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the voice of jewish washington A new chapter for the Seattle Jewish Film Festival Page 6 Focus on Mercer Island Page 9 The Middle East conflict takes center stage Page 20

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Late Summer Family Calendar
For complete details about these and other upcoming JFS events and workshops, please visit our website: www.jfsseattle.org
For the community For Adults Age 60+

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Endless Opportunities
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Kosher Food Bank Event
Pre-registration required Wednesday, August 1 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Contact Jana Prothman, (206) 861-3174 or [email protected]
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Walking Tour of the Seattle Center Campus
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thursday, August 9 10:30 – noon

An Election Primer: The Initiative & Referendum Process
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JFS 120th Annual Meeting & Birthday Celebration
Tuesday • augusT 21, 2012 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. • Hillel UW

thursday, August 23 10:30 – noon

RESCHEDULED: The Body, the Soul & the Afterlife
thursday, August 30 10:30 – noon RSVP to Ellen Hendin, (206) 861-3183 or [email protected] regarding all Endless Opportunities programs.
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Three Flavors of Marriage Equality: Spiritual, Legal & Psychological
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We don’t have to go it alone
Rabbi Jill boRodin Congregation Beth Shalom
One of my goals for this summer has been to expose my 6-year-old twin daughters to hiking. Over the past couple of weeks, we have gone out hiking twice. The first time, I picked an easy walk. This easy trail started out fine, but after five minutes the whines and demands for infinite breaks began and the interest in the hike waned. Tasty treats along the way and the promise of ice cream got us farther, but were not enough to get us to the end of the 45-minute hike without incessant whining. Determined that exposure to the wonders of the natural world is good for us, a week ago we set out on our second hike. This time, wanting a more positive result, I strategically invited another family. This time I was delightfully surprised to see my kids happily running up the trail ahead, eagerly pushing themselves and trying new challenges, calling out in excited cries, “Ima, did you see the shape of that tree?” “Ima, listen to the birds.” “Ima, it’s so beautiful here.” Ma nishtana? What was different (besides now venturing on a four-hour uphill hike)? I came prepared with better snacks, but more importantly, we weren’t alone. I followed the advice of Yehoshua ben Prachyah from Pirkei Avot (1:6): “Aseh lecha rav, ukneh lecha haver.” “Select a teacher for yourself; acquire for yourself a friend.” I found another family of experienced hikers and let them be our teachers. And I made sure my kids had haverim, friends for the experience. This teaching is usually understood to explain that our Torah learning is sharper and stronger when we study with a partner. While this is very much true for studying Torah, it is also true for every other type of learning, whether we want to learn how to be more reflective individuals, better parents, or just open to new possibilities. If we had gone alone on this hike, a self-fulfilling prophecy would likely have clicked into place. I would have expected my kids to behave in a certain way, and likely they would have fallen into our well-ingrained patterns of family dynamics. However, the variable of an additional family opened up the possibility of our leaving our entrenched patterns and helped us travel new paths, ascend to new heights (literally), and create the space for new possibilities to emerge. Since the success of this second hike, I have been reflecting on what lessons can be learned and applied from this experiment. How do we navigate to direct toward more positive experiences and the ability to ascend to new heights? Sadly, bad experiences or negative dynamics often become worse instead of getting better. Right now, we find ourselves in the Jewish calendar in the midst of the somber period of the three weeks (also called “bein hameitzrim,” between the narrow places), which falls between the fast days of the 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av (observed this year on July 8, the night of July 28 and the day of July 29). We go from the minor fast of the 17th of Tammuz (which marks the day a number of calamities befell our people) to the major fast day of the 9th of Av (which marks a number of even worse calamities that befell our people). Can we imagine what would have happened if we had been able to successfully respond to the calamity of the Romans scaling the walls of Jerusalem on the 17th of Tammuz and avoid their destruction of the Second Temple on the 9th of Av? On August 19 we will begin the new month of Elul. With Elul begins the official traditional Jewish call to be reflective (though all year long is also appropriate timing), to do soul searching and to consider which relationships need improvement and which habits are harmful. It urges us to change them for the better. We are reminded that improvement is possible, that we don’t need to be stuck in the narrow places or descend to new lows, but that new heights can be achieved. As former Israeli Chief Rabbi Lau recently reminded us on his visit, we don’t need to accept “ma yehieh” — whatever will be — but can orient ourselves to practice “ma na’aseh” — what will we do to make it better? My experiments with hiking this summer demonstrated that by changing the expected dynamics and adjusting our family’s normal relationship bonds, the bad did not get worse (which might have been expected as the hiking became longer and harder), and did not even stay bad. Instead, the result was a delightful surprise and accomplishment, a removal of the obstacles and blinders we had placed upon ourselves, allowing us to experience new beauty and connection. While it is easy to assume the continuation of negative patterns, habits and relationships as inevitable, the possibility of improvement and growth is equally possible and waiting around the corner, perhaps even accompanied by wonder and waterfalls. We need to open ourselves up to the possibility that it can be there, and

When we pass the “biblical” age of three score and ten, we begin to feel — as Saul Bellow said when he passed that milestone — that old friends are “dropping all around as on a battlefield.” Yet nothing could have prepared us for the sudden death of David Brumer (“A farewell to David,” July 13), cut off in his intellectual prime, when his appetite for ideas and his adroitness in handling them were at their most impressive. And who could miss the irony in the fact that, in his hospice work of recent years, he was helping people come to terms with the inevitability of death, but that he himself was taken completely by surprise when it came. I knew David in two capacities. For those of us who have parents resident in the Kline Galland nursing home, he was for many years the key figure there, not just a source of information but an exemplar of humane intelligence. David was also an exemplary, indeed a heroic, figure for the following reason: He understood, and acted upon the understanding, that the defense of Israel against its innumerable enemies would require of liberals the kind of sustained exertion and courage in the realm of ideas and political action that Israelis have had to manifest in the military defense of their country. That is why, although he probably never forsook his youthful liberalism, he was a liberal tempered by experience, reflection, and renouncement. He understood that Jews must judge the New York Times by the standards of Judaism, and not Judaism by the standards of the New York Times. He not only knew things that most of us did not; he had the courage to act upon what he knew, to enter into battle where the rest of us feared to tread. We shall miss him more than, at the moment, we can imagine. Baruch dayan emet. Edward Alexander Seattle

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Where are the Munich elegies?
Edmon J. Rodman JTA World News Service
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — This year, Tisha b’Av marks not only the destruction of both Temples, but with the opening ceremony of the London Olympics just a night earlier, the 40th anniversary of the Munich massacre. On this day of mourning and fasting, which begins at sundown on Saturday, how can we remember the tragedy of the 1972 Summer Olympics, when 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were murdered? The International Olympic Committee has rejected a call for a moment of silence at the opening ceremony in memory of those killed, announcing instead a tribute in Munich and holding a ceremony on Monday at the Olympic Village with remarks by the IOC’s chief, Jacques Rogge. Even in 1972, I was already having trouble remembering. Returning to UCLA my sophomore year, just weeks after the tragedy, I remember being pushed by more serious minds into working on an issue of the school’s Jewish student newspaper, Ha’Am, which at its center had a spread titled “Post Olympic Outpour.” At first I resisted, thinking “Why do I need to go through the pain all over again?” Now, 40 years later, I wonder how many of us are still resisting that pain. Traditionally on Tisha b’Av, we remember our tragedies by sitting on low seats or the floor and chanting in a mournful trope the book of Eicha (Lamentations). In many communities, elegies called kinot are chanted as well that commemorate such tragic events as the massacre of German Jews during the first Crusades, the Ten Martyrs — which you may recall from the Yom Kippur Martyrology service — and, more recently, the Holocaust. It is from the intent of the kinot that I think we can find an inspiration for a different form of Munich elegy.
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work toward it, and figure out who the haverim (friends) and rabbanim (teachers) are we need for our journeys. And luckily for us, our religion has a way of making sure there are lots of edible treats

and fine food to sweeten the journey. May we truly experience the sweetness of the New Year with renewed and strengthened relationships, habits and outlooks on life.

“I’ve had very few people dislike it purely on the basis of the politics.” — Valerie Curtis-Newton, director of the Intiman performance of “Dirty Story.” Read more on page 20.

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Coming up
Basketball tryouts for the World Maccabiah Games in Israel next July are coming up. Seven United States teams will go to the Games: boys 16-plus (born 1997–98), girls 16-plus (born 1995–1998), boys 18-plus (born 1995–96), open men, open women, and masters men (over 35 and over 45). Tryouts are in California starting August 4 and running through the fall. For more information, visit www.maccabiusa.com or contact Ami Monson at 215-261-6900, ext. 116 or Brian Schiff at 610-836-2572.

