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German preoccupation: Why bother with David Irving?
Steven Blum Jew-ish.com
When I found out David Irving, noted anti-Semite, Holocaust denier, and widely discredited “historian” was coming to Berlin, I had the kind of reaction I think many Jews can relate to: I groaned and wanted to move on to the next article in Google News. Why? Because Holocaust deniers, in this day and age, seem like low-hanging fruit, sensationalist fodder for any lazy journalist in search of a Nazi-related headline. “Holocaust Denier David Irving Plans to Return to Germany, But Will Hotels Let Him Stay?” is a headline many will click, even if the story is vacuous. On the other hand, I understand why it’s a very big deal that Irving is coming to Germany: Irving’s “research,” having been roundly rejected by journalists, World War II historians, and laymen the world over, has allowed him — and the entire “revisionist” movement — to fashion himself as what Christopher Hitchens calls “free speech martyr.” One need only look at the comments section underneath the Huffington Post’s story to see the supposed “free-speech activists” out in full force. “I would like to see an open debate on Mr Irvings [sic] findings and make up my own mind if they have any truth in them,” reads one comment. “Why do a group of Kennedy’s motor car in self appointed censors Chappaquiddick than think people are not died in the gas chamintelligent enough to ber of Auschwitz.” He’s draw their own conclualso said outright that sions?” he thinks the Holocaust In March of last year, was a “hoax” invented when the Daily Mail by the Jews, and made reported that a Munich ominous claims about court had overturned what will happen to Irving’s lifetime ban in them when the world Germany, more comfinds out the truth. menters cheered the “Two years from decision as a victory for now, too, the German freedom of speech. Wikimedia Commons “Why is it a crime British historian David Irving in July 2003. historians will accept that we are right. They to deny the holocaust?” will accept that for 50 years they have one bewildered-seeming comment reads, believed a lie,” he said. before going on to deliver a paranoid diaIn England, the court found Irving to tribe about Jewish control of the media. be “an active Holocaust denier, antisemite, “What do they not want us to know? Don’t and racist, who associates with right-wing believe the lies. We are NOT free.” extremists who promote neo-Nazism,” and Inciting hatred, violence, murder and that he had “for his own ideological reasons even genocide begins with speech, which persistently and deliberately misrepresented is one reason why Germany has made it a and manipulated historical evidence.” crime to openly deny the Holocaust in the And yet, even today, Irving continfirst place. I don’t see that as a bad thing, ues to enjoy a large following. In 2011, he and I think the ban on Irving should have crisscrossed the U.S., visiting over 30 cities remained in place. on a lecture tour titled “The Life and Death Irving’s minimizing of Jewish death of Heinrich Himmler, Hitler’s Lieutenmakes him particularly infuriating to read. ant, 44 years in 44 minutes.” A few years He has claimed that “more people before, he led his own tour of Auschwitz, died on the back seat of Senator Edward stopping by the gas chambers to lecture about Hitler being “a great man, one of the greatest Europeans for centuries.” And just last week, when the Huffington Post wrote about Irving coming to Germany, the Holocaust Truther force flocked to the comments section to defend their beleaguered leader. Part of this is the fault of the journalist who wrote the story. Simply calling Irving a “Holocaust denier” is not enough. Without providing evidence that contradicts Irving’s claims, the press is essentially saying, “Here’s a bad man coming to Germany; why don’t you Google him and see what you find?” They’re not writing that the historians of the world have already “debated” Irving’s claims and come to the conclusion they are entirely made up. Even the angle of the story is suspect: A league of hoteliers have joined forces to ban Irving from staying at any of their properties? Hooray! Except he’s still being allowed to come here. Irving is still being allowed to spew his racist, anti-Semitic bile in the former seat of Nazi power. He will be able to sleep on a friend’s bed or at a B&B, eat some Wienerschnitzel, walk around the city and talk about how the Jews have been lying all along.
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The test of balancing our communities
Rabbi Allison B. Flash Temple Beth Am
Since becoming a rabbi, I have come to believe there really are five seasons to the year. There are the typical four: Fall, winter, spring, and summer, but for rabbis, there is an additional season called “pre-High Holidays.” It is the time of year when rabbis reflect on the messages we want to give our congregants and plan the services in observance of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. As a Jewish educator, I spend this time preparing to open religious school for our almost 600 students, making sure our program is the best it can be. This year, my attention is being spent on something much more mundane and, ironically, more stressful. With many school districts beginning at the same time as Rosh Hashanah, I find myself preoccupied with what to do about the fact my daughter will miss the first day of her high school classes. While I know our family belongs in synagogue, I also am keenly aware she will actually miss an exam being given on the first day. For many, this does not sound like such a big issue, but for my daughter, it is certainly a concern. While I understand that legally she cannot be penalized for missing school due to religious observances, I also understand there are ways in which she will feel punished. This is but one example of what it means to live as Jews in the secular world. Let’s face it — we don’t live in Israel or even a city large enough that secular school calendars are affected by the Jewish calendar. For many of us, we are the only Jew in our school or office. We are constantly being asked to balance our Jewish and secular identities, whether at school functions, with social engagements, or at work. The balancing act can be tricky at times. The larger problem is how this constant balancing often makes us feel like an outsider in our own community. I recently overheard a teenage girl tell another how she does not like wearing her necklace with a Jewish star on it. She explained that wearing it made her look “too Jewish” and how she didn’t like to set herself apart from her peers at school. For many, being different is a positive, but for far too many, this feeling of being different is isolating. This isolation affects people regardless of age. Make no mistake — teens are not the only ones who struggle with this issue. Unfortunately, the challenge of finding a balance between the Jewish and secular parts of our identity will not go away. Navigating these challenges as they occur will be an ongoing process. There will be times when we feel like the outsider, but the answer is not to turn away from our Jewish identity. Rather, we need to turn to our synagogue or chavurah or youth group, to remind ourselves that we do belong, that we are not alone. When we belong to and are active in a synagogue, attend religious school or adult learning classes, take part in Jewish summer camps, belong to Jewish youth groups (regardless of which one), and are active with organizations such as Hillel, the Jewish Community Center, Jewish Family Service, or Federation, we remind ourselves that we are not “the other.” We are, in fact, together. By taking part in a vibrant Jewish community, we surround ourselves with other Jews and are invited into a sense of belonging often lacking in other areas of our lives. I repeatedly hear students tell me they love coming to religious school because, while they are the only Jew in their grade or school, they have community in our synagogue. They feel validated. As a rabbi, Jewish educator, and mother, this “pre-High Holiday” season is spent contemplating how important it is to live as a Jewish American — one who straddles both the Jewish and secular worlds and one who proudly belongs to both communities. It is exactly this pride I wish for all Jews to have so when choices must be made, it brings pride — not discomfort. May this New Year bring with it deeper connections within the Jewish community for each of us. power. He’ll be able to stand where Hitler once gave speeches about Jews being rats and say, essentially, the same thing — and people will listen. It’s as if nothing has changed at all.
Former Seattleite Steven Blum writes dispatches for Jew-ish.com from his new home in Berlin.

