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September Family Calendar
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A letter from the editor
The spiritual check-up
Rabbi Joshua Samuels Congregation Beth Israel, Bellingham
In less than a week, we’re going to be in the thick of the High Holy Days. This might not be a time of celebration like Simchat Torah or Purim, but unlike those festivals, the High Holy Days — and especially the days leading up to them — force us to think deeply about how we interact with God, the world around us, our loved ones, and ourselves. This is what the month of Elul, the month we are in right now, is all about. In case some of us haven’t yet begun the process of preparing for the High Holy Days, I would like to share a list of questions which might get us in the proper mindset of the yamim nora’im. If nothing else, this exercise could very well open our eyes and hearts to one specific area in our lives. These questions are meant for everyone to ponder regardless of age, Jewish communal participation or denomination. Our world • Am I walking as lightly as possible upon the earth? Do I pay attention to my consumption of resources and how I dispose of waste? • Do I make myself aware of other cultures and peoples? Do I learn about other ways of living and seeing the world? • Am I informed about pockets of intense suffering in the world and have I done what I can to contribute to easing that suffering? • What role does Israel play in my life as a Jew? Our community • Do I participate in the life of my city? Do I know who the local political leaders are and what they stand for? • Am I registered to vote and have I studied the issues that may affect my daily life? • Do I support, in one way or another, the individuals and groups who are creating Jewish life in this city? Does my Jewish life extend beyond the walls of my synagogue, JCC, chavurah or university? • Do I encourage and support those who have taken on the responsibility of Jewish leadership? • Have I thought about taking on more leadership within my Jewish community? Our family, friends and work • How are my closest relationships? If any of them are strained, is there anything I could be doing differently to help improve them? • Do I make time for the most important relationships in my life? Do I treat my siblings, children, partner and parents with respect? Am I able to see the image of God within each of them? • Have I called my grandparents or in-laws recently? • Do I have close friends in whom I am able to confide? Do I accept people as they are or do I try to change them? Have I made any new friends this past year? • Am I satisfied with my occupation? Is my work an extension of a personal passion? Am I helping others in some meaningful way whether they know it or not? • Am I making a difference as a retiree? Ourselves • Am I taking care of my body? Do I exercise enough? Do I eat properly? Do I get enough rest? Do I floss? • Do I keep my mind active? Do I read good books? Do I talk about ideas and important matters with friends and family? • Do I see myself as a child of God — someone completely unique and special in this world? • Is music part of my life? What about meditation? Do I allow myself to deeply experience beauty in nature? • Are there any hobbies I would like to take up? God • Do I pray? Do I speak to God without asking for anything in return? Do I take the time to listen for an answer? • Have I thanked God for existence, for connecting with specific individuals, for food, for the whole array of mitzvot? • Have I thought about my relationship with God and concept of God recently? This is not a test. It does not matter how many yeses or nos you answered. This is just our annual check-up. Luckily for us, we don’t have to actually get on that scale or get our teeth scraped. But usually, after our annual doctor and dentist visits, we are told what we need to do in the coming year. (“Floss more” — that’s what I’m always told. When will I learn?) Well, no one is going to tell you what you need to do for this spiritual check-up. You are the doctor and the patient. You know what you ought to do. I hope it’s painless. And I hope you pay attention to yourselves. I hope you have a meaningful Elul and High Holy Day experience. K’tivah v’chatima tovah, may you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.
The letters you are about to read are in response to a letter from a member of our community that ran in the August 16 issue of JTNews. This person, who the respondents below see as vehemently critical of Israel, suggested that comments made by the president of the Palestinian Authority differ from what these writers believe. That they have a difference of opinion is natural and appropriate. We are proud of this paper’s commitment to the concept of free speech, which allows JTNews to present different facets of what these writers see as flaws in their opponent’s argument. What is not appropriate is that some — not all — of these letter writers do not believe the person they are responding to should be allowed a forum in the pages of this newspaper to express her views. Let me be clear: We are a community newspaper. We represent our entire community. While I, as editor, do not agree with every letter I receive, it does not mean we will not print them. As a community newspaper we must represent the whole community, whether or not the views expressed comport with our beliefs. It is also inappropriate to tie our policy of allowing controversial letters in our pages to the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. Yes, the Federation owns JTNews, but we are an independent entity. The Federation does not approve our content, the Federation does not pay our salaries, and the opinions of our contributors do not have to reflect the opinion of the Federation. If we are to have an independent Jewish newspaper in our community, that is the way it should be. Suggesting, as some critics of us running this letter have done, that people suspend their donations to the Federation because we print letters that represent opinions contrary to theirs is not only odious, it’s counterproductive. Pulling support from the Federation will not change our letters policy, but it harms our community as a whole. A vibrant Jewish community needs a vibrant newspaper to cover and report what’s happening all across its spectrum. As Rabbi Sholom Ber Levitin stated in his Rabbi’s Turn column two weeks ago, which ran on the same page as this letter being protested: “As we prepare ourselves for the New Year, standing before the Almighty unified as one people in order to realize that unity, the challenge is to further develop and sensitize ourselves to true mutual respect.” May you all enter the New Year with a sense of reflection and respect for each other. Shana tova, Joel Magalnick Publisher and Editor, JTNews Our letters guidelines can be found here: www.jtnews.net/index.php?/static/item/611/
The third option
When someone you support says something objectionable, something that’s inconsistent with your values and incongruent with your beliefs, you generally have two options. You can distance yourself from the offensive message — “I mostly agree with this person, but must take exception this time.” Or, you can try to rationalize away the disagreement — the other person was misquoted or mistranslated, the comments were taken out of context, etc. But Linda Frank (“PA does not call for Jew-free state,” Letters, Aug. 16) has found an ingenious, if dishonest, third option: To simply deny the distasteful statement ever took place, even in the face of incontrovertible evidence and plenty of publicity. Despite clear facts, Ms. Frank plays the role of the toddler in the sandbox, sticking her fingers in her ears and singing, “La-la-la, I can’t hear you!” The inconvenient and unpleasant truth flies in the face of Ms. Frank’s head-in-the-sand, hear-no-evil naïveté or plain ignorance. Mahmoud Abbas most definitely did say, publicly, unambiguously, and repeatedly — most recently in a speech in Cairo four weeks ago, not a two-year-old “rumor” from two years ago — that there would be no room for Israelis in a future Palestinian state. (And it is the Palestinians who equate “Israeli” and “Jew”; Israeli Arabs — whom they consider their brethren — obviously would not be excluded from Palestine.) In contrast, of course, any suggestion that 1.6 million Arabs — one fifth of Israelis — should lose their Israeli citizenship or their homes in Israel when a Palestinian state is established, would be — rightly! — loudly, swiftly, and universally denounced. This is another instance of toddler logic — “what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine, too” — demonstrating that Mahmoud Abbas and Linda Frank are birds of a feather. People who claim to be working toward peace and human rights must start by facing and acknowledging the truth, including the nature and views of some of the players they support. Lies, myths, and falsehoods are not a constructive basis for engagement, let alone for reconciliation or peace. Nevet Basker, Bellevue
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“Prague Torah Crown of 1839” by Akiva Kenny Segan. 2012. Ink, gouache, colored pencil on mat board; framed. Segan, a Seattle-based artist since 1980, is the creator of the educational fine art series, designed for any age of audience, called “Under the Wings of G-d.” The Torah crown and a mid-19th-century Prague synagogue key depicted in the drawing were among the 10,000 Judaica personal and communal effects, such as family heirlooms and ritual items, stolen by the Nazis during the Shoah from the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia, Czechoslovakia who were then murdered. The items were stored in Prague warehouses for a planned “Museum of the Extinct Jewish Race.” The Jews who toiled as cataloguers of the enormous inventory of stolen possessions were themselves murdered. The drawing was inspired by photos in the exhibition catalog book “The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovakia State Collections,” edited by David Altschuler (1983, Summit Books and The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services). Proceeds from the purchase of this artwork will fund the artist’s eighth teaching trip to Israel, planned for 2014, and 25 percent will be a gift to the Emergency Services department of Jewish Family Service of Greater Seattle. Learn more about the artwork by contacting Akiva Kenny Segan at [email protected].
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Washington News Council invited to Press and Media Conference in Tel Aviv
Independent media ethics forum, the Washington News Council (WNC), will attend this year’s Alliance of Independent Press Councils conference September 9-12 in Tel Aviv. Israel’s President Shimon Peres will address the conference. The press councils review complaints from organizations or individuals against media outlets that have produced unfair or unethical stories about them. John Hamer, WNC’s president and executive director, will join a panel on the topic of “Ethical Dilemmas in the Age of Transparency.” The WNC is the only one of its kind in the United States. Hamer, who wrote for the Seattle Times for 13 years and started the “Lifetime Letters” project to help Soviet Jews in the Gulag, lives with his wife, Mariana Parks, on Mercer Island.
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By Murray Meld Gut geton bay tog iz der beste kishn bay nakht. Well done by day is the best pillow at night.
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A congressman’s first trip to Israel
When Rep. Derek Kilmer of Washington’s 6th District visited Israel this month, he saw firsthand the challenges people in the Middle East must live with.
Building up Bellingham
Bellingham’s Congregation Beth Israel has been working to build a new synagogue for nearly a quarter century. At last, finally, they have a skeleton structure.
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A new leader for Torah Day School
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Following the resignation of its founding director at the beginning of the summer, the Torah Day School of Seattle’s new head arrived just in time to start the new year.
Rhodes once again traveled
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Much of Seattle’s large Sephardic Jewish community hails from the Greek isle of Rhodes. A man whose father barely escaped the Nazis there once again walked the same roads as his ancestors.
High Holiday Greetings
Shana tova! We’ve got more High Holy Day stories, complete with ideas to prepare yourself physically, emotionally and gastronomically, than we can list here.
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Indonesia’s only rabbi
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Using YouTube to find recipes and with a small congregation to lead, Indonesia’s only rabbi is feeling ready to mark this year’s holiday season.
Bees make honey
From The Jewish Transcript, August 30, 1929. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Cohen read a “direct correspondence” from their son, Bennie, who was slightly injured in the attack on the Slabodka Yeshiva in Hebron. All of his money and clothing were taken. The caption reads, “Mr. and Mrs. Cohen wired money with instructions that he leave for home as soon as possible. It is their hope that he will reach Seattle before the holidays.” The attack on the yeshiva was the beginning of what became known as the Hebron massacre, during which 67 Jews of Hebron were brutally murdered, including eight of Bennie’s classmates while they sought protection in their rabbi’s home.
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The sweetness of our Rosh Hashanah honey should make us think about the work that goes into that sweet goodness, and the serious plight those bees currently face.
Food, glorious holiday food
Cookbook authors Mollie Katzen and Helen Nash have interesting and inspiring recipes for your Rosh Hashanah table.
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Saving baby Idan
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One-year-old Idan Zablocki has a serious illness that will bring him to Seattle for what his parents hope will be life-saving treatment.
When lightning strikes
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Ethan Kadish, whose family originally comes from Mercer Island, was enjoying camp this summer when he was struck by lightning just weeks before his Bar Mitzvah. The young man, who is only now beginning to be able to communicate, has a long road of recovery ahead of him.
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In the Middle East, a congressman learns that nothing’s simple
Janis Siegel JTNews Correspondent
If there’s one thing Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) learned during a weeklong trip to Israel, it’s that nothing in the region, in particular peace talks, is simple. “I don’t think anybody was Pollyannaish about thinking it’s going to be easy,” Kilmer told JTNews. Kilmer was part of a 37-member U.S. congressional democratic delegation in Israel in August to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, receive highlevel military and diplomatic briefings, and tour sensitive security zones, including the northern border with Lebanon, the Gaza border, the Golan Heights, and the Syrian and Jordanian borders. The American Israel Education Foundation, the educational affiliate of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, sponsored the visit that allows lawmakers to learn about Middle East issues that influence U.S. policy. Kilmer, a former state legislator, began his first term this year in a district that encompasses the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas, Tacoma and parts of the South Sound, and nearly all of the islands in the Puget Sound. He is a Princeton University graduate and a University of Oxford Ph.D. At the top of the list of issues to be discussed on his visit was the Israel-PalestinKilmer said he was surprised ian conflict. by how “substantially developed” “There are very complicated Ramallah was, saying he met areas of disagreement,” Kilmer Erekat in a “really upscale hotel.” said. Among other complex In March 2013, Kilmer was one issues, “there’s an ongoing disof 338 cosponsors of H.R. 938, the cussion about security, because United States-Israel Strategic Partif there is a two-state solution, nership Act of 2013 introduced by how do you ensure Israel’s long Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), term security? That is a chal“to strengthen the strategic allilenging needle to thread.” ance between the United States The group met with memand Israel, and for other purbers of the Israeli government poses.” to discuss the importance of The legislation reaffirmed the strengthening the long-estabU.S. commitment to partnering lished partnership between the Israel Hadari U.S. and Israel as the U.S.’s only Rep. Derek Kilmer meets with Israeli president Shimon Peres during a with Israel in several areas including technology, homeland secureliable democratic ally in the weeklong trip to Israel this month. rity, cyber-security, intelligence, Middle East. energy, water, agriculture, alternative fuel went to Bethlehem, and finally to RamalKilmer said he saw first-hand the technologies, an Israel visa waiver prolah in the West Bank, where Kilmer spoke threats that Israelis face “basically along gram, and military defense and deterwith chief Palestinian Authority negotiaevery border.” rence. tor Saeb Erekat, along with another nego“That’s really, really important,” he “That strategic cooperation was a key tiator in his party. said. “When you’re sitting there across element of the trip I went on,” Kilmer said. “The most positive thing to come out of from Gaza, there’s a reality of rockets from “We met with a group of young innovaall of the discussions is the degree to which Hamas. When you’re up on the Lebanese tors and talked about trade relationships there was appreciation for the role the border, there’s the reality of the presence and our economic relationship and our United States was playing in trying to reigof Hezbollah. These threats to Israel are nation’s military partnership. I also visited nite the peace discussion,” noted Kilmer. very real.” an Iron Dome battery.” “Erekat mentioned Secretary of State John In addition to meetings with NetanKerry by name numerous times and the yahu, President Shimon Peres, and a very active role he’s playing.” negotiator on the Israeli side, they also XXPage 22
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Between the mountains and the water, a synagogue inches closer to completion
All photos by Joel Magalnick
Above: Rabbi Joshua Samuels looks out at what will be the sanctuary and social hall of Bellingham’s Congregation Beth Israel. Left: The front of the new Congregation Beth Israel from the front of the 17-acre property. Below: Rabbi Joshua Samuels and capital campaign chair Dave Goldman look onto the lot from the second floor.
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
The construction of a new synagogue in Bellingham has been a decades-long process. But much has changed, in particular over the past year — including an actual structure. “In a year we went from a hole in the ground to this magnificent shed,” said Rabbi Joshua Samuels of the northwest Washington city’s Congregation Beth Israel, of the two-story wooden shell at the back of an otherwise empty seven acre-lot. The full size of the Reform congregation’s parcel is 17 acres, and the rest of the forested land will remain that way for the time being, with the possible exception of a road deeded to the city to connect the two neighborhoods the synagogue’s land straddles. The genesis of the project goes as far back as 1990, when Beth Israel’s leadership launched a campaign to replace its 1925 synagogue near downtown Bellingham. They purchased the land in 2003, and have patiently raised money since to move forward in building phases. Aside from Beth Israel, the only other Jewish organizations in Bellingham are Chabad and Hillel at Western Washington University. Given the community’s small size — Beth Israel’s membership currently stands at about 220 families — finding an angel to fund a $7 million project has been challenging at best. Without a large pool of money, the project must be completed in fits and starts. “When we have enough money to clear the land, we clear the land. When we have enough money to build the foundation, we build the foundation,” said Dave Goldman, the chair of the capital campaign. “A lot of it is being patient. Fiscally responsible and patient.” “We’ve done this while running a synagogue in the black, and not gone and done it with a loan,” said Jeff Jaffe, a second-
generation Beth Israel member and pastpresident, who has been one of the prime forces behind getting the new synagogue constructed. The next big push is to raise enough to begin protecting the existing structure from the elements, including installation of windows and roofing materials. Goldman said he hopes to have that money raised soon — recent rains have left shallow puddles on the subfloor in what will be the sanctuary. The front of the building is currently being covered with concrete ground from a large rock that used to sit where the building now stands, molded to look like Jerusalem stone. A look inside shows the bones of what will be a light and spacious structure when it’s finished. Just past the grand
front entrance is a room that has Samuels excited: The library. Though most of its members probably don’t know it, the synagogue has an extensive collection of books, but due to lack of space in the current building they have remained in boxes at Jaffe’s home. Samuels envisions classes, study sessions, nearly anything related to Jewish learning. It can “really serve much more of a purpose than a library,” he said. The majority of the main floor will compose the sanctuary and social hall, where exposed wood beams already line the ceiling and tall windows look out onto forest land. “Right now it’s like a Jewish barn,” said Rabbi Samuels. A patio behind the sanctuary will allow for outdoor social gatherings. A 6,000-square-foot second floor was added
late in the game “for the cost of the floor,” according to Goldman, that can be used as recreation space or classrooms. The main floor will also include a large kitchen and the rabbi’s study. Underneath, a second, smaller kitchen will be placed alongside eight classrooms, which will fit the 100 registered kids in the religious
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With new head of school, Torah Day School turns over a new leaf
Emily K. Alhadeff Associate Editor, JTNews
Back-to-school season is always a little chaotic. All the more so for Torah Day School, which in addition to preparing a new school building this fall had about three months to hire a new head of school. The Orthodox day school in South Seattle lost its temporary Columbia City home when Seattle Public Schools decided to re-commission the building for a middle school. The school came upon more hard times when one of its teachers was convicted of child molestation in May. Head of school Rabbi Sheftel Skaist stepped down, leaving a vacancy with three months to fill. Despite a delay in permits for the new, semi-permanent school on Beacon Hill — students will spend the first month of the new school year between Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath and the Seattle Kollel — everything seems to be under control. Three days before the first day of school on August 28, Rabbi Moshe Abady moved to Seattle from Los Angeles to take the reins. When JTNews connected with Abady, he had been up since 2:30 in the morning. “It’s not an easy transition for us,” said Abady, who with his wife Leora has eight children between the ages of 1 and 17. However, he feels leading Torah Day School is an opportunity and a responsibility for personal growth not available in L.A. “I’m seeing a community which is very ripe for growth,” he said. “I’m coming aboard…at a very unique time in Seattle’s history. We have an opportunity to embrace the new leadership and to use it as a springboard for growth. I’m excited to be a part of it.” Abady spent 12 years as a middle school Judaics teacher at the Maimonides Academy in Los Angeles, where he also served as director of co-curricular activities, adult educator, and program coordinator for parent learning. In addition to serving as rabbi at two Sephardic congregations, he was the Sephardic Studies Chair at Yeshivat Shaarei Yerushalayim in Har Nof, Israel, before coming to Los Angeles. He holds a master’s of educational leadership from Bellevue University. This is Abady’s first head of school position. “I’ve developed a passion for leadership,” he said. “Even though it is my first experience being head of school, it feels very natural for me.” TDS board president Binyomin Edelstone said the search committee worked But Edelstone is happy with the outcome. “After the first interview we felt great,” he said. “There were a lot of things that attracted us to him…. Since coming here there’s been great chemistry between him and the people he’s met.” Abady is technologically savvy — he has his own YouTube channel and encourages technology as a learning tool. Edelstone thinks Abady’s fresh perspective could work to his advantage. Abady will also be more involved in school security. After the spring scandal, TDS brought out the director of Aleinu Family Resource Center, a program of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles, that educates, counsels, and sets policies regarding various issues, including abuse in Orthodox schools. They held a twoday seminar with kids, parents and staff. The school also received a comprehensive physical security assessment. “Rabbi Abady has plans to be a lot more present in the classrooms,” Edelstone said. “He knows and the teachers know that the doors are open and that he can walk in at any second.”
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with several organizations to come up with a candidate pool so late in the year. Abady, Edelstone explained, had started thinking about a change in the early spring, and his rabbinic mentors encouraged him to pursue the job. An initial 12 candidates yielded four or five serious ones, and two, including Abady, were invited to Seattle. The position was initially offered to the other candidate, who turned it down.
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On July 29 and 30 at the Hillel Institute in St. Louis, Mo., Hillel at the University of Washington was presented with a Visions and Values Award from Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life for its innovative development program. Four other Vision and Values awardees include Hillel at Kent State, Santa Barbara Hillel, MIT Hillel, and the University of Maryland Hillel. Each Hillel was given the award for its own exemplary characteristic. Hillel UW was chosen because of its accomplishments in its development program. Hillel UW’s executive director Rabbi Oren Hayon is enthusiastic about the staff involved in receiving this award, stating that it is the “staff’s hard work that brings students through the door.” The Hillel has been able to “bolster and enlarge the development team,” said Hayon. According to Hayon, what makes Hillel UW unique is that it has “support from the whole community, not just students, parents, and alumni.” Indeed, it is the support from the whole community that was harnessed in Hillel’s new development strategy that made it possible to receive this award. The “key to successful development is being really good at cultivating relationships,” said Hayon. By creating meaningful and long-term relationships with donors and investors, UW Hillel has taken leaps and bounds in the development aspect of the organization. According to Hayon, if the staff’s enthusiasm and energy is palpable to the investors, students, and community at large, they will be more inclined to get involved with the
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thrilled to be back. The openOur state sent three ing ceremonies were a distinct competitors and one highlight, entering Teddy Stacoach to the Maccabiah dium with the 1,100 other games in Israel last month. Americans and 7,000 athletes Since reporting two issues ago from around the world — that tennis player Bill Cohon including countries, like Cuba came home with two medals, and Mongolia, bringing deleI learned that both our state’s gations for the first time. other athletes medaled, too. “To fill up a stadium of Half-marathoner Terry all Jewish people not only Robinson , profiled in the [puts] tingles down my spine Aug. 27, 2012 issue of but tears in my eyes,” he JTNews, alerted us that he Member of said. The Jerusalem stadium was “ecstatic to return with a the Tribe holds 34,000 and the games, silver medal…from competing in the World Maccabiah Games in the Half Marathon!” He calls the race one of the toughest he’d ever run, due to the humidity. (I never knew Israel was humid in the summer.) Two of his teammates required brief hospitalization for IV fluids after the race and, in retrospect, Terry says he should have done the same. “I did spend a week in Scottsdale training,” in 110 degree heat, he said, “but it’s a different type of heat, it’s a dryer heat.” Competitors and spectators reported that the humidity increased as the race went on. Still, Terry finished in just over Rachel Rosen 1:20 and came home with his medal. Maccabiah medalist Terry Robinson stands The last time Terry was in Israel was for between fellow runners Jason Karp, left, and his Bar Mitzvah 27 years ago, and he was Michael Gross.
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the third largest Olympicwitnessing his son earning style competition in the the silver medal was also world, are hugely popular “amazing.” in Israel. Among the trip’s many A Seattle native and highlights — too numermember of Sephardic ous to recount — was that Bikur Holim, Terry is an David and Joseph became alumnus of Seattle Hebrew Bar Mitzvah together. In a Academy, Mercer Island tradition that dates to the High School and Univer1989 games, the U.S. delsity of Washington. His egation arranged for two parents were very active in, large groups of athletes Avi Azoulay and worked in, the Jewish David and Joseph Munden with who had never experienced community, which he says their Maccabiah team medals. the Bar or Bat Mitzvah inspired him. He spoke at ritual to enter adulthood. Camp Solomon Schechter last year about David singled out Yad Vashem as a his preparations, and hopes he’ll get to go significant moment in his visit, but even back next year to relate his experiences. more important is that his son loved Israel and wants to go back. Then there are the national and international friendships Buckley’s David Munden, head that were made. coach of the karate team, expressed “I saw what [those connections] did for a common sentiment among our the kids, seeing the kind of bonding and state’s competitors: “Aside from the comfriendships that went on,” he said. “Hopepetition, the trip itself was amazing,” fully they’ll stay involved.” he told me. “We got to see and do some Both David and Terry said transporamazing stuff, and learn a lot of history.” tation logistics were the biggest problem This was the first trip to Israel for both they encountered. Buses were generally David and his son Joseph, 16, a member of late, and sometimes they were early. They the team. The U.S. karate team came away didn’t let that spoil things, though. “We with 18 medals and Joseph earned two: had to realize…if we were going to enjoy A bronze in sparring and a silver in team kata — a “series of pre-set movements,” explains David, that mimic a fight. And XXPage 15
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Rhodes:
Embracing the past
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“The words ‘hope, not fear’ still resonate within me,” says the author Edgar M. Bronfman. “We must look to the future with hope. Even if we can’t finish the task within our lifetime, neither can we shirk from giving it our all.” In this puzzle, we dutifully follow Bronfman’s sage words to the letter.
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The Jewish community of Rhodes, Greece came to life when 35 people from around the world journeyed to the island recently for a special service. The service was held in the synagogue in which the Jewish story is infused in every brick, ingrained in every stone of the mosaic floor… Fast forward five weeks. Yom Kippur. My father spent the day in synagogue with Last month I went to synagogue for his father. The following day he set sail a Friday night service with my son-in-law, for South Africa — never to see his parmy future son-in-law, and his father. The ents again. synagogue filled, the rabbi called out the His intention was to settle in Zimbabwe page numbers in Sephardi and Ashkenazi (then Rhodesia) and bring out his parents, prayer books, and the proceedings began. teenage sisters, and Becky, his fiancée. So what makes a Shabbat service newsIt wasn’t to be. worthy? Why was this night different from His parents and sisters were deported every other night? to Auschwitz, where his mother was Because it was a Shabbat service like gassed on arrival and his father perished no other — it brought together 35 people toward the end of the Holocaust. What of from Israel, the U.S., South Africa and Becky? She too was deported to Auschwitz Australia with the objective of celebrating and that was the last he heard of her. the aufruf of my daughter’s fiancé. Informed that she had perished, he marIn so doing, we honored a once-vibrant ried the woman who became my mother. community that was decimated by the Some years ago, while on holiday in Nazis. We paid tribute to a community Cape Town, he overheard the name Becky that saw one-third of its finest destroyed Hassan — it was the same Becky Hassan in the Nazi camps, leaving but a handful to whom he had been engaged half a cento call it home. We brought the Jews of tury earlier! She had survived — and been Rhodes back to life. told he had perished — and was living in The Jewish community of the Isle of Belgium, a grandmother in her 70s. He Rhodes numbered 5,000 at its peak. So was a grandfather, also in his 70s, living vibrant was it, so rich in tradition, it was in Johannesburg. Several months later, he dubbed Little Jerusalem. But exactly 75 flew to Belgium and they spent an hour at years ago, on September 1, 1938, its world Brussels Airport, reminiscing. came crashing down. That Friday evening, When Jews were banished from Spain the community was shattered to learn that during the Inquisition, they dispersed Mussolini had enacted a raft of decrees across Europe, many finding refuge on that effectively spelled the beginning of the Rhodes. The Spanish, or Sephardic, Jews end for the Jews of Rhodes. outnumbered the original inhabitants. Jews were henceforth forbidden to Their language, Ladino, and customs attend public schools, teach, own propbecame the way of the land. erty, manage businesses, or serve in They initially lived in peace under the army. Jewish graves were to be the Knights of St. John until the Knights exhumed, kosher slaughtering was banned, ordered them to accept Catholicism, or other Italians were forbidden from marbe expelled or put to death. For a period, rying Jews, Jewish schools were closed, the community was virtually non-exisand Jews who had settled on Rhodes in the tent, so the remaining Jews welcomed the previous 20 years had to emigrate or be 16th-century conquest of Rhodes by the imprisoned, fined and expelled. Ottoman emperor Suleiman the MagnifiThe news devastated the community cent. Jews returned to their faith and the and many made plans to emigrate. My community flourished under Turkish rule father, 25, was an accountant and engaged for 400 years. to be married to Becky Hassan.
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Most lived in the Jewish Quarter — a fortress of cobbled streets, narrow alleyways and open-air markets. They were confined to a dozen streets, the names of which had a charming logic — The Wide Street, The Cold and Windy Street, The Street to the Sea, The Street of the Great Synagogue, The Street of the Fig Trees, The Street of the Crazy Ones. This vibrant community included six synagogues, a school, kashrut facilities, and the pride of the community — a rabbinical college with an international reputation, where my mother’s father served as the principal. My father, whose father had been a tailor, worked as a translator at Salamon Alhadeff & Son, one of the island’s largest banks with a staff of 500 and 20 branches on the mainland. My father’s community was steeped in tradition. The family gathered to light the Shabbat candles, which the mother did with her head covered. After the blessing over the wine, children kissed their parents’ hands and were told, “We hope to see you married.” It devised its own remedies: Headaches were treated with slices of potato and cucumber on the forehead, while infected eyes were washed with tea and blue beads around the forehead. And the superstitions: If you saw a hunchback, you had good luck. If you touched the hunchback, you had better luck. You never drank water while standing. Babies born on Fridays were considered intelligent. If a child had hiccups, parents intoned, “Let the hic-
cups go to the bottom of the sea and keep my child from harm.” This was the community whose existence came crashing down in 1938. Of the 5,000 Jews on the island, over 3,000 departed — my mother’s Menashe family on the last ship allowed to leave. Italian forces occupied the island and the remaining 1,757 Jews were able to live in relative peace over the next five years. But Italy capitulated and on July 19, 1944 German forces arrived — with orders to liquidate. The Jews were ordered to report to the Aviation Palace, where they were held for four days with neither food nor water. Turkish Consul-General Selahattin Ulkumen, a Muslim, was aware that 42 of the incarcerated Jews had Turkish origins. “I went to the Commander, General Von Kleeman, and asked him to release the 42,” he said later. “The commander said that according to Nazi law, all Jews had to go to concentration camps because Germany needed manpower. But I knew their real purpose — to kill them in the gas chambers. So I objected. I said Turkish law didn’t differentiate between whether a citizen was Jewish, Christian or Muslim. According to Turkish law, all citizens are equal. I said I would advise my government and it would cause an international incident.” Ulkumen saved the 42, issuing Turkish passports to them against Nazi orders and
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On August 14, David Ashkenazi, who wrote his doctoral dissertation at Bar Ilan University on Rabbi Jacob Meir, the chief rabbi of Salonica and the first Sephardic chief rabbi of British Mandate Palestine, met with a small group of community members at Island Crust Café. Ashkenazi visited Seattle and shared some of his research, including Ladino correspondences between the Jewish community in Rhodes and the chief rabbinate. In attendance at the lively conversation were members of Seattle’s Sephardic community and University of Washington faculty and students. Ashkenazi concluded with an invitation to collaborate on his project, which focuses on Ottoman Jewish communities through the eyes of the Ottoman chief rabbinate.
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Distorting Abbas
Linda Frank defends PA President Abbas after he was caught stating he envisioned a Jew-free Palestine and distorts the record to make it look like Abbas and the Palestinian Arabs on the whole are ready to live in peace and harmony with their Jewish neighbors (Letters, Aug. 16). Unfortunately, she is sorely mistaken. What Abbas actually said — not in 2011, but just last month: “In a final resolution we would not see the presence of a single Israeli — civilian or soldier — on our lands.” This quote is not from Pamela Geller’s website, but The Guardian. So no Israeli civilians — does any one seriously think this quote includes the 1.6 million Israeli Arabs, or does he intend for a Palestinian State to be Judenrein? He is not the only PA official to so state: In 2011, USA Today claimed PA negotiator Maen Areikat said expressly no Jews in a future Palestinian State (the article did point out he hotly denied he meant “Jews” — only “Israelis,” as if there was a difference as explained above). After whitewashing Abbas’s thinly veiled anti-Jewish pronouncement, Frank repeats the lie that Israel is “dispossessing” the Palestinians and committing “weekly acts of violence.” Really? Who is committing the violence? Palestinans, often children, constantly attack Israelis with stones and other weapons. Last March, a 2-year-old girl was sent to the hospital in critical condition from injuries she sustained from Arab stone-throwing youth. A year earlier, a father and his infant son were outright killed under similar circumstances. There is violence, unfortunately, in the West Bank, but the Arab side perpetuates most of it. And as for dispossession, the Arab populations of Gaza and the West Bank have tripled since 1967 — and this is according
to the “Jerusalem Fund” a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel website. Exactly how is this “dispossession?” Nobody likes the occupation. Most Israelis want it to end as soon as possible. But peace has to be a two-way street and the Palestinians have to be willing to accept Jews as their neighbors and stop attacking them in reality, not just in Ms. Frank’s mind. David Shayne, Seattle
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for the dismantling of the Jewish state. Michael Behar, Seattle
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In your August 16 edition you published a letter from Linda Frank who regurgitated the standard boilerplate common among anti-Israel types. Ms. Frank, a local anti-Israel activist, is well known for her libelous claims against the Jewish State. Her most spurious canard (although not made in your pages) is her assertion that Israel uses snipers to murder Palestinian children. As the only Jewish newspaper in Washington State, the JTNews has a special responsibility to defend the Jewish community from such incendiary and libelous accusations. Instead you provide this practitioner of what can only be called a blood libel, with free access to our community newspaper. I for one would never presume to deny Ms. Frank her free speech rights, but by what obligation do we as a community have to cloak her in the mantle of legitimacy? It is clear from this incident and past actions, such as providing a forum for BDS propagandists, that JTNews requires a review of whatever moral standards you have for facilitating publication in your pages. While it would be absurd to assert that Israel should be beyond criticism, I respectfully suggest that the editorial board draw a red line against providing a forum for those who spread anti-Semitic canards or who publicly advocate by word or deed
Linda Frank’s attack on the Pamela Geller bus ads lack both facts and logic (Letters, Aug. 16). Her defense of her interpretation is as damning to Abbas as Geller’s attack. She argues that he did not use the words “Jewfree,” but merely said “...that there would be no Israeli soldiers or Israeli settlers in any future Palestinian state.” Am I missing something? Is there a third category of human being that cannot be accurately described as either a soldier or a civilian? Of course he said there would be no Jews. In case she needs more corroboration, if this Jew-hating state ever comes into being, its neighbor to the east will be Jordan, which has had a peace treaty with Israel since the 1990s yet still allows no Jews to reside there. I was in Israel in July and my daughter wanted to hear more of the Arab perspective, so we signed up for a Palestinian-run tour of Bethlehem in the PA controlled area. As we approached the checkpoint, the driver instructed me to take off my kippah. Since I had promised my daughter not to get into arguments, I obeyed. A kippah doesn’t identify a man as an Israeli; it identifies him as a Jew. What’s up with that, Ms. Frank? Perhaps you should share your view with Tzipi Livni, the most optimistic, left-wing Israeli on the negotiating team. Asked recently if Israelis could live in a Palestinian state she replied, “No. The Arabs would kill them.” Nice try, Ms. Frank, but I’m afraid that whatever your views of Pamela Geller, she is telling this story correctly and you aren’t. Robert Kaufman, Seattle
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Cookbook author Leora Bloom, featured in the last issue, wrote to clarify some errors in my piece. She only writes a couple of design articles for the Seattle Times each year, rather than being their main design writer (apologies to the Times, too), and says they have “a staff and two amazing writers” who cover most of the design features. Also, each recipe featured in her book, “Washington Food Artisans,” was tested by Leora four to five times, plus “at least two friends” made the recipes, too, to ensure consistent results. Apologies for the errors.
