JTNews - November 13, 2009

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Courtesy Temple B’nai Torah
Carrots, anyone? Members of Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue participated in a gleaning project at Stocker Farms in Snohomish on Nov. 1. The temple’s brotherhood planned the
event, which resulted in 50 boxes filled with fresh carrots and beets being donated to the Northwest Harvest food bank and food distribution network.
Camp Young Judaea ceases Haq prosecution

operations — for now introduces phone
Janis Siegel The CYJ West camp, which is one of five camps in the evidence in
second trial
JTNews Correspondent Young Judea camp system, has served more than 100
campers throughout the Western region each summer.
After 100 years of offering summer fun, Jewish-style, Camp enrollment had been on the rise, due mainly to
to youth throughout the Western United States, Hadas- $1,000 grants made to first-time campers from the Camp- Leyna Krow
sah’s Camp Young Judaea West, a pluralistic, unaffiliated, ership Incentive program, a partnership between Hadas- Assistant Editor, JTNews
and kosher camp will be closed for the summer of 2010 sah and the Foundation for Jewish Camp.
due to a lack of funding. CYJ West does not own land for a permanent camp Two weeks after the start of the second murder trial for
The camp closure is the latest cost-cutting measure location. It has been renting various camps each year, Naveed Haq, prosecuting attorneys finished presenting
by the Hadassah organization, which was already feel- mainly securing a Long Beach, Wash. site. their case to the court on Nov. 5.
ing the effects of reduced donations due to the recession, “We have not owned our camp and we would love Haq is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity for kill-
when they were blind-sided last December by the news to have a permanent site,” Caplan said. “We’ve been a ing one woman and injuring five others during an attack
that it had lost $90 million in investments it had with rental camp for many, many years. We’ve rented camps on the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle in July 2006.
Bernard Madoff’s fraudulent investment funds, accord- in Long Beach, Wash., Ocean Park, Ore., and we’ve rented The state is attempting to prove that Haq, who has suf-
ing to reporting by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency news a 4H camp in the past. It’s time that we find a permanent fered from bi-polar disorder for most of his life, was fully
service. home. Kids are touched by these camps.” in control of himself and aware of his actions when he
“Although it is painful to lose a programmatic center CYJ West serves Jewish youth from many locations planned and executed the shootings.
that has served hundreds of our members and their fam- including Colorado, El Paso, Tex., Northern California, The first trial in the spring of 2008 ended in a mis-
ilies,” reads a press release from Hadassah’s New York San Diego, Calif., Las Vegas, Nev., and Tucson, Ariz. trial with jurors unable to agree on 14 of the 15 criminal
office on the matter, “we are hopeful that, in time, CYJ Last summer, Hadassah mounted a campaign to raise charges brought against Haq.
West will resume its operation.” $200,000 to fund the camp’s operating costs but it was This time around, the state focused its case against
According to JTA, in December 2008, Hadassah only able to raise $50,000 from 100 donors and alumni Haq largely on the testimony of the attack’s survivors, law
reported that it had lost $40 million that it had invested around the country. enforcement who responded to the 911 calls, and detec-
in Madoff’s scheme, and that it would not be receiving “We didn’t get that far without any major donors,” said tives who investigated the aftermath of the shooting.
another $50 million that it projected to earn from the Caplan. “But our donations came from all over the coun- The last week of testimony for the prosecution included
investment income. Hadassah’s endowment, whose esti- try with very passionate notes from people about how the questioning of former Jewish Federation employee
mated value was approximately $500 million is now said much effect [the camp] had on them.” Dayna Klein. Klein, who was shot in the arm, recalled for the
to be worth $412 million. In an effort to maintain the Jewish camping expe- jury how Haq walked through the office barking instruc-
Local and and national Hadassah leaders did not rience for as many of the CYJ West campers as possi- tions for employees to stay put and not to call the police.
return JTNews’ phone calls or e-mails to comment fur- ble, other regional camps are providing scholarships, “He didn’t scream it, he didn’t yell it. He just said it
ther on the camp closing, but the painful reality was pro- reduced rates, and travel discounts to Jewish youth who emphatically,” she said.
nounced in the voice of Esther Caplan, a former Hadassah are without a summer location. Klein then described how, ignoring Haq’s orders, she
regional president and the current West Merchav chair. Through November 15, 2009, CYJ Midwest is offer- crawled back to her office to call 911 and, upon being dis-
“We are extremely sad about it,” Caplan told JTNews, ing its t wo three-week sessions to CY J West and covered by Haq, asked if he would be willing to speak
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Remembering the Holtzbergs

A commemoration of the young couple killed one year ago in Mumbai, India
Paula Begoun standing that as a Jew, no matter who This moment would have come and benign. But rather, in a twist of appall-
Special to JTNews you are and for whatever reason you end gone being just another interesting, ing fate, the young couple who had
up on their doorstep, you are welcomed minor travel episode in my life until a blessed it have become unwilling mar-
Editor’s Note: Seattle businesswoman with no expectation of having to give few months later, Thanksgiving week- tyrs and I cannot get their faces out of
Paula Begoun, founder of Paula’s anything back. We Jews have a home end 2008, when the news headlines my mind. Their untimely deaths, nau-
Choice skin care products, regularly almost everwhere around the globe. exploded with the terrorist attack in seating in its utter depravity, was com-
travels to remote destinations and has That is Chabad. Mumbai. All the places I had been to pletely evil and has no explanation. The
often visited Chabad Houses in T he rabbi a nd rebbet z i n at t he were part of the terrorists’ murdering death of all the victims on that horrific
different countries. Before leaving for a Mumbai Chabad House seemed impos- rampage. The Taj, where I had stayed, day has no explanations.
trip to Mumbai, her second, at the end sibly young, especially considering the Oberoi, where I ate, the train sta- There is no answer from God because
of last month, she wrote this letter to their task of building something out tion where I traveled, and in the most this is one of His best-kept secrets we
Chaim and Techiya Levine of the of nothing in an area of the world that vicious attack of all, the Chabad House, can never know while we are on this
LivingJudaism organization. barely knows what a Jew really looks where t he you ng fa m i ly represent- earth. So the question isn’t, why? The
like. Their building was tucked behind ing the best of the Chabad community question is, what can we do now to turn
I was in Mumbai last year, May 2008. streets you could only describe as slum was slaughtered by malicious mad men something unholy into something holy?
