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

New JFS building finally gets green light Kagan seen as brilliant
Morris Malakoff
JTNews Correspondent
In 1995, Jewish Family Service moved into its cur-
rent Capitol Hill location on 16th Avenue, renovating a
former eye clinic to serve as the center of operations for
40 employees and about 200 volunteers.
Fifteen years later, 200 employees and 1,300 volunteers
are crammed into the same structure, with closets and other
non-administrative areas having long ago been converted
into office space, often shared by more than one employee.
Many other employees and programs are spread
across town in rented space, adding a financial burden to
JFS and a logistical burden for clients who need to access
multiple programs.
The current offices are so overcrowded and outdated
that administrators worry client confidentiality is at risk.
“It is very uncomfortable to be here for a confidential
appointment and have someone you know walk in and
ask ‘What are you here for?’” said Ken Weinberg, Jewish
Family Service’s CEO.
But those days of uncomfortable working conditions,
awkward moments in the lobby, and other impediments
to the high standard of service JFS strives to deliver may
soon be a thing of the past.
On April 28, the JFS board of directors unanimously
voted to proceed with the construction of a $9 million,
19,000-square-foot building adjacent to the current
13,500-square-foot structure.
Groundbreaking is expected to take place in early 2011.
“This has been a long process that was not entered into
lightly,” said JFS board president Dianne Loeb. “It has
been a dream for nearly a decade and now it seems like
after almost 10 years the pieces have sufficiently fallen
into place for us to feel comfortable with moving ahead.”
The plan is contingent on promised money convert-
ing to solid donations, something Loeb and Weinberg
are confident will happen. Fundraising for the building
is also continuing.
Loeb said the funds, which are segregated from the
operational monies used for programs, have been actively
raised for many years and that a combination of sources
available, including some government money, have made
the board comfortable with breaking ground early next
year.
“Our goal is to raise $11 million,” Weinberg said.
“About $2 million of that is to cover interest charges,
which we are hoping to not have if enough money is
raised to pay for the building.”
The new building, named the Jesse Danz Building, as
the current structure is now, will rise above the current
parking lot on the north side of the JFS building with the
parking being retained at street level below the first floor
of the two-story building.
Weinberg said that while JFS is not building an extrav-
agant headquarters, it is building a quality facility.
“The building will be LEED certified at the silver level,”
he said, referring to environmental building standards.
“That is not only good for the broader environmental ele-
ments, but it has been shown that LEED buildings are
healthier working environments as well.”
Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design is an
internationally recognized green building certification
system.
The Jessie Danz Building, which will be attached to the
current structure, will bring an immediate cost savings to
JFS when programs that are currently in rented satellite
locations are consolidated under one roof.
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mystery
Ron Kampeas
JTA World News Service
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rabbi David Saperstein runs
through a shopping list of superlatives on Elena Kagan —
“self-evidently brilliant” and “steady, strategic and tacti-
cal” — before acknowledging that he doesn’t have much
of a handle on what President Obama’s choice to fill a U.S.
Supreme Court seat actually believes.
In the Jewish community Saperstein, the head of the
Reform movement’s Religious Action Center, apparently
is not alone.
Community reaction to Obama’s selection of Kagan,
the U.S. solicitor general, is enthusiastic until officials
consider what it is, exactly, she stands for.
Kagan, 50, has never been a judge — she would be the
first Supreme Court justice without bench experience since
1974. It’s a biography the White House touts as refreshing,
but also has the convenience of lacking a paper trail of opin-
ions that could embarrass a nominee in Senate hearings.
“When someone’s a solicitor general, it is really difficult
to know what is their own position and what is the position
of the state they are charged to represent,” Saperstein said.
The White House strategy going into Senate hearings
appears to be blame whatever controversy trails her on her
employer, on her client — on anyone but Kagan herself.
The first such controversy to emerge since Obama
announced the nomination May 10 was Kagan’s defense,
as dean of Harvard University’s Law School, of the practice
of banning military recruitment through the main career
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Just as in the Torah, to each his own place
Rabbi Olivier
BenHaim
Bet Alef
Meditative
Synagogue
As my first name suggests, I was
born in France. The France I grew up in
offered only one Jewish denomination,
one form of practicing Judaism: Ortho-
doxy. For French Jews like my parents,
practicing Judaism was virtually an all-
or-nothing endeavor. My parents were
uncomfortable — to say the least — with
most Jewish Orthodox practices. As Jews
firmly grounded in modern French sec-
ular culture, they restricted their Jewish
celebrations to Passover and Yom Kippur,
the purpose of which was to get together
with extended family twice a year.
As a good rebellious teenager, I
decided to embrace Orthodox Judaism,
to the utter dismay of my entire family.
I practiced modern Orthodoxy through
my teens and into my 20s both in France
and, later, in Israel, where I emigrated
after graduating from high school. Jewish
Orthodoxy was not only all I had ever
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known, it was all I ever knew existed.
You can imagine my surprise then,
when, having moved to the U.S. in my late
20s, I discovered numerous denominations
available to American Jews. I was stunned!
I found myself wondering, “How would
Jewish life have been different for my par-
ents — for French Jews in general? Would
they have found it easier to attend syna-
gogue had such diversity been available in
my youth?”
It soon became apparent, however,
that the pluralism I had found so refresh-
ing does not necessarily foster harmony.
Many conversations taught me that the
norm of existing discourse within the
American Jewish community is that of
discord. Members of the more “liberal”
denominations disparage the more tra-
ditional ones, while the latter criticize the
practices — or lack thereof, in their opin-
ion — of the former. Those in the liberal
camp are accused of being accomplices
to the growing number of intermarriages
— raising the specter of Jewish disappear-
ance — while those in the Orthodox camp
are decried as being anachronistically
patriarchal and stuck in an irrelevant iso-
lationist past — raising the same specter.
The list of grievances continues from
all sides, ad nauseam. Ultimately, every-
one believes his or her particular method
of practicing Judaism is the correct and
authentic way. Most — in the name of
political correctness — would not pub-
licly admit as much; nevertheless, our
Jewish Home is deeply divided.
Where might this divisiveness lead us?
The Talmud offers us one particularly dark
possibility: “Why… was the second Temple
— wherein the society was involved in
Torah, Commandments and acts of kind-
ness — destroyed? Because gratuitous
Definition of insanity
The editorial by Rainer Waldman
Adkins and Teri Citterman (“Sharing Jeru-
salem: The key to peace?” April 30) sup-
portive of a “two-state solution” and
Barack Obama’s public criticism of Jewish
construction in Jerusalem reminds me
of Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity:
“Doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.”
The failed Oslo process and past Israeli
concessions have not resulted in Palestinian
abrogation of violence to obtain its polit-
ical goals. Let’s look at the facts. First, to
date the Palestinian National Covenant has
not explicitly omitted the language deny-
ing Israel’s right to exist. Official Palestin-
ian pronouncements continue to assert that
the Jews have no historic claim to Jerusa-
lem and no Jewish Temple ever stood on
what they call the “Haram-al-Sharif” — The
Temple Mount. Second, all Israeli territo-
rial withdrawals over the past decade have
been reciprocated not with compromise by
Arabs but with increased violence. Israel’s
unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon in May
2000 was met with an emboldened Hez-
bollah, kidnappings of Israeli soldiers, and
the bloody second intifada. Moreover, the
number of rockets fired at Israel from Gaza
more than tripled after Israel’s unilateral
withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in August
2005 — with nearly 6,000 rockets and
mortars were launched between August of
2005 and the January 2009 Gaza war.   ting and factionalized, fearful of stating to
In light of these undisputed facts,
Adkins and Citterman now suggest that
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hatred was rampant in society.” (Yoma 9b)
We have yet to reach this level of conten-
tion. Thankfully, even amid great inter-
nal rumblings, the House of Jacob is not
on the brink of collapse. We might be dis-
pleased or uncomfortable with the ways
others choose to practice Judaism, but
that is a far cry from hatred. Perhaps in
our generation we have the opportunity
to offer an alternative ending to that of the
Talmud’s; we can seed a different vision
for the unfolding of the Jewish story, if we
heed a profound teaching gleaned from
this week’s Torah portion: Bamidbar.
Bamidbar Sinai, in the wilderness
of Sinai, “the Eternal spoke to Moses…
saying: ‘Take a census of the whole
Israelite community…’” (Num. 1:1–2)
There, through the census, every tribe is
accounted for, each one given a place in
the composition of the community as it is
about to march through the wilderness.
The metaphor of the wilderness, itself, is
most telling. Here is a space welcoming of
all and belonging to no one. In this space
we are able to receive Torah, or metaphori-
cally speaking, to awaken to the most fun-
damental teachings. This is the spiritual
space all of us always travel through. The
marching tribes of our ancestors could
represent, in our days, both the multiple
denominations of modern Judaism, and
those of us non-denominational Jews; all
wandering through the midbar together.
If we are to pay attention to this aspect
of this week’s teaching, not only do all of
us, affiliated or not, need to be counted
as part of the “Israelite community,” but
all of us need the unique space we take up
in the arrangement of the tribes — in the
breadth of Judaism — to be recognized
and affirmed by all others, as we march
through the midbar as one people.
a cessation of building in Jewish neigh-
borhoods in Jerusalem will lead to peace
and a two-state solution — notwithstand-
ing the fact that all prior concessions and
efforts made by Israel have been met with
Palestinian violence. This is insanity.
Jewish blood should not have been
shed in vain, and over 20 centuries of
prayers to return to Jerusalem dismissed,
because of the political left’s severe cogni-
tive dissonance. As simply stated by Golda
Meir, “We will have peace with the Arabs
when they love their children more than
they hate us.”
Steven A. Hemmat
Seattle
Diversity of opinion
Thank you for publishing Rabbi Anson
Laytner’s essay on dialogue between and
among Jews with differing viewpoints
regarding Israel and Palestine (“We need
to talk,” April 16). It amazes me, as a com-
mitted Jew, just how obvious our dislike
of Arabs/Palestinians is when our ancient
right to eretz Israel is asserted. In fact,
some Jews say there are no Palestinians
and no Palestine, even.
I don’t understand how a gap this big
could develop from a people known,
admired and envied for their history of
major intellectual accomplishments,
achievements and survival against the
odds. That’s our story. Why are Jews split-
each other differing opinions on Israel’s
political policies?
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Trouble begins when we believe we
own The Truth. No one does. Rather, each
of our denominations expresses a whole
but partial truth. By “whole” I mean that,
deeply grounded in our convictions,
steeped in our unique form of practices
and worldview, we hold an absolutely
valid and necessary form of Jewish
expression — a whole truth. But our truth
is also part of a greater whole, the whole
we call Judaism. And therefore, it is a par-
tial truth on the spectrum of truths that
make up Judaism. This is why I believe all
the denominations are needed.
The congregation I personally gravi-
tated toward, and of which I now lead, is
Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue. Though
founded by a Reform rabbi — Rabbi Ted
Falcon — Bet Alef is an independent con-
gregation. As a Jew, I am blessed with
being able to find a community that
matches my current spiritual orienta-
tion and preference. Not only that, but as
an evolving human being, I am also well
aware that different times in my life may
call me to different forms of practice, and,
therefore, to different denominations.
In our Torah portion, the Hebrew words
usually translated as “take a census,” liter-
ally mean: “lift the head.” By accounting
for the entire range of denominations, by
counting us all as integral whole-parts
of the modern Israelite community, we
restore the pride and sense of belonging of
all Jews, and allow all to hold their heads
up high. As we wander through the wilder-
ness, each other’s presence enhances the
remarkable experience of being Jewish.
May we be able to find within our hearts
the benevolent love that will unite our
people in the essential acceptance of our
differences, here in America, and most
critically in our time, in the land of Israel.
I applaud the JTNews for running arti-
cles from a wide range of rabbinic and
intellectual opinions in the Seattle com-
munity. Americans live in a democracy.
As Jews and Americans, upholding those
“inalienable rights” and having the right to
express different opinions are essential to
maintaining that democratic standard. As
Jews, we must also try to respect and care
for one another — especially in times of
divisiveness. Many rabbinic quotes can be
cited, at the very least the great Rabbi Hil-
lel’s, ”If I am not for myself, who will be for
me? If I am not for others, what am I? And
if not now, when?”
That question of the ages remains as rel-
evant today as ever. We must strive to find a
middle ground. That is what I will pray for.
Charlene Kahn
Seattle
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Correction
The report on the state of the day
schools (April 30) noted the Jewish
Federation of Greater Seattle has
given nearly $450,000 to each of
the day schools. That figure was the
total amount of money allocated to
schools and area education organi-
zations in the past year, plus addi-
tional emergency grants.
JTNews regrets the error.
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Camp for all