Opens Friday, August 30 “The Realm of Whispering Ghosts: If Truman Met Einstein” Theater “The Realm of Whispering Ghosts: If Truman Met Einstein” is the story of a reunion between a young Japanese woman killed in the bombing of Hiroshima and an American soldier she met while a prisoner of war, in the Buddhist afterlife known as bardo. When they realize they are outside the shackles of space and time, they set out to change the course of history that led to the atomic bomb being dropped. Along the way they meet Truman, Einstein, and many other influential figures. The Arne Zaslove production employs Noh masks and costumes inspired by the clothing worn by actual victims of the Hiroshima bombing. At the Bathhouse Theatre at Greenlake, 7312 W Greenlake Dr. N, Seattle. For more information contact Claire Zaslove at [email protected] or 206-285-2881. Tickets available through www.brownpapertickets.com/event/391493.
Wednesday, September 11 at 10:30 a.m. “In the Land of Rain and Salmon” Theater Witness the moving moments of Washington State’s Jewish pioneers between 1880 and 1920 at this oneof-a-kind production presented by Washington State Jewish Historical Society and Book-It Repertory Theatre. This live performance sold out at its premiere this spring and is now traveling around the state. The event is sponsored in part by 4Culture, Seattle Hebrew Academy, the Jewish Federation of Great Seattle and JTNews. At Seattle Hebrew Academy, 1617 Interlaken Dr. E, Seattle. For more information and tickets, contact Lori Ceyhun at [email protected] or visit www.wsjhs.org/events.php.
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Rabbi and cantor to help shul with ‘spiritual work’
Tori Gottlieb JTNews Correspondent
with a rich history of Jewish With the departure of Bikur involvement. His grandfather, Cholim Machzikay HadaRabbi Josef Hirsch Dunner, th’s rabbi earlier this summer, served as chief rabbi of Prussia members of the congregation’s prior to World War II. In 1938, religious committee knew they he escaped to the United Kingwould have their hands full dom with his family, where his finding someone to lead serson Avraham would go on to vices for the quickly approachserve as an educator and as the ing High Holy Days. executive director of the Con“Repentance is a big goal ference of European Rabbis. [of the holidays], and it’s “My parents and grandparsomething that’s difficult to ents on both sides were excepachieve fully,” said Michael Courtesy Rabbi Pinchas Dunner Friend, who chairs BCMH’s Rabbi Pinchas Dunner, who tionally actively involved in religious committee. “An wi l l l e a d s e rv i c e s a t Jewish life and Jewish affairs,” excellent rabbi and excellent Congregation Bikur Cholim Rabbi Dunner recalled. “Wherever I went, there were refcantor help us do our spiri- Machzikay Hadath. erences to my family being tual work.” involved all over Europe. I couldn’t escape it.” The committee set out to find not only A fifth-generation rabbi, Dunner a rabbi to lead services, but also a cantor left religious service for several years to to chant the powerful melodies unique to work in business, but eventually left that Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. They because he “just wasn’t happy.” He has were lucky enough to find both in Rabbi since found a calling in Southern CaliforPinchas Dunner, who is currently serving nia, teaching at YULA and working with as mashgiach ruchani (spiritual counselor) secular Israeli expatriates to connect them and Jewish studies teacher at Yeshiva Unito Jewish life and culture. versity High School in Los Angeles. Joining Dunner will be Meir Brisk“We were looking for somebody fresh, man, who will serve as ba’al tefillah (prayer somebody young, somebody who could leader). A world-renowned Israeli conbring a balance of professionalism and ductor and composer, Briskman knew he warmth,” said Friend of Dunner. had a natural affinity for music at a young Dunner was born in London to a family vices at BCMH. He submitted age, but received no formal his audio files to the religious music education until he was committee at BCMH, and in his 20s. Friend was floored. “I was raised to study in “I was absolutely amazed yeshiva,” said Briskman, who at what I was listening to,” grew up in a Haredi Orthodox said Friend. “He has a beautihousehold and whose father ful voice.” still teaches at Mir Yeshiva Friend is looking forward in Jerusalem. At 24, with two to the combination of talents years of private music lesDunner and Briskman can sons under his belt, he began bring to services at BCMH. He attending the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. It Courtesy Meir Briskman hopes the services will not only was there he would receive Cantor Meir Briskman will provide spiritual meaning for his two bachelor’s degrees — travel from Jerusalem to current members, but for nonone in musical composition chant at BCMH’s High Holy members, as well. “Maybe there are people and the other in conducting — Day services. that never thought that tradiand his master’s degree, also in tional Jewish worship could be a meanconducting. ingful path,” he said. “If [we] could speak “I found a connection between my to those people and get them excited and musical world and my religious world give them new thoughts, that would be [through cantorial work],” explained very important. It isn’t just about helping Briskman, who conducts the Tel Aviv bring the congregants we currently have to Cantorial Institute Choir and the Jerusaa higher state, but also reaching out.” lem Cantors Choir. Briskman also has his For Rabbi Dunner’s part, he is excited own choir, Lishmoa el HaRina, which, at to come to Seattle to lead BCMH in prayer. only a year and a half old, was invited to “I understand the community in Seatparticipate in the Jewish Culture Festival tle is particularly warm, particularly spein Krakow, Poland this past July. cial, wonderful and hospitable,” he said. Briskman was approached by one of his singers in the Jerusalem Cantors Choir to help lead High Holy Day serXXPage 46
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Temple Beth Or welcomes ‘star’ cantor
Emily K. Alhadeff Associate Editor, JTNews
Cantor Ellen Dreskin will join Rabbi Jessica Marshall on the bima at Temple Beth Or in Everett this High Holiday season. Dreskin is the coordinator of the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music Cantorial Certification Program at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Following in the late, great Friedman’s footsteps, Dreskin is nationally known for enlivening Jewish liturgical music and “re-energizing synagogue life,” according to a bio from HUC-JIR. Marshall says the 130-family congregation loves music. “Many of us connect to the Eternal, the transcendent, through song and music,” she said. “It’s important to provide that modality for people.” The temple’s cantorial soloist moved out of state and enrolled in graduate school, leaving them with good song leaders and volunteers to lead Shabbat services, but no one to take on the hefty liturgical melodies of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. As it turned out, Dreskin was planning to be in the area as scholar in residence at Camp Kesher, an annual camp for local Reform congregations, on Vashon Island over Labor Day weekend, where she’ll be leading study and music sessions for adults. When she heard Temple Beth Or was looking for a cantor, “it just seemed to fit,” she said. “I hope to integrate traditional and contemporary melodies to help the congregation to celebrate and to reflect, and to come together as a community in prayer and song,” she said. “I hope that the congregation will consider that I am also one who loves to pray, and I that am looking forward to us raising our voices together.” While Dreskin is considered something of a star in the Reform music world, “that’s really not my style,” she said with a laugh. “It really is all about my leading the community, and not just starring or anything like that.” Marshall hopes “to create a sacred space where congregants can connect to their own personal teshuva process, and also their communal connection through music and prayer. “I think these are going to be very moving High Holiday services,” she said.
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Rapper and Sephardic Bikur Holim member Nissim blew the roof off Camp Solomon Schechter at a concert August 6. His new album, “World Elevation,” comes out Sept. 17. For more on Nissim, see “The rabbi and the rapper” online at jtnews.net.
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A Good & Sweet Year! Scott, Karen & Matan Michelson
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A Healthy & Happy New Year
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The great escape: How Danish Jews evaded the Nazis during Rosh Hashanah 1943
Rafael Medoff JNS.org
As the final minutes of Rosh Hashanah ticked away, 13-year-old Leo Goldberger was hiding, along with his parents and three brothers, in the thick brush along the shore of Dragor, a small fishing village south of Copenhagen. The year was 1943, and the Goldbergers, like thousands of other Danish Jews, were desperately trying to escape an imminent Nazi roundup. “Finally, after what seemed like an excruciatingly long wait, we saw our signal offshore,” Goldberger later recalled. His family “strode straight into the ocean and waded through three or four feet of icy water until we were hauled aboard a fishing boat” and covered themselves “with smelly canvases.” Shivering and frightened, but grateful, the Goldberger family soon found itself in the safety and freedom of neighboring Sweden. For years, the Allied leaders had insisted nothing could be done to rescue Jews from the Nazis except to win the war. But in one extraordinary night, 70 years ago next month, the Danish people exploded that myth and changed history. When the Nazis occupied Denmark during the Holocaust in 1940, the Danes put up little resistance. As a result, the German authorities agreed to let the Danish government continue functioning with greater autonomy than other occupied countries. They also postponed taking steps against Denmark’s 8,000 Jewish citizens. In the late summer of 1943, amid rising tensions between the occupation regime and the Danish government, the Nazis declared martial law and decided the time had come to deport Danish Jews to the death camps. But Georg Duckwitz, a German diplomat in Denmark, leaked the information to Danish friends. Duckwitz was later honored by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations. As word of the Germans’ plans spread, the Danish public responded with a spontaneous nationwide grassroots effort to help the Jews. The Danes’ remarkable response gave rise to the legend that King Christian X himself rode through the streets of Copenhagen on horseback, wearing a yellow Star of David, and that the citizens of the city likewise donned the star in solidarity with the Jews. The story may have had its origins in a political cartoon that appeared in a Swedish newspaper in 1942. It showed King Christian pointing to a Star of David “Exodus,” and the movie based on that book, helped spread the legend. But subsequent investigations by historians have concluded the story is a myth. On Rosh Hashanah — which fell on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 in 1943 — and the days that followed, numerous Danish Christian families hid Jews from Holocaust persecution in their homes or farms, and then smuggled them to the seashore late at night. From there, fishermen took them across the Kattegat Straits to neighboring Sweden. This three-week operation had the strong support of Danish church leaders, who used their pulpits to urge aid to the Jews, as well as Danish universities, which shut down so students could assist the smugglers. More than 7,000 Danish Jews reached Sweden and were sheltered there until the end of the war. Esther Finkler, a young newlywed, hid with her husband and their mothers in a greenhouse. “At night, we saw the [German] searchlights sweeping back and forth throughout the neighborhood,” as the Nazis hunted for Jews, Esther later recalled. One evening, a member of the Danish Underground
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From “Cartoonists Against the Holocaust”
This cartoon by Arie Navon appeared in the Hebrew-language daily newspaper Davar on Oct. 13, 1943. Navon contrasted the rescue of Denmark’s Jews with the farcical refugee conference the Allies staged earlier that year in Bermuda. The title of the cartoon is a Hebrew word that means both “lifeguards” and “rescuers.” The lifeguards, one smoking a Churchill-style pipe, and the other wearing Roosevelt-style glasses, are standing next to an unused life preserver labeled “Bermuda.” The scrawny man diving into the swastika-infested ocean to rescue a drowning person is labeled “Sweden.”
and declaring that if the Nazis imposed it upon the Jews of Demark, “then we must all wear the star.” Leon Uris’s novel
“Bring in the New Year on a High Note”
Congregation Bikur Cholim–maChzikay hadath
rosh hashanah: Wednesday eve, September 4
thursday & Friday, September 5 & 6
warmly invites you to High Holiday Services in our beautiful Main Sanctuary
yom kippur: kol nidre Friday eve, September 13
Saturday, September 14
Rabbi “Pini” Dunner’s nontraditional approach to traditional prayer galvanized London’s young Jewish world. His forthcoming biography of a radical British rabbi of an earlier generation, Rebel Rabbi, reflects his passion for controversy in the service of tradition. Rabbi Dunner, 42, will deliver the sermon both days of Rosh Hashanah and on Yom Kippur.
Experience audio & video of Rabbi Dunner and Maestro Briskman and view complete schedule of services at www.bcmhseattle.org/high-holidays/
Rabbi Pinchas Dunner
of Los Angeles, founding rabbi of London’s Saatchi Synagogue, will officiate as Guest Rabbi and Cantor for Mussaf
Complimentary seating. Call to reserve. Bring your young children! For a nominal fee, BCMH offers Day Camp during services.
Learners’ classes concurrent with Main Sanctuary services. Teachers include Rabbi Mark Spiro and Rabbi Chaim Levine.
Meir Briskman
Music Director and Conductor of the Jerusalem Cantors Choir will be our Guest Cantor for Shachris
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The earliest holiday season: Getting ready for the ‘big game’
Esther Goldberg JTNews Intern
Rosh Hashanah really is “heading” off the year, starting earlier than ever before in our lifetimes. The whole Jewish calendar is premature, leaving us with the burden of making both turkey and latkes on Thanksgiving/Hanukkah and celebrating Pesach eating matzoh while watching March Madness. This year’s calendar is definitely an anomaly, because the last time Rosh Hashanah was so early was all the way back in 1899, when it started on September 5. The next time it will be this early again is 2089. Unlike our civil, Gregorian calendar, which is solar-based, the Jewish calendar syncs the lunar, solar, and daily calendars. The months are lunar-based — but the years are based on the solar calendar. Since the holidays are partly fixed to agricultural themes, holding Hebrew dates to a lunar calendar alone would mean that the holidays would drift all around the year. To rectify this problem, every two to three years out of a 19-year cycle, a month (an extra Adar) is added to synchronize the 12 lunar cycles with the longer solar year. This is known as the leap month. The last leap month didn’t match up the calendars very effectively, which is why the holidays fall so early this year. So the big issue we face is preparation: How will we brace ourselves for the High Holidays when they are coming at us head-on at 60 miles an hour? In reality, the time between Shavuot and Rosh Hashanah never changes, but the illusion is set because we base our holidays in relation to the seasons. So the High Holidays seem rushed, because the summer has just faded away. But Rosh Hashanah occurs on the first of Tishrei, just like it always does.
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As we all know, the High Holidays are a time for us to do some self-reflection and take a good look at the life we are living. It is a time for us to welcome the New Year (literally, this time) with sweetness
and joy. Although we may not feel totally warmed up and ready for the “big game,” we should spend the short time that we do have to prepare emotionally and “wake up” with the sound of the shofar.
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wishes all of my relatives and friends…
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Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year!
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May the New Year Bring You Peace, Health & Happiness
L’Shana Tova
A Good & Sweet Year!
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In memory of Klaus Stern z"l & Carl Kitz z"l Paula Stern Marion Kitz Leah Opher & Rebecca Mizrahi Marvin & Michele Stern Rafi & Shira
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The annual High Holiday services guide
Compiled by Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews These listings were not included in the Aug. 16 issue of JTNews. A full guide can be found online at www.jtnews.net/holidays5774 Erev Rosh Hashanah: Wednesday, September 4. Candlelighting 7:25 p.m. n Rosh Hashanah First Day: Thursday, September 5. Candlelighting after 8:30 p.m. Rosh Hashanah Second Day: Friday, September 6. Candlelighting 7:21 p.m. n Erev Yom Kippur: Friday, September 13. Candlelighting 7:07 p.m. Yom Kippur: Saturday, September 14. Fast ends 8:13 p.m.
Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath (BCMH) 5145 S Morgan St., Seattle Contact: Dee Wilson at [email protected] or 206-721-0970 or www.bcmhseattle.org. Non-member adult: $225. Non-member children (age 13-17): $50. Non-member student: $75. Erev Rosh Hashanah: Candlelighting: 7:26 p.m. Mincha: 7:30 p.m. Rosh Hashanah First Day: 7:45 a.m. Shacharis: 7:45 a.m. Torah reading: Approx. 9:40 a.m. Sermon: Approx. 10:15 a.m. Shofar blowing: Approx. 10:40 a.m. Musaf: Approx. 11 a.m. Mincha: 7:15 p.m. Tashlich following Mincha. Candlelighting for second day after 8:27 p.m. Rosh Hashanah Second Day: 7:45 p.m. Shacharis: 7:45 a.m. Torah reading: Approx. 9:40 a.m. Sermon: Approx. 10:15 a.m. Shofar blowing: Approx. 10:40 a.m. Musaf: Approx. 11 a.m. Mincha: 7:30 p.m. Candlelighting for Shabbos Shuva: 7:22 p.m. Kol Nidre: 7:10 p.m. Yom Kippur: Shacharis: 8 a.m. Torah reading: 10:45 a.m. Sermon: 11:30 a.m. Yizkor: 12 p.m. Musaf: 12:15 p.m. Mincha: 6 p.m. Ne’ilah: 7:15 p.m. Fast concludes: 8:09 p.m. Chabad House Seattle 4541 19th Ave. NE, Seattle Contact: [email protected] Erev Rosh Hashanah: Candlelighting: 7:26 p.m. Rosh Hashanah First Day: Services: 10 a.m. Evening services: 7:30 p.m. Light candles after 8:27 p.m. Rosh Hashanah Second Day: Services: 10 a.m. Evening services: 7:30 p.m. Light candles after 8:25 p.m. Kol Nidre: 7:08 p.m. Yom Kippur: 9 a.m. Ne’ilah: 7:15 p.m. Congregation Beth Hatikvah 1410 11th St., Bremerton Non-member suggested donation: $75 Contact: Rabbi Sarah Newmark at [email protected] Erev Rosh Hashanah: 7:30 p.m. Rosh Hashanah First Day: Morning service: 9:30 a.m. Torah/youth service: Approx. 10:30 a.m. Tashlich immediately following at Lions Park. Rosh Hashanah Second Day: Morning service: 10 a.m. Kol Nidre: Evening service: 7 p.m. Yom Kippur: Morning service: 9:30 a.m. Torah/youth service: Approx. 10:30 a.m. Yizkor service: Immediately following. Ne’ilah: Approx. 5:30 p.m. Shofar: Approx. 6:30 p.m. Break-fast immediately following. Congregation B’nai Torah 3437 Libby Rd. NE, Olympia All are welcome, no tickets needed. Contact: Larry Perrin at 360-866-0862 Erev Rosh Hashanah: 7:30 p.m. Rosh Hashanah First Day: 9:30 a.m. Tashlich following kosher dairy lunch. Rosh Hashanah Second Day: 9:30 a.m. Kol Nidre: 6:30 p.m. Yom Kippur: 9 a.m. Community break-fast following. Congregation Eitz Or At University Unitarian Church, 6556 35th Ave., Seattle Reb Arik Labowitz will be joined by his team of “super-hero holy music makers” whose combination of musicianship and spirit elevates souls and connects hearts. Contact: [email protected] or 206-467-2617 or www.eitzor.org Erev Rosh Hashanah: 6:45 pm. Kiddush with honey and apples at 9 p.m. Rosh Hashanah: Services: 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Vegetarian potluck lunch: 1-2 p.m. Tashlich and shofar service at Green Lake: 4-5:30 p.m. Kol Nidre: 7 p.m. Yom Kippur: Services: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Break: 1-4:45 p.m. Healing service: 5-5:45 p.m. Yizkor and Ne’ilah: 6-8 p.m. Havdalah: 8-8:30 p.m. Vegetarian potluck break-fast: 8:30-9:30 p.m. Congregation Shaarei Tefillah Lubavitch 6250 43rd Ave. NE, Seattle No event fees or tickets. Hebrew-English prayer books. Warm and friendly atmosphere. No background or affiliation necessary. Traditional and contemporary services. Contact: [email protected] or 206-527-1411 Erev Rosh Hashanah: Candlelighting: 7:26 p.m. Rosh Hashanah First Day: Services: 9 a.m. Evening services: 7:30 p.m. Light candles after 8:27 p.m. XXPage 22 Holiday times
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Rosh Hashanah Second Day: Services at 9 a.m. Evening services at 7:30 p.m. Light candles after 8:25 p.m. Kol Nidre: 7:08 p.m. Yom Kippur: Services at 9 a.m. Ne’ilah: 7 p.m. Paths to Awakening At Unity in Lynnwood, 16727 Alderwood Mall Pky., Lynnwood Rabbi Ted Falcon, with musicians led by Stephen Merritt, welcomes all who yearn to
open their hearts more fully to themselves and to each other in a warm and supportive spiritual environment. All services $140. Rosh Hashanah (both services): $70. Rosh Hashanah (single service): $38. Yom Kippur (both services): $75. Yom Kippur (single service): $41. No one will be turned away due to inability to pay. Please email to make financial arrangements. Contact: Rabbi Ted Falcon at [email protected] or www.RabbiTedFalcon.com Erev Rosh Hashanah: “The Celebration of
Creation”: 7:30 p.m. Rosh Hashanah Day: “Beginner’s Mind”: 10:30 a.m. Worship: 2:30 p.m. Tashlich at Edmonds Beach. Kol Nidre: “The Song of the Soul”: 7:30 p.m. Yom Kippur: “Returning to Source.” Morning worship: 10:30 a.m. Chanting meditation: 1:30 p.m. Healing service: 2:30 p.m. Yizkor and concluding worship: 4:30 p.m. West Seattle Torah Learning Center Contact for location details Join the TLC family for inspiring, explanatory, and interactive High Holiday services. Come for it all or just pop in for a traditional holi-
day experience that is sure to leave you on a “high” for the rest of the year. Meals follow services. Free. Contact: [email protected] or 206-722-8289 Erev Rosh Hashanah: 7:30 pm. Rosh Hashanah First Day: 8:45 a.m. Torah reading and shofar: 10:30 a.m. Rosh Hashanah Second Day: 8:45 a.m. Torah reading and shofar: 10:30 a.m. Kol Nidre: 7:15 p.m. Yom Kippur: 8:45 am. Yizkor: 10:30 a.m. Ne’ilah: 6:45 p.m. Fast ends: 8:09 p.m. Light break-fast served.
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When Kilmer met the families in the rocket-plagued border town of Sderot, located about a half of a mile from Gaza, and toured the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, it was the safety of his young daughters and the past plight of his 103-year-old Holocaust survivor grandmother back home that suddenly became
very personal. “I have two little girls,” said Kilmer, who is not Jewish. “I cannot imagine what that’s like. The children’s recreation center had to have its roof reinforced because of concerns about rocket fire from Gaza.” One mother told Kilmer they don’t have post-traumatic stress disorder, but
“constant traumatic stress.” “Sitting and talking to the kids and the parents, that’s a very real experience that you don’t get from a policy briefing,” he said. “Not only do you see how an investment like [Iron Dome] provides protection, you see what it protects.”
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These days at the end of the outgoing year, and on the eve of the new year, may it bring blessings to us all, call for self evaluation in respect of the year about to end, and - in the light of this self-appraisal - for making the necessary resolutions for the coming year. Such a “balance sheet” can be valid only if the evaluation of the full extent of one’s powers and opportunities was a correct one. Only then can one truly regret, in a commeasurable degree, the missed opportunities, and resolve to utilize one’s capacities to the fullest extent from now on. The period of time before and during Rosh Hashanah is not only the occasion which demands spiritual stock-taking in general, but it also begs for a profound inner appreciation of the tremendous capacities which one possesses, as a human - the crown of Creation. For Rosh Hashanah is the day when Man was created. the purpose and true meaning of it? This is what our Sages tell us and teach us in this regard: When G-d created Adam, his soul - his Divine image permeated and irradiated his whole being, by virtue of which he became the caretaker over the entire Creation. All the creatures gathered to serve him and to crown him as their creator. But Adam, pointing out their error, said to them: “Let us all come and worship G-d, our Maker!”
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When Adam was created, the Creator immediately apprised him of his powers and told him what his purpose in life would be: “Replenish the earth, and conquer it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” (Gen. 1:28). Man was given the power to conquer the whole world and to rule over it with sensitivity and love, on land, sea and in the air, and he was enjoined so to do; this was his task. How was this “world conquest” to be attained, and what is
The “world conquest” which was given to man as his task and mission in life, is to elevate the whole of Nature, including the beasts and animals, to the service of true humanity, humanity permeated and illuminated by the Divine Image, by the soul which is veritably a part of G-d above, so that the whole of Creation will realize that G-d is our Maker. Needless to say, before a man sets out to conquer the world, he must first conquer himself, through the subjugation of the “earthly” and “beastly” in his own nature. This is attained through actions which accord with the directives of the Torah, the Law of Life - the practical guide in every-day living - so that the material becomes permeated and illuminated with the light of the One G-d, our G-d. G-d created one man and on this single person on earth He imposed the said duty and task. Herein lies the profound, yet clear, directive, namely, that each and every person is potentially capable of “conquering the world”. If a person does not fulfill his task, and does not utilize his
inestimable divine powers - it is not merely a personal loss and failure, but something that affects the destiny of the whole world. By the process of Teshuvah (return) the soul realizes its capacity to return to its original state – to its pristine core. As we pass through life, we are invariable coarsened and sullied by our errors and misjudgments, or simply by the travails of physical life; but our innermost self, the “veritable part of G-d” that is the essence of our soul – remains untouched. Teshuvah is the G-d given ability to access and reconnect to that untouched self, reestablish our lives upon its foundation, and even redefine a negative past in its purifying light.
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In these days of introspection, we are duty-bound to reflect that each and every one of us - through carrying out the instructions of the Creator of the World which are contained in His Torah - has the capacity to transform the world. Everyone must therefore ask himself, how much has he accomplished in this direction, and to what extent has he failed, so that he can make the proper resolutions for the coming year. G-d, Who looks into the heart, on seeing the determination behind these good resolutions, will send His blessing for their realization in the fullest measure - in joy and gladness of heart and affluence, materially and spiritually. With the blessing of Kesivo Vachasimo Toivo for a happy and sweet year, — from Rosh Hashanah 5719 (1959)
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Rabbi Simon Benzaquen Rabbi Emeritus Sephardic Bikur Cholim Rabbi Mordechai Farkash Director, Eastside Torah Center Chabad of Bellevue Rabbi Sholom Ber Levitin Regional Director, Chabad-Lubavitch Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch Rabbi Bernard Fox Dean, Northwest Yeshiva High School Rabbi Moshe Kletenik Av Beit Din — Seattle Va’ad Rabbi Avraham David Rosh Kollel — Kollel Seattle Rabbi Ron-Ami Meyers Congregation Ezra Bessaroth Rav Bet Sefer, Seattle Hebrew Academy Moderated by Rabbi Yechezkel Kornfeld Education Director, Chabad-Lubavitch Director, Chabad-Lubavitch, Mercer Island Rabbi, Congregation Shevet Achim, Mercer Island
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In memory of Shmuel ben Nisan O.B.M. — Samuel Stroum — Yartzeit March 9, 2001/14 Adar 5761 Sponsored by a friend of Samuel Stroum and Chabad-Lubavitch. For more information on any of these events and/or service times in all Washington State locations, please contact Chabad House at 206-527-1411, [email protected], or visit our website at chabadofseattle.org.
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The Indonesian rabbi: Bringing in the New Year as one man among 240 million
Baila Lazarus Special to JTNews
Traveling through the mountain roads of Indonesia, just outside the town of Manado on the island of Sulawesi, you will come across some incongruous sites. The wrought iron gate surrounding a home is as likely to have a sculpted Magen David in its design as it is to have a cross. A taxi might have a photo of the Virgin Mary on the front dashboard and an Israeli flag in the back window. Though Indonesia is almost 90 percent Muslim, this enclave, about an hour’s flight from Jakarta, is 90 percent Christian, and the residents have embraced Jews as family. It’s this community characteristic that has enabled the one lone rabbi in Indonesia — Yaakov Baruch — to practice his religion and even maintain a synagogue in the heart of an Islamic population. Baruch found out about his Judaism about 12 years ago, when he was 18, after his great aunt let slip the fact in a casual conversation. He became interested in his heritage, finding out that his background was from a line of Dutch Jews. The Dutch presence in the area can be traced to the 17th century when the Dutch East India Company built a fortress in Manado in the 1650s. me excited,” he said in broken English. “I contacted a few rabbis on the Internet and told them my story. They helped me with what I needed to practice Shabbat and so on and they even said I can open a shul. I had no idea how to do that.” With records in hand and a strong curiosity, Baruch set out to study with the closest rabbi to Indonesia — in Singapore — to learn how all photos Baila Lazarus to properly carry out Yaakov Baruch on the bima of Shaar Hashamayim synagogue in Minahasa, daily prayers, Shabbat and holidays. Indonesia. “He was step by step guiding me,” Baruch said. “He led me Baruch, an instructor of law at Sam back to my roots.” Ratulangi University in Manado, began After a few years he decided to have to research his background and decided a Shabbat service in Jakarta and received he wanted to reconnect with his Judaism. support from Chabad, who sent a rabbi “When I found out I was Jewish, it made down to help with the service. It wasn’t that easy to “come out” as a Jew in Indonesia, however. Though the constitution officially allows practice of all religions, animosity toward Jews exists outside Christian enclaves like Manado. Baruch was once chased while walking through a mall in Jakarta because he was wearing his kippah. When the pursuers caught him, they told him to take it off. “Thankfully, there was security in the mall that helped me,” he explained. “Baruch Hashem, I’m fine.” That was the only time he had ever had a bad experience wearing identifiably Jewish clothing. “My father even told me to keep silent about our identity,” Baruch admitted. Many members of his grandfather’s family had died in Europe in the Holocaust and his father was worried about repercussions. But Baruch was determined to explore his background and questioned any relatives he could find. He discovered grandparents and great uncles who had mementos such as prayer books from family members who had been lost in the Holocaust. In 2004, a benevolent resident of
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Jakarta heard about Baruch and decided to buy a small house to transform into a synagogue, which is now the Shaar Hashamayim in Minahasa, Indonesia. Over the years, Baruch has been able to visit Israel several times and eventually would like to make aliyah and join the handful of other Indonesian Jews living there. “For me, Indonesia is still safe, but I would like another place to keep my faith,” said Baruch, who is married to a non-Jewish Indonesian and has a 19-month-old son, Levi Yitzhak, who was circumcised in a hospital in Indonesia. On one of his trips to Israel, a friend of his at the Israel Museum said they might be interested in dismantling the synagogue and rebuilding it in the museum, when he is ready. Baruch celebrates as many Jewish holidays as he can. He makes his own challah and hamantaschen and hosted a dinner last Passover for Jewish travelers in Bali. With the help of YouTube, he has been able to access Jewish recipes. Rosh Hashanah will be spent in the small synagogue in his hometown, his father and son by his side and those locals that have also discovered their own connection to the Jewish faith. “You can’t compare us with a Jewish synagogue in Mea Shearim,” he said, “but we’re trying.”
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Yaakov Baruch can be contacted at [email protected]. Though the synagogue is hard to find, he is willing to meet visitors in Manado and bring them out to the shul for a tour. If looking for something else to do around Sulawesi, visit world-renowned Bunaken Marine Park, a 40-minute boat ride from Manado. It’s a perfect place for first-time snorklers or experienced SCUBA divers to take in stunning coral reefs and marine life. Visit www.sulawesi-info.com.
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Above, Shaar Hashamayim synagogue in Minahasa, Indonesia. At right, local government and townspeople raised money to build a 30-foot menorah in the mountains outside Manado.
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Let the children teach us well at Rosh Hashanah
Dasee Berkowitz JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) — A deep spiritual life is hard to find. While opportunities abound for spiritual connections (yoga, meditation, retreats and the like), for most of us it doesn’t come easy. The noise, unfinished to-do lists and the distractions of everyday life interfere with quieting our minds, letting go of our egos for a moment, and connecting to something far greater than ourselves. On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we notice just how difficult it is to connect spiritually. As we log in hours of prayer at our neighborhood synagogues, with unfamiliar liturgy and an unfamiliar language, we can easily let the longing for spiritual growth morph into a longing for the service to be over. But for some, the spiritual life that we crave comes naturally. This is especially true for children. Yes, they may be running through the synagogue’s aisles and “whispering” too loudly, but this time of year they can become our best teachers. We just need to slow down enough to listen to them. Cultivating a relationship with God comes easy for children. As an adult, a relationship with Maskingtaped/Creative Commons God has never been Even the simplest things can inspire wonder in a child. central to my Jewish ethics frame much of my behavior. identity. It might sound strange because I Still, I seldom credit my observance to live an observant life and prayer is imporGod. Judaism is important to me because tant to me. The weekly holiday cycle punctuates my family’s calendar and Jewish it adds meaning to my life. And if I start speaking about God, I start to feel selfconscious, too “religious,” and slightly fundamentalist. Then I notice how easily my kids speak about God. At 3, my son periodically gave a high five to God and explained to others what a blessing was. “A bracha,” he would say, “is like a group hug.” With his simple young mind, he experienced both a level of intimacy with God and recognized that connecting to God helps one develop a sense of intimacy with others. The rabbis call Rosh Hashanah “Coronation Day.” In the rabbinic mind, the metaphor of crowning God as ruler and giving God the right to judge our actions was a powerful way to galvanize Jews to do the hard work of repentance, or teshuvah. While the image of a king sitting in
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As we begin 5774, we head into a time of great opportunity and we want to express our gratitude to the Seattle Jewish community. At The Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle (JDS), we are fortunate to have inherited a legacy from Maria Erlitz (Retired Head of School) and Richard Galanti (Immediate Past Board President) that is rich in its focus on continually enhancing the programming for our children. We forge ahead with a strong 21st century curriculum that inspires a love of learning, prepares our students for academic and personal success throughout their lives, and is grounded in Judaic values. JDS is grateful for your support! To all of those who attend events, volunteer throughout the year, speak to students and give so much of your time, talents and treasures, we say…”Thank You!, Todah Robah Me’od!” Because of you, we have been able to accomplish the following: • The creation of our STEM Innovation Lab designed to inspire a child’s imagination in science, technology, engineering and math. To bring the lab to life, we have recruited Jesse Mostipak, an exceptional and highly qualified STEM educator who comes to JDS from a science teaching position in New York. • As we work to instill the principle of Tikkun Olam in our students, JDS is delighted to be recognized as one of the few independent schools to be named a Level 3 King County Green School. Level Three is awarded to schools for achievement in water and energy conversation, waste reduction and recycling. • Inquiry-based Junior Kindergarten is a nurturing, fun and engaging learning environment where each child’s innate curiosity is cultivated and celebrated as their teachers guide them to construct new knowledge and understanding of themselves, Jewish culture, their learning and their world. Also, thanks to the community’s generosity, JDS is realizing its vision of becoming a true eastside gathering space for the Jewish community. The campus is: • • • • Home to the Jewish Family Services’ Eastside Food Bank The location for a local synagogue’s Sunday School program Weekly meeting space for an Israeli scout troop Eastside drop off/pick up location for numerous Jewish camp programs
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This summer at JDS, we partnered with the SJCC and PJ Library to host a free concert for area Jewish families. And, we are proud to announce the creation of a Community Rabbinic Advisory Council to ensure that our campus represents the Judaic diversity of our families. Our vibrant school will continue to strengthen because of your support. As you review our 2012–13 Annual Report, know that we cherish the participation of each and every individual who supports our program. From parent to grandparents to community donors; from family foundations, SAMIS and The Jewish Federation, to our national support from grants made by PEJE (Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education) and others; we grow and build community because you believe in us. We are excited about the opportunities that lie before us and know that, with your support, we will continue to go from Strength to Strength. Shana Tova!