■ Maccabiah basketball tryouts

On Sun., Aug. 26, from 1–5 p.m., the Seattle Jewish Chorale invites singers of all voice parts to audition for its 2012–2013 season. Singers must have music-reading ability and be able to commit to weekly Wednesday night rehearsals in Northeast Seattle, six to eight performances between September and June, and some travel outside the Seattle area. Sight-reading skills are preferred and familiarity with Jewish languages is a plus. Opportunities exist for solo and ensemble work. To schedule an audition, contact Naomi Smith at [email protected].

■ Seattle Jewish Chorale auditions

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MMSC day school stays afloat
After a near-death experience following the loss of two major donors, the Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder has raised enough funds to stay afloat. “We raised around $330,000 this year, which is more than we raised last year or the year before,” said the school’s development chair Tziviah Goldberg. “I feel like it was challenging, but we came through even better than we thought we would.” Last year MMSC, which houses the state’s only early childhood Jewish Montessori program, an elementary school, and a girls’ high school, defaulted on its loans and faced the loss of its Maple Leaf building, which had renovations in progress. An emergency campaign reached out to community members, especially new donors. According to Goldberg, about $62,500 came from new contributors. The strategy moving forward, she said, is to continue reaching out to new donors, particularly those without children in the day school system, to utilize a new-donor fund-matching opportunity. Goldberg said MMSC is on track with its loan payments, and is negotiating with its mortgage holder and an architect to figure out how to move forward to complete renovations on the former hospital MMSC purchased from Campfire Girls in 2009.

Group that sued Olympia Food Co-op must pay, judge says

Citing the state’s anti-SLAPP statute, a Thurston County Superior Court judge ruled on July 12 that five Olympia Food Co-op members must pay defendants $160,000 in damages. Judge Thomas McPhee ordered plaintiffs Jeffrey and Susan Trinin, Kent and Linda Davis, and Susan Mayer to pay $10,000 to each of the 16 defendants, plus attorney’s fees. A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation suit is defined as a case that uses the courts to attempt to stifle free speech. The plaintiffs had sued the co-op’s board of directors for its 2010 decision to boycott Israeli products, citing the co-op’s failure to follow its posted bylaws. The settlement follows the court’s ruling in February of this year, which favored the defendants’ special motion to strike and their claim that the suit was an attack on their First Amendment rights. In July 2010, the Olympia Food Co-op board enacted a boycott of Israeli goods after a presentation by community activists supportive of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement at a board meeting, even though the staff had not come to a consensus. According to the co-op’s boycott policy, boycotts must have staff consensus before being brought to the board. The plaintiffs claim the board acted beyond the scope of its authority. University police still have no leads following incidents both on and off the University of Washington campus of racist graffiti earlier this month. Most of the graffiti was found July 3 in the Communications building. The largest was a swastika found on the office door of a faculty member, who told JTNews that police suggested he may have been targeted because his name could be construed as Jewish. The faculty member said he has Jewish ancestry, though he is not observant. On July 18, Rabbi Elie Estrin, director of Chabad at the UW, discovered anti-Semitic tags on the off-campus house’s sign. Estrin said he notified police and the graffiti was cleaned up right away. According to the UW Daily newspaper, UW police commander Steve Rittereiser said the slurs and swastikas were “consistent with the type of language white supremacists use.”

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The show must go on
Seattle’s American Jewish Committee office has let go of its longtime program, the Seattle Jewish Film Festival. Where it will go remains to be determined.

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Reydn iz zilber, shvaygn iz gold
Speech is silver, silence is gold.

The Jewish vote Steven Gonzalez Andrew Hughes and Laura Ruderman Sue Parisien Pam Loginsky Jessyn Farrell David Ruzumna Shelly Crocker
From the Jewish Transcript, July 25, 2003. Daniel Heller, left, and his father Robert at the finish line of the Cascade Bicycle Club’s annual Seattle-to-Portland classic. They were among many local Jews who completed the 200-mile, two-day ride then, which is no different from today. The duo rode 1,000 miles to train for the event.

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Jewish Film Festival seeks a new home
JoEl magalnicK editor, JTNews
Filmgoers may not notice the immediate changes, but when the Seattle Jewish Film Festival rolls around next spring, its underlying structure will be far different from the way it has operated since its inception 17 years ago. On June 20, the board of the Seattle regional office of the American Jewish Committee, the festival’s supporting parent organization, voted to discontinue in that role. “We have a very small staff, and we can’t do it all,” said Wendy Rosen, executive director of the AJC’s Seattle regional office. “The reason that we’re doing it is that we are going to focus our attention and energy on programming in our principal areas of activity.” That activity focuses on ethnic and religious diplomacy, advocacy for Israel’s security, and energy independence, among other areas. Rosen and AJC board president Amy Ragen cited as examples of the office’s focus the upcoming honors of former U.S. attorney John McKay and a visit by India’s former ambassador to Israel — and associated programming with Seattle’s Indian community. But the show will go on. Rosen said her board is very supportive of the festival and doesn’t want to see it disappear, and wanted instead to give it what she called a “soft landing.” “This is a treasured asset of the community, and if anything, we want to energize the community to say this is something we want to support,” Ragen said. “It is in a good position, with a good donor base, to continue into the future and align with an organization whose mission is to bring the Seattle community together through this media of film.” A soft landing may be at the Stroum Jewish Community Center. The SJCC’s board met on Monday to discuss moving forward with exploring the idea, but at this point, according to the center’s CEO Judy Neuman, no commitments have been made. “It’s really an exploratory process that we’re in the midst of,” Neuman said. “We’re in conversation with AJC and exploring the possibilities of how we might participate in preserving the festival.” If anything, said Pamela Lavitt, the director of the film festival, a move to the SJCC is long overdue. “I think the misCourTeSy SeATTle JeWiSh Film FeSTivAl sion of the ‘J’ and Seattle Jewish Film Festival director Pamela Lavitt with Seattle filmmaker the national trend Lisa Cohen, who created the film “B-Boy” that ran in this year’s festival. of Jewish film festiBeing housed in the JCC would allow vals is to be run by JCCs,” she said. “If [the for more year-round programming, Lavitt JCC] approves it and embraces it in full said, while the AJC office’s refocus of its — and I believe that they will — the goal mission to the national organization’s is to keep the robustness and the integissues “don’t fully come to bear on a Jewish rity intact.” film festival.” “We have to look to see what the community wants, and maybe we have more opportunity than we’ve had to program things,” she said. Lavitt sees more family programming as a distinct possibility in promoting the SJCC’s mission. No discussions have occurred as to how the SJCC would fund or fundraise for the festival, nor as to how the venues or flavor of the festival might change, if they do at all. Lavitt said that while the program had lived at the AJC, the regional office’s development director devoted about a third of her time to the festival. Lavitt will likely need to hire a part-time development associate for at least this transition year. Though AJC officials said the festival has been self-sustaining over the past few years, given the size of the AJC’s fundraising staff, “it wasn’t ever easy to raise money for AJC and raise money for the festival,” Rosen said. “It was almost like we were running two simultaneous programs, two organizations in parallel with one another.” For the current year, several of the festival’s donors, in particular signature sponsor Martin Selig, have stepped up to ensure that the transition runs smoothly, Lavitt said. Should talks with the JCC fall through, or if the timing for the 2013 festival doesn’t allow for an immediate transition, “we’ll work with other organizations or individuals who feel strongly about the festival,” Ragen said. “We feel that based on the strength of the festival right now, the community will step up and want to find a way to have a new home moving forward.”

