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 An Israeli Israeli natio national nal sand sandwich, wich, comi coming ng tto o a plate plate nea nearr yo you u MICHAEL NATKIN JTNews Columnist Sabich was a popular Shabbat ood or Iraqi Jews, and when they immigrated to Israel and set up a community in Ramat Gan, the sandwich came with them. It has since gained widespread popularity.

Tere is something about the creaminess o the egg and the ried goodness o the eggplant that work really well together, and then the gar- Jewish nishes o Israeli salad (toma- Veggie toes, cucumbers with a bit o lemon juice), hummus, onions, pickles, parsley, and amba (pickled mango) give your mouth the ull workout o sweet, spicy, sour, herbacious, smooth and crispy.

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Vegetarian; vegan if you omit the egg. Gluten-free if you omit the pita and serve as a salad. and 2 Roma tomatoes, finely diced 1/2 English cucumber, finely diced Juice of 1 lemon 1-2 large eggplants, peeled and sliced 1/4" or so thick  Vegetable oil for frying Kosher salt 4 hardboiled eggs, peeled and sliced

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Hummus (store bought or your own) Prepared tahini (store bought or your own) 1/2 bunch flat leaf parsley leaves 1/2 small white onion, minced 1/2 cup pickles, cut into small slices or cubes  Amba or or hot sauce of you yourr choice choice 4 pieces pita bread



Make a simple salad with the tomatoes, cucumber, and lemon juice, with salt to taste. Fry the eggplant in batches until thoroughly tender and browned; drain on paper towels and sprinkle with salt. While the eggplant is frying, put the eggs, tahini, parsley, onion, pickle, and amba in bowls. Toast or grill the pita bread. Let everyone build a sandwich with as much or as little of each ingredient as they please.

Local food writer and chef Michael Natkin is the author of the recently released cookbook, “Herbivoracious, A Flavor Revolution with 150 Vibrant and Original Vegetarian Recipes,” based on his food blog, herbivoracious.com.

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 THE RABBI’S TURN

Spring, rebirth: Life goes on RABBI DANIEL A. SEPTIMUS Temple De Hirsch Sinai I have a conession to make. It has been several months since I consistently  visi ted Sewa rd Park in the

morning, which was a part o my daily routine rom the  very first moment we arrived in Seattle. he temptations were there to distract me: Te winter was miserable; I wanted to spend more time with my amily in the morning; I wanted to get just a ew more minutes o sleep. Just as the weather gets more and more intolerable, as we eagerly anticipate spring to reveal itsel, nature is a reminder that things do come back to lie, despite the length and harshness o winter. It was a walk through Seward Park that  jogged my memory. Tough I walked in  very cold weather, which necessitated that I bundle up in several layers and put o n my gloves, the trees and plants are blooming with beautiul colors, reminding me that no matter how harsh winter can be in Seattle, the cycle o lie continues. Te reemergence o nature aer several months o dormancy serves as an example o how lie goes on. Tough times are tough in our lives — we have worries about the continued economic crisis and other complexities o the world — we, as human beings, through our efforts, can reemerge. Or, as we popularly say, “lie goes on.” While it seems we have a “Groundhog Day” experience in S eattle, we emerge enlightened rom season to season. Like a tree, we shed our leaves or a ew bran ches, but the roots grow only stronger and trunks only thicker. In lie our wisdom

JUDAISM MEANS ADVOCATING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

While Jews for Judaism (“Missionary Impossible,” March 22) staff present themselves in

strengthens as we age. From a Jewish perspective, our understanding o orah only becomes more complex and

such a straight manner as to make their outreach success to young Jews (who are at highest

sophisticated. We learn rom our mistakes and adapt to old and new circumstances. In times such as these, when our problems seem insurmountable, a positive comes rom a challenge. We grow in our wisdom, and make tough choices or the uture. Te roots, the orah and other traditional texts, remain the same. But the commentary and perspectives we add serve to augment what has been handed down to us rom our ancestors. Our challenge is to remain positive and optimistic that things will get better. It requires a certain degree o aith, because we ultimately take the initiative. Like the cold and darkness o winter, there is seemingly little light to guide us. But just as God continues to give us the seasons to remind us o the cycle o lie, God is with us throughout the good and bad times as well. God provides the light or us; we have to allow it to guide us through dark and cold times. And we have to be thankul or it in good times as well, or this light does not depend on the seasons. God’s light, in other words, transcends the natural cycle o the earth and universe, and thereore, is there to lead us at every moment. May God bless us with light in this season o rebirth. And may God’s light grant us the strength we need to make it through any season, both physical and emotional.

In the last year paid films placed by Jews for Judaism on YouTube have offered an important countermeasure to multitudes of Jews for Jesus and Aroodawakening ads placed on

risk for victimization by conversion campaigners) unlikely, they do offer an important if symbolic counter to legions of Jews for Jesus and numerous Christian church activists who spend tens of millions of dollars and untold work and volunteer hours annually targeting young MOTs.

YouTube’s pages where films of Jewish content, especially Shoah subject matter, are viewed. Using still pictures, Aroodawakening promotes the ancient canard that Jews and Romans caused Jesus’ crucifixion, and that Jews today are guilty of this crime. But this was great! I burst out laughing on reading that rabbi Skobac “spent his first five years at Northwestern University shunning Judaism and advocating for human rights, even going on a three-week hunger strike.” All power to the people, Rav Skobac! By advocating for human rights, the rabbi engaged in a very basic core Jewish value. For him to look back and say that he was “shunning Judaism,” inferred for not observing kashrut, Shabbat or putting on tefillin, is goofy. Each of the main groups of American Jews today has no shortage of human rights activism to choose from. We are landsmen across the denominational divide, from Renewal to Orthodox; the younger Jews who attend independent minyanim; and Jews who synagogue hop for services; and secular Jews. To not engage in supporting basic human rights needs is antithetical to Jewishness. Amidst our new cars, high-tech communication tools, social networking and vacations, there’s need: Poverty, hunger, insufficient health care, education, literacy, clothing, shelter, homelessness, drug addiction, alcoholism, youth at high risk, disabled and elderly in need, millions in prison, and hundreds of thousands of survivors of shootings. Be a real Torah Jew! Help heal the world (tikkun olam) by volunteering (tzedakah)! If not now, when? Akiva Kenny Segan Seattle

