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Harnek Pabla, second from left, owner of the Pabla Indian restaurant in Renton, celebrated 10 years of kashrut on July 29. Rabbi Moshe Kletenik, a rabbinical board member of the Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle, center, presented Pabla with a certificate, accompanied by Cecelia Benzaquen, left, kashrut consultant Rabbi Dovid Jenkins, second from right, and Al Maimon, right, the Va’ad’s executive director.

Federation begins rolling out its new strategy
Joel Magalnick Editor, Jtnews
A year from now, the financial pictures of many of Western Washington’s Jewish organizations could look very different from how they look today. On July 28, representatives from the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle began the public rollout of its new fundraising and allocations model, a radical shift from the way this communal funding agency has operated for much of the past 85 years. Though beneficiary agencies can expect many changes in the allocations process, the changes will be most obvious in two ways: • Instead of receiving unrestricted allocations that cover operating costs, agencies will need to request grant money for specific projects; • Where a handful of local organizations in the past received funding from the Federation, any Jewish 501(c)3 charitable organization in Western Washington, including synagogues, will be eligible to apply for these grants. “This is very different from our old model…. We’re now looking at the broader community,” said Jack Almo, chair of the Federation’s Planning and Allocations committee. “The statement that we’re really making is that we’re a community tackling community challenges.” But that statement, said Richard Fruchter, the Federation’s president and CEO, will need to be proven through action — the results of which are the culmination of more than two years of study and planning. “We are positioning the Federation to be a forward-looking organization, the future of the community, and trying to say, ‘Here’s how we can take a community that’s good right now and really turn it into a great community,’” Fruchter said. Rabbi Jonathan Singer of Temple Beth Am in Seattle, who also sits on the Federation’s board, has long promoted the idea that synagogues should be eligible for Federation funding. He said he was impressed with the structure of this new model. “All the Jewish organizations can reach out together and work on fundraising and on development and communal engagement, so I’m very happy and proud of what the board achieved,” Singer said. What marks this new strategy from the nationwide standard of federated giving — a big pot of money is collected each year, then distributed to local and international organizations based on various communitydirected criteria — is how the fundraising and allocating are inextricably linked. Donors will now have the option of directing where they want their
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Who put the “psychosis” back in “metempsychosis?”
Martin Jaffee Jtnews Columnist
When I was 10, I thought my friend Kevin Hennessey was nuts. Whenever he’d get mad at me, he’d scream out, “You Jews are all gonna boin in hell!” To which I’d respond, with all the cocky self-assuredness that drove him nuts in the first place: “Nyaaa! There ain’t no hell in my religion!” Only decades later did I learn, to my shock, that his religion had borrowed hell from mine! As Casey Stengel used to say, “You can look it up!” The Talmudic rabbis, in fact, were convinced that there is a special place — Gehinnom — for notorious sinners, such as Korach’s rebels, Jewish kings who sponsored idolatry and, lest we forget, a certain Messiah, who was said to be spending eternity in boiling excrement. All this came to mind one recent morning when my buddy the Archbishop forwarded me a news item — with his own outraged commentary at an apparent anti-Semitic slander. The report claimed (erroneously, it turns out) that a “Haredi rabbinic court” in Jerusalem presided over the stoning death of a stray dog after determining its body harbored the reincarnated soul of “a secular lawyer, now deceased, who had insulted the court 20 years earlier.” So which do you consider more bizarre: That Torah sages would stone a dog to death or that the same sages harbor a worldview that includes metempsychosis (a fancy Greek term for “transmigration of the soul from body to body”)? Let’s begin with metempsychosis. As any survivor of Prof. Jaffee’s UW offering on “Jewish Mystical Tradition” well knows, from roughly the 16th-18th centuries, not only did most Jews — Sephardic or Ashkenazic — believe in the restoration of the soul to the body at resurrection, they also held, as a matter of conviction, the idea that each individual soul, in the course of millennial wanderings, routinely inhabits many bodies until it completes the mission for which God sent it into the world! The idea is unknown to the Talmud and finds no place in Maimonides. It first surfaces publicly in the Sefer ha-Bahir (around the 12th century) and, riding the coattails of the Zohar, makes steady progress among Kabbalistic adepts. It finally goes viral among the disciples of Rabbi Isaac Luria, the great 16th-century theologian of Kabbalah. In full Lurianic dress, this process of soul-migration is called gilgul hanefashot. The idea is that every soul has a repair (tikkun) to make in this world in order to prepare the world for redemption. And each soul might take a number of “circuits” (gilgulim) through this world until it accomplishes its particular tikkun. Sometimes, the new gilgul brings one to a higher form of life. Sometimes not. Consider this story from the Toledot ha-Ari, a collection of legends about Rabbi Isaac Luria compiled by his disciple, Shlomil of Dresnitz, a generation after the master sloughed off his mortal coil in 1572: Once the rabbi went with his disciples to Ayn Zatun. When they arrived at a grove of olive trees, a raven came and perched on a branch near the rabbi and called out repeatedly. Said the rabbi: “Remember Shabbetai, the tax collector? Well his soul has become embodied in this raven! Because of his cruelty to the poor, he was punished with this heartache of being reborn as a raven. And now he asks me to pray for him!” Immediately, the rabbi rebuked him and said: “Wicked One! Be on your way!” And the raven flew off. You’ll get why this Shabbetai surely had coming to him a few more years pecking seeds out of cow pies! But let’s fast-forward from 16th-century Tsfat to 21st-century Jerusalem and the case of the chutzpadik lawyer trapped in the body of a dog. This case of gilgul has drawn international attention, despite the disclaimer by the Maariv daily, whose editors hastily apologized for turning a vicious rumor into an occasion for anti-Semitic factoids. Everyone from PETA (animal rights) to Al Jazeera (Palestinian rights) has weighed in on this latest “Zionist assault” on humanitarian norms. Well, in order to set the record straight, and restore the Jewish people’s reputation for humaneness, let me share another story that might reassure the humanitarian community that there are indeed Jews who cherish humankind’s best friend — even one unwittingly harboring the soul of a shark! Consider this account of events surrounding the death of one Nahman David Dovinski, in 2009: Upon returning to their Meah Shearim flat from the funeral, Reb Dovinski’s family found an unfamiliar dog
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Judaism is more than tikkun olam
Joel alperson JtA World news Service
OMAHA, Neb. (JTA) — A lot of my hometown of Omaha, Neb., was under water in the final days of July. Pumps were set down at various locations, including at a nuclear power plant located not far from town that had to be shut down. The Missouri River, which borders our city, rose to dangerous levels, turning much of the city into a lake. Some Omaha residents took to sandbagging to help reinforce critical locations along the river — to little effect. This disaster mirrors the serious challenge facing the non-Orthodox Jewish world. Non-Orthodox Judaism is confronted by rising levels of secularism that almost always lead to assimilation — a trend that within a generation or two could render Reform and Conservative Judaism largely irrelevant in North America (and abroad as well). Non-Orthodox Jews’ general discontent with and resulting departure from Jewish life, left alone, stands to bring Reform and Conservative Judaism to a state of obsolescence. This prediction is neither original nor new. From studies about very high interfaith marriage rates to growing assimilation percentages, we should know by now that the non-Orthodox way of life is failing by just about every metric we have at our disposal. (I am not Orthodox, by the way.) Some may not like reading these words and others may be angered by them, but like the Omaha flood, it’s hard to ignore what one sees. This distancing from Jewish religious (i.e., God-based) teachings and ritual experiences inevitably leads to a distancing from Jewish purpose. So Jews increasingly try to find their Judaic meaning in social/political causes (immigration reform, Supreme Court appointments, environmentalism, women’s rights, etc.). Putting aside the merit of the positions taken, let’s be honest: These “tikkun olam” pursuits might feel good and even do some good, but they do little to build Jewish communities. We’re losing Jews and the commitment of Jews far too quickly to think that we can afford to continue on as we are. If Jews continue to prioritize these social/political efforts over proven religious practices, we must have the courage to acknowledge that we have substituted all these secular causes for Judaism. We can’t have it both ways. We might insist that tikkun olam and social justice are central to our Jewish way of life, but they are increasingly taking the place of serious Jewish education and Jewish practice. Those are the water pumps and sandbags employed by the Orthodox movement against the rising tides of assimilation. I watch with sadness as the seminaries of our non-Orthodox movements lay off employees and close programs. National non-Orthodox day school attendance represents only a small percentage of Jewish children in the United States. And it’s not because the economy started spiraling downward — the trends leading to this point were in place long before. Orthodox Jews, for whatever disagreements many non-Orthodox Jews have with them, have grown in number, and not only by sheltering themselves in ultraOrthodox communities. In contrast to the ultra-Orthodox, the Modern Orthodox largely swim in the same secular waters as other Jews: They own televisions, use the Internet, attend secular universities, and work and vacation in the secular world. But they also hold to a religious discipline they believe is life-improving. They observe Shabbat and the Jewish holidays, and they study Jewish texts in far greater numbers than non-Orthodox Jews. They are more likely to have children, and their children are far more likely to marry Jews and make Jewish homes. Judaism teaches us how to be better friends, businesspeople, husbands, wives and philanthropists. It tells us how to help the weak and when to fight evil. In short, Judaism done right makes us better human beings. It is the discipline of leading a traditional Jewish life that also reminds us how best to engage in repairing the world. Ironically, by overemphasizing tikkun olam we could ultimately, through lack of Jewish knowledge and experience, lose the very impetus that put us in the tikkun olam business in the first place. Must every Jew become Orthodox to live a committed and meaningful Jewish life? Clearly not. There are, of course, great numbers of highly committed nonOrthodox Jews. But as a community, at least for now, we’ll be severely weakened if we don’t acknowledge that we must repair ourselves far more urgently than we must repair the world.
Joel Alperson is a past national campaign chair for United Jewish Communities. His views do not necessarily represent those of the Jewish Federations of North America, formerly known as United Jewish Communities.