Helen Thomas interviewer: Media whitewashed late journalist’s anti-Semitism
Jacob Kamaras JNS.org
On June 1, 2010, the day after the Gaza flotilla incident in which nine Turkish militants were killed after attacking Israeli soldiers aboard the Mavi Marmara, famed reporter Helen Thomas didn’t hide her opinions about Israel in a briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. “The initial reaction to the flotilla massacre, deliberate massacre, an international crime, was pitiful. What do you mean you regret something that should be so strongly condemned? And if any other nation in the world [besides Israel] had done it, we would have been up in arms. What is this ironclad relationship where a country that deliberately kills people… and boycotts, and we aid and abet the boycott?” Thomas asked Gibbs. Little did the public know at the time that just a few days before that press briefing, Thomas had uttered anti-Semitic comments that would go on to garner far more attention than what she said about the Gaza flotilla. Adam Nesenoff, the 17-year-old son of Rabbi Dr. David Nesenoff who handled the technology-related aspects of his father’s RabbiLive.com blog, was busy graduating high school. That meant a May 27 video interview that Helen Thomas gave David Nesenoff on the White House lawn — in which Thomas said Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go home, to Poland and Germany, America and everywhere else” — would not be posted online until a week after it was recorded. Thomas, who worked 57 years for United Press International and a decade for Hearst Newspapers, died July 20 at age 92. She covered every U.S. president from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama, and is credited with opening the White House press corps to women. But all it took was a roughly 90-second interview to end her career in 2010 — Nesenoff’s video brought about her retirement shortly after it was posted. Nesenoff believes that the “first part” of Thomas’s obituary should be her antiSemitism, because her “poison infected everything she ever wrote.” Yet that wasn’t the type of Helen Thomas obituary Nesenoff saw from the mainstream media after her death. “I got to hear people like Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC say that, ‘Helen Thomas is my role model,’” Nesenoff said in an interview with JNS.org. “That CBS News decided to say, ‘Well, it was a little controversy, she said that Jews should go back to Europe.’ They couldn’t even say the word Germany, because they have to whitewash everything.” “It’s bothersome to see that the news really can’t call an anti-Semite an antiSemite,” Nesenoff said. Nesenoff was alerted to Thomas’s death through anti-Semitic email messages he received such as, “Happy now, kike?” “It tells you the type of people that liked Helen Thomas, and basically it’s kind of emblematic of what my life has been like since being the reporter on the front lawn of the White House who uncovered an anti-Semite,” Nesenoff said. Nesenoff said the media “didn’t know what to do about” Thomas’s comments because “here’s this sweet old lady, and she’s saying these vile things about Jews going back to Germany.” Over time, some came to understand Thomas’s statement that Jews should “get the hell of Palestine” as referring to Jewish communities located beyond the pre-1967 lines, not all of Israel. But Nesenoff disputes that interpretation, explaining that if Thomas was okay with Jews remaining in parts of Israel, she would have said, “Go back to Tel Aviv.” “She said tell them to ‘get the hell out’ and ‘go back to Germany,’” Nesenoff said. Thomas apologized for her remarks to Nesenoff shortly after the interview, saying, “I deeply regret the comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.” Yet it wouldn’t be the last time she uttered anti-Israel and anti-Semitic comments. Thomas went on to say that Zionists own the White House, Hollywood and Wall Street in an interview for Playboy magazine, in addition to similar comments in other interviews, Nesenoff noted. Nesenoff said the legacy of his 2010 interview with Thomas was that it “brought down that wall of ‘I’m anti-Israel, not antiJewish.’” National legislators, including U.S. Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Steve Chabot (R-OH), took notice and in April 2012 wrote a letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas denouncing an award the PA gave Thomas. Engel and Chabot also warned Abbas that the honor for Thomas might hurt U.S. assistance to the PA due to the parameters
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He will be able to walk to the places where the storm troopers burned Jewish books, past the businesses that were stoned during Kristallnacht, and the homes from which Jewish families were evicted, dispossessed and then murdered en masse as he openly questions whether it was all made up by the Jews for attention, money and

“He would probably school me.” — Taylor Halperin, an intern for Sen. Maria Cantwell and big basketball fan, on whether he would take the court with President Obama while he’s in the other Washington for the summer. Read about the M.O.T. on page 9.

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Congressman Derek Kilmer is a freshman legislator from Washington State, elected in 2012. Recently, Kilmer left on his first trip to Israel with the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF) with the two other newly elected congressmen of Washington. Upon Kilmer’s homecoming, he will meet with Washington’s pro-Israel community to discuss his impressions of Israel and the challenges the country faces. Sponsored by AIPAC, American Jewish Committee, StandWithUs Northwest, Hadassah, Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. RSVP to [email protected]. For more information call 206-624-5152. preparing its people for peace through compromise with messages of tolerance, understanding, and reconciliation,” the letter said, arguing that by honoring Thomas, the PA was undermining prospects for peace rather than preparing its

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of the Preparing the Palestinian People for Peace Act. “This legislation conditioned U.S. assistance on whether the PA was actively

people for it. Although U.S. funding to the PA has never been abolished — only temporarily frozen at times — Nesenoff was happy to have at least been part of the conversation on the issue.

“I’m very proud of [the fact] that in some ways I might have helped to stop all funding to the Palestinian Authority,” Nesenoff said. “It’s the gift that keeps giving, this divine providence interview I did.”

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Back on the bus
The war of words between Israel and Palestine activists on the sides of local buses is back, this time with help from an organization based in New York.

By Rita Katz

Dos hartz iz a halber novi.
The heart is half a prophet.

Life after the session

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After going into double overtime, finishing up this year’s legislative session was a slog for our state’s four Jewish “freshman” legislators — but despite the drag on family life and summer vacations, they all say the extra work was more than worth it.

The cheder’s new head

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The Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder has brought in a new leader who knows the small day school’s ins and outs better than almost anyone.

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Move-in day

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Dropping the kids off at college and helping them move in can be a bittersweet moment for parents, as one leader of a Jewish student organization can attest. But the kids appreciate you more than they’ll ever let on.

New day school digs

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The Torah Day School is moving once again. Now getting ready to open in a converted church in Beacon Hill, its leaders hope their third home’s the charm.

Being there for Mom

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Jodilyn Owen found her life’s calling almost by accident, but she’s now making a difference as a midwife and parenting resource.

Back at the table

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Peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians have begun in earnest after a three-year break. Just don’t expect to hear much about what’s going on.

From The Jewish Transcript, July 13, 1977. A special section commemorated the opening of the Sol Esfeld wing at the Kline Galland Home nursing facility in Seattle’s Seward Park neighborhood. The wing, which contained 70 beds, nearly doubled the capacity for the Jewish seniors’ home and brought the facility up to modern standards of care.

The return of the gatekeeper
That’s an inside joke for “Ghostbusters” fans, in case you’re wondering. Comedian Rick Moranis disappeared from public view for a while, but he’s back with an album that’s all schlock, with some gribenes on the side.

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Back on the bus
Be Like Your Mom
by Mike Selinker

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“As the mother, so her daughter,” says the Book of Ezekiel. As the High Holidays approach, we should reflect on our lives, but also on our parents. Mothers give us a path to follow. The six daughters in this grid did just that, following their famous mothers into the acting business. Follow their lead and you’ll see. We will focus on fathers in our next puzzle.

ACROSS 1 King of the pasture 5 Frat letter 8 Poisonous slitherer 11 Actress daughter of Janet Leigh 15 Actress daughter of Tippi Hedren 16 Long fish 17 Tony, Peter, Eddie, Vincente, Mickey, or 18 19 20 22 24 25 27 31 36 39 40 42 43 44 47 51 53 56 57 59 60 64 65 66 67

Bruce, to the long entries See 67-Across Deli option Word after “Yours” Goth emotion Steamy locale Not bright Aftermath of a workout Actress daughter of Debbie Reynolds Neighbor of Ethiopia Every flower’s unfortunate destiny Actress daughter of Judy Garland “No kidding!” Suffix for liberal or hero Frat letter Inbox contents TV mom Carol Slightly spoiled LA school Stooge name ___-la-la Actress daughter of Jayne Mansfield Actress daughter of Blythe Danner US cryptological org. Iron-___ (jacket embellishments) With 18-Across, mother of Sean Lennon

DOWN 1 Crumple, as paper 2 Actress Thurman 3 Variety of hop 4 Role for 31-Across 5 It grounds a tent 6 Egret, for example 7 Cakemaker’s supply 8 “Bark!” 9 Use a spoon 10 Show sympathy toward 11 Mocking remarks 12 Brought along 13 Some “weather balloons,” perhaps 14 Pronoun for any of the long entries 15 Encountered 21 Emulate a mammal, perhaps 22 French friend 23 More scrumptious 25 A crowd in Berlin? 26 Ahmadinejad’s land 28 Frat letter 29 Mother on a farm 30 Unit of work 32 Supply with weapons 33 Mothers on a farm 34 Spielberg production 35 Poorly 36 Biblical judge 37 Sternum attachment 38 Suffix for demon or social 41 Zero 45 One is on Mike Tyson’s face 46 “Let’s call it ___” 48 Any of nine Greek goddesses of the arts 49 Request one’s presence at 50 Corporate raider Carl 51 “I ___ differ!” 52 Palindromic cheer 53 Gasp in a text 54 Son of a doe 55 Electronics store chain 57 How a goat calls its mother? 58 Aéroport de Paris 61 Talking Heads’ “Once ___ Lifetime” 62 Some PCs 63 Tick off

