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■■The future of Auschwitz
A letter to our community
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Jan. 27 marked the 70th anniversary since the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet soldiers. Many have questioned what will become of the site, now maintained as a museum
and memorial. “Auschwitz Museum is in a financial crisis,” memorial spokesperson Pawel
Sawicki warned in 2009. “And if we can’t secure the buildings and conserve the site properly, we will be forced to close it to the public in a few years.”
—VICE News
A letter from the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s leadership reveals the future of this newspaper.
■■Chelsea in the homeland
Where the Jews are
Jewish-American late night TV host Chelsea Handler visited Israel in late January to
partake in a fundraiser for cancer patients. She also met with former Israeli President
Shimon Peres. Handler’s visit will be featured in an upcoming documentary exploring her
Jewish roots and Israel.
—Jewcy
■■Hair peace
An Israeli barber has crafted inconspicuous yarmulkes — what he calls “magic” yarmulkes — made out of human hair and designed to keep Jewish people safe, allowing them
to cover their heads without drawing unwanted or negative attention.
—Tablet Magazine
Rabbi’s Turn: What will you do?
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Rabbi Shaul Engelsberg reminds us that though we have been rescued from the hands of fate
throughout the generations, we must still be willing to sacrifice for the Jewish people.
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The 14-year wait for a study of our Jewish community has finally been completed, and the results
bolster much of what we already knew, but also offer some dramatic surprises.
Teaching the mission
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Jewish Family Service has won a grant that will provide staff and volunteers the opportunity to use
Jewish teachings to help them better understand the importance of their work.
Celebrations and wedding memories
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J-Teen section
Onto the stage!
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Danielle Kohorn is only 12, but this young Jewish Day School student has already written a play
that will be performed on a major stage next month.
■■No direction
Twenty members of Germany’s neo-Nazi National Democratic party were forced to
cancel a protest after they got on the wrong train. The NPD had planned to march in
Freiburg in support of a woman with NPD ties who had allegedly been discriminated
against because of her allegiance to the group. The NPD members boarded a train to
Mannheim—a town approximately 123 miles away—by mistake.
—Times of Israel
—Boris Kurbanov
From the Jewish Transcript,
February 2, 1978.
As we cover the release of our Greater
Seattle Jewish Community Study this week,
let’s take a look back at when Debra Friedman, Bunny Cohen and Anne Nieder volunteered to mail out survey questionnaires by
hand. That effort was done in-house by the
Jewish Federation, and the findings showed
we had 19,300 Jews in our community — less
than a third of our size today.
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Candlelighting times
February 6.............................5:01 p.m.
February 13........................... 5:12 p.m.
February 20...........................5:23 p.m.
February 27...........................5:33 p.m.
Friday
6 February
NCSY’s Edmonton Shabbaton
206-295-5888 or [email protected]
or www.seattlencsy.com
Spend Shabbos with friends from Canada. Open to
all Jewish 9th-12th graders regardless of affiliation.
Saturday
7 February
9–10:15 a.m. — Torah Study and Walk
in Kirkland
425-844-1604 or [email protected] or
www.kolaminw.org
Bimonthly Torah study followed by a walk by
the lake. Text and commentaries provided. No
experience necessary. Free. Next session Feb. 21.
At Aura Café and Bakery, 116 Central Way, Kirkland.
5:30–7 p.m. — Cupcakes and Havdalah
206-232-7115 or [email protected] or
www.sjcc.org
Crafts, music, and Havdalah service. Snacks and
dessert provided. For kids of all ages. Free. At
the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
7 p.m. — Jewish History Chavurah
425-603-9677 or [email protected]
or templebnaitorah.org
Focusing on Jewish history, culture, the
Jewish journey, and more. Meets monthly on
Wednesdays. Free. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727
NE Fourth St., Bellevue.
Sunday
8 February
9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — HNT 2015
Legacy Brunch
Rebecca Levy at 206-232-8555, ext. 207 or
[email protected]
Honoring Rabbi Jay and Janine Rosenbaum for 13
years of service. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative
Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
10–11 a.m. — Sunday Morning Forum: Support
for Caregivers
Alexis Kort at 206-525-0915 or
[email protected] or
www.templebetham.org
Adam Halpern, assistant director of JFS Aging in
Place, will explore the Judaic view on caregiving and
learn about local resources for family caregivers. At
Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.
10:30 a.m.–1 p.m. — HFLA Annual Brunch
Caroline Strelitz at [email protected] or
hfla-seattle.com
The Hebrew Free Loan Association celebrates its
101st year. At the Summit at First Hill, 1200
University St. #100, Seattle.
3:15–4:30 p.m. — Chai Mitzvah:
Grow your Judaism
425-844-1604 or [email protected] or
www.kolaminw.org
Class 5: “Mindfulness and Conscious Living.” At
Congregation Kol Ami, 16530 Avondale Rd. NE,
Woodinville.
5 p.m. — Temple Beth Am’s Annual Gala
Jan Glick at 206-525-0915 or rsvp@
templebetham.org
“Through the Looking Glass.” $100. At the
Fairmont Olympic Hotel, 411 University St., Seattle.
Monday
9 February
7–9 p.m. — Warm For Your Reform
425-603-9677 or [email protected]
Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue Invites You To...
A Day With Sylvia Boorstein
Opening to Inner Clarity:
The Gift of a Pure Heart
or templebnaitorah.org
Part three of three exploring Reform Judaism:
Its emergence against a hostile background,
the evolution of its expanding worldview, and a
celebration of its milestones and contributions.
Instructor: Rabbi Eric J. Siroka. $15. At Temple
B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.
Tuesday
10 February
10–11:30 a.m. — Open House: SJCC Early
Childhood School Seattle Campus
[email protected] or 206-526-8073 or
www.sjcc.org
Tour the facility, experience a day in the life of a
child in the classroom, meet staff and faculty, and
ask questions. Free. At the Stroum JCC, 2618 NE
80th St., Seattle.
Wednesday
11 February
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. — Totally Book Talk
(TBT) Café
425-603-9677 or [email protected]
or templebnaitorah.org
Discuss “The Invention of Wings” by Sue Monk
Kidd. Free. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth
St., Bellevue.
Friday
13 February
BCMH Scholar in Residence Shabbos with
Rabbi Shalom Hammer of the IDF
Julie Greene, BCMH Program Director at
206-721-0970 or [email protected]
Rabbi Shalom Hammer, of the Jewish Identity
Division of the Israeli Army, will speak. Free. At
Congregation Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath,
5145 S Morgan St., Seattle.
JSU Ski Retreat
Seattle NCSY at 206-295-5888 or
[email protected] or
www.seattlencsy.com
Join JSU members from all over greater Seattle,
Portland and Nor-Cal on the slopes.
Saturday
14 February
Info & Tickets at:
Sunday
15 February
9:30–11:30 a.m. — IDF Rabbi Shalom
Hammer: “Empowering Israel”
[email protected] or
www.shevetachim.com
Rabbi Shalom Hammer served in the IDF rabbinate,
where he works to help troops understand what it
means to serve in a Jewish army. Includes bagels
and lox brunch. $18 per person, $27 per couple.
Under 21 free. At Congregation Shevet Achim,
8685 SE 47th St., Mercer Island.
Monday
16 February
9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. — SJCC Mid-Winter Break
Camp: Feb. 16-20
206-232-7115 or [email protected] or sjcc.org
Week-long break camps include field trips,
swimming and gym play. Pre-K–5th grade. This
week: “Around the World.” $60-$70 per day. At the
Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
Tuesday
17 February
1–2 p.m. — Rosh Chodesh Women’s Friendship Circle
425-603-9677 or [email protected]
or templebnaitorah.org
Discuss “The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion
for All Seasons” by Jill Hammer. Highlight the
connection between the text and the months,
seasons and cycles of the year. Free. At Temple
B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.
Wednesday
5–7 p.m. — Havdalah Happening in Seattle
Kate Speizer at 206-384-6020 or
[email protected] or www.tdhs-nw.org
Saturday, March 7, 2015
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Pasta and salad dinner, cookie decorating, and
Havdalah ceremony. No experience or membership
required. $20 donation per family suggested. At
Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle.
5–10 p.m. — Parents Night Out
206-232-7115 or [email protected] or sjcc.org
UnBirthday Party: Games, arts and crafts, and
activities. Includes dinner. $40-$60. At the Stroum
JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
18 February
9:15 a.m. — The Art of Parenting
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A letter to our community
Dear readers,
Over the past several years, we have watched as the world has shifted from consuming its news in print to online. At the same time, the Jewish Federation has been questioning
whether the best vehicle for community outreach and communications would be through a print newspaper such as JTNews, or if there might be a better way to talk about the great
things happening in greater Seattle’s Jewish community and beyond.
As such, on January 22, the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle approved a proposal to transition JTNews from a print newspaper to a bimonthly glossy magazine
that highlights our local Jewish life. Rather than be published by the Federation, though we will still retain ownership, the content will be produced by a magazine company with vast
experience both in publishing in our region and taking advantage of a full breadth of print and online resources.
Every donor to the Jewish Federation and every subscriber to JTNews will receive a complimentary subscription to the new magazine. In addition, between issues, the Federation
will issue a quarterly newsletter with relevant information about events and community news.
With the release of the demographic study this past month that highlights the incredible growth of our region’s Jewish community, we are very excited about this new opportunity and believe that this new magazine will portray who we are and what we do in a fascinating new way.
JTNews will wind down with its Passover issue at the end of March, and the new magazine will begin publication this coming August. We appreciate the work the staff of JTNews
has done over the years, and it’s possible you will see some of their names on the masthead of the next iteration in the life of our Jewish community’s communications vehicle.
Thank you,
Keith Dvorchik
President and CEO, The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle
Celie Brown
Board chair, The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle
the rabbi’s turn
What will you do for the Jewish people?
Rabbi Shaul Engelsberg Derech Emunah Seattle Jewish Girls High School
My wife’s grandfather,
Mordechai Szimonowitz, survived World War II. When
the Nazis forced all the Jews
of Budapest, Hungary to move
into the ghetto, Zeide — as
we called him — was able to
procure false identification
papers and remained outside
the ghetto walls masquerading as a gentile. He managed to
get a job working as a doorman
at one of the city’s hotels. One day, a highranking Nazi officer arrived and Zeide held
the door open for him. The Nazi stopped
and ordered: “Look to the right.” Zeide
complied while the Nazi stared at him
intently. “Look to the left” he commanded.
Again, Zeide obeyed.
The Nazi continued to study him, loudly
boasting: “I can tell if someone is even an
eighth Jewish!” Zeide was so scared he
could hardly breathe. “And you — are not!”
the Nazi arrogantly snapped and entered
the hotel.
Zeide told us this story one Pesach
during the seder. We had just read the
words in the Haggadah: “In every gener-
ation they rise against us to
annihilate us, but the Holy
One, Blessed is He, rescues us
from their hand.” We understood how real those words
were to our grandfather.
In this week’s Torah portion we read that Yisro, Moshe
Rabbeinu’s father-in-law,
joined the Jewish people in
the desert. Upon hearing of all
the miracles that God had performed for Israel’s sake — all that He had
done to Pharaoh and to Egypt — Yisro proclaimed: “Blessed is Hashem who has rescued you from the hand of Egypt and from
the hand of Pharaoh” (Exodus 18:10).
Not much has changed. Today, as in all
generations past, we continue to be mindful of our survival. As a nation, we are
grateful to the Almighty for our people’s
continued existence. As individuals, we
hear the news from Israel and Europe, and
remind ourselves how fortunate we are to
not be in harm’s way. We pray to God that
He keep our brothers and sisters safe and
protected wherever they may be.
But in addition to feeling grateful and
expressing our appreciation to the One
Above, there is another thought to ponder.
Several years ago, I had occasion to hear
a presentation from Rabbi Berel Wein,
an American-born rabbi, historian, lecturer and writer, who currently serves as
the rabbi of Bait Knesset Hanassi in Jerusalem. Rabbi Wein recounted that in 1945,
when he was a young boy living in Chicago,
the city was graced by a visit from Rabbi
Yitzchak Isaac HaLevi Herzog, who later
became the first Ashkenazic chief rabbi of
the State of Israel. Rabbi Herzog had just
returned from a trip to Europe, where he
had met with Pope Pious XII.
Addressing the Chicago community,
Rabbi Herzog told the audience: “I have
just returned from meeting the Pope. I gave
him a list of ten thousand names of Jewish
children who were placed into Christian
homes during the war. I asked him to give
back those Jewish children.”
(Rabbi Wein explained that there were
many more children who had been placed
with Christians for safekeeping during
World War II, but Rabbi Herzog’s list only
included the ten thousand children who
were known by name.)
Rabbi Herzog continued: “The Pope
said he would not return the children
because they had been baptized.” Rabbi
Herzog then put his head down on the
podium and wept. After a few moments
he composed himself, and passionately
exclaimed: “I cannot do any more for those
ten thousand children, but what will you do
for the Jewish people?”
Following the speech, as everyone
greeted Rabbi Herzog, he kept repeating:
“Remember what I said. What will you do
for the Jewish people?”
We continue to be grateful to the
Almighty for allowing the Jewish people to
survive and flourish, and individually, we
try to acknowledge God’s kindnesses to us
each and every day. Yet in addition to being
appreciative for our survival and continuity as a nation, let us also contemplate a call
to action. We are most thankful to be here.
But what are we here for? Rabbi Herzog’s
rallying call still reverberates: “What will
you do for the Jewish people?”
Rabbi Shaul Engelsberg is principal of the
Derech Emunah Seattle Jewish Girls High
School.
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Dress Cheaply
by Mike Selinker
Where the Jews are:
Our community’s demographic
study is released
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
“If what you wear says more about who you are then what you say when you speak,” humorist
Jarod Kintz notes, “then my advice is to keep quiet and wear loud clothing.” There’s no question
that it’s just as easy to make a statement while wearing inexpensive clothes as while wearing
expensive ones. So why not economize while you accessorize?