Judaism is always tikkun olam — and more
NEW YORK (JTA) — I have no patience for survival Judaism. Whenever I hear someone talk about what Jews must do in order to “survive,” I head for the door. Joel Alperson has joined the long list of Jewish communal leaders offering a formula for Jewish survival. Along the way, he informs us that Modern Orthodoxy has all the answers and Reform and Conservative Judaism are on the road to extinction — a point with which I strongly disagree but that I will not argue here. What does need to be said, however, is that he shows a total misunderstanding of what Judaism is about and fails to comprehend that a Judaism obsessed with survival is a Judaism that will not survive. Anyone who has urged college students to care about Jewish survival knows they will respond with indifference, incomprehension and contempt. They are not interested in being Jewish so we can survive. They need to hear the opposite message: Jews do not observe Torah in order to survive; they survive in order to observe Torah. And — this is the key for such students, and for most North American Jews — observing Torah means much more than worrying only about our own souls. Observing Torah involves fulfilling a grander purpose. It means taking to heart the words of R. Hayyim of Brisk, the greatest Talmudist of the late 19th century, who defined the rabbi’s task as follows: “To redress the grievances of those who are abandoned and alone, to protect the dignity of the poor, and to save the oppressed from the hands of the oppressor.” Social justice, in short, is required by our religious texts and is inseparable from our religious mission. There is no such thing as a morality that is selectively indignant — that looks within but fails to look without. And Judaism without ethics, both personal and societal, is a contradiction in terms. Do we need to study Torah, embrace Jewish ritual and observe Shabbat? Absolutely, although Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Jews will interpret these obligations differently. The work of social justice, absent text study and ritual practice as a foundation, is inauthentic and will not sustain itself. Indeed, I have found that the work of “tikkun olam,” for all its rewards,

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is lonely and discouraging work, and only by absorbing the light of the Shabbat candles and by studying and worshiping with a strong, dynamic Jewish community can I immunize myself against the cynicism and alienation that surround me. But the point that Mr. Alperson misses is that social justice is not, as he claims, a secular pursuit meant to compensate for the absence of “God-based” Jewish experience. Social justice is God-mandated in precisely the same way that Shabbat observance and Torah study are God-mandated. In the book of Jeremiah (9:24), we find these words: “I am the Eternal, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight.” Serious Jews know that in the Jewish tradition, healing the sick, clothing the naked, helping the poor, pursuing peace, loving my people and my neighbors — these are the attributes of God, and we testify to God’s existence by emulating God behavior. And in fact, Mr. Alperson can’t seem to decide if Jewish education and Jewish practice are “God-based” or are instruments of survival. Ultimately he appears to choose the latter, referring to them as “the water pumps and sandbags employed by the Orthodox movement against the rising tides of assimilation.” Orthodox leaders can speak for themselves on this point, but I will share with you the reaction of my daughter Adina, a social activist, who belongs to an Orthodox congregation and was incensed by this article. “We don’t observe Shabbat because it is a sandbag against assimilation,” she said, “but because it is part of the eternal covenant between God and the Jews that evokes the miracle of Creation and the Exodus from Egypt and links me to Jews throughout the centuries.” Exactly so. The essence of Mr. Alperson’s argument, and the height of his folly, is that “we can’t have it both ways”; we cannot, he says, both insist that tikkun olam and social justice are central and also embrace serious Jewish education and Jewish practice. But we can, and in fact, we must. To do one without the other is to retreat from the world and distort Judaism’s very essence.
Rabbi Eric Yoffie is the president of the Union for Reform Judaism.