As I often do when I’m in a new city in with goats in doorways, endless small armed with a determination and fervor How can we turn evil into goodness?
another country, I went to the Chabad barren shops, crowded alleyways where that rivaled any level of insanity you How can we honor the Lord and our-
House that was near my hotel. At the aimless men and women sat listless and could fathom. The terrorists took more selves? That is our only job, no matter
time it was just another Chabad House, weary, and children ran about barefoot than 50 percent of their group and arse- what happens in life. We can choose
another shul, another opportunity to wearing rags in oppressive heat and nal to kill a handful of Jews. That was to bring the holiness of God to any
connect with Jews in a relatively remote stagnant air. But most everyone knew more important, more holy to them moment.
part of the world (well, remote for me). where the Chabad House was, as the than their stated goal of killing as many My choice is to continue to discover
I had been to so many Chabad houses rabbi and rebbetzin often fed those in people as they could. I believe 5,000 was meaning in my faith. In the essence of
over the years from Sydney, to Paris, need. the number they were after. They sacri- Torah is the hand of God and the path
Toronto, Beijing, Mexico City, Singa- When I walked in, there was Rifka ficed that goal because murdering two our souls can take to find solace and a
pore, Melbourne, and of course Seattle. with one baby on her hip and another or three Jews was more important than way of living with compassion, integrity,
Like all of them, the Chabad House in child following behind. She greeted me any other destruction, annihilation, and peace.
Mumbai wasn’t particularly unique and and my boyfriend, gave us some water they could ignite. The depth of such My choice is to continue supporting
it was barely memorable. When I say not and we went through the Jewish game single-minded vile hatred is not some- Chabad so that Jews have a home all over
unique, that’s only because I’ve grown of who you know. The rabbi rushed in thing a normal mind can understand, the world that no one can take away. I
accustomed to the warmth and kind- after evening prayers and quickly went and I don’t want to try to understand. I choose to support Chabad so those who
ness you find at any Chabad House you through the same routine. It was sweet, want to obliterate these atrocities from hate us can’t erase our presence in the
visit. It’s always a little hectic, always a fun, very Jewish, and remarkable that we the world and my memory. world. Chabad’s resolve to create Jewish
strange mixture of Jewish travelers from were all in downtown Mumbai socializ- What is left in the wake of this ter- neig hborhoods wherever t hey ca n,
all over the globe and random locals, but ing and being as Jewish as if we were in rorist attack is that a once-simple part against all odds, is a beacon in the dark
regardless, there is always the under- New York or Jerusalem. of Mumbai is no longer ordinar y or for Jews everywhere.
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rabbi’s turn
The rainy season

The clouds roll in, but the water that falls marks for us a more conscious spirituality
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to recite the prayer requesting rain ••• commanded by God, these were created
for a plentiful year. The second part of If we return to our Jewish yearly cycle, by humans as our own responses to his-
the Sh’ma also proclaims a direct rela- the summer months from Nisan to Tish- torical events.
tionship between the rains we receive rei are characterized by God’s unilat- Our Jew ish calendar accordingly
and the life choices we make: “And if eral divine manipulation: Our Passover reflects the seasons of the soul. In the
Rabbi you will carefully obey my commands exodus, when God’s mighty hand and summer months, we are passive recipi-
Jessica which I give you today…I will give rains outstretched arm save us from the Egyp- ents of God’s power. The sunlight aspect
Marshall for your land at the right season…. tians; and Shavuot, when God gives us of our spiritual lives is fixed and unwav-
Temple Beth Or Beware lest your heart…turn and serve Torah amidst trembling mountains and ering. During this time, we surrender
other gods and worship them, for then smoke on Mount Sinai. ourselves to this higher truth, to what is
Lying in bed, the soft dawn light peek- the Eternal’s anger will blaze against infinite, perfect and absolute.
ing in through my curtains, still in that you, and God will shut up the skies so Our Jewish calendar accordingly But during the winter months when
state between being asleep and awake, I that there will be no rain.” reflects the seasons of the soul. In we turn to our rainmaking selves, our ini-
listen to the sound of softly falling rain. As we mentally and spiritually pre- the summer months, we are tiatives and achievements are subject to
My visions of a morning run in the sun- pare ourselves for the months of rain passive recipients of God’s power. our human fluctuations. As we endeavor
light foiled again. ahead, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Men- The sunlight aspect of our spiritual toward our aspirations, as we strive to
As a newcomer to Seattle, acclima- achem Mendel Schneerson, offers a lives is fixed and unwavering. apply the lessons from our teshuvah, we
tizing to this environment has brought path to view the forces of sun and rain During this time, we surrender stumble with setbacks and missteps,
an unanticipated spiritual experience. as our inner spiritual lives. Sunlight ourselves to this higher truth, sometimes progressing and sometimes
My heightened sensitivity is two-fold: cannot be generated by the earth itself to what is infinite, perfect and faltering. This is both the strength and
The exuberance on a radiant sun-filled — it must come from an outside source. abs ol ute. weakness of our rainy season. While we
day is a phenomenon about which I had Thus, if we view sunlight as enlighten- suffer from our human instabilities, this
heard, but I was unprepared for the spir- ment, as the absolute and transcendent The winter months, the Season of is also a time of flexibility, where a lack
ited exhilaration — the attitude of “stop in our lives, sunlight urges us to step Rains, on the other hand, is a half- might be transformed into a gain and
everything, come outside and soak up the back and open ourselves up to an out- year characterized by human endeavor a vulnerability considered a source of
sunshine.” side power. and initiative. In the month of Tish- blessing.