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Answers on page 23
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Edited by Mike Selinker and Gaby Weidling. Crosswords of Wisdom, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122
By any stretch of the imagination, the
Jewish community of the greater Seattle
area is a growing, vibrant place. Where
those Jews are and how they live offers a
fascinating and at times surprising overview of who we are as a community.
According to the 2014 Greater Seattle
Jewish Community Study, a demographic
report commissioned by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and conducted
by the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish
Studies at Brandeis University, which was
released in late January, that growth clocks
in at about 70 percent since the last study
was conducted in 2001.
These statistics are based on
a sample size of
3,058. In comparison, the 2013
Pew Research
Center’s Survey
of American Jews
had a sample size
of 3,475.
“We have
almost the same
number just for
Seattle as Pew
did for the whole
country,” said
Keith Dvorchik, president and CEO of the
Jewish Federation. “It’s a very, very robust
data set and it allows us to dig deeper than
we’d be able to do.”
The number of Jews who live in the five
counties around Seattle — King, Pierce,
Snohomish, Island and Kitsap — comprise
roughly 63,400 Jews in 33,700 households.
King County by far has the largest concentration in the region, at 85 percent. That’s
not a big surprise, but where in the county
they are was.
“I don’t think we expected to find quite
such a high proportion of the community living in the City of Seattle itself,” said
Matthew Boxer, a research scientist at the
Cohen Center who led the study. “I think
we expected to find a greater share of the
population in Bellevue, Mercer Island,
Redmond, and some of the other suburbs.”
But the large presence of Jews in Northwest Seattle — neighborhoods north of
the Ship Canal such as Ballard and Greenwood — surprised researchers.
“The growth in Northwest Seattle has
been dramatic,” Dvorchik said.
The only easily accessible Jewish organization to that area is the Queen Annebased Kavana Cooperative. Though
Northeast Seattle — the University District, Wedgwood, Ravenna — offers multiple synagogues and the Stroum Jewish
Community Center preschool, among
other services, “if you live in Northwest
Seattle, 30 minutes may or may not get
you to the synagogues in Northeast Seat-
tle,” Dvorchik said. “It’s clear that there’s
a big challenge.”
And, perhaps, opportunity.
“I think we’re going to have to meet
people where they are and move to more
of a neighborhood structure,” said Judy
Neuman, CEO of the Stroum JCC, of these
findings. “I think it’s more about breaking
programs up and making them more intimate in size where we can and going out
into the community.”
Will Berkovitz, CEO of Jewish Family
Service, said his agency’s mission is
moving in the same direction where the
agency’s outreach aims for engagement
“not in a purely religious context, but in
a context where it reaches them where
they’re at,” he said. “I feel quite optimistic with what our strategy is. It’s lined up
really nicely with what the study enforces.”
Given how the community has grown
and moved in just the past 15 years — as
well as the data point that we are unwilling to drive more than 30 minutes to get
to a program — building new structures
is probably not the right solution to this
issue.
“The population will shift,” Neuman
If you go:
The Jewish Federation of Greater
Seattle will hold two town halls
discussing the community study.
The first, on Wed., Feb. 11 at 6 p.m. is at
Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1511 E Pike St.,
Seattle. RSVP required at bit.ly/1BZGZQA.
The second is on Thurs., Feb. 12 at 6
p.m. at the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer
Way, Mercer Island. RSVP required at bit.
ly/1u4kBFE.
said.
And while the community is wealthy
— 54 percent have annual household
incomes above $100,000 — 7 percent of
us range between “just getting along” and
living in poverty.
Berkovitz called that “a pretty big
number,” though he cautioned that JFS’s
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programs that address addiction, mental
health and domestic violence transcend
income levels.
Then there was the biggest surprise of
all: The level of education.
“We’re talking about a highly educated,
highly knowledgeable community that
values education and everything that goes
along with education,” Dvorchik said.
“Twenty-six percent of Americans have a
college degree. According to Pew, 58 percent of Jewish Americans have a college
degree. The statistics show that white Seat-
We need to “look at it as a collective community.”
As such, the Federation will be hosting town hall meetings about the study on
Feb. 11 and 12 and invites anyone interested to come learn more. The full text of
the study, available for download at www.
jewishinseattle.org/community-study/
community-study-full-report, contains a
vast trove of data where this article only
touches the surface.
“It’s clear from this that this needs to
be a starting point, not an ending point,”
Dvorchik said. “It’s not a read through it
once and you’ve got it all. There’s a lot, a
lot, a lot of information there.”
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he expects to continue growing over
the next decade; high
involvement in a
wide array of activities both inside and
outside of the Jewish
community; its affluence and high emphasis on education; and
that this community
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more universally,” he said.
With the study now in hand, it is up to
the Federation to figure out how to make
use of the data in a way that facilitates
community growth.
“We need to be doing deeper dives to
understand some of the reasons behind
the information that’s in here so we can
better address it,” Dvorchik said.
Neuman hopes community organizations strike now, while the iron is hot, to
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tle, in the five-county area, 58 percent have
a college degree, and in the Jewish community in Seattle, it’s 89 percent.”
In addition, 37 percent have a master’s
degree or higher, double the average of
Jews nationwide. People working in tech
and the sciences make up about 14 percent of occupations, and 12 percent work
in some type of management, which likely
accounts for those high education numbers.
It probably comes as no surprise to
many of us that Seattle has a higher rate of
intermarriage than the rest of the country:
About 56 percent of Jews are intermarried,
12 percent higher than the national average. However, of those families 44 percent
raise their children Jewish while 40 percent raise them with no religion or haven’t
made a decision.
“Seattle reflects national trends in that
about half the children in intermarried
families are being raised Jewish in some
way, but very few are being raised exclusively in another religion,” Boxer, of the
Cohen Center, told JTNews. “That points
to a tremendous opportunity for the
Greater Seattle Jewish community, and
also a great challenge.”
That challenge, Boxer said, comes in
programming for interfaith families to
make them feel comfortable.
“Previous research shows that children
of intermarriage tend to identify as Jews as
adults if they were exposed to high quality
Jewish educational programming as children,” he said.
The survey divided the population
between those who identified as being
Jewish by religion (JBR) and those as being
Jewish not by religion (JNR) — people
who consider themselves Jewish, but
perhaps more culturally.
When those numbers
are broken out, the ratio
is about 2 to 1 for all
age ranges — a surprise
only in that it matches
the same rate as young
adults nationwide. Far
fewer Jews here identify as Jewish by religion
in the higher age ranges
than nationally.
And then there’s this
odd bit of data, which
the Cohen Center had to
triple check to make sure
they actually had it right:
While the region has a
higher level of synagogue membership
than the national average, the level of participation is much lower.
“It’s a weird dynamic that you wouldn’t
expect,” Dvorchik said. But he attributed
that enigma to the high level of philanthropy the survey revealed.
“Even though we aren’t going to
attend, there are other people who will so
we need to help support the community,”
he surmised.
And though the majority of those philanthropic dollars and volunteer hours
went outside of the Jewish community —
48 percent don’t volunteer with any Jewish
organizations — comments from respondents made it clear that it was their Jewish
values that inspired giving.
JFS for one sees opportunity in volunteerism, in particular if the agency can
“engage these folks who are really on the
margins [and] give them an opportunity
to pass on their Jewish values,” Berkovitz
said. “JFS is in a very unique position in
this community to help be a gateway into
the broader community.”
Boxer said the complexity of the data
made this study as complicated as any the
center has done. He sees obvious high-
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With new project, JFS leans into Jewish text
Janis Siegel JTNews Correspondent
At Jewish Family Service, 2015 will be
a time to start deepening the 123-yearold organization’s connection to Jewish
values through a renewed vision for all
who work there.
Called Project Kavod (kavod means
“honor” in Hebrew), the initiative will
be a three-year education and training program for staff and volunteers to
reflect on the meaning behind the organization’s purpose.
“It’s not so much about what we do,
but why we do it,” said JFS CEO Rabbi
Will Berkovitz. “We are coming at the
text and the tradition from a values and
history perspective, not a religious perspective. The values are universal, but
the story and the history that got us to
our values are uniquely Jewish.”
The project is funded by a $109,245
grant from The Covenant Foundation,
a New York-based nonprofit organi-
zation that “works to strengthen educational endeavors that perpetuate the
identity, continuity and heritage of the
Jewish people,” according to its mission
statement.
The JFS curriculum will respond to
the interests of the agency as it interacts
with the material compiled by nationally
recognized Jewish educator and 2010
Covenant Foundation award recipient,
Beth Huppin, who will direct, guide, and
oversee all of the teaching modules for
Project Kavod.
“Developing the ‘curriculum’ will be
a dynamic process,” Huppin said. “What
emerges will be responsive to the questions that arise from our leadership,
staff, and volunteers.”
What Huppin knows for sure, however, is that studying core Jewish textual
content can lead to increased connections between service providers and the
Beth Huppin
public they interact with every day.
“The texts provide opportunities for
self-reflection that will build the capacity of the staff, board and volunteers to
be open to the presence of the ‘other,’
which could be clients or colleagues or
fellow volunteers,” said Huppin. “Text
is a tool to expand our capacity for presence. In our popular culture right now,
we call that mindfulness.”
How does that translate into a more
successful and effective agency? Huppin
asked.
“The more you can be mindful of
what you’re doing, the better you can do
it,” she said. “It’s a constant reminding
ourselves of why we are doing what we
are doing and asking ourselves, ‘What
could I have done better?’ ‘What could
I have learned from the other person?’
Text helps us ask those questions of ourselves.”
While Huppin and JFS leaders iron
out the details of how and when these
study sessions will take place at JFS,
marketing and communications director Deborah Frockt told JTNews that
she is confident the new learning focus
at the agency won’t interrupt its dayto-day work with the people who need
them.
“This program will not in any way
decrease vital direct services provided to
the community,” said Frockt.
According to a press release, teachings and conversations will be carried
out at board and staff meetings at all
three JFS locations through lunch-andlearns during the workday. A collection
of texts and study materials will also be
centralized and made available to staff
and volunteers.
“This grant gives us the opportunity
to build on what’s right at JFS, a chance
to examine the values this community
is already living by using our tradition’s
texts,” said Huppin. “We have a rich
fountain of teachings focused on the
very work that JFS does.”
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A Bar Mitzvah of sorts • Teaching Torah at a Jesuit school
Diana Brement JTNews Columnist
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years...and how we can move
Think of it as a Bar or
on to the next level.”
Bat Mitzvah of sorts:
Known for his passion for
This Sunday, Rabbi Jay
movies and TV — “Tremé,”
and Janine Rosenbaum of
“The Wire” and “The AmeriMercer Island’s Herzl-Ner
cans” are some current favorTamid Conservative Congreite shows — but “I used to be
gation will be honored for 13
a big fan of ‘Northern Expoyears of service at the congresure,’” he says. It’s Ed from
gation’s Legacy Brunch.
that series who said movies
“In our tradition we look
are “the American way” of
at a week, a day, a year,” says
storytelling, and Jay concurs.
the rabbi, and “sometimes we M.O.T. Member
“I listen to people’s stories
[get to] look at bigger chunks of the Tribe
all day long,” he says. “I’m
of time.”
always fascinated by people’s stories.”
The celebration comes at a “crossroads”
Janine, who grew up Janine Guttman
for the American Jewish community, as
in Seattle’s Seward Park neighborhood,
well as our own.
repeatedly stressed how lucky she is.
“There’s a
“I always wanted to come back here,”
lot of churnshe says. “Not every rabbi’s wife gets to
ing, a lot of
come back to where they’re from. It’s a
soul searchhuge plus” to be close to family and longing...causing
time friends and to make new friends at
both anxiety
Herzl, which “feels like family.”
and exciteBecoming Seattle Hebrew Academy’s
ment,” Jay
librarian on her return, she worked there
says, with
for 11 years, retiring in 2013. She also has
the challenge
Janine and Jay Rosenbaum
a private tutoring company called Helpof showing
ing Hand.
younger Jews especially that Judaism “adds
Rabbinic spouses today “want to have
something meaningful to our lives.”
their own identity,” she observes, and “not
Not wanting to give away his talk, the
only be involved in the life of the synarabbi promises “highlights of the last 13
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achieved that balance with her work and
the Hebrew classes she teaches at Herzl.
“I’m able to find that piece [of synagogue life] that lets me connect with people
in my own way,” she says.
While Janine is not speaking at the
brunch, the Rosenbaums’ son David and
daughter Shani will be on hand to say a
few words.
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The hook for this story was supposed to be, how did a nice Jewish
girl come to teach Hebrew Bible at
a Jesuit University?
But that proved the easy part.
Seattle University wanted someone
“who would teach Bible from a Jewish perspective,” says Professor Bea Lawrence,
assistant professor of theology and religious studies there. The Jesuits are committed to the integrity of the text and the
first thing she does is explain to her mostly
Christian students that Torah is “different
than the Old Testament.”
More interesting is the arc of Bea’s
story from growing up in Moscow, Idaho,
a community distinctly lacking in Jews, to
teaching the essence of Judaism.
Bea’s parents, East Coast natives, met in
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Hey Mom, it doesn’t matter if you can’t carry a tune —
sing anyway!
Janis Siegel JTNews Columnist
Most mothers know that
singing to their baby can be a
special time between mother
and child and that they don’t
have to sound like Barbra Streisand or Taylor Swift to do it.
But if your new bundle of
joy was born prematurely, as,
globally, 15 million babies are
every year, put away any inhibitions you may have about
vocalizing and start pulling ISRAEL:
together your repertoire.
To Your
Using the Kangaroo
Method or KC, where a mother holds her
diapered-only baby uprightly against her
chest, skin against skin, and a cloth covering his or her back, Mom sings away in
tranquil tones while the little one snuggles
inside of her shirt.
Singing to a stable, premature baby significantly improves a mother’s well-being
and also encourages the child’s development and overall health, according to Dr.
Shmuel Arnon from the department of
Neonatology at the Meir Medical Center
and Hospital in Kfar Saba, Israel.
Arnon told JTNews that for now, the
benefits seem to come from the mother’s voice.