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Matisyahu brings music, spirituality, and life lessons to Schechter
coreY salka Special to Jtnews
“What God is trying to do with this world is to figure out who he is through us,” music sensation Matisyahu told the campers at Camp Solomon Schechter. “That’s really what Jewish mysticism says.” Matisyahu, known for his fusion of reggae, hip-hop and beat-box sounds with Chassidic Judaism performed for 200 enthusiastic campers at Camp Solomon Schechter on July 29. The camp is the only Jewish summer camp to ever have hosted Matisyahu — and this was his second appearance. “We are so blessed to be able to have him share his message about peace, being proud of being Jewish, and pride in Israel,” said Sam Perlin, the camp’s executive director. “I’m thrilled that he feels passionate about Jewish camping. It’s a real joy to see the faces of our kids when he enters the amphitheater.” After thunderous welcoming applause, Matisyahu said, “It’s great to be back” and launched into one of his most popular hits, “Jerusalem.” Between songs, Matisyahu engaged in warm conversation with the campers, at times offering humor, as well as serious and deep messages. He performed several of his well-known songs in the 45-minute performance. He capped off his appearance with his hit “One Day,” which has been the camp’s theme song since his first visit last summer. Beyond the music, however, Matisyahu’s message clearly resonated with his audience. Matisyahu said even from his childhood he has always had a strong belief in God, and that God would manifest his destiny. “I wanted to foster a relationship with God; I wanted to build it, figure out how to develop it,” he said. “So I just started davening. I felt that somehow there was something real about the Hebrew words and the Hebrew language and letters. Even if I couldn’t understand them, I felt that saying those words, saying those letters was going to open up some doors.” Doing so wasn’t always easy, Matisyahu said. “In times before I ever thought about religion or Judaism, when I would feel disconnected I would just try to reconnect, whether that meant going down to the water, taking a walk, singing a song, or writing some lyrics,” he said. “But it wasn’t working well enough for me to just do it on my own; I needed help with it.” After exploring where he felt most comfortable in Judaism, in what he called a process of discovering himself, he arrived at where he is today — though he says the exploration is a lifelong process. Campers said Matisyahu’s religious explorations created a powerful message for them. “He’s not the stereotypical Jew, which most of us are seen as, to our non-Jewish friends,” said Jacqueline Schwartz, 14, of Seattle. “We’re really stereotyped at the public school where I go. So seeing Matisyahu as a religious Jew KASEy PEtErSon who is cool, who rides Beatbox sensation Matisyahu and his bandmates did a 45-minute set for motorcycles and tells Camp Solomon Schechter in Olympia on July 29. jokes, is really cool.” Rafael Kintzer, an 18-year-old staff alive.” member also from Seattle reflected upon Reflecting upon the origins of his the impact of Matisyahu’s appearance on music, Matisyahu spoke of the bridge the rest of the camp session. between the music and Judaism. “I think Matisyahu injects amazing “My whole life all I really wanted to do Jewish energy and spirit into everyone at is to make music,” he said. “When I became camp,” Kintzer said. “He gives everyone religious and went to yeshiva, I just let go of a burst of joy to come to camp [and be] it. I just said that if this is my destiny, if this happy from the start. That’s so important, is what God wants for me, then I have to because Jewish camping opens doors in so figure out the other parts of my life first.” many ways. Jewish camping changes how people think about the world.” For video of Matisyahu’s appearance, please “He has such amazing music,” said see the Camp’s YouTube channel at www. 17-year-old Merav Rosenberg of Jerusayoutube.com/campsolomonschechter. Corey lem, a member of the delegation of the Salka is a board member of the Jewish camp’s four Israeli scouts. “Seeing him Federation of Greater Seattle and Camp here brings so much spirit and makes the Solomon Schechter and the founding partner camp experience so much stronger and of Israel Startup Angels.

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Conservative congregation Herzl-Ner Tamid is overhauling its education program, which means you’ll find grandparents hanging out in the preschool — and teens learning with their parents.

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The different names of love
A new French film brings the memories of the Holocaust and the immediacy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into the bed of a middle-aged Jewish man and the young woman who tries to “save” him.

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Kosher slaughter remains legal social conscience with sprinkles on top

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A challenge to the law that protects religious slaughter has been struck down by a state appellate court.

Ben Cohen, the Ben of that famous ice cream duo, visited the Northwest earlier this summer and spoke about how he felt the need to build his business with social awareness in the recipe.

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Synagogue educators take a holistic view
Janis siegel Jtnews Correspondent
The oldest Conservative congregation in Seattle is changing up its educational format, trading “boutique Judaism” and the “Synaplex” model of individually tailored ritual for a holistic generational approach with the help of its newly hired director of congregational learning, Rabbi Jill Levy. Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation’s longtime spiritual leader, Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, said a shift in Judaism is taking place around the world. Jewish communities, he said, are becoming more proactive, less defensive, and better at becoming the people who survived tremendous odds to thrive in the 21st century. Herzl-Ner Tamid, he told the JTNews, will follow that trend beginning this year. “We live in the age of individualism, and we’ve been doing that,” Rosenbaum said. “A family service, a teen service, a main service — and we reached people in new ways. But the sense of community needed to be developed a little more deeply. “ So the board and HNT leadership started asking questions about how to meld the Frankel Religious School, the membership, and the community to a new and unified level. “How do we create more connectivity between the age groups and have a more deeply connected relationship between the school and the synagogue?” Rosenbaum asked. “We want to create a more holistic way of thinking about everything Jewish.” Levy’s role at the synagogue will incorporate this new vision, which emphasizes life-long learning. Only onboard a few weeks, Levy, was ordained in May from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She held the Wexner Fellowship there, was a Legacy Heritage Fellow, and also earned a master’s degree in Public Administration from Columbia University. When the board and the congregation decided to hire a director of congregational learning instead of continuing with a more child-focused education director, Levy was a natural selection for many reasons, including the fact that she received her bachelor’s degree at the University of Washington in Conservation Biology. “Right now we’re very much in the planning stages,” said Levy. “Part of what I’ll be doing over the course of this year is taking a really serious look at the religion school programs. What we don’t want to have is independent silos...but we want to see ourselves as an integrated whole. What happens in the religious school also has an effect on what happens in the main sanctuary.” One of the first initiatives will be a music program on Sunday mornings, led by local musician Chava Mirel. The existing B’Yachad program, a two- or three-day-a-week religious school program for grades 3 through 5, already includes a family education component. B’Yachad is meant to encourage parents to get involved and learn with their kids, in the synagogue. “Rabbi Rosenbaum and I are going to be teaching classes for the parents while their kids are in religion school,” Levy said. “And there will probably be some kind of learning together component where the family studies together.” The second hour of the morning, she said, will be an interactive parent-to-parent discussion time focused around Jewish values and family dynamics. Levy, her husband, and their two daughters, ages 2 and 4 months, relocated to Seattle from Philadelphia, where she was attending the Jewish Theological Seminary. She was born and raised in Houston, Texas. Levy met her husband when the two were working at Hillel of Georgia in Atlanta. He has been a student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and

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Rabbi Jill Levy, Herzl-Ner Tamid’s new director of congregational learning.

is currently taking time off to be a stay-athome dad. “I’m the parent of two very young kids,” said Levy. “I know that having that community of other people to speak with about different struggles that I’m going through with my own kids is really helpful.” One new aspect of this holistic education program will be the intermingling
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QFC proudly supports Seattle Children’s Hospital
By Eric Miller, QFC Public Affairs Specialist In early March, members of our QFC Corporate Office team put a few hours of their own time toward helping achieve an extremely important goal — raising $1 million dollars for Seattle Children’s Hospital. The event was Jackie and Bender’s 10th annual “One Big Kiss for Seattle Children’s Hospital Radiothon,” a 2-day fundraiser which was broadcast live from the Hospital. Radio hosts Jackie and Bender brought the stories of Children’s patients, families, staff and volunteers to their listeners across our region, who responded with generous donations. QFC associates helped answer phones to take pledges from these callers and during the event, QFC provided two $5,000 miracle matches: QFC’s first $5,000 match generated 96 gifts totaling $7,894. QFC’s second $5,000 match generated 148 gifts totaling $10,440 Overall, our $10,000 match motivated 244 people to donate $18,334 to Seattle Children’s and the event did meet its goal — the radiothon raised $1,090,396.72! “I was grateful for the opportunity to be part of such a worthy cause. My older brother, Christopher, was diagnosed with leukemia at age 2 and Children’s Hospital was a very large part of the first nine years of his life and the first seven years of mine. Dr. Barbara Clark was our primary care physician and she took a special interest in our family. She is now retired but will forever be considered a member of our family. My brother was expected to not live through the night on more than one occasion, lost his hair 3 times due to radiation treatment, and the suffering and worry my parents must have experienced with every cold and flu throughout those years is unimaginable. The hospital and its staff were supportive beyond what was expected. They helped where it was truly necessary. I am proud to be able say that my big brother has been in complete remission since his late childhood and is happily married with a wonderfully bright adopted son.” – Josh Dooley, QFC Shrink Manager

This summer, we all have the same opportunity to aid Seattle Children’s in their mission to prevent, treat and eliminate pediatric disease. Starting August 7th and running through September 3rd, Seattle Children’s Hospital will be QFC’s Check Stand Charity Partner. QFC customers can donate at any check stand using the $1, $5, or $10 scan cards, by dropping change in coin boxes or by designating their 3 cent bag reuse credit as a donation to Seattle Children’s. In addition, QFC will make a donation of $10,000 to the Hospital. Your willingness to donate will make a difference in the lives of children and their families, and that is something to celebrate!

