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Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords meets with a constituent one-on-one at a Safeway in southern Arizona in May 2010, much like she
was doing when she was shot on the morning of Jan. 8.
Memo notes Judaism in
motives of alleged attacker
JTA World News Service
(JTA) — A U.S. Department of Homeland Security memo reportedly notes that
Gabrielle Giffords is Jewish in describing the motives of the Arizona congresswoman’s
alleged assailant.
The memo, obtained by Fox News Channel, says that Jared Lee Loughner mentioned
American Renaissance, an extremist anti-immigrant group, in some of his own postings.
“The group’s ideology is anti-government, anti-immigration, anti-ZOG (Zionist Occu-
pational Government), anti-Semitic,” says the memo sent to law enforcement, which also
notes that Giffords, a Democrat, was the first Jewish congresswoman from Arizona.
Loughner was arrested after Giffords and 19 others were shot Saturday at a meet-your-
lawmaker event at a Tucson shopping mall. Six people were killed, including a 9-year-old
girl and a federal judge, John Roll. Loughner was tackled and arrested. Giffords, a Demo-
crat in her third term, is now in stable condition after being shot in the head.
Loughner has been described by authorities as “unstable.” He reportedly listed Mein
Kampf and the “Communist Manifesto” as two of his favorite books on his MySpace
page. Several hours before the shooting he reportedly left a “Goodbye friends” message,
which also said, “Please don’t be mad at me.”
Giffords was outside one of her signature “Congress at Your Corner” events outside
a Safeway in Tucson, part of her congressional district, when the gunman approached
and shot her. A Giffords staff member, Gabe Zimmerman, 30, the organizer of the
event, was among the six casualties. The bullet went through the left side of her head, said
Dr. Michael Lemole, a surgeon at the University Medical Center in Tucson.
Giffords was elected to Congress in the
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Legislature begins
session billions in
the hole
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
Rep. Reuven Carlyle (D–36th) had one word for this
legislative session as he prepared for its opening: Sober.
“There’s a real sense of sobriety and real humility about
the scale of the challenge we face,” Carlyle, a member of
the state’s Jewish delegation, told JTNews the Friday before
the Washington State legislature began its annual session
on Jan. 10. “The fundamental systems issue we face is that
in very difficult times, the demand on public service sky-
rockets at the very moment the perfect storm kicks in with
a dramatic drop in revenues.”
Zach Carstensen, director of government affairs for the
Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, who lobbies on behalf
of the state’s Jewish nonprofit organizations, said legisla-
tors will be “wrestling with how to make decisions that they
personally find unconscionable, but because there are few
options left are going to have to be made.”
The state’s government faces yet another revenue short-
fall — this one to the tune of about $4.6 billion over the
next two years — and legislators and nonprofits agencies
expect yet another round of debilitating cuts. Gov. Chris-
tine Gregoire’s preliminary budget guts many of the social
welfare programs for the state’s most indigent citizens.
“The safety net will be stretched thin in some places
and eliminated entirely in other places,” Gregoire wrote
in a statement after releasing her budget in December.
“For the functions that government no longer will be able
to provide, we must turn to neighbors, private charities,
faith-based organizations and other local programs. Our
communities, more than ever, will be asked to step up.”
Ken Weinberg, CEO of Jewish Family Service of Greater
Seattle, said his organization has managed to provide for
increased demand for emergency services such as food and
financial assistance thus far, but stepping up means people
will come seeking services JFS cannot offer.
“We don’t have the capacity to provide a health care
program for every indigent that exists in the greater Seattle
community. That’s simply not possible,” Weinberg said. “I
expect that there will be large numbers of people who will
really be in very, very, very serious condition that we will
not be able to assist the way the need assistance, because
you need a state. You need a state that makes a commit-
ment to them.”
As was reported in JTNews on Dec. 24, 2010, JFS faces
elimination of more than $450,000 in state funds for the
Limited English Proficiency Pathway employment assis-
tance program at its Refugee and Immigrant Service Cen-
ters. Weinberg said he also sees JFS’s emergency services
program, which offers financial assistance for medical,
dental, mental health, food, housing and utilities, being
heavily affected.
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the Bus ad controversy
Dishonest message could
have promoted hate crimes
RABBI David Shayne Special to JTNews
Were the ads sponsored by the Seat-
25
tle Mideast Awareness Campaign to run
JAMES MIREL on Seattle Metro buses this month really so
offensive and incendiary that King County
HONORING HIS PAST AND SECURING OUR FUTURE chose wisely in not running them? Or do
they constitute a legitimate and reasonable
political message that should not have been
censored in this fashion? I believe the correct
answer was what occurred — that the ads
did not run — because of the dishonest and
false nature of the message, and its potential
to promote anti-Jewish hate crimes.
Even if none of the eight words in the
ad are expressly false in and of themselves
(“Israeli war crimes — your tax dollars at
work. www.Stop30billion-Seattle.org”),
they present, nevertheless, what amounts
years to a lie, especially since, according to the
group, the ads refer to the “Cast Lead” oper-
ation of 2008-2009.
TODAH RABA Some Israeli soldiers committed during
that operation what are defined in inter-
national law as “war crimes.” And the U.S.
does provide aid to Israel, although it is not
clear what figure “$30 billion” represents,
since foreign aid to Israel totals approxi-
mately $3 billion a year (most of which is
spent back in the U.S., supporting thou-
sands of American workers).
Why then, is the ad so dishonest? Because
of the unspoken inferences intended to mis-
lead the public into drawing a completely
false picture of Operation Cast Lead and the
ongoing conflict in general.
The ad is dishonest for three reasons:
1. The term “war crime” is undefined and
suggests the Israel Defense Forces commits
flagrant and widespread intentional inflic-
tion of death and destruction on a civilian
population. That is a lie.
Please contact 2. The ad suggests Israel waged (or is still
waging?) an unjustified war, completely
the office to ignoring the fact that Israel acted in self-
join us for this defense and the unnamed other side was
the aggressor.
wonderful event. 3. By singling out Israel, the ad implies Israel
is the only U.S.-supported country com-
mitting war crimes or other human rights
RSVP required by January 28, 2011 abuses, when in fact the U.S. supports many
(space is limited). nations with human rights records far worse
than what Israel is accused of (never mind
that those accusations are often false).
15727 Northeast Fourth Street, Let’s look at each one:
1. War crimes. This is actually a very broad
Bellevue, WA 98008 term as used in international law, and can
425.603.9677 mean anything from smashing windows
in cars and houses to bombing entire cities
www.TempleBnaiTorah.org and killing millions of people. Most armies
engaged in open warfare will have some
soldiers who commit war crimes, includ-
ing the U.S. military. In fact, the IDF has
been praised from sources such as Richard
Kemp, a colonel serving in army of Great
Britain, for showing the greatest restraint
possible during a war in which the enemy
hid among civilians. If the IDF deserves to
be singled out, it is for having a remarkable
absence of the kind of incidents that plague
other militaries engaged in warfare, includ-
ing our own U.S. military, which has its own
shameful record of war crimes against civil-
ians (My Lai, Haditha).
2. Ignoring the real war criminals in
this situation. While it may be debatable
whether and to what extent the IDF com-
mitted “war crimes,” there can be no ques-
tion whatsoever that the Hamas-led Gazans
committed worse, specifically, crimes
against humanity (which also constitute
“war crimes”) by intentionally attacking
civilian targets with homemade rockets,
and committing murders in the shootings,
stabbings, and suicide bombings that killed
nearly 1,000 Israeli civilians over the course
of 15 years. The Gazans were the aggres-
sors and Cast Lead was a defensive opera-
tion — which was recognized by most of
the international community at the time,
including Egypt and Mahmoud Abbas, the
Palestinian Authority president. It is hardly
fair, equitable, or even sensible to blame the
side defending itself from armed aggres-
sion without condemning the aggressor, let
alone blame an ally of the defender.
3. The U.S. supports nations with far worse
human rights violations: The U.S. provides
support to dozens of nations all over the world
in different ways. Some nations receive direct
aid, some receive indirect aid through trade
agreements or alliances. Some of these nations
are also embroiled in regional conflicts: China
has illegally and oppressively occupied Tibet.
Indonesia until recently occupied East Timor.
Turkey invaded and occupies part of Cyprus.
Parade Magazine’s “World’s Worst Dicta-
tors — Top 10 of 2009” includes the leaders
of China and Saudi Arabia, countries whose
wealth derives largely from its relationship
with the U.S. and relationships nurtured and
sanctioned by the U.S. government. In the
Middle East alone, besides Saudi Arabia, there
are numerous U.S.-supported Arab dictator-
ships that oppress their own citizens, includ-
ing Egypt, which receives nearly the same
amount in foreign aid as Israel.
This ad was outrageous because of the
blatant hypocrisy and unfairness — not just
for distorting the true character of the con-
flict, but for singling out Israel from among
all of the U.S.-supported nations far more
deserving of condemnation.
Metro, as a governmental agency, has a
duty under the First Amendment to apply
its policies in a fair and neutral manner,
but it is not required to run any ad it gets.
When I wrote to the King County Coun-
cil, I stated:
“Less than five years ago several Jewish
women were shot and one was killed by an
attacker citing as his excuse the same kind
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the Bus ad controversy
Letter to the executive
This letter, drafted by Howard Gale of
Seattle and signed by 42 other members of
Seattle’s Jewish community, was presented
to King County Executive Dow Constantine
on Jan. 10 protesting the county’s decision
to cancel advertisements critical of Israel
that would have run on the side of 12 Metro
buses. The letter and meetings with the
executive did not affect the decision. A full
list of the signatories is available online at
www.jtnews.net.
Dear Mr. Constantine,
We are members of the Seattle Jewish
community who have joined together to
urge you to reconsider your decision to
prevent the “Israeli War Crimes – Your
Tax Dollars at Work” ads from being
placed on Metro buses. Your statement
that if the ads run there would be “an
unacceptable risk of harm to or disruption
of service” has baffled and alarmed us. We
don’t understand the rationale for your
claims of harm and disruption, and we are
alarmed by the sudden abrogation of the
contract for the ads. This sets a dangerous
precedent that baseless threats and bully-
ing can, in the absence of principled argu-
ments, set public policy.
We believe that a public airing of griev-
ances is a requirement for a democracy to
function. It leads to people feeling engaged
and respected, thereby lowering, not raising,
tensions and anger. It is when speech and
facts are suppressed that people feel isolated
and ignored. In this context your decision
concerning the bus ads appears counter-
productive to attaining your stated goals.
Your claims that these ads might prove
disruptive or costly to King County are
particularly ironic in light of our county’s
history. It took over 20 years to change the
logo of King County from a crown to the
face of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., over
the repeated objections as to the cost and
“disruptions” such a change would entail.
We believe that as King County Executive
it is your duty to do what is right and prin-
