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Rabbi Berry Farkash leads the procession to carry the newly finished Torah, held by Roei Ganzarski, to its home at the Chabad of the Central Cascades in Issaquah. See the story on page 4.

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Revelations of Iranian plant return nuclear threat to center stageRon KampeasJTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) With Iran, it always comes back to the nuclear issue. The revelation last Friday that Iran has a second secret uranium-enrichment plant with a configuration inconsistent with peaceful intent, according to President Obama has placed the Islamic Republics nuclear program front and center, spurring momentum in Congress, at the White House and in Europe on potential sanctions that U.S. officials describe as crippling. Ahead of Thursdays meeting in Geneva between Iranian officials and representatives of the United States and five other major powers a summit arranged before last weeks revelations as part of the U.S. presidents engagement policy Obama said he would demand an Iranian commitment to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations nuclear watchdog. At that meeting, Iran must be prepared to cooperate fully and comprehensively with the IAEA to take concrete steps to create confidence and transparency in its nuclear program and to demonstrate that it is committed to establishing its peaceful intentions through meaningful dialogue and concrete actions, Obama said. Irans leaders continue to insist that their program is peaceful and that they are complying with IAEA rules. But it didnt help their argument that over the weekend Iran tested missiles capable of reaching Israel, parts of Europe and U.S. forces in the Middle East tests apparently scheduled long before the revelations. News of the secret plant threatened to obscure the human component of the threat posed by Irans leadership: The one directed at the Iranian opposition, which charges that the June 12 election was stolen by the regime. For a while, talk of centrifuges and a potential nuclear threat was overshadowed by images like that of the young woman gunned down during an election protest whose last moments were captured on video and posted on YouTube, the video-sharing Web site. The result was a previously unimaginable collusion of interests between pro-Israel groups that had been pressing for sanctions and liberal groups that had opposed them. Both now are making the case that the Iranian regime represents an extremist and dangerous threat albeit separately, for the most part. The time is now, not months from now, to determine the most effective and impactful sanctions and implement them, said a statement from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the Jewish communitys foreign policy umbrella group. Should the U.N. Security Council not be able to muster the votes necessary, then Europe, the U.S. and other nations should act outside of the framework of that body. So far, European countries appear to be taking a tougher stance on Iran than Obama. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined Obama on stage last Friday in Pittsburgh, at the G-20 industrial summit, to sound ominous warnings to Iran. Brown spoke of further and more stringent sanctions, and Sarkozy said the sanctions could begin as soon as December. It remains to be seen whether Russia and China will join expanded and enhanced sanctions. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says he prefers negotiations, although he acknowledged last week that sanctions may be inevitable. China pressed Iran to cooperate with the IAEA. The Washington Post reported Sept. 29 that the Obama administration was prepared to go it alone by enhancing existing sanctions against dealing with Irans banks and imposing new sanctions targeting insurers and reinsurers of its energy sector. A senior European diplomat told JTA that the European Union is also ready to join the United States in

Synagogue vandalism evokes anger, strong sense of communityJoel MagalnickEditor, JTNews Three weeks after the fact, the paint has been scrubbed and the memory of the vandalism on two Seward Park synagogues has somewhat faded in light of the High Holidays, but police have yet to find a perpetrator to the crime that occurred Sept. 12. Still, for some members of Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath, the discovery of swastikas spray painted on their synagogue and the parking lot after Selichot services on Sept. 12 hit an especially raw nerve. Its upsetting, its disturbing, its unfortunate there are people who hate for the sake of hate, and of course it makes it even more reprehensible given that there are a number of Holocaust survivors that are members of the congregation, said Moshe Kletenik, BCMHs rabbi. Im a child of Holocaust survivors who are the only survivors of their families. The red paint was still fresh when members of the Seward Park neighborhoods Orthodox Ashkenazic synagogue discovered the graffiti, which included the swastikas and the word Nazi and the words 4th Riech, misspelled. Sephardic Bikur Holim, which is located across the street from BCMH, and a few neighbors homes were vandalized as well. Seattle police responded immediately and turned investigation over to its bias crimes unit, which is investigating the vandalism as malicious harassment, the term for Washingtons hate crimes statute. Accord i ng to Seat t le Pol ice spokesma n Ma rk Jamieson on Wednesday, the case is still under investigation.

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Confronting the Holocaust industryNearly 65 years on., the Holocaust is more about money than memoryEdwin BlackSpecial to JTNews During the first months of the Hitler regime, in 1933, leaders of the Zionist movement concluded a controversial pact with the Third Reich, which, in its various forms, transferred some 60,000 Jews and $100 million almost $1.7 billion in 2009 dollars to Jewish Palestine. In return, Zionists would halt the worldwide Jewish-led anti-Nazi boycott that threatened to topple the Hitler regime in its first year. Ultimately, the Transfer Agreement saved lives, rescued assets, and seeded the infrastructure of the Jewish State to be. Fier y debates i n st a nt l y ig n ited throughout the pre-war Jewish world as rumors of the pact leaked out. That acrimony was rekindled in 1984 with the original publication of my book The Transfer Agreement and has never stopped. Why? Simply put, The Transfer Agreement came out a decade ahead of its time. When the book first appeared, in 1984, the world was still preoccupied with the enormity of Nazi genocide. The worlds emphasis was on the murderous events of the war years. Organized remembrance was collectively fighting an anti-Semitic revisionist movement that was trying to deny or minimize the Holocaust with rabid pseudo-history. Few had spoken of the financial aspects of the Holocaust until I did. Few had publicly ever used the words Zionist and Nazi in the same sentence until I did. For perspective, consider that the first network television attempt to treat the Holocaust was a TV series called The Holocaust, which aired in 1978 the same year neo-Nazis marched through Skokie. That was the year I began researching The Transfer Agreement. At the time, the Second Generation movement of children of Holocaust survivors was just forming. The First World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors was only in the planning stage. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which received its charter in 1980, was several years and many controversies away from opening. Organized Holocaust education was essentially nonexistent. For society and for survivors, the dominant priority was coming to grips with the genocide not the assets. What has changed in 25 years? Assets are now part of almost every Holocaust discussion. Zionists are compared to Nazis everywhere by anti-Semites and opponents of the existence of the State of Israel. Holocaust remembrance has become a business. The survivors efforts at recovering assets or restitution have been expropriated by national and international organizations claiming to speak for them and then pretending to pay homage to them. Hence, we witness the spectacle of thousands of survivors in Brooklyn and Miami and elsewhere living at or near the poverty level. My dad in Palm Beach has nothing but a roof over his head. But the well-heeled movers and shakers of communal remembrance travel first class, create vibrant Web sites, and talk the talk all on their fair share of the diverted recovered assets or restitution of the actual survivors. Every day the survivors, in their newsletters and online exchanges, rail against the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for sequestering their access to the all-revealing Bad Arolsen archives while tiny Luxembourg, with few survivors, just gained a full copy. No one listens. Prominent national Jewish leaders find it easier to give well-funded communal cover to the perpetrator corporations, including insurance companies, who victimized the Jews. Holocaust historians find it more lucrative to go on the payroll of perpetrator corporations such as General Motors, IBM, I.G. Farben, and Deutsche Bank, murk the facts, and then slam the files shut. My mother jumped from a moving train on the way to Treblinka into a snow drift, never believing that the next generation speaking for her would quarrel endlessly, and often arrogantly, about the measure of her misery. The Holocaust has indeed become an industry where the facts are lost, and all too often not faced. The victims have become tertiary to the process. It is no longer about memory; it is more about money. Facing the reality of the Holocaust is no longer about confronting the horrifying decisions Jews and Zionists had to make with a gun to their head. The transfer agreement was one of those most terrible choices. Hence, the message of the book is unchanged 25 years later and its searing question asks this of history: Why must Jews always make such terrible choices? Edwin Black is the award-winning bestselling author of IBM and the Holocaust, and his first book, The Transfer Agreement, now re-released in a 25th anniversary edition (Dialog Press). He can be reached at www. edwinblack.com. This piece first ran in the New York Jewish Week.