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“I enjoy connecting people to one another,” says Lynn Chapman, explaining one reason she became a local coordinator for the Council on International Education Exchange’s (CIEE) high school program, matching Seattle-area host families with overseas students. “The reason [these programs] exist is for diplomacy,” she says, noting that CIEE, while a non-governmental organization, is recognized by the State Department as an “Exchange Visitor Program.” As a member of Congregation Eitz Or, Lynn would like to find more Jewish host families. In addition to teaching the world about America, she feels Jewish hosts can change “how Jews are viewed in the world.” Most foreign exchange students are not Jewish and the few Israeli students “are snapped up” by hosts. Lynn interviews prospective families — of any denomination — and does a home visit. She has monthly contact with students who stay one or two semesters, attending public or private school. With students arriving in August, Lynn is recruiting this month without the benefit

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one who wasn’t a Buddhist.” But “anyof reaching PTAs or students body who’s interested enough in going in classes. abroad…comes with some sensitivity,” She’s encountered some she observes. reluctance While most host families among Jewish have kids, says Lynn, single families she adults, couples without chilcontacted and dren, and families with isn’t sure if it younger children are welreflects concome to apply, although the cerns about experience is often easier anti-Semitism. with another high schoolAn enthuage host in the home. siastic SeatA life coach and a health tle mom and educator, Lynn also works daughter who have hosted part-time for Eastside numerous foreign students are Kassie Koledin and miTChell AlBAlA Friends of Seniors, which Nasni, 14, a rising Frank- Lynn Chapman, the local helps keep seniors in their lin High School freshman. coordinator for the Council on homes. If you’re interested in Kassie says that during her I n t e r n a t i o n a l E d u c a t i o n first exchange experience — E x c h a n g e ’ s h i g h s c h o o l hosting, call her at 425501-1777, and read more at hosting a group of German program. www.ciee.org/highschool. teachers many years ago — she was concerned about how their Judaism would be perceived. Foreign exchange works both ways. But it led to “a moving discussion” and Last year, Seattle math teacher they have had “no problems in all the Suzanne Mayer was awarded a years” they’ve done this. Fulbright teacher exchange in Ghaziabad, More common is “total ignorance and India, about 30 minutes outside Delhi. total confusion,” Kassie says, particularly She traveled there from August to Decemfor Japanese students from small towns ber with sons Jacob, 17, and Andy, 13, “where they’ve never encountered somealthough Jacob returned to Seattle in Sep-

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tember to complete his junior year of high school. The Ohio native and Temple Beth Am member teaches math at Aki Kurose Middle School, one of the city’s most diverse and economically challenged student bodies. In traveling abroad, she wanted to see for herself how American students are holding up in math. “Mathematics education in the U.S. is under a great deal of scrutiny,” she says. “We’re being benchmarked against mathematics instruction all around the world,” with “the perception that we’re not as far ahead.” In India she found things were different, rather than better. Indian schools — with classes of 48 students — employ rote learning. Students don’t use calculators until college, so they are good at memorizing formulas, whereas American education emphasizes reasoning and principals so “the calculator is a tool” to the solution. Indian students “found it frustrating that I always wanted to explain why,” she says. The school had no Internet, but classrooms had electronic “smart board” projectors — which became unusable during the many rolling blackouts. This forced Suzanne to learn to use chalk on a
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The Holocaust dilemma
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Dear Rivy, My dilemma is around the Holocaust and how to relate to it. On one hand, I think I know plenty about it. But on the other hand, it really is not something I want to think about. I see the notices about Holocaust memorial events, but I never go. I honestly don’t want to use the rare night out with my spouse to go and see a Holocaust movie, even a big box office one — I would rather see a fun movie. I even find myself recoiling when the Holocaust is brought up. It is just too depressing. Recently, though, my children have been asking me about the Holocaust, and I realize that I have been avoiding dealing with it. Is this wrong? What should we be doing, if anything? How should we talk to our children about it? Your question and your dilemma are normal and expected. By nature, we tend to retreat from that which is unpleasant, uncomfortable and painful. Despite the tragedy in our history, Jewish practice is one of hope and optimism. Our traditional approach is to not dwell excessively on calamities and catastrophes. Notice, in spite of Passover being a commemoration of our collective persecution as slaves in Egypt, the focus of the seder and the Haggadah is on gratitude for salvation. Likewise, our practice is to cluster the remembrance of multiple catastrophic events into one single day of observance rather than burden the community with an overabundance of fast days. The Talmud addresses the issue of balancing mourning and living everyday life. With Tisha B’Av looming, this conversation is even more poignant. We are taught that after the destruction of the Second Temple, some were inclined to become ascetics and refrain from eating meat, fruit, bread and from drinking wine. Rabbi Joshua sought to temper their mourning and said to them, “Not to mourn at all is impossible, because the blow has fallen. To mourn overmuch is also impossible, because we do not impose on the community a hardship which the majority cannot endure.” Ultimately, the passage concludes with a prescription for resolving the quandary: “A man may plaster his house, but should leave a little bare. A man can prepare a full-course banquet, but leave out an item or two. A woman can put on all her ornaments, but leave off one or two.” Life as it was cannot continue; we dare not go on as usual. But neither can it come to a halt with excessive forms of mourning. It seems that the Talmud understands that for most, to live in an ongoing state of sorrow is too heavy a burden. A framework of commemoration is identified through home, garb and food. Our homes must bear the reminder of the house of the Lord that was laid waste, our tables must reflect the cessation of our sacred offerings, and our appearances must evoke the absence of the priestly garb. Our mourning must be kept in check, yet remain ever a delicate presence. The Holocaust, so fresh of a national calamity, presents a more complicated phenomenon to navigate. Its mourning and remembrance are more intense, yet considerably less codified and established. How do we remember the Holocaust? How much time do we devote to its commemoration and to learning about it? Is there such a thing as too much mention of the Holocaust? And of course, what tools can we draw on to help us share the Holocaust with our children? Perhaps we can remember the murder of 6 million Jews as well as the destruction of the vibrant European Jewish life that once pulsated and animated the continent by drawing on the parameters of Rabbi Joshua. We could consecrate matters of home, garb and food — actions of private, public and inner life — by committing them to a palette of personal Holocaust memorial. Commit to read one book a year about the Holocaust. You might suggest a particular work to your book group. Include core Holocaust history books on your bookshelves. Browse the Internet for websites that provide information and even video testimonies of survivors, such as Yad Vashem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and of course our own local Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center. Films such as Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah,” “Schindler’s List” or “Life is Beautiful” are all a start to creating a home that gently connects to Holocaust memory. On the public front, yes, go to the yearly Holocaust memorials and begin to speak of the singularity of the genocidal Holocaust of European Jewry openly and meaningfully. All of this will bring you to a place where you will feel ready to speak with your children. Lovingly and with care,
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When current Washington State Supreme Court Justice Steven González began his court appointment in January 2012, he made history as the fourth Jewish judge on the court and the second person of color to serve on it. But now, as he canvasses the state talking to voters and campaigning to win a second term, the former assistant United States attorney in the Western District of Washington and 10-year King County Superior ment after turning 75. The well-regarded and highly awarded jurist described his own background growing up in a multi-cultural and multireligion family as having “a menorah on the mantle and a Christmas tree to the side” during the winter holidays. His mother, said the justice, “schooled” him in the Jewish values of social and political justice, while his Catholic grandmother made sure he was baptized, even if she had to perform it herself in the family bathtub — which she did. “My mother had one grandparent who was Yankee, and three who are Jewish — Lithuanian, Latvian, and Russian — who came through Ellis Island to the U.S.,” González said. “My mom grew up in New Hampshire and was fairly active in politics, social movements, and union work.” Today, González is married with two sons and lives in Seattle, where his wife works as the assistant dean at the University of Washington School of Law. “I never clicked with the Catholic faith,” González added. “I’ve always identified with the Jewish faith, but more culturally than in practice.” Throughout his career, González has mentored students in law schools, high schools, and in many other programs in the community. It’s his way of being a role model for those who will come up after him. “When I go out and speak at schools, the kids of color, I think they begin to imagine the possibility of themselves on the court,” said González. “I think it’s critical for girls to see women in positions of power. But perhaps more importantly than that, it’s important for boys and men to see women in positions of
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Given the lack of information about many judicial candidates in the state — especially with many counties not printing voters’ guides in this year’s primary election to save money — 19 attorneys affiliated with the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s Cardozo Society spent months rating several of the candidates for statewide office or for King or Kitsap Counties. For further information about these candidates, visit their individual websites or refer to the voters’ guide if one exists. Justice Steven González (Washington State Supreme Court): Exceptionally Well Qualified Sheryl Gordon-McCloud (Washington State Supreme Court): Exceptionally Well Qualified Elizabeth Berns (King County Superior Court): Well Qualified Bill Bowman (King County Superior Court): Exceptionally Well Qualified Jennifer Forbes (Kitsap County Superior Court): Exceptionally Well Qualified Scott Johnson (King County Superior Court): Well Qualified Karen Klein (Kitsap County Superior Court): Well Qualified Sean O’Donnell (King County Superior Court): Exceptionally Well Qualified Ken Schubert III (King County Superior Court): Qualified Hong Tran (King County Superior Court): Qualified Christopher Washington (King County Superior Court): Qualified Pamela Loginsky (Court of Appeals): Well Qualified Tom Weaver (Court of Appeals): Well Qualified

