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The story of the traveling Torah
Just before the first Passover seder this year, Ariel Gralnik reads from his family’s miniature (and kosher) Torah at the Kotel in Jerusalem as he becomes a Bar
Mitzvah.
Tim Klass JTNews Correspondent
Pirkei Avot, a section of the Talmud traditionally studied between
Pesach and Shavuot, begins with the passing of the Torah to Moses, then
to Joshua, the elders, the prophets and, finally, the rabbis.
This may be read as a kind of franchise. Seven weeks after their exodus
from Egypt, the defining foundation of Judaism is given to the 12 tribes
and their leaders are charged with passing its wisdom down through the
generations.
Similar, in a sense, is the experience of a Torah with columns about
14 inches high, about half the standard size, that was made by a young
sofer about 120 to 150 years ago in a part of czarist Russia that is now
Ukraine.
Today, the product of this unknown scribe’s precise, painstakingly
delicate lettering is one of the world’s most widely traveled Torahs, a trea-
sured keepsake of my far-flung family through five generations.
Some of the most moving moments of my life have been hearing it
read at the Kotel, the western retaining wall of the ancient Temple in
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Jerusalem, for the B’nai Mitzvah of two cousins, Yonatan Gralnek in
December 2009 and Ariel Gralnek, his younger brother, in the week
before the first seder this spring.
It was my grandmother and their great-great grandmother, Tuva
Kastelman Gralnek, who made it possible. Largely to honor her, I use
Ashkenazi, the Hebrew she knew, in the transliteration for this article.
The story begins in Nikolayev, a shtetl between Kiev and Lvov. Facing
conscription into the Russian army, my grandfather, Kolman Gralnek,
and his older brother, Morris (“Moishe”) Gralnek, fled one winter night
on foot, eventually reaching Le Havre, France, and boarding a ship to the
United States.
Five years later, with help from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society,
they resettled in central Iowa and sent for their wives and children.
Before leaving, my grandmother went to a synagogue the family had
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the rabbi’s turn
Honoring the fallen Jewish heroes
of Iraq and Afghanistan
Robert Shay Special to JTNews
The National Museum of American Jewish Military History is located at the headquar-
ters of a little-known historic veterans organization, the Jewish War Veterans of the USA.
Founded by 76 Civil War veterans in 1896 and located in a quaint two-story brownstone
in Washington, D.C., a brisk walk or short cab ride from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum, the museum lists at present 42 Jews who have given their lives in the defense of
our country in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of the international war on terror. The
JWV is sure that many more will be identified as Jewish in the future.
While their family and friends cry for them and think of them, who is thanking them?
Who is standing at attention for them? We all must remember them!
The National Museum has begun a project to honor these American Jewish heroes —
this year marks the first National Service Honoring the Jewish Fallen Heroes of Iraq and
Afghanistan. This Memorial Day weekend, and hopefully countless Memorial Day week-
ends thereafter, we are asking all synagogues throughout our nation at their Shabbat ser-
vices to read their names in memorial.
Please cut this list out of the paper and present it to your rabbi and ask him or her to
read it with reverence on this Memorial Day weekend. Our fallen heroes must not be for-
gotten.
This list is current as of March 14, 2011:
• Pfc. Daniel J. Agami–USA, 25, Coconut Creek, Fla.
• Sgt. Howard P. Allen–USANG, 31, Mesa, Ariz.
• Spec. Benyahmin ben Yahudah–USA, 24, Bogart, Ga.
• 1st Lt. David R. Bernstein–USA, 24, Phoenixville, Penn.
• Cpl. Albert Bitton–USA, 20, Chicago, Ill.
• Sgt. Aron C. Blum–USMC, 22, Tucson, Ariz.
• Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan B. Bruckenthal–USCG, 24, Smithtown, N.Y.
• Cpl. Ryan J. Clark–USA, 19, Lancaster, Calif.
• Cpl. Michael R. Cohen–USMC, 23, Jacobus, Penn.
• 2nd Lt. Seth J. Dvorin–USA, 24, East Brunswick, N.J.
• Lance Cpl. Mark E. Engel–USMC, 21, Centennial, Colo.
• Cpl. Mark A. Evnin–USMC, 21, Burlington, Vt.
• Pfc. Aaron E. Fairbairn–USA, 20, Aberdeen, Wash.
• 1st Lt. Daniel Farkas–USA, 42, Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Sgt. Zachary M. Fisher–USA, 24, Ballwin, Mo.
• Pfc. Jacob S. Fletcher–USA, 28, Bay Shore, N.Y.
• Spec. Daniel J. Freeman–USA, 20, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Sgt. Foster L. Harrington–USMC, 31, Ft. Worth, Tex.
• Airman 1st Class Elizabeth N. Jacobson–USAF, 21, Riviera Beach, Fla.
• Lance Cpl. Jeremy M. Kane–USMC, 22, Towson, Md.
• 1st Lt. Nathan M. Krissoff–USMC, 25, Reno, Nev.
• Staff Sgt. Robert J. Paul–USAR, 43, The Dalles, Ore.
• Maj. Mark E. Rosenberg–USA, 32, Miami Lakes, Fla.
• Cpl. Dustin H. Schrage–USMC, 20, Indian Harbor Beach, Fla.
• 1st Lt. Roslyn L. Schulte–USAF, 25, St. Louis, Mo.
• Capt. Robert M. Secher–USMC, 33, Germantown, Tenn.
• Spec. Marc S. Seiden–USA, 26, Brigantine, N.J.
• Staff Sgt. Michael B. Shackelford–USA, 25, Grand Junction, Colo.
• Sgt. Alan D. Sherman–USMCR, 36, Brick, N.J.
• Capt. Benjamin A. Sklaver–USA, 32, Medford, Mass.
• Chief Warrant Officer Eric A. Smith–USA, 41, Rochester, N.Y.
• 1st Lt. Andrew K. Stern–USMC, 24, Germantown, Tenn.
• Capt. Michael Y. Tarlavsky–USA, 30, Passaic, N.J.
• Pfc. Morris L. Walker–USA, 23, Chapel Hill, N.C.
• Tech. Sgt. Timothy R. Weiner–USAF, 35, Tamarac, Fla.
• Sgt. Robert M. Weinger–USA, 24, Round Lake Beach, Ill.
• Spec. Jeffrey M. Wershow–USANG, 22, Gainesville, Fla.
• Pfc. Colin J. Wolfe–USMC, 19, Manassas, Va.
• Maj. Stuart A. Wolfer–USA, 36, Coral Springs, Fla.
• Sgt. Elijah Tai Wah Wong–USA, 42, Mesa, Ariz.
• Senior Airman Jonathan A.V. Yelner–USAF, 29, Lafayette, Calif.
• Lt. Miroslav (Steven) Zilberman–USN, 31, Columbus, Ohio
Robert “Bob” Shay is a leader of Jewish War Veterans, Northwest Post 686.
“The United States believes that negotiations should result in two states, with permanent Palestinian borders with Israel, Jordan and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine.”
— President Obama, stating his administration’s policy on a future Palestinian state. Analysis is on page 4.
letters to the editor
Civility, please
I have followed the series of letters on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict going back and forth
over the last several issues. One thing has become increasingly clear — the two sides have
both exaggerated their claims and, as a result, may have damaged their own argument.
Let me try to bring some reality to these arguments. First, Mr. Segan has written about
the “1948 displacement of 750,000 Palestinians” and that they “languish intergeneration-
ally in camps.” In 1948, the nascent Israeli government pleaded with those people not to
leave. Most fled voluntarily (probably out of fear), and certainly many were involuntarily
displaced. As for the camps, it was the surrounding Arab nations who would not permit the
refugees to be resettled, but instead forced them into those camps. Resentment was an
inevitable result, but it was not aimed at their “hosts.” Rather that resentment was chan-
neled against the one nation that had asked them to stay.
Further, I ask Mr. Segan this question: Should any nation support the creation of a new
country that has as one of its stated aims the destruction of the neighboring state that
helped in its creation? I think that would be one definition of insanity.
Mr. Basson on the other hand, referred to Israel as including “20 percent Palestinian cit-
izens.” Actually, that 20 percent is better described as Arabs, Druze, Bedouin, and Baha’i,
among others. Does that include some who see themselves as Palestinian? I suspect it
does, but I further believe that it is far from all of them.
Every time a writer uses errors such as these to support his or her position, it becomes
more difficult for the two sides to talk to each other rather than talk at each other. We can
engage in dialogue only through civility and accuracy.
Dr. Jerry Barrish
Seattle
Providing cover
My thanks to Carole Glickfeld for her thoughtful letter (“World view,” May 13) about
my column, (“American Jews are Twice Chosen,” April 29). I write to create a political dia-
logue on issues left and right, and Ms. Glickfeld is helping to fulfill that goal. We agree I
am a chauvinist. We represent poles of a spectrum: I am a chauvinist and she apparently
believes all cultures are equally valid and valuable. While I may be faulted, it’s clear we
have a lot to be proud of. America builds shelves of ever-more-refined case law on Miranda
warnings while in other places a woman who has been raped is sentenced to stoning for
adultery in a tribal court where her testimony is inadmissible. If people can’t see that one
is better than the other, they are blind.
I find it ironic that she mentions public opinion in Spain as commentary on American
leadership. After the horrific bombing attack by al Qaeda in Madrid in 2004 that killed 190
and wounded 1,800, Spanish voters booted out the Aznar government and pulled their
troops from Iraq. How is it that people in Spain could choose to do nothing after such an
attack? Because they have America to protect them — they are safe in Spain because our
“cowboy” president had the courage to lead the world.
Robert Wilkes
Bellevue
Need to see all sides
On May 11 I was escorted out of Temple De Hirsch Sinai, where I had signed up to
attend a lecture by Prof. John Esposito of Georgetown U., who characterizes fears of radi-
cal Islam as “Islamophobia.”
I had prepared information challenging his views and pointing out some gross omissions
of fact in his previous writings. I was asked not to put these on the seats and was passing
them out in the lobby when I was ordered to leave. They explained that they have a stand-
ing policy of not allowing literature critical of a speaker. I admit that I violated that policy,
and am writing to ask them to change it.
I was told I should have attended the lecture and raised my concerns at the end. My
friend Jack Greenberg did just that, asking: “Can you name a Muslim country where Jews
and Christians lived with the same rights as the Muslims?” His reply; “I’m not going to
answer that question because it is front loaded!”
Others who had attended told me he had ducked every pertinent question, and this
expert on Islam provided no quotes from Muslim sources to back up his thesis. My paper
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Is Obama charting a new course on Israeli-Palestinian issues?