cipled, not just what avoids “disruptions.”
It is necessary to clarify what the bus
ads are not. Since the ads state evidence-
based claims (see below) they cannot, in
and of themselves, be considered anti-
Israeli (anymore than criticism of US
policy is anti-American). Indeed, as out-
lined below, numerous Israeli organiza-
tions have made the same claims as regards
war crimes. It certainly goes beyond rea-
sonable discourse to label such ads as any-
thing approximating “hate speech.”
The claim of “Israeli War Crimes – Your
Tax Dollars at Work” is evidence-based
and is therefore far from being inherently
inflammatory or inaccurate since:
1. Every internationally recognized non-
governmental human rights organization
“I developed and I noticed: This is my family. So I made a copy and I hid it. This is the most important picture for me.” — Jewish partisan photographer Faye Schulman. See page 18.
letters to the editor
Fourteen thousand thank-yous
Thank you to the JTNews for co-sponsoring the annual MAZON Hanukkah benefit.
Your beautiful ad and promotional material enabled us to fill the room to capacity
(Amnesty International, Human Rights
and to raise over $14,000 for MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger. Thanks also to
Watch, and the UN Human Rights Coun-
Matzoh Momma catering for generously providing the delicious meal and to all who came
cil) that has investigated the 2008 Israeli
and contributed. It was also gratifying to welcome several Washington State non-profits
assault on Gaza has come to the conclu-
which receive MAZON funding, including Jewish Family Service. If you have not made a
sion that there is abundant evidence of war
contribution, please visit the Web site www.mazon.org and specify that you are adding
crimes committed by Israel. So too have all
to the Seattle Hanukkah benefit.
the major Israeli human rights organiza-
Rabbi James Mirel
tions (The Association for Civil Rights in
Co-chair, Seattle MAZON benefit
Israel, B’Tselem, Committee Against Tor-
Seattle
ture in Israel, Yesh Din, Rabbis for Human
Rights, Physicians for Human Rights —
Spread the blame — and the responsibility
Israel, and others). In fact, the most com-
As a regular visitor to Israel to guest teach (six trips since 1999 — my next is this
plete investigation to date (the 452-page
April) and as an American Jewish artist and educator whose educational artworks on the
September 2009 report from the UN Fact
Holocaust have been exhibited around the region, editor Joel Magalnick’s article (“Pro-
Finding Mission headed by the noted
vocative bus ads go to highest levels of county government,” Dec. 24) and Rabbi Jon-
international Justice Richard Goldstone)
athan Singer’s Seattle Times op-ed, co-signed by 24 rabbis (“The truth about Israel
goes further, stating that “From the facts
beyond the failed bus ads,” Jan. 3) were of great interest.
available to it, the Mission is of the view
As a pro-Israel, pro-Palestine advocate, my human rights advocacy for victimiza-
that some of the actions of the Govern-
tion on both sides of the conflict results in scathing, sometimes hateful feedback from
ment of Israel might justify a competent
those who view Israel, or Palestinians, as sole conflict causes. Both love the “blame-
court finding that crimes against human-
the-other” name game.
ity have been committed.”
For me the Metro bus ads were anti-Israeli and anti-Palestinian. By failing to address
2. The US provides Israel with F-16 fighter
Palestinian war crimes (strapping bombs on youth and young adults to blow themselves
planes, Apache helicopters, tactical mis-
and their victims up is not an internationally recognized form of military engagement)
siles, white phosphorus shells, GBU-39
while solely addressing Israeli war and human rights crimes, the ads only offer another
guided bombs, controversial DIME
blame game.
(Dense Inert Metal Explosives) shells,
While I loathe Israeli policies in Gaza and the West Bank, in its defense Israel deserves
and a variety of other armaments at US
kudos for allowing B’tselem and other human rights organizations. Israel alone-is-at-
taxpayer expense. Many of these arma-
fault critics run the serious risk of being condemned for hypocrisy in ignoring state tor-
ments were used in the commission of war
ture and execution of political dissidents in every other country in the region, Hamas in
crimes (noted above).
Gaza included. Where are proposed bus ads addressing Hamas’ war crimes?
Several organizations in the Seattle area
If bus ad proponents are pro-Palestinian, they must accept the reality that short of
(the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle,
nuclear destruction, Israel stays. Israel and Diaspora supporters must recognize that
along with the Seattle/Northwest chapters
Gazans won’t vanish (unless rising sea levels displace them, and then Tel Aviv goes,
of the national groups the Anti-Defama-
too).
tion League, StandWithUs, and the Amer-
Those of us more concerned about seeing fewer children who’ve lost half their brains
ican Jewish Committee) have exploited the
or become quadriplegic from missiles and bombs than in seeing a greater Israel or an
fears of anti-Semitism and victimization
Israel-gone Palestine can do something: Phone and e-mail our U.S. Senators, House
to advance a very narrow agenda that has
representatives and the President and urge the American, Israeli and Palestinian nego-
nothing to do with the safety and protec-
tiators to include Hamas in settlement talks.
tion of the Jewish people and culture, but
Without Gaza and Hamas represented, peace talks are like an unbaked pie. Isn’t it
instead serves only to protect Israeli poli-
time to move beyond the jargon and blame game?
cies and practices that have denied basic
Akiva Kenny Segan
human rights to Palestinians. These orga-
Seattle
nizations do not speak for us, and in fact
violate the long-standing Jewish tradi-
A matter of common decency
tions we hold most sacred, traditions that
I commend Joel Magalnick for his insighful article (“Provocative bus ads go to high-
have guided us in our lives and careers:
est levels of county government,” Dec. 24).
the values of justice and liberation. Label-
Edward Mast’s bus ads are misleading and factually in error. Refusing hate speech is
ing the bus ads as “anti-Israel,” “anti-Jew-
not censorship but a matter of common decency. This means the [county] goverment is
ish,” or “hate speech” is an offensive tactic
not obligated to promote or provide a platform for hate speech. The proposed one-sided
which should never be encouraged, and
ad crossed the line between legitimate criticism and bigotry.
certainly not supported by echoing those
Promoting hate speech that could incite violence, vandalism and disruption of bus
claims or acting upon them.
service is not “free speech.” The creators of the ad are not advancing the cause of peace
The bus ads are not about singling out
and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.
Israel, but rather about taking responsi-
Anti-Israel messages have been known to inflame and lead to hate crimes against
bility for our government enabling Israeli
Jews and others such as the Naveed Haq shooting at the Jewish Federation in July
human rights abuses, through the supply
2006.
of money, arms, and diplomatic cover.
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Indeed, Amnesty International has called
for the international community to “act
immediately” at the level of individual
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Dow Constantine and Metro management are to be commended for doing the right thing
for cancelling the inflammatory ads that should not have been initially approved under current
Metro policies. Metro authorities are now developing policies that will prevent a recurrence of
hateful political ads being approved.
American aid to Israel is for military assistance to its only reliable ally in the Mideast. It is
given in the form of American-made equipment for defensive purposes.
U.S. aid is also given to Egypt, Palestinians and other Arab countries.
Israel has always embraced the sacredness of human life, while the Palestinians have not.
Until there is a positive change of the culture of hatred, violence and death by Palestinians,
Israel must remain militarily strong.
Israel’s self-defensive actions against Palestinian indiscriminate rocket attacks on its citizens
has wrongly been labelled as a “war crime.” What is nearer the truth are Palestinian actions of
using women and children as human shields and suicide bombers — those are “war crimes.”
Why does Mast excuse Hamas of their serious human rights violations and whose charter calls
for the destruction of Israel? Israel is to be commended to engage in peace talks with Palestinians
despite the unrelenting threats and constant rocket attacks by Hamas threatening its existence.
Josh Basson
Seattle
Expressing her Judaism
Since a resolution in favor of divesting from the Israeli occupation of Palestine passed at
Evergreen last year, tensions have run high. I understand it may be difficult for those who
disagree to speak up. I have been in many positions where my opinion is unpopular, and it is
hard to speak up. But in those situations, I ask myself: If I feel uncomfortable, is it because I
am scared of feeling alone or is it because others are actually a threat to my safety? In almost
every situation, it is the former.
My past is deeply rooted in Jewish traditions and values. One of those values is never
remaining silent when I see someone being oppressed, even if that person is not Jewish. The
history of my people has taught me that the consequences of not challenging the status quo
are fatal and atrocious.
Facing resistance from one’s own community is one of the hardest parts of challenging the
status quo. During the civil rights movement my grandfather, Israel Weisberg, would get calls
from Jews who did not support equal rights for African-Americans, who would insult him and
try their best to disgrace him and his work. It wasn’t easy being a white person standing up
for black people; it is not easy being a Jew standing up for Palestinians.
In a recent letter (“Letter to the enemy,” Dec. 24) it was suggested that I am denying my
Jewish identity by criticizing Israel. There is no one way to be Jewish, no right or wrong way
to embody and express Jewish values. If you can’t see that, then you are missing part of the
beauty of Judaism. Being Jewish, to me, means understanding persecution, what it means to
be singled out, and the importance of family. It means knowing the difference between the
insignificant and the meaningful, it means compassion and empathy and sharing food and sto-
ries and homes. Being Jewish, to me, means the freedom to choose what is important, and
what is worth fighting for.
It is with these values that I speak up in support of Palestinians, in support of conscien-
tious Israelis, and Jews.
Emily Weisberg
Olympia
Standing with her grandchild
I am the grandmother of Emily Weisberg, whom you recently dubbed the “enemy,” (“Letter
to the enemy,” Dec. 24) I am appalled you believe that someone who protests Israeli policy
must be anti-Israel, brainwashed or an “apostate.” Since when is critical thinking and compas-
sion for the other un-Jewish?
I stand with Emily. I am committed to Israel and support its legitimacy and security. I
made aliyah in 1948, and was one of the founding members of Kibbutz SASA in the Galilee. I
believe in a two-state solution that insures a just peace for the two peoples who have legiti-
mate claims to the land.
The occupation and the expansion of settlements has brought Israel to the brink of an apart-
heid society, reviled and isolated in the world. It has corrupted a generation of young Israelis
who must enforce cruel and often illegal actions. Jews should be, (and many of us are), in the
forefront of protest, in Israel and in the U.S. Jews should ask our government to take a strong
stand against Israel’s policy, not against Israel. Jews, who understand suffering and homeless-
ness and oppression so well, must be the last to inflict this on others.
I am pro-Israel, pro-Palestinian, pro-peace. To oppose the injustice and cruelty of the occu-
pation, to oppose harassment of peace activists, is to save Israel — to fulfill our dream of a
democratic, just society.
The young people who support the protest movement are the best and brightest of our
children. They are committed to their Jewishness, proud of their history. They remember the
Holocaust. They are committed to justice just as we taught them to be. I am proud that my
granddaughter is among them. They are our best hope for the future of Israel and peace.
Hilda Maggie Weisberg
Bellingham

