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The Jewish God problem
Rabbi Jacob Elisha Fine Hillel at the University of Washington
One of the occupational
hazards of being a rabbi is that
atheists seem to have a habit
of making sure you know
they don’t believe in God.
Never mind theorizing the
impetuses for such self-dis-
closures, I have become more
interested in learning what an
atheist “doesn’t believe.”
One of my rabbis has a
wonderful response for the
occasional confrontational atheist:
“I bet that I don’t believe in the God
that you don’t believe in either,” he gently
responds.
The more opportunities I have to speak
with students and young adults about their
personal theologies or, more broadly, their
ways of seeing the world, the more I find
my teacher’s statement to be true. More
and more, I have the sense that far less dis-
tinguishes the Jewish “believer” from the
“non-believer” than we might think.
So what does this atheist “not believe
in”? In my experience, the God many of
us are busy not believing in is essentially
some variation on the iconic image of a
man in the sky with a big white beard. It is
often a transcendent, anthropomorphized
God who acts in history — the grand pup-
peteer who manipulates every human act
— that many Jews have in mind when they
reject Jewish theology.
While the image of an all-powerful,
transcendent deity is certainly present
in biblical and rabbinic texts, it is hardly
the sole conception of the Divine we find
in our tradition. From the Hebrew Bible
to the Talmud, to Midrash, to halachah,
to medieval philosophy, to Kabbalah, to
Chassidut, to modern Jewish thought, we
find multiple and sometimes quite differ-
ent notions of the Divine. Creator, Parent,
Spouse, Protector, Redeemer, Punisher,
Place, Peace, Judge, Truth, Healer, With-
out End, the Name, Indwelling, Shepherd,
King — these are just a few of the many,
many names and images for God we find
in our vast tradition.
For certain, there are Jewish people who
reject the idea of God by any definition. But
what I often find in having conversations
with students is that, God-specific language
aside, many irreligious, atheists and agnos-
tics share a worldview markedly similar to
my own. They talk of the mystery of the
universe or they have a sense there is some-
thing elusive that unifies all of Creation.
They are deeply moved by the wonders of
the natural world and they strive to live in
a state of gratitude for their lives. I have
learned that people who steer clear from
ever using words like “God” or “divine”
often perceive the cosmos and the under-
lying fabric of Creation in much the same
ways that I do.
“They may have gone berserk or had some kind of manic reaction. But there’s only one investigation that’s going to work and that’s the U.N.”
One of the tragedies of
contemporary Jewish life is
that we have lost the ability to
think and talk about God. My
brother Aaron, also a rabbi,
worked for a time as a hospi-
tal chaplain. He was surprised
to find that, in a way, he actu-
ally found it easier to sit at
the bedside tables of Chris-
tians than Jews. The Chris-
tians he encountered were, by
and large, much more comfortable talk-
ing openly about God and their spiritual
lives and praying spontaneously than their
Jewish counterparts.
Many of us imbibed as children some
variation of the image of the white-
bearded God. As we matured, many of us
were never exposed to other Jewish con-
ceptions of Divinity. Some of us woke up
one day as emerging adults and realized
we didn’t connect with any of the images
of God we had been introduced to as chil-
dren. What happens when we shed our
childhood conception of God without a
tool chest of alternatives to take its place?
The failure on the part of a genera-
tion of Jewish teachers to engage their
students in nuanced and compelling the-
ology has led to (at least) two unfortu-
nate consequences. The first is that many
Jewish young adults never develop theol-
ogies personally meaningful or relevant
to them. While they mature into sophis-
ticated human beings in every manner of
ways, their theologies — and likely their
religious lives — are stunted.
And, equally tragic from my perspec-
tive, other Jewish young adults develop
a spiritual worldview entirely consistent
with Jewish tradition but assumed by them
to be antithetical to Jewish belief for lack of
exposure to the multiplicity of Jewish the-
ologies. These individuals may identify as
“spiritual,” but not Jewish. Both scenar-
ios can lead to a feeling of alienation and
marginalization from Jewish tradition and
community.
I have come to the conclusion that
the seemingly innocent three-letter Eng-
lish word “G-O-D” is responsible for part
(though hardly all) of our problem. This
loaded word is wrought with so many
associations for most English-speaking
Jews that it, ironically, serves as a stum-
bling block to connecting with the very
force it is meant to represent.
With this in mind, I have recently taken
to banning use of the word during my
classes on theology. I have a favorite exer-
cise in which I poster the walls of the class-
room with 40-plus names for the Source of
Life in the Jewish tradition. I have found
that just being exposed to this diversity
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Awards and honors
I am delighted to join in congratulating Beth Huppin of the Seattle Jewish Commu-
nity School on being chosen as one of three outstanding Jewish educators to receive the
nationally acclaimed 2010 Covenant Award (“Keeper of the covenant,” June 25). Beth’s
award is not only recognition for her many professional accomplishments, it is also a cel-
ebration of the wonderful work of the Seattle Jewish Community School and its educa-
tors, who have made it possible for Beth to excel and to have a vital and notable impact
on her students, their families, and the entire Seattle Jewish community.
The work of an exceptional educator like Beth Huppin is a tribute to the enduring
power of the day school experience – it is not only a core educational phenomenon in the
largest communities, but it is, in fact, an extraordinarily important expression of Jewish
continuity in all locales.
Day schools are hubs of Jewish learning and incubators for Jewish life. They serve
as the energizing nuclei of the Jewish community. The leadership of the Jewish commu-
nity is overwhelmingly comprised of day school alumni who created and nurtured their
strong connections and commitment to Jewish community as part of their day school
experiences. Community day schools like the Seattle Jewish Community School provide
a vitally important context for educational excellence and for the values inherent in fos-
tering Jewish peoplehood.
While attending Jewish day school is not for everyone, supporting the day school net-
work should be a community-wide imperative. It is my hope that this well-deserved award
will inspire the Seattle Jewish community in its efforts to support its day schools and pro-
vide the best possible Jewish education for its children. I salute Beth and the Seattle Jewish
Community School for this wonderful recognition of their achievements.
Dr. Marc Kramer
Executive Director
RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network
New York, NY
Battling giants
In Rabbi’s Turn on June 25 (“Just a bit too interesting”), Rabbi Jonathan Singer
referred to “Israel’s attack on the ‘peace’ activists” and wrote that “Israel treated the
approaching Gaza flotilla convoy as giants.”
To characterize what happened at sea as an “Israeli attack” is a misrepresentation:
If anything, Israeli naval personnel landed on the Mavi Marmara with too little force.
They were entirely within their legal right and moral obligation to board the ship. The
U.S. Coast Guard boards ships entering U.S. waters every day to inspect for contra-
band. This is standard procedure. In Israel’s case, the inspections are a matter of life
and death, since weaponry and war materiel smuggled into Gaza are used for terrorist
attacks against Israeli civilians.
The reality is that the so-called “peace activists” on board the Mavi Marmara were
bound and determined to provoke an incident, as their use of knives and clubs proves.
If Israel really considered the Mavi Marmara a “giant” it would have used far more force,
for example, by disabling the ship.
Incidentally, creating a provocation was the chief purpose of the activists, not bring-
ing in humanitarian aid. Indeed, more aid enters Gaza from Israel as a matter of course
each week than was on the entire flotilla. And as for the actual aid on the flotilla? Hamas
refused to accept it.
Peter Mark
Seattle
Whither Evergreen?
The insightful column by Robert Kaufman (“The tragic indoctrination of Rachel Corrie,”
June 25) should concern us all.
It is disconcerting to know that Evergreen State College in Olympia, a state-funded
institution, has turned into a private playground by radical anti-Israel faculty. Jewish stu-
dents should not be allowed to be intimidated by this type of faculty.
Why do the leaders at the campus Hillel not stand up for Israel? I fail to understand their
timidity in not wanting pro-Israel programming brought to the campus. The pro-Israel voice
should not be silenced at Evergreen.
Hopefully, something can be done to get this college to hire faculty who encour-
age free debate by students without promoting an anti-Israel bias that poisons educa-
tion there.
Josh Basson
Seattle
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A compassionate search for
reality
Philip Gerson Special to JTNews
From May 25–June 5, I joined in a Com-
passionate Listening Project delegation to
Israel-Palestine, where I spent seven days in
Israel and East Jerusalem and four days in
the West Bank. Our group consisted of 24
open house
people from North America that included
Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
At the essence of the Jewish soul, and
in mine as well, is the longing for the
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throughout 1,900-plus years in Europe,
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support for the creation of a homeland for
the Jewish people.
However, we must also acknowledge that
the events surrounding the influx of Jews
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itable fact that the Palestinian people were
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their Nagba, or catastrophe. We cannot
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mitted them to live with full dignity.
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and the West Bank, with settlement policies
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istration, are alarming and jeopardize any
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have an obligation to understand the reality
See firsthand of what is happening in this nation we love.
We can see the existential fear in the
why CSS is Israeli soul today fed by four wars, the sui-
cide bombings resulting in the separation
the BeSt! barrier, and the unilateral withdrawal from
Gaza resulting in the rise of Hamas and the
rockets on S’derot.
During our trip we visited with Naph-
tali Lau-Lavie, a former journalist and
diplomat, and a Holocaust survivor. He
told his harrowing story of his time in
Meet new friends Auschwitz, and about how he smug-
gled his baby brother — who went on to
and share great became the chief rabbi of Israel — into
summer memories Buchenwald in a sack for his protection. I
could feel the desperation for the immedi-
with your old ate need for a place where Jews like Naph-
tali could go for refuge. He told us of his
camp buddies! work in building the State of Israel as a part
of Moshe Dayan’s administration. He of
course takes much pride in Israel’s forma-
tion and his contribution to that effort.
When asked about how he felt about
the treatment of the Palestinians over these
60 years, he succinctly stated there were
enjoy boating and swimming in our beautiful lake and some problems along the way, but did not
feaSt oN a koSHer BBQ luNCH acknowledge Palestinian suffering.
To gain perspective on Israeli settle-
with all the fixings for just $7 per person ments in East Jerusalem and Bethlehem,
we visited Gilo, a settlement/neighbor-
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land annexed to Jerusalem in 1967. Gilo
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“Since the wall has gone up, we have
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had almost no suicide bombings,” stated
our guide, Eitan Katz. “It is for security.”
“I like to show Israelis from Jerusa-
lem the Palestinian neighborhoods at their
back door,” he said. “They never come
out here and when they see this they are
shocked. No garbage pickup, poor roads,
no permission to build and so what they
build could be demolished at any time.”
But nothing could have prepared me
for what we saw in Hebron.
In Hebron, there have been numer-
ous encounters where Jewish settlers have
committed acts against Palestinians that
can only be classified as criminal. How-
ever, the most troubling aspect of this is
that the settlers are supported and pro-
tected by the Army. Since the founding of
Kiryat Arba in 1968, these religious settlers
have had only one aim: To make the West
Bank, Judea and Samaria a part of Israel.
We visited with an articulate Palestin-
ian, Hashem, and his family in downtown
Hebron, just below the homes of Israeli
settlers who continually harass them by
throwing garbage and cutting down their
fruit trees. Hashem told us about the more
serious incident of two settler attacks, both
of which caused his pregnant wife to mis-
carry, and left their home in ruins.
I am still trying to rationalize Israeli
support of these criminal acts with my love
for Israel.
Happily, however, I found several
people to give me insight, hope, and clarity
for what must be done.
At Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem, an
organization focusing on non-violent pro-
grams to end the Israeli occupation, we met
with its founder, Sami Awad, who has twice
joined government-sponsored trips for
Israeli teens to visit Auschwitz and listened
first-hand to the story of the Holocaust and
the tragedy it was for the Jewish people.
This Palestinian-Christian Arab has under-
taken the time and expense to see, listen,
and understand our Jewish story.
“Some [teens] know full well that their
own relatives perished in the buildings
they stand in,” Sami explained. What a
powerful and important impact this must
make on these youth. One time, as Sami
listened, he heard the Israeli guide say,
“This slaughter of innocent people should
never happen again to….”
At this teachable moment, Sami said
he prayed the guide would say, “never
happen to any people.” However the
guide said, “never happen to the Jewish
people,” ingraining into the young people
a fear that may never be erased from their
psyche. It is Sami’s perception that when
the youth go home and, shortly after, enter
military service, they are given a machine
gun, assigned to a checkpoint in the West
Bank, and told to “deal with it.”
“Non-violence is not taught in Israel as
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German ghetto workers (“New redress avenue available for ‘voluntary’ Holocaust
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in a territory that was occupied by the Germans or incorporated into it, and per-
formed voluntary work for which he or she received remuneration.”
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As projected, Federation campaign ends down

Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
They knew it wasn’t going to be a great
year, and officials at the Jewish Federation
of Greater Seattle are holding the annual
community campaign open for what they
hope will be just a few extra weeks to allow
latecomers to help fulfill the promises the
organization made to the partner agencies
it supports.
“We would prefer to end the cam-
paign at the end of the fiscal year on June
30. Because of the distressing economic
times it’s meant that some of our major
donors have delayed their gifts,” said Rich-
ard Fruchter, the Federation’s president
and CEO.
The community campaign is projected
to decrease by 5.7 percent over Fiscal Year
2009, a total of $5.257 million. The 2009
campaign itself was down from Fiscal Year
2008, which had raised $6.05 million.
“We got a little lucky last year when we
started our campaign earlier, and we did
better than most of the places in the coun-
try,” Fruchter said. “But this year it’s hit
us harder than in other places, so we’re
scrambling.”
At a time when Jewish nonprofit orga-
nizations, in particular social service agen-
cies, have seen significant downward
trends in their own fundraising, nearly all
of the Federation’s partner agencies both
in the Puget Sound region and interna-
tionally have seen cuts in their allocations.
Letters sent to agencies with their alloca-
tions stated the projected amount each
would receive. Fruchter said he is confi-
dent the Federation will be able to meet its
projections, but in the event that doesn’t
happen, the board would have to decide
how to proceed.
“We were conservative. If we don’t
reach it we won’t be off by very much,” he
said. “As we get closer to the deadline of
the campaign, contributors have stepped
forward and been more supportive.”
Many agencies have had to pare down,
cutting staff or reducing levels of ser-
vice to meet their budgets, and the Fed-
eration said it has cut its operating budget
by 3.5 percent and was able to make up
some cuts through leaving positions open
and taking surpluses from previous years’
operating budgets.
The organization laid off the equiva-
lent of three positions at the end of the last
fiscal year.
To determine allocations, the Fed-
eration uses a system called the Dwaf-
fler Attributes, which takes criteria based
upon objective data about how well any
given organization meets its mission, plus
how much it improved over the past year,
and calculates a total.
“It’s been a robust system for us. It’s
worked really well,” Fruchter said.
In the three years since the Federa-
tion began using Dwaffler, organizations
were guaranteed a baseline of what they
received the previous year. This year, that
number was reduced from 75 percent to a
50 percent guarantee.
Lisa Fein, the outgoing chair of the
Federation’s Planning and Allocations
Committee, which deliberates on how the
allocations should be made, said that with
a lower campaign intake, making decisions
was more challenging. But she said that
with everyone on the committee assessing
and prioritizing needs, the process is fair.
“The economy, and those...very vulner-
able to having the basics of food and shel-
ter would have been top priority,” Fein
said, “but I don’t know if that has shifted
much overall” from past years.
Only two agency received increases in
allocations: One, Leket Israel, gleans pro-
duce from farms and gives it to Israeli food
banks and soup kitchens.
The other, the Jewish Federations of
North America umbrella organization, is
the partner for the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee and the Jewish
Agency for Israel, which provide services
for Jews internationally.
Jewish Family Service, which has his-
torically received the largest local alloca-
tion, saw a 14.1 percent decrease, from
$404,400 to $347,500.
“It’s really substantial money lost,”
said Claudia Berman, associate executive
director of JFS. “We try to maximize our
grants and do a pretty good job of that,
but there are only so many grants out
there today.”
JFS received a total of $250,000 in Fed-
eration endowment grants in the past year
in addition to its allocation.
Dianne Loeb, board president of JFS,
said the Federation had warned them their
allocation would not be as large as in pre-
vious years.
“We are conservative in the way we
budget, so we try to prepare for maybe not
the worst,” said Loeb. But “this one is a
little bit worse than we really wanted.”
What concerned Berman more was the
21.3 percent hit to the Seattle Association
for Jews with Disabilities, a satellite agency
of JFS: A $15,600 reduction to $57,800
from its 2010 allocation of $73,400.
“We just feel like that’s the popula-
tion that’s least visible and most in need of
our community, and that Federation sort
of represents the community support for

