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Shalits trying to adjust to new normalMarcy Oster JTA World News Service

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A week after Gilad Shalit returned to Israel after being held in captivity for more than five years in Gaza, things were getting back to normal at the Shalit family home — sort of.

The Israel Police said they would remove a barrier placed in front of the family’s house in Mitzpe Hila. The flowers, placards and other paraphernalia that littered the streets of the northern Israeli town following the celebra-tion marking Shalit’s return have been cleaned up. Even the Shalit protest tent opposite the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem was taken down and carted away.

But with the 10-day moratorium on Israeli media intru-sion in the Shalits’ town set to expire, and with Israelis still eager for images of the newly released soldier, it’s unlikely that Gilad, 25, will be able to have a normal life anytime soon.

On Monday, Israeli President Shimon Peres paid a visit to the Shalit family home, the first visit by an Israeli official. Almost immediately, photos and video of Peres and Gilad Shalit sitting side by side on the family couch landed on Israeli news websites and TV programs.

“You have no idea how thrilled I am to meet you here in your home alive, healthy and whole,” Peres said. “I came to express to you how proud I am, and how proud the entire nation is, by your ability to withstand extremely difficult conditions in captivity.”

Shalit thanked the president.A day earlier, Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni,

head of the Kadima Party, slammed the prisoner swap that brought Shalit home Oct. 18 in exchange for the release of 1,027 Arab prisoners, saying it has weakened Israel and strengthened Hamas.

Her criticism during interviews with the Israeli daily Yediot Achronot and Reshet Bet Radio did not sit well with lawmakers in the coalition or the opposition. They swiftly assailed Livni for waiting until Shalit was freed to voice her opposition to the deal, saying it showed a lack of leadership. Livni reportedly did not go public earlier with her dissent at the request of Noam Shalit, the soldier’s father.

The Israeli Cabinet approved the deal by a 26-3 vote.In the few days since his release, Shalit has been cap-

tured by news photographers who have been lying in wait for his next move. He was pictured taking a short walk with his mother — and several security guards — on the first morning following his release and riding a bicycle near his home. He also has played ping-pong. On the Sim-chat Torah holiday, he met with old friends, his father told reporters.

The Shalits are starting to learn that they have to maneu-ver to avoid the paparazzi. On Saturday, Shalit and his

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The younger classes at Seattle Hebrew Academy follow along as Ben Gown, a member of the new children’s group The Sababas, sings to them during a concert at the school on Oct. 18. The duo of Gown and Josh Niehaus brought in a couple of friends — Arieh the lion and an orca with an Israeli accent — to sing along with the Jewish music and the occasional jam session that broke out to entertain and educate kids all over the Seattle area.

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We need to let the world know how we really feel about Israelrabbi yOhanna Kinberg Temple B’nai Torah

The other morning I checked in with my 60-some-thing-year-old mother. She seemed very tired.

“I was up all night,” she told me. “I did not sleep at all.”

When I asked her why, her response was simple: “I could not sleep until I knew he was safe. I could not sleep until he was home.”

My mother, it turns out, was up all night watching the news, waiting to see the feet of Gilad Shalit touch Israeli soil once again. She waited up for him and worried for him as though he was her own son. And this worry, this sense of connection she and so many other Jews around the world felt for this one young Israeli man, reminded me that the world, the non-Jewish world, understands so little about our people’s relationship to eretz Yisrael, the land of Israel, and am Yisrael, the people of Israel.

We do a disservice to ourselves and the future of the Jewish State when we neglect to speak of our cultural, artistic, agricul-tural, religious and spiritual connections to the land of Israel and our deep love for Israel. Too often when we defend the state of Israel, we speak in purely politi-cal terms. The world knows and accepts, for the most part, our modern history. They know about European anti-Semi-tism, the Holocaust, our refugee status and our immediate need for a safe homeland in the 1940s. They know about our con-tinued struggle for safety in Israel today. But do they know about our ancient spiritual connection to the land of Israel that has kept hope alive in our hearts, even during the darkest moments of our peo-ple’s history?

In my work combating the efforts of the boycott, divestment and sanctions move-ment in Olympia, I came to understand that many people who work toward the dismantling of the state of Israel have very little knowledge about our rich religious, cultural and spiritual connection. They think Zionism is merely a modern nation-alist movement. They have no idea that we pray for the peace of Israel daily in our tra-ditional liturgy and have done so for gen-erations. They have little idea that so many of our holidays are based on the agricul-tural cycle of the land of Israel.

We celebrate the new year of the trees, Tu B’Shevat, in February. Almond trees don’t bloom in Seattle in February, but they do in the land of Israel. We smell the etrog and wave the lulav during Sukkot in Seattle, but the smells and textures of these sacred plants are those of Israel.

Our symbols, like the pomegranate, the lion, and the olive tree are all connec-tions back to our ancient and sacred homeland. Israel might have become a modern state in 1948, but our connec-tion to the land and to each other goes beyond memory.

Zionism is a modern man-ifestation of a very old, very deep and very special con-

nection we have as a people to our home: eretz Yisrael. It is also the manifestation of a deep and special connection Jews throughout the world have to each other. When we chant our call-to-worship prayer, the Barchu, we all face east toward Jerusalem. I often imagine that in that moment, Jews all over the world are turn-ing toward each other, facing each other, and coming together in holy assembly to honor God. We did this before we even knew there was such a diverse and wide-spread global Jewish community.

We all prayed toward Jerusalem before Jews in Poland knew about Jews living in India or China or Morocco or Yemen. We faced each other, even when we could not imagine the face of our fellow Jew so far away, because we are family and our hearts are united through eretz Yisrael. We have faced each other, prayed for each other, and cared for each other across time and space for thousands of years. This is our spiritual legacy and it runs strong to this day.

It is this strong spiritual connection to the land and our people that has kept us alive. It kept us alive and together in the mellah, in the ghetto, in the concentration camp, in good times and in times of hor-rific tragedy. The hope and dream of living peacefully and securely in our home, our land, has been a bright light and source of beauty and joy and hope for thousands of years.

Israel Freelander writes that the love of eretz Yisrael:

Kept the torch that illuminated the thorny path of our people. It was the anchor that kept our ship from drifting out into the boundless ocean. And when the eternal wanderer seemed to sink under the burden of his suffering he looked up into the sky and saw the light that shone from Zion and with the renewed courage he continued his journey.

This is what the world needs to know: How we really feel about Israel. Yes, we are defensive, we are protective, we are scared, we are proud, and we are justified in our fight for self-determination and security.

father left home early and took a side road to evade photographers on their way to a beach outing reportedly at Gilad’s request. But a photographer from Ha’aretz was camping on the beach with his family and snapped a photo of the soldier swim-ming near the shore as his father watched over him.

“In the last few years I have taken many photographs of the Shalit family sur-rounded by countless cameras,” photogra-pher Yaron Kaminsky told his newspaper. “It was nice to just run into them like that, at the beach, during Gilad’s first Saturday since being freed from captivity.”

Kaminsky said he told Noam Shalit that he had taken the photo and received his tacit approval to publish it.

Meanwhile, supporters and curiosity seekers continue to flock to Mitzpe Hila for a glimpse of Gilad or simply to have

their photo taken in front of the Shalit family home. Many are leaving flowers, drawings and packages containing candy and other gifts for the family.

Noam has provided reporters with sev-eral updates since his son returned. On Oct. 20, he said he does not believe Hamas’ claims that Gilad was not tortured while in captivity.

“Gilad went through harsh things, at least in the first period. It is correct that after that, after that first period, the way he was treated improved,” the elder Shalit said.

During the same news conference in front of the family home, Noam Shalit also told reporters that Gilad had an appe-tite for food but that he was having trouble sleeping through the night. On the day of his release, Gilad appeared wan and pale.

Noam added that his son had few requests and that he was “going with the flow.”

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But most of all, we are in love. We love this land and the people Israel. We love the trees, the soil, the birds, the rains and the mountains. We love the babies, the elderly and the soldiers. We love Israel so much we are willing to give up parts of it so we can live in it peacefully. We love Israel so much we fight for it. We labor for it. We love Israel so much we support it no matter where on this planet we live.

Our love crosses time zones, our love breaks down boundaries, and our love keeps us up at night. Each citizen is like our own close family. And this is why my own mother, who has not lived in Israel

for over 40 years, was up all night. Her love kept her up. She could not rest until she knew this young man was home.

We must all work to support Israel in our own way. I am a fan of J Street. You might be a fan of AIPAC or some other political organization. I am a fan of Israeli food and film. You might love Israeli dance and poetry. Each of us must keep our connection strong and our love vis-ible for the entire world to see. And our love should keep us up at night because we should not rest until all Jews are living in security and peace.

THE HIgH cOsTsYour front page article by Uriel Heilman (“Shalit deal was best Israel was going to get,”

Oct. 14) was quite informative.The illegal kidnapping and hostage taking by Hamas terrorists of Shalit in a June 2006

raid along the Israel-Gaza border aroused enormous concern and support for his release around the world. Critics of the prisoner-exchange swaps warn that such a deal merely encourages Israel’s enemies to capture more Israelis. They consider this to be too steep a price to pay and a capitulation to terror.

Ehud Barak, Israel’s Defense Minister, rightly stated that the Shalit deal strengthened solidarity but warned that its approach to future kidnappings must change.

He also stated that a life-loving country cannot continue to release over 1,000 prisoners for a soldier. He considers that to be a slippery slope that has to stop.

It appears that Arabs will stop murdering Jews, Christians and their own brethren, only when an Arab mother will shed her first tear at her son’s “heroic” death.

Golda Meir said it well. Israel will have peace only when Arab mothers love their chil-dren more than they hate us.

Meanwhile, we are compelled to be our brothers’ keepers, all for one and one for all.Josh Basson

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For the children of Ghana, indignation, inspiration and perspiration are not enoughrabbi Will berKOvitz Special to JTNewsHope has feathers, that reason is a plank, that life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.

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Disclaimer: There is nothing altruistic in the following words.

My time in Ghana felt like the spiritual equivalent of losing a bar fight. It was an utterly disruptive experience with the psy-chic tables and chairs in my neatly ordered world trashed and me sitting in the road wondering what just happened and how to make it home.

I had gone to Ghana on an American Jewish World Service service-learning program with a diverse group of rabbis to a school called Challenging Heights in the coastal fishing village of Winneba. And it was against a backdrop of children play-ing in the dusty school grounds that we learned that many of these very children had been rescued from 17-hour days of forced labor. They had been rescued by James Kofi-Annan, an escaped child slave turned activist and savior to these chil-dren.

With false promises the children are purchased from struggling families in the village and transported far from their homes to endure ongoing physical and sexual assault. Any concept of childhood is utterly annihilated. Lashings replace allowances. Theirs is a world where a child is worth $40 and a fishing net $200; in the economy of slavery, it is cheaper to replace a drowned child than a snagged fishing net. The chasm that opened between the stories being told and the image of the chil-dren playing was staggering and unbridge-able.

And to put this children’s oasis — this sanctuary, which it truly is — in perspec-tive, imagine a couple hundred children roughly between 4 and 12 years old play-

ing more or less unsupervised in a big empty lot where rains have gouged deep undulating rivulets and fun includes the daily ritual of burning used toilet paper. Where the playground is an active con-struction site and rusted metal or a plastic bottle is a plaything. That is not to say there isn’t much joy and laughter. It is just that there is virtually no safety net. No safety.

At Challenging Heights, words like “childhood,” “innocence” and “safety” are built on the unreliable foundation of words like “rescue,” “survival” and “luck.” Without the luxury of infrastructure, chil-dren and adults alike improvise, inno-vate and pray. Water and power come and go, sewage flows or it doesn’t. Politicians

are corrupt or unre-liable. Parents might be forced to sell a child to feed another. Teachers teach com-plexity amid insta-bility.

It was against this backdrop we spent our days working, waiting and occa-sionally complaining — always reflecting on the concrete and theological mean-ing of privilege and poverty. I doubt the stones we moved, the cement we mixed, or the bricks we laid had much of an impact on

the community at Challenging Heights — we were there and we were gone, one more group of Westerners passing through. It is dubious at best.

While it is true we helped build a build-ing, the real structure that was created was far less tangible and far more nebulous — more of a scaffolding for our souls. A bridge not quite linking parallel universes.