Eric Miller is the Public Affairs Specialist for QFC. He can be reached at [email protected] or 425-990-6182.

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A native of our fair state, Sheila (Schain) Stuart, has just completed a term as mayor of Cambridge, England. Born in Seattle, Sheila moved with her parents, Sid and Vicki Schain, to Yakima and then the Tri-Cities for a time, before the family settled in Oregon. According to Sid, Sheila always had an interest in politics and interned in the Oregon State Legislature. She moved to England in 1991 to work for Toby Churchill in his speech-aid business. They subsequently married and had a daughter, Lucy, before divorcing. She is currently married to Bruce Stuart, an architect. Sid explained to me that Cambridgeshire has 42 councilors, or representatives, similar to our city or county councils. “They have much more direct import,” on their constituents, he says and, in his opinion, “the political system there is much more satisfactory.” After serving on the council in Cambridge’s Trumpington Ward since 2004,

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Sheila accepted the mostly honorary yearlong position of mayor for a term that began in May 2010. She kept her so-called “day job” as an accountant, performing her mayoral duties during the day and keeping up with her profession at night. Sid says she took the job with the intent of making it fun, and from the photos I received, it certainly looks that way. Among her official duties, Sheila has met the Queen and Prince Charles a couple of times, opened the 800-year-old Reach Fair, and rappelled off of ancient buildings. As you can imagine, Sheila has received a lot of press coverage in her adopted hometown. You can search the Cambridge News site at www.cambridge-news.co.uk for articles and photos of Her Honor, the very photogenic mayor, or see her reviewing the Royal Anglican Regiment in a BBC slide show at bbc.in/qB6Pyn (typists should mind the capital letters).
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On July 4 last year, we huddled around fires to keep warm in Seattle. As of this writing, we’ve so far gotten 78 minutes of summer — temperatures over 80 degrees, that is. Meanwhile, across the country in Washington, D.C., where politicians are wasting taxpayer money fighting over a phony ”debt crisis,” and trying to eliminate the Clean Air and Water Acts, EPA, and conservation and alternative-energy programs, they’re sweltering under record waves of heat and humidity. Is climate change afoot, or are these weather gyrations just “isolated events” that are “part of the Earth’s natural cycles,” as climate change deniers assert? In the interest of full disclosure: These “natural cycles” have wiped out life on earth a dozen times. Of such cycles, the Torah just mentions The Flood, as if that was the only time such an event occurred. It also notes smaller, devastating environmental events — erasing Sodom and Gemorrah, the Egyptian plagues, swallowing Korach and Co. But it doesn’t offer much guidance on how we can address man-made environmental dangers, or climate changes — other than to tough them out, or migrate (i.e., the story of Joseph). We have become renowned for that latter skill over the ages as Wandering Jews. But most of the world’s habitable places are already settled, so migrating to new, more promising lands is no longer a viable option. Everyone is in the same ark. So in addition to the consequences of natural cycles, climate change deniers might add a little more previously unmentioned information to their claims, to wit: • Human output of greenhouse gases is demonstrably overloading earth’s carbon cycle, helping glaciers disappear from South Pole to North Pole, and Himalayas to Andes to Kilimanjaro, eliminating runoff water for drinking and irrigation worldwide; • Changing ocean currents and weather patterns are affecting growing seasons, patterns of rainfall, drought and migrations, and disease vectors; rising ocean acidity levels are adversely affecting sea life, and pose threats of hydrogen sulfide blooms; • Uncontrolled human population growth and poor resource management are running the world out of seafood, game birds and animals, and depleting fresh water and arable land for growing food. To hedge their bets, a large group of Congressional climate change-denying politicians is working to cut federal funding for the agencies and programs that measure, report and take action on climate change. It’s simple logic: You can’t prove
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The Hebrew word “shalom” means “peace.” When we speak the word, we encourage those we greet to lead lives free of violence. Along these lines, we’ve provided quotations from some of the best Nobel Peace Prize Lectures. Name the speakers of the quotes in bold, with the years of their Nobel inductions given in parentheses.

ACROSS 1 “Peace is the beauty of life.” (1978) 6 Elroy Jetson’s mom 10 Belch 14 Concession speech? 15 Bell Labs creation 16 Give off 17 “Let us reach for the world that ought to be.” (2009) 18 “True happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment.” (1989) 20 How you might feel while sitting shiva 21 Foxx film 23 Show for forensics fans 24 Guitarist’s need 25 With 51-Across, “The poor people are very great people. They can teach us so many beautiful things.” (1979) 28 “Peace is not God’s gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.” (1986) 31 Summer appliances, for short 32 Starlet’s goal 35 Off-kilter 36 ___ Reader (political magazine) 38 Fish-and-chips fish 39 “It is time to make peace with the planet.” (2007) 40 “Peace is a dynamic construction to which all should contribute.” (1978) 42 “Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.” (1964) 43 Cultural period 44 TV’s warrior princess 45 Org. with a food pyramid 46 Monopoly payment 48 ___ Red Road (thoroughfare near Microsoft) 49 “Global challenges must be met with an emphasis on peace.” (2002) 51 See 25-Across 53 Bad stat for Hasselbeck 54 Hill dweller 55 When you’d expect to leave SeaTac, briefly 56 Swelled head 59 “Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity.” (1990) 64 “The one radical solution is peace.” (1994) 66 Neighborhood 67 It has buzzers at its entrances? 68 Word before Gay 69 Did a cantor’s job, at times 70 Hebrew word meaning “so be it” 71 “Peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory.” (2001)

DOWN 1 Book jacket items 2 Isle between Tuscany and Corsica 3 Poke and prod 4 Suffix with global or hero 5 “Whenever You’re ___” (Ace of Base song) 6 Elroy Jetson’s sister 7 Santa ___ winds 8 Zippo 9 Obtains, as revenge 10 Rabbi’s attribute 11 Thurman of Kill Bill 12 Edge 13 Bake sale grp. 19 Suffix with sheep or bull 22 Report card triumph 24 “___ sow, so shall…” 25 “Let a new age dawn!” (1993) 26 About 71% of the earth’s surface 27 Bigot 28 Gamble 29 “Jim, ___ a Tie Today” (country song by The HIghwaymen) 30 Off the mark 33 Le ___ (French newspaper) 34 M’s legend Martinez 37 They may be withheld 41 Unspoken, as an agreement 42 Dave and Krist’s Nirvana bandmate 47 Lipton packet 48 “You ___!” (Palin exclamation) 50 Tenor Bocelli 52 Genetic info 55 Divisible by two 56 Black, poetically 57 Type of monster 58 Second son of Judah 59 Shell product 60 “…man ___ mouse?” 61 Stimpy’s pal 62 That guy 63 Garden of Eden resident 65 ___ Arbor