Mike Downs Interim Head of School
Jill Friedman President, JDS Board of Trustees
JDS thanks to the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and the Samis Foundation for their ongoing support.
tributes
JdS is grateful to receive support from families and community members who wish to recognize a life cycle event or send condolences through our Special occasion tribute Program. donations provide funding for various school programs and professional development opportunities for our faculty and staff.
EndowmEnt Fund In memory of mr. Corey Erlitz, z”l Laurie Minsk & Jerry Dunietz GEnEral Fund In honor of mr. richard Galanti’s birthday Maureen & Joel Benoliel In honor of high school graduates: Sam Epstein, Joshua lazar, andy Paige, Jacob Eisner, talia Etsekson, ariel mizrahi, Victoria anderson, Sarah Bowman, Yael Egnal, Elizabeth Engel, Jenna levin, ali Parsons, lev marcus, Jaclyn leytus, Hannah robin,david Schwartz, Jessica Schwartz, and max Zambrowsky. Gordon Chanen & Sherri Richman In honor of Hannah robin’s graduation from high school Karen & Dr. Stuart Epstein
In honor of Joey Peha’s graduation from JdS Paul Sytman In honor of mr. Stuart weinstein’s birthday Ronald & Devorah Weinstein In honor of Sam Grossman Gerlach’s Bar mitzvah Diane Zipperman* & Carl Bloom mrs. Judy lynn rice— In honor of being named Pa Volunteer of the Year Anonymous Barbara & Ron Winder In honor of ms. audrey Covner and ms. dianne dougherty’s wedding Susan Cohen-Anderson Dennis Dougherty Claudia & Stanley Hevel & Doty Linda* & Efrem Krisher Debbie Salzman & Marc Hagan
In memory of mr. Jacob alterman z”l Anonymous In memory of mr. robert Krueger z”l Peggy & Bruce Gladner Helene Behar In memory of mrs. Chaya Burstein z”l Robin & Ben Castrogiovanni In memory of mrs. Harriet Katz z”l Diane & Steve Loeb Polly & Robert Amkraut In memory of mrs. Julie Engel z”l Peggy & Bruce Gladner In memory of mrs. Yeta Flatow z”l Anonymous In memory of Senator arlen Specter z”l Margaret & Tad Pearl tHE HanKa & lEon KEnt HoloCauSt EduCatIon Fund In memory of mrs. Hanka Kent z”l Susan & Robert Avijan AJ & Anthony Barnett Gabriella Bashner Miriam Birndorf Carole Bolotin Dr. Richard Braun Lillian & Edward Hawthorne Elizabeth Logue & Bob Madden Arthur & Joan Major Robert Mines Dr. Donald Motzkin Patricia Motzkin Beth Ann Phillips Lea Radziner Phoebe & Harold Reff Kerry & Richard Rose Marilyn & Bill Rosensweig Martha & Paul Sanders Carol Sender Rhianna & Jason Shemper Maurice Shemper Liz & Stan Sloman Sylvia & Dr. George Sterne Diane Sweet Cynthia Urbach
lIBrarY Fund In memory of mrs. Chaya Burstein z”l Boeing Company Michelle Molan & Dr. David Schwartz luCY & HErB PruZan ISraEl mISSIon In memory of mrs. Suzanne Shultz z”l Tina* & Michael Novick marIa ErlItZ 21St CEnturY lEarnInG Fund In memory of mr. Corey Erlitz z”l Anonymous Joann & Carl Bianco Debbie & Steve Butler Robin & Ben Castrogiovanni Margaret* & Derrick Chasan Karen* Coval Susan & Dr. Lonnie Edelheit Pam & Larry Feinstein Dr. Francine Gaillour & Jeff Silesky Talby & Dr. Bob Gelb Elizabeth & Mario Goertzel Suzanne & Barry Goren Carol & Dr. Allen Gown Lori & Claudio Guincher Anne & Ed Harris Nancy Highiet Morse & Wayne Morse Debra & Marc Kadish Malcolm Katz Jean & Harris Klein Rochelle Kleinberg & Dr. Bernard Goffe Elaine Kraft Cheri & Michael Levy
Sharon & Marty Lott Roberta*& Ken Lyon Leslie Mickel & Dr. Randy Carsch Drs. Kara & Kerry Moscovitz Bea & Bruce Nahon Tina* & Michael Novick Sandra & Gerry Ostroff Ann Marie & Sonny Putter Renee Katz & Eric Radman Drs. Pauline & Jack Reiter Fran & Stan Schill Amy Schottenstein & Justin Magaram Rabbi Arlene Schuster Seattle Jewish Community School Ronnie and Dr. Ronald Spiegel Charlene & Gregory Steinhauer Diane & Dennis Warshal Lynn & The Hon. Anthony Wartnik Marcie & Terry Wirth Lee & Jack Weissman rEYnoldS Fund In appreciation of JdS Rebecca Bearman roSEntHal tECHnoloGY Fund In memory of mrs. Harriet Katz z”l Barbara Rosenthal JoEl StarIn tEaCHEr dEVEloPmEnt Fund In memory of mrs. marcia migdal z”l Lynn & Anthony Wartnik In memory of mrs. Joel Starin z”l Joan Alexander
In honor of ariel mizrahi’s graduation from high school Karen & Dr. Stuart Epstein In honor of Joshua lazar’s graduation from high school Karen & Dr. Stuart Epstein In appreciation of ms. laurie minsk Nancy & Paul Etsekson In honor of ms. amy Schottenstein Jill & Chuck Friedman In honor of dr. and mrs. marc Gonchar Marcia & Alfred Friedman In honor of mr. adam Gillman’s graduation from western washington university Linda* & Efrem Krisher In honor of ms. mindy Goldberg’s marriage Linda* & Efrem Krisher In appreciation of mrs. Sharon Farac’s leadership of the Parent association Drs. Kara & Kerry Moscovitz In appreciation of mrs. luminita Gruia’s leadership of the Parent association Drs. Kara & Kerry Moscovitz In honor of avi magaram’s graduation from JdS Alayne & Bobby Sulkin In honor of Ben Friedman’s graduation from JdS Alayne & Bobby Sulkin In honor of Joshua Greenstein’s graduation from JdS Alayne & Bobby Sulkin
tributes from JdS are the perfect way to celebrate, commemorate or commiserate. Contact us today and make a donation to JdS in your special person’s honor and let us do the work. we send a beautiful card on your behalf from the school and you receive a 100% tax deductible donation. Call our development office: 425-460-0242 or email: [email protected].
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In honor of ms. Elisa Erlitz’s marriage to mr. dan Barr Risa* & Adam Coleman Julie* & David Chivo Peggy & Bruce Gladner Linda* & Efrem Krisher In appreciation of rabbi Stuart light Jewish Family Service of Seattle JDS Middle School Parents In honor of mrs. maria Erlitz Sharon & Larry Finegold Amy & David Fulton JDS Middle School Parents In memory of mr. al Sanft z”l Peggy & Bruce Gladner Susan & Victor Alhadeff Ronald & Devorah Weinstein In memory of mr. Benji mayers z”l Ronald & Devorah Weinstein In memory of mr. Jack Berg z”l Esther & Lawrence Barsher Tamara and Randy Berg In memory of mr. Jack Farber z”l Peggy & Bruce Gladner Ronald & Devorah Weinstein
From generation to generation, our grandparents are investing in the future that the Jewish day School helps provide. we are proud to have the generous support of grandparents who exemplify the spirit of tzedekah for our children.
Gold Michael & Maureen Cape Michele & Stanley Rosen SIlVEr Susan & Dr. Lonnie Edelheit Marcia & Alfred Friedman BronZE Ruth & Dr. Aaron Bernstein Celie & Dr. Zane Brown SuStaInInG Lee & David Amos Pearl & Michael Caplan Jessie & Dr. Walter Moscovitz Jan Onder Lynn & The Hon. Anthony Wartnik
mEmBEr Shafiga & Agasi Abramov Reba & Robert Bachrach Linda & Lloyd Grossman Jean Haas Kate & Henry Haas Carol Hale Susan & Ira Kadish Carole Kenyon & Ralph Kline Linda & Dr. Ronald Krivosha Joyce & Don Krusky Donna Rice Judith & Norman Rosenbloom Andrea & Henry Schaloum Lenore Schottenstein
Claire & Allan Shumofsky Renee Stolle Lucy & Dr. Alex Sytman Lee & Jack Weissman
Please note that all of the information is current as of June 30,
honor roll
JdS is grateful for your support! to all of those who attend events, volunteer throughout the year, speak to students and give so much of your time, talents and treasures, we say… ”Thank You!, Todah Robah Me’od!” JdS is here because of the generous and significant support of our donors. Your contributions help JdS provide amazing programming and experiential learning opportunities that our kids are so fortunate to have! If you have any questions about giving, contact development director risa Coleman at [email protected], or call: 425-460-0242.
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Nancy & Mark Kiviat Ellen & Dan Knudson Jo Ann* Kobuke Iris* & Harel Kodesh Jeffrey* Kralman Linda* & Efrem Krisher Linda & Ronald Krivosha Elana & Daniel Kruler Etana Dykan Kunovsky & Alan Kunovsky Rebecca Lackman-Kaplan Heather & Andrew Lader Donna & Howard Levens Lauren Leyser Tatyana & Igal Lis Betty Lou & Irwin Treiger Pamela Love Roberta* & Ken Lyon Barbara & Chuck Maduell Emily & David Marks Cindy & Bob Masin Leslie Mickel & Dr. Randy Carsch Rabbi James Mirel Katherine Mittendorf Vered & Itzik Mizrahi Linda & Michael Morgan Judy & Nissim Neuman Shirly* Niemi Tina* & Michael Novick Sandra & Gerry Ostroff Elena Olteanu James Pass PEJE Dikla & Ziv Rafalovich RAVSAK Stephanie & Lance Reich Donna Rice Daphna & Michael Robon Frances Rogers Liat & Ron Rogozinski Mimi Rosen & Nathan Goldberg Judith & Norman Rosenbloom Shirly & Saar Safra Dr. Elaine Sachter & Michael Newman Andrea & Henry Schaloum Rachael & Roy Schnitzer Lenore Schottenstein Jane* & Jason Shay Drs.Carol Sheckter & Jaime Friedman Cynthia Shumate & John Warnick Claire and Allan Shumofsky Deborah Simonds & Stuart Kolodner Michael Soung Drs. Michael and Wendy Spektor Sheryl & Mark Stiefel Renee Stolle Cindy & Bob Strauss Eli Sulkin Lucy & Dr. Alex Sytman Temple B’nai Torah Noga & Uri Unger Visa Elise Wayne Lee & Stuart Weinstein Lee & Jack Weissman Kimberly & Ross Wolf Charles* Wright Barbara & Dr. Ron Winder Christy Zinn & Sean Krulewitch Diane Zipperman* & Carl Bloom tomCHIm/SuPPortErS $5-99 Shafiga & Agasi Abramov Dilara Abramova & Mehman Abramov Gladys & Jack Altabef Anderson Damon Worldwide Anonymous Scott* Azose Ann & Marc Bachrach Marilyn & Chuck Caplan Linda Bensimon & Michael Goldman Kathy Brazeau Aliza Breidbord Mariana & Roni Brizitski Sheri Brown Iris Brumer Fran Calderon Dilia & Martin Cartagena Margaret* & Derrick Chasan Rob & Andrea Danen Bella Davydova & Alex Davydov Marina Davydova & Yakov Davydov Naomi* Fine Davey* Friedman Eva & Eli Genauer Randi* Gordner Vitaly Grinshtat Linda & Lloyd Grossman Jean Haas Kari & Jeff Haas Berthe & Stanley Habib Traci Huffer-Mayer Beth Huppin & David Bennett Shannon*& J. Michael Jay Lynn & Steve Katz Sharon & Isaac Kellerman Carole Kenyon & Ralph Kline Rakhilya & Roman Khanatayev Joyce & Don Krusky Sandy Samuel & Cantor Bradlee Kurland Priscilla* & Steven Leytus Sevil Manashirova & Fikret Manashirov Lois Mayers Maggie Halela-Mosholder & Mark Mosholder Linda* & Zlatko Nalis Robyn* Nathan Dianne & Dr. Martin Newman Aileen* & Aaron Okrent Regina & Dr. Alan Pearlman Cesia Pech Shelly & Harry Pomeranz Renee Katz & Eric Radman Amy Ross Paula* & Raphael Schwimmer Barbara & David Sherer Amy & Michael Sherer Michael Shuffler Ellen & Brad Spear William & Joyce Standing Jodi & Ryan Sternoff Dr. Doris Stiefel Jeff Sullivan Nina & Rod Waldbaum Priscilla Wayne Farah & Jim* Wiesen Rachel* & Yaron Yedidia Karin & Gil Zaharoni Rita* & Pinchas Zohav § Husband or wife 2012–2013 JDS Board Member * 2012–2013 JDS Staff Member
“We grow and build community because you believe in us.”
the Jewish day School of metropolitan Seattle excels because of the tremendous support our children receive from JdS parents, faculty, staff and our community. Your generosity helped to further the JdS mission: To provide an exceptional education that empowers Jewish children to be confident, wise, and compassionate upstanders who are committed to life-long learning and community stewardship.
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save the date for our 2014 Gala & auction
SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2014
Co-chairs: Pamela Love & Ida Wicklund 2014 AuCTIoN HoNoREES: Dr. Marc and Gina Gonchar
Interim Head of School Mike Downs Assistant Head of School Suzanne Messinger Director of Admissions & External Relations Amy Adler Director of Development Risa Coleman Director of Finance & Operations Jo Ann Kobuke 2013-2014 BoARD of TRuSTeeS President, Jill friedman Immediate Past President, Richard Galanti VP Development, Dr. Marc Gonchar VP Marketing, Judy Greenstein VP Finance, Dena Herbolich VP Governance, Robin Castrogiovanni Treasurer, Norm Chapman Secretary, Bonnie Cape TRuSTeeS Helene Behar Joann Bianco Janice Brumer Jerry Dunietz Sharon farac Nathan Goldberg Luminita Gruia (PA Chair) Deb Kadish Adam Kohorn Dr. Marty Lazoritz Lisa Morris Seth Rosenbloom Margaret Rudin Amy Schottenstein Charlene Steinhauer Dr. Sarah Toner PAST BoARD PReSiDeNTS Richard Galanti Robert Sulkin Laurie Minsk Cindy Levy florence Katz Burstein Alayne Sulkin Richard Gilmore Jerome o. Cohen Bruce Nahon Pam feinstein Nina Waldbaum Laurence finegold Janice Rabkin Maria erlitz Joel Starin z”l
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Jds alumni updates
JDS is grateful that our alumni are doing such wonderful things in the world and that they stay connected to their former classmates and the school. Thank you to all of our alumni and their families who continue to support the school in so many ways including 2012 and 2013 alumni donors: Elisa Erlitz Barr (’99), Daniella Bayley (’02), David Bayley (’01), Sarah Castoriano (’96), Davey Friedman (’03), Russell Katz (’87), Mimi Rosen (’92), Jane Rutstein Shay (’96), Eli Sulkin (’05), Sarah Toner (’92) and Elise Wayne (’02).
• Michaela Calderon (’05, right) graduated from Washington State university with degrees in Hospitality Business Management and finance. She is currently working as a management associate in hotel operations at MGM Resorts’ Bellagio in Las Vegas. • JDS alumna and Board of Trustees member Dr. Sarah Toner is guiding the school’s alumni relations effort which received a boost over the summer by having two alumnae, Emily Caditz and Becky Constantine, intern in the office helping plan alumni events and gathering alumni updates below. Also, thanks to Natanya Auerbach who worked with our Development team. • Natanya Auerbach (’05) heads to Boston this fall to work in the Development office of Gateways, a non-profit organization that enables Jewish children with special educational needs to become successful participants in the Jewish community. • Becky Constantine (’05) attends the university of oregon where she is majoring in business marketing. • Kayla Krauthamer (’05, right) graduated from uW in June and is working with a digital advertising agency in Seattle. • Liz Kent (’05, left) graduated with honors from uW with a major in Law, Societies and Justice. She is involved with the JCC, uW Hillel, is on the Jewish federation’s Global Jewry grant committee and advises a local BBYo chapter. • Halen Baker (’06) will be a senior at Bu studying neuroscience with an eye towards medical school. She won an internship at The Psychology Neuroimaging Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Harvard Medical School and is studying schizophrenia by conducting MRi’s and studying the brain waves of different groups of people. • Uri Chotzen (’05, left) is now an israeli citizen and lives on a kibbutz, Maagan Michael, where he is working and studying Hebrew. Mariel Dunietz (’07) completed a summer internship in New York City with the Coalition for the international Criminal Court, www.iccnow.org. Jake Baker (’05) received his Multi-engine instrument Rated Commercial Pilots license and is completing his business degree while working as a flight instructor. JDS alum Ben Gown (’96, right) brought his Jewish ensemble Sasson to JDS in July for a free, community ‘Concert on the field’ event presented in partnership with the SJCC and PJ Library. Jessica Brumer, Megan Brumer, Avi Fine and Zak Lazar spent the summer working as counselors at Camp Kalsman. Rachael Okrent, Maya Zwang, Kira Weiner, Yael Egnal, Andy Paige, Yotam Horowitz, David Schwartz, Sam Epstein, Karen Touboul and David Furman were counselors at Camp Solomon Schechter. Alyssa Zupnick (’00, left) lives in Scottsdale with her husband Dan and is an elementary school teacher at Phoenix Hebrew Academy. We were delighted that more than a dozen alumni attended our 2013 Auction and special thanks to Jill Erlitz (’88) for all of her invaluable help with making the auction so wonderful!
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judgment might motivate some, the rabbis also knew that God is indescribable. Throughout the liturgy, they struggled to find other images that might penetrate the hearts of those who pray. The famous medieval piyut (liturgical poem) “Ki Anu Amecha” portrays God as a parent, a shepherd, a creator and lover. The images continued to proliferate in modern times. The theologian Mordechai Kaplan spoke of God as the power that makes for good in the world. And the contemporary poet Ruth Brin speaks about God as “the source of love springing up in us.” The liturgy on Rosh Hashanah challenges us to confront the meaning of God in our lives and then develop a level of intimacy with the ineffable. While I am still not sure what God is, I am coming to appreci-
ate the view that God is what inspires us to live our lives in service to others. Children have a natural ability to be awestruck. There is so little they have experienced in life that it must be easy for them to experience wonder. We watch their delight as they find out how a salad spinner works, or when they find a worm squirming in the dirt, or when they observe how flowers change colors as they enter full bloom. These are not simply the sweet moments of childhood. These are ways of being that have deep theological resonance. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel recalls in “Who is Man” (1965), “Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us… to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing
the stillness of the eternal.” Would that we could develop that sense of awe by first simply noticing our surroundings instead of being preoccupied with what comes next. We can make space this Rosh Hashanah to begin a journey toward wonder, whether you notice the cantor’s voice as she reaches a certain note, or hear the crackle of a candy wrapper, or connect to the sound of your own breathing during the standing silent Amidah prayer. Take a walk sometime during the High Holidays and notice the leaves on the trees, the sunlight refracting from a window, the taste of holiday food at a meal, or the voice of a loved one. Notice the small things and consider for that moment that they have ultimate significance. Consider the concept that Rosh Hashanah marks the birth of the world. Act as if nothing existed before this moment. Slow
down, focus in, be silent and you may experience awe. Children forgive easily, grown-ups not so much. The central work of the period of the High Holidays is teshuvah, or return. We return to our better selves and make amends with those whom we have hurt in some way. Every year I recognize how uncomfortable I am to ask for forgiveness from family members, peers and colleagues. “So much time has passed” or “I’m sure they forgot about that incident” are common rationalizations I offer. What takes an adult days, weeks or even years to let go of resentment takes children a matter of minutes before they are back to laughing with those with whom they once were angry. While it might be difficult to coax an “I’m sorry” from a child’s lips, they rebound quickly. It is a lesson for us.
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While you celebrate the new year, think as you dip
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
I have a bush outside of my house that blooms brilliant flowers each spring. With those flowers come honeybees. Lots and lots of bees. When the bush starts growing out of control and I have this urge to break out my clippers and start trimming, something stops me: The knowledge that these bees, whether they know it or not, have to work extra hard since they need to pick up the slack from the billions of others that have been dying prematurely over the past decade. Known as colony collapse disorder, a perfect storm of factors has come together to decimate our bee populations, and the answers to why it’s happening have only now begun to become clear. Here’s what’s happening, in no particular order: The onetwo punch of a virus and a fungus known as nosema ceranae, which alone aren’t enough to kill off the hives, but knock them out when brought together; a number of pesticides which in the lab were thought to be harmless to bees are actually showing up in nearly all bee carcass samples collected by government agencies; many of these pesticides sprayed on crops are drifting to wildflowers where bees collect pollen, increasing the chemicals in their fragile systems; dust that drifts from industrial harvests coats bees’ bodies and kills them — and there may be more factors. And these findings are still relatively new. “Nosema ceranae was only recently described in the U.S., the first time in 2007,” said Walter (Steve) Sheppard, a professor of entomology at Washington State University to the WSU News Service. “But while no one really noticed, it has spread throughout the country.” Researchers in Sheppard’s department also discovered that nearly all of the dead bees sent to the WSU lab found “fairly high levels of multiple pesticide residues,” according to Sheppard. While the pesticides didn’t kill the bees outright, they did affect the bees’ immune systems and significantly reduced their life expectancies. The magnitude of this problem can be viewed in thirds: Every year since 2006, beekeepers have seen a loss of a third of their colonies. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that one of every three bites of food we eat is dependent upon bee pollination. And as much as third of our crops could be wiped out completely if we don’t have the bees to pollinate them. So why am I thinking about the bees right now? As Rosh Hashanah approaches, many of us begin thinking about the direct result of the bees’ pollination efforts: Honey. It’s wonderfully sweet, it’s about serious, serious issue. Many of farming’s greatest minds have begun to devote all of their energies to mitigate the problem, as it appears we may be too late for a real solution. In the spirit of renewal, here are some suggestions to do your part to keep the honey on our Rosh Hashanah tables: Contact your legislators, both state and federal, and let them know you support any efforts to pass the “Save America’s Pollinator Act,” which includes tighter regulation of pesticide use. When you can, buy organic produce and products. Yes, it’s more expensive, but the more we buy, the more it shows support for pesticide alternatives and our bees. Write to pesticide companies and let them know your concerns. Yes, most of these companies are major conglomerates and tend to ignore comments from a handful of activists, but if they hear from many people who just want to be sure they can have their honeycake, it could make a difference. So many of us try to live the good food life — and it all starts with bees. When you wish your family and friends a sweet New Year, remember where the honey you’re dipping into comes from, and the effort those bees make to bring it to you. In the meanwhile, I’m going to grab my tree clippers. Their work is done; now mine can begin.
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Extending Our Best Wishes to the Jewish Community Rosh Hashanah 5774
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as close as we can get to directly commune with nature, and it’s endangered. Thinking about just the honey doesn’t take into account the apples, which we of course use for dipping. What would it mean for our state’s economy, not to mention access to one of our most ubiquitous fruits, if the apple harvest imploded? Or the disappearance of cherries, peaches, blueberries, squash, grapes? What would you hang in your sukkah? While I don’t want to run around screaming as if the sky is falling, this is a
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Dear Rivy, Not sure if you are the address for this but let me give it a shot. I was feeling like people were always putting me in a box, presuming I am a certain way by virtue of the way I dress or the company I keep. I really want people to see me for who I am. Once I started to really think about this I began to notice: Gee, I What’s do the same thing to others. JQ? Then I really started noticing it everywhere. We all put groups of people — ethnicities, religions, even fellow Jews — into boxes. Is this prejudice? A wonderful conversation-starter for the High Holiday season. If we had to sum up what is at the heart of what is wrong in the world, some might say that if we could solve this particular issue, world peace and the Messianic age would be right around the corner. The ability to connect to and honor fellow human beings both on a community and worldwide scale is no small task. It can truly be the challenge of a lifetime. The first step is to acknowledge the problem; the Your next is setting out to tackle it! This core theme of not seeing others for who they truly are, but instead heaping upon them external preconceived notions, emerges throughout the Torah narrative. Many times what one heaps onto the other is in fact one’s own fears, projections, and inner demons. What was Cain thinking of Abel when he committed the first fratricide? The text is silent, which might be telling us that it is less about the substance of the conflict and more about the idea of conflict. Joseph’s brothers have him pegged as one who seeks to lord over them. Whether or not he does is unclear. Ironically, though, the brothers actually fail to recognize him years later when he is Egyptian viceroy. Talk about not seeing the face of the other. The central thesis of renowned French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas is this notion of “seeing of the face of the other.” He writes: The face, for its part, is inviolable; those eyes, which are absolutely without protection, the most naked part of the human body, nonetheless offer an absolute resistance to possession, an absolute resistance in which the temptation to murder is inscribed: the temptation of absolute negation. The Other is the only being that can be tempted to kill. This temptation to murder and this impossibility of murder constitute the very vision of the face. To see a face is already to hear “You shall not kill,” and to hear “You shall not kill” is to hear “Social justice”.... For in reality, murder is possible, but it is possible only when one has not looked the Other in the face. Though he speaks of murder, I remind you that there are many forms of murder that require no physical weapon. Many a reputation, a living, and an institution is destroyed not by the knife but by the word of mouth. The Talmud puts it this way: “The talk about a third person kills three persons: Him who tells, he who accepts it, and he about whom it is told.”
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Levinas asks us to consider the face of the other before we strike, a seemingly simple exercise that would demand of us to look — truly look — at the other. An authentic gaze would preclude objectification, labeling and placing the other in a box. All this talk of people in the box brings me to the People of the Book — I mean, of the Box. We Jews as a community and as individuals are often placed in the proverbial Jewish box. Few of us have navigated a life free of the sporadic slur, the prickly pun, the off-the-cuff comment. Getting to the heart of this objectification is an exhibit in, of all places, Germany’s Jewish Museum Berlin. The goal of a controversial show, “The Whole Truth… Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Jews,” is to debunk myths around Judaism and to confront various ques-
tions about Judaism and being Jewish. In a country where most people have never met a Jew, this is critical. The museum explains that it seeks to “examine issues that might make the questioner uneasy, some are politically incorrect, while others betray something about the person who asks them…With an even-handed and witty touch, we present questions through extraordinary objects and installations taken from religious practice, everyday life and contemporary art.” One particularly provocative installation is a box-like area with a seat for an actual Jew to sit in — on display. Visitors have an opportunity to interact with the Jew-in-the-box and to even ask questions of them. This exhibit, as you can well imagine, has triggered many a reaction, not all positive. Though the stated goal is to educate, one cannot help but feel some degree of disequilibrium: A Jew on display, is this a zoo? Perhaps if they had not
murdered their Jews they would not have to put one on display as a novelty. How must it feel to sit there, answering people’s questions? Are those questions not Shylockesque — “Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?” Or perhaps the questions are real and sincere, Germans of today truly wanting to know and understand the Jewish People. This was the approach of those who undertook to sit on that pink bench and put themselves out there. Our daughter, Gilah, who had been studying in Berlin for the summer was one of them. She felt that as a Jew, and as the grandchild
of two Holocaust survivors, it felt peculiarly empowering to actively place herself in a box, in Germany. She explained how she was drawn to the irony of the entire endeavor. Too often, as a Jew, especially in Germany, she was already “put in the box,” by others. By electing to place herself in the box, she was subverting this tendency. Ultimately, the physical box is not what it is about. It is really about not putting each other in the metaphoric box. Rather, our task is to look into the face of the other and to open to experiencing all people with generosity of spirit. Given the season, let us become vigilant about honoring the other.
Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally renowned educator and Head of School at the Seattle Hebrew Academy. If you have a question that’s been tickling your brain, send Rivy an e-mail at [email protected].
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New holiday books to teach your children well
Rita Berman Frischer Special to JTNews
This is the season to tally our blessings, settle our debts, evaluate the year gone by and pray for good in the year to come. So, too, for those of us with an eye on the world of children’s book publishing. In years past, while we blessed the bounty — the sensitive authors, talented illustrators, and astute editors who give books the capacity to enchant and delight — we also struggled to forgive publishing its sins: The pictures that disappoint, the text that drags, the editor asleep on the job, the bindings that didn’t bind, and the distribution system that didn’t distribute until the week after the holiday ended. However, with new technology changing everything, this may be the year when these abuses dwindle and the lives of trees are less apt to be sacrificed in vain. While Kindles, Nooks and iPads can never replace the joyful human connection that comes from holding a real book while reading to a real child, judiciously supporting use of their electronic counterparts can help empower a budding reader and expand an early connection with words. Meanwhile, here are a few recent works especially suitable to entertain and enlighten your favorite children as the New Year begins. Jewish life calls on us to observe mitzvot, but as we introduce children to God’s understand is full of difficulties, adjustments and fear of change. With the help of Judy Stead’s bright and expressive illustrations, the story describes how the generous hospitality of Dina’s new community and the warm familiarity of synagogue tunes and Jewish rituals bring with them the promise of a truly happy New Year to be shared with many new friends Hannah’s Way (Kar-Ben) by Linda Glaser, illustrated by Adam Gustavson, shows that friends don’t have to be Jewish to do mitzvot. When Hannah’s father loses his job during the Depression, her Orthodox Jewish family has to move to Minnesota, where she is the only Jewish child in her class. Her teacher unwittingly arranges a special class picnic on a Saturday, trying to put Hannah into a carpool. What can she do? She wants to go to the picnic and maybe make some new friends, but she cannot ride on the Sabbath. Maybe she could go, Papa agrees, if someone would walk the two miles with her to the park. The book’s last double spread answers Hannah’s doubts and fears, providing a lovely story of friendship, kindness and community. Maybe people aren’t the only ones who can share and practice mitzvot. Mitzi’s Mitzvah (Lerner) by Gloria Koster, illustrated by Holly Conger with charm and
sacred commandments — learning from the Torah, listening to the shofar, observing Shabbat — we usually broaden the meaning to include gemilut hasadim, acts of loving kindness. Why not use It’s a… It’s a… It’s a Mitzvah (Jewish Lights) by Liz Suneby and Diane Heiman, delightfully illustrated by Laurel Molk? In this charming new book, a menagerie of appealing animals act out activities that show examples of good deeds even very young children can perform. Whether welcoming newcomers, sharing food, respecting elders, or forgiving mistakes, the exuberant Mitzvah Meerkat and his
chevra of happy do-gooders show clearly the warmth and satisfaction to be found in everyday kindness and a commitment to tikkun olam (repairing the world). In What a Way to Start a New Year: a Rosh Hashanah Story (Lerner), Jacqueline Jules presents a perfect opportunity for a community to perform mitzvot as she imagines what it’s like for Dina and her family to move to a new house in a new town just as the New Year begins. A new beginning, it’s true, but one any child will
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texture, shows what happens when a lovable puppy is taken to a nursing home to visit the elderly residents on Rosh Hashanah. At first she’s excluded from the holiday gathering while young visitors and the residents eat and play together. But once she’s invited inside, just by being Mitzi, she brings happiness to the residents, showing clearly that you’re never too young and puppyish, or too old, to need (or to provide) attention, companionship and the sweetness of friendship. In Sylvia B. Epstein’s amusing tale, How the Rosh Hashanah Challah Became Round (Gefen), the rabbi’s wisdom saves the day after Yossi, the baker’s cocky son and assistant, drops a whole tray of long braided Rosh Hashanah challahs. To his dismay, they all roll down the stairs, changing shape on the way. Too late to make a new batch, the baker brushes them off and sells them, even to the rabbi’s wife, who takes two. It’s the rabbi who gives the new shape a special meaning to suit a special day. Leslie Kimmelman’s Sam and Charlie (and Sam too) (Whitman, Albert & Company) is an Easy Reader collection of five stories filled with Jewish flavor. The last is “I’m Sorry Day,” a.k.a. Yom Kippur. A silly story but with a serious
piro tells Josh to make a list after dinner of everyone to whom he should apologize. Before then, however, Josh’s disobedience affects the welfare of
objective as Charlie and Sam determine to be better friends in the year ahead. However, they reserve the right to make a few mistakes so they’ll have something to deal with on the next “I’m Sorry Day.” Illustrated by Stefano Tambellini. Sylvia A. Rouss and Katherine Janus Kahn have again collaborated as writer and illustrator to bring you the best Jewishly informed arachnid in town, intrepid Sammy who lives in Josh Shapiro’s house. In Sammy Spider’s First Yom Kippur (Lerner), Sammy is, as usual, greatly interested to listen and learn as his mom explains the Shapiros’ upcoming holiday. Mrs. Sha-
Sammy and his mother. Realizing he has destroyed their web, Josh knows he must add them to the list of those he has wronged. As usual, the clear story and bright pictures make this Sammy book a great way to introduce very young children to a simple understanding of taking personal responsibility, a basic Jewish value. To remember those we love on Yom Kippur through the observance of Yizkor is an important facet of the holiday, but not one usually shared with young chil-
dren. However, let me recommend Zayde Comes to Live (Peachtree Publishers, Ltd.), an award-winning story by Sheri Sinykin, beautifully illustrated by Kristina Swarner. This sensitive work concentrates on what happens before the loss, when Rachel’s grandfather has come to live at her house because he is dying and she worries about what will happen to him afterwards. Her friends reassure her: Megan says he’ll go to heaven if he believes in Jesus while Hakim describes a beautiful paradise waiting for those who believe in Allah. But Rachel is Jewish, so she asks the rabbi what will happen. With great honesty and beauty, he describes to her the comforting continuity of life. At peace, Zayde, too, helps her realize that as long as he is alive and she can snuggle close to him, they are creating memories that will allow him to live forever in her love. The pictures, linoleum prints with watercolor and colored pencil, show the family but backgrounds have a feeling of timelessness and depth. And though the family is Jewish, the situation and the emotions are universal. Zayde’s love and Rachel’s memories are set in a story that opens a door for discussions about many faith traditions and beliefs.