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WASHINGON (JA) — he day ater the Boston Marathon bombing, President Obama called it an “act o terrorism.” What kind o terrorism, no one was ready to say — a caution that derives rom years o wrongul speculation that on occasion has ruined innocent lives. Hours aer the attack Monday that killed three and injured scores, Obama in a television address rerained rom using the word “terrorism.” He did use it uesday, but wrapped it deep in caveats. “Given what we now know about what took place, the FBI is investigating it as an act o terrorism,” Obama said in a White House briefing. “Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians it is an act o terror. What we don’t yet know, however, is who carried out this attack or why; whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organization, oreign or domes-

tic; or was it the act o a malevolent indi vidual. Tat’s what we don’t yet know.” Jewish groups and officials who track such incidents took the same tack, declining to engage in conjecture given the limited inormation about the attack. “We know that unortunately 30 percent o terrorist attacks had Jewish institutions as secondary targets,” said Paul Goldenberg, the director o the Secure Community Network, the security arm o the national Jewish community, on Monday. “However, I must stress that there is absolutely nothing here that indicates any connection to an attack on the Jewish community. But based on history, we are standing vigilant or at least the next 48 hours.” Over the last year, evidence has emerged that Hezbollah and others acting

“The person’s primary function is to run the agency that they get paid for, but they cannot have a blind eye to what’s happening i n the total community, because what happens to one affects the other.”

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Humanistic rabbi to lead Shabbaton in Seattle Rabbi Binyamin Biber, one o only a dozen Humanistic rabbis in the U.S., will lead a Shabbaton with the Secular Jewish Circle this weekend. At a secular Shabbat service Friday night at 6:30, Biber will speak on “Spirituality: Deepening the Experience o Our Jewishness.” On Saturday night at 7:30, he’ll address “Pursuing Justice: Secular Human-

Shabbaton with Nigel Savage Herzl-Ner amid Conservative Congregation welcomes scholar-in-residence Nigel Savage, ounder o Jewish environmental organization Hazon, to lead a Shabbaton on “Jews, Food and Contemporary Lie.” Savage will lead multiple discussions and study sessions, including “Te Jewish Omnivore’s Dilemma” on Friday night, “Why Be Jewish i I

ist Approaches to ikkun Olam.” On Sunday at 10 a.m., he will present on “Humanistic Jewish Parenting: Identity and Development in a Multicultural Society.” In the Wallingord, Seattle area. Call Judi at 206-356-1814 or more inormation and the location.

Can Just be a Good Person?” on Saturday aernoon, and “Eco Judaism and the Art o Bicycle Riding” Sunday morning, ollowed by an Earth Day bike ride. For more inormation and to register, visit www.h-nt.org/our-congregation/learning/SIR.

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on behal o Iran have stepped up plans to attack Jewish and Israeli targets, partially in response to increased pressure on Iran over its suspected nuclear weapons program. Tere has also been evidence since Obama’s 2008 election o intensified domestic violence by anti-government and white supremacist groups. he Anti-Deamation League in an April 8 security bulletin noted that the week o April 20 — Hitler’s birthday — is a period o heightened alert due to the history o right-wing violence that coincides with it. Te violence includes the 1993 storming o the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, exas, and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, both on April 19.

“As a consequence o these anniversaries and the symbolism and significance o these dates, anti-government extremist groups, such as militia groups, may target April 19,” the ADL said. “Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups have a history o staging events on or close to April 20.” Te low-tech nature o the device used in Boston — a “pressure cooker” that relays shrapnel upon explosion — suggests the attacker was not part o a sophisticated network, said David Schanzer, a terrorism expert at Duke University. “Te only thing we do know is the amount o damage and destruction and power these bombs have,” Schanzer said. “It was a successul bomb but it didn’t bring the buildings down. Tat tells you something about the bomber and the

types o materials used. I a group was determined and capable o planting a bomb in this particular spot, it would want to use the most sophisticated bomb they were capable o creating.” Schanzer was careul to qualiy even that insight, saying there were some scenarios in which a sophisticated group might consider using a crude device. Such caution derives rom multiple speculations over the years that ultimately have embarrassed their purveyors and in some cases had dire consequences. Some experts at first blamed the bombing o the Oklahoma City ederal building on Muslim extremists, but anti-government extremists were ound to be the culprits. Law enorcement authorities leaked the name o Richard Jewell, a private secu-

rity guard, as a person o interest ollowing the 1996 bombing attack at the Atlanta Olympics. Tough Jewell ultimately was  vindicated, he spent the rest o his lie trying to regain a semblance o normalcy. Jewell died in 2007 at 44. Matthew Levitt, a ormer FBI analyst who now directs the Washington Institute or Near East Policy’s counterterrorism project, said he expected more inormation would soon become available. Agents were scouring the bombing area or DNA and reviewing the wealth o video likely collected by hundreds o marathon watchers. “When something does go boom, there’s no one better than the FBI at this,” Levitt said. “Tere’s a tremendous number o people working on this all over the world.”

WHO HELPED HER FINISH A MARATHON?   A Technion alumnus did. In May 2012, paraplegic Claire Lomas finished the London Marathon in 14 days using ReWalk, a light weight, computerassisted exoskeleton developed by Technion alumnus Dr. Amit Goffer, who is paralyzed from the chest down. Says Goffer of his invention,

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“Everything was based on the basic education that I received at the Technion, which is priceless.” And he is developing ReWalk further, so more people can use it.

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE Changing of the guard

BY RITA KATZ

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The second in a series about our community’s leadership turnover looks into the hiring process for new executives, and what it will take for them to succeed.

 A beyzer tsung is erger fun a shlekhter hant. New up north

An angry tongue is worse than an evil hand.

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Seattle’s North End has the fastest growing Jewish community, and, perhaps, the most innovative one, too.

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Music mogul Charles Fox, of “Killing Me Softly” and “Happy Days” fame, brings his story to the piano at the JCC’s Jewish Touch lecture.

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During this pilgrimage season between Passover and Shavuot, a lifelong learner takes a Chaucerian  journey through through Pirke Avot.