Hearing the stories, briefly experienc-ing the rough exposure of poverty and the inescapable awareness that the diary of violence and this chronicle of scarcity is so pervasive in the world set up an inescap-able tension — and a challenge. The chal-lenge is to ensure that the agitation and disruption are not fleeting, and to bind them to our psychic and spiritual DNA. It must change how we make decisions, how we encounter the face of poverty, and what we do with the privilege that results from randomly being born in the West and not like the 1.4 billion people around the world who live on less than $1.25 a day.

It is not enough to be appalled by the fact that children are still sold into slavery. Nor is it enough to be inspired by the ded-ication of those who work to rescue and teach them. I’ve been wondering about the

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A child in the Challenging Heights school who was rescued from what would likely have been a life of slavery.

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Remember whenFrom the Jewish Transcript, October 28, 1971.A Soviet Jewry freedom bus took several Soviet Jews who had recently arrived at

Sea-Tac Airport and 13 local teens from Seattle to Portland to drum up awareness of the plight of Russia’s Jews. Moshe Ari, left, of the Jewish Community Center and Seymour Kaplan, right, director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Seattle chapter were joined by recent émigré Ilia Wolk, center.

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Shlof gikhen, me darf di pishns.Sleep faster, we need the pillows.

Safety in numbers 6Candidate for Shoreline City Council Position 6, Jesse Salomon, says if he wins the election (and even if he doesn’t) he’ll work for safer streets.

Middle East meets Pacific Northwest 7Former Knesset member and Shin Bet director Ami Ayalon has made his views well-known on the need for a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This week he came to Seattle to drive the point home.

The way to history is through the stomach 8The Washington State Jewish Historical Society gears up to launch its long-awaited cookbook, Yesterday’s Mavens, Today’s Foodies: Traditions in Northwest Jewish Kitchens.

Springtime in England 10Music of Remembrance premieres “What a Life!,” a World War II satiric, cabaret-style revue.

There’s a special place in Chelm 13The curtain rises on the Seattle Jewish Theater Company’s second season.

Five women to watch 14–18We’re proud to honor Audrey Rostov, Pamela Lavitt, Debi Perluss, Morgan Currier and Keren Brown.

Doing what she damn well pleases 19Joan Rivers comes to Tacoma – and the JTNews – to talk about it.

Web exclusive: Jews and the occupation OnlineMembers of the Jewish community joined the Occupy Seattle movement in Westlake Park for Sukkot.

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Jews on the ballot: Jesse Salomon wants safer roads for ShorelineJanis siegel JTNews correspondent

Win or lose, 35-year-old Shoreline res-ident Jesse Salomon will be back at his job working as a public defender in dispute resolution courts in the Seattle Municipal Court. But the self-described progressive Democrat is feeling pretty good about his bid for the Shoreline City Council, Posi-tion 6 seat as endorsements and cash con-tinue to flow his way.

Running against former Shoreline planning commissioner Robin McClel-land for the council seat being vacated by Terry Scott, his most recent endorse-ments include the Aerospace Machinists Local 751, the United Food and Commer-cial Workers Local 21, the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 32, the Carpenters Local-LADS 1144, and Scott himself.

Salomon sat down with JTNews to dis-cuss his campaign and the issues.

“I’m really optimistic,” Salomon said. “We’ve done a ton of doorbelling and have been able to cover every neighborhood. I’ve raised more money in this race than

any of the candidates, not counting my contribution, but I’m pretty much neck-and-neck with my opponent, in terms of private fundraising.”

According to the Public Disclosure Commission, as of Oct. 17, Salomon reported raising $32,671.70 through his website, loans, and individual contribu-tions, in addition to a personal campaign loan of $15,000. He’s spent $21,489.45 to date. During the same reporting cycle, McClellan reported a campaign total of $23,511.31 and spent $13,725.12.

“I will win by outworking, out fund-raising and by being a better candidate,” wrote Salomon in the 2011 King County Democrats general questionnaire.

He told JTNews that his skills as a fair but tough negotiator may be the most valuable asset he brings to the job.

In 2006, Salomon ran for state sena-tor against then-Sen. Dale Brandland, but Salomon lost that race.

“I was running in a Republican dis-trict against a former sheriff of 11 years,” recalled Salomon. “On election night, we

got 49 percent, but the vote total went the wrong way for me.”

Born and raised in Seattle, Salomon attended Seattle-area Jewish day schools, lived in India and Israel with his parents as a child, has visited Israel twice this year, and, these days, casually drops into Hillel at the University of Washington for com-munity services.

He attended Western Washington University and the University of Wash-ington for his undergraduate work, and earned his law degree at the UW.

He has advocated locally on behalf of homeless youth, supported anti-segrega-tion public school policy, and protected victims of domestic violence and abused children. Salomon was also a prosecutor for the Lummi Tribe in Whatcom County.

If he wins, Salomon will tackle several issues, including a contentious and grow-ing conflict between the City of Shoreline and developers over a 3,100-unit condo-minium project permitted on its border with Snohomish County, parks and open space, increased population density, fiscal responsibility, and mixed use and com-mercial zoning and its effects on small businesses.

But Salomon has a painful and per-sonal connection to an issue that is also on the candidate’s priority list.

In 2009, his mother, Carol Salomon, 60, a UW professor, researcher and expert in the Bengali language, was fatally struck by a vehicle while riding her bicycle in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle.

Today, Salomon doesn’t promote the coexistence of bikes and cars on city streets and said he would rather see local bike trails expanded and dedicated bike

corridors built. If elected, he would be a fierce proponent of traffic safety, safe side-walks, adequate street lighting, and pedes-trian safety.

“It’s not realistic to expect that there will never be danger with bicyclists along roads with cars,” he said. “There’s a strong need for more sidewalks and more street lighting. We need to focus on that as a pri-ority in the budget.”

He added that cracked sidewalks, and often no sidewalks can make getting around a dangerous proposition for some senior citizens and small children who may be just playing in their front yards.

“I’ve been hit by a car, and my girl-friend has had several near misses,” said Salomon. “It’s just not safe.”

Shoreline incorporates 14 neigh-borhoods, and several of them would be exposed to the dramatic effects of increased traffic congestion from the pro-posed 61-acre Point Wells condomin-ium development, say project opponents, including Salomon.

A poll conducted by the 32nd Dis-trict Democrats showed that over 95 per-cent of Shoreline residents oppose the size and scope of the proposed development, he said.

Point Wells is located in an unincorpo-rated portion of Snohomish County, how-ever its southern border is shared with the City of Shoreline.

Access to the development would run directly through the Shoreline border.

“There’s essentially one way in and the fear is that it’s going to be clogged with traffic,” said Salomon. “There’s also a lot of concern the pass-through side streets that are now peaceful and quiet can turn into de facto arterials. We need to stop that.”

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In the middle of the storm: Ami Ayalon, pragmatistJOel MagalnicK, editor, JTNewsAmi Ayalon, who in his 66 years has been an Israeli naval commander, head of the Shin Bet security services, and a Knesset member, joined with Palestinian professor Sari Nusseibeh eight years ago to promote a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Despite both sides’ moves in opposite directions in that time, Ayalon continues to promote his solution. He visited Seattle on Oct. 24 to speak at a fundraising event for J Street. He met with JTNews prior to his appearance.

JTNews: What makes you believe that two states is the only workable solution to this conflict?

Ami Ayalon: The whole idea of Israel is to see Israel as a Jewish democracy. We will not be able to accomplish it unless we create a reality of two states. Because oth-erwise, if we are not a majority in our state, we do not have the right to dictate the lan-guage, the culture, the stories that we tell our children in school.

I think that although it is very difficult and it didn’t work for the last 20 years, we don’t have the luxury to give up and to give up on hope. And I believe that by cre-ating this reality the immediate result will be the [reduction] of instability and vio-lence.

It’s a stormy area, but I think to

the people who live in the Middle East, probably even the United States, it is obvious that the m a i n s o u r c e o f immediate instabil-ity in the Arab street is the Israeli-Pales-tinian conflict. In a way, many groups are using it in order to create hatred. So I think that by doing it, we shall not only achieve our goal, which is to come closer to see Israel as a true democracy, but we shall create more stability, [and] we shall be able to create a more pragmatic atmosphere in which on a shared interest we will be able to bring together some players like Egypt, Turkey, and Jordan to face Iran, to face fundamen-talism, radicalism. This is the whole idea.

JT: What avenue must be taken for new peace or friendship to be reached?

AA: First of all, peace is a term that I am not sure we understand in the region. We speak of political agreements and reduc-ing violence, stability, whatever you call it. Peace is still far away. I believe that we Israelis — and in a way this is the center

of all of what I’m saying — even in the middle of a storm, we cannot stop the wind and we cannot control and stop the storm. But we can decide on the course of our ship.

The time for direct negotiations is over. The window of opportunity is closed. In a way, we were marching backward in the last two years.

I don’t think that Abu Mazen can give us what he could give us three years ago or two years ago. We lost the support of the pragmatic leadership: Egypt, [Ehud] Barak. On the other hand, I don’t think

that Bibi Netanyahu will offer what Ehud Olmert offered three years ago.

It is too important for us to wait. Since all of us know what will be the parameters of the negotiated agreement, even if it will take five or 10 years, it will be based on Clinton parameters, or Ayalon-Nusseibeh — it’s all the same.

We should head independently in this direction. For example, tomorrow we should pass a resolution to stop every con-struction of settlements on the eastern side of the fence, but we should go on build-ing in the major settlements on the west-ern side of the fence that will be even with the exchange of territory. We should stop building in the Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem, but we should go on building in the Jewish neighborhoods. We can and we should pass the law of bringing back the settlers who wish to return who are living on the east side of the fence. Accord-ing to our polls, 20,000 of them would do it tomorrow. They are looking for legitimacy and compensation.

Imagine for the first time since ’67, Palestinians and the international com-munity will see settlers coming back. So I believe it will create the missing part. It will create some confidence and trust.

JT: Bibi stood up in front of the UN and said “We’re ready, let’s start doing

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learning about our state’s Jewish history—through our stomachsOn November 6, the Washington State Jewish Historical Society will hold its annual gala with the launch party for its new cookbook, Yesterday’s Mavens, Today’s Foodies: Traditions in Northwest Jewish Kitchens. The event will include tastings of recipes included in the book as well as a performance by the Seattle Jewish Theater Company. Below are a few select recipes — and their accompanying stories — taken from among the more than 400 submitted.

Borekas de Aroz From Victoria Almeleh

“Because my mother went through the Depression years, she became a ‘recycler’ long before it was fashionable. As a result, she used the unprinted side of mail and cards and invitations to write her recipes on. I could determine the date she wrote down the recipes from the date of the event on the other side.”

— Lucille Almeleh Spring

Filling:4 cups water2 cups raw, short-grain ricePinch of salt8 extra-large eggs16 oz. Romano cheese, grated16 oz. cottage cheese

Dough:6-1/2 cups flourPinch of salt1-1/4 cups vegetable oil1 cup ice water

For brushing and sprinkling:1 egg, beaten1/2 cup each Romano and parmesan cheese, blended1. For the filling, bring the water to a boil.

Add the rice and salt. Cook accord-ing to the package directions. When done, transfer the rice to a large bowl and cool.

2. When completely cooled, add the eggs, one at a time, then both the Ro-mano and cottage cheeses, and mix well. Refrigerate.

3. For the dough, sift the flour into a large bowl. Whisk in the salt then stir in the oil and ice water. Mix the dough well and let sit for 1 hour.

4. Preheat the oven to 375º. Line a bak-ing sheet with parchment paper.

5. Gather and roll the dough into balls about the size of a walnut. Tempo-rarily place the balls in a well-oiled, shallow baking sheet with sides. Roll out one ball at a time into a circle ap-

proximately 3 inches in diameter. Place a scant tablespoon of the filling in the middle of the circle and fold in half. Either flute the edges, or with the tines of a fork press the edges together. Repeat the process until all the balls are rolled out and filled.

6. Place the borekas on the baking sheet. Brush with the egg, then sprin-kle with the cheeses.

7. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, 10 to 15 minutes on the bottom rack then 10 minutes or so on the top rack.