Synagogue Vandalism t Page 1 It is very much an active and ongoing investigation, he said. Kletenik said he has been heartened by the police response. I can only praise their efforts here, he said. They have given this full attention and are working very hard on it. According to Rabbi Simon Benzaquen of Sephardic Bikur Holim, neighbors both Jewish and non-Jewish came out with cleaning supplies, and hes gotten e-mails from area churches expressing support after the incident. Even the Seattle Times wrote an editorial Sept. 14 demanding the perpetrators, if arrested, be judged swiftly and harshly. Rabbi Benzaquen said response to the vandalism from his congregants was varied. A little bit, [it] makes you upset and angry, and on the other hand makes you a bit afraid, he said, but the police and security response was fantastic. Benzaquen said Seattle interim Police Chief John Diaz called me on Sunday himself and said, Please, you should know how we feel about your community. We are really taking this very, very seriously, and we are going to get to the bottom of it. Like Rabbi Kletenik, Benzaquen said the nature of the vandalism evoked strong reactions among some members of his congregation because they are Holocaust survivors or have relatives who survived the Holocaust, Some are fearful, some are angry, some they want to do something, he said. But we have our heads on our shoulders and we are trusting the police are going to do a good job.

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The back door of Sephardic Bikur Holim was covered with a backward swastika, as was the sidewalk in front, with the word Nazi when both SBH and the Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath congregation were vandalized Sept. 12. Synagogue leadership has met with a local security expert who is a member of the congregation, Benzaquen said, and its security committee has used the incident as an opportunity to remember to be vigilant and work on keeping its members safe. He has noticed additional patrols in the area since the incident. Bot h sy nagog ues a re a lso members of the SAFE Washington network, a consortium of local Jewish organizations that have a quick-response notification system in the event of any type of incident. Richard Fruchter, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seat-

tle, which administers SAFE Washington, noted the vandalism could have been related to an article in the Seattle Times that day about the start of the retrial of Naveed Haq, the man who shot six people in the Federation three years ago, killing one. Sadly we have been here before and we are prepared. With a strong communication network, regular security trainings and open lines of communication with the police, we are doing all we can as a community to stay vigilant, he said in a statement. None of us should pretend that anti-Semitism does not exist. But neither should we stop expressing or celebrating our Judaism. Jay De Boer, president of the Washing ton Interfait h Disaster Recover y Organization, signed a resolution on Sept. 15 decrying the acts of vandalism, noting: It is resolved that WIDRO condemns the racist, prejudiced criminal acts of those responsible for this desecration and calls on all law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction to use their best efforts to apprehend and prosecute the perpetrators. The member churches and organizations also extended prayers to the synagogues and others affected by the vandalism. Sarah Rivkin, a member of BCMH, saw the timing of the vandalism as something of a spiritual wake-up call. For myself, being in a religious community, we read into things on a spiritual level. Not to give this person any power, or to say that were victims, but what is thistelling us? she said. We shouldnt have to have messages like this. Inspiration should come from ourselves, from inside, from learning, not from attacks like this.

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The J-ber mentschtransformed through a cultural renaissance into the tough Israeli sabra, able to outsmart and outgun the Arab armies that surpassed the Jews in number but not in moxie. The archetypal myth of the triumphant, imperial King David transcended the theology of Messianism, signaling a parallel return of the macho Jewish male. Its no coincidence that the creators of Superman were two Jewish boys, eager, like so many other Jewish contributors to American culture, to find acceptance and success not only through socio-economic achievement but also a redefinition of American heroism as part Jewish in pedigree. Supermans story of displacement, immersion, sacrifice and purpose was Jewish aspiration writ large on the American imagination. This dynamic is at work in Quentin Tarantinos latest, Inglourious Basterds. Assumedly based in small part on the history of post-war Jewish partisan Nazi hunting as chronicled in the book The Avengers and most recently Edward Zwicks Defiance, Tarantino blends wishfulfillment, revenge fantasy and revisionist history from an alternate universe to believe it or not! entertaining effect. I dont know if Tarantino is too big for pitch meetings, but I can imagine it would have been something like, Imagine Pulp Fiction, meets The Dirty Dozen meets Carrie with Jews! What Hollywood producer (even of marginally Jewish provenance) could resist? There a re t he t y pica l Ta ra nt ino touches: Quirky, tangential dialogue, the literary flourishes of chapter divisions, and a soundtrack that makes atonal music seem cohesive (spaghetti Western strings into 70s Kung Fu-ploitation horns into 80s Bowie techno!). But ensconced within these now wellestablished Tarantino idioms is a popculture take on the Holocaust specifically, and more broadly a Jewish response to tragedy that would make the Maccabees whoop and spill their beers. Some have questioned the trivial use of the Holocaust as backdrop rather than main focus. Tarantino isnt going through a Schindlers List rite of passage. Hes making his film his way, and illuminating the idiosyncracies, passions and foibles of the human condition in the process. And in ways that far exceed the hamfisted attempts of made-for-TV Entebbe raids and Spielbergs sanctimonious peek into the existential crises of assassins, Tarantino provides a far more compelling and cathartic portrayal of the complexities of Jewish vengeance and the broader issue of retributive justice. I found myself uncontrollably smiling during the culminating scene of blood and fire, and I defy any Jew who loves action, appreciates quote-worthy dialogue, knows a bit of history and has an active fantasy life (and Y-dominant chromosomes) to be unmoved by the sight of the bullet-ridden body of Joseph Goebbels paired to a Shaft-inspired beat.