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programming like SAJD,” Berman said, “so
I think that cut feels even more difficult.”
Rather than make cuts, Loeb said, JFS
will try to make up the shortfall.
“We’ll have to work harder to fund-
raise to meet the needs of existing clients,
and needs in almost every area continue to
grow,” Loeb said.
The Washington State Jewish Historical
Society, with a small budget and allocation,
saw a 27.8 percent decrease in its allocation
— a $500 decrease from $1,800. WSJHS is
also housed in the Federation’s offices at
reduced rental rates.
“Five hundred dollars is a program for
us,” said Lisa Kranseler, WSJHS’s executive
director. “It’s a cutback. It’s a big difference.”
But “in all fairness, basic human needs do
come first in any community,” she said. “I am
of that opinion, and so is our entire board.”
Kranseler said she has repeatedly asked
for a significantly larger allocation for the
historical society to maintain the entirety
of the Jewish archives for the state of
Washington.
“I don’t know what it’s going to take to
convince other organizations here, includ-
ing the Federation, that we need help to
support those archives, and to do it jus-
tice,” she said.
JTNews, which receives an allocation
in the form of rent, saw a 26.2 percent
decrease from $25,200 to $18,600.
While the community campaign itself
is down, the Federation actually disbursed
nearly $10 million in total, with much of that
coming in the form of endowment fund-
ing and special campaigns such as $101,727
raised for summer camp scholarships.
“It’s a different way we look at the com-
munity,” Fruchter said. “We must have
raised $100,000 in scholarships this year,
which is dramatically more than in years
past, but it needed to be done and it couldn’t
be done through the annual campaign.”
Federation officials stressed that com-
munity members who want to ensure a
successful completion of the campaign
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Jewish Identity/Community Building
American Jewish Committee $8,300 $12,100
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Washington State Jewish Historical Society $1,300 $1,800
Jewish Identity/Community Building Totals $477,500 $559,300
Israel and Overseas
Jewish Federations of North America $1,107,800 $862,200
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Khabarovsk Chesed Center $20,300 $22,700
Kiryat Malachi Emergency Medical Clinic $4,300 $5,400
Leket Israel - Formerly Table to Table $18,900 $18,000
SELAH: Israel Crisis Management Center - Partners in Healing $15,300 $16,900
YEDID Kiryat Malachi Citizens Rights Center $13,700 $17,600
Israel and Overseas Totals $1,280,200 $1,271,417
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Community Contingency Fund $1 $1
Community Research Fund $1 $1
Community Welfare Funerals Fund $9,822 $0
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Leyna Krow Assistant Editor
Until just a few weeks ago, local con-
sumers had two choices of where to regu-
larly purchase kosher meat products: The
Albertson’s on Mercer Island and the Uni-
versity Village QFC in Seattle’s Northend.
Now, however, a third option has sprung
up. In June, kosher caterer Nosh Away
announced the launch of its kosher gro-
cery delivery service, Affordable Kosher.
Nosh Away has been catering private
and community Jewish events in the Seat-
tle area since 1998. Owner Phillip Klitzner
said Affordable Kosher came about as an
extension of Nosh Away’s own ongoing
need for kosher foods.
“Nosh Away has always struggled to
find quality kosher products in Seattle at
reasonable prices,” Klitzner said. “So we
started working with distributors back
east who have been great and have
been pushing us to distribute their
products on the West Coast.”
And that’s exactly what they’re
doing. Klitzner, who also owns
Island Crust Pizza on Mercer Island,
explained that trucks laden with
kosher meats, poultry, dairy items and
other grocery goods leave New York every
Friday, arriving in Seattle on Monday.
These products are then delivered directly
to the homes of Affordable Kosher cus-
tomers as ordered throughout the week.
According to Klitzner, buying kosher
products in bulk and delivering them to
customers rather than selling them out of
a storefront helps keep costs down, mean-
ing products are almost always less expen-
sive than they would be if purchased at a
grocery store.
“By offering home delivery, we’re actu-
ally able to lower our operating costs, as
funny as it seems,” he said.
He offered, as an example, a bottle of
Kedem grape juice, currently selling for
$9.99 at Albertson’s, but $5.69 through
Affordable Kosher.
“There’s not that savings on every
item,” he cautioned, “but on the
whole, we’re definitely offering
lower prices.”
As of the end of June, Affordable
Kosher claimed around 150 cus-
tomers, most of whom live in the
Seward Park neighborhood.
“We live there, so people know
us and they know Nosh Away,” Klitzner
said. “It’s mostly been word of mouth. We
haven’t done a lot of marketing so far.”
In addition to Seward Park, Affordable
Kosher also delivers to Mercer Island and
Bellevue, and to the Capitol Hill, Univer-
sity District, and Wedgwood neighbor-
hoods in Seattle. Klitzner noted he’d be
open to delivering to additional ZIP codes
if there’s a sufficient demand.
A wider variety of products will also
become available to order through Afford-
able Kosher as the customer base expands.
For right now, though, Klitzner is start-
ing with the staples and waiting to see
what other items people request as time
goes on.
He said the biggest challenge so far
has been anticipating how much of each
product to order from his East Coast dis-
tributor.
“We want to have enough product on
hand, but we also don’t want to…have
stuff going bad,” he said. “In these first few
weeks we have been having some extra
product.”
Affordable Kosher requests custom-
ers purchase a minimum of $50 worth of
merchandise per order. Delivery is free
for orders over $100; otherwise there is an
additional charge of $10.
Other similar ventures have met with
varying degrees of success. A kosher store-
front near the Seward Park neighborhood
was unable to sustain its business and
closed in 2003. Another cooperative ven-
ture based in Portland, Northwest Kosher,
makes periodic deliveries to Seattle with
kosher goods, including meats, but to a
single pick-up location.
Klitzner said he has already received
a lot of positive feedback about Afford-
able Kosher, and he’s optimistic about
the future of the fledgling venture. As the
city’s only grocery provider dedicated
solely to kosher products, he believes
Affordable Kosher has a lot of opportu-
nity for growth.
“While Albertson’s and QFC have
done a great job providing kosher prod-
ucts, it is just one section of their store,”
Klitzner said. “We hope we can meet those
demands a little better because we’re com-
pletely devoted to kosher consumers.”
For more information, visit
www.affordablekosher.com.

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tribe
Connecting with Rwanda The Jerusalem Post Crossword Puzzle
Diana Brement JTNews Columnist
By David Benkof