Malagasy Peppercorn Butter From Elise Topp

2 lbs. butter — 1 sweet (unsalted), 1 salted2 tsp. parsley1 tsp. tarragon1 tsp. Dijon mustard3 cloves garlic, chopped1 can (4 oz.) Madagascar green pepper Accent with dash of brandy, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice1. Mix all the ingredients until smooth and roll into a log. Slice thinly. Butter can be frozen.

Bagels From Jerry Cone

“Going to Brenner’s on Cherry Street for freshly baked bagels began for me when I was a kid and continued on into married life — until Brenner’s Bakery disappeared. That’s when I started to

create, boil and bake those little holes with dough around them. When my great-grandson Sam wanted his ‘great papa’ to let him help, I joyfully complied.”

— Jerry Cone

1 pkg. active dry yeast1-1/2 tsp. kosher salt

3 cups all-purpose unbleached flour2/3 cup lukewarm water2 Tbs. sugar3 Tbs. vegetable oil1 egg1. In an electric mixer, combine yeast

and salt with 1 cup of the flour. Stir in lukewarm water and sugar. Add oil and egg. Beat with an electric mixer until very smooth.

2. Add remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time, to make a soft dough. Remove dough to a lightly floured surface. Knead a minute or two until dough is smooth and elastic. Place the ball of dough into an oiled mixing bowl.

3.Cover dough with a dishtowel. Let rise at room temperature about 1 hour or more until it doubles in bulk. Punch down, move to a lightly floured surface, and knead briefly.

4. Divide into 12 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a log about 6 inches long and 3/4 inch thick. Pinch the ends together to make a round.

5. Place on a lightly floured board and cover with a towel. Let rise for about 45 minutes. Preheat oven to 375º. Bring 4 quarts of water to a gentle boil in a large pot. Slide each bagel into the water. After 30 seconds, flip them over and simmer for 3 minutes. Re-move from water with a large slotted spoon or spatula and drain on paper towels.

6. Place on a lightly oiled cookie sheet

(if desired, brush bagels with an egg white beaten with 1 Tbs. wa-ter. Sprinkle with poppy or sesame seeds). Bake for 10 minutes, then increase temperature to 400º. Bake for an additional 10-15 minutes until golden brown.

Yield: About 12 bagels.

Mildred Levin’s Brownies

“In 2003, when my husband and I left the East Coast and moved to Issaquah, we brought my stash of Jewish cookbooks. Included was a dog-eared and stained copy of Dining Out at Home, published in 1965 by the Passaic, N.J. section of the National Council of Jewish Women. My mother gifted me with this book when I was a newlywed. Almost half a century later my daughter Rachel Stoner and I still use it. Rachel’s 8-year-old daughter Jordan uses it, too. Not surprisingly, one of Jor-dan’s favorite recipes is brownies.

My mom sent me these brownies when I was in college and I sent them to Rachel when she went to college, and in 10 years, God willing, we’ll both send them to Jordan.”

— Jane Isenberg

4 oz. bitter chocolate1/2 lb. butter or margarine4 eggs2 cups sugar1 cup sifted flour1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)1 tsp. vanilla1. Preheat oven to 350º. Melt chocolate

and butter in a double boiler. Cool. Beat one egg well and add sugar gradually. Add balance of eggs, one at a time. Combine with chocolate mix-ture. Add the rest of the ingredients. Bake in an 8 inch x 11 inch greased and floured pan for 25–30 minutes. For moist brownies, place in refrigera-tor at once and chill for several hours. Cut into squares.

If you go:

“Taste and Treats of Food and Theater” will be held on sun., Nov. 6 from 2–4:30 p.m. at Herzl-Ner Tamid conservative congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. contact 206-774-2277 or assistant@wsjhs.org to register. Tickets cost $36. RsVP required.

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14th Season • Mina Miller, Artistic Director

Tickets: $36 • (206) 365-7770 • www.musicofremembrance.org

7:30 p.m.Monday, November 7, 2011

Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle

“an impressive record of performances with some of the region’s finest

musicians” –(Seattle Times)

A chamber music concert to mark the 73rd anniversary of Kristallnacht

one night onlyMusic behind barbed wireDiscover What a Life!—a satiric cabaret-like revue by the Vienna-born composer Hans Gál, with ironic numbers like “The Barbed Wire Song,” “The Ballad of the German Refugee,” and “The Song of the Double Bed.” Gál created the revue for the entertainment of his fellow prisoners in the English detention camp where wartime authorities interned “enemy aliens.” ACT Theatre’s Kurt Beattie will read from Gál’s journal of those dark days. Also: Gál’s Huyton Suite, Marcel Tyberg’s romantic piano trio, Vilem Tausky’s Coventry: A Meditation for String Quartet.

ACT’s Kurt Beattie Tenor Ross Hauck Baritone Erich Parce

What a Life!

What’s in an aptronym?Diana breMent JTNews columnist

1 It’s just happenstance, I promise, but readers will see that our featured

M.O.T.s have names that inad-vertently, but suitably, fit their occupations.

People sometimes assume Eric LeVine changed his name to match his work, but his great-grandfather changed it a long time ago.

Eric founded and operates the website Cellartracker.com, where wine enthusi-asts track their collections and post wine reviews.

It all started with a 1999 bike trip in Tuscany taken by Eric and his wife Suzi. They “fell in love with wine” and started collecting. The former Microsoft project manager, with a background in computer programming, says tracking that grow-ing collection on a spreadsheet “seemed

wrong,” considering his abil-ities. In 2003, he wrote a pro-gram and shared it with a few friends who immediately wanted to use it. Eventually it became his full-time job.

Originally intending only to create a community where “people could see what other people were drinking,” the site now has 1 million visi-tors every month with 170,000 registered users, and 90,000 more actively using the site

around the world. Cellartracker lists 1.2 million wines and users post “about 2,000 different wine reviews” every day, Eric says. The site is free, with subscription options that give users higher levels of service.

Eric arrived in the Seattle area in 1992 figuring, “I’d be here about three years.” But then he met Suzi at a Microsoft conference.

“The more we’ve lived here the more settled we’ve become,” says Eric. “When I go back to Boston [his hometown], I say, ‘why are you people so stressed?’”

A Jewish Family Service board member for eight years, he and Suzi have been involved with Hillel’s Grads Plus pro-gram (now known as Jconnect) and are founding members of the Kavana Cooperative.“Everybody knows Suzi,” says Eric, who prefers to volunteer “behind the scenes.”

Cellartracker keeps him busy almost constantly: “It’s the curse of the entrepre-neur,” says Eric, who earlier this year was named by Seattle magazine as one of Nine Nerds of Note. He unwinds by cooking for his family, including son Sidney, 9, and daughter Talia, 6. Wine, of course, remains an “active hobby” and “when the weather’s good” he likes to ride his mountain bike.

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Music of Remembrance’s busy seasongigi yellen-KOhn JTNews correspondent

Jewish and Nazi prisoners interned together behind the same barbed wire? Sometimes in the same bed? Both consid-ered “enemy aliens”? That actually hap-pened in the England of World War II. Those strange bedfellows were the first audiences for the satiric, cabaret-style revue “What a Life!” which receives its West Coast premiere Monday, November 7, at Benaroya Hall, at Music of Remem-brance’s fall concert.

Composer Hans Gál, who interned at such a camp on the Isle of Man, wrote this barbed songfest for his fellow prison-ers. In place of the show’s original lines of dialogue, now lost, MOR’s performance will feature ACT Theater’s artistic direc-tor Kurt Beattie as Gál, speaking words from journals the composer kept during his four-month internment.

“A very Kafka-like experience,” Beat-tie describes the work. “It’s a cri de coeur of sorts, with lines like, ‘In sober moments it’s clear to me that I am mad.’”

The Isle of Man internment camp was originally a resort, “originally bed and breakfasts,” as MOR artistic director Mina Miller describes it. The men (the British only interned the men) might find them-selves, as in the “Song of the Double Bed,” sharing intimate quarters with sworn ene-

mies. “The Barbed Wire Song,” songs of betrayal, absurdity, liberation — Miller, always sleuthing for new angles on musi-cal resistance to the Holocaust, found these treasures at the Austrian embassy in Washington, D.C.

She found an extra irony in the show’s production history. Gál had been begging for a release on medical grounds, but when it came, he asked to remain an “enemy alien” for one more day so he could see his much-revised show through its second performance. Miller obtained the score and the diary excerpts from the Gál family.

“This show is a window on a little-known injustice,” says Miller. “What it reminds us of is that even decent societies are capable of mistreating people.” Indeed.

Gál escaped from Austria to England, arriving in 1938, and established impor-tant musical connections in Edinburgh. In 1940 he was arrested and interned, says Miller, “without any evidence of his com-mitting any crime.” Like the Roosevelt administration’s roundup of Japanese-Americans, Churchill’s England launched its own version of preventive detention of suspected “enemy aliens.”

Gál was first sent to Huyton, a camp near Liverpool, where he wrote a suite for the only musical instruments he had to

work with, a flute and two violins. That “Huyton Suite” is also on MOR’s Nov. 7 program.

“Ballad of the German Refugee” includes lyrics by fellow prisoner Otto Erich Deutsch, the celebrated music histo-rian whose “Deutsch listings” catalogue the works of Franz Schubert. The usual array of MOR’s renowned musicians — Seattle Symphony players Laura de Luca (clari-net), Zart Dombourian-Eby (flute), Mikhail Shmidt and Leonid Keylin (violins), Susan Gulkis Assadi (viola), and Mara Finkelstein (cello), plus Miller at the piano — will join tenor Ross Hauck and baritone Eric Parce, who also directs the show.

If you go:

On sun., Oct. 30 The Boys of Terezìn’s world premiere screening will take place at seattle Art Muse-um’s Plestcheeff Auditorium, 1300 1st Ave., seattle. Tickets cost $18 advance, $25 at the door.

Music of Remembrance’s caba-ret-style satire “What a Life!” make its West coast premiere Mon., Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Benaroya Hall, 200 University st., seattle. Tickets cost $36. Tickets for both events may be purchased at www.musico-fremembrance.org.

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This Week’s Wisdom

Protest Injusticeby Mike Selinker

© 2011 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cafe, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle. All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb.

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ACROSS1 Country where election protestor Neda Agha-Soltan was killed on

June 20, 20095 Very dry, as Champagne9 Works on a Project Runway project13 “My bad!”14 Mozart’s ___ kleine Nachtmusik15 Country where Mahatma Gandhi led a 23-day march to protest the

British salt tax starting on March 12, 193016 State where protests began on February 14, 2011, eventually leading

to an occupation of the capital building18 Posts19 Redhook ___ Brewery20 Result of a bases-loaded walk, for short21 City where protests delayed the World Trade Organization meetings

on November 30, 199923 Motown singer ___ Marie25 Brief name for the home of the financial district that protestors

occupied starting September 17, 201126 City where the Rabbis’ March on October 6, 1943, protested inaction

against the Holocaust30 Some PCs33 Ticked off34 ___ polloi35 Fleur-de-___37 Site where one man stood against a column of tanks on June 5, 1989,

a day after a massive protest was forcibly dispersed42 Actor’s workplace43 “...boy ___ girl?”44 Glee character played by Kevin McHale45 Not quite as dry as 5-Across47 City where the Children’s Crusade began on May 2, 1963, to protest

Jim Crow laws50 Partook52 Sample53 City where a bloody crackdown temporarily quelled protests on

February 25, 2011, eventually leading to the violent overthrow of the Gaddafi government

57 Vardalos of My Big Fat Greek Wedding58 Annual local game convention that draws over 60,000 attendees61 Instant Messenger user62 School where Vietnam War protesters were gunned down by Ohio

National Guardsmen on May 4, 197065 City where tens of thousands of protestors gathered on January

25, 2011, in an effort that would ultimately topple the Mubarak government

66 Abbr. in many school names67 Second word of many fairy tales68 Laudatory poems69 Helper70 Region where protester Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israel Defense

Forces bulldozer on March 16, 2003

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice,” Elie Wiesel said, “but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” Here are some places where people didn’t fail to protest, often with serious consequences for themselves.