Scholarship programs help Jewish kids get to summer camp despite agencies’ and families’ financial woes

Leyna Krow through the foundation’s JWest program,

Assistant Editor, JTNews
There are few points on which all
Jewish educators, regardless of denomina-
tion, seem to agree. But one thing that gets
a nod from nearly everybody — be they
Orthodox, Reform, or Secular Humanist
— is the value of summer camp.
“Statistics show that Jewish camp is
the key to Jewish continuity,” said Kim
Greenhall, director of community ser-
vices for the Jewish Federation of Greater
Seattle. “Kids who go to camp are more
likely to be involved Jewishly, give their
time Jewishly, and grow up to raise
Jewish children themselves.”
But like Jewish day schools and Hebrew
schools, Jewish camping programs are
rarely free. In fact, many charge several
thousand dollars per session. And with
many families still reeling from the effects
of the recession, those fees are enough
to keep kids who would otherwise go to
camp at home for the summer. That’s why
a number of organizations, including the
Federation, the Foundation for Jewish
Camp, Jewish Family Service, and vari-
ous local synagogues offer camp scholar-
ships, or “camperships,” to help ease the
financial burden and make sure kids who
want to spend the summer in a Jewish set-
ting have the opportunity to do so.
The Foundation for Jewish Camp pro-
vides a variety of camperships to Jewish
kids around the country. Here in Wash-
ington State, families are eligible for grants
which provides $1,800 to first-year camp-
ers in middle school who do not attend a
Jewish day school or yeshiva. Additional
grants are available for JWest recipients
who return to camp for a second summer.
JWest does not take applicants’ finan-
cial situations into account. Every camper
to meet the JWest criteria receives a
grant. So far this year, JWest has given
out 798 grants to first-time campers and
329 grants to continuing campers, 95 of
whom live in Washington State. JWest
grants can be used at any of 20 Jewish
camps in the Western United States.
JWest is still accepting applications for Courtesy Camp Solomon Schechter
the upcoming summer. The girls at Camp Solomon Schechter have trouble deciding between cheerleading and
Michele Yanow, program ambassador the game.
for JWest, said the grants are primarily a
means of convincing families who might before, but now they are because their kid seekers, with JEC staff doing the legwork
not otherwise be involved in Jewish life to got excited about it at camp,” Yanow said. for families by seeking out a variety of
consider Jewish camp when shopping for “One mother in Alaska told me her son available campership options and clus-
summer activities for their kids. came home and said ‘I want tot be a rabbi.’ tering them together to provide each
“That’s why it’s not a need-based That’s the extreme, but it does happen.” family with as much funding as possible.
thing,” she said. “People who are trying Another major provider of camper- T h is yea r, t he JEC received 271
to decide what camp to send their kids ships locally is the Jewish Federation’s requests from families seeking assis-
to find out they can get some money for Jewish Education Center. The JEC part- tance to pay for camp, up from 163
Jewish camp might decide to try it when ners with a variety of local camps and requests in 2009. More requests have
they wouldn’t have otherwise.” synagogues as well as the Samis Foun- been coming in each week.
Since the JWest program began in dation, Jewish Family Service and the “I’m assuming this is all reflective of a
2008, more than $2.6 million has been Foundation for Jewish Camp to provide down economy,” the Federation’s Green-
given out in grants. camperships. hall said. “Jewish families are hurting
But does the JWest program really With the exception of the Samis Foun- just like everyone else.”
help get otherwise unaffiliated kids inter- dation, families can also apply to each of Greenhall added that almost every
ested in Judaism? these organizations independently, and family who submitted an application
“I’ve heard from a number of people many do. The JEC application simply pro-
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Expanding the circle
Stroum JCC event shows how center is pushing forward
Joel Magalnick
Editor, JTNews
The Jewish Community Center, says
Judy Neuman, CEO of the Seattle area’s
Stroum JCC, is “in the outreach business.”
What that means, she told a crowd of
approximately 400 that filled the gym at
its Mercer Island facility, is that where for
the past 60 years the Stroum JCC has been
in one or two places — Mercer Island and
Seattle’s Northend — that model doesn’t
necessarily work anymore.
“As compared w it h just 50 years
ago, today’s Jews have far fewer Jewish
spouses, friends, neighbors and cowork-
ers,” she told the crowd on April 29 at the
JCC’s Circle of Friends brunch. “Yet it is
clear, from a recent [Jewish Community
Center Association] national benchmark
study that Jewish continuity is directly
linked to making Jewish friends and
nourishing those connections.”
In her first year, Neuman said she has
committed to partnering with other local
agencies for programming both on-site
and elsewhere in the community using
what she called their “new mobile JCC
strategy.”
Neuman pointed to a Purim party in
which the JCC partnered with the Kavana
Cooperative, the Jewish Federation’s PJ
Library program and Herzl-Ner Tamid
Conservative Congregation, and a part-
nership with Washington State Holocaust
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Elena Kagan t Page 1
office (veterans were allowed to recruit
independently) due to of the military’s
discriminatory hiring policies on gays.
Kagan inherited the policy when she
became dean in 2003, but she was not
shy about agreeing with it. When the
Bush administration in 2004 threat-
ened to withdraw funding, she rescinded
the ban, but wrote to the student body,
according to the authoritative SCOTUS
Blog, of “how much I regret making this
exception to our anti-discrimination
policy. I believe the military’s discrim-
inatory employment policy is deeply
wrong — both unwise and unjust. And
this wrong tears at the fabric of our own
community by denying an opportunity
to some of our students that other of our
students have.”
Such stirring defenses are absent
from White House materials that have
Joel Magalnick emerged on the matter. Instead, the
Popular Israeli musician and 2009 Obama administration is distributing an
Eurovision winner Achinoam Nini, Op-Ed that appeared May 11 in the Wall
known to her fans as Noa, sings the Street Journal by her predecessor at Har-
motzi at the Stroum JCC’s April 29 vard Law, Robert Clark.
luncheon. “As dean, Ms. Kagan basically fol-
lowed a strategy toward military recruit-
Education Resource Center for their Yom ing that was already in place,” Clark
HaShoah program last month as examples wrote, not mentioning her stated ideolog-
of how the agency is “committed to filling ical investment in the matter.
gaps, not duplicating efforts,” she said. Another debate pertains more closely
Neuman, who took over as CEO in to an issue that divides Jews: Federal
September 2009, is putting into play a funding for faith-based initiatives.
plan set forth by the JCC’s board that Kagan clerked for Thurgood Marshall
includes expanding its community reach in the late 1980s, and in a memorandum
and overhauling its facilities. JCC board to the Supreme Court justice, she said
there was no place for such funding.
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community news
the solicitor general post, Kagan outright
repudiated the position she had force-
fully advanced in 1987.
It was “the dumbest thing I ever read,”
she said. “I was a 27-year-old pipsqueak
and I was working for an 80-year-old
giant in the law and a person who — let us
be frank — had very strong jurispruden-
tial and legal views.”
Her defense was convenient — Mar-
shall, of course, is long dead and unable
to defend himself — and troubling to
Saperstein, whose group joins the major-
ity of Jewish organizations in opposing
such funding.
“People aren’t quite sure what to make
of that,” he said.
The Orthodox Union’s Washington
director, Nathan Diament, on the other
hand, knows just what to make of it .
“As strong proponents of the ‘faith-
based initiative,’ and appropriate gov-
ernment support for the work of religious
organizations, we at the Orthodox Union
find Ms. Kagan’s review and revision of her
views encouraging,” he wrote on his blog.
Saperstein noted that the Religious
Action Center — along with other Jewish
civil liberties groups, like the Anti-Defa-
mation League and the American Jewish
Committee — is preparing questions for
Kagan to be submitted to the Senate Judi-
ciary Committee.
Saperstein, who recalls Kagan from her
Clinton White House days, says she brings
the same deep understanding of all sides
of a debate to the Jewish community.
“She was quite aware of where there
were differences — aid to education, gov-
ernment funding of religious institu-
tions,” he said.
 6 jtnews n friday, may 14, 2010
community news

The keepers of the books of the people of the book

Local chapter of Jewish library association launches with upcoming Seattle conference

Joel Magalnick De Hirsch Sinai and

Editor, JTNews
While for most the Fourth of July is
about spending a day on the beach, at the
park, or behind the grill, a select few who
love books and education are hoping to
bring the local Jewish community inside
for a break from the heat this Indepen-
dence Day. The event, which will kick
off the Association of Jewish Libraries’
annual convention, is being held this year
for the first time in Seattle.
While the convention itself is like any
other affinity trade group’s — sessions
that help people to better do their jobs,
networking, and opportunities to catch
up with colleagues from around the world
— the day the meeting planners have
opened up to the public is being billed as
“The Fourth at the Fairmont” because it
will take place at the Spanish Foyer of the
Fairmont Olympic Hotel. On hand will be
exhibitors of Jewish books and publica-
tions as well as activities such as a presen-
tation by the PJ Library, the program that
sends Jewish-themed books to small chil-
dren, music by Temple Beth Am’s house
band the KlezKidz, poetry, and local
Jewish authors signing their books.
While a few local Jewish librarians
have been involved in putting the con-
ference together, they have bigger aims
than just three days in July. They want to
finally put the Pacific Northwest on the
map when it comes to available resources
for Jewish librarians and educators.
Librarians Toby Harris, left, and Rita Frischer with some of the
titles being talked about at this year’s Association of Jewish
Libraries conference in Seattle.
“I’ve watched, since ’79, when I really
got active in this organization, the dif-
ference that the organization made in
Los Angeles, which is a sprawling place
and has no real cohesiveness,” said Rita
Frischer, a librarian who now lives in
Seattle. She has taken on an advisory role
in planning the conference. “The way that
having Jewish libraries worked…with the
education council, and working with all
the schools enlivened Jewish life.”
But the association isn’t just for Jews.
“There are actually plenty of librarians
who work in day schools and other places,
or higher institutions, who aren’t Jewish,
and they come to these conferences so they
can learn about what they’re providing,”
said Toby Harris, the librarian at Temple
co-chair of the Seat-
tle conference.
Some of the chap-
ter members aren’t
Jewish, either. Marion
Scichilone, branch
library manager for
the Seattle Public
L i b r a r y ’s No r t h-
east and Walling-
ford branches, joined
because “I was just
intrigued, interested
Joel Magalnick and felt that this type
of professional partic-
ipation would be great
for me personally as
well as profession-
ally,” she said. “Especially for the reading
interest and use of our branch, I felt that [in]
participation in this group and attending
the convention there would be synergy.”
The Nort heast branch is located
across the street from Congregation Beth
Shalom and the meeting place for Con-
gregation Eitz Or, as well as within walk-
ing distance of three other synagogues.
Scichilone said that as a librarian for
a large public system, she can offer many
different types of support for smaller
institutions while bringing what she
learns at events like the AJL convention
back to her own staff. At the same time,
she has been doing her own learning
about Judaism.
“I’m not thinking that [I’m] going to
If you go:
The Fourth at the Fairmont, the
public portion of the Association of
Jewish Libraries’ international
convention, will take place Sun.,
July 4 from noon–5 p.m. in the
Spanish Foyer at the Fairmont
Olympic Hotel, 411 University St.,
Seattle. Local educators are invited
to a one-day session that will
include a presentation by Liat
Zaidenberg of the Jewish
Federation’s Jewish Education
Center. Contact ajlnw@earthlink.net
for rates and information.
become fluent in Jewish literacy or mate-
rials, but it just helps me to be able to put
my work as a public librarian in perspec-
tive,” she said.
The conference’s keynote speaker, Dr.
Joseph Janes, is a luminary in the library
scene: The associate professor in the
University of Washington’s Information
School was the founding director of the
Internet Public Library and has written
eight books on the relationship between
libraries and technology.
Technology is often one of two big
challenges — money, of course, being the
other — that keeps a collection of books
on a shelf from becoming a useful library.
Harris said she hopes the nascent local
u Page 12

