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When we pass the biblical age of three score and ten, we begin to feel as Saul Bellow said when he passed that milestone that old friends are dropping all around as on a battlefield. Yet nothing could have prepared us for the sudden death of David Brumer (A farewell to David, July 13), cut off in his intellectual prime, when his appetite for ideas and his adroitness in handling them were at their most impressive. And who could miss the irony in the fact that, in his hospice work of recent years, he was helping people come to terms with the inevitability of death, but that he himself was taken completely by surprise when it came. I knew David in two capacities. For those of us who have parents resident in the Kline Galland nursing home, he was for many years the key figure there, not just a source of information but an exemplar of humane intelligence. David was also an exemplary, indeed a heroic, figure for the following reason: He understood, and acted upon the understanding, that the defense of Israel against its innumerable enemies would require of liberals the kind of sustained exertion and courage in the realm of ideas and political action that Israelis have had to manifest in the military defense of their country. That is why, although he probably never forsook his youthful liberalism, he was a liberal tempered by experience, reflection, and renouncement. He understood that Jews must judge the New York Times by the standards of Judaism, and not Judaism by the standards of the New York Times. He not only knew things that most of us did not; he had the courage to act upon what he knew, to enter into battle where the rest of us feared to tread. We shall miss him more than, at the moment, we can imagine. Baruch dayan emet. Edward Alexander Seattle
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Ive had very few people dislike it purely on the basis of the politics. Valerie Curtis-Newton, director of the Intiman performance of Dirty Story. Read more on page 20.
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Basketball tryouts for the World Maccabiah Games in Israel next July are coming up. Seven United States teams will go to the Games: boys 16-plus (born 199798), girls 16-plus (born 19951998), boys 18-plus (born 199596), open men, open women, and masters men (over 35 and over 45). Tryouts are in California starting August 4 and running through the fall. For more information, visit www.maccabiusa.com or contact Ami Monson at 215-261-6900, ext. 116 or Brian Schiff at 610-836-2572.
On Sun., Aug. 26, from 15 p.m., the Seattle Jewish Chorale invites singers of all voice parts to audition for its 20122013 season. Singers must have music-reading ability and be able to commit to weekly Wednesday night rehearsals in Northeast Seattle, six to eight performances between September and June, and some travel outside the Seattle area. Sight-reading skills are preferred and familiarity with Jewish languages is a plus. Opportunities exist for solo and ensemble work. To schedule an audition, contact Naomi Smith at adele26@gmail.com.
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MMSC day school stays afloat
After a near-death experience following the loss of two major donors, the Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder has raised enough funds to stay afloat. We raised around $330,000 this year, which is more than we raised last year or the year before, said the schools development chair Tziviah Goldberg. I feel like it was challenging, but we came through even better than we thought we would. Last year MMSC, which houses the states only early childhood Jewish Montessori program, an elementary school, and a girls high school, defaulted on its loans and faced the loss of its Maple Leaf building, which had renovations in progress. An emergency campaign reached out to community members, especially new donors. According to Goldberg, about $62,500 came from new contributors. The strategy moving forward, she said, is to continue reaching out to new donors, particularly those without children in the day school system, to utilize a new-donor fund-matching opportunity. Goldberg said MMSC is on track with its loan payments, and is negotiating with its mortgage holder and an architect to figure out how to move forward to complete renovations on the former hospital MMSC purchased from Campfire Girls in 2009.
Group that sued Olympia Food Co-op must pay, judge says
Citing the states anti-SLAPP statute, a Thurston County Superior Court judge ruled on July 12 that five Olympia Food Co-op members must pay defendants $160,000 in damages. Judge Thomas McPhee ordered plaintiffs Jeffrey and Susan Trinin, Kent and Linda Davis, and Susan Mayer to pay $10,000 to each of the 16 defendants, plus attorneys fees. A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation suit is defined as a case that uses the courts to attempt to stifle free speech. The plaintiffs had sued the co-ops board of directors for its 2010 decision to boycott Israeli products, citing the co-ops failure to follow its posted bylaws. The settlement follows the courts ruling in February of this year, which favored the defendants special motion to strike and their claim that the suit was an attack on their First Amendment rights. In July 2010, the Olympia Food Co-op board enacted a boycott of Israeli goods after a presentation by community activists supportive of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement at a board meeting, even though the staff had not come to a consensus. According to the co-ops boycott policy, boycotts must have staff consensus before being brought to the board. The plaintiffs claim the board acted beyond the scope of its authority. University police still have no leads following incidents both on and off the University of Washington campus of racist graffiti earlier this month. Most of the graffiti was found July 3 in the Communications building. The largest was a swastika found on the office door of a faculty member, who told JTNews that police suggested he may have been targeted because his name could be construed as Jewish. The faculty member said he has Jewish ancestry, though he is not observant. On July 18, Rabbi Elie Estrin, director of Chabad at the UW, discovered anti-Semitic tags on the off-campus houses sign. Estrin said he notified police and the graffiti was cleaned up right away. According to the UW Daily newspaper, UW police commander Steve Rittereiser said the slurs and swastikas were consistent with the type of language white supremacists use.