“Why Rwanda…?” is prob- room dedicated to 20th-cen-

ably what most people think tury genocide, Shelly pointed
when they find out Shelly to a Holocaust photo of a man
Anne Rosen is making a wearing a Star of David badge
second home in that African and then to herself. In perfect
country, even if they’re too English the driver said, “So, in
polite to say it. Rwanda, you’re a Tutsi.” She
The Seattle native — whose says she hears that a lot, “once
family has lived here since they find out I’m Jewish.”
about 1912 — calls Rwanda Before colonization, Rwan-
“my happy place,” and recalls da’s three main tribes were
feeling an immediate and visceral connec- the Hutu, Tutsi and Twa. Although the
tion to the landlocked nation the minute she country came late to colonization, German
stepped off the plane there for the first time. and then Belgian rulers, and the Catholic
It all started with her son’s 5th-grade Church, made these divisions race-based,
project. favoring the Tutsi, and requiring citizens
“William came home from school and to carry race identification cards.
said he had to do a report on a country A first Rwandan genocide in 1959 was
in Africa and he picked Rwanda,” Shelly the result of civil war, itself the result of
remembers. “I said, ‘Where’s that?’ forcible ejection of Hutus from the coun-
“I knew a little bit about the ‘Gorillas in try. A Hutu army returned, killing thou-
the Mist,’” and a little bit about genocide, sands of Tutsi and causing 150,000 more
but it was 2005 and the film Hotel Rwanda to flee. The 1994 genocide followed a
had just come out. Suddenly, “all the infor- presidential assassination, which became
an excuse for violent
retaliation. Between Across Down
April and July of that 1. Best parts 1. Paschal ___
6. Alternative to plastic 2. Jacob’s twin
year, more than a
10. Bit of treyf 3. “Death of a Salesman” has two
million Tutsi were 14. Fancy tie 4. Character in “Sunday in the Park
killed. 15. Count on it! with George”
In 2007 and 2008, 16. Sole 5. Some idols
Shelly returned there 17. Hanukkah name 6. Infamous lawyer Roy
as a volunteer for 19. Sigmund’s daughter 7. American Jewish Zionist volunteer
Project Rwanda, a 20. It might be an Egged group
charity that provides 21. Some Biblical homes 8. Mediterranean and others
bicycles for work and 22. Terrific 9. Many mins.
transportation in the 23. Baseball commissioner Selig 10. Filmmaker Lanzmann (“Shoah”)
rugged hills of the 24. Rahm is one to Barack 11. “Hellboy” actor
25. Some classic non-kosher products 12. Diarist Frank
countryside.
31. Spills the beans 13. Soviet symbol
Paul Karemera “I came home ter- 32. ___-line 18. Taube and Kennedy
Shelly Anne Rosen with some new friends in Rwanda. ribly culture shocked,” 33. Political philosopher Strauss 22. Breathe, in a way
she says, but also 35. French judge Cassin 23. Actress Neuwirth (“The Addams
mation was about genocide, genocide, “interested in global health issues, how to 36. Knox and Hood Family”)
genocide…and because we had parental make non-profits more functional.” 37. Rabin’s assassin 24. Parentheses, e.g.
controls on the computer,” Shelly found So she asked the boys, “do you want to 38. Furniture wood 25. G-rated
herself helping with the research, even leave Seattle for five months?” 39. Actress Lake (“Hairspray”) 26. “Simpsons” voice actor of
finding a Rwandan coffee importer living A friend secured them spots in a pri- 40. Hula hoop, e.g. Sephardi heritage
locally who agreed to meet with William. vate school and the three went off to live in 41. “American Pie” actress whose 27. Second Temple period, e.g.
He proved an invaluable contact who has Kigali for a semester. youth was spent in Israel 28. Islamic outfit
44. Actor Braff (“Scrubs”) 29. Up to
become “like family.” “I think they learned a lot from it,”
45. Kiryat ___ (city near Tel Aviv) 30. Grab
At the time, William and his twin brother Shelly says of her kids. It helped them 46. Kind of call 31. “My man!”
Patrick were in Hebrew school at Temple appreciate the privileges they have here, 48. Succot item 34. Neighbor of Wash.
Beth Am, preparing for their B’nai Mitzvah. “access to clean water, to food, to choice.” 51. Insult, slangily 36. Gefilte ___
Noticing parallels between Rwanda and the On their return, Shelly went back to 54. Honker 37. Mayer or Lustiger
Holocaust, William asked his mom, “How school to complete a B.A. in social jus- 55. It might be used to eat some fish 39. Torture device
could that happen?” And when he needed tice at Antioch and plans to return for her 57. Nobelist Wiesel 40. Ruth, famously
a mitzvah project, he and Shelly came up Master’s in the fall, and she’s working with 58. Rocker Geffen 42. Linguist Deborah
with the idea of going there. a Rwandan partner in a touring company, 59. Track event 43. Israel’s “Charmed and Strange”
In 2006 Shelly made an initial foray on Intore (in-tore-ay) Expeditions (www. 60. Custard dessert singer-songwriter
her own. intoreexpeditions.com). 61. Rabbi Judah Ha-___ 46. White hat wearer
62. “Send ___ to Me” 47. Kaiser ___
“I stepped off the plane and knew this “There’s a whole country out there, and
48. Volcano output
was exactly where I was supposed to be,” it’s clean” and “spectacularly beautiful” as
49. Author Leon (“Mila 18”)
she says. her photos of green rolling hills and tow- 50. Tribe of Israel
That trip included a visit to the ering peaks attest. “It’s more than gorillas 51. Big name in pineapples
Kigali Memorial Centre and it’s more than genocide.” 52. Gershwin and Magaziner
(www.kigalimemorialcentre.org) where With the sense of tikkun olam — 53. Actress Ione
victims of Rwandan genocide are memori- repairing the world — with which she 55. Put down in writing?
alized. Wearing her mezuzah pendant, she grew up, Shelly is also creating a fund that 56. “Pshaw!”
toured the museum with their driver, “who Answers on page 18
hadn’t said a word to us in four days.” In a XX see M.O.T. on Page 14
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Panelist Hazim Shafi

The flotilla disaster, talks about his

impressions of a future

from the other side state for Israelis and

Janis Siegel JTNews Correspondent
A crowd of nearly 200 filled Saint
Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral’s Bloedel Hall
on Seattle’s Capitol Hill on June 25 to hear
four pro-Palestinian speakers voice their
anger and outrage with the Obama admin-
istration and Israel.
The activists blasted Pres. Obama at
the three-hour forum, “Crisis in Gaza:
The Failure of U.S. Policy,” for not getting
tough enough with Israel about reining in
its settlement expansion, for remaining
silent over Israel’s escalating segregation
of Gaza, and more.
The panel also did not have much hope
for any significant change in either coun-
try’s policies in the near future.
“We need a fundamental change,” said
Richard Silverstein, a Seattle-based Jewish
progressive Zionist blogger who has been
writing a blog on Israeli-Palestinian issues,
Tikun Olam, since 2003. “We need an end
to the siege.”
Silverstein co-organized the packed
event with Brenda Bentz, the conference
coordinator for Sabeel-Puget Sound, the
local chapter of the national pro-Pales-
tinian Christian political group. Other
panelists included Steve Niva, profes-
sor of International Politics and Middle
East Studies at Evergreen State College in
Olympia; David Schermerhorn, a long-
time Palestinian rights supporter who
was in the May flotilla; and Hazim Shafi,
a Gaza-born Seattleite and the nephew of
Haidar Abdul Shafi, a peace negotiator in
the 1990s for the PLO.
The evening was hosted by the Mid-
east Focus Ministry at Saint Mark’s. At
least seven more groups co-sponsored
the event, including the Palestinian Con-
cerns Task Force, the Episcopal Bishop’s
Committee on Israel/Palestine, and Jewish
Voice for Peace.
Missing from the event, which was held
on a Friday night, was any voice in defense
of Israel or its military actions.
Discussion soon turned to the May 31
Israeli raid of the Turkish ship, the Mavi
Marmara, by Israeli Defense Forces. It was
the only vessel of the six-ship flotilla that
ignored Israel’s blockade requiring the
inspection of cargo ships before delivery.
The operation left nine protestors dead
and seven IDF soldiers seriously injured.
Seven hundred pro-Palestinian activ-
ists were arrested. The operation has led
to outrage around the world, most of it
against Israel.
Bowing to international pressure,
Israel appointed a three-member commis-
sion, considered to be a politically right
body, to investigate the matter.
“I personally don’t know what hap-
pened,” Silverstein told the crowd. “They
may have gone berserk or had some kind
of manic reaction. But there’s only one
investigation that’s going to work and
that’s the U.N.”
The IDF commandos that rappelled
aboard the Marmara said they were
attacked by several activists who beat them
with metal rods, knives, and glass bottles.
They were fighting for their lives, they
told the British newspaper The Guardian.
Some protestors fired live rounds at them.
Schermerhorn was travelling on
another ship positioned within 50 yards of
the Marmara, but eventually transferred
onto it. He said he could hear weapons
fire as they approached the blockade while
helicopters hovered above them.
Israel claims protest organizers were
warned repeatedly about the blockade but
the ship indicated its clear intention to
violate the blockade by means of written
and oral statements.
The raid on the flotilla “was a trap set by
a terrorist lynch mob,” said Schermerhorn.
Other reports have stated the people
onboard the Marmara were mercenaries
with ties to militant groups intent on a vio-
lent break of the blockade.
As they proceeded to a prison,
Schermerhorn spoke directly to soldiers
filming the group.
“Much of the world is now going to
view their country as thugs, pirates and
assassins who have lost any moral posi-
tions,” he said, quoting himself.
After four days in incarceration and
receiving medical attention, a judge
required him to sign a mandatory letter of
deportation before he left the country. He
did so under protest.
“It’s as though the nation had lost its
moral compass,” he said.
Schermerhorn surrendered the podium
with the words “Boycott, divest, sanction,”
the methods of non-violent resistance
promoted by Sabeel and other groups
opposed to what they call Israel’s illegal
occupation of the territories. The words
received roaring applause.
Niva, of Evergreen College, character-
ized Israel as a “rogue state” who was “not
protecting the sanctity of life.”
“Israel’s really losing the ability to con-
Palestinians at a June 25
panel at St. Mark’s
Cathedral.
Janis Siegel
trol the narrative,” he said. “People are not
buying the story.
“I think that Israel’s ongoing effort to
[legitimize] and, basically hide and dis-
appear its ongoing occupation and colo-
nization of Palestinian land…what I call
the Greater Israel Project, seeks to control
over 3.5 million Palestinian’s lives.”
He slammed the Obama administra-
tion for not “seizing the moment” and
blamed “the Israel lobby” in Washington,
D.C, for having a stranglehold on U.S.
policy toward Israel.
Last month, majorities in both houses
of Congress — 87 U.S. senators and more
than 320 members of the House — signed
on to separate letters that expressed stead-
fast support for Israel, reaffirming their
commitment to the “unbreakable” U.S.-
Israel relationship.
The Senate version supported Israel’s
blockade of Gaza, and defended its right
to enforce it. AIPAC, the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee, threw their
support behind the Senate version.
Protestors question the legality of the
blockade and believe it further isolates a
population already in a hopeless situation.
According to the Israel Ministry of For-
eign Affairs, the U.S. Commander’s Hand-
book on the Law of Naval Operations
says, “A state may take action to enforce
a blockade. Any vessel that violates or

