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The crowds that came to al-Tahrir Square during the mass protests against the Egyptian government were diverse, but largely cooperative and organized despite
reported brutality from pro-government forces. However, labor strikes that have broken out across the country since Wednesday could erupt in new violence. A dispatch
from University of Washington professor Ellis Goldberg, who is currently teaching in Cairo, is on page 34.
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“I hope I have the same enthusiasm and maybe a little more wisdom — but that’s a debatable thing, maybe somebody else can weigh in on that.”
— Rabbi James Mirel of Temple B’nai Torah, on his celebration of 36 years in the rabbinate. See page 8.
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Yuri Vinetsky, refusenik from Kiev in Spring books 26
the former Soviet Union, tries to spread JTNews book critic Diana Brement runs down at least a season’s worth of new reading on Israel, American
awareness of his son Valery, who is in Judaism, food, and more.
danger of being drafted into the Soviet
Army, which means he won’t be able to On Jews and Egypt 34
emigrate to Israel. UW Professor Ellis Goldberg, who currently lives in Cairo, breaks down the potential Jewish consequences
of democracy in Egypt.
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A View from the U: A tempest in Toronto 10
Jewish on Earth: Adapting to change 11
The Arts 14
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M.O.T.: UW profs edit new book on Jewish identity 25
Community Calendar 28
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With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, I thought 1. Celebrate with a checkup
this would be the perfect opportunity to talk about the Let each birthday remind you that
ways QFC can help support your heart health. February is it’s time for your yearly physical
American Heart Month and we are proud to partner with and a talk with your doctor about
the American Heart Association’s “Go Red For Women” as how you can reduce your risk for
our Checkstand Charity of the month. So when you visit heart disease.
your neighborhood QFC florist to pick up that beautiful 2. Get off the couch
rose arrangement, as well as the ingredients for your Work up to at least 30 minutes of
romantic heart-healthy Valentine’s meal, remember that physical activity on a weekly
a small donation at our checkstands can have a positive routine. Step, march, jog in place
impact on the health of many other hearts too! — you can even do it while watching TV.
There are three ways you can contribute this February: Speak with your doctor before starting a new
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designate that your 3-cent reusable bag credit be donated 3. Quit smoking in four steps
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Heart disease is the number one killer of women in the half again; finally, cut down to zero! recommends eating a variety of nutritious foods, and
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WWconservative movement Page 7 who are committed to it.” would like to see more emphasis. he hopes this plan will allow the move-
Being an hour or more from the closest Wernick began oversight on the strate- ment to overcome what he said was its
“I think he really understands what the Conservative shuls in Seattle, Finkelstein gic planning process when he took his lead- inability to connect its member syna-
challenges are, how things have changed said the emphasis on greater regional ser- ership post a year ago, but it came about as gogues together.
over the last 30 years or so, and I think he’s vices would be welcomed. a result of duress. At around the time Wer- “There’s a lot of interesting stuff going
committed to out-of-the-box thinking Beth Shalom’s Borodin agreed, saying nick came in, a number of prominent syn- on in all the congregations in America.
and some really creative action,” Rosen- she receives calls from small communities agogues and rabbis formed a coalition Everybody’s doing at least one thing that’s
baum said. wanting services that she doesn’t have the called Hayom (Today) that demanded really working,” he said. But “there’s not
Herzl-Ner Tamid, he said, is constantly resources to provide. Beth Shalom, how- changes in governance and a better return connective tissue. We’re not a movement,
working on new ways of making atten- ever, would likely not be terribly affected on their congregations’ investment. USCJ as we really ought to be.”
dance compelling and interesting. by this new strategic plan because they’re worked closely with Hayom on building Still, Rosenbaum said he likes what he
“The burden of proof is on the Jewish doing many of the things it calls for its plan, Wernick said. sees so far.
institution to prove that we are worth already. Rabbi Michael Siegel, one of Hay- “I’m impressed with what Rabbi Wer-
a look, we are worth the commitment,” “All of the problems they’re respond- om’s leaders from Chicago, told the JTA nick has already done, and with his
Rosenbaum said. “There’s no automatic, ing to are not problems we’re seeing as a news service that he appreciates the effort, vision,” he said. “I’m optimistic that some-
it’s not going to happen by inertia, it’s not congregation,” Borodin said. “We’ve actu- but called it a good first step that would thing is going to happen.”