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Kickoff 2013: The Power of Community
As it does every year, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s premier campaign and fundraising event kicks off with an engaging evening of food, music and celebration. This year’s theme of the Community Campaign and Celebration is The Power of Community. The dinner-and-entertainment event takes place on Sunday, September 23 from 5:30-8:30pm at McCaw Hall with Jack and Adina Almo serving as co-chairs. Los Angeles-based Israeli folk/rock band Moshav headlines this year’s Kickoff. The band is led by Yehuda Solomon and Duvid Swirsky. Raised by American-born parents in a small village (“moshav”) of artisans and musicians in the hills between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Solomon and Swirsky played music together as kids. “When we were growing up,” explains Swirsky, “the only electrical appliance in the house was a record player. So… we were listening to the records our parents brought with them — Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and Neil Young.” Following in the footsteps of Yehuda’s father, Ben Tzion Solomon, and Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, both internationally known musicians, Solomon and Swirsky put together a band with the addition of Solomon’s brother Yosef. American students traveling to Israel heard the band and were so excited they raised the money for several American college tours in the late 1990s. By 2000, the band had relocated to Los Angeles; today Moshav tours throughout the United States, Australia, Canada and Europe and returns regularly to Israel. The Jerusalem Post calls their music “fiery rock/folk/reggae songs, spiced with the flavors of the Middle East.” More about Moshav can be found at www.moshavband.com. Kickoff begins with a reception and dinner in the main social areas of McCaw Hall then moves to the concert hall for the program and Moshav’s performance. Standard tickets are $54 per person; Patron level is $180 per person and includes a listing in the event program. Rows of 10 seats are $500. The annual Community Campaign is a key component of the Federation’s capacity to support agencies and programs locally, in Israel and around the world. Through its new philanthropy model, launched at last year’s Kickoff, the Federation has been able to provide grants to 43 organizations and programs, 20 of which have never before received Campaign funding. Grants fall into four impact areas: Helping Our Local Community in Need; Strengthening Global Jewry; Experiencing Judaism Birth through Grade 12; and Building Jewish Community Post Grade 12. To register for the 2013 Kickoff, www.jewishinseattle.org/Kickoff or call 206.443.5400.

Federation names Interim President & CEO
Nancy Greer has been appointed Interim President & CEO, after having served first as CFO and then COO of the Jewish Federation. During her tenure with the Federation, Nancy has guided the organization through the financial and administrative implementation of the new philanthropic model and advised on how to maximize donor contributions to best serve our local community. Since joining the Federation in 2010, Nancy has worked closely with Federation’s Board and the many volunteers who have generously provided their experience and service in support of the Federation and the community. “We may define ourselves by differentiating how we practice our faith but that faith unites us and gives us a common identity,” she says. “We will continue to work together to build upon what Federation and our partners have accomplished in our community and I look forward to an even larger role in assisting in this ongoing process.” Prior to joining the Federation, Nancy was the Managing Director and CFO of Cascadia Capital, an investment bank for emerging growth and middle market firms, where she was responsible for risk mitigation, legal, finance, human resources and information technology. Her other professional experience includes serving as Executive VP, CFO, Board member and Principal for Howard Johnson & Co., a professional services firm providing actuarial, plan administration and total benefits outsourcing to national corporations. Her responsibilities included finance, accounting and systems, human resources, real estate, facilities and administration. As a volunteer, Nancy has served on the Board of Habitat for Humanity of Seattle/South King County and was Board president, Treasurer and member of the Fund Development Committee for Child Care Resources, a nonprofit that helps families find high quality child and after-school care. Nancy has lived in Seattle since the mid-’80s and is originally from New Jersey. She has an MBA in Finance and is married with one daughter.

Israeli Teens Arrive for the Summer of a Lifetime
Tired, weary, but excited from a day of traveling, Noa Cohen, Sapir Cohen and Ayala Cohen arrived in Seattle on a glorious July 4 afternoon. Greeted by their host families and lots of hugs, the Israeli teens were ready to begin their first independent trip to America. Noa, Sapir and Ayala (with the same last name by coincidence) will live with several host families throughout the summer and serve as counselors at the Stroum Jewish Community Center day camp. The girls will have the opportunity to work with all age groups at Camp Kef while leading programs such as Israeli cooking, Israeli songs and dance, Jewish holidays and Israeli art. A highlight for the campers every summer is Yom Yisrael. This year, the counselors will be taking the campers on a “Flight to Israel.” Once the campers arrive in “Israel,” they will participate in activities that illustrate all aspects of Israeli life such as milking cows on a kibbutz, a Tel Aviv café, an army obstacle course and leaving a note in the Kotel (Western Wall). All three girls are visiting from our TIPS (Tucson, Israel, Phoenix and Seattle) Partnership region in Israel through the “People to People” program. Noa, 18, comes to Seattle from Moshav Geha in Hof Ashkelon. With a love for art, Noa enjoys painting and dabbles in photography. 18-year-old Sapir is from Moshav Brechiya and loves Israeli music. Ayala, 19, is from Kiryat Malachi and has just finished a year of national service. She was an active member in the B’nai Akiva youth group and has several years of experience as a counselor with 4th and 5th graders. If you would like to meet our Israeli guests and build a stronger connection with Israel, please contact Elise Peizner at [email protected].