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Its violent, its bloody, its historically inaccurate, but Inglourious Basterds is also strangely cathartic to the Jewish soulAnd Tarantino even manages a nod to the bizarre Jewish fixation with Native American culture, though the scalping of Nazis is far removed from a Rothian season at a Catskills summer camp. The brilliant historian Ruth Wisse posited in her work Jews and Power: No daily reader of the Psalms could underestimate the might of GodThe glorification of powerlessness was as antithetical to Judaism as belief in the son of God. Jews did not think themselves powerless in the most meaningful sense: had they not reckoned on ultimate vindication, they could not have claimed to believe in justice one of the cardinal tenets of Jewish civilization. The power of God, emphatically including his eventual action in history, was the guarantee that justice would ultimately triumph. Lacking such faith in Gods intervention, modern Jews could not claim to be moral unless they themselves intended to supply the missing dimension of power. At the risk of diminishing Wisses erudition or elevating Tarantinos significance, the philosphers words seem ample caption to the filmmakers pictures. This column was taken from Rabbi Daniel Weiners Good God: Faith for the Rest of Us blog, www.goodgodforus.com.

Rabbi Daniel WeinerTemple De Hirsch Sinai One of the most memorable scenes in Judd Apatows morality tale of male maturation, Knocked Up, is a brief barroom discussion of the film Munich. The mostly Jewish characters celebrate the turning on its head of the stereotypical role of Jew as victim, with Eric Bana capping motherf%*@ers and taking names. Its a small, throwaway moment of character development that seems just for laughs but contains deeper insight and resonance. From the late 19th through early 20th century, Jewish writers, artists, philosophers and statesmen sought to vanquish the millennia-old image of Jew as powerless victim. One of the critical themes of Zionism went beyond the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland to encompass the re-visioning of the nature of Jewish virility, strength and potency. The pale, emaciated and emasculated yeshiva bochur of 2,000 years of exile was

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syMpathies and RegRetsDuring this reflective time around your Yom Kippur and just after my Islamic Eid Al Fitr, I would like to send my sympathies and regrets regarding the hate crimes incidences that occurred recently (Sept. 12) in one of our Seattle neighborhoods. I posted the JTNews Seward Park vandalism article yesterday on the Seattle Muslim Activist site, where we Muslims regularly communicate with one another regarding issues we all should be aware of. I am so sorry this hate incident happened to this quiet, respected community, a part of our larger Abrahamic Seattle community. I sincerely hope whomever has committed these crimes will have an opportunity for historic diversity training; perhaps the expansion of knowledge will take away the possibility of future negative thoughts and actions.

Janice E. Tufte Islamic Civic Engagement Coalition Seattle

best inteRestsRon Kampeass insightful front page column was quite informative (Iran policy reveals split between U.S. Jewish and Israeli left, Sept. 11). It is not surprising that there is this split. U.S. Jews do not live in Israel and have not been the target of violent Hamas terror rocket attacks. Yossi Alpher rightly points out that Iran doesnt deploy proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah against the U.S. on its borders. Obama has said he is determined to contain Iran whether or not Israel plays ball on the Palestinian issue. Obamas approach of sanctions and negotiation with Iran is not going to make Iran abandon its goal to manufacture nuclear weapons. Iran has now entered

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into agreements with Venezuela for supplies of gasoline to thwart any additional sanctions that may be imposed by Western governments. Since Israel has been threatened by Iran to be wiped off the map, it may be forced to unilaterally take military action against their nuclear sites. The U.S. should support this action, as Israels survival depends on such action. The U.S. public needs to be aware of Irans growing presence in Latin America, especially in Venezuela and Ecuador. This poses a future threat to the U.S. if Iran acquires nuclear weapons she can provide to terrorists as well as antiAmerican leaders like Chavez of Venezuela. It is in Americas national interest to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. Josh Basson Seattle

Iran Nuclear Threat t Page 1 enforcing sanctions outside the boundaries of the Security Council, although the Europeans preferred to bring the Russians and Chinese on board. Sarkozys December deadline for Iran to make good on Western demands reflected a European-Obama administration consensus, the diplomat said. The U.S. Congress, too, is ratcheting up the pressure. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the speaker of the House of Representatives, and Rep. Howard Berman, the bodys Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, said they were prepared to advance farreaching sanctions legislation. Berman, with Pelosis backing, has

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resisted moving the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act out of his committee in the hope that Obamas policy of engagement would prove fruitful. We must use the tools at our disposal, from diplomacy to sanctions, to stop Irans march toward nuclear capability, Pelosi said in a statement. In a Washington Post Op-Ed, Berman made clear he was skeptical that this weeks talks would produce anything tangible. We should be ready immediately to impose what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called crippling sanctions, Berman wrote. The revelation of the existence of the nuclear plant beneath a Revolutionary Guards base near Qom, Irans holy city

apparently have won over even the most sanctions-skeptical U.S. law makers, among them Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Bermans Senate counterpart. Now is t he t ime to supplement engagement with more robust international sanctions, Kerry said in a statement. The bill in Congress under discussion mandates sanctions targeting the export of refined petroleum to Iran. Though the Islamic Republic is a major oil producer, its refineries are in shambles and the country imports up to 40 percent of its refined oil. Israel-supporting insiders say they back Bermans timetable to pass it before Congress winter break so that Obama can sign it in early 2010.