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attempts to violate a maritime blockade
may be captured or even attacked under
international law.”
The blockade, Israel says, is meant to
deny Hamas weapons shipments. The
blockade has been eased in recent weeks.
Hazim Shafi, a principal program man-
ager at Microsoft who grew up in Gaza,
believes the threat from Hamas is a false
premise Israelis are using to further a more
sinister agenda.
“Security is an excuse,” Shafi said. “The
goal [of Israel] is to force [Palestinians] to
leave. Those who can afford to leave have
left.”
Shafi described the territory as a big
prison.
“There’s no airport and no land con-
nectivity to the rest of the world,” he said.
“The free movement of people has been
restricted for many, many, many years.”
Although the IDF transports and
coordinates an average of 15,000 tons of
humanitarian aid and supplies to Gaza
each week, and issues thousands of per-
mits each year for travel in and out of
Gaza, this is not the fundamental issue,
according to Shafi.
“The problem with Gaza is not the
movement of material, it’s that there’s no
work to do,” he said. “Flour and cook-
ing oil is not solving the problem. Most
cannot afford the pasta because they have
no income.”
Palestinian unemployment skyrock-
eted after 1996 to more than 50 percent,
and fell from roughly 150,000 to about
35,000 after a series of terrorist bombings
caused Israel to close its borders to most
Palestinian workers.
The solution, believes Shafi, is to imple-
ment a two-state solution that would even-
tually lead to one secular state.
“By creating a state on top of the Pales-
tinian areas,” he said, “and ethnically exclud-
ing and cleansing the land of its Palestinian
inhabitants, and by continuing to occupy the
West Bank and Gaza and East Jerusalem for
a long time and not clearly stating what the
outcome of this is going to be, they have, in
fact, on the ground today, destroyed the state
of Palestine.”
Silverstein, who advocates Arab accep-
tance of Israel in return for a withdrawal
to pre-1967 borders, struck a more concil-
iatory tone.
“I want Gilad Shalit to return to the
bosom of his family but I also want Israel to
recognize Hamas and end the siege,” said
Silverstein. “I want the residents of Sderot
not to suffer under missiles sent from Gaza,
but I also want the residents of Gaza to be
free from paralyzing fear and the anticipa-
tion of the next war.”
XXsearch from Page 4
an alternative to force,” Sami said.
He reflected that perhaps those Pales-
tinians committed to non-violence might
help Israelis in establishing new alterna-
tives. Given the real historical pain and
fear in the Israeli psyche, Sami said, Pales-
tinians need to take responsibility for how
the Israeli soldiers view them, at the check-
points and at non-violent events.
We next visited the Israeli town of
S’derot, near Gaza and where Hamas
has fired hundreds of rockets on the citi-
zens there, causing death and injury. Most
destructive, however, has been the Post-
Traumatic Stress Disorder suffered by its
citizens when faced with the psychological
impact of having 20 seconds to make their
way to a shelter with little time to look after
family and other loved ones. We talked with
three wonderful women, including Israeli
Julia Chaitin, from the faculty of social work
at Sapir Academic College.
In an article written for the Berkeley,
Calif. Daily Planet, Julia wrote:
We (Israelis) constantly push our-
selves deeper and deeper into this black
hole called “the conflict.” It consumes
us, shutting out any other way to see
our relations with the Palestinians. We
can no longer see any option but the
military option. Anyone who does not
agree with the government and/or mil-
itary policy is perceived as a traitor.
Democracy is to be feared and freedom
of speech has become profanity. Any
call for human rights is seen as a call
against Israel. We are so obsessed with
our own victimhood, that we do not see
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how we are victimizing others. 
The women in S’derot and Sami
Awad’s commitment to Israeli-Palestinian
dialogue amid these current dangers dem-
onstrate three attributes all people of com-
passion must have to bring about healing
and movement toward peace.
They all come from the heart to support
all people’s rights to live with dignity and
raise their children in an environment hon-
oring peace. They have the courage to speak
out with a truth that represents balance and
reality of what is happening to all people in
the area, even when others around them are
trying to attack their credibility.
I truly believe both sides yearn for a
lasting peace. The Palestinians know full
well the reality of their lives in the occu-
pied territories. I believe they must also
seek out opportunities to better under-
stand the deep-seated fears of the Israelis.
I also pray that Israelis and American
Jews have the courage to discover the real-
ity of the impact the occupation has on
Palestinian dignity in the West Bank and
Gaza, and to see the Palestinians as human
beings dealing with an oppression brought
on by the founding of the State of Israel.
Once this reality is understood in moral
terms, they will be better able to work with
their Palestinian counterparts to move to
healing and, ultimately, peace.
Philip Gerson is a member of Temple B’nai
Torah and has spent 10 years involved with
interfaith dialogue and projects that bring faith
groups together to understand their common
beliefs. He has dedicated himself to Jewish-
Muslim dialogue in the Seattle area for the past
eight years.
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It was all Chinese to me, though with
a touch of Hebrew. That’s because I was standing in what
was once a Jewish ghetto — in Shanghai, China.
Today’s Shanghai is a modern metropolis that’s signif-
icantly different from when it was a refuge city for Jewish
immigrants escaping World War II. A city under nonstop
construction, where low buildings give way to skyscrap-
ers, it’s a conundrum; pricey hotels are around the corner
from tenement-style apartment houses communities with
no bathrooms or kitchens. The energy is infectious, and
while China is a Communist country, capitalism flows
from every direction, from Shanghai Tang to TGI Friday’s.
There is no escaping a myriad of places to spend money;
even the markets overflow with pearls, jade and silk.
A city of epic proportions, population 20 million,
Shanghai is currently hosting the 2010 World Expo. The
Expo is a global event intended to promote the exchange
of ideas and development in economy, culture, science and
technology, as well as to improve international relations. It
runs through October 31 and organizers estimate 70 mil-
lion visitors will attend.
Through the help of the Peninsula Hotel, I learned
about a tour of Jewish Shanghai with Dvir Bar-Gal, an
Israeli who has been living in China for years. Half the day
was a tour of the Jewish areas, and the other was a view into
modern Shanghai.
My group, comprised mostly of Jewish people from
around the world — Canadians, Australians, South Afri-
cans and Israelis —found its way to Huoshan Park in the
Hongkou District area, where tens of thousands of Jewish
refugees lived between 1938 and 1945.
The park has a small plaque written in Hebrew, Chinese
and English commemorating the suffering of the Euro-
pean Jewish refugees.
Across the street from where we sat, Bar-Gal pointed
to a building where the worldwide Jewish relief organiza-
tion the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
once operated.
“There are three reasons why Shanghai saved more Jews
during World War II. The first is it was an open port city
so people did not need a visa or passport to enter the city.”
Bar-Gal said. “Second, righteous gentiles in Europe such as
Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Lithuania, wrote
thousands of exit visas, as well as Chinese consul general
Dr. Ho Feng Shan, who also issued thousands of visas for
Shang-chai
Masada Siegel Special to JTNews
Austrian Jews during 1938-1940 against the orders of
the Chinese ambassador in Berlin. Finally, more Jews
were saved in China because no other country around
the world would let them in.”
The Israeli government awarded the honor of
“Righteous Among the Nations” to Sugihara in 1985
and to Ho Feng Shan in 2001.
A short distance away, we walked into a small alley
filled with crowded apartments, in what was once the
ghetto. Small remnants of Judaism past remained:
Nails on doors where mezuzahs once hung, or a Star Top: The skyline of Shanghai, China today. Inset: The former Ohel Moshe
of David designed into a metal door.
Seven synagogues were built in Shanghai. We vis- the city during World War II.
ited the Ohel Moishe Synagogue, now known as the
“Jewish Refugee Memorial Hall.” It is a small museum
dedicated to the history of the Jewish experience in Shang-
hai.The only operational synagogue today is Beit Men-
achem, run by Chabad.
One of the premier hotels is the Peninsula, owned by the
Kadoories, a family of real estate magnates. The Kadoorie
family, long-time residents of Shanghai, built up the Jewish