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Washington’s Jewish congressional candidates seek second spot on November ballots
tim Klass JTNews Correspondent
Two Jewish candidates for Congress have similar platforms but markedly different closing strategies for uphill battles in Washington’s newly redrawn 1st and 7th Districts. In the 1st, former state Rep. Laura Ruderman, a veteran political fundraiser, is relying on shoe leather, small donors and a TV blitz to carry her past four other Democrats, a Republican and an independent for the seat vacated by U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee, who is running for governor. In the 7th, political newcomer Andrew Hughes, a Seattle tax lawyer, has used attention-grabbing stunts, anti-incumbency appeals, and self-financing to contend with 12-term veteran Jim McDermott, two other Democrats, two Republicans and a third-party candidate. Hughes and Ruderman would be the second and third Jews to represent Washington in Congress, and Ruderman would be the first Jewish woman in that capacity. Primary ballots were mailed last week and must be postmarked by August 7 to be counted. The top two finishers in each district advance to the general election November 6, regardless of party affiliation. “I feel we have a very tough primary,” Hughes said. “If we poll into the teens, we’ll be happy.” Ruderman said she anticipated a “very close” outcome. Both say their Jewish community ties have helped somewhat in fundraising; neither reported any overtly negative reaction to themselves as Jews, but the Jewish vote is a negligible factor for each. Of the more than 40,000 Jews in the Seattle area, the lion’s share is now in the 9th District, which snakes from the Port of Tacoma through south King County, Southeast Seattle and Mercer Island to Bellevue, and the 7th District, which includes North Seattle. The 1st has a smaller number in the high-tech areas of Redmond and Kirkland. “It only arises if I see a mezuzah on the door,” said Ruderman, who says she has doorbelled 5,247 homes from Woodinville to Sumas. Concerning Israel, “some people ascribe certain positions to me because I’m Jewish,” she said. “They assume that I am more hawkish than I am.” The only Jewish congressman in state history, Republican John R. Miller, represented the 1st District in 1985-93, when it covered North Seattle, south Snohomish County and much of the Eastside suburbs. Now it extends from Kirkland and Redmond east to the crest of the Cascades and north to the Canadian border through mostly rural parts of King, Snohomish, Skagit and Whatcom counties. The Republican-Democrat split is widely regarded as one of the most even in the country. Ruderman, an active member of Kol HaNeshamah synagogue in West Seattle, has made health care her top issue, asserting that a fuller discussion will move more votes than jobs, and the economy. She shares mainstream-to-liberal Democratic policies and a Microsoft background with two higher-profile women in the race: Former state revenue director Suzan DelBene and Darcy Burner, expresident of ProgressiveCongress.org. Unlike them, however, Ruderman has won elections, serving three two-year terms in the state House from a previously Republican stronghold. After losing a bid for secretary of state in 2004 to incumbent Sam Reed, she formed a consulting business that specialized in fundraising for Democratic candidates. DelBene, who has spent $1 million of her own money and is backed by state party leaders, and Burner, a more ardent liberal, failed in efforts to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert in the 8th District — Burner in 2006 and 2008 and DelBene in 2010. Also expected to make a strong showing is state Rep. Steve Hobbs, who casts himself as a more centrist Democrat. Other candidates are businessman Darshan Rauniyar, a Democrat; independent Larry Ishmael; and the lone Republican, former state Rep. John Koster, who is expected to get the most votes in the primary. Koster, a social and fiscal conservative, lost congressional races in the 2nd District to Democrat Rick Larsen in 2000 and more narrowly in 2010. Ruderman’s campaign took some lumps this month when — in a move she says caught her by susprise — her mother formed an independent political action group that ran attack ads targeting DelBene. Critics of the ads included the state’s most powerful Democrat, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray. The ads were withdrawn after Ruderman issued a public appeal that they be discontinued. A poll done for Hobbs before the ad flap showed Koster drawing about 30 percent support and Ruderman trailing most of the other Democrats at about 5 percent, with 27 percent undecided. Since then, following the recent start of her own TV ads, “I think that our numbers are coming up,” she said. “I like where we are right now.” An early Jewish contender, state Rep. Roger Goodman, dropped out in April after raising about $250,000 and is running for re-election in the 45th Legislative District. In the overwhelmingly Democratic 7th District, Hughes hopes to beat Republicans Scott Sutherland and Ron Bemis, Democrats Don Rivers and Charles Allen and Goodspaceguy of the Employmentwealth party to finish second behind McDermott and advance to the general election. Hughes grew up in Poulsbo, far from any Jewish community, but says he has been moving closer to his roots in recent years. He planned to run in the 1st District, but with the new boundaries his base in Edmonds was among the 30 percent of new territory in the 7th District, which now stretches from Normandy Park to Edmonds. 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Sue Parisien
Emily K. alhadEff Associate editor, JTNews
For Sue Parisien, running for a judge position in the King County Superior Court is a natural progression. After more than two decades of litigation, it makes sense to want to go “from an advocate to mutual decision-making,” says the senior trial attorney for Zurich North America and former assistant attorney general. Parisien is running for judge position No. 42 in an attempt to unseat Judge Christopher A. Washington, who has been on the bench for eight years. Parisien ran for a judge position once before, in 2008, but lost to Tim Bradshaw. “The person in this job now needs to be replaced,” Parisien says. “That’s why I’m running.” On the 2012 Judicial Performance Evaluation, an extensive survey of judges by attorneys statewide, Judge Washington scored 2.74 out of 5 in legal decision making, with 22 percent of 44 respondents rating his decision-making procedures “unacceptable,” and 30 percent rating them “poor.” This puts Washington ninth from the bottom. (For comparison’s sake, Bradshaw’s rating is 4.09, and Supreme Court Justice Steven González’s is 4.33.) Parisien cites her extensive trial law experience as key to her candidacy. Her opponents, Marianne Jones and David Ruzumna, are not as qualified, she says. “You have to have spent many years trying cases” to be a good judge, she says. Parisien also touts her experience as an adjunct professor at the University of Washington School of Law. “To a certain extent CourTeSy Sue PAriSieN judges are teachers,” she says. “That’s an extra piece I’m proud to bring.” Governor Chris Gregoire and Attorney General Rob McKenna have given her their blessings, and she won The Stranger’s endorsement. Parisien has worked extensively with cases dealing with the state’s Department of Social and Health Services, and one of her goals as judge would be to better protect children.
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Pam Loginsky
JoEl magalnicK editor, JTNews
Should she win a seat on one of the state’s three courts of appeal, Pamela Loginsky will be looking at many of her colleagues from the other side of the bench. Loginsky, who is running in a crowded field of six candidates for the Court of Appeals, Division 2, District 2 in Tacoma has appeared as an appellate attorney before this court hundreds of times as well as before the state Supreme Court. She is currently scheduled to appear before the high court in October as a Jefferson County special deputy prosecuting attorney. She is also, she notes on her website, the only candidate in the race with appellate experience. As far as that goes, she has plenty. When we profiled Loginsky 10 years ago in her race for Supreme Court against Charles Johnson, which she ultimately lost, she’d had years of arguing before the appeals court then, and formed and headed the Kitsap County prosecutor’s office’s appellate unit. But in that race Loginsky brought sunlight to an oft-ignored law that negatively affected defendants who weren’t apprised of the ramifications of their guilty pleas. Johnson had been responsible for keeping the statute current. “The court was two to five years behind legislation,” Loginsky says. The courts have kept current since then. A decade later, the Port Orchard resident has much more to bring to the table. She has been staff attorney for the Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, she teaches at the Washington State Patrol Academy, she has served as financial manager at Congregation Beth Hatikvah, and volunteers at the humane society and homeless shelter in Kitsap County. Also, she does “charitable knitting” for homeless people and sick children. “I’ve spent my whole life in public service,” she says. “My congregation back in Skokie instilled in me a sense of a need to heal the world.” But navigation skills may be more important than healing for whichever judge lands on this bench. “We’re in unique times right now in that the U.S. Supreme Court has fundamentally changed sentencing law and confrontation clause law in the last three to seven years,” she says. “We’re still feeling our way in how to implement those decisions.” This is where both her appellate experience and police academy work would be valuable in a judicial setting. “I have more experience thinking through the consequences,” she says. “We’re still trying to figure out the answers and it’s still real murky.” By appearing on behalf of the largest and smallest counties of the state — the Tacoma-based court handles appeals from the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas down to Southwest Washington — she has
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Jessyn Farrell
Janis siEgEl JTNews Correspondent
Jessyn Farrell, a Democrat, is running for the state House of Representatives in the 46th Legislative District in Seattle as an environmental activist with local experience reforming transportation policy. But her legal training as a mediator who’s tried to make partners out of opponents and to unify broad coalitions of disparate political groups may just be equally as valuable. While working for the Transportation “We did that by working with a broad array of interests from business and labor and public health advocates, in addition to talking to community members, and being able to talk to voters,” she said. Farrell is a Seattle native who lives in the Laurelhurst neighborhood with her husband and two children, ages 4 and 2. She is an attorney, with specialties in mediation and environmental advocacy. Farrell is Jewish, and chose the religion nearly two decades ago. “My parents were both Buddhists so I was the only Buddhist kid on the block,” mused Farrell. “I actually converted to Judaism in my early 20s with a Conservative rabbi, and I remain a Jew by choice.” The 38 year old, who admitted that her life is more than full with a family and a political campaign to manage, said that she relates to a fundamental tenet of Jewish rabbinical wisdom that gives her strength as she presses on in her campaign. “There’s the strong emphasis on social justice, especially in a time like this when we are so polarized in our politics,” Farrell said. “The idea that it is not for us to lay the task aside of fixing the world, that we don’t have to do the whole thing, but taking that small piece and sticking with it, I think, is so important right now.” While multiple competing political factions continue to hash out solutions to critical shortages in the state, programs depend on revenues and economic forecasters predict that this “downturn” will challenge Washington and the country well into the next five years. Farrell wants to see significant tax reform and said she is willing to put an array of options on the table. “On the transportation side, or even on the general fund side, it would be very interesting to look at a carbon tax,” said Farrell. “On the business side, the B&O tax, I think it’s very unfair the way we tax on gross revenue instead of net revenue. Any taxing plan would have to actually swap out the burden we have in sales tax.” On funding K-12 education, Farrell pledged to “fundamentally change” the way education is paid for by building coalitions and giving “grassroots power” a greater voice in the budgeting process. “If elected,” wrote Farrell on her campaign website, “perhaps it means putting together a business-labor coalition that includes sectors facing shortages of qualified Washingtonians, such as the health care and software industries. “On the education funding front…that means making sure labor unions and other advocacy groups with grassroots membership have seats at the table.” Farrell has been endorsed by the King County Young Democrats, the Washington Federation of State Employees AFSCME 28, NARAL Pro-Choice Washington, and the SEIU 775, among others.