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making the moveChabad of the Central Cascades dedicates its new shul and Jewish centerMorris MalakoffJTNews Correspondent On a weekend that had overtones of darkness for the local Jewish community, with the painting of swastikas on Seward Park-area synagogues and vandalism of a sign at the Chabad of the Central Cascades in Issaquah, rays of joy and light shone on a bright Sunday afternoon as a milestone was celebrated. The same Chabad of the Central Cascades that had its small street sign destroyed opened up to the community to share the dedication of its shul and the addition of the last words to its Torah, all in time for Rosh Hashanah services the following week. September 13 was a poignant day filled with meaning for Rabbi Barry Farkash, who founded the Issaquah-based Chabad in a rented house five years ago. Ceremonies began on the plaza at the Lakeside Montessori School. Hundreds crowded the canopy-covered space, overflowing onto the sidewalk and into the street. I would never have expected such a turnout, said Farkash. I figured maybe a hundred or so if we were lucky. The gathering included local dignitaries, including Issaquah Mayor Ava Frisinger and Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen, as well as members of the congregation and the surrounding community. A large delegation of family and friends Holtzberg, who were killed by terrorists last November at the Chabad House in Mumbai, India. At the dedication, Rabbi Farkash, a longtime friend of Rabbi Holtzberg, and other rabbis who had been his classmate, stood together as witnesses to the works of the rabbi and his wife. We could have dedicated this place to a donor or someone who is a part of our heritage, said Farkash, but every day, when I walk up the hill to this place, particularly when it is cold and snowy and I wonder what I am doing out here in Issaquah, I will be reminded of Gabi and Rivky in Mumbai and the work they were doing to provide a place for Jews in a nonJewish place. I will remember that we are doing the same work here. Reflecting later on the acts of vandalism that had occurred on the same night both to the Chabad and at the Seattle synagogues, Farkash expressed sadness that people are still invested in evil and hate. As a people, we have been dealing with this for 5770 years, he said. It is, sadly, a part of our lives. But it also is not something to dwell on. This Chabad is about bringing light into the world. That will drive away evil. Those acts strengthen our resolve to carry on our work, much as does the needless deaths of Gabi and Rivky Holzberg in India. Our good as we start the New Year is a light brighter than the darkness of the evil of a few.

Morris Malakoff

The sofer, or Torah scribe, prepares to guide a Chabad of the Central Cascades member in writing one of the last letters of its new Torah, which was paraded to the synagogues new home during the Sept. 13 dedication ceremony. of the Farkashes and the Chabad from around the world attended as well. Once the ink on the Torah dried, a ceremony thanked longtime Chabad of the Central Cascades supporters Mendy and Chanie Fischer of Brooklyn, N.Y. Following the plaza ceremonies, the entourage marched the Torah about a mile to the Chabad shul on Black Nugget Road, on property owned by the Chabad. Again, Rabbi Farkash was touched and overwhelmed by the warmness of his neighbors. They came out and watched and took part, he said. They willingly have accepted us as a part of their community. At the Chabad, the celebrations continued as a Tree of Life, eternal light and a new ark were installed. The audience was visibly stirred with the dedication of the synagogue to the memory of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah

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bringing the fight homeCommunity-wide program uses Sukkot to bring an understanding of poverty and homelessnessJoel MagalnickEditor, JTNews Its no secret t hat t he past yea r has been disastrous for many families across the country. People both in and out of the Jewish community have suffered through job loss, economic hardship, and in some extreme cases, homelessness. A study released this week by the Washington State Budget & Policy Center shows that, based on census data, one in 10 Washingtonians lives in poverty, with the percentage for children even higher than the adult population. The 2008 figures are grim and it is likely 2009 will be worse because the recession deepened and unemployment rose, said Remy Trupin, the centers executive director, in a statement. At this time last year, just as the bottom was falling out on the economy, several local rabbis joined with the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle in an attempt to use the harvest festival of Sukkot to bring the reality of poverty home to those in the Jewish community who may not have seen its effects. Doing this during the holiday of Sukkot really makes a difference, said Kim Greenhall, director of community services at the Federation. Its a really good time to focus on issues of poverty and housing and hunger. The program, called Focus & Fight: A Call to End Poverty, last year encompassed several organizations such as Jewish Family Service, which held its annual food sort during Sukkot, and Temple Beth Am, which also had its Homeless2Renter program fundraiser during the holiday. This year, the program, which runs Oct. 29, has been expanded to include formerly or currently homeless speakers, a curriculum created by the New York-based Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty to teach about the effects of poverty, and an agency-to-agency program that provides goods to those who need them. A report from the Washington State Coalition for the Homeless shows that more than 100,000 Washingtonians could face homelessness in 2009. As unemployment rose earlier this year, the Human Services Policy Center at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington forecast 37,000 of the states children were expected to experience living in poverty. And Jon Gould, deputy director of the Childrens Alliance, said in a statement that cuts made during this years legislative session cut deeply into programs that help mitigate the terrible effects of poverty on children and families. Passage of Initiative 1033, which would use this year, one of the worst in the states budgetary history, as a maximum for future budgets, would lock in cuts made this year across the board, Gould said, and make responding to future, growing needs impossible. To help give the Jewish community a more concrete and personal understanding of these issues, the Focus & Fight program partnered with Real Change, the Seattle-area newspaper that covers poverty and homelessness and helps people living on the streets or in poverty get back on their feet. Real Change has a speakers bureau that can address any group from young children to adults, and several of those speakers will visit local synagogues, schools and Hillel at the UW. To hear their stories, Greenhall said, it really hones in that this isnt just somebody else this is us that this is happening to. In addition, Amy Hilzman-Paquette, principal of the Community High School for Jewish Studies, has written a 10-week curriculum based on the MCJPs that can be adjusted for students of any age to teach about the causes and effects of poverty, and how to work to end it. Greenhall said that advocacy, another major push of Focus & Fight, means encouraging people to contact legislators, particularly at the state level, to let them know their constituents want them to pass legislation that helps the homeless or people facing extreme economic hardship. An example is GAU last year, said Greenhall, referring to the General AssistanceUnemployable fund that gives people unable to work a small monthly stipend. It had been eliminated entirely from the governors preliminary budget. It got passed because there was a lot of pressure from the community at large to make sure these people are protected. The crown jewel of this years effort, however, is what is being called the Mitzvah Match, in which five local Jewish organizations are working with other nonprofits that help homeless or povertystricken people to collect food, clothing and other goods for distribution. In a twist on this theme, the Federation and Jewish Family Service are working together to connect professionals, in particular doctors and lawyers, who will volunteer their expertise to help clients in need of medical or legal services. This part of the program, while it will launch during Focus & Fight, is intended to continue year-round with the hopes that further organizations will join by next Sukkot. Three upcoming events do not specifically fall under the umbrella of Focus & Fight, but are offered in the same spirit: The Jewish Family Service food drive runs through Sun., Oct. 18, when volunteers will sort the food at Acme Food Sales Warehouse from 10:30 a.m.2 p.m. Registration required. RSVP by contacting 206-861-3155 or volunteer@jfsseattle.org.

