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Althea Stroum, at an event for the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s women’s division, in 2007.
Althea Stroum: ‘The end of an era’
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
In many ways, it was Althea who
was the soul of the Stroum family,
the matriarch who with her late hus-
band planted the philanthropic seeds
of Seattle’s Jewish community, and
whose name can be found engraved
on the Seattle area’s cultural land-
scape. Althea Stroum died on March
14, just days after the 10th anniversary
of the loss of her husband, Samuel.
She was 88.
Both Althea and Sam Stroum were
known for their philanthropy, and
those charitable values were simply a
given in their family.
“I believe that both of us did get the
values instilled by our parents,” said
Cynthia Stroum, one of Althea’s two
daughters and a former U.S. Ambas-
sador. “It runs through the family. It
wasn’t something that we really thought
about — it just was.”
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“They passed on how and why they
felt it was important to give to the com-
munity to other people that weren’t
Jewish,” Marsha Glazer, Althea’s daugh-
ter, said of her parents. “No matter how
much you have, you can always give to
another person.”
Joyce Rivkin, Althea’s niece, said
family came first for Althea.
“She always had a very positive atti-
tude about everything,” said. “That’s
something that I noticed about her and
tried to incorporate in my life.”
With only 14 years between Rivkin
and Althea, the two participated in many
activities together, especially after Sam
died.
“She loved to go to the theater and
opera and dance, and she would always
take me there when I was young,” Rivkin
said, “and we did those sorts of things
toward the end of her life.”
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New violence
suggests end of calm
between Israel and
militant Palestinians
Uriel Heilman
and Marcy Oster JTA World News Service
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Violence between Israel and
militant Palestinians rose sharply this week with a bomb-
ing in central Jerusalem and a dramatic increase in rocket
attacks on southern Israel.
In a terrorist attack on Wednesday afternoon, a bomb
planted near a telephone pole exploded near Jerusalem’s
International Convention Center, Binyanei Ha’uma, kill-
ing a 59-year-old woman and injuring more than two
dozen people.
Earlier, rocket attacks from Gaza on Tuesday and
Wednesday struck the Israeli cities of Beersheba and
Ashdod, injuring one man.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces struck targets in the Gaza
Strip, including what the Israeli Air Force described as
the rocket launcher from which a Grad rocket was fired at
Ashdod on Tuesday night. In one of the Israeli air raids,
four members of Islamic Jihad traveling in a car were killed.
In another, four Palestinian civilians were killed in an area
from which mortar shells had just been fired.
The killing of civilians prompted a statement of regret
from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who
also said, “It is regrettable that Hamas continues to inten-
tionally rain down dozens of rockets on Israeli civilians
even as it uses civilians as human shields.”
The sudden escalation in attacks, coming with Israel still
reeling from the March 11 attack in the Jewish West Bank
settlement of Itamar in which five family members were
stabbed to death, raises fresh questions about the sustain-
ability of the calm that has prevailed between Israel and
militant Palestinians since the end of the Gaza war in Jan-
uary 2009.
Since the cease-fire that ended that war, known in
Israel as Operation Cast Lead, rocket fire on south-
ern Israel has been sporadic and mostly carried out by
groups other than Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.
But the mortar and rocket attacks in recent weeks,
which have included the use of more sophisticated, lon-
ger-range missiles known as Grads, have been the work
of Hamas — a sign that the shaky cease-fire between
the Palestinian terrorist group and Israel may be fall-
ing apart.
“I see the escalation is already here in a number of fronts
— in the South and also in Jerusalem,” Interior Minister Eli
Yishai said at the scene of Wednesday’s explosion in Jeru-
salem, according to the Jerusalem Post.
In the South, Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom threat-
ened a new operation in the Gaza Strip.
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the rabbi’s turn
GenXers and Boomers:
Humility and tzimtzum
Rachel Nussbaum The Kavana Cooperative
At a conference earlier
this year, I heard a denomi-
national leader now close to
retirement ask whether the
young leaders who are going
outside of traditional insti-
tutional frameworks under-
stand “who published the
siddurim that they are using,
and who gave them their
training and credentials.”
This comment echoes the findings of a
recent study by the AVI CHAI Foundation
examining the impact of Jewish leaders in
their 20s and 30s. In that study, American
Jewish history scholar Jack Wertheimer
writes, “For their part, younger Jewish
leaders would do well to reexamine their
views of the establishment. For all its weak-
nesses, it played a major role in educat-
ing them.” In both of these comments, I
detect a hint of resentment toward young
leaders, and an accusation that they/we
(I’m a 34-year-old rabbi who started a new
community in Seattle) are acting without
appropriate humility.
On the other hand, when I started
the Kavana Cooperative five years ago, I
heard something altogether different: My
generation did not want to align with the
“establishment,” so we made calculated
decisions neither to adopt a synagogue
model nor to affiliate with any denomi-
nation. This desire to acknowledge gen-
erational differences by forging new paths
has been reinforced by the world of Jewish
philanthropy, which in recent years has
supported a number of innovative proj-
ects that aim to change the Jewish world.
All of this leaves me in a bit of a quan-
dary. I am keenly aware that I am who
I am today by virtue of my upbringing
during the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s in a small,
southern Jewish community, where I was
shaped by all of the major Jewish insti-
tutional forces of the 20th century: A
synagogue (which happened to be both
Conservative and conservative), an after-
noon Hebrew school, a Jewish Commu-
nity Center, a Jewish federation, summer
camps, and more. But the Jewish world
has changed rapidly and dramatically over
the past decades. Today I am nurtured
Jewishly by a loosely connected national
network of Jewish “start-up” communi-
ties, funders, and umbrella organizations
— groups brought together by a common
vocabulary centering around “innova-
tion,” “social entrepreneurship,” “mean-
ing,” and “empowerment.”
While I acknowledge that my success
is due to the individual mentors and to the
many institutions — both old and young —
“It’s an idea of continuation. It’s a dream. Magic.” — Irit Rosenblum, an attorney representing a family who want a grandchild using the sperm of their dead son. See page 24.
that have taught me, supported
me, and enabled me to arrive at
this point, I am also aware of a
deep tension — a behind-the-
scenes tug of war, a generation
gap — between “old school”
and “new school” leaders.
I wonder what is going on.
How might we probe the gen-
erational divide that exists
among Jewish leaders today?
Can we learn to talk across the multigen-
erational divide in ways that are productive
and mutually respectful? Is this a matter of
not acknowledging one’s years, of not want-
ing to hand over the power to make changes
to a rising youthful leadership that works in
ways different from the established ways?
Are young leaders not acknowledging or
paying tribute to their formative years, their
own stories of emergence, the precedents
upon which they built their lives and “inno-
vative” communities?
I ask my older colleagues: Can your gen-
eration of Jewish leaders take pride in the
legacy you are leaving, even if younger lead-
ers carve out new paths rather than follow
directly in your footsteps? Can you accept
that we might not want to assume the
mantle of your existing institutions — even
if you were willing to hand over the reins?
And, without being presumptuous, we
know that some existing organizations may
falter without a new, rising leadership. Can
you demonstrate the principle of tzimtzum,
contraction, in order to make space for new
ways of organizing and new forms of lead-
ership? Can I convince you that preserving
Judaism is more about the values and ideals
we share than any particular institutional
framework or established model?
I ask my peers: How might we express
our gratitude to those who have paved the
way for us and demonstrate appropriate
humility? How can we absorb the depth of
wisdom from people who have served the
field over time, have lived with an innovative
spirit and created their own communities in
their day — even without making their
choices our choices? Can we build bridges
between the tendency to reject mainstream
Judaism as outdated and the reality that, for
the majority of American Jews, these insti-
tutions are and will remain at the heart of
Jewish life for the near future?
A multigenerational mix of Jewish
leaders might challenge the unhelp-
ful dichotomy between innovators and
establishment, enduring institutions and
inchoate new ventures, “insiders” and
“outsiders.” In our own ways, we might
focus on the shared task of making Judaism
relevant and meaningful in the future.
letters to the editor
The joys of a hosting exchange
Thank you for your heartwarming article about AFS exchange student Mohammed’s
ecumenical experience in Seattle (M.O.T., “Saudi student enjoys kosher food,” Feb.
25). Now more than ever we need people-to-people relationships to dispel stereotypical
images that are so prevalent.
This year AFS of Greater Puget Sound is hosting approximately 50 students from
four continents in our local communities. Current students in Seattle public and private
schools come from Sweden, Moldava, Brazil, Russia, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Tajik-
istan, Switzerland, Chile, Australia, Malaysia, Portugal, Italy, and Saudi Arabia and stay
with local volunteer families.
We are looking for host families for students who will arrive in August for the 2011-12
school year. It’s not necessary to have a child in school, though it’s great if families do
have high school students. Single parents and empty nesters can make excellent hosts.
Students arrive with full medical coverage and their own spending money.
As a host family you will learn more about your own community and country through
the eyes of a student as well as creating family around the world. It’s a great introduc-
tion to studying abroad for your own children. Please contact AFS now at afs.org or our
local hosting coordinator (heidicook@aol.com) if you would like to expand your horizons
by hosting a student.
Pat Griffith
AFS GPS Volunteer
Seattle
True obstacles to peace
The recent outrageous massacre of innocents in Itamar, an Israeli settlement in the
Samarian Hills, when terrorists infiltrated the home of Udi and Ruth Fogel raises serious
questions. This horrific act illustrates that “settlements” are not the obstacle to peace as
some would have us believe.
It has been reported that the savage killers started with Yoav, the Fogels’ 11-year-old,
then Elad, his 4-year-old brother. Yoav’s throat was slit as he was reading in bed, and Elad
was stabbed twice in the heart. Then the attacker murdered Ruth, knifing her as she came
out of the bathroom. In the next room they killed Ruth’s sleeping husband, Udi, and their
infant daughter, Hadas. Apparently they did not notice the last bedroom, where two other
boys, Ro’i, 8, and Yishai, 2, were asleep. When 12-year-old Tamar came home shortly
after midnight from a Friday night youth group, this horrific slaughter was discovered.
What explains such unspeakable evil? What sort of human being deliberately butch-
ers a sleeping baby, or plunges a knife into a toddler’s heart?
The atrocity in Itamar recalls the 2002 terror attack at Kibbutz Metzer that left five
victims dead, including a mother and her two little boys. It brings to mind the murder
of Tali Hatuel and her four daughters, who were shot at point blank range as they drove
from Gaza to Ashkelon in 2004. It is reminiscent of the bloodbath in a Jerusalem yeshiva
three years ago, in which eight young students were gunned down. The civilized mind
struggles to make sense of such savagery.
For years the Palestinian Authority has demonized Israelis and Jews as enemies to be
destroyed, vermin to be loathed, and infidels to be terrorized with Allah’s blessing.
Children who grow up under Palestinian rule are inundated on all sides — in schools,
mosques, on radio and TV, in summer camps and popular music — with messages that
glorify bloodshed, promote hatred and lionize “martyrdom.” This toxic incitement that
pervades Palestinian culture of hatred and violence is well documented.
Their propaganda is not only dangerous, but deadly as well.
It is ironic to note that at the moment of the Fogel family murder, the West Bank town
of Al-Birch celebrated a public square named in honor of Dalai Mughrabi. It was Mughrabi
who, 33 years ago, led a PLO terror squad on a savage rampage on Israel’s coastal road.
Thirty-eight innocent Jews, including 13 children, were murdered on that day.
With current policies toward Israel and the Israeli people as indicated above, how
can the Palestinians hope to achieve an independent viable state living side by side with
Israel in peace?
Josh Basson
Seattle
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and a proud member of Generation X. succession.
 Althea Stroum
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A WomAn of VAlor