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Rusty Federman, board president of the Stroum Jewish Community Center, said his board and leadership are standing behind this initiative. “Our hope is that the community will embrace this new model and see the value in driving programmatic excellence in rating the areas that are the highest priorities for the community,” he said. As the second-largest local recipient of community campaign funds, the SJCC is holding a wait-and-see attitude with how the overall funding plays out when allocations are announced in the spring. “It’s real money in our budget,” Federman said. “All the agencies…have great need and we’re all looking to grow our bottom line as much as possible.” Though Federman said it was still premature to comment on how the new model will affect his organization’s budget, he doesn’t foresee any major changes to the programmatic model the SJCC has been building over the past few years. Federman and Judy Neuman, the

SJCC’s CEO, have met with Fruchter and Federation board chair Shelley Bensussen to discuss the model, and expect to have more one-on-one discussions with the Planning and Allocations committee to get a better sense of how to most effectively apply for grants. Those discussions, Almo said, will not be exclusive to the larger organizations. He said the Federation plans to hold sessions to provide grant-writing instruction as well as a letter-of-inquiry process that will give any agency feedback on whether a proposed request would be likely to receive funding. As a lifelong member of Seattle’s Jewish community, Wendy Rosen looks forward to seeing this new model put into action. “I’m excited about it. I’m energized about it,” she said. “I think that they have really responded to what the donors are interested in — that’s philanthropy in 2011.” As executive director of the Seattle chapter of the American Jewish Committee, however, Rosen is skeptical. The AJC

would most accurately fit into the “Building Jewish community” impact area, but the international organization focuses on reaching out to other faith and ethnic groups, and not working as closely within the Jewish community. “We feel like we are doing invaluable work for the Jewish people and for Israel, but it doesn’t fit into the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s criteria,” Rosen said. The AJC has seen shrinking allocations from the past several Federation campaigns, as has its largest fundraiser and community event, the Seattle Jewish Film Festival. It’s the festival, however, where Rosen sees opportunity. “For some people in Seattle, this is their only experience in the Jewish community the entire year, so I think that definitely builds Jewish identity,” Rosen said. Given the difficulty in fundraising for the arts these days, “I’m hopeful that the Jewish Film Festival will receive more dollars than it has in the past.”

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The astonishingly cheeky French screwball comedy The Names of Love willfully takes on the most sensitive issues from a single, calculated direction: Head on. With unbridled enthusiasm and fearless wit, co-writers Michel Leclerc (who also directed) and Baya Kasmi cover the political-cultural spectrum from the Vichy government’s deportation of Parisian Jews in 1942 to contemporary Arab-Jewish tensions. Pairing its goring of sacred cows with over-the-top flaunting of female nudity, this audacious and entertaining movie goes so far beyond politically incorrect as to render the term meaningless. But its approach isn’t cynical or irresponsible. If its goal is to shock, it is to shock us out of our complacent, passive acceptance of stereotypes, racism and worse. The Names of Love opens Friday, Aug. 5 at the Seven Gables in Seattle’s University District. Every romantic comedy requires a cute, contrived meet-up, but this one is especially and cheerfully shameless. A buttoned-down, middle-age, Jewish environmental scientist named Arthur Martin (an endearing Jacques Gamblin) is conducting a staid radio interview when a youthful station volunteer — infuriated by his mealy-mouthed assessment of the risks of avian flu — bursts into the studio to ream him out. This incident impels Arthur to directly address the camera (that is, the audience) and begin rattling off his socially inept life story to this point. An only child, Arthur was raised by likable yet cautious parents; his mother’s parents were deported and killed in the Holocaust, although he’s never been told the story. In fact, the subject was taboo in the Martin house, even when the rest of France was finally confronting its dreadful history. In a typically daring and funny flashback, Arthur’s father jumps up to change the channel when coverage of Klaus Barbie’s trial comes on the TV. What does he find instead? A Holocaust documentary. Another turn of the dial and there, thankfully, is an innocuous quiz show. Except, however, a contestant is giving a Holocaust-related answer. Holocaust denial may be eradicated in France, but it’s alive and well in the Martin home. Inevitably, Arthur and his flamboyant tormentor, whose name is Baya Benmahmoud, cross paths again, with a more cordial result. She invites him back to her

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cal views. (She comes on to Arthur because she mistakenly thinks he’s one of them.) The Names of Love is not the kind of lazy movie that asks us to take on faith what it tells us about its characters, so we get an extended scene of the sexually blasé Baya (a gutsy Sara Forestier, who won the French Oscar for Best Actress) walking around Paris nude. Only much later might it occur to you that the sequence is sending up the gratuitous nudity in French films. Now it’s Baya’s turn to fill us in on her autobiography. The daughter of Algerian immigrants, she is as steeped as Arthur in government-backed bloodshed and institutional discrimination. With so much common ground to explore, even if a lot of it is marked with landmines, the couple embarks on a roller-coaster love affair of unexpected poignancy. American moviegoers almost never encounter the mix of unvarnished social commentary and light-on-its-feet filmmaking that distinguishes The Names of Love. Don’t let this smart, nervy gem slip by.

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WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Washington state appellate court ruled against an animal protection group’s bid to strike down as unconstitutional a law protecting religious slaughter. The three-judge panel of the Washington Court of Appeals on July 25 was unanimous in rejecting the suit brought by Pasado’s Safe Haven. The state law defines as humane stunning an animal before slaughter, which is the conventional means of slaughter, and severing the carotid artery, which it says is “in accordance with the ritual requirements of [a] religious faith.” The latter method is used in Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter. Pasado’s said the law was unconstithere were 7,500 percent fewer people, more food per capita, and no global, humanmade environmental threats back then. The explosions of our population, food supplies, inventions, and global pollution threats have all occurred in just the past 10,000 years, during the environmentally benign period since the last glacial retreat. Today, we’re learning to survive in “new normal” Earth climates, with new patterns of heat and cold, rainfall and drought, etc. And we Jews, who are arguably history’s people of the greatest impact, now have a golden opportunity to become the world’s people of greatest sustainable impact. As the Manhattan-based tutional in part because it favored religious ritual over other methods. The court rejected the claim, saying that invalidating part of an act while upholding another would usurp the state legislature. The Orthodox Union, an umbrella body for synagogues and a kosher certifier, praised the ruling. “Kosher slaughter has been targeted by Beavan family discovered in their documentary, No Impact Man, the simple act of living creates impacts on the earth. In fact, humans and their planet are resilient and designed for this; appropriate, sustainable impacts create mutual, positive effects. On the other hand, neither we, nor our planet are resilient against traumatic and catastrophic injury, carcinogenic and mutagenic poisoning, acidic waters and soils, and low-oxygen atmospheres. With the exception of natural disasters, everything on the list above is caused by humans — wars, pollution, oil rig and nuclear plant “accidents.” And they’re all avoidable. It’s irrelevant whether or not climate various fringe activists, but it is a necessary component of our community’s religious life,” it said in a statement. “We appreciate that elected officials, such as those in the Washington legislature, recognize the humane nature of shechita, and ensure its protection and thereby the flourishing of Orthodox Jewish life.”