The second part of this sensitivity Rain, on the other hand, originates as rei, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Now, as we anticipate the winter
is an appreciation of Judaism’s liturgi- moisture that rises from the earth, forms the Ten Days of Repentance are a time months, may we have the strength to
cal and festival ties to the rainy season. clouds, and returns as life-giving waters. of teshuvah, of soul-searching and self- renew our goals and passions as the rains
Shemini Atzeret, the holiday that falls So the earth is not a passive beneficiary improvement. The Season of Rains also pour down upon us. May we be patient
at the end of Sukkot, marks the begin- of the rain falling from the heavens. She contains the two festivals instituted with our frailties, reconsidering them as
ning of the rainy season following the generates it herself, raising columns of by the rabbis: Hanukkah and Purim. junctures for cultivating our fortitude
harvest in Israel. On this day, we begin mist from her oceans and lakes to water Unlike the biblical festivals, which were and spirit.
her soil. While the earth generates her
own moisture, we can view the Eternal’s
presence in this process as enabling us to
reach upward in our own search for truth
and meaning in life, and thereby gener-
ate a spiritual nurture of our own making
— rain.
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Editor *Joel Magalnick 233 12 and what I found was an article about the most acute dilemmas since his return Not surprisingly, Secretary of State
Assistant Editor Leyna Krow 240
Account Executive Lynn Feldhammer 264 a female singer ejected from the Arts & to power last March. Hillary Clinton and other top officials
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for electrolysis, weight loss, and other cos- Goldstone committee: how a modern flawed.” They have also expressed
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Proofreader Mordecai Goldstein This is a marginalization. Women are populated urban areas.” The majority of Americans polled
being told to look pretty and stand aside. It is interesting to note that House Resolu- believe that Israel fought a defensive war
I’m not putting this issue of JTNews out tion 867 condemning the Goldstone report and that Hamas has primary responsibility
Board of Directors where anyone can see it — I’d be ashamed as “irredeemably biased” against Israel was for the civilian deaths.
Scott Michelson, Chair*; Robin Boehler; Don
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Flash Hemphill*; Allen Israel*; Stan Mark; Daniel the idea that women be segregated into a Representatives on Tuesday (Nov. 3). munity did not seriously stop Hamas from
Mayer; Cantor David Serkin-Poole*; Sandy Sidell shooting rockets indiscriminately at Isra-
women’s section (what’s next, exclusion The general secretary of the 57-member
Richard Fruchter, CEO and President,
Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle from Torah studies?) or valued primarily Organization of the Islamic Conference el’s south before Israel’s defensive war was
Ron Leibsohn, Federation Board Chair for our looks. said his group was the “initiator” of the launched.
*Member, JTNews Editorial Board Cheryl Trooskin-Zoller report that helped push it through the The Obama administration should do
Seattle Human Rights Council. Even Justice Gold- all it can to prevent the UN from passing
stone himself, the author of the report, any resolution unfairly blaming Israel in
The flawed report has cast doubts about the fairness of the fighting a defensive war in Gaza.
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A remedy for feeling SAD

their level of observance. Hebrew seemed For many people, particularly in the
Two languages are better than one like a safe point of common interest. Northwest, the end of Daylight Saving
Of the six kids in the program, Mantell Time and the onset of winter weather can
Kavana opens Hebrew immersion preschool said that only two come from homes with trigger Seasonal Affective Disorder, com-
parents who know Hebrew. She noted monly known as SAD.
Leyna Krow they wanted. The kids responded using that a number of parents have begun SAD is a depression that occurs each
Assistant Editor, JTNews Hebrew numbers seemingly without coming early to pick up their kids so they year at the same time, usually starting in
thinking about it because that was the lan- can sit in on the last part of the class and fall or winter and ending in spring or early
It has been well documented that the guage the instructor was using. learn a few new words themselves. summer. This mood disorder is often attrib-
younger a child begins learning a second Although a number of other congre- “Many of the parents are inspired to uted to the lack of light during the colder
language, the easier it is for him or her gations in Seattle offer early childhood learn also,” she said. “We’ve had parents months of the year and affects between
to pick up. That’s the idea behind the education in various forms, Gan Kavana starting to ask for vocabulary lists or basic 10 and 20 percent of the U.S. population.
Kavana Cooperative’s Gan Kavana Pre- is the only Hebrew immersion program books that they can read together with Three-quarters of those who suffer from the
school, which opened in September. in the area. their kids.” mild symptoms associated with the disor-
“With language, kids are like sponges der are women.
at that age. They just absorb it,” said You may be experiencing SAD symp-
Ilana Mantell, director of operations for toms if you:
Kavana. • Sleep excessively or feel of extreme
The preschool currently has six students fatigue
between the ages of 2 and 4 and two staff • Overeat and gain weight during the fall
members. Along with regular preschool or winter
activities, the program focuses on building • Have an inability to maintain regular
basic Hebrew vocabulary and grammar. activities
“The classroom leader is Israeli and • Have feelings of sadness, loss of feel-
everything she does is with the goal of ings, apathy and irritability
talking to the kids in Hebrew,” Mantell • Feel a lack of interest in social interac-
explained. “The idea is that kids learn by tions or lose interest in activities you find
hearing and by doing and playing.” enjoyable
Children aren’t scolded for speak- • See that it all goes away in the spring
ing English, of course. But with class- Courtesy Kavana and summer.
room games and activities taking place in Students and instructors at the Gan Kavana Preschool, which opened in September. SAD is diagnosable and treatable. To
Hebrew, the students easily slip between help anyone concerned about him or her-
the two languages. “There are other Jewish preschools in Funding for the preschool comes from self or a loved one, Jewish Family Service
“I don’t think they have a conscious Seattle,” Mantell said. “What we wanted student tuition and from a grant through is offering a Web-based mental health
understanding of what lang uage is was to emphasize Hebrew language.” the Legacy Heritage Foundation. self-assessment. Users receive immediate,
when they’re that young,” Mantell said. She added that because Kavana’s part- Families do not need to be Kavana customized feedback and the opportunity
“They’re just doing it.” ners represent a wide range of religious Cooperative partners to enroll children in to schedule an appointment for further
She gave an example of an activity where backgrounds, it was important to Kavana the school, although there is a discount in evaluation. This service will be provided
students were offered bite-sized cookies. leadership to make sure that the pre- tuition for those who are. The preschool free of charge throughout November.