Uriel Heilman JTA World News Service
Analysis
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President
Obama knew he had some damage con-
trol to do when he took the podium before
thousands of Israel supporters on the
morning of May 22 at the opening plenary
of the annual AIPAC conference.
But he wasn’t offering any apologies for
his speech three days earlier that called for
“1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps”
to serve as the basis for Israeli-Palestinian
negotiations.
Rather, Obama offered mostly reassur-
ances and clarifications. He also issued a
blunt warning that doing nothing under-
mines U.S. efforts to fend off Israel’s diplo-
matic isolation and the Palestinians’ plan
to obtain recognition of statehood at the
United Nations in September.
“There is a reason why the Palestinians
are pursuing their interests at the United
Nations,” Obama said. “They recognize
that there is an impatience with the peace
process — or the absence of one. Not just
in the Arab world but in Latin America,
in Europe and in Asia. That impatience is
growing, and is already manifesting itself
in capitals around the world.
“The march to isolate Israel interna-
tionally — and the impulse of the Pales-
tinians to abandon negotiations — will
continue to gain momentum in the
absence of a credible peace process and
alternative,” the president added.
It’s unclear if Obama’s maneuvering
will do anything to stanch the Palestinian
statehood effort or the campaign to isolate
Israel. But either way, Obama said, Israel
and its supporters should not be alarmed
by his remarks about the 1967 lines: All he
did was go public with a well-established
formula, he said, one that “by definition”
means “the parties themselves — Israelis
and Palestinians — will negotiate” a new
border taking into account “new demo-
graphic realities on the ground and the
needs of both sides.”
However, a close reading of what
Obama said and left unsaid in his two recent
speeches hints at a few significant ways that
Obama’s approach to resolving the conflict
may differ from that of his predecessors.
But scant on details, his remarks also raise
more questions than they answer.
First, Obama’s call for an Israeli-Pal-
estinian settlement based on the pre-1967
lines with mutually agreed swaps endorses
the principle that Israel compensate any
annexation of West Bank settlements with
territory from Israel proper. While prior
administrations had raised the possibil-
ity of certain land exchanges, Obama was
more public and clear in endorsing that
approach as a basis for negotiations.
For Israelis, the position assumes Israel
will annex parts of the West Bank; Obama
made clear on May 22 that he believes the
final border will be “different than the one
that existed on June 4, 1967.”
On the other hand, it implicitly embraces
the principle that the West Bank belongs to
the Palestinians by requiring any Israeli
annexation of West Bank land to be com-
pensated. What Obama left unclear was
whether he sees rightful compensation as a
one-for-one swap, as do the Palestinians.
President George W. Bush never went
this far. He offered Israel assurances in
a 2004 letter that large Jewish settlement
blocs in the West Bank would not be
uprooted in a final peace deal, specifying
that “a full and complete return” to the
pre-1967 border was unrealistic.
In 2005, Bush added that a Palestin-
ian state must be contiguous and that
any changes to the 1949 armistice lines
— the pre-1967 border — must be mutu-
ally agreed. But he did not speak of Israel
ceding parts of its land as compensation.
For their part, Israeli leaders long have
viewed the West Bank as disputed land,
arguing that U.N. Resolution 242, which
requires Israeli withdrawal from the territo-
ries captured in 1967, purposely never spec-
ified withdrawal from “all” the territories.
While successive Israeli leaders have rec-
ognized that the vast majority of the West
Bank will become part of a Palestinian state
— Ehud Olmert reportedly offered land
swaps to compensate for Israeli settlements
to be annexed — Israel in principle has not
ceded its right to West Bank territory.
Second, Obama said last week that
Israel and the Palestinians should agree on
borders and security first, and only later try
to deal with the difficult issues of Jerusalem
and the right of return for Palestinian ref-
ugees. In his follow-up speech Sunday, he
mentioned neither of those issues.
On the refugee issue, Bush had made
clear in ’04 that he felt Palestinian refugees
would not have the right to settle inside
Israel — something Israel views as tanta-
mount to destroying the Jewish character
of the state.
But Obama failed to make a similar
Israelis and Palestinians.”
Perhaps Obama’s mention of refugees
and Jerusalem in the same breath in his
May 19 speech is a hint that he believes
resolving the refugee issue to Israel’s satis-
faction will have to be counterbalanced by
an Israeli concession on Jerusalem.
Third, Obama in both speeches repeated
a line that surely was grating for Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
to hear: “The United States believes that
negotiations should result in two states,
with permanent Palestinian borders with
Israel, Jordan and Egypt, and permanent
Israeli borders with Palestine.”
Netanyahu wants Israel to maintain a
corridor of Israeli control along the West
Bank-Jordan border, which he views as
essential to Israel’s security. Obama’s
delineation of Palestine’s borders as shar-
ing a boundary with Jordan suggests that
idea is a nonstarter.
Finally, Obama did go a step further
than any U.S. president in his explicit call
for the Palestinian state to be “non-milita-
rized.” While that has been the U.S. under-
standing from as far back as the Camp
David negotiations of 2000, Obama is the
first to say so on the record.
So what is the Obama administration’s
game plan for the next few months?
Obama declared in both his speeches
that the United States cannot impose a set-
tlement upon the parties; they must decide
on their own to reach accord.
But with events rapidly reshaping
the neighborhood around Israel, from
regime change in Egypt to the violence in
Syria to the recent reconciliation between

To launC
H! Yesterday’s Mavens, statement. Rather, his remarks appeared Fatah and Hamas, is it enough for Obama
163 daYS to move the refugee issue back to the nego- merely to lay out his vision?
Today’s Foodies tiating table. “For us to have leverage with the Pal-
Traditions in Northwest Jewish Kitchens In his May 19 speech, he said that “Two estinians, with the Arab states and with
wrenching and emotional issues remain: the international community, the basis for
To celebrate the publication The future of Jerusalem and the fate of negotiations has to hold out the prospect
of the community’s fabulous Palestinian refugees. But moving forward of success,” Obama said May 22.
new cookbook, the Washington State now on the basis of territory and security With no sign of Israeli-Palestinian
Jewish Historical Society is sponsoring provides a foundation to resolve those two negotiations getting back on track, how-
issues in a way that is just and fair, and ever, the prospect of success appears far
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By Isaac Azose Creating the tools to counter delegitimization of Israel 7
Echó el punchon, i se fuyó A large consortium of Jewish organizations is coming together to create tools and provide experts to
counter the growing movement of delegitimization against Israel. The leader of the effort recently visited
He placed his sting and he ran away Seattle.
A man is so mean and nasty, he instigates and creates a bad situation or injects ill-feeling
between two friends. Then he slips away and acts innocently as if he’s a disinterested person. Five Women to Watch: Polly Lysen-Halpern 10
The last in our series of Five Women to Watch is a nurse and cancer survivor who has started a clinic to
help survivors navigate what happens once treatment is finished.

Jewish studies comes to Idaho 13

How did our Jewish community Based on the College of Idaho’s de facto Jewish community, a professor named Howard Berger, a new
chair has been created for the Jewish Studies program of this small college.

fare in Olympia this year? The last performance 13

The state legislature’s special session was expected to end Wednesday, but
because nothing was signed and set in stone before JTNews went to press, we don’t
have information in this week’s issue. Check online at www.jtnews.net for an
update, and we’ll have a full session wrap-up in our June 10 issue.
In his final JTNews interview, Maestro Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony’s outgoing music director,
discusses his commitment to Judaism and how it has set his course in life.
Back for a fifth 15
The founder of the Northwest Jewish literary journal Drash didn’t anticipate reaching its fifth anniversary,
but she’s both elated and relieved to have the latest edition at local bookstores.

Jewish at SIFF 16
This year’s Seattle International Film Festival has several films of Jewish interest. We’ve got short reviews
of many of them here.

Remember when J.Teen is back! Center pullout

From the Jewish Transcript, May 6,
1957
The hoopsters of the Evergreen chapter
of the AZA youth group show that it really
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they show off their trophy that they won
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campaigns against Israel
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
Compared to a vote this week by a
municipality in Scotland that will no
longer allow books by Israeli authors on its
library’s shelves, the removal of a few items
from a food co-op might seem like, well, a
tub of hummus. In this context, the issue
of delegitimization and boycotts of Israel
has become very complicated, says Martin
Raffel, senior vice president of the Jewish
Council for Public Affairs, an umbrella
group for community-based organizations
that advocate on behalf of Israel.
“You remove some Israeli products
from shelves, then because the world is flat
and we live in this social media world…that
message is sent out in neon lights across the
world,” Raffel said. “It becomes a valuable
message that can get communicated glob-
ally and creates certain associations in peo-
ple’s minds that can be very destructive.”
The question then becomes, when should
the Jewish community react? To counter
such philosophical attacks on Israel, Raffel,
through the JCPA, is spearheading an ini-
tiative launched in partnership with Jewish
Federations of North America, the umbrella
organization for local Jewish federations.
The effort, called the Israel Action Network,
will provide both materials and experts to
assist communities dealing with such so-
called delegitimization campaigns and to
advise on whether counter- have forced the City of Seat- of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seat-
efforts should utilize a scalpel tle’s retirement board to tle. “This isn’t the kind of thing that should
or a sledgehammer. Raffel vis- divest from some companies happen privately.” In addition, “we have to
ited Seattle on May 16 to meet that do business with Israel. be strong as a community. We believe that
with Jewish communal leaders All of this energy is Israel has a place in the family of nations.”
about such recent campaigns. wrongheaded, Raffel Fruchter said the Federation is creat-
“Our job is to help and believes. ing a committee to look at broader public
give a wider lens so that “If they believe that cer- policy issues that affect the Jewish com-
Seattle is not operating in a tain tactics ought to be used munity beyond Israel.
vacuum,” Raffel told JTNews. to move the Israeli govern- It will be “a small group of people who
Raffel said the Israel ment in a different direc- are representing many different views
Action Network’s goal is to tion that are one-sided and within the Jewish community and can turn
find people both in and out of Courtesy JCPA punitive toward Israel, I on a dime for us when an issue like the bus
the Jewish community who Martin Raffel, the leader of the would argue strongly that ads come up…where we can be able to
want to help both Israelis new multi-organizational Israel they’re making a huge mis- make a community statement,” he said.
and Palestinians, regardless Action Network. take,” he said. “They’re Given the activity in Washington State
of whether they’re critical of making it even more diffi- over the past few years, this community
either government’s policies. cult for Israel, ultimately if a negotiation can also act as an information source for
“We’re not trying to support divest- were to ever take place.” the nationwide network, Fruchter noted.
ment from the Palestinians or sanctions Locally, a consortium of Israel-focused One place where these efforts will
against the Palestinians, we want to create organizations has been meeting on a peri- require different thinking, however, is
win-win scenarios,” he said. “Critics can odic basis to work toward a two-fold plan with college students.
be allies. Delegitimizers cannot.” against delegitimization. “Telling them what to think and bang-
Delegitimization efforts here have “It’s to prepare people to be able to ing my fist has not been very effective,”
included boycotts and attempted boycotts respond when the vilification of Israel Raffel said. “The messages will have to be
of Israeli products at supermarkets or on comes up, that they feel like they have the in the idiom of the constituency to which
college campuses; the cancelled campaigns tools, whether it’s on campus or amongst [they’re] being addressed.”
of advertisements that had been scheduled their friends, or when something public To that end, the network will be work-
to run on the sides of King County Metro happens like the bus ads, that they feel like ing with college organizations such as Hillel
buses and on billboards; and citizen initia- they can respond in a constructive way,”
tives, such as one three years ago that would said Richard Fruchter, president and CEO XXPage 8
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WWletters Page 3
cited both the Koran and contemporary lead-
ers using these texts to justify hatred and
violence against Jews. The issue of our rela-
tionship with Muslims is controversial, and
people of good will can disagree, but they need
access to information from all sides.
I believe the rise of radical Islam is a threat
to Israel, America and Christians in the Middle
East. At a time when we are in need of a wake-
up call our academics and media pundits are
singing us a sweet lullaby. There is no excuse
for a major synagogue to assist them in their
deception.
Robert Kaufman
Seattle
Temple De Hirsch Sinai responds
Temple De Hirsch Sinai has a 112-year
tradition of leadership in social action, civil
rights, and free exchange of ideas. We strive
to provide the opportunity for respectful
dialog and even disagreement. At the same
time, we have a policy regarding invited
speakers that we enforce in an evenhanded
and straightforward manner.
We do not permit passing out of litera-
ture inside our facilities (vitriolic or not) by
those who attend our public forums. Rather,
we encourage that dissent take place within
a civil and thoughtful context. We also never
act precipitously. My old friend, Bob Kauf-
man, was a guest at our annual Clergy Insti-
tute, which is primarily intended to foster
dialog between clergy of different faiths in
the Puget Sound region. The Clergy Institute
is also open to members of our congregation
and the public.
Bob was seen placing his sheet of infor-
mation on seats in our sanctuary prior to
the lecture. He was respectfully asked not to
pass out his literature, warned he would be
ejected if he failed to comply, and was told
he would have the opportunity to address the
speaker and the issues during the scheduled
Q&A session over lunch. Bob then proceeded
to pass out the same literature to attendees
in our foyer. He was again asked to desist and
warned that he would be removed if he failed
to heed our direction. He continued to pass
out his literature and was then, most respect-
fully and quietly, escorted from our building.
Other participants trying to pass out litera-
ture received the same response from us and
chose, instead, to participate in the post-pre-
sentation dialogue discussion. This resulted in
an honest thought-provoking discussion, in
which all sides and all voices were heard.
Temple De Hirsch Sinai is open to, and cel-
ebrates the diversity of, our members with
a commitment to respect the dignity of each
WWraffel Page 7
and the JCPA’s Israel on Campus Coalition.
Much of their methodology will come from
studies that have analyzed what specific
segments think about different issues.
“We’re going to pour a lot of this exper-
tise and analysis and best practices of what
seems to work around the country through
the filter of the Israel Action Network so
that all the communities will have the ben-
person in our midst in a safe, secure environ-
ment. We also mean what we say. While Bob
may have preferred not to have been asked to
leave the premises after two warnings about
his conduct, even he can agree that he was
treated fairly and with respect.
Larry Broder
Executive Director
Temple De Hirsch Sinai
Disappointment
I am disappointed by Obama’s speech call-
ing for Israel to return to its pre-1967 lines as
the basis for a two-state solution. Those bor-
ders have been determined by military experts
as indefensible borders. Sadly, he becomes
the first U.S. president to do so.
Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu rightly
took issue with Obama’s call stating that the
viability of a Palestinian state cannot come
at the expense of the viability of the one and
only Jewish state. U.S. commitments were
made to Israel in 2004 that it would not have
to return to the 1967 lines.
Obama appears to have thrown our most
reliable ally, Israel, under the bus. He sends the
wrong message to the Palestinians and embold-
ens people who seek Israel’s destruction.
Lasting peace between Israel and the
Palestinians cannot come through a unilat-
eral declaration, but can only come through
negotiations that settle all the outstanding
issues to the satisfaction of both sides and
mutual respect and security.
A majority of U.S. voters oppose a unilat-
erally declared Palestinian state and support
Israel’s right to exist, according to a recent
national survey.
The Palestinians are seeking recognition
for a state that includes in its government
Hamas, an Iran-backed, U.S. State Depart-
ment-designated foreign terrorist organiza-
tion that is responsible for firing thousands
of rockets at civilian targets in Israel.
The Palestinians seek recognition of a
Palestinian state, while refusing to recognize
Israel’s right to exist as a homeland for the
Jewish people.
If the Palestinan/Muslim world would
simply recognize the Jewish people’s right to a
sovereign homeland there would be absolute
peace and security for all. It is time to put the
sandal on the other foot and let Palestinian/
Muslims start making concessions.
The Palestinians must stop teaching their
children to hate Israelis and Jews and stop
naming streets and squares after terrorists.
They should return to negotiations without
pre-conditions with Israel immediately if they
want an independent state.
Josh Basson
Seattle
efit of this wider look and wider perspec-
tive on these issues,” Raffel said. But, he
cautioned, “each community will have to
tailor its own efforts.”
Ultimately, the goal of both the Israel
Action Network and the communities it
will serve is to send this message: “There
are any number of ways you can be exposed
to the real Israel and not the distorted, gro-
tesque Israel that is being portrayed by the
delegitimization movement,” Raffel said.
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New organization stresses tolerance and economic viability