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Ladino Lesson
By Isaac Azose
Ken se echa kon kriaturas, se alevanta pishado.
He who goes to bed with children, wakes up wet.
Looking for Limmud
Anyone interested in helping to start a chapter of the cross-denominational Jewish edu-
cation program Limmud? At a Limmud event, everyone is a student and everyone can be
a teacher. Limmud participants discover an opportunity to craft their own Jewish world,
to explore their connection to Jewish ideas and traditions and to meet others who share
their curiosity and enthusiasm. Limmud events are not solely “adult education,” but cover
topics for all ages from young children, through teens up to seniors, says David Speck of
Port Townsend, who is seeking to launch Limmud in the area.
If you want to help, contact David at dspeck1@yahoo.com or 360-301-1510. To learn
more about the program, visit www.limmud.org.
Still looking for that first Jewish baby of 2011
We’ve searched high and low — we’ve looked under cribs, in empty car seats, on Mommy’s
lap, but we just haven’t been able to find that first Jewish baby of 2011. So we need your help.
If you think you might know who that little baby might be, let us know by calling
206-441-4553 or sending an e-mail to editor@jtnews.net.
Remember when
From the Jewish Transcript, January 12,
1996, page 1.
Members of the Jewish Federation’s
Young Leadership Division served
Christmas dinner to the homeless in
Pioneer Square at its mitzvah day volun-
teer event. The group worked with several
Seattle-area agencies in conjunction with
Project Brotherhood.
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They have needed the space for a long time, and now, finally, Jewish Family Service is ready to begin
construction on its new, 19,000-square-foot expansion. The machines roll in next month.
The Summit turns 10 10
They said it couldn’t be done, but as retired Kline Galland CEO Josh Gortler put it, Seattle’s Jewish com-
munity came through and funded the building of a high-rise community for Jewish seniors. This month,
The Summit at First Hill turns 10.
Jew-ish in print 11–14
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this book.
Predictions for the New Year: Philip Roth has a new novel (again); Israel’s war on animals; sports figures
embrace Judaism.
A talk with the director of the film version of Mordecai Richler’s Barney’s Version.
The Holocaust through a different lens 18
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an exhibit of photos from one of those partisans.
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“My feeling is that we’re going to see a
lot more people attempting to access that
program and needing a lot more,” Wein-
berg said.
The numbers bear that out already,
with more clients utilizing the food bank
this past fall than at any time in JFS’s his-
tory. Weinberg also expects to see many
more clients who are unable to work who
live off small stipends known as Disabil-
ity Lifeline. Those temporary monthly
stipends, which last until clients can tran-
sition to federally funded permanent dis-
ability, would be sharply reduced in the
governor’s budget. That program had, in
past years, been rescued while the system
was made more efficient. Recipients were
able to cobble the payments and other
sources together to survive. But not this
time, Weinberg believes.
“I think they will be able coming to
us for [assistance], and I think we’ll also
be seeing an increase, because the mental
health system of the state will be taking
major hits,” he said.
Carstensen said he will also be keep-
ing an eye on the state’s capital budget,
which was defunded by the governor but
has JFS’s new expansion facility as one of
its priority projects.
The Kline Galland Jewish nursing facil-
ity also expects to see between $350,000
and $500,000 cut from the state’s Med-
icaid reimbursements for lower-income
residents.
“That’s a significant concern,” said Jeff
Cohen, CEO of Kline Galland. “We’re
exploring revenue initiatives and also
expense cuts.”
The nursing home will continue to
admit patients, regardless of ability to pay,
and Cohen said Kline Galland is apply-
ing for a certificate from the state to offer
more home health care and outpatient
services to shore up the agency’s $30 mil-
lion budget.
When the economy first took a nosedive
in 2008, the state was able to rely on raising
some taxes for revenue, and legislators had
just begun to make cuts, Carstensen said.
In addition, there was money in the state’s
rainy day fund that closed the gap, as well
as federal funding for medical assistance.
With that money spent, and the passage of
Initiative 1053 in November that requires
legislators to have a two-thirds majority to
raise taxes, Carstensen said those options
are now off the table.
“You could argue that all the damage
that has happened before, we were
lucky because we had some resources to
triage and keep our head above water,”
Carstensen said. “But maybe this year, this
is the year that the water goes over and
we’re submerged.”
Though the governor is putting greater
emphasis on agencies like JFS to fill in the
gaps, it has been widely reported already,
including in the Seattle Times, that these
organizations will be unable to do so. But
Carstensen said finances is not the only
problem in many faith communities.
“You run into the issue of competence,”
Carstensen said. “How many religious
institutions do you know have resident
addiction specialists or experts in domes-
tic violence, or are developing affordable
housing or know how to fill out an SSI
application and get off of Disability Lifeline
and go onto permanent disability?”
Though the legislature faces the obvi-
ous fiscal hurdle that there just isn’t
enough money to go around, the voting
public made its opinion about taxation
clear in last November’s election. Voters
also believe, by a large majority, that the
budget can be balanced through efficien-
cies and program cuts, according to a
Stuart Elway poll published this week.
Given that, Carstensen somewhat
echoed Gov. Gregoire’s call to remake the
state’s government, saying that legislators
shouldn’t give in to resignation about a
seemingly impossible task.
“If we’re smart about how we make the
cuts and we’re strategic about our deci-
sions, we can save some programs [and]
we can keep other programs intact, even
in a skeletal form, so when we come out
of the recession and revenues are back
to where we need to be, we can go in and
reconstitute them,” he said.
On the policy front, Carstensen will
focus on Senate Bill 5011, a compromised
carryover from last year’s session intro-
duced by then-Rep. Scott White (D–46th)
that would give enhanced sentences to
perpetrators of crimes against homeless
people under the vulnerable victims stat-
ute. The original bill had added homeless
people to the malicious harassment stat-
ute, which Hilary Bernstein, director of the
Pacific Northwest chapter of the Anti-Def-
amation League, said was inappropriate.
“We’re pleased to see that this word-
ing has been added in the place that it has
been added,” she said. “ADL took excep-
tion because the characteristics that are
part of the malicious harassment word-
ing include things like national origin or
sexual orientation or gender, things that
are immutable, and we believe that the
condition of homelessness is hopefully a
transient one.”
The bill was expected to have a reading
on Jan. 13, after JTNews went to press.