David Ruzumna
Emily K. alhadEff Associate editor, JTNews
David Ruzumna wants to be the next “mensch on the bench.” “There isn’t an area of law that doesn’t genuinely interest me,” he says. Somewhat sheepishly, he confesses that even in his spare time he enjoys listening to oral arguments and reading slip opinions. Ruzumna is running for King County superior court judge, position 42, currently held by Judge Christopher Washington. He is running against Washington, and candidates Sue Parisien and Marianne Jones. Ruzumna says he’s handled virtually every type of case, which sets him apart from his colleagues. “Most colleagues that I have practice in one area,” he says. “There’s something to be said about people who have developed specific niches in the law,” but he believes his experience trying cases across the board gives him a leg up. Furthermore, he says, “I pride myself on a particular type of professionalism.” He believes he has the temper and demeanor for the job, and that he’ll be able to fully understand the cases put before him. “If the judge isn’t prepared or doesn’t fully understand what’s been put before him or her, [that] can be deflating,” he says. “I know in my heart there would be no litigant who would walk out of court” wondering if he understood the case accurately. Ruzumna’s experience includes pro bono and low-fee counsel and legal help to artists, animal rescue organizations, and people living with HIV/AIDS. The thing about artists, he says, is “they’re completely broke.” Ruzumna steps in to provide legal services, like divorce proceedings, and helps them work through the red tape around setting up non-profit entities. The same goes for animal rescue groups, which are typically run by people motivated by passion, but who have less legal sense. “Getting 501(c)(3) status through the IRS can be extensive,” says Ruzumna. It requires a linear thinking process, which is where he comes in. Ruzumna is also a panel member of the King County Bar Association Volunteer Assistance for Persons with AIDS/HIV, through which he would help gay and lesbian couples work out such issues as wills and health-care directives created before the changes introduced by domestic partnerships. He’s also an advocate for foster

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Choices Coalition, including as its executive director, Farrell was part of a team that succeeded in transforming state transportation guidelines away from “wide, multilane roads and highways” to a more public transit, bike-centric, and sidewalk-focused infrastructure. The TCC reforms also included a goal that minimized vehicular travel in order to reduce carbon emissions in the state. Today, Farrell is gearing up to take on many more issues, from funding public education to strengthening the social safety net, implementing tax reform, changing land-use policy, rethinking industrial infrastructure and its effect on Seattle’s ports, prioritizing the cleanup of pollution in Puget Sound, and furthering the Affordable Care Act in Washington. “The list of needs is very long,” Farrell told JTNews. “We have aging infrastructure. We need to make sure we’re keeping up I-5. We need to get light rail built out. We have local potholes. That’s something that people in the 46th District talk about when you talk to them about transportation.” The recently redistricted 46th now includes parts of Northeast Seattle, Lake Forest Park, Kenmore, and Shoreline, and is 73 percent affiliated with the Democratic Party. “On transportation, we’re moving forward on light rail throughout the region, on the waterfront, and on a solution on SR 520,” Farrell said. While serving as the Transportation Choices Coalition executive director, Farrell said her organization “partnered with others statewide to raise $25 billion for bike, pedestrian, and transit projects across the state.”

children, and kids coming out of the foster care system who need to get on their feet. Despite his extensive pro bono and civil work, “I am a trial attorney,” Ruzumna says. “That is what I do.” The Los Angeles native has lived in Seattle since 1993, and resides in Ballard with his wife and two kids. They are members of Temple Beth Am, where his daughter is preparing to become a Bat Mitzvah. Ruzumna marvels at the number of Jews he encounters in the legal world. “I think one of the reasons there is such a large representation of Jews in the legal community is because of the Jewish tradition of embracing the learned profession,” he says. Jews “always have a quest for knowledge.” work, Parisien hasn’t got a lot of free time. But she does find time to advocate for breast cancer early detection, a disease she survived and has been free of for five years now. As a “Check Your Boobies” facilitator, Parisien leads breast education parties to teach women how to self-check for lumps and talk about her experience. It’s a “laid back, non-threatening way to educate women in groups,” she says. “Daughters nag their mothers, mothers nag their mothers,” and so on. It’s all about making positive change. “Judges are lucky,” she says, for that very reason. Parisien sees opportunity for making changes in the court system, especially to give more of a voice to disenfranchised kids. “There are opportunities for everyone to do better,” she says.

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“Sometimes these kids fall through the cracks,” she says. “I found many times when the court didn’t ask the right questions.” One solution she’d like to bring to the table as judge is community and volunteer involvement. “I think that there is no question that the courts are completely overworked and understaffed,” she says. “The courts are going to have to rely more on community volunteers.” A volunteer herself, Parisien is an active member of Temple Beth Am who regularly cooks for Teen Feed with her two daughters and her posse of 10 friends called “Sue’s crew.” “It’s really important to us,” she says. Although between her children — one approaching Bat Mitzvah and the other a high school sophomore — their dog and her

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Shelly Crocker
Emily K. alhadEff Associate editor, JTNews
Shelly Crocker was probably not voted “most likely to succeed” in her yearbook. “I had a rough patch in there,” she says. “I dropped out of high school when I was 15.” But she may be “most changed.” The candidate for the Washington State House, position No. 2 in the 46th district, came to Seattle from Minnesota in 1980, waiting tables before taking a job as a file clerk in a law firm. She worked her way through school, obtaining bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Washington before going on to receive a law degree from the University of Minnesota. “I was very fortunate, because back in the day there were lots more government services available,” she says. “I want other people to have those opportunities that I had.” Crocker has spent her career in bankruptcy law and owns two boutique firms. Her key issue? “A social safety net,” she says. “I have seen so much suffering, largely due to our economy.… In addition, the cuts to higher education, to healthcare, these things have created problems.” Tax reform needs to be tackled, and education needs to be accessible.

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“That’s going to take hard work and people who can fight that fight,” she says. Crocker is running for an empty seat vacated by retiring legislator Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney in a district that extends from shore to shore in North Seattle, and jutting into the Laurelhurst and Wedgwood neighborhoods to its south. “I didn’t know all those people would be running when I decided to run,” says Crocker of the crowded ticket she faces in next month’s primary. She notes that she’s not the type to run against someone. And while she has no prediction for how the race will turn out, she says, “I have a lot of people who hear my message and agree with it.” She’s referring to her Jewish community, in particular. Crocker and her partner of 28 years, Sandy Kibort, have been members of Congregation Beth Shalom since 1990.

“As an open lesbian woman, our decision to have children” meant a commitment to Jewish community, says Crocker. It’s “important to us to be active and involved.” They have two daughters, Hannah, 21, and Emma, 17. Crocker is on the synagogue’s gabbai corps and she’s a member of the cemetery committee; she’s also served on the Beth Shalom board and the boards of the Seattle Jewish Community School, Seattle’s office for the American Jewish Committee, Building Changes, Girls on the Run and DownHomeWashington. Her volunteer activity includes Teen Feed and the Puget Sound Jewish Coalition on Homelessness. But it was a trip to El Salvador with her daughter, fellow Beth Shalom congregants, and American Jewish World Service that she considers a turning point. “There’s a great big world out there,”

she began to think. “What should I be doing?” That’s what got her involved with Building Changes, an organization that works to end homelessness. “That has expanded my world,” she says. And when it came to running for political office, she says, “I thought, why not me?” “I do have very deep roots and very deep support in this community,” Crocker says. Her secret weapon, though, is a group of Beth Shalom teens that doorbells, canvases and rallies relentlessly for her. “There’s something about their enthusiasm and sincerity that gets the message out better than I can,” she says. “If I win — when I win — it will be because of the Jewish community. There’s no question in my mind.”

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with the homeless; crossed the district by bicycle, boat and swimming, and visited 30 coffee shops in 30 days. On serious issues, Hughes has criticized McDermott as out of touch with the times, insufficiently supportive of Israel or harsh enough on Iran, and doing more for the betterment of Africa than to boost Pacific Rim trade through the Port of Seattle. Despite McDermott’s longtime status as one of the most safely entrenched and reliably liberal Democrats in the House, anything less than 60 percent for the incumbent would indicate he is vulnerable, Hughes insisted. “The reception we’ve been getting is the best thing we’ve got going,” he said. “We feel that if we can get through the primary, all bets are off.”

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Experience the legacies of Seattle’s World Fair on a 90-minute walk led by MOHAI guides. $5. At NW Craft Center, Seattle Center, Seattle.

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6–7:30 p.m. — Family Shabbat dinner and Service
Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@ bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org/event_details. php?id=651 A Shabbat experience geared toward families with children ages 2–7. Older siblings welcome. Preregistration and pre-payment required for dinner. Dinner begins at 6 p.m., family Kabbalat Shabbat service at 7 p.m. $8/adult. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle. 6:15–7:30 p.m. — Kabbalat Shabbat honoring yiddish
Wendy Marcus at [email protected] or 206-525-0915 or www.templebetham.org Yiddish is honored, sung and read during Temple Beth Am’s annual celebration of di mameloshen. Free. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle. 7 p.m. — Shabbat in the Park
Aaron at [email protected] Fourth Friday Shabbat in the park with the TDHS Tribe (20-30–somethings). Have a cocktail before services and bring a chair or blanket for a picnicstyle dinner afterwards. At Luther Burbank Park, 2040 84th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.