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From the Jewish Transcript, July 25, 2003. Daniel Heller, left, and his father Robert at the finish line of the Cascade Bicycle Clubs annual Seattle-to-Portland classic. They were among many local Jews who completed the 200-mile, two-day ride then, which is no different from today. The duo rode 1,000 miles to train for the event.
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I enjoy connecting people to one another, says Lynn Chapman, explaining one reason she became a local coordinator for the Council on International Education Exchanges (CIEE) high school program, matching Seattle-area host families with overseas students. The reason [these programs] exist is for diplomacy, she says, noting that CIEE, while a non-governmental organization, is recognized by the State Department as an Exchange Visitor Program. As a member of Congregation Eitz Or, Lynn would like to find more Jewish host families. In addition to teaching the world about America, she feels Jewish hosts can change how Jews are viewed in the world. Most foreign exchange students are not Jewish and the few Israeli students are snapped up by hosts. Lynn interviews prospective families of any denomination and does a home visit. She has monthly contact with students who stay one or two semesters, attending public or private school. With students arriving in August, Lynn is recruiting this month without the benefit
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tember to complete his junior year of high school. The Ohio native and Temple Beth Am member teaches math at Aki Kurose Middle School, one of the citys most diverse and economically challenged student bodies. In traveling abroad, she wanted to see for herself how American students are holding up in math. Mathematics education in the U.S. is under a great deal of scrutiny, she says. Were being benchmarked against mathematics instruction all around the world, with the perception that were not as far ahead. In India she found things were different, rather than better. Indian schools with classes of 48 students employ rote learning. Students dont use calculators until college, so they are good at memorizing formulas, whereas American education emphasizes reasoning and principals so the calculator is a tool to the solution. Indian students found it frustrating that I always wanted to explain why, she says. The school had no Internet, but classrooms had electronic smart board projectors which became unusable during the many rolling blackouts. This forced Suzanne to learn to use chalk on a
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Court judge is finding that the battle is an uphill one, mainly because many counties throughout the state are not publishing a voters pamphlet for the August 7 primary this year, a fact that Gonzlez believes leaves him at a serious disadvantage. Without any biographical information in voters hands or printed on the ballot, and no mention of Gonzlezs incumbency, his challenger, King County Superior Court arbitrator Bruce Danielson from Kitsap County, will appear first on the ballot. According to state law, whichever candidate in a two-person high court race gets the majority vote in the primary runs unopposed in the general election. Its a situation that makes Gonzlez uncomfortable. If you put my qualifications side by side with my opponents, I win on every single measure thats traditionally used for judges, but nobody knows either of us, Gonzlez told JTNews. Gonzlez is counting on his widespread bipartisan support and his commitment to gender and ethnic diversity to distinguish him from his rival. Its not what qualifies me to be on the Supreme Court, said Gonzlez, reflecting on his seven months on the job, but when I look in my own heart, it is often what motivates me to work so hard to stay there. I love the work on the Supreme Court. The son of a Mexican father and a Jewish mother, Gonzlez is one of two Supreme Court judges appointed by outgoing Gov. Christine Gregoire. He completed the term of former Justice Gerry Alexander, who faced mandatory retire-
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For Sue Parisien, running for a judge position in the King County Superior Court is a natural progression. After more than two decades of litigation, it makes sense to want to go from an advocate to mutual decision-making, says the senior trial attorney for Zurich North America and former assistant attorney general. Parisien is running for judge position No. 42 in an attempt to unseat Judge Christopher A. Washington, who has been on the bench for eight years. Parisien ran for a judge position once before, in 2008, but lost to Tim Bradshaw. The person in this job now needs to be replaced, Parisien says. Thats why Im running. On the 2012 Judicial Performance Evaluation, an extensive survey of judges by attorneys statewide, Judge Washington scored 2.74 out of 5 in legal decision making, with 22 percent of 44 respondents rating his decision-making procedures unacceptable, and 30 percent rating them poor. This puts Washington ninth from the bottom. (For comparisons sake, Bradshaws rating is 4.09, and Supreme Court Justice Steven Gonzlezs is 4.33.) Parisien cites her extensive trial law experience as key to her candidacy. Her opponents, Marianne Jones and David Ruzumna, are not as qualified, she says. You have to have spent many years trying cases to be a good judge, she says. Parisien also touts her experience as an adjunct professor at the University of Washington School of Law. To a certain extent CourTeSy Sue PAriSieN judges are teachers, she says. Thats an extra piece Im proud to bring. Governor Chris Gregoire and Attorney General Rob McKenna have given her their blessings, and she won The Strangers endorsement. Parisien has worked extensively with cases dealing with the states Department of Social and Health Services, and one of her goals as judge would be to better protect children.