DOWN1 Early caucus state2 Stir up3 Church recess4 Obama’s foreign policy grp.5 Actor Brian of Private Practice6 On the ascent7 Seahawk’s garb, informally8 Change for a fifty9 Brad Pitt film directed by Guy

Ritchie10 Make text better11 Shortz of crosswords12 Wedding invitation encl.15 “Wherever ___ Roam”

(Metallica song)17 Tater Tots brand22 Heath’s Brokeback Mountain

role23 Not now?24 Essentially26 Cleverness27 Anyone born on April Fool’s

Day28 Emulate the Rat City Rollergirls29 Suffix with ball or bass31 Poet Sylvia32 Country where protests against

Bashar al-Assad’s regime began on January 26, 2011

36 Appear38 Dynamite inventor39 X-ray alternative40 Airline with a kangaroo logo41 Craving46 Diamond heists, perhaps48 Like certain space probes49 Dumpee’s query51 Benicio del ___ (9-Down star)53 Food in a shell54 Wall Street, for example55 “Would ___ to you?”56 Where to buy an Ektorp sofa58 Dad59 Including everything60 Gabrielle’s fighting partner63 Priest who taught Samuel64 Yank

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rivy POuPKO KleteniK JTNews columnist

Dear Rivy,There has been quite a

bit of public conversation about the troubling issue of bullying. I watched CNN’s Anderson Cooper’s week-long Town Hall meetings on the issue and the new study results. I was alternately moved and upset, and I’m now deeply concerned. It seems like we need to have ongoing and consistent vigilance by all of us to prevent bullying. As a parent, I am concerned of course that our chil-dren never be bullied but I am also con-cerned as well that my child never be a bully. Our children’s school has a bully-ing policy and even a good curriculum, but I am curious about a Jewish frame for this conversation. What are some Jewish sources and even practices that we can draw on to help children become sensitive and caring people? I would like to begin introducing some real tangible actions in addition to conversations with our children and family.

First, for those who may have missed it, this was the CNN headline: “Schoolyard bullying not just preying on the weak.” A new study commissioned by “Anderson Cooper 360°” found that the stereotype of the bully picking on the weak doesn’t tell the whole tale. The fresh research shows that quite a number of students are part of “social combat” — a constant verbal and physical contest to control the highest of the social hierarchy.

“Kids are caught up in patterns of cru-elty and aggression that have to do with jockeying for status,” says Robert Faris, a sociologist who worked with “Anderson Cooper 360°” on the pilot study.

“It’s really not the kids that are psycho-logically troubled who are on the margins or the fringes of the school’s social life. It’s the kids right in the middle, at the heart of things, often typically highly, well-liked, popular kids who are engaging in these behaviors,” Faris said. “When kids increase in their status, on average they tend to have a higher risk of victimization as well as a higher risk of becoming aggressive.”

The Jewish angle on this is huge. This new approach seems to indicate that bully-ing is less about one stand-out cruel person and more about a larger social dynamic. We are all part of a sensitive social structure, meaning each of us is responsible for what transpires within it. Bullying is not merely about the individual bully’s inability to cease and desist from mistreating others. Rather, it is about the role we all play in contributing to our collective, social community.

Jewish tradition is full of teachings that get to the heart of these issues, from the classic “do not stand idly by your broth-er’s blood” found in the Book of Leviti-cus to the standard “let the honor of your friend be as dear to you as your own”

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Our bullies, our selvesof Pirke Avot. Our ethical Mussar tradition also speaks to the issues of the inner work needed to become the best possible person. Adopt-ing a Mussar practice would go a long way toward build-ing an awareness of how we treat “the other.”

However, I would like to take another approach: The path of prayer. If it’s important it has a prayer and, believe it or not, we

have anti-bullying prayers aplenty in our tradition. As you consider these four prayers, keep in mind that the Hebrew word for prayer, l’hitpallel, is reflexive, indicating these are prayers of introspec-tion. These short affirmations can go far in helping individuals develop a stance through the day. These active daily pro-nouncements can prepare us for the intri-cate interactions that fill our days.

The Arizal, the holy rabbi and mystic Rabbi Isaac Luria of 16th-century Safed, would include this prayer before the morning services. He urged his disciples to ritually accept upon themselves the mitz-vah of loving their fellow each and every day by declaring it aloud. That to me says: Wow. We are all aware of the Golden Rule, but what does it mean to consciously set out to fulfill it before having the audac-ity to turn to God with our own requests? Here is the short declaration: “I hereby take upon myself the positive command-ment of, ‘And you should love your friend as yourself.’” What a huge daily affirma-tion — it cannot help but set us up for a day of peace and good intentions.

Rabbi El imelech Weisblum of Lizhensk, 18th-century rabbi and one of the great founding rebbes of the Chassidic movement, created an even longer prayer to follow morning services. Here is a para-phrase and loose translation: “Put into our

hearts the ability for each of us to see the strengths and not the flaws of our friends’ characters, and help us to speak with each and every one of our friends with honesty and pleasantness and let not any hatred enter into any of us for any of our friends. Strengthen our connections with love and with composure.”

The nuances of this prayer are quite interesting and an honest estimation of the struggles each of us has. This remark-able meditation for the start of the day cannot help but marshal the power of an entire community that would commit itself to its recitation.

Though it is a more well-known prayer from our three-times a-day Amidah, it never ceases to surprise me. It closes the greatest articulation of our people’s col-lective hopes, dreams and aspirations, spanning from redemption to resurrec-tion, by pulling it all together and asking the Almighty to simply help us guard our lips and give us strength to handle those

who might mistreat us. “My God, keep my tongue from evil and my lips from speak-ing deceitfully. May my soul be silent to them that curse me and may my soul be still like the dust.” If only we could have that prayer realized!

Last in the supplication category: The prayer traditionally recited before the bed-time shema. Talk about trying to get a good night’s sleep — try this one before drifting off: “Master of the Universe, I hereby for-give anyone who angered or antagonized me or who sinned against me — whether against my body, my honor or against any-thing of mine, whether it was done acci-dentally, willfully, carelessly, or purposely — I forgive all. May no person be punished because of me.” Letting go of it all is a pow-erful exercise never to be underrated.

Taken together, these prayers and affir-mations speak to the clearly identified issues at hand — that life with people is a complicated endeavor, rife with complex-ity. A short prayer can go a long way.

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The Va’ad HaRabbanim of Greater Seattle held its third annual Beit HaShoeva, a Sukkot celebration that symbolizes the drawing of water from the well to pour on the altar of the holy Temple, on Mon., Oct. 17. More than 200 people attended the event, which included a ceremony honoring John Gillespie, the former manager of the Mercer Island Albertsons store, for his work to build and maintain the extensive kosher selection throughout the supermarket. Presenting Gillespie, center, with a certificate were, from left to right, Rabbi Ron-Ami Meyers of Congregation ezra Bessaroth, Rabbi Simon Benzaquen of Sephardic Bikur Holim, Rabbi Moshe Kletenik of Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath, and Rabbi Yechezkel Kornfeld of Congregation Shevet Achim.

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SUPER SUNDAY PHONE-A-THON SJCC, MERCER ISLAND Register at www.JewishInSeattle.org/SuperSunday

JANUARY 29 (SAVE THE DATE!)

2012 CONNECTIONS BRUNCH HYATT REGENCY BELLEVUE

We need you! It’s “Super Sunday” November 13 at the Stroum JCC on Mercer Island.

Join with hundreds of other members of our Jewish community for the Federation’s annual community-wide Phone-a-thon.

You bring your cell phone…we’ll bring the food, fun, prizes and community. Help us reach out to the Jewish community to support the organizations and programs that

truly make Seattle a great place to be Jewish. We’ll provide you with everything you need to share your enthusiasm for our Jewish community and the Jewish Federation.

Sign up for your choice of calling shifts: 9:30am-noon; 11:30am-2pm; 1:30-4pm. Pick your time by calling 206-443-5400 or online at www.JewishInSeattle.org/ SuperSunday.

Plan now to be where the action is on November 13.

MAKE A CALL... MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Help Support Your Jewish Community at Super Sunday (Sun., Nov. 13)

Women....Save the date for a very special “Connections” brunch! This year, you will be treated to a lively presentation by bestselling author Iris Krasnow. Iris’s new book, “The Secret Lives of Wives” is one of O Magazine’s “Ten Titles To Pick Up Now.” She has been featured on the “Today” show, “CBS Morning Show” and “Oprah.”

Mark your calendars now for the largest gathering of Jewish women in our region, and watch your mail for your invitation.

We hope to see you there!

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Register today as a Table Captain for Connections. You’ll have priority table assignment and get to sit with your friends.

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Send Your Good Wishes to Gilad Shalit

The Power of Passion: CONNECTIONS 2012

Our powerful and accomplished women in the Jewish community truly help lead us to great heights.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle is proud to recognize the achievements and leadership of the “Women to Watch”: Keren Brown, Morgan Currier, Pamela Lavitt, Debi Perluss, and Audrey Talley Rostov.

Your passion for our Jewish community is an inspiration to all.

Mazel Tov.

Last week, after spending more than five years in captivity by Hamas, Sgt. First Class Gilad Shalit was released as part of a prisoner exchange with the Palestin-ians. Shalit was abducted by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid in 2006.

Shalit’s release ends a long and pain-ful episode for Shalit’s family and for Israel. The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle wishes Shalit, his family, and all Israelis peace and we pray that this will be an opportunity for new beginnings.

As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remarked, “And today, now Gilad has returned home, to his family, his people and his country. This is a very moving

moment…Today, I can say, on behalf of all Israelis, in the spirit of the eternal values of the Jewish people: ‘Your chil-dren shall return to their own border’ Am Yisrael Chai! — the people of Israel live!”

Seattle may be thousands of miles away from Israel, but we still can welcome Gilad Shalit home.

Please take a few minutes to send a personal message to Gilad and his family. For the next week, we will be collecting your messages, which will be bound and delivered to Gilad.

Send your message to: Letters@JewishInSeattle.org

The PJ Library® Seattle Leads the Way

Jewish Federation Congratulates the Five Women to Watch

Over 200 people joined together for a special Yom Kippur PJ Library Story-time at the Stroum Jewish Community Center. In conjunction with Herzl-Ner Tamid, parents and children together experienced a unique story walk and activities, led by PJ Library manager

Amy Hilzman-Paquette and Leslie Reibman. “It was truly an amazing day,” said Hilzman-Paquette. “To share sto-ries of our heritage on the holiest day of the year and bringing together multiple generations is the mission of the PJ

Library program.”

To register your young child for the PJ Library program, visit www.JewishInSeattle.org/PJLibrary

The sophomore seasonJOel MagalnicK editor, JTNews

When the Seattle Jewish Theater Com-pany did its first of four performances of What the Chelm? a month ago, it marked the official answer to a question Art Fein-glass asked when he first arrived in town a little over a year ago: “Would [there] be enough interest to make the company worth trying?”

With one spring production under its belt, another spring production, the Tony-winning Last Night in Ballyhoo in the wings, and What the Chelm?, stories based on The World of Sholem Aleichem, slated next for the launch of the Washing-ton State Jewish Historical Society’s gala on Nov. 6, Feinglass is busy. And that’s not to mention the New York-based murder mystery and corporate training businesses he owns and runs from Seattle.

It is those two businesses that Feinglass has run over the past 20 years that gives him the eye for talent and how that talent should be utilized.

“I’m finding the actors very good. I’ve got a combination of professional actors — you can see the expertise — and ama-teur actors, community theater actors,” he says. “One woman in my company has 40 shows to her credit, one guy has 70.”

For the time being, the money problems that have long beset Seattle’s theater community — and resulted in the

shuttering of the Intiman Theatre ear-lier this year — are not on this company’s radar screen. The budget is very small — most of it comes out of Feinglass’s pocket: “We’re talking hundreds of dollars,” he says. “Everybody’s working for nothing.”

He said, however, that he does try to pay the musicians. The troupe uses exist-

ing spaces at places like the auditorium at the University Prep high school next to Temple Beth Am or, next month, Temple B’nai Torah. Partnerships like these also help to bring in new audiences, whether they’re Jewish or not.

“We’re on the same side here,” Fein-glass says. “I think that partnering works

well, it’s also a good way to get the differ-ent components of the community work-ing together.”

He has found one surprise with the creation of the company: “How receptive and welcoming audiences have been,” he said. “People are really ready for a Seat-tle Jewish theater company. I was hoping they would be.”