• Also: High art of Rolo Bolo under the big tent
Diana Brement JTNews Columnist

1
There’s a new organi- policies of the Chinese gov-

zation in town — and
around the country.
Founded by local phi-
lanthropist Mark Bloome,
TAP-America — Tolerance,
Americanism, Patriotism —
inspires tolerance and eco-
nomic viability.
Calling it “spiritual,” not
political, Mark says TAP grew
out of many years of his own
spiritual work. Specific inspiration came
last year when he participated in Call to
Conscience, a celebration of African-
American history and culture in Tacoma.
As a speaker, and the first white person to
co-chair the event, “the issue of tolerance
certainly became clear,” he says.
Mark felt strongly that tolerance and
patriotism had to be linked, something “all
of America had to be engaged in.” Patrio-
tism, he notes, has been used too often by
extremist groups “to bash minorities.”
“We’re the first organization where tol-
erance and patriotism are equated,” he
says. “A country divided cannot stand.”
Effective videos at the TAP web-
site (www.tapamerica.org, Facebook and
Twitter) show young people around the
country stating why they love America
and declaring, “I’m made in America!”
In a public relations coup, TAP-Ameri-
ca’s message is running hourly on CBS’s
Times Square “Jumbo Tron” reader board
through the beginning of July and TAP’s
website will feature public reaction to it.
A second, more somber message from
the organization is to “buy American” to
revitalize our economy.
“From an economic point of view we
are being hollowed out by the deliberate
2
ernment through currency If you’re going to Teatro ZinZanni
manipulation, through steal- any time soon — Seattle’s caba-
ing our intellectual ideas, ret theater on lower Queen Anne
through [Chinese] regula- Hill — pay close attention to the character
tions about doing business in Sheikh Zabier. French-born Israeli Ber-
China,” Mark says. nard Hazen has the role in which he not
Although inexpensive Chi- only juggles, but performs Rolo Bolo, a
nese products have created a balancing act involving numerous cylin-
vicious circle of affordability for ders and boards stacked up almost to the
many consumers, Mark says top of the tent.
tribe research shows “if consumers Bernard, 30, was entranced by circus
spend an extra dollar a day on programs he saw on TV growing up in
things made in the USA…we Ashdod.
can save a million jobs.” “When I saw [the shows],” he says, “I
A grassroots “buy local” movement is knew this was what I wanted to do.”
already in place, but “our ‘buy local’ says Active in an afterschool youth move-
[local is] between the Atlantic and the ment, he started juggling at 15 and quickly
Pacific,” Mark turned to performing and teaching other
says. These efforts kids. (He continues his love of teaching
help businesses Alison Hazen as an instructor in ZinZanni’s summer
and also gener- Bernard Hazen jumps and juggles at a Teatro camps.)
ate local tax rev- Zinzanni performance. Before leaving for his required military
enue for police, service as an IDF paratrooper, he tried to
education and so much, but freedom in particular. study with a Russian émigré circus per-
programs for the “Whether it’s the Jewish people in the former, who continually rejected him. This
poor. United States or the American people,” he stepped up the challenge for Bernard, who
Mark was a says, “deep in my heart I want to preserve kept on improving his skills. Admittedly
founder of Safe freedom. That’s one of the greatest gifts
Washington, a Mark Bloome God can give us besides our health.” XXPage 14
partnership of
local Jewish organizations that prepares
our communities for all kinds of emergen-
cies whether natural disaster or terrorist
attack. He is also working with the Jewish
Federation of Greater Seattle to oppose the
boycott, divestment and sanctions move-
ment against Israel.
This grandfather of six, and an avid
biker and skier, says his priorities are first
local and then “my American commu-
nity,” which has given him and his family

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This Week’s Wisdom

Teach Your Child to Swim
5 women to watch:
by Mike Selinker and Andrew Marc Greene Heal thyself, then heal others
Diana Brement JTNews Columnist
It all started with bad news — and really Polly shared one recent success story
poorly timed bad news at that. about a colon cancer survivor who had,
“On my 35th birthday — over eight years following chemo and surgery, developed
ago — I was diagnosed with stage-three chronic stomach problems so bad she was
breast cancer,” recalls Polly Lysen-Halpern. unable to leave the house. Following the
“I found the lump three days earlier.” plan Polly developed, the client worked
Her sons, Noah and Elliott, were six with a nutritionist and a physical therapist
and two-and-a-half at the time. and over time was able to return to normal
“Overwhelming,” is how she describes life. She called Polly recently to say she had
it. Diagnosis was followed by 18 months gone skiing with her grandchildren for the
of chemotherapy, radiation and multiple first time in four years.
surgeries. “We try to provide an integrated multi-
When her oncologist finally declared disciplinary approach,” Polly explains.
her cancer-free, “as with many cancer sur- “Survivors need lots of different exper-
vivors, I felt kind of lost… I didn’t know tise.”
where to go,” she says. “I had all these
issues… struggling with recovering from
the treatment itself…[and] a lot of anxiety
around fears of reoccurrence.”
Trained as a nurse practitioner, Polly
became interested in how cancer survivors
The Talmud, in the volume about marriage, contains a passage about a parent’s
responsibilities to one’s child. One of these is, “One must teach one’s child to swim.
navigate the feelings of loss and anxiety
Why? Because it may save his life!” that often strike even after a “cure” is pro-
nounced. She found very limited resources
ACROSS DOWN were available to patients post-treatment.
1 Mid-’90s compliment 1 It was demoted in 2006 She herself “stumbled” through it, she says,
5 Fraudster’s offer 2 Key card issuer with the help of a support group of other
9 Surrounded by 3 In the past young women with breast cancer.
13 See 11-Down 4 Great deal Hired to work at the Fred Hutchinson
14 Island between Florida and 5 Harum-___
Jamaica 6 More adorable Cancer Research Center, she developed a
15 Second opening? 7 Grampa Simpson survivors’ program funded partly by the
16 Lesson #1 8 Dent or scratch Lance Armstrong Foundation.
19 Devoured 9 Feminine side, according to Jung “I knew there was such a huge need in
20 Wash. neighbor 10 Winnipeg resident the community,” Polly says.
21 Major record label 11 Dutch financial giant whose 13-Across
headquartered in the UK features an orange lion The job there showed her that a large
22 Lesson #2 12 Shindigs segment of the post-cancer population
28 Ann Arbor sch. 16 Oom-___ band wasn’t returning for the kinds of attention Neil Halpern
29 “A mouse!” 17 Peke speak? it needed. Some patients were reluctant to Polly Halpern poses by the Mediterranean on a
30 20-vol. book of spells? 18 “Eight Days a ___” enter the medical clinic where they had recent trip to Italy.
32 Like Eltana’s garlic cream 23 Huey, Dewey, and Louie, e.g.
spread 24 It goes around the world once been treated; others were in popula-
35 ___ of lies 25 Augment, with “up” tions that just weren’t being reached once Part of Polly’s approach is to empower
36 Prominent credit card co. prior 26 Singer McEntire treatment had ended. her patients.
to 2006 27 Matisse or Rousseau “I became interested in developing a “After experiencing cancer you often
37 Lesson #3 31 Miami-___ County clinic that was outside the cancer center,” feel powerless, you have no control,” she
41 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof actor 32 Need anti-lock brakes
Burl 33 Turn on a dime she says. says.
42 Biblical life preserver? 34 Mocha chip and peanut butter ripple, This past February she formed Survi- Survivorship Partners’ clients come
43 Bert’s roommate for two vorship Partners, a practice that addresses mostly by word of mouth, with some phy-
44 Microsoft Word file extension 35 Stir-fry vessel multiple needs of cancer survivors. Phys- sician referrals. Polly is doing a lot of net-
45 Gold, in Seville 36 State mushroom of Minnesota ical and psychological ramifications are working and outreach in the community
46 Wield a pickax, perhaps 38 Card game similar to baccarat
48 Lesson #4 39 Recipient of a princess’s kiss addressed, including anxiety about recur- as well as writing articles and blogging at
54 Center opening? 40 Crook rence, fatigue, and anxiety about the health www.survivorshippartners.com.
55 Point value of a free throw 45 The All-Father, in Norse mythology effects of treatment, which are quite toxic. Polly also sees a number of adult survi-
56 “The Gold-Bug” author 46 Hindu incantation These aftereffects are “not studied vors of childhood cancers, who often have
57 Lesson #5 47 Logical opening? enough,” says Polly, and most of what we their own set of physical and psychologi-
63 Cartoon supplier of rocket- 49 Belgian city devastated in WWI
powered roller skates 50 Clout know “are drawn from pediatric studies.” cal issues, but also she observes, “develop a
64 No longer carrying a torch for 51 Apple tablets While at the Hutch she came to know a resiliency…they all go on to do something
65 Tragic Verdi heroine 52 “You’re pulling my leg!” variety of health professionals in the com- incredible.”
66 ___ Hogg 53 Type of toothpaste munity who were providing services to Polly, her husband Neil Halpern, and
67 Josie and the Pussycats 57 “Chocolate” dog cancer survivors, including psychologists, their three kids belong to Temple Beth
actress Reid 58 System opening?
68 Looking up 59 How some like it? physical therapists and nutritionists. Am. Lilly was adopted after Polly recov-
60 Some gametes “I developed a network of providers,” ered from cancer, but not because of the
61 Train component she says. “We discussed [providing] an cancer. She and Neil had already planned
62 Carnival city integrated, multi-disciplinary approach” to adopt. With three kids in two schools
to post-cancer treatment. and a new business, Polly has a little time
Answers on page 17 Right now Polly works by herself in the left for cooking, gardening and, she says,
clinic. She hopes it will become a group “cheering my kids on from the sidelines in
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All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb.
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WWtorah Page 1 fence that separates men and women at