1922–2011

The Stroum Jewish Studies Program, Jackson School of International Studies,

College of Arts and Sciences and the entire University of Washington
community mourns the passing of Althea Stroum.

Former UW President Bill Gerberding once said, “A blindfolded person could throw
a dart at a map of the UW campus with a very good chance of landing on a school,
college or program that was a grateful beneficiary of Sam and Althea Stroum.”
The Stroum legacy will live on in every student their generosity touches.

Althea, you should have the last word. We’ll get you started.
Have you heard the one about…
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Yiddish Lesson
By Ruth Peizer
A shlekhter sholem iz beser vi a guter krig.
A bad peace is better than a good war.
Welcome to our new assistant editor
Emily Keeler Alhadeff came aboard on March 14
as assistant editor of JTNews and managing editor of
Jew-ish.com. Emily has lived in Seattle for about a year,
after relocating from Israel. She holds a B.A. in Eng-
lish literature and philosophy, a Master of Theological
Studies and has studied at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem and the Conservative Yeshiva. In addition to
JTNews, for which she has been a freelance writer, she is
also a published travel writer and editor.
Remember when
From the Jewish Transcript, March
28, 1966.
Ben Bridge, Federated Jewish Fund
president and Mrs. Sheldon Steinberg (no
first name given) who chaired the Fed-
erated Fund’s women’s division, look on
as Mayor J.D. Braman of Seattle signs a
proclamation naming March 26–April 2
of that year Federated Jewish Fund and
Council Week.
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A community toolbox for social action 6
A few weekends ago, the Repair the World Jewish social action organization brought together local educa-
tors to help them teach tikkun olam in the classroom.
Summer camp gets schooled 13
In an effort to expand their reach and engage more parts of the community, several Jewish day schools will
be hosting camps on their campuses this summer.
The canaries in the Nazis’ coal mine 16
Gay men in Weimar Germany had it pretty good. But when the Nazis came to power, that changed every-
thing. Seattle Men’s Chorus, with a variety of Jewish organizations, are bringing that story to the stage.
Getting a Handel on Esther 18
George Handel is probably best known for his “Hallelujah” chorus and his “Messiah” composition, but
he also wrote a libretto based upon the Purim Megillah. “Esther” will be performed this weekend at the
American Handel Festival in Seattle.
Bringing Yiddish to the young folk 19
Yiddish has experienced something of a renaissance, and one group is trying to bring the resurgence to
up-and-coming generations, which includes an upcoming performance on Mercer Island.
Focus on Philanthropy: How the teens do it 20
Several participants in the Jewish Federation’s teen philanthropy program write about their experiences in
learning about charitable organizations and how to best decide who gets what.
Making babies when Daddy died 24
An interesting look at the debate going on in Israel about when and if it is appropriate to use the sperm of
a dead donor for potential mothers seeking to use IVF.
MORE
M.O.T.: Member of the Tribe: A career in the atmosphere 7
What’s Your JQ?: The joys of camp 11
Crossword 12
Focus on Bellevue 13
Community Calendar 14
The Arts 17
Lifecycles 31
The Shouk Classifieds 29
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Welcome to the JTNews Tribe!
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Shelly Crocker . Peter De Jong . Robin Denburg . Dina Elikan
tribe Joseph Feinberg . Marc & Arlene Fineman . Rodney Fisher
Mark & Kathy Fishman . Tova Gardner . Judi Gladstone
Michael Golden . Elizabeth Gotterer . Allen Gown
David & Cathy Habib . Ed Harris Family . Robert L. Herschkowitz
George Hirschhorn . Carrie Horwitch . Gordon & Louise Irving
Sue Israel . Jack Israel . Irina Jacobson . David & Beth Jacoby . Jackie Jaspan . Susan Johnson
Stephanie Kaylin . Ross & Pat Kling . Lori & Rob Kraft . Edward Krigsman . Barbara Lardizabal
Joan Lerner . Steve Lewis . Pamela Lloyd Evette Ludma . Steve Luper . Steve & Marcie Maxwell
Danielle Meir . Dan & Elaine Mintz . Gary Nacht . Nancy Potash . Daniel & Stephanie Robbins
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Louis Soriano . Cynthia Stroum . Melvin Weiner . Gail Wiener . Alan Wittenberg
6 community news JTNews . www.jtnews.net . friday, march 25, 2011

How to find the right volunteer for the job

Janis Siegel JTNews Correspondent
Daily news reports abound in past
weeks of mega-earthquakes, tsunamis,
nuclear radiation, revolutions, and drug
cartel wars. They can be overwhelming,
but these world events also offer oppor-
tunities for those who hear the call to
pitch in and practice the Jewish impera-
tive to repair this world, said several Seat-
tle Jewish educators at a Temple Beth Am
in-service learning session.
In mid-March, the New York-based
organization founded for just that pur-
pose, Repair the World, joined about
100 teaching staff from eight Seattle-
area schools and synagogues to empha-
size that Jewish classrooms are great
places to promote kindness, compas-
sion, and service toward fellow human
beings, whoever they are and wherever
they may be.
“Repairing the world is our job,”
speaker Rivy Poupko Kletenik told JTNews.
The nationally known educator and head
of school at the Seattle Hebrew Academy
delivered the keynote address, “The Kab-
balah of Kindness: A User’s Guide.”
“I think sometimes tragedy is a wake-
up call,” Kletenik said. “Sometimes we
just go around in life taking everything
for granted. We’re complacent and some-
times we need to be shocked.”
Kletenik gave the Kabbalistic view of
Creation, where God contracts to make
room for his creation, humanity, and how
man ultimately shatters apart under the
strain of too much “Divine” light. There-
fore, the job of humanity is to right or
repair a shattered world.
“Social justice, kindness, and service
are at the foundation of Jewish life, no
matter what,” Beth Huppin, an award-
winning teacher from the Seattle Jewish
Community School, told JTNews. “This is
what Jews do, taking care of other people,
not just Jews. The texts, through the Torah
and the Talmud, speak to that.”
Huppin and Amee Huppin Sherer, also
a teacher at SJCS, taught a session called,
“Why a Chesed Class Isn’t Enough: Infus-
ing Service and Social Justice Into the
Fabric of Our Teaching.” Chesed is the
Hebrew word meaning kindness.
“This isn’t just for teachers,” Huppin
said. “The most important teachers chil-
dren have are the community members
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The Kline Galland Center and Affiliates

extends its deepest sympathy to the family of
Althea Stroum
— a gracious lady and generous benefactress.
May her memory be for a blessing.