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Diana breMent JTNews columnistCity: SeattleAge: 49Occupation: Eye surgeonWhat’s on her mind these days:

“Curing corneal blindness and where my next cycling trip will take me.”

When eye surgeon Dr. Audrey Rostov became aware of SightLife 15 years ago, “it was just our local eye bank,” she says. Since then it has grown into an interna-tional organization with a “global ini-tiative project to eliminate worldwide corneal blindness.”

Audrey, a partner-owner at North-west Eye Surgeons in Seattle, is a member of SightLife’s medical advisory board and recently returned from a trip to India, the latest of three overseas training trips she has taken on behalf of the organization.

“Most of the corneal blind live in developing countries,” she explains, with disease mainly caused by fungal and bac-terial infections of the eye due to unsani-tary conditions and lack of access to clean water and health care.

India has a particularly high rate of corneal blindness, “so SightLife has taken on the project to establish eye banks in India,” Audrey says. The organization provides some seed money and surgeon and technician training. “The goal is for these individual eye banks to become self sustaining in five years.”

The program is “not like …[medical] mission trips,” which provide temporary medical services, she says. “It’s more like

the ‘teaching someone to fish’ philosophy.”In order to eliminate corneal blindness,

you not only need surgeons and surgi-cal skills, but you also need corneal tissue, so another important aspect of SightLife’s

work is standardizing the processes and protocols for evaluating tissue for trans-plantation.

Indian eye banks also work hard to overcome “cultural resistance to organ donation” among Hindus and Muslims — the country’s predominant religious groups. Their message for prospective donors and their families is that “you won’t need your corneas after you die; in your next life you’ll still be able to see without the corneal tissue.”

This was Audrey’s second trip to India. Her first was two-and-a-half years ago, when SightLife had only two banks.

“Now we have eight,” she says. She notes that on this trip “I did the

first all-laser corneal transplant in Delhi.”The trip took Audrey to India during

Rosh Hashanah and she tried to find a service to attend in Jaipur. She was told there would be “something Jewish” at a multi-denominational building called the Lotus Temple, but, she lamented, “my stars did not align.” The building was not open during the posted time (common in India) and proved to be over an hour from where she was staying. On her prior trip, however, she and her husband David vis-ited the ancient synagogue in Cochin and met with one of the few surviving — and elderly — members of that residual Jewish community.

Around this time last year, Rostov trav-eled to China to help establish clinical cat-aract teaching centers in rural areas. That trip overlapped with Yom Kippur, but she managed to ferret out “the only Reform services in Beijing.” The worshippers were

mostly expatriates, many from Boston.“It was really lovely,” she says.China, notes Rostov, presents a very

different disease and treatment profile than India. China lacks infrastructure for treatment, especially in rural areas. Only about half of ophthalmologists do surgery for the predominant problem of cataracts, “and they don’t have a culture of teaching each other,” she says.

The medical system there also lacks the care and follow-up systems that are so common in the U.S.

“I’ve always had an interest in public health and international world health,” says the Harvard alumna and Washington University School of Medicine graduate.

While she jokes that her work with SightLife is a “second job,” Rostov is also an avid triathlete who swims and bikes regularly. The family, with their three teenagers, belong to Temple Beth Am in Seattle.

With her expertise in cornea, exter-nal disease and anterior segment surgery, Audrey is in frequent demand to teach and present at conferences around the world. She is also a laser surgery expert with extensive training and experience in refractive procedures including LASIK and PRK. Read her full profile at www.nweyes.com/audrey-talley-rostov.html, and a description of one of her Indian surgeries at SightLife’s “Surgical Partners” page at www.sightlife.org/about/partners/rostov.php.

Audrey Rostovworking to end corneal blindness

women to watchFor our fall profile of women in our community doing great things, we found a diverse selection of women who love food, film, fixing others, and, in a couple of cases, a good fight. JTNews is always on the lookout for these doers in our community, so if you know someone making a difference, please let us know! We’ve also got a bonus woman to watch, but in the more literal sense — you’ll have to buy tickets to go see her.

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Pamela Lavitt an historian of theater moves the jewish film festival forward

JOel MagalnicK editor, JTNewsCity: SeattleAge: 45Occupation: Director, the AJC

Seattle Jewish Film FestivalWhat’s on her mind these days:

“Where the Arab spring may be...turning into an Arab fall. Jewish film festivals more and more are receiving subject matter that addresses those relationships and how you represent it in a real changing moment.”

Lucky for Seattle filmgoers, Pamela Lavitt caught the theater bug in college.

“I was a science kid, studying zoology and pre-med track. That was really my focus for most of my life,” says the director of the American Jewish Committee’s Seat-tle Jewish Film Festival. “I decided, when I graduated from college, to pursue the arts initially before I went to medical school.”

Pamela left her parents’ home in West-chester County, N.Y. for San Francisco and began acting semi-professionally with several theater troupes there. But she grew restless.

“I didn’t want to be in the theater any-more, I wanted to study it from an aca-

demic perspective,” she says.Pamela never made it to med school,

but she did enter a doctoral program at New York University. She has yet to finish her dissertation, but she hopes to once her twin daughters finish elementary school.

She had originally intended to study the connection between science and art, inter-weaving women’s experiences throughout. The science fell out of the equation and Pamela shifted toward Jewish folklore and Jewish women in vaudeville.

To this day, Pamela is seen as the expert on women in vaudeville. But as the saying goes, that and $4 will get you a cup of coffee. Her graduate program and a fellowship that took her to Chassidic communities in upstate New York to study Jewish folklore gave her a new-found love of work on public projects. Aca-demia, she realized, was not the right fit.

“I decided I really liked the contact with people,” she says.

In the meantime, Pamela got married, and a dozen years ago she and her husband Rob came to Seattle. It was a hard move — she had to give up singing with several klezmer groups and her all-Yiddish coffee klatches — but she landed then where she is now: As a curator at SJFF. Given her field

of study, “it was sort of easy to parlay the-ater into film,” she says. “The connection between the folklore, even the science of film and the theater — it was all very connected.”

Then one of Pamela’s mentors in New York got her the position of oral historian for Seattle’s contribution to the Jewish Women’s Archives’ three-city “Weav-ing Women’s Words” project. The project profiled 30 women who had been instru-mental in building not just the area’s Jewish community, but its greater com-munity as well.

“When I was doing this, I was very much in the archives by myself each day, but I quickly understood who the play-ers were,” she says. “Not only did I get 15 bubbes or abuelas in my life…they became my role models.”

Pamela returned to the film festival in 2005 and became its director a couple years later. But her immersion into the culture of Judaism, as well as the desire to allow her own children to make informed choices about their religious beliefs, has her cur-rently training to become a Bat Mitzvah in a group ceremony this coming summer.

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City: SeattleAge: 20Occupation: StudentWhat’s on her mind these days:

“From Agriprocessors to Gov. Scott Walker’s attack on workers in Wis-consin to the continuous labor vio-lations taking place in factories around the world, in recent years the power of corporate greed and its consequences on workers has only intensified. Because of this, I am cur-rently very focused on the immedi-ate need to build sustainable power for working people everywhere.”

It’s rare to go to college knowing what to major in. It’s more rare to go to col-lege having already investigated national human rights abuses.

Morgan Currier is a student at the Uni-versity of Washington majoring in law, society and justice, and minoring in music. She is an organizer for United Students

Against Sweatshops and she runs cam-paigns for the Workers’ Rights Consortium, an independent labor-rights–monitoring organization, on the UW campus. She’s also involved in Hillel, and in addition to sit-ting on the board she spent last year as the Repair the World fellow. It’s a wonder she has time to play her saxophone and flute, let alone get her homework done.

Growing up in Los Angeles, Morgan campaigned for fairly made apparel in her B’nai Brith Youth Organization chapter, of which she was president. With the encour-agement of good mentors, she met with the Progressive Jewish Alliance and traveled with a team to Postville, Iowa to visit the infamous Agriprocessors plant, post-bust.

“The raid destroyed the community,” Morgan says. She met with Central Ameri-can workers, newly unemployed and unem-ployable, heading for jail or deportation. They had been underpaid, overworked and sometimes abused, and unable to under-stand their rights. They waited for their court dates with tracking bracelets that pro-hibited them from working or leaving.

The experience ra i sed quest ions for this high school senior and Conserva-tive Jew. For instance, she mused, “Is the kosher meat that’s coming from there actually kosher if it’s coming from there?”

To get the word out without lecturing her peers, Morgan created a short docu-mentary and posted it around the web. The message: Don’t stand for this in our country. Even though we’re young, we can make change.

Morgan took that energy to college, where she has been active in the Kick Out Sodexo campaign. Sodexo, the company that provides food to campuses, has been faulted for poor labor practices. Kick Out Sodexo calls for termination of the univer-sity’s contract.

When the administration failed to respond sufficiently, “we had to take a bigger stand,” Morgan says, “so we took over their offices.”

Last spring, Morgan and her fellow protesters staged three “occupations” of the president’s office, the director of ath-letics’ office, and the office of admissions.

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Diana breMent JTNews columnistCity: SeattleAge: 58Occupation: AttorneyWhat’s on her mind these days:

“The future of our country and the lack of empathy or political will to ensure that the country lives up to its ideals as a just soci-ety for all without regard to race, sex, national origin, age, religion, but especially without regard to wealth.”

The current economic downturn has created a huge demand for legal aid and other public benefits, “because unemploy-ment is so great,” says Deborah Perluss, director of advocacy and general counsel to the Northwest Justice Project.

Perluss has worked at NJP since 1996, representing the level of her commitment to providing civil legal assistance to low-income citizens of our state.

“People living in poverty in Wash-ington are lucky to have Debi champi-oning their cause,” wrote Andrea Axel, grants manager at the Legal Foundation of Washington and a legal aid colleague, in an email.

“Debi’s powerful intellect unwinds the thorniest legal problems. She is fierce when overcoming obstacles and passionate about ensuring justice for vulnerable people. She is nothing short of a marvel,” she added.

Among other things, NJP helps cli-ents obtain disability and Medicaid bene-fits and represents those facing eviction or

foreclosure, which prevents homelessness. NJP serves about 20,000 individuals a year at 17 offices funded primarily with federal and state dollars.

“And [we handle] a lot of domestic vio-lence,” Perluss says. “Our family law cases are the worst of the worst.”

Disadvantaged criminal defendants are entitled to free legal defense, as any student of television courtroom drama knows. Those with pressing civil matters, such as consumer fraud, are not entitled to free legal help.

“You have to be very low income to qualify for our services,” Perluss says of the program that began as part of the 1960s’ War on Poverty.

Perluss began to think about a career in advocacy as a high school student in that era. “From the time that I was young I wanted to do something…socially rele-vant, that would impact people in a bene-ficial way,” she says.

She admits to some youthful idealism, but early in her college career, “I decided to go to law school [as] a way to have the greatest influence.”

It was “a changing world” when she entered the University of California in San Diego in 1971 and UC Hastings College of Law in San Francisco in 1975. Hastings pro-vided “a lot of public interest law opportuni-ties,” she says, and a place where “the gender barrier…had [already] been broken.”

With prior experience at California’s Employment Law Center and Rural Legal Assistance, “my very first job out of law school was with Spokane Legal Services,”

bringing her to Washington. “I never practiced in California,

although I’m a member of that bar,” she notes.

She returned to school in 1982 to get an LLM (masters) at the London School of Economics in international law and human rights. She hasn’t worked directly in that field, but “it certainly informs my approach.”

Other countries, particularly in Europe, do provide a right to civil counsel. In this country, she says, “there’s a right to coun-sel…in the criminal context, but you don’t have a right [to counsel] if you’re going to become homeless…or if you’re a kid and going to be kicked out of school…or if you’re disabled,” she says.

Growing up in Southern California, Perluss’s family belonged to a Reform syn-agogue and she and her husband and son are now members of Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue.

“The Jewish tradition,” she notes, “helped form and inspired some of my desire to work in…social justice.”

She found high school alienating, she says, and “when I was in 10th grade I decided that when I graduated I was going to be on a kibbutz.”

She completed high school early with community college classes and “the day after I earned enough credits…I was on a plane to Israel,” she says.