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In the latest round of the political ad smack-downs between Middle East advocacy groups vying for turf on the sides of King County Metro transit buses, two are once again battling it out in a war of words. In 2010, after a torrent of public outrage, Metro Transit removed a bus ad purchased by the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign decrying U.S. spending that supports “Israeli war crimes.” A U.S. District judge upheld the ban, agreeing it was disruptive to bus service and it threatened the public peace. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is currently reviewing that ruling. “The ACLU is representing SeaMAC in the lawsuit against King County Metro for censoring our ad in 2010,” SeaMAC spokesperson Ed Mast told JTNews. That SeaMAC ad, and others, which included messages such as “Nakba: The ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine” caught the attention of the New York-based American Freedom Defense Initiative, which appears to have become SeaMAC’s most relentless would-be adversary. One of its latest counter-ads, which claims Palestinian leadership is really calling for a “Jew-free state” went on six Bellevuebased buses last month for four weeks. Mast rejected these assertions outright and said that any sources the AFDI claims as evidence are simply wrong. “We’ve looked and we don’t find them, so they appear to be part of the fabrication,” Mast said. “In particular, we find no sources that make the alleged statement on behalf of the Palestinian Authority. In fact, Palestinian Authority policy has been the opposite: A Palestinian state would be open to all ethnic groups and religions.” On Tuesday, however, while speaking in Egypt, PA President Mahmoud Abbas told reporters that “in a final resolution, we would not see the presence of a single Israeli — civilian or soldier — on our lands.” Leading the charge is AFDI’s president, Pamela Geller, an author, speaker, internationally syndicated columnist, and an outspoken critic of honor killings in the Middle East who exposes the suppression of free speech in Islam in the U.S. and Europe. She has received awards from the U.S. Marine Corps and the David Horowitz Freedom Center. But Geller is also a polarizing figure. AFDI and other organizations she has founded have been condemned by organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center for purportedly antiMuslim statements. Geller told JTNews she spent a lot of time proving the veracity of her ads to Metro Transit, whose 2012 revised ad policy is to reject any ad with “any material that is or that the sponsor reasonably knows is false, fraudulent, misleading, deceptive, or would constitute a tort of defamation or invasion of privacy.” “I sent [my sources] to Seattle transit and published them on my website, AtlasShrugs.com,” Geller said. “They were

sent June 11, 2013. The back and forth went on for weeks.” “We requested documentation to support her statement included in the ad and she provided it. The ad is running,” said Metro spokesperson Jeff Switzer. “She complied with the advertising policy that we have. I can’t respond to her characterization.” Another AFDI ad, which calls for “Equal rights for Jews,” was a direct strike at a recent SeaMAC ad that Geller said she just couldn’t ignore. “My ads are a response to earlier antiIsrael bus ads calling for equal rights for Palestinians in Israel, which they already enjoy,” Geller said. “When they put lies on bus ads, I will continue to counter with the truth.” SeaMAC says its strategy is to use what it calls direct education “to discuss how U.S. support for Israel enables Israel’s continued oppression and subjugation of the Palestinian people.” Rob Jacobs, regional director of StandWithUs Northwest, a pro-Israel advocacy group in Seattle, told JTNews his organization wishes none of the ads were running because it reduces what should be an important debate to slogans and one-liners. “The ads by the anti-Israel group, SeaMAC, that claimed Israeli war crimes or that implies that Israeli Arabs do not have equal civil rights under law are just plain false,” said Jacobs. “And it’s wrong that Metro initially accepted the war crimes ad without asking for proof that the claim was true.” But Jacobs added that AFDI’s assertions are “supported by the claims made by Palestinian Authority President Abbas and numerous senior members of his government over at least the past three years.” StandWithUs is planning what Jacobs called a “positive” ad campaign of its own about Israel, which is set to debut on the insides of Metro buses. The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle posted its own statement on its website that expressed concern over only the AFDI ads. Federation CEO Keith Dvorchik told JTNews he considers both sides’ ads to be divisive, especially in light of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations that began this week. “It ends up not helping in any way, shape or form. It doesn’t encourage dialogue, it doesn’t encourage community,” Dvorchik said. “The Federation works with Jews and Christians and Muslims about creating a better community for everybody, and that’s where we really need to be working.” The local office of the American Jewish Committee, which advocates worldwide for Jews, Israel, and “human rights and democratic values,” issued its own statement saying that both groups’ ads are “unhelpful to the cause of peace and understanding in the Middle East.” Wendy Rosen, the AJC Seattle regional director, wrote that “the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be solved on the side of a Metro bus in Seattle, Washington.”

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Newest Jewish legislators reflect on long session
Diana Brement JTNews Columnist
With its double-overtime, lasting two months beyond its normal conclusion, our state’s recent extended legislative session was grueling by all accounts. But it was necessary, points out Rep. Gerry Pollet (D-46). “It had, on one hand, a beneficial impact,” he observed recently. In April, “the odds of us winning the Sen. Andy Billig investment in higher education and ending…[the] tuition increase were still pretty long against us.” Most of the more recently elected members of our state’s Jewish caucus agreed. Senators David Frockt (D-46) and Andy Billig (D-3), both former House members new to the Senate in the past two years, and Representatives Pollet and Jessyn Farrell (D-46) have all served fewer than two terms in their current offices. (Frockt and Pollet were appointed to their positions following the death of Sen. Scott White in 2011, but won their elections in 2012.) All four said the failure of the transportation bill was their chief frustration of the session. “The biggest disappointment was that we were not able to pass a transportation to close the opportunity gap,” early learning funding needed to increase, she said, adding that she and Billig have worked closely on this issue. Pollet cited further headway on “providing health insurance for 300,000 people in the state of Washington.” Few constituents complained about the extended All photos courtesy Wash. State Legislature session, Billig, Frockt, Farrell and Pollet all said. Rep. Jessyn Farrell Rep. Gerry Pollet Most voters understood the process and wanted the budget to “invest[ed] in higher education and… reflect their support of health, education in not having any tuition increase next and human services issues, particularly in year,” as well as “our investment of a bilthe liberal-leaning and well-informed 46th lion dollars toward our obligations [to]… district which three of the four represent. children’s constitutional rights to basic “People are pragmatic,” said Frockt, education in Washington.” and “understand it was a compromise.” He still gave those efforts a B grade, But he did field complaints that the “not an A,” he said. “We should have done Senate was succumbing to “DC-style gridat least 40 percent more.” lock.” Farrell is also pleased with progress in education funding. “There was recognition that if we want XXPage 16

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revenue and jobs package,” said Spokane’s Billig, who says we need investment “in our transportation infrastructure for our state to have a prosperous economy.” The frustration of working with a divided government — a Democratic majority in the house and Republican majority in the Senate — was shared by all. The problem is complicated, says Frockt, by “a structural budget process that compels people to wait each other out…We need to be negotiating and working on [the budget] earlier in the session…not holding each other hostage.” These legislators agreed, though, that the most positive accomplishments were in education and human services. Pollet is proud the legislature

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Cheder welcomes Kornfeld as interim head of school
Tori Gottlieb JTNews Correspondent
Devorah Kornfeld moved to Seattle in 1974 and almost immediately became involved with Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder (MMSC), a private Jewish day school and the only Jewish Montessori preschool in Seattle. Now approaching 39 years of service with MMSC, Kornfeld is preparing to move into her newest leadership role as the interim head of school. MMSC was founded in 1974 to provide early childhood education to Jewish children in the greater Seattle area. Over the last four decades, it has grown from a preschool to also include an elementary school, a middle school, and a girls’ high school. Though it was founded with the intent of providing a traditional Jewish education for the children of local Chabad Lubavitch rabbis, MMSC enrolls children from all denominations of Judaism. “Our goal is to imbue kids with a love for Judaism,” said Tziviah Goldberg, a member of MMSC’s board of directors who handles business and development for the school. Goldberg is the mother of 10 children, most of whom have graduated from or are currently attending MMSC. Goldberg emphasized that MMSC welcomes all Jews, whether or not they can afford tuition. A majority of the school’s operating costs are covered by the Samis Foundation, which supports Jewish K-12 by Rabbi Yosef Charytan, who moved to Seattle a decade ago to serve as principal of the school’s growing programs. Charytan also oversaw MMSC’s move to its current campus in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Seattle in 2010. But as Charytan’s duties expanded beyond his original academic role to encompass more of the financial and administrative duties, many in the MMSC community felt it was time to hire someone who could provide the school with the guidance it needed, both in an administrative and educational capacity. Charytan recently accepted a position with a school in Montreal, opening up the leadership role for Kornfeld. Kornfeld, who has previously served as a Judaics teacher for all grades and as the principal of the girls’ high school, will serve as interim head of school through the 20132014 school year and possibly beyond, depending on the outcome of a search for a permanent head of school. “She seems like the obvious person to take the helm in the interim,” said Goldberg, who called Kornfeld a “tremendous educator” who will “bring a different flavor” to MMSC. “I like to take the best of the old and the best of the new,” said Kornfeld of her pedagogy, adding that she is looking forward to enhancing the curriculum already in place. Kornfeld keeps herself up to date on the newest technologies and methods in education by collaborating with fellow Jewish teachers and participating in webinars. Two years ago, she attended the firstever study group hosted by Yad Vashem Holocaust museum for Jewish day school teachers. The weeklong program, which had previously been offered to secular educators but never to Jewish day school teachers, focused on how to incorporate the Holocaust into the school curriculum. In addition to her duties as interim head of school, Kornfeld has allowed herself six teaching periods for the upcoming year to maintain the student contact that she loves so much. Her primary focus, however, will be on the academic integrity and community of MMSC. “[I want to] take a good thing and improve what we can, and to make sure there’s communication between students and parents,” she said. “[I want] to make sure everyone’s needs are being met and voices are being heard. And really, my goal is for happy children that feel good about themselves, and working with each child on their level so that they can do the best that they’re capable of.”