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or disprove a claim if there’s no evidence. It’s also ironic: Science works if it agrees with one’s ideology (“natural cycles”), but not if it doesn’t (“climate change”). We humans have survived climate changes before. We seem to have first appeared, as homo ergaster, about 2.3 million years ago, during a hiatus in our current ice age, the Pliocene-Quaternary glaciation, which started about 2.58 million years ago. Since then, world ice sheets have advanced and retreated on roughly 40,000- and 100,000-year time cycles. But — another full disclosure note to climate change deniers —

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11–11:30 a.m. — tot Shabbat
Irit Eliav at [email protected] or 206-524-0075, ext. 2503 or bethshalomseattle.org Children ages 0-3 (and their parents) are invited to a fun Shabbat morning tot-friendly service! Service meets on the first Shabbat of the month. Free. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

6 august

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7 p.m.–9 p.m. — ‘yizkeriem, remember them!’ three Weeks videos
Rabbi Avrohom David at [email protected] or 206-722-8289 or www.seattlekollel.org It is critical to hear the stories and memories of the last survivors of the Holocaust, vividly connect with their individual experiences, and transmit their legacy to future generations. View this video presenting two great heroes: Rav Michael Ber Weissmandl of Nitra and Rav Shlomo Schonfeld of the Kindertransport. Free. At The Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave S, Seattle.

7 august

7:30–10 p.m. — Chavrusa learning for men and boys
Rabbi Yehuda Bresler at [email protected] or 206-331-8767 or seattlekollel.org Join the Seattle Kollel for beit midrash chavrusastyle learning with SEED students from Ner Israel in Baltimore. Call Rabbi Bresler to set up a chavrusa. No charge. At 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle. Runs throughout the week. 8:45 p.m. — Erev tisha b’Av
Carol Benedick at [email protected] or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org Congregation Beth Shalom will read the book of Aicha, Lamentations, by candlelight sitting on the floor of the sanctuary. Free. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

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2:45 p.m.–7:30 p.m. — tisha b’Av videos
Rabbi David Fredman at [email protected] or 206-722-8289 or seattlekollel.org Mending Relationships, Rebuilding the World film screenings. Video A screens at 2:45 at Bikur Cholim Machizikay Hadath. Video B screens at 6:30 at Sephardic Bikur Holim. Suggested donation of $15/ adults and $10/students. At 5145 S Morgan St. and 6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.

9 august

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9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — SEEd — Project boys
Rabbi Yehuda Bresler at [email protected] or 206-331-8767 or seattlekollel.org Torah learning for boys grades 2 and up. Tuesdays and Thursdays extended hours 12:30-2 for baseball at the park. Registration forms required. $25/week. At 5305 52nd Ave S, Seattle. Runs throughout the week.

8 august

11 a.m.–12 p.m. — the PJ library Storytime at mockingbird books
Amy Hilzman-Paquette at [email protected] or www.facebook.com/pjlibraryseattle Join the PJ Library for music, storytelling and learning Hebrew through ASL with Betsy Dischel from Musikal Magik, a certified Signing Time academy. Free. At 7220 Woodlawn Ave. NE, Seattle.

10 august

3–5 p.m. — SECC open House
Leyna Lavinthal at [email protected] or 425-603-9677 or templebnaitorah.org Temple B’nai Torah Solomike Early Childhood Center open house. Learn about parent/baby/toddler/preschool classes, meet the teachers and learn about the curriculum. enjoy crafts, games, garden play, a song session with Chava Mirel, snacks and more. Free. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue. 6:30–8 p.m. — Supper and Study for men
Rabbi David Fredman at [email protected] or 206-251-4063 or seattlekollel.org A sup(p)er learning opportunity. Enjoy a succulent supper and then take some time to study with the SEED guys. Supper from about 6:30-7:15, study 7:15-8 and short service. No charge, donations gratefully accepted. Call for location. 7 p.m.–9 p.m. — Women’s night out — rosh Chodesh Av
Mrs. Giti Fredman at [email protected] or 206-852-6418 or seattlekollel.org The Hebrew month of Av marks a dark period in Jewish history. Both the first and second temples were destroyed in this month as well as a number of other major calamities. Come hear Rabbi Daniel Lapin speak on the topic of why bad things happen to good people. Free. Call for location.

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8 p.m.–10 p.m. — War, What is it good For?
Rabbi Avrohom David at [email protected] or 206-722-8289 or seattlekollel.org Cholent shiur and book signing: “War, What is it Good For? A Practical Application of the Middah of Netzach From Moshe Our Teacher.” Based on the new book The Seven Ways by Ian Bailey. Followed by ma’ariv service. No charge, donations accepted. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave S, Seattle.

11 august

10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. — PJ library Song and Storytime at the Seattle Jewish Community School
Amy Hilzman-Paquette at [email protected] or www.facebook.com/pjlibraryseattle Music, singing and storytelling with the PJ Library and Jeff Stombaugh. Come for the songs and story and stay for activities and playgroup fun. Free. At SJCS, 12351 8th Ave. NE, Seattle. 5–6:30 p.m. — Family Havurah Shabbat
Matt Korch at [email protected] or 206-388-0830 or bit.ly/oyLzdb Take a break and enjoy Shabbat with friends. Have dinner, sing songs, hear a Shabbat story. Light the candles and enjoy some fresh challah. Open to the entire community. $5-$10. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. 7:30 p.m.–9 p.m. — nishmat Shabbat
Shellie Oakley at [email protected] or 206-577-2391 or www.betalef.org/shabbat.html#nishmat Bet Alef teachers share their passion for meditation, mystical chant and the deeper transformational messages of Jewish tradition. $10 donation. At Queen Anne United Methodist Church, 1606 5th Ave. W, Seattle. 7 p.m. — Shabbat with rabbi Steve vale
Robin Kroll at [email protected] or 206-276-8346 or on.fb.me/nbx3i9 The celebration with Rabbi Steve begins with Kabbalat Shabbat meditations/celebrations. Plan to arrive early. An oneg potluck will follow (please bring a vegan/vegetarian snack to share). Donation in denominations of $18. Email or call for North Seattle address.

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Did you never have the opportunity to learn how to make gefilte fish? Dorothy and her daughter Arlene Azose are experts. Come and learn. Step by step. From the first step when Dorothy brings up her large pot and the scarf that protects her hair from the fishy smell, to the taste of the soft, flavorful fish ball that is made with salmon from northwest waters. You’ll go home with a packet of fish recipes — gefilte, sweet and sour, pickled and a layered fish terrine. Space is limited. Call Lori Weinberg Ceyhun at 206–774–2277 to purchase tickets or reserve your spot.

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11 a.m.–4 p.m. — Shabbat with rabbi Steve vale
Robin Kroll at [email protected] or 206-276-8346 or on.fb.me/nbx3i9 Shabbat Torah study/meditation/brunch. Begins with energy work and meditation, then nosh and drash, followed by Spring Forest Qigong class. Please bring vegetarian/fish dishes to share. Donation in denominations of $18. Email or call for North Seattle address. bCmH Shabbaton with Scholar-in-residence Shani taragin
Julie Greene, [email protected] or 206-721-0970 Mrs. Shani Taragin will speak at a BCMH luncheon after Shabbat services in the social hall, and at the home of Leah Almo at 6 p.m. The afternoon talk is for women only. Call the front office with a credit card number or send a check. Adults $18/children 4–11 $10/children under 3 free. Please be specific with number of reservations. After August 8 prices increase $2. At Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath, 6070 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.

13 august

with Bet Alef members, meet new friends, and enjoy the last days of summer. Open to members and nonmembers. Free. At 5902 Lake Washington Blvd. S, Seattle.