Michael Morgan, Chairman

Board of Directors
Jeffrey D. Cohen, CEO

Hadassah cherishes the Seattle Section of

the National Council of Jewish Women
memories of Althea Stroum, is deeply saddened
a Life Member and by the passing of our beloved friend

Hadassah and lifetime member

Althea Stroum,
Gala Honoree. a woman of valor.
Our prayers and thoughts are
Our thoughts are with with her family and friends.
May her memory and good deeds long endure.
her family and friends.
Pacific Northwest Region and
Seattle Chapter Hadassah
515 - 116th Ave. NE, Suite 131
Bellevue, Wa 98004
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www.seattle.hadassah.org
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Professor’s
media visibility
hits the
atmosphere •
Also: Breaking
Down Mechitzas
Diana Brement JTNews Columnist

1
Our region has been in a hubbub over
radiation leaks from the earthquake-
ravaged Japanese power plants
and, it turns
out, when you
need to know
if and when
the radiation
is going to hit
Washington,
a local atmo-
spheric scien-
tist is the go-to
guy. He was
rapidly burn- tribe
ing through his 15 minutes
of fame the week we talked.
“I’ve spoken to about 20
reporters today,” Dan Jaffe told me the
afternoon of March 16.
The UW-Bothell professor has studied
pollution carried to North America from
Asia for almost 15 years. This isn’t his first
go-round with a big media story.
“When we first reported we could
detect pollution coming from Asia…in ’98
or ’99, that was a huge story,” he says.
He was surprised by media interest at
the time, but now he’s used to it, adding, “I
don’t really study radiation, but I know a
lot about the transport.”
Unconcerned about radiation here, he
points to bigger pollution worries: “The
two biggest concerns are ozone and mer-
cury,” he says, with Asia’s cars and fac-
tories being “the largest source in the
world.”
Don’t point fingers though. It’s “a
global problem — it all starts at home,”
and American pollution drifts over to
Europe, too.
“Scientists from Europe, China and
Asia get together and try to understand
what’s going on out there,” he says.
Dan does his part by riding his bike to
work every day from North Seattle.
Growing up in Boston, Dan went to
M.I.T. and majored in environmental
engineering. After a stint teaching high
school he resolved to get a doctorate in
order to teach college, and “get to the West
Coast.” With a Ph.D. from the UW he
landed a teaching job in Alaska in 1987.
He moved back to Seattle in 1997 to be the
first atmospheric science professor at UW-
Bothell, where his lab and his research
assistants are still located, working as The
Jaffe Group (www.atmos.washington.edu/
jaffegroup).
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friday, march 25, 2011 . www.jtnews.net . JTNews what’s your jq? 9
Fond memories of summer camp
Rivy Poupko Kletenik JTNews Columnist
Dear Rivy,
As we deliberate over
summer plans for our family,
the idea of sending the kids to
a Jewish camp keeps popping
up. I never went to camp, let
alone a Jewish camp. The
whole camping thing seems
so strange. I look forward
to summertime with our
children and want to plan a
family vacation. I feel quite
hesitant to send my children away for
such a long time and wonder about the
supervision. Furthermore, if we send our
children to camp, why go Jewish? Why
shouldn’t they go where their classmates
are going?
I am suddenly awash with memo-
ries! Nine summers in Jewish camps just
whooshed through my being. I am sorry
you didn’t go to camp and I am really
sorry that you didn’t get to go to a Jewish
summer camp. I grew up in a very Jewish
home and I went to a terrific Jewish day
school for 14 years. Both are a huge part
of my being, but Jewish summer camp
was a huge part of who I am today. I have
a feeling that if you ask anyone who went
to Jewish summer camp, he or she would
probably weigh in similarly.
It is essential to allow your children to
grow independently, at an age-appropriate
pace, and to learn to live without the hov-
ering of Mom and Dad. Family vacations
are an important element of family bond-
ing, but they should be part of the summer
experience, not the entirety. I am not sure
Althea,
your memory
will be a blessing always.
Our thoughts and prayers
are with your family.
Extended Camp Kalsman Family
that one column will be able
to contain my enthusiasm for
Jewish camping, but I will try.
Here is a sampling of what a
Jewish camping experience
gave me: lifetime friendships
and connections: It was with a
bunkmate from the summer of
1967 — I was 9 then — whom
I chose to room in my first year
JQ in college. There is nothing
quite like the bonds you make
at summer camp. You have
gone through the grueling (it’s
fun!) daily trials and tribulations with each
other: Early-morning exercises on damp,
chilly fields; panicked clean-up times with
inspections; shower lines; hot, exhausting
hikes; cold night activities followed by whis-
pered confidences after lights-out. Though
now hemispheres apart, we still keep in
touch — we are connected forever.
Independence: Try to imagine a time
with no cell phones. We actually got
through an entire month away from home
with but one or two hurried phone calls
from a pay phone. We figured out, on our
own, how to pin our socks so they wouldn’t
get lost in the laundry, how to make a bed
with hospital corners so tight a coin could
bounce on it, make a clove-hitch knot and
pitch a tent made out of blankets, how to
gather kindling and make it grow into a
crackling bonfire, how to build a bench
and swim laps in a freezing lake — looking
out for your buddy all the while.
Love of Israel: I went to a religious
Zionist camp. We lived and breathed
Israel! We were wakened each morning
with Hebrew and every activity throughout
the day was referred to by its Hebrew name.
Our night activities replicated battles from
Israeli wars. I know this might seem quite
hardcore, but it stayed with me.
Each year a different theme brought a
period of Jewish history to life. We were
taught to live up to the ideals of early Zion-
ism and to embrace simplicity and com-
mitment to the greater good — lots of
socialism, community and emulation of
kibbutz life. It ingrained in me a gripping
idealism and a lifelong passion for Israel.
Leadership: There were few adults visi-
ble on campus. Camp was run by kids! We
were all on track to run the world. Every-
where you looked, young people were in
charge: Bunk counselors, section leaders,
tractor drivers, cooks, dining room coordi-
nators. As far as my recollection serves me,
there may have been fewer than 10 adults
there total.
Then there was Color War! Nothing
can prepare a person for life leadership
more than a three-day Color War. The
camp is split in two with fierce competi-
tions taking over all aspects of camp life,
all of it subject to scrutiny and scoring.
Campers are quickly assigned crucial roles
in all of this mayhem — what could be
more invigorating and empowering?
Spirituality: Picture this: An entire
A Contemporary Theatre
Intiman Theatre
and
Seattle Repertory Theatre
celebrate the life of
Althea Stroum
and remember her and her
husband Sam fondly.
We are grateful for their
love of Seattle and the arts.
We wish their family well.
camp, hundreds of people dressed in blue
and white, Friday night, walking at sunset
from the field down to the outdoor syn-
agogue, with rolling mountains in the
background, all singing “Lecha Dodi.” It
was magical. Life seldom gets better than
this. Led by fellow campers, we would, at
this Jewish camp, pray three times a day.
The tunes we sang and the melodies we
learned I can still sing to this day. I long
for the uplifting feelings we experienced
there without time constraints or adult
expectations.
We sat in the grass as we studied Torah
and debated the ins and outs of Zionism.
I sometimes catch a waft of wet earth and
grass and I am back in Indian Orchard,
Pennsylvania, singing my heart out
around a campfire, hoping and dream-
ing of one day actually seeing this great
land of ours.
If this has not gotten you ready to sign
up your child, then this piece from the
latest study, “Camp Works, the Longterm
Impact of Jewish Overnight Camp, Evi-
dence from 26 U.S. Jewish Populations
Studies on Adult Engagement” by Steven
M. Cohen, Ron Miller, Ira M. Sheskin and
Berna Torr, will seal the deal.
See these three paragraphs from their
conclusion:
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We deeply mourn the

passing of our longtime
Friend of the Family
The Brandeis University family Althea Stroum.
mourns the loss of
Althea Stroum, Althea’s passionate commitment to community
a Fellow of the University and heartfelt generosity towards others will live
on and on for generations to come.
– The Board & Staff of Jewish Family Service
Through the establishment of the Stroum Family
Waltham Endowed Scholarship, Althea and her
late husband, Samuel, have made the dream of a
Brandeis education possible for dozens of graduates
of Waltham (Mass.) High School, Samuel’s alma
mater. The Stroums also generously supported the
Brandeis International Business School and the
sciences at Brandeis.
www.jfsseattle.org
(206) 461-3240

Althea Stroum
The torch of memory is precious.
z”l

It can illuminate the world.

–Benjamin Meed

The Jewish community will be sustained

for generations through your support. www.JewishInSeattle.org
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WWwhat’s your jq? Page 9
Let’s return to the opening ques-
tion: What do children bring home
with them from a stay at Jewish
overnight camp? The analysis indi-
cates that they bring, first of all, an
increased inclination to practice
Jewish behaviors in their lives, from
Shabbat candle lighting to using
Jewish websites, and to appreciate
the value of Jewish charity. Secondly,
they bring an increased inclination
to value and seek out the experience
of Jewish community, whether in
the immediate sense of joining other
Jews in prayer or in the more abstract
sense of identifying with fellow Jews
in Israel. These acquisitions will
enrich the lives of campers now and
in their adult future.
The impact of camp on Jewish com-
munity awareness should not come as a
surprise. A summer at overnight camp
can be many things, but above all it is
an experience in living as part of a com-
munity. Campers and counselors live
together for weeks, removed from out-
side influences, forming bonds of friend-
ship and loyalty that will be, for most,
unlike any they have experienced in the
past. They grow together, learn about
themselves, and acquire new skills of self-
reliance and peer interdependence.
The bonding experience of camp
not only builds a long-lasting taste
and yearning for community; it also
creates habits of Jewish practice. It
makes Judaism part and parcel of
life’s most joyous moments. More-
over, those moments are experienced
as integral parts of life in a beloved
community.
Take the step — sign your children up
for Jewish summer camp. They will come
home ready to conquer the world!
Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally
renowned educator and Head of School at the
Seattle Hebrew Academy. If you have a question
that’s been tickling your brain, send Rivy an
e-mail at rivy.poupko.kletenik@gmail.com.