Would you wear these glasses?

By Amy Weisband
I wear glasses. In fact, T
These were the actual glasses of an elderly
without them I cannot Russian Jew, who received them after
see a thing. Every morning returning from battle in World War II.
I struggle to locate them H wore them as his only pair for 46
He
on my night stand so years. Funds raised through the Jewish
that I can navigate my Federation’s Community Campaign
way through daily life. allowed the man who wore these glasses—
They allow me to see my and did everything he could think of to
children’s faces, read, make them last 46
work, drive and live a y
years because he
satisfying life. If you also could not afford
wear glasses to see, you to replace them—
can relate to what it get a new pair
would feel like to live of glasses. A pair
without them—the frustra- that actually
tions and challenges that allowed him to see,
surround you when without cloth, string,
everything is a blur. glue or rubber between his eyes and
the world. Through the Community
Now, I want you to take a Campaign and our partner agencies like
moment and imagine that the the American Jewish Joint Distribution
ones shown here are your Committee, or JDC, we work to ensure no
daily glasses. These are what you one in our extended Jewish family here or
fumble for each morning and put around the world, has to spend their life looking
on so that you can move around at the world through glasses like these.
without bumping into things. So that
you can read. Look at your children. Provided by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle
Or simply function. You have had to wrap
them, tape them and sew them so that you could make
them last, because you did not have the funds to replace them...
for 46 years.

www.JewishInSeattle.org
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emily’s corner

Meeting across the cultures

How the food associated with Shavuot brings us back to Temple times

Emily Moore
JTNews
Columnist
When Shavuot was celebrated in first
Temple times, what a celebration it was!
It marked the end of the counting of the
omer, begun with the barley harvest and
the Passover holiday, meaning the wheat
harvest was coming in and barley cakes
were now joined in the Jews’ diet by real
bread (pita and flatbreads), risen with
natural yeasts and the gluten in wheat.
Flowers were blooming in the desert
and the baby goats and lambs, born early
in the spring, were weaned onto new
grasses so their mothers’ milk could now
be eaten by the people, made into yogurt
and cheese. This plenty of the land was
brought to the Temple from all over the
territory of Israel in commemoration of
the giving of the Torah at Sinai and the
covenant with Yahweh that made the
Jews the people we still are.
Not surprising, of course, that a fes-
tival honoring the giving of the Torah
would be jubilantly celebrated with food.
During those times, most Jews were
agrarian and bringing joyful offerings of
new foods to the Temple was traditional
and natural. We can imagine a lot of fun:
Roasting new male lambs for the ritual
sacrifices, so the Temple priests receiving
their tithes of food also meant a big bar-
becue at the Temple for the people, meet-
ing old friends for gossip and sharing
news, and seeing how the children had
grown over the weeks since Passover.
After the Diaspora, the need to keep
Shavuot traditions alive created sym-
bolic food associations among the differ-
ent scattered tribes. The eating of cheese
was associated with the holiday because
Mt. Sinai looks like a loaf of cheese, or the
word for Hebrew word for milk, “chalav,”
has the numerological sum of 40 — the
same number of days Moses spent on
Sinai receiving the Torah. The miracle of
mother’s milk, which nourishes a new-
born with everything it needs is like the
Torah, which similarly nourishes the
Jewish people.
Here are some recipes for Shavuot that
celebrate both the old food traditions and
the Diaspora: Recipes from the Ashke-
nazic and Sephardic cultures.
This is a Russian pancake pie, basi-
cally crepe-like pancakes layered with
a simple mozzarella and ricotta filling,
then baked, cut in wedges, and served
with (what else?) sour cream and fruit
sauce — like blintzes, but much easier.
Great for brunch or any Shavuot meal.
Blinchatky Pirog
Filling:
2 eggs
6 oz. fresh mozzarella, cut into 1” pieces
4 oz. ricotta
1/2 tsp. salt or to taste
2 Tbs. sugar or to taste
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. nutmeg or cinnamon (optional)
Place all ingredients in a food processor bowl
or a blender jar and process or blend until
smooth. Set aside, refrigerated.
Pancake Batter:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. sugar
4 large eggs
2 cups nonfat milk
4 Tbs. melted butter
Blend the eggs and milk in a food processor
bowl or blender jar till smooth. Slowly add
the flour mixed with the salt and sugar and
blend just till smooth. Add the butter last.
If any lumps remain in the batter, strain through
a fine strainer. Set the batter aside, covered, in
the fridge for a couple of hours or overnight.
Making the pancakes
You’ll need about 3 Tbs. butter or cooking oil or
non-stick spray and a 6” or 8” non-stick skillet.
Heat the pan over medium-high heat and spray
with non-stick spray or wipe lightly with melted
butter or oil on a paper towel. When the pan
is sizzling lightly, take the pan off the heat,
scoop about 1/3 cup of batter (1/4 cup for a
6” pan) in a cup measure, and pour in a circle
in the middle of the hot pan. Immediately tip
and turn the pan around so the batter covers
the entire bottom of the pan. Put back on the
heat and cook until the top of the pancake has
bubbled and cooked till it’s dry.
Just cook on one side and turn out onto a plate.
Continue making pancakes until all the batter
is used.
Assembly
Grease an 8” cake pan or pie pan generously
with non-stick spray, oil or butter. Place a
pancake in the pan, spread with a little (about
2 Tbs.) filling and top with another pancake.
Continue until the filling is used up. (If you
have pancakes left, roll them up with sour
cream or yogurt and jam for a really yummy
treat!)
Cover the pan with aluminum foil, place in a 350º
oven for 18 to 20 minutes until the filling is
cooked and set. Take off the foil. Loosen the
sides of the pie with a small knife run around
the sides and place a warm plate upside down
on top of the pie or cake pan. Invert the pie
onto the plate, cut into wedges and serve with
sour cream, vanilla yogurt and any fruit sauce
or syrup (applesauce of course is traditional
but any fresh fruit, fruit sauce or compote is
great). Enjoy!
Serves 6 to 8
Here is a traditional Turkish Anatolian
soup often made with barley and leftover
roasted chicken. I have modified it to use
barley (for the end of the counting of the
omer), mushrooms and the traditional
yogurt finish.
If you like, you can replace the barley
with faro, or spelt grains, an ancient wheat
type that has less gluten than wheat and is
appropriate for people who can’t tolerate
the gluten in wheat. It’s available at PCC,
Whole Foods and most grocery stores that
sell bulk foods or “Bob’s Red Mill” pack-
aged grains. Some historians claim spelt
was more commonly used in Biblical times
than modern wheat and it is absolutely
delicious. If using faro (spelt), increase the
cooking time. Faro has lately become one
of my favorite dishes. Try it if you can!
Yogurtlu Corbasi
Barley Soup with Yogurt
1 large onion, chopped
1 lb. white or crimini mushrooms, cleaned and
sliced
1/2 lb. shiitake mushrooms, stems removed
and sliced
3 Tbs. butter, olive oil or margarine
2 cloves garlic, sliced
2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. white pepper
1 cup pearl barley or faro
10 cups water or vegetable broth or bouillon
Big pinch saffron threads
2 Tbs. chopped flat-leaf parsley plus 2 or 3
Tbs. for garnish
4 Tbs. chopped fresh mint plus 2 or 3 Tbs. for
garnish
2 cups plain yogurt (whole milk Greek-style is
best)
3 Tbs. toasted pine nuts for garnish (optional)
In a four-quart soup pot, sauté the onion in 1
Tbs. butter, margarine or oil until soft and
golden. Add all the sliced mushrooms, the
rest of the oil (or fat) and the garlic and increase
the heat to medium-high. Season with salt
and pepper and cook for about 10 minutes,
stirring occasionally, until the mushrooms are
golden brown and any liquid they have
released has been re-absorbed.
Turn the heat down to medium, add the barley
or faro and stir until all the grains are coated
with oil. Add the water or vegetable broth or
bouillon, stir the bottom of the pot to release
any caramelization and bring to a boil. Crush
the saffron with the back of a spoon on a little
plate and stir it into the broth.
Turn the heat down and simmer the soup, partially
covered, for about one hour or until the barley
or faro is swollen and tender (faro will take about
15 to 20 minutes longer to become tender) and
the mushroom flavor is pronounced. Add the
parsley and mint and adjust the seasoning,
remembering that the yogurt will add tartness.
Add more liquid if the soup seems a little thick.
Just before serving, beat the yogurt in a bowl
with a few ladles of the soup. Then pour the
yogurt mixture back into the soup, beating
vigorously with a whisk over low heat. Heat
just until hot, stirring constantly. Don’t allow
the soup to boil or it will curdle. Serve with
more chopped mint and parsley and the
toasted pine nuts if you like.
Serves 8 to 10