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JFS gets ready to build

Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
In some ways, the design of Jewish
Family Service’s new addition could be
looked upon as a contradiction: Creating
wide-open spaces allows for more privacy.
But as the machines move in next month
and begin the actual construction of a
dream that has been years in the making,
the finished product will do exactly that.
“We’re building a structure so that cli-
ents can come in and feel welcomed, but
also have the dignity and privacy they
need, because so many of the services we
offer are confidential,” said Dianne Loeb,
JFS’s board president.
When the $9 million, 19,000-square-
foot addition to JFS’s current Danz build-
ing in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood
is complete, the centerpiece of the design
will be an open staircase that takes visi-
tors and staff between the new building’s
two floors.
The stairway is “community-oriented,
meant for social interaction,” according
to Claudia Berman, JFS’s chief operating Weinstein Architects and Urban Designers
officer. “It’s important to how the build- An aerial rendering of the new Jewish Family Service expansion, set to break ground in February. The current Jessie Danz building is on the left.
ing is used.”
A courtyard and gallery walkway will Golden, JFS’s chief development officer, told and the philanthropic community to pro- $800,000 in federal funding that had been
connect the new structure to the current JTNews via e-mail. “The future of this fund- vide a basic human safety net without sup- earmarked through the Department
building, which will be modified to allow ing is completely unknown at this point.” porting those private institutions with of Housing and Urban Development’s
counseling clients more privacy as they JFS has engaged state legislators to some of the core infrastructure necessary economic development initiative, a part
wait for appointments. advocate for project. Rep. Reuven Carlyle to deliver the very services the state is bail- of the Omnibus Appropriations Bill that
“It’s always been a little uncomfortable (D–36th) said he would “fight tooth and ing on,” Carlyle said. “[The state] can’t have Congress failed to pass in December,
sitting in the waiting area for counseling nail” to secure funding. it both ways.”
and you run into a friend who’s volunteer- “You cannot look to the private sector The agency has given up on an expected XXPage 8
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sake, it’s a way we can do better service.”
Two Eastside offices that serve refugee
and immigrant populations will remain in
their locations.
The economic downturn has played a
part in this expansion’s design, and the past
month has shown that it is playing a part
in funding the project. JFS applied for a
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The money raised from donors has
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should there be a shortfall in government
funding, but JFS officials will need to figure
out how to make up for the lost dollars.
Still, the project will move forward as
planned, Berman said, and in its current
time frame, because the timing won’t get
better. Interest rates that have been at his-
toric lows are creeping up and building
costs are also on the rise. As soon as the
remaining permits are approved, Sellen
Corp., the building’s contractor, will be
able to begin.
The structure being built is scaled
back from what originally was going to
be 10,000 more square feet and an under-
ground parking lot. Covered parking will
now be at street level, pushing the main
floor up one level and eliminating a third
floor of interior space.
That design was “clearly overbuild-
ing for what we knew in the near term,”
Berman said. “This is not overbuilding. It
has growth capacity.”
Growth, however, has manifested itself
in the past two to three years in increased
demand for JFS’s social services. This
includes record numbers at the remod-
camps & education
Agency officials see the expansion as nec-
essary to continue to provide their ser-
vices at the levels their burgeoning client
base needs.
“We see needs growing and growing
and growing,” Loeb said. “We want to be
able to meet those needs, but be proactive
and really anticipate those needs and really
fulfill our mission of Jewish values.”
The new expansion building is desig-
nated by the U.S. Green Building Council’s
Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design program as LEED Silver, the third-
highest level of energy efficiency. Part of that
designation comes from parking and shower
facilities for bicycle commuters as well as an
architectural focus on natural lighting. At
the same time, architects were able to save
money by changing the original design of
floor-to-ceiling windows in offices to partial
walls, so rooms will get the same amount of
light but with lower-cost materials.
The building will also hold the agency’s
first elevator, making the entire campus
accessible for disabled visitors and staff,
and the top floor will have conference
space available to the greater community.
Several pieces of artwork have been
donated, including a Venetian glass vase by
Dale Chihuly, a painting by Northwest artist
Meg Holgate, and a nine-foot sculpture in
the courtyard by local artist Julie Speidel.

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Synagogue director reflects on a circuitous career •
Also: SJFF director on national selection panel
Diana Brement JTNews Columnist
1
I called Tzachi Litov
just to get a comment
or two on a seminar he
attended in November. My
simple inquiry about how he
got into his current job led me
to the story of his interesting,
yet somewhat circuitous career,
which I will share with you.
The seminar that the exec-
utive director of Seattle’s
Congregation Beth Shalom
attended was the Kellogg School of Man-
agement’s Education for Jewish Leaders
program at Northwestern University.
He joined 78 other rabbis, synagogue
executive directors, and leaders from all
Jewish denominations on the school’s
Evanston campus, and says the best part
of the program was the “discourse…after
class” and the connections he made “with
rabbis across the spectrum.”
“My rabbi [Jill Borodin] and I are part-
ners,” says Tzachi, and he says “the window
into the unique challenges that rabbis have
was really helpful to me in my role in the
business side of the Jewish community.”
Tzachi didn’t start his work life as a
Jewish communal professional. Growing
up in Baltimore, his Israeli
father made sure that Tzachi
(short for Yaakov) spent sum-
mers in Israel getting to know
his family. He made aliyah
at age 18 and while living
in Israel was, among other
things, a commer-
cial photographer.
He returned to
the U.S. in 1987
tribe with the dream of
documenting life
on a commercial
fishing boat. That idea got him
working on a boat for two years
in Alaska. While living in the
Northwest he met his wife, Lara, Courtesy Tzachi Litov tutoring on the side. That was a
an Everett native, now a natur- Tzachi Litov, executive stepping stone to being Herzl-
opathic physician with a practice director of Congregation Ner Tamid’s program director
in Bellevue (Eastside Integrative Beth Shalom.
Health).
“After she finished medical school we
moved back east…and lived for five years
in rural Maine,” where Tzachi worked in
a bank, giving him experience in finance
and computers. Although they found a
“wonderful” and old Jewish community
in Rockland, after having sons Noah and
camps & education
Aviv, they realized the community was
too small.
“My wife and I joke that we would
absolutely live rurally if we could [con-
sistently] get a minyan,” he says. “In rural
Maine it was tough.”
A job offer for Lara brought them back
to the Northwest and Tzachi
was able to spend a few years
as a stay-at-home dad, “which
were probably my favorite
years.”
During that period he
worked very part-time at
Temple Beth Or in Everett as
their religion school adminis-
trator, doing some Bar Mitzvah
for five years, work he enjoyed
very much.
“I could see myself moving forward
on this [track],” he recalls, so he took the
UW’s one-year certificate program in
non-profit management.
When the Beth Shalom job opened up,
“I applied. It was a natural move,” he says,
noting that the family had been members
of the shul for quite a while.
“I…have a very non-traditional back-
ground, but it’s what I draw strength from,”
he reflects, adding that he’s fortunate to
always have “found what I needed to do.”
2
Pamela Lavitt, our own direc-
tor of the AJC Seattle Jewish Film
Festival, was one of five panel-
ists who helped select the winners of the
Foundation for Jewish Culture’s Kroll
Fund for Jewish Documentary Film. The
fund awards grants of $20,000 to $35,000
to deserving films, which helps ensure
their completion and marketing as well
as circulation to film festivals, television,
and other distribution outlets. Some of
this year’s winners, selected from almost
100 applications, include: Joann Sfar
Draws From Memory, a portrait of one of
France’s most celebrated graphic novel-
ists; Regarding Susan Sontag, a spotlight
on the life and work of the late American
writer and icon; The Law in These Parts,
an examination of Israeli military tribu-
nals in the occupied territories. SJFF will
be held this year from March 10 to 20 with
the Web site and ticket sales launching on
Feb. 1. Mark your calendars!
10 community news JTNews . www.jtnews.net . friday, january 14, 2011
Jewish retirement community
celebrates 10 years
Janis Siegel JTNews Correspondent
Walking into the crowded lobby of The
Summit at First Hill Jewish retirement
community can be a tricky proposition
with so many residents jetting from one
class or activity to another.
Just be sure not to get in their way this
month as the vibrant senior center cel-
ebrates its 10th anniversary, honoring
those who call it home as well as its long-
time staff for their dedication, service, and
commitment.
Whether it’s a painting class, a Zumba
exercise class, or a “happy hour” in the
dining room before dinner, apparently,
many of the 130 residents of the 12-story
modern urban retirement and assisted-liv-
ing hub are not slowing down.
“I always had a dream that we should
have a retirement home in Seattle,” said
Joshua Gortler, the longtime, now-retired
CEO of The Kline Galland Center and
Affiliates, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on
Jan. 3 to kick off the month-long anniver-
sary celebration. “Everyone said it would
never happen.”
The credit, Gortler said, “goes to the
Jewish community of Seattle, which
always, always supported Kline Galland.”
Gathered in The Summit’s sanctuary
were nearly all of the 130 residents and 20
of the original staff that were hired in 2001
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The first resi-
dent to move into
The Summit in 2001,
Ada Ash, 95, and
the newest tenant
to move in, David
Franklin, who is
in his mid-90s, cut
the ribbon to cele-
Joel Magalnick brate the anniversary
Julie Churchill, center, one of the many original staff members of The Summit together. The crowd
at First Hill, holds the scissors for a ceremonial ribbon cutting celebrating toasted with glasses
the facility’s 10th anniversary with its first resident, Ada Ash, left, and its of sparkling cider and
newest resident, David Franklin. cake adorned with a
photo of The Summit
and continue to work there. at First Hill building perched on top.
“The staff does really heroic work every The facility offers all kosher meals, sev-
day,” said Jeff Cohen, Kline Galland’s cur- eral public spaces available for events, a
rent chief executive officer, who joined the wellness clinic, a wide array of recreational
organization four years ago. activities, diverse opportunities for Jewish
The capital campaign more than a education, a synagogue, a library, an exer-
decade ago to build The Summit raised cise room, an outdoor terrace, a spa, a café,
more than $20 million, which paid for a hair salon and a parking garage.
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If
you
go:
A community open house to
rededicate The Summit at First Hill
will take place on Sun., Jan. 23
from 2–4 p.m. at 1200 University
St., Seattle.
painting classes offered there, currently on
display in the lobby areas throughout the
main floor of the building. A set of com-
memorative note cards will be offered for
sale as a fundraiser for The Summit from the
reproductions of the art from 13 residents.
“The beauty of The Summit is that our
resources have expanded,” said Beth Cor-
dova, assistant activities director at The
Summit and a social worker by profession.
“We have a philosophy of active living, and
sparkle and spirit. Also, the residents love
the staff.”
Cordova said part of the community’s
mission is to provide a sense of richness
and diversity that encompasses the many
areas of Jewish culture represented at The
Summit, including native Seattleites, East
and West Coast transplants, and Ashke-
nazim and Sephardim.
And to accommodate different levels
of observance, The Summit conducts “lib-
eral” Shabbat services in the sanctuary just
off the main lobby early on a Friday after-
noon, and traditional services for more
observant Jews in the same synagogue, just
before sundown.
“The goals are to continue to maintain
the same level of excellence and communi-
nological aids for aging [Baby Boomers],
and providing a warm and loving place
with a sense of belonging while making the
most of what they have.”
Esther Friend, the director at The
Summit, oversees the day-to-day opera-
tions there. She often works 12-hour days
that include fielding concerns from resi-
dents in what she described as a “fluid envi-
ronment” where safety and dealing with
frailty issues are her priorities for the resi-
dents who live there.
“I try to lead with compassion and a lis-
tening ear so that residents feel that this is
their home,” Friend said. “People now have
more challenges because seniors are waiting
longer and aging in their homes for a longer
period of time. They are older and they are
motivated [to move in] by an event.”
Friend anticipates the trend toward home
care will continue to increase. Over the last
five years, the Summit has been innovating
and offering community packages to seniors
who can’t continue to manage the cleaning
duties for the Passover holiday. The Summit
rents available units for 10 days during the
Passover holiday and offers a completely
kosher-for-Passover unit. It’s all part of the
package, employees say.
“It’s a warm and wonderful environ-
ment, easy to present and to rent,” said
Trudi Arshon-Rosenbaum, The Summit’s
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But something is missing. Unrepresented in this