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school — more than twice as Beth Israel had signed up before the arrival of Samuels and a new education director. There’s a reason Beth Israel purchased such a large parcel of land: It wants to be the center of “the infrastructure of Judaism in the city,” according to Goldman. That means the buildup of a Jewish community center, a day camp, even a Jewish senior center — but any such growth would be
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enabling them to flee. Five of the 42 were Alhadeffs, members of my family. He paid a price for his courage. German aircraft bombed the consulate, where his wife was about to give birth. She was injured, yet had the baby and died a week later. Her mother committed suicide upon hearing of her daughter’s death. Turkey severed relations with Germany and Ulkumen was arrested. He survived and in 1990 was declared Righteous Among The Nations. On July 23, 1944, these 1,757 Jews were marched to the port, deported to the mainland on three cargo vessels and transported to Auschwitz, where 1,604 were murdered, including 151 Alhadeffs. This was the community whose memory we honored last month. Thirtyfive of us assembled outside the modest yet magnificent 450-year-old Kahal Shalom Synagogue that Friday morning for a “Jewish walking tour” of Rhodes.
Our leader was Isaac Habib, man conducted the aufruf a knowledgeable South Afri— a profoundly poignant can whose family came from moment, given the commuRhodes and who spends nity history and the family four months a year there as story. The wedding followed a guide. three days later in Jerusalem, He led us to the sites of thereby closing the circle. the rabbinical college; the As for the seats on which French-Jewish school estabwe sat — they were the same lished by Baron Edmond seats on which my father sat de Rothschild; the remains the last time he saw his father, of synagogues destroyed by on Yom Kippur 1938, before Royal Air Force bombers the grandfather I would attacking German troops; never meet was deported to the cobbled square where Auschwitz. Jews socialized, known today I had a palpable sense as The Square of the Jewish that my father, my grandfaVictor Alhadeff Martyrs; the Chevra Kadi- Guide Isaac Habib, right, leads the “Jewish walking tour” through the Jewish Quarter ther before him, and all the sha; the recently built six- of Rhodes. Jews of Rhodes knew we were sided Holocaust memorial, there. who led a rousing pre-Kabbalat Shabbat each face inscribed in a different language on his guitar. His music prompted con— and Alhadeff Park on Alhadeff Street, Vic Alhadeff is chief executive officer of the gregants to break into spontaneous dance. where we paused for a group photograph. NSW Jewish Board of Deputies in Sydney, The following morning, the Sydney Jewish The service that evening was preceded Australia. Follow him on Twitter: @VicAlhadeff. Learning Centre’s Rabbi David Blackby Lionel Lubitz, a cousin of the fiancé,
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From the charts to your Machzor: The High Holiday playlist
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In time for the 2013 High Holiday season, we’ve compiled a list of the top five popular songs to put you in the mood for introspection, repentance, and renewal — and a few just to make you smile. Here is your High Holidays playlist: 1. “Who By Fire” (Leonard Cohen) The consummate coffeehouse theologian lands in the number one spot on our list, having borrowed the title and concept of this song directly from the emotional centerpiece of the High Holidays liturgy, Un’taneh Tokef. Another song of Cohen’s deserves honorable mention here: “The Story of Isaac,” a post-modern retelling of the famous near-sacrifice that highlights the moral ambiguity of Abraham’s choice. The section of Genesis that contains the original story is read as the Rosh Hashanah Torah service. 2. “Man in the Mirror” (Michael Jackson) Back from the time when Top 40 songs were still allowed to have simple moral messages, the prince of pop reminds us that changing the world must always begin with changing one’s self. As with the silent confessions of the Yom Kippur musaf, the High Holidays are a time to give our friends and family a break and turn our critical eye Jim Summaria/Wikimedia Commons to the person looking back at us in the Paul McCartney in 1976 with his wife Linda in the mirror. background. 3. “Getting Better” (The Beatles) in our ability to grow out of lifelong patA golden oldie about turning things around: “Man, I was mean, but I’m changterns of getting hurt and hurting back, but the song insists that change is always posing my scene and I’m doing the best that sible when we open our hearts and truly I can,” sings Paul. Sometimes we lose faith listen to our loved ones. 4. “Please Forgive Me” (Bryan Adams) This one’s about saying sorry for loving too much, rather than too little. After all, don’t many of our conflicts come from holding on too tight? Not to mention the heart-wrenching power of Adams’s voice, which moves the listener like good chazzanut ought to. 5. “Unwritten” (Natasha Bedingfield) Here’s one for the millennials. A talented young British singer/songwriter, Bedingfield sings with conviction about the ever-present possibility of a fresh start. Her chorus offers an optimistic counter to the traditional image of the sealing of the book of fate: “Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten...” And a few more just for fun….
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“Oops I Did It Again” (Britney Spears) This song marked the original pop princess’s transition from ingénue to femme fatale. Perhaps it can inspire those of us who walk around feeling ethically spotless to remember that we all make the same mistakes (and usually twice). “On Bended Knee” (Boys II Men) Those of us Jews who are not football players (you know, almost all of us) only take a knee once a year — during the Yom Kippur Musaf service, when cantors, rabbis, and often whole congregations bow down in unison to commemorate the ancient temple service. “Wake Me Up When September Ends” (Green Day) For the shul-shluffer (synagogue sleeper) in all of us.
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Going to the source of Rosh Hashanah sweetness
Edmon J. Rodman JTA World News Service
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Here’s the buzz about Rosh Hashanah: Beyond a congregation or family, it takes a hive to have a holiday. You may have your tickets, new dress or suit, and High Holidays app, but without the honey in which to dip a slice of apple, where would you be? We wish each other “Shanah tovah umetuka,” “Have a good and sweet New Year.” To further sweeten the calendar change we eat honey cake — even Martha Stewart has a recipe — and teiglach, little twisted balls of dough boiled in honey syrup. Little do we realize that to fill a jar or squeeze bottle containing two cups of the sticky, golden stuff, a hive of honeybees must visit 5 million flowers. For most of us, the honey seems a somehow natural byproduct of the cute, bear-shaped squeeze bottle we pick up at the store. But for beekeeper Uri Laio, honey is like a gift from heaven. His motto, “Honey and Beeswax with Intention,” is on his website, chassidicbeekeeper.com. “Everyone takes honey for granted; I did,” says Laio, who is affiliated with Chabad and attended yeshiva in Jerusalem and Morristown, N.J. Not wanting to take my holiday honey for granted anymore, I suited up along with him in a white cotton bee suit and hood to visit the hives he keeps near the large garden area of the Highland Hall Waldorf School, an 11-acre campus in Northridge, Calif. After three years of beekeeping — he also leads sessions with the school’s students — Laio has learned to appreciate that “thousands of bees gave their entire lives to fill a jar of honey.” In the summer, that’s five to six weeks for an adult worker; in the winter it’s longer. It’s been an appreciation gained through experience — the throbbing kind. “It’s dangerous. I’ve been stung a lot. It’s part of the learning,” Laio says. “The first summer I thought I was going into anaphylactic shock,” he adds, advising me to stay out of the bees’ flight path to the hive’s entrance. Drawing on his education, Laio puts a dab of honey on his finger and holds it out. Soon a bee lands and begins to feed. “Have you ever been stung?” he asks. “A couple of times,” I answer, as Laio uses a hand-held bee smoker to puff in some white smoke to “calm the hive.” After waiting a few minutes for the smoke to take effect, and with me watching wideeyed, he carefully pries off the hive’s wooden lid. Half expecting to see an angry swarm of bees come flying out like in a horror flick, I step back. “They seem calm,” says Laio, bending down to listen to the buzz level coming from the hive. “Some days the humming sounds almost like song.” The rectangular stack of boxes, called a Langstroth Hive, allows the bee colony — estimated by Laio to be 50,000 — to efficiently build the waxy cells of honeycomb into vertical frames. As he inspects the frames, each still holding sedated bees, he finds few capped cells of honey. The bees have a way to go if Laio is going to be able to put up a small number of jars for sale, as he did last year for Rosh Hashanah. According to Laio, hives can be attacked by ants, mites, moths and a disease called bee colony collapse disorder that has been decimating hives increasingly over the last 10 years. Pesticides contribute to the disorder as well as genetically modified plants, he says. Underscoring the importance that bees have in our lives beyond the Days of Awe, Laio calculates that “one out of every three bites of food you eat is a result of honeybee pollination.” Laio practices backward, or treatmentfree beekeeping, so-called because he relies on observation and natural practices and forgoes pesticides or chemicals in his beekeeping. The resulting wildflower honey — Laio hands me a jar to try — is sweet, flavorful and thick, tastier than any honey from the store. “Honey is a superfood. And it heals better than Neosporin,” Laio claims. “In Europe there are bandages impregnated with honey.” He says it takes a certain type of character to be a beekeeper. “You need to have patience. Be determined. Learn your limitations. Be calm in stressful situations,” he says. “People are fascinated with it. I can’t tell you how many Shabbos table meals have been filled with people asking me about bees.” On the Sabbath, Laio likes to sip on a mint iced tea sweetened with his honey — his only sweetener, he says. “In the Talmud, honey is considered to be one-sixtieth of manna,” says Laio, referring to the “bread” that fell from the sky for 40 years while the Israelites wandered in the desert. “The blessing for manna ended with ‘min hashamayim,’ ‘from the heavens,’ and not ‘min haaretz,’ ‘from the earth.’” With the honey-manna connection in mind, especially at the Jewish New Year, Laio finds that “all the sweetness, whatever form it is in, comes straight from God.”
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arrived and drove the four “through streets saturated with Nazi stormtroopers,” to a point near the shore. There they hid in an underground shelter, and then in the attic of a bakery, until finally they were brought to a beach, where they boarded a small fishing vessel with other Jewish refugees. “There were nine of us, lying down on the deck or the floor,” Esther said. “The captain covered us with fishing nets. When everyone had been properly concealed, the fishermen started the boat, and as the motor started to run, so did my pent-up tears.” Then, suddenly, trouble. “The captain began to sing and whistle nonchalantly, which puzzled us. Soon we heard
him shouting in German toward a passing Nazi patrol boat: ‘Wollen sie einen beer haben?’ [Would you like a beer?] — a clever gimmick designed to avoid the Germans’ suspicions. After three tense hours at sea, we heard shouting: ‘Get up! Get up! And welcome to Sweden!’ It was hard to believe, but we were now safe. We cried and the Swedes cried with us as they escorted as ashore. The nightmare was over,” Esther recalled. The implications of the Danish rescue operation resonated strongly in the United States. The Roosevelt administration had long insisted that rescue of Jews from the Nazis was not possible. The refugee advocates known as the Bergson Group began citing the escape of Denmark’s Jews as evidence that if the Allies
were sufficiently interested, ways could be found to save many European Jews. The Bergson Group sponsored a series of full-page newspaper advertisements about the Danish-Swedish effort, headlined “It Can Be Done!” On Oct. 31, thousands of New Yorkers jammed Carnegie Hall for the Bergson Group’s “Salute to Sweden and Denmark” rally. Keynote speakers included members of Congress, Danish and Swedish diplomats, and one of the biggest names in Hollywood — Orson Welles, director of “Citizen Kane” and “The War of the Worlds.” In another coup for the Bergson Group, one of the speakers was Leon Henderson, one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s own former economic advisers (Henderson had headed the White
House’s Office of Price Administration). In blunt language that summed up the tragedy — and the hope — Henderson declared: “The Allied governments have been guilty of moral cowardice. The issue of saving the Jewish people of Europe has been avoided, submerged, played down, hushed up, resisted with all the forms of political force that are available… Sweden and Denmark have proved the tragedy of Allied indecision… The Danes and Swedes have shown us the way… If this be a war for civilization, then most surely this is the time to be civilized!”
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He hopes that services will allow congregants time for introspection, and that they will view Rosh Hashanah as a positive jumping-off point for the rest of the year. Briskman, too, is looking forward to leading BCMH in morning services. “It’s too much to ask that 100 percent of members will feel something,” he joked, “but I hope that many of them will feel something from my davening. If that happens, that’s all I need.”
Audio and video clips of Rabbi Dunner and Meir Briskman are posted at www.bcmhseattle.org. Services for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur at Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath are available by calling the BCMH office at 206-721-0970.
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In the traditions of many Jewish holidays, there’s a poetic relationship between the festival’s culinary laws and that season’s foods. While the relationship linking Rosh Hashanah with apples and honey never grows old, the elegant and elusive pomegranate is less acknowledged, though profoundly tied to biblical literature and ancient agriculture. Pomegranate seeds offer the kind of culinary beauty that cause us to slow down, take note, and absorb the scared spirit of newness. That being said, they can be a pain to wrangle. Here are some strategies to help you conquer the pomegranate this Rosh Hashanah: Have ready a big bowl of water. Cut the fruit into quarters, and submerge them. Peel them under water, and keep them in there as you comb through with your fingers to loosen the seeds. The skins and inedible pith will float to the surface (skim this away thoroughly, and discard), and the seeds will sink to the bottom. Strain, and you’ve got the goods. slicing the squash. Use a very sharp paring knife, inserting the point first and using a gentle sawing motion. The easiest way to remove the seeds is to cut loose the strand around them with scissors, and then scrape them away with a spoon. You can make the glaze well ahead of time. It keeps indefinitely.
glaze. Serve hot, warm, or at room temperature, decorated with pomegranate seeds. Pass a little dish of extra glaze at the table. Yield: 6 servings (about 3 pieces per serving) Pomegranate-Lime Glaze directions: • Combine the pomegranate molasses and lime juice in a small bowl and mix until smooth. Taste to adjust lime juice. Serve at room temperature, spooned over hot or room temperature food. Yield: 1/3 cup (about 1 Tbs. per serving). Good on all vegetables, grains, tofu, chicken, meat etc.
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Simple and sweet, these golden circles topped with the contrasting tart glaze will round out your dinner plate. Be careful
Olive oil for the baking Curried eggplant slap-down with yogurt, onion relish, and pomegranate, by tray chef Mollie Katzen. 2 medium-sized acorn one of the squash rings to spread it squash (about 3 pounds) — skin on, and cut around.) Arrange the squash slices on into 1/2-inch rings the prepared tray, and place the tray Pomegranate-Lime Glaze (recipe follows) in the oven. 1/4 cup pomegranate molasses • After about 15 to 20 minutes (or 1 Tbs. fresh lime juice (possibly more to taste) when the squash is fork-tender and Acorn squash directions: lightly browned on top and around • Position a rack in the center of the the edges) remove the tray from the oven, and preheat the oven to 375°. oven, and spoon or brush the stillLine a baking tray with foil, and coat hot squash with a light coating of the it lightly with olive oil. (You can use
Curried Eggplant Slap-Down with Yogurt, Onion Relish, and Pomegranate
Adapted from “The Heart of the Plate.” Small eggplants, artfully prepared, can be an elegant appetizer or a light lunch, in addition to a welcome side dish.
2 Tbs. grapeseed oil or peanut oil Up to 1 tsp. unsalted butter (optional) 1 tsp. curry powder Four 4-ounce eggplants, trimmed and halved lengthwise XXPage 48
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1/2 tsp. salt (plus a big extra pinch) 1/4 cup Greek yogurt Another scant Tbs. oil (hot, so the seeds will sizzle on contact) 1 tsp. cumin seeds 1/4 tsp. (big pinch) turmeric 1 cup minced onion Pomegranate seeds and/or pomegranate concentrate or molasses • Place a medium (9-inch) skillet over medium heat and wait about a minute, then add 1/2 Tbs. of the oil and swirl to coat the pan. Melt some butter into the oil, if desired, and sprinkle in the curry powder, which will sizzle upon contact. • Add the eggplant halves, cut sides face down, into the oil, and swish them around (as if you’re wiping the pan with them) to both distribute and acquire the curry. Turn the heat to medium low, cover the pan, and cook undisturbed for about 8 minutes — until each eggplant half becomes tender. (Peek underneath a few times to be
sure the cut surfaces are not becoming too dark. If they are, lower the heat, and/or turn the eggplants over onto their backs sooner than I am about to advise in the next step.) The eggplant is cooked when the stem end can easily be pierced with a fork. Flip the eggplants onto their backs, sprinkle with a 1/4 tsp. salt, and transfer to a plate. Spoon a little yogurt onto each open surface, spreading it to cover; set aside while you prepare the onion. • Keeping the same pan over medium high heat, add another 1/2 Tbs. oil, swirling to coat the pan. Sprinkle in the cumin seeds and turmeric (should both sizzle on contact), and mix them a little to pick up some of the flavor that may have adhered. Add the onion and a big pinch of salt, tossing to coat. Cook quickly over medium heat (about five minutes, or until tender-crisp) then remove the pan from the heat. Divide the onions evenly among the four halves, spooning them over the yogurt (and scraping and maximally including any remaining tasty bits from the pan).
Top with pomegranate seeds and/or a drizzle of pomegranate concentrate or molasses. Serve hot, warm, or at room temperature. Yield: 4 servings
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Adapted from “The Heart of the Plate” Cook the wild rice ahead of time. You’ll need only 1/2 cup — okay to use leftovers. If you can find both colors, it’s nice to use a combination of green and red Belgian endive in this salad.
4 Belgian endives (about a pound), chopped crosswise 1/2 medium jicama (about 3/4 pound, peeled and cut into matchsticks or any shape bitesized pieces) 1 medium-sized red apple, sliced Seeds from a medium-sized pomegranate 1/2 cup cooked wild rice Blue cheese-yogurt dressing (recipe follows) Black pepper 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecans, lightly toasted Blue cheese-yogurt dressing ingredients: 1/4 cup plain yogurt
1 heaping Tbs. finely minced shallot 1/4 tsp. salt 2 Tbs. apple juice 1 tsp. cider vinegar 1 tsp. pure maple syrup 3 Tbs. extra-virgin olive oil 2 Tbs. crumbled blue cheese (possibly more, to taste) Black pepper • Combine the yogurt, shallot, salt, apple juice, vinegar, and maple syrup in a small jar with a tight-fitting lid — or a medium-small bowl. Whisk until thoroughly blended. Keep whisking as you drizzle in the olive oil. • Stir in the blue cheese, then taste the dressing. Add more cheese, if you like. Cover tightly, and refrigerate until use. Shake or stir from the bottom before using. Yield: 3/4 cup
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Nearly 30 years ago, when my first cookbook was published, I wrote that kosher cooking wasn’t just about traditional recipes like gefilte fish and chopped liver, that you could make gourmet meals and international dishes using kosher ingredients. Since then, many new kosher ingredients have become readily available, making all kinds of fusion cuisine even easier to prepare. Some of these ingredients include vinegars, oils, mustards, Panko bread crumbs and a larger selection of cheeses. But traditional recipes also have their place — and Rosh Hashanah is a great time to use them. There is something very satisfying about ushering in the New Year with old family recipes. I do, however, introduce one or two new dishes to make it more interesting for my friends and family with whom I celebrate every year. For dinner on Rosh Hashanah, I like to begin my meal with chopped chicken Here’s a new dish for Rosh Hashanah lunch: Chicken rolls with orange sauce. The sauce adds some sweetness to the chicken, which is perfect for the holiday. The dish can be made ahead of time and served at room temperature. Broccoli with panko, flaky Japanese breadcrumbs, is a delicious side dish that can be served Pinprick/Creative Commons with the chicken Chicken chopped liver with hard-boiled egg sprinkled on top. rolls. Panko is lighter and crunchier than ordinary breadliver. This traditional dish brings me back crumbs. When toasted, they transform an to my Eastern European roots and my ordinary vegetable into something quite guests love it. The version offered here is special. This dish also can be made in incredibly easy to make and actually tastes advance and served at room temperature. like a paté. These are a sampling from my latest cookbook, “Helen Nash’s New Kosher Cuisine” (Overlook Press). I hope they help make your preparations a little easier and your holiday more enjoyable. Shana Tova!
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For an hors d’oeuvre, I like to serve on whole-grain crackers, toasted potato bread, cucumber slices or endive petals. For an appetizer, I like to place sliced radishes and sliced cucumbers on the plate as accompaniments.
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From Manhattan to Seattle, one baby’s fight for life
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Rather than throw their 1-year old son Idan a birthday party this past July, Amanda and Akiva Zablocki of Manhattan celebrated in a more unconventional way: By finally picking a hospital for Idan’s bone marrow transplant. Idan has Hyper IgM, a rare and genetic immune deficiency disorder that affects two in a million people and leaves them with an inability to produce antibodies. His only hope for a cure is the transplant, which carries a 10-15 percent risk of fatality. Amanda, 28, and Akiva, 33, chose Seattle Children’s Hospital, after months of intensive research, interviews with doctors, and exhaustive trips to cities across the U.S. “Not only was the bone marrow transplant first invented at Seattle, but immunologists at the hospital’s lab were the first to discover Hyper IgM,” explained Akiva. “Seattle is also the only hospital in the country to use Treosulfan, a chemotherapy drug that is associated with significantly fewer fatal risks and complications than other pre-transplant drugs. The choice for our family is clear.” The hospital’s transplant floor was built last year, “a huge plus if we have to live in a hospital nearly 24/7 for several months, and we loved the entire staff we met there,” he added.
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The Zablocki family before their months-long trip to Seattle. Above: One-year-old Idan Zablocki will require a bone-marrow transplant that his family hopes will cure him of the the rare genetic disease Hyper IgM.
couple’s confidence in Seattle, Amanda and Akiva are understandably nervous about leaving New York and virtually their entire support system behind when they fly to Seattle in September. “We hope that we can build a new support network in Seattle, starting with a couple of good friends who live there,” said Amanda. “We’ll also be looking into joining a synagogue in the near vicinity of the hospital. The more integrated we feel, the more outlets we will have to keep up our strength for Idan as we leave behind our friends and family.” One friend in the city is Dr. Ohad Manor, a friend of Akiva’s since they were 6 years old. He recently arrived in Seattle to do postdoctoral work at the University of Washington. “He has always been a resilient and resourceful person, qualities which became even more evident and pronounced after his battle against cancer,” said Manor. “I couldn’t believe it when he told me of Idan’s situation.” Manor just enrolled his son in preschool at Congregation Beth Shalom, about a mile from the hospital, and
expects to meet more families who he can then introduce to the Zablockis. Meanwhile, he said, “I will support Akiva and his family in any way that I can.” David Aaron Engle, a close friend of Akiva’s who works at Microsoft, is confident the Zablockis will find a community in Seattle. “They are both impossible not to like, and I’m sure they will make friends quickly,” Engle said. “I see Amanda and Akiva’s love and dedication to each other and to Idan, that I believe that will carry them forward through this considerable challenge.” But while carving out a community and support system is its own daunting task, the Zablockis will face a much bigger challenge in Seattle. “Unfortunately, our belief that this hospital is the best place for our son’s surgery matters little to our insurance, which informed us that because the hospital is out of network, it will only pay for whatever it deems reasonable — along with a $50,000 co-pay — and the rest is on us,” Amanda said. “The transplant will cost between $600,000 and $1 million, so we will end up needing to cover at least $250,000, and possibly much more.”
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The family launched a social media campaign to raise both awareness and funds for Idan’s medical care; and Amanda, an attorney, and Akiva, who holds a master’s degree in public health, use their combined knowledge and negotiating skills for hours on the phone each day with insurance administrators battling for more coverage. “Instead of spending the remaining precious days with our son before the transplant and planning for our trip to Seattle, we are spending most of our time dealing with insurance and trying to come up with creative solutions,” Amanda said.
A fundraising page for the Zablockis can be found at www.youcaring.com/medicalfundraiser/help-fight-for-idan/63532. Seattle community members who can offer support and resources are encouraged to contact Akiva and Amanda through the site and at www.facebook.com/HelpFight4Idan.
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with foil. • Remove any green spots from the livers, which are bitter, as well as any fatty particles. • Make a shallow “basket” with a piece of heavy foil, crimping it at the corners so that the liquids don’t spill out. Set the basket on the broiler rack and arrange the livers inside. Place the broiler pan in the oven (or broiling unit), as close as possible to the heat source. Broil for about 4 minutes per side, until cooked through. Cool. • In a large skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the onions and sauté until brown. Cool. • Place half the onions, livers and eggs in a food processor and pulse, adding sherry through the feed tube, until the mixture is moist and almost smooth. Transfer the first batch to a container and repeat the process. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Yield: Makes about 1-1/2 dozen hors d’oeuvres or 8 appetizer servings.
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4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, about 6 oz. each (Ask the butcher to butterfly the chicken breasts and pound them thin.) 12 large spinach leaves Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper Filling 1/2 cup raw sushi rice 3/4 cup cold water 1 Tbs. seasoned rice vinegar Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper Orange Sauce 1-1/2-inch piece ginger, peeled and grated 3 to 4 Tbs. low-sodium soy sauce 3/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice 1-1/2 Tbs. freshly squeezed lemon juice 1-1/2 Tbs. extra virgin olive oil 1-1/2 Tbs. honey Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper • To make the filling: Place the sushi rice and water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil; lower the heat and simmer, covered, for 8 minutes. Remove from the heat and let rest, covered, for 10 minutes. Season with vinegar, salt, and pepper. Mix well and cool. • To make the sauce: Bring all the sauce ingredients to a boil in a small enamellined saucepan. Season to taste with salt and pepper. • To make the rolls: Lightly salt and pepper each chicken breast on both sides and place it on a piece of cling wrap. Remove the stems from the spinach leaves and flatten the leaves so they will roll easier. Line each breast with three spinach leaves and 1/4 of the filling. Starting with the narrowest end, roll the breast up (not too tight!) until it looks like a log. (I use cling wrap to facilitate the rolling.) When the breast is rolled and completely enclosed in the cling wrap, twist the sides and close
them with a metal tie. Refrigerate if not using right away. • To cook the rolls: Bring the chicken rolls to room temperature. Place them in the basket of a bamboo steamer. Fill the bottom third of the basket with water and set over a large pot or wok. Bring the water to a rolling boil. Cover and steam over high heat for 9 to 10 minutes, turning the rolls once. Cook until the chicken has turned pale pink inside. Turn off the heat and let rest, covered, for 1 minute. • To serve: Remove one of the ties and, holding the other end, slip each roll onto a plate. Pour off the accumulated juices. Cut each roll on the diagonal into three pieces. Place the pieces on a dinner plate or serving dish. Reheat the sauce and spoon the hot sauce over the pieces. Yield: 4 servings
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(JTA) — The head of the Jewish Federation in Vancouver and the Canadian city’s transit agency are at odds over the legality of an ad campaign critical of Israel running on buses there. The ads, which went up Tuesday, purport to show the “disappearance of Palestine due to Israeli occupation over the past 65 years.” The ads — 15 bus posters and one large “mural” in a station — consist of four maps spanning from 1946 to 2012 and illustrate “Palestine” shrinking over the years. “This is of grave concern to our community at large because the ads make the
use of the buses unwelcome and unsafe,” Mitchell Gropper, chair of the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, told The Province newspaper. TransLink, the transit agency, said in a written statement it was advised by its lawyers that it was legally obligated to run the ads. Gropper, an attorney, disagrees with TransLink and said the Federation has retained a lawyer to consider its options. “TransLink has said the law required
them to publish these ads,” he said, “but that is certainly not the case.” Marty Roth, a member of the Palestine Awareness Coalition, which is behind the $15,000, four-month campaign, told The Province the battle had already been won. “This will be controversial with a number of traditional Jewish organizations that have tried to suppress the ads,” Roth said. “But TransLink has refused to agree with them.”
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Struck by lightning at camp, Ethan Kadish battling catastrophic injury
Talia Lavin JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) — Last Satur day, two weeks after Ethan Kadish’s 13th birthday, the members of his family gathered around a Torah scroll in the chapel of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for a small ceremony marking his entrance into adulthood. This was not the Bar Mitzvah that Scott and Alexia Kadish envisioned two months ago when Ethan was still at the Goldman Union Camp Institute, a Reform Jewish summer camp in Zionsville, Ind. Scott and Alexia had just finished mailing Ethan’s Bar Mitzvah invitations and were making final plans for a week of vacation when they received the call: While helping younger campers learn the rules of Ultimate Frisbee, Ethan and two other children had been struck by lightning. The other children were released from the hospital soon afterward. But Ethan, who suffered cardiac arrest as a result of the strike, was in critical condition. Two months later, he is still fighting the effects of a catastrophic brain injury. “We know that Ethan will be in the hospital for many months,” Scott said. “But the progress we have seen — which we are measuring week to week and month to month, not day to day — has been in a forward direction.” Initially hospitalized in Indianapolis, Ethan was airlifted to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in early July. After two weeks in intensive care, he has regained the ability to breathe on his own, but he remains unable to engage in purposeful movements. Although he has irregular periods of open-eyed wakefulness, his parents told JTA they are not sure of the extent of his vision. The family has benefited from the support of their community, including their rabbi, Sissy Coran of Rockdale Temple in Cincinnati, who spent the night with the Kadishes on the second day of Ethan’s hospitalization. Meals have been delivered to them three times a week, and hundreds have signed up for Team Ethan on the Lotsa Helping Hands website, which assists families caring for a sick relative. “We have experienced the best of humanity,” Alexia said. Now the family is seeking another kind of help. In cooperation with the HelpHOPELive fundraising website and the Great Lakes Catastrophic Injury Fund, the nity as well. In an interview, the couple — who also have set up a webpage to keep well-wishers informed of Ethan’s condition — were candid about the emotional difficulties of the preceding weeks, from the anguished ride from Cincinnati to the hospital in Indianapolis, to the emotional pain of having an unresponsive child. But they remain hopeful. Recently they took Ethan outside into the sunlight and were rewarded with a response from their son: a tiny but unmistakable laugh. Nonetheless, as they prepare for the months and years ahead, the Kadishes are cognizant of the many challenges facing their family. They have two other children, ages 16 and 10. “Our other children certainly know there has been a huge change in our family lifestyle,” Alexia said. “They see how many hours Scott and I spend at the hospital. But we’re trying really hard to create a schedule as the school year starts to provide some source of normalcy in our family unit.” “This,” Scott added, “is our new normal.”
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Ethan Kadish during happier times. He remains critically ill in a Cincinnati hospital after being hit by lightning at summer camp.
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A letter from the editor
The spiritual check-up
Rabbi Joshua Samuels Congregation Beth Israel, Bellingham
In less than a week, we’re going to be in the thick of the High Holy Days. This might not be a time of celebration like Simchat Torah or Purim, but unlike those festivals, the High Holy Days — and especially the days leading up to them — force us to think deeply about how we interact with God, the world around us, our loved ones, and ourselves. This is what the month of Elul, the month we are in right now, is all about. In case some of us haven’t yet begun the process of preparing for the High Holy Days, I would like to share a list of questions which might get us in the proper mindset of the yamim nora’im. If nothing else, this exercise could very well open our eyes and hearts to one specific area in our lives. These questions are meant for everyone to ponder regardless of age, Jewish communal participation or denomination. Our world • Am I walking as lightly as possible upon the earth? Do I pay attention to my consumption of resources and how I dispose of waste? • Do I make myself aware of other cultures and peoples? Do I learn about other ways of living and seeing the world? • Am I informed about pockets of intense suffering in the world and have I done what I can to contribute to easing that suffering? • What role does Israel play in my life as a Jew? Our community • Do I participate in the life of my city? Do I know who the local political leaders are and what they stand for? • Am I registered to vote and have I studied the issues that may affect my daily life? • Do I support, in one way or another, the individuals and groups who are creating Jewish life in this city? Does my Jewish life extend beyond the walls of my synagogue, JCC, chavurah or university? • Do I encourage and support those who have taken on the responsibility of Jewish leadership? • Have I thought about taking on more leadership within my Jewish community? Our family, friends and work • How are my closest relationships? If any of them are strained, is there anything I could be doing differently to help improve them? • Do I make time for the most important relationships in my life? Do I treat my siblings, children, partner and parents with respect? Am I able to see the image of God within each of them? • Have I called my grandparents or in-laws recently? • Do I have close friends in whom I am able to confide? Do I accept people as they are or do I try to change them? Have I made any new friends this past year? • Am I satisfied with my occupation? Is my work an extension of a personal passion? Am I helping others in some meaningful way whether they know it or not? • Am I making a difference as a retiree? Ourselves • Am I taking care of my body? Do I exercise enough? Do I eat properly? Do I get enough rest? Do I floss? • Do I keep my mind active? Do I read good books? Do I talk about ideas and important matters with friends and family? • Do I see myself as a child of God — someone completely unique and special in this world? • Is music part of my life? What about meditation? Do I allow myself to deeply experience beauty in nature? • Are there any hobbies I would like to take up? God • Do I pray? Do I speak to God without asking for anything in return? Do I take the time to listen for an answer? • Have I thanked God for existence, for connecting with specific individuals, for food, for the whole array of mitzvot? • Have I thought about my relationship with God and concept of God recently? This is not a test. It does not matter how many yeses or nos you answered. This is just our annual check-up. Luckily for us, we don’t have to actually get on that scale or get our teeth scraped. But usually, after our annual doctor and dentist visits, we are told what we need to do in the coming year. (“Floss more” — that’s what I’m always told. When will I learn?) Well, no one is going to tell you what you need to do for this spiritual check-up. You are the doctor and the patient. You know what you ought to do. I hope it’s painless. And I hope you pay attention to yourselves. I hope you have a meaningful Elul and High Holy Day experience. K’tivah v’chatima tovah, may you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.