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Ruth Schocken has seen a lot during her century of life, from the Nazi invasion of her hometown to the blessing of eight great-grandchildren.

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From the Jewish ranscript, April 17, 1992. Members o Seattle’s Sephardic community marched rom Congregation Ezra Bessaroth to Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation to commemorate the 500th anniversary o the edict ordering the Jewish expulsion rom Spain on March 31, 1492. Photo by Judy Lash Balint.



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Plan for Rain  by Deborah Manber Kupfer

Around these parts, it’s always smart to make your plans as if rain will intrude. This is not a new idea. In 1 Kings 18, King Ahab hears the prophet Elijah tell him, “Eat and drink, for there is the sound of rain.” Seven times, Ahab saw no rain in the sky, so seven times he doubted its arrival. Sure enough, after the seventh time, a mighty downpour rolled on through. In this puzzle, expect that seven times, rain is coming. ACROSS 1 Cartoonist Groening 5 Constitutional monarchy headed by 9 13 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 25 26 28 30 31 32 36 37 39 41 43 44 45 47 51 52 53 54 58 59 60 63 64

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On the lookout for new leadership JOEL MAGALNICK Editor, JTNews Editor’s Note: This is part two in a series about the turnover in the Seattle Jewish community’s leadership. With the turnover o so many toplevel Jewish proessionals in our com-

nearly unanimous attributes: “Tinking and acting strategically, communicating effectively, inspiring others in building commitment, and leading and managing change,” Boehler said.

munity, what should agencies be looking or in their new leadership? Josh Gortler, who spent 37 years as CEO o the Caroline Kline Galland and Associates nursing and senior-care acilities, has a unique insight into this Jewish community. “It is not a job, it is a commitment,” Gortler told JNews. “Te person’s primary unction is to run the agency that they get paid or, but they cannot have a blind eye to what’s happening in the total community, because what happens to one affects the other.” Tree major organizations, the Jewish Federation o Greater Seattle, Jewish Family Service o Greater Seattle and the Jewish Day School o Metropolitan Seattle hope to announce new leaders in the coming months. As was reported in the April 5 issue o JNews, a hal dozen synagogues are seeking new rabbis or executive directors as well. A Jewish proessional, Gortler noted, “is representing not only their own institution, but they’re representing the entire Jewish community. We’re all part o the kehilla.” And being part o the kehilla, the community, Gortler said, means support o everyone’s religious observance — or lack thereo — and other organizations within the community. “Your institution has to be number uno, but you cannot move your eye rom the rest o the community,” he said. Judy Neuman, CEO o the Stroum Jewish Community Center, echoed many o Gortler’s sentiments.

Given the Federation’s flagging or flat community campaigns over the past several years, excelling at all o these attributes and growing the campaign could be a tall order, but Boehler thinks the right candidate is out there. “Te bent o this search is not just to find someone who can manage and run the Federation,” she said. “It’s to lead the Federation and the community, and to be someso meone who communicates incredibly well back and orth, in and out, and every direction what the value o having a Jewish Federation in a community like ours can bring.” he new CEO will replace Richard Fruchter, who stepped down rom the position in July 2012 aer six years in the position. Te Federation’s chie operating officer, Nancy Greer, has held the position o interim CEO while the search has been underway. Te search has narrowed to our candidates, Boehler said, with each either planning to visit Seattle or having already visited to meet with the ull search committee. “I all goes well, we’ll narrow it to a smaller field and we’ll bring them again in May,” Boehler said, with the hopes o announcing a new CEO by mid-June and a start date as close as possible to July 1. Jewish Family Service has big shoes to fill when its CEO o 29 years, Ken Weinberg, retires rom the position in June. Right now, the search, which began in October, has narrowed rom 10 inter viewed to two. JFS hopes to announce its final candidate by the end o this month.

“I hope that they’re creative thinkers [and] I hope that they would put a high premium on true, community collaboration,” she said, “both in terms o strategically thinking about the community more holistically and working together to serve those needs.” Neuman pointed to her own experience o having worked in the corporate world or many years, and as a lay leader in the Jewish community, which gave her good insights into both. She said she hoped that local agencies might take a look at someone with similar experience. “Tat gave me a big running start, and it also helped me think communally and not only just the JCC,” she said. In its search or a new chie executive, representatives rom the Jewish Federa-

“I’m very excited about the two candidates,” said Emily Alhadeff, JFS’s board president. “Tey’re both great and both different rom each other.” Tey are also very different rom their would-be predecessor. “We’re not even trying to find another Ken,” Alhadeff said, “because that person does not exist.” Weinberg was instrumental in building up an agency that, when he came on as a geriatric social worker in 1975, had 15 employees and a budget o approximately $500,000. oday, close to 200 people work or JFS, with a budget approaching $9 million and a much wider array o programs or a much larger population in need o emergency or social services. “One o Ken’s strongest assets is he

tion o Greater Seattle conducted close to 100 interviews — not o candidates, but o “community members, donors, non-donors, partners, rabbis, etcetera, etcetera,” said Robin Boehler, who with Andrew Cohen co-chairs the Federation’s CEO search committee.

really empowers the people who work with him,” Alhadeff said. “Every single staff person in that building, or who works or JFS, truly believes in the mission, and I think that’s what also makes JFS so strong.”

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North Seattle blooms with new Jewish groups DIANA BREMENT JTNews Columnist In 2000, a Jewish Federation o Greater Seattle demographic study showed Seattle’s northeast quadrant as the state’s astest growing Jewish community. Recent U.S. Census data suggests it still is. Add to this a trend o young adults turning away rom organized religion, and you have

tive grant given to schools driving revenue through innovation. As a non-denominational, ree or ee-or-service organization with no membership, “our hope is to provide a casual and comortable entry point into the organized Jewish community in

songs. “We saw that it was sparking something,” she said. Mercaz now hosts one Friday night ser vice and meal and one Saturday evening meal each month, plus classes. Women and men sit and sing together at the inclusive gatherings, but a mechitza (divider) is