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Laugh Your Way to Giving Raises $1.56 Million Dollars for the Jewish Federation!1,400 people, two Jewish guys from LA, and one camel cant be wrong. Laugh Your Way to Giving was an amazingly successful event. On September 16, Seattle Jews filled Benaroya Hall to the brim. Everyone there, from Birthright alumni to Kline Galland residents, laughed, cheered and mingled at the Jewish Federations largest gathering ever. Together, we raised $1.56 million for local and overseas Jewish agencies, programs and initiatives supported by the Community Campaign. This recordbreaking number demonstrates that even in tough times, our community is extra-ordinarily generous. Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson of Jewtopia anchored the evening (though the life-sized camel promoting the upcoming Israel Unplugged trip vied for biggest laughs). However, there were plenty of touching moments, from Rabbi Danny Weiners whimsical Dvar Torah to an emotion-filled video highlighting how our Community Campaign impacted a local teen, a refugee from Tbilisi, Georgia, and an Israeli family under seige by rockets from Gaza. The Sulmans, family chairs of the event, wove a beautiful story about how the Jewish Federation has touched every one of their lives for close to four decades. Barbara Sulman explained, All of the organizations and programs I mentioned receive significant, if not all of their funding, from the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. The timing of a local educational symposium on Iran could not be more apropos given Irans presence in the headlines of todays news. Just last week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave an incendiary address to the UN General Assembly, which was followed by revelations of a secret nuclear power reactor in Iran. Also last week, Iran test-fired a missile that could hit Israel and US bases in the Gulf. Her speech provided a perfect local complement to Shelley Bensussens discussion of the Jewish Federations impact globally, from Seattle to Israel to the Former Soviet Union. I dont think I have to tell you how passionate I feel about the importance of the Jewish Federation and all that it does: to keep the Jewish community here and worldwide united, as a responder when Jews are faced with uncertainty and adversity, said Bensussen, in a heartfelt plea to encourage Jewish philanthropy. Jewtopia put on a show about the quirks of Jewish culture that had everyone crying with laughter: hard not to laugh when theyre cracking jokes about how a Jews purpose in life is to fit as much food as possible in the freezer or engaging the audience to help them explain why each and every table in a restaurant is the wrong table. We were an audience unlike any Bryan and Sam had ever had before. We made them laugh with our sheer numbers (almost double their normal audience size) and with our impressive knowledge of obscure Yiddish food, like ptsha. The dessert reception after the show provided a wonderful opportunity to recap jokes, schmooze and eat from dozens of dessert stations in the lobby. The feeling of community was a final reminder of how successful we can be when we all band together to show our support for Jewish causes, reflected Board Chair Ron Leibsohn. Thanks to everyone who came for helping the Jewish Federation usher in a new year with grace, laughter and joy.

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To educate and to serveRuth Messinger on alternative spring breaks, fighting hunger, and genocide in DarfurLeyna KrowAssistant Editor, JTNews Ruth Messinger, president of the American Jewish World Service, visited Seattle last month. While in town, she spoke with members of the American Jewish Committee board of directors and students at Hillel at the University of Washington, and gave presentations at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation and Temple Beth Am about the AJWSs work in developing countries. The A merican Jew ish World Service provides grants, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground labor for a wide range of humanitarian projects all over the world. JTNews spoke with Messinger about her recent visit with President Obama, the AJWSs new hunger-fighting campaign, and the organizations service learning trips for young adults. JTNews: Ive heard the American Jewish World Service described as sort of a Jewish Peace Corps. Is that accurate? Ruth Messinger: Service is a huge piece of what we do. The reason I back off a little bit from that description although, believe me, I use it from time to time myself is that just one piece of our service is with skilled professionals. About 100 of the people we send each year are people who might have a Web background or a public health background or human rights and education background

Mitzvah, but then they try to think about what meanings the Hillel has for them and what kind of Jewish lives they want to put together. And because they are of this generation, they want to be sure it includes global awareness. So thats some of them. Some of them are probably just sort of casting around and discover this and decide to sign up. And some of them, I think quite clearly, are choosing us because its a way to get to the developing world and they think that if they do it with a Jewish organization, their parents will be happier, which is fine with me. JT: AJWS recently launched a new campaign called Fighting Hunger From the Ground Up. How does this effort differ from AJWSs other fundraising programs? RM: Well, its a targeted two-year campaign. Its designed to put a spotlight on what is the largest growing problem in the developing world right now, which is global hunger. The UN now says its over a billion people who have a problem with hunger or malnutrition. Its a killer. And we launched this campaign because we think its a way for people to understand something thats not so easy, which is that fighting hunger is not just about bringing food to where theres a drought or shortages. Its about recognizing that there is enough food in the world to feed everyone. Its a very complicated problem. Agricultural technology and a lack of farming collectives and a lack of clear titles to land and American policies to dump American farm surplus in other

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Ruth Messinger, president for the American Jewish World Service, at UW Hillel next to a photo of UW students on an AJWS alternative spring break trip. and they get matched individually with projects that have some particular interest in their skill. So thats like what the Peace Corps does. Then, the bulk of our service is our group service trips, which are much shorter. Most, for 16 to 25 year olds, are either a single week like what UW does doing an alternative spring break trip with us or an intensive seven-week summer program. So there, in my mind, is where it is not the Peace Corps. These people go as a group. Also, they are doing a labor project, but they are also in a fairly serious study context they are learning text, they are learning whats Jewish about what theyre doing and theyre learning about these significant international. JT: What would make young people want to do a trip with AJWS rather than a secular organization? RM: My impression is that people choose to go with us because they are very consciously trying to craft their own Jewish lives. So they were Bar or Bat