After a three-month intensive Hebrew language course on Kibbutz Ramat Yoch-anon outside Haifa, she left to travel through Europe, returning home shortly

after her 18th birthday to start college. Perluss’s day-to-day job functions

include working with all the lawyers in the field, ensuring “the accountability and integrity of the program,” and functioning as an “ethics guru,” she says. NJP and simi-lar organizations, she adds, make sure that low-income people have “access to the jus-tice system and a way to redress their legal rights and to adhere to their legal obliga-tions” in a way that both respects the judi-cial system and their own dignity.

NJP is partly supported by funds raised by the non-profit Alliance for Equal Jus-tice, an association of organizations that support civil legal aid across our state. More information is on their website, www.nwjustice.org.

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“Juggling three kids under 3, dis-covering all the great places to eat in this city, connecting people and making things happen.”

Keren Brown is the real Food Network. A blogger, author, foodie, socialite and entrepreneur, she has perhaps single-hand-edly united the Seattle food community.

“If I have an idea, I’ll just go for it,” says the 32-year-old mother of three and cre-ator of FranticFoodie.com and a network-ing organization, Foodportunity.

When Keren moved to Seattle about five years ago for her husband’s job, she knew no one and had no connections. Reminiscent of Julia Child’s rise to food fame while she wiled the days away in Paris, Keren just started to cook. She

signed up for cooking classes across the city and started writing about food on her original blog for the Seattle PI, “Confes-sions of a Wannabe Chef.”

“My goal was to discover food and everything about Seattle,” says Keren of her early days. “It turned into something totally different.”

Meanwhile, she started throwing events for people in her building.

“I wanted to meet people because I was lonely,” she says.

Soon enough, though, Keren’s writing and networking took on lives of their own.

Within a few weeks of blogging for the PI, Keren knew she wanted to blaze her own trails. Frantic Foodie was born, the go-to site for “Seattle food events, food gossip, food recommendations, recipes and everything else about the food world.”

But writing about local food wasn’t enough. Why, she wondered, were all these bloggers writing about Seattle local food without really knowing one another? So one night, she got everyone together for

dinner on Capitol Hill.What started out as a gathering of

local bloggers morphed into a full-scale networking event called Foodportunity.

Gradually, restaurateurs, journalists, PR companies and even farmers wanted to join the party. Celebrity guests have made appearances, such as Ruth Reichl, former editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, and Amy Pennington, the Seattleite locavore and author of Urban Pantry: Tips and Rec-ipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable and Seasonal Kitchen.

“It’s become this one-stop event where everyone networks,” says Keren. No longer just for local writers, Foodportu-nity welcomes and connects everyone in the food industry, even the casual foodie.

On top of running a booming food net-working business, blogging and raising a family, she also has a book under her belt. Food Lovers’ Guide to Seattle is part of the “Food Lovers” series and acts as a com-plete guide to all things culinary in Seat-tle, from food festivals to farmers markets. No wonder she was named “Doer of the Week” by Martha Stewart in 2010.

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In advance of her November 4 per-formance at Tacoma’s Pantages Theater, the indefatigable Joan Rivers made time to speak with JTNews about her two TV shows, memories of her Jewish grand-mothers, and how to stay forever young at heart.

JTNews: Hi Joan! Last time we spoke you were also performing in these parts. What do you think of the Pacific North-west?

Joan Rivers: I love the climate, the look of it. It’s glorious. If I had been born in this neck of the woods I would have been happy and sane. I have a friend and we say we are going to buy an island outside of Seattle. I’d better hurry up.

JT: Any Rosh Hashanah resolutions or spiritual thoughts?

JR: Please, God, let me lose weight.JT: One of the country’s biggest mili-

tary bases, Fort Lewis-McChord, is located just outside Tacoma, where you’ll be per-forming. Given how tough it is to find straight, relationship-oriented men in Los Angeles, where you and your daughter Melissa live and film your reality TV show, “Joan & Melissa: Joan Know Best?” is there any chance you might film an episode here and consider dating some military men?

JR: I have dated military men. I used to do USO shows — but only for the Confed-

erate side… Seriously, one of [the] big char-ities [I raise money for] is the Wounded Warrior Project. Unbelievable the way [ser-vice members] come back and people just forget about them. And they’re all 19 years old. I hope the country is worthy.

JT: Maybe some service members will come to the show.

JR: That would be wonderful …. At least the gays in the military will probably come.

JT: Fans of “Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?” are delighted WE TV has renewed the show for another season. Can you give us a preview?

JR: The new season starts in January. One of our friends, a 28-year-old WASP, found out his grandmother on his moth-er’s side was Jewish. So we gave him a Bar Mitzvah.

JT: People seem to enjoy seeing you relate to your grandson Cooper on “Joan & Melissa,” and on your other TV show, “Fashion Police” on E!, you are a fash-ion critic. Do you remember your grand-mothers and what their styles were like?

JR: They were opposites. The one who had style — people tell me she was so chic — died when I was young. The one I remember had no style. She had a black dress and a cane and a diamond brooch. And that brooch did not go to my side of the family.

JT: Any advice on how to stay well

dressed, sexy, and full of energy into your 70s and beyond?

JR: Number one, don’t think about your age…. Most of my friends are younger. I don’t discuss doctors and oper-ations…I buy things that I like — wear a feather in your hair! I am in my 70s so I can do whatever I damn please.

You can wear the styles but with more discretion. You may not want to show your arms, so buy a dress with sleeves.

You can wear a short skirt if you’ve still got good legs, just not as short. People are living so much longer today. I remem-ber when my mother’s friends hit 50, they were half dead. Now…being Grandma has a different look. As I am getting closer to 80, I think that. Then again, I’m sure Cooper and his friends think I’m resur-rected from King Tut.

Heather Robinson is a New York-based journalist and assistant editor of the New Jersey Jewish Standard. She blogs for The Huffington Post and at www.heatherrobinson.net.

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Joan Rivers will perform Fri., Nov. 4 at the Pantages Theater, 901 Broadway, Tacoma. Tickets available at www.broadwaycenter.org or 253-591-5894. Tickets also available for a “Meet & greet” with Joan Rivers and comic Brad Upton, who will open for Joan. Pro-ceeds will benefit the new Tacoma branch of gilda’s club, a charity serving cancer patients and their families.

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“It’s funny to think my Jewish learning is beginning at 40-something,” she says.

As for the film festival, directing an arts nonprofit in difficult economic times is something of a double-edged sword, she

admits, especially with the need to bal-ance the mission of the festival’s parent organization, the AJC. One way she has done that has been to open up the selec-tion process to a wider array of commu-nity members.

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But there’s no question she loves her work. Despite her frantic schedule and acknowledging that she’s lucky to actu-ally be working in such a tough climate,

Pamela always comes back to this: “Most people’s reaction when I tell them what I do is, ‘Oh my gosh, that’s so cool! Wow, you get to do that?’ I have to just hold onto that and be grateful,” she says. “I could be an academic somewhere in Idaho right now.”

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November 13 at 2 p.m.1,000 Mitzvahs: How Small Acts of Kindness Can Heal, Inspire, and Change Your LifeAuthor talkA month after her father passed away, Portland resident Linda Cohen took it upon herself to perform 1,000 good deeds to honor his memory. The process was transforma-tive for Cohen, and with her book about the 2-1/2-year process of healing she hopes to inspire others. At Elliott Bay Books, 1521 Tenth Ave., Seattle. For more in-formation contact Marjorie Schnyder at 206-861-3146 or familylife@jfsseattle.org.

November 10 at 7:30David grossmanAuthor TalkIsraeli author David Grossman will talk about his life and his latest novel, To the End of the Land, the tale of love, loss, destruction and the complexity of Israeli society. Grossman, who lost his son in the Lebanon War in 2006, writes fiction prolifically on the matzav — that is, the security “situation” in Israel. Grossman’s talk is part of the Seattle Arts and Lectures 2011-2012 Border

Crossing series, which features writers, poets and historians from around the world who explore physical, emotional and metaphorical borders in their works. At Town Hall, Great Hall (enter on 8th). For more information and to purchase tickets visit www.lectures.org. Tickets run from $5 to $30.

November 3 at 7 p.m.David gutersonAuthor talkOedipal complexes, illicit sex, mental illness — no, Philip Roth is not in town, but David Guterson is. Bainbridge Island resident Guterson, the author of Snow Falling on Cedars, will be talking about his new novel, Ed King (Oed Rex...get it?), a story of the abandoned love child between a married man and a seriously disturbed au pair. Ed Aaron King is adopted by a liberal Jewish couple living in Seattle’s Northend who decide to withhold from him the truth of his adoption. The details are in the chorus, and they’ve been described by the Kansas City Star as “transcendently dark and dazzling.”At the University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, Seattle. For more infor-mation visit www.bookstore.washington.edu/events.

Through November 12selma Waldman: gesture and EmpathyArt ExhibitSelma Waldman (1931–2008), who spent her adult life in Seattle and whose early works hung alongside O’Keeffe’s and Hopper’s, grew to see her art as a vehicle for social concerns. The drawings selected for the exhibition exemplify her fervent passion for justice.At Gage Academy of Art, 1501 10th Ave. E, Seattle. For more information visit www.gageacademy.org.

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saturDay 29 OctOber1:15–2:15 p.m. — Middot and Mitzvot with Shirah Bell and Joel goldstein

Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or www.bethshalomseattle.orgUsing principles of Mussar, Talmud, Torah and halachah and Alan Morinis’ book, Everyday Holiness, this free Shabbat discussion explores the relationship of middot (character traits) and mitzvot. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.5–10 p.m. — parents Night out

Josh Johnson at JoshJ@sjcc.org or 206-388-0839 or www.sjcc.orgParents can hit the town while the kids spend a fun evening at the SJCC. Open swim time, dinner, dessert, and an evening movie. $25–$45. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

sunDay 30 OctOber9–11 a.m. — coffee cart for the Berrys

Dafna Tarlowe at d_tarlowe@yahoo.com or www.showyourhearts.orgEnjoy a free latte by Coffees A La Carte, talk to friends and do a mitzvah. All donations will benefit the Joshua and Robin Berry Children’s Trust, which benefits the children of a head-on collision this year

that killed their parents, Joshua and Robin Berry of Houston. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th Street, Bellevue.2 p.m. — SJcc Jewish Touch lecture: How george gershwin Became an American composer

Kim Lawson at klawson@sjcc.org or 206-388-0829 or www.sjcc.orgUniversity of Washington music history professor Larry Starr will investigate how George Gershwin became a celebrated and truly American composer. SJCC members and seniors $5; general admission $10. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

tuesDay 1 nOveMber6–8:30 p.m. — AJc Human relations Award dinner

Kathleen at crowellk@ajc.org or 206-622-6315, ext. 4 or ajcseattle.orgAJC pays tribute to H.R. Brereton “Gubby” Barlow with its distinguished Human Relations Award at a gala dinner. Gubby’s expertise, vision, and integrity have earned him a platinum reputation within his industry. $300. At Four Seasons Hotel, First and Union, Seattle.7:15–9:15 p.m. — engaging israel: Foundations for a New relationship

Judy Neuman at JudyN@sjcc.org or 206-232-7115 or www.sjcc.org“Engaging Israel” is a partnership of the Stroum JCC, Herzl-Ner Tamid, the Jewish Day School and the Shalom Hartman Institute that explores the meaning of Israel in daily life and our role in envisioning its future. $150 per person, $275 per couple. At the

Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.7–9 p.m. — The Jewish Journey

Rabbi Avrohom David at info@seattlekollel.org or 206-722-8289 or seattlekollel.orgDelve into the timeless wisdom of the sages. Learn about Judaism from birth to death, from spiritual to physical, from alef to tav, from mystical to mundane. Visit the Kollel course description website for a full list of courses. $180 per year. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.