a recipe or three new Jewish programs gaining ootholds in that neighborhood. Nicknamed Te Hub @ SJCS when the idea germinated two years ago, Jewish Junction launched in January with the appointment o manager Niva Gurewitsch. A Seattle Jewish Community School initiative, it partners with PJ Library, the Stroum Jewish Community Center, and the Seattle Jewish Cooperative Playschool. Jewish Junction, explains Gurewitsch, was “created in response to a need or young amilies living in Seattle’s metropolitan core and northern suburbs to more easily access community programming and activities.” It transorms SJCS into a multi-use communal hub where participants “meet and connect with other amilies interested in expanding their Jewish community.” he popularity o programs held during Te Hub’s pilot year, like those mentioned above and Community o Mindul Parents lectures, made the need or something like Jewish Junction clear. “Over 50 percent o the participants… weren’t affiliated with the school,” said Gurewitsch. At the beginning o last year, SJCS won a Partnership or Excellence in Jewish Education 2011 Challenge Award or $125,000 or the initiative, a competi-

ways that support and encourage sustained participation,” Gurewitsch added. Tey’re reaching out through Facebook (www.acebook.com/JewishJunction) and witter (@JewishJunction), with a website launching soon. While Gurewitsch is housed at SJCS, the Junction unctions independently o the school and is unded by grants rom the Jewish Federation o Greater Seattle, local amily oundations, and private donors. “Jewish Junction provides a secular opportunity or engagement o amilies,” said Amy Hilzman-Paquette, director o community engagement at the Federation, and the “opportunity to connect amilies” with the organized community. Renee Cohen Goodwin, Chie Operating Officer o the SJCC, calls programs cosponsored with Jewish Junction a “mobile SJCC,” and wrote in an email that programs that happen away rom their Mercer Island or North Seattle campuses, like summer camp, the preschool co-op, the young amilies’ Passover seder, and fitness classes, “are important steps in providing the wider community with more avenues to build connections with one another.” Te Junction does not compete with synagogues or day schools, Gurewitsch stresses, but is a “matchmaker” between

erected or services. Bellingham native and University o Washington grad Rabbi Roseneld was ordained by Yeshivat Chovevei orah in New York, and is a chaplain at Swedish Medical Center. Rachel Roseneld has a master’s in education and teaches parttime at Herzl-Ner amid Conservative Congregation and Congregation Beth Shalom. Tey have three children, ages 7, 5 and 2. “We’re trying to reach whoever wants to come,” and make an effort to avoid schedule conflicts with neighborhood synagogues, Rachel said. “We’re not trying to replace [the synagogue],” but rather add a Modern Orthodox outlook not generally ound in Seattle. For young adults without children, Selah Seattle has taken a similar approach, says ounder Renna Khuner-Haber. It also doesn’t compete with synagogues, but creates a place or those who don’t find a peer

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amilies and organizations and resources, letting amilies “discover how, where, and with whom they want to ‘do Jewish.’” Attractingg participants rom young adults Attractin with and without children to older adults, Mercaz Seattle (www.mercazseattle.org) is a learning and gathering center ounded and run by Rabbi Avi and Rachel Roseneld in their North Seattle home. Rachel describes Mercaz as “open Orthodox,” borrowing an idea started by Rabbi Avi Weiss in New York. “My husband and I have always been interested in different models or Jewish engagement,” she said. Mercaz began as a monthly melaveh malka (traditional meal aer the end o Shabbat) to which 12 to 40 people would come or an evening o music, stories, and

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GIGI YELLEN-KOHN JTNews Correspondent “I elt he’d ound my letters, and read each one out loud…” You know why you love that song, “Killing Me Sotly.” It’s not just the unabashedly conessional lyrics. It’s that heart-tugging tune that reached up into your lie when you didn’t even know you

he continued. “My ather was a hardworking window cleaner. But he le home and came home every day in a suit and a tie, like he was ready to go to synagogue.” In 1959, Charles Fox was an 18-yearold musically talented kid rom the Bronx, already experienced making Latin music

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needed it, and hasn’t le you since. Charles Fox composed that tune, and hundreds more that have defined decades o American lie on V and radio, in the movies, on stage and in the concert hall. Te theme songs or “Happy Days,” “Laverne and Shirley,” “Te Love Boat,” the anare or ABC’s “Wide World o Sports,” and memorable movie-to-pop-chart hits including “I Got a Name” have earned him Emmy and Grammy awards and a lietime o creative satisaction, not to mention a spot in the Songwriters’ Hall o Fame. Who wrote the music in “Barbarella”? In “Goodbye Columbus”? Who wrote everything but the title song in “Nine to Five”? Charles Fox. On Sunday, April 28, Fox will present a unique at-the-piano visit about his lie and his work at the Stroum Jewish Community Center as part o its Jewish ouch lecture series. “I’m happy to come to Seattle to sing my music,” he said via cellphone rom the car as Joan, his wie o 50 years, drove them down the coast rom L.A. to visit grandchildren. He reflects on what matters: “Our three children all saw me working day and night, and my wie Joan providing support or this career, so they grew up with this great work ethic,” he said. Te couple has a daughter, an attorney, and two sons, one a businessman, the other a movie writer. “I know where I got that work ethic,”

in the Catskills, when he was welcomed into the 20th century’s preeminent composers’ training studio, that o the legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Back home, his Jewish mother lovingly saved all his sweet letters, and Fox, one o the nicest, most humble guys show business has ever seen, published many o these in his 2010 memoir, “Killing Me Soly: My Lie in Music.” “I was just going to call it ‘A Composer’s Journey,’” he conesses, “but some riends made me reconsider.” Good move, obviously, rom a publicity point o view. But not just that. “Te title really has two meanings,” said Fox — the allusion to the blockbuster hit song, and the sense that, although lie does have to end eventually, his lie’s journey is as so as that song. “I eel so privileged,” said the man who has spent his career among the most competitive talents in the world. Educated in the best classical tradition, Fox creates work that transcends popular music and media: He composes and conducts or stages and concert halls around the world. Like Stravinsky and Copland, who also studied with Boulanger, he has created ballets: First or San Francisco Ballet, and then or its offshoot, Smuin Ballet, or which he is working on something new. Te Polish government commissioned Fox to compose and conduct the 2010 premier o “Fantaisie, Hommage à Chopin,”

Pope John Paul’s message o atonement to the Jewish People (the one he tucked into the Western Wall in Jerusalem). “It was a very significant thing,” Fox said, to conduct the world premier at the Warsaw Opera House with the Poland National Opera Company Chorus and Orchestra. Right now, Fox is eagerly anticipating a return to Poland. He’s been commissioned to compose a piece or the 2014 opening o the new Museum o the History o Polish Jews in Warsaw. Earlier this month, Joan and Charles Fox celebrated with a synagogue in Stamord, Conn., where a orah rom his ather’s home synagogue in Poland has come to stay. “Every Jew rom that town perished,” Fox said, grateul that his a ther made it out beore the worst. “One man in the town preserved that orah wrapped in a horse blanket.” Fox has received a lietime achievement award rom the Society o Composers and Lyricists. He chairs the music branch o the Academy o Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He’s been honored by the Polish Ministry o Culture or contributions to the arts and rebuilding PolishJewish relations. “I have no less an excitement now than I did when I was I starting out,” Fox said. “Te work makes me eel just as passionate and young.”