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11 a.m.–1 p.m. — northwest gefilte Fish: A Family Affair
Lori Weinberg Ceyhun at [email protected] or 206-774-2277 Dorothy Becker and her family make fish together. They have it down to a science. Come and learn from the first step when Dorothy brings up her large pot and the scarf that protects her hair from the fishy smell, to the taste of the soft, flavorful fish ball that is made with salmon from Northwest waters. Recipes to take home. Space limited; registration necessary. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

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5 p.m. — A taste of Elegance in the Courtyard: Celebrity Chef Fundraiser
Ellen Naor at [email protected] or 206-523-9846 or templebetham.org Gourmet dinner with well-known chefs demonstrating their art, preceded by wine tasting, appetizers, and a silent auction, all to benefit Temple Beth Am’s Homeless to Renter (H2R) program. $100 per person. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle. 4 p.m. — bet Alef Community Picnic
Shellie Oakley at [email protected] or 206-527-9399 or www.betalef.org/programs.html#picnic Join Bet Alef for food, games, and good times at the Bet Alef annual picnic. An excellent way to connect

14 august

7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. — intro to bet Alef’s meditative Shabbat
Shellie Oakley at [email protected] or 206-527-9399 or www.betalef.org/shabbat.html If you are curious about what a “meditative” service is like, but have not yet experienced it first-hand, then the Intro to Bet Alef’s Meditative Shabbat is for you! If you are a regular, this is a great night to bring others for a first or second “taste.” At Unity of Bellevue, 16330 NE 4th St., Bellevue.

19 august

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10 a.m.–12 p.m. — SJCS Summer Play date
Deb Frockt at [email protected] or 206-522-5212 2011 summer fun for preschoolers and kindergarteners has a summer full of free, drop-in activities that are perfect for young children and their parents or caregivers. Come by for a play date. Free. At Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 8th Ave. NE, Seattle.

21 august

Centropa’s work dovetails nicely with what Margaret is already doing in her classroom. As for her Seattle bona “JDS is a technically sophisfides, Sid wrote me that she is ticated school and I am lucky descended from suitably illusenough to teach in a wired trious lines of Seattle families, classroom where all my stuincluding “Maimons, Schardents have school-issued laphons, Azoses, Adattos and on tops,” she explained. the paternal side, Benders, Her students have already Kosins, Abrams.” Fitting for an CourtESy mArgArEt CHASEn done survivor interviews and English mayor, yes? Jewish Day School t e a c h e r M a r g a r e t made films, but she’s fired up to do more. Centropa volun“I never had such an Chasen. teers conduct audio interviews interesting professional with Holocaust survivors in a development,” says number of countries. The transcripts are Jewish Day School teacher Margaret posted on their site and accompanied by Chasen of the nine days she spent on Cenfamily photos and family trees. At www. tropa’s Summer Academy Holocaust educentropa.org you can search the database cation European workshop. by country, surname or city. Centropa (Central Europe Center Margaret calls the workshop experifor Research and Documentation) is a ence “incredibly rich.” Teachers learned Vienna- and Budapest-based non-profit from each other and the group heard from NGO that uses advanced technologies to speakers from Polish, Austrian, German, preserve Jewish memory in Central and Israeli and Bosnian embassies, as well as Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, from survivors and rescuers. They even the Balkans and the Baltics. Their interheard from the person who kept the Saraviews, photos, family trees and films are jevo Hagaddah safe. available to all on the Internet and through “Every day was amazing and jamsocial media like Facebook. packed,” she says. Margaret first heard of Centropa when In Krakow, Margaret was particularly she received a last-minute invitation to moved by “ground-breaking” work being attend their winter seminar in Los Angedone in that country. Educational, reconles, along with her colleague Nance Adler. ciliation and grassroots projects are bring“I went to…Vienna, Sarajevo and ing Holocaust education into the schools Krakow,” with a group of about 75 teachers and young people out to restore Jewish from the U.S., Europe and Israel, Margaret cemeteries. says. Most of the European teachers were Centropa is funded by a variety of not Jewish and Margaret saw firsthand the private and government organizations need for Holocaust education in countries including the Polish government and our like Hungary, which are only beginning to State Department. JDS families will be able publicly explore their Jewish history. Marto read more about Margaret’s trip soon in garet noted a museum she visited in Budathe school newsletter. pest dealt with World War II but made no mention of the Holocaust.
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Social justice: More than just sprinkles on top
arthur Wolak Special to Jtnews
After Ben Cohen and business partner Jerry Greenfield completed a course on ice cream making, they established their first ice cream shop in 1978 and went on to build one of the largest ice cream businesses in America — a $300 million business empire — under the international banner name, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. Choosing ice cream over bagels as their vehicle to prosperity, they initially lacked location. “We figured if it was going to be ice cream, it should be a warm, rural college town,” noted Cohen during a recent visit to the Northwest, but their analysis discovered that competition had already beaten them to the hot spots. “We decided to throw out the criteria of warm and ended up in Burlington, Vermont,” where cold and snowy winters are legendary. Cohen still calls Burlington home. Cohen, preferring social activism to the daily business grind — a throwback to his hippie youth — resigned as CEO in 1995 but continued to serve as board chairman and then on the advisory board because he believes strongly that business has a “spiritual aspect” that should be recognized by the business world. Ben & Jerry’s was purchased by Unilever Corp. in 2000. “There is a spiritual aspect to business just as there is to the lives of individuals. As you give, you receive. As you help others, you’re helped in return,” Cohen asserted. He didn’t come to this conclusion overnight. Cohen’s business philosophy evolved as the company grew. Ben & Jerry’s faced many early challenges. Banks were wary about financing a pair that lacked business experience, collateral, and credit histories. To get a bank loan, they needed a business plan. Without knowing how to prepare one, they used a template for a pizza parlor that sold pizza by the slice, simply plugging in “ice cream cone” wherever pizza slice was mentioned, and got their initial seed money. allowed us to continue to keep distributing our ice cream,” Cohen said. Annual sales rose into the millions and the two spent most of their time hiring, firing, and meeting financial advisors. “We felt like we were becoming just another part of the economic machine that tends to oppress a lot of people,” Cohen lamented. ArtHur WolAK Then advice from Ben Cohen, a man with a caramel-flavored charitable streak. a friend gave Cohen an epiphany: “If there’s something you Though they broke even in their first don’t like about business, why don’t you year, things quickly changed two years just change the way you do it?” the friend later. said. “We were at the very end of our rope For Cohen, this was genius. Venture and losing money,” Cohen said. “Finally, capitalists wanted desperately to invest. in a last-ditch effort to survive we decided “We decided to use this need for cash to pack our ice cream in pint containers.” as an opportunity to make the commuThat was in the early ’80s. nity the owners of our business,” Cohen Entering Boston, their first major U.S. recalled. market, nearly brought their business to Vermont’s first in-state public stock a halt. Häagen-Dazs, owned by Pillsbury, offering made many residents part owners was fierce competition and the Ben & Jerof the company. A national public stock ry’s distributor wanted to drop the Veroffering followed, as did the formal cremont-based company as a client. Ben & ation of the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, Jerry’s quickly printed banners and flew which received 7.5 percent of pre-tax profthem around major Boston sport stadiits, the highest amount any publicly held ums, and rented signs on Boston trancompany gave to charity. sit buses that featured two pudgy hands Cohen felt the definition of success was squeezing a pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream an obstacle because it is measured “by profit, saying, “Don’t let Pillsbury’s dollars stranhow much money is left over at the end gle Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. What’s the of the month or at the end of the year,” he Doughboy afraid of?” said. This proved a successful act of chutzInstead, Ben & Jerry’s decided to meapah. sure its success through a “two-part “Pillsbury was getting such a black bottom line” — by how much the comeye from their tactics of trying to keep us pany has helped to improve quality of life out of distribution that they relented and in the community and how much money it has made. However, their managers had bad news: When company energy was devoted to improving the quality of life in the community, it took away from improving profits. Ben and Jerry were astonished. They recognized that while money should be a means, not an end, the social purpose should be their focus, integrating those concerns with an eye on profits. So the company bought coffee from a Mexican cooperative, improving Mexican coffee farmers’ quality of life by purchasing their beans. It bought blueberries from a Native American tribe, which helped benefit them. It purchases $3 million dollars worth of brownies annually from Greyston Bakery, which provides employment opportunities for those in need. Ben & Jerry’s recently committed to making all of its ingredients fair-trade certified by the end of 2013. “Our actions are based on deeply held values,” Cohen said. “It’s a unique selling proposition. It motivates our employees. It helps with recruiting and it builds tremendous consumer loyalty that’s based on shared values.” Ben believes business should take responsibility for the common good rather than focus on self-interest. He believes that business, as a powerful social force, can integrate social concerns throughout its activities, while supporting service organizations help people. “As your business supports the community, the community supports your business,” Cohen said. “We are all interconnected, and as we help others we cannot avoid helping ourselves.”
Arthur Wolak is a Vancouver-based freelance writer.