going to happen by nostalgia.” ally had a large increase in members and require a “leap of faith” on the behalf of its Ultimately, what Wernick believes
Congregation B’nai Torah, a small, we are a very vibrant place.” member congregations. should happen is that the Conservative
mostly lay-led Conservative synagogue One comment she heard from Wer- Borodin had similar, though less harsh, movement will create sacred communi-
in Olympia, has questioned in the past nick during his visit was that Beth Shalom sentiments. ties “that [add] to a person’s sense of rela-
whether its dues are worth the services was the only community he had visited — “I don’t think it’s particularly trail- tionship with the Divine. Social justice
they receive. According to Stan Finkel- of 100 in his first year — in which young blazing or radical or visionary,” she said. that really gives people an opportunity to
stein, B’nai Torah’s president, “what adults came to his presentation and asked “I think it’s a realistic plan that will take change the world, but most importantly,
they’re doing is probably the right thing, questions. the movement 100 steps forward. Because to get out of the mud of thinking that the
maybe a little bit late in coming,” he said. “‘How do you integrate young adults the movement structure is so antiquated, goal is membership,” he said. “The goal
“Will it work? I’m optimistic that if they into the congregation?’” Borodin said he there’s a lot of work to be done. I think is to engage Jews in Jewish life, and the
step back enough and say, ‘What’s wrong asked her. this is the right way to approach how to more Jews that we engage, the more Jews
and what do we do to fix it?’ they can make That question, and how to engage col- get there.” will support the institutions that engage
some progress, but it takes regional people lege students, are where Borodin said she Rosenbaum of Herzl-Ner Tamid said them.”
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WWshalom bayit Page 1 families — may be able to get a house, but dent of the NCJW Seattle section who has watched her five young sons, all under
they will certainly have trouble turning it been a volunteer with the organization the age of 10, jump up and down on their
Of the approximately 887 emergency into a home.” since 1998. Cohen received its Lifetime new beds, laughing and shrieking over not
domestic violence shelters and safe-home Operational funds for the Shalom Bayit Achievement Award in 2010 for creating having to sleep on the floor in their sleep-
programs and the 43 domestic violence program also come from NCJW’s $50 per the Shalom Bayit program. ing bags again for one more night. It was
programs that contract with the state, year membership dues. NCJW’s Seattle In the early days of the program, a time of joy and not for scolding, recalled
Shalom Bayit takes referrals from more Section currently has 400 members. Shalom Bayit staff would give its clients Cohen.
than 20 of these programs. Though Shalom Bayit had served a mezuzah to place on their doors to wel- “They’ve had so many things controlled
Other county and state agencies simul- approximately 150 families per year, come them into their new home. for them,” Cohen said. “The women come
taneously help survivors find housing, mainly women and children, Besserman “We had a lot of Jewish clients at the in and select what they want that would
employment, and school placement for said, in 2009 referrals spiked to 250. beginning,” said Cohen, telling one of her help them create a home. That is really
their children. “We’ve seen a greater increase in the favorite stories from the early days of the important — to have that choice.”
Shalom Bayit is the only program of its need for our services in difficult economic program, when a Jewish woman who had Besserman said the board is exploring
kind in Washington, and one of the few times,” she said. “I think you see greater selected a living room full of nearly-new the idea of spinning Shalom Bayit off of
in the country that stores, distributes, and incidences of domestic violence.” furniture, brought her to tears. NCJW in the hopes of reducing expenses.
delivers household furnishings to these Since the program was created in the “At the end, I gave her a mezuzah, and That “is certainly our hope,” Besser-
victims. fall of 2001, Shalom Bayit has collected she just looked at it, she hugged me, and man said. “But we’re desperately seeking
“We are now facing a tremendous over 14,000 pieces of “gently used” furni- she said, ‘This is all I needed.’” support to buy some time.”
financial crisis,” said Karen Besserman, ture from nearly 2,000 donors. More than Cohen recalled another story of one
NCJW Seattle Section’s executive direc- 96 percent of its clients are not Jewish. young mother she helped move into a For more information on the Shalom Bayit
tor. “Without our programming, a lot of “Our mission is to serve everyone,” new apartment after escaping abuse at program visit www.ncjwseattle.org or call
these women — these victims and their said Jennifer Cohen, a former co-presi- the hands of her spouse. The two women 425-558-1894.