WeDnesDay 2 nOveMber12–1:30 p.m. — israel current Affairs dis-cussion group: Settlements

Shelley Goldman at sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or www.broaderview.orgWhat are Jewish settlements and why are they so controversial? Is all construction across the “1967 lines” equally problematic? How might the impasse be resolved, and what could be the future of these settlements under a potential two-state solution? Bring a lunch. $5. At Temple B’nai Torah, 17222 NE 8th St., Bellevue.7–9:30 p.m. — Torahthon

Andi Neuwirth at andi@h-nt.org or 206-232-8555, ext. 219Once again Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation hosts Torahthon. Study with university professors, rabbis from every denomination, legal experts, Torah scholars, community leaders and teachers. $15 per session, $36 for all 3 evenings. At Herzl-Ner Tamid, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

friDay 4 nOveMber9 a.m.– 4 p.m. — FBi linguist Job Fair

Eric Leach at eric.leach@ic.fbi.gov or 801-579-4889 or www.fbijobs.gov/linguistsMust be a U.S. citizen. Hebrew contract linguists are paid $37–$41 per hour. Free. At Seattle University Student Center, 901 12th Ave., Seattle.5:30–6:30 p.m. — Hospitality Shabbat

Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or www.bethshalomseattle.orgAttend Kabbalat Shabbat services followed by a potluck Shabbat dinner at a host’s home. RSVP online for the potluck. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

saturDay 5 nOveMber1:15–2:15 p.m. — global Hunger Shabbat

Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or www.bethshalomseattle.orgAs part of the American Jewish World Service campaign to recognize global hunger, Carol Mullin, Jewish Family Service’s director of Emergency Services, will speak about local hunger issues. Free. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.9:30 a.m. — The pJ library Storytime at kol HaNeshamah

Amy Hilzman-Paquette at amyhp@jewishinseattle.org The PJ Library welcomes guest musician Erik Lawson and PJ Library manager Amy Paquette as storyteller

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friDays9:30–10:30 a.m. — SJcc Tot ShabbatStroum JCC11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Tots Welcoming ShabbatTemple B’nai Torah12:30–3:30 p.m. — Bridge groupStroum JCC12:30–3:30 p.m. — drop-in Mah JonggStroum JCC

saturDays9–10:30 a.m. — Temple B’nai Torah Adult Torah StudyTemple B’nai Torah9:45 a.m. — BcMH youth ServicesBCMH10 a.m. — Morning youth programCongregation Ezra Bessaroth1:15–2:15 p.m. — Middot and Mitzvot Congregation Beth Shalom5 p.m. — The ramchal’s derech Hashem, portal from the Ari to ModernityCongregation Beth Ha’Ari

sunDays9:15–10:15 a.m. — Advanced Talmud for MenCongregation Beth Ha’Ari

9:30–11 a.m. — pathways Through the oral Torah: An introduction to the Talmud and MidrashTemple De Hirsch Sinai9:30–11:30 a.m. — reflective parenting: disciplining from the HeartTemple B’nai Torah10–11 a.m. — Hebrew class: Advanced BeginnerCongregation Herzl-Ner Tamid10:15 a.m. — Sunday Torah StudyCongregation Beth Shalom11 a.m. –12 p.m. — Hebrew class: BeginnerCongregation Herzl Ner-Tamid 11:30 a.m. — 12:30 p.m. Hebrew reading class – Back to BasicsCongregation Beth Shalom7:30–10:30 p.m. — He’Ari israeli dancingDanceland Ballroom (call to confirm)

MOnDays10 a.m.–2 p.m. — Jcc Seniors groupStroum JCC12:30 p.m. — caffeine for the SoulChabad of the Central Cascades6:15–8:30 p.m. — Bringing Baby HomeJewish Family Service7 p.m. — cSA Monday Night classesCongregation Shevet Achim7–8 p.m. — crash course in HebrewSeattle Kollel7–8 p.m. — ein yaakov in englishCongregation Shaarei Tefilah Lubavitch

7:45–8:45 p.m. — For Women onlyCongregation Shaarei Tefilah Lubavitch8:30 p.m. — Talmud in HebrewEastside Torah Center8–10 p.m. — Women’s israeli dance classThe Seattle Kollel8:30 p.m. — Talmud, yeshiva-StyleEastside Torah Center

tuesDays11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Mommy and Me programChabad of the Central Cascades12 p.m. — Torah for WomenEastside Torah Center7 p.m. — Alcoholics Anonymous MeetingsJewish Family Service7 p.m. — Teen centerBCMH7 p.m. — Hebrew (Alef Bet) level 1Congregation Beth Shalom 7 p.m. — Hebrew (Biblical) level 2Congregation Beth Shalom7 p.m. — Siddur Hebrew: AmidahCongregation Beth Shalom7 p.m. — intermediate HebrewCongregation Herzl-Ner Tamid7–9 p.m. — The Jewish JourneySeattle Kollel7–9:15 p.m. — living Judaism: The BasicsCongregation Beth Shalom

7:15–9:15 p.m. — engaging israel: Founda-tions for a New relationshipStroum JCC7:30 p.m. — Weekly round Table kabbalah classEastside Torah Center7:30 p.m. — The TanyaChabad of Central Cascades

WeDnesDays 7 p.m. — Beginning israeli dancing for Adults with rhona FeldmanCongregation Beth Shalom7–9 p.m. — Teen lounge for Middle SchoolersBCMH 7:30 p.m. — parshas HashavuahEastside Torah Center

thursDays10 a.m.–2 p.m. — Jcc Seniors groupStroum JCC6:50 p.m.–7:50 p.m. — introduction to HebrewHerzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation7 p.m. — Junior Teen centerBCMH8–10 p.m. — Teen lounge for High SchoolersBCMH7:30-9 p.m. — Beth Shalom Beit MidrashCongregation Beth Shalom

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Seattle teens say going to Alexander Muss High School in Israel was the best thing they’ve ever doneDespite the fact that she had been to Israel before, Rachel Greene said the time she spent at Alexander Muss High School in Israel (AMHSI) this past summer was the most amazing experience she has ever had. Greene, a junior at Interlake High School, said the AMHSI program was so much more meaningful than when she visited Israel for two weeks in 8th grade be-cause this time she was living the experience, staying in a dorm on campus, not just visiting as a tourist. “We learned both in the classroom and at the actual sites where history took place, often reenacting historical events where they occurred, which was a great way to learn. I understand so much more about the Middle East now and why it is important to support Israel,” Greene said.Lauren Schechter, now a senior at Garfield High School, who returned with the same intense emotional attachment to Israel also reflected on the connec-tions she had made to her classmates. “When you go through such an amazing experience with a group of people, it bonds you in a way nothing else can,” Schechter said.Nick Alkan, a 17 year old from Bellevue who attended the program during the spring semester in 2010, re-flected on how AMHSI affected him. “I really wasn’t that social before and now I have a ton of friends be-cause the AMHSI staff encouraged me to reach out to people in a way I had never done before. This past summer, I even got a job as a camp counselor at a Jewish camp in West Virginia with a group of kids I went to Israel with,” said Alkan.According to Kathy Yeyni, Director of Admissions, what sets the program apart is that AMHSI is a pluralistic high school academic experience, which means there is a mix of reform, conservative and orthodox teens that enroll.Students receive high school credits and may be eli-gible to earn college credits as well. Sessions are of-fered throughout the school year and in the summer.

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something.” Wasn’t that movement?AA: I do not believe the words any-

more, or the promises. I want to see action on the ground. If somebody is ready to move forward he should not oppose to bring back those settlers who are living in a territory that everybody understands will not be under sovereignty of Israel. I think that morally we do not have the right to send troops to fight there.

Anybody who tells me, “Look, I want to move forward but I don’t have a part-

ner,” this is the dictionary of blame. We are doing it during the last 20 years, 60 years, 100 years. We are killing each other and we feel great because we blame them, and they are doing the same for us.

JT: So how do you move forward when the right players are not in place?

AA: I believe that in a time of confu-sion, and when the storm reaches us, the people are looking for new ideas. And this is why it is very important to create these ideas. I used to hope that we should under-stand before we reach the storm. Prob-ably we can avoid the storm. But I have

to admit that sometimes people do not understand before we face the storm itself.

JT: If the UN body votes for an inde-pendent Palestine, how does that change this equation?

If this will be the decision, I think we should say, “Okay, we accept it, now let’s negotiate the borders.” I think that if we shall not do it, I’m afraid that when 80 per-cent or 85 percent of the states in the world accept Palestine along the lines of ’67, if we shall not join this process I believe that Israel will be more isolated and the idea of two states will be more difficult to achieve.

I’d prefer to negotiate with a state than with an organization. With a state, for example, the right of return, the state cannot demand sending people to Israel. If you are a state, it is your duty to bring back your people exactly the same that Israel [has done] since ’48. I believe that the first law they will pass will be the law of return for Palestinian refugees to Pales-tine. It’s okay. It’s great. I just want to see it happening.

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Keren does not consider herself in any way religious, but she explains that she loves Jewish culture and traditions, and she tries to imbue this love in her children. She and her family often dig into a Mac-rina challah on Friday nights and spend time together. And of course, there’s the food.

“I love finding my friends’ mothers and asking them to teach me how to make things,” she says. “That’s what I like about Jewish food: It’s not just bagels and lox and cream cheese.”

Despite all of her activities, Keren says her kids are her number one prior-ity. And she has a new job: Her two-week-old twins.

“It’s important for me to have a job I can do and involve my kids. My 3-year-old comes to events with me. My son’s really social too,” she says. “I like to have a job where I can make my own schedule.”

Although Keren loves food that sur-prises her in terms of spices, herbs and preparation, it’s the simple things she likes best.

“I’m just happy having a family and a job I love,” she says.

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shelf life of our experience at Challenging Heights, and how long before global injus-tice gives way to a more personal injustice — some inane narcissistic wound.

On the last day we were asked to con-struct a small brick garden along a wall of the building project. I found it totally absurd to imagine a time when dainty begonias or delicate pink tulips might blossom among marauding goats, rum-maging chickens and playing children. But maybe there is something to it. Perhaps the act of building a space for a garden is a

way of creating a picture of a future not yet realized. A compass pointing to what may be and not what is. A seed planted to chal-lenge the meaning our work begun, but not complete. A final disruptive memory upending one more table as we boarded the bus and drove away.

Rabbi Will Berkovitz is the Seattle-based rabbi-in-residence and vice president for partnerships for the Repair the World social justice organization. This piece originally ran at Huffington Post.

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to read Ella’s Trip to Israel. At Kol HaNeshamah, 6115 SW Hinds St., Seattle.11–11:30 a.m. — Tot Shabbat

Irit Eliav at iriteliav@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075, ext. 2503 or bethshalomseattle.orgChildren ages 0–3 (and their parents) are invited to a fun Shabbat morning tot-friendly service. Service meets on the first Shabbat of the month. Free. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

sunDay 6 nOveMber10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. — kline galland Annual Meeting

Mardell Kromer at mardellksummitatfirsthill.org or 206-652-4444Annual meeting of the Kline Galland Center and Affiliates. Election of officers and board members. Honoring Jim and Julie Mirel with the Lifetime Achievement award. Volunteers of the year awarded. Free. At the Summit at First Hill, 1200 University St., Seattle.2–4:30 p.m. — WSJHS Annual Fundraiser: Tastes and Treats of Food and Theater

Lori Weinberg Ceyhun at assistant@wsjhs.org or 206-774-2277 or www.wsjhs.orgCelebrate the community-wide launch of the WSJHS historical cookbook, Yesterday’s Mavens, Today’s Foodies: Traditions in Northwest Jewish Kitchens.

Taste dishes, enjoy a performance by the Seattle Jewish Theater Company, and more. Cost: $36; $18/ 30 and under. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.5–9 p.m. — 2011 AipAc Washington State Membership event

AIPAC at seattle_office@aipac.org or 206-624-5152 or www.aipac.orgBe part of the largest pro-Israel political event in Washington. Join other community leaders, elected officials, political activists, and students for a chance to show support for the U.S.–Israel relationship. At the Westin Seattle, 1900 Fifth Ave., Seattle.

