen virtuosi, playing along in harmony. His vision, at least, merits great praise.

A slightly different version of this piece also appeared on The Gathering Note blog, www.gatheringnote.com.

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Thank You! We cannot thank our family, friends and neighbors enough for the tremendous outpouring of support expressed

at the May 11th Community of Caring Luncheon. Over 1,000 of you donated $789,841 to provide crucial assistance to JFS clients. By doing so, you are helping ensure that JFS will, as we have since 1892, assist those

in our local community who have the greatest needs. After all, family matters…always has, always will.

Our generous sponsors helped underwrite this year’s event, maximizing the value of each and every Luncheon gift that will benefit our community members in urgent need. On behalf of the over

11,250 clients JFS served last year alone, thank you for being a community that cares.

Let’s do lunch again next year, shall we?

$1,500 SPONSORS

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Bernstein Global Wealth Management

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Congress Asset Management

Deloitte

Foster Pepper PLLC

$10,000 SPONSORS

Eric & Gloria Bensussen/ Bensussen Deutsch & Associates

Harrison Berkman & Claypool PLLC

Simon Family Charitable Trust and NOVA Foundation

Swedish Medical Center

$3,000 SPONSORS

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Janet Gray/ Jeppesen Gray Sakai P.S.

JP Morgan Chase

Moss Adams LLP

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Paragon Investment Management, Inc.

PENN Capital Management

Sprague Israel Giles, Inc.

United Insurance Brokers, Inc.

US Bank

Virginia Mason Medical Center