The letters you are about to read are in response to a letter from a member of our community that ran in the August 16 issue of JTNews. This person, who the respondents below see as vehemently critical of Israel, suggested that comments made by the president of the Palestinian Authority differ from what these writers believe. That they have a difference of opinion is natural and appropriate. We are proud of this paper’s commitment to the concept of free speech, which allows JTNews to present different facets of what these writers see as flaws in their opponent’s argument. What is not appropriate is that some — not all — of these letter writers do not believe the person they are responding to should be allowed a forum in the pages of this newspaper to express her views. Let me be clear: We are a community newspaper. We represent our entire community. While I, as editor, do not agree with every letter I receive, it does not mean we will not print them. As a community newspaper we must represent the whole community, whether or not the views expressed comport with our beliefs. It is also inappropriate to tie our policy of allowing controversial letters in our pages to the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. Yes, the Federation owns JTNews, but we are an independent entity. The Federation does not approve our content, the Federation does not pay our salaries, and the opinions of our contributors do not have to reflect the opinion of the Federation. If we are to have an independent Jewish newspaper in our community, that is the way it should be. Suggesting, as some critics of us running this letter have done, that people suspend their donations to the Federation because we print letters that represent opinions contrary to theirs is not only odious, it’s counterproductive. Pulling support from the Federation will not change our letters policy, but it harms our community as a whole. A vibrant Jewish community needs a vibrant newspaper to cover and report what’s happening all across its spectrum. As Rabbi Sholom Ber Levitin stated in his Rabbi’s Turn column two weeks ago, which ran on the same page as this letter being protested: “As we prepare ourselves for the New Year, standing before the Almighty unified as one people in order to realize that unity, the challenge is to further develop and sensitize ourselves to true mutual respect.” May you all enter the New Year with a sense of reflection and respect for each other. Shana tova, Joel Magalnick Publisher and Editor, JTNews Our letters guidelines can be found here: www.jtnews.net/index.php?/static/item/611/
The third option
When someone you support says something objectionable, something that’s inconsistent with your values and incongruent with your beliefs, you generally have two options. You can distance yourself from the offensive message — “I mostly agree with this person, but must take exception this time.” Or, you can try to rationalize away the disagreement — the other person was misquoted or mistranslated, the comments were taken out of context, etc. But Linda Frank (“PA does not call for Jew-free state,” Letters, Aug. 16) has found an ingenious, if dishonest, third option: To simply deny the distasteful statement ever took place, even in the face of incontrovertible evidence and plenty of publicity. Despite clear facts, Ms. Frank plays the role of the toddler in the sandbox, sticking her fingers in her ears and singing, “La-la-la, I can’t hear you!” The inconvenient and unpleasant truth flies in the face of Ms. Frank’s head-in-the-sand, hear-no-evil naïveté or plain ignorance. Mahmoud Abbas most definitely did say, publicly, unambiguously, and repeatedly — most recently in a speech in Cairo four weeks ago, not a two-year-old “rumor” from two years ago — that there would be no room for Israelis in a future Palestinian state. (And it is the Palestinians who equate “Israeli” and “Jew”; Israeli Arabs — whom they consider their brethren — obviously would not be excluded from Palestine.) In contrast, of course, any suggestion that 1.6 million Arabs — one fifth of Israelis — should lose their Israeli citizenship or their homes in Israel when a Palestinian state is established, would be — rightly! — loudly, swiftly, and universally denounced. This is another instance of toddler logic — “what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine, too” — demonstrating that Mahmoud Abbas and Linda Frank are birds of a feather. People who claim to be working toward peace and human rights must start by facing and acknowledging the truth, including the nature and views of some of the players they support. Lies, myths, and falsehoods are not a constructive basis for engagement, let alone for reconciliation or peace. Nevet Basker, Bellevue
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“I contacted a few rabbis on the Internet and told them my story. They helped me with what I needed to practice Shabbat and so on and they even said I can open a shul. I had no idea how to do that.” — Yaakov Baruch, Indonesia’s only rabbi, when he discovered his Jewish roots. Read about this unique man on page 24.
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“Prague Torah Crown of 1839” by Akiva Kenny Segan. 2012. Ink, gouache, colored pencil on mat board; framed. Segan, a Seattle-based artist since 1980, is the creator of the educational fine art series, designed for any age of audience, called “Under the Wings of G-d.” The Torah crown and a mid-19th-century Prague synagogue key depicted in the drawing were among the 10,000 Judaica personal and communal effects, such as family heirlooms and ritual items, stolen by the Nazis during the Shoah from the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia, Czechoslovakia who were then murdered. The items were stored in Prague warehouses for a planned “Museum of the Extinct Jewish Race.” The Jews who toiled as cataloguers of the enormous inventory of stolen possessions were themselves murdered. The drawing was inspired by photos in the exhibition catalog book “The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovakia State Collections,” edited by David Altschuler (1983, Summit Books and The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services). Proceeds from the purchase of this artwork will fund the artist’s eighth teaching trip to Israel, planned for 2014, and 25 percent will be a gift to the Emergency Services department of Jewish Family Service of Greater Seattle. Learn more about the artwork by contacting Akiva Kenny Segan at [email protected].
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Washington News Council invited to Press and Media Conference in Tel Aviv
Independent media ethics forum, the Washington News Council (WNC), will attend this year’s Alliance of Independent Press Councils conference September 9-12 in Tel Aviv. Israel’s President Shimon Peres will address the conference. The press councils review complaints from organizations or individuals against media outlets that have produced unfair or unethical stories about them. John Hamer, WNC’s president and executive director, will join a panel on the topic of “Ethical Dilemmas in the Age of Transparency.” The WNC is the only one of its kind in the United States. Hamer, who wrote for the Seattle Times for 13 years and started the “Lifetime Letters” project to help Soviet Jews in the Gulag, lives with his wife, Mariana Parks, on Mercer Island.
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A congressman’s first trip to Israel
When Rep. Derek Kilmer of Washington’s 6th District visited Israel this month, he saw firsthand the challenges people in the Middle East must live with.
Building up Bellingham
Bellingham’s Congregation Beth Israel has been working to build a new synagogue for nearly a quarter century. At last, finally, they have a skeleton structure.
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Following the resignation of its founding director at the beginning of the summer, the Torah Day School of Seattle’s new head arrived just in time to start the new year.
Rhodes once again traveled
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Much of Seattle’s large Sephardic Jewish community hails from the Greek isle of Rhodes. A man whose father barely escaped the Nazis there once again walked the same roads as his ancestors.
High Holiday Greetings
Shana tova! We’ve got more High Holy Day stories, complete with ideas to prepare yourself physically, emotionally and gastronomically, than we can list here.
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Indonesia’s only rabbi
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Using YouTube to find recipes and with a small congregation to lead, Indonesia’s only rabbi is feeling ready to mark this year’s holiday season.
Bees make honey
From The Jewish Transcript, August 30, 1929. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Cohen read a “direct correspondence” from their son, Bennie, who was slightly injured in the attack on the Slabodka Yeshiva in Hebron. All of his money and clothing were taken. The caption reads, “Mr. and Mrs. Cohen wired money with instructions that he leave for home as soon as possible. It is their hope that he will reach Seattle before the holidays.” The attack on the yeshiva was the beginning of what became known as the Hebron massacre, during which 67 Jews of Hebron were brutally murdered, including eight of Bennie’s classmates while they sought protection in their rabbi’s home.
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The sweetness of our Rosh Hashanah honey should make us think about the work that goes into that sweet goodness, and the serious plight those bees currently face.
Food, glorious holiday food
Cookbook authors Mollie Katzen and Helen Nash have interesting and inspiring recipes for your Rosh Hashanah table.
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One-year-old Idan Zablocki has a serious illness that will bring him to Seattle for what his parents hope will be life-saving treatment.
When lightning strikes
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Ethan Kadish, whose family originally comes from Mercer Island, was enjoying camp this summer when he was struck by lightning just weeks before his Bar Mitzvah. The young man, who is only now beginning to be able to communicate, has a long road of recovery ahead of him.
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In the Middle East, a congressman learns that nothing’s simple
Janis Siegel JTNews Correspondent
If there’s one thing Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) learned during a weeklong trip to Israel, it’s that nothing in the region, in particular peace talks, is simple. “I don’t think anybody was Pollyannaish about thinking it’s going to be easy,” Kilmer told JTNews. Kilmer was part of a 37-member U.S. congressional democratic delegation in Israel in August to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, receive highlevel military and diplomatic briefings, and tour sensitive security zones, including the northern border with Lebanon, the Gaza border, the Golan Heights, and the Syrian and Jordanian borders. The American Israel Education Foundation, the educational affiliate of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, sponsored the visit that allows lawmakers to learn about Middle East issues that influence U.S. policy. Kilmer, a former state legislator, began his first term this year in a district that encompasses the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas, Tacoma and parts of the South Sound, and nearly all of the islands in the Puget Sound. He is a Princeton University graduate and a University of Oxford Ph.D. At the top of the list of issues to be discussed on his visit was the Israel-PalestinKilmer said he was surprised ian conflict. by how “substantially developed” “There are very complicated Ramallah was, saying he met areas of disagreement,” Kilmer Erekat in a “really upscale hotel.” said. Among other complex In March 2013, Kilmer was one issues, “there’s an ongoing disof 338 cosponsors of H.R. 938, the cussion about security, because United States-Israel Strategic Partif there is a two-state solution, nership Act of 2013 introduced by how do you ensure Israel’s long Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), term security? That is a chal“to strengthen the strategic allilenging needle to thread.” ance between the United States The group met with memand Israel, and for other purbers of the Israeli government poses.” to discuss the importance of The legislation reaffirmed the strengthening the long-estabU.S. commitment to partnering lished partnership between the Israel Hadari U.S. and Israel as the U.S.’s only Rep. Derek Kilmer meets with Israeli president Shimon Peres during a with Israel in several areas including technology, homeland secureliable democratic ally in the weeklong trip to Israel this month. rity, cyber-security, intelligence, Middle East. energy, water, agriculture, alternative fuel went to Bethlehem, and finally to RamalKilmer said he saw first-hand the technologies, an Israel visa waiver prolah in the West Bank, where Kilmer spoke threats that Israelis face “basically along gram, and military defense and deterwith chief Palestinian Authority negotiaevery border.” rence. tor Saeb Erekat, along with another nego“That’s really, really important,” he “That strategic cooperation was a key tiator in his party. said. “When you’re sitting there across element of the trip I went on,” Kilmer said. “The most positive thing to come out of from Gaza, there’s a reality of rockets from “We met with a group of young innovaall of the discussions is the degree to which Hamas. When you’re up on the Lebanese tors and talked about trade relationships there was appreciation for the role the border, there’s the reality of the presence and our economic relationship and our United States was playing in trying to reigof Hezbollah. These threats to Israel are nation’s military partnership. I also visited nite the peace discussion,” noted Kilmer. very real.” an Iron Dome battery.” “Erekat mentioned Secretary of State John In addition to meetings with NetanKerry by name numerous times and the yahu, President Shimon Peres, and a very active role he’s playing.” negotiator on the Israeli side, they also XXPage 22
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Between the mountains and the water, a synagogue inches closer to completion
All photos by Joel Magalnick
Above: Rabbi Joshua Samuels looks out at what will be the sanctuary and social hall of Bellingham’s Congregation Beth Israel. Left: The front of the new Congregation Beth Israel from the front of the 17-acre property. Below: Rabbi Joshua Samuels and capital campaign chair Dave Goldman look onto the lot from the second floor.
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
The construction of a new synagogue in Bellingham has been a decades-long process. But much has changed, in particular over the past year — including an actual structure. “In a year we went from a hole in the ground to this magnificent shed,” said Rabbi Joshua Samuels of the northwest Washington city’s Congregation Beth Israel, of the two-story wooden shell at the back of an otherwise empty seven acre-lot. The full size of the Reform congregation’s parcel is 17 acres, and the rest of the forested land will remain that way for the time being, with the possible exception of a road deeded to the city to connect the two neighborhoods the synagogue’s land straddles. The genesis of the project goes as far back as 1990, when Beth Israel’s leadership launched a campaign to replace its 1925 synagogue near downtown Bellingham. They purchased the land in 2003, and have patiently raised money since to move forward in building phases. Aside from Beth Israel, the only other Jewish organizations in Bellingham are Chabad and Hillel at Western Washington University. Given the community’s small size — Beth Israel’s membership currently stands at about 220 families — finding an angel to fund a $7 million project has been challenging at best. Without a large pool of money, the project must be completed in fits and starts. “When we have enough money to clear the land, we clear the land. When we have enough money to build the foundation, we build the foundation,” said Dave Goldman, the chair of the capital campaign. “A lot of it is being patient. Fiscally responsible and patient.” “We’ve done this while running a synagogue in the black, and not gone and done it with a loan,” said Jeff Jaffe, a second-
generation Beth Israel member and pastpresident, who has been one of the prime forces behind getting the new synagogue constructed. The next big push is to raise enough to begin protecting the existing structure from the elements, including installation of windows and roofing materials. Goldman said he hopes to have that money raised soon — recent rains have left shallow puddles on the subfloor in what will be the sanctuary. The front of the building is currently being covered with concrete ground from a large rock that used to sit where the building now stands, molded to look like Jerusalem stone. A look inside shows the bones of what will be a light and spacious structure when it’s finished. Just past the grand
front entrance is a room that has Samuels excited: The library. Though most of its members probably don’t know it, the synagogue has an extensive collection of books, but due to lack of space in the current building they have remained in boxes at Jaffe’s home. Samuels envisions classes, study sessions, nearly anything related to Jewish learning. It can “really serve much more of a purpose than a library,” he said. The majority of the main floor will compose the sanctuary and social hall, where exposed wood beams already line the ceiling and tall windows look out onto forest land. “Right now it’s like a Jewish barn,” said Rabbi Samuels. A patio behind the sanctuary will allow for outdoor social gatherings. A 6,000-square-foot second floor was added
late in the game “for the cost of the floor,” according to Goldman, that can be used as recreation space or classrooms. The main floor will also include a large kitchen and the rabbi’s study. Underneath, a second, smaller kitchen will be placed alongside eight classrooms, which will fit the 100 registered kids in the religious
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With new head of school, Torah Day School turns over a new leaf
Emily K. Alhadeff Associate Editor, JTNews
Back-to-school season is always a little chaotic. All the more so for Torah Day School, which in addition to preparing a new school building this fall had about three months to hire a new head of school. The Orthodox day school in South Seattle lost its temporary Columbia City home when Seattle Public Schools decided to re-commission the building for a middle school. The school came upon more hard times when one of its teachers was convicted of child molestation in May. Head of school Rabbi Sheftel Skaist stepped down, leaving a vacancy with three months to fill. Despite a delay in permits for the new, semi-permanent school on Beacon Hill — students will spend the first month of the new school year between Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath and the Seattle Kollel — everything seems to be under control. Three days before the first day of school on August 28, Rabbi Moshe Abady moved to Seattle from Los Angeles to take the reins. When JTNews connected with Abady, he had been up since 2:30 in the morning. “It’s not an easy transition for us,” said Abady, who with his wife Leora has eight children between the ages of 1 and 17. However, he feels leading Torah Day School is an opportunity and a responsibility for personal growth not available in L.A. “I’m seeing a community which is very ripe for growth,” he said. “I’m coming aboard…at a very unique time in Seattle’s history. We have an opportunity to embrace the new leadership and to use it as a springboard for growth. I’m excited to be a part of it.” Abady spent 12 years as a middle school Judaics teacher at the Maimonides Academy in Los Angeles, where he also served as director of co-curricular activities, adult educator, and program coordinator for parent learning. In addition to serving as rabbi at two Sephardic congregations, he was the Sephardic Studies Chair at Yeshivat Shaarei Yerushalayim in Har Nof, Israel, before coming to Los Angeles. He holds a master’s of educational leadership from Bellevue University. This is Abady’s first head of school position. “I’ve developed a passion for leadership,” he said. “Even though it is my first experience being head of school, it feels very natural for me.” TDS board president Binyomin Edelstone said the search committee worked But Edelstone is happy with the outcome. “After the first interview we felt great,” he said. “There were a lot of things that attracted us to him…. Since coming here there’s been great chemistry between him and the people he’s met.” Abady is technologically savvy — he has his own YouTube channel and encourages technology as a learning tool. Edelstone thinks Abady’s fresh perspective could work to his advantage. Abady will also be more involved in school security. After the spring scandal, TDS brought out the director of Aleinu Family Resource Center, a program of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles, that educates, counsels, and sets policies regarding various issues, including abuse in Orthodox schools. They held a twoday seminar with kids, parents and staff. The school also received a comprehensive physical security assessment. “Rabbi Abady has plans to be a lot more present in the classrooms,” Edelstone said. “He knows and the teachers know that the doors are open and that he can walk in at any second.”
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Hillel UW receives prestigious award
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On July 29 and 30 at the Hillel Institute in St. Louis, Mo., Hillel at the University of Washington was presented with a Visions and Values Award from Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life for its innovative development program. Four other Vision and Values awardees include Hillel at Kent State, Santa Barbara Hillel, MIT Hillel, and the University of Maryland Hillel. Each Hillel was given the award for its own exemplary characteristic. Hillel UW was chosen because of its accomplishments in its development program. Hillel UW’s executive director Rabbi Oren Hayon is enthusiastic about the staff involved in receiving this award, stating that it is the “staff’s hard work that brings students through the door.” The Hillel has been able to “bolster and enlarge the development team,” said Hayon. According to Hayon, what makes Hillel UW unique is that it has “support from the whole community, not just students, parents, and alumni.” Indeed, it is the support from the whole community that was harnessed in Hillel’s new development strategy that made it possible to receive this award. The “key to successful development is being really good at cultivating relationships,” said Hayon. By creating meaningful and long-term relationships with donors and investors, UW Hillel has taken leaps and bounds in the development aspect of the organization. According to Hayon, if the staff’s enthusiasm and energy is palpable to the investors, students, and community at large, they will be more inclined to get involved with the
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Hillel UW staff pose with their award at the Hillel Institute in St. Louis, Mo. in July. From left: Tal Goshen-Gottstein, Reyna Shoihat, Josh Furman, Talia Stein, Rabbi Oren J. Hayon.
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thrilled to be back. The openOur state sent three ing ceremonies were a distinct competitors and one highlight, entering Teddy Stacoach to the Maccabiah dium with the 1,100 other games in Israel last month. Americans and 7,000 athletes Since reporting two issues ago from around the world — that tennis player Bill Cohon including countries, like Cuba came home with two medals, and Mongolia, bringing deleI learned that both our state’s gations for the first time. other athletes medaled, too. “To fill up a stadium of Half-marathoner Terry all Jewish people not only Robinson , profiled in the [puts] tingles down my spine Aug. 27, 2012 issue of but tears in my eyes,” he JTNews, alerted us that he Member of said. The Jerusalem stadium was “ecstatic to return with a the Tribe holds 34,000 and the games, silver medal…from competing in the World Maccabiah Games in the Half Marathon!” He calls the race one of the toughest he’d ever run, due to the humidity. (I never knew Israel was humid in the summer.) Two of his teammates required brief hospitalization for IV fluids after the race and, in retrospect, Terry says he should have done the same. “I did spend a week in Scottsdale training,” in 110 degree heat, he said, “but it’s a different type of heat, it’s a dryer heat.” Competitors and spectators reported that the humidity increased as the race went on. Still, Terry finished in just over Rachel Rosen 1:20 and came home with his medal. Maccabiah medalist Terry Robinson stands The last time Terry was in Israel was for between fellow runners Jason Karp, left, and his Bar Mitzvah 27 years ago, and he was Michael Gross.
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the third largest Olympicwitnessing his son earning style competition in the the silver medal was also world, are hugely popular “amazing.” in Israel. Among the trip’s many A Seattle native and highlights — too numermember of Sephardic ous to recount — was that Bikur Holim, Terry is an David and Joseph became alumnus of Seattle Hebrew Bar Mitzvah together. In a Academy, Mercer Island tradition that dates to the High School and Univer1989 games, the U.S. delsity of Washington. His egation arranged for two parents were very active in, large groups of athletes Avi Azoulay and worked in, the Jewish David and Joseph Munden with who had never experienced community, which he says their Maccabiah team medals. the Bar or Bat Mitzvah inspired him. He spoke at ritual to enter adulthood. Camp Solomon Schechter last year about David singled out Yad Vashem as a his preparations, and hopes he’ll get to go significant moment in his visit, but even back next year to relate his experiences. more important is that his son loved Israel and wants to go back. Then there are the national and international friendships Buckley’s David Munden, head that were made. coach of the karate team, expressed “I saw what [those connections] did for a common sentiment among our the kids, seeing the kind of bonding and state’s competitors: “Aside from the comfriendships that went on,” he said. “Hopepetition, the trip itself was amazing,” fully they’ll stay involved.” he told me. “We got to see and do some Both David and Terry said transporamazing stuff, and learn a lot of history.” tation logistics were the biggest problem This was the first trip to Israel for both they encountered. Buses were generally David and his son Joseph, 16, a member of late, and sometimes they were early. They the team. The U.S. karate team came away didn’t let that spoil things, though. “We with 18 medals and Joseph earned two: had to realize…if we were going to enjoy A bronze in sparring and a silver in team kata — a “series of pre-set movements,” explains David, that mimic a fight. And XXPage 15
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“The words ‘hope, not fear’ still resonate within me,” says the author Edgar M. Bronfman. “We must look to the future with hope. Even if we can’t finish the task within our lifetime, neither can we shirk from giving it our all.” In this puzzle, we dutifully follow Bronfman’s sage words to the letter.
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The Jewish community of Rhodes, Greece came to life when 35 people from around the world journeyed to the island recently for a special service. The service was held in the synagogue in which the Jewish story is infused in every brick, ingrained in every stone of the mosaic floor… Fast forward five weeks. Yom Kippur. My father spent the day in synagogue with Last month I went to synagogue for his father. The following day he set sail a Friday night service with my son-in-law, for South Africa — never to see his parmy future son-in-law, and his father. The ents again. synagogue filled, the rabbi called out the His intention was to settle in Zimbabwe page numbers in Sephardi and Ashkenazi (then Rhodesia) and bring out his parents, prayer books, and the proceedings began. teenage sisters, and Becky, his fiancée. So what makes a Shabbat service newsIt wasn’t to be. worthy? Why was this night different from His parents and sisters were deported every other night? to Auschwitz, where his mother was Because it was a Shabbat service like gassed on arrival and his father perished no other — it brought together 35 people toward the end of the Holocaust. What of from Israel, the U.S., South Africa and Becky? She too was deported to Auschwitz Australia with the objective of celebrating and that was the last he heard of her. the aufruf of my daughter’s fiancé. Informed that she had perished, he marIn so doing, we honored a once-vibrant ried the woman who became my mother. community that was decimated by the Some years ago, while on holiday in Nazis. We paid tribute to a community Cape Town, he overheard the name Becky that saw one-third of its finest destroyed Hassan — it was the same Becky Hassan in the Nazi camps, leaving but a handful to whom he had been engaged half a cento call it home. We brought the Jews of tury earlier! She had survived — and been Rhodes back to life. told he had perished — and was living in The Jewish community of the Isle of Belgium, a grandmother in her 70s. He Rhodes numbered 5,000 at its peak. So was a grandfather, also in his 70s, living vibrant was it, so rich in tradition, it was in Johannesburg. Several months later, he dubbed Little Jerusalem. But exactly 75 flew to Belgium and they spent an hour at years ago, on September 1, 1938, its world Brussels Airport, reminiscing. came crashing down. That Friday evening, When Jews were banished from Spain the community was shattered to learn that during the Inquisition, they dispersed Mussolini had enacted a raft of decrees across Europe, many finding refuge on that effectively spelled the beginning of the Rhodes. The Spanish, or Sephardic, Jews end for the Jews of Rhodes. outnumbered the original inhabitants. Jews were henceforth forbidden to Their language, Ladino, and customs attend public schools, teach, own propbecame the way of the land. erty, manage businesses, or serve in They initially lived in peace under the army. Jewish graves were to be the Knights of St. John until the Knights exhumed, kosher slaughtering was banned, ordered them to accept Catholicism, or other Italians were forbidden from marbe expelled or put to death. For a period, rying Jews, Jewish schools were closed, the community was virtually non-exisand Jews who had settled on Rhodes in the tent, so the remaining Jews welcomed the previous 20 years had to emigrate or be 16th-century conquest of Rhodes by the imprisoned, fined and expelled. Ottoman emperor Suleiman the MagnifiThe news devastated the community cent. Jews returned to their faith and the and many made plans to emigrate. My community flourished under Turkish rule father, 25, was an accountant and engaged for 400 years. to be married to Becky Hassan.
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Most lived in the Jewish Quarter — a fortress of cobbled streets, narrow alleyways and open-air markets. They were confined to a dozen streets, the names of which had a charming logic — The Wide Street, The Cold and Windy Street, The Street to the Sea, The Street of the Great Synagogue, The Street of the Fig Trees, The Street of the Crazy Ones. This vibrant community included six synagogues, a school, kashrut facilities, and the pride of the community — a rabbinical college with an international reputation, where my mother’s father served as the principal. My father, whose father had been a tailor, worked as a translator at Salamon Alhadeff & Son, one of the island’s largest banks with a staff of 500 and 20 branches on the mainland. My father’s community was steeped in tradition. The family gathered to light the Shabbat candles, which the mother did with her head covered. After the blessing over the wine, children kissed their parents’ hands and were told, “We hope to see you married.” It devised its own remedies: Headaches were treated with slices of potato and cucumber on the forehead, while infected eyes were washed with tea and blue beads around the forehead. And the superstitions: If you saw a hunchback, you had good luck. If you touched the hunchback, you had better luck. You never drank water while standing. Babies born on Fridays were considered intelligent. If a child had hiccups, parents intoned, “Let the hic-
cups go to the bottom of the sea and keep my child from harm.” This was the community whose existence came crashing down in 1938. Of the 5,000 Jews on the island, over 3,000 departed — my mother’s Menashe family on the last ship allowed to leave. Italian forces occupied the island and the remaining 1,757 Jews were able to live in relative peace over the next five years. But Italy capitulated and on July 19, 1944 German forces arrived — with orders to liquidate. The Jews were ordered to report to the Aviation Palace, where they were held for four days with neither food nor water. Turkish Consul-General Selahattin Ulkumen, a Muslim, was aware that 42 of the incarcerated Jews had Turkish origins. “I went to the Commander, General Von Kleeman, and asked him to release the 42,” he said later. “The commander said that according to Nazi law, all Jews had to go to concentration camps because Germany needed manpower. But I knew their real purpose — to kill them in the gas chambers. So I objected. I said Turkish law didn’t differentiate between whether a citizen was Jewish, Christian or Muslim. According to Turkish law, all citizens are equal. I said I would advise my government and it would cause an international incident.” Ulkumen saved the 42, issuing Turkish passports to them against Nazi orders and
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On August 14, David Ashkenazi, who wrote his doctoral dissertation at Bar Ilan University on Rabbi Jacob Meir, the chief rabbi of Salonica and the first Sephardic chief rabbi of British Mandate Palestine, met with a small group of community members at Island Crust Café. Ashkenazi visited Seattle and shared some of his research, including Ladino correspondences between the Jewish community in Rhodes and the chief rabbinate. In attendance at the lively conversation were members of Seattle’s Sephardic community and University of Washington faculty and students. Ashkenazi concluded with an invitation to collaborate on his project, which focuses on Ottoman Jewish communities through the eyes of the Ottoman chief rabbinate.
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Distorting Abbas
Linda Frank defends PA President Abbas after he was caught stating he envisioned a Jew-free Palestine and distorts the record to make it look like Abbas and the Palestinian Arabs on the whole are ready to live in peace and harmony with their Jewish neighbors (Letters, Aug. 16). Unfortunately, she is sorely mistaken. What Abbas actually said — not in 2011, but just last month: “In a final resolution we would not see the presence of a single Israeli — civilian or soldier — on our lands.” This quote is not from Pamela Geller’s website, but The Guardian. So no Israeli civilians — does any one seriously think this quote includes the 1.6 million Israeli Arabs, or does he intend for a Palestinian State to be Judenrein? He is not the only PA official to so state: In 2011, USA Today claimed PA negotiator Maen Areikat said expressly no Jews in a future Palestinian State (the article did point out he hotly denied he meant “Jews” — only “Israelis,” as if there was a difference as explained above). After whitewashing Abbas’s thinly veiled anti-Jewish pronouncement, Frank repeats the lie that Israel is “dispossessing” the Palestinians and committing “weekly acts of violence.” Really? Who is committing the violence? Palestinans, often children, constantly attack Israelis with stones and other weapons. Last March, a 2-year-old girl was sent to the hospital in critical condition from injuries she sustained from Arab stone-throwing youth. A year earlier, a father and his infant son were outright killed under similar circumstances. There is violence, unfortunately, in the West Bank, but the Arab side perpetuates most of it. And as for dispossession, the Arab populations of Gaza and the West Bank have tripled since 1967 — and this is according
to the “Jerusalem Fund” a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel website. Exactly how is this “dispossession?” Nobody likes the occupation. Most Israelis want it to end as soon as possible. But peace has to be a two-way street and the Palestinians have to be willing to accept Jews as their neighbors and stop attacking them in reality, not just in Ms. Frank’s mind. David Shayne, Seattle
Community standards
for the dismantling of the Jewish state. Michael Behar, Seattle
Where the Jews wouldn’t live
In your August 16 edition you published a letter from Linda Frank who regurgitated the standard boilerplate common among anti-Israel types. Ms. Frank, a local anti-Israel activist, is well known for her libelous claims against the Jewish State. Her most spurious canard (although not made in your pages) is her assertion that Israel uses snipers to murder Palestinian children. As the only Jewish newspaper in Washington State, the JTNews has a special responsibility to defend the Jewish community from such incendiary and libelous accusations. Instead you provide this practitioner of what can only be called a blood libel, with free access to our community newspaper. I for one would never presume to deny Ms. Frank her free speech rights, but by what obligation do we as a community have to cloak her in the mantle of legitimacy? It is clear from this incident and past actions, such as providing a forum for BDS propagandists, that JTNews requires a review of whatever moral standards you have for facilitating publication in your pages. While it would be absurd to assert that Israel should be beyond criticism, I respectfully suggest that the editorial board draw a red line against providing a forum for those who spread anti-Semitic canards or who publicly advocate by word or deed
Linda Frank’s attack on the Pamela Geller bus ads lack both facts and logic (Letters, Aug. 16). Her defense of her interpretation is as damning to Abbas as Geller’s attack. She argues that he did not use the words “Jewfree,” but merely said “...that there would be no Israeli soldiers or Israeli settlers in any future Palestinian state.” Am I missing something? Is there a third category of human being that cannot be accurately described as either a soldier or a civilian? Of course he said there would be no Jews. In case she needs more corroboration, if this Jew-hating state ever comes into being, its neighbor to the east will be Jordan, which has had a peace treaty with Israel since the 1990s yet still allows no Jews to reside there. I was in Israel in July and my daughter wanted to hear more of the Arab perspective, so we signed up for a Palestinian-run tour of Bethlehem in the PA controlled area. As we approached the checkpoint, the driver instructed me to take off my kippah. Since I had promised my daughter not to get into arguments, I obeyed. A kippah doesn’t identify a man as an Israeli; it identifies him as a Jew. What’s up with that, Ms. Frank? Perhaps you should share your view with Tzipi Livni, the most optimistic, left-wing Israeli on the negotiating team. Asked recently if Israelis could live in a Palestinian state she replied, “No. The Arabs would kill them.” Nice try, Ms. Frank, but I’m afraid that whatever your views of Pamela Geller, she is telling this story correctly and you aren’t. Robert Kaufman, Seattle
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ourselves we couldn’t let that get to us,” said Terry. David hopes to return for the 2017 games and hopes to see more West Coast representation in our country’s delegation. “With the exception of California, there’s very little participation,” he observed.
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Cookbook author Leora Bloom, featured in the last issue, wrote to clarify some errors in my piece. She only writes a couple of design articles for the Seattle Times each year, rather than being their main design writer (apologies to the Times, too), and says they have “a staff and two amazing writers” who cover most of the design features. Also, each recipe featured in her book, “Washington Food Artisans,” was tested by Leora four to five times, plus “at least two friends” made the recipes, too, to ensure consistent results. Apologies for the errors.
Opens Friday, August 30 “The Realm of Whispering Ghosts: If Truman Met Einstein” Theater “The Realm of Whispering Ghosts: If Truman Met Einstein” is the story of a reunion between a young Japanese woman killed in the bombing of Hiroshima and an American soldier she met while a prisoner of war, in the Buddhist afterlife known as bardo. When they realize they are outside the shackles of space and time, they set out to change the course of history that led to the atomic bomb being dropped. Along the way they meet Truman, Einstein, and many other influential figures. The Arne Zaslove production employs Noh masks and costumes inspired by the clothing worn by actual victims of the Hiroshima bombing. At the Bathhouse Theatre at Greenlake, 7312 W Greenlake Dr. N, Seattle. For more information contact Claire Zaslove at [email protected] or 206-285-2881. Tickets available through www.brownpapertickets.com/event/391493.