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Ruth Shindell (nee Berolski) passed away on Saturday, July 16 at the Kline Galland Home at age 97. She was preceded in death by her husband, Milton R. Shindell, her five siblings and parents. Ruth is survived by nieces, nephews and cousins in Ohio, Virginia, California, Oregon, Hawaii and Washington. Both Ruth and Milt supported numerous local charities. They founded the Berol-Shindell Scholarship Trust at the Hillel Foundation at the University of Washington in Seattle. Ruth was born in Bellingham, Wash. to Louis Leib Berolski and Mary Gen. For the last 10 years, Ruth was a resident of Kline Galland. She succumbed to a long, difficult illness. Ruth was interred in Bikur Cholim Cemetery next to her husband of 61 years. Contributions may be sent to the Berol-Shindell Fund, Hillel Foundation, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98105.

Bar Mitzvah

Evan Norman Brown
Evan will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on August 13, 2011, at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue. Evan is the son of Laura and Harry Brown of Seattle and the brother of Zoe Brown. His grandparents are Edythe Misel of Wayzata, Minn., and the late Irving Misel, and Charles Bodenstab of San Juan Island. Evan is entering the 8th grade at the Jewish Day School. He enjoys soccer, skiing, kiteboarding and waterskiing. For his mitzvah project, he is working with AOK Friends providing food and clothes for the homeless.

Wedding

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Susan Zimmerman and Joshua Stewart were married Sunday, October 3, 2010, in the Georgetown Ballroom in Seattle. Judge Anthony Wartnik officiated. Susan is the daughter of Robert and Rebecca Zimmerman of Bellevue. Joshua is the son of the late Luann Stewart. Susan is a graduate of Newport High School and the University of Hawai’i–Manoa. She is the sales and catering coordinator for the Hotel Sierra in Redmond and has recently created her own event-coordinating business, I Do. Joshua is a graduate of Hazen High School and is a manager at R&R Rentals in North Bend. He is the owner of JMS Pressure Washing Services. They reside in West Seattle with their two dogs.

Dale David Behar November 16, 1958–July 21, 2011
Dale David Behar passed away peacefully at home on July 21, 2011 surrounded by his loved ones. He was 52. He was born in Seattle, Washington on November 16, 1958 to Eleanor and Isaac Behar. Dale attended the University of Washington and married Helene Amon in 1990. Together they started a successful commercial real estate business in Seattle and had three children, Isaac, Solly and Elyse. As a family, they loved to travel to Hawaii annually and many other destinations. Holidays were always spent with extended family and friends. Dale demonstrated unbelievable strength and courage in his fight against cancer for two-and-a-half years. He will be remembered by numerous family and friends. His loss leaves a deep hole in the community he grew up in and supported in countless ways. Dale is survived by his loving wife Helene, children Isaac, Solly and Elyse, his father Isaac Behar and his in-laws Tillie and Sol Amon, his sister Lynne Behar, brother Norman (Lisa) Behar, sister-in-law Eileen Kulman, and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. Dale was preceded in death by his beloved mother Eleanor Behar.

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of generations — a 55-and-older group will spend time with the early childhood classes, for example. USY youth group members might learn with their parents, or a community-wide teach-in could be in the works for the synagogue. It’s all being formulated now, and its proponents say the Herzl-Ner Tamid community should be stronger for it.

According to Rosenbaum, it’s all about continuity and connectivity. “We want to give [members] a sense of what their future might look like 10, 15 years from now,” said Rosenbaum. “If they’re coming with 3-year-olds, we hope that they would already be thinking about where they want their kids to be Jewishly when they graduate high school or college.”

sitting at their door. All attempts to remove him failed. The family took the dog out of the neighborhood, but it returned again to the same spot. Despite endless attempts to expel the dog, it refused to leave. Meanwhile, a neighborhood rabbi arrived and instructed that the dog be served a Shabbat meal, in hopes that this would convince him to leave. Only after the dog was told, “you are forgiven, you are forgiven, you are forgiven,” did it agree to eat. Finally, a renowned Kabbalist, Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer z”l, recommended reciting tehilim and mishnayot. The rabbi himself left the home of the deceased at dawn in order to say kaddish on Dovinski’s grave. Neighborhood residents and family members report that the dog willingly left the house during the kaddish!

Finally, a crew from Jerusalem municipality’s veterinary services arrived at the scene and picked up the dog, as hundreds of residents from Meah Shearim and other neighborhoods escorted the vehicle that evacuated the dog. (Condensed from failedmessiah.com). If you’re like me, you’ll want to know: Was this loyal pooch a gilgul of Nahman Dovinski? Did the rabbi’s kaddish permit Reb Nahman’s soul to finally leave his beloved home for this next gilgul? And, finally, what was that next gilgul? Rebirth in the body of a lawyer, I suppose, is too much to hope for.

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Challenging the concept of Jewish poverty
eMilY k. alhaDeff Assistant Editor, Jtnews
Editor’s note: Hillel at the University of Washington’s Jconnect program and the American-Jewish Joint Distribution Committee sent several local young adults to Siberia for nine days of sightseeing and community service. JTNews assistant editor Emily Alhadeff went along as participant and reporter. You can see many of her musings on the blog at www.jew-ish.com and stories in upcoming JTNews issues.

After a draining morning of small-group home visits to JDC aid recipients, we all needed to process what we’d witnessed: Poor, elderly Holocaust survivors living on a couple hundred dollars a month; single mothers without enough food for their infants; and most shockingly, a family of eight women in a three-room house, without a working refrigerator or running water. Trash and stagnant pools, I was told, marked the landscape down a dirt path forgotten – or ignored – by the upwardly mobile city of Khabarovsk proper. “I don’t even know if there’s an emotion

to describe it,” one participant said of her experience visiting the women’s shack. As Americans, we tend to be oblivious of the extent to which Jews struggle elsewhere. “It challenged my concept of Jewish poverty,” said another member of this group. But the existence of poverty among Jews was not the only challenge we faced. Our local JDC representative Boris and the Jewish community leader Vadim shared the sad fact that participants take advantage of the system. The family of eight in the shack might even be included in these ranks, intentionally avoiding

work to continue receiving aid. “We’re facing a really serious professional dilemma here,” Vadim said. Every JDC case requires special attention. The photographs included here depict an elderly Jewish woman retelling the story of her survival through the Holocaust, during which she nearly froze to death while hiding on a roof, among other injuries. To this day she suffers health problems caused by that period of her adolescence. “Why,” she lamented, “was I given such a long life?”

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