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“It’s still a small group,” but it is outgrowing their house. Te whole amily enjoys acting, and their flexible schedule allows or weekday aernoon rehearsals. Jasmine appeared recently in “Te Music Man” at the 5th Avenue Teater (see the MO column

Harrick   the moment it was planted in her head. “It was such an unusual thing…I was always explaining [it],” says Deb, adding there is no one way to homeMember of DEB HARRICK  school. Homeschoolers are The Seattle Jewish Homeschoolers’ Hanukkah party featured local musical group the like Jews, she jokes, with three the Tribe Sababas, who are hiding in the back row. opinions or two people. Deb and Tod Harrick ’’ss yearned or a Jewish component to eduShe has been actively involved or eight kids, Jasmine, 9, and Eliana, 7, have never cation. She also currently teaches music at years. “It’s the only secular game in town,” attended a conventional school. When Kadima’s Sunday school. explains the North Seattle native, an Jasmine was a baby, they joined a cooperBy chance, the amily went to a Conalumna o Hale High School and the Uniative preschool at North Seattle Commugregation Beth Shalom event where she  versity o Washington. Most homeschoolnity College. Deb was getting a teaching learned o another liberal Jewish homeers belong to aith-based communities. certificate (which is not the case or all schooling amily. A different issue arose around the kids’ homeschooling parents). Deb says she was “in heaven,” and she ormal Jewish education. “It elt really “I loved being a mom [and] being with quickly started the Seattle Jewish Homehard to make the homeschooling choice,” the kids so much” that od suggested it, schoolers group, which includes a number especially with the Seattle Jewish Commushe says. “I never even thought about it o SHG amilies, several o whom had not nity School in the neighborhood. or knew about it.” But it made sense. “We been actively Jewish beore. “I’m leaving community behind,” Deb had always done things a little bit differTe Harricks have hosted a number remembers eeling. “It was sort o bitterent anyway.” o holiday-related events, including a sweet.” She discovered Seattle Homeschool homeschool seder and a Hanukkah party. Having worked or Jewish ederations, Group (SHG) with a couple hundred amUnited Jewish Appeal and active in JudaDeb estimates there are 35 to 40 amilies ilies, an active listserve, regular meetings, ism since her teen years in BBYO, Deb involved. wenty came to the last event. and classes or kids at a community center.

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Back to life: New regenerative therapy brings hope JANIS SIEGEL JTNews Columnist In 2010, Rabbi Raael Shmuelevitz, head o the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem and a three-decade career educator, could hardly speak, breathe, or walk due to the deadly effects o his advanced stage

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, commonly known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Tis neurodegenerative neurodegenerati ve disease eventually claims the lie o its victims. To Your Resigned to lie in a wheelHealth chair as his body continued to deteriorate, Shmuelevitz reportedly told Israel’s Channel 2 News in July 2012 the progression o his disease had stopped and that he could walk, speak, and teach again just one month aer taking part in the world’s first clinical trial, at Hadassah

Medical Center in Jerusalem, to test the stem-cell therapy drug NurOwn. De ve lope d by Br ainStorm Cell Terapeutics, an Israeli biomedical company, NurOwn is the company’s

is the principal investigator or the clinical trial. “Te early clinical ollow-up o the patients treated with the stem cells shows indications o beneficial clinical effects, such as an improvement in breathing and swallowing ability, as well as in muscular

into early-stage ALS patients or into the spinal cords o the more advanced-stage patients. Using a patient’s stem cells ensures the body will accept the cells and it also guards against possible inection rom another person’s stem cells.

“proprietary, first-o-its-kind technology.” According to researchers, in the first phase o the trial several o the 24 patients had “considerable improvement.” Four out o six subjects had signiicant improvement, according to Hadassah Hospital, and the progression o the disease stopped in two o the others. “Tese results are extremely encouraging,” said Dimitrios Karussis, head o the department o neurology at the Hadassah Medical Center, in a statement. Karussis

power,” he said. Researchers believe ALS suerers develop symptoms when their cells simply die off. o intervene in that process, doctors took stem cells rom the subject’s bone marrow and treated them with the NurOwn stem-cell technology, which accelerated the production o BDNF and GDNF, brain-cell derived and glial-cell derived proteins that support the survival and emergence o dopamine-like neurons. hen, researchers duplicated these stem cells, added growth hormones to them, and injected them intramuscularly

“Preliminary results demonstrate that the stem cells have the potential not only to stop deterioration, but perhaps even cure ALS,” BrainStorm’s president, Chaim Lebovits, told Reuters. “Te coming phases in the trial will have to prove this,” added Lebovits, “but these results also reaffirm our belie that we have an enormous potential o being successul with less severe indications such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s.”