Wednesday, September 11 at 10:30 a.m. “In the Land of Rain and Salmon” Theater Witness the moving moments of Washington State’s Jewish pioneers between 1880 and 1920 at this oneof-a-kind production presented by Washington State Jewish Historical Society and Book-It Repertory Theatre. This live performance sold out at its premiere this spring and is now traveling around the state. The event is sponsored in part by 4Culture, Seattle Hebrew Academy, the Jewish Federation of Great Seattle and JTNews. At Seattle Hebrew Academy, 1617 Interlaken Dr. E, Seattle. For more information and tickets, contact Lori Ceyhun at [email protected] or visit www.wsjhs.org/events.php.
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Rabbi and cantor to help shul with ‘spiritual work’
Tori Gottlieb JTNews Correspondent
with a rich history of Jewish With the departure of Bikur involvement. His grandfather, Cholim Machzikay HadaRabbi Josef Hirsch Dunner, th’s rabbi earlier this summer, served as chief rabbi of Prussia members of the congregation’s prior to World War II. In 1938, religious committee knew they he escaped to the United Kingwould have their hands full dom with his family, where his finding someone to lead serson Avraham would go on to vices for the quickly approachserve as an educator and as the ing High Holy Days. executive director of the Con“Repentance is a big goal ference of European Rabbis. [of the holidays], and it’s “My parents and grandparsomething that’s difficult to ents on both sides were excepachieve fully,” said Michael Courtesy Rabbi Pinchas Dunner Friend, who chairs BCMH’s Rabbi Pinchas Dunner, who tionally actively involved in religious committee. “An wi l l l e a d s e rv i c e s a t Jewish life and Jewish affairs,” excellent rabbi and excellent Congregation Bikur Cholim Rabbi Dunner recalled. “Wherever I went, there were refcantor help us do our spiri- Machzikay Hadath. erences to my family being tual work.” involved all over Europe. I couldn’t escape it.” The committee set out to find not only A fifth-generation rabbi, Dunner a rabbi to lead services, but also a cantor left religious service for several years to to chant the powerful melodies unique to work in business, but eventually left that Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. They because he “just wasn’t happy.” He has were lucky enough to find both in Rabbi since found a calling in Southern CaliforPinchas Dunner, who is currently serving nia, teaching at YULA and working with as mashgiach ruchani (spiritual counselor) secular Israeli expatriates to connect them and Jewish studies teacher at Yeshiva Unito Jewish life and culture. versity High School in Los Angeles. Joining Dunner will be Meir Brisk“We were looking for somebody fresh, man, who will serve as ba’al tefillah (prayer somebody young, somebody who could leader). A world-renowned Israeli conbring a balance of professionalism and ductor and composer, Briskman knew he warmth,” said Friend of Dunner. had a natural affinity for music at a young Dunner was born in London to a family vices at BCMH. He submitted age, but received no formal his audio files to the religious music education until he was committee at BCMH, and in his 20s. Friend was floored. “I was raised to study in “I was absolutely amazed yeshiva,” said Briskman, who at what I was listening to,” grew up in a Haredi Orthodox said Friend. “He has a beautihousehold and whose father ful voice.” still teaches at Mir Yeshiva Friend is looking forward in Jerusalem. At 24, with two to the combination of talents years of private music lesDunner and Briskman can sons under his belt, he began bring to services at BCMH. He attending the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. It Courtesy Meir Briskman hopes the services will not only was there he would receive Cantor Meir Briskman will provide spiritual meaning for his two bachelor’s degrees — travel from Jerusalem to current members, but for nonone in musical composition chant at BCMH’s High Holy members, as well. “Maybe there are people and the other in conducting — Day services. that never thought that tradiand his master’s degree, also in tional Jewish worship could be a meanconducting. ingful path,” he said. “If [we] could speak “I found a connection between my to those people and get them excited and musical world and my religious world give them new thoughts, that would be [through cantorial work],” explained very important. It isn’t just about helping Briskman, who conducts the Tel Aviv bring the congregants we currently have to Cantorial Institute Choir and the Jerusaa higher state, but also reaching out.” lem Cantors Choir. Briskman also has his For Rabbi Dunner’s part, he is excited own choir, Lishmoa el HaRina, which, at to come to Seattle to lead BCMH in prayer. only a year and a half old, was invited to “I understand the community in Seatparticipate in the Jewish Culture Festival tle is particularly warm, particularly spein Krakow, Poland this past July. cial, wonderful and hospitable,” he said. Briskman was approached by one of his singers in the Jerusalem Cantors Choir to help lead High Holy Day serXXPage 46
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Temple Beth Or welcomes ‘star’ cantor
Emily K. Alhadeff Associate Editor, JTNews
Cantor Ellen Dreskin will join Rabbi Jessica Marshall on the bima at Temple Beth Or in Everett this High Holiday season. Dreskin is the coordinator of the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music Cantorial Certification Program at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Following in the late, great Friedman’s footsteps, Dreskin is nationally known for enlivening Jewish liturgical music and “re-energizing synagogue life,” according to a bio from HUC-JIR. Marshall says the 130-family congregation loves music. “Many of us connect to the Eternal, the transcendent, through song and music,” she said. “It’s important to provide that modality for people.” The temple’s cantorial soloist moved out of state and enrolled in graduate school, leaving them with good song leaders and volunteers to lead Shabbat services, but no one to take on the hefty liturgical melodies of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. As it turned out, Dreskin was planning to be in the area as scholar in residence at Camp Kesher, an annual camp for local Reform congregations, on Vashon Island over Labor Day weekend, where she’ll be leading study and music sessions for adults. When she heard Temple Beth Or was looking for a cantor, “it just seemed to fit,” she said. “I hope to integrate traditional and contemporary melodies to help the congregation to celebrate and to reflect, and to come together as a community in prayer and song,” she said. “I hope that the congregation will consider that I am also one who loves to pray, and I that am looking forward to us raising our voices together.” While Dreskin is considered something of a star in the Reform music world, “that’s really not my style,” she said with a laugh. “It really is all about my leading the community, and not just starring or anything like that.” Marshall hopes “to create a sacred space where congregants can connect to their own personal teshuva process, and also their communal connection through music and prayer. “I think these are going to be very moving High Holiday services,” she said.
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Rapper and Sephardic Bikur Holim member Nissim blew the roof off Camp Solomon Schechter at a concert August 6. His new album, “World Elevation,” comes out Sept. 17. For more on Nissim, see “The rabbi and the rapper” online at jtnews.net.
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The great escape: How Danish Jews evaded the Nazis during Rosh Hashanah 1943
Rafael Medoff JNS.org
As the final minutes of Rosh Hashanah ticked away, 13-year-old Leo Goldberger was hiding, along with his parents and three brothers, in the thick brush along the shore of Dragor, a small fishing village south of Copenhagen. The year was 1943, and the Goldbergers, like thousands of other Danish Jews, were desperately trying to escape an imminent Nazi roundup. “Finally, after what seemed like an excruciatingly long wait, we saw our signal offshore,” Goldberger later recalled. His family “strode straight into the ocean and waded through three or four feet of icy water until we were hauled aboard a fishing boat” and covered themselves “with smelly canvases.” Shivering and frightened, but grateful, the Goldberger family soon found itself in the safety and freedom of neighboring Sweden. For years, the Allied leaders had insisted nothing could be done to rescue Jews from the Nazis except to win the war. But in one extraordinary night, 70 years ago next month, the Danish people exploded that myth and changed history. When the Nazis occupied Denmark during the Holocaust in 1940, the Danes put up little resistance. As a result, the German authorities agreed to let the Danish government continue functioning with greater autonomy than other occupied countries. They also postponed taking steps against Denmark’s 8,000 Jewish citizens. In the late summer of 1943, amid rising tensions between the occupation regime and the Danish government, the Nazis declared martial law and decided the time had come to deport Danish Jews to the death camps. But Georg Duckwitz, a German diplomat in Denmark, leaked the information to Danish friends. Duckwitz was later honored by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations. As word of the Germans’ plans spread, the Danish public responded with a spontaneous nationwide grassroots effort to help the Jews. The Danes’ remarkable response gave rise to the legend that King Christian X himself rode through the streets of Copenhagen on horseback, wearing a yellow Star of David, and that the citizens of the city likewise donned the star in solidarity with the Jews. The story may have had its origins in a political cartoon that appeared in a Swedish newspaper in 1942. It showed King Christian pointing to a Star of David “Exodus,” and the movie based on that book, helped spread the legend. But subsequent investigations by historians have concluded the story is a myth. On Rosh Hashanah — which fell on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 in 1943 — and the days that followed, numerous Danish Christian families hid Jews from Holocaust persecution in their homes or farms, and then smuggled them to the seashore late at night. From there, fishermen took them across the Kattegat Straits to neighboring Sweden. This three-week operation had the strong support of Danish church leaders, who used their pulpits to urge aid to the Jews, as well as Danish universities, which shut down so students could assist the smugglers. More than 7,000 Danish Jews reached Sweden and were sheltered there until the end of the war. Esther Finkler, a young newlywed, hid with her husband and their mothers in a greenhouse. “At night, we saw the [German] searchlights sweeping back and forth throughout the neighborhood,” as the Nazis hunted for Jews, Esther later recalled. One evening, a member of the Danish Underground
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From “Cartoonists Against the Holocaust”
This cartoon by Arie Navon appeared in the Hebrew-language daily newspaper Davar on Oct. 13, 1943. Navon contrasted the rescue of Denmark’s Jews with the farcical refugee conference the Allies staged earlier that year in Bermuda. The title of the cartoon is a Hebrew word that means both “lifeguards” and “rescuers.” The lifeguards, one smoking a Churchill-style pipe, and the other wearing Roosevelt-style glasses, are standing next to an unused life preserver labeled “Bermuda.” The scrawny man diving into the swastika-infested ocean to rescue a drowning person is labeled “Sweden.”
and declaring that if the Nazis imposed it upon the Jews of Demark, “then we must all wear the star.” Leon Uris’s novel
“Bring in the New Year on a High Note”
Congregation Bikur Cholim–maChzikay hadath
rosh hashanah: Wednesday eve, September 4
thursday & Friday, September 5 & 6
warmly invites you to High Holiday Services in our beautiful Main Sanctuary
yom kippur: kol nidre Friday eve, September 13
Saturday, September 14
Rabbi “Pini” Dunner’s nontraditional approach to traditional prayer galvanized London’s young Jewish world. His forthcoming biography of a radical British rabbi of an earlier generation, Rebel Rabbi, reflects his passion for controversy in the service of tradition. Rabbi Dunner, 42, will deliver the sermon both days of Rosh Hashanah and on Yom Kippur.
Experience audio & video of Rabbi Dunner and Maestro Briskman and view complete schedule of services at www.bcmhseattle.org/high-holidays/
Rabbi Pinchas Dunner
of Los Angeles, founding rabbi of London’s Saatchi Synagogue, will officiate as Guest Rabbi and Cantor for Mussaf
Complimentary seating. Call to reserve. Bring your young children! For a nominal fee, BCMH offers Day Camp during services.
Learners’ classes concurrent with Main Sanctuary services. Teachers include Rabbi Mark Spiro and Rabbi Chaim Levine.
Meir Briskman
Music Director and Conductor of the Jerusalem Cantors Choir will be our Guest Cantor for Shachris
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The earliest holiday season: Getting ready for the ‘big game’
Esther Goldberg JTNews Intern
Rosh Hashanah really is “heading” off the year, starting earlier than ever before in our lifetimes. The whole Jewish calendar is premature, leaving us with the burden of making both turkey and latkes on Thanksgiving/Hanukkah and celebrating Pesach eating matzoh while watching March Madness. This year’s calendar is definitely an anomaly, because the last time Rosh Hashanah was so early was all the way back in 1899, when it started on September 5. The next time it will be this early again is 2089. Unlike our civil, Gregorian calendar, which is solar-based, the Jewish calendar syncs the lunar, solar, and daily calendars. The months are lunar-based — but the years are based on the solar calendar. Since the holidays are partly fixed to agricultural themes, holding Hebrew dates to a lunar calendar alone would mean that the holidays would drift all around the year. To rectify this problem, every two to three years out of a 19-year cycle, a month (an extra Adar) is added to synchronize the 12 lunar cycles with the longer solar year. This is known as the leap month. The last leap month didn’t match up the calendars very effectively, which is why the holidays fall so early this year. So the big issue we face is preparation: How will we brace ourselves for the High Holidays when they are coming at us head-on at 60 miles an hour? In reality, the time between Shavuot and Rosh Hashanah never changes, but the illusion is set because we base our holidays in relation to the seasons. So the High Holidays seem rushed, because the summer has just faded away. But Rosh Hashanah occurs on the first of Tishrei, just like it always does.
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As we all know, the High Holidays are a time for us to do some self-reflection and take a good look at the life we are living. It is a time for us to welcome the New Year (literally, this time) with sweetness
and joy. Although we may not feel totally warmed up and ready for the “big game,” we should spend the short time that we do have to prepare emotionally and “wake up” with the sound of the shofar.
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The annual High Holiday services guide
Compiled by Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews These listings were not included in the Aug. 16 issue of JTNews. A full guide can be found online at www.jtnews.net/holidays5774 Erev Rosh Hashanah: Wednesday, September 4. Candlelighting 7:25 p.m. n Rosh Hashanah First Day: Thursday, September 5. Candlelighting after 8:30 p.m. Rosh Hashanah Second Day: Friday, September 6. Candlelighting 7:21 p.m. n Erev Yom Kippur: Friday, September 13. Candlelighting 7:07 p.m. Yom Kippur: Saturday, September 14. Fast ends 8:13 p.m.
Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath (BCMH) 5145 S Morgan St., Seattle Contact: Dee Wilson at [email protected] or 206-721-0970 or www.bcmhseattle.org. Non-member adult: $225. Non-member children (age 13-17): $50. Non-member student: $75. Erev Rosh Hashanah: Candlelighting: 7:26 p.m. Mincha: 7:30 p.m. Rosh Hashanah First Day: 7:45 a.m. Shacharis: 7:45 a.m. Torah reading: Approx. 9:40 a.m. Sermon: Approx. 10:15 a.m. Shofar blowing: Approx. 10:40 a.m. Musaf: Approx. 11 a.m. Mincha: 7:15 p.m. Tashlich following Mincha. Candlelighting for second day after 8:27 p.m. Rosh Hashanah Second Day: 7:45 p.m. Shacharis: 7:45 a.m. Torah reading: Approx. 9:40 a.m. Sermon: Approx. 10:15 a.m. Shofar blowing: Approx. 10:40 a.m. Musaf: Approx. 11 a.m. Mincha: 7:30 p.m. Candlelighting for Shabbos Shuva: 7:22 p.m. Kol Nidre: 7:10 p.m. Yom Kippur: Shacharis: 8 a.m. Torah reading: 10:45 a.m. Sermon: 11:30 a.m. Yizkor: 12 p.m. Musaf: 12:15 p.m. Mincha: 6 p.m. Ne’ilah: 7:15 p.m. Fast concludes: 8:09 p.m. Chabad House Seattle 4541 19th Ave. NE, Seattle Contact: [email protected] Erev Rosh Hashanah: Candlelighting: 7:26 p.m. Rosh Hashanah First Day: Services: 10 a.m. Evening services: 7:30 p.m. Light candles after 8:27 p.m. Rosh Hashanah Second Day: Services: 10 a.m. Evening services: 7:30 p.m. Light candles after 8:25 p.m. Kol Nidre: 7:08 p.m. Yom Kippur: 9 a.m. Ne’ilah: 7:15 p.m. Congregation Beth Hatikvah 1410 11th St., Bremerton Non-member suggested donation: $75 Contact: Rabbi Sarah Newmark at [email protected] Erev Rosh Hashanah: 7:30 p.m. Rosh Hashanah First Day: Morning service: 9:30 a.m. Torah/youth service: Approx. 10:30 a.m. Tashlich immediately following at Lions Park. Rosh Hashanah Second Day: Morning service: 10 a.m. Kol Nidre: Evening service: 7 p.m. Yom Kippur: Morning service: 9:30 a.m. Torah/youth service: Approx. 10:30 a.m. Yizkor service: Immediately following. Ne’ilah: Approx. 5:30 p.m. Shofar: Approx. 6:30 p.m. Break-fast immediately following. Congregation B’nai Torah 3437 Libby Rd. NE, Olympia All are welcome, no tickets needed. Contact: Larry Perrin at 360-866-0862 Erev Rosh Hashanah: 7:30 p.m. Rosh Hashanah First Day: 9:30 a.m. Tashlich following kosher dairy lunch. Rosh Hashanah Second Day: 9:30 a.m. Kol Nidre: 6:30 p.m. Yom Kippur: 9 a.m. Community break-fast following. Congregation Eitz Or At University Unitarian Church, 6556 35th Ave., Seattle Reb Arik Labowitz will be joined by his team of “super-hero holy music makers” whose combination of musicianship and spirit elevates souls and connects hearts. Contact: [email protected] or 206-467-2617 or www.eitzor.org Erev Rosh Hashanah: 6:45 pm. Kiddush with honey and apples at 9 p.m. Rosh Hashanah: Services: 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Vegetarian potluck lunch: 1-2 p.m. Tashlich and shofar service at Green Lake: 4-5:30 p.m. Kol Nidre: 7 p.m. Yom Kippur: Services: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Break: 1-4:45 p.m. Healing service: 5-5:45 p.m. Yizkor and Ne’ilah: 6-8 p.m. Havdalah: 8-8:30 p.m. Vegetarian potluck break-fast: 8:30-9:30 p.m. Congregation Shaarei Tefillah Lubavitch 6250 43rd Ave. NE, Seattle No event fees or tickets. Hebrew-English prayer books. Warm and friendly atmosphere. No background or affiliation necessary. Traditional and contemporary services. Contact: [email protected] or 206-527-1411 Erev Rosh Hashanah: Candlelighting: 7:26 p.m. Rosh Hashanah First Day: Services: 9 a.m. Evening services: 7:30 p.m. Light candles after 8:27 p.m. XXPage 22 Holiday times
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Rosh Hashanah Second Day: Services at 9 a.m. Evening services at 7:30 p.m. Light candles after 8:25 p.m. Kol Nidre: 7:08 p.m. Yom Kippur: Services at 9 a.m. Ne’ilah: 7 p.m. Paths to Awakening At Unity in Lynnwood, 16727 Alderwood Mall Pky., Lynnwood Rabbi Ted Falcon, with musicians led by Stephen Merritt, welcomes all who yearn to
open their hearts more fully to themselves and to each other in a warm and supportive spiritual environment. All services $140. Rosh Hashanah (both services): $70. Rosh Hashanah (single service): $38. Yom Kippur (both services): $75. Yom Kippur (single service): $41. No one will be turned away due to inability to pay. Please email to make financial arrangements. Contact: Rabbi Ted Falcon at [email protected] or www.RabbiTedFalcon.com Erev Rosh Hashanah: “The Celebration of
Creation”: 7:30 p.m. Rosh Hashanah Day: “Beginner’s Mind”: 10:30 a.m. Worship: 2:30 p.m. Tashlich at Edmonds Beach. Kol Nidre: “The Song of the Soul”: 7:30 p.m. Yom Kippur: “Returning to Source.” Morning worship: 10:30 a.m. Chanting meditation: 1:30 p.m. Healing service: 2:30 p.m. Yizkor and concluding worship: 4:30 p.m. West Seattle Torah Learning Center Contact for location details Join the TLC family for inspiring, explanatory, and interactive High Holiday services. Come for it all or just pop in for a traditional holi-
day experience that is sure to leave you on a “high” for the rest of the year. Meals follow services. Free. Contact: [email protected] or 206-722-8289 Erev Rosh Hashanah: 7:30 pm. Rosh Hashanah First Day: 8:45 a.m. Torah reading and shofar: 10:30 a.m. Rosh Hashanah Second Day: 8:45 a.m. Torah reading and shofar: 10:30 a.m. Kol Nidre: 7:15 p.m. Yom Kippur: 8:45 am. Yizkor: 10:30 a.m. Ne’ilah: 6:45 p.m. Fast ends: 8:09 p.m. Light break-fast served.
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When Kilmer met the families in the rocket-plagued border town of Sderot, located about a half of a mile from Gaza, and toured the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, it was the safety of his young daughters and the past plight of his 103-year-old Holocaust survivor grandmother back home that suddenly became
very personal. “I have two little girls,” said Kilmer, who is not Jewish. “I cannot imagine what that’s like. The children’s recreation center had to have its roof reinforced because of concerns about rocket fire from Gaza.” One mother told Kilmer they don’t have post-traumatic stress disorder, but
“constant traumatic stress.” “Sitting and talking to the kids and the parents, that’s a very real experience that you don’t get from a policy briefing,” he said. “Not only do you see how an investment like [Iron Dome] provides protection, you see what it protects.”
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a neW yeaR’S meSSage fRom the Rebbe of bleSSed memoRy an honeSt balance Sheet
These days at the end of the outgoing year, and on the eve of the new year, may it bring blessings to us all, call for self evaluation in respect of the year about to end, and - in the light of this self-appraisal - for making the necessary resolutions for the coming year. Such a “balance sheet” can be valid only if the evaluation of the full extent of one’s powers and opportunities was a correct one. Only then can one truly regret, in a commeasurable degree, the missed opportunities, and resolve to utilize one’s capacities to the fullest extent from now on. The period of time before and during Rosh Hashanah is not only the occasion which demands spiritual stock-taking in general, but it also begs for a profound inner appreciation of the tremendous capacities which one possesses, as a human - the crown of Creation. For Rosh Hashanah is the day when Man was created. the purpose and true meaning of it? This is what our Sages tell us and teach us in this regard: When G-d created Adam, his soul - his Divine image permeated and irradiated his whole being, by virtue of which he became the caretaker over the entire Creation. All the creatures gathered to serve him and to crown him as their creator. But Adam, pointing out their error, said to them: “Let us all come and worship G-d, our Maker!”
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When Adam was created, the Creator immediately apprised him of his powers and told him what his purpose in life would be: “Replenish the earth, and conquer it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” (Gen. 1:28). Man was given the power to conquer the whole world and to rule over it with sensitivity and love, on land, sea and in the air, and he was enjoined so to do; this was his task. How was this “world conquest” to be attained, and what is
The “world conquest” which was given to man as his task and mission in life, is to elevate the whole of Nature, including the beasts and animals, to the service of true humanity, humanity permeated and illuminated by the Divine Image, by the soul which is veritably a part of G-d above, so that the whole of Creation will realize that G-d is our Maker. Needless to say, before a man sets out to conquer the world, he must first conquer himself, through the subjugation of the “earthly” and “beastly” in his own nature. This is attained through actions which accord with the directives of the Torah, the Law of Life - the practical guide in every-day living - so that the material becomes permeated and illuminated with the light of the One G-d, our G-d. G-d created one man and on this single person on earth He imposed the said duty and task. Herein lies the profound, yet clear, directive, namely, that each and every person is potentially capable of “conquering the world”. If a person does not fulfill his task, and does not utilize his
inestimable divine powers - it is not merely a personal loss and failure, but something that affects the destiny of the whole world. By the process of Teshuvah (return) the soul realizes its capacity to return to its original state – to its pristine core. As we pass through life, we are invariable coarsened and sullied by our errors and misjudgments, or simply by the travails of physical life; but our innermost self, the “veritable part of G-d” that is the essence of our soul – remains untouched. Teshuvah is the G-d given ability to access and reconnect to that untouched self, reestablish our lives upon its foundation, and even redefine a negative past in its purifying light.
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In these days of introspection, we are duty-bound to reflect that each and every one of us - through carrying out the instructions of the Creator of the World which are contained in His Torah - has the capacity to transform the world. Everyone must therefore ask himself, how much has he accomplished in this direction, and to what extent has he failed, so that he can make the proper resolutions for the coming year. G-d, Who looks into the heart, on seeing the determination behind these good resolutions, will send His blessing for their realization in the fullest measure - in joy and gladness of heart and affluence, materially and spiritually. With the blessing of Kesivo Vachasimo Toivo for a happy and sweet year, — from Rosh Hashanah 5719 (1959)
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The Indonesian rabbi: Bringing in the New Year as one man among 240 million
Baila Lazarus Special to JTNews
Traveling through the mountain roads of Indonesia, just outside the town of Manado on the island of Sulawesi, you will come across some incongruous sites. The wrought iron gate surrounding a home is as likely to have a sculpted Magen David in its design as it is to have a cross. A taxi might have a photo of the Virgin Mary on the front dashboard and an Israeli flag in the back window. Though Indonesia is almost 90 percent Muslim, this enclave, about an hour’s flight from Jakarta, is 90 percent Christian, and the residents have embraced Jews as family. It’s this community characteristic that has enabled the one lone rabbi in Indonesia — Yaakov Baruch — to practice his religion and even maintain a synagogue in the heart of an Islamic population. Baruch found out about his Judaism about 12 years ago, when he was 18, after his great aunt let slip the fact in a casual conversation. He became interested in his heritage, finding out that his background was from a line of Dutch Jews. The Dutch presence in the area can be traced to the 17th century when the Dutch East India Company built a fortress in Manado in the 1650s. me excited,” he said in broken English. “I contacted a few rabbis on the Internet and told them my story. They helped me with what I needed to practice Shabbat and so on and they even said I can open a shul. I had no idea how to do that.” With records in hand and a strong curiosity, Baruch set out to study with the closest rabbi to Indonesia — in Singapore — to learn how all photos Baila Lazarus to properly carry out Yaakov Baruch on the bima of Shaar Hashamayim synagogue in Minahasa, daily prayers, Shabbat and holidays. Indonesia. “He was step by step guiding me,” Baruch said. “He led me Baruch, an instructor of law at Sam back to my roots.” Ratulangi University in Manado, began After a few years he decided to have to research his background and decided a Shabbat service in Jakarta and received he wanted to reconnect with his Judaism. support from Chabad, who sent a rabbi “When I found out I was Jewish, it made down to help with the service. It wasn’t that easy to “come out” as a Jew in Indonesia, however. Though the constitution officially allows practice of all religions, animosity toward Jews exists outside Christian enclaves like Manado. Baruch was once chased while walking through a mall in Jakarta because he was wearing his kippah. When the pursuers caught him, they told him to take it off. “Thankfully, there was security in the mall that helped me,” he explained. “Baruch Hashem, I’m fine.” That was the only time he had ever had a bad experience wearing identifiably Jewish clothing. “My father even told me to keep silent about our identity,” Baruch admitted. Many members of his grandfather’s family had died in Europe in the Holocaust and his father was worried about repercussions. But Baruch was determined to explore his background and questioned any relatives he could find. He discovered grandparents and great uncles who had mementos such as prayer books from family members who had been lost in the Holocaust. In 2004, a benevolent resident of
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Jakarta heard about Baruch and decided to buy a small house to transform into a synagogue, which is now the Shaar Hashamayim in Minahasa, Indonesia. Over the years, Baruch has been able to visit Israel several times and eventually would like to make aliyah and join the handful of other Indonesian Jews living there. “For me, Indonesia is still safe, but I would like another place to keep my faith,” said Baruch, who is married to a non-Jewish Indonesian and has a 19-month-old son, Levi Yitzhak, who was circumcised in a hospital in Indonesia. On one of his trips to Israel, a friend of his at the Israel Museum said they might be interested in dismantling the synagogue and rebuilding it in the museum, when he is ready. Baruch celebrates as many Jewish holidays as he can. He makes his own challah and hamantaschen and hosted a dinner last Passover for Jewish travelers in Bali. With the help of YouTube, he has been able to access Jewish recipes. Rosh Hashanah will be spent in the small synagogue in his hometown, his father and son by his side and those locals that have also discovered their own connection to the Jewish faith. “You can’t compare us with a Jewish synagogue in Mea Shearim,” he said, “but we’re trying.”
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Yaakov Baruch can be contacted at [email protected]. Though the synagogue is hard to find, he is willing to meet visitors in Manado and bring them out to the shul for a tour. If looking for something else to do around Sulawesi, visit world-renowned Bunaken Marine Park, a 40-minute boat ride from Manado. It’s a perfect place for first-time snorklers or experienced SCUBA divers to take in stunning coral reefs and marine life. Visit www.sulawesi-info.com.
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Above, Shaar Hashamayim synagogue in Minahasa, Indonesia. At right, local government and townspeople raised money to build a 30-foot menorah in the mountains outside Manado.
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Let the children teach us well at Rosh Hashanah
Dasee Berkowitz JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) — A deep spiritual life is hard to find. While opportunities abound for spiritual connections (yoga, meditation, retreats and the like), for most of us it doesn’t come easy. The noise, unfinished to-do lists and the distractions of everyday life interfere with quieting our minds, letting go of our egos for a moment, and connecting to something far greater than ourselves. On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we notice just how difficult it is to connect spiritually. As we log in hours of prayer at our neighborhood synagogues, with unfamiliar liturgy and an unfamiliar language, we can easily let the longing for spiritual growth morph into a longing for the service to be over. But for some, the spiritual life that we crave comes naturally. This is especially true for children. Yes, they may be running through the synagogue’s aisles and “whispering” too loudly, but this time of year they can become our best teachers. We just need to slow down enough to listen to them. Cultivating a relationship with God comes easy for children. As an adult, a relationship with Maskingtaped/Creative Commons God has never been Even the simplest things can inspire wonder in a child. central to my Jewish ethics frame much of my behavior. identity. It might sound strange because I Still, I seldom credit my observance to live an observant life and prayer is imporGod. Judaism is important to me because tant to me. The weekly holiday cycle punctuates my family’s calendar and Jewish it adds meaning to my life. And if I start speaking about God, I start to feel selfconscious, too “religious,” and slightly fundamentalist. Then I notice how easily my kids speak about God. At 3, my son periodically gave a high five to God and explained to others what a blessing was. “A bracha,” he would say, “is like a group hug.” With his simple young mind, he experienced both a level of intimacy with God and recognized that connecting to God helps one develop a sense of intimacy with others. The rabbis call Rosh Hashanah “Coronation Day.” In the rabbinic mind, the metaphor of crowning God as ruler and giving God the right to judge our actions was a powerful way to galvanize Jews to do the hard work of repentance, or teshuvah. While the image of a king sitting in
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Joel Erlitz & Andrea Selig
The Feldhammer Family Lynn & Allan Matthew & Sarah David & Nici
In memory of Joe Kosher rosalie Kosher Cary & Cathy Kosher Lance & Logan Lonnie & Michele Kosher Zak & sabrina
Nolan, Patricia, Adam, Gina & Jonathan NewmAN
Happy and healthy New Year to all
L'Shana Tova
In memory of Helen Lott
Manny Lott Sandra, Gerald, Joel, Leslie, Torry & Kaya M. Ostroff Sharon & Martin Lott Jordan, Andrea & Audrey Lott Jeremy, Elicia, Jossalyn & Micah Lott Tami, Ed, Yoni, Emma, Tova & Zachary Gelb
Joel, Maureen & Joe Benoliel
2012–2013 JDS AnnuAl RepoRt
“We grow and build community because you believe in us.”
As we begin 5774, we head into a time of great opportunity and we want to express our gratitude to the Seattle Jewish community. At The Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle (JDS), we are fortunate to have inherited a legacy from Maria Erlitz (Retired Head of School) and Richard Galanti (Immediate Past Board President) that is rich in its focus on continually enhancing the programming for our children. We forge ahead with a strong 21st century curriculum that inspires a love of learning, prepares our students for academic and personal success throughout their lives, and is grounded in Judaic values. JDS is grateful for your support! To all of those who attend events, volunteer throughout the year, speak to students and give so much of your time, talents and treasures, we say…”Thank You!, Todah Robah Me’od!” Because of you, we have been able to accomplish the following: • The creation of our STEM Innovation Lab designed to inspire a child’s imagination in science, technology, engineering and math. To bring the lab to life, we have recruited Jesse Mostipak, an exceptional and highly qualified STEM educator who comes to JDS from a science teaching position in New York. • As we work to instill the principle of Tikkun Olam in our students, JDS is delighted to be recognized as one of the few independent schools to be named a Level 3 King County Green School. Level Three is awarded to schools for achievement in water and energy conversation, waste reduction and recycling. • Inquiry-based Junior Kindergarten is a nurturing, fun and engaging learning environment where each child’s innate curiosity is cultivated and celebrated as their teachers guide them to construct new knowledge and understanding of themselves, Jewish culture, their learning and their world. Also, thanks to the community’s generosity, JDS is realizing its vision of becoming a true eastside gathering space for the Jewish community. The campus is: • • • • Home to the Jewish Family Services’ Eastside Food Bank The location for a local synagogue’s Sunday School program Weekly meeting space for an Israeli scout troop Eastside drop off/pick up location for numerous Jewish camp programs
L’Shana Tova U-Metukah!
May you be inscribed for a good and sweet year
This summer at JDS, we partnered with the SJCC and PJ Library to host a free concert for area Jewish families. And, we are proud to announce the creation of a Community Rabbinic Advisory Council to ensure that our campus represents the Judaic diversity of our families. Our vibrant school will continue to strengthen because of your support. As you review our 2012–13 Annual Report, know that we cherish the participation of each and every individual who supports our program. From parent to grandparents to community donors; from family foundations, SAMIS and The Jewish Federation, to our national support from grants made by PEJE (Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education) and others; we grow and build community because you believe in us. We are excited about the opportunities that lie before us and know that, with your support, we will continue to go from Strength to Strength. Shana Tova!
Mike Downs Interim Head of School
Jill Friedman President, JDS Board of Trustees
JDS thanks to the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and the Samis Foundation for their ongoing support.
tributes
JdS is grateful to receive support from families and community members who wish to recognize a life cycle event or send condolences through our Special occasion tribute Program. donations provide funding for various school programs and professional development opportunities for our faculty and staff.