Camps
Spring books:
Perspectives on Israel
Diana Brement JTNews Columnist lives of all of its residents today, she struggles to assimilate
It’s probably no accident that the two chapters on her beliefs and her experiences, at times becoming emo-
Israel in Rabbi Jonathan Sack’s new book, Future Tense tionally overwrought. Despite her doubts she honors those
(Schocken, cloth, $26.95) occupy almost the exact center she meets on her trip with balance and an open mind.
of the work. Sacks is England’s chief rabbi, and a pro- Glidden’s account is moving and honest, funny and enter-
lific and eloquent writer. Israel is just one component of taining, and she captures some of the combination of angst
this book that captures the rabbi’s worries on the state of and affection American Jews often feel about Israel.
the Jewish people — over-assimilated, over-intermarried, Among the most moving sections of Glidden’s Birth-
fractious and factionalized, he says. As a microcosm of right tour comes when the group meets a bereavement
the Jewish world, Sacks calls on Israel to be the beacon of group. Glidden pays tribute to the victims of terrorism,
justice the Bible says it is, to create “a new civic Judaism, depicting them as ghosts who stand beside their surviving
one that embraces religious and secular, Jew and Palestin- family members as they share their stories.
ian, alike.” (Perhaps he could extend this attitude to inter- In A New Shoah, (Encounter, cloth, $27.95) Italian
denominational relations within Judaism.) journalist Gulio Meotti also honors Israeli victims of Isla-
Two other sides of Israel — with its dizzying array mist terrorism by telling the stories of their lives. Meotti
of facets — are presented in Lone Soldiers by Jerusalem is outraged at these deaths, which he feels are generally
Post columnist Herb Keinon (Devora, cloth, $27.95) and ignored by media in the West. He draws a straight line
By Hook and by Crook: Israeli Settlement Policy in the between Nazi anti-Semitism and Islamist anti-Zionism,
West Bank, a report from B’tselem, the Israeli Information calling both an excuse to kill Jews.
Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. While the writing is impassioned, Meotti’s tone can be
Lone Soldier is the uplifting story, told in words and strident and a little off-putting. There’s no arguing, how-
photos, of Jews from around the world who come to ever, with his tender obituaries or his view that these vic-
Israel to serve as volunteers in its otherwise all-conscrip- tims probably deserve more recognition, even within
tion army. Oftentimes living out of their cultural and lin- Israel. Some of their plights are all the more tragic because
guistic element, they are dubbed “lone soldiers” and their they are either Holocaust survivors or their descendants.
plight can indeed be lonely but for the help they get from While generally well translated, there are still some errors
reserve officer Tzvika Levy, a volunteer himself, who seeks in English and continuity within.
them out and provides a sense of connection and family. Finally, an Israeli-Moroccan author, Therese Zri-
The lone soldier phenomenon is increasing, according to hen-Dvir, puts her tribute to Israeli victims of terrorism
the author, because of the Birthright program, which is into novella form in Stairway to Heaven (Gefen, paper,
exposing increasing numbers of young Diaspora men and $14.95). The life of protagonist Naomi is permanently
women to Israel and the IDF. altered when she witnesses a terror attack on soldiers wait-
The B’tselem report is not so uplifting. It’s a detailed ing at the Beit Lid junction, a waypoint between Tel Aviv
— though short — accounting of the legal maneuvers to and Haifa. The attack is real — it happened on January 22,
which Israel has resorted in order to acquire land to build 1995 — as are all the events in the story, although parts
Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The report demon- have been fictionalized for privacy. A memorial there, a
strates the deception behind these land claims, calling the stairway with 22 soldiers climbing it, inspired the author
settlements “illegal.” when she saw it in 2003. She interviewed surviving fami-
The same Birthright program that has brought more lies and incorporates their words into a moving homage,
lone soldiers to Israel is the topic of artist Sara Glidden’s weaving the fictional details of Naomi’s life with the sto-
fascinating graphic (comic book) memoir, How to Under- ries of the dead. By the time Naomi’s grandson is born, she
stand Israel in 60 Days or Less (Vertigo, cloth, $24.99). edly negative views about her host country. As the tour is, despite her pain — her own and her country’s — con-
Glidden arrived in Israel a confirmed skeptic with decid- proceeds and she learns about both Israel’s history and the vinced that “life will always beat death.”
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Books in brief
By Diana Brement JTNews Columnist Both books use the the Orthodox world, does a very good job explaining the
Art and Holocaust novel form to teach basics of each Torah portion in Bereshit, highlighting sig-
Burning Forest: The Art of Maria Frank Abrams, by about Judaism. Ragen nificant elements and showing their relevance. An index
Matthew Kagan (Northwest Museum of Art, cloth, $40). delves into prayer and and glossary serve the beginning student well.