Each month, as it has done for more than 40 years, the National Council of Jewish Women’s
Seattle section hosts a birthday party for the residents of the Kline Galland home. On Dec. 23,
however, they added a little music — Temple Beth Am’s Klez Kids multi-generational music group
— which under the direction of Wendy Marcus had its own Bar Mitzvah performance by enter-
taining residents for the 13th year running.
Eating Animals v Page 11
writes. “The factory model has estranged them not only
from how they labor (hack, chop, saw, stick, lop, cut),
but what they produce (disgusting, unhealthy food) and
how the product is sold (anonymously and cheaply).”
I honestly don’t know what to make of Eating Ani-
mals. On one hand, it’s a manifesto akin to something
that could have been spit out more eloquently by a sub-
urban teenage girl who refuses to eat anything with a
face. On the other hand, it is a (somewhat) compelling
study of what we put into our mouths that’s more read-
able than, though not as comprehensive as, books like
Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. And interwo-
ven throughout are the occasional flashes of brilliance:
Just how destructive does a culinary preference
have to be before we decide to eat something else?
If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals
that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in hor-
rific ways isn’t motivating, what would be? If being
the number one contributor to the most serious threat
facing the planet (global warming) isn’t enough,
what is? And if you are tempted to put off those ques-
tions of conscience, to say not now, then when?
I’ll state right off the bat that I’m just not a fan of
Foer’s writing. His first novel, the celebrated Every-
thing is Illuminated, bored me. The second, Extremely
Loud and Incredibly Close, lost me about a third of the
way through. If it weren’t for my own 18-year history
of eating vegetarian, I probably would have done the
same with Animals.
Here’s why: Foer dabbled in and out of vegetarian-
Sandy Kraus
ism for years. Maybe he’d lapse here and there: Share
the turkey on Thanksgiving or ordering the fish on his
honeymoon, for example.
But then his son was born, and Foer felt he needed
to understand what he would be putting into his son’s
mouth and where it came from.
“I didn’t know what animals were, or even approxi-
mately how they were farmed or killed,” he writes.
From that came his three-year odyssey of sneak-
ing into factory farms in the dead of night and
meeting the farmers whose practices are the least
unsavory of the bunch, so he could tie his relation-
ship with his son to his ancestors and how each of their
lives so revolved around the food they ate: “Within my
family’s Jewish tradition, I came to learn that food
serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps
you remember.”
book, which is only surprising because it’s supposed to
be a journalistic work, is anyone from the large factory
farms he constantly berates — the Tysons, the Perdues,
the Jimmy Deans — to give their side of the story. It’s
not for lack of trying, Foer insists, and the testimony
recorded both by him and sources he tracked down offer
damning evidence against their practices, a rundown of
which I’ll give you here:
Factory farms: Bad.
Non-factory farms: Almost non-existent, but the ones
that remain are less bad.
Avoiding meat altogether: Best, but vegetarians
shouldn’t be smug about it; they need to work to
keep their personal choices just personal. And: “Never,
absolutely never, emphasize that virtually all of the
time one’s choice is between cruelty and ecological
destruction, and ceasing to eat animals.”
But emphasizing is exactly what Eating Animals
does. Foer wields his proselytizations like a knocker,
the high-pressure steel bolt that when used properly
knocks a cow senseless (think Javier Bardem in No Coun-
try for Old Men) before it enters the death machine. It’s
not often used properly, as we’re graphically told. But
he also tries to tread more lightly than the malformed
chick born in the stories-high, football-field-long, overly
crowded and lighted warehouses that call themselves
chicken coops these days.
That’s what annoyed me most about this book. I
first picked it up during Thanksgiving, and I just couldn’t
see myself sitting among my friends and family, many
of whom were talking about “passing the bird,” and
whether the stuffing tastes better if it’s actually being
what its name implies, and asking, “Did you know that
this so-called turkey you’re eating has been unneces-
sarily stuffed with antibiotics and is actually bred so it
can’t reproduce?”
But, as he notes, “food is not rational. Food is cul-
ture, habit and identity… Food is never simply a cal-
culation about which diet uses the least water or causes
the least suffering.”
Yet there are parts where Eating Animals really suc-
ceeds, and when I say succeed I mean makes Pollan’s
works read like dry textbooks: He brings the story home,
to his own family, to his grandmother’s starvation as she
escaped the Nazis, to the world he wants to give to his
young son. So when he’s having trouble reconciling his
beliefs and his history, he is truly torn.
“If my wife and I raise our son as a vegetarian, he
will not eat his great-grandmother’s singular dish, will
never receive that unique and most direct expression
of her love, will perhaps never think of her as the Great-
est Chef Who Ever Lived. Her primal story, our family’s
primal story, will have to change.”
And that makes me think, maybe I do want to invite
him and his family over for a Sunday Field Roast.