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a long time comingAfter 12 years of study, womens Talmud class completes first tractateLeyna KrowAssistant Editor, JTNews As she nears the end of the page, Rivy Poupko Kletenik picks up her pace. She powers through the last few lines of Hebrew in front of her, choking back tears. Many of the women sitting around the table have the same text in front of them, but most eyes are on Kletenik. When the final words pass through her lips, the women sitting closest to her reach to Kletenik to hug her and pat her shoulders. She has just finished a reading of the Talmud Brachot, marking the completion of her all-women Talmud classs first tractate a project that has taken them 12 years. Im tearing up a little here. As you know, this is very emotional on a number of levels, Kletenik said to the class after she finished the reading during a celebration at the Seattle Hebrew Academy on Sept. 10. Twelve years may seem like a long time, but Kletenik said thats about right for a group that only meets for an hour once a week. We never skip anything, she said. We read every piece and talk at great lengths. According to Kletenik, the first tractate is the longest in the Talmud in terms of the number of words. Talmud Brachot deals primarily with the rules concerning various blessings. The time spent on the tractate wasnt the only reason for K leteniks emotional response to its conclusion, however. T he classs prog ress t hrough t he Ta lmud also serves as a milestone in what has been, for Kletenik and others, a long fight to improve rel ig iou s e duc at ion for Jewish women and girls. It was ta ken for Leyna Krow granted for many hun- Rivy Poupko Kletenik reads the final lines from the Talmud d reds of yea rs t hat Brachot at the Seattle Hebrew Academy library on Sept. 10. women did not study The class was originally held in the Talmud, Kletenik said. library at the Jewish Federation of Greater Its only been in the last few decades Seattle, but then after a couple of years that Talmud classes for women have moved to SHA. begun to emerge, and in many places Behind the scenes, there were some they are still met with criticism. people who were not comfortable with Kleteniks class meets every Thursme teaching Talmud to women at this day morning in the library at the Seatschool, Kletenik recalled. It was asked tle Hebrew Academy, where she is head that I use handouts, not books. It was of school. asked that I not call it a Talmud class. I Kletenik said that about 15 women said no. typically attend the classes. The Sept. Kletenik also stood firm in her posi10 gathering was larger, with around 30 tion that all students at SHA should have attendees, because many of the women the chance to learn Talmud. had brought daughters or friends along Today, Talmud is taught to girls in to celebrate the tractates completion. Of this building and at NYHS, she said, the 15 regulars, Kletenik noted that three referring to the Northwest Yeshiva High have been a part of the class on and off School. since the beginning. Supporting the co-ed Talmud curricula at SHA was not the only time Kletenik has gone to bat for womens Talmud study in schools. In fact, its something shes been fighting for since she was a student at Touro College, where she successfully petitioned the administration to open up a Talmud class for women. Apparently, however, the schools administrative officials were not the only ones who needed to be convinced it was all right. I was the only one in the class, she recalled. Other women present for the tractates completion also shared stories of the challenges they had faced when they had expressed interest in studying Talmud. Ruz Gulko, who has been coming to the class on and off for more than a decade, recalled of being a 5th grader at a day school in Canada and asking her teacher when the class would start its Talmud studies. He told me, The boys start learning Talmud next year, and you girls will be learning how to keep a kosher home, she said. Gulko persisted, however, insisting that she be allowed to study with the boys. They finally allowed me to sit in on the class, provided I did not speak, she said.

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Community heroes recognized by uJCSeveral Washingtonians up for winning $25,000 for their organizationsdegree, he eventually came to work for King County and then the state labor councils (AFL-CIO). He and his wife, Dina Burstein, are organizing a forum on health care at Temple Beth Am on Oct. 11 at 10 a.m., to which the community is invited. Longtime Federation volunteer Iantha Sidell was also surprised to learn shed been nominated. I hardly feel Im a hero, she says, especially compared to people who put their lives on the line for cause or country. But I believe in community, I believe There are probably 20 times as many who could have been nominated, she observes. Another Seattle grassroots organizer being recognized is Joel Rothschild, one of the founders of the Ravenna Kibbutz, a Jewish housing cooperative in the Seattle neighborhood of the same name. Joel knew of the nomination because a frequent and enthusiastic kibbutz guest wanted to nominate the entire organization. The rules only allow for individuals to be named so residents and participants cooperatively singled Joel out. Ive been talking about organ donation since thento Hadassah and to nonJewish community groups, she says. Itwas a wonderful honor to be recognized for my contribution. When shes not busy with Hadassah, Katie works with her husband, David, in their business, Greenbriar Construction. She is in good health and says she never thinks about her missing kidney until its time for her annual checkup. Finally, we return to Seattle where Ben Meyerhoff turned his own recent job-hunting efforts into a group effort to help all Jewish job hunters. The Queens, N.Y., native, who moved here from California in 2003, had been working in the high tech sector, but was laid off in mid2008. Knowing it was coming he started networking, but found nothing organized by the Jewish community. Im the type of person who likes to make things happen and not to watch them happen, he says, so he started the Greater Seattle Jewish Business Network which exists virtually as a LinkedIn group (on-line networking site) and as a real-life group that meets at his congregation, Temple Beth Am, in Seattle on the second and fourth Wednesdays at 7 p.m. (w w w.templebetham.org/community/ caring) as well as at Herzl-Ner Tamid on alternate weeks. The Federation has also been active in administering the Linked In aspect of the group, which grows by 50 or more people a month. Unfortunately, that doesnt mean people are getting jobs, Ben notes. At 66, and without a job for over a year, he is considering moving on to retirement himself. He helps others as much as he can and he also volunteers for SCORE, a business advice program of the Small Business Administration. Ben named a number of people who had helped him with the network, but wanted to make sure I mentioned Jay Bakst, a Herzl-Ner Tamid member who is the co-sponsor of the group. You can visit vote early and often (daily, really) at the heroes Web site, w w w.je w i s hc om mu n i t y he r o e s .or g through Oct. 8.

Diana BrementJTNews Columnist Seven Washing ton residents a re among hundreds of volunteers nationwide nominated for the first United Jewish Communities local heroes award. (UJC is the national umbrella body that serves local Jewish federations). Weve got profiles of each here. Margot Kravette is the only local volunteer to be ranked in this contest that is part Facebook/part American Idol with its online voting system. Because of the efforts of her daughters, who sent e-mails to everyone they knew, Margot is the only one from our state to make it to the top 25. A Congregation Beth Shalom member, Margot started and runs an all-volunteer effort to provide meals to Jewish families who are in Seattle while a loved one is treated for cancer through the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute or having a particular type of brain surgery only performed at Harborview. She has many volunteers, which makes the duties light, but could always use more. All our local heroes are committed and modest in person. Many hadnt even known they were nominated until they heard from me. All were eager to suggest that others were doing more or better work. I feel very honored torepresent work ing people, says Robby Stern, founder and chair of Healthy Washington Coalition (www.healthywacoalition.org), protesting, I dont think Im worthy. He formed this group of organizations and individuals about five years ago to try and move an agenda of state-based health care reform, he says, because was nothing was happening at the federal level. (Stay tuned on that one!) The longtime activist was an appliance repairman for many years, and personally involved in local labor unions. After getting a law

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Joel Rothschild, in focus, at a dinner at the Ravenna Kibbutz. To the left are Neal Schindler and Mai Li Pittard. in the Jewish community, which warmly welcomed her 30 years ago. I get out of it more than I give, she adds. The Herzl-Ner Tamid member gives time to numerous local and national philanthropic boards, including two at the UJC, the Jewish Studies program at the University of Washington, and the Save All Ethiopian Jews scholarship program. Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum heard from me, too, that shed been nominated. The founder of the Kavana synagogue without walls in Seattle also doesnt feel particularly hero-like, and was skeptical about voting for heroism, but acknowledged the good in a democratic way to identify people around the country who help others. The self-employed software engineer is proud of the organization, which he says serves the entire community by serving mostly unaffiliated Jews searching for a Jewish home. It really is something [kibbutz members] are doing for the community, as are most of the nominees, he observes. For the most part this contest does seem to be between people who are not into self-promotion, but are into community building. Our state is represented outside Seat t le by Katie Edelstein, a t i reless Hadassah volunteer and Bellingham resident who donated a kidney to another Hadassah member a few years ago, someone she didnt prev iously know.