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Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder’s interim head of school Devorah Kornfeld.

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Three dates a day keep the doctor away, and other easy fixes
Janis Siegel JTNews Columnist
Luckily, in addition to the heady, clinical, and highly technical research that goes on in Israeli institutions, there are also some simple and doable everyday changes we can make to our lifestyles that can have a big impact on our health and happiness. According to Israeli researchers, simple choices like eating three dates daily lowers triglycerides and cho- To Your lesterol in the blood withHealth out raising the blood sugar. Breastfeeding appears to lessen the development of ADHD in children. And using a new, enhanced “talking” version of an application adapted for Android smart phones can allow vision-impaired users to hear all of the same phone functions as their fully sighted counterparts. Students at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology developed the phone app, and Prof. Michael Aviram from the Rambam Medical Center and the Technion, along with Dr. Hamutal Borochov-Neori from the Southern Arava Agricultural Research and Development Station in Hevel Eilot, collaborated on the date study. The “date research,” published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, would seem to be the simplest intervention with some of the biggest payoffs. Aviram’s research group looked for vegetables and fruits that had “highly active antioxidants.” According to their results reported in May 2013, out of the nine types of dates found in Israel, the most beneficial varieties were the Bar, Deri, Medjool, and Halawi. These varieties showed the most promise in delaying cholesterol oxidation, the leading cause of atherosclerosis and related cardiovascular diseases, including stroke and heart attacks. Aviram’s team also found that dates flush excess cholesterol from the walls of arteries, which could potentially stop the accumulation process, possibly reverse it, or, at the least, slow it down. Date extracts were also found to contain highly effective and concentrated antioxidants that cleanse the body of free radicals. This past spring, Dr. Aviva MimouniBloch of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine and head of Tel Aviv University’s Child Neurodevelopmental Center at Loewenstein Hospital found that children who were not breastfed at 3 months old and beyond developed Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder at three times the rate of children who were. The results of her research have been published in the journal Breastfeeding Medicine. Mimouni-Bloch compared the breastfeeding histories of three groups of children between the ages of 6 and 12 at Schneider’s Children Medical Center in Israel. One group was already diagnosed with ADHD, a second group was made up of the siblings of ADHD patients, and a third control group included children who were in the clinic, but who hadn’t been diagnosed with any neurobiological or ADHD-related problems. “One of the unique elements of the study was the inclusion of the sibling group,” Dr. Mimouni-Bloch told TAU staff. “Although a mother will often make the same breastfeeding choices for all her children, this is not always the case. Some children’s temperaments might be more difficult than their siblings’, making it hard for the mother to breastfeed.” As part of the study, parents were asked to answer an extensive questionnaire detailing the medical and demographic histories of their breastfeeding habits that are commonly associated with the development of ADHD. They were also asked to provide a narrative that outlined their child’s breastfeeding history during their first year of life. After three months, researchers found that in the ADHD group, 43 percent were breastfed, while 69 percent of the sibling group and 73 percent of the control group were breastfed. After six months, 29 percent of the ADHD group were breastfed, compared to 50 percent of the sibling group, and 57 percent of the control group. Researchers are not sure why breastfeeding produces this effect, but they speculate it could be the nutrition in the breast milk itself or the bond created between mother and child. Finally, it took six months, eight students, help from Samsung Corp., and a purpose focused on solving problems for others to turn a class computer science project at the Technion into a free Android app that helps sight-challenged
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Parents as the heroes of their college-aged children
Hershey Novack JNS.org
After endless shopping trips, anxious parents will soon deliver their children to college for the first time. Some will be cooped up with their soon-to-be-independent high school graduate for many hours on a road trip. Other families will fly. While the method of transportation may vary, one constant theme is the apprehension a parent may experience while bringing a college freshman to campus for the first time. It may be the student’s first time away from home, and for parents, the feeling that “my little one is growing up” can be quite disconcerting. For many, this is their first child, and they arrive on campus with open eyes, voraciously absorbing all that the university offers, excited for their child’s new opportunities.  For some, this drop-off may have a hint of sadness: They are now empty nesters. In my role as campus rabbi at Chabad at Washington University in St. Louis, I have participated in many move-in days. I have observed numerous tender moments as parents bid farewell to their children after spending most of the day schlepping and unpacking. I have also seen an occasional awkward moment, as parents or students grapple with the realization that they are unready or unwilling to recognize the dynamics of their shifting roles. Fret not, parents. There is good news. In their recent book, “Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today’s College Student” (Jossey-Bass, 2012), Arthur ties or corporate, government, or social leaders. Less than 1 percent named people like Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Al Gore, Abraham Lincoln, Margaret Thatcher, their teachers, or their professors. They dismissed cultural heroes.... Instead, a majority (54 percent) of undergraduates with heroes Lafayette College/Creative Commons named their parents. In total, two-thirds (66 percent) cited a family member. Levine and Diane R. Dean wrote of college students: The high regard that college students When asked to name their heroes, [undergraduates] didn’t cite celebriXXPage 13

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Torah Day School prepares for new home
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Torah Day School, the Orthodox preK–8th grade Jewish day school in Seattle’s South End, will welcome the 2013-14 school year in a new space on Beacon Hill. This is the third building for the school in its seven years of existence. The prior space, a school building in Columbia City, was rented to TDS on a three-year lease that expired this year. The Seattle Public School system will be re-commissioning it as a middle school this fall. The new space is a former Presbyterian church on Beacon Hill undergoing structural and cosmetic upgrades to meet the school’s needs. Torah Day School administrators have signed a 10-year lease with an option to purchase the property. “We looked at it creatively and said, ‘You can make a school out of this,’” said Ezra Genauer, chair of the building committee. “It’s a very nice piece of property.” Other changes are afoot at the school, which is in the process of searching for a new head of school following the recent departure of Rabbi Sheftel Skaist. Genauer is excited about the increased outdoor space and campus feel. While the school has no immediate plans yet to $700,000 in upgrades, including a new sprinkler system and bathroom updates to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Rooms were reconfigured and the sanctuary was converted into a multipurpose gym/auditorium. Water damage meant new floors and a new roof. An alarm system was installed and the lights were updated. The Samis Foundation, which funds Jewish education initiatives in the area, is matching $300,000 raised by TDS. Most of the money has been raised through individual donors; according to Genauer, time was too limited to conduct a full-scale building campaign. “We owe gratitude to Samis,” said TDS board president Binyomin Edelstone. “We had to scramble a little bit, and given our requirements it’s not like there are many options,” he added. “It was important to stay close to Seward Park where most of our families are.” Now they’re just waiting for the city permits to come through. Edelstone said the plan is to open the doors on schedule, on August 28, to the approximately 130 students enrolled.