“The theory is the preterm infant can only perceive
high pitch voices. Therefore,
Father’s voice might not be
as beneficial as the mother’s
voice,” said Arnon. “However, during Kangaroo Care
there are many other senses
that work, i.e., tactile, odor,
touch, breathing, vibration,
etc., that the father is not theoretically different from the
Health mother. That is what we are
studying now.”
The 2014 study, published in the journal
“Acta Paediatrica,” compared the effects of
KC and maternal singing on a stable preterm baby against the outcomes using KC
alone with 86 mother-baby pairs.
“The mother was instructed to sing with
a repetitive, soothing tone, softly, simply
and with slow tempo,” wrote Arnon in the
study report. “She was asked to include lullabies, preferably those that she sang during
pregnancy, in her preferred language.”
Using an instrument that measured
sound levels placed next to the baby’s ear,
mothers were told to maintain a decibel
level between 60 and 70 DB.
“Authors who have tried to combine
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music and KC have failed to show marked
benefit for preterm infants,” wrote Arnon.
“Studies have shown that just after birth
the infant is reacting only to his mother’s voice,” he told JTNews, “whether it
is a biological connection in the genome
of familiarity, hearing his mother during
pregnancy, I am not aware of studies examining this.”
In other 2013 research published in
Pediatrics, researchers observed 272 similar preterm infants that were at least eight
months old who were exposed to live
musicians playing to the “preemies.” It
improved a baby’s alertness, quiet time,
sleep time, increased the baby’s level of
oxygen, improved its sucking responses,
and helped the parents to feel more relaxed.
Arnon’s study using the mother’s voice
analyzed the responses of 86 stable preterm
infants between 32 and 36 weeks of maturity to measure maternal anxiety and the
infant’s behavior. Each phase of singing
time and quiet time lasted for 20 minutes
with a recovery period of 10 minutes.
His team found a significant lowering
of maternal anxiety and the baby’s heart
rate was significantly more stable in both
the higher and lower heartbeat frequencies.
However, a mother’s voice conferred
additional benefits to the child.
“A mother singing to her child ‘encouraged perceptual memory and learning in
infants,’” according to the study. “Exposing
infants to their mothers’ voices in NICUs
has been shown to increase oxygen satura-
tion, decrease episodic apnea and bradycardia [a slow heart rate], and improve weight
gain and feeding tolerance.”
Meir’s team said the combination of the
tactile and the maternal auditory stimulation might mimic the sounds that a fetus
hears in the womb.
Because preemies are born with underdeveloped organs and nervous systems, the
main focus of Arnon’s NIDCAP unit is to
support the families of premature babies
and to facilitate the parents’ and the child’s
health and development.
Parents whose premature babies are
cared for in the Meir Medical Center’s
NICU are trained in both techniques to use
when they take their child home.
In addition to experimenting with KC
and a father’s voice, Arnon will continue
to experiment with the combined KC and
maternal singing techniques to see if babies
might benefit from the continued use of the
therapy as they grow.
“Further studies evaluating the longterm effects of this bimodal exposure, and
whether continuing this therapy during
infancy facilitates gross motor skills,
mental processing, perceptual memory,
social behavior and learning, are warranted,” he said.
Longtime JTNews correspondent and freelance
journalist Janis Siegel has covered international
health research for SELF magazine and
campaigns for Fred Hutchinson Cancer
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Cue the lights: ACT to stage JDS student’s play
By Dan Aznoff
Watch out, Oscar Wilde. Move aside, George Bernard Shaw. Here comes Danielle Kohorn.
A short play written by the 12-year-old Jewish Day School middle school student has
been selected by the Washington Ensemble Theater and will be staged this spring during
the annual Young Playwrights Festival at the ACT Theater in Seattle.
The effort of the young playwright from Issaquah was selected from hundreds of submissions from high school and middle school students in the theater’s annual Young Playwrights
Program.
The aspiring author penned her award-winning script as part of the Journey and Growth
elective program at JDS. Danielle’s play, “When It All Fell Apart,” is the story of a strained
relationship between two teenage girls.
“I felt really good about my play and my teachers gave me positive feedback, but I never
expected that my play would be selected in a competition against high school students from
all over Seattle,” said Kohorn. “My parents received an email that my play had been selected,
but I had no idea what to expect when they sat me down to tell the good news.”
The elective program is part of the inquiry-based education at the private school in
Bellevue. Students in the course have dedicated two days each week to the study of plays and
script writing. Kohorn said her teacher, Rachel Atkins, instructed students in her class how
to construct a “story mountain” built upon character development, establishing challenges
for the main characters, and setting up the turning point that leads to a logical conclusion.
Danielle’s play follows the emotional journey of Sky and her friend Mavis as the girls
struggle to maintain the innocence of their relationship after it has been strained by sarcasm
and hurt feelings. The turning point for Sky, said Kohorn, was an epiphany about the relationship after a dream sequence after the two girls have stopped speaking to each other.
Spoiler alert: “When It All Fell Apart” has a happy ending.
The JDS student admitted the play was not based on anything in her own life, but stressed
her attraction to what she describes as “realistic fiction.”
ACT Theater sends working professionals to
local school each year to help students explore
the various opportunities in the theater that go
beyond performing on stage. Educators have
praised the 10-week program for providing
students with the self-confidence to explore
more about themselves, their own community,
and the challenges they may encounter in
the world.
Danielle’s father, Adam Kohorn, is obviously
proud of his daughter. He is also thankful to his
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daughter’s school for helping her experience Young playwright Danielle Kohorn.
the backstage efforts that go into a production.
“The elective program at JDS has helped Danielle understand her dreams and ambitions,”
the older Kohorn explained. “Nobody knows if this will be the first step of a professional
career for my 12-year-old daughter, but the recognition is nice. It helps bring even more value
to the stories that Danielle has created for her mother and me over the years.”
Adam Kohorn said his daughter has always been an avid reader, but the creation of a
storyline with a conclusion was something he had not expected from the pre-teen.
Danielle expects to be excited — and more than a little nervous — when she watches her
words come to life on stage in March. But she also admits to some concern about whether
the actors will read their lines with the proper inflection or have the appropriate facial expressions she had in mind when she wrote the play.
Michelle Kohorn, Danielle’s mother, said her daughter may decide to study the role of a
director the next time she enrolls in a theater class.
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Clarinetist Anat Cohen brings ruach to music, and Seattle
Gigi Yellen Kohn JTNews Correspondent
With some 20 albums to her name,
countless awards and glowing reviews
from festivals, clubs and concerts worldwide, jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen’s work
as bandleader, soloist, and “sideman” is as
influential as a music career can be.
Born and raised in the 1960s near Tel
Aviv, Cohen fell in love with the clarinet
as a student at the Tel Aviv-Jaffa conservatory, where a Dixieland band was part
of the training. Her art draws on traditions
as diverse as Brazilian, Cuban, blues, folk,
and New Orleans, as well as klezmer and
classical music. The Jazz Journalist Association has named her Clarinetist of the
Year for seven years in a row.
Cohen headlines Seattle Jazz Repertory
Orchestra’s 20th anniversary concerts Saturday and Sunday, February 21 and 22,
and she’ll also bring her clarinet to Temple
Beth Am for an audience-friendly Q&A
“From Klezmer to Louis Armstrong: the
Art of Anat Cohen” Sunday morning. The
performance is organized by SJRO board
president and Beth Am member Neal
Friedman. Cohen’s trip is cosponsored
by the Israeli Pacific Northwest Consulate
and Temple Beth Am.
As she told public radio host Terry
Gross in 2013, Cohen learned to focus on
the way it felt to swing. Brothers Avishai
(trumpet) and Yuval (soprano sax), with
the same training, have also emerged as
part of a generation of major jazz artists
from Israel who are now based in New
York. As “3 Cohens,” they record and frequently perform together, as they did at
Jimmy Katz
Jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen, who performs in
Seattle later this month.
Carnegie Hall last year. They all studied at
Boston’s Berklee College of Music.
Anat Cohen’s art reflects not only
where she comes from geographically, but
also where her instrument comes from
musically and historically.
“There was a time that clarinet was
out of fashion, in a way,” she told Gross.
“Actually, people still associate it with
— you know, if I tell anybody that I play
clarinet and I play jazz, everybody’s first
association is, ‘Oh, Benny Goodman!’ The
clarinet is still associated with older styles,
and with folkloric music. Maybe in Israel
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grad school and “thought it would be fun”
to teach at the University of Idaho for a few
years — which turned into 46. And while
there’s a small congregation there now,
back then there was none.
“My mother had taught Hebrew
school,” and “tried very hard to teach me
and my sister,” who were “thoroughly
uninterested,” says Bea, who arrived at
Carleton College as an undergraduate
knowing nothing outside of the Hanukkah blessings.
A political science major intending to
go to law school, she “accidently [took] a
class in Hebrew Bible,” and remembers the
day her studies changed course.
“It was the day I realized...I could call
myself a Jew even though I didn’t know
anything; that I’d never been to a synagogue,” she says. “That just made me voraciously curious.”
Bea majored in religion, then started
rabbinic training, but realized “that I
would make an awful rabbi,” as a “thinskinned” type whose “own theology is not
very comforting.”
She took her master’s and doctorate
at Emory University, then taught at the
Hebrew Union College in L.A. The need
for a lifestyle change brought her and
daughters Ellie, 9, and Abby, 6, to Seat-
tle in 2010. She likes the city and her work.
“I’m very happy,” she says. “It’s very
different than teaching rabbinical students.” She’s even written, with the
approval of the school, an article critiquing “dominant Christian approaches to
Judaism,” which appeared in the online
journal “Studies in Jewish-Christian Relations” last year.
In a turnabout, Bea now leads High
Holiday services each year at Moscow’s
Jewish Community of the Palouse, which
also serves Pullman, Wash. She recently
joined Temple Beth Am in Northeast Seattle, where she will be teaching a three-part
class on gender and sex in the Torah in
May and June.
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Short Takes: Margie Kaiz Offer
has been elected to the board of
American Associates, Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev. Her late husband, Dr. Daniel Offer, fled Berlin for
Palestine during Hitler’s rise and served
in the Palmach unit that liberated BeerSheva. When Daniel died in 2013, Margie
established a memorial endowment fund
that supports BGU’s adolescent medical research. A medical researcher, she
and Daniel co-wrote two books, including “Regular Guys: 34 Years Beyond Adolescence.”
the clarinet is associated with klezmer
music? So, maybe in people’s minds it’s
something that’s either dated, or too religious. And I’m working very hard to put
the clarinet into other scenarios.”
Seattle Symphony clarinetist Laura de
Luca, whose own career spans the genres,
says, “I love Anat’s playing and have a
huge respect for her musical voice. She is
a rare artist in the sense of the immediacy
of her expression…. Musical intelligence
comes so directly through her, the clarinet is so integrated with her body, heart
and soul.
“There is no real difference between
what we are all hoping to voice as musicians,” de Luca continued, “whether we
play jazz, classical, folk or rock…it is all
about reaching inside and finding the
essence and beauty of whatever we are
playing, and communicate that outward
to our listeners through our unique voice.”
Longtime Seattle klezmer bandleader
Shawn Weaver hears joy in Anat Cohen’s
music: “Joy is expressed in the most
organic way through song and dance.
Anat Cohen with her clarinet brings this
If you go:
Anat Cohen headlines Seattle Jazz
Repertory Orchestra’s 20th anniversary
concerts Saturday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m.
at Benaroya Hall’s Nordstrom Recital Hall,
and Sunday, Feb. 22. at 2 p.m., at the
Kirkland Performance Center. “From
Klezmer to Louis Armstrong: the Art of
Anat Cohen” takes place Sunday at 10
a.m. at Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th
St., Seattle.
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Wednesday, February 18 at 7:15 p.m.
The Great Escape: The Film Scores of
Elmer Bernstein
Music talk
You would think the man once dubbed
“Moses’s composer” would have led
a charmed life. On the contrary, film
composer Elmer Bernstein struggled
to achieve success. Bernstein, who
came to compose the score for “The
Ten Commandments” muddled in
shlock before his big break. Theodore
Deacon explores Bernstein’s versatile life and work in this lecture. Light
refreshments served.
At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St.,
Seattle. For more information contact
Alexis Kort at 206-525-0915 or
[email protected], or visit
www.templebetham.org.
Wednesday, February 18 at 11:30 a.m.
Daytimers Lunch and Film
Daytimers meets the third Wednesday
of the month for lunch and a Jewishthemed film. This month, laugh along
with Mel Brooks’ “Make a Noise!” RSVP
requested. $7.
At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative
Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way,
Mercer Island. For more information,
contact Rebecca Levy at 206-2328555, ext. 207 or [email protected], or
visit hnt.wufoo.com/forms/daytimerswinter-2015-film-series.
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Opening February 20
Voyage for Madmen
Play
Written by Rachel Atkins (scriptwriter
for “Letters to the Editor”), “Voyage for
Madmen” recounts the unbelievable but
true story of the Ardeo Theatre Project,
a Seattle theater company that underwent a series of disasters parallel to the
plays it was rehearsing. With elements
of “The Tempest,” “Frankenstein,” and
the true story of British sailor Donald
Crowhurst, “Voyage of Madmen” has
also mirrored the Ardeo’s challenges,
with three past productions that fell
apart beyond anyone’s control. Directed
by Susanna Burney (“In the Land of Rain
and Salmon”), “Voyage” is a vaudevillestyle adventure story about Seattle’s
theater community and the risks of the
creative process.
At West of Lenin through March 7.
General admission $20.
Opening gala February 20 $25.
For more information visit
the1448projects.org/voyageformadmen.
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Sunday, February 15 at 3 p.m.
Jewish Women and Art
Lecture
Female Jewish artists are contributing revolutionary ideas to the field of
art, from cultural hybridity to feminist
spirituality to Torah interpretation. Led
by Andrea Iaroc, art historian, educator, and museum professional, this presentation will introduce notable artists,
their art, and its significance.