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Should she win a seat on one of the states three courts of appeal, Pamela Loginsky will be looking at many of her colleagues from the other side of the bench. Loginsky, who is running in a crowded field of six candidates for the Court of Appeals, Division 2, District 2 in Tacoma has appeared as an appellate attorney before this court hundreds of times as well as before the state Supreme Court. She is currently scheduled to appear before the high court in October as a Jefferson County special deputy prosecuting attorney. She is also, she notes on her website, the only candidate in the race with appellate experience. As far as that goes, she has plenty. When we profiled Loginsky 10 years ago in her race for Supreme Court against Charles Johnson, which she ultimately lost, shed had years of arguing before the appeals court then, and formed and headed the Kitsap County prosecutors offices appellate unit. But in that race Loginsky brought sunlight to an oft-ignored law that negatively affected defendants who werent apprised of the ramifications of their guilty pleas. Johnson had been responsible for keeping the statute current. The court was two to five years behind legislation, Loginsky says. The courts have kept current since then. A decade later, the Port Orchard resident has much more to bring to the table. She has been staff attorney for the Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, she teaches at the Washington State Patrol Academy, she has served as financial manager at Congregation Beth Hatikvah, and volunteers at the humane society and homeless shelter in Kitsap County. Also, she does charitable knitting for homeless people and sick children. Ive spent my whole life in public service, she says. My congregation back in Skokie instilled in me a sense of a need to heal the world. But navigation skills may be more important than healing for whichever judge lands on this bench. Were in unique times right now in that the U.S. Supreme Court has fundamentally changed sentencing law and confrontation clause law in the last three to seven years, she says. Were still feeling our way in how to implement those decisions. This is where both her appellate experience and police academy work would be valuable in a judicial setting. I have more experience thinking through the consequences, she says. Were still trying to figure out the answers and its still real murky. By appearing on behalf of the largest and smallest counties of the state the Tacoma-based court handles appeals from the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas down to Southwest Washington she has
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Jessyn Farrell
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Jessyn Farrell, a Democrat, is running for the state House of Representatives in the 46th Legislative District in Seattle as an environmental activist with local experience reforming transportation policy. But her legal training as a mediator whos tried to make partners out of opponents and to unify broad coalitions of disparate political groups may just be equally as valuable. While working for the Transportation We did that by working with a broad array of interests from business and labor and public health advocates, in addition to talking to community members, and being able to talk to voters, she said. Farrell is a Seattle native who lives in the Laurelhurst neighborhood with her husband and two children, ages 4 and 2. She is an attorney, with specialties in mediation and environmental advocacy. Farrell is Jewish, and chose the religion nearly two decades ago. My parents were both Buddhists so I was the only Buddhist kid on the block, mused Farrell. I actually converted to Judaism in my early 20s with a Conservative rabbi, and I remain a Jew by choice. The 38 year old, who admitted that her life is more than full with a family and a political campaign to manage, said that she relates to a fundamental tenet of Jewish rabbinical wisdom that gives her strength as she presses on in her campaign. Theres the strong emphasis on social justice, especially in a time like this when we are so polarized in our politics, Farrell said. The idea that it is not for us to lay the task aside of fixing the world, that we dont have to do the whole thing, but taking that small piece and sticking with it, I think, is so important right now. While multiple competing political factions continue to hash out solutions to critical shortages in the state, programs depend on revenues and economic forecasters predict that this downturn will challenge Washington and the country well into the next five years. Farrell wants to see significant tax reform and said she is willing to put an array of options on the table. On the transportation