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their parents once per day. (There are also deeper sociological shifts occurring, which deserve their own article.) Through my many interactions with my students, it has become clear to me that many of them truly adore, respect and idolize their parents. You have no idea how frequently you turn up in conversations I have with your children, and in conversations they have with each other. Your values, your experiences, and yes, even your occasional cringe-worthy humor, all provide a safe center around which your young adult orbits. You are their sense of balance and their strength, Bound, “but it…didn’t have any relation to the career I wanted to pursue,” he says. A piano student since age 6, he performs with the jazz big band and another small ensemble at school. Among his other interests is baseball and he spent most of 2011 blogging about sabermetrics (statistical analysis of the game) for ESPN. He grew up in Seattle, where his family attends Temple Beth Am, and graduated from Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences. He’s enjoying seeing the sights,

even if they may seem to chafe at your presence. College is when your children will attempt to define themselves as emerging adults. Just as your children are maturing, your relationships with your children will inevitably shift as well. The core values and beliefs you instilled in them do not disappear in college. Quite the contrary, we often find students coming to our Chabad house for a Friday night Shabbat dinner or Rosh Hashanah services, as that is what their family did back at home. Many others choose to attend, as well, because they know it will make their parents — some family and his friends in DC, although “it’s kind of humid here,” he says. He does shoot some hoops as well, but the opportunity to play with President Obama hasn’t surfaced. “That would be awesome,” he says, though he allows, “He would probably school me.” Taylor’s internship ends next week and he will spend three weeks working in Williamstown and studying for the LSAT before school starts.

their heroes — proud. As you depart campus on that quieter journey home, having delivered your children to student housing, rest assured that you have left them with more than extra-long twin sheets: You have left your children with core values, for them to appreciate, grow into, and guide them for the rest of their lives.
Rabbi Hersh Novack is beginning his 12th year directing Chabad on Campus — Rohr Center for Jewish Life serving Washington University. He may be reached at [email protected].

participants to speak only French and gave Taylor the chance to study some Arabic, which “is probably equivalent to my Hebrew at this point,” he says. The unpaid internship is “helping me determine whether I want to go into law or politics,” says Taylor. He could have had his previous paying summer job in Seattle as music director for the student drama program Broadway

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Providing the essentials to new mothers (and a lot more)
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Twelve years ago, Jodilyn Owen was invited by her sister-in-law to her nephew’s birth as a “pseudo-doula” to boss her older brother around. “The goal was to help him be involved in the way that he could,” she said. “I fell in love with being on that end of the bed, so to speak.” She didn’t know that a doula was an actual job until her husband, Rabbi Benjy Owen, heard a story on NPR. “He called me to tell me that people get paid for this thing I was running all over the neighborhood doing,” she said. Owen is now phasing out her doula services in order to devote her time to midwifery and running the Essential Birth and Family Center, which she opened earlier this year in Seattle’s Seward Park neighborhood. And her book, “The Essential Homebirth Guide” (Simon and Schuster, 2012) co-authored with colleague Jane Drichta, has already sold out of its first printing and holds a five-star rating on Amazon. “Women read it and go to bed happy,” Owen said of the response. “It’s not about fear.” Owen began training as a midwife with the Ancient Art Midwifery Institute “Cultural competency matters in birth,” Owen said. For new immigrants, “every time they turn around, something crazy is in front of them.” After a long wait and some pressure on the system, Owen did receive her license to practice midwifery last fall. Now one of her activities is attending births with an unlicensed immigrant midwife from Ethiopia, so the midwife can still serve her community in some way. She’s also helping the woman obtain her license. “They’re still the women that women bring their babies to,” said Owen. “Anything I can do to grow the midwifery community, I’m really into.” Yet another thing Owen has spearheaded to grow midwifery care is a partnership with Swedish Hospital. Women who want fewer tests, longer prenatal sessions (up to an hour), whole-body care, and perhaps a shorter drive from their South End locations — but still prefer a hospital birth — can receive midwifery prenatal care through the center. They meet with physicians once per trimester and develop a relationship with the hospital staff. “You’re not just a woman in a hospital gown,” said Owen. “You’re somebody that they know…. It’s old school obstetrics.” There is a cost savings as well for the expecting parents and their insurance companies. Hospital birth costs vary — according to a GroupHealth representative, a vaginal birth with no interventions costs $15,780 and a cesarean with a threeday stay, prescriptions and labs bills at $24,532 — so the hospital doesn’t necessarily lose anything by relinquishing prenatal care. Homebirths and birth-center births can often cost less than $3,000, with prenatal care included. “I’ve always believed women are safest where they feel safest,” Owen said. “It’s about meeting women where they’re at.” In spite of the excitement around bringing life into the world and creating a network of natural birth supporters, Owen’s personal life has presented challenges to her work. A few years ago, she lost one of her own children to cancer. “We really trust in mothers and babies and birth,” she reflected. “It works. People get pregnant and they stay pregnant and their babies usually live. That’s a very fundamental part of midwifery practice. So for me, coming into Sam’s illness was very shocking because it was the first time… ‘Oh, it doesn’t always work.’ “If it doesn’t always work — and will it ever work, and how can I trust that process again? — was part of my healing.” Owen took a year off from midwifery school to grieve with her family. “You just have to wake up and see it’s a new day one time. And then you do it again. And before you know it, time has
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Midwife Jodilyn Owen on the job.

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to use their own knowledge about themselves and their babies to move forward in their pregnancy and birth process.” Her training, which included obstetrical emergencies and understanding infant personalities, took her to the impoverished South Pacific island of Vanuatu, where she gained the “muscle memory” to deal with newborn resuscitation and other life-threatening situations. But once Owen was nationally certified as a midwife, she hit a wall. Licensure in Washington State is a highly bureaucratic, slow process, even though midwifery care saves the state millions of dollars per budget cycle, she explained. So she set out to accomplish her other goal. “I’ve always had this dream of creating a community gathering place for mothers and babies and families,” she said. The Essential Birth and Family Center is the result of hundreds of hours of conversations with South End healthcare professionals. The small building located next to the Seattle Kollel rents space to practitioners offering acupuncture, massage, lactation support, nutritional counseling, doula care, and craniosacral therapy, as well as prenatal classes, parent support groups, infant and child CPR, babysitting classes, and more. Girl Sense, which the center developed and helps girls 8-9 years old channel self-awareness and manage stress, has become so popular it’s being introduced in Israel, Uganda, and other parts of the U.S. this year. In addition, Owen feels strongly about empowering immigrant and minority communities in Rainier Valley. “Midwifery is a white profession,” Owen explained. It’s not easy for new immigrant midwives, who possibly serviced their entire communities back in Ethiopia or Somalia, to navigate the licensure or healthcare systems here.

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book. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave, Seattle. 6:30–9 p.m. — AIPAC Community Briefing with Rep. Derek Kilmer

AIPAC Seattle Office at [email protected] or 206-624-5152 or www.aipac.org Rep. Kilmer (D-6th), a freshman member of Congress, will have just returned from his first trip to Israel with the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF). Location provided upon RSVP, Seattle.

Thursday

Candlelighting times August 2.......................... 8:25 p.m. August 9...........................8:15 p.m. August 16........................ 8:03 p.m. August 23.........................7:51 p.m. Sunday

1–2:30 p.m. — A Garden Party

Ellen Hendin at [email protected] or 206-461-3240 or jfsseattle.org Irene and Larry Harvitz have built a wheelchairaccessible, tranquil sanctuary for their disabled son. Stroll through the paths that wind around perennials, arbors, bridges and waterfalls. At the home of Irene and Larry Harvitz, Bellevue. RSVP for location.

4 August

10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. — How Many Hats Does She Wear?

Ellen Hendin at [email protected] or 206-461-3240 or jfsseattle.org Michelle Witt, executive director of Meany Hall and the UW World Series of international music and dance, is known for her innovative artistic vision and collaborative spirit. Discover how Michelle wears her many hats so successfully. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.

8 August

Friday

Jewish Alaska Trip

Ami Greener at [email protected] or 202-599-0655 or www.costaribbean.com/ itinerary-alaska-jewish-trip-summer-2013.html Visit unspoiled frontier towns, national parks, a remote ghost city, and traverse Prince William Sound to view whales, bald eagles, and glaciers.

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Saturday

Tuesday

10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. — The ‘Eat Local’ Food Movement

Ellen Hendin at [email protected] or 206-461-3240 or jfsseattle.org Leora Bloom, author of “Washington Food Artisans” will discuss the “eat local” movement, its importance and how she came to write her

13 August

Wednesday

6:30–8 p.m. — AIPAC Young Professionals Network Happy Hour

Lila Pinksfeld at [email protected] or 206-624-5152 or www.aipac.org Meet the AIPAC Young Leaders Council over drinks and appetizers. Ask candid questions about how they became involved in AIPAC and what makes AIPAC tick. RSVP for location.