EndowmEnt Fund In memory of mr. Corey Erlitz, z”l Laurie Minsk & Jerry Dunietz GEnEral Fund In honor of mr. richard Galanti’s birthday Maureen & Joel Benoliel In honor of high school graduates: Sam Epstein, Joshua lazar, andy Paige, Jacob Eisner, talia Etsekson, ariel mizrahi, Victoria anderson, Sarah Bowman, Yael Egnal, Elizabeth Engel, Jenna levin, ali Parsons, lev marcus, Jaclyn leytus, Hannah robin,david Schwartz, Jessica Schwartz, and max Zambrowsky. Gordon Chanen & Sherri Richman In honor of Hannah robin’s graduation from high school Karen & Dr. Stuart Epstein
In honor of Joey Peha’s graduation from JdS Paul Sytman In honor of mr. Stuart weinstein’s birthday Ronald & Devorah Weinstein In honor of Sam Grossman Gerlach’s Bar mitzvah Diane Zipperman* & Carl Bloom mrs. Judy lynn rice— In honor of being named Pa Volunteer of the Year Anonymous Barbara & Ron Winder In honor of ms. audrey Covner and ms. dianne dougherty’s wedding Susan Cohen-Anderson Dennis Dougherty Claudia & Stanley Hevel & Doty Linda* & Efrem Krisher Debbie Salzman & Marc Hagan
In memory of mr. Jacob alterman z”l Anonymous In memory of mr. robert Krueger z”l Peggy & Bruce Gladner Helene Behar In memory of mrs. Chaya Burstein z”l Robin & Ben Castrogiovanni In memory of mrs. Harriet Katz z”l Diane & Steve Loeb Polly & Robert Amkraut In memory of mrs. Julie Engel z”l Peggy & Bruce Gladner In memory of mrs. Yeta Flatow z”l Anonymous In memory of Senator arlen Specter z”l Margaret & Tad Pearl tHE HanKa & lEon KEnt HoloCauSt EduCatIon Fund In memory of mrs. Hanka Kent z”l Susan & Robert Avijan AJ & Anthony Barnett Gabriella Bashner Miriam Birndorf Carole Bolotin Dr. Richard Braun Lillian & Edward Hawthorne Elizabeth Logue & Bob Madden Arthur & Joan Major Robert Mines Dr. Donald Motzkin Patricia Motzkin Beth Ann Phillips Lea Radziner Phoebe & Harold Reff Kerry & Richard Rose Marilyn & Bill Rosensweig Martha & Paul Sanders Carol Sender Rhianna & Jason Shemper Maurice Shemper Liz & Stan Sloman Sylvia & Dr. George Sterne Diane Sweet Cynthia Urbach
lIBrarY Fund In memory of mrs. Chaya Burstein z”l Boeing Company Michelle Molan & Dr. David Schwartz luCY & HErB PruZan ISraEl mISSIon In memory of mrs. Suzanne Shultz z”l Tina* & Michael Novick marIa ErlItZ 21St CEnturY lEarnInG Fund In memory of mr. Corey Erlitz z”l Anonymous Joann & Carl Bianco Debbie & Steve Butler Robin & Ben Castrogiovanni Margaret* & Derrick Chasan Karen* Coval Susan & Dr. Lonnie Edelheit Pam & Larry Feinstein Dr. Francine Gaillour & Jeff Silesky Talby & Dr. Bob Gelb Elizabeth & Mario Goertzel Suzanne & Barry Goren Carol & Dr. Allen Gown Lori & Claudio Guincher Anne & Ed Harris Nancy Highiet Morse & Wayne Morse Debra & Marc Kadish Malcolm Katz Jean & Harris Klein Rochelle Kleinberg & Dr. Bernard Goffe Elaine Kraft Cheri & Michael Levy
Sharon & Marty Lott Roberta*& Ken Lyon Leslie Mickel & Dr. Randy Carsch Drs. Kara & Kerry Moscovitz Bea & Bruce Nahon Tina* & Michael Novick Sandra & Gerry Ostroff Ann Marie & Sonny Putter Renee Katz & Eric Radman Drs. Pauline & Jack Reiter Fran & Stan Schill Amy Schottenstein & Justin Magaram Rabbi Arlene Schuster Seattle Jewish Community School Ronnie and Dr. Ronald Spiegel Charlene & Gregory Steinhauer Diane & Dennis Warshal Lynn & The Hon. Anthony Wartnik Marcie & Terry Wirth Lee & Jack Weissman rEYnoldS Fund In appreciation of JdS Rebecca Bearman roSEntHal tECHnoloGY Fund In memory of mrs. Harriet Katz z”l Barbara Rosenthal JoEl StarIn tEaCHEr dEVEloPmEnt Fund In memory of mrs. marcia migdal z”l Lynn & Anthony Wartnik In memory of mrs. Joel Starin z”l Joan Alexander
In honor of ariel mizrahi’s graduation from high school Karen & Dr. Stuart Epstein In honor of Joshua lazar’s graduation from high school Karen & Dr. Stuart Epstein In appreciation of ms. laurie minsk Nancy & Paul Etsekson In honor of ms. amy Schottenstein Jill & Chuck Friedman In honor of dr. and mrs. marc Gonchar Marcia & Alfred Friedman In honor of mr. adam Gillman’s graduation from western washington university Linda* & Efrem Krisher In honor of ms. mindy Goldberg’s marriage Linda* & Efrem Krisher In appreciation of mrs. Sharon Farac’s leadership of the Parent association Drs. Kara & Kerry Moscovitz In appreciation of mrs. luminita Gruia’s leadership of the Parent association Drs. Kara & Kerry Moscovitz In honor of avi magaram’s graduation from JdS Alayne & Bobby Sulkin In honor of Ben Friedman’s graduation from JdS Alayne & Bobby Sulkin In honor of Joshua Greenstein’s graduation from JdS Alayne & Bobby Sulkin
tributes from JdS are the perfect way to celebrate, commemorate or commiserate. Contact us today and make a donation to JdS in your special person’s honor and let us do the work. we send a beautiful card on your behalf from the school and you receive a 100% tax deductible donation. Call our development office: 425-460-0242 or email: [email protected].
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In honor of ms. Elisa Erlitz’s marriage to mr. dan Barr Risa* & Adam Coleman Julie* & David Chivo Peggy & Bruce Gladner Linda* & Efrem Krisher In appreciation of rabbi Stuart light Jewish Family Service of Seattle JDS Middle School Parents In honor of mrs. maria Erlitz Sharon & Larry Finegold Amy & David Fulton JDS Middle School Parents In memory of mr. al Sanft z”l Peggy & Bruce Gladner Susan & Victor Alhadeff Ronald & Devorah Weinstein In memory of mr. Benji mayers z”l Ronald & Devorah Weinstein In memory of mr. Jack Berg z”l Esther & Lawrence Barsher Tamara and Randy Berg In memory of mr. Jack Farber z”l Peggy & Bruce Gladner Ronald & Devorah Weinstein
From generation to generation, our grandparents are investing in the future that the Jewish day School helps provide. we are proud to have the generous support of grandparents who exemplify the spirit of tzedekah for our children.
Gold Michael & Maureen Cape Michele & Stanley Rosen SIlVEr Susan & Dr. Lonnie Edelheit Marcia & Alfred Friedman BronZE Ruth & Dr. Aaron Bernstein Celie & Dr. Zane Brown SuStaInInG Lee & David Amos Pearl & Michael Caplan Jessie & Dr. Walter Moscovitz Jan Onder Lynn & The Hon. Anthony Wartnik
mEmBEr Shafiga & Agasi Abramov Reba & Robert Bachrach Linda & Lloyd Grossman Jean Haas Kate & Henry Haas Carol Hale Susan & Ira Kadish Carole Kenyon & Ralph Kline Linda & Dr. Ronald Krivosha Joyce & Don Krusky Donna Rice Judith & Norman Rosenbloom Andrea & Henry Schaloum Lenore Schottenstein
Claire & Allan Shumofsky Renee Stolle Lucy & Dr. Alex Sytman Lee & Jack Weissman
Please note that all of the information is current as of June 30,
honor roll
JdS is grateful for your support! to all of those who attend events, volunteer throughout the year, speak to students and give so much of your time, talents and treasures, we say… ”Thank You!, Todah Robah Me’od!” JdS is here because of the generous and significant support of our donors. Your contributions help JdS provide amazing programming and experiential learning opportunities that our kids are so fortunate to have! If you have any questions about giving, contact development director risa Coleman at [email protected], or call: 425-460-0242.
SHomrIm l’CHaIm/GuardIanS oF lIFE—PlatInum $10000 & uP Anonymous Nevet Basker & Gabriel Scherzer Joann & Carl Bianco§ Janice & Marshall Brumer§ Michael & Maureen Cape Bert Cohen Maria* and Dr. Marc Erlitz Sharon & Dr. Chris Farac§ Lela & Harley Franco§ Jill & Chuck Friedman§ Amy & David Fulton Karen Mayers Gamoran Family Foundation Judy & Jeff Greenstein§ Luminita & Mircea Gruia Gina & Dr. Marc Gonchar§ Barrie & Richard Galanti§ Dena & Drew Herbolich§ The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle Michele & Adam Kohorn§ Christina & Dr. Martin Lazoritz§ Chelsea & Andrew Lientz Laurie Minsk & Jerry Dunietz§ Microsoft Corporation Lisa & Ian Morris Gretchen & Robert Rabinowitz Michele & Stanley Rosen Rita & Herbert Rosen Foundation & Mimi Rosen & Nathan Goldberg SAMIS Foundation Amy Schottenstein & Justin Magaram§ Kathleen & Rob Spitzer Charlene & Gregory Steinhauer§ Alayne & Bobby Sulkin§ Stacey Winston-Levitan & Dan Levitan§ SHomrIm l’CHaIm/GuardIanS oF lIFE—Gold $5000-9999 Helene Behar§ Keren and Avi Ben-Menahem Melissa & Zane Brown, Jr. Bonnie & Robbie Cape§ Isabella & Norman Chapman§ CSM Foundation Linda* & Dr. Gary Feldman Elizabeth & Mario Goertzel David Greenspoon Sandra & Alan Kipust§ The Pearl Family Barbara Weinstein SHomrIm l’CHaIm/GuardIanS oF lIFE—SIlVEr $1000-4999 Amy* & Joshua Adler Rebecca & Eli Almo Anonymous Pam* & David Auerbach Irina & Yuriy Babadzhanov Jacquie Bayley The Bayley Family Foundation Ruth & Aaron Bernstein Boeing Company Celie & Dr. Zane Brown Cindy & Earl Caditz Robin & Ben Castrogiovanni§ Orville Cohen Risa* & Adam Coleman Costco Susan & Lonnie Edelheit Orna Edgar Jacquelyn & Ron Estrin Nancy & Paul Etsekson Deanne & Don Etsekson Sophie & Dr. Jeff Frankel Marcia & Alfred Friedman Sharon & Larry Finegold Mindy & Adam Geisser Dr. Malinda & Ori Gershony Suzanne & Barry Goren§ Carol & Dr. Allen Gown Marilyn and Mike Grossman Foundation Pamela* Grossman & Scott Gerlach Liat & Ami Heitner Ellie Halevy & Larry Kalman Florence Katz-Burstein & Paul Burstein Jodi & Dr. Jerry Kent Anne & Ed Harris Stephanie Hemsworth & Vance Dingfelder Yael & Ron Kohavi Laura & Jeff Krinsky Debra Levin Cindy & Sandy Levy Wiebke & Rabbi Stuart* Light Cindy & Steve Linkon Sharon & Marty Lott Katherine Zinger & Corey Miller Drs. Kara & Kerry Moscovitz Bea & Bruce Nahon Erica & Joshua Nash Naomi & Jon Newman Margaret & Tad Pearl Joy & Craig Pearl Marci Pliskin & Renee Russak Jim Polack Gwenn & Dean Polik Lucy & Herb Pruzan Margaret & David Rudin Fran & Stan Schill Judy & Joseph Schocken Schwartz-Fisher Donor Advised Fund of JFGS Kelly & Jeremiah Scott Mary Dion & Jim Scurlock Seattle Sephardic Brotherhood Debbie & Andy Seres Erika & Mark Simon Michelle & Marc Sloan Ronnie & Dr. Ronald Spiegel Deborah & Martin Wahl Lisa & Andy Woods SHorIm l’CHaIm/GuardIanS oF lIFE $500-999 Lee & David Amos Anonymous Guiula & Dr. David Aronowitz Michelle Brode & David Kroopkin Pearl & Michael Caplan Barbara & Jerry Cohen Audrey Covner & Dianne Dougherty Julie & David Ellenhorn Karen Gamoran Adina & Don Gillett Dawn & Dr. Mitchell Gold Steven Goldfarb Holly Greenspoon Marguerite & Eddie Hasson Moe & Myra Dinner Memorial Fund of JFGS Heike & Edward Malakoff Nancy Highiet Morse & Wayne Morse Jessie & Dr. Walter Moscovitz Jan Onder Donna & Robert Peha Deborah & Yuval Peres Daniel Pliskin Jan & Adam Prossin Lei He & Tsvi Reiter Rochelle Romano & Robert Bush Bernadette & Rob Starin Carol Oseran Starin Monica & Adam Stein Lynn & The Hon. Anthony Wartnik madrICHIm/lEadErS $100-499 Moss Adams, LLP Nance* & Steve Adler Peggy & Jack Alhadeff Doreen & Joseph Alhadeff Debbie* Anderson Anonymous Reba & Robert Bachrach Elisa Erlitz Barr & Dan Barr Lucy & Shai Bassli Tamara & Randy Berg Marcy & Dr. Barry Bockow Dr. Keely Brown & David Berkman Marilyn & Charles Caplan Sarah Castoriano Lisa Chaki & Alan Post Jan Chase Julie* & David Chivo Melissa Rivkin Cohanim & David Cohanim Congregation Beth Shalom Rabbis Jody & Alan Cook Penny Cook Marilyn Corets & Adam Mihlstin Gail & Kevin Coskey Trea & Benjamin Diament Michael Dougherty Ofra & Ran Duchin Daisy & Abraham Dunn Danit & Shie Erlich Jill Erlitz & Charles Arcoleo Beth* Burstein Fine & Rabbi David Fine Jeff Flohr Rabbi Bernie Fox Marcy* & Dr. Jeff Gillman Cindy & Hugh Gladner Joanne & Larry Glosser Lauren Gold Elinor & Jack Goldberg Google Giselle & Harvey Greisman Nancy Greer & David Ross Lori & Claudio Guincher Kate & Henry Haas Carol Hale Keren & Yair Helman Erica & Eric Herman Kim & Shai Herzog Revital & Amnon Horowitz Kim Isaac Julie & David Israel Martha & Dan Javnozon Heather & Kevin Joseph Debra & Marc Kadish§ Susan & Ira Kadish Iris & Ran Kalach Mindy & Russell Katz Kathy & Braden Kelley Allyson & Aharon Kessary Isaac Kipust Drs. Nancy & Mark Kiviat Ellen & Dan Knudson Jo Ann* Kobuke Iris* & Harel Kodesh Jeffrey* Kralman Linda* & Efrem Krisher Linda & Ronald Krivosha Elana & Daniel Kruler Etana Dykan Kunovsky & Alan Kunovsky Rebecca Lackman-Kaplan Heather & Andrew Lader Donna & Howard Levens Lauren Leyser Tatyana & Igal Lis Betty Lou & Irwin Treiger Pamela Love Roberta* & Ken Lyon Barbara & Chuck Maduell Emily & David Marks Cindy & Bob Masin Leslie Mickel & Dr. Randy Carsch Rabbi James Mirel Katherine Mittendorf Vered & Itzik Mizrahi Linda & Michael Morgan Judy & Nissim Neuman Shirly* Niemi Tina* & Michael Novick Sandra & Gerry Ostroff Elena Olteanu James Pass PEJE Dikla & Ziv Rafalovich RAVSAK Stephanie & Lance Reich Donna Rice Daphna & Michael Robon Frances Rogers Liat & Ron Rogozinski Mimi Rosen & Nathan Goldberg Judith & Norman Rosenbloom Shirly & Saar Safra Dr. Elaine Sachter & Michael Newman Andrea & Henry Schaloum Rachael & Roy Schnitzer Lenore Schottenstein Jane* & Jason Shay Drs.Carol Sheckter & Jaime Friedman Cynthia Shumate & John Warnick Claire and Allan Shumofsky Deborah Simonds & Stuart Kolodner Michael Soung Drs. Michael and Wendy Spektor Sheryl & Mark Stiefel Renee Stolle Cindy & Bob Strauss Eli Sulkin Lucy & Dr. Alex Sytman Temple B’nai Torah Noga & Uri Unger Visa Elise Wayne Lee & Stuart Weinstein Lee & Jack Weissman Kimberly & Ross Wolf Charles* Wright Barbara & Dr. Ron Winder Christy Zinn & Sean Krulewitch Diane Zipperman* & Carl Bloom tomCHIm/SuPPortErS $5-99 Shafiga & Agasi Abramov Dilara Abramova & Mehman Abramov Gladys & Jack Altabef Anderson Damon Worldwide Anonymous Scott* Azose Ann & Marc Bachrach Marilyn & Chuck Caplan Linda Bensimon & Michael Goldman Kathy Brazeau Aliza Breidbord Mariana & Roni Brizitski Sheri Brown Iris Brumer Fran Calderon Dilia & Martin Cartagena Margaret* & Derrick Chasan Rob & Andrea Danen Bella Davydova & Alex Davydov Marina Davydova & Yakov Davydov Naomi* Fine Davey* Friedman Eva & Eli Genauer Randi* Gordner Vitaly Grinshtat Linda & Lloyd Grossman Jean Haas Kari & Jeff Haas Berthe & Stanley Habib Traci Huffer-Mayer Beth Huppin & David Bennett Shannon*& J. Michael Jay Lynn & Steve Katz Sharon & Isaac Kellerman Carole Kenyon & Ralph Kline Rakhilya & Roman Khanatayev Joyce & Don Krusky Sandy Samuel & Cantor Bradlee Kurland Priscilla* & Steven Leytus Sevil Manashirova & Fikret Manashirov Lois Mayers Maggie Halela-Mosholder & Mark Mosholder Linda* & Zlatko Nalis Robyn* Nathan Dianne & Dr. Martin Newman Aileen* & Aaron Okrent Regina & Dr. Alan Pearlman Cesia Pech Shelly & Harry Pomeranz Renee Katz & Eric Radman Amy Ross Paula* & Raphael Schwimmer Barbara & David Sherer Amy & Michael Sherer Michael Shuffler Ellen & Brad Spear William & Joyce Standing Jodi & Ryan Sternoff Dr. Doris Stiefel Jeff Sullivan Nina & Rod Waldbaum Priscilla Wayne Farah & Jim* Wiesen Rachel* & Yaron Yedidia Karin & Gil Zaharoni Rita* & Pinchas Zohav § Husband or wife 2012–2013 JDS Board Member * 2012–2013 JDS Staff Member
“We grow and build community because you believe in us.”
the Jewish day School of metropolitan Seattle excels because of the tremendous support our children receive from JdS parents, faculty, staff and our community. Your generosity helped to further the JdS mission: To provide an exceptional education that empowers Jewish children to be confident, wise, and compassionate upstanders who are committed to life-long learning and community stewardship.
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save the date for our 2014 Gala & auction
SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2014
Co-chairs: Pamela Love & Ida Wicklund 2014 AuCTIoN HoNoREES: Dr. Marc and Gina Gonchar
Interim Head of School Mike Downs Assistant Head of School Suzanne Messinger Director of Admissions & External Relations Amy Adler Director of Development Risa Coleman Director of Finance & Operations Jo Ann Kobuke 2013-2014 BoARD of TRuSTeeS President, Jill friedman Immediate Past President, Richard Galanti VP Development, Dr. Marc Gonchar VP Marketing, Judy Greenstein VP Finance, Dena Herbolich VP Governance, Robin Castrogiovanni Treasurer, Norm Chapman Secretary, Bonnie Cape TRuSTeeS Helene Behar Joann Bianco Janice Brumer Jerry Dunietz Sharon farac Nathan Goldberg Luminita Gruia (PA Chair) Deb Kadish Adam Kohorn Dr. Marty Lazoritz Lisa Morris Seth Rosenbloom Margaret Rudin Amy Schottenstein Charlene Steinhauer Dr. Sarah Toner PAST BoARD PReSiDeNTS Richard Galanti Robert Sulkin Laurie Minsk Cindy Levy florence Katz Burstein Alayne Sulkin Richard Gilmore Jerome o. Cohen Bruce Nahon Pam feinstein Nina Waldbaum Laurence finegold Janice Rabkin Maria erlitz Joel Starin z”l
at the Bellevue Hyatt Hotel
Jds alumni updates
JDS is grateful that our alumni are doing such wonderful things in the world and that they stay connected to their former classmates and the school. Thank you to all of our alumni and their families who continue to support the school in so many ways including 2012 and 2013 alumni donors: Elisa Erlitz Barr (’99), Daniella Bayley (’02), David Bayley (’01), Sarah Castoriano (’96), Davey Friedman (’03), Russell Katz (’87), Mimi Rosen (’92), Jane Rutstein Shay (’96), Eli Sulkin (’05), Sarah Toner (’92) and Elise Wayne (’02).
• Michaela Calderon (’05, right) graduated from Washington State university with degrees in Hospitality Business Management and finance. She is currently working as a management associate in hotel operations at MGM Resorts’ Bellagio in Las Vegas. • JDS alumna and Board of Trustees member Dr. Sarah Toner is guiding the school’s alumni relations effort which received a boost over the summer by having two alumnae, Emily Caditz and Becky Constantine, intern in the office helping plan alumni events and gathering alumni updates below. Also, thanks to Natanya Auerbach who worked with our Development team. • Natanya Auerbach (’05) heads to Boston this fall to work in the Development office of Gateways, a non-profit organization that enables Jewish children with special educational needs to become successful participants in the Jewish community. • Becky Constantine (’05) attends the university of oregon where she is majoring in business marketing. • Kayla Krauthamer (’05, right) graduated from uW in June and is working with a digital advertising agency in Seattle. • Liz Kent (’05, left) graduated with honors from uW with a major in Law, Societies and Justice. She is involved with the JCC, uW Hillel, is on the Jewish federation’s Global Jewry grant committee and advises a local BBYo chapter. • Halen Baker (’06) will be a senior at Bu studying neuroscience with an eye towards medical school. She won an internship at The Psychology Neuroimaging Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Harvard Medical School and is studying schizophrenia by conducting MRi’s and studying the brain waves of different groups of people. • Uri Chotzen (’05, left) is now an israeli citizen and lives on a kibbutz, Maagan Michael, where he is working and studying Hebrew. Mariel Dunietz (’07) completed a summer internship in New York City with the Coalition for the international Criminal Court, www.iccnow.org. Jake Baker (’05) received his Multi-engine instrument Rated Commercial Pilots license and is completing his business degree while working as a flight instructor. JDS alum Ben Gown (’96, right) brought his Jewish ensemble Sasson to JDS in July for a free, community ‘Concert on the field’ event presented in partnership with the SJCC and PJ Library. Jessica Brumer, Megan Brumer, Avi Fine and Zak Lazar spent the summer working as counselors at Camp Kalsman. Rachael Okrent, Maya Zwang, Kira Weiner, Yael Egnal, Andy Paige, Yotam Horowitz, David Schwartz, Sam Epstein, Karen Touboul and David Furman were counselors at Camp Solomon Schechter. Alyssa Zupnick (’00, left) lives in Scottsdale with her husband Dan and is an elementary school teacher at Phoenix Hebrew Academy. We were delighted that more than a dozen alumni attended our 2013 Auction and special thanks to Jill Erlitz (’88) for all of her invaluable help with making the auction so wonderful!
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judgment might motivate some, the rabbis also knew that God is indescribable. Throughout the liturgy, they struggled to find other images that might penetrate the hearts of those who pray. The famous medieval piyut (liturgical poem) “Ki Anu Amecha” portrays God as a parent, a shepherd, a creator and lover. The images continued to proliferate in modern times. The theologian Mordechai Kaplan spoke of God as the power that makes for good in the world. And the contemporary poet Ruth Brin speaks about God as “the source of love springing up in us.” The liturgy on Rosh Hashanah challenges us to confront the meaning of God in our lives and then develop a level of intimacy with the ineffable. While I am still not sure what God is, I am coming to appreci-
ate the view that God is what inspires us to live our lives in service to others. Children have a natural ability to be awestruck. There is so little they have experienced in life that it must be easy for them to experience wonder. We watch their delight as they find out how a salad spinner works, or when they find a worm squirming in the dirt, or when they observe how flowers change colors as they enter full bloom. These are not simply the sweet moments of childhood. These are ways of being that have deep theological resonance. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel recalls in “Who is Man” (1965), “Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us… to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing
the stillness of the eternal.” Would that we could develop that sense of awe by first simply noticing our surroundings instead of being preoccupied with what comes next. We can make space this Rosh Hashanah to begin a journey toward wonder, whether you notice the cantor’s voice as she reaches a certain note, or hear the crackle of a candy wrapper, or connect to the sound of your own breathing during the standing silent Amidah prayer. Take a walk sometime during the High Holidays and notice the leaves on the trees, the sunlight refracting from a window, the taste of holiday food at a meal, or the voice of a loved one. Notice the small things and consider for that moment that they have ultimate significance. Consider the concept that Rosh Hashanah marks the birth of the world. Act as if nothing existed before this moment. Slow
down, focus in, be silent and you may experience awe. Children forgive easily, grown-ups not so much. The central work of the period of the High Holidays is teshuvah, or return. We return to our better selves and make amends with those whom we have hurt in some way. Every year I recognize how uncomfortable I am to ask for forgiveness from family members, peers and colleagues. “So much time has passed” or “I’m sure they forgot about that incident” are common rationalizations I offer. What takes an adult days, weeks or even years to let go of resentment takes children a matter of minutes before they are back to laughing with those with whom they once were angry. While it might be difficult to coax an “I’m sorry” from a child’s lips, they rebound quickly. It is a lesson for us.
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While you celebrate the new year, think as you dip
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
I have a bush outside of my house that blooms brilliant flowers each spring. With those flowers come honeybees. Lots and lots of bees. When the bush starts growing out of control and I have this urge to break out my clippers and start trimming, something stops me: The knowledge that these bees, whether they know it or not, have to work extra hard since they need to pick up the slack from the billions of others that have been dying prematurely over the past decade. Known as colony collapse disorder, a perfect storm of factors has come together to decimate our bee populations, and the answers to why it’s happening have only now begun to become clear. Here’s what’s happening, in no particular order: The onetwo punch of a virus and a fungus known as nosema ceranae, which alone aren’t enough to kill off the hives, but knock them out when brought together; a number of pesticides which in the lab were thought to be harmless to bees are actually showing up in nearly all bee carcass samples collected by government agencies; many of these pesticides sprayed on crops are drifting to wildflowers where bees collect pollen, increasing the chemicals in their fragile systems; dust that drifts from industrial harvests coats bees’ bodies and kills them — and there may be more factors. And these findings are still relatively new. “Nosema ceranae was only recently described in the U.S., the first time in 2007,” said Walter (Steve) Sheppard, a professor of entomology at Washington State University to the WSU News Service. “But while no one really noticed, it has spread throughout the country.” Researchers in Sheppard’s department also discovered that nearly all of the dead bees sent to the WSU lab found “fairly high levels of multiple pesticide residues,” according to Sheppard. While the pesticides didn’t kill the bees outright, they did affect the bees’ immune systems and significantly reduced their life expectancies. The magnitude of this problem can be viewed in thirds: Every year since 2006, beekeepers have seen a loss of a third of their colonies. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that one of every three bites of food we eat is dependent upon bee pollination. And as much as third of our crops could be wiped out completely if we don’t have the bees to pollinate them. So why am I thinking about the bees right now? As Rosh Hashanah approaches, many of us begin thinking about the direct result of the bees’ pollination efforts: Honey. It’s wonderfully sweet, it’s about serious, serious issue. Many of farming’s greatest minds have begun to devote all of their energies to mitigate the problem, as it appears we may be too late for a real solution. In the spirit of renewal, here are some suggestions to do your part to keep the honey on our Rosh Hashanah tables: Contact your legislators, both state and federal, and let them know you support any efforts to pass the “Save America’s Pollinator Act,” which includes tighter regulation of pesticide use. When you can, buy organic produce and products. Yes, it’s more expensive, but the more we buy, the more it shows support for pesticide alternatives and our bees. Write to pesticide companies and let them know your concerns. Yes, most of these companies are major conglomerates and tend to ignore comments from a handful of activists, but if they hear from many people who just want to be sure they can have their honeycake, it could make a difference. So many of us try to live the good food life — and it all starts with bees. When you wish your family and friends a sweet New Year, remember where the honey you’re dipping into comes from, and the effort those bees make to bring it to you. In the meanwhile, I’m going to grab my tree clippers. Their work is done; now mine can begin.
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Dear Rivy, Not sure if you are the address for this but let me give it a shot. I was feeling like people were always putting me in a box, presuming I am a certain way by virtue of the way I dress or the company I keep. I really want people to see me for who I am. Once I started to really think about this I began to notice: Gee, I What’s do the same thing to others. JQ? Then I really started noticing it everywhere. We all put groups of people — ethnicities, religions, even fellow Jews — into boxes. Is this prejudice? A wonderful conversation-starter for the High Holiday season. If we had to sum up what is at the heart of what is wrong in the world, some might say that if we could solve this particular issue, world peace and the Messianic age would be right around the corner. The ability to connect to and honor fellow human beings both on a community and worldwide scale is no small task. It can truly be the challenge of a lifetime. The first step is to acknowledge the problem; the Your next is setting out to tackle it! This core theme of not seeing others for who they truly are, but instead heaping upon them external preconceived notions, emerges throughout the Torah narrative. Many times what one heaps onto the other is in fact one’s own fears, projections, and inner demons. What was Cain thinking of Abel when he committed the first fratricide? The text is silent, which might be telling us that it is less about the substance of the conflict and more about the idea of conflict. Joseph’s brothers have him pegged as one who seeks to lord over them. Whether or not he does is unclear. Ironically, though, the brothers actually fail to recognize him years later when he is Egyptian viceroy. Talk about not seeing the face of the other. The central thesis of renowned French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas is this notion of “seeing of the face of the other.” He writes: The face, for its part, is inviolable; those eyes, which are absolutely without protection, the most naked part of the human body, nonetheless offer an absolute resistance to possession, an absolute resistance in which the temptation to murder is inscribed: the temptation of absolute negation. The Other is the only being that can be tempted to kill. This temptation to murder and this impossibility of murder constitute the very vision of the face. To see a face is already to hear “You shall not kill,” and to hear “You shall not kill” is to hear “Social justice”.... For in reality, murder is possible, but it is possible only when one has not looked the Other in the face. Though he speaks of murder, I remind you that there are many forms of murder that require no physical weapon. Many a reputation, a living, and an institution is destroyed not by the knife but by the word of mouth. The Talmud puts it this way: “The talk about a third person kills three persons: Him who tells, he who accepts it, and he about whom it is told.”
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Levinas asks us to consider the face of the other before we strike, a seemingly simple exercise that would demand of us to look — truly look — at the other. An authentic gaze would preclude objectification, labeling and placing the other in a box. All this talk of people in the box brings me to the People of the Book — I mean, of the Box. We Jews as a community and as individuals are often placed in the proverbial Jewish box. Few of us have navigated a life free of the sporadic slur, the prickly pun, the off-the-cuff comment. Getting to the heart of this objectification is an exhibit in, of all places, Germany’s Jewish Museum Berlin. The goal of a controversial show, “The Whole Truth… Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Jews,” is to debunk myths around Judaism and to confront various ques-
tions about Judaism and being Jewish. In a country where most people have never met a Jew, this is critical. The museum explains that it seeks to “examine issues that might make the questioner uneasy, some are politically incorrect, while others betray something about the person who asks them…With an even-handed and witty touch, we present questions through extraordinary objects and installations taken from religious practice, everyday life and contemporary art.” One particularly provocative installation is a box-like area with a seat for an actual Jew to sit in — on display. Visitors have an opportunity to interact with the Jew-in-the-box and to even ask questions of them. This exhibit, as you can well imagine, has triggered many a reaction, not all positive. Though the stated goal is to educate, one cannot help but feel some degree of disequilibrium: A Jew on display, is this a zoo? Perhaps if they had not
murdered their Jews they would not have to put one on display as a novelty. How must it feel to sit there, answering people’s questions? Are those questions not Shylockesque — “Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?” Or perhaps the questions are real and sincere, Germans of today truly wanting to know and understand the Jewish People. This was the approach of those who undertook to sit on that pink bench and put themselves out there. Our daughter, Gilah, who had been studying in Berlin for the summer was one of them. She felt that as a Jew, and as the grandchild
of two Holocaust survivors, it felt peculiarly empowering to actively place herself in a box, in Germany. She explained how she was drawn to the irony of the entire endeavor. Too often, as a Jew, especially in Germany, she was already “put in the box,” by others. By electing to place herself in the box, she was subverting this tendency. Ultimately, the physical box is not what it is about. It is really about not putting each other in the metaphoric box. Rather, our task is to look into the face of the other and to open to experiencing all people with generosity of spirit. Given the season, let us become vigilant about honoring the other.
Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally renowned educator and Head of School at the Seattle Hebrew Academy. If you have a question that’s been tickling your brain, send Rivy an e-mail at [email protected].