community and established important institutions such as
the Shanghai Jewish Youth Association in 1937. They also
established a Jewish day school and set up a fund, with the
aid of another immigrant family, to help refugees escaping
Europe set up businesses and become self-sufficient.
The Peninsula’s hotel rooms today are opulent and lux-
urious, and the staff provides first-class service in every
sense of the word. The subtle elegance is inviting and warm,
and having tea in the lobby is a real treat, not to mention
the live music that accentuates the magnificent food.
Until World War II, Shanghai was divided into three
different sections known as concessions: Chinese, British
and French. The former French Concession is today filled
with restored colonial-era buildings, gardens and shops.
It’s a relaxing place to wander, shop for souvenirs, custom-
tailored clothing, or sit in a little café for a cup of tea.
Xintiandi, one of the French Concession’s trendy, hap-
pening areas, has been renovated and features Shanghai’s
stone-gate homes, shops, bars and restaurants. Ironically,
one of Xintiandi’s must-see places is the meetinghouse-
turned-museum where the Communist Party of China
was founded in 1920. It had a feel of China meets Rodeo
Drive.
Later in the day we headed toward the Bund, a curving
friday, july 9, 2010
Masada Siegel
synagogue is now a de facto museum that shows the Jewish presence in
riverside boulevard lined with marble- and granite-clad
buildings built in the 1840s. The most beautiful structures
were built in the early 1900s, with the river port on one
side and the old foreign concessions on the other. Foreign
magnates spared no expense and imported Italian marble,
Oregon pine, and British bronze work. The buildings were
used as banks, private clubs and hotels.
One of the must-see buildings is the Shanghai Pudong
Development Bank, formerly known as the Hong Kong
and Shanghai Bank. Stepping inside, you are transported
to Italy, with shiny marble mosaic floors, an airy octag-
onal rotunda, and eight allegorical wall murals from the
1920s representative of the world financial centers, such as
Tokyo, New York and London.
One of Shanghai’s most prominent pedestrian streets is
Nanjing Road, and it will leave you wondering if you are
really in China, and not Europe. It is an enormous bustling
boulevard: Video screens flashing with advertising and
alive with a mix of locals and tourists wandering as well
as shopping. If you want to go off the beaten path, walk
behind the road, and another slice of China awaits you,
with small stores selling everything from mannequins to
doorknobs. Motorcycles galore litter the streets and people
pedaling on bikes pull supplies from one area to the next.
While Shanghai’s Jewish history is intriguing, its pres-
ent is propelling rapidly into the future. Yet even traveling
solo, I managed to find my place and my people.
Masada Siegel can be reached at
fungirlcorrespondent@gmail.com
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Erez Ben-Ari JTNews Correspondent
Finding out that a parent is ill is one of
those things that may seem unavoidable.
When Lea Hanan and her brother Michael
learned of their father’s inevitable kidney
failure, however, they had no intention
of letting his illness become terminal. On
June 28, one of Lea’s kidneys was trans-
planted into her father, giving him the
ultimate Father’s Day gift: His life.
“My father has always wanted every-
one to know how important preventative
medicine is,” Michael Behar told JTNews.
“He had himself checked routinely, and so
his kidney problems were discovered in a
very early stage, about five years ago.”
Initially, Albert Behar altered his diet,
hoping to extend the functionality of his
kidneys for as long as possible. But two
years ago it became apparent that he
would have no choice but to start dialysis
or get a kidney transplant.
The waiting list for a kidney dona-
tion is very long. According to the U.S.
Department of Health & Human Services,
more than 91,000 people are on the kidney
transplant waiting list. Every day, 10 of
those candidates die while waiting, and 95
new patients are added to that list. Statis-
tics show the chances of a successful trans-
plant are significantly higher for patients
who have the surgery before starting dial-
ysis, so Hanan and Michael Behar decided
to test whether either of them would be a
match to donate a kidney to their father.
“My father strongly resisted the idea
of one of us donating our kidney to him,”
Michael said, “but eventually we con-
vinced him to go along with it.”
From a medical perspective, receiv-
ing a kidney from a family member is
the most optimal solution, with higher
chances of compatibility. The recipient
can also be sure the organ comes from a
healthy person. Waiting-list organs may
be significantly degraded, depending on
the donor’s lifestyle choices or the time it
takes to retrieve the organ in the case of a
post-mortem donation. When screening
was performed, Hanan came out to be a
better match, but she still needed to dra-
matically alter her lifestyle.
“Lea had to get into much better
shape, which included losing 36 pounds,”
Michael said. “She had to switch to a
healthier diet, exercise and take excellent
care of herself, and after about a year, she
was finally ready.”
A transplant procedure is by nature
complicated and dangerous, not only to a
77-year-old man, but also to his donor.
“The surgeon warned us that after the
surgery, I would feel as if I was hit by a
truck,” Hanan said following the trans-
plant, “but even so, it was harder than I
expected.”
She said she is glad she didn’t know
in advance how difficult it would be, but
despite the challenges, her doctors and
nurses were astonished at her insistence
to walk out of bed on the first night after
the surgery.
“My sister and my father were in adja-
cent rooms, but could not see each other,
and so both of them bombarded me with
questions,” Michael said. “So it makes
sense that she wanted to walk over to him
as soon as possible.”
Following the surgery, Hanan departed
the hospital shortly after and Albert Behar
a few days later, though both will require
a few more weeks to recover. Even though
Hanan’s donated kidney has high com-
patibility with his system, Albert will be
required to take immunosuppressant
drugs for the rest of his life, and will have
to stay away from public places for a while
to avoid risk of infection.
Hanan’s motivation for her sacrifice
and risking her life is clear.
“Our father gave her life,” said Michael,
“and the opportunity to repay that gift is a
thrill for her.”
However, this donation was not out
of character for Hanan, who has donated
blood dozens of times over her life. “Some
people are fortunate enough to be able to
donate money to those who need it, but
even those who are not can always give
Courtesy Lea Hanan
Albert Behar, left, with daughter Lea, who donated one of her kidneys to her father last month.
blood,” she said. “It costs you nothing,
your body recovers quickly, and this dona-
tion can actually save a life.”
To her brother, the notion of organ
donations is rather new, as Jewish law lists
some restrictions. In recent years, a lot of
work has been done in this field, and it is
now easier for observant Jews like Behar to
become organ donors.
“Lea explained to me that when you
give a kidney, it does a lot more good than
save a life,” Michael said. “The donation
sets in motion a process that can often end
up getting multiple people an organ dona-
tion, saving multiple lives.”
“It’s pretty empowering and humbling
to know that each of us has the capability
of taking one kidney and giving someone
a second chance on life,” Hanan said. “It’s
amazing that I’ve been given an opportu-
nity to save my father and give him life,
like he gave to me…and I’ve also learned
of so many people who give their organs to
strangers. To me, that makes them some-
thing that is beyond angels.”
Thanks to Lea’s gift, her father should
have many more active years ahead of
him, but thousands of others are still in
need of help. The national waiting list
has more than 100,000 people waiting for
kidney, liver, pancreas, heart, lung and
other organ donations. Some of the people
on that list are part of the state’s Jewish
community.
A national registry, found at
www.donatelifetoday.com, can allow
anyone to become an organ donor and
ensure their organs will be used to save
others in case something happens to the
donor. Also, by participating in local
blood drives, donors can help others with-
out sacrificing any more than a few min-
utes of discomfort.
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will sponsor trips for Rwandan kids to visit
their national parks. Rwandans work hard,
she says, often too hard to take vacations.
She’d like to get kids “to understand they
have a really amazing resource,” in their
parks and give them a sense of steward-
ship of the land. She’s looking for a pub-
lisher for a series of photo books that will
raise money for the project.
“It’s my big dream to get this fund
going,” she says, “and get [tourists] to
really visit the country.”