14 August

4 p.m. — “A Place At The Table”

Richard Hodgin at [email protected] or 206-729-8901 or www.brownpapertickets.com/event/410619 Important and moving documentary on hunger in the United States. A call to action to face reality and work to end poverty, the root cause. Free. At Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue, 1111 Harvard Ave., Seattle. XXPage 18

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where to worship
GREATER SEATTLE Bet Alef (Meditative) 206/527-9399 1111 Harvard Ave., Seattle Chabad House 206/527-1411 4541 19th Ave. NE Congregation Kol Ami (Reform) 425/844-1604 16530 Avondale Rd. NE, Woodinville Cong. Beis Menachem (Traditional Hassidic) 1837 156th Ave. NE, Bellevue 425/957-7860 Congregation Beth Shalom (Conservative) 6800 35th Ave. NE 206/524-0075 Cong. Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath (Orthodox) 5145 S Morgan St. 206/721-0970 Capitol Hill Minyan-BCMH (Orthodox) 1501 17th Ave. E 206/721-0970 Congregation Eitz Or (Jewish Renewal) Call for locations 206/467-2617 Cong. Ezra Bessaroth (Sephardic Orthodox) 5217 S Brandon St. 206/722-5500 Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch (Orthodox/Chabad) 6250 43rd Ave. NE 206/527-1411 Congregation Shevet Achim (Orthodox) 5017 90th Ave. SE (at NW Yeshiva HS) Mercer Island 206/275-1539 Congregation Tikvah Chadashah (LGBTQ) 206/355-1414 Emanuel Congregation (Modern Orthodox) 3412 NE 65th St. 206/525-1055 Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation (Conservative) 206/232-8555 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island Hillel (Multi-denominational) 4745 17th Ave. NE 206/527-1997 Kadima (Reconstructionist) 206/547-3914 12353 8th Ave. NE, Seattle Kavana Cooperative [email protected] Kehilla (Traditional) 206-397-2671 5134 S Holly St., Seattle www.seattlekehilla.com K’hal Ateres Zekainim (Orthodox) 206/722-1464 at Kline Galland Home, 7500 Seward Park Ave. S Mercaz Seattle (Modern Orthodox) 5720 37th Ave. NE [email protected] www.mercazseattle.org Minyan Ohr Chadash (Modern Orthodox) at Kline Galland Home, 7500 Seward Park Ave. S www.minyanohrchadash.org Mitriyah (Progressive, Unaffiliated) www.mitriyah.com 206/651-5891 Secular Jewish Circle of Puget Sound (Humanist) www.secularjewishcircle.org 206/528-1944 Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation (Orthodox) 6500 52nd Ave. S 206/723-3028 The Summit at First Hill (Orthodox) 1200 University St. 206/652-4444 Temple Beth Am (Reform) 206/525-0915 2632 NE 80th St. Temple B’nai Torah (Reform) 425/603-9677 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue Temple De Hirsch Sinai (Reform) Seattle, 1441 16th Ave. 206/323-8486 Bellevue, 3850 156th Ave. SE SOuTH KiNg COuNTy Bet Chaverim (Reform) 206/577-0403 25701 14th Place S, Des Moines WEST SEATTLE Kol HaNeshamah (Progressive Reform) 206/935-1590 Alki UCC, 6115 SW Hinds St. Torah Learning Center (Orthodox) 5121 SW Olga St. 206/643-5353 WASHINGTON STATE AbERdEEN Temple Beth israel 360/533-5755 1819 Sumner at Martin bAINbRIdGE ISLANd Congregation Kol Shalom (Reform) 9010 Miller Rd. NE 206/855-0885 Chavurat Shir Hayam 206/842-8453 bELLINGHAm Chabad Jewish Center of Whatcom County 102 Highland Dr. 360/393-3845 Congregation Beth israel (Reform) 2200 Broadway 360/733-8890 bREmERTON Congregation Beth Hatikvah 360/373-9884 11th and Veneta EvERETT / LyNNWOOd Chabad Jewish Center of Snohomish County 19626 76th Ave. W, Lynnwood 425/640-2811 Temple Beth Or (Reform) 425/259-7125 3215 Lombard St., Everett FORT LEWIS Jewish Chapel 253/967-6590 Liggett Avenue and 12th ISSAquAH Chabad of the Central Cascades 24121 SE Black Nugget Rd. 425/427-1654 OLympIA Chabad Jewish Discovery Center 1611 Legion Way SE 360/584-4306 Congregation B’nai Torah (Conservative) 3437 Libby Rd. 360/943-7354 Temple Beth Hatfiloh (Reconstructionist) 201 8th Ave. SE 360/754-8519 pORT ANGELES ANd SEquIm Congregation B’nai Shalom 360/452-2471 pORT TOWNSENd Congregation Bet Shira 360/379-3042 puLLmAN, WA ANd mOScOW, Id Jewish Community of the Palouse 509/334-7868 or 208/882-1280 SpOkANE Chabad of Spokane County 4116 E 37th Ave. 509/443-0770 Congregation Emanu-El (Reform) P O Box 30234 509/835-5050 www.spokaneemanu-el.org Temple Beth Shalom (Conservative) 1322 E 30th Ave. 509/747-3304 TAcOmA Chabad-Lubavitch of Pierce County 2146 N Mildred St.. 253/565-8770 Temple Beth El (Reform) 253/564-7101 5975 S 12th St. TRI cITIES Congregation Beth Sholom (Conservative) 312 Thayer Dr., Richland 509/375-4740 vANcOuvER Chabad-Lubavitch of Clark County 9604 NE 126th Ave., Suite 2320 360/993-5222 [email protected] www.chabadclarkcounty.com Congregation Kol Ami 360/574-5169 www.jewishvancouverusa.org vASHON ISLANd Havurat Ee Shalom 206/567-1608 15401 Westside Highway P O Box 89, Vashon Island, WA 98070 WALLA WALLA Congregation Beth israel 509/522-2511 WENATcHEE greater Wenatchee Jewish Community 509/662-3333 or 206/782-1044 WHIdbEy ISLANd Jewish Community of Whidbey island 360/331-2190 yAkImA Temple Shalom (Reform) 509/453-8988 1517 Browne Ave. [email protected]

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Roiling region, pessimism behind Kerry’s urgency on peace talks
Ron Kampeas JTA World News Service
ANALYSIS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — After 20 years of stops, starts and a bloody intifada in between, John Kerry believes he can pull out a final status Israeli-Palestinian peace deal in nine months. What clock is the U.S. secretary of state trying to beat? According to his aides, the one ticking down as Syria and Egypt roil into unknowable futures and Palestinians fume at the prospect of never achieving sovereignty. “It’s becoming more complicated on the ground, and a feeling of pessimism is settling in among Israelis and Palestinians,” said a State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “It’s getting harder, not easier.” On Tuesday, Kerry disclosed few details about a process that has been arranged and conducted largely behind a veil of secrecy. Kerry said the next round of meetings would be conducted in the region and that Israel had agreed to take steps to ease conditions for the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Gaza reference was new. Since the Hamas takeover of the strip in 2007, Israeli confidence-building measures have focused only on areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority. “The parties have agreed to remain engaged in sustained, continuous, and substantive negotiations on the core issues, and they will meet within the next two weeks in either Israel or the Palestinian territories in order to begin the process of formal negotiation,” Kerry said in an appearance at the State Department flanked by the top negotiator from each side, Tzipi Livni for Israel and Saeb Erekat for the Palestinians. The breadth of Kerry’s ambition is breathtaking given the failure of multiple U.S. administrations over two decades to bring the conflict to a close and end the deep skepticism that exists on both sides. In recent weeks, top Israeli officials have betraying the settlers, but who feel if they jump out, he has the Labor party supporting him from the opposition. “Those who are unhappy with what he is doing don’t have much of an option.” Netanyahu may be following in the footsteps of other Likud party leaders such as Ariel Sharon, Menachem Begin and Ehud Olmert, hardliners who ultimately abandoned the idea of keeping all the lands Israel captured in the 1967 SixDay War. “The question is, what is the alternative,” Medding said. “There is a part of Bibi that understands however terrible it is that a two-state solution is the only way to go as far as Israel is concerned. This may be best way for Israel to proceed in an Arab world which is having its own significant problems.” Kerry has been relentless in pushing the sides to the table, making six trips to the region in recent months and shuttling continuously between Jerusalem, Ramallah and Amman. “This is the man, Secretary Kerry, who showed everyone that nothing can stop true believers,” Livni said Tuesday. “And thank you for that.” Two factors were central to the strategy pursued by Kerry and President Obama, who met Tuesday morning with the negotiators: To reassure the Israelis that they would not be sold out and keep as much as possible under wraps. Obama’s March visit to Israel, in which he emphasized the closeness of the defense relationship between the United States and Israel, as well as historic Jewish ties to the land, did much to advance the first element. And Kerry vowed to maintain the radio silence that got him this far, emphasizing that only he was authorized to speak publicly about the talks, per agreement with the parties. “That means that no one should consider any reports, articles or other — or even rumors — reliable unless they come directly from me,” he said. “And I guarantee you they won’t.” ball team, will observe day-to-day workings of state government that includes riding with a state patrol officer, observing state-funded daycare, and spending a day with a corrections officer. This will give him “practical experience to use as we consider policy changes and budget changes” in Olympia. Frockt, counsel to a law firm, said legislative work continues year-round. A report on education funding is due to the state Supreme Court and he’s “working with staff, [having] a hearing next week; there are things that go on. There are a lot of meetings.”