This book gets high marks on all counts. It is the captivat- mysticism, and exam- Where’s My Miracle: Exploring Jewish Traditions for
ing biography of Maria Frank Abrams, Seattle-area artist ines how we treat people Dealing with Tragedy, by Morey Schwartz (Gefen, cloth,
and Holocaust survivor; it is a lavishly illustrated con- when things go wrong in $24.95). Put this book
temporary art history their lives (not well, usu- on the shelf next to the
text; and it highlights ally). Kreiger introduces classic When Bad Things
the career of a local artist Orthodox life to the Happen to Good People.
who enjoyed success in a unfamiliar reader openly Analyzing a wide variety
field that is challenging and positively. This edu- of Talmudic sources,
for anyone, but was par- cational approach some- Rabbi Schwartz — with
ticularly so for women times hijacks the flow of a background in psy-
in the mid-20th century. each book, but overall chology — demon-
The author, an art critic these are absorbing stories and good reads. strates that there is no
and author of 15 other one Jewish view on why
books, told this reviewer Food bad things happen to us,
that he decided to write Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s why the just sometimes
the book after Abrams Food Answers to a Higher Authority, by Sue Fishkoff suffer, and the wicked
had a revival show at (Schocken, cloth, $27.95). Another great book from jour- sometimes prosper.
Woodside Gallery in 2005, not only because of her artis- nalist Fishkoff (The Rebbe’s Army), this one takes us inside
tic contributions, but because “it’s always the right time the world of keeping kosher and kosher food production. Non-Fiction
to have something about remembering a Holocaust survi- Fishkoff covers the history of kosher food in America, then The Fiddler in the Subway, by Gene Weingar-
vor because their number is diminishing and we need to delves into the worlds ten (Simon & Schuster,
record their stories.” This is a beautiful book, to be enjoyed of kosher wine, meat paper, $15.99). After an
on many levels. and processed foods and early career as a reporter,
the people responsible Weingarten spent 20
Fiction for them. She examines years as an editor, includ-
Two new novels, one adult and one for pre- and the disappearance of the ing time at the Miami
younger teens, have much in common. Both are stories of kosher deli and the lives Herald where he edited
Orthodox Jewish families living in the Boston area with of mashgichim — the Dave Barry (yes, he’s
smart female protagonists struggling with Jewish commu- mostly men and a few that Gene) and learned
nity and family life. women who take on the to write humor from the
From Naomi Ragen, Orthodox feminist commentator often tedious work of man himself. He then
and author, playwright supervising kosher pro- returned to journalism at
and Internet colum- duction, including one the Washington Post, for-
nist, comes The Tenth who works in China. tunately for us, because
Song, about a family in Quite a few locals receive whether being funny or
crisis (St. Martins, cloth, mention in the book, and readers will learn that it’s not just serious he is a talented
$24.99). Abigail Sam- Jews who shop for kosher food and why so many manu- writer with an amazing ability to capture both the facts of,
uels, a mother, grand- facturers go to the trouble and expense of getting rabbinic and the emotion behind, a story. There isn’t a lot of Jewish
mother, bastion of her approval and reach the consumers driving this multi- content here, but the pieces about his father are among the
community and wife multi-billion dollar business. Finally, Fishkoff explores best in this collection.
of a successful CPA, is the new moral and ethical approach to food influencing Who Knew?! Unusual Stories in Jewish History, by Jack
happily planning her kosher keeping — or is it the other way around? Cooper (Gefen, cloth, $21.95). Did you know a medieval
youngest daughter Kay- Spanish Jew once headed the king’s army? That Rasputin
la’s wedding when her Text Study had a Jewish business manager? That Hitler couldn’t pass
husband is thrown into Truths Desired by God: An Excursion into the Weekly his own “Aryan” test?
the middle of a very Haftarah, by Meir Tamari (Gefen, cloth, $29.95). We are With his background
public international scandal. As their lives quickly unravel, enjoined to study Torah on Shabbat, but not the Haftarah in education, Cooper
Kayla flees to a desert commune in Israel. Abigail follows, — the selection from the Prophets read in synagogue after has put retirement to
but instead of a rescue she learns more about her family — the weekly Torah selection. Tamari, an economist better good use compiling this
and herself — than she ever did at home. known for his work in business ethics, questions that tra- entertaining and inter-
In One Is Not a Lonely Number, award-winning author dition, arguing we have just as much to learn from these esting book of little and
Evelyn Krieger brings us Talia Shumacher, the daughter of books in which “[a] major part of Judaism’s special and lesser-known Jewish
a wealthy Orthodox couple who struggles with the idea of specific message is played out.” He offers a quick and history from biblical to
being an only child in a community that values big fam- insightful analysis of each of the 54 regular readings plus modern times. No story
ilies (YM Books, paper, $15.95). As she worries over her those for festivals and holy days, and through the lens of here is more than a page
fate, she also faces academic and social challenges typi- ethics and 30 years in Israel, makes these relevant to his- long, so Who Knew?!