WWhow to find volunteer Page 6
they interact with. We’re all committed to
this. We want our children to see that the
community is committed to this.”
According to Robert Beiser, the Repair
the World campus director at Hillel at the
University of Washington, Jews have a
lot of experience to bring to social justice
work. In his presentation, “Galvanizing
the Jewish Community Toward Justice: A
Case Study on Human Trafficking,” Beiser
told the group that it’s not only modern
Jews’ history of organizing for labor rights
and labor union movements, but it’s also
their statistically higher economic status
in the U.S. and higher rate of college
graduation, which, he said, is 39 percent
greater than the general population.
“We’re the right people to be doing
this work,” Beiser said. “We have politi-
cal and economic influence and we offer
solutions.”
Moreover, added Beiser, Jews have the
historical memory of being slaves in Egypt
through the Passover story. This legacy,
which we are commanded to remember,
he said, connects us to those who are in
need of help.
“As Jews, we reenact that and we put
ourselves in those places,” said Beiser.
“You don’t find that in a lot of other cul-
tural traditions. We have those historical
traditions that we can draw on.”
Rabbi Will Berkovitz, Repair the
World’s national vice president of part-
nerships and rabbi-in-residence, co-pre-
sented with Ken Weinberg, CEO of Jewish
Family Service, a session titled “Who is it
Really About? Keeping Ego Out of Service
and Social Justice Work.”
The pair stressed the need to choose
volunteer work wisely, and to prepare for
service work by educating one’s self on a
particular issue. It is also important, Berk-
ovitz said, to learn about the Jewish per-
spectives on the topic and to match one’s
skills to the task.
“The first value for the Repair the
World organization is meeting and
addressing real, authentic community
needs,” Berkovitz told JTNews. “Start
off by being honest about what commit-
ments you can really make, and figure
out what kind of work you can do. You
start with the needs of the other, which
means, ‘What do you need and when do
you need me?’”
Berkovitz said that a lot of time is
wasted by social service workers who must
spend hours coordinating an individual’s
schedule and availability.
“For example,” said Berkovitz, “just
because someone wants to work with ref-
ugees, if the plane comes in at three in
the morning, and that’s when they need
you there, either you get up at three in the
morning or you say that won’t work, and
you find the work in the world that really
is going to address the need.”
Jewish educators who attended the ses-
sions said they often try to incorporate
components of service and kindness into
their classrooms.
Jeff Stombaugh, a 2nd-grade Judaic
studies teacher at SJCS for the last four
years, said he was impressed that so many
of his peers from across the Jewish com-
munity came together to learn about com-
munity service.
“Really ‘seeing’ other people in the
world is a perspective that I will defi-
nitely be trying to bring into the class-
room,” said Stombaugh. “We are always
using components of chesed in the class-
room by acknowledging the kindnesses
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Build Bridges an outdoorsy bunch who look like they’re

having fun collecting data.
by Andrew Marc Greene “Most of our work is [done] at field
sites,” including one 9,000 feet up Mt.
Bachelor, he says.
“They open the chair lift for me,” even
off-season, explains Dan, who adds that he
collects a lot of data while flying in aircraft.
Raised Conservative, Dan says he lost
interest in religion after his Bar Mitz-
vah and although he has many relatives
in Israel, and his wife, Barbara Bender,
and their now-17-year-old twins Lena
and Mac celebrated a few holidays, he did
nothing religious until 12-year-old Mac
asked, “when is my Bar Mitzvah?”
They are now members of Temple Beth
Am, where he says the rabbis are doing a
much better job of keeping Judaism rele-
vant than when he was growing up.
They hope listeners find their songs
educational. The most-listened to one
on MySpace (www.myspace.com/break-
ingdownmechitzas) describes a Shabbat
dinner, and Reuben is working on one
about Passover.
The band doesn’t perform much these
days, with Reuben in the middle of his
junior year at Western Washington Uni-
versity, and Zach living in Melbourne,
Australia. They did perform at Zach’s
recent wedding there, “making us an inter-
national band,” Reuben jokes, as well as
on Purim with Phil “Harmonic” Gorb-
man stepping in to take Zach’s place at a
Chabad UW event.
With a major in Political Science and
an interest in Japan and international rela-
tions, Reuben, 24, still plans to study in
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Jewish summer camps pop up all over town
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
In the thick of summer, the play-
grounds at some of the local Jewish day
schools have historically been lonely, des-
olate places. With new summertime pro-
grams debuting at several campuses this
summer, however, for a few warm weeks
that all will change.
The Jewish Day School of Metropolitan
Seattle in Bellevue and the Seattle Jewish
Community School in Seattle’s Northend
will both host three-week camps as exten-
sions of the Stroum Jewish Community
Center’s summer camp program.
“We feel that we’re the experts in the
camping field. We have the most experience,
the best staff, the programming and curricu-
lum,” said Zach Duitch, the Stroum JCC’s
program director. “It’s time for us to bring
our expertise outside the walls of the ‘J.’”
Two of the JCC’s camps — Camp
Katan for children entering kindergarten
and Camp Kef for grades K–8 — will take
over each school’s grounds for one of the
three available sessions. The SJCS camp
will run July 11–29 and the JDS camp
will take place August 1–19. The specialty
camp offerings will remain at the JCC’s
Mercer Island campus.
The content at the new host sites won’t
differ too much from what the JCC has
offered in the past, but, Duitch said, “JDS
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a gorgeous kitchen and science room. We in the Northend. It’s a win-win situation also helps with everyone’s numbers.
definitely want to use the facilities these for all of us.” “We really want to get net new kids,
campuses have to offer.” Having camps in neighborhoods that XXPage 31
Sharing resourcs is an objective shared
by the schools as well.
“The importance of community and
partnering with other Jewish agencies is
really a part of the core pieces of our curri-
cula,” said Amy Adler, director of admis-
sions and external relations at the Jewish
Day School. “In this area, geographically,
the more that we partner with our agencies
is really where we want the focus to be and
the mindset to be with our children.”
SJCS staffers heard the same conclu-
sions from their own stakeholders.
“They want to see partnership and
shared resources, as opposed to duplicat-
ing services,” said Deborah Frockt, SJCS’s
director of advancement.
But having the camp also expands the
reach of all of the organizations.
“It is an opportunity to provide for
our families a summer camp in this area, Courtesy JDS
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school at SJCS. “The facility is empty in the environment. King County Executive Dow Constantine will present Team Yerukim with the
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Ongoing Events 5 p.m. — The Ramchal’s Derech Hashem,
Event names, locations, and times are provided here Portal from the Ari to Modernity
for ongoing weekly events. Please visit calendar. Congregation Beth Ha’Ari
jtnews.net for descriptions and contact information.
Sundays
Fridays 9–10 a.m. — Change Your Thinking
9:30–10:30 a.m. — SJCC Tot Shabbat The Seattle Kollel
Stroum JCC 10:15 a.m. — Sunday Torah Study
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — Creative Beginnings Congregation Beth Shalom
Temple De Hirsch Sinai 7:30–10:30 p.m. — He’Ari Israeli Dancing
12:30–3:30 p.m. — Bridge Group Danceland Ballroom (call to confirm)
Stroum Jewish Community Center 8 p.m. — Weekly Shiur (Note Day Change)
12:30–3:30 p.m. — Drop-in Mah Jongg The Seattle Kollel
Stroum JCC
11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Tots Welcoming Shabbat Mondays
Temple B’nai Torah 10 a.m. — Jewish Mommy and Me
The Seattle Kollel
Saturdays 12:30 p.m. — Caffeine for the Soul
10 a.m. — Morning Youth Program Chabad of the Central Cascades
Congregation Ezra Bessaroth 7 p.m. — CSA Monday Night Classes
9:45 a.m. — BCMH Youth Services b e l l e v uSheveteAchimi n r
Congregation
BCMH 7–8 p.m. — Ein Yaakov in English
8–9 p.m. — Rabbi Frand via Satellite Video Congregation Shaarei Tefilah Lubavitch
The Seattle Kollel 7:45–8:45 p.m. — For Women Only
9–10:30 a.m. — Temple B’nai Torah Adult Congregation Shaarei Tefilah Lubavitch
Torah Study 8–10 p.m. — Women’s Israeli
Temple B’nai Torah Dance Class
The Seattle Kollel
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b e l l e v u e
8:30 p.m. — Talmud, Yeshiva-Style 7–9 p.m. — Teen Lounge for Middle
Eastside Torah Center Schoolers
BCMH
Tuesdays 7–9 p.m. — University Lecture Series
11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Mommy and Me Temple Beth Am
Program 7–9:15 p.m. — Feeding the Jewish Soul
Chabad of the Central Cascades and the Jewish Body
7 p.m. — Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings Congregation Beth Shalom
Jewish Family Service 7:30 p.m. — Parshas Hashavuah
7 p.m. — Teen Center Eastside Torah Center
BCMH 8–9 p.m. — Deeper Dimensions of Talmu-
7:30 p.m. — Weekly Round Table dic Tales
Kabbalah Class The Seattle Kollel
Eastside Torah Center 8:15–9:15 p.m. — Pirkei Avot with the
8:15– 9:15 p.m. — Jewish Rockers Commentary of Me’am Lo’ez
Congregation Beth Shalom Congregation Beth Shalom
Wednesdays Thursdays
9:45–10:45 a.m. — Mindful Interactions 12–1 p.m. — Pizza and Parsha Lunch
with Your Toddler and Learn
e v i e wJCC
Stroum Island Crust Pizza
11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Torah with a Twist 6:50 p.m.–7:50 p.m. — Introduction to
Private Home Hebrew
11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — Talmud Study Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation
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community charities. The traditional annual cooking Magical World of Yiddish Song with special guest
contest will feature challah. Entries will be divided into Daniella Rabbani. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer 232-7115x261 or www.sjcc.org
two categories, traditional and non-traditional, and Way, Seattle. The Stroum JCC’s annual Circle of Friends benefit
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The rise and fall and rise of gay life