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Israeli President Shimon Peres, left, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shake hands at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa in Amman, Jordan, on May 26. Renewed peace talks began this week.

declared the two-state solution dead and talked of managing, rather than resolving, the conflict. Kerry did not specify which issues are considered “core.” They would have to include not only the borders of a Palestinian state, but also the status of Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees — issues that scuttled the 2000 Camp David talks. Since the 2000 talks, the conventional wisdom has been to first address borders and only then proceed to the more intractable parts of the conflict. But the clock is ticking loud enough that it appears to have roused Israeli and Palestinian leaders who had not given an inch since October 2010, when the last round of talks stopped. “Our ability to impact the internal situation in Egypt or in Syria is very limited, but we can potentially impact our relationship with the Palestinians in a way that will increase stability in at least part of our region and perhaps better enable “I survived the session with a lot of help,” said Farrell, who has two young children. She created an “intricate symphony of logistics” that included her husband, parents, other family members, and friends who chipped in so she could accomplish her “exhilarating and interesting” work. That she’s glad to be on summer vacation “is the understatement of the year.” “I went into a tree,” said Frockt metaphorically, once the session was over. While on vacation with his wife while his kids were at Camp Kalsman, he recalled that during the session he cut short a trip to a family wedding to return to Olympia

us to cope with the turmoil occurring elsewhere,” said Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to Washington. To get the latest round of talks started, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gave up his insistent demand that Israel reinstate a settlement freeze prior to negotiations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to release 104 Palestinians imprisoned for violent acts dating to before the launch of the 1993 Oslo process. Netanyahu could make such a move in part because he is secure in his government and has the backing of Israelis who for years have told pollsters that they would accept the terms of a final-status agreement negotiated by their government, said Peter Medding, an emeritus professor of political science at Hebrew University. “He does not have anyone ready to jump ship, not at this stage,” Medding said. “There’s a clear warning sign for people to the right of him who feel he’s for a vote. “Of course, we didn’t vote,” he said, “I don’t like to complain…. It’s a real privilege to be in public service…[and] it’s part of the deal.” During the break, these representatives balance other jobs with legislative issues. Pollet runs a citizens’ group that leads cleanup efforts at Hanford and is pushing the Navy to clean up radiation contamination recently discovered in Seattle’s Magnuson Park, in the heart of his district. Farrell, an attorney, does some mediation, and will explore approaches to managing childhood obesity. Billig, co-owner of the Spokane Indians minor-league base-

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Farrell heard constituents demanding “a good budget outcome that… preserves our social safety net…and preserves a strong investment in our K–12,” and understood “this was coming from a divided government,” she said. She said she appreciated voters who came to Olympia to inform her of their views, and says the Jewish community was well-represented in lobbying for human services and homelessness issues. The long session wreaked havoc with the personal lives of representatives and staffers.

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Attorneys
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Counselors/Therapists
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Funeral/Burial Services
Congregation Beth Shalom Cemetery 206-524-0075 ✉☎ [email protected] This beautiful cemetery is available to the Jewish community and is located just north of Seattle.

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Hills of Eternity Cemetery Owned and operated by Temple De Hirsch Sinai 206-323-8486 Serving the greater Seattle Jewish community. Jewish cemetery open to all preneed and at-need services. Affordable rates • Planning assistance. Queen Anne, Seattle

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Sam Raskind tries to keep the ball from getting into Drew Cohen’s hands at the Hebrew Hoops summer day camp, which debuted this year in the gym of Bellevue’s Jewish Day School. Seattleite Sam Fein, a basketball fanatic who attends the University of Southern California, founded the camp.

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would-be customers operate all the same functions on their phone that most everyone else takes for granted. Because touchscreens are virtually useless to a person with low sight capability, in June 2013 Amir Mizrachi, Roman Gurevitz, Amir Blumenthal, Olivia Hoffman, Meital Messing, Amit Yaffe, and Yaron Oster developed software that voices each function the user is selecting. “The uniqueness of the
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application the students developed is that it is designed for any Android cell phone, it is available free of charge, and it requires no changes to the phone itself,” said the student’s supervisor and professor, Yossi Gil.
Longtime JTNews correspondent and freelance journalist Janis Siegel has covered international health research for SELF magazine and campaigns for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

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Wednesday, August 14 at 9 p.m. Rafe Pearlman with Dust & Gold Concert Get a little bit country, a little bit rock ’n’ roll, a little bit dreamy with Rafe Pearlman and his usual cast of characters: Jonathan Plum on guitar, Michael Miracle on keys, Seth Littlefield on drums, Phil Georgas on bass and Randy Neal on pedal steel. Some other bands will take the stage as well. $10. Entry available at the door or at ticketweb.com. At the Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave. NW, Seattle.

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Rick Moranis returns, brings ‘Brisket’
Naomi Pfefferman The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
Actor Rick Moranis has busted ghosts in the “Ghostbusters” flicks, shrunk the kids in that comedy film franchise, tried not to get gobbled by a man-eating plant in “Little Shop of Horrors,” spoofed Darth Vader as Dark Helmet in Mel Brooks’ “Spaceballs,” and over-parented in “Parenthood.” So what’s he doing with his new comedy album, “My Mother’s Brisket & Other Love Songs,” complete with klezmer, rhumba, and jazzy ditties including “Pu-Pu-Pu,” “My Wednesday Balabusta,” and “I’m Old Enough to Be Your Zaide”? In a phone conversation from his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the wry, 60-year-old Moranis said he’s been hanging with the Tribe since withdrawing from Hollywood to raise his two kids about 15 years ago. “I noticed that people of my generation were starting to use more [Yiddish] expressions,” he said. “They were in an odd sort of way becoming their parents. “Twenty years ago, my sister never said, ‘Pu pu pu,’ and now she’s constantly spitting it into the phone. Last Labor Day, I went to a wedding, and I said to a cousin of mine, ‘I saw your grandson’s video on YouTube, he’s so talented — pu pu pu!’ And I thought, ‘That’s it, I’m writing a song.’” The result is a klezmer-inspired tune that warns, “Before you’re jumping up and down and holding hands and kicking up a hora / consider possibilities of triggering a juicy kanahara [evil eye].” Another number, “Live Blogging the Himel Family Bris” describes a nosy online journalist who is fressing (stuffing his face) with one hand so he can type with the other; “Wednesday Balabusta” was inspired by Moranis’ housekeeper; and “The Seven Days of Shiva,” sung to the tune of “The 12 Days of Christmas,” marvels, “On the first day of shiva, the Stulbergs sent in/The biggest potato kugel I’ve ever seen. On the second day of shiva, the Katzmans had delivered/Two tureens of borscht and a bigger potato kugel than the Stulbergs’.” The album’s title song, of course, pays homage to his mom’s prowess with that signature Jewish dish: “When I was a little kid, it was not uncommon for a cousin or an uncle, before they would even say ‘Hello,’ to gush, ‘You know, your mother’s brisket is just incredible; it’s so good,’” Moranis recalled. “That was an inspiration for creating a love song in that wellworn terrain of the relationship between a Jewish boy and his mother.” The CD’s cover art depicts a “before” photograph of Moranis getting ready to tuck into Mom’s victuals and an “after” picture of him asleep, with his belt loosened, zonked out from all that overindulging. Consider the album a kind of comic revenge: “When I first began writing jokes and sketches with various Jewish partners, it was not uncommon for one of us to stop the proceedings and declare, ‘Too Jewish!’” Moranis said. “The songs on this album are all in that category.” And they’re dedicated to “all of the soon-to-be alter-kackers [old guys]” from his childhood summer camps and “my former fellow inmates of the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto.” While Moranis admitted to having regarded Hebrew school as “cruel and unusual punishment,” he said he grew up in a “joyful” Jewish home in a modest bungalow on a street of all-identical houses in Toronto. “I was really good at impressions,” he said, which was one reason he eventually got into show business. As a standup comic in the late 1970s, Moranis mined laughs by mimicking celebrities