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Far more fun than resolving things

4. Instead of buses, the Israel-Palestine debate heats
for a new year is predicting them. With up in Seattle in the form of elaborate skywriting one-
that in mind, a crack at some future upsmanship.
Jew-ish goings on. 2010’s close was marked here in Seattle by a controversy over bus ads
that almost, but ultimately did not, run on a dozen King County Metro
routes. The ads would have said “Israeli War Crimes: Your Tax Dollars at

s Convert to Ju daism Work.” In the end, King County decided it was best to avoid the mael-
1. More Athlete ) strom and did not run the ads (or counter-ads purchased by pro-Israel
h
(But not Kabbala goggles-
groups).
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m announced he
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g scor ing m ac hi ne first signe d w ith
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wearin s mom’s sid Stoudamire
Jewish (roots on hi obably unrelated:
might possibly be el in g to Isra el. Pr
enders.
conflict to flare up again on billboards, in news outlets, and perhaps
capped it off by trav e solid playoff cont
you can get), then joke s — lo ok in g lik
Ricky Williams
even in the sky. I predict an elaborate battle of the skywriters. Just
s — perennial bad NFL running back
now has the Knick pi rit ed day think, we’ll finally find out if a plane can write out the entirety of Alan
e st ory do es n’ t end ther e. Free -s
rv an ce of th e Sa bbath. “When the Dershowitz’s “Case for Israel” over the skies of Seattle without the first
Th and obse shifted,” said
brace of Judaism even my thoughts
announced his em Sa tu rd ay ni gh t, ring rituals. page disappearing by the time the last one is written.
rday afternoon to legal thought-alte
shifted from Satu dabb le in ot he r, le ss
a rush of
illiam s, w ho ha s been known to er n. I pr ed ic t th at 2011 will bring
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rit ua ls an d ce eleases a new n
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Just kidding, this
however, see the happens every th
American Jewish ree months. The
literary scene cont new year will,
the angsty first pe inue to evolve from
2. New Elections in Israel rson semi-autobio
generational coho graphical novels
rts to more avant, of Roth and his
writers like Nicole fantastical, and am
There are grumblings that Israel’s Labor Party will bow out of the ruling Knes- Krauss, Joshua Co bitious fare by
hen, and yes, Mic
hael Chabon.
set coalition led by Likud and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if there isn’t
imminent progress on peace talks. Labor is the sole center/left party in the right-
wing coalition.
So far, Labor leader and Defense Minister Ehud Barak has refrained from pub-

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Lewis’s ‘Version’ of Richler Novel
Hits Home
by Michael Fox
Richard J. Lewis, like a lot of Canadian Jews, read
Mordecai Richler’s triumphant final work, Barney’s Ver-
sion, when it came out in 1997. Fresh from his success-
ful adaptation of another comic Canadian novel, Whale
Music, Lewis set about writing the screenplay—with-
out the rights, and on spec.
It was an audacious but unsuccessful leap of
faith—at least on one level. Lewis’s script didn’t pass
muster with producer Robert Lantos, nor did vari-
ous others penned by a succession of writers over the
ensuing decade. But when Lantos finally received a
screenplay that won him over (by Michael Konyves, a
Montreal Jew), Lewis was the natural choice to direct
the movie.
Barney’s Version, a marvelous picaresque that
spans a commercial TV producer’s three marriages
and runs the gamut from broad comedy to wrenching
pathos, opens Friday, January 14.
“I grew up a traditional Jewish kid in Toronto, so I
relate to a lot of the going-ons in Barney’s Version and
Richler’s world,” Lewis says. “It’s a world I knew very,
very well.”
All of Lewis’s grandparents were Orthodox Jews
from the old country, and he was Bar Mitzvahed. While
many secular Jews describe themselves as cultural
Jews, Lewis is more specific.
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ish and funny, I’d like to put myself in that category,”
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“That tradition or offshoot of Jewish culture is akin with
my identity.”
Lewis’s path led from Northwestern University to
the University of Southern California’s graduate film
Paul Giamatti and Dustin Hoffman in
Barney’s Version.
program, from children’s television in America to a pro-
ductive Canadian period. He returned to Hollywood
and found success producing and directing several sea-
sons of “CSI.” Along the way, Lewis discovered Buddhist
teachings—but without diluting his Jewish identity.
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person who relates to the philosophical underpinnings
of Jewish thought.”
The late Mordecai Richler, for his part, was an
object of both admiration and criticism for his portray-
als of Montreal Jews in The Apprenticeship of Duddy
Kravitz and Joshua Then and Now.
“I think that he liked to send up anyone who was
over the top,” Lewis muses. “He was ruthless with the
Quebecois and he’s ruthless with television people and
he felt like his own people sometimes embarrassed
him. By no stretch of the imagination was he a self-hat-
ing Jew, but he wasn’t one to adopt his own Jewish cul-
ture without questioning it, analyzing it and ultimately
parodying it.”
Given Richler’s trademark irreverence, the most
surprising aspect of the screen adaptation of Barney’s
Version is the unvarnished emotion between Barney
(Paul Giamatti) and his father Israel (Dustin Hoffman),
a retired cop.
“Both Barney and Izzy are very proud of their Jewish
heritage but are not in any way religious people,” Lewis
says. “Izzy really stands for that kind of blue-collar Jew
who will punch you in the face for a slur, and would
teach his son to do the same. What Dustin Hoffman
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Barney and Izzy are often irascible with other
people, but tender and vulnerable with each other.
“Some of it is extrapolation,” Lewis confides. “It’s
not entirely in the novel. Izzy is the only one Barney
truly trusts and the only one who believes his son is
worthy. For a guy like Barney who’s always trying to
prove himself, and always trying to battle his own
demons of doubt and insecurity, there’s tremendous
solace in this relationship, and it’s a refuge for him. That
relationship allows him to be exactly who he is.”
Barney is a complicated figure and far from per-
fect, especially in his relationships with Jewish women.
He’s a throwback to a time before political correctness,
when the movies—and audiences—embraced char-
acters who occasionally behaved inappropriately.
Barney’s measure, Lewis suggests, can only be
determined by toting up a lifetime of passions and kind
gestures, selfishness and screw-ups.
“The trouble with modern filmmaking is that they
try to wrap the entire essence of the character in one
piece of action or one triumphant thing the character
does. I was trying to get at the idea that the true shape
of a man’s place is determined by the many aspects—
some are foibles and flaws and some are strengths—
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Three random stories —
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Martin Jaffee JTNews Columnist
“All is determined, but
choice is a given.” This classic
paradox, transmitted in our
tradition by the martyred sage
Rabbi Akiva, has been on my
mind, as three events of this
desolate winter percolate in
my consciousness.
The events are: The contro-
versy that resulted in squelch-
ing a plan to post an anti-Israel
ad on Metro city buses; the
shootings in Arizona that resulted in
six deaths and the maiming of Con-
gresswoman Gabrielle Giffords; and
the untimely death of singer-composer
Debbie Friedman, whose powerful and
elevating music has, second only perhaps
to that of Shlomo Carlebach, changed the
nature of synagogue music in American
Judaism.
Each of these events has, superficially,
nothing to do with the others — other
than the random fact that they occurred
within a brief enough time frame that they
tend to cluster together in memory. But
is there more to it than that? Let’s review
“the facts.”
The week of Dec. 20, 2010, witnessed
a massive campaign among the pro-Israel
community both in Seattle and around
the country to ban an ad deemed by many
to be not merely controversial, but anti-
Semitic. The taste of that victory, of course,
will last only until the next public assault
on the legitimacy of the Jewish State,
which will probably have happened before
you read these words.
In the Seattle Times’ coverage of the
Jan. 8 attack against Gabrielle Giffords, I
found no mention of one important angle.
Although born to a Christian mother, Ms.
Giffords regards herself as a Jew by virtue
of her patrilineal line and membership in
a Reform Jewish community.
Indeed, so seriously does she take her
Jewishness that she made it a central part
of her campaign to represent her district in
Arizona’s congressional delegation. This
alone makes her a public Jewish figure in
the tradition of Barry Goldwater, no less,
who shared with Giffords a nearly identi-
cal halachic status.
And now, we see, this publicly Jewish
woman has been gunned down by a
lunatic. Seattleites are reminded of Pam
Waechter, who, working in the offices of
the Jewish Federation, was also gunned
down by a lunatic. Of course, not all luna-
tics gun Jews down, but it has happened
enough to make us suspicious that “doing
a Jew” is becoming a conventional rite of
passage in American lunatic-dom.
Does the public controversy over an
anti-Israel bus ad in a liberal American
city have any relevance to the shooting
of an American Jewish public figure in
conservative Arizona? Apparently, spon-
sors of the bus ad, who ridiculed Jews for
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voicing concerns that the ad
would inflame anti-Jewish
feelings in the public square,
would think not. Perhaps
those of us with children who
move through the wide world
un-self-consciously display-
ing their Jewish identity (by
wearing a kippah or, perhaps,
an “I Love Israel” t-shirt) can
be forgiven for having our
view grave doubts.
Now, as for the death of
Debbie Friedman on Jan. 9 —
what can that sad event possi-
bly have to do with public anti-Semitism
and the danger it poses to American Jews?
Really, nothing. Except that in a “healing
service” held in Congresswoman Giffords’
synagogue the day after the shooting,
Debbie Friedman’s famous prayer for
healing (misheberach) was played. Unbe-
knownst to those in attendance, that was
also a kind of kaddish for Ms. Friedman,
who had been in the hospital for several Across Down
days and died from pneumonia that very 1. Scouting group 1. Tablets number
morning. 6. The Golden one in Spain and others 2. Serling of “The Twilight Zone”
It strikes me as amazingly appropriate 10. In Yechupitzville 3. ___ Jewish Cemetery (Prague)
that Debbie Friedman’s music was chosen 14. Newsweek’s “#1 pulpit rabbi in 4. “La Juive,” e.g.
to adorn the service for Congresswoman America” David 5. Incan, in a way
15. Piece of glass 6. Add
Giffords. Ms. Friedman’s music was made
16. Fuzzy fruit 7. Measure
for all Jews, of course. But it found its natu-
17. Stranger 8. Member of the Jewish Sports Hall
ral home in the open-minded, experimen- 18. “Knit one, ___ two” of Fame, e.g.
tal, and liberal sanctuaries of the Boomer 19. Ramon or Halimi 9. Emulate Willy Loman
generation. And it was a particularly effec- 20. Kind of contraption 10. Scholar who once was an illiterate
tive bridge to the religious sensibilities 23. Leading surname of Spanish Jews shepherd
of folks like Congresswoman Giffords, 26. Charges 11. Steakhouse selection
who felt themselves somehow profoundly 27. Victoria’s Secret item 12. With it
Jewish even while consigned to an “outsid- 28. Sen. Bernie Sanders, e.g. 13. Items at Chupahs
er’s” status with regard to Orthodox and 29. “___ Miserables” (Boublil/ 21. Prohibit
Conservative halachic norms. Schoenberg musical) 22. Shaare Zedek employees (abbr.)
31. It may give you pause 23. Ted Koppel’s longtime network
It is perhaps in just such circles —
33. German rabbi Baeck 24. Los Angeles billionaire Eli
intermarried and unconventionally Jewish
34. Great-great-grandson of King 25. Prison where Eichmann was
— that we find an increasing number David executed
of Reform’s “rank and file;” It is prob- 37. Fed chairman, 1987-2006 30. Long, long time
ably among them that Congresswoman 41. Lost tribe 32. “Let us make ___ in our image...”
Giffords’ shooting is felt most acutely as 42. ___ Dessler (Genesis 1:26)
“Jewish pain,” and to whom Ms. Fried- 43. “Jewish Spectator” founder 33. Book after Exod.
man’s music offers the most solace. Weiss-Rosmarin 34. Passover mo., often
So to return to the beginning — are 45. ___ mitzvah 35. ___ Arabia
these three events somehow bound up 46. ___ mitzvah 36. Much of Chile
with each other? Are they “fated” to fall 48. Pa. neighbor 38. The Vilna Gaon, familiarly
49. Triangle, e.g. 39. German foreign minister Walter
together into their own pattern of hidden
53. Chanukah enemy 40. Under pressure
meaning? Or are they random occurrences
56. Developer of the first birth control 44. Street shader
in a world bereft of meaning? pill 45. Shaare Zedek hospital unit
In a sense, this is a pagan way of putting 58. Southwest ___ (Israel’s 46. Scapegoats
the matter. Do we go, on the one hand, neighborhood) 47. Franken and Davis
for Heraclitus’s world of random actions 59. ___ Z’mirot (Shabbat song) 49. Map feature
unguided by any design? Or, on the other, 60. Place for Matthew Broderick 50. Diner who’s an expert on Jewish
do we choose Stoicism’s inexorable work- 64. In ___ of (replacing) foodways
ing-out of pre-ordained patterns con- 65. Countenance 51. Leonard Nimoy’s astrological sign
ceived in the mental world that alone can 66. A Coen brother 52. Senior Canadian rabbi Gunther
be called “God?” 67. Direction to face Jerusalem, 54. Cantor and Yoffie
typically 55. ___-gritty
For my buck, Rabbi Akiva’s answer
68. Swear 57. WWII leftist org.
cuts through the pagan debate. “All is fore-
69. Chavrutas, e.g. 61. N. Carolina Jewish boarding school
seen” —the plot of our lives is built into 62. ___ the Seer
us at birth; “but choice is a given” — our Answers on page 23 63. Hannah has two
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The Holocaust through a different lens If