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Into the wreckage
Head of Israeli Defense Forces Haiti response team
recounts efforts following January earthquake
Erez Ben-Ari
JTNews Correspondent
“You know, we are Israelis, and we’ve
got chutzpah!”
With these words Daniel Biran, admin-
istrative ambassador to the Israel Consul-
ate of New York, described some of his
team’s interactions with the incredible,
and often impossible, circumstances they
had to deal with during the Haiti rescue
operations in January of this year. Biran,
who headed the advance Israeli team to
Port-au-Prince following the devastating
earthquake that struck the area, spoke
about his experiences at a presentation for
the Maimonides Society, the Jewish Fed-
eration of Greater Seattle’s medical pro-
fessionals’ affinity group, on May 6.
Biran started his presentation with
a video showcasing some of the hor-
rific damage suffered by Port-au-Prince
during the earthquake. He gave the audi-
ence a glimpse of what it is like to rescue
lives in a place that can barely sustain
human life.
“Just getting there,” Biran said, “was
nearly impossible. The city’s airport
was almost completely destroyed, so as
I sprung from my home in New York to
survey the area, I quickly realized that
flying there was impossible.”
Biran and a small crew of rescue work-
ers took a flight to Santo Domingo, and
realized that even driving to cross the
Haitian border, which normally takes
six to seven hours, was impossible. With
such rescue operations, the first 72 hours
are the most critical, so while another
team in Israel was looking into preparing
aircraft with the required manpower and
equipment, Biran tried to rent a private
jet as a means of quickly getting to Port-
au-Prince.
When this turned out to be impossible
as well, he was able to convince a local
American army force to take him and his
men on one of their choppers.
“The cooperation with the U.S. Army
throughout the operation was great,”
Biran said. “They helped us a lot, and were
very nice about it, even though we were a
constant nag.”
Once they landed, he said, “we found
ourselves in the middle of one huge post-
apocalyptic ‘battleground.’ Thousands of
people were on the street, as their homes
[were] destroyed, looking for food and
water.
“At that point, we already knew Israel
was sending in two aircrafts carrying
over 200 men and over 75 tons of equip-
ment, but even though the planes were
already in the air, we had no idea where to
actually land them,” Biran said. “But the Courtesy Summit at First Hill
Israeli chutzpah helped us out again.” Israeli Administrative Ambassador Daniel Biran met Stan Erlitz, left, Rachel Stone,
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the time, so Biran and his crew requested on-the-ground response to the Haiti earthquake to residents at the Summit at First Hill
a landing slot. They were given a slot, but independent and assisted living facility during his Seattle visit.
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ally got their slots, barely in time to allow
the planes to safely land. Despite having two large jets at their The Israeli rescue team ended up
The team in Israel decided to dedicate disposal, the Israeli team had to make spending two weeks in Haiti, and leav-
more room on the planes to the medical some sacrifices to fit all the necessary ing was not an easy decision to make. “In
staff and equipment, which was the right medical equipment, meaning items like most hospitals, once a patient’s life is no
decision, according to Biran. “The rescue tents and food would not fit and had to be longer at risk, you send them home, but
team was the absolute elite, crème-de-la- brought in from Santo Domingo. in this case, there was no home to send
crème,” he said. “Doctors left their pri- “We found a kosher food supplier in our patients to,” Biran said. “However,
vate practices, senior civil engineers and Santo Domingo, but our rabbi didn’t once the prime minister of Israel made
architects left their offices without hesi- accept it as it was not kosher enough,” the decision to discontinue, we insisted
tation and flew for 16 hours to spend an Biran said. on finding a solution to every patient, one
unknown amount of time crawling under However, the New York Jewish com- by one, no matter what.”
shaky concrete wreckage. This kind of munity came to the rescue and shipped During the operation, the Israeli team
sacrifice is incredible.” $20,000 worth of kosher food. According treated 1,100 patients, performed 370 sur-
Onc e hav i ng la nded, t he tea m to Biran, even the patients enjoyed the geries and 16 emergency baby deliveries.
deplaned, and instead of taking much- kosher food, and the improvised hospital “This sort of operation is extremely
needed rest, commenced in setting up a quickly became not only the best — and difficult to realize,” he emphasized, “but
base and a hospital that started to receive only — hospital in the city, but also the Israel will always be there to help other
patients the next morning, a mere eight best hotel and restaurant, feeding thou- nations in time of need.”
hours past touchdown. sands of survivors daily.

Judaism at America’s edge
Putting Pacific coast Jewry on the cultural map
Martin S.
Jaffee
JTNews Columnist
Readers may recall that about a year
ago, my collection of JTNews columns was
published as The End of Jewish Radar. It
was the subtitle, however, that really tele-
graphed the book’s argument : “Snapshots
of a Post-ethnic American Judaism.”
My point was that something is hap-
pening in Seattle and, indeed, throughout
the region we call the “Pacific Northwest”
that signals a real shift in the character of
North American Jewish culture. Instead
of nourishing itself at the breast of the
Jewish cultures of New York and L.A.,
something is happening among us that
might in fact be trend-setting in the con-
text of American Jewish history. Is Amer-
ican Jewish culture beginning to flow
from West to East?
Some readers have challenged my
point, arguing that — given the number
of Hebrew and Yiddish expressions that
required a glossary of over a hundred
terms — the book’s evidence for “post-
ethnicity” among PNW Jews may be over-
stated. They may have a point; but, in any
case, since I offered my comments in the
spirit of journalistic provocation rather
than academic sobriety, my job was to be
entertaining rather than right! [Editor’s
note: Hey, wait a second!]
That’s why I was fascinated to learn
that the U W Press (which declined,
ahem, to publish my own book) has just
now released a volume entitled Jews of
the Pacific Coast: Reinventing Commu-
nity on America’s Edge. The authors, Ellen
Eisenberg, Ava F. Kahn, and William Toll,
are all professional historians with long-
standing interests in our region’s Jewish
history.
The idea of “reinventing community”
at a place called “America’s Edge” really
caught my attention. Would I find, in this
book, scholarly kindling to feed the fires
of my own journalistic intuitions?
In a word: No. Which is both a good
thing and, I think, a bad thing. Let me
explain.
First the very good news. This book,
which traces the history of West Coast
Jewish cultural and communal institu-
tions from the earliest migrants to San
Francisco till about 2005, is the first of its
kind that I’m aware of. The authors see
the region of the “Pacific Coast” (broadly
envisioned as incorporating the states of
California, Nevada, Oregon, and Wash-
ington, as well as parts of British Colum-
bia, Idaho, Colorado, and Arizona) as
a Jewishly meaningful cultural entity
that has its own “story” within the larger
“story” of American Jewish history.
friday, may 14, 2010
The authors argue, convincingly I
think, that just as Northeast, Southern,
or Midwestern American culture is part
of the larger context that colored the cul-
ture of American Jewries of those regions,
so too the culture of the Pacific Coast has
decisively shaped the Jewish culture of
our region.
They point out differences in patterns
of migration that distinguish Pacific Coast
Jewries from those of the Eastern, South-
ern, and Midwestern Jewish population
centers. The specific economic opportu-
nities of the Pacific Coast wrought subtle
differences in areas as diverse as residen-
tial patterns, philanthropic projects, and
the meaning of “religious” and “ethnic”
identity. Even the threat of anti-Semitism
and its role in Jewish life are measurably
different in the relatively libertarian and
“unchurched” Pacific West than in the
fabled East.
Not only have the authors done a won-
derful job of telling the “story” of Western
Jewry in a way that distinguishes it from
other American-Jewish regional cultures,
they also tease out the nuances of differ-
ence within the diverse Jewish cultures of
the Pacific West. They tell a multi-dimen-
sional tale of many cities and their hin-
terlands. San Francisco and Los Angeles
dominate the narrative, as well they
should. But plenty of attention is drawn
to the fortunes of Portland, Seattle, Bell-
ingham (who knew?), Spokane, Denver,
Phoenix, and other centers of significant
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Jewish settlement.
A nd if the generalit y of A meri-
can Jewish historical memory is domi-
nated by the Ashkenazic experience, this
book gives the fullest accounting of the
Sephardic experience in the American
Pacific Coast that I’m aware of in a book
not devoted entirely to Sephardic-Amer-
ican history.
Complete with archival photos, charts
of population shifts, and all the other
accoutrements of professional histori-
ography (hundreds of notes and a large
bibliography), the book is a goldmine of
up-to-date information. It is also writ-
ten with a light touch and an eye toward
the general reader. Its large format and
wonderful pictures make it appear like
the proverbial “coffee table book,” but it’s
much more.
Nevertheless, the book fails, in a way,
to deliver on the promise of its subti-
tle. Readers expecting textured descrip-
tions of Jewish folkways of “community
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m.o.t.: member of the tribe
The Jerusalem Post
Crossword Puzzle
“Brainy Words”
By Matt Gaffney
Across
1. Hebrew for “fish”
4. Last word of the last paragraph of
the Shema
8. Exonerate
13. God, to the Jews
14. Pitiful, as an effort
15. “Otherwise Known As ___ the
Great” (Judy Blume book)
16. Former SNL star Kazurinsky
17. Describe
18. Gave a bad review, a la Joel Siegel
19. PART ONE OF A QUOTE
22. Some horses
23. Preordain the outcome
24. One-time El Al rival
27. Verve
28. Katie of “Married...with
Children”
31. Needs for Morgan Pressel
32. Deborah Lipstadt’s university
34. Like Leopold Bloom
35. PART TWO OF QUOTE
39. Sky wonders
40. Make a diving grab
41. Company that provided Blitz
trucks to the Nazis
42. In a playfully reserved fashion
44. Dutch cheese
48. ___ Tag (Yiddish newspaper)
49. 1988 film with Meg Ryan and
Daniel Stern
50. Greenpeace concern
51. PART THREE OF QUOTE
56. Horse-related
58. “Metamorphoses” author
59. “I can ___ it for you wholesale”
60. Ottoman Empire base
61. Adam and Eve’s status
62. Common street name
63. Holders for Ben and Jerry’s
64. Between Passover and Shavuot
65. “Norma ___” (movie with Ron
Liebman)
Answers on page 23
may 14, 2010
Down
1. Languish in prison
2. Noah’s ark passenger
3. Commentary on mishnah
4. Important island in Jewish
history
5. Common street name
6. Poet Lazarus (“Send these to
me”)
7. Circus structure
8. Tina Cohen-___ (Asian “Glee”
character)
9. Nazi filmmaker Riefenstahl
10. SOURCE OF THE QUOTE
11. Stout
12. Cool, to kids
15. Ruin
20. Moshe Dayan, notably
21. “Rosemary’s Baby” author Levin
25. ___ Bank
26. Tisha B’Av substance
28. “___ Married an Axe Murderer”
(Myers film)
29. Give Uzis
30. Hitler victim
31. Acrobat’s equipment
33. My, to Leon Blum
34. Shapiro and Dershowitz
appeared before him
35. Sulk
36. Nullify a decision, a la Stephen
Breyer
37. Wise bird
38. Reviled attorney Cohn
39. Indicate agreement
42. ___ Island (New York fun spot)
43. Common street name
45. Sandy Koufax was one
46. German Chancellor Merkel
47. “___ in St. Louis”
49. Noted anti-Nazi resisters
50. Less likely to ask the Four
Questions
52. Raise
53. Taboo
54. Egg, to Salk
55. From side to side
56. List-ending letters
57. Quid pro ___
Two people passionate
about their work
One teaches for voice while the other found her voice
Diana
Brement
JTNews
Columnist
When Judith Shahn isn’t teaching at
the University of Washington School of
Drama’s Professional Actor Training Pro-
gram, she works on public speaking skills
with professionals of all sorts through her
business, Vibrant Speaking. She recently
taught an “Empowering Your Voice” class
to lawyers at a Washington State Associa-
tion for Justice meeting in Seattle.
“It’s a no-brainer why actors need to
work on their voices,” she says — mean-
ing speaking voice, not singing voice.
“For lawyers it’s also a no-brainer that
they need to be really vibrant and using
their voices in a skillful way… [and] find
their presence and persona in the court-
room,” where there is plenty of drama.
She’ll repeat that class in Spokane this
month.
Judith has taught at PATP for 20 years
and carries the title of senior lecturer in
voice and dialec-
tics. The exclu-
sive prog ram
takes about eight
students out of
1,000 applicants
every other year.
Before the U, she
t aug ht at Cor-
nish College of
the Arts and she Courtesy Judith
started out as an Shahn
actor herself. Professional speaking
Growing up in coach Judith Shahn.
Great Neck, N.Y.,
she got her MFA from Carnegie Mellon
and worked as an actor in New York for
about seven years. She went to a lot of
auditions where there were “500 women
who looked like me,” she says. Tiring of
that, she came to Seattle with its “smaller
pond and much tighter community.”
While working at Seattle Children’s
Theater, she was asked to teach voice to
teens at their drama school. That led to
the job at Cornish where, feeling like she
needed more training, she became certi-
fied in the Linklater method, created by
Kristen Linklater in the 1970s.
She and her husband, Jay Lurie, are
members of Temple Beth Am, where her
daughter, Ella, just became Bat Mitz-
vah. Judith credits her mother, Ruth
Goldman, who died recently and unex-
pectedly, for getting her involved in the
synagogue.
“She was the root of my caring about
Judaism,” says Judith. “An amazing
woman, she was such a strong influence
on my life.”
I couldn’t resist asking Judith if she’d
had any famous students. She can claim
Brendan Fraser at Cornish, and Joel
McHale (From NBC’s “Community”) at
the UW.
PATP students “have a pretty good
working actor statistic,” but, she points
out, they “go off to L.A. or New York to
a profession where there’s 90 percent
unemployment.”
Judith herself hasn’t been on stage
recently, but “if that door opens, I would
love to.”
One interesting part of her business
is accent reduction. “It’s surprising how
many calls I get for that,” she says. She’s
worked with people from all over the
world.
“They want to be more understood,”
she says. “It takes a lot of dedication and
focus…to change one’s accent, but people
can do it.”
Find information on Vibrant Speaking
at www.vibrantspeaking.com.
•••
Most of us aren’t lucky enough to
know what we want to do when we are
13, but Melissa Bloom, the new director
of administration of Bellevue’s Temple
B’nai Torah, says she did.
“I always had a passion for becom-
ing an executive director, since I was 13,”
she says.
Growing up in Portland, Ore., “I had
a very influential executive director in
my life,” Sheri Cordova at Congrega-
tion Neve Shalom, the city’s Conserva-
tive shul.
“I was working with her because I
was very involved in [United Synagogue
Youth],” Melissa explains. As an organized
person, Melissa thought that combining
that skill with her “love and passion for
Judaism” could come “together nicely to
help an organiza-
tion succeed.”
However,
her career path
d iver ged f rom
her passion. Dis-
couraged by her
parents f rom
Jewish commu-
nal work, Melissa
Courtesy TBT chose to study
Melissa Bloom, g raphic desig n
Temple B’nai Torah’s at Cornish Col-
new administrator. lege in Seattle.
Her parents were
committed to their congregation, but they
“believed you volunteered at a synagogue,
you didn’t work at a synagogue,” she says.
Unsu re of her academ ic choice,
Melissa quit school to consider what she
wanted to do. Moving back to Portland,
she managed a photo studio and took a
job as a youth director at a synagogue.
“That’s when I decided to follow my
passion,” she says.
Matriculating at the University of
Judaism (now American Jewish Uni-
versity) in Los Angeles, she finished
her undergraduate degree and went
straight into a double masters’ pro-
gram in non-profit business administra-
tion and Jewish communal studies. She
has worked at synagogues and Jewish
camps as a kindergarten teacher, a camp
director, an administrative assistant,
an interim executive director and, most
recently, executive director of Congrega-
tion Beth Ami in Santa Rosa, Calif.
“I got to stay in California longer than
I anticipated,” she says, “[but] I always
wanted to come back [to the Northwest].
I just loved the Jewish community here
and the city life,” says the Camp Solomon
Schechter alum.
Melissa has settled into urban life in
downtown Bellevue with her dog and her
cat and she looks forward to serving the
Eastside congregation.
“B’nai Torah is a large congregation
that fits the needs of many generations,”
she says, and “will hopefully see a lot
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community news