side, or even on the general fund side, it would be very interesting to look at a carbon tax, said Farrell. On the business side, the B&O tax, I think its very unfair the way we tax on gross revenue instead of net revenue. Any taxing plan would have to actually swap out the burden we have in sales tax. On funding K-12 education, Farrell pledged to fundamentally change the way education is paid for by building coalitions and giving grassroots power a greater voice in the budgeting process. If elected, wrote Farrell on her campaign website, perhaps it means putting together a business-labor coalition that includes sectors facing shortages of qualified Washingtonians, such as the health care and software industries. On the education funding frontthat means making sure labor unions and other advocacy groups with grassroots membership have seats at the table. Farrell has been endorsed by the King County Young Democrats, the Washington Federation of State Employees AFSCME 28, NARAL Pro-Choice Washington, and the SEIU 775, among others.
David Ruzumna
Emily K. alhadEff Associate editor, JTNews
David Ruzumna wants to be the next mensch on the bench. There isnt an area of law that doesnt genuinely interest me, he says. Somewhat sheepishly, he confesses that even in his spare time he enjoys listening to oral arguments and reading slip opinions. Ruzumna is running for King County superior court judge, position 42, currently held by Judge Christopher Washington. He is running against Washington, and candidates Sue Parisien and Marianne Jones. Ruzumna says hes handled virtually every type of case, which sets him apart from his colleagues. Most colleagues that I have practice in one area, he says. Theres something to be said about people who have developed specific niches in the law, but he believes his experience trying cases across the board gives him a leg up. Furthermore, he says, I pride myself on a particular type of professionalism. He believes he has the temper and demeanor for the job, and that hell be able to fully understand the cases put before him. If the judge isnt prepared or doesnt fully understand whats been put before him or her, [that] can be deflating, he says. I know in my heart there would be no litigant who would walk out of court wondering if he understood the case accurately. Ruzumnas experience includes pro bono and low-fee counsel and legal help to artists, animal rescue organizations, and people living with HIV/AIDS. The thing about artists, he says, is theyre completely broke. Ruzumna steps in to provide legal services, like divorce proceedings, and helps them work through the red tape around setting up non-profit entities. The same goes for animal rescue groups, which are typically run by people motivated by passion, but who have less legal sense. Getting 501(c)(3) status through the IRS can be extensive, says Ruzumna. It requires a linear thinking process, which is where he comes in. Ruzumna is also a panel member of the King County Bar Association Volunteer Assistance for Persons with AIDS/HIV, through which he would help gay and lesbian couples work out such issues as wills and health-care directives created before the changes introduced by domestic partnerships. Hes also an advocate for foster
Choices Coalition, including as its executive director, Farrell was part of a team that succeeded in transforming state transportation guidelines away from wide, multilane roads and highways to a more public transit, bike-centric, and sidewalk-focused infrastructure. The TCC reforms also included a goal that minimized vehicular travel in order to reduce carbon emissions in the state. Today, Farrell is gearing up to take on many more issues, from funding public education to strengthening the social safety net, implementing tax reform, changing land-use policy, rethinking industrial infrastructure and its effect on Seattles ports, prioritizing the cleanup of pollution in Puget Sound, and furthering the Affordable Care Act in Washington. The list of needs is very long, Farrell told JTNews. We have aging infrastructure. We need to make sure were keeping up I-5. We need to get light rail built out. We have local potholes. Thats something that people in the 46th District talk about when you talk to them about transportation. The recently redistricted 46th now includes parts of Northeast Seattle, Lake Forest Park, Kenmore, and Shoreline, and is 73 percent affiliated with the Democratic Party. On transportation, were moving forward on light rail throughout the region, on the waterfront, and on a solution on SR 520, Farrell said. While serving as the Transportation Choices Coalition executive director, Farrell said her organization partnered with others statewide to raise $25 billion for bike, pedestrian, and transit projects across the state.