MOnDay 7 nOveMber5:30 p.m. — Shine a light on lung cancer

Ronit Amitai at ronit.amitai@comcast.net or www.lungcanceralliance.org/shinealightonlungcancerNovember is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Raise support at this vigil. Register by Oct. 30 to win a trip to Washington, D.C. to attend the Lung Cancer Alliance Capitol Forum in 2012. Register online. At Gilda’s Club, 1400 Broadway, Seattle.6:15–8:30 p.m. — Bringing Baby Home: Workshop Series for couples

Marjorie Schnyder at familylife@jfsseattle.org or 206-861-3146This interactive class, based on the findings of Dr. John Gottman and the Relationship Research Institute,

teaches how to manage the challenging transition into parenthood. Couples of all backgrounds welcome. Advance registration required. Scholarships available. Insurance/EAP may cover this class. At Jewish Family Service, 1601 16th Ave., Seattle.6:45–9:30 p.m. — “What a life!” kristallnacht commemoration concert

Micah Shelton at info@musicofremembrance.org or 206-365-7770 or www.musicofremembrance.orgThe Music of Remembrance fall concert commemorates Kristallnacht. Pre-concert interview/lecture at 6:45 p.m., concert at 7:30 p.m. $36. At Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle.

tuesDay 8 nOveMber11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. — voices for Humanity luncheon

Janna Charles at admin@wsherc.org or 206-774-2201 or www.wsherc.org/contribute/voicesforhumanity.aspxThe Holocaust Center will host a luncheon and premiere of the new short film, With My Own Eyes. Attendees will be the first to see this 20-minute video, which features the experiences of local survivors. Minimum donation $180. At the Westin Seattle, 1900 Fifth Ave., Seattle.

WeDnesDay 9 nOveMber7–8:30 p.m. — Modern Hebrew literature with Joel Altus and lisa orlick

Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or www.bethshalomseattle.orgStudy the themes and aesthetics of modern Hebrew and Israeli literature. Second Wednesday of the month. Free. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.11 a.m.–12 p.m. — pJ library Storytime at Mockingbird Books

Amy Hilzman-Paquette at amyhp@jewishinseattle.org or www.facebook.com/pjlibraryseattleJoin the PJ Library for music, storytelling and learning Hebrew through ASL with Betsy Dischel from Musikal Magik, a certified Signing Time Academy. Free. At Mockingbird Books, 7220 Woodlawn Ave. NE, Seattle.7–9:30 p.m. — Torahthon

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$15 per session, $36 for all 3 evenings. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

friDay 11 nOveMber10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. — pJ library Song and Storytime at the Seattle Jewish community School

Amy Hilzman-Paquette at amyhp@jewishinseattle.org or www.facebook.com/pjlibraryseattleMusic, singing and storytelling with the PJ Library and Jeff Stombaugh. Come for the songs and story and stay for activities and playgroup fun. Free. At Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 Eighth Ave. NE, Seattle.4:30–7:30 p.m. — congregation Shevet Achim’s Scholar in residence: rabbi Moshe gruenstein

Randy Kessler at events@shevetachim.com or 206-275-1539 or www.shevetachim.com/events.phpRabbi Moshe Gruenstein will give a talk on “Kabbalistic Secrets for Wealth and Health.” For more information visit the website. Free. At Congregation Shevet Achim, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.

saturDay 12 nOveMber9 a.m.–1 p.m. and 4:25 p.m. — congregation Shevet Achim’s Scholar in residence: rabbi Moshe gruenstein

Randy Kessler at events@shevetachim.com or 206-275-1539 or www.shevetachim.com/events.phpRabbi Moshe Gruenstein will give a talk on “What’s the Greatest Mitzvah in the Torah?” At 4:25 p.m.: “The Secret to Having Perfect Children.” More information online. Free. At Congregation Shevet Achim, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.10:30–11:15 a.m. — learner’s Minyan with ron Schneeweiss

Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or www.bethshalomseattle.orgLearn a different part of the Saturday morning service each month. Check the CBS website for updates on topics. Free. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

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“The issue became more about student voices being heard.”

For this rabble-rousing, Morgan was arrested twice.

How does she handle the inevitable cynicism and apathy about her cause?

“A lot of students are very skeptical,” she says. “The truth is that the companies make so much money. They come in, they take over the community...and because the workers are in this vulnerable position they have no choice but to work.

“Sodexo made a billion dollars in profit last year,” she continues, asserting that they can afford to pay their workers.

As to her own choices, Morgan admits it’s not easy to live her values. When people prod her to account for where her clothes come from, “the answer is, yes, it probably [was made in a sweatshop],” she says. “I do try to be as conscious as possible.”

One way of being conscious means buying products from Alta Gracia, a fac-tory in the Dominican Republic that com-mitted to fair treatment and fair wages. Morgan visited it — and made another short film — last February.

Rather than trying to change the system through daily choices, Morgan sees a bigger picture of human rights work. “What I’m waiting for and working for are those options,” she says.

As for how Judaism overlaps with her activism, she says, “Seeing how my heri-tage is part of this current struggle” helped it all click. For now, Morgan’s Jewish involvement revolves around the UW Hillel, where she finds a supportive net-work of friends. She imagines raising her children in the Conservative movement, but stops herself.

“Wow, that’s thinking ahead,” she laughs.Robert Beiser, the campus/Jconnect

Repair the World director at the UW who supervised Morgan’s fellowship last year, gave the young activist glowing reviews.

“If anyone wonders what it will take to build an inspiring, passionate Jewish com-munity for the future, Morgan Currier is the model of young leadership that all others should follow,” Beiser said via email.

“Last year alone,” he continued, “Morgan helped literally hundreds of students con-nect with meaningful Jewish service” through the Kick Out Sodexo campaign.

Despite her driven path, Morgan admits that when it comes to deciding on a career, “I have no idea.”

After a moment, she clarifies: “I’ll defi-nitely do something in support of unions,” she said. “I believe strongly that unions are important and the only way for workers to have a voice in the workplace.”

To see Morgan’s short documentary films, check out Bloggish on jew-ish.com.

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A friendship between the late Seattle physician Alex Fefer and a fellow cancer researcher in Buffalo brought to MOR’s attention a piano trio by Marcel Tyberg, which will also receive its West Coast pre-miere at the November 7 concert. Tyberg “was one-six-teenth Jewish,” says Miller, in one of those strange remind-ers of the bizarre calculations of Nazi persecution. Born in Austria, Tyberg was murdered in Auschwitz, but not before he had passed along his musi-cal manuscripts, including this trio, to a personal friend. That friend’s son, Enrico Mihich, who wound up in Buffalo, is a cancer research physician who never forgot his father’s com-mitment.

Mihich’s efforts have led, so far, to performances of Tyberg’s music in Buffalo, and now in Seattle, where the Fefers have been regulars at MOR con-certs; Thea Fefer is a member of MOR’s board. Citing another Holocaust-era com-poser whose reputation has soared thanks to efforts such as MOR’s, Miller says she expects a resurrection of Tyberg’s voice: “I’m sure five to 10 years from now, Tyberg

will be as hot as [Erwin] Schulhoff.”This is a prodigious opening week for

Music of Remembrance’s 14th season: Sun., Oct. 30 is the world premiere screening of the documentary The Boys of Terezìn. The film traces the journey of an underground con-centration camp literary magazine, Vedem:

Of its creation by a brave group of teenage boys, of the tiny handful of those boys who sur-vived the death camps, of the near-miraculous preservation of their work, and of the trans-formation of their lit-erary resistance into an oratorio commissioned and premiered by Music of Remembrance with the Seattle Boychoir. The screening, at Seattle Art Museum, includes a conversation with the filmmakers. Later this fall, the film will screen at Jewish film festivals

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On Sunday and Monday, Oct. 16 and 17, students, parents and faculty from the Jewish Day School in Bellevue cooked and served meals for the homeless people living Tent City 4, the traveling encampment that is currently stationed at Temple B’nai Torah, next door to JDS. On the left, JDS’s head of school Maria erlitz joins assistant head of school Rabbi Stuart light and JDS parent Jen Steiner on the right as they get ready to serve.

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2 It was a bit of controlled chaos when I visited the greenhouse at Seattle’s Montlake Elementary School this

past June. The gardening program’s direc-tor, Cheri Singer Bloom, had invited me to the school’s annual Spring Harvest Lunch, a scaled-up version of Free Salad Friday — the weekly salad lunch at which student-grown produce is served, supplemented by greens from Full Circle Farm. Fifth graders zoomed around putting out food and orga-nizing younger kids into lines, while Cheri doled out aprons and jobs.

In 2001 some parents approached Cheri about utilizing the greenhouse for educa-tion, rather than for storage. With degrees in horticulture from Michigan State, and special education from the University of Washington, Cheri welcomed this “gold-mine” of opportunity. The Detroit native has extensive educational experience. She started her career teaching vocational hor-ticulture to mentally ill adults first in New York, and then in Seattle.

She had recently closed her backyard business, the state’s “smallest organic farm.” Her kids were at another school, but she lives in the neighborhood and

would jog by, noting the unused green-house. It was haunting her, she says.

She also wanted to be part of the school gardens movement started in the Bay Area by Alice Waters of restaurant Chez Panisse, and to be more involved in the community.

The greenhouse program dovetailed with a growing interest in eating locally grown food. Starting as part of the 2nd and 3rd grade science curriculum, she says, “within a year we were attracting grant money.”

Cheri credits Michelle Obama’s healthy eating campaign with amplifying “aware-ness and the support of the project within our community.” The weekly lunches are

supported by Les Dames d’Escoffier, a phil-anthropic organization of women in the food industry, but parent support “really makes the difference.” The project is also linked to the school’s green team, part of the Washington Green Schools movement.

An avid swimmer who regularly dons her wetsuit to swim a mile in Lake Wash-ington, Cheri, her husband Marc, and kids Sabina and Sam, are members of Temple Beth Am in Seattle.

Columnist’s note: check out the entertaining list of aptronyms, or aptonyms, at the Wikipedia page of that name.

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Cheri Singer Bloom, inside the Montlake elementary School greenhouse.

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50,000 sign pro-Rubashkin petition to White HouseJta WOrlD neWs service

WASHINGTON (JTA) — An online petition in support of jailed kosher meat executive Sholom Rubashkin garnered 10 times its anticipated goal of 5,000 signatures.

The petition, which calls on President Obama to order an investigation into judi-cial misconduct in Rubashkin’s financial fraud trial, garnered 51,605 signatures.

Created Sept. 22 by the Justice for Sholom organization, the petition was

posted on the White House’s We the People website, which was launched by the Obama administration to encourage public participation in government. Its goal was 5,000 signatures by Oct. 22.

On Sept. 26, an appeals court in St. Louis turned down a motion for a new trial for the former executive of Agripro-cessors, once the nation’s largest kosher meat plant. The court ruled that the presid-

ing judge in the original case, Linda Reade of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, did not have to recuse her-self because she was involved in planning the May 2008 federal immigration raid on the Agriprocessors plant, which led to the company’s bankruptcy later that year.

Rubashkin was convicted of financial fraud and sentenced to 27 years in prison.

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and a few U.S. attorneys general had written in favor of leniency in Rubash-kin’s sentencing. In the federal raid on the plant, 389 illegal immigrants were arrested, including 31 minors.

The petition calls on Obama to “To take prompt and effective steps to cor-rect the gross injustice that has been per-petrated with the federal prosecution of Sholom Rubashkin.”

5–10 p.m. — SJcc parents Night out at SJcS

Matt Korch at MattK@sjcc.org or 206-388-0830 or www.sjcc.orgParents get to go out, while kids 5 through 5th grade spend the evening at SJCS. Games, movies, arts and crafts, and more. $25–35. At Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 8th Ave. NE, Seattle.

6–9 p.m. — Jewish Book Fair Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@

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sunDay 13 nOveMber9:30 a.m.– 4 p.m. — Super Sunday

Wendy Dore at events@jewishinseattle.org or 206-443-5400 or

www.JewishInSeattle.org/SuperSundayAll members of the Jewish community are invited to help make calls during the annual community-wide phone-a-thon to benefit the Jewish Federation’s Community Campaign. Please RSVP. Free. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.12–4 p.m. — Hadassah Holiday Boutique

Barbara Droker at bdroker@droker.net or 206-523-5014Tzafona group of Seattle Chapter Hadassah is hosting a holiday boutique. Browse and buy jewelry,

crafts, Judaica and gifts suitable for holiday gift giving. Proceeds support Hadassah programs for hospitals and youth. Free. At the Summit at First Hill, 1200 University St., Seattle.7:30 p.m. — Baron Herzog Wine and dine event

Rena Berger at RenaB@tdsseattle.org or 206-722-1200 or tdsseattle.orgAn elegant evening of wine tasting and education paired with tasty treats. At Torah Day School of Seattle, 3528 S Ferdinand St., Seattle.

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