At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
For more information and to register
visit sjcc.org/cultural-arts/lecturesauthors/jewish-art-contemporarywomen.
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Teens who hang with seniors: We are all better together
By Maya Pogrebinsky
When was the last time you paid a visit to
a resident of an assisted-living center? When
was your most recent encounter with an elderly
member of the community who wasn’t a relative?
A group of about 15 students from Northwest
Yeshiva High School have contemplated this
very question, and we decided to start visiting
The Summit at First Hill to learn from and with
each other through informal programs.
The Summit is a Jewish retirement living
community located in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood with a large variety of services available to suit all of the residents’
needs. Through a program called Better Together, NYHS students and
Summit residents meet once a month to engage in various activities. The goal
of this program is to unite the older and younger generations and bridge the
“age gap” that seems to be distancing the two groups. This year, the theme of
all our programs is “Your Stories.”
The first time we visited, we were intimidated and didn’t know if the residents would react positively to our presence. Many of my peers had never
visited The Summit before and had very little exposure to the life of elderly
people. My grandparents live in Israel and I’m rarely able to see them. But as
the residents slowly filled the room, the mood drastically changed. Each resident warmly greeted us and sat down with a smile. This small reassurance
eased all my fears, as I understood that the residents loved visitors.
Our first activity together was led by Mrs. Chubotin, the art teacher at
NYHS, in a program called “Your Portraits Tell
Your Stories.” As we learned to draw with oil
pastels, we quickly became friends with the residents of The Summit. The woman I sat with told
me about growing up in Europe as a Jew during
World War II. I had visited Poland last summer
and learned about the atrocities of the Holocaust. Many of the places and events this woman
told me about were still fresh in my mind. Seeing
Courtesy NYHS
a person who lived through these events humbled me. She was so joyous and happy despite
having lived through something I could not even begin to imagine.
Dora, another resident, didn’t know if she even wanted to come to the
program. She figured she would come to see what it was and then leave after
a few minutes. Though she wasn’t particularly interested in art, Dora stayed.
She told us her story. Growing up in Hamburg, she escaped to Sweden where
she lived with her uncle and enjoyed a relatively easy life during the war. Ultimately, she ended up in Ohio and then Seattle. We learned about her Jewish
education — speaking, reading and writing Hebrew. She told me about Seattle in the 1940s. She attended the University of Washington while her husband fought in the Army. As she talked about her late husband, her face lit up
and she began to smile.
The next time we visited the Summit, some of the residents recognized
us from the previous time we were
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From Holocaust to healer, one woman’s lifelong work as
a trauma counselor
By Tori Gottlieb
Seventy years after the end of World War II, Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith
Eger is still motivated by the fear and determination that shaped her experience
in Europe’s concentration camps. It was during her time in Auschwitz that Eger
discovered her inner strength, and began to look at her life from the inside out,
as opposed to the outside in.
Eger was raised in Hungary, where she lived
with her family until they were arrested and transported to Auschwitz in 1944. Both of Eger’s parents were killed in the camp. Eger was eventually
transported to Gunskirchen Lager, another concentration camp in Austria. It was there that she
would be liberated by the Army’s 71st Infantry
Division just days before the United States would
declare victory in Europe.
“I think Auschwitz was an opportunity to discover traits I never thought were possible,” Eger
said of her experience.
She now uses those traits to help others, working as a psychologist out of her home in La Jolla,
Calif. At 87, she still has an active career and a full clientele, and even recently
consulted on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with current members of
the same military unit that saved and freed her in 1945.
It’s these skills and experiences that Rachel Chiavaras hopes Eger will bring
to Seattle at her talk on February 6 about the art of survival. Chiavaras is the
founder of Calvin’s Kids, an organization that provides therapy to children who
have suffered abuse, neglect, or other trauma. The Washington State Psychological Association is hosting Dr. Eger’s talk, which is being sponsored by Calvin’s Kids and Seattle law firm Williams Kastner.
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“This is the first of many years, I hope, of bringing in people who have gone
through things that are courageous,” Chiavaras said of the event. Her goal is to
show people that “we can go through things in life and come out on the other side
and make something of it,” much as Eger did.
Chiavaras, who is currently working on her Ph.D. in psychology, was
inspired to start Calvin’s Kids after seeing the suffering of families whose children were in life-threatening situations. The organization is named for Chiavaras’s dog, Calvin, whom she adopted from the Seattle Humane Society four
years ago. During their walks around their neighborhood, near Seattle Children’s Hospital, Calvin unwittingly provided comfort to a number of agonized
parents and patients.
“People would just get on their knees and hold onto him and cry,” Chiavaras
said. “Lots of times, I would never even say a word.”
Chiavaras is hopeful that Eger’s message and outlook on life can bring comfort to those in the community who are dealing with trauma or loss. Eger herself
has said that she looks forward to talking to her audience about the difference
between curing and healing, and about the spiritual dimension of healing —
what she calls “the third dimension, beyond the body and mind.”
More than anything, both Eger and Chiavaras want people to understand
that there is life after trauma.
“It’s not what happens,” said Dr. Eger. “It’s what you do with it.”
If you go:
Dr. Eger’s talk, “The Art of Survival,” will take place on Fri., February 6 from 6 to 9 p.m.
at ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased online at
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/906342. For more information, contact
Rachel Chiavaras at 206-769-9480 or [email protected].
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Learn how to encourage independence and
motivate by incentive while building selfesteem. Led by Rabbi Cheskie Edelman. 50
percent discount for first-time Jewish Learning
Institute attendees. $85. At Congregation
Shaarei Tefilah, 6250 43rd Ave. NE, Seattle.
7:30 p.m. — Rabbi David Rosen: Is Religion
the Problem or the Solution?
Lila Pinksfeld at 206-622-6315 or www.
ajcseattle.org/Rosen
AJC Seattle Speakers series featuries Rabbi David
Rosen, international director of interreligious
affairs of AJC. $18. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
Friday
20 February
7:30–9 p.m. — Kabbalat Tikvah: A Shabbat
Evening of Hope and Healing
425-844-1604 or [email protected] or
www.kolaminw.org
Congregation Kol Ami welcomes Jewish
musicians and worship leaders Sue Horowitz,
Julie Warwick, Ruz Gulko and friends for a
Shabbat evening of song and prayer. Oneg
Shabbat to follow service. Free. At Congregation
Kol Ami, 16530 Avondale Rd. NE,
5 p.m. — Discovery Seminar Weekend
The Seattle Kollel at 206-722-8289 or
[email protected] or www.seattlekollel.org
Logic-based exploration of God, meaning
and spirituality. Special classes on Torah and
science. Through Sun., Feb. 22 at noon. Call for
prices. At the Doubletree Southcenter, 16500
Southcenter Parkway, Tukwila.
Saturday
21 February
7:30–8:30 p.m. — In The Image: Part One
livingjudaism at 206-851-9949 or info@
livingjudaism.com or www.livingjudaism.com
“Realizing Our Power to Live with Wisdom and
Well-Being.” Parts 2 and 3 will take place Feb.
22. At East-West Bookshop, 6500 Roosevelt
Way NE, Seattle.
8:30–10 p.m. — Seattle Mikvah
Association Event
Sharon Adatto at 206-725-5799
Seattle Mikvah Association fundraiser. Address
provided upon RSVP.
SundaY
22 February
1–3 p.m. — Community Storytelling
Workshop
206-774-2250 or [email protected]
or www.wsjhs.org
How did you and your ancestors end up
in Washington State? Led by professional
storyteller Merna Hecht as part of the
Washington State Jewish Historical Society’s
year of immigration and migration. All ages
welcome to share or just listen. At Sephardic
Bikur Holim, 6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
5–9 p.m. — NYHS Gala Dinner and Live
Auction honoring Dr. Jane Becker and Jason
Kintzer
Melissa Rivkin at or [email protected]
Doors open at 5 p.m. at the Sheraton Seattle
Hotel. Honoring Jane and Jason for their
dedication to the community. At the Sheraton
Hotel, 1400 Sixth Ave., Seattle.
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Hanukkah, we sang songs and lit candles as part of “Your Songs Tell Your
Stories.” Although not everyone knew all the words, it was beautiful to see so
many elderly people coming together and rejoicing. We celebrated together,
bonding over songs of our past and present singing in Hebrew, English, Yiddish and Ladino.
Each resident I spoke to left me extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to spend part of my day with them. As this program continues, I hope to
further invest in my relationships with these amazing people. They have truly
opened my mind and heart to new experiences that I previously discounted.
Maya Pogrebinsky is a junior at Northwest Yeshiva High School and the chair of the Chessed
Committee.
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and vows. Non-denominational officiant and wedding coordinator included.
Joelle from TravelBootik is your Club Med expert and can offer you specials to Club
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Do as much — or as little — as you wish. With all-included luxuries ranging from sailing, snorkeling, trapeze and mealtimes to having both “me time” and “us time,” plus
Children’s Clubs for kids 4–17, everyone gets to indulge in their own version of pure
happiness in the Caribbean, Florida, Mexico and beyond.
Contact Joelle Dahan Kalfon, travel counselor at 404-304-2537 or
[email protected], or visit www.travelbootik.com.
Ruth Simon
Griselda “Babe” Lyon
Lehrer
October 10, 1926 — January 20,
2015
Ruth Simon, 89, was born to Ralph and
Jennie Kettleman and preceded in death by her
husband Harry. She was the youngest of four
siblings who all grew up in Seattle and
attended Garfield High School.
Ruth was a Seattle native through and
through: Her favorite Starbucks order was a
soy latte with extra dry foam; she was an avid
follower of the Seahawks, Mariners, and
Sonics, too; and a devoted employee of the
Kline Galland Home for more than 20 years,
even after she retired from Bikur Cholim
synagogue.
She was a beloved sister to Sylvia Saperstein; mother to Sharon, Robyn and Steve; a
grandmother, great-grandmother and
great-great grandmother! Ruth will be missed
by all whose lives she touched.
Funeral services were held at Bikur Cholim
Cemetery on January 22. Remembrances may
be made to the Caroline Kline Galland Home.
January 29, 1921–January 24,
2015
Griselda “Babe” Lyon Lehrer, born January
29, 1921, died peacefully at her home on
January 24, 2015. Babe was a Tacoma native
and a lifetime promoter of the “Great Pacific
Northwest,” and specifically the City of Tacoma.
Babe is survived by her two sons, Michael
(Cec) and their children Brian and Emily, and
Bradley (Susan) and their son Benjamin. Babe
was predeceased by the love of her life,
Herman, in 2006.
A private burial took place at the Home of
Peace Cemetery on Monday, January 26, 2015.
A memorial tribute was held in Babe’s honor at
the Pantages Theater in Tacoma on January 29.
If you wish to continue Babe’s generous
work, the family would be thankful for
donations to the Babe and Herman Lehrer
Japanese Friendship Garden Lighting Fund at
the TCC Foundation, www.Tacomacc.edu/babe.
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When winter’s deep in your bones, this will
warm you up
Michael Natkin JTNews Columnist
This simple, warming side
Brussels Sprout and
dish goes well with mac and
Apple Hash
cheese or a rustic soup and
Gluten-free
salad. It might be just the
20 minutes
ticket to converting a con3 Tbs. unsalted butter
firmed Brussels sprout hater
Half a medium white onion,
into a true believer. I’ve also
finely diced
been known to fry up a plate
Kosher salt
just for myself, add a slice of
1 crisp apple, such as a Pink
Lady, peeled, cored, and finely
toasted artisanal wheat bread,
diced
and call it dinner.
Many variations are pos- Jewish & Veggie 1 lb. Brussels sprouts, cleaned,
bottoms trimmed, and sliced
sible. You could add toasted
about 1/4 inch thick (about 4 cups sliced)
pecans, hazelnuts, or dried cherries; change
2 fresh sage leaves, thinly sliced
the champagne vinegar to apple cider vine1/2 tsp. minced fresh rosemary leaves
gar, sherry vinegar, or orange juice; or even
2 tsp. champagne vinegar
replace the apple with a crisp pear.
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much needed ruach to America’s sophisticated art form.”
Indeed, Cohen says she learned the
tricky rhythms of Afro-Cuban music by
dancing while she played.
Downbeat magazine describes Cohen’s
“dark tones and delicious lyricism,” calling
her “a dynamic bandleader who danced
and shouted out encouragement to her
group,” when she headlined the North Sea
Jazz Festival in Rotterdam.
“Because I also play the tenor saxophone, sometimes I like to bring the tenor
saxophone vibe into the clarinet,” Cohen
explained to Terry Gross. It’s a breathy,
dusky vibe. “It’s kind of a no-no in the clarinet world, in the legit way of playing,” she
confessed, “but you know when you play
jazz, the search for expression, that’s what
it’s about. If I wanna say something and
2 tsp. honey
• Melt the butter in a large skillet over
medium heat. Add the onion and a
pinch of salt and cook until beginning
to brown, about 4 minutes.
• Add the apple and a pinch of salt. Raise
the heat slightly and cook, stirring occasionally, until the apple starts to
brown, about 2 minutes.
• Add the Brussels sprouts, a big pinch of
salt, the sage, and rosemary, and cook,
stirring occasionally, until sprouts are
wilted and well browned, about 10 minutes.
• Add the champagne vinegar and honey
and toss to coast, scraping any delicious
browned bits from the bottom of the
whisper it, you know, the air has an effect,
your know?”
In Seattle, Cohen will include some
arrangements by Jovino Santos Neto, the
Brazilian-born jazz artist based at Cornish
College of the Arts. She’s deeply involved
with the Brazilian form known as choro
(including releases on her own label, Anzic
Records), and in April, she’ll do a weeklong choro workshop with Santos Neto
and others, at Centrum in Port Townsend.
MICHAEL NATKIN
pan. Taste and adjust the seasonings; it
will likely need more salt, and you may
also want to add more honey or vinegar
to suit your taste. Serve hot.
Serves 3 to 4.
Local food writer and chef Michael Natkin’s
cookbook “Herbivoracious, A Flavor Revolution
with 150 Vibrant and Original Vegetarian
Recipes,” was a finalist in 2013 for a James
Beard award. The recipes are based on his food
blog, herbivoracious.com.