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The new album features at least a dash of social commentary: The bris song, Moranis said, “was a good place to write what I wanted about blogging, which is how I loathe it and how dangerous I think it is. There’s no filter, no editing, no anything. And I thought a bris would be a perfect place for someone to violate privacy, act immorally, and publish.” While Moranis said he doesn’t much care if the album sells — “I made it for, like, 16 people,” he quipped — he was worried some of the naughtier tunes might alienate segments of the Jewish community. “There’s a gray area between Conservative and Orthodox people, for whom you don’t screw around with the mezuzah, you don’t mess with the holy melodies,” he said. “Now, I’m glad I had that compass on me, because that kept me from doing other things that are far worse. But the record came out this past month, and I was completely surprised by the reaction: Nobody found anything to be offensive.” The bonus add-on gift of an inscribed yarmulke with every purchase can’t hurt.

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gone by,” she said. “We have this question, what will we do with this day? We would look at each day with this question.” Owen’s work with babies and mothers helped her through the grieving process and reemerged as her calling. “From that first prenatal visit and that first birth, I knew, I miss this, and this is something that feeds my soul,” she said. “I want to be living, even with this tremendous loss in our lives. The way for me to do that was to follow my passion. I really wanted to show my kids that we must live. We must live.” Owen’s lifelong connection to Seattle’s Jewish community also informs her work. She reflected on a recent trip to Rhodes, Greece, with her family. “I saw a tombstone for a woman who was taken away by the Nazis and on her stone all of her children are listed by name and age on the day they were taken. There were six children — the youngest of which was only one week old. It was standing there that I felt my Jewish connection to what it means to usher in and protect life,” she said. “At a week, everything is so tender and new. That woman’s life and death woke something up in me about the important role of the midwife in our community, and it is an honor to fulfill that role.”

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Carly will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on August 8, 2013 in Jerusalem. Carly is the daughter of Corbin and Debbie Tudor of Bellevue and sister of Lauren and Joelle. Her grandparents are Carolyn Tudor of Kalispell, Mont., the late Leonard Tudor, and the late Ruth and Norbert Reuben. The family attends Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation. Carly is entering 8th grade at Chinook Middle School. She enjoys singing, reading, swimming, competitive soccer, and is a member of the National Junior Honor Society. For her mitzvah project, Carly led a food drive for the homeless at Redmond Tent City.

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Daniel will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on August 3, 2013 at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer Island. Daniel is the son of Michelle Pierce Kavesh of Mercer Island and the brother of Sabrina Kavesh. His grandparents are Elliot and Lucie Kavesh of Bellevue and the late Albert and Maureen Pierce. Daniel will be an 8th grader at Islander Middle School. He enjoys baseball, skiing, science, basketball, soccer, sports cars, and playing trumpet. For his mitzvah project, Daniel is supporting the Tourette Syndrome Association.

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Joelle will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on August 8, 2013 in Jerusalem. Joelle is the daughter of Corbin and Debbie Tudor of Bellevue and the sister of Lauren and Carly. Her grandparents are Carolyn Tudor of Kalispell, Mont., the late Leonard Tudor, and the late Ruth and Norbert Reuben. The family attends Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer Island. Joelle is an artist, and she enjoys drama, traveling, track, competitive soccer, and swimming. She is a member of the National Junior Honor Society. For her mitzvah project, she led a food drive for homeless kids who outgrew foster care at The Landing Shelter. Sylvianne G. Atkins (Sylvie) and Joshua E.R. Johnson have announced their engagement. Sylvie is the daughter of Marci and Riley Atkins of Portland, Ore. Her grandparents are the late Ed and Sylvia (Shemarya) Moskowitz. Sylvie graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in journalism and is a marketing communications manager at Microsoft. Joshua is the son of Jaqueline Rosenblatt and Garold Johnson of University Place, Wash. His grandparents are the late E. Edward and Mollie (Rosefield) Rosenblatt, Margaret Johnson of Goldfield, Nev., and the late Clyde Johnson. Joshua graduated from Curtis High in University Place and California State University Northridge with a degree in English. He works for Windermere Real Estate. The couple met at Camp Solomon Schechter’s alumni reunion in June 2011. The two plan to wed in Portland, Ore. in October 2014.

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Samara Ann Owen and Jeremy Nathan Benezra were married on July 11, 2013 at Olowalu Plantation House in Maui, Hawaii. Rabbi Peter Schaktman officiated. Samara is the daughter of Suzanne Owen of Renton and Greg Seaman of Traverse City, Mich. Her grandparents are Helen and George Seaman of Peoria, Ill. and Judy and Bob Owen of Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Samara graduated from Liberty High School and received a Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Washington. She works as an IT consultant at Ascentis. Jeremy is the son of Debbie and Larry Benezra of Mercer Island. His grandparents are Sandy and Henry Friedman of Mercer Island and Joyce and Ray Benezra of Kirkland. Jeremy attended Newport High School and holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and construction management from University of Washington. He now runs his own construction business focused on remodels, Benezra Construction LLC. The couple resides in Seattle.

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If the biggest question on your mind this weekend is, “Where can I get my hands on a Jewish version of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey?’” well, you’re in luck — sort of. “Fifty Shades of Schwarz” has “parody” stamped right on the cover. However, a more accurate description might be “inspired by,” since the title, fortunately, is where the similarities between the two end. In case you missed out on the last three years of literary pop culture: The original “Fifty Shades of Grey” began as Internet fan fiction based loosely on the “Twilight” series. It took the basic, screwed-up characteristics of Bella and Edward’s relationship, gave them different names and jobs, changed the environment and circumstances, then shot them into beginner BDSM territory — providing tons of detailed sex scenes and focusing on the sexual nature of the relationship. Naturally, this was hugely popular and wildly exciting for “vanilla” folks. For many, “Fifty Shades of Grey” became the gateway drug into erotica and experimentation. Erotica enthusiasts rolled their eyes and the BDSM community yawned as the book became the fastest-selling paperback, ever. Ever. EVER. “Why not cash in on this massive trend and write a Jewish version?” Ed Harris, a local tech entrepreneur and author, probably asked himself. So he did. Let’s cut straight to it: It’s actually pretty entertaining. In fact, as a self-proclaimed “parody” of an already terrible book, it could quite possibly benefit from being more, well…terrible. For — unfortunately — in “Schwarz,” the action is driven by plot rather than sex. The main character, Maya Stein, lives in Brooklyn and has a boring boyfriend named Jeremy. She meets a man named Aaron Schwarz through JDate (yep!) and they meet up for coffee. They go out several times, then things get mildly kinky: He wants to spank her during sex! So he does. But only if she doesn’t answer Jewish trivia questions correctly. It’s a game, see? Never has remembering stuff from Hebrew school been so critically important. At that point Harris, surprisingly, takes a progressive turn in his writing and introduces another love interest into Maya’s life: A rabbi whom Maya meets through her mother. This is a pleasant diversion from the original “Fifty Shades,” where the main character is completely enveloped by a single controlling man with whom she is involved.

That is not the case here. In “Fifty Shades of Schwarz,” Maya is totally mature and in control. She juggles three men: A boyfriend, a businessman into spanking, and a sexy rabbi. That “juggling” portion of the book is really as exciting as it gets, for at the end (spoiler alert) Maya ends up married to some guy she went to high school with, pregnant and settled

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“Fifty Shades of Schwarz” is available online from Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

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