in Germany, as portrayed on stage
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
Life in Weimar Germany was, well, a
cabaret. For a few years between the two
world wars, before the Nazis came into
power, Germany’s gay community was
progressive, accepted, and even vocal.
“We found one song, called ‘Lavender
Nights,’ that was a gay pride anthem from
that period,” said Dennis Coleman, artis-
tic director for the Seattle Men’s Chorus,
which will be performing a two-part
staged production called “Falling in Love
Again,” a story of gay Germany from just
prior to the Holocaust to today.
“It’s a unique story that a whole lot of
people don’t know,” said Dee Simon, co-
director of the Washington State Holo-
caust Resource Education Center.
If
you
go:
Seattle Men’s Chorus
will perform “Falling in Love
Again” on Sat., April 2 at 8 p.m.
and Sun., April 3 at 2 p.m.
at McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St.,
Seattle. Speaking engagements
will begin 45 minutes before
each show. For tickets, visit
www.flyinghouse.org. The tour-
ing exhibit “Nazi Persecution of
Homosexuals 1933-1945” is free
and open to the public from March
29–April 2 from noon–10 p.m. and
on Sun., April 3 from noon–5 p.m.
Seattle Men’s Chorus has partnered
with the Holocaust Center and Music of
Remembrance, a local organization that
commissions orchestral pieces based upon
music and musicians lost in the Holo-
caust, to create a full package of a museum
exhibit, speakers, and education for the
April 2 and 3 performances.
Homosexual men were in some ways
the canary in the coal mine for what
the Nazis would later do to Jews across
Europe.
“Much of it happened before the war —
it was between 1933 when the Nazi party
took power and 1939 when they invaded
Poland and Czechoslavakia,” Simon said.
“They were some of the first to be sent to
concentration camps.”

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of Germany’s criminal code, originally
enacted in 1871, which made homosexual-
ity illegal. An amendment in 1935 allowed
the Nazis to send the men to the camps,
though many did survive the war.
After the war ended, however, para-

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graph 175 was not repealed —  until
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“What’s fascinating to me about the

relied on your strength. story is that when the gay men who were
sent away to prison camps and then were
freed and did live beyond that, they really
had to go back into the closet and hide that

Why should it be because homosexual acts were still illegal,”

Coleman said.

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during a visit to West Berlin nearly 25
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Getting a Handel on the story of Esther
Gigi Yellen-Kohn JTNews Correspondent
It’s not by any means the whole Megil-
lah, but like the woman at the heart of the
Purim story, the Baroque oratorio “Esther”
made history. With its premiere, it intro-
duced to the world a new musical form:
The English-language oratorio, a grand
creation for chorus and orchestra. Its
composer, George Frideric Handel, would
go on to delight London audiences with
much more such entertainment based on
scriptural verses — most famously, “Mes-
siah,” its frequent December companion,
“Judas Maccabaeus,” and that springtime
favorite, “Israel in Egypt.”
Handel’s “Esther” will be performed Sat.,
March 26 at St. James Cathedral, as a crown-
ing moment in the final weekend of this
month’s American Handel Festival in Seat-
tle. The festival has brought together early-
music scholars, fans of Baroque music, and
dozens of Seattle-area music groups for
some 30 performances over 17 days. Using
the rarely heard original 1720 version of the
much-revised “Esther,” the esteemed early-
music specialist Stephen Stubbs conducts
Pacific Musicworks, with the Tudor Choir
conducted by Doug Fullington.
This performance “will provide the first
opportunity since 1720 to hear the ora-
Courtesy American Handel Festival
George Frideric Handel, as he may have
appeared had he been an aspiring mountaineer
ready to climb Mt. Rainier.
torio performed in a version as close as
we are likely to get to its original form,”
according to Handel scholar Graydon
Beeks of Pomona College.
“Esther” was first performed in a small
theater at the country estate of Handel’s
patron, the Duke of Chandos. Its original
name may have been “Haman and Mordecai:
b e l l e v u e
A Masque.” The English text (the libretto) by
Alexander Pope and John Arbuthnot is
based on Racine’s French translation of the
Hebrew original, but despite all those layers,
the story line pays fairly faithful attention to
the middle of the Megillah. A 1715 English
translation of Racine’s 1689 play seems to
have been a hot literary item in its day.
The librettists did chop off the begin-
ning and the end: No Vashti at the start,
no messy battles at the conclusion. The
whole thing is bookended by joyous cho-
ruses: Hooray for our gal Esther, pro-
moted to queen and triumphant over
Haman. In between, in one continuous
act lasting just over an hour, there’s musi-
cal drama in those arias: Haman, a deep
bass voice, intones his evil plans (“Pluck
root and branch”); Mordechai, a tenor,
comforts Esther (“Dread not, righteous
queen”); and Esther, a soprano, of course,
gets a fine fainting scene on her approach
to Ahasuerus. The choruses, “whether of
rejoicing or mourning, are musically dis-
tinguished and dramatically apt,” as Beeks
writes in notes to a Collins Classics CD.
Music piracy goes back all the way to
Handel’s “Esther”: its first public perfor-
mance, from a pirated manuscript, moti-
i n r e v i e w
If
you
go: “Esther,” the pin-
nacle of the American
Handel Festival, performs on Sat.,
March 26 at 8 p.m. at St. James
Cathedral, 804 9th Ave., Seattle.
Tickets cost $25 and $40. Visit
brownpapertickets.com or call
800-838-3006.
vated the composer to greatly revise and
expand the work. It’s this later version that
is usually performed today, making the
Seattle performance a rare opportunity.
Some 40 years after Handel’s English
“Esther,” the story underwent another
round of linguistic and musical adven-
tures: This time it was a Hebrew-language
oratorio, based on the same English trans-
lation Handel used, based on Racine’s
popular French version of the Megillah
story. The composer was one C.G. Lidarti,
Viennese-Italian, not Jewish; the Hebrew-
language librettist, Jacob Raphael Sara-
val, Rabbi of Venice and Mantua, writing
for the Jews of Amsterdam and London.
The manuscript of this 1774 score report-
edly was unknown until someone stum-
bled onto it in the Cambridge University
Library in 1998. That might be an interest-
ing follow-up project for the early-music
scholars and performers involved in Seat-
tle’s “Esther.”
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National Yiddish Theatre brings the old country to Seattle

Emily K. Alhadeff Assistant Editor, JTNews If

Seattle is no New York. Here, bourekas
are more common than blintzes and gefilte
fish is reinvented with wild Pacific salmon.
The Yiddish culture that unloaded all of
its baggage onto Ellis Island and came
to define, in large part, the phenomenon
of American Judaism, got watered down
enough somewhere between the Missis-
sippi and Puget Sound to have had a lesser
impact on Northwest Jews.
Nevertheless, as the Yiddish-speaking
community (outside of the religious Yid-
dish-speaking community) dwindles, the
need to preserve and perpetuate America’s
Yiddishkeit is critical. And with the Seattle
premiere of the National Yiddish Theatre-
Folksbiene, the Stroum Jewish Community
Center is at the forefront of the cause.
“There has been a lot of interest lately
in Yiddish culture from the community,”
said Roni Antebi, the JCC’s adult pro-
grams manager “There is a need to edu-
cate young people especially, because the
current generation does not have a back-
ground of Yiddish you
and it’s important go: “The Magical World of
to perpetuate the Yiddish Song” will appear
culture. We are at the Stroum Jewish Commu-
hoping a lot of nity Center, 3801 E Mercer Way,
young people will Mercer Island, on Sun., March 27
attend.”  at 4 p.m. Tickets $10 JCC mem-
The National bers/$15 non-members. Register
Yiddish Theater online at www.sjcc.org.
contacted the Seat-
tle Yiddish Group, “The Jewish people have always been
a gathering of an important part of the cultural land-
Yiddish speakers scape in society and we want to inform our
and enthusiasts, audience of the amazing contributions of
to bring a per- Jews to the arts,” said Antebi. “Most of the
National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene
formance to the Jewish Touch programs sell out and have
Zalmen Mlotek and Daniella Rabbani, stars of “The Magical World of
region. The group been an amazing success.”
Yiddish Song”
brought the idea Mlotek, a world-renowned musician
to the JCC, and with the help of a grant The performance is part of the Jewish who grew up in a Yiddish-speaking musi-
from the Abe and Sidney Block Foundation Touch series, which highlights the connec- cal home and studied under Leonard Bern-
the JCC will present “The Magical World tions between Jews and the arts through stein, is the artistic director of The National
of Yiddish Song” with Yiddish superstars lectures and performances. The series Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene. According to
Zalmen Mlotek and Daniella Rabbani on started with opera but expanded in 2009 to
March 27. include music, film and theater. XXPage 27