endowed and took from it the Torah,
which according to family lore had been
written by a cousin or other relative of
hers. Knowing little about Iowa except that
the state had few Jews, she wanted her chil-
dren to have at least that source of instruc-
tion in their ancestral heritage.
The two families arrived at Ellis Island
on the Fourth of July, 1909, cleared immi-
gration the next day and began their long
train journey: Tuva, her five children and
the Torah to Marshalltown and Moishe’s
wife and their four children to Newton,
about 30 bumpy miles away.
My mother, Merry, the youngest of
nine, was born in 1917. The two fami-
lies celebrated Jewish holidays together in
Marshalltown, and the Torah remained in
the household until Sons of Israel Congre-
gation was organized in 1939.
Growing up in Sioux City, Iowa, I
attended services a few times in Marshall-
town and must have seen the little Torah,
but never was I told it was from our family.
Nor were any of my siblings or, to my
knowledge, any of our cousins in either
the Newton or Marshalltown branches of
the family.
When Sons of Israel disbanded in 1985,
my aunts Esther and Tillie Gralnek took
the scroll to my mother for safekeeping in
Sioux City, again without a word to any
of us.
In January 1989, four days before my
mother’s death, my brother Kalman found
the Torah in her dresser drawer, alongside
the documents that established its prov-
enance.
At the seudas havra’ah, the traditional
meal following the funeral, we asked Rabbi
Sol Bolotnikov, a Lithuanian-trained
Orthodox rabbi in Sioux City, whether it
was ritually acceptable.
Ariel Gralnick’s grandfather, Daniel Nissim, holds up the miniature Torah. A spot in the middle shows
a repair to keep the scroll kosher.
sofer who wrote this Torah was a young
man. An older sofer could not have been
so steady with the hand.”
Yes, he said, with repairs to replace
missing and flaking letters, rebind a few
sections of parchment and patch some
holes, it would be a kosher Torah.
Twice the Torah has undergone these
repairs, a staple of Torah maintenance.
Any flaw in the 304,805 letters that com-
prise the 79,847 words of the text renders a
scroll unusable for formal services.
Torahs this small are uncommon, and
rarely does one of any size remain in a
non-rabbinic family for so long. There
may be none that have traveled as many
miles as ours — Ukraine to Iowa to Seat-
tle, coast to coast for family events in the
U.S. and twice from Seattle to Israel and
back. Rabbis and cantors have borrowed it
for B’nai Mitzvah in unrelated families in
remote parts of Alaska and Colorado.
Dusty Klass
in-laws from both the Marshalltown and
Newton branches of the family.
It was some time after the Torah was
read at a family reunion in Minneapo-
lis that Ian Gralnek, a first cousin once
removed, asked if I would bring it to Israel
for Yoni’s Bar Mitzvah in 2008. How could
I say no? Before I left to return home, Ariel
asked if I’d bring it again for his.
On a bright spring day, amid the exu-
berant cacophony of prayers and candy-
throwing at reading tables lined up for
B’nai Mitzvah all along the mechitzah, the
the Kotel, the Torah quickly gained near-
celebrity status.
Some waiting their turn and others
preparing to leave after the completion
of B’nai Mitzvah stopped to ask if it was
indeed a kosher Torah. The story traveled
through the crowd. A young Chasid asked
if he could have it to keep at home for his
family. I couldn’t tell if he was joking. He
went away looking sad.
The shaliach, a layman who led the
service for Ariel, sighed with relief as he
opened the scroll to find I had already
rolled it to the start of the reading.
Small, wiry and intense, Arieli chanted
with assurance in a high, powerful voice
that must have carried to the reading
tables at least two away from ours on either
side.
As with his brother a year and a half
earlier, I felt the stirring of am Yisroel chai,
the nation of Israel lives, the tradition
that all Jews of every age should see the
exodus from Egypt as their own liberation
from slavery and that all stood together to
receive the Torah at Sinai.
I recalled how, in 1917, the Jewish
essayist Asher Zvi Hirsh Ginsburg, better
known by his pen name Ahad Ha’am,
famously wrote, “More than Israel has
kept Shabbos, Shabbos has kept Israel.”
In the same vein, it seemed to me, more
than I took our Torah to Israel, our Torah
took me to Israel — to a sense of people-
hood as well as nationhood.

He examined the fragile parchment
and the text, especially the feathery orna-
mentation over the letters shin, ayin, tet,
nun, zayin, gimel and tzadi.
lullabies
L’Chaim: Songs for Life
sacred
Kal, who now owns the Torah, has put
it on indefinite loan at Temple B’nai Torah
in Bellevue. It has been read by both of us,
our three sisters, my two daughters, their

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The bread of love
Rivy Poupko Kletenik JTNews Columnist
Dear Rivy,
We are becoming newly
involved in Judaism, thanks
to our little one being
enrolled in a Jewish early
childhood program. Each
Friday she proudly brings
home a freshly baked chal-
lah. She is so thrilled that
I’m thinking I should hop on
board and start baking chal-
lah with her — and maybe
even try out having Friday night dinner
as well. I am ready to give it a shot,
but there must be something more
to making challah than simple bread
making. Where should I begin?
Challah is a Jewish food like no other.
It is infused with ritual and meaning from
about as far back as we go. It is a com-
pelling teacher, instructing us with three
essential Jewish ideas around eating, sus-
tenance and Jewish women’s spiritual life.
All this from an unassuming — though
stately — loaf of bread.
Strictly speaking, challah refers to the
rich braided egg bread eaten on Shabbat
and holidays. The word challah appears
only once in the entire Torah, in the Book
of Bamidbar:
When you enter the land to which
I am taking you and you eat of the
bread of the land, you shall set some
aside as a gift to the Lord as the first
yield of your baking, challah, you
shall set aside a loaf as a gift…
Challah is the name of the portion that
is separated and then given to the Kohen
from each and every batch of dough
kneaded in ancient times. The idea of the
commandment is that bread, as the staff
of life, the essential element of our suste-
nance, should always have as a part of its
routine production an element of chari-
table giving, tzedakah. We should never
take its blessing for granted, and we must
share our gifts of the land with the priests
who have no portion of their own. The first
yield is given, not unlike the bikkurim, the
first fruits offered yearly from the first pro-
duce of the land.
This giving of the first is powerful. The
temptation to pluck that first grape, pome-
granate, fig or date off the tree and pop right
into our hungry mouth is quite human, but
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to offer the first as a gift is a
discipline that teaches grati-
tude and humility.
Though there is no
Temple, a remnant of this
practice continues. After pre-
paring the dough, we recite a
blessing and simply separate
a small piece — about wal-
nut-sized — make a blessing,
burn it, and then dispose of
JQ it respectfully. How the word
challah became the name of
our weekly Sabbath bread, I
do not know. But how poignant is it that
Jewish bread took on the identity of the
mitzvah associated with it? Lesson number
one? There is no eating without giving.
Next lesson: Challah comes in twos,
teaching us to trust that the Lord will indeed
provide. Manna, bread from above, is the
quintessential object lesson for faith. It fell
from heaven in the desert and sustained
the people Israel for 40 years. To inscribe
this core experience into our collective
memory, generation after generation, we
place a double portion of bread, two chal-
lahs, under a cover every Shabbat. Through-
out our 40 years in the desert, not only were
we dependent upon God’s daily delivery of
“groceries,” but even more — a double por-
tion of dew-covered manna was delivered
every Friday so the Shabbat would not be
desecrated by gathering of manna.
Right there, on our weekly Shabbat
table, the challah becomes our teacher.
The cover is an enchanting reminder of the
layer of dew that sheltered the newly fallen
manna, while the two challahs represent
the double portion that fell miraculously
from heaven. Our weekly challah may
not have fallen from heaven, but it surely
appears no less, by the grace of God.
On to lesson three: There’s history
baked in that challah! Jewish women’s sto-
ries are braided into those crusty loaves.
Women, traditionally the bread
makers, came to express themselves cre-
atively through two challah-related prac-
tices. The first is the very shaping and
creation of challah. My grandmother, not
unlike many a bubbie from the alter heim,
the old country, would fashion various
challah shapes for the each of the differ-
ent holidays; a ladder challah for Shavuot,
a hand challah for Hoshanah Rabbah, a
bird challah for Rosh Hashanah (along
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bled menorahs, Jonah in the whale — the Challah teaches by telling the story of
sky’s the limit! long, but not lost, traditions embedded
The second venue for creativity was the delicately in women’s everyday customs.
writing of prayers, t’chines, for the taking The women of Yemen offered a prayer at
of the challah ritual. T’chine is the Yiddish the time of the grinding of the flour, while
name for the women’s devotional prayers the Marrano women of Portugal prayed
created by and for women among Ashke- secretly that their tithing would replicate
nazic communities. According to Chavah the tithing practiced in the ancient holy
Weissler, in her work, Voices of the Matri- land. Treasured are these precious expres-
archs, many t’chines evolved around mitzvot sions from long ago — they reflect the deep
and rituals unique to women, among them, connections and meanings that women
of course, challah baking. Here is a sampling created around their baking of challah.
of this most lovely of prayer genre: As you ponder taking up this magnif-
icent of Jewish practices, the baking of
May my challah be accepted as the challah, you will need a recipe — that’s for
sacrifice on the altar was accepted. sure — and some patience with technique.
May my mitzvah be accepted just as But you will assume your place among
if I had performed it properly…May all those that came before you. You will
God grant that I and my husband be actualizing the perpetuity of profound
and my children be able to nourish Jewish ideas of humility, appreciation as
ourselves…. you draw out from yourself creativity, and
Lord of all worlds, in your hands satisfaction of passing on to your child
is all blessing. I come now to honor the warm deliciousness of love, home and
your holiness, and I pray you to give Shabbat — what could be better?
your blessing on what I bake. Send
an angel to guard the baking, so that Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally
everything will be well baked, will rise renowned educator and Head of School at the
nicely, and will not burn, to honor Seattle Hebrew Academy. If you have a question
your holy Sabbath and over which that’s been tickling your brain, send Rivy an
one recites the holy blessing — as e-mail at rivy.poupko.kletenik@gmail.com.
Rachel Schachter
The Israel Day celebration in honor of Israeli Independence Day and Lag B’Omer on Sun.,
May 22 brought out hundreds to the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island and
later in the afternoon across the street to Herzl–Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation for a
barbecue. Here a group of Israeli teen expatriates from the local Israeli scouts group play
with the crafts they offered at their fair booth.
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Dr. Howard Berger, third from left, talks with students on his favorite bench on the College of Idaho
campus.
Jewish studies comes to Idaho
Janis Siegel JTNews Correspondent
The College of Idaho is a highly unlikely
future center of Jewish learning, but the
small liberal arts school founded in 1891
by William Judson Boone, a descendant of
American explorer Daniel Boone, is now
on the verge of another meeting with his-
tory — Jewish history.
The college, located near Boise in the
southwestern part of the state, has been
awarded a $500,000 matching grant from
the National Endowment for the Human-
ities, and once the college meets its $1.5
million fundraising goal, it will establish
one of the only Judaic Studies chairs in
the vast Intermountain West region of the
United States.
The money will allow the college to
expand its Howard Berger Lecture Series,
created in May 2010 and named after Prof.
Dr. Howard Berger, an American Intellec-
tual History professor by training. Berger
is the only full-time Jewish faculty at
The College of Idaho; he has become the
school’s de facto Hillel as well.
“I never thought this would be my
fate when I was finishing up at the Uni-
versity of Washington,” said Berger, who
earned a doctorate in History at the UW in
1973. He spoke with the JTNews from his
campus office in Caldwell, Idaho. He vis-
ited and spoke at Temple Beth Am in Seat-
tle earlier this month.
In 1982, while filling in at the college
for a colleague on sabbatical, he said he
knew he wanted to stay.
“I fell in love with the college by about
Thanksgiving, and in January [my col-
league] called and said he would not be
coming back,” Berger said. “My one year
became 28.”
Berger has inadvertently and single-
handedly become the face of Judaism on
the C of I campus.
“Suddenly it dawned on me,” he said.
“I represent something bigger than I
ever thought I would. I’m the only Jew
that most of these students will ever have
encountered in their whole life. I am the
Jewish people to this part of the country.”
In a state known for its past ties to white
supremacy groups like the Aryan Nations,
the C of I is now able to boast such interna-
Courtesy college of Idaho
tionally known Jewish speakers as Israel’s
consul general for the Pacific Northwest,
Akiva Tor, and renowned biblical arche-
ologist Rabbi Dr. Richard Freund. Both
scholars spoke on campus and in Sun
Valley, a nearby resort community where a
Jewish population grows seasonally.
“I think the idea of making this a public
intellectual position is what made the case
to the NEH,” said Dr. Marvin Henberg, C
of I’s president. “To me, that’s taking what
Howard has done for an internal audience
and taking the next step to the whole state.”
Along with the required Western Civ-
ilization courses, Berger also teaches a
course titled “National Socialism and the
Final Solution,” where he draws a head
count of over 120 students. The students
just call it “the Nazi course.”
His annual spring Jewish History sec-
tion draws a maximum registration of 50
students.
Berger has also arranged Purim parties
with the local Chabad House in Boise, has
taken three trips to Israel with groups of 40
students, and hosted a Hanukkah party in
2010 with 184 students in attendance. Berger
had to cut off registration for the event.
He is so popular on campus and
has generated such a great interest in
Jewish culture and history that alumni
approached him three years ago, seeking
to begin raising money for a chair in his
name to promote Jewish Studies there.
Michael Vandervelden, vice president
for college relations, has been meeting
with large foundations and other poten-
tial donors in New York and Washington,
D.C., hoping that the “big one” will step up
and give that million-dollar gift. The chair
could be named after them.
Speaking to the JTNews in between
meetings in New York, Vandervelden
said he met with Hannah Rosenthal, the
Obama administration’s special envoy
against the spread of anti-Semitism.
“She was so thrilled and she had a lot of
ideas for me,” said Vandervelden.
Rosenthal offered to lecture on the
campus as part of the Berger lecture
series.
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A legacy both musical
and Jewish
Gigi Yellen JTNews Correspondent
June 18 marks the Seattle Symphony’s
last performance with Gerard Schwarz
conducting as music director. After 26
years, the man who has influenced not
only the orchestra and its work, but also
the shape of the city itself, will become
“Conductor Laureate,” returning now and
then as guest conductor. Ludovic Morlot is
the orchestra’s music director-designate.
This “farewell season” has included
18 world premieres commissioned from
American composers Schwarz himself
has chosen (“the Gund/Simonyi commis-
sions”). The final two are by Jewish com-
posers: Paul Schoenfield (June 2, 4 and 5)
and Philip Glass (June 16 and 18).
The name of Schoenfield’s “Freilach,”
(Yiddish for “cheerful”) is, in fact, a classic
Jewish musical form. The composer calls
it “a joyous and sometimes frenetic style
of music.”
“The Jewish musicians that performed
in this style were called badchonim (liter-
ally, ‘merry makers’),” he writes. “There is
a story in the Talmud of a rabbi who asked
these musicians what was their profes-
sion….Their response was, ‘We are Bad-
chonim, and our job is to gladden the sad.’”
Schoenfeld wrote that Schwarz’s
“warmth, kindness and encouragement
over the years have been invaluable. I could
think of nothing better than a Freilach to
express my appreciation.”
The concert version of “Harmonium
Mountain,” by the American Jewish com-
poser Philip Glass, is Schwarz’s choice
for the premiere at his final two concerts.
Glass’s new music was heard earlier this
year in the form of a film score.
The centerpiece of those June 16 and
18 concerts will be a monumentally spiri-
tual piece by Vienna’s most famously con-
flicted Jewish-born conductor: Gustav
Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony.
But besides all the new music, a slew of
Grammy nominations, and Schwarz’s his-
toric contribution to the revitalization of
downtown Seattle — the efforts that made
the now-world-famous Benaroya Hall
possible — there’s another Schwarz legacy
in Seattle: His Jewish one.
“I’m not just Jewish, I’m a believer,”
Schwarz emphasized. “When you stand up
and embrace who you are, whatever it may
be, it is always gutsy. Because it’s always eas-
iest to blend in.... [But] if you make a state-
ment that says, ‘I belong to this temple, and
I give these talks, and I work with the Milken
Archive of American Jewish Music, and I
write music for the Music of Remembrance,
and I helped them establish themselves,’
you’re actually going a little further.”
Schwarz has, indeed, gone that far. He
and wife Jody and their family are long-
time members of Temple De Hirsch Sinai.
He’s given JCC talks on Jews in music
(including one on June 5). He has per-
formed for, and advised, the multi-year
recording and broadcast project known
If
you
go:
Gerard Schwarz will speak
at the Stroum Jewish Community
Center’s Jewish Touch lecture
series on Sun., June 5 at 5:30 p.m.
$10/$5 JCC members. RSVP
required. Contact 206-388-0832
or visit www.sjcc.org. At 3801 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
as the Milken Archive of American Jewish
Music. And he has nurtured, advised, con-
ducted, and composed for Seattle’s Holo-
caust-memorial chamber music project,
Music of Remembrance.
Schwarz’s involvement in Holocaust-
related music is personal: His Viennese
grandparents, Rudolf and Jeanette Weiss,
denied exit visas, were murdered near a
concentration camp in 1942. Schwarz’s par-
ents managed to get to the U.S. in 1939. He
composed and conducted “Rudolf and Jea-
nette” for MOR in 2007. So it makes sense
that, unlike many in professional music
families, the Schwarz children would be
raised with heightened Jewish awareness.
His MOR involvement has also included
his son Julian, now launching a concert
career as a cellist, who soloed in the 2005
world premiere of Gerard Schwarz’s com-
position “In Memoriam.”
“Julian, interestingly enough, is really
a committed Jew,” says Schwarz of the
young cellist, who begins studies at his
father’s alma mater, Juilliard, this fall. “He
loves to go to services. He reads Hebrew
quite well — cares about it deeply. So does
Gabriella,” Julian’s older sister, now a pro-
ducer at CNN.
Schwarz’s entire family plans to gather
for the season finale in June, including his
two older children, Alysandra, a surgeon
in Milwaukee; and Dan, a bass player who
lives in Seattle and works with music his
dad doesn’t touch — country and rock.
There won’t be lengthy partying,
though: One week after his final SSO con-
cert, Schwarz will be on the podium at
his other musical home, North Carolina’s
Eastern Music Festival, celebrating its 50th
anniversary.
Meanwhile, Schwarz and his team
still await final funding for the ambitious
TV project called “All-Star Orchestra,”
discussed in this paper’s Feb. 3 edition.
Schwarz’s chief fundraiser for the project,
Seattle attorney Marlys Palumbo, says this
multimedia effort — producing complete
orchestral performances with interactive
video and other educational tools — still
requires another $1.5 million before they
can do the recording they hope to do in
New York in August.
“We can do just the production side for
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May 27–30 May 31 at 7:30 p.m.