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In this season of learning GIGI YELLEN-KOHN JTNews Correspondent As a college English major, I learned the prologue to “Te Canterbury ales.” Chaucer’s 14th-century language invokes the onset o springtime — April with “his showers sweet” — as an inspiration or pilgrimages. Nowadays, catching up on what I

she brings into these springtime spiritual explorations. “Psychological, Hassidic, academic, even Christian scholars.” Pirke Avot has landed so deeply in our everyday wisdom that its origins around the turn o the Common Era — ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE — have become almost

collection o memorable sayings by men who presumably were athers, arranged in chapters (“Perakim”). But the title engages us in classic Jewish word play. Does “avot” here really mean “athers”? Sayings o great rabbis? Actually, as we were reminded in the first class this year,

didn’t learn in college, I head out on my own religious journey this season. Unlike Chaucer’s characters’ travels, my pilgrimage takes me no arther rom home than a Shabbat aernoon seat in my nearby synagogue and the back pages o my siddur. Tis is the season when Jews traditionally learn Pirke Avot. What is Pirke Avot? And why is Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JNews columnist and Seattle Hebrew Academy head o school, teaching it every Shabbat aernoon? “I loved my ather’s books,” she says, calling her resources “riends that I take out every year.” Te books and the love o teaching are now an inheritance rom her ather, the late, learned Rabbi Baruch Poupko, who in his last years enjoyed sitting in and watching his daughter’s Shabbat aernoon classes. “Tere’s such a wealth o strong opinions,” she says o the many commentators

irrelevant: “Who is wise? One who learns rom every person…. Who is rich? One who is happy with what he has” (4:1). “I I am not or mysel, who will be or me? I I am only or mysel, what am I? And i not now, when?” (1:14) “Find yoursel a teacher. Make yoursel a riend. Judge everyone avorably” (1:6). “Tere are our character types: ‘mine is mine and yours is yours,’ an average character…; ‘mine is yours and yours is mine,’ an unlearned person; ‘mine is yours and yours is yours,’ a very pious person; ‘yours is mine and mine is mine,’ a wicked person” (5:13). Pirke Avot is oen translated as “Ethics o the Fathers,” or “Chapters o the Fathers,” but that title turns out to be misleading. In act, a dozen years ago, a collection o Jewish-mother wisdoms called “Pirke Imahot” mirrored the name, but missed the history. Pirke Avot is indeed a

the word “avot” usually means just the oreathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. So the teachers whose sayings have been collected in this classic book — this part o the Mishna — aren’t “avot”? In act, maybe the title doesn’t reer to people at all. “Av” (plural “avot”) oen means the essence, the undamental, the original. So these chapters o sayings by teachers rom a oundational time in Jewish history are actually “chapters o undamentals” — basically, the ethical bases or a good lie, as passed down rom teacher to teacher, collected in the critical years o Jewish development that surrounded the 70 CE destruction o the Jewish emple in Jerusalem. Challenged rom within by the nascent

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My own ather’s remembered voice comes alive as I write this. Dave Yellen was a kid in 1920s Beaumont, exas, one o five sons o a learned immigrant ather, the town’s shochet, known as “the Reverend L.M. Yellen.” What I know about our amily’s history o learning at this season is that the little boy who became my dad so badly wanted to go play baseball on springtime Saturday aernoons that he taught himsel how to start crying. His so-hearted ather ell or it, and, I’m glad to report, it did his son’s Jewish identity no harm. But the story speaks to the spirit o the season. Te weather improves, the days grow longer. And it is that very spirit that placed the study o Pirke Avot into Sabbath aernoons all over the Jewish world. Perhaps, considering some o the tales o Chaucer’s pilgrims, a lot more than a kid’s baseball game was at stake. As it says in this intro rom the Lehmann-Prins Pirke Avoth, part o Rivy Kletenik’s treasured collection:

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paring our kids or the uture.” Tat doesn’t appear to be a barrier, as candidates are still submitting applications or the position despite the search committee having already brought in some potential finalists to visit the campus. Te committee hasn’t ruled out bringing in an interim head o school i they don’t ind the right permanent candidate. Castrogiovanni said the committee wants to be sure its next head can prop-

said. Weinberg plans to continue to work with JFS in an advisory role. Like Weinberg, Maria Erlitz, head o school at the Jewish Day School in Bellevue, does not plan to walk away rom the academy she helped ound more than 30 years ago when she retires at the end o the school year.

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With an emphasis on the warmth of Judaism, four weekly sessions provide children with a summer experience that lasts a lifetime. Field trips, creative activities, swimming and more! For ages 4–12, this program is suitable for kids from all backgrounds and affiliations. Special boys’ camp for ages 8–14. www.CampGanIsraelSeattle.c www.CampG anIsraelSeattle.com om • Rabbi Kavka – 206-730-2775 • [email protected]

Three fun-filled weeks of imagination and creativity for children in grades 1–5! Each week is a different experience. Kids can attend one week or all three. SAM Camp guarantees they’ll make art and new friends! July 8–26. Visit seattleartmuseum.org/kids seattleartmuseum.org/kids to sign up now. Questions? Email [email protected]. [email protected].

 Hebrew Hoops The goal of Hebrew Hoops is to promote basketball skill development while also providing a forum for Jewish youth to form friendships among each other. Hebrew Hoops is a platform for Jewish youth to interact with Jewish role models and learn what it means to be a Jewish athlete today. [email protected] • 206-856-2528 • www.HebrewHoops.com

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 The Union Hill Ranch Ranch The Union Hill Ranch is offering an “Introduction to Horsemanship” for riders 6–10 years of age. July 9, 10, 11 (session 1) or July 16, 17, 18 (session (session 2) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The cost is $300 per session. They also have ongoing private lessons starting start ing at $60 for one hour of instruction. www.theunionhillranch. www.theu nionhillranch.com com • 425-868-8097

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5:30 p.m. — Temple Beth El Superhero Shabbat  Cantor Leah Elstein at [email protected] or 253-564-7101, ext. 111 or www.templebethel18.org

Help Cantor Elstein’s friend, Superman Sam, a 1stgrader from Chicago who has leukemia. Family service; bring a children’s book and be recorded reading it for Sam. Come dressed as a superhero. Preservice snack at 5:30, service at 6, community potluck following. At Temple Beth El, 5975 S 12th St., S t., Tacoma. 6 p.m. — HNT Scholar in Residence Weekend : Nigel Savage  Rebecca Levy at [email protected] or 206-232-8555, ext. 207 or www.h-nt.org

Nigel Savage is the founder of Hazon, America’s largest Jewish environmental group. Services, dvar Torah, and dinner. 8 p.m.: “The Jewish Omnivore’s Dilemma.” At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E M ercer Way, Mercer Island.

explore Pirke Avos/Ethics of Our Fathers, a tractate of the Mishna that details the Torah’s views on ethics and interpersonal relationships. At the Levitins’ home, 6519 49th Ave. NE, Seattle.