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Teens doing good in their community
Once a month, high schoolers who
participate in J.Team, the Jewish Feder-
ation of Greater Seattle’s Jewish youth
philanthropy program, meet to learn
about different charities both in the Puget
Sound region and around the world. At
the same time, these students learn about
the nature of philanthropy, the impor-
tance of social action, and how their
decisions affect the community around
them. Starting with about $8,000, the
teens learn about different organizations
through site visits and presentations,
then discuss with each other the rea-
sons why each should be considered. At a
reception later this spring, the teens will
invite the finalists and award each with a
check and their impressions of the value
of the work they do.
Throughout the school year, the teens
have blogged about the charities they
have learned about. Some excerpts are
here:
This month J.Team met at Treehouse,
which is an amazing non-profit that
offers foster kids a happier and health-
ier life. From visiting them, we really
could understand the dedication of the
staff. Their commitment to helping foster
kids was demonstrated by the beautiful
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from Temple De Hirsch Sinai came to
talk to us while we were at Treehouse
and through his enthusiastic games and
interactive lessons we were able to rank
important factors that go into choosing
non-profits.
— Jake L.
The hospice program at Kline Gal-
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days as fully and as comfortably as possi-
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think this is important that a hospice, with
the support of Jewish beliefs, is available to
our community because it shows that we
care for the most vulnerable people in our
community and they live with dignity. I
also appreciate that they do not only sup-
port the patient but also the families in
their time of need.
— Julia A.
I have been a part of J.Team for two
years and I feel so fortunate to have the
opportunity to participate in this orga-
Courtesy J.Team nization.
Maya Federman and Woody Jacobson discuss possible charities among their peers at a recent J.
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Out of all of the organizations that I
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While nursing homes are not a rare
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Japan disaster and Itamar killings

put Jewish giving on the spot
Uriel Heilman JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) — Almost as soon
as the catastrophe in Japan began unfold-
ing on March 11, Jewish groups scrambled
to figure out how to get help to the area.
In Israel, search-and-rescue organiza-
tions like ZAKA and IsraAid readied teams
to head to the Japanese devastation zone. In
Tokyo, the Chabad center took an account-
ing of local Jews and began organizing a ship-
ment of aid to stricken cities to the north. In
the United States, aid organizations ranging
from B’nai B’rith International to local and
national federation agencies launched cam-
paigns to collect money for rescue, relief and
rebuilding efforts in the Pacific.
But then Shabbat came, and with it the
news that a suspected Palestinian terrorist
had brutally murdered five family mem-
bers in the Jewish West Bank settlement of
Itamar, and the focus of the Jewish com-
munity for a while seemed to shift.
“Not sure who to think about first,”
Nadia Levene, a British-Israeli event plan-
ner living in Jerusalem, wrote on Facebook
on Tuesday. “The devastated remaining
members of the Fogel family from Itamar,
Gilad Shalit — 5 years in Hamas captivity
— or the survivors of the Japanese tragedy
and the dangers they may be facing.”
The Orthodox Union, which sent out
a message last Friday calling on support-
ers to donate to the organization’s newly
established earthquake emergency fund,
sent out another urgent message two days
later calling on donors to give money to
the OU’s victims of terrorism fund.
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medical officers and water pollution spe-
cialists had reached the suburbs of Tokyo,
and they were in contact with aid workers
in the northern part of the country where
the tsunami hit hardest, according to
Shachar Zahavi, chairman of IsraAid.
Several American Jewish organiza-
tions, including the Jewish Federation in
Chicago and the American Jewish Com-
mittee, are funneling money to IsraAid for
disaster relief in Japan.
In Tokyo, the Chabad center commis-
sioned a bakery in Sendai, one of the cities
battered by the tsunami, to bake bread for
its residents and surrounding areas. The
center also trucked several tons of food
and supplies to Sendai, Chabad officials
said. The officials estimated that Chabad’s
relief in Japan is costing approximately
$25,000 per day.
In the United States, Jewish humanitar-
ian organizations reported that the money
was coming in fast for mailboxes set up
to receive donations for Japanese disas-
ter relief.
“We are determined to provide emer-
the Jewish Federations, said it had collected
more than $400,000 by midday Tuesday.
What makes the Japanese situation a
unique challenge for Jewish humanitarian
organizations is the absence of relation-
ships in a country that traditionally has
been an aid donor, not a recipient.
Indeed, when the American Jewish
World Service, which led the Jewish aid
response to the 2004 Asian tsunami,
was asked what its aid effort would be
for Japan, the answer was none, because
AJWS only works in developing countries
and has no partners in Japan, spokesman
Joshua Berkman told JTA.
The JDC found itself in a similar situ-
ation.
“We had no programs in Japan prior
to the earthquake; we just worked with
the local Jewish community,” said Will
Recant, an assistant executive vice presi-
dent at JDC.
But almost immediately after the earth-
quake and tsunami hit, the JDC consulted
with the Jewish community in Tokyo to
identify local Japanese nongovernmen-
tal organizations working in the affected
areas. By Tuesday, JDC had begun funnel-
term relief, budget allowing. Only money
raised specifically for Japan will be spent
on disaster relief. There is no money in
JDC’s budget for additional nonsectarian,
humanitarian work, Recant said.
While Japan continues to reel from the
triple disaster of an 8.9-magnitude earth-
quake, a massive tsunami and a subse-
quent nuclear crisis, experts in Israel are
trying to figure out what lessons from
Japan can be applied to the Jewish State,
which lies on two fault lines, the Carmel
fault and the Dead Sea fault.
Israel experiences tremors every so
often, but the last time a ruinous earth-
quake struck the area was in 1927, when
the West Bank city of Nablus suffered seri-
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A scenario in which Israel’s nuclear
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Should frozen sperm be used to create
posthumous grandchildren?
Michelle Goldberg Tablet Magazine
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in an accident at his part-time job, and he
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his child.
Nevertheless, his devastated parents
believe it’s not too late for them to become
the grandparents of his offspring. And
because they live in Israel, the world cap-
ital of in-vitro fertilization and a coun-
try that regularly pushes the envelope on
reproductive technologies, they might get
their wish.
Mali and Dudi Ben-Yaakov, upon
learning that their son was brain dead, had
his sperm extracted. Now they are await-
ing the decision of Israel’s attorney gen-
eral on whether they will be permitted to
find a woman to bear their grandchild.
“If we were entitled to donate the
organs of our son, why are we not enti-
tled to make use of his sperm in order to
bring offspring to the world?” they asked
in Ha’aretz.
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and deeply invested in cutting-edge tech-
nology, has pioneered futuristic forms
of procreation. The biblical emphasis on
fruitfulness, when compounded by the
legacy of the Holocaust and the demo-
graphic issues shaping the Middle East,
have made Israeli society and public policy
exceptionally pro-natalist.
The country is aggressive in pushing
the boundaries of reproductive technol-
ogy. It has the world’s highest IVF rate:
According to a 2006 paper prepared for
the Knesset, 1,800 treatment cycles are
performed each year per million people,
compared to 240 in the United States. Its
specialists are among the best on earth,
and health insurance there covers unlim-
ited IVF attempts up to the birth of two
live children. Israel was the first country
in the world to legalize surrogate-mother
agreements.
Meanwhile, in a country where almost
every family sees its children join the mil-
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Chavkin, a professor at Columbia Univer-
sity’s Mailman School of Public Health,
“Israel is the only place I know of where
people can have 17,” although no one
knows the long-term effects of such treat-
ment on a woman’s body.
Then there is the psychological toll.
“It used to be, God forbid you were
infertile, it was sad and terrible and tragic,
but you came to terms with it,” says Susan
Martha Kahn, a Harvard anthropolo-
gist and author of Reproducing Jews: A
Cultural Account of Assisted Conception
in Israel. “Now you can never come to
terms with it. There’s no resolution. Some
of these women go through round after
“It’s an idea of continuation. It’s a round, 12, 15 rounds of IVF, and it doesn’t
dream. Magic,” says Irit Rosenblum, the work. That is the eclipse of an entire young
feminist lawyer representing the Ben-Yaa- life spent trying to get pregnant.”
kov family. Creating children from the sperm of
Some feminists and scholars, though, the dead adds further philosophical com-
are troubled by Israel’s culture of bound- plexity to the tangle of issues around IVF.
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Dance Company will do an on-stage
interpretation.
“It’s about the furthest thing you can
think of a choir standing on risers and
singing,” Coleman said.
The second act, however, will be
much more solemn. “For a Look or a
Touch,” a piece originally written for a
five-piece orchestra and performed in
2007 by Music of Remembrance, has
been recast by composer Jake Heggie for
the men’s chorus.
“For many years I had wanted to com-
mission the work that highlighted the
persecution of homosexuals,” said Mina
Miller, executive director of Music of
Remembrance. “This piece is very close to
my heart. It means a great deal.”
“For a Look” is based upon the true
story of two young men, Manfred and
Gad, who fell in love but were separated
and sent to concentration camps. Man-
fred, who was also Jewish, perished, but
Gad survived and today, now in his 80s,
still lives in Germany.
The piece has been expanded, with
Heggie writing two new movements
for the men’s chorus. Local actor David
Pichette will portray the older Gad, a
man who deeply suffered for the love he
had lost and the decades of persecution
he lived through even after the war. Bari-
tone Morgan Smith, now an internation-
ally known opera singer who trained with
the Seattle Opera’s young artist’s program,
reprises his role from the 2007 concert as
the ghost of Manfred.
The chorus, initially behind a screen,
will appear first as prisoners in the con-
centration camps and then reappear out of
makeup “in present-day terms as a genera-
tion of gay men who have gone on beyond
the Holocaust and today are, in a sense,
fighting some of the same battles,” Cole-
man said.
While the second act of the perfor-
mance is much heavier than the first, Cole-
man said he believes the audience will
appreciate its beauty.
“I’m hoping people will see the art of
the love that is lost and regained when
Gad accepts who he was and the love that
he had,” Coleman said. “That’s why we
called the concert ‘Falling in Love Again,’
because Gad had to, in a sense, fall in love
again with himself, with his relationship
with who he was.”
Miller said she is very excited to see the
new translation of “For a Look,” in par-
ticular with the stage direction and cos-
tumes.
“I think it has a huge audience ahead of
it,” she said. “The message is going to go
out in a much more diversified way than
Music of Remembrance could do.”
Seattle Men’s Chorus partnered with
the Holocaust Center to provide the edu-
cational background, including a 28-panel
traveling exhibit from the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Nazi Per-
secution of Homosexuals 1933-1945,” will
be on display and open to the public at
McCaw Hall for the week leading up to
the concerts.
Simon, prior to the performances, will
compare the ideology and propaganda of
that era to today.
“The concept is that yes, this hap-
pened in the past, but how does that
relate to today and the laws that we’re
voting on and not voting on?” Simon
said. “It’s really bringing those lessons
up to today, and persecution of homo-
sexuals today, especially in schools and
bullying.”
Miller will also lead a discussion featur-
ing Heggie, Coleman, and the directors of
the two acts that will put the artistry and
the Holocaust into context.
“This becomes a community-wide
lesson that we can all learn from,” Miller
said. “It’s more than a Jewish thing, it’s a
thing of human rights.”
Seattle Men’s Chorus, the Jewish Fed-
eration of Greater Seattle, the Pride
Foundation and the Holocaust Center col-
laborated to co-sponsor the exhibit and
the educational aspects of the program
to show that freedoms people have today
may not always exist.
“I don’t think we can ever assume
that the rights we have will always be
there, because I believe that’s what they
probably thought during the Weimar
period,” Coleman said. “The present-
day [gay] community owes something
to this period in time when this dis-
crimination and extermination to some
degree took place, and how the human
spirit of this gay population was able to
live through that…and in a sense bring
us to where we are today.”