“We as an orchestra take an international perspective. Anat is helping us live
up to that,” says Michael Brockman, coartistic director of Seattle Repertory Jazz
Orchestra. “Even though jazz was born
in the U.S., each part of the world has its
own special brand of jazz. Anat travels the
world. She is one of those musicians, like
Yo Yo Ma or Herbie Hancock, who transcend their genre.”
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■■The future of Auschwitz
A letter to our community
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Jan. 27 marked the 70th anniversary since the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet soldiers. Many have questioned what will become of the site, now maintained as a museum
and memorial. “Auschwitz Museum is in a financial crisis,” memorial spokesperson Pawel
Sawicki warned in 2009. “And if we can’t secure the buildings and conserve the site properly, we will be forced to close it to the public in a few years.”
—VICE News
A letter from the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s leadership reveals the future of this newspaper.
■■Chelsea in the homeland
Where the Jews are
Jewish-American late night TV host Chelsea Handler visited Israel in late January to
partake in a fundraiser for cancer patients. She also met with former Israeli President
Shimon Peres. Handler’s visit will be featured in an upcoming documentary exploring her
Jewish roots and Israel.
—Jewcy
■■Hair peace
An Israeli barber has crafted inconspicuous yarmulkes — what he calls “magic” yarmulkes — made out of human hair and designed to keep Jewish people safe, allowing them
to cover their heads without drawing unwanted or negative attention.
—Tablet Magazine
Rabbi’s Turn: What will you do?
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Rabbi Shaul Engelsberg reminds us that though we have been rescued from the hands of fate
throughout the generations, we must still be willing to sacrifice for the Jewish people.
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The 14-year wait for a study of our Jewish community has finally been completed, and the results
bolster much of what we already knew, but also offer some dramatic surprises.
Teaching the mission
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Jewish Family Service has won a grant that will provide staff and volunteers the opportunity to use
Jewish teachings to help them better understand the importance of their work.
Celebrations and wedding memories
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J-Teen section
Onto the stage!
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Danielle Kohorn is only 12, but this young Jewish Day School student has already written a play
that will be performed on a major stage next month.
■■No direction
Twenty members of Germany’s neo-Nazi National Democratic party were forced to
cancel a protest after they got on the wrong train. The NPD had planned to march in
Freiburg in support of a woman with NPD ties who had allegedly been discriminated
against because of her allegiance to the group. The NPD members boarded a train to
Mannheim—a town approximately 123 miles away—by mistake.
—Times of Israel
—Boris Kurbanov
From the Jewish Transcript,
February 2, 1978.
As we cover the release of our Greater
Seattle Jewish Community Study this week,
let’s take a look back at when Debra Friedman, Bunny Cohen and Anne Nieder volunteered to mail out survey questionnaires by
hand. That effort was done in-house by the
Jewish Federation, and the findings showed
we had 19,300 Jews in our community — less
than a third of our size today.
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Friday
6 February
NCSY’s Edmonton Shabbaton
206-295-5888 or [email protected]
or www.seattlencsy.com
Spend Shabbos with friends from Canada. Open to
all Jewish 9th-12th graders regardless of affiliation.
Saturday
7 February
9–10:15 a.m. — Torah Study and Walk
in Kirkland
425-844-1604 or [email protected] or
www.kolaminw.org
Bimonthly Torah study followed by a walk by
the lake. Text and commentaries provided. No
experience necessary. Free. Next session Feb. 21.
At Aura Café and Bakery, 116 Central Way, Kirkland.
5:30–7 p.m. — Cupcakes and Havdalah
206-232-7115 or [email protected] or
www.sjcc.org
Crafts, music, and Havdalah service. Snacks and
dessert provided. For kids of all ages. Free. At
the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
7 p.m. — Jewish History Chavurah
425-603-9677 or [email protected]
or templebnaitorah.org
Focusing on Jewish history, culture, the
Jewish journey, and more. Meets monthly on
Wednesdays. Free. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727
NE Fourth St., Bellevue.
Sunday
8 February
9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — HNT 2015
Legacy Brunch
Rebecca Levy at 206-232-8555, ext. 207 or
[email protected]
Honoring Rabbi Jay and Janine Rosenbaum for 13
years of service. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative
Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
10–11 a.m. — Sunday Morning Forum: Support
for Caregivers
Alexis Kort at 206-525-0915 or
[email protected] or
www.templebetham.org
Adam Halpern, assistant director of JFS Aging in
Place, will explore the Judaic view on caregiving and
learn about local resources for family caregivers. At
Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.
10:30 a.m.–1 p.m. — HFLA Annual Brunch
Caroline Strelitz at [email protected] or
hfla-seattle.com
The Hebrew Free Loan Association celebrates its
101st year. At the Summit at First Hill, 1200
University St. #100, Seattle.
3:15–4:30 p.m. — Chai Mitzvah:
Grow your Judaism
425-844-1604 or [email protected] or
www.kolaminw.org
Class 5: “Mindfulness and Conscious Living.” At
Congregation Kol Ami, 16530 Avondale Rd. NE,
Woodinville.
5 p.m. — Temple Beth Am’s Annual Gala
Jan Glick at 206-525-0915 or rsvp@
templebetham.org
“Through the Looking Glass.” $100. At the
Fairmont Olympic Hotel, 411 University St., Seattle.
Monday
9 February
7–9 p.m. — Warm For Your Reform
425-603-9677 or [email protected]
Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue Invites You To...
A Day With Sylvia Boorstein
Opening to Inner Clarity:
The Gift of a Pure Heart
or templebnaitorah.org
Part three of three exploring Reform Judaism:
Its emergence against a hostile background,
the evolution of its expanding worldview, and a
celebration of its milestones and contributions.
Instructor: Rabbi Eric J. Siroka. $15. At Temple
B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.
Tuesday
10 February
10–11:30 a.m. — Open House: SJCC Early
Childhood School Seattle Campus
[email protected] or 206-526-8073 or
www.sjcc.org
Tour the facility, experience a day in the life of a
child in the classroom, meet staff and faculty, and
ask questions. Free. At the Stroum JCC, 2618 NE
80th St., Seattle.
Wednesday
11 February
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. — Totally Book Talk
(TBT) Café
425-603-9677 or [email protected]
or templebnaitorah.org
Discuss “The Invention of Wings” by Sue Monk
Kidd. Free. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth
St., Bellevue.
Friday
13 February
BCMH Scholar in Residence Shabbos with
Rabbi Shalom Hammer of the IDF
Julie Greene, BCMH Program Director at
206-721-0970 or [email protected]
Rabbi Shalom Hammer, of the Jewish Identity
Division of the Israeli Army, will speak. Free. At
Congregation Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath,
5145 S Morgan St., Seattle.
JSU Ski Retreat
Seattle NCSY at 206-295-5888 or
[email protected] or
www.seattlencsy.com
Join JSU members from all over greater Seattle,
Portland and Nor-Cal on the slopes.
Saturday
14 February
Info & Tickets at:
Sunday
15 February
9:30–11:30 a.m. — IDF Rabbi Shalom
Hammer: “Empowering Israel”
[email protected] or
www.shevetachim.com
Rabbi Shalom Hammer served in the IDF rabbinate,
where he works to help troops understand what it
means to serve in a Jewish army. Includes bagels
and lox brunch. $18 per person, $27 per couple.
Under 21 free. At Congregation Shevet Achim,
8685 SE 47th St., Mercer Island.
Monday
16 February
9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. — SJCC Mid-Winter Break
Camp: Feb. 16-20
206-232-7115 or [email protected] or sjcc.org
Week-long break camps include field trips,
swimming and gym play. Pre-K–5th grade. This
week: “Around the World.” $60-$70 per day. At the
Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
Tuesday
17 February
1–2 p.m. — Rosh Chodesh Women’s Friendship Circle
425-603-9677 or [email protected]
or templebnaitorah.org
Discuss “The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion
for All Seasons” by Jill Hammer. Highlight the
connection between the text and the months,
seasons and cycles of the year. Free. At Temple
B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.
Wednesday
5–7 p.m. — Havdalah Happening in Seattle
Kate Speizer at 206-384-6020 or
[email protected] or www.tdhs-nw.org
Saturday, March 7, 2015
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Pasta and salad dinner, cookie decorating, and
Havdalah ceremony. No experience or membership
required. $20 donation per family suggested. At
Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle.
5–10 p.m. — Parents Night Out
206-232-7115 or [email protected] or sjcc.org
UnBirthday Party: Games, arts and crafts, and
activities. Includes dinner. $40-$60. At the Stroum
JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
18 February
9:15 a.m. — The Art of Parenting
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A letter to our community
Dear readers,
Over the past several years, we have watched as the world has shifted from consuming its news in print to online. At the same time, the Jewish Federation has been questioning
whether the best vehicle for community outreach and communications would be through a print newspaper such as JTNews, or if there might be a better way to talk about the great
things happening in greater Seattle’s Jewish community and beyond.
As such, on January 22, the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle approved a proposal to transition JTNews from a print newspaper to a bimonthly glossy magazine
that highlights our local Jewish life. Rather than be published by the Federation, though we will still retain ownership, the content will be produced by a magazine company with vast
experience both in publishing in our region and taking advantage of a full breadth of print and online resources.
Every donor to the Jewish Federation and every subscriber to JTNews will receive a complimentary subscription to the new magazine. In addition, between issues, the Federation
will issue a quarterly newsletter with relevant information about events and community news.
With the release of the demographic study this past month that highlights the incredible growth of our region’s Jewish community, we are very excited about this new opportunity and believe that this new magazine will portray who we are and what we do in a fascinating new way.
JTNews will wind down with its Passover issue at the end of March, and the new magazine will begin publication this coming August. We appreciate the work the staff of JTNews
has done over the years, and it’s possible you will see some of their names on the masthead of the next iteration in the life of our Jewish community’s communications vehicle.
Thank you,
Keith Dvorchik
President and CEO, The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle
Celie Brown
Board chair, The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle
the rabbi’s turn
What will you do for the Jewish people?
Rabbi Shaul Engelsberg Derech Emunah Seattle Jewish Girls High School
My wife’s grandfather,
Mordechai Szimonowitz, survived World War II. When
the Nazis forced all the Jews
of Budapest, Hungary to move
into the ghetto, Zeide — as
we called him — was able to
procure false identification
papers and remained outside
the ghetto walls masquerading as a gentile. He managed to
get a job working as a doorman
at one of the city’s hotels. One day, a highranking Nazi officer arrived and Zeide held
the door open for him. The Nazi stopped
and ordered: “Look to the right.” Zeide
complied while the Nazi stared at him
intently. “Look to the left” he commanded.
Again, Zeide obeyed.
The Nazi continued to study him, loudly
boasting: “I can tell if someone is even an
eighth Jewish!” Zeide was so scared he
could hardly breathe. “And you — are not!”
the Nazi arrogantly snapped and entered
the hotel.
Zeide told us this story one Pesach
during the seder. We had just read the
words in the Haggadah: “In every gener-
ation they rise against us to
annihilate us, but the Holy
One, Blessed is He, rescues us
from their hand.” We understood how real those words
were to our grandfather.
In this week’s Torah portion we read that Yisro, Moshe
Rabbeinu’s father-in-law,
joined the Jewish people in
the desert. Upon hearing of all
the miracles that God had performed for Israel’s sake — all that He had
done to Pharaoh and to Egypt — Yisro proclaimed: “Blessed is Hashem who has rescued you from the hand of Egypt and from
the hand of Pharaoh” (Exodus 18:10).
Not much has changed. Today, as in all
generations past, we continue to be mindful of our survival. As a nation, we are
grateful to the Almighty for our people’s
continued existence. As individuals, we
hear the news from Israel and Europe, and
remind ourselves how fortunate we are to
not be in harm’s way. We pray to God that
He keep our brothers and sisters safe and
protected wherever they may be.
But in addition to feeling grateful and
expressing our appreciation to the One
Above, there is another thought to ponder.
Several years ago, I had occasion to hear
a presentation from Rabbi Berel Wein,
an American-born rabbi, historian, lecturer and writer, who currently serves as
the rabbi of Bait Knesset Hanassi in Jerusalem. Rabbi Wein recounted that in 1945,
when he was a young boy living in Chicago,
the city was graced by a visit from Rabbi
Yitzchak Isaac HaLevi Herzog, who later
became the first Ashkenazic chief rabbi of
the State of Israel. Rabbi Herzog had just
returned from a trip to Europe, where he
had met with Pope Pious XII.
Addressing the Chicago community,
Rabbi Herzog told the audience: “I have
just returned from meeting the Pope. I gave
him a list of ten thousand names of Jewish
children who were placed into Christian
homes during the war. I asked him to give
back those Jewish children.”
(Rabbi Wein explained that there were
many more children who had been placed
with Christians for safekeeping during
World War II, but Rabbi Herzog’s list only
included the ten thousand children who
were known by name.)
Rabbi Herzog continued: “The Pope
said he would not return the children
because they had been baptized.” Rabbi
Herzog then put his head down on the
podium and wept. After a few moments
he composed himself, and passionately
exclaimed: “I cannot do any more for those
ten thousand children, but what will you do
for the Jewish people?”
Following the speech, as everyone
greeted Rabbi Herzog, he kept repeating:
“Remember what I said. What will you do
for the Jewish people?”
We continue to be grateful to the
Almighty for allowing the Jewish people to
survive and flourish, and individually, we
try to acknowledge God’s kindnesses to us
each and every day. Yet in addition to being
appreciative for our survival and continuity as a nation, let us also contemplate a call
to action. We are most thankful to be here.
But what are we here for? Rabbi Herzog’s
rallying call still reverberates: “What will
you do for the Jewish people?”
Rabbi Shaul Engelsberg is principal of the
Derech Emunah Seattle Jewish Girls High
School.