Gala dinner and cocktail reception honoring Ray Heacox, president and general manager of KING Broadcasting. $300. RSVP required. At the Grand Hyatt Seattle, 721 Pine St., Seattle.

7:30–9 p.m. — Havdalah with Visiting Rabbi Binyamin Biber  [email protected] or

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Havdalah with Secular Jewish Circle of Puget Sound and a talk by visiting Rabbi Binyamin Biber on “Pursuing Justice: Secular Humanist Approaches to Tikkun Olam.” Free. In the Wallingford area, call or email for location. SUNDAY

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Savage will talk on “Eco Judaism and the Art of Bicycle Riding” over breakfast, followed by an Earth Day bike ride. 1 p.m.: Livnot Project think tank on “Creating Healthier and More Sustainable Communities in the Jewish World and Beyond.” At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. — Chess Club Gathering Event  Sasha Mail at [email protected] or 206-722-1200 or www.tdsseattle.org

Play chess with community members, students, and a special guest chess grand master. At Torah Day School of Seattle, 3528 S Ferdinand St., Seattle.

6:30–9 p.m. — Shabbat with Visiting Rabbi Binyamin Biber  [email protected] or 206-528-1944 or secularjewishcircle.org

10 a.m.–12 p.m. — Parent Program with Secular Jewish Circle and Visiting Rabbi Binyamin Biber  [email protected] or 206-528-1944 or secularjewishcircle.org

Non-theistic Shabbat and potluck dinner. Rabbi Biber will speak on “Spirituality: Deepening the Experience of our Jewishness.” $10 suggested donation. In the Wallingford area, call or email for location.

“Humanistic Jewish Parenting: Identity and Development in a Multicultural Society.” Learn about the SJC’s K-7 Sunday school that includes preparation (grades 6-7) for a secular Bar or Bat Mitzvah. On Mercer Island, call or email for exact location.

7 p.m. — Jewish High Shabbaton 2013  Ari   Hoffman at theh offather@ gmail.com or  jhighshabbaton-e fbevent.eventbrite.com /#

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6:15–9:15 p.m. — Song of Songs: Let Us Rejoice and Delight in You!  Marjie Cogan at [email protected] or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org

Edwin L. Bierman Scholar-in-Residence Weekend with Rabbi Amy Kalmanofsky. Kabbalat Shabbat 6-7:15 p.m., Shabbat dinner 7:15-8:15, keynote lecture 8:15 p.m. Preregistration and prepayment required for dinner by April 22. Childcare available by pre-registration. $25. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

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Rabbi Kalmanofsky will give a dvar Torah on the Book of Jonah during services. Kiddush luncheon to follow. At 1:15: An exploration of Ruth and Naomi’s relationship as a model for the relationship between God and Israel. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle. 7–8:30 p.m. — Lag B’Omer/Havdalah in the Kesher Garden  Kim Lawson at [email protected] or 206-388-0823 or sjcc.org sjcc.org

Pizza and s’mores, singing around the campfire, activities for the kids. $5. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. 7:30–9:30 p.m. — The Joseph Story: I Am Looking for My Brothers  Marjie Cogan at [email protected] or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org

Rabbi Kalmanofsky will look at male relationships in the Joseph story. Havdalah and dessert at a private View Ridge home. RSVP for address information. Free. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th  Ave. NE, Seattle.

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family of Holocaust survivors and resistance fighters. Honoring lifetime members Jen Alterman and Talby Gelb. Reception following. $54. At Kirkland Performance Center, 350 K irkland Ave., Kirkland.

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5:30–9 p.m. — Jewish Sisterhood Annual Spring Spa  Rochie Farkash at [email protected]

 Aromatherapy, Feldenkrais Feldenkrais and fashion workshop workshops, s, an auction, salmon dinner, and guest speaker Miriam Lipskier on “The Beauty of the Jewish Woman.” $18 members, $22 non-members, $28 at the door. At Eastside Torah Center, 1837 156th  Ave. NE #303, Bellevue.

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12 p.m. — Dodge Ball  Ari   Hoffman at theh offather@ gmail.com or SeattleNCSY.com

This website stores data such night activity. Prospective students welcome. Countsas event for teens. At Jump Sky High, 1445 120th Ave. for Jewish High hours. $75. In Seward Park, register cookies to enable essential site NE, Bellevue. 1 p.m. — Bubby’s Kitchen for details. functionality, as well as marketing, Karen Ovetz at [email protected] or 7:30–9:30 p.m. — The Whipping Man personalization, and analytics. You425-893-9900 (box office) or www.kpcenter.org  Box Office at [email protected] or Seattle Chapter Hadassah presents Shira Ginsburg 206-781-9707 or taproottheatre.org may change your settings at any time in “Bubby’s Kitchen,” a show about growing up in a  A Jewish Confederate soldier returns from war to his or accept the default settings. house in shambles. Two former slaves greet him. As they observe Passover and remember the Jewish exodus from Egypt, their shared pasts and secrets threaten the Policy freedom of all three men. Runs through Privacy  April 27. 27. Recommen Recommended ded fo forr ages 16-plus. $25-$40.  At Taproot Taproot Theatre, Theatre, 204 N 85th St., Seattle. Seattle.

Lecture by University of Washington professor Sarah Stroup on “Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the Ancient World: From Marginalization to Multiculturalism.” Stroup is the director of the UW Tel Dor Archeological Excavations and Field School in Israel. $15. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.

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After speaking about “Lady at the OK Corral” on April 18, Ann Kirschner will see her first book, “Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s Holocaust Story” go up on stage. Seattle Pacific University’s Theatre Department dramatizes the content of over 300 letters received by Kirschner’s mother, Sala Garncarz, during her imprisonment during the war. At Seattle Pacific University’s McKinley Hall, main stage.

In conjunction with Seattle Art Museum’s exhibition, “Morality Tales: American Art and Social Protest, 1935-45,” Music of Remembrance will perform Jake Heggie’s “Another Sunrise,” a tribute to Krystyna Zywulska, Polish resistance fighter and satirical poet. MOR will also perform “Duo” by Erwin Schulhoff, who perished in a camp. On Saturday at the Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., Seattle, and on Sunday at The Commons, 402 Bjune Dr., Bainbridge Island. Free. For more information visit musicofremembrance.org.