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For new Reform leader Richard Jacobs,
big tent movement is the idea
Uriel Heilman JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) — For the man
tapped to lead American Jewry’s larg-
est religious denomination, keeping the
movement’s 900-plus synagogues wel-
coming to the unaffiliated, inspiring for
members and a home for disaffected tra-
ditional Jews may require a high-wire bal-
ancing act.
As a former dancer and choreographer,
Rabbi Richard Jacobs may be just the guy.
On March 22, the Union for Reform
Judaism announced that Jacobs, the senior
congregational rabbi at the Westchester
Reform Temple in Scarsdale, N.Y., is the
choice of the synagogue group’s presiden-
tial search committee to succeed Rabbi
Eric Yoffie, who is stepping down in 2012.
Jacobs’ nomination requires confirmation
by the URJ’s board of directors, which
meets in June.
Speaking with JTA a few hours
before the announcement was made, the
55-year-old Jacobs said his mission is
to make sure the Reform movement is
a big tent with its flaps wide open and
its Jewish stakes planted deeply in the
ground.
“There’s no anti. It’s all pro,” he said.
“Nothing Jewish is alien to us. Reform
Judaism is an evolving and profound
expression of the Jewish tradition. Its
essence is to respond to the call of God and
to the imperatives of the day.”
For Jacobs, that means embracing
environmentalism, helping in places
like Darfur and Haiti, and speaking out
in support of the Islamic center near
Ground Zero in Manhattan. He speaks
with pride of his synagogue’s green initia-
tives, noting that its ner tamid, or eternal
flame, is solar powered. He is chairman
of the New Israel Fund’s pluralism grants
committee, which promotes religious and
social pluralism in Israel. He is a board
member of the American Jewish World
Service, with which he visited Darfur ref-
ugees in Chad in 2005. He wears a green
Darfur bracelet on his wrist.
In the synagogue, Jacobs wants to
create dynamic and inspiring places for
people to encounter Judaism — including
non-Jewish seekers.
“The key thing is to have the doorways
open,” Jacobs told JTA. “Anyone who
wants to be a part, they are welcome.”
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Under Yoffie, the Reform move-
ment embraced tradition as never before,
marking a stark departure from classical
Reform and alienating some old-guard
Reformers. Yoffie encouraged Shab-
bat observance, promoted wider use of
Hebrew in Reform liturgy and supported
greater ritual observance.
Jacobs says he supports that direction
for the movement.
“I embrace the Jewish tradition; it’s
what nurtures the Jewish life,” he said.
“What Rabbi Yoffie affirmed is the core
affirmation of the Reform movement. I
will continue to deepen our connections.
We shouldn’t take off the table things
that are not relevant to us today but may
become relevant tomorrow.”
Trim and tan, the smooth-talking
Jacobs still looks the part of the dancer he
was as part of the Avodah Dance Ensem-
ble. Now, however, his focus is on the
mind rather than the body, though his
synagogue does weave yoga and medita-
tion together with text study at some Shab-
bat services.
Jacobs cites as his mentor David Hart-
man, the iconoclastic, New York-born
Orthodox rabbi who moved to Israel and
founded Jerusalem’s Shalom Hartman
Institute, an educational and research
institution aimed at promoting new and
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diverse voices in the Jewish tradition.
Jacobs is a senior rabbinic fellow at the
institute and visits often. He has studied
there in the summertime for some two
decades, and he and his family have an
apartment in Jerusalem.
The connection to Israel is a vital part
of Jewish life, he says.
Jacobs will be a new face for the
Reform movement at a time when finan-
cial difficulties, demographic changes,
and the new ways that young Jews use
social media and relate to communal life
present new challenges and opportuni-
ties for the movement. Tackling these
issues and making Jewish communal
life relevant for Jews in their 20s and 30s
will be one of his main areas of focus,
Jacobs says.
As the head of the Reform synagogue
organization, Jacobs naturally sees syna-
gogues as the linchpin.
“We want to make exciting syna-
gogues the norm,” he said. “Synagogues
cannot wait for people to walk into
their buildings. The synagogue has to
walk into the public square and engage
people, particularly Jews in their 20s and
30s. People still crave and need a deep
sense of community.”
Jacobs spent most of his career as a
congregational leader, first as a rabbi at the
Brooklyn Heights Synagogue in the 1980s
and then at the Scarsdale temple in subur-
ban New York. He says his synagogue has
been at the forefront of a transformation
in worship that he hopes will spread to all
of the movement’s synagogues and rein-
vigorate them.
“I couldn’t imagine I’d become a rabbi
of a large, suburban Reform congre-
gation because I grew up in one and it
didn’t speak to me,” said Jacobs, a native
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said, “I’ve led transformation without
disenfranchising those who are resistant
to change.”
The plan is to start with a listening
tour of Reform congregations throughout
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“We are poised,” Jacobs told JTA, “for a
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“The period of restraint is over; we
must do everything we can to strike out
against those who wish to hurt the inno-
cent,” Shalom said on a visit to the site in
Beersheba struck Wednesday by two long-
range Grad rockets. “I hope it won’t come
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case of the Mercaz Harav attack in March
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along a main artery in central Jerusalem
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WWfrozen sperm Page 24
technology? Who gets to decide?
“Where we are with reproductive
technologies is a result of the fact that
we have refused to accept infertility as
a fact,” says Vardit Ravitsky, an Israeli-
born assistant professor in the bioethics
programs at the University of Montreal
faculty of medicine. “Today, the idea
that I have a right to have a genetic child
is much more accepted than in the past.
To extend that one generation to genetic
grandchildren maybe is not that far-
fetched.”
Ravitsky was a participant in the Israeli
Ministry of Justice discussions that led to
the country’s guidelines on posthumous
reproduction issued in 2003. The guide-
lines were notable for allowing a dead
man’s wife or partner to access his sperm
as long as he didn’t leave explicit instruc-
tions to the contrary.
“This notion of presumed consent,
that we can assume that a man would
want to have genetic children after his
death, that was really pushing the enve-
lope at the time in comparison with
other countries,” says Ravitsky. But
the ministry refused to allow a man’s
mother or father similar access, con-
cluding that parents have no legal stand-
ing regarding their children’s fertility,
“[n]ot in their lifetime, and certainly not
when they are dead.”
For years Rosenblum, the Ben-Yaa-
kovs’ lawyer, has been fighting to give
bereaved parents in Israel the power that
the guidelines denied them.
In 2001, she campaigned for the
Israeli army to adopt what she called
a biological will, offering soldiers the
option of freezing their sperm or eggs
in order to see their lineage continue
in the event of their death. Though the
army rejected the idea, it received media
attention.
Then, one night the following year,
Rosenblum got a phone call from a hys-
terical woman. Her son, 19-year-old
Keivan Cohen, had just been killed by a
sniper in Gaza. His mother wanted the
hospital to save his sperm, which can
survive for 72 hours after death. The
woman had read about Rosenblum and
begged for her help.
Rosenblum rushed to file an affidavit
and succeeded in having the young man’s
sperm extracted.
Through a newspaper ad, Cohen’s
parents found a woman who was plan-
ning on becoming a single mother and
who liked the ideas of using a known
donor and also of ensuring that her baby
would have supportive grandparents. But
with no written instructions from Cohen,
the hospital keeping his sperm refused to
release it. Following a long legal battle, a
Tel Aviv court in 2007 ruled in his fam-
ily’s favor.
So far, the potential mother’s IVF treat-
ments have not been successful, though
attempts are ongoing. But Rosenblum
retains an almost giddy faith in the ability
of technology to triumph over cruelties of
nature and fate.
Speaking of Cohen’s mother, she says,
“No psychiatrist can help this kind of a
woman to recover from the loss of her son.
But this is giving a new hope. It’s unbeliev-
able. It brings her back to life.”
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Mlotek, the performance is “an overview
of how Yiddish song sounds itself in every
moment of Jewish and American life.”
“The songs are like windows into our
whole world,” he said. “You have real
moments of family life being expressed —
the separation of the family, the coming to
America...What it was to experience the
Statue of Liberty for the first time...What
it meant to go out West. What it meant to
embrace a new country.
“The songs really bring these moments
in history to life. By their vibrancy, by their
honesty, by their pathos,” Mlotek added.
“It’s beautiful to tears, and at the same
time it’s joyous.”
Mlotek’s sidekick, Folksbiene star Rab-
bani, is an acclaimed comedienne, singer,
and actress.
“Daniella is a dream,” said Mlotek, who
noted that Rabbani went from not knowing
Yiddish to performing in it. “She’s a wonder-
ful comedian. She looks at life the way it is.
The comedy is just a mirror of natural situa-
tions that — when you look at them hard —
the humor comes. That’s one of her gifts.”
The multimedia performance is labeled
“edu-tainment.” Translations of the Yid-
dish into English and Russian will be
projected onto screens, and the two will
explain the songs and talk about the tradi-
tion of Yiddish song.
“A lot of the songs are from the early
Yiddish theater because the theater was that
forum,” said Mlotek. “A lot of Jews went to
the theater to see their lives depicted.”
What’s more, said Mlotek, “Yiddish
had influence on American pop culture as
a whole.” One of the performance high-
lights is when Mlotek and Rabbani expose
the infiltration of Yiddish in American
culture and its influence on musicians like
Cab Calloway and George Gershwin.
Mlotek hopes that the performance will
appeal to Seattle’s population beyond the
Jewish sector. “What I’m hoping [is] we’re
going to bring is a fresh look at what this
music is,” he said.
As for Antebi, “It’s exciting and proud
to bring a performance of this caliber to
the JCC,” she said. “This is an opportunity
for people to not only learn about Yiddish
culture but also see something they will
not have a chance to see, unless they go to
New York.”