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Dress Cheaply
by Mike Selinker
Where the Jews are:
Our community’s demographic
study is released
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
“If what you wear says more about who you are then what you say when you speak,” humorist
Jarod Kintz notes, “then my advice is to keep quiet and wear loud clothing.” There’s no question
that it’s just as easy to make a statement while wearing inexpensive clothes as while wearing
expensive ones. So why not economize while you accessorize?
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By any stretch of the imagination, the
Jewish community of the greater Seattle
area is a growing, vibrant place. Where
those Jews are and how they live offers a
fascinating and at times surprising overview of who we are as a community.
According to the 2014 Greater Seattle
Jewish Community Study, a demographic
report commissioned by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and conducted
by the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish
Studies at Brandeis University, which was
released in late January, that growth clocks
in at about 70 percent since the last study
was conducted in 2001.
These statistics are based on
a sample size of
3,058. In comparison, the 2013
Pew Research
Center’s Survey
of American Jews
had a sample size
of 3,475.
“We have
almost the same
number just for
Seattle as Pew
did for the whole
country,” said
Keith Dvorchik, president and CEO of the
Jewish Federation. “It’s a very, very robust
data set and it allows us to dig deeper than
we’d be able to do.”
The number of Jews who live in the five
counties around Seattle — King, Pierce,
Snohomish, Island and Kitsap — comprise
roughly 63,400 Jews in 33,700 households.
King County by far has the largest concentration in the region, at 85 percent. That’s
not a big surprise, but where in the county
they are was.
“I don’t think we expected to find quite
such a high proportion of the community living in the City of Seattle itself,” said
Matthew Boxer, a research scientist at the
Cohen Center who led the study. “I think
we expected to find a greater share of the
population in Bellevue, Mercer Island,
Redmond, and some of the other suburbs.”
But the large presence of Jews in Northwest Seattle — neighborhoods north of
the Ship Canal such as Ballard and Greenwood — surprised researchers.
“The growth in Northwest Seattle has
been dramatic,” Dvorchik said.
The only easily accessible Jewish organization to that area is the Queen Annebased Kavana Cooperative. Though
Northeast Seattle — the University District, Wedgwood, Ravenna — offers multiple synagogues and the Stroum Jewish
Community Center preschool, among
other services, “if you live in Northwest
Seattle, 30 minutes may or may not get
you to the synagogues in Northeast Seat-
tle,” Dvorchik said. “It’s clear that there’s
a big challenge.”
And, perhaps, opportunity.
“I think we’re going to have to meet
people where they are and move to more
of a neighborhood structure,” said Judy
Neuman, CEO of the Stroum JCC, of these
findings. “I think it’s more about breaking
programs up and making them more intimate in size where we can and going out
into the community.”
Will Berkovitz, CEO of Jewish Family
Service, said his agency’s mission is
moving in the same direction where the
agency’s outreach aims for engagement
“not in a purely religious context, but in
a context where it reaches them where
they’re at,” he said. “I feel quite optimistic with what our strategy is. It’s lined up
really nicely with what the study enforces.”
Given how the community has grown
and moved in just the past 15 years — as
well as the data point that we are unwilling to drive more than 30 minutes to get
to a program — building new structures
is probably not the right solution to this
issue.
“The population will shift,” Neuman
If you go:
The Jewish Federation of Greater
Seattle will hold two town halls
discussing the community study.
The first, on Wed., Feb. 11 at 6 p.m. is at
Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1511 E Pike St.,
Seattle. RSVP required at bit.ly/1BZGZQA.
The second is on Thurs., Feb. 12 at 6
p.m. at the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer
Way, Mercer Island. RSVP required at bit.
ly/1u4kBFE.
said.
And while the community is wealthy
— 54 percent have annual household
incomes above $100,000 — 7 percent of
us range between “just getting along” and
living in poverty.
Berkovitz called that “a pretty big
number,” though he cautioned that JFS’s
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programs that address addiction, mental
health and domestic violence transcend
income levels.
Then there was the biggest surprise of
all: The level of education.
“We’re talking about a highly educated,
highly knowledgeable community that
values education and everything that goes
along with education,” Dvorchik said.
“Twenty-six percent of Americans have a
college degree. According to Pew, 58 percent of Jewish Americans have a college
degree. The statistics show that white Seat-
We need to “look at it as a collective community.”
As such, the Federation will be hosting town hall meetings about the study on
Feb. 11 and 12 and invites anyone interested to come learn more. The full text of
the study, available for download at www.
jewishinseattle.org/community-study/
community-study-full-report, contains a
vast trove of data where this article only
touches the surface.
“It’s clear from this that this needs to
be a starting point, not an ending point,”
Dvorchik said. “It’s not a read through it
once and you’ve got it all. There’s a lot, a
lot, a lot of information there.”
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he expects to continue growing over
the next decade; high
involvement in a
wide array of activities both inside and
outside of the Jewish
community; its affluence and high emphasis on education; and
that this community
“is deeply invested
in and committed to
social justice, both in
the Jewish world and
more universally,” he said.
With the study now in hand, it is up to
the Federation to figure out how to make
use of the data in a way that facilitates
community growth.
“We need to be doing deeper dives to
understand some of the reasons behind
the information that’s in here so we can
better address it,” Dvorchik said.
Neuman hopes community organizations strike now, while the iron is hot, to
work together to start taking action on
using this data intelligently.
“I don’t want two months to slip by and
have it end up on the bookshelf. Nor do I
want each organization to look at it myopically within their own lens,” she said.
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tle, in the five-county area, 58 percent have
a college degree, and in the Jewish community in Seattle, it’s 89 percent.”
In addition, 37 percent have a master’s
degree or higher, double the average of
Jews nationwide. People working in tech
and the sciences make up about 14 percent of occupations, and 12 percent work
in some type of management, which likely
accounts for those high education numbers.
It probably comes as no surprise to
many of us that Seattle has a higher rate of
intermarriage than the rest of the country:
About 56 percent of Jews are intermarried,
12 percent higher than the national average. However, of those families 44 percent
raise their children Jewish while 40 percent raise them with no religion or haven’t
made a decision.
“Seattle reflects national trends in that
about half the children in intermarried
families are being raised Jewish in some
way, but very few are being raised exclusively in another religion,” Boxer, of the
Cohen Center, told JTNews. “That points
to a tremendous opportunity for the
Greater Seattle Jewish community, and
also a great challenge.”
That challenge, Boxer said, comes in
programming for interfaith families to
make them feel comfortable.
“Previous research shows that children
of intermarriage tend to identify as Jews as
adults if they were exposed to high quality
Jewish educational programming as children,” he said.
The survey divided the population
between those who identified as being
Jewish by religion (JBR) and those as being
Jewish not by religion (JNR) — people
who consider themselves Jewish, but
perhaps more culturally.
When those numbers
are broken out, the ratio
is about 2 to 1 for all
age ranges — a surprise
only in that it matches
the same rate as young
adults nationwide. Far
fewer Jews here identify as Jewish by religion
in the higher age ranges
than nationally.
And then there’s this
odd bit of data, which
the Cohen Center had to
triple check to make sure
they actually had it right:
While the region has a
higher level of synagogue membership
than the national average, the level of participation is much lower.
“It’s a weird dynamic that you wouldn’t
expect,” Dvorchik said. But he attributed
that enigma to the high level of philanthropy the survey revealed.
“Even though we aren’t going to
attend, there are other people who will so
we need to help support the community,”
he surmised.
And though the majority of those philanthropic dollars and volunteer hours
went outside of the Jewish community —
48 percent don’t volunteer with any Jewish
organizations — comments from respondents made it clear that it was their Jewish
values that inspired giving.
JFS for one sees opportunity in volunteerism, in particular if the agency can
“engage these folks who are really on the
margins [and] give them an opportunity
to pass on their Jewish values,” Berkovitz
said. “JFS is in a very unique position in
this community to help be a gateway into
the broader community.”
Boxer said the complexity of the data
made this study as complicated as any the
center has done. He sees obvious high-
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With new project, JFS leans into Jewish text
Janis Siegel JTNews Correspondent
At Jewish Family Service, 2015 will be
a time to start deepening the 123-yearold organization’s connection to Jewish
values through a renewed vision for all
who work there.
Called Project Kavod (kavod means
“honor” in Hebrew), the initiative will
be a three-year education and training program for staff and volunteers to
reflect on the meaning behind the organization’s purpose.
“It’s not so much about what we do,
but why we do it,” said JFS CEO Rabbi
Will Berkovitz. “We are coming at the
text and the tradition from a values and
history perspective, not a religious perspective. The values are universal, but
the story and the history that got us to
our values are uniquely Jewish.”
The project is funded by a $109,245
grant from The Covenant Foundation,
a New York-based nonprofit organi-
zation that “works to strengthen educational endeavors that perpetuate the
identity, continuity and heritage of the
Jewish people,” according to its mission
statement.
The JFS curriculum will respond to
the interests of the agency as it interacts
with the material compiled by nationally
recognized Jewish educator and 2010
Covenant Foundation award recipient,
Beth Huppin, who will direct, guide, and
oversee all of the teaching modules for
Project Kavod.
“Developing the ‘curriculum’ will be
a dynamic process,” Huppin said. “What
emerges will be responsive to the questions that arise from our leadership,
staff, and volunteers.”
What Huppin knows for sure, however, is that studying core Jewish textual
content can lead to increased connections between service providers and the
Beth Huppin
public they interact with every day.
“The texts provide opportunities for
self-reflection that will build the capacity of the staff, board and volunteers to
be open to the presence of the ‘other,’
which could be clients or colleagues or
fellow volunteers,” said Huppin. “Text
is a tool to expand our capacity for presence. In our popular culture right now,
we call that mindfulness.”
How does that translate into a more
successful and effective agency? Huppin
asked.
“The more you can be mindful of
what you’re doing, the better you can do
it,” she said. “It’s a constant reminding
ourselves of why we are doing what we
are doing and asking ourselves, ‘What
could I have done better?’ ‘What could
I have learned from the other person?’
Text helps us ask those questions of ourselves.”
While Huppin and JFS leaders iron
out the details of how and when these
study sessions will take place at JFS,
marketing and communications director Deborah Frockt told JTNews that
she is confident the new learning focus
at the agency won’t interrupt its dayto-day work with the people who need
them.
“This program will not in any way
decrease vital direct services provided to
the community,” said Frockt.
According to a press release, teachings and conversations will be carried
out at board and staff meetings at all
three JFS locations through lunch-andlearns during the workday. A collection
of texts and study materials will also be
centralized and made available to staff
and volunteers.
“This grant gives us the opportunity
to build on what’s right at JFS, a chance
to examine the values this community
is already living by using our tradition’s
texts,” said Huppin. “We have a rich
fountain of teachings focused on the
very work that JFS does.”
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A Bar Mitzvah of sorts • Teaching Torah at a Jesuit school
Diana Brement JTNews Columnist
1
years...and how we can move
Think of it as a Bar or
on to the next level.”
Bat Mitzvah of sorts:
Known for his passion for
This Sunday, Rabbi Jay
movies and TV — “Tremé,”
and Janine Rosenbaum of
“The Wire” and “The AmeriMercer Island’s Herzl-Ner
cans” are some current favorTamid Conservative Congreite shows — but “I used to be
gation will be honored for 13
a big fan of ‘Northern Expoyears of service at the congresure,’” he says. It’s Ed from
gation’s Legacy Brunch.
that series who said movies
“In our tradition we look
are “the American way” of
at a week, a day, a year,” says
storytelling, and Jay concurs.
the rabbi, and “sometimes we M.O.T. Member
“I listen to people’s stories
[get to] look at bigger chunks of the Tribe
all day long,” he says. “I’m
of time.”
always fascinated by people’s stories.”
The celebration comes at a “crossroads”
Janine, who grew up Janine Guttman
for the American Jewish community, as
in Seattle’s Seward Park neighborhood,
well as our own.
repeatedly stressed how lucky she is.
“There’s a
“I always wanted to come back here,”
lot of churnshe says. “Not every rabbi’s wife gets to
ing, a lot of
come back to where they’re from. It’s a
soul searchhuge plus” to be close to family and longing...causing
time friends and to make new friends at
both anxiety
Herzl, which “feels like family.”
and exciteBecoming Seattle Hebrew Academy’s
ment,” Jay
librarian on her return, she worked there
says, with
for 11 years, retiring in 2013. She also has
the challenge
Janine and Jay Rosenbaum
a private tutoring company called Helpof showing
ing Hand.
younger Jews especially that Judaism “adds
Rabbinic spouses today “want to have
something meaningful to our lives.”
their own identity,” she observes, and “not
Not wanting to give away his talk, the
only be involved in the life of the synarabbi promises “highlights of the last 13
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gogue,” but have a professional life. She’s
achieved that balance with her work and
the Hebrew classes she teaches at Herzl.
“I’m able to find that piece [of synagogue life] that lets me connect with people
in my own way,” she says.
While Janine is not speaking at the
brunch, the Rosenbaums’ son David and
daughter Shani will be on hand to say a
few words.
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The hook for this story was supposed to be, how did a nice Jewish
girl come to teach Hebrew Bible at
a Jesuit University?
But that proved the easy part.
Seattle University wanted someone
“who would teach Bible from a Jewish perspective,” says Professor Bea Lawrence,
assistant professor of theology and religious studies there. The Jesuits are committed to the integrity of the text and the
first thing she does is explain to her mostly
Christian students that Torah is “different
than the Old Testament.”
More interesting is the arc of Bea’s
story from growing up in Moscow, Idaho,
a community distinctly lacking in Jews, to
teaching the essence of Judaism.
Bea’s parents, East Coast natives, met in
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Hey Mom, it doesn’t matter if you can’t carry a tune —
sing anyway!
Janis Siegel JTNews Columnist
Most mothers know that
singing to their baby can be a
special time between mother
and child and that they don’t
have to sound like Barbra Streisand or Taylor Swift to do it.
But if your new bundle of
joy was born prematurely, as,
globally, 15 million babies are
every year, put away any inhibitions you may have about
vocalizing and start pulling ISRAEL:
together your repertoire.