After counting out the cookies in Hebrew, school focused on aspects of Judaism that meets Tuesdays and Thursdays and is To take the questionnaire, visit www.
the instructor asked each child how many would be relevant to any family, no matter based at Kavana’s Queen Anne facility. jfsseattle.org’s counseling page and click
the “Online Screening for Depression” link.
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Back in the saddle

Jewish Day School interim leader takes over as permanent head of school
Joel Magalnick “[B o a r d p r e s i- positions, though Sulkin emphasized

Editor, JTNews dent Robert Sulkin] none of those cuts affected the quality of
was always saying the education.
It took meeting the candidates for the as t he ca nd idates “We’ve cut no programs, no teach-
position to convince Maria Erlitz that she came… ‘No need to ers,” Sulkin said. “The programming has
truly wanted it for herself. wor r y about a ny- actually been increased, which is amaz-
“I fell in love with the place yet again,” t h i ng , Ma r ia c a n ing considering what is going on else-
Erlitz said. “I think I had to go through the ac t a s a c oac h,’” where.”
process of seeing myself not here to know Erl it z sa id. “Usu- But with many parents having been
that I really wanted to be here and see the ally, when I coach laid off from the region’s business titans,
school through the long term.” a head of school, the money to cover a private school edu-
The Jewish Day School of Metropoli- I get to what their cation needs to come from somewhere.
tan Seattle, which turns 30 next year, has agenda is and help One way is through vigorous fundraising.
had Erlitz’s fingerprints all over it from t h e m t o d e v e lop Erlitz, Sulkin said, is key to that.
the beginning. As one of its co-founders, their agenda. I kept “Any great institution needs strong
Erlitz served on the lay side as a longtime t hink ing, ‘W hat leadership, and people buy into her vision
board member, including president. She about my agenda?’ I and have great respect for her,” Sulkin
moved over to the professional side when couldn’t take myself Courtesy JDS said.
both the head of school and assistant out of the picture.” Maria Erlitz, after more than a year of serving as interim head But the school also approached the
head of school simultaneously left JDS, Sulk in said she of school, has decided to take on the job permanently. Samis Foundation, which already par-
and she resigned from the board to act as didn’t need to con- tially subsidizes K-12 students in Wash-
interim head until a replacement came. vince the board to ington State’s Jewish day schools, for
She served as head of school and hire her permanently. “All of the independent schools lost further assistance.
assistant head on both interim and “It was always open to her,” he said. enrollment, so private school is looked “We were afraid we would really lose
permanent bases in intervening years “Maria always could have had the job. at as a luxury in some places,” Erlitz said. a good chunk of the school, so we went to
before moving on to a successful career And I made that clear to her.” “When a parent lost a job…they felt they Samis and basically asked them for help,”
as a consultant working with heads of The students are apparently excited couldn’t afford that.” Erlitz said. “We said, if you live in the
school at other Jewish academies. But to have Erlitz onboard as well: They One of the promises she made last year Orthodox community you send a child to
when JDS’ previous head of school, Tom spent the week surprising their princi- to parents was that no child would be a Jewish day school. That’s just it.… Our
Elieff, decided to move back to his home- pal with different activities, including a denied an education at JDS due to inabil- parent body chooses this school. It’s not
town in 2008, the board asked Erlitz to rainy-day soccer game for which she had ity to pay. They made good on that prom- a natural if they lost a job that they would
come back while it conducted a search to postpone her interview with JTNews. ise, but at a cost. send their kid anyway.”
for a new leader. But Erlitz faces some challenges the “It doubled our financial aid line,” Samis responded with a $400,000
She was clear from the start that the school must overcome, most notably due Erlitz said. matching grant that would give $2 for
position would be temporary, but then to the economy. Enrollment, she and Part of the way the school made up for
something changed. Sulkin both said, is down. that loss was by eliminating six full-time
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Media and kids award for local doc Crossword Puzzle
Also: Young performers in Joseph By Matt Gaffney
Microsoft on Internet safety software.

He has testified before the Federal Trade
Commission and has voiced, for the past
11 years, the AAP’s one-minute educa-
tional radio spots on WBBM Chicago. You
Diana can hear these pieces at aap.org. Go to the
Brement “Parenting Corner” and click on the logo.
JTNews Don is the current chair of the Jewish
Columnist Federation of Greater Seattle’s Maimo-
nides Society and says he and his wife,
Don Shifrin, M.D. was a tad noncha- Bobbi Chamberlin, have a “mixed mar-
lant when I spoke to him about winning riage” — she belongs to Temple De Hirsch
the American Academy of Pediatrics Hol- Sinai and he belongs to Herzl-Ner Tamid.
royd-Sherry Award, which recognizes •••
outstanding contributions in the field of
children, adolescents and the media.
It’s clear, however, that he is extremely
passionate about his area of expertise
that he’s developed in his years as a pedi-
atrician and clinical professor of pediat-
rics at the University of Washington.
“There wasn’t much research in those
days,” he says, when the award was estab-
lished. Now there’s a lot on the media’s
impact on kids, most showing that it’s
“significant and life changing.”
Parents don’t need to be told that kids
today are using one form of media or
another almost constantly. “It’s the one
Across Down
thing they do more than sleep,” says Don,
and in the case of teenagers, maybe even 1 “___ and Sons” (Lloyd Webber 1 ___ Aronson, Inc.
more than that. Courtesy Lisa Kranseler song) 2 Like Bernard Madoff
“This has both positive and negative Daniel Kranseler of Bellevue, here with 6 Jeweler’s measurement 3 Joshua’s colleague
effects…. The research is pretty young,” the star of the show Anthony Federov, 11 Jerusalem’s Biblical ___ 4 Thunderclap, in some plays
generally pointing to a positive effect in served as a chorus member in the 5th 14 Texas tourist trap 5 “___ Voyage!” (“N’siah Tovah!”)
learning games and a “somewhat nega- Avenue Theater’s production Joseph and 15 Drenched 6 Started to be discussed
tive” impact on time. the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. 16 Business for a shtetl Jew, 7 Fleeing the IDF, e.g.