cal of her age: Friendships gone wrong and an important tory and the present day. makes good reading for
math tournament looming. Plus, she has to figure out why Torah Tapestries: Words of Wisdom Woven from the everyone in the family,
her parents have let a former ballet dancer stay in their Weekly Parasha-Bereishis, by Shira Smiles (Feldheim, from adults on the run
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Emanuel Vardi: 95-year-old Jennifer Gamelin and
“Art Rebel” once played for FDR David Arensberg
Jennifer and David were married on
January 15, 2011 at the Washington Athletic
was offered a job with the NBC Symphony Club in Seattle. Rabbi James Mirel of Temple
Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. B’nai Torah officiated the ceremony.
During World War II, Vardi joined Jennifer is the daughter of Gordon Gamelin
the U.S. Navy Band. At one point, Eleanor and Susan McDaniel of Spokane. Her
Roosevelt heard Vardi and whisked him to grandparents are Beverly Gamelin of Spokane
the White House to play viola for FDR. He and the late Ronald Gamelin, and Loretta
is one of only two violists in the world to Hamley of Spokane and the late Mack Hamley.
have given a solo recital at Carnegie Hall. Jennifer graduated from Ferris High School
Fine art was a lifelong interest, so Vardi and holds a bachelor’s degree in Communi-
used his GI Bill to study at Florence’s Aca- cations from Washington State University. She works as a nurse technician.
demia de Belle Arte from 1950-52. After David is the son of Jim and Marilyn Arensberg of Bellevue. His grandparents are Bert and Esther
his return to New York, he attended The Arensberg of Kirkland, and Shirley Fleischmann of Kirkland and the late Stanley Fleischmann.
Art Students League and the Brooklyn David graduated from Newport High School and holds a bachelor’s degree in Business from
Museum Art School, but music was his pri- the University of Washington. He works as a senior account manager at Washington Athletic Club.
mary focus. The couple lives in Seattle.
Throughout his long solo career, Vardi
recorded and performed with some of clas-
sical music’s biggest stars — Itzhak Per-
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Famed violist Emanuel Vardi, whose tras for live performances, movie scores
life story encompasses nearly a century of and television and was the South Dakota uel and Lenore Vardi surrounded the recent shows in Waikiki and is currently
politics, art and music, died at his North Symphony’s music director and conductor Greta Matassa Quartet at the 2009 Belle- featured at the Laurel Tree Gallery in Duvall
Bend home on Jan. 29 at the age of 95. in the late 1970s and early 1980s. vue Jazz Festival, shortly after they moved and Revolution Gallery in Issaquah.
Born April 21, 1915 in Jerusalem, Vardi After a wrist injury, then a fall that hurt to North Bend. Emanuel acted as musi- Along with his wife, Vardi is survived
was accepted to New York’s The Juilliard his shoulder, Vardi stopped performing in cal advisor to the Vardi Chamber Players by his daughters, Andrea Smith of Fair-
School when he was 12 years old. He went 1993. He gave master classes throughout at this past summer’s Snoqualmie Valley field, Iowa and Pauline Normand of Bon-
on to be considered one of the greatest vio- the world and served as music director of Festival of Music while Lenore served as secours, Quebec. Memorial gatherings are
lists of the 20th century. He had a long con- several festivals. musical director and violinist. expected in the Seattle area in the coming
cert career; worked in early television; and The music-themed paintings of Eman- Their art was the centerpiece of two weeks and in New York later this year.
as a conductor, producer, arranger and
commissioned fine artist.
“He was a true individual — musi-
cally and artistically — and he had a dose
of ‘rebel’ in him, so he was always trying
new things,” said Lenore Vardi, his wife
of 26 years.
Vardi’s father was a respected violinist
and violin teacher who started Emanuel on
the violin when he was 2-1/2. He attended
Juilliard, where he studied violin and viola
under Edouard Dethier, but left when he
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