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For a complete listing of events, or to add your event to the hiking shoes, and food. Meet at Jessica Marshall’s home in Saturday, July 10 at 9:30 p.m.
JTNews calendar, visit www.jtnews.net. Calendar events Ravenna to carpool. RSVP for address. Monotonix
must be submitted no later than 10 days before publication. Music
1 p.m. – WSJHS Donor Event Israeli band Monotonix are best
Candle Lighting Times

Lisa Kranseler at 206-774-2277 or info@wsjhs.org known for their raw-sounding

7/9/10................................................8:50 p.m. The Washington State Jewish Historical Society hosts its garage rock and their over-the-
7/16/10..............................................8:45 p.m. annual fundraiser featuring a display of Judaica and art. top stage antics. Performing
7/23/10..............................................8:38 p.m. Location TBA. with Pierced Arrows and What
7/30/10..............................................8:29 p.m. What Now. Cost is $12. At The
Tuesday 20 july High Dive, 513 N 36th Ave.,
7 p.m. – Summer Cooking Workshop Seattle.
Sunday 11 july

kibbutznik@ravennakibbutz.org
3–7 p.m. – Kayaking at Agua Verde A workshop on preparing easy and refreshing summer dishes.

Josh at joshf@hilleluw.org At Ravenna Kibbutz House Gimmel, 6211 23rd Ave. NE, Seattle.
Kayaking outing with Jconnect, followed by drinks at Agua Tuesday, July 13
Verde. Meet at Agua Verde, 1303 NE Boat St., Seattle. Wednesday 21 july Good Fortune
8 p.m. – Comedy Night at the Ravenna Kibbutz Film
Monday 12 july

kibbutznik@ravennakibbutz.org www.pbs.org/pov/goodfortune
7 p.m. – Women’s Rosh Chodesh Watch DVDs of performances by comedians Mitch Hedberg PBS presents the documentary Good Fortune, which explores

Giti Fredman at 206-935-4035 or info@seattlekollel.org and Eddie Izzard. At Ravenna Kibbutz House Bet, 6316 23rd
Guest Speaker Aliza Bulow discusses “Kabbalistic Insights Into Ave. NE, Seattle.
Marital Intimacy.” For women only. Location provided upon RSVP.
Sunday 25 july
7 p.m. – Sharsheret–An Evening of Inspiration 10 a.m.–4 p.m. – Blood Drive
the ways massive international efforts to alleviate poverty in
Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to
benefit. Co-produced by filmmaker Jeremy Levine. Check local
listings for times.

206-721-0970 or julie@bcmhseattle.org

Carol Benedick at 206-524-0075 or

Rochelle Shoretz, founder and executive director of Sharsheret,
a national organization linking Jewish women in their fight
against breast cancer discusses the unique concerns of those
who face breast cancer in the Jewish community. At the
home of Debbie Barber, RSVP for address.
carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or
www.bethshalomseattle.org
Make an appointment online at www.psbc.org/home/index.htm
to donate blood for the Puget Sound Blood Center. At
Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

Tuesday 13 july 8 p.m. – Sounders Game

7:30 p.m. – Guest Speaker Aliza Bulow

Zach Rosenwald at zachrosenwald@gmail.com

Giti Fredman at 206-722-8289 or info@seattlekollel.org
Guest Speaker Aliza Bulow discusses “Kabbalistic Insights
Into Marital Intimacy.” Men and women welcome. Free. At
the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
Thursday 15 july
6–8 p.m. – Young Professionals Happy Hour
Join The Tribe at Temple De Hirsch Sinai to watch the Seattle July 16-22
Sounders face off against the Colorado Rapid. Tickets Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis
available first come, first serve. At Qwest Field. Film
www.killingkasztner.com
Wednesday 28 july The historical documentary Killing Kasztner: The
11:30 a.m.–2 p.m.– Daytimers Movie & Lunch Jew Who Dealt With Nazis examines the contro-

Isolde Shiebert at 206-232-8555, ext. 204 or rsvp@h-nt. versial life and legacy of Hungarian Jew Rezso

Josh at joshf@hilleluw.org org Kasztner, who negotiated with Adolph Eichmann

Join fellow Jewish professionals for happy hour. Hosted by This month’s film is Every Time We Say Goodbye. $7 to save more than 1,600 Jews on a rescue train
Jconnect and JPro. At the Columbia Tower Club, 701 5th Ave., for lunch and the movie. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative from Budapest to Switzerland and was later
Seattle. Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. accused of the deaths of hundreds of thousands
of other Jews for withholding crucial information
Sunday 18 july 7–10:30 p.m. - Coffeehouse at the Ravenna Kibbutz about the Auschwitz death camp. Check listings
9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. – Mount Pilchuck Hike

kibbutznik@ravennakibbutz.org for showtimes. At the Northwest Film Forum,

Jessica at jessicakesslermarshall@gmail.com Monthly workshop for artists in the Jewish community. At 1515 12th Ave., Seattle.
A six-mile hike with Jconnect. Bring a hat, sunscreen, water, Ravenna Kibbutz House Bet, 6316 23rd Ave. NE, Seattle.