“All media teaches something,” he sometimes 8 “Shalom ___”
says. The question is, what do we want Daniel Kranseler’s mom Lisa says the
17 1976 Mel Brooks movie with 9 “___ see it...”
kids to learn? A good example is the Baby acting bug bit her son when he was just 5.
Marcel Marceau 10 Enemy of chicken soup
Einstein company. The company, which His older sister Julie cast him in a play she
19 Latkes necessity 11 “Poalei ___” (workers’ group)
was bought by Disney a few years ago for wrote as a Bat Mitzvah project.
“He loved that,” says Lisa, proving 20 Where to place the kugel 12 “The Sarah Silverman Show will
quite a bit of money, claimed that kids
watching their videos would become a himself “a little ham.” 21 Slippery fish be ___ 5 minutes!”
genius of Einstein or Mozart proportions. Daniel, now 12, just wrapped up a 22 Fanny Brice or Lenny Bruce 13 Just
Of course it isn’t true, and the company three-week run in the chorus of the 5th 24 State where AZA started 18 Head, to Henri Bergson
was finally forced — through legal action Avenue Theatre’s production of Joseph and 25 Carter adviser Eizenstat 23 Tameh
— to retract those claims. the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which 26 Clay baker 25 Unlike Bette Midler
“Einstein never did watch ‘Baby Ein- played in Seattle from Oct. 10 to Nov. 1. 28 1968 Mel Brooks movie later to 26 Cologne, Germans say
stein,’” quips Don. “These are just dis- It was very demanding, says Daniel. become a Tony-winning show 27 “That makes sense.”
tractions.” Kids began rehearsing in August, more 33 Like a bad matzoh ball 28 “___ Milonakis Show”
The question remains if they are better than a month before regular rehearsals
36 “The Good, the Bad, and the 29 Signs on to go back to Gaza, e.g.
than other “distractions,” such as playing began.
Ugly” actor Wallach 30 Arthur James, first ___ of Balfour
with blocks. The academy has developed “It was…hard work,” he says, but “awe-
37 Read Torah 31 Sir Isaiah Berlin’s birthplace
a curmudgeonly reputation for cajol- some…fun,” and “worth it in the end.” He
also learned a lot about the inner work- 38 Freud’s comment to a patient 32 Rare Tel Aviv sight
ing parents about limiting television and
computer time for young kids. ings of professional theater and “gained a 39 With 45-Across, 1974 Mel Brooks 33 Tick off
Don says it’s better to teach parents lot of people skills.” movie in black and white 34 Macintosh ___
how to set limits, but even when pediatri- The show starred Anthony Federov, 41 “Cogito ___...” 35 ___ world record
cians talk to parents about media limits best known for placing fourth on season 42 Gouda rival 39 Jeuland of “Being Jewish in
(many don’t), parents think they’re being four of the “American Idol” reality show. 43 Grandfather at the bris France”
unrealistic. Federov was “really nice,” Daniel says. He 44 Stuart Markowitz’s show 40 Sound never heard at a kosher
“We talk about the nag factor,” says willingly signed autographs and keeps in 45 See 39-Across slaughterhouse
Don of his peers. “Our job is to point out touch with the kids from the cast through 49 Overcooked latke? 44 “Yid ___” (yarmulke)
to parents that there is a downside to this e-mail and Facebook.
50 613, e.g. 46 Stuffed intestines
kind of thing,” just like they point out This was Daniel’s fourth production
51 Tisha B’av substance 47 Oral and Written
that babies should sleep on their backs or this year (amateur and professional).
54 “The Diary of Anne Frank” and 48 First forest
kids should use seat belts. “We set the bar Now he’s preparing for a role in Youth
Theater Northwest’s mainstage conser- “Art” 51 Milieu
high,” because “the optimal health of the
child” is the concern. vatory program and will be dancing in 57 “___ too!” (taunt) 52 “___ his ways”
Teens have different issues, of course, the Emerald Ballet Theater’s Nutcracker. 58 Manhattan’s is 22.7 square miles 53 Yale’s Judaica professor Christine
with their near-constant reliance on All this while keeping up his grades in the 59 Golem 54 “The New Colossus,” e.g.
screens. As a parent himself, Don knows Spanish immersion program at Tillicum 60 1977 Mel Brooks movie spoofing 55 It’s spewed
it’s hard to talk to them about overuse and Middle School in Bellevue, playing piano Alfred Hitchcock 56 In galut, perhaps
abuse of phones, mp3 players or comput- in the school jazz band, and getting ready 64 She played Kitty in “Exodus” 57 Hollywood Chinese man’s
ers. They don’t just roll their eyes, they for his Bar Mitzvah at Temple B’nai Torah 65 Meat or potato comment
do “the whole Exorcist thing,” (spinning in June! (I’m tired just thinking about it.) 66 Basketball’s Grunfeld 58 Word in the Jerusalem Post’s “For
their heads around, vomiting pea soup). Daniel’s parents are Kenny and Lisa,
67 Purim mo., usually Rent” ads
Parents need to know that they have con- who is the executive director of the Wash-
68 Computer org. 61 ___ and outs
trol, especially of phones. Many are “not ington State Jewish Historical Society.
69 Braun and Seacrest 62 Freedom fighters
aware that they can eliminate texting,” or His older brother Andrew is a junior at
Newport High School, and his aforemen- 63 Generation-___
picture mail, he says.
Don has served on the AAP’s council tioned sister is a freshman at the Univer-
on communications and media for over sity of Pennsylvania. Lisa notes that B’nai Answers on page 17
two decades. In that role he has met with Torah members Jenna Oratz and Andy
the movie ratings board and worked with Burnstein were also in the Joseph cast.
a view from the u
Post-racial society? It ain’t necessarily so!