Northwest Folklife Blackfield with Aviv Geffen
Festival Concert
This year’s Folklife festival Blackfield, the alternative rock duo of
includes a preview concert of Steven Wilson and Israeli musician Aviv
the Seattle Jewish Chorale’s Geffen, is on tour with its new album,
“L’Chaim: Songs of Life” Welcome to my DNA. A little Sufjan
program on Sunday, May 29 Stevens, a little Pink Floyd, with a dose
at 2:25 p.m. at the Center of pessimism thrown in for good musical
House Theater, along with the measure, the album has been described as “a thing of fragile beauty” by Metal
annual Jewish Showcase, Hammer magazine. Check out Blackstone’s site for more details and a video
featuring Klez Chaos, Sasson and KletzerBalm, on Monday, May 30 at 11 a.m. interview with a very-strung-out-looking Geffen. The band will perform in Seattle
at the Bagley Wright Theater. He’Ari Israeli Dance workshop takes place in the with keyboardist Jordan Rudess.
Center House Court on May 29 at 11 a.m., and then at 5 p.m. head to Boeing At Studio 7, 110 S Horton St., Seattle. Tickets available through ticketmaster.com.
Green for the Klezmer Jam workshop. Visit www.blackfield.org for band information.
At Seattle Center. Suggested donation $10 per person. Visit www.nwfolklifefestival.org.

Sunday, June 5 at 5:30 p.m. June 12 at 7 p.m. June 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Gerard Schwarz
Speaking Engagement
As part of the Stroum JCC’s Jewish
Touch lecture series, the Seattle
Symphony’s outgoing music director
Gerard Schwarz will speak on life
after the symphony and his new
project, “All-Star Orchestra.” The
Emmy Award-winning conductor
will also share some of his own
compositions and reflections on his
Jewish identity.
At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer
Way, Mercer Island. 206-388-0832.
www.sjcc.org. $10, $5 for SJCC
members and seniors. Reservations
required.
“L’Chaim: Songs of Life”
Concert
The Seattle Jewish Chorale will
perform a vast repertoire of English,
Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino songs
across the multiple genres. Soloist
Jacob Herbert will perform “Not in
Our Town,” a string ballad based upon
the 1993 Billings, Mont. “menorah
incident.” Gigi Yellen narrates the
evening. At Town Hall, 8th Avenue at
Seneca. Tickets available through
brownpapertickets.com or by phone,
1-800-838-3006. Tickets are $15 in
advance, $18 at the door. Students
and seniors pay $12 in advance, $15
at the door.
Simply Barbra
Cabaret
World-class Barbra Streisand impersonator
Steven Brinberg will (probably not so
simply) get dolled up and perform for the
Seattle leg of his show, Simply Barbra. The
dark, handsome Brinberg has been trans-
forming himself into the middle-aged blonde
diva and performing her repertoire across
the globe for over a decade, including on
Broadway with Whoopi Goldberg in Funny
Girl. His mother must be so proud.
Kirkland Performance Center, 350 Kirkland
Ave., Kirkland. Tickets $15. Call the box
office at 425-893-9900 or order online
through www.kpcenter.org.