27 July

9:30–10:30 a.m. — Tisha B’Av Service
Sandy Sloane at sandysloane@ bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org Morning minyan at 9:30 with special Torah and Haftarah reading. Later, Mincha (afternoon service, including wearing of tallis and tefillin), and Ma’ariv (evening service), Havdalah and a small break fast. Free. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle. 12:45 p.m. — Take me out To The Ballgame
Mel at [email protected] TDHS’s Tribe (20-30–somethings) is going to see the Seattle Mariners take down the Kansas City Royals. Meet at the giant baseball glove on Royal Brougham. $15. At Safeco Field, 1250 First Ave. S, Seattle. 7 p.m. — Two Faiths, one God
Waqas Malik at [email protected] or 206-851-0788 or amiseattle.org Observe the Jewish fast of Tisha B’Av and the Muslim fast of Ramadan with Temple B’nai Torah and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Prayer and study takes place before breaking the fast. Torah and Quran texts on display in scripture exhibition. RSVP to amiseattle.org. Free. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.

1–2 p.m. — Playschool Playdate at lakewood Playfields
SJCS at [email protected] or 206-5225212 SJCS’s partners at the Seattle Jewish Cooperative Playschool will have drop-by play dates at area parks throughout the summer. Free. At Lakewood Playfields, 5013 S Angeline St., Seattle.

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6 p.m. — honorable mentschen: Character Boot Camp
Randy Kessler at randy.kessler@comcast. net or www.shevetachim.com/events.php Author and storyteller Rabbi Hanoch Teller presents on Torah principles for leading a happier life by refining character traits. Mincha at 6 p.m., followed by the talk, then Kabbalat Shabbat around 7 p.m. Shabbat hospitality upon request. Free. At Congregation Shevet Achim, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.

3 august

5:30 p.m. — Get S’mores Shabbat
Jennifer Fliss at [email protected] or 425-603-9677 or templebnaitorah.org TBT’s annual outdoor, camp-style Shabbat dinner and service with sing-a-long, burgers, hot dogs and s’mores. $12/Adults, $4/children 6–13, free/ under 5. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.

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Sandy Sloane at sandysloane@ bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org Ma’ariv service and reading from the book of Aicha (Lamentations). Free. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

28 July

8 a.m. — New york Trip and Siyum haShas
Rabbi Avrohom David at info@seattlekollel. org or 206-722-8289 or seattlekollel.org Tens of thousands of Jews will mark the completion of the 12th cycle of the international study of Talmud. Trip includes visits to Jewish sites, kosher dining, meeting with Jewish leaders, and Shabbat in Flatbush. Cost includes lodging and tickets to siyum. Returns August 5. $200/ adult, $50/children.

31 July

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7:30–8:30 p.m. — ethics and Jewish law: A Summer Series with rabbi moshe Kletenik
Bayla Friedman Treiger at [email protected] Topic: “Money Lending $$ in Jewish Law.” Open to the community. Light refreshments served. Free. At BCMH, 5145 S Morgan St., Seattle.

1 august

9:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. — rabbi hanoch Teller: To dream the impossible Scheme
Randy Kessler at [email protected] or 206-275-1539 or www.shevetachim.com/ events.php Storyteller Rabbi Hanoch Teller discusses Israel’s most improbable community. Shabbat services at 9:30, followed by sit-down Kiddush lunch. Talk begins around 12:30. Childcare provided. Free. At Congregation Shevet Achim, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island. 7:30–9 p.m. — The Torah empire: From the Ponevizher rav to reb Nosson zvi Finkel
Randy Kessler at [email protected] or 206-275-1539 or www.shevetachim.com/ events.php Rabbi Teller will talk about some of the great Torah scholars of the last century after Mincha services. At Congregation Shevet Achim, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.

4 august

1–4 p.m. — Krav maga Women’s Self defense Class
Chris Masaoka at kravmagaetc@hotmail. com or 425-736-6019 or www.kravmagaetc. com Seminar focusing on rape prevention techniques and tactics. Learn to spot danger signs and be defensive. Seminar is for women ages 16 and up. A parent must be present if under the age of 18. $100. At Krav Maga Eastside LLC, 13433 NE 20th St., Bellevue.

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10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. — Walking Tour of Seattle Center Campus
Ellen Hendin at [email protected]

9 august

2–4 p.m. — SJFF/SJCC Best of Fest: “my lovely Sister”
Roni Antebi at [email protected] or 206-2327115 or www.sjcc.org Blending Sephardic superstition and magical realism, this film about sibling rivalry and reconciliation is based on a Moroccan Jewish folktale. $8; $6 for seniors and youth. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. 7 p.m. — Film screening: “reb elimelech and the Chassidic legacy of Brotherhood”
Rabbi Avrohom David at info@seattlekollel. org or 206-722-8289 or seattlekollel.org Produced and directed by Rabbi Hanoch Teller, this documentary details the rise of the Chassidic movement, Reb Elimelech M’Lizhensk, and the outcome of his doctrine of seeing the good in others. Rabbi Teller will be in attendance. $10. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.

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A formal kinah commemorating the Munich 11 has yet to enter the liturgy, but other forms, though not formal kinot, can help us process our feelings of loss and despair. For example, the personal tragic stories told through films can touch us, moving us toward memory. In England on Tisha b’Av, the New London Synagogue will show the Academy Award-winning documentary “One Day in September.” Released in 1999, it’s a film that, while making points about

the Palestinian terrorists and botched German police work, mourns the victims by recounting the story of Israeli fencing coach Andre Spitzer and his wife, Ankie. Another film that like an elegy re-enacts the tragedy, Spielberg’s 2005 “Munich” — it also has a fictionalized account of Israel’s response — will be shown at Temple Concord in Syracuse, N.Y. The audience for these two films, drawn together to listen and watch the story being retold, will be reminded of a different Jewish theme internalized when we hear the kinot chanted — we do not

remember and mourn alone. For many of us, home on Sunday, watching the Summer Olympics’ events on TV — archery, fencing, weightlifting — in our own darkened rooms, it’s all too easy to forget. With so much Olympic pageantry and competition, with the promise of gold, silver and bronze to divert me, I will need my own kinah to pull me back to a zone of “Never forget” — a simple list to remember what happened 40 summers ago. Sometime that day, resistance gone, I will try to touch again the loss I felt in 1972.

I will read the names: • Moshe Weinberg, wrestling coach • Yossef Romano, Ze’ev Friedman and David Berger, weightlifters • Yakov Springer, weightlifting judge • Eliezer Halfin and Mark Slavin, wrestlers • Yossef Gutfreund, wrestling referee • Kehat Shorr, shooting coach • Andrei Spitzer, fencing coach • Amitzur Shapira, track coach Will this simple act also allow me to dream that a tragedy like this will not be repeated? That is my hope.

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Harriet (Shafer) Katz October 7, 1920—June 25, 2012
Harriet Ruth (Shafer) Katz, 91, of Bellevue, WA passed away on June 23, 2012. Her funeral and burial took place at Herzl Memorial Park on June 25, 2012. Harriet was born on October 7, 1920, the oldest of five children. Her parents, Julius and Rebecca (Betty) Shafer, were among Seattle’s early Jewish leaders and business pioneers. At the age of 16, Harriet graduated from Broadway High School, and at the age of 20 graduated from the University of Washington, where she met Archie Katz. They were married for 51 years, sharing a dynamic life together of community activism, travel, and joyful celebrations with friends and their large, extended family. Harriet contributed her wisdom, creativity and leadership skills to numerous organizations. She was president of the local and western regional chapters of The National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods (Women of Reform Judaism), and was very active with the Women’s Division of Jewish Federation, B’nai B’rith Women, and Girl Scouts of Western Washington, of which she was a member for over 55 years. She was a life-long learner and voracious reader. Up until the last months of her life, she took classes and did online research to nourish her curiosity about topics ranging from geology, biology, and botany, to politics, current events, Native American culture, and ancient religions. As the matriarch of a large family, she devoted her life to her four children, six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. She took great pride in their accomplishments and educational achievements, never missing a graduation whenever and wherever it was held, from kindergarten to Ph.D. ceremonies. We will miss her generosity of spirit, her peace-making ways, her warm smile, her concern for others, her humility, dignity, grace and style. Harriet was preceded in death by her husband, Archie Katz, and her siblings Norton Shafer, Gloria Zacks and Sylvia Oseran. Her legacy lives on in the hearts and lives of her children Malcolm Katz and Martha Baker (London, England), Bonnie (Katz) Tenenbaum and Marty Tenenbaum (Portola Valley, CA), Joanne Katz Glosser and Larry Glosser (Issaquah), Steve Katz and Lynn Fainsilber Katz (Seattle), as well as her grandchildren Tamar and Allan Boden, Josh Tenenbaum and Mira Bernstein, Russ and Mindy Katz, Ilana and Jeff Wodlinger, Ryan Katz and Adina Katz, and her great-grandchildren Abi, Hannah, Jesse, Alyssa, Will and Isaac. She is survived by her beloved sister Elise (Shafer) Topp and numerous nieces and nephews. If you wish to make a donation in memory of Harriet, her favorite charities include The National Multiple Sclerosis Society Washington Chapter, The Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle, Girl Scouts of Western Washington, or a charity of your choice. May Harriet’s life continue to be a blessing and an inspiration to all who had the privilege and pleasure of knowing her.