How history’s attempts to brush ethnic and cultural differences under the rug compare to today’s
formed Jewish race” from its medieval I can remember when enlightened white multiculturalists, presumably tol-
status as servae camera (“slaves of the Europeans considered racism an “Amer- erant of Hanukkah bushes, are a bit less
royal chamber”). ican thing.” In the 1960s, the liberal comfortable with well-attended mosques
The theoretical fathers of emancipa- citizens of, for example, England, the in quaint little villages outnumbering the
tion argued that, once the laws of the Netherlands, and France cluck-clucked empty churches that mock the vanished
state freed Jews to participate as equals in about the fate of African-Americans, glories of imperial Christendom.
Martin Jaffee the new European societies, they would while priding themselves in appreciating Even the third generation of England-
JTNews inevitably lose their “Jewish deformi- expatriate jazz and blues artists who fled born Pakistanis has not become Angli-
Columnist ties,” “rediscover their human nature,” the U.S. for Europe’s freedoms. can. What for? The English themselves are
and eventually become absorbed into During those same years, Europeans no longer Anglican! Similarly, living in an
Since Harvard’s famous professor of Europe. also prided themselves on welcoming vast aggressively secularist society, France’s
African-American studies, Henry Louis In a nutshell, emancipat ion was numbers of labor-immigrants from former Algerians have resisted secularization.
Gates, was arrested in his own home last Europe’s solution to the problem of sur- colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Mideast. Why? Because many — correctly or not
summer, many bystanders have pro- plus de-formed Jews, and was explicitly Well, Europeans still love jazz, it — see exported European secularism as
fessed to be shocked — shocked! — at designed to re-form them — i.e., facili- seems; yet now, virtually all of the EU the very cause of the homeland troubles
America’s failure to become a “post- tate their disappearance — within a few countries are considering legislation to (political chaos, ethnic warfare, poverty)
racial” society. generations. restrict the residency rights of the Euro- that inspired their emigration in the first
Maybe I’m dense, but I can’t help Well, we all know where that great pean-born grandchildren of the very place. And not without reason, do many of
wondering what exactly people mean plan wound up. It didn’t take too long immigrants welcomed with open arms Germany’s third-generation Turks regard
by a post-racial society. Do they mean before alert Europeans noticed that the two generations ago! the religionless societies of the EU nations
a society where racial minorities of all Jews were, so to speak, breaking the rules By the 1990s or so, Europeans began as morally corrupt and spiritually empty.
kinds are — to echo the words of Dr. of emancipation. Yes, they did adopt to realize what their own experience with And need I mention Osama?
King — “judged by the content of their and adapt European values and social the Jews should have already taught them To make a long story short, Europe
character, rather than by the color of mores. But they didn’t stop being Jews. — that “multiculturalism” as a program should have learned from its experience
their skin?” Well, who can argue with In fact, in many cases, they invented of social assimilation works only where with the Jews that multiculturalism is a
such a goal? entirely unanticipated ways of remain- all the cultural parties have the same sham unless the majority is prepared to
Yet, after about 250 years of legalized ing Jews in the context of some larger goal. The subcultures must sincerely accept powerful changes in its traditions
slavery of Africans, the near-extinction “European identity.” We know their cul- pledge allegiance to a larger common stemming from those of its ethnic minor-
of Natives, and another century at least tural creations still as Reform Judaism, culture, while the common culture ities. And what it is now learning from
of official blindness to the impact of both Conservative Judaism, Modern Ortho- must prepare to see itself transformed in Islam is that multiculturalism works only
calamities upon the descendants, can doxy, and even some kinds of socialism important ways by the cultural creativity to the degree that the minority is as eager
anyone realistically expect that Ameri- (remember the Bund?). of the subcultures. as 19th-century Jews to embrace the
cans will, overnight, conceive of race as a But, as we sadly know, the whole- That is, the multicultural ideal is majority’s principal traditions.
meaningless matter of melanin? hearted passion that Western European something like a mixed marriage — it will And in the post-9/11 reality, of course,
We Jews, of all people, should know Jews brought to their acculturation in fall apart unless both partners are fine how ready is Europe — or its naturalized
better. Not because “we were slaves in Europe did not satisfy their partners in with the idea of a Hanukkah bush in the Muslim citizens — for such wholesale
Egypt.” But because we were Europe’s multiculturalism. Terrified of the “Juda- living room on Dec. 25! compromise? In comparison, the Ameri-
first experiment with “affirmative action” ization” of Europe, the European ene- This is, in fact, the point of a recent can racial dilemma pales!
of absorbing a despised racial minority mies of affirmative action disinvited book by Christopher Caldwell, Reflections
into the majority culture. their Jewish guests — even the non- on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Martin S. Jaffee currently holds the
Contemporary American “post-racial- assimilated “Oriental Jews” — and sent Islam, and the West (Doubleday, 2009). Samuel & Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish
ism” has its ideological roots, after all, in them all packing to their vaporization He argues that post-Fascist Europe, sick Studies at the University of Washington.
the 18th-century European program of in the East. of tribalistic mass murder, was more His award-winning columns for JTNews
Jewish Emancipation. The enlightened Well, that’s one model of “post-racial” than ready for some multicultural rock have recently been published in book
European peoples would, out of high- society that I’m sure no reader of these ’n’ roll. But Europe’s new ethnic-immi- form as The End of Jewish Radar:
minded commitment to the principle of lines endorses! Shall we try another, more grant minorities, being mostly Muslim, Snapshots of a Post-Ethnic American
universal human rights, release the “de- recent model? were dancing to a different tune. Europe’s Judaism by iUniverse press.