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voice
SJCC Coed On sharing shelf-space with Dr. Seuss
Softball League Martin Jaffee JTNews Columnist
Standings as of July 6 I am often asked: “Profes- publisher, Oxford University to treat “royalty?”
A League W L T Pts sor Jaffee, would you rather be Press, was selling it for $100 Any which way I carved up this turkey,
Elite Fitness Training 8 3 0 16 a hilarious, widely loved col- (yours at Amazon.com for a the whole thing turned out to be baloney!
Bad News Jews 7 4 0 14 umnist for a regionally prom- mere $85). Andy wondered So I resolved to search for a “better
Bitewings 7 4 0 14 inent Jewish newspaper, or, to if I had any odd copies laying deal.” A little Googling turned up a Web
The Jewcers 5 5 0 10 the contrary, an esoteric intel- around that I might part with site in India (Flipkart.com) that is in fact
The Deadly Catch 3 7 0 6 lectual whose work is known, for, say, $40? selling my book for 3,056 Indian rupees.
Rainier Overseas Movers 2 9 0 4 albeit respectfully, only to a Actually, I’d have let a copy At the current exchange rate of about 2
B League W L T Pts few academic cognoscenti?” go for 10 bucks. But my per- cents to 1 Rupee, my memorable tome
Truth Commission 7 1 0 14 Honest — folks ask me sonal copies were distributed can be in the hands of readers for a mere
Bar Hitzvah's 5 3 0 10 just this question all the time! years ago, and what writer, $66 or so — about $20 less than Amazon.
Temple De Hirsch 5 3 0 10 Seems like whenever I’m anyhow, buys his or her own com’s discount.
Metropolitan Appliance 4 5 0 8 stuck in the checkout line at QFC, waiting book? The only copy I own is my personal It is my pleasure, then, to inform the
Empty Pitchers 2 6 0 4 for the wrong order at Noah’s, or other- dog-eared author’s copy — with the notes many readers desiring my thoughts on
CBS 1 6 0 2 wise marking time while locked in my own toward the second edition (“Now available the history of rabbinic oral tradition that a
C League W L T Pts fantasy world, the question pops up. in paperback with an expanded bibliogra- copy will be sped to your door in response
The Sox 8 0 1 17 So let me respond once and for all by phy!”) that never materialized. to only a few clicks of the mouse!
Roanoke Inn 8 1 2 18 sharing a maaseh shehayah (a more or Then flattery was followed, upon reflec- The only problem is, your door has to
Letter Perfect Logos 7 2 1 15 less true story made truer by the retelling). tion, by outrage. A hundred bucks? For a be in Mumbai or Lucknow. While Flip-
Jay Berry's 6 2 1 13 Maybe that’ll put the question to rest! book that retailed at $30 just 10 years ago? kart distributes its wares “without post-
Ravenna Alehouse 4 5 0 8 I recently received an odd request from What? Had Oxford resumed publishing age throughout the Indian sub-continent,”
TBT Tsuris 3 4 1 7
my old friend, Andy. Andy believed, you the gold-leaf, leather-bound editions of it will not ship to any points outside of
Hebrew National 4 6 0 8
see, that a friend of his might benefit from the 19th century in imitation of Artscroll’s India.
Who's On 1st 3 5 1 7
Happy Hour 3 6 0 6 reading a book I had written several years faux-classic styling? Pity the poor Pakistani or Afghani
Advil Addicts 2 7 0 4 ago. I was very flattered — and astonished If so, where are the royalties? Instead reader, seeking respite from border skir-
Ball and Chain 0 10 0 0 that anyone outside by immediate circle of an annual check, I normally get a yearly mishes with the Taliban, who will be
of academic colleagues even remembered notice from Oxford informing me that denied escape into the clear light of my
D League W L T Pts
that I’d once written a book about oral “Oxford remits royalties only for sums in theories of rabbinic oral tradition! Not
Toronto Jew Jays 7 2 0 14
tradition in Judaism! excess of $50. Annual royalties of less than to mention the “natural constituency” of
Jewish Family Service 7 3 1 15
Yalla Shawarma 7 3 1 15 But as I read further, it became clear $50 accrue on a yearly basis until reaching readers throughout the European Union
Eastside Insurance 6 3 0 12 that my elation was premature. In fact, that sum.” In other words, in most years it nations, who might desire to stretch their
Organized Chaos 5 4 1 11 Andy wanted to buy the book for his costs Oxford more than it’s worth to cut euros by picking up cheap rabbinic schol-
JewSea 4 7 0 8 friend. But then he got sticker shock. The and mail my royalty check! Is that any way arship from New Delhi or Bangalore.
Tekiah 4 7 0 8 Are you listening, Greece?
Yabba Dabba Jews 3 6 2 8 Duly chastened, I sought consolation
Hava Tequila
J Connect
3
3
7
7
1 7
0 6 Should you consider long-term care insurance? in the summary-blurb that Flipkart.com
had composed to describe my book. At
Sponsored by Let us help. least I could enjoy reminding myself how
clever my book’s argument sounded!
Jay agoado There I discovered a small typo on
Your Real Estate Agent for Life the blurb. Prospective readers are now
informed that rabbinic oral Torah is “an
unbroken chain of diving (sic!) revelation
206-448-6940 to Moses on Sinai.” Hmm.
7525 SE 24th Street, Suite 350, Mercer Island, WA 98040 But, despite the radical marketing
Top 3%
marv@creativeplanning.com Marvin Meyers strategy of expanding my readership to
the pearl-diving community of the Gulf
of Mannar between India and Sri Lanka,
the product doesn’t seem to be moving
Serving the community with dignity & respect. any faster on the Sub-Continent than in
Europe or the States.
425-260-0715 I suppose I can live with this — aca-
jay@jayagoado.net demic books like mine usually sell in the
www.jayagoado.net low hundreds of copies, if that! But what
Committed to providing communication really hurts is Flipkart’s astute observation
long after the transaction has closed that readers of my book on Judaism might
also enjoy other “similar books.”
According to Flipkart.com, these “sim-
ilar books” include, among others: Dr.
Burial  Cremation Suess’s The Cat in the Hat; J.D. Salinger’s,
Columbarium  Receptions The Catcher in the Rye; Prof. Subash Dhar’s,
The Natural Gas Market in India; Martin
On Queen Anne Sicker’s, The Islamic World in Decline; and,
at 520 W. Raye St., last but not least, Shakuntala Devi’s immor-
tal, Awaken the Genius of Your Child.
Seattle Okay — it’s an honor to have my work
(In front of Hills of Eternity Cemetery)
included in any list that includes The Cat
Barbara Cannon
in the Hat and Catcher in the Rye. But still,
about the only thing that these esteemed
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life
Bat Mitzvah Wedding
Naomi Anne Litwack-Lang Rebecca Kitz and Opher
Naomi celebrated her Bat Mitzvah on June 19, 2010 at Mizrahi
Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue. Rebecca Kitz and Opher Mizrahi were
Naomi is the daughter of Laurie Litwack and John Lang of married on July 5, 2009 at the University
North Bend and the big sister of Esther Rose. Her grandpar- of Washington Hillel. The wedding
ents are Jane and Emanuel Litwack of Montreal, Quebec and ceremony was officiated by Rabbi
Glafre and Fred Lang of North Bend. Sholom Ber Levitin of Chabad of
Naomi is home schooled and has completed the 7th Washington State.
grade. Her hobbies include judo, swimming, and soccer. For Rebecca is the daughter of Carl and
her mitzvah project, she is raising money and awareness for Marion Kitz of Seattle. Her grandparents
Three Feet of Sunshine, a guild at Seattle Children’s Hospital are Klaus and Paula Stern of Seattle and
for families of kids facing life-threatening illnesses. the late Jacob and Esther Kitz. She
currently teaches at a Jewish day school
in Los Angeles, Calif.
Opher is the son of Edmond and Edna Mizrahi of Los Angeles. His grandparents are Roza
Arva Davis Gray Litmanowich of Los Angeles and the late Sol Litmanowich and the late Jacque and Amar
July 20, 1926–June 14, 2010 Mizrahi. He currently is the CEO of an Internet company.
Arva Davis Gray was born on July 20, 1926 in Midway, Utah to Charles and Lacy Van Wagenen The couple resides in Los Angeles.
Davis, both descendants of Utah pioneer families who traveled west with Brigham Young. She
passed away on June 14, 2010 at home, surrounded by her beloved family and caregivers.
Arva graduated from St. Mark’s Hospital Nursing School in Salt Lake City, working first in Sun XXrabbi’s turn from Page 3 childish habit and imagination.” He sug-
Valley, then in Seattle as an orthopedic nurse for Dr. Bernard Gray, who she later married. gests that “one must always cleanse one’s
Arva’s first love was her family and the dinner table was her pulpit. At the family meals, she and of names and images serves as a useful thoughts about God to make sure that they
her husband Bernard instilled in each of us the importance of family, good friends, community starting point for group conversation and are free of the dross of deceptive fantasies,
service and laughter, and reminded us to “never borrow trouble.” She was an avid golfer, gardener, personal reflection on the topic of our per- of groundless fear, of evil inclinations, of
and gourmet cook. Every meal was an occasion. Arva’s secret ingredient was love, and when she sonal theologies. If — or rather, when — wants and deficiencies.”
cooked, she heavily seasoned each dish with it. someone slips and says the word “God,” he As individuals and as a Jewish com-
Arva was raised during the Depression, and those times influenced Arva greatly. Regardless of or she must do 10 pushups. Besides being munity, we need to proactively address
their personal circumstances, she treated each person with dignity and with respect. She spent over fun, this exercise in refraining from using the “wants and deficiencies” of our theo-
55 years working tirelessly as a board member and as a volunteer at the Kline Galland Center. She the word G-O-D, forces us to find a word logical imaginations. We need to dedicate
worked on behalf of the elderly to ensure that they received quality care, and on behalf of the or image that serves as a placeholder — it more time to developing and refining our
employees to ensure that they received quality benefits. forces us to be more honest with ourselves personal theologies to ensure they are not
Arva was past president of the Kline Galland Center, past president of Jewish Family Service, past as to what we believe. crystallized in “childish habit and imagi-
chair of the Women’s Division of the Jewish Federation, past chair of the Women’s Division of Israel Rav Kook, the first chief Ashkenazic nation.” We can, and should, use our tre-
Bonds, one of the founding members of Temple B’nai Torah, and past Democratic precinct commit- rabbi of British Mandate Palestine, and mendously rich and diverse theological
teewoman. Arva was featured in the Jewish Women’s Archives. one of the most influential rabbis of the inheritance as an inspiration and guide.
Arva’s greatest legacy is her family and the love and friendship they share. She is survived by her 20th century, wrote that the “greatest Most importantly, we need to give our chil-
husband of 58 years, Bernard, and their children, David (Karen), Miriam, Janet (Brad Rind), Larry (Lori) impediment to the human spirit, on reach- dren and students the gift of engaging them
and daughter-in-law Midge (Don Kraft); grandchildren Berkeley (Scott Whitehead), Erika, Scott, Rachel, ing maturity, results from the fact that the in lively and open conversations about God
Rebecca, David, Charles and Miriam; and her great grandchildren, Elliott, Amelia and Henry. Survivors conception of God is crystallized among — and we might consider avoiding the
also include her brother Kent Davis (Delores) and sister-in-law Anne Kaback. Arva is survived by many people in a particular form, going back to word “God” while we do it.
dear friends, especially the surviving members of the “Club”: Sylvia, Rita and Rose.
The family wishes to express their appreciation to Dr. Saul Rivkin and his staff, who gave us 31
extra and extraordinary years with Arva. Special thanks to Mui, Ernestine, Maisha, Tsion and XXView from Page 18 perhaps more importantly, the letter “S”
Shannon, who showered Arva with love. appears somewhere in each author’s name!
Services have been held. Tributes may be made to Kline Galland Center, 1200 University St., volumes have in common as far as I can tell So to get back to the question to which
Seattle, WA 98101. — either with each other or with my own my tale is a reply: “Whadda you think,
— is that they are all written in English and, Weisenheimer?”

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Jewish Family Service
Volunteers at Jewish Family Service
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The Jewish Federation of
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The Jewish Federation offers a wide
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teers are needed to help with day-to-day
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National Council of Jewish
Women — Seattle Section
NCJW is always on the lookout for vol-
unteers to join in monthly work parties at
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Bayit provides household items to vic-
tims of domestic violence who are trying
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Volunteers assist with organizing incom-
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Joel Magalnick
Amy Hilzman-Paquette, director of the
Jewish Federation’s PJ Library storybook
program, reads during story hour at the
Association of Jewish Libraries’ 4th at the
Fairmont event. The July 4 event kicked
off the AJL’s annual convention, this year
in Seattle for the first time, with programs,
music and vendors of Judaica and books.
Other activities for the dozens of librarians
who descended on the city included a tour
of the library at Seattle Hebrew Academy
and presentations by noted Jewish
authors.

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