Tickets are $12, $10 for students and seniors, through www.spu.edu/boxoffice or 206-281-2959. Matinee on April 27 at 2 p.m. An exhibition from the Sala Garncarz Kirschner Collection will be on display in Kreider Gallery in McKinley Hall through April 30, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is free.

Sunday, April 21 at 4 p.m. The Souls’ Journey CD release party

Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 27 at 8 p.m. Hilary Hahn Concert

Grammy-award winning violinist Hilary Hahn returns to Seattle for two performances of Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47 with the Seattle Symphony. Guest conductor Xian Zhang leads Overture to Karelia, Op. 10; Pascal Zavaro’s La Bataille de San Romano; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92. At Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle. Tickets $19-$142. For tickets and information, visit the box office, call 206-215-4747, or visit www.seattlesymphony.org.

Celebrate the release of Rabbi Olivier BenHaim’s CD, “The Souls’ Journey: Meditation & Kabbalah,” a sixstage meditation that unfolds the Kabbalistic levels of the soul as a ways to awakening. CDs available for purchase. At Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue, 1111 Harvard Ave., Seattle. For more information contact Elizabeth Fagin at [email protected] or 206-527-9399 or betalef.org.

 

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 After graduation, they moved to Utica, N.Y., where he worked for GE from 1962 to ’64 prior to being hired by the Boeing Company in Seattle. After a distinguished 25-year career, Jack retired in 1990. He also served over 50 years as a Mason and a Shriner.

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1992 to 2005 she worked as the director of multi-cultural education, Title IX compliance officer, and director of Indian education for the Edmonds School District, where she won national awards and recognition for her work in multicultural education. She also consulted around the state on issues of religion in schools. Marcy’s greatest joy was the family she raised with Joel: Her children, Ariela Migdal of New York, Tamar Azous of Seattle, and Amram Migdal of Charlottesville. She loved her children-inlaw Ethan Tucker, Paul Azous, and Rebecca Migdal. She delighted in her grandchildren, Eden Migdal, Yitzhak Tucker,  Yoav Tucker, and Zahava Migdal Azous, and in her large extended family, including her recently deceased brother Steve  Alexander and her dear siblings-in-law, nieces and nephews. Her other great joys included studying and spending time with her many close friends, with whom she liked to take walks around Greenlake, see plays, discuss books and ideas, and share Shabbat and holiday meals. She was a spectacular cook, baker, and hostess who enjoyed welcoming new people and old friends to her home on a regular basis. She was also passionate about travel, social justice, and women’s equality. Contributions may be made to the Southern Poverty Law Center and to Congregation Beth Shalom in Seattle.

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Honoring thy mother: A toast to memory and survival CHARLENE KAHN JTNews Correspondent During the irst weekend in April, guests rom Caliornia to Connecticut converged on Seattle in honor o Ruth Schocken, whose lie story is a poignant reminder o survival. She turned 100 on April 3. Te lie o this German-Jewish immigrant who escaped the Nazis at age 25 and created a new lie in the Pacific Northwest can be seen as a testament to amily values, hard work and exceptionally strong will, both mentally and physically. Tough all three o Schocken’s adult children live in the area and are actively involved in their mother’s lie, she lives independently. Her physical mobility has recently decreased, but Schocken still has a matter-o-act quality about hersel, according to her daughter, Barbara Lahav. Beore oering up a generous slice o marzipan-covered birthday cake, Schocken spoke with JNews between  visits rom out-o-town relatives as her daughter helped supply anecdotes. Flowers and amily photo displays decorated a cozy living space. A ramed letter rom

Louis, her ather, was a meat wholesaler and an active member o the local synagogue; o her mother, Schocken said, “the whole town liked her cooking.” As a youngster, Ruth pitched in, bringing bread to the communal oven. She later trained in window display and visual merchandising and went to work or her sister Tea and brother-in-law Fritz at the Leeser Silk Haus in Herord, Westphalia. “[By that time] we were just lucky we got out,” she recalled. “Te SS were already coming around the store and wouldn’t let people go in.” Tis was in 1938, just beore Kristallnacht. hey couldn’t leave Germany because “they had no liquid assets,” said Lahav. “Everything was tied up in the store.” But one evening Schocken le work late, orgetting to turn off her iron. By the next morning, “the whole interior burnt down — but my sister ran to me smiling,” she said. Tey now had insurance money and a way to leave “because o an iron,” she said.

ugee, through riends. “It’s like little Switzerland [here],” she said. “I came to Seattle because my sister and brother-in-law were here already; I first came to Cincinnati but didn’t like the heat.” Her husband Heinz, which he Americanized to Henry, was related to the amed Schocken literary and publishing amily through his ather, whose older brother Salman established Schocken Books and became publisher o the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. Amos Schocken, a cousin o Ruth Schocken’s children, runs the newspaper today. Establishing roots in Seattle revolved around synagogue and social connections with other reugees. “Te Jewish Club o Washington was a very important gathering place or our amily,” said Joe Schocken, Ruth’s son, o the club that reached out to new arrivals and helped provide moral and financial support. Te club disbanded last year.

President and Mrs. Obama birthday congratulations romshared the White House. Growing up as the youngest o eight in Bieleeld, Germany, Ruth Hamlet Schocken experienced loss early on. Her oldest brother died during World War I.

“InTey less than out.” madea year it to we the got U.S., but not without some lasting trauma: A ear o uniorms le Schocken unable to tolerate even a driving test. Aer coming to Seattle, Schocken met her husband, another German-Jewish re-

But the that Schockens joined another institution has thrived throughout the years — the Herzl congregation on 20th and Spruce in the Central District, which is now Herzl-Ner amid Conser vative Congregat ion on Mercer Island. Te amily is in its ourth generation o

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 Above, Ruth Schocken with seven of her eight greatgrandchildren, and, left, as a young woman.

membership — our generations happy to celebrate the centennial o its matriarch. “It’s at obviously special to have mother this age, very [or her] to enjoy and participate in the lives o her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren,” said Joe Schocken. “It’s great to be able to tell the story and create amily history.”

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