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jewish on earth
The green business of Hanukkah

Pushing for the reinvention of the entire supply chain
digital thermometers and reading glasses metals toward the Clark Fork and Colum- • Humans must unconditionally breed,
to us for 3-for-$20 at Costco, and a buck bia Rivers. To grow abundant grain from get new supplies of food, energy and water,
each at the Dollar Store. America’s Midwest “breadbasket,” agri- and make useless and dangerous waste,
Making these fossil-fueled Leviathans business farms are sucking the vast Oglala • Human imperatives trump those of all
“sustainable” is ludicrous, since — hel-lo? aquifer dry for irrigation, and wiping out other living things, and
Martin — they can’t go “green” unless they stay in the topsoil. To supply our petro-products, • Change is frightening. Humans reap
Westerman business. Converting them to sustainable oil and gas companies erased northern fabulous sums of money, abundance,
JTNews enterprises means — yikes! — re-invent- Gulf of Mexico wetlands, polluted sur- things to strive for, and low prices from
Columnist ing everything we “know” and depend on rounding fresh water wells, and opened the this system. It underpins our economy.
about business, earning our wages and way for Katrina to destroy New Orleans. Recall George Bush’s call to America
You’ve torn open eight days’ worth salaries, and living our lives. Specifically: Though the scale of global supply after 9/11: “Go shopping!”
of presents, and you’re still disposing “greening” means shortening the chains chains is beyond biblical and Talmu- Ironically, shopping may lead to
of holiday wrappings and packaging. — by sourcing within our continents dic scope, the sages did offer guiding change: we “vote” with our money. Com-
Before Hanukkah, you’d have expected and regions rather than globally (with principles for business conduct: Under- panies whose products we buy prosper;
me to remind you of the Torah and rab- few exceptions); investing capital here in stand the pain of living things (tsar others go bankrupt.
binic admonitions to make no waste infrastructure and opportunity, raising ba’aleh chayyim), ba’al tashchit, and Suppose you were presented with noth-
(ba’al tashchit) and heal the Earth (tikkun pay for labor, cutting pay for management; tikkun olam. They were locally focused ing but “green” purchasing options? Your
olam). So, you’ll have given and received eliminating all supply chain waste prod- and pragmatically commercial. The fruit money would enrich resource efficient
long-lasting or biodegradable gifts, recy- ucts; and ultimately, as customers, buying trees they prohibited cutting during companies, build alternative and “smart”
cled or composted the wraps and pack- less and paying some higher prices. wartime, for example, could be felled in power and water systems, and conserve
ages, and left nada for the garbage, right? We regard these huge enterprises as peacetime to clear land for building if natural resources. Suppose you could get a
Who am I kidding? entirely uncontrollable, rather like giant they were more valuable for their lumber “green” mortgage that awarded you with a
We occupy the tail ends of massively cats. Who but the most wildly optimistic, than for their fruit. 1/2-percent lower interest rate for improv-
long animals called “supply chains.” They deranged, or ingenious people would try Today’s sustainable business people ing the resource efficiency of your home?
stretch from Latin America, Asia and to retrain these massive creatures? We’ve are similarly pragmatic, and arguably How about a national co-op network
Europe, across land bridges and oceans, kind of made them into discomfiting house more principled. They focus globally on that connected you with a vast array
into our very own homes. They grew into pets, which are unintentionally killing us. a “triple bottom line” of economic, envi- of competitively priced green prod-
behemoths by giving low prices to us Examples? We got gold for our jew- ronmental and human capital. They ucts and services? Would you support
buyers, and profits to their owners and elry and electronics from the Berkeley Pit judge enterprises on their movement programs that educate and empower
shareholders. How? They hunt out the mine near Butte, Montana, but the sul- toward balance in these three areas. Third World women, to help lift their
cheapest capital, labor, materials, manu- furic acid pumped underground to free Their progress is hampered, however, families out of poverty, and lower their
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November 13 – 22, 2009

The JTNews calendar presents a selection ■■11:45 a.m. - 2 p.m. – Shabbat of Inspiration ■■5 p.m. – 2009 AIPAC Washington State Lunch and a discussion led by Rabbi Jacob
of ongoing events in the Jewish community. with Rabbi Yerachmiel Milstein Membership Event Fine. RSVP requested. At Microsoft, building
For a complete listing of events, or to add info@seattlekollel.org Sarah Persitz at 206-624-5152, ext. 6201 9, room 2569, Redmond.
your event to the JTNews calendar, visit Shabbat lunch and lecture on “Living an or spersitz@aipac.org ■■7 p.m. – Torahthon3
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submitted no later than 10 days before $12 adults, $6 children, $40 families. At the the Westin Hotel, 1900 5th Ave., Seattle. A night of learning at Herzl-Ner Tamid’s third
publication. Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle. annual Torahthon. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Con-
Looking for the ongoing section? Find ■■4:30 p.m. – Young Family Spice Night Monday 16 servative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way,
recurring events online at www.jtnews.net. isolde@h-nt.org ■■7 p.m. – Seeing Balance in Family, Love Mercer Island.
Parents, grandparents and young children are and Life
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Candle Lighting Times
rytelling. All welcome. $20 per family. At Pepper Schwartz. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E ■■6 - 8 p.m. – Downtowners Happy Hour
11/13/09 4:18 p.m. Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, Mercer Way, Mercer Island. Josh at joshf@hilleluw.org
11/20/09 4:10 p.m. 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. Join fellow Jewish professionals for happy
11/27/09 4:05 p.m. ■■8 p.m. – Adults’ Night at Teen Lounge Tuesday 17 hour. Hosted by Jconnect. At the Columbia
12/4/09 4:01 p.m. julie@bcmhseattle.org or 206-721-0970 ■■6 p.m. – A New Moon, A New You Tower Club, 701 5th Ave., Seattle.
Dinner, drinks and arcade games for adults. chabadbellevue.org
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Friday 13 building behind BCMH, 5145 S Morgan St., Crust, 7525 SE 24th St., Mercer Island. Already!”
■■5 p.m. – Shabbat of Inspiration with Rabbi Seattle. ■■7 p.m. – Israel Unplugged Info Session Kristine Ganes at 206-528-1944 or
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Friday night dinner following services and a Josh at joshf@hilleluw.org annaf@jewishinseattle.org Shabbat potluck with the Secular Jewish Circle
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Inspiring Others.” $18 adults, $10 children. by Jewish DJs. $7. Proceeds go to Lifelong upcoming community trip to Israel. Location related to humanism, secularism, and atheism.
Co-sponsored by the Seattle Kollel. At AIDS Alliance. At Chop Suey, 1325 E Madison provided upon RSVP, Bellevue. Location provided upon RSVP.