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Martin JaffeeJTNews Columnist It was a rocky beginning to 5770, all right, starting with the first night of Selichot. Finding myself at loose ends after Shabbos while awaiting the first penitential prayer service of the season, I dozed off in front of the TV and startled myself awake too late to waltz into shul with some lame, humiliating excuse. Instead, I begot myself to bed, bitterly wondering, in mixed metaphor: Just how many balls, Jaffee, do you expect to drop before youre drummed out of the Army of Hashem? Sunday morning, hav ing pushed myself out of bed before sunrise to expiate my lapse with extra-diligent study of Mishnah and Talmud, I walked out my front door to encounter... a swastika inscribed in red paint on my sidewalk! A fine how-do-you-do! Was this quick justice from heaven? Miss one Selichot service in 20 years and pay for it with a dose of sleazy anti-Semitism on an empty stomach? Only later, when I got to shul, did I learn that I was not the sole target of antiSemitic ire. As youve no doubt read, both Seward Park synagogues on South Morgan were liberally daubed with the red symbol of International Jew Hatred. If you read, in the Seattle Times, of one other private home so afflicted with this 20th-century plague sign, that would be the home of the Jaffees! In a way, I was relieved the painter, whoever he was, didnt have only my family in mind! The truth is, I kinda hoped as well that the inclusion of the shuls on the hit list meant the swastika on our sidewalk was not Gods delicate way of reminding me that He missed me at the first Selichot of the season! At first, I admit, I wasnt even sure that the scrawl on my walk was even a swastika. It was hastily and sloppily painted and, I thought, looked more like gang graffiti or the rune-like markings left by workers from the City of Seattle mapping out some future route for a sewage system. But, the second application of the symbol (which I noticed momentarily in my driveway) was more careful and precluded all doubts as to its meaning. Yet it raised other puzzles. My swastika, you see, was backward. The Nazi symbol has its crooked legs moving clockwise; mine, by contrast, was moving counter-clockwise! Technically, this new adornment to my home was really the pre-historic, universal symbol of eternity, found in such diverse settings as the cave walls of stone-age funeral cults, in the art of the ancient Aryan conquerors of the Indus Valley, on the tepees of the Plains Indians of North America, Roman-era pottery, and believe it or not on the mosaic floor of a Byzantine synagogue in the Galilee! No doubt (I comforted myself) my swastika was not of the Juden Raus variety; rather, it was the pagan version of shalom aleichem! Its inscriber was clearly wishing upon me and mine the blessings of sweet and healthy New Year! But the comfort of that interpretation didnt last long. Because then I discovered that the artist had scribbled next

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to one of his shul graffiti the phrase 4th Riech. Despite, as a neighbor pointed out, the misspelling of reich, this left no doubt that our artist fancied himself an enemy of the Jews. His intention, I finally intuited, was to intimidate Jews and dissuade them from just what exactly? Good question. I, personally, solemnly promise (bli neder!) that I will not soon again settle in to a movie on the Saturday night of Selichot! But somehow I doubt the designer of my personal swastika was intending to intimidate me or any other Jews into more diligent preparations for the Days of Awe. There is, however, some clue to the source of his rage. You see, our house sits high on a corner of the Seward Park neighborhood. From our patio, where we hang out virtually all day nearly every summertime Shabbos, we are nearly invisible from the street. Thus we overhear countless conversations as people pass by on their Shabbos walks to and from shul, back and forth from lunch to home, and in every other possible purpose. (And let me tell you from what we overhear, Selichot should be more crowded than it already is!) Well, on this very Shabbos afternoon around mincha time, my wife Charla was recumbent upon her favorite Davenport, reading on the patio. Suddenly she overheard a loud and provocative conversation. An irate young bicyclist, shirtless in the unseasonable heat of that September afternoon, was sputtering profanely into his cell phone about Jews who were impeding his bicycling presumably by walking in areas he had designated as his personal race track. Had Charla inadvertently overheard an anti-Semitic act in its earliest formulation? Had this callow youth, perhaps with a couple of likkered-up cronies, returned in the dark of night to wreak vengeance on the Jewish pedestrians that slowed his progress on one of his swings around the block? If so, how relieved we were to report to the three investigating police officers one African-American, one Hawaiian, and one Hispanic that our suspected perp was neither black (as was the case the two times weve been robbed) nor recognizably Muslim, but conventionally white! Happily, our suspected victimizer was the kind of anti-Semite whom we can despise with a totally clear conscience. How much easier to have contempt for the familiar Jew-hatred of illiterate rednecks than to endure the far more disturbing insults of the oppressed with whom we liberal Jews spend so much energy expressing solidarity and whose rejection of us and, particularly, of Israel, we constantly seek to minimize or explain away! So, Charlas description of the shirtless, white bicycle rider in his early 20s has entered the official incident report. So far, its led to no arrests. Well probably never know for sure if Mr. Trash Mouth did what we think he did. But, just in case it was him, I do plan to take out a swastika-insurance policy. For protective camouflage, Im putting a 72 Olds Cutlass up on blocks in my driveway! Martin S. Jaffee currently holds the Samuel & Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. His awardwinning columns for JTNews have recently been published in book form as The End of Jewish Radar: Snapshots of a Post-Ethnic American Judaism by iUniverse press.