children, and kids coming out of the foster care system who need to get on their feet. Despite his extensive pro bono and civil work, I am a trial attorney, Ruzumna says. That is what I do. The Los Angeles native has lived in Seattle since 1993, and resides in Ballard with his wife and two kids. They are members of Temple Beth Am, where his daughter is preparing to become a Bat Mitzvah. Ruzumna marvels at the number of Jews he encounters in the legal world. I think one of the reasons there is such a large representation of Jews in the legal community is because of the Jewish tradition of embracing the learned profession, he says. Jews always have a quest for knowledge. work, Parisien hasnt got a lot of free time. But she does find time to advocate for breast cancer early detection, a disease she survived and has been free of for five years now. As a Check Your Boobies facilitator, Parisien leads breast education parties to teach women how to self-check for lumps and talk about her experience. Its a laid back, non-threatening way to educate women in groups, she says. Daughters nag their mothers, mothers nag their mothers, and so on. Its all about making positive change. Judges are lucky, she says, for that very reason. Parisien sees opportunity for making changes in the court system, especially to give more of a voice to disenfranchised kids. There are opportunities for everyone to do better, she says.
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Sometimes these kids fall through the cracks, she says. I found many times when the court didnt ask the right questions. One solution shed like to bring to the table as judge is community and volunteer involvement. I think that there is no question that the courts are completely overworked and understaffed, she says. The courts are going to have to rely more on community volunteers. A volunteer herself, Parisien is an active member of Temple Beth Am who regularly cooks for Teen Feed with her two daughters and her posse of 10 friends called Sues crew. Its really important to us, she says. Although between her children one approaching Bat Mitzvah and the other a high school sophomore their dog and her
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Shelly Crocker
Emily K. alhadEff Associate editor, JTNews
Shelly Crocker was probably not voted most likely to succeed in her yearbook. I had a rough patch in there, she says. I dropped out of high school when I was 15. But she may be most changed. The candidate for the Washington State House, position No. 2 in the 46th district, came to Seattle from Minnesota in 1980, waiting tables before taking a job as a file clerk in a law firm. She worked her way through school, obtaining bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Washington before going on to receive a law degree from the University of Minnesota. I was very fortunate, because back in the day there were lots more government services available, she says. I want other people to have those opportunities that I had. Crocker has spent her career in bankruptcy law and owns two boutique firms. Her key issue? A social safety net, she says. I have seen so much suffering, largely due to our economy. In addition, the cuts to higher education, to healthcare, these things have created problems. Tax reform needs to be tackled, and education needs to be accessible.
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Thats going to take hard work and people who can fight that fight, she says. Crocker is running for an empty seat vacated by retiring legislator Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney in a district that extends from shore to shore in North Seattle, and jutting into the Laurelhurst and Wedgwood neighborhoods to its south. I didnt know all those people would be running when I decided to run, says Crocker of the crowded ticket she faces in next months primary. She notes that shes not the type to run against someone. And while she has no prediction for how the race will turn out, she says, I have a lot of people who hear my message and agree with it. Shes referring to her Jewish community, in particular. Crocker and her partner of 28 years, Sandy Kibort, have been members of Congregation Beth Shalom since 1990.
As an open lesbian woman, our decision to have children meant a commitment to Jewish community, says Crocker. Its important to us to be active and involved. They have two daughters, Hannah, 21, and Emma, 17. Crocker is on the synagogues gabbai corps and shes a member of the cemetery committee; shes also served on the Beth Shalom board and the boards of the Seattle Jewish Community School, Seattles office for the American Jewish Committee, Building Changes, Girls on the Run and DownHomeWashington. Her volunteer activity includes Teen Feed and the Puget Sound Jewish Coalition on Homelessness. But it was a trip to El Salvador with her daughter, fellow Beth Shalom congregants, and American Jewish World Service that she considers a turning point. Theres a great big world out there,
she began to think. What should I be doing? Thats what got her involved with Building Changes, an organization that works to end homelessness. That has expanded my world, she says. And when it came to running for political office, she says, I thought, why not me? I do have very deep roots and very deep support in this community, Crocker says. Her secret weapon, though, is a group of Beth Shalom teens that doorbells, canvases and rallies relentlessly for her. Theres something about their enthusiasm and sincerity that gets the message out better than I can, she says. If I win when I win it will be because of the Jewish community. Theres no question in my mind.