Emily K. Alhadeff JTNews Correspondent
“Even after 70 years, I still remember
how to make my own developer,” says
Faye Schulman.
During the three years she lived in the
woods, fighting the Nazis with a band of
Soviet partisans, Schulman documented
her experiences, developing negatives
under blankets at night and burying her
camera and tripod in the ground when she
went on missions.
Schulman’s photographs constitute
the only known photographs taken by a
Jewish partisan — and a woman at that.
Schulman’s photographs of the resis-
tance movement during World War II
will be on display at the University of
Washington Hillel from Jan. 13 to Feb. 17.
The exhibit belongs to the Jewish Parti-
san Educational Foundation and is being
hosted by the Washington State Holocaust
Education Resource Center.
In August 1942, the Polish ghetto that
Schulman’s family had been confined to
was raided by the Nazis, who killed 1,850
of the inhabitants, sparing only 26.
“My family was shot,” said Schulman
over the phone from her home in Toronto.
“And me, they didn’t want to kill, because
I [could work] for the Nazis [as a photog-
rapher].”
Schulman fled into the woods to join
the partisans when they attacked the town.
Despite her lack of medical training, they
put her to work as a nurse.
“In Russian there is a saying: If you
can’t, we will teach you. If you don’t want
to, we will force you,” she said. “I was
afraid of wounded people, I was afraid of
blood, but my life was changed…and I was
a very good nurse.”
After the war, Schulman found work
as a newspaper photographer in Belarus.
She married Morris Schulman, another
partisan, and they eventually emigrated
to Toronto.
Mitch Braff, founder of JPEF, met
Schulman about five years ago and was
Faye Schulman puts her lens on a group of partisans during a cold coming out.”
Soviet winter.
blown away by her work. He raised the
money to put up an exhibit, and they
printed photographs from the negatives.
The exhibit is making its way around the
world: A copy is currently in Cape Town,
and it is scheduled to visit 13 communities
over the next year.
Braff started the JPEF, which develops
educational materials for classrooms from
PBS-quality films to curricula, after being
inspired by a Jewish partisan’s story.
“Ten years ago I did not know what a
Jewish partisan was,” he said. His goal is to
give young generations the education he
never had. “The idea was to do a series of
about 50 interviews with partisans. These
are interviews that have
never been done on this
scale…[with] this much
detail and focus on the
partisans.”
Indeed, the story of
Jewish resistance against
the Germans is far less
told than the story of the
camps and gas chambers.
“In the grand scheme
of things, if you look at
the number of people
killed…it was such a
small number [of parti-
sans who fought] in com-
parison,” said Sharon
Rennert, the grand-
daughter of well-known
partisan Tuvia Bielski.
Faye Schulman/JPEF “It’s good that it’s finally
Rennert, who will give
a multimedia presenta-
tion about her family’s experience, upon
which the 2008 film Defiance was based, is
making her own documentary about the
now-famous Bielskis.
“My personal mission is that we tell my
family story in the context of the Holo-
caust,” she said. “I feel that it does offer
another perspective. And it’s not to take
away from people who couldn’t fight
back.”
Rennert marvels at the fact that Hitler
put a bounty on her grandfather Tuvia’s
head.
“My grandfather must have been so
powerful,” she said. “He posed that much
of a threat to Hitler.”
For Ilana Cone Kennedy, director of
education for the Holocaust Center, telling
the partisans’ story is more than another
perspective. It’s a potential paradigm shift.
Studying the 30,000 Jewish boys and girls
you
go:
“Pictures of Resistance: The
Wartime Photographs of Jewish
Partisan Faye Schulman” runs
through Feb. 17 at Hillel at the
University of Washington, 4745
17th Ave. NE, Seattle. Visit www.
wsherc.org for further information.
who fought the Nazis “affects the way we
think about Judaism and Jewish people
and our own history,” she said. “I think
there’s so much in Judaism that’s so pow-
erful and so wonderful that we want to get
a hold of, but Judaism often looks at our
past as victims throughout history, and
it’s wonderful to see Jews throughout the
world really fighting.”
A conversation with one of the Holo-
caust Center’s co-directors about seeing
the Holocaust through lens of partisans
instead of through victims led to the shift.
“This notion of people just being
rounded up passively is so false, even
when you look at those situations,” Ken-
nedy said. “There were groups that were
actively resisting, beyond the Warsaw
Ghetto uprising.”
Braff hopes the exhibit will impart a
threefold lesson to future generations:
One, he said, that young people can make
a difference. Two, that people must stand
up to tyranny and oppression, and three,
that people should question authority.
“I think it’s important for the young
Jewish generation to know that Jews are
not cowards,” Schulman said. “Chil-
dren should be proud to be Jewish, not
ashamed. It’s something to be proud of.”
Of all the photographs Schulman took,
the one that stands out the most was not
her own. In the aftermath of the oblit-
eration of her ghetto, she developed the
photograph of her entire family in a mass
grave.
“They took the pictures of the killing
and they brought me the film to develop,”
she said. “I developed and I noticed: This
is my family. So I made a copy and I hid it.
This is the most important picture for me.
“So many years have passed,” she said
tearfully, “but for me, it’s like yesterday.”