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“When she walked into a room, you just
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Friends and community members said
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“We would enjoy the opportunity to
get together with her at events, and to hear
about her great-grandchildren,” said Paul
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“She was just clearly a very good person,
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The program’s current chair, Gad Bar-
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“She was always smiling. Always after
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Judy Neuman, CEO of the Stroum JCC,
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her extended family.”
It was because of Althea that Henry Fried-
man, unable to create a library of survivor tes-
timonies on his own, went forward to become
a founder of the Washington State Holocaust
Education Resource Center in 1988.
“Not only did she suggest that I start
it, she said, ‘Look, we’ll be there for you,
with money.’” Friedman said. “She had the
foresight to encourage other people to do
things, and this I felt we lost with Althea.”
Years ago, a luncheon attended by
former UW president William Gerberding
and regent Bill Gates, Sr. honored Althea
for the annual Stroum lecture series, which
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we want to build relationships with new
parents, get them onboard and help them
establish their Jewish identity and Jewish
journey,” Duitch said.
Financially speaking, the schools will
see modest revenue from the program,
“but that really just helps cover the cost of
maintaining the field,” Adler said.
“There’s some income…which is good
for any nonprofit in this economy,” Frockt
said. But, she added, “I think there are
other benefits that come to the school
through this.”
This year is the first in a three-year plan
by the JCC with a goal of “running almost
nine weeks of camp and serving over 100-
plus kids in both sites,” Duitch said.
After the last session at the JCC camp
ends, a new one-week program will begin
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brings Jewish scholars to campus to speak
about their areas of study. Several books
that resulted from those lectures were put
on display.
“The pride that she felt in the outcome
of support that [the Stroums] were giving
to the Jewish Studies Program in the
UW Press was really palpable,” Burstein
said. “Having the books there as physical
objects…evoked very strong feelings on
her part, and you could see that.”
Though the family heavily supports
the UW, a scholarship for students that
the Stroums created for Sam’s hometown
of Waltham, Mass. awards full tuition to
Brandeis University to four graduates of
Waltham High School each year.
at the Seattle Hebrew Academy. Camp
Invention, a national science-based camp,
will have its first home in the Seattle area
during the week of Aug. 22–26.
“This is a way of having kids focus
on science in a very fun way,” said Rivy
Poupko Kletenik, SHA’s head of school.
“The most important thing an elementary
school can do for students is help them get
engaged in science and love science.”
The camp is open to any child, grades
K–6, and will have different activities
based in science, technology, engineer-
ing and math, and designed for different
learning abilities.
“Any child can feel successful, but it’s
really going to meet the need of our high-
end learners,” said Katie May, SHA’s prin-
cipal.
“They transform the classroom, using
a lot of recycled materials, into another
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“Although Sam Stroum did not himself
have a college education, he and Althea life
were committed to making the dream of
a college education possible for others.
They believed in sharing their bounty and Birth
making the world a better place,” said Nathan Isaac Stellman
Nancy Winship, Brandeis’s senior vice Brett and Dana Stellman of Everett
president of institutional advancement. announce the birth of their son,
Althea Stroum leaves behind her two Nathan Isaac, on January 16, 2011, at
daughters, Cynthia Stroum and Marsha Swedish Hospital in Seattle. Nathan
Glazer, son-in-law Jay Glazer, three weighed 5 lbs., 11 oz. and measured
grandchildren, five step-grandchildren, 19-1/2 inches.
and three great-grandchildren. Remem- Nathan’s grandparents are Sue and
brances can be sent to the Sam and Althea Phil Miller of Kirkland and Linda and
Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the Michael Stellman of New York, N.Y.
University of Washington or the Stroum Nathan is named after family friend
Jewish Community Center. Mitchell Nathan and his maternal
great-grandfather Irving Klachuk.
planet,” May said. “You have to use team-
work to create shelters and things that will
help them survive in this environment.”
The fact that this camp is scheduled
for right before the school year begins is a
good transition from lazy summer to rigor-
ous study, May said.
“It gets them back into that thinking
part of the brain,” she said.
VVisit www.sjcc.org for registration information
on the Stroum JCC summer camps. Early-bird
pricing ends April 4. To register for the Seattle
Hebrew Academy science camp, visit
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Aspiring Youth Summer Program Camp Solomon Schechter

Serves children and teens with Asperger’s syndrome, ADHD and similar traits. Small group
setting, Master’s level counselors. Great activities to choose from: outdoor games, theatre,
art projects, indoor rock climbing, laser tag, robotics and tons of others. Seattle, Redmond and
Bellevue locations.
Call Ben Wahl, MSW at 206-517-0222 for more information • www.aspiringyouth.net
“Where Judaism and Joy are One”
Sessions for campers entering grades 2–11. Age specific sessions ensure a unique experience
catered to their age group. Campers will enjoy boating, swimming, archery, zip line, challenge
course, hiking and more! Friendship, fun and adventure! Financial aid is available.
206-447-1967 • www.campschechter.org

B’nai B’rith Camp Seattle Audubon Nature Camp

B’nai B’rith Camp, nestled on a lakeside campus on the scenic Oregon coast, offers a wide
variety of activities including; arts and crafts, Jewish enrichment, athletics, waterskiing, sail-
ing, canoeing, hydro tubing, swimming in outdoor heated pool, dancing, nature, singing, ropes
course challenges, leadership, community service, drama, creative writing, Shabbat celebra-
tions, overnights, and exciting trips. Programs for campers entering 2nd–11th grade in the fall,
multiple sessions available. New programs include Outdoor Jewish Adventure for campers
entering 11th grade and Kehila, a one-week experience for children with special needs entering
grades 4 through 8. B’nai B’rith Camp is licensed by the state of Oregon and accredited by the
American Camp Association (ACA).
503-452-3443 • www.bbcamp.org • dzimmerman@bbcamp.org
Camp Wahoo
Camp Wahoo is a unique horse-riding camp. Located in the Cascade Mountains, campers
have their own horse to care for and ride for the entire week. Daily rides and an overnight ride
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Leadership program option.
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Explore and discover nature and science through fun, hands-on activities, art and field trips!
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8050 35th Ave. NE in Seattle.
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URJ Camp Kalsman
Situated on 300 acres, their state-of-the-art facility is just over an hour north of downtown
Seattle in the foothills of the Cascades. Sessions range in length from one to three weeks and are
staffed by mature college students under the guidance of experienced senior staff members and
faculty from across the country.
Camp Kalsman is proud of its commitment to providing campers with strong and encour-
aging Jewish role models. Your child will never forget the joy of living in a close-knit community
and developing new skills under the guidance of a dynamic staff — and the Jewish values and
identity developed in camp will last a lifetime!
425-284-4484 • www.kalsman.urjcamps.org

Canoe Island French Camp

Since 1969, Canoe Island French Camp has been exciting youngsters from 9-16 with healthy
outdoor activities, creative opportunities in art and drama, an introduction to French and
French culture, and wonderful French food. On private 47-acre Canoe Island in the San Juan
Islands, 45 campers each session have a chance to listen to a seal slapping in the Salish Sea,
watch a bald eagle soar on the ocean breeze, bake a créme brulée, eat boeuf bourguignon,
or try fencing. Counselors from France; 1:4 ratio. Kayaking, sailing, theater, art, French cook-
ing, snorkeling, photography, fencing, and swimming, and tennis. Programs for families and
adults, too.
360-468-2329 • www.canoeisland.org

It’s not too

late to join us for
To All!
THE SUMMER OF A Save the Date

LIFETIME Camp Kalsman’s

5th Anniversary
July 10, 2011