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Frances “Frankie” Esther Golden
Lisa Schultz Golden and Aron Golden of Lake Forest Park are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Frances “Frankie” Esther Golden, on March 20, 2012, at Swedish Hospital in Seattle. Frankie weighed 7 lbs., 14 oz. Frankie’s grandparents are Carol and Phil Suckerman of Seattle, Norm and Roberta Schultz of Kirkland, and Marcia and Alan Golden of Chicago. She is the great-grandchild of the late Doris and Morris Frank, Millie and Sol Schultz, Esther and Benjamin Zuckerman, and Birdie and David Golden. Frankie is named for her maternal great-grandfather and paternal great-grandmother.

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it as an opportunity for a career change, returning to school for an education cerblackboard, which she’d tificate from the University never done, having taught of Washington in Tacoma in for only eight years. teaching special-needs chilCultural differences were dren. She was inspired by striking. Staff meetings were her parents, both of whom very formal and if the prinwere teachers. cipal attended, the teachers She had an epiphany at stood up when he entered her dad’s funeral many years the room. ago. “All these 50-year-old” “Cultural expectations in the classroom are completely CourTeSy SuzANNe mAyer people were lined up around different,” too, she says. Stu- Seattle Public Schools teacher the block, relating the impact dents apologize for misbe- Suzanne mayer visited India to her father had on them. She having, don’t hesitate to tell see the differences in how thought, “my tombstone is going to say, ‘She was an adeon one another, and “it’s a children there are educated. quate lawyer,’ and that was a badge of honor to be thought defining moment for me.” of as smart.” Suzanne, who also teaches in Temple An attorney for 20 years, Suzanne Beth Am’s religious school, kept a blog worked for GE Financial Services around during her journey which is still on the country. She met her now-former husthe web at www.mayersbigadventure. band Dan in law school and eventually they blogspot.com. returned to his hometown of Seattle. When GE closed its Seattle office, Suzanne used
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power. It’s also important that the mainstream person, the non-minority person sees people of color in positions of power.” González was a Western District of Washington Hate Crimes Prosecution Coordinator, a prosecutor of domestic violence cases for the City of Seattle, is a founding member of the Initiative for Diversity, was the executive committee member and chair of the Washington State Access to Justice board, and is a cofounder and was co-chair of the Race and the Criminal Justice System Task Force.

He has been rated “exceptionally well qualified” by the King County Bar Association, the Tacoma/Pierce County Bar Association, Pierce County Minority Bar Association, the Cardozo Law Society of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, the Latina/o Bar Association of Washington, the Joint Asian Judicial Evaluation Committee, the Loren Miller Bar Association, and Q-Law: The GLBT Bar Association of Washington, according to the nonpartisan website www.votingforjudges.org. “The idea that the judicial branch should be nonpartisan is something I’ve been able to embody,” said González. Court justices. The Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association rated her as exceptionally well qualified and the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s Cardozo Society rated her as well qualified. And the prospect of having to rule on cases where the attorneys she has argued against must now stand before her? “I hope they see me as someone who will have diligently done her homework prior to argument,” she says, “who will give them fair hearing, and give them rulings based on what the law demands rather than maybe my personal desires of what the law should say.”

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to understand how one law can affect the most rural and the most urban environments. When she’s training the state patrol, “I take very complex tests of the courts and translate them to something to a police officer that may not have any college,” who must make split-second decisions on the roadside while both protecting the citizens and their Constitutional rights. Loginsky has received dozens of endorsements from the judicial community, including four retired state Supreme

you will slowly let them know about resistance, heroism and bravery. You will share with them the wonder of Jewish life — its vibrancy and creativity — before the Holocaust. You will consider testimonies that tell the tale of survival and hope, planning all the while how you will usher your children in with peace and hope. We are an incredibly resilient people. Though it would be considerably more comfortable to live a life bereft of mourning and sorrow, keep in mind the powerful words of Elie Wiesel: “Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.”
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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Intiman brings political conflict to the small stage
diana bREmEnt JTNews Columnist
Seattle’s beleaguered Intiman theater has reopened this summer with a festival, four plays presented in rotation for two months, one of which is John Patrick Shanley’s “Dirty Story.” This article begins with the same warning as any other piece you’ll read about this play: Don’t read further if you want to experience the plot’s surprise elements. This 2003 play is staged in an intimate new studio theater in a room behind Intiman’s main stage, and seats only 100. The actors play out this political farce in a corner only slightly larger than a boxing ring, providing a hard-hitting look at “one of the touchiest political issues on the planet,” according to the program. You’ll think you’re seeing an absurdist relationship drama in Albee style when the play opens. Oscar-, Pulitzer- and Tony-winning Shanley (“Moonstruck,” “Doubt”) is known for writing about lovehate relationships. Wanda (Carol Roscoe) is a naïve graduate student who gets a disaffected and cynical writer, Brutus (Shawn Law), to look at her book manuscript. They meet at a New York City park where Brutus is playing chess alone at one table and a British chap — wearing headphones and occasionally shouting, “I want to go home!” — plays at another. When Brutus invites Wanda to his apartment, she recognizes it as her grandfather’s former home. Brutus’s seduction turns sadistic (the play is considered “R” rated so don’t bring the kids), but there’s a twist at the conclusion of the first act. The second act turns into a farce as here and put the first act into an entirely different light. Intiman artistic director Andrew Russell says that some audience members have returned to see the play again in order to better understand it. “Absurdity is born out of the futility of human struggle,” observes director Valerie Curtis-Newton, who explained that ShanChriS BeNNioN ley wrote the play Carol Roscoe plays Wanda, the writer we later find out is Israel. after a post-9/11 visit to Israel and the West Bank, where he Frank the cowboy (Quinn Franzen) and learned that the conflict there was not Lawrence/Watson, the British barkeep easily explained or resolved. (Allen Fitzpatrick), are discussing the ups “He was frustrated,” she says, and also and downs of their own relationship, even saw “whispers of the same intransigence breaking into a song and dance number. emerging in American politics” that is still Wanda dances in to the theme from with us today. “Exodus” and together they plan to allow Most political plays are serious dramas, her to get her share of Brutus’s apartment. “and that’s really hard on people,” CurShe’s already moved in, decorated it with tis-Newton says. “Shanley wrote a crazy, potted palms and pushed him and his stuff funny, bizarre” play that “gets at different into a small corner while he whines about it. points of view, tries to begin a conversaWhile the first act is titled “Fiction” and tion” — which is what she’s interested in. the second “Non-Fiction,” don’t believe it There was some fear about staging the for a minute, because it’s in the second act potentially controversial play, “of offendthat the topic becomes clear. If you haven’t ing any community.” She had some Jewish figured it out already, Wanda is Israel and friends read it and they were wary. HowBrutus, whose wealthy but distant family is ever, on seeing it, most were “pleasantly in the “olive oil” business, is the Palestinsurprised… I’ve had very few people dislike ians. The parallels are more clearly drawn

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“Dirty Story” runs through Aug. 25 at the Intiman Theatre, 201 Mercer St., Seattle. Tickets cost $30. Visit ticketmaster.com for tickets or www.intiman.org for further details and performance times.

it purely on the basis of the politics,” she says. “Everyone is skewered in this play.” Russell made the final choice of the play. “Intiman audiences have always been intellectually adventurous and it felt like this humorous, sharp, gut-punch of a comedy would make them lean forward with  curiosity,” he wrote in an email, adding that it has “sparked a lot of discussion and debate.” Curtis-Newton, who is also the head of directing at the University of Washington’s Drama School, says it was a challenge to stage the production in such a small space, and one not designed as a theater. The audience and its reaction can be clearly seen by the performers, providing instant feedback, and the audience members can see each other, too. But the space is not soundproof and outside noise does leak in. One thing a Jewish viewer might note is that Roscoe and Law, who claim in the first act to be a “German Jew” and a “Jew German,” don’t seem particularly Jewish, or Shanley uses this device more to emphasize the close relationship between the two. Besides, it’s a play, and some suspension of disbelief, and some desire to be entertained, are required.

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