The most meaningful gift

Panel on organ donation explores the ethics and effects of transplant surgery

Janis Siegel obvious signs of death, a corpse that is not

JTNews Correspondent
She was groggy and admittedly still
under the effects of the anesthesia in May
2004 when doctors at Mt. Sinai Hospital in
New York told Katie Edelstein, a Hadas-
sah national executive board member,
that her “extra” kidney was accepted by
the transplant recipient. She replied to the
doctors, without hesitation, “Of course it’s
working. It’s a Hadassah kidney.”
She recalled the story at an April fund-
raiser of the Seattle Chapter Hadassah to
raise money for its hospitals in Israel and for
its To Save a Life Program, Pikuach Nefesh.
Even six years after her organ dona-
tion to another Hadassah member, Edel-
stein’s emotions about the procedure
haven’t diminished. She tried unsuccess-
fully, several times, to hold back her tears
as she spoke.
“Let me ask you this, when you have
something to give to another person
that would save his or her life, would you
help?” Edelstein asked. “It is one of the
most meaningful things a person can do
and by far one of the most meaningful
things I’ve ever done.”
The event at Pacific Science Center’s
Mercer Slough Environmental Educa-
tional Center in Bellevue drew more than
50 members and guests who came to hear
a panel of professionals discuss organ
and tissue donation.
Hadassah Medical Organization pio-
neered some of the first kidney trans-
plants in Israel in 1967, and has continued
to perform successful heart transplants,
heart and lung combinations, and since
then also liver transplants.
They are also at the forefront of embry-
onic stem cell research, which has
already reproduced beating heart cells
coaxed from undifferentiated stem cells
in a petri dish. This process could eventu-
ally allow doctors to grow various human
organs in the lab and theoretically, be
Rabbi Ron-Ami Meyers of Seattle Hebrew Academy and Webyeshiva.org talks about
the ethics behind organ donation at Hadassah’s Pikuach Nefesh event.
used for transplantation, thus eliminat-
ing the need for human donors.
Hadassah Medical Organization is
one of the leading research organizations
in this field, said Edelstein.
When she donated her own kidney, the
waiting list in New York was six years out.
What followed was a rigorous screen-
ing process including blood tests, an
in-depth physical examination, an elec-
trocardiogram, a complete psychological
evaluation, CT scans, and more.
Today, she says she is healthy, feels
fine, and does not have any restrictions
on her activities.
“Donors outlive the general popula-
tion,” said Dr. Connie Davis, a professor
of medicine at the University of Wash-
ington’s Division of Nephrology. Davis is
also the director of Kidney Care Line, and
the medical director at Kidney-Pancreas
Transplantation.
“You’re born with two and you need
one,” Davis told the group. “If you take one
of the kidneys out, what happens to the
other one that’s left is that it gets bigger.”
Davis was one of four panelists that
included the Seattle Hebrew Academy’s
Janis Siegel
Rabbi Ron-Ami Meyers, who spoke about
the Jewish ethics of organ donation; Les
Olson, who discussed organ recovery;
and Edelstein, who shared her experi-
ence as a donor.
“There are 28,000 transplants per-
formed each year,” Davis said, “and 14,000
donations are from deceased donors.
Twelve to 16 people die each day waiting.”
According to Olson, a surgical organ
recovery specialist at LifeCenter North-
west, a person must not be coerced in any
way to do this and must volunteer for the
procedure. He or she must also be psy-
chologically and financially healthy.
In addition, candidates for organ
donation are ruled out if they have AIDS,
metastatic cancer, a chronic infection,
and certain types of the hepatitis virus,
among other exclusions.
But the initial obstacle in the process
of organ donation for those facing the
death of a loved one, said Olson, is deter-
mining when to give up and acknowledge
that he or she really gone, with no hope of
resuscitation.
“Most people in the throes of facing the
possible loss of a loved one are looking for
breathing and not moving,” Olson said.
“A person is brain dead when the entire
brain is dead, including the brain stem.
The loss of brain stem reflexes are
determined by the absence of spontane-
ous movement, spontaneous respiration,
any heartbeat that can be detected on an
EKG, and normal cerebral blood flow.
“The question is, what is death?”
said Meyers, an educator at SHA and at
webyeshiva.org. “The answer is that
Jewish law fundamentally draws on the
medical community to make a decision.”
According to Jewish law, Meyers said,
the admonition to not “stand idly by the
blood of your brother or the blood of
your neighbor” instructs Jews to save or
defend another person to save his life. In
other words, said Meyers, if you can save
someone, do it, but not at the expense of
your own safety. It is forbidden in Jewish
law for anyone to risk his own life to save
another’s.
However, that is when rabbinical
opinions diverge, he said. The simple test
of whether someone is breathing or not
breathing is now a debate about whether
there is an “irreversible cessation of
breathing.”
The danger of declaring someone dead
too soon is all too possible, according to
some Jewish legal scholars. If doctors rees-
tablish an earlier criteria for determining
death that allows for the continual circula-
tion of blood in a patient kept breathing on
a respirator, and therefore provides organs
that result in more successful transplants,
the temptation might be, some say, to
declare patients brain dead, keep them
on respirators to facilitate blood flow, and
harvest their organs for transplantation to
serve a “higher good.”
Traditionally, rabbis have agreed that
decapitation establishes certain death,
added Meyers, but other rabbis accept
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Stroum JCC t Page 5 While the meal was a fundraising