with the homeless; crossed the district by bicycle, boat and swimming, and visited 30 coffee shops in 30 days. On serious issues, Hughes has criticized McDermott as out of touch with the times, insufficiently supportive of Israel or harsh enough on Iran, and doing more for the betterment of Africa than to boost Pacific Rim trade through the Port of Seattle. Despite McDermotts longtime status as one of the most safely entrenched and reliably liberal Democrats in the House, anything less than 60 percent for the incumbent would indicate he is vulnerable, Hughes insisted. The reception weve been getting is the best thing weve got going, he said. We feel that if we can get through the primary, all bets are off.
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Randy Kessler at events@shevetachim.com or 206-275-1539 or www.shevetachim.com/ events.php Storyteller Rabbi Hanoch Teller discusses Israels most improbable community. Shabbat services at 9:30, followed by sit-down Kiddush lunch. Talk begins around 12:30. Childcare provided. Free. At Congregation Shevet Achim, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island. 7:309 p.m. The Torah empire: From the Ponevizher rav to reb Nosson zvi Finkel
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A formal kinah commemorating the Munich 11 has yet to enter the liturgy, but other forms, though not formal kinot, can help us process our feelings of loss and despair. For example, the personal tragic stories told through films can touch us, moving us toward memory. In England on Tisha bAv, the New London Synagogue will show the Academy Award-winning documentary One Day in September. Released in 1999, its a film that, while making points about
the Palestinian terrorists and botched German police work, mourns the victims by recounting the story of Israeli fencing coach Andre Spitzer and his wife, Ankie. Another film that like an elegy re-enacts the tragedy, Spielbergs 2005 Munich it also has a fictionalized account of Israels response will be shown at Temple Concord in Syracuse, N.Y. The audience for these two films, drawn together to listen and watch the story being retold, will be reminded of a different Jewish theme internalized when we hear the kinot chanted we do not
remember and mourn alone. For many of us, home on Sunday, watching the Summer Olympics events on TV archery, fencing, weightlifting in our own darkened rooms, its all too easy to forget. With so much Olympic pageantry and competition, with the promise of gold, silver and bronze to divert me, I will need my own kinah to pull me back to a zone of Never forget a simple list to remember what happened 40 summers ago. Sometime that day, resistance gone, I will try to touch again the loss I felt in 1972.
I will read the names: Moshe Weinberg, wrestling coach Yossef Romano, Zeev Friedman and David Berger, weightlifters Yakov Springer, weightlifting judge Eliezer Halfin and Mark Slavin, wrestlers Yossef Gutfreund, wrestling referee Kehat Shorr, shooting coach Andrei Spitzer, fencing coach Amitzur Shapira, track coach Will this simple act also allow me to dream that a tragedy like this will not be repeated? That is my hope.
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Harriet (Shafer) Katz October 7, 1920June 25, 2012
Harriet Ruth (Shafer) Katz, 91, of Bellevue, WA passed away on June 23, 2012. Her funeral and burial took place at Herzl Memorial Park on June 25, 2012. Harriet was born on October 7, 1920, the oldest of five children. Her parents, Julius and Rebecca (Betty) Shafer, were among Seattles early Jewish leaders and business pioneers. At the age of 16, Harriet graduated from Broadway High School, and at the age of 20 graduated from the University of Washington, where she met Archie Katz. They were married for 51 years, sharing a dynamic life together of community activism, travel, and joyful celebrations with friends and their large, extended family. Harriet contributed her wisdom, creativity and leadership skills to numerous organizations. She was president of the local and western regional chapters of The National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods (Women of Reform Judaism), and was very active with the Womens Division of Jewish Federation, Bnai Brith Women, and Girl Scouts of Western Washington, of which she was a member for over 55 years. She was a life-long learner and voracious reader. Up until the last months of her life, she took classes and did online research to nourish her curiosity about topics ranging from geology, biology, and botany, to politics, current events, Native American culture, and ancient religions. As the matriarch of a large family, she devoted her life to her four children, six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. She took great pride in their accomplishments and educational achievements, never missing a graduation whenever and wherever it was held, from kindergarten to Ph.D. ceremonies. We will miss her generosity of spirit, her peace-making ways, her warm smile, her concern for others, her humility, dignity, grace and style. Harriet was preceded in death by her husband, Archie Katz, and her siblings Norton Shafer, Gloria Zacks and Sylvia Oseran. Her legacy lives on in the hearts and lives of her children Malcolm Katz and Martha Baker (London, England), Bonnie (Katz) Tenenbaum and Marty Tenenbaum (Portola Valley, CA), Joanne Katz Glosser and Larry Glosser (Issaquah), Steve Katz and Lynn Fainsilber Katz (Seattle), as well as her grandchildren Tamar and Allan Boden, Josh Tenenbaum and Mira Bernstein, Russ and Mindy Katz, Ilana and Jeff Wodlinger, Ryan Katz and Adina Katz, and her great-grandchildren Abi, Hannah, Jesse, Alyssa, Will and Isaac. She is survived by her beloved sister Elise (Shafer) Topp and numerous nieces and nephews. If you wish to make a donation in memory of Harriet, her favorite charities include The National Multiple Sclerosis Society Washington Chapter, The Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle, Girl Scouts of Western Washington, or a charity of your choice. May Harriets life continue to be a blessing and an inspiration to all who had the privilege and pleasure of knowing her.