To Your
Using the Kangaroo
Method or KC, where a mother holds her
diapered-only baby uprightly against her
chest, skin against skin, and a cloth covering his or her back, Mom sings away in
tranquil tones while the little one snuggles
inside of her shirt.
Singing to a stable, premature baby significantly improves a mother’s well-being
and also encourages the child’s development and overall health, according to Dr.
Shmuel Arnon from the department of
Neonatology at the Meir Medical Center
and Hospital in Kfar Saba, Israel.
Arnon told JTNews that for now, the
benefits seem to come from the mother’s voice.
“The theory is the preterm infant can only perceive
high pitch voices. Therefore,
Father’s voice might not be
as beneficial as the mother’s
voice,” said Arnon. “However, during Kangaroo Care
there are many other senses
that work, i.e., tactile, odor,
touch, breathing, vibration,
etc., that the father is not theoretically different from the
Health mother. That is what we are
studying now.”
The 2014 study, published in the journal
“Acta Paediatrica,” compared the effects of
KC and maternal singing on a stable preterm baby against the outcomes using KC
alone with 86 mother-baby pairs.
“The mother was instructed to sing with
a repetitive, soothing tone, softly, simply
and with slow tempo,” wrote Arnon in the
study report. “She was asked to include lullabies, preferably those that she sang during
pregnancy, in her preferred language.”
Using an instrument that measured
sound levels placed next to the baby’s ear,
mothers were told to maintain a decibel
level between 60 and 70 DB.
“Authors who have tried to combine
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music and KC have failed to show marked
benefit for preterm infants,” wrote Arnon.
“Studies have shown that just after birth
the infant is reacting only to his mother’s voice,” he told JTNews, “whether it
is a biological connection in the genome
of familiarity, hearing his mother during
pregnancy, I am not aware of studies examining this.”
In other 2013 research published in
Pediatrics, researchers observed 272 similar preterm infants that were at least eight
months old who were exposed to live
musicians playing to the “preemies.” It
improved a baby’s alertness, quiet time,
sleep time, increased the baby’s level of
oxygen, improved its sucking responses,
and helped the parents to feel more relaxed.
Arnon’s study using the mother’s voice
analyzed the responses of 86 stable preterm
infants between 32 and 36 weeks of maturity to measure maternal anxiety and the
infant’s behavior. Each phase of singing
time and quiet time lasted for 20 minutes
with a recovery period of 10 minutes.
His team found a significant lowering
of maternal anxiety and the baby’s heart
rate was significantly more stable in both
the higher and lower heartbeat frequencies.
However, a mother’s voice conferred
additional benefits to the child.
“A mother singing to her child ‘encouraged perceptual memory and learning in
infants,’” according to the study. “Exposing
infants to their mothers’ voices in NICUs
has been shown to increase oxygen satura-
tion, decrease episodic apnea and bradycardia [a slow heart rate], and improve weight
gain and feeding tolerance.”
Meir’s team said the combination of the
tactile and the maternal auditory stimulation might mimic the sounds that a fetus
hears in the womb.
Because preemies are born with underdeveloped organs and nervous systems, the
main focus of Arnon’s NIDCAP unit is to
support the families of premature babies
and to facilitate the parents’ and the child’s
health and development.
Parents whose premature babies are
cared for in the Meir Medical Center’s
NICU are trained in both techniques to use
when they take their child home.
In addition to experimenting with KC
and a father’s voice, Arnon will continue
to experiment with the combined KC and
maternal singing techniques to see if babies
might benefit from the continued use of the
therapy as they grow.
“Further studies evaluating the longterm effects of this bimodal exposure, and
whether continuing this therapy during
infancy facilitates gross motor skills,
mental processing, perceptual memory,
social behavior and learning, are warranted,” he said.
Longtime JTNews correspondent and freelance
journalist Janis Siegel has covered international
health research for SELF magazine and
campaigns for Fred Hutchinson Cancer
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“Micol took aspects of that ketubah and built our ketubah around it,” Wendy said.
“We were only going to have a Jewish marriage, and it was tied historically to my family.”
Wendy and John were married in a small ceremony on January 22. Mazal tov!
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Cue the lights: ACT to stage JDS student’s play
By Dan Aznoff
Watch out, Oscar Wilde. Move aside, George Bernard Shaw. Here comes Danielle Kohorn.
A short play written by the 12-year-old Jewish Day School middle school student has
been selected by the Washington Ensemble Theater and will be staged this spring during
the annual Young Playwrights Festival at the ACT Theater in Seattle.
The effort of the young playwright from Issaquah was selected from hundreds of submissions from high school and middle school students in the theater’s annual Young Playwrights
Program.
The aspiring author penned her award-winning script as part of the Journey and Growth
elective program at JDS. Danielle’s play, “When It All Fell Apart,” is the story of a strained
relationship between two teenage girls.
“I felt really good about my play and my teachers gave me positive feedback, but I never
expected that my play would be selected in a competition against high school students from
all over Seattle,” said Kohorn. “My parents received an email that my play had been selected,
but I had no idea what to expect when they sat me down to tell the good news.”
The elective program is part of the inquiry-based education at the private school in
Bellevue. Students in the course have dedicated two days each week to the study of plays and
script writing. Kohorn said her teacher, Rachel Atkins, instructed students in her class how
to construct a “story mountain” built upon character development, establishing challenges
for the main characters, and setting up the turning point that leads to a logical conclusion.
Danielle’s play follows the emotional journey of Sky and her friend Mavis as the girls
struggle to maintain the innocence of their relationship after it has been strained by sarcasm
and hurt feelings. The turning point for Sky, said Kohorn, was an epiphany about the relationship after a dream sequence after the two girls have stopped speaking to each other.
Spoiler alert: “When It All Fell Apart” has a happy ending.
The JDS student admitted the play was not based on anything in her own life, but stressed
her attraction to what she describes as “realistic fiction.”
ACT Theater sends working professionals to
local school each year to help students explore
the various opportunities in the theater that go
beyond performing on stage. Educators have
praised the 10-week program for providing
students with the self-confidence to explore
more about themselves, their own community,
and the challenges they may encounter in
the world.
Danielle’s father, Adam Kohorn, is obviously
proud of his daughter. He is also thankful to his
Courtesy Danielle Kohorn
daughter’s school for helping her experience Young playwright Danielle Kohorn.
the backstage efforts that go into a production.
“The elective program at JDS has helped Danielle understand her dreams and ambitions,”
the older Kohorn explained. “Nobody knows if this will be the first step of a professional
career for my 12-year-old daughter, but the recognition is nice. It helps bring even more value
to the stories that Danielle has created for her mother and me over the years.”
Adam Kohorn said his daughter has always been an avid reader, but the creation of a
storyline with a conclusion was something he had not expected from the pre-teen.
Danielle expects to be excited — and more than a little nervous — when she watches her
words come to life on stage in March. But she also admits to some concern about whether
the actors will read their lines with the proper inflection or have the appropriate facial expressions she had in mind when she wrote the play.
Michelle Kohorn, Danielle’s mother, said her daughter may decide to study the role of a
director the next time she enrolls in a theater class.
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Clarinetist Anat Cohen brings ruach to music, and Seattle
Gigi Yellen Kohn JTNews Correspondent
With some 20 albums to her name,
countless awards and glowing reviews
from festivals, clubs and concerts worldwide, jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen’s work
as bandleader, soloist, and “sideman” is as
influential as a music career can be.
Born and raised in the 1960s near Tel
Aviv, Cohen fell in love with the clarinet
as a student at the Tel Aviv-Jaffa conservatory, where a Dixieland band was part
of the training. Her art draws on traditions
as diverse as Brazilian, Cuban, blues, folk,
and New Orleans, as well as klezmer and
classical music. The Jazz Journalist Association has named her Clarinetist of the
Year for seven years in a row.
Cohen headlines Seattle Jazz Repertory
Orchestra’s 20th anniversary concerts Saturday and Sunday, February 21 and 22,
and she’ll also bring her clarinet to Temple
Beth Am for an audience-friendly Q&A
“From Klezmer to Louis Armstrong: the
Art of Anat Cohen” Sunday morning. The
performance is organized by SJRO board
president and Beth Am member Neal
Friedman. Cohen’s trip is cosponsored
by the Israeli Pacific Northwest Consulate
and Temple Beth Am.
As she told public radio host Terry
Gross in 2013, Cohen learned to focus on
the way it felt to swing. Brothers Avishai
(trumpet) and Yuval (soprano sax), with
the same training, have also emerged as
part of a generation of major jazz artists
from Israel who are now based in New
York. As “3 Cohens,” they record and frequently perform together, as they did at
Jimmy Katz
Jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen, who performs in
Seattle later this month.
Carnegie Hall last year. They all studied at
Boston’s Berklee College of Music.
Anat Cohen’s art reflects not only
where she comes from geographically, but
also where her instrument comes from
musically and historically.
“There was a time that clarinet was
out of fashion, in a way,” she told Gross.
“Actually, people still associate it with
— you know, if I tell anybody that I play
clarinet and I play jazz, everybody’s first
association is, ‘Oh, Benny Goodman!’ The
clarinet is still associated with older styles,
and with folkloric music. Maybe in Israel
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grad school and “thought it would be fun”
to teach at the University of Idaho for a few
years — which turned into 46. And while
there’s a small congregation there now,
back then there was none.
“My mother had taught Hebrew
school,” and “tried very hard to teach me
and my sister,” who were “thoroughly
uninterested,” says Bea, who arrived at
Carleton College as an undergraduate
knowing nothing outside of the Hanukkah blessings.
A political science major intending to
go to law school, she “accidently [took] a
class in Hebrew Bible,” and remembers the
day her studies changed course.
“It was the day I realized...I could call
myself a Jew even though I didn’t know
anything; that I’d never been to a synagogue,” she says. “That just made me voraciously curious.”
Bea majored in religion, then started
rabbinic training, but realized “that I
would make an awful rabbi,” as a “thinskinned” type whose “own theology is not
very comforting.”
She took her master’s and doctorate
at Emory University, then taught at the
Hebrew Union College in L.A. The need
for a lifestyle change brought her and
daughters Ellie, 9, and Abby, 6, to Seat-
tle in 2010. She likes the city and her work.
“I’m very happy,” she says. “It’s very
different than teaching rabbinical students.” She’s even written, with the
approval of the school, an article critiquing “dominant Christian approaches to
Judaism,” which appeared in the online
journal “Studies in Jewish-Christian Relations” last year.
In a turnabout, Bea now leads High
Holiday services each year at Moscow’s
Jewish Community of the Palouse, which
also serves Pullman, Wash. She recently
joined Temple Beth Am in Northeast Seattle, where she will be teaching a three-part
class on gender and sex in the Torah in
May and June.
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Short Takes: Margie Kaiz Offer
has been elected to the board of
American Associates, Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev. Her late husband, Dr. Daniel Offer, fled Berlin for
Palestine during Hitler’s rise and served
in the Palmach unit that liberated BeerSheva. When Daniel died in 2013, Margie
established a memorial endowment fund
that supports BGU’s adolescent medical research. A medical researcher, she
and Daniel co-wrote two books, including “Regular Guys: 34 Years Beyond Adolescence.”
the clarinet is associated with klezmer
music? So, maybe in people’s minds it’s
something that’s either dated, or too religious. And I’m working very hard to put
the clarinet into other scenarios.”
Seattle Symphony clarinetist Laura de
Luca, whose own career spans the genres,
says, “I love Anat’s playing and have a
huge respect for her musical voice. She is
a rare artist in the sense of the immediacy
of her expression…. Musical intelligence
comes so directly through her, the clarinet is so integrated with her body, heart
and soul.
“There is no real difference between
what we are all hoping to voice as musicians,” de Luca continued, “whether we
play jazz, classical, folk or rock…it is all
about reaching inside and finding the
essence and beauty of whatever we are
playing, and communicate that outward
to our listeners through our unique voice.”
Longtime Seattle klezmer bandleader
Shawn Weaver hears joy in Anat Cohen’s
music: “Joy is expressed in the most
organic way through song and dance.
Anat Cohen with her clarinet brings this
If you go:
Anat Cohen headlines Seattle Jazz
Repertory Orchestra’s 20th anniversary
concerts Saturday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m.
at Benaroya Hall’s Nordstrom Recital Hall,
and Sunday, Feb. 22. at 2 p.m., at the
Kirkland Performance Center. “From
Klezmer to Louis Armstrong: the Art of
Anat Cohen” takes place Sunday at 10
a.m. at Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th
St., Seattle.
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The Great Escape: The Film Scores of
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You would think the man once dubbed
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Opening February 20
Voyage for Madmen
Play
Written by Rachel Atkins (scriptwriter
for “Letters to the Editor”), “Voyage for
Madmen” recounts the unbelievable but
true story of the Ardeo Theatre Project,
a Seattle theater company that underwent a series of disasters parallel to the
plays it was rehearsing. With elements
of “The Tempest,” “Frankenstein,” and
the true story of British sailor Donald
Crowhurst, “Voyage of Madmen” has
also mirrored the Ardeo’s challenges,
with three past productions that fell
apart beyond anyone’s control. Directed
by Susanna Burney (“In the Land of Rain
and Salmon”), “Voyage” is a vaudevillestyle adventure story about Seattle’s
theater community and the risks of the
creative process.
At West of Lenin through March 7.
General admission $20.
Opening gala February 20 $25.
For more information visit
the1448projects.org/voyageformadmen.
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Sunday, February 15 at 3 p.m.
Jewish Women and Art
Lecture
Female Jewish artists are contributing revolutionary ideas to the field of
art, from cultural hybridity to feminist
spirituality to Torah interpretation. Led
by Andrea Iaroc, art historian, educator, and museum professional, this presentation will introduce notable artists,
their art, and its significance.
At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
For more information and to register
visit sjcc.org/cultural-arts/lecturesauthors/jewish-art-contemporarywomen.
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Teens who hang with seniors: We are all better together
By Maya Pogrebinsky
When was the last time you paid a visit to
a resident of an assisted-living center? When
was your most recent encounter with an elderly
member of the community who wasn’t a relative?