president Lindsey Schwartz told the
crowd that the board had committed to a
three-year strategic vision, of which he’s
already begun to see results.
“All of this points to a new direction
for the JCC and informs and supports our
brilliant future,” Schwartz said.
A video created by local company
Sadis Filmworks, and posted on the
SJCC’s Web site, showed how Neuman
and the JCC staff are working to put that
vision into practice.
Neuman also made note of the chang-
ing landscape when it comes to how JCCs
around the country have traditionally
operated.
“In push i ng ou rselves, we have
acknowledged the JCC’s traditional busi-
ness model could put us at risk long
term,” she said. “For those of you who
have come to the ‘J’ over the past many
months, I believe you are experiencing
real change right now. We are addressing
tough issues, making enhancements to
our programs and services, collaborating
more then ever, and bringing Jewish life
back to every day at the ‘J.’”
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event, it wasn’t intended to bolster the
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Local developer Martin Selig, who was
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For the larger community, Weinberg
noted benefits that extend beyond the tra-
ditional clientele served by JFS.
“We only have one small meeting
room at the moment and it is barely ade-
quate for our internal purposes,” he said.
“In the new building we are planning
more space, including a large room that
can be divided for various meeting con-
figurations. We are planning to make it
available for more than just JFS.”
For individual clients, the privacy
issue will be answered.
“There will be an entrance for people
coming to JFS for confidential meetings
and a lobby for just that purpose,” Wein-
berg said. “There will also be a new public
entrance.”
The building could take 10 to 12
months to complete, meaning a year of
adjustments for both JFS staff and clients.
“We are developing a list of nearby
available parking we will make avail-
able,” Weinberg said. “Many of our clients
Jewish Libraries t Page 6
chapter can be useful to provide techno-
logical resources its members, particularly
smaller libraries in small communities.
“What I think would be really exciting
would be to get all our libraries online and
to have a centralized place where people
can go and see who has which Judaic books,
resources and training,” Harris said.
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and staff do use transit or other methods
of transportation as well.”
JFS hopes to be able occupy the 16th
tity, Frischer believes.
“I think it’s really important that all
our children see our commitment to edu-
cation as extending beyond the secu-
lar and showing some dignity within the
Jewish framework as well,” Frischer said.
Harris agreed.
“We’re information centers,” she said.
“We help vet information. We organize it
for you. Everyone doesn’t like research-
ing. I love researching.”
But the chapter growth comes next —
first comes the conference. Most of the
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Avenue facility for at least the next 25 to 30
years beginning in late 2011 or early 2012.
“We have planned for growth of pro-
planning is complete. Book award win-
ners have been notified; the authors are
booked — they include Maggie Anton of
Rashi’s Daughters fame and Jacqueline
Dunbar Greene, who wrote the Jewish
addition to the “American Girl” series —
and the sessions are scheduled. At this
point they’re dotting the i’s, processing
registrations, and picking the menu.
“AJL has always been committed to
having kosher conferences,” Harris said.
“We do want to have meals together, and if
we want to do that we’ve got to be kosher.”
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grams in constructing the Jessie Danz
Building,” he said. “It is not like we will
move in and suddenly again be out of
space.”
Loeb concurred. She pointed out that
the board is cognizant of the wave of
graying baby-boomers rapidly approach-
ing.
“We are planning for that and know
that the demand for services is going to
rise in the next few decades,” she said.
“This is a project that has that in mind.”
Weinberg and Loeb say they are par-
ticularly gratified that raising the money
so far has been separate from program
funding. Weinberg says the community
is generous in contributing to those pro-
grams and he thinks asking for a new
building is not an extravagance, even in
the rough economic times that have been
part and parcel of the past two years.
“We have been around 118 years and
this is the first time we have built a new
structure designed specifically for JFS
and for our community,” he said. “Once
in 118 years doesn’t seem excessive.”
Organ Donation t Page 11
that the loss of brain stem function is
death and that liquefaction of the brain
is also death. In any case, he said, the
bottom line remains the same.
“The principal in Jewish law is clear,”
Meyers said. “If a person is dead then you
can transplant the organ in the body. If
they’re not dead, then you can’t. You can’t
kill a person to save a person because the
Torah says you value the person who is
alive.”
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The Madison Park Café provides full-service catering for all your Jewish lifecycle events including B’nai Mitzvah, weddings, prepares and serves elegant dinners at home or on location.
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The café offers French bistro food and professional service as well as wine, liquor, beer and rentals. Serving the Jewish community for 26 years, Thierry is able
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community calendar
friday, may 14 – Friday, may 28
The JTNews calendar presents a selection of
ongoing events in the Jewish community. For
a complete listing of events, or to add your
event to the JTNews calendar, visit www.
jtnews.net. Calendar events must be submit-
ted no later than 10 days before publication.
Candle Lighting Times
5/14/10 8:20 p.m.
5/21/10 8:29 p.m.
5/28/10 8:37 p.m.
6/4/10 8:43 p.m.
Friday 14
■■6:45 p.m. – Mega Shabbat
Jacob at jacob@hilleluw.org
Jconnect, the Ravenna Kibbutz and the Kavana
Cooperative are joining forces for a special
Shabbat blow-out. Drinks and schmoozing at
6:45 p.m., followed by two Shabbat services
to choose from at 7:15 p.m. $12 for post-
service dinner. At Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave.
NE, Seattle.
■■6 p.m. – Edwin L. Bierman Scholar-in-
Residence Weekend with Prof. Vanessa L.
Ochs
Carol Benedick at 206-524-0075 or
carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or
www.bethshalomseattle.org
Vanessa L. Ochs, professor of religious studies
at the University of Virginia, offers an explo-
ration of new Jewish rituals. $25/person
includes dinner and Shabbat service. Member
discount available. Children 3 years and under
free. Childcare available by pre-registration.
At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave.
NE, Seattle.
Saturday 15
■■11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. – GLBTQ Shabbat
Brunch
Josh at joshf@hilleluw.org
Join Kolenu, Jconnect’s young adult GLBTQ
group, for a Shabbat brunch/oneg. At Cal
Anderson Park.
■■1:15 p.m. – Edwin L. Bierman Scholar-in-
Residence Weekend with Prof. Vanessa L.
Ochs
Carol Benedick at 206-524-0075 or
carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or
www.bethshalomseattle.org
Vanessa L. Ochs takes a look at some of the
most curious, infuriating, and dazzling
passages of Talmud. Free. At Congregation
Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■2 – 4p.m. – Seattle Cheese Festival
Josh at joshf@hilleluw.org
In preparation for Shavuot, Jconnect hosts an
outing to the annual Seattle Cheese Festival.
At Pike Place Market.
■■6 p.m. – Cardozo Society L’Dor V’Dor
End-of-Year Reception
www.jewishinseattle.org
SJCS Annual Meeting & Dessert Reception
Monday, May 17, 2010
7:00 p.m. n SJCS Auditorium
Honoring
Debra J.G. Butler
Founding Principal 1991-1995
Advisory Board 1996-2005
Head of School 2006-2010
Volunteer of the Year
Seth Rosenbloom
R.S.V.P. to development@seattlejcs.org.
www.sjcs.net n 206.522.5212
12351 8th Avenue NE n Seattle 98125
may 14, 2010
The Cardozo Society of Washington State’s
2nd annual L’Dor V’Dor End of Year reception,
honoring 2010 award recipient Robert Sulkin.
At the China Room in the Smith Tower, 506
2nd Ave., Seattle.
■■8 p.m. – Edwin L. Bierman Scholar-in-
Residence Weekend with Prof. Vanessa L.
Ochs
Carol Benedick at 206-524-0075 or
carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or
www.bethshalomseattle.org
Vanessa L. Ochs explores what Jewish tradition
has to say about dreaming, dream interpreta-
tion, and rituals for incubating dreams and
chasing away nightmares. Dessert and
Havdalah included. RSVP requested. Free. At
Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave.
NE, Seattle.
Sunday 16
■■11 a.m. – Girls Just Want to Have Fun
www.chabadissaquah.com/rsvp
A class on making dairy desserts and flower
topiary for Shavuot. Also includes a panel
discussion about maintaining balance in busy
lives. At Chabad of the Central Cascades,
24121 SE Black Nugget Rd., Issaquah.
■■2 – 3 p.m. – Meditation
kibbutznik@ravennakibbutz.org
Meditation hour. All are welcome. At Ravenna
Kibbutz Gimmel, 6211 23rd Ave. NE,
Seattle.
■■5 p.m. – The Seattle Kollel’s 19th Annual
Gala Dinner
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or
info@seattlekollel.org
Fundraising gala for the Seattle Kollel. At the
Marriott Waterfront, 1200 Alaskan Way,
Seattle.
Monday 17
■■12:30 p.m. – Our Upstairs Neighbors
Roni Antebi at ronia@sjcc.org
Al Ziontz discusses his memoir, Our Upstairs
Neighbors. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer
Way, Mercer Island.
■■3:30 p.m. – Israeli Secret Services and
Struggle Against Terror
www.jsis.washington.edu/jewish
An expert on terror and political extremism,
Prof. Ami Pedahzur of the University of Texas,
Austin, argues in his talk “Israeli Secret Services
and the Struggle Against Terrorism” that Israel’s
strict reliance on the elite units of the intelligence
community is fundamentally flawed. At 120
Communications, University of Washington.
■■7:30 p.m. – The Way to Pray
info@shevetachim.com
Rabbi Kornfeld explains the structure of
Shavuot davening. Free. At Northwest Yeshiva
High School, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Seattle.
Tuesday 18
■■10 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. – Computer class
Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269
Learn the basics of Microsoft Word. Free.
RSVP requested. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■8 p.m. – Shavuot Leil Tikkun and Dairy
Dinner
Carol Benedick at 206-524-0075, ext. 4 or
carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org
Dairy dinner and night of learning in honor
of Shavuot. Cost for dinner is $20/adult, $10/
child 4-12 yrs. Member discount available.
At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave.
NE, Seattle.
Wednesday 19
■■12 a.m. – “All Night Learning Extrava-
ganza”
Julie Greene at 207-721-0970 or
julie@bcmhseattle.org
An all-night learning event on the first night
of Shavuot for men, women and teens. Free.
At Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath, 5145 S
Morgan St., Seattle.
■■12 a.m. – Shavuot All-Night Torah Study
info@shevetachim.com
Shavuot all-night Torah study with Rabbi
Kornfeld. Food provided. At Northwest
Yeshiva High School, 5017 90th Ave. SE,
Mercer Island.
Thursday 20
■■12 p.m. – Jewish Urban Politics in the City
and Beyond
Jennifer Cohen at
jencohen@u.washington.edu
Prof. Lila Corwin Berman of Temple Univer-
sity will discuss her new book, Exit City: A
Study of Jewish White Flight from Post-WWII
Detroit. At the Petersen Room, Allen Library,
University of Washington.
Sunday 23
■■10 a.m. – The Cairo Genizah with Rabbi
Mark S. Glickman
Alysa Rosen at 206-525-0915 or
alysa@templebetham.org
A lecture on Rabbi Solomon Schechter of
Cambridge University who, in 1897, found
the largest trove of medieval manuscripts ever
discovered. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE
80th St., Seattle.
■■11 a.m. – 4 p.m. – Bike Repair Workshop
and Afternoon Joy Ride
Bicycle repair workshop followed by a neigh-
borhood bike ride. At Ravenna Kibbutz House
Bet, 6316 23rd Ave. NE, Seattle.
Monday 24
■■7 p.m. – Awards and Recognition
Reception
Jennifer Cohen at
jencohen@u.washington.edu
A kosher dessert reception and program that
includes the awarding of the 2010-11 schol-
arships and travel grants to outstanding UW
students by the Stroum Jewish Studies Program.
At the Husky Union Building, room 310,
University of Washington.
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reinvention” at the “edge” of American
culture (whatever that is) will be dis-
appointed by a story dominated by the
usual cast of conventional characters
— synagogue boards, business tycoons,
goniffs, philanthropists, and, of course,
golden-tongued oratorical rabbis of all
flavors.
So, once again, the best is the enemy of
the good. But let’s not put the cart before
the horse! We have now at hand, thanks
to Profs. Eisenberg, Kahn, and Toll, the
historical context that will enable more
nuanced anthropological studies of the
Jewish tribes of the Pacific Coast.
Martin S. Jaffee currently holds the
Samuel & Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish
Studies at the University of Washington.
His award-winning columns for JTNews
have recently been published in book
form as The End of Jewish Radar:
Snapshots of a Post-Ethnic American
Judaism by iUniverse press.
Tuesday 25
■■10 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. – Computer Class
Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269 or
ronia@sjcc.org
Learn the basics of computer use. Free. RSVP
requested. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer
Way, Mercer Island.
■■7 p.m. – Online Dating Profile Writing
Workshop
Josh at joshf@hilleluw.org
Writing consultant Leah Kaminsky offers
advice for the online profile construction
process. At Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE,
Seattle.
Wednesday 26
■■10:30 a.m. – Louie Richmond
Roni Antebi at ronia@sjcc.org
A performance by Louie Richmond, founder
of the Northwest Chamber Orchestra and
former cellist of the National Symphony
Orchestra, accompanied by Judith Gordon
on the piano. Hosted by the Active Seniors
Club. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way,
Mercer Island.
Thursday 27
■■12:30 p.m. – Love Come Lately
Roni Antebi at ronia@sjcc.org
The Stroum JCC Film Club presents Love
Come Lately, the story of a New York writer
whose longtime girlfriend is convinced he’s
cheating on her. Free. At the Stroum JCC,
3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■1:30 p.m. – Simplifying Life Transitions
Trudi Arshon at 206-652-4444
A seminar for older adults considering moving
to a smaller home or retirement community.
RSVP requested. At The Summit at First Hill,
1200 University St. Seattle.
Friday 28
■■7:30 – 11:30 a.m. – Personal Aliyah Planning
Meetings
Sarah Kogon at 718-355-8220 or
skogon@nbn.org.il or www.nbn.org.il
A chance to meet with a Nefesh B’Nefesh
expert for a personal pre-aliyah meeting. Pre-
registration required. At Crowne Plaza Seattle,
1113 6th Ave., Seattle.
■■6 p.m. – B’nai Mitzvah Student-Led
Program
Kristine Ganes at 206-528-1944 or
info@secularjewishcircle.org
Students enrolled in Secular Jewish Circle’s
B’nai Mitzvah program will lead the May
Shabbat ritual. Location provided upon
RSVP.
Seeking host families for
Hungarian teens
Four English-speaking Jewish
Hungarian high school students
arriving in mid-June to  partic-
ipate in the Stroum Jewish Commu-
nity Center’s summer day camps are in
need of home hospitality. Families with
teens who reside in ZIP Codes 98040,
98004, 98005, 98006 or 98007 able to host
for three weeks or more and can drop
them off on Mercer Island by 8:30 a.m.
each weekday may contact Zach Duitch
at zachd@sjcc.org or Lenny Kashner  at
lakashner@yahoo.com to volunteer.
Beth Shalom Scholar in
Residence weekend
Cong regat ion Bet h Sha lom’s
annual Edwin L. Bierman scholar
in residence will be Prof. Vanessa
L. Ochs, professor of religious studies at
the University of Virginia. Her weekend
presentations will include a session on the
new Jewish rituals invented in the past 30
years that have taken root, funky, modern
new ways of interpreting the Talmud, and
what Jewish tradition has to say about
dreams. Childcare for some programs
available by pre-registration. Fri., May
14–Sun., May 16. There is a cost for some
of the programs. Contact 206-524-0075 or
visit www.bethshalomseattle.org to RSVP.
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arts & entertainment