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power. Its also important that the mainstream person, the non-minority person sees people of color in positions of power. Gonzlez was a Western District of Washington Hate Crimes Prosecution Coordinator, a prosecutor of domestic violence cases for the City of Seattle, is a founding member of the Initiative for Diversity, was the executive committee member and chair of the Washington State Access to Justice board, and is a cofounder and was co-chair of the Race and the Criminal Justice System Task Force.
He has been rated exceptionally well qualified by the King County Bar Association, the Tacoma/Pierce County Bar Association, Pierce County Minority Bar Association, the Cardozo Law Society of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, the Latina/o Bar Association of Washington, the Joint Asian Judicial Evaluation Committee, the Loren Miller Bar Association, and Q-Law: The GLBT Bar Association of Washington, according to the nonpartisan website www.votingforjudges.org. The idea that the judicial branch should be nonpartisan is something Ive been able to embody, said Gonzlez. Court justices. The Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association rated her as exceptionally well qualified and the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattles Cardozo Society rated her as well qualified. And the prospect of having to rule on cases where the attorneys she has argued against must now stand before her? I hope they see me as someone who will have diligently done her homework prior to argument, she says, who will give them fair hearing, and give them rulings based on what the law demands rather than maybe my personal desires of what the law should say.
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to understand how one law can affect the most rural and the most urban environments. When shes training the state patrol, I take very complex tests of the courts and translate them to something to a police officer that may not have any college, who must make split-second decisions on the roadside while both protecting the citizens and their Constitutional rights. Loginsky has received dozens of endorsements from the judicial community, including four retired state Supreme
you will slowly let them know about resistance, heroism and bravery. You will share with them the wonder of Jewish life its vibrancy and creativity before the Holocaust. You will consider testimonies that tell the tale of survival and hope, planning all the while how you will usher your children in with peace and hope. We are an incredibly resilient people. Though it would be considerably more comfortable to live a life bereft of mourning and sorrow, keep in mind the powerful words of Elie Wiesel: Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally renowned educator and Head of School at the Seattle Hebrew Academy. If you have a question thats been tickling your brain, send Rivy an e-mail at rivy.poupko.kletenik@gmail.com.
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it purely on the basis of the politics, she says. Everyone is skewered in this play. Russell made the final choice of the play. Intiman audiences have always been intellectually adventurous and it felt like this humorous, sharp, gut-punch of a comedy would make them lean forward with curiosity, he wrote in an email, adding that it has sparked a lot of discussion and debate. Curtis-Newton, who is also the head of directing at the University of Washingtons Drama School, says it was a challenge to stage the production in such a small space, and one not designed as a theater. The audience and its reaction can be clearly seen by the performers, providing instant feedback, and the audience members can see each other, too. But the space is not soundproof and outside noise does leak in. One thing a Jewish viewer might note is that Roscoe and Law, who claim in the first act to be a German Jew and a Jew German, dont seem particularly Jewish, or Shanley uses this device more to emphasize the close relationship between the two. Besides, its a play, and some suspension of disbelief, and some desire to be entertained, are required.
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