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beautiful weddings, on the cheapTips for not topping out on the wedding price tagAnne Phyllis PinzowSpecial to JTNews Several years ago, a character on my favorite television show expounded on the cost of modern weddings, finishing up his tirade with, and next morning you wake up and realize that for the same price as the down payment on a house youre married to that. Unfortunately for many a wallet, the means people use to plan a wedding is generally the same they use in choosing a spouse. They want beauty and romance and a grand expression of their love or, in some cases, their purse. However, those brides and grooms who are more focused on the marriage than the wedding are seeking some costcutting ideas which will preserve the grand expression, while leaving enough aside for a nest egg for the future. Unless the guest list tops 300, dont hire a wedding planner. Their service wont save you any time or trouble, since they will constantly be calling you and meeting with you to get your decisions and offer you more choices in how to spend money. What they might save in prices with vendors will be spent in their fees. Aside from that, they are in the business of selling you services, so theyll push for more unnecessary extravagance. The first item on the list in planning a wedding is often where to hold the event; while people generally think that having a wedding at home is the least expensive, it can cost as much as a hall to rent the tables and chairs, hire a valet service to legally park the cars, and pay for the catering service to provide and serve the food. Having the wedding in a catering hall only gets expensive when all the extras are added in. Those extras that arent needed include: White glove service, hostesses finding seating cards, serving champagne to guests upon entering, handing out mints to guests before entering the sanctuary, and ushers escorting guests to their seats. Another place to cut is the food. At a recent wedding, guests were served apples and champagne before they could get their coats off, and then there were exotic hors doeuvres, tables filled with fruit, cheese, crudits and dip. Spoonfuls of mints were handed out as guests entered the sanctuary. Then, as they left the ceremony, they were offered goblets of a variety of soups. Entering the hall for cocktails they encountered deli, Japanese, Italian, French, Hispanic and Chinese buffet tables, as well as servers bringing everything from pigs in blankets to lamb chops and mashed potatoes around. By the time people were ushered into dinner, the three choices of entre were hardly as appetizing. The best place to cut here are the assorted buffet tables. Instead of stuffing the guests before the dinner, serve some platters of hors doeuvres and drinks and allow the guests to mingle without having to get in long lines. Aside from being appreciated, as many people are fitness conscious, a step up in entre will probably be much more welcome than all that food before the dinner. Alternatively, have a morning or early brunch wedding and forego elaborate dinners. Next comes invitations; these seem to get more elaborate each year. A recent one came in a box that lit from the inside when opened. Even the postage was exorbitant! Go for more imagination in the printing and the design than the size and grandeur of the presentation. Leave out response cards. Most people will call anyway and tell you whether theyre coming or not. Speaking of imagination, some couples who are handy with desktop publishing programs are designing and printing the invitations themselves. Everyone wants music at a wedding. Unfortunately, the music seems to get louder and louder and the entertainment more elaborate with streamers and horns and hats and even hula hoops being handed out just to keep everyone occupied and having a good time. Cutting out all the handouts can save a ton of money, perhaps enough to get a higher quality band that will play music that wont blast out the eardrums. All the chakahs tend to get thrown out rather quickly, and its literally money down the drain. Of course, every bride wants to look like a vision coming down the aisle and so much thought is given to the gown. Top-of-the-line, custom-made designer gowns can cost more than $6,000, and theyre only worn once. However, there are alternatives, such as off-the-rack gowns that can be purchased for as little as $500. Another practice which is becoming more popular, is to get a secondhand wedding gown at a thrift shop, a secondhand clothing store, or, for the more adventurous, by bidding for a gown on EBay. A recent search showed that the starting price for gowns started at anywhere from $1 all the way up to $2,000. Hiring a seamstress to alter the gown wont cost more than $100 or so. All in all, the best way to save money is to focus on quality, think seriously about what is important and the best reflection of the values of the soon-tobe-happy couple. Throwing out money keeping up with the Joneses is a poor start to any marriage.

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ALANA: ANTIqUE & ESTATE JEWELRyEverything in Alanas is a treasure something exquisitely beautiful that cant be found anywhere else. People come to Alanas to find something different, says owner Alana Fornoni. They dont want something someone picked out of a catalogue or something all their friends have. They also would like to know the story behind the piece. Alana is happy to share that story, if she knows it. But she has observed that most people inherit a piece of jewelry with no idea who owned it originally or what its worth. With her expert eye and years of experience, Alana recognizes quality when she sees it and can usually tell the owner when their jewelry was made and its market value. For more information about Alana: Antique & Estate Jewelry, visit www.alanajewelry.com. The Web site has extensive photographs of inventory and pricing.

CELEBRATIoNSCelebrations, under the ownership of Barbara Goldberg, has been in existence for 18 years, providing more than 450 customers with highquality custom invitations. Barbara has been active in her synagogue and the Jewish community for more than 30 years. She provides warm and friendly personal service and is well acquainted with Hebrew names and phrases for Bnai Mitzvah and wedding invitations. Celebrations offers a 20 percent discount on all of the popular invitation albums offered in stationary stores and on the Internet. Vendors include Checkerboard, Carlson Craft, Mazel Tov and Gene Bliley. Gift items are also available. Celebrations offers flexible scheduling with evening hours to coordinate with youth activities and work hours. Please feel free to contact Barbara Goldberg at 425-641-7106 or barbara0506@msn.com with any questions regarding invitations for your social event.

THE BELLEvUE CLUBThe Bellevue Club is a four-star, four-diamond internationally recognized boutique property that provides a private retreat in luxurious accommodations. Located in Bellevue, it is one of the Eastsides most sought-after locations to celebrate a special event. The Bellevue Clubs versatile and beautifully appointed Olympic Ballroom is the perfect setting for your wedding reception or any special occasion. With the glow of 12 hand-blown glass chandeliers, hand-painted ceiling murals and one-of-a kind works of art, your guests will find the intimate scale and elegant atmosphere to be truly exceptional. Whether you prefer a sit-down dinner, an elaborate buffet or an hors doeuvres reception, their culinary team will assist you in creating the perfect menu with classic elegance to suit your style. The Bellevue Club will help you to create a spectacular event with their attentive and professionally trained culinary and service staff. Private, professional and prestigious, they are the Eastsides only social address. Visit www.bellevueclub.com for more information.

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JEWBILEEThis aint your bubbes klezmer! This is Jewbilee and they play traditional Jewish music in a nontraditional way. They play it with a variety of world rhythms, including Caribbean and African rhythms. They play it as reggae, jazz, swing, rock, Jewgrass, and even as traditional Israeli/Jewish music. Led by cantorial soloist Shirel Smith, Jewbilee is made up of guitar, bass, keys, sax, mandolin, and hand drums/percussion. If you want some Jewish music as well as some classic rock, R&B or dance tunes, then Jewbilee is your band. Cantorial soloist services available as well and they can provide the sound system, too! So check them out at www.jewbilee.110mb.com or call 360-794-3815 for more info.

Owner Cherie Hershman is an active member of the local Jewish community. With more than 20 years experience, she opened Essence, a Chic Coiffure in 2007. Essence is a full-service salon offering haircuts, coloring, sugaring hair removal, permanent make-up, wig styling, face and body treatments and much more. Essence provides the ultimate service when it comes to brides, especially Jewish bridal parties. Stylists will help you look your best from your engagement to your wedding day. Essence staff can join the bride and groom in the yichud room for touch-ups and be on-site for bridal party hair and make-up. Check out their Web site www.essenceseattle.com for wedding examples or come in for a complimentary consultation. Conveniently located in Seattles Roosevelt/Maple Leaf neighborhood at 1415 NE 80th St., Seattle, 206-523-1187.

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