Sunday, May 16 at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 23 at 3 p.m.

Jon Simon piano concert Opening Reading of Drash: Northwest Mosaic
Music Author reading
www.templebnaitorah.org www.templebetham.org/music/drash
Pianist Jon Simon will perform an hour-long Contributing writers read from Drash: Northwest Mosaic, Volume IV. Drash: Northwest Mosaic
concert featuring jazz interpretations of music from is a literary review with poetry, prose and photos encouraging the redemptive nature of life
his Jewish heritage. Admission to the concert is from Jewish perspectives. At Ravenna Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave. NE, Seattle.
free, made possible through the Hermine Pruzan
Endowment Fund. At-will donations will be
accepted and directed to the Norm Greenbaum
Campership Fund, which provides financial assis-
the arts may 16 – 30
tance to children and teens wishing to attend Jewish
summer camps and leadership retreats. At Temple Sunday, May 23
B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue. at 4 p.m.
“The Jewish Touch:
The 3 Cantors”
Tuesday, May 18 at 8 p.m. Lecture
Steve Hostetter David Serkin-Poole of
Stand-up comedy Temple B’nai Torah, Brad
Writer, comedian and Jew-ish.com columnist Steve Hofstetter shares Kurland of Herzl-Ner
his brand of irreverent humor, including insights into the challenges Tamid, and Isaac Azose,
of being a Jewish redhead. Tickets are $16.50 and are available at hazzan emeritus of Ezra
picksteve.com. At the Laughing Ladies Café, 17551 15th Ave. NE, Bessaroth, will discuss the history and background of cantorial music and its various styles.
Shoreline. Part of the Stroum Jewish Community Center’s ongoing arts and culture lecture series,
“The Jewish Touch.” For more information, contact Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext.
269 or at ronia@sjcc.org. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 East Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

Thursday, May 20 at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 23 at 4 p.m.

Steve Almond
Author reading
Steve Almond reads from his new memoir, Rock and Roll Will Save Your
Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us, about his years as a rock
critic and obsessive music fan. Almond is also the author of Candyfreak
and (Not That You Asked). At Third Place books, 17171 Bothell Way
NE, Lake Forest Park.
Short Stories Live: A Mother’s Tale
Theater
Town Hall Seattle presents an afternoon of classic short stories in honor of Mother’s Day
(yes, we know it’s two weeks late). The program includes Cynthia Ozick’s Holocaust story
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arts & entertainment

Just like heaven

Composition on the city of gold shows both grandeur, oddities of Jerusalem

Gigi Yellen
JTNews Correspondent
K now n to cinema fans f rom his
soundtrack for the 1991 film Tous les
Matins du Monde/All the Mornings of the
World, composer Jordi Savall’s 40-year
career combines scholarship, entertain-
ment, and visionary goodwill with virtu-
oso performances both in concert and on
hundreds of recordings, many from his
own label, Alia Vox. Often, his recording
projects explore themes, crossing geo-
graphic boundaries, like “Lux Feminae”
(“Feminine Light,” theme of his recent
Town Hall Seattle concert) or “Diaspora
Sefardí.”
With his characteristic blend of deep
research and virtuosic performance, his-
torical accuracy and jazz-like improvisa-
tion, Savall and his band have created in
“Jerusalem: City of Heavenly and Earthly
Peace” a mesmerizing and troubling con-
temporary performance piece. Maestro
Savall, esteemed creator of more than
160 honored recordings of early music,
combines ancient instruments, chants,
recitations of sacred texts, folk tunes and
even a Sufi dance in his concert (based on
his 2008 two-CD set of the same name),
which I was privileged to see performed
on May 5 as the focus of a three-day
“Jerusalem” event at New York’s Lincoln
Center. I wanted to share with you some
impressions and some thoughts about
this most unusual Savall project.
Silhouetted against a huge dawn-like
screen, a robed man blows an immensely
long, grandly twisted shofar, the flawless
opening notes of a fanfare that expands
to include half a dozen players of these
beautiful ram’s horns and as many play-
ers of the equally long, impossibly slen-
der Arabic trumpets called annafirs. The
shofar, a wake-up call most associated
in our time with synagogue High Holi-
day services, is played by the Israeli Yagel
Harel, one of a collection of multi-ethnic
players Savall has carefully gathered to
demonstrate how historic enemies can
melt their differences in the warm light of
their musical similarities.
As he confessed in a pre-concert dis-
cussion, Maestro Savall departed from
his usual approach to ensemble-build-
ing when he set about to create “Jerusa-
lem.” To his regular forces — La Capella
Reial de Catalunya and Hesperion XXI —
he insisted on adding not simply the best
players, but the best players from specific
backgrounds: two oud masters — one
Israeli, one Iraqi; three chant masters —
Sephardic Jewish, Palestinian Arab, and
Armenian; players of percussion, harps,
bells, and flutes representing most of
the Middle East, plus “The Trumpets of
Jericho” — those shofars and annafirs,
joined by the drumming of tambours.
What to make of this sophisticated
musical time machine, a chronologi-
cal scrapbook of spiritual longings cre-
ated by a virtuoso of immense good will?
Themed around the city at the center of so
much terrifying talk, Savall’s “Jerusalem:
City of Heavenly and Earthly Peace” aims
at nothing less than demonstrating that
peace is possible.
As Yo-Yo Ma (who showed up in
the “Jerusalem” series audience) has
reminded us with his Silk Road project, as
the late Isaac Stern demonstrated when
he went to China, musicians are mas-
ters of peace, intuitive communicators of
wordless truths that transcend boundar-
ies. Laying aside the question of how this
kind of interpersonal, one-on-one peace-
making might or might not translate
onto that other stage where history per-
forms, consider this an effort by one man
to contribute what he can to healing the
wounds of his time.
Ambitious in its historical scope (5,000
years in two hours), “Jerusalem” trav-
els chronologically through the music
of the city’s ancient, and less ancient,
rulers. The show divides into chapters,
like acts of a play, with dramatic readings
in Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, Arabic
and French, supplemented by giant
supertitles. Heartbreaking laments are
sung: In Hebrew, in Lior Elmaleh’s twin-
ing Sephardic sound; in Armenian, in the
sublimely sweet tenor of Razmk Aman; in
Arabic, in the haunting echo of Muwafak
Shahin Khalil’s chant. And in the middle
of it all, a devastating reading, in French,
of the papal edict that started the catas-
trophe known as the Crusades.
Savall carries the weight of Spain’s1492
expulsion of its Arabic and Jewish popu-
lations heavily on his Catalonian shoul-
ders. In pre-concer t comments, he
declared his belief that the roots of
today’s conf licts in Jerusalem are in
Spain at that moment when co-existence
among Christian, Jewish and Arabic cul-
tures blew apart. Could be.
But some of his “Jerusalem” program
doesn’t make sense. Maybe I’m overly
sensitive to this one, but if he has set out
to honor Jerusalem, why has he thrown
in a Holocaust-related Jewish lament
that never once mentions that city? It
is the one pre-recorded segment in the
entire concert: House lights dim, a single
candle is lit, and a concentration camp
story is told, of a cantor who begged to
be allowed to sing a memorial prayer for
himself before being led to his death; of
how his life was spared by the Nazi guard
who allowed the song, and was moved by
it; of how the cantor recorded the song
years later. Then we hear that recording,
with organ accompaniment. It feels out
of place — more politically than aestheti-
cally correct.
Yet where Jerusalem is missing from
this piece, it is integral to so much Jewish
liturg y! If a nod to the 20th-century
Jewish tragedy was the point — this was
part of the concert’s “City of Refuge and
Exile” chapter — why not simply recite
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arts & entertainment

Shavuot’s gift
What to do after ‘Lost’

Ami Eden serious sibling rivalry issues. And did we

JTA World News Service
NEW YOR K (JTA) — Early on in
the Talmudic tractate of Taanit, Rabbi
Yitzchak causes a bit of a stir when, in the
name of Rabbi Yochanan, he declares:
“Jacob our father did not die.”
Rav Nachman rejects the idea with
a sharp retort, asking: “Was it then for
nothing that they mourned Jacob and
the embalmers embalmed him and the
grave-diggers buried him?”
Most rabbinic commentators essen-
tially end up siding with Rav Nachman,
albeit more politely, by treating Rabbi
Yitzchak’s comment metaphorically, as
mention the series is shaping up to be pri-
marily about his search for a replacement?
The leading candidate: A plane-crash sur-
vivor named... wait for it... Jack Shephard.
(Jacob the shepherd, get it?)
OK. OK. It’s a stretch. Yes, the creators
of “Lost” clearly want us chewing on the
biblical reference. But they have had us
chewing on plenty of unrelated refer-
ences since the beginning. With just one
episode and the 2-1/2–hour finale on May
23 left by the time you read this, it seems
increasingly clear that they have no plans ABC Studios
(thank goodness) to offer up a unifying The constructed “wreckage” of Oceanic flight 815 on ABC’s “Lost.”
theory for the show as an exact metaphor
for some other literary or religious work.