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This is the season to tally our blessings, settle our debts, evaluate the year gone by and pray for good in the year to come. So, too, for those of us with an eye on the world of children’s book publishing. In years past, while we blessed the bounty — the sensitive authors, talented illustrators, and astute editors who give books the capacity to enchant and delight — we also struggled to forgive publishing its sins: The pictures that disappoint, the text that drags, the editor asleep on the job, the bindings that didn’t bind, and the distribution system that didn’t distribute until the week after the holiday ended. However, with new technology changing everything, this may be the year when these abuses dwindle and the lives of trees are less apt to be sacrificed in vain. While Kindles, Nooks and iPads can never replace the joyful human connection that comes from holding a real book while reading to a real child, judiciously supporting use of their electronic counterparts can help empower a budding reader and expand an early connection with words. Meanwhile, here are a few recent works especially suitable to entertain and enlighten your favorite children as the New Year begins. Jewish life calls on us to observe mitzvot, but as we introduce children to God’s understand is full of difficulties, adjustments and fear of change. With the help of Judy Stead’s bright and expressive illustrations, the story describes how the generous hospitality of Dina’s new community and the warm familiarity of synagogue tunes and Jewish rituals bring with them the promise of a truly happy New Year to be shared with many new friends Hannah’s Way (Kar-Ben) by Linda Glaser, illustrated by Adam Gustavson, shows that friends don’t have to be Jewish to do mitzvot. When Hannah’s father loses his job during the Depression, her Orthodox Jewish family has to move to Minnesota, where she is the only Jewish child in her class. Her teacher unwittingly arranges a special class picnic on a Saturday, trying to put Hannah into a carpool. What can she do? She wants to go to the picnic and maybe make some new friends, but she cannot ride on the Sabbath. Maybe she could go, Papa agrees, if someone would walk the two miles with her to the park. The book’s last double spread answers Hannah’s doubts and fears, providing a lovely story of friendship, kindness and community. Maybe people aren’t the only ones who can share and practice mitzvot. Mitzi’s Mitzvah (Lerner) by Gloria Koster, illustrated by Holly Conger with charm and
sacred commandments — learning from the Torah, listening to the shofar, observing Shabbat — we usually broaden the meaning to include gemilut hasadim, acts of loving kindness. Why not use It’s a… It’s a… It’s a Mitzvah (Jewish Lights) by Liz Suneby and Diane Heiman, delightfully illustrated by Laurel Molk? In this charming new book, a menagerie of appealing animals act out activities that show examples of good deeds even very young children can perform. Whether welcoming newcomers, sharing food, respecting elders, or forgiving mistakes, the exuberant Mitzvah Meerkat and his
chevra of happy do-gooders show clearly the warmth and satisfaction to be found in everyday kindness and a commitment to tikkun olam (repairing the world). In What a Way to Start a New Year: a Rosh Hashanah Story (Lerner), Jacqueline Jules presents a perfect opportunity for a community to perform mitzvot as she imagines what it’s like for Dina and her family to move to a new house in a new town just as the New Year begins. A new beginning, it’s true, but one any child will
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texture, shows what happens when a lovable puppy is taken to a nursing home to visit the elderly residents on Rosh Hashanah. At first she’s excluded from the holiday gathering while young visitors and the residents eat and play together. But once she’s invited inside, just by being Mitzi, she brings happiness to the residents, showing clearly that you’re never too young and puppyish, or too old, to need (or to provide) attention, companionship and the sweetness of friendship. In Sylvia B. Epstein’s amusing tale, How the Rosh Hashanah Challah Became Round (Gefen), the rabbi’s wisdom saves the day after Yossi, the baker’s cocky son and assistant, drops a whole tray of long braided Rosh Hashanah challahs. To his dismay, they all roll down the stairs, changing shape on the way. Too late to make a new batch, the baker brushes them off and sells them, even to the rabbi’s wife, who takes two. It’s the rabbi who gives the new shape a special meaning to suit a special day. Leslie Kimmelman’s Sam and Charlie (and Sam too) (Whitman, Albert & Company) is an Easy Reader collection of five stories filled with Jewish flavor. The last is “I’m Sorry Day,” a.k.a. Yom Kippur. A silly story but with a serious
piro tells Josh to make a list after dinner of everyone to whom he should apologize. Before then, however, Josh’s disobedience affects the welfare of
objective as Charlie and Sam determine to be better friends in the year ahead. However, they reserve the right to make a few mistakes so they’ll have something to deal with on the next “I’m Sorry Day.” Illustrated by Stefano Tambellini. Sylvia A. Rouss and Katherine Janus Kahn have again collaborated as writer and illustrator to bring you the best Jewishly informed arachnid in town, intrepid Sammy who lives in Josh Shapiro’s house. In Sammy Spider’s First Yom Kippur (Lerner), Sammy is, as usual, greatly interested to listen and learn as his mom explains the Shapiros’ upcoming holiday. Mrs. Sha-
Sammy and his mother. Realizing he has destroyed their web, Josh knows he must add them to the list of those he has wronged. As usual, the clear story and bright pictures make this Sammy book a great way to introduce very young children to a simple understanding of taking personal responsibility, a basic Jewish value. To remember those we love on Yom Kippur through the observance of Yizkor is an important facet of the holiday, but not one usually shared with young chil-
dren. However, let me recommend Zayde Comes to Live (Peachtree Publishers, Ltd.), an award-winning story by Sheri Sinykin, beautifully illustrated by Kristina Swarner. This sensitive work concentrates on what happens before the loss, when Rachel’s grandfather has come to live at her house because he is dying and she worries about what will happen to him afterwards. Her friends reassure her: Megan says he’ll go to heaven if he believes in Jesus while Hakim describes a beautiful paradise waiting for those who believe in Allah. But Rachel is Jewish, so she asks the rabbi what will happen. With great honesty and beauty, he describes to her the comforting continuity of life. At peace, Zayde, too, helps her realize that as long as he is alive and she can snuggle close to him, they are creating memories that will allow him to live forever in her love. The pictures, linoleum prints with watercolor and colored pencil, show the family but backgrounds have a feeling of timelessness and depth. And though the family is Jewish, the situation and the emotions are universal. Zayde’s love and Rachel’s memories are set in a story that opens a door for discussions about many faith traditions and beliefs.
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school — more than twice as Beth Israel had signed up before the arrival of Samuels and a new education director. There’s a reason Beth Israel purchased such a large parcel of land: It wants to be the center of “the infrastructure of Judaism in the city,” according to Goldman. That means the buildup of a Jewish community center, a day camp, even a Jewish senior center — but any such growth would be
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enabling them to flee. Five of the 42 were Alhadeffs, members of my family. He paid a price for his courage. German aircraft bombed the consulate, where his wife was about to give birth. She was injured, yet had the baby and died a week later. Her mother committed suicide upon hearing of her daughter’s death. Turkey severed relations with Germany and Ulkumen was arrested. He survived and in 1990 was declared Righteous Among The Nations. On July 23, 1944, these 1,757 Jews were marched to the port, deported to the mainland on three cargo vessels and transported to Auschwitz, where 1,604 were murdered, including 151 Alhadeffs. This was the community whose memory we honored last month. Thirtyfive of us assembled outside the modest yet magnificent 450-year-old Kahal Shalom Synagogue that Friday morning for a “Jewish walking tour” of Rhodes.
Our leader was Isaac Habib, man conducted the aufruf a knowledgeable South Afri— a profoundly poignant can whose family came from moment, given the commuRhodes and who spends nity history and the family four months a year there as story. The wedding followed a guide. three days later in Jerusalem, He led us to the sites of thereby closing the circle. the rabbinical college; the As for the seats on which French-Jewish school estabwe sat — they were the same lished by Baron Edmond seats on which my father sat de Rothschild; the remains the last time he saw his father, of synagogues destroyed by on Yom Kippur 1938, before Royal Air Force bombers the grandfather I would attacking German troops; never meet was deported to the cobbled square where Auschwitz. Jews socialized, known today I had a palpable sense as The Square of the Jewish that my father, my grandfaVictor Alhadeff Martyrs; the Chevra Kadi- Guide Isaac Habib, right, leads the “Jewish walking tour” through the Jewish Quarter ther before him, and all the sha; the recently built six- of Rhodes. Jews of Rhodes knew we were sided Holocaust memorial, there. who led a rousing pre-Kabbalat Shabbat each face inscribed in a different language on his guitar. His music prompted con— and Alhadeff Park on Alhadeff Street, Vic Alhadeff is chief executive officer of the gregants to break into spontaneous dance. where we paused for a group photograph. NSW Jewish Board of Deputies in Sydney, The following morning, the Sydney Jewish The service that evening was preceded Australia. Follow him on Twitter: @VicAlhadeff. Learning Centre’s Rabbi David Blackby Lionel Lubitz, a cousin of the fiancé,
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From the charts to your Machzor: The High Holiday playlist
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In time for the 2013 High Holiday season, we’ve compiled a list of the top five popular songs to put you in the mood for introspection, repentance, and renewal — and a few just to make you smile. Here is your High Holidays playlist: 1. “Who By Fire” (Leonard Cohen) The consummate coffeehouse theologian lands in the number one spot on our list, having borrowed the title and concept of this song directly from the emotional centerpiece of the High Holidays liturgy, Un’taneh Tokef. Another song of Cohen’s deserves honorable mention here: “The Story of Isaac,” a post-modern retelling of the famous near-sacrifice that highlights the moral ambiguity of Abraham’s choice. The section of Genesis that contains the original story is read as the Rosh Hashanah Torah service. 2. “Man in the Mirror” (Michael Jackson) Back from the time when Top 40 songs were still allowed to have simple moral messages, the prince of pop reminds us that changing the world must always begin with changing one’s self. As with the silent confessions of the Yom Kippur musaf, the High Holidays are a time to give our friends and family a break and turn our critical eye Jim Summaria/Wikimedia Commons to the person looking back at us in the Paul McCartney in 1976 with his wife Linda in the mirror. background. 3. “Getting Better” (The Beatles) in our ability to grow out of lifelong patA golden oldie about turning things around: “Man, I was mean, but I’m changterns of getting hurt and hurting back, but the song insists that change is always posing my scene and I’m doing the best that sible when we open our hearts and truly I can,” sings Paul. Sometimes we lose faith listen to our loved ones. 4. “Please Forgive Me” (Bryan Adams) This one’s about saying sorry for loving too much, rather than too little. After all, don’t many of our conflicts come from holding on too tight? Not to mention the heart-wrenching power of Adams’s voice, which moves the listener like good chazzanut ought to. 5. “Unwritten” (Natasha Bedingfield) Here’s one for the millennials. A talented young British singer/songwriter, Bedingfield sings with conviction about the ever-present possibility of a fresh start. Her chorus offers an optimistic counter to the traditional image of the sealing of the book of fate: “Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten...” And a few more just for fun….
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“Oops I Did It Again” (Britney Spears) This song marked the original pop princess’s transition from ingénue to femme fatale. Perhaps it can inspire those of us who walk around feeling ethically spotless to remember that we all make the same mistakes (and usually twice). “On Bended Knee” (Boys II Men) Those of us Jews who are not football players (you know, almost all of us) only take a knee once a year — during the Yom Kippur Musaf service, when cantors, rabbis, and often whole congregations bow down in unison to commemorate the ancient temple service. “Wake Me Up When September Ends” (Green Day) For the shul-shluffer (synagogue sleeper) in all of us.
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Going to the source of Rosh Hashanah sweetness
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Here’s the buzz about Rosh Hashanah: Beyond a congregation or family, it takes a hive to have a holiday. You may have your tickets, new dress or suit, and High Holidays app, but without the honey in which to dip a slice of apple, where would you be? We wish each other “Shanah tovah umetuka,” “Have a good and sweet New Year.” To further sweeten the calendar change we eat honey cake — even Martha Stewart has a recipe — and teiglach, little twisted balls of dough boiled in honey syrup. Little do we realize that to fill a jar or squeeze bottle containing two cups of the sticky, golden stuff, a hive of honeybees must visit 5 million flowers. For most of us, the honey seems a somehow natural byproduct of the cute, bear-shaped squeeze bottle we pick up at the store. But for beekeeper Uri Laio, honey is like a gift from heaven. His motto, “Honey and Beeswax with Intention,” is on his website, chassidicbeekeeper.com. “Everyone takes honey for granted; I did,” says Laio, who is affiliated with Chabad and attended yeshiva in Jerusalem and Morristown, N.J. Not wanting to take my holiday honey for granted anymore, I suited up along with him in a white cotton bee suit and hood to visit the hives he keeps near the large garden area of the Highland Hall Waldorf School, an 11-acre campus in Northridge, Calif. After three years of beekeeping — he also leads sessions with the school’s students — Laio has learned to appreciate that “thousands of bees gave their entire lives to fill a jar of honey.” In the summer, that’s five to six weeks for an adult worker; in the winter it’s longer. It’s been an appreciation gained through experience — the throbbing kind. “It’s dangerous. I’ve been stung a lot. It’s part of the learning,” Laio says. “The first summer I thought I was going into anaphylactic shock,” he adds, advising me to stay out of the bees’ flight path to the hive’s entrance. Drawing on his education, Laio puts a dab of honey on his finger and holds it out. Soon a bee lands and begins to feed. “Have you ever been stung?” he asks. “A couple of times,” I answer, as Laio uses a hand-held bee smoker to puff in some white smoke to “calm the hive.” After waiting a few minutes for the smoke to take effect, and with me watching wideeyed, he carefully pries off the hive’s wooden lid. Half expecting to see an angry swarm of bees come flying out like in a horror flick, I step back. “They seem calm,” says Laio, bending down to listen to the buzz level coming from the hive. “Some days the humming sounds almost like song.” The rectangular stack of boxes, called a Langstroth Hive, allows the bee colony — estimated by Laio to be 50,000 — to efficiently build the waxy cells of honeycomb into vertical frames. As he inspects the frames, each still holding sedated bees, he finds few capped cells of honey. The bees have a way to go if Laio is going to be able to put up a small number of jars for sale, as he did last year for Rosh Hashanah. According to Laio, hives can be attacked by ants, mites, moths and a disease called bee colony collapse disorder that has been decimating hives increasingly over the last 10 years. Pesticides contribute to the disorder as well as genetically modified plants, he says. Underscoring the importance that bees have in our lives beyond the Days of Awe, Laio calculates that “one out of every three bites of food you eat is a result of honeybee pollination.” Laio practices backward, or treatmentfree beekeeping, so-called because he relies on observation and natural practices and forgoes pesticides or chemicals in his beekeeping. The resulting wildflower honey — Laio hands me a jar to try — is sweet, flavorful and thick, tastier than any honey from the store. “Honey is a superfood. And it heals better than Neosporin,” Laio claims. “In Europe there are bandages impregnated with honey.” He says it takes a certain type of character to be a beekeeper. “You need to have patience. Be determined. Learn your limitations. Be calm in stressful situations,” he says. “People are fascinated with it. I can’t tell you how many Shabbos table meals have been filled with people asking me about bees.” On the Sabbath, Laio likes to sip on a mint iced tea sweetened with his honey — his only sweetener, he says. “In the Talmud, honey is considered to be one-sixtieth of manna,” says Laio, referring to the “bread” that fell from the sky for 40 years while the Israelites wandered in the desert. “The blessing for manna ended with ‘min hashamayim,’ ‘from the heavens,’ and not ‘min haaretz,’ ‘from the earth.’” With the honey-manna connection in mind, especially at the Jewish New Year, Laio finds that “all the sweetness, whatever form it is in, comes straight from God.”
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arrived and drove the four “through streets saturated with Nazi stormtroopers,” to a point near the shore. There they hid in an underground shelter, and then in the attic of a bakery, until finally they were brought to a beach, where they boarded a small fishing vessel with other Jewish refugees. “There were nine of us, lying down on the deck or the floor,” Esther said. “The captain covered us with fishing nets. When everyone had been properly concealed, the fishermen started the boat, and as the motor started to run, so did my pent-up tears.” Then, suddenly, trouble. “The captain began to sing and whistle nonchalantly, which puzzled us. Soon we heard
him shouting in German toward a passing Nazi patrol boat: ‘Wollen sie einen beer haben?’ [Would you like a beer?] — a clever gimmick designed to avoid the Germans’ suspicions. After three tense hours at sea, we heard shouting: ‘Get up! Get up! And welcome to Sweden!’ It was hard to believe, but we were now safe. We cried and the Swedes cried with us as they escorted as ashore. The nightmare was over,” Esther recalled. The implications of the Danish rescue operation resonated strongly in the United States. The Roosevelt administration had long insisted that rescue of Jews from the Nazis was not possible. The refugee advocates known as the Bergson Group began citing the escape of Denmark’s Jews as evidence that if the Allies
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He hopes that services will allow congregants time for introspection, and that they will view Rosh Hashanah as a positive jumping-off point for the rest of the year. Briskman, too, is looking forward to leading BCMH in morning services. “It’s too much to ask that 100 percent of members will feel something,” he joked, “but I hope that many of them will feel something from my davening. If that happens, that’s all I need.”
Audio and video clips of Rabbi Dunner and Meir Briskman are posted at www.bcmhseattle.org. Services for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur at Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath are available by calling the BCMH office at 206-721-0970.
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Number of seeds: 613. Number of pomegranate recipes: Nearly as many
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In the traditions of many Jewish holidays, there’s a poetic relationship between the festival’s culinary laws and that season’s foods. While the relationship linking Rosh Hashanah with apples and honey never grows old, the elegant and elusive pomegranate is less acknowledged, though profoundly tied to biblical literature and ancient agriculture. Pomegranate seeds offer the kind of culinary beauty that cause us to slow down, take note, and absorb the scared spirit of newness. That being said, they can be a pain to wrangle. Here are some strategies to help you conquer the pomegranate this Rosh Hashanah: Have ready a big bowl of water. Cut the fruit into quarters, and submerge them. Peel them under water, and keep them in there as you comb through with your fingers to loosen the seeds. The skins and inedible pith will float to the surface (skim this away thoroughly, and discard), and the seeds will sink to the bottom. Strain, and you’ve got the goods. slicing the squash. Use a very sharp paring knife, inserting the point first and using a gentle sawing motion. The easiest way to remove the seeds is to cut loose the strand around them with scissors, and then scrape them away with a spoon. You can make the glaze well ahead of time. It keeps indefinitely.
glaze. Serve hot, warm, or at room temperature, decorated with pomegranate seeds. Pass a little dish of extra glaze at the table. Yield: 6 servings (about 3 pieces per serving) Pomegranate-Lime Glaze directions: • Combine the pomegranate molasses and lime juice in a small bowl and mix until smooth. Taste to adjust lime juice. Serve at room temperature, spooned over hot or room temperature food. Yield: 1/3 cup (about 1 Tbs. per serving). Good on all vegetables, grains, tofu, chicken, meat etc.
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Roasted Acorn Squash Rings with Pomegranate-Lime Glaze
Simple and sweet, these golden circles topped with the contrasting tart glaze will round out your dinner plate. Be careful
Olive oil for the baking Curried eggplant slap-down with yogurt, onion relish, and pomegranate, by tray chef Mollie Katzen. 2 medium-sized acorn one of the squash rings to spread it squash (about 3 pounds) — skin on, and cut around.) Arrange the squash slices on into 1/2-inch rings the prepared tray, and place the tray Pomegranate-Lime Glaze (recipe follows) in the oven. 1/4 cup pomegranate molasses • After about 15 to 20 minutes (or 1 Tbs. fresh lime juice (possibly more to taste) when the squash is fork-tender and Acorn squash directions: lightly browned on top and around • Position a rack in the center of the the edges) remove the tray from the oven, and preheat the oven to 375°. oven, and spoon or brush the stillLine a baking tray with foil, and coat hot squash with a light coating of the it lightly with olive oil. (You can use
Curried Eggplant Slap-Down with Yogurt, Onion Relish, and Pomegranate
Adapted from “The Heart of the Plate.” Small eggplants, artfully prepared, can be an elegant appetizer or a light lunch, in addition to a welcome side dish.
2 Tbs. grapeseed oil or peanut oil Up to 1 tsp. unsalted butter (optional) 1 tsp. curry powder Four 4-ounce eggplants, trimmed and halved lengthwise XXPage 48
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1/2 tsp. salt (plus a big extra pinch) 1/4 cup Greek yogurt Another scant Tbs. oil (hot, so the seeds will sizzle on contact) 1 tsp. cumin seeds 1/4 tsp. (big pinch) turmeric 1 cup minced onion Pomegranate seeds and/or pomegranate concentrate or molasses • Place a medium (9-inch) skillet over medium heat and wait about a minute, then add 1/2 Tbs. of the oil and swirl to coat the pan. Melt some butter into the oil, if desired, and sprinkle in the curry powder, which will sizzle upon contact. • Add the eggplant halves, cut sides face down, into the oil, and swish them around (as if you’re wiping the pan with them) to both distribute and acquire the curry. Turn the heat to medium low, cover the pan, and cook undisturbed for about 8 minutes — until each eggplant half becomes tender. (Peek underneath a few times to be
sure the cut surfaces are not becoming too dark. If they are, lower the heat, and/or turn the eggplants over onto their backs sooner than I am about to advise in the next step.) The eggplant is cooked when the stem end can easily be pierced with a fork. Flip the eggplants onto their backs, sprinkle with a 1/4 tsp. salt, and transfer to a plate. Spoon a little yogurt onto each open surface, spreading it to cover; set aside while you prepare the onion. • Keeping the same pan over medium high heat, add another 1/2 Tbs. oil, swirling to coat the pan. Sprinkle in the cumin seeds and turmeric (should both sizzle on contact), and mix them a little to pick up some of the flavor that may have adhered. Add the onion and a big pinch of salt, tossing to coat. Cook quickly over medium heat (about five minutes, or until tender-crisp) then remove the pan from the heat. Divide the onions evenly among the four halves, spooning them over the yogurt (and scraping and maximally including any remaining tasty bits from the pan).
Top with pomegranate seeds and/or a drizzle of pomegranate concentrate or molasses. Serve hot, warm, or at room temperature. Yield: 4 servings
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Adapted from “The Heart of the Plate” Cook the wild rice ahead of time. You’ll need only 1/2 cup — okay to use leftovers. If you can find both colors, it’s nice to use a combination of green and red Belgian endive in this salad.
4 Belgian endives (about a pound), chopped crosswise 1/2 medium jicama (about 3/4 pound, peeled and cut into matchsticks or any shape bitesized pieces) 1 medium-sized red apple, sliced Seeds from a medium-sized pomegranate 1/2 cup cooked wild rice Blue cheese-yogurt dressing (recipe follows) Black pepper 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecans, lightly toasted Blue cheese-yogurt dressing ingredients: 1/4 cup plain yogurt
1 heaping Tbs. finely minced shallot 1/4 tsp. salt 2 Tbs. apple juice 1 tsp. cider vinegar 1 tsp. pure maple syrup 3 Tbs. extra-virgin olive oil 2 Tbs. crumbled blue cheese (possibly more, to taste) Black pepper • Combine the yogurt, shallot, salt, apple juice, vinegar, and maple syrup in a small jar with a tight-fitting lid — or a medium-small bowl. Whisk until thoroughly blended. Keep whisking as you drizzle in the olive oil. • Stir in the blue cheese, then taste the dressing. Add more cheese, if you like. Cover tightly, and refrigerate until use. Shake or stir from the bottom before using. Yield: 3/4 cup
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Traditional and modern tastes have a place at New Year’s tables
Helen Nash JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) — Nearly 30 years ago, when my first cookbook was published, I wrote that kosher cooking wasn’t just about traditional recipes like gefilte fish and chopped liver, that you could make gourmet meals and international dishes using kosher ingredients. Since then, many new kosher ingredients have become readily available, making all kinds of fusion cuisine even easier to prepare. Some of these ingredients include vinegars, oils, mustards, Panko bread crumbs and a larger selection of cheeses. But traditional recipes also have their place — and Rosh Hashanah is a great time to use them. There is something very satisfying about ushering in the New Year with old family recipes. I do, however, introduce one or two new dishes to make it more interesting for my friends and family with whom I celebrate every year. For dinner on Rosh Hashanah, I like to begin my meal with chopped chicken Here’s a new dish for Rosh Hashanah lunch: Chicken rolls with orange sauce. The sauce adds some sweetness to the chicken, which is perfect for the holiday. The dish can be made ahead of time and served at room temperature. Broccoli with panko, flaky Japanese breadcrumbs, is a delicious side dish that can be served Pinprick/Creative Commons with the chicken Chicken chopped liver with hard-boiled egg sprinkled on top. rolls. Panko is lighter and crunchier than ordinary breadliver. This traditional dish brings me back crumbs. When toasted, they transform an to my Eastern European roots and my ordinary vegetable into something quite guests love it. The version offered here is special. This dish also can be made in incredibly easy to make and actually tastes advance and served at room temperature. like a paté. These are a sampling from my latest cookbook, “Helen Nash’s New Kosher Cuisine” (Overlook Press). I hope they help make your preparations a little easier and your holiday more enjoyable. Shana Tova!
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For an hors d’oeuvre, I like to serve on whole-grain crackers, toasted potato bread, cucumber slices or endive petals. For an appetizer, I like to place sliced radishes and sliced cucumbers on the plate as accompaniments.
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From Manhattan to Seattle, one baby’s fight for life
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Rather than throw their 1-year old son Idan a birthday party this past July, Amanda and Akiva Zablocki of Manhattan celebrated in a more unconventional way: By finally picking a hospital for Idan’s bone marrow transplant. Idan has Hyper IgM, a rare and genetic immune deficiency disorder that affects two in a million people and leaves them with an inability to produce antibodies. His only hope for a cure is the transplant, which carries a 10-15 percent risk of fatality. Amanda, 28, and Akiva, 33, chose Seattle Children’s Hospital, after months of intensive research, interviews with doctors, and exhaustive trips to cities across the U.S. “Not only was the bone marrow transplant first invented at Seattle, but immunologists at the hospital’s lab were the first to discover Hyper IgM,” explained Akiva. “Seattle is also the only hospital in the country to use Treosulfan, a chemotherapy drug that is associated with significantly fewer fatal risks and complications than other pre-transplant drugs. The choice for our family is clear.” The hospital’s transplant floor was built last year, “a huge plus if we have to live in a hospital nearly 24/7 for several months, and we loved the entire staff we met there,” he added.
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The Zablocki family before their months-long trip to Seattle. Above: One-year-old Idan Zablocki will require a bone-marrow transplant that his family hopes will cure him of the the rare genetic disease Hyper IgM.
couple’s confidence in Seattle, Amanda and Akiva are understandably nervous about leaving New York and virtually their entire support system behind when they fly to Seattle in September. “We hope that we can build a new support network in Seattle, starting with a couple of good friends who live there,” said Amanda. “We’ll also be looking into joining a synagogue in the near vicinity of the hospital. The more integrated we feel, the more outlets we will have to keep up our strength for Idan as we leave behind our friends and family.” One friend in the city is Dr. Ohad Manor, a friend of Akiva’s since they were 6 years old. He recently arrived in Seattle to do postdoctoral work at the University of Washington. “He has always been a resilient and resourceful person, qualities which became even more evident and pronounced after his battle against cancer,” said Manor. “I couldn’t believe it when he told me of Idan’s situation.” Manor just enrolled his son in preschool at Congregation Beth Shalom, about a mile from the hospital, and
expects to meet more families who he can then introduce to the Zablockis. Meanwhile, he said, “I will support Akiva and his family in any way that I can.” David Aaron Engle, a close friend of Akiva’s who works at Microsoft, is confident the Zablockis will find a community in Seattle. “They are both impossible not to like, and I’m sure they will make friends quickly,” Engle said. “I see Amanda and Akiva’s love and dedication to each other and to Idan, that I believe that will carry them forward through this considerable challenge.” But while carving out a community and support system is its own daunting task, the Zablockis will face a much bigger challenge in Seattle. “Unfortunately, our belief that this hospital is the best place for our son’s surgery matters little to our insurance, which informed us that because the hospital is out of network, it will only pay for whatever it deems reasonable — along with a $50,000 co-pay — and the rest is on us,” Amanda said. “The transplant will cost between $600,000 and $1 million, so we will end up needing to cover at least $250,000, and possibly much more.”
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The family launched a social media campaign to raise both awareness and funds for Idan’s medical care; and Amanda, an attorney, and Akiva, who holds a master’s degree in public health, use their combined knowledge and negotiating skills for hours on the phone each day with insurance administrators battling for more coverage. “Instead of spending the remaining precious days with our son before the transplant and planning for our trip to Seattle, we are spending most of our time dealing with insurance and trying to come up with creative solutions,” Amanda said.
A fundraising page for the Zablockis can be found at www.youcaring.com/medicalfundraiser/help-fight-for-idan/63532. Seattle community members who can offer support and resources are encouraged to contact Akiva and Amanda through the site and at www.facebook.com/HelpFight4Idan.
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with foil. • Remove any green spots from the livers, which are bitter, as well as any fatty particles. • Make a shallow “basket” with a piece of heavy foil, crimping it at the corners so that the liquids don’t spill out. Set the basket on the broiler rack and arrange the livers inside. Place the broiler pan in the oven (or broiling unit), as close as possible to the heat source. Broil for about 4 minutes per side, until cooked through. Cool. • In a large skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the onions and sauté until brown. Cool. • Place half the onions, livers and eggs in a food processor and pulse, adding sherry through the feed tube, until the mixture is moist and almost smooth. Transfer the first batch to a container and repeat the process. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Yield: Makes about 1-1/2 dozen hors d’oeuvres or 8 appetizer servings.
Chicken Rolls With Orange Sauce
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, about 6 oz. each (Ask the butcher to butterfly the chicken breasts and pound them thin.) 12 large spinach leaves Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper Filling 1/2 cup raw sushi rice 3/4 cup cold water 1 Tbs. seasoned rice vinegar Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper Orange Sauce 1-1/2-inch piece ginger, peeled and grated 3 to 4 Tbs. low-sodium soy sauce 3/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice 1-1/2 Tbs. freshly squeezed lemon juice 1-1/2 Tbs. extra virgin olive oil 1-1/2 Tbs. honey Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper • To make the filling: Place the sushi rice and water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil; lower the heat and simmer, covered, for 8 minutes. Remove from the heat and let rest, covered, for 10 minutes. Season with vinegar, salt, and pepper. Mix well and cool. • To make the sauce: Bring all the sauce ingredients to a boil in a small enamellined saucepan. Season to taste with salt and pepper. • To make the rolls: Lightly salt and pepper each chicken breast on both sides and place it on a piece of cling wrap. Remove the stems from the spinach leaves and flatten the leaves so they will roll easier. Line each breast with three spinach leaves and 1/4 of the filling. Starting with the narrowest end, roll the breast up (not too tight!) until it looks like a log. (I use cling wrap to facilitate the rolling.) When the breast is rolled and completely enclosed in the cling wrap, twist the sides and close
them with a metal tie. Refrigerate if not using right away. • To cook the rolls: Bring the chicken rolls to room temperature. Place them in the basket of a bamboo steamer. Fill the bottom third of the basket with water and set over a large pot or wok. Bring the water to a rolling boil. Cover and steam over high heat for 9 to 10 minutes, turning the rolls once. Cook until the chicken has turned pale pink inside. Turn off the heat and let rest, covered, for 1 minute. • To serve: Remove one of the ties and, holding the other end, slip each roll onto a plate. Pour off the accumulated juices. Cut each roll on the diagonal into three pieces. Place the pieces on a dinner plate or serving dish. Reheat the sauce and spoon the hot sauce over the pieces. Yield: 4 servings
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(JTA) — The head of the Jewish Federation in Vancouver and the Canadian city’s transit agency are at odds over the legality of an ad campaign critical of Israel running on buses there. The ads, which went up Tuesday, purport to show the “disappearance of Palestine due to Israeli occupation over the past 65 years.” The ads — 15 bus posters and one large “mural” in a station — consist of four maps spanning from 1946 to 2012 and illustrate “Palestine” shrinking over the years. “This is of grave concern to our community at large because the ads make the
use of the buses unwelcome and unsafe,” Mitchell Gropper, chair of the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, told The Province newspaper. TransLink, the transit agency, said in a written statement it was advised by its lawyers that it was legally obligated to run the ads. Gropper, an attorney, disagrees with TransLink and said the Federation has retained a lawyer to consider its options. “TransLink has said the law required
them to publish these ads,” he said, “but that is certainly not the case.” Marty Roth, a member of the Palestine Awareness Coalition, which is behind the $15,000, four-month campaign, told The Province the battle had already been won. “This will be controversial with a number of traditional Jewish organizations that have tried to suppress the ads,” Roth said. “But TransLink has refused to agree with them.”
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Last Satur day, two weeks after Ethan Kadish’s 13th birthday, the members of his family gathered around a Torah scroll in the chapel of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for a small ceremony marking his entrance into adulthood. This was not the Bar Mitzvah that Scott and Alexia Kadish envisioned two months ago when Ethan was still at the Goldman Union Camp Institute, a Reform Jewish summer camp in Zionsville, Ind. Scott and Alexia had just finished mailing Ethan’s Bar Mitzvah invitations and were making final plans for a week of vacation when they received the call: While helping younger campers learn the rules of Ultimate Frisbee, Ethan and two other children had been struck by lightning. The other children were released from the hospital soon afterward. But Ethan, who suffered cardiac arrest as a result of the strike, was in critical condition. Two months later, he is still fighting the effects of a catastrophic brain injury. “We know that Ethan will be in the hospital for many months,” Scott said. “But the progress we have seen — which we are measuring week to week and month to month, not day to day — has been in a forward direction.” Initially hospitalized in Indianapolis, Ethan was airlifted to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in early July. After two weeks in intensive care, he has regained the ability to breathe on his own, but he remains unable to engage in purposeful movements. Although he has irregular periods of open-eyed wakefulness, his parents told JTA they are not sure of the extent of his vision. The family has benefited from the support of their community, including their rabbi, Sissy Coran of Rockdale Temple in Cincinnati, who spent the night with the Kadishes on the second day of Ethan’s hospitalization. Meals have been delivered to them three times a week, and hundreds have signed up for Team Ethan on the Lotsa Helping Hands website, which assists families caring for a sick relative. “We have experienced the best of humanity,” Alexia said. Now the family is seeking another kind of help. In cooperation with the HelpHOPELive fundraising website and the Great Lakes Catastrophic Injury Fund, the nity as well. In an interview, the couple — who also have set up a webpage to keep well-wishers informed of Ethan’s condition — were candid about the emotional difficulties of the preceding weeks, from the anguished ride from Cincinnati to the hospital in Indianapolis, to the emotional pain of having an unresponsive child. But they remain hopeful. Recently they took Ethan outside into the sunlight and were rewarded with a response from their son: a tiny but unmistakable laugh. Nonetheless, as they prepare for the months and years ahead, the Kadishes are cognizant of the many challenges facing their family. They have two other children, ages 16 and 10. “Our other children certainly know there has been a huge change in our family lifestyle,” Alexia said. “They see how many hours Scott and I spend at the hospital. But we’re trying really hard to create a schedule as the school year starts to provide some source of normalcy in our family unit.” “This,” Scott added, “is our new normal.”
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Ethan Kadish during happier times. He remains critically ill in a Cincinnati hospital after being hit by lightning at summer camp.
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