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It’s truck day at the JCC!
Thurs., May 19 marked the
18th anniversary of the event
that brings all kinds of
trucks, buses, tractors,
emergency vehicles, and
even a police boat to the
Stroum Jewish Community
Center for kids in the early
childhood program to climb
on and explore. The line was
long for a chance to jump
around on Dizzy’s Tumble
Bus.
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handy, “I would build props and practice
downstairs” at home,” he says. “It’s one of
the biggest reasons I got good, because he
said it was crap.”
After his military service they finally
worked together until his teacher declared
him ready for Europe.
Europe and Russia take the circus
much more seriously than Americans or
Israelis do. Bernard constantly heard the
complaint, “‘What are you, a clown? …Go
be a lawyer or something,’” he says.
Joel Magalnick
After studying intensely in France,
including with famed juggler Italo Medini,
and performing around the world, he
entered an international competition
where only 26 out of thousands are chosen
to perform. He made it, and Teatro Zin-
zanni snapped him up right after.
He’s been performing here in Seat-
tle and at the theater’s San Francisco
tent since 2005. He and his wife Alison,
a former waitress at the show, and their
daughter Naomi live in Seattle.
When Vandervelden visited the Israeli
embassy in Washington, D.C., they were
“over-the-top delirious,” he said.
“We’ve also received money from the
Jewish community locally from the Boise
area,” explained Vandervelden.
The C of I received a major gift from one
of its Boise trustees, Skip Oppenheimer, the
chairman and CEO of Oppenheimer Com-
panies, Inc., and president and CEO of
Oppenheimer Development Corporation.
Mark Dawson, of Rainier Investment
Management, Inc., an investment firm
headquartered in Seattle, along with his two
brothers, David and Peter, gifted the college
$25,000, according to Vandervelden. They
are not Jewish, he said, but they believe in
the importance of establishing the chair.
The school has to raise $1.5 million
within four years. Thus far, it has reached
approximately $800,000. Depending on
the final fundraising tally, the school could
then hire one or two professors to teach
Jewish history, Jewish texts, and Jewish
philosophy and literature.
Regardless of the fundraising, Berger
said his students are curious about Juda-
ism. He said he has never heard any hostile
or anti-Semitic rhetoric on campus.
“I do think there’s an inherent interest
in all things Jewish,” added Berger. “There
always was, there always has been and
there always will be.”
less,” says Palumbo, “but we prefer not to
launch without the educational pieces.”
Both Palumbo, a lifetime Seattle Sym-
phony board member, and Schwarz
emphasize that they are proceeding with
sensitivity to the needs of Seattle Sym-
phony and other local arts organizations:
they are seeking donors whose priorities
extend beyond Seattle.
What does Schwarz take greatest pride
in, among his accomplishments in Seattle?
Aside from his role in the creation of Ben-
aroya Hall, he says it’s his addition of great
players to the orchestra. Calling the selec-
tion of performers the most important job
of a music director, he describes his choice
of John Cerminaro, principal French horn,
as his “most important appointment.”
Any regrets? “Well, I would not use the
word ‘regret.’ I see my time as music direc-
tor in Seattle as vibrant, lively, energetic.”
But still: “Maybe one exception. We didn’t
do any significant touring.” Their one East
Coast tour, in 2004, including SSO’s Carn-
egie Hall debut, was nearly cancelled, but it
actually wound up making “quite a profit,”
according to Schwarz.
And with a nod toward the orchestra’s
next generation of performers and audi-
ences, he adds, “We could have and hope-
fully will do much more to work with
the technology community to bring the
orchestra into the 21st century.”
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northwest
By Margaret Kahn
“Echad, shtayim, shalosh, arba…”
The counting wasn’t the sound emanating from a synagogue’s
kindergarten classroom. It came from the deck of a dhow, a
traditional Arab sailboat, cruising through a harbor filled with open
sky, twinkling city lights, and water glistening with oil.
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine myself on the fifth
night of my 17th Passover drifting lazily around the Persian Gulf near
Doha, Qatar. This, in addition to becoming the inadvertent Hebrew
teacher to a duo of Qatari girls.
Last month I got the opportunity to spend a week in the small
country that sits nestled east of Saudi Arabia and a hop, skip, and
jump south of Iran. Thanks to the generosity of Qatar Foundation
International, 35 high school students studying Arabic were granted
full scholarships to experience Qatari culture. OneWorld Now!, a local
leadership program I am involved with, selected 15 Arabic-language
students to travel to this country.
It took some time to fully understand that I was truly in the
Middle East, in a country where 80 percent of the population is
Muslim. I asked one of our hosts whether the traditional Qatari
garments I had grown to love were religious or cultural. His answer,
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that in Qatar there is no strong difference between the two, seemed
to define the relationship with Islam.
I expected to feel lost in the middle of a nationwide crowd
of abayas, but I surprised myself with my enjoyment in trying an
(unrequired) scarf for a day and anticipating the melodious call to
prayer. Avoiding chametz was challenging, but gave me a deeper
understanding for the meaning behind the fast. It didn’t hurt that
Shira, QFI’s young programs officer, kept us two Pesach observers
fully stocked with macaroons and grape juice for impromptu seders.
Pleased as I was with my comfort within the majority, I decided
not to make my religion public. I knew the Qataris would have been
polite, but I expected formality would be the extent of our relationship
after my “divine revelation” — I could count on cordiality and nothing
more.
At an extravagant dinner with students from the Qatar
Independent Secondary School for Girls, a basket steaming with the
aroma of freshly baked pita bread was placed under my poor Semitic
nose. I began my ritual of whining about how I missed wheat. Sara, a
Qatari student, overheard and inquired, “Why aren’t you eating?”
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the life & times of Northwest Jewish teens
Changing a life: How we adopted an African teenager
By Uriel Cohen
“Open your mouth, judge righteously, and bring
justice to the poor and needy.” — Tehillim 31:9
Rainier AZA #1550 is a Seattle chapter of BBYO,
formerly the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization. AZA stands
for Aleph Tzadik Aleph, a symbol for tens of thousands
of young Jewish men across the world. Aleph, for
ahava, means love. Tzadik is for tzedakah, charity. The
other aleph, for achdut, denotes brotherhood.
BBYO is run by ambitious teenagers wishing to
make a difference. Each chapter holds elections and
its members vote on their desired candidates. My job
on the board is to incorporate community service into
everything this group of 40 or so young men does. Ivan Komakech
At the start of my term, I envisioned Rainier helping
our local community through some nice activities and
programs. But I was plagued with tunnel vision: I couldn’t see the
greater picture, to “bring justice to the poor and needy.” When was
the last time I could say I did that? When was the last time a lot of
people could say they had done that? So we, as a chapter, decided
to undertake the largest world outreach program in our history.
During an all-night meeting at our president Robbie Ellenhorn’s
home, the Rainier board brainstormed ideas for fundraising, for
apparel, for events and activities. But when it came time to discuss
ideas for charity, it was tough to come up with anything other than
the typical food drive and collection of money at meetings.
Then lightning struck — a new idea presented itself: We should
adopt an African child. The media permeates our perspectives on
Africa as a place with a low quality of life. Not all of Africa lives that
way, but the stereotypically impoverished African people is absolute
reality in many places.
Through an organization called Outreach Uganda, we collected
10 profiles of people needing funding. This funding would provide
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I skirted the question and blunderingly concocted a lame cover-
up. Curiously, she asked us what our religions were.
I felt as transparent as an obvious afikomen hiding spot. I had
no choice. I inhaled deeply and took the plunge, muttering what I
conceived as the dirty J-word.
“That’s so cool!” enthused Nourah. I heard correctly; Nourah
was dying to learn “Jewish,” as she called Israel’s language, and
immediately initiated lessons, which currently continue through Skype
and Hebrew Facebook statuses. She and her friend Aisha became
my diligent scholars, even asking to if they could send me money for
a Hebrew keyboard.
The night that ended with a hearty “Shalom!” left me reeling.
For all my progressive ways, I had been too cynical to believe Arabs
would accept a Jew. I’m ashamed that while I knew of their strong
value of hospitality, I assumed prejudice would triumph. How glad I
am to admit my utter mistakenness.
The next night, I shared matzoh with a cute tween, Tala.
Palestinian by blood, she expressed interest in learning Judaism’s
traditions. I was delighted until she confided her shame in her heritage.
My heart broke. As I fervently beseeched her to be proud of her past,
I knew it wouldn’t be easy. While I was honored to become her first
for the child’s education, food, and living expenses. I
narrowed this list to three options, using criteria that the
sponsored individual should be similar to us: Male and
in his teenage years, so Rainier’s members could relate
on a more personal level with the young man they were
helping—brotherhood.
We printed the profiles of the three candidates,
along with a picture, some basic statistics, and personal
details. We spent one meeting, an hour, deciding on
whose future to change. Members spoke in front of
the group to explain the logic behind choosing one
candidate or another. After much deliberation, we voted.
We chose Ivan Komakech by a large majority. He is
in the top 10 percent of his class at school and aspires
to be a doctor. He loves soccer and has too many
siblings for his parents to support any of them. Now we
send Outreach Uganda $27 every month to ensure he
can get through life.
He knows English and we wrote him a letter recently, but due
to the long shipping period between continents we have yet to hear
back. For now it’s all about collecting money during our weekly
meetings.
As ambassadors to the future of a young man we will probably
never meet, it is empowering to see so many people behind this
cause. I have seen kids pay for Ivan over buying ice cream and
candy. I frequently see kids unzip the change pouch in their wallet
and turn it upside down. Sometimes we get bills larger than $10. And
this makes all the difference. What does “opening my mouth, judging
righteously and bringing justice to the poor and needy” mean to me?
It means stepping up and not settling for what we have already. It is
the essence of carving our own path in life.
To donate to the Ivan Komakech Fund through Rainier AZA, send
checks, preferably in the amount of $27 to: 2424 SE 73rd Avenue,
Mercer Island, WA 98040.
Jewish acquaintance, having done so came with the knowledge
that she hadn’t accepted the heavy role she was born with. If I could
facilitate more interactions like this, I wondered, could Jews and Arabs
finally see that we don’t need to stand on separate sides?
On the plane homeward, I pondered this idea: Through meetings
based on similarities, we could eventually erase the differences. My
expectations of a Middle Eastern country were completely upended,
and I wanted future Jewish kids to experience the respect and desire
for understanding with which I was met.
Exchange programs have given me so much, and perhaps one
day I can pioneer one that takes Jewish kids to Arab countries to
discover how much stronger our bonds as youth unite us than our
political differences divide us. Through person-to-person contact, our
generation can put out the fires fanned by the media and perpetuated
by history.
Qatar taught me that no matter where you go, to bring a bit of
your culture with you, through language, food, and simply sharing
ideas. Ignore assumptions and dive in headfirst. Just make sure to
keep some matzoh in your purse.
Margaret Kahn is the U.S. Youth Ambassadors general secretary and
a member of the Youth Ambassadors Alumni Association. She is
currently a junior at Roosevelt High School in Seattle.
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Basar f e s t :
A meaty experience

By Shawn Sobel
The only vegetarian option was the lettuce. On March 27,
hundreds of hungry carnivores descended upon Sephardic Bikur
Holim in Seward Park for Seattle NCSY’s 5th Annual Meat Festival
and Cook-Off, commonly known as Basarfest. It’s a fundraising
event that provides scholarships for NCSYers in need to attend
Shabbatons, regional conventions, and other events. Unlike other
years, this year’s Basarfest had two different cook-offs: Dalia
Amon’s famous meatballs won the general meat category while Yoni
Goldstein took the blue ribbon in the chili category. The winners
were chosen by popular vote. Each winner walked away with prizes
ranging from gallons of Marion Davis barbecue sauce to a Chef’s
Dream BBQ utensil package.
The competition was only part of the festivities. Outside, kids
played in a bounce house while their parents were inside chowing
down on the delicious meal prepared by SBH’s chef extraordinaire,
Eli Varon. Dozens of NCSY members and their parents helped
out. Another part of the festivities was the presentation of the first
annual Carnivore of the Year Award. The award was given to Robert
Gladstein, who was “forced” by Ari Hoffman, director of Seattle
NCSY, to eat a slab of ribs slathered in Marion Davis barbecue sauce.
This event was a huge success. Everyone who attended left full,
happy, and satisfied knowing that they had helped support a great
organization. What else could a person ask for? See you there next
year!
Shawn Sobel is a 10th grader at Northwest Yeshiva High School.

JTeam to announce
annual grants
The high school students participating in JTeam, the
youth philanthropy program administered by the Jewish
Federation of Greater Seattle, will make their annual grant
presentations at a year-end event on June 12. They will
announce grants totaling $8,600 to be given to eight
18 Locations in the Puget Sound.
organizations
The 28 members of the JTeam program spent the school
Announcing our
year evaluating proposals from 10 organizations and made Grand Opening on Mercer Island.
their final selections based upon several qualities and needs.
“We are very proud of these teenagers for the Visit our website for
responsible and thoughtful way they evaluated the current class schedules.
possible grantees,” said Marla Goldberg, JTeam program
manager. “We are looking forward to a celebration of their
achievements.” www.driving-school.com
Please RSVP at MarlaG@JewishInSeattle.org for the
event, which takes place on Sun., June 12 at 5:30 p.m. at the
or call 206.525.0909
Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way on
Mercer Island.
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4 spring 2011

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A Jewish literary journal makes it to five years If

you
go:
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
Four years ago, during an interview it turns out, lives in intersect in the
with JTNews while waiting for the post Ohio, but she spent course of the The first Drash reading takes
office to finally deliver the boxes filled with three weeks at the calendar year.” place Sun., June 5 at 3 p.m. at
copies of the first edition of Drash: North- Hedgebrook Wom- M a r c u s Ravenna Third Place Books, 6504
west Mosaic, Wendy Marcus mused she en’s Writers Retreat said she would 20th Ave. NE in Seattle. Free.
was happy just to get it finished. on Whidbey Island likely submit
“I was only thinking about getting the and was moved by the it for a Push-
first issue to the printer,” Marcus, Drash’s feeling of place she cart Prize, which
founder and editor, says four years later. got there. honors liter- Out.” Put the star-crossed couple’s names
With the ink now dry on the fifth edition “Emotionally ary projects from together and you’ll get why, but that’s not
of this decidedly Northwest Jewish literary and artistically and small presses. half the story.
journal, she hoped to make it this far, but creatively, it lives The funny thing, “It’s really fun to have something light
didn’t necessarily anticipate it. on in their hearts,” Marcus says, was so that we’re not all about the Holocaust
“How many literary journals actually Marcus says. that Goldberg had and dancing at Birkenau,” Marcus says.
make it to five years?” she muses. “Espe- Marcus also tried in vain to get The public part of the project — read-
cially our kind of literary journal. It’s such noted a story by the essay published ings and gatherings — has been slimmed
a niche.” James Goldberg, in other journals down from past years, but a party, called
Yes, it’s a niche. But Marcus had to called “Sojourn- around the coun- “Drash Under the Stars,” is scheduled for
whittle down from 500 submissions of fic- ers.” try and nobody else July 30 and will feature writers from all
tion, nonfiction, poetry and photography “It’s a little dif- would touch it. five editions of the journal. Four other
from as far away as Massachusetts to the ficult to read, but “It’s fun to find readings will take place throughout the
44 contributors in this year’s edition. And very, very pow- gems like that and summer, the first of which is scheduled
while the theme has that Northwest vibe erful,” Marcus says. Goldberg, who is present them to the for Sun., June 5. Copies are available at
— “we want that sense of place to radiate Jewish, Mormon, and East Indian, “takes public,” Marcus says. Temple Beth Am, where Marcus is music
through the book,” Marcus says — not all the Jewish calendar, the holidays, and he Her favorite, however, is a short story director, and several local bookstores.
of its contributors live here. inserts a little story about each element by David H. Fuks, who wrote about his Visit www.templebetham.org/music/
She points to Rhonda Pettit, who of those people, the East Indians, Mor- pursuit as a teen of a girl named Leila drash for locations.
wrote “Meditation on Useless Bay.” Pettit, mons and Jews, and how their lives kind of Lipschitz, titled “This Will Never Work