some sort of moral teaching about the
righteous living on through our memo-
ries of their good deeds. But what if we
were to take the comment literally?
The first question we might ask is, “If
Jacob never died, then where exactly has
he been all these years?”
Of course, for those of us with a stand-
ing appointment Tuesday nights, one
potential answer is obvious: He’s living
on a mysterious island somewhere in
the South Pacific, fishing, weaving and
spending the rest of his days saving the
world by keeping a satanic smoke mon-
ster all bottled up.
No, that’s not from Rashi. It’s a refer-
ence to “Lost,” ABC’s groundbreaking
show about a plane that crashes on the
weirdest not-so-deserted island you could
imagine, the keeper of which is an enig-
matic, ancient but young-looking man
(we think he’s human, or at least used to
be) named Jacob. That smoky thing? It’s
his dead brother — meaning, like his bib-
lical counterpart, the “Lost” Jacob has
So why dwell on the Jacob thing?
Because the parallel holds — not so much
between the two Jacobs themselves, but
the experience of pondering them.
For Losties (think Trekkies, but cooler),
watching the show is an exercise in prob-
ing a mix of literary, religious and phil-
osophical allusions, w rest ling w it h
existential and moral questions, and, of
course, enjoying great storytelling about
compelling characters. It’s not much dif-
ferent from studying Torah — an expe-
rience marked by depth, meaning and
intrigue, once you get the hang of it.
Don’t believe me?
Next Tuesday night will be the last one
with a new episode of “Lost” (the finale is
airing the following Sunday). An hour or
two later, many synagogues will be mark-
ing the holiday of Shavuot with Torah
study throughout the night.
What Jack wouldn’t give for a sign like
that. So check out a shul near you.
You’re going to need something to do
when “Lost” ends.
El Al 815?
NEW YORK (JTA) — In the final season
of “Lost,” the show has explored an alter-
native reality, defined to some degree by
what would have happened to the main
characters had Oceanic 815 from Sydney
to Los Angeles not crashed on the island.
In that spirit, what if the plane had
gone down but it had been an El Al
flight?
Well, the plane never would have
crashed because the El Al pilots would
have been able to perform evasive
maneuvers. But if it had…
• Jack would not have been the only
doctor.
• John Locke would have been named
Yeshayahu Leibowitz.
• Sayid would have never made it on to
the plane.
• Instead of Sayid’s makeshift radio,
some of the Israeli passengers would
have set up a high-speed Internet link.
• Some Lubavitcher would have shown
up before long to open up a Chabad
house.
• There would be more than just one
reck lessly driven German-made
vehicle on the road.
• The existence of a nuclear weapon
on the island never would have been
acknowledged.
• G ratuitous shots of Kate in her
underwear would be replaced by
quick peeks of haredi women sans
sheitels.
• T he island suddenly would have
attracted the attention of the entire
world, w it h t he United Nations
accusing the passengers of ille-
gally occupying territory and using
disproportionate force to fend off
attacks by the Others.
— JTA World News Service

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community news

Minding the kids

Class focuses on the emotional connection between parent and child

Leyna Krow
Assistant Editor, JTNews
There’s certainly no shortage of par-
enting classes being offered in the Seattle
area. But according to Yaffa Maritz, very
few of these classes focus on the emo-
tional connection between parents and
their children.
“There are a lot of places parents can
go for support or advice, but most classes
are dealing with issues like diaper rash,
or sleep and eating issues. That’s good
and needs to happen,” explained Maritz,
a family counselor and the co-founder of
the Community of Mindful Parents. “But
we deal with a range of emotional issues
as well: People feeling the blues, not sure “The JCC, when
they love the baby, relationship with their we started doing our
partner on the rocks, not really under- groups, didn’t have
standing who they are because their iden- a Parenting Center,”
tity has shifted so much. It’s amazing the Maritz recalled.
kinds of things that come up.” “Since then, they
It’s this broader emphasis that, for have rallied in creat-
Maritz, makes the classes offered by ing a home for fami-
the Community of Mindful Parents so lies right from birth.
unique. Our program, which
Maritz and a team of facilitators have was the only one,
been running parenting groups for new has become one of
mothers and fathers for the last decade. many.”
But it was just a year and a half ago that Kara Moscovitz
the decision was made to expand the pro- Courtesy AD-Passion and her husband,
gram into a community — a place that Kerry, took Reflec-
parents could continue to get help and when thinking about how best to help new tive Parenting at the Stroum JCC during
support even after they had completed parents. the winter.
their courses. The result is a Web site with a “I wish somebody would have told me “It definitely helped us approach our
blog and articles on all manner of topics, a it is okay to take some time and help your- parenting differently,” Moscovitz said.

SJCC Coed
lecture series, and of course, the parenting self regulate,” she said. “It can go such a “We find ourselves being more under-
classes, all functioning under the Commu- long way. Stepping out energizes you so standing of our kids’ behaviors and a little
Softball League nity of Mindful Parents umbrella. much. It’s really important to take time to more thoughtful in how we respond.”
Maritz said she was originally inspired center, regulate and reflect.” Although the class is aimed at parents
Standings as of May 12
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which camp the child is attending, and, of
course, the family’s financial situation.
In total, $93,256 has been allocated
to campership recipients, based on
$400,000 in requests. Since then, another
$14,006 has been raised to cover addi-
tional requests.
According to Greenhall, this year’s
JEC campership applications detail a
wide range of stories from families who
need extra help — sometimes a lot of
extra help — to send their kids to camp,
including credit card debt, family illness
resulting in hefty medical bills, or one or
both parents out of work.
“We heard a lot of stories this year that
were just heartbreaking,” she said.
The mother of one camper, who asked
that she remain anonymous, has been
self-employed for several years and saw
her business collapse when the econ-
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her daughter went to Jewish camp with
friends from religious school for the first
time, and fell in love with the experience.
“She loved it, and the independence,
and the self-sufficiency,” the mother told
JTNews. “All of that is really important.”
Without help, it’s not an experience her
daughter would get to repeat this summer,
but because of the JEC program, she will
receive camperships covering almost 100
percent of her camp tuition for this year.
“I’m grateful that we’re given the
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Bat Mitzvah Bar Mitzvah
Kylie Brooke Goldfarb Eric Joseph Moshcatel
Kylie Brooke Eric will
Goldfarb was celebrate his
called to the Torah Bar Mitzvah on
on April 17, 2010 May 22, 2010 at
at Temple Adath Temple B’nai
Emanu-El in Mt. Torah in
Laurel, N.J.   Bellevue.
Kylie is the Eric is the son
daughter of Linda of Michael and
and Keith Goldfarb Susu Moshcatel of
and brother of Alec. Her grandparents are Seattle and the brother of Marc. His grand-
Natalie and Bob Malin of Mercer Island, parents are Jack and Fran Moshcatel of
Kris and Royal Goldfarb of Kirkland, and Seattle, Leonard Wiviott of Seattle, and the
Marcia and David Glassel of San Francisco, late Evelyn “Pickle” Wiviott.
Calif.  Her great grandfather was the late Eric is in the 7th grade at Eckstein Middle
Samuel E. Goldfarb, former cantor at Temple School. He enjoys playing baseball, cards,
De Hirsch. and video games. He also likes listening to
Kylie is an honor student and a talented music, and is working toward achieving
artist who enjoys playing soccer on her his black belt in martial arts. For his mitzvah
traveling team, acting, reading, and project, Eric is collecting supplies and funds
spending time with her friends. Her mitzvah to help Ginger’s Pet Rescue, a nonprofit
project is collecting clothes for a women’s organization specializing in the rescue and
shelter. adoption placement of dogs that would
otherwise be euthanized in animal shelters.
He is also donating a portion of his Bar
Mitzvah gifts to this organization.
Engagement
Tamera Farkas and Jeremy Sandler
Tamera and Jeremy are engaged to be
married.
Tamera is the daughter of Michael and
Francine Farkas of Los Angeles, Calif. Her
grandparents are Nat and Elaine Stern of Los
Angeles, Shary Farkas of Los Angeles and the
late Sammuel Farkas.
Tamera graduated from the University of
California at Berkeley in 2009 with a degree
in History and Jewish Studies. She works as a
Judaics teacher at Oakland Hebrew Day
School.
Jeremy is the son of Mark and Sharon Sandler
of Bellevue. His grandparents are Rose Stalin of Mercer Island, Rose Sandler of Bellevue,
the late Max Stalin, and the late Martin Sandler.
Jeremy is a graduate of Northwest Yeshiva High School and holds a degree in biology
from the University of Washington. He is starting a masters/Ph.D. program at the California
Institute for Technology and currently works doing genetics research at the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.
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lifecycles
Bat Mitzvah
Abigail Geiger Shifren
Abigail will
celebrate her Bat
Mitzvah on May
22, 2010 at Con-
gregation Beth
Shalom in
Seattle.
Abigail is the
daughter of Lisa
Geiger and Charles
Shifren of Edmonds. Her grandparents are
Iris Shifren and Seymour Shifren of Los
Angeles, Calif., Anne Geiger of Millburn,
N.J. and the late Harold Geiger.
Abigail is in the 7th grade at Madrona
K-8. Abby enjoys playing the viola,
swimming, reading, and spending time with
her friends and family. For her mitzvah
project, she organized and performed with
a string trio at the Ida Culver House in
Broadview.
Bat Mitzvah
Richelle Lillian Willner-Martin
Richelle will
celebrate her Bat
Mitzvah on May
22, 2010 at
Herzl-Ner Tamid
Conservative Con-
gregation, on the
same bimah where
her mother
became the first
Bat Mitzvah when the synagogue opened
in November 1971. Her grandfather became
a Bar Mitzvah at Herzl in 1938.
Richelle is the daughter of Patricia
Willner-Martin and Neil Martin of Bellevue
and the sister of Allison. Her grandparents
are Kathryn and James Martin of Edina,
Minn., Ina Willner of Bellevue and the late
Richard Willner.
Richelle is in the 7th grade at the Jewish
Day School of Metropolitan Seattle. Her
interests include attending Camp Solomon
Schechter, acting and teching at Youth
Theatre Northwest, Facebook, Skype, and
texting with friends. For her mitzvah project,
Richelle is raising money for the Friends of
the Israeli Defense Forces Bar/Bat Mitzvah
LEGACY Program to send a child whose
parent or sibling has been killed in action
with the Israeli Defense Forces to summer
camp in the United States.
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arts & entertainment
Jordi Savall t Page 20
the tradition’s classic comfort state-
ment: “May you be comforted among the
mourners of Zion and Jerusalem”? Now,
there’s a connection for you.
A couple of other odd musical allu-
sions worth mentioning: Was a 12th-cen-
tury Crusader song with an unmistakable
resemblance to “Ein Feste Burg”/”A Mighty
Fortress,” Martin Luther’s iconic early-
16th-century hymn, chosen because of
this resemblance? Chosen despite it? And
the unavoidable “2001” reference in the
fanfare Savall created for the shofars —
prehistory, indeed! Jarring, and almost,
alas, funny. Those first three notes of
Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra can
thrill, but they were tough to reconcile
with this show.
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some two dozen virtuosi, playing along
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at the May 11th Community of Caring Luncheon. Over 1,000 of you donated $789,841 to provide crucial
assistance to JFS clients. By doing so, you are helping ensure that JFS will, as we have since 1892, assist those
in our local community who have the greatest needs. After all, family matters…always has, always will.
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