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Helen K. Levine
Helen Levine died peacefully at 94 on Dec. 11, 2010.
Wife of Morris Levine (z”l), mother of devoted daughters
Carol (Alan) Sidell, Marjorie (Rich) Cohan, Helena (Marc)
Kanner. She will be remembered by granddaughters
Joanna (Aaron) Sandorffy, Sarah (Jonathan) Walton,
Medeia (Jason) Cohan and great-grandchildren Bronya,
Simone, Markus and Jesse as a woman ahead of her time
who lived life to the fullest. Helen was a graduate of
Adelphi College ’36, and held two Master’s degrees from
Columbia University. Her professional social work career
included jobs with Industrial Home for the Blind and
Jewish Family Service. Helen was known for her devotion
to her family, her love of the arts and reading, and her interest in people. May her memory
live on in the lives of those who loved her.
Alvin Eugene Ross
April 4, 1922–December 22, 2010
Alvin “Al” Eugene Ross was born April 4, 1922 in Minot,
N.D. He passed away December 22, 2010 in Seattle,
surrounded by his loved ones. Al is remembered for his
humor, warm outgoing personality and deep love for his
family.
Al is survived by his two daughters Talby Gelb (Robert),
Elyse Piper (Brad) and son, Mark Ross (Elaine); Grandchil-
dren David Gelb (Heather), Aaron Gelb, Sam Ross and
Jaime Ross; 11-month-old triplet great-grandchildren,
Andrew, Molly and Taylor Gelb. He is also survived by his
loving companion, Susan Hyde.
Al was preceded in death by his beloved wife Barbie
Ross, two sisters, two brothers and his parents. Funeral
was Dec. 24, 2010 at Herzl Memorial Park. Remembrances may be made to the American
Heart Association or Hadassah at Seattle.Hadassah.org (425-467-9099).
life
Bat Mitzvah
Sabrina Jane Berkman
Sabrina will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on January 15,
2011 at Temple Beth Am in Seattle.
Sabrina is the daughter of Lisa and Jeffrey Berkman of
Kenmore and the brother of Samuel and Sydney. Her
grandparents are George and Linda Berkman of Seattle, and
Robert and Lois McIntosh of Redmond.
Sabrina is a 7th grader at Kenmore Junior High. She
enjoys gymnastics, dancing, and swimming.
For her mitzvah project, Sabrina volunteered at Council
House in Seattle.
Bar Mitzvah
Benjamin Joseph Cape
Benjamin will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on January 22,
2011 at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on
Mercer Island.
Benjamin is the son of Bonnie and Robbie Cape of
Sammamish and the brother of Noah and Dalia. His grandpar-
ents are Deanna and Sydney Godel, Michael and Maureen
Cape, and Pearl and Michael Caplan, all of Montreal, Quebec.
Benjamin is a 7th grader at the Jewish Day School. He
loves all sports, especially swimming and soccer. He is an
avid snow and water-skier and last summer participated in
his first triathlon. Benjamin loves technology and is also a
budding entrepreneur; his business, Benj Sells for You, has been selling people’s “stuff” on eBay
since 2008. Benjamin has attended Camp Hatikvah in British Columbia for the past five years.
For his mitzvah project, Benjamin has been volunteering at the Friendship Circle. He has
also set up a Youth Mitzvah Fund at the Jewish Federation and has asked his guests to give
to his fund in lieu of gifts.

Birth
Merrik Scott Mochkatel
Scott and Lindsay Mochkatel of San Diego, Calif.
OBITUARY welcomed Merrik Schott Mochkatel on September 16,
2010.

Debbie Friedman, Merrik’s grandparents are Mark and Carol Mochkatel

of Camano Island, and Ann Wilkens and John Stephens
Jewish songwriter and of California. His great grandparents are Morry and

performer, dies Mickie Mochkatel of Bellevue, Phillip Marshall of Mt.

Vernon and the late Sally Marshall, Margaret Groom of
(JTA) — Debbie Friedman, a popular singer California and Betty Stephens of California.
and songwriter who is widely credited with rein-
vigorating synagogue music, has died.
Friedman died Sunday after being hospitalized
in Southern California for several days with pneu-
monia. She was in her late 50s. How do I submit a 2-for-1
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five years ago, North American Jews had forgotten how to sing. Debbie reminded us how
to sing, she taught us how to sing. She gave us the vehicles that enabled us to sing. Then she
impacted our youth and our camps and, ultimately, from there she impacted our synagogues.
“What happens in the synagogues of Reform Judaism today — the voices of song — are
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Jewish identity part of her campaign.
“If you want something done, your best
bet is to ask a Jewish woman to do it,” Gif-
fords, a former state senator, said at the time.
“Jewish women — by our tradition and by
the way we were raised — have an ability to
cut through all the reasons why something
should, shouldn’t or can’t be done, and pull
people together to be successful.”
Giffords, 40, was raised by a Christian
Come out of your Scientist mother and Jewish father. She
shell and leave the decided she was Jewish following a 2001 visit
to Israel.
isolation of hearing Giffords fought a hard re-election
loss behind you… battle last year against the national anti-
incumbent, anti-Democratic mood. She
tacked to the right of her party on immi-
gration, saying border security was of pri-
mary consideration.
The election was called in her favor
weeks after the vote.
The National Jewish Democratic Coun-
cil suggested that the heated rhetoric of the
last year contributed to the climate that led
to the attack.
“One suspect, now in custody, may be
directly responsible for this crime,” the
group said in a statement. “But it is fair
to say — in today’s political climate, and
given today’s political rhetoric — that
many have contributed to the building
levels of vitriol in our political discourse
that have surely contributed to the atmo-
sphere in which this event transpired.”

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Niva, and other vocal activists in our area to
The Viewpointe on Queen Anne expend so much energy vilifying Israel?
what appears to be a hyper-focus on Israel
disproportionate to any other foreign
policy issue, is of utmost importance now.
Regardless of the inner motives of these
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comment by New York Times columnist
Thomas Friedman: “Criticizing Israel is not
anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But sin-
gling out Israel for opprobrium and inter-
national sanction out of all proportion to
any other party in the Middle East is anti-
Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.”
This is, of course, exactly what the ad in
question does. It’s why I believe it was just
and proper to protest and oppose the run-
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groups until there is no longer a substan-
tial risk that such equipment will be used
for serious violations of international
human rights and humanitarian law” (AI,
July 2009 report).
In 2003, and again in 2005, ads were
placed on Metro buses that protested
the Iraq war. In the 2005 ads there was a
graphic picture of an Iraqi child severely
injured by an American cluster bomb.
There were people who labeled those bus
ads as anti-American, yet Metro ran those
ads without incident. If we can question
the use of US armaments by Americans,
armaments by the Israelis?
Finally, we note that if there are fears that
ads addressing Palestinian war crimes, pro-
posed by other organizations, might incite
hatred or violence, then you should consider
those ads on a case-by-case basis according
to long-standing policy. It violates the most
basic conditions for free speech to allow one
person’s speech to suppress another’s.
We therefore request that you, as King
County Executive, act in a manner consis-
tent with supporting free speech, the legacy
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Interfaith power
Martin Westerman JTNews Columnist
At a time when fundamen-
talist religious fringe groups
are doing their best to bring
on the next world by destroy-
ing this one, it’s thrilling to
see a bigger, more powerful
movement of interfaith and
progressive religious commu-
nities engaged in making the
world a better place to live and
raise our future generations.
Survival does not depend
upon being the fittest or strongest, but on
being the cleverest, most persistent, deter-
mined — and lucky.
Until now, this column has concen-
trated almost exclusively on Jewish envi-
ronmental efforts. But great earth-healing
actions are being taken in the Christian
and Muslim communities, too. Jewish
sages have repeatedly noted that the Torah
does not begin with Abraham or Moses,
but with Adam and Eve. Dr. Jeremy Ben-
stein, director of the Abraham Heschel
Environmental Center, notes that after
the flood, when humanity begins again
with Noah and his children, God’s cove-
nant is made with all “children of Noah.”
It occurs 10 generations before the cove-
nant with Abraham, and only Noah’s son
Shem becomes the ancestor of the Semitic
peoples, including the people Israel. So we
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What does it mean for all
religions if no one religion is
superior to any other? Ben-
stein and other scholars con-
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partners in healing the earth.
earth So, what are our partners
doing?
New York community
organizer and author Ibrahim Abdul-
Matin (www.greendeenblog.com) has
launched a national Muslim initiative
called The Green Deen (“way” or “path”).
His book by that name is his first step
toward reversing the ignorance among
other religions, secular society, and even
many Muslims, of “the deep and long-
standing convergences between Muslim
beliefs and environmentalism.”
Noting that the Prophet Muhammad
declared, “the Earth is a mosque,” and
that the Quran admonishes to “walk on
the earth with humility” (25:63), he draws
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— oil, coal, and non-renewable sources gious response to global warming in con-
that require extraction and destruction.” gregations, through the promotion of
He advocates instead choosing to develop renewable energy, energy efficiency, and
“energy from Heaven” — solar, wind, and conservation;
other renewable energy sources, and high- • Seattle-based Earth Ministry
lights the Chiapas, Mexico Muslim com- (earthministry.org) engages Christian and
munity, which lives entirely off the grid other faith-based communities in envi-
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growing its own organic, halal food. partnership with individuals and congre-
Another, Yasir Syeed, founded Green- gations to educate, promote individual
Zabiha (www.greenzabiha.com) to pro- and congregational lifestyle choices, and
vide free-range/halal-pastured, grass-fed, organize for social change through envi-
well-treated meat animals, raised by farm- ronmental advocacy.
ers who heal the environment through Clearly, we’re united by our principles,
sustainable practices. our goals, and our willingness to work in
Our Christian tikkun olam partners are partnership. We’re not alone in the tikkun
busy, too. olam endeavor, and we can’t do it alone.
• GreenFaith Interfaith Partners for the We can practice our religions in ways that
Environment (greenfaith.org) embod- bring us together. We can cultivate senses
ies an ecumenical approach to the triple of awe and appreciation in living on this
bottom line — economy, ecology, and wonderful planet. And we can recog-
social equity. While Christian faith- nize that we’ll survive best if we all work
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by about 40 to 1, it highlights initiatives Author and teacher Martin Westerman writes
and achievements of all denominations, and consults on sustainable living. He can be
including Green Deen, and individual contacted with questions at
actions, such as those at Temple Beth artartart@seanet.com.
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