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16 the arts JTNews . www.jtnews.net . friday, may 27, 2011
Your Jewish guide to SIFF 2011
Herb Krohn Special to JTNews
The Seattle International Film Festival is
underway through Sunday, June 12, 2011.
Information and tickets can be found at
www.siff.net as well as the SIFF Box Office on
the second floor of Pacific Place and SIFF
Cinema at the Seattle Center on Mercer Street.
The Rescuers
Rating: Outstanding
Genre: Documentary
USA, Rwanda, and countries across
Europe; Partially subtitled
Sun., May 29, 10 a.m. and Mon., May 30, 4
p.m. — Harvard Exit
What is the proper role of foreign dip-
lomats who finds themselves in a coun-
try where genocide is taking place and they
are besieged with pleas for help from those
being persecuted? In this fact-based film
we follow Sir Martin Gilbert and Stepha-
nie Nyombayire (a Rwandan activist), who
travel across Europe and through time to
explore and profile the efforts of the handful
of brave diplomats who dared to defy their
own governments and risked their own
careers and lives to engage in remarkable
and heroic efforts to save Jews from Hitler’s
death grip. Told through archival footage,
graphics and moving maps, as well as con-
temporary interviews with relatives and co-
workers — and the victims themselves and
Ongoing Events
Event names, locations, and times are provided here
for ongoing weekly events. Please visit calendar.
jtnews.net for descriptions and contact information.
Fridays
9:30–10:30 a.m. — SJCC Tot Shabbat
Stroum JCC
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — Creative Beginnings
Temple De Hirsch Sinai
12:30–3:30 p.m. — Bridge Group
Stroum Jewish Community Center
12:30–3:30 p.m. — Drop-in Mah Jongg
Stroum JCC
11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Tots Welcoming Shabbat
Temple B’nai Torah
Saturdays
10 a.m. — Morning Youth Program
Congregation Ezra Bessaroth
9:45 a.m. — BCMH Youth Services
BCMH
9–10:30 a.m. — Temple B’nai Torah Adult
Torah Study
Temple B’nai Torah
5 p.m. — The Ramchal’s Derech Hashem,
Portal from the Ari to Modernity
Congregation Beth Ha’Ari
Have you visited the new online Jewish community calendar?
Find it at calendar.jtnews.net!
Stephanie Nyombayire, right, Peter Vagi, center, and Sir Martin Gilbert visit a Budpest Holocaust
rescue site in The Rescuers.
their descendents who were saved from cer-
tain death—makes this a gripping yet com-
pelling story of how only a few brave people
doing the right thing has a lasting impact for
generations into the future.
Our two guides also attempt to uncover
why genocide so often continues to take
place across the world while they explore
the role of diplomats and the nations they
represent in such situations. This histori-
cal yet contemporary documentary exam-
Community Calendar
Sundays
9:15–10:15 a.m. — Advanced Talmud for
Men
Congregation Beth Ha’Ari
10–11:15 a.m. Change Your Thinking,
Change Your Life
The Seattle Kollel
10:15 a.m. — Sunday Torah Study
Congregation Beth Shalom
7:30–10:30 p.m. — He’Ari Israeli Dancing
Danceland Ballroom (call to confirm)
8 p.m. — Weekly Shiur
The Seattle Kollel
Mondays
10 a.m. — Jewish Mommy and Me
The Seattle Kollel
10 a.m.– 2 p.m. — JCC Seniors Group
Stroum JCC
12:30 p.m. — Caffeine for the Soul
Chabad of the Central Cascades
7 p.m. — CSA Monday Night Classes
Congregation Shevet Achim
7–8 p.m. — Ein Yaakov in English
Congregation Shaarei Tefilah Lubavitch
7:45–8:45 p.m. — For Women Only
Congregation Shaarei Tefilah Lubavitch
8:30 p.m. Talmud in Hebrew
Eastside Torah Center
8–10 p.m. — Women’s Israeli
Dance Class
The Seattle Kollel
Michael King Productions
ines the role of the individual, the loyalty
of diplomats to their home country and to
humanity, and the end result of those who
were spared. Many of the diplomats pro-
filed paid a huge personal price for their
activity to save others from the Nazis’ geno-
cide machine, often openly and defiantly
violating their own governments’ policies
(even a German diplomat and Nazi party
member who acted to save Jews is profiled).
This must-see 2011 SIFF film is a fascinat-
8:30 p.m. — Talmud, Yeshiva-Style
Eastside Torah Center
Tuesdays
10–11:30 a.m. — Listening Mothers
Mercer Island Pediatrics Association
11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Mommy and Me
Program
Chabad of the Central Cascades
12 p.m. — Torah for Women
Eastside Torah Center
7 p.m. — Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings
Jewish Family Service
7 p.m. — Teen Center
BCMH
7:30 p.m. — Weekly Round Table
Kabbalah Class
Eastside Torah Center
Wednesdays
9:45–10:45 a.m. — Mindful Interactions
with Your Toddler
Stroum JCC
11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Torah with a Twist
Private Home
11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — Talmud Berachot
Tully’s Westlake Center
6:30--8:30 p.m. — Reflective Parenting
Stroum JCC
7 p.m. — Beginning Israeli Dancing for
Adults with Rhona Feldman
Congregation Beth Shalom
ing examination of individuals willing to
brave the enormous consequences and risk
everything to save the lives of others. The
Washington State Holocaust Education
Resource Center and the American Jewish
Committee Seattle Jewish Film Festival
have both signed on as sponsors.
My So Called Enemy
Rating: Excellent
Genre: Documentary
USA/Israel, Palestinian Territories; Par-
tially subtitled
Sun., June 5, 6:30 p.m. and Mon., June 6,
4:30 p.m. — Harvard Exit
Building Bridges for Peace is a U.S.-based
organization that attempts to undermine
hatred, violence and terrorism by promot-
ing dialogue and understanding by warring
factions. This documentary focuses on this
effort when six Israeli and six Palestinian
high school students, who are brought to a
home in upstate New York to spend a week
engaging in a mediation workshop.
It is amazing to watch these young
women interact honestly and directly
with each other far away from their home
environment. While they could easily be
mistaken for a class or a small group of
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7–9 p.m. — Teen Lounge for Middle
Schoolers
BCMH
7–9 p.m. — University Lecture Series
Temple Beth Am
7–9:15 p.m. — Feeding the Jewish Soul
and the Jewish Body
Congregation Beth Shalom
7:30 p.m. — Parshas Hashavuah
Eastside Torah Center
8–9 p.m. — Deeper Dimensions of
Talmudic Tales
The Seattle Kollel
8:15–9:15 p.m. — Pirkei Avot with the
Commentary of Me’am Lo’ez
Congregation Beth Shalom
Thursdays
12–1 p.m. — Pizza and Parsha Lunch
and Learn
Island Crust Café
6:50 p.m.–7:50 p.m. — Introduction to
Hebrew
Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation
7 p.m. — Junior Teen Center
BCMH
8–10 p.m. — Teen Lounge for High Schoolers
BCMH
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Candlelighting times Steve Reeder focuses on such important Bernstein

Anna Vander Munnik at

Gillian Witus at gwitus@hotmail.com or

May 27............................. 8:35 p.m.
June 3.............................. 8:42 p.m.
June 10............................ 8:48 p.m.
June 17.............................8:51 p.m.
Friday 27 May
4 p.m. — Family Camp at Camp Solomon
works as the Second Symphony (“The Age of
Anxiety”), Chichester Psalms, the Third Symphony
(“Kaddish”), and “Mass.” $40–$60. At the Stroum
Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way,
Mercer Island.
7 p.m. — Wallenberg Lectures – Resistance
in Occupied Norway and Denmark
annavm@jewishinseattle.org or 206-443-5400
or www.jewishinseattle.org
L’Dor V’Dor is the largest annual gathering of Jewish
legal professionals in Washington State. Join the
Cardozo Society for hors d’oeuvres and cocktails in
the Chinese Room at the top of the Smith Tower to
honor Judge Carol Schapira for her dedication to both
seattle.hadassah.org
Lead-up event to Breast Cancer Exposed: Dr. Einat
Carmon of Hadassah Hospital will join local experts
to discuss advances in breast cancer surgery and
treatment. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way,
Mercer Island.

rsvp@nordicmuseum.org or the Jewish and legal communities in Washington. Tuesday 7 June

Schechter 206-789-5707, ext. 10 5–8 p.m. — NYHS Cake, Food and Dessert 10–11:30 a.m. — First Steps-Mini Mensches

Cheryl Puterman at Narrators from the Nordic American Voices Oral Auction

Lisa Morris at lisa@firststepsplaycenter.com

development@campschechter.org or History Project describe their wartime experiences.

Melissa Rivkin at 206-232-5272 or At the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle,

206-447-1967 or www.campschechter.org The lecture is one in a series focused on individual www.nyhs.net 15749 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
This Memorial Day weekend, enjoy a taste of summer survival in the Nordic countries and in Europe during Cake, food and dessert auction. Free. At Northwest 9–10 a.m. — First Steps – Mitzvah Mavens
camp for the entire family. Private cabins by the World War II. Co-sponsored by the Washington State Yeshiva High School, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer

Lisa Morris at lisa@firststepsplaycenter.com

lake, special Shabbat for the camper in everyone.
Limited space, register today. $350/family. At Camp
Solomon Schechter, Olympia.
7–9 p.m. — Thank God it’s Shabbat
“Chappy” Hour and Services
Jewish Historical Society. $5/members, $7/non-
members. At the Nordic Heritage Museum, 3014
NW 67th St., Seattle.
7–8:30 p.m. – Faces of Israel: A Discussion
about Marriage, State, and Religion in the
Island. At the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle,
7 p.m. — SJCC Business Track lecture 15749 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
series: “Start Up and Scale Up: How a Good 7–8 p.m. — Shavuot for Families with Young
Idea Can Become a Real Business” Children

Roni Antebi at RoniA@sjcc.org or

Leah Lemchen at

Orly Feldman at Jewish Homeland 206-388-0832 or www.sjcc.org leah@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075

ofeldman@templebnaitorah.org

joshf@hilleluw.org What’s your good idea? What qualities define or www.bethshalomseattle.org

Nosh and schmooze with other Jews and toast the
start of the weekend. Chappy hour starts at 7 and
service begins at 8. Melt away the stress of the week
with a little Shabbat. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727
NE 4th St., Bellevue.
Tuesday 31 May
How should Jewish tradition influence Israeli law?
Should there be a chief rabbinate? Join Jconnect, Hillel
UW, the Jewish Federation, and Temple B’nai Torah
for “Faces of Israel,” to explore the balance between
state and religion in Israel through film. Director Amy
Beth Oppenheimer will lead the discussion. At Hillel
UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.
successful entrepreneurs? Panelists are Robbie
Cape, CEO and cofounder of Cozi; Sarah Carr, CEO
of Earth Class Mail; and Dan Levitan, cofounder and
partner of Maveron. $10/SJCC members, $15/
general, $5/students. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
For families with children age 8 and younger. Crafts and
story time at 7, unrolling the Torah at 7:30, ice cream
at 7:45. RSVP requested. Free. At Congregation Beth
Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
9p.m.–12 a.m. — Shavuot Tikkun and Bar
Crawl

Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg at 425-603-9677

9–10 a.m. — First Steps – Mitzvah Mavens Sunday 5 June or rabbikinberg@templebnaitorah.org

Lisa Morris at lisa@firststepsplaycenter.com Wednesday 1 June 6–9 p.m. — Amudim Dinner Inspired by the all-night learning opportunities
Four-week mini session for children 29–36 months 7–9 p.m. — Israel Matters Series

Charlene Polyansky at charlene@tdhs-nw. in Tel Aviv on Shavuot, Seattle’s largest Reform

to give parents and caregivers a sense of the eight-

Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg at
week First Steps program that begins in the fall. Small
classes, family-like atmosphere, at a low introductory
price. Classes fill quickly so register today. $89. At
Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle, 15749
org or 206-315-7389 or www.tdhs-nw.org
rabbikinberg@templebnaitorah.org
TBT reads The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew and the
Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Talon. A group
discussion. Program followed by reception. $5
congregations and JConnect are teaming up for a
Temple De Hirsch Sinai’s 20th Amudim dinner. At the Shavuot study at Capitol Hill bars. Start at Bluebird
Four Seasons Hotel, 1st and Union, Seattle. Cafe at 9 p.m., continue at Local Vine at 10 p.m. and
5–9 p.m. — The Seattle Kollel’s Annual Dinner conclude at Barca at 11 p.m. Attend any or all study

Marilyn Leibert at info@seattlekollel.org or sessions. The learning is free, the drinks are not.
NE 4th St., Bellevue. suggested donation. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 206-722-8289 or seattlekollel.org
10–11:30 a.m. — First Steps – Mini Mensches NE 4th St., Bellevue. Kollel’s 20th annual dinner and dedication of the Wednesday 8 June

Lisa Morris at lisa@firststepsplaycenter.com 8–9:15 p.m. — Hebrew High Graduation Raphael Dovid Hyman beis medrash, with guest 12 a.m. — All-Night Shavuot Learning
Four-week mini session for children 18–28 months

Amy Hilzman-Paquette at amyhp@ speaker Lori Palatnik. Reception at 5, dinner at 6.

Julie Greene at julie@bcmhseattle.org or

to give parents and caregivers a sense of the eight-
week First Steps program in the fall. $89. At Jewish
Day School of Metropolitan Seattle, 15749 NE 4th
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7–8:30 p.m. — Leonard Bernstein: The
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Celebrate with the Hebrew High graduates. At the
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Thursday 2 June
Reserve a place and participate in the special tribute
journal and dedication plaque. Journal deadline is June
1. Contact the Kollel for details. $75. At Congregation
Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., Seattle.
Monday 6 June
206-721-0970
First night of Shavuos all-night learning; class
schedule coming soon. Dinner and learning program
at Sephardic Bikur Holim for junior and senior NCSYers
(grades 6–12). Reception at 1:15 a.m. with lots of
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Ben Bridge nears a century of service

In 1912 a personal jeweler opened a family-run store in downtown Seattle. Nearly
100 years later, Ben Bridge is still a family-run business, but one that has grown to
over 70 stores. Today, Ben’s grandsons, Ed and Jon Bridge, manage the company.
They attribute Ben Bridge’s longevity and success to the company’s commitment to
quality and customer service.
“We want our customers to feel confident
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“that’s why Ben Bridge has more Registered
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the wildly popular jewelry line Pandora, and relocating a very successful Ben Bridge
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100 years, the Bridge family knows one thing will never change: Ben Bridge is dedi-
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Cinema Books
Cinema Books is the film bookstore of the Northwest. Collections include biogra-
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FareStart Catering
FareStart Catering provides excellent, competi-
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Fireworks offers the discerning cus-
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friends, it is remarkable to see how similar
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life
Dr. George Winston Bat Mitzvah
Dr. George Winston passed away April 2, 2011, Natalie Rose Nugent
surrounded by family, friends and caregivers at the Kline Natalie will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on May 28,
Galland. Born on the Lower East Side of New York and 2011, at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue.
raised in Brooklyn, Dr. Winston was a graduate of Natalie is the daughter of Douglas Nugent and Misty
University of California, Berkeley in 1942 and was an Ellen Mondress of Kenmore and the sister of Matthew
optometrist in Seattle for more than 50 years. Dr. Winston Nugent. Her grandparents are Honey Mondress of
loved his chosen profession and continued to study the Mercer Island, Howard Mondress of Gig Harbor, Walter
eye well into his 80s. He had several offices around Nugent and Suellen Hoy of Highland Park, Ill., and
Seattle and was still giving comprehensive eye exams Katherine Nugent of Gig Harbor.
until the late 1990s. While at Berkeley he met Marjorie Natalie is a 7th grader at Kenmore Jr. High. She
Fisher of Seattle and they were married in 1943. Soon enjoys soccer, basketball, volleyball, piano and flute. For
after marriage Dr. Winston joined the Navy and served on her mitzvah project, she and a friend collected books for
a hospitalship in the Pacific. George and Marjorie had a homeless teens and fed the homeless in Issaquah.
daughter Laurie, but soon afterward, Marjorie died, and George became a single parent.
In 1972 George married Ruth Lancaster of Vancouver, BC and embarked on an
adventurous partnership of fun, work and travel that lasted nearly 40 years. A staunch
Democrat, George was a delegate to the 1964 and 1968 Democratic conventions. In Bat Mitzvah
retirement George had lunch and a movie with his good friends on Monday, went to Costco Lara R. Hakam
on Tuesdays, played golf on Wednesdays at Glendale, where he was the past president, Lara celebrated her Bat Mitzvah on May 14, 2011,
and partied on the weekends. George is survived by his wife Ruth, daughter Laurie Crocker at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue.
(Garry), granddaughters Jana Sleight (Scott) and Jill Leedom (Bill) and great-grandchildren Lara is the daughter of Suzanne and Joel Hakam
Jacob, Samantha and William. Burial was at Herzl Memorial Park. of Sammamish. Her grandparents are Albert
Goldstein of Newcastle and the late Libby Goldstein,
and the late Helen and Louis Hakam.
Lara is a 7th grader at Pine Lake Middle School.
She enjoys swim team, horseback riding and Girl
Roberta Corets Scouts. For her mitzvah project she is working with
December 26, 1932 — May 9, 2011 Purrfect Pets, a cat adoption and rescue agency, to
Roberta Corets, age 78, of Bellevue, passed away with her family by her side on Monday, sponsor unadoptable cats.
May 9, 2011, after a brief illness. Roberta is survived by her husband of 53 years, Ellis;
daughters Elaine, Eva (Josh Beloff), Marilyn (Adam Mihlstin) and Linda (Bryan Staats); and
grandchildren Reid and Madison Beloff, Brooke Mihlstin, and Max and Taye Staats.
Funeral services were held on May 11, 2011, at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congre- Mary Ross looks on as
gation with burial at Herzl Memorial Park. Catherine Scharhon
Roberta was born December 26, 1932, in the Bronx, N.Y., to Mildred and Louis Tepper. demonstrates how to
“Bobbie,” as she was known to family and long-time friends, was a talented visual artist make biscochos at the
and professionally trained textile designer. She was a graduate of High School of Music & Washington State Jewish
Art (now LaGuardia High School) and Pratt Institute in N.Y. Ellis and Bobbie married on Historical Society’s Taste
Thanksgiving Day, 1957, and moved to Bellevue in 1962. of Sephardic Foods event
Bobbie was a dedicated wife, mother, grandmother and friend who excelled at cooking, May 12 at the Summit at
bowling and solving crossword puzzles. While bagels, lox and cream cheese are Sunday First Hill retirement
brunch standards for many families, Bobbie added her own special touch by making the lox community.
herself. It took many years for at least one of her daughters to realize that not all Jewish
moms make their own lox from scratch. Bobbie participated in league bowling for over 30
years at Sun Villa Lanes, where she bowled a personal best of 274 just six years ago. She
was adept at solving the daily crossword puzzle and maintained an extensive reference
library to expand her vocabulary and general knowledge.
Ellis and Bobbie were proud co-founders of Congregation Ner Tamid. Bobbie provided Emily K. Alhadeff
the artwork for all of the Ner Tamid publications — from the flame logo on the monthly
newsletter to event programs and invitations. She was also an active volunteer for
Herzl-Ner Tamid Sisterhood, Women’s American ORT, Hadassah and most recently, City of
Hope. How do I submit a Lifecycle 2-for-1
In 1996, Bobbie was the recipient of the Esther Eggleston Outstanding Service Award announcement?
from Women’s American ORT. Her artistic abilities were apparent in all of her endeavors,
Send lifecycle notices to: JTNews/Lifecycles,
“ You’re Amazing”
especially ORT’s annual holiday gift-wrapping fundraisers, where she wrapped gifts with
flare, managed the volunteer schedule, and always filled in when help was needed. In the
2041 Third Ave., Seattle, WA 98121 Cards
E-mail to: lifecycles@jtnews.net
days before computer-publishing software, Bobbie spent countless hours at the kitchen
Phone 206-441-4553 for assistance. When you let JFS “Tribute Cards”
table with her friend Phyllis Cohen z”l, and a trusty typewriter, paper and glue sticks,
Submissions for the June 10, 2011 issue
assembling ORT’s monthly bulletin. do the talking, you send your best
are due by May 31.
Bobbie was a humble and unassuming artist whose intricate drawings exemplified great wishes and say you care about
Download forms or submit online at
technique and precision. Her artistic talent and lovely handwriting graced invitations for
www.jtnews.net/index.php?/lifecycle funding vital JFS programs here at
family simchas and collaborative projects with Ellis, yet Bobbie’s proudest accomplish-
Please submit images in jpg format, home. Call Irene at (206) 861-3150
ments were her beloved children and grandchildren. Her legacy is her family with all of her or, on the web, click on “Donations”
400 KB or larger. Thank you!
descendants living in close proximity and committed to each other daily — a testament to at www.jfsseattle.org. Use Visa or
her hard work raising a family.
MasterCard. It’s the most gratifying
The family thanks the compassionate and dedicated team at Overlake Hospital Critical
2-for-1 in town.
Care Unit.
Donations in Roberta’s memory may be made to City of Hope, Seattle Chapter, 1309
114th Ave. SE, Ste 201, Bellevue, WA 98004, or Overlake Hospital Foundation, Critical
Care, 1035 116th Ave. NE, Bellevue, WA 98004.
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Thank We cannot thank our family, friends and neighbors enough for the
tremendous outpouring of support expressed at the May 9th

You!
Community of Caring Luncheon. Over 1,000 of you donated $811,427
to provide crucial assistance to JFS clients here at home. By doing so,
you are helping ensure that JFS will, as we have since 1892, assist those
in our local community who have the greatest needs. After all, family
matters…always has, always will.
Thank you for being a community that cares.
SPONSORS
$10,000

All of us supporting you.

U.S. Bank is proud to have financed the expansion
of the Jewish Family Service Campus.
At U.S. Bank, we are committed to making the communities in which
we work and live a better place. Our commitment means supporting the programs
SPONSORS

and organizations that enrich the quality of life for our neighbors.
Because when our community succeeds, everyone wins.
$5,000

Congratulations to Jewish Family Service on their new facility

usbank.com
Member FDIC
SPONSORS
$3,000

• The Commerce Bank of Washington • Simon Family Charitable Trust and NOVA Foundation
• Harrison Berkman & Claypool PLLC • Swedish Health Services
• JP Morgan Chase & Co. • Wells Fargo Bank

• Anonymous • International Value Advisors, LLC • Paragon Investment Management, Inc.

SPONSORS

• Bernstein Global Wealth Management • Lytle Enterprises and The Bellettini • PENN Capital Management
$1,500

• BlackRock, Inc. • Majestic Bay Theatres & • Seattle Children’s Hospital

• Congress Asset Management the Alhadeff Family • Sprague Israel Giles, Inc.
• Deloitte & Touche • Moss Adams LLP • United Insurance Brokers, Inc.
• glassybaby • NorthRoad Capital Management • United Way of King County
• Glazer’s Camera • Nosh Away • Wellspring Group PS, CPAs

JFS services and programs are made

possible through generous community
support of the Family Matters Campaign.

Event Chair: Donna Benaroya www.jfsseattle.org I (206) 461-3240