A group of about 15 students from Northwest
Yeshiva High School have contemplated this
very question, and we decided to start visiting
The Summit at First Hill to learn from and with
each other through informal programs.
The Summit is a Jewish retirement living
community located in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood with a large variety of services available to suit all of the residents’
needs. Through a program called Better Together, NYHS students and
Summit residents meet once a month to engage in various activities. The goal
of this program is to unite the older and younger generations and bridge the
“age gap” that seems to be distancing the two groups. This year, the theme of
all our programs is “Your Stories.”
The first time we visited, we were intimidated and didn’t know if the residents would react positively to our presence. Many of my peers had never
visited The Summit before and had very little exposure to the life of elderly
people. My grandparents live in Israel and I’m rarely able to see them. But as
the residents slowly filled the room, the mood drastically changed. Each resident warmly greeted us and sat down with a smile. This small reassurance
eased all my fears, as I understood that the residents loved visitors.
Our first activity together was led by Mrs. Chubotin, the art teacher at
NYHS, in a program called “Your Portraits Tell
Your Stories.” As we learned to draw with oil
pastels, we quickly became friends with the residents of The Summit. The woman I sat with told
me about growing up in Europe as a Jew during
World War II. I had visited Poland last summer
and learned about the atrocities of the Holocaust. Many of the places and events this woman
told me about were still fresh in my mind. Seeing
Courtesy NYHS
a person who lived through these events humbled me. She was so joyous and happy despite
having lived through something I could not even begin to imagine.
Dora, another resident, didn’t know if she even wanted to come to the
program. She figured she would come to see what it was and then leave after
a few minutes. Though she wasn’t particularly interested in art, Dora stayed.
She told us her story. Growing up in Hamburg, she escaped to Sweden where
she lived with her uncle and enjoyed a relatively easy life during the war. Ultimately, she ended up in Ohio and then Seattle. We learned about her Jewish
education — speaking, reading and writing Hebrew. She told me about Seattle in the 1940s. She attended the University of Washington while her husband fought in the Army. As she talked about her late husband, her face lit up
and she began to smile.
The next time we visited the Summit, some of the residents recognized
us from the previous time we were
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From Holocaust to healer, one woman’s lifelong work as
a trauma counselor
By Tori Gottlieb
Seventy years after the end of World War II, Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith
Eger is still motivated by the fear and determination that shaped her experience
in Europe’s concentration camps. It was during her time in Auschwitz that Eger
discovered her inner strength, and began to look at her life from the inside out,
as opposed to the outside in.
Eger was raised in Hungary, where she lived
with her family until they were arrested and transported to Auschwitz in 1944. Both of Eger’s parents were killed in the camp. Eger was eventually
transported to Gunskirchen Lager, another concentration camp in Austria. It was there that she
would be liberated by the Army’s 71st Infantry
Division just days before the United States would
declare victory in Europe.
“I think Auschwitz was an opportunity to discover traits I never thought were possible,” Eger
said of her experience.
She now uses those traits to help others, working as a psychologist out of her home in La Jolla,
Calif. At 87, she still has an active career and a full clientele, and even recently
consulted on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with current members of
the same military unit that saved and freed her in 1945.
It’s these skills and experiences that Rachel Chiavaras hopes Eger will bring
to Seattle at her talk on February 6 about the art of survival. Chiavaras is the
founder of Calvin’s Kids, an organization that provides therapy to children who
have suffered abuse, neglect, or other trauma. The Washington State Psychological Association is hosting Dr. Eger’s talk, which is being sponsored by Calvin’s Kids and Seattle law firm Williams Kastner.
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“This is the first of many years, I hope, of bringing in people who have gone
through things that are courageous,” Chiavaras said of the event. Her goal is to
show people that “we can go through things in life and come out on the other side
and make something of it,” much as Eger did.
Chiavaras, who is currently working on her Ph.D. in psychology, was
inspired to start Calvin’s Kids after seeing the suffering of families whose children were in life-threatening situations. The organization is named for Chiavaras’s dog, Calvin, whom she adopted from the Seattle Humane Society four
years ago. During their walks around their neighborhood, near Seattle Children’s Hospital, Calvin unwittingly provided comfort to a number of agonized
parents and patients.
“People would just get on their knees and hold onto him and cry,” Chiavaras
said. “Lots of times, I would never even say a word.”
Chiavaras is hopeful that Eger’s message and outlook on life can bring comfort to those in the community who are dealing with trauma or loss. Eger herself
has said that she looks forward to talking to her audience about the difference
between curing and healing, and about the spiritual dimension of healing —
what she calls “the third dimension, beyond the body and mind.”
More than anything, both Eger and Chiavaras want people to understand
that there is life after trauma.
“It’s not what happens,” said Dr. Eger. “It’s what you do with it.”
If you go:
Dr. Eger’s talk, “The Art of Survival,” will take place on Fri., February 6 from 6 to 9 p.m.
at ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased online at
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/906342. For more information, contact
Rachel Chiavaras at 206-769-9480 or [email protected].
For all the right reasons,
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The only Jewish retirement community in
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An inclusive community of peers
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Learn how to encourage independence and
motivate by incentive while building selfesteem. Led by Rabbi Cheskie Edelman. 50
percent discount for first-time Jewish Learning
Institute attendees. $85. At Congregation
Shaarei Tefilah, 6250 43rd Ave. NE, Seattle.
7:30 p.m. — Rabbi David Rosen: Is Religion
the Problem or the Solution?
Lila Pinksfeld at 206-622-6315 or www.
ajcseattle.org/Rosen
AJC Seattle Speakers series featuries Rabbi David
Rosen, international director of interreligious
affairs of AJC. $18. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
Friday
20 February
7:30–9 p.m. — Kabbalat Tikvah: A Shabbat
Evening of Hope and Healing
425-844-1604 or [email protected] or
www.kolaminw.org
Congregation Kol Ami welcomes Jewish
musicians and worship leaders Sue Horowitz,
Julie Warwick, Ruz Gulko and friends for a
Shabbat evening of song and prayer. Oneg
Shabbat to follow service. Free. At Congregation
Kol Ami, 16530 Avondale Rd. NE,
5 p.m. — Discovery Seminar Weekend
The Seattle Kollel at 206-722-8289 or
[email protected] or www.seattlekollel.org
Logic-based exploration of God, meaning
and spirituality. Special classes on Torah and
science. Through Sun., Feb. 22 at noon. Call for
prices. At the Doubletree Southcenter, 16500
Southcenter Parkway, Tukwila.
Saturday
21 February
7:30–8:30 p.m. — In The Image: Part One
livingjudaism at 206-851-9949 or info@
livingjudaism.com or www.livingjudaism.com
“Realizing Our Power to Live with Wisdom and
Well-Being.” Parts 2 and 3 will take place Feb.
22. At East-West Bookshop, 6500 Roosevelt
Way NE, Seattle.
8:30–10 p.m. — Seattle Mikvah
Association Event
Sharon Adatto at 206-725-5799
Seattle Mikvah Association fundraiser. Address
provided upon RSVP.
SundaY
22 February
1–3 p.m. — Community Storytelling
Workshop
206-774-2250 or [email protected]
or www.wsjhs.org
How did you and your ancestors end up
in Washington State? Led by professional
storyteller Merna Hecht as part of the
Washington State Jewish Historical Society’s
year of immigration and migration. All ages
welcome to share or just listen. At Sephardic
Bikur Holim, 6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
5–9 p.m. — NYHS Gala Dinner and Live
Auction honoring Dr. Jane Becker and Jason
Kintzer
Melissa Rivkin at or [email protected]
Doors open at 5 p.m. at the Sheraton Seattle
Hotel. Honoring Jane and Jason for their
dedication to the community. At the Sheraton
Hotel, 1400 Sixth Ave., Seattle.
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Hanukkah, we sang songs and lit candles as part of “Your Songs Tell Your
Stories.” Although not everyone knew all the words, it was beautiful to see so
many elderly people coming together and rejoicing. We celebrated together,
bonding over songs of our past and present singing in Hebrew, English, Yiddish and Ladino.
Each resident I spoke to left me extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to spend part of my day with them. As this program continues, I hope to
further invest in my relationships with these amazing people. They have truly
opened my mind and heart to new experiences that I previously discounted.
Maya Pogrebinsky is a junior at Northwest Yeshiva High School and the chair of the Chessed
Committee.
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and vows. Non-denominational officiant and wedding coordinator included.
Joelle from TravelBootik is your Club Med expert and can offer you specials to Club
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happiness in the Caribbean, Florida, Mexico and beyond.
Contact Joelle Dahan Kalfon, travel counselor at 404-304-2537 or
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Ruth Simon
Griselda “Babe” Lyon
Lehrer
October 10, 1926 — January 20,
2015
Ruth Simon, 89, was born to Ralph and
Jennie Kettleman and preceded in death by her
husband Harry. She was the youngest of four
siblings who all grew up in Seattle and
attended Garfield High School.
Ruth was a Seattle native through and
through: Her favorite Starbucks order was a
soy latte with extra dry foam; she was an avid
follower of the Seahawks, Mariners, and
Sonics, too; and a devoted employee of the
Kline Galland Home for more than 20 years,
even after she retired from Bikur Cholim
synagogue.
She was a beloved sister to Sylvia Saperstein; mother to Sharon, Robyn and Steve; a
grandmother, great-grandmother and
great-great grandmother! Ruth will be missed
by all whose lives she touched.
Funeral services were held at Bikur Cholim
Cemetery on January 22. Remembrances may
be made to the Caroline Kline Galland Home.
January 29, 1921–January 24,
2015
Griselda “Babe” Lyon Lehrer, born January
29, 1921, died peacefully at her home on
January 24, 2015. Babe was a Tacoma native
and a lifetime promoter of the “Great Pacific
Northwest,” and specifically the City of Tacoma.
Babe is survived by her two sons, Michael
(Cec) and their children Brian and Emily, and
Bradley (Susan) and their son Benjamin. Babe
was predeceased by the love of her life,
Herman, in 2006.
A private burial took place at the Home of
Peace Cemetery on Monday, January 26, 2015.
A memorial tribute was held in Babe’s honor at
the Pantages Theater in Tacoma on January 29.
If you wish to continue Babe’s generous
work, the family would be thankful for
donations to the Babe and Herman Lehrer
Japanese Friendship Garden Lighting Fund at
the TCC Foundation, www.Tacomacc.edu/babe.
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When winter’s deep in your bones, this will
warm you up
Michael Natkin JTNews Columnist
This simple, warming side
Brussels Sprout and
dish goes well with mac and
Apple Hash
cheese or a rustic soup and
Gluten-free
salad. It might be just the
20 minutes
ticket to converting a con3 Tbs. unsalted butter
firmed Brussels sprout hater
Half a medium white onion,
into a true believer. I’ve also
finely diced
been known to fry up a plate
Kosher salt
just for myself, add a slice of
1 crisp apple, such as a Pink
Lady, peeled, cored, and finely
toasted artisanal wheat bread,
diced
and call it dinner.
Many variations are pos- Jewish & Veggie 1 lb. Brussels sprouts, cleaned,
bottoms trimmed, and sliced
sible. You could add toasted
about 1/4 inch thick (about 4 cups sliced)
pecans, hazelnuts, or dried cherries; change
2 fresh sage leaves, thinly sliced
the champagne vinegar to apple cider vine1/2 tsp. minced fresh rosemary leaves
gar, sherry vinegar, or orange juice; or even
2 tsp. champagne vinegar
replace the apple with a crisp pear.
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much needed ruach to America’s sophisticated art form.”
Indeed, Cohen says she learned the
tricky rhythms of Afro-Cuban music by
dancing while she played.
Downbeat magazine describes Cohen’s
“dark tones and delicious lyricism,” calling
her “a dynamic bandleader who danced
and shouted out encouragement to her
group,” when she headlined the North Sea
Jazz Festival in Rotterdam.
“Because I also play the tenor saxophone, sometimes I like to bring the tenor
saxophone vibe into the clarinet,” Cohen
explained to Terry Gross. It’s a breathy,
dusky vibe. “It’s kind of a no-no in the clarinet world, in the legit way of playing,” she
confessed, “but you know when you play
jazz, the search for expression, that’s what
it’s about. If I wanna say something and
2 tsp. honey
• Melt the butter in a large skillet over
medium heat. Add the onion and a
pinch of salt and cook until beginning
to brown, about 4 minutes.
• Add the apple and a pinch of salt. Raise
the heat slightly and cook, stirring occasionally, until the apple starts to
brown, about 2 minutes.
• Add the Brussels sprouts, a big pinch of
salt, the sage, and rosemary, and cook,
stirring occasionally, until sprouts are
wilted and well browned, about 10 minutes.
• Add the champagne vinegar and honey
and toss to coast, scraping any delicious
browned bits from the bottom of the
whisper it, you know, the air has an effect,
your know?”
In Seattle, Cohen will include some
arrangements by Jovino Santos Neto, the
Brazilian-born jazz artist based at Cornish
College of the Arts. She’s deeply involved
with the Brazilian form known as choro
(including releases on her own label, Anzic
Records), and in April, she’ll do a weeklong choro workshop with Santos Neto
and others, at Centrum in Port Townsend.
MICHAEL NATKIN
pan. Taste and adjust the seasonings; it
will likely need more salt, and you may
also want to add more honey or vinegar
to suit your taste. Serve hot.
Serves 3 to 4.
Local food writer and chef Michael Natkin’s
cookbook “Herbivoracious, A Flavor Revolution
with 150 Vibrant and Original Vegetarian
Recipes,” was a finalist in 2013 for a James
Beard award. The recipes are based on his food
blog, herbivoracious.com.
“We as an orchestra take an international perspective. Anat is helping us live
up to that,” says Michael Brockman, coartistic director of Seattle Repertory Jazz
Orchestra. “Even though jazz was born
in the U.S., each part of the world has its
own special brand of jazz. Anat travels the
world. She is one of those musicians, like
Yo Yo Ma or Herbie Hancock, who transcend their genre.”