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Jewish Historical Society about the history of ested in learning the tools for sharing the Anna Frankfort at 206-774-2226 or
Jewish businesses in Washington State. At beauty of Judaism and Torah with unaffiliated annaf@jewishinseattle.org Sunday 22
Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Jews. Free. At Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. Group for all women knitters sponsored by ■■6 p.m. – Moishe House Challah Baking and
Seattle. S, Seattle. Women’s Philanthropy in conjunction with Cooking Workshop
■■9:30 p.m. – Special Oneg Honoring Author ■■10 a.m. – “The Way We Ate” with Jackie the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. kibbutznik@ravennakibbutz.org
Molly Cone Williams Location provided upon RSVP. Instruction on how to make challah from
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alysa@templebetham.org alysa@templebetham.org Wednesday 18 and tzatziki dip. Adults 22-30 only. At
A special oneg following Shabbat services to Author and food historian Jackie Williams ■■12 p.m. – Eastside Lox ‘n’ Learn Moishe House Seattle, 6230 23rd Ave. NE,
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Jewish Book Month. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.
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Dissolve yeast in warm water. In a large bowl, mix together half the flour, sugar, yeast,
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smooth. Add remaining flour and knead by hand. Cover bowl with a dish towel and let
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Use a round 2-inch diameter cookie cutter to cut out circles. Place a tablespoon of jam on
every other circle and cover with another circle of dough. Pinch the sides together all the
way around. Cover with a dish towel and let rise for about one hour, until doubled in size.
Pour about 2 inches of oil into a heavy skillet and heat until it shimmers. Gently place a few
of the doughnuts into the oil and fry, turning once, about 1-2 minutes per side. When done,
remove from skillet and drain on paper towels. Sprinkle generously with powdered sugar.
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community news
Seven angels Israeli immigrants from across Africa and the
Erez Ben-Ari of Greater Seattle, the “Taste of Israel”

JTNews Correspondent series of events held during the first week
of November gave more than 500 Seattle-
Kiryat Malachi, located in the south area Jews a glimpse into the some of the
of Israel, might not be considered an unique cultures of Israel.
attractive place to many Israelis, but During the week, the seven women,
seven women visiting from the region Sima Kadori, Yehudit Shitri, Rina Golan,
showed off a different side of this little Aliza Surat, Clara Davidov, Chilot Gethon
town. Hosted by the Jewish Federation and Mazal Caravani, all originally hail-
ing from different parts of the world, par-
ticipated in a series of public events in
which each of them cooked and shared
with the audience some of their authentic
ethnic foods, as well as insights into their
lives and histories. Some of the women
suffered incredible hardships until they Dina Tanners
finally settled in Israel, and they shared Clara Davidov, left, Aliza Surat, center, and Sima Kadori show off piles of their mufleta,
those tales with their audiences. which was similar to a pancake.
The person who brought these women
together, Smadar Kaplinski, specializes Originally named Malachi, or angels in “My father, who is no longer with us,
in feminine empowerment. She gath- Hebrew, to honor the Jewish community met my mother when she was merely 12
ers women from across Israel, and helps of Los Angeles, which had contributed years [old], and it took two more years for
them find their inner strengths, then significantly to its founding, the town their parents to agree for them to get mar-
works with them to nurture and grow was settled by immigrant Jews from Arab ried,” she told one audience. “My parents
their gifts and talents. In the case of the nations. Later on, thousands of immi- were well-off financially, as my father was
Kiryat Malachi group, these talents are grants from Ethiopia and the former a tailor and served the upper classes and
cooking, and the ultimate goal of the Soviet Union settled there, making it a royalty of Morocco.”
project is to establish a commercial entity diverse and unique community. Upon arriv ing in Israel, t hrough
to harness these talents and better the Sima Kadori, 55, was born in Casa- France, her family was placed in Kiryat
Dina Tanners
lives of these women. blanca, Morocco to a well-to-do family. Malachi “in a neighborhood with many
Chilot Gethon fries up a dessert
Kiryat Malachi is a small development She left her home country while still a
pancake, known as mufleta.
town, about 30 miles south of Tel Aviv. baby. u Page 13
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Middle East cook their native dishes for Seattleites
Seven Angels t Page 12 ethnic groups that coexisted warmly, and “One such goal,” Federation volun- cial booklet published by the TIPS part-
we were all very proud of our new country teer Dina Tanners told JTNews, “is the nership. One of those recipes can be
of Israel,” Kadori said. “I grew to become strengthening of Kir yat Malachi, an found on night #5 of the 8 Fried Nights of
a kindergarten teacher, and did that for often-neglected area of Israel, and the Hanukkah, on page 15.
35 wonderful years which also involved second is support-
teaching preschool teachers how to work ing and strengthen-
with special-needs children.” ing the relationship
Kadori retired a year ago and joined the between the people
Ethnic Flavors group to be able to share of A merican com-
her native Moroccan cooking with people munities w it h t he
both in Israel and abroad, she said. p e ople of K i r y at
The women told stories, danced and Malachi.” Tanners
sang in their native dress, and, of course, said that this coop-
with the help of many local volunteers, e r a t ion h a s a l s o
cooked and shared the delicacies of their helped to facilitate
native countries. exchange of social
The Jewish Federations of Tucson, workers, teach-
Phoenix and Seattle, all of which have a ers, students, camp
long-standing relationship with Kiryat counselors, as well
Malachi and the Hof Ashkelon region, as many volunteer
Dina Tanners
have formed a part nership, named projects.
Sima Kadori, who left Morocco when Dina Tanners
TIPS, that works toward several goals in Many of t he
she was a year old, mixes raw meat in Clara Davidov and Mazal Caravani, dressed in clothing from
improving the livelihoods of the people recipes the women
preparation for one of the dishes she their native countries, sing for their audience at Congregation
who live there. This visit is one result of cooked have been
cooked. Beth Shalom.
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its fourth issue. Drash presents work with Jewish, Northwest Musician Ari Hest is touring in support of his album 12 Mondays,
and universal themes that comments on the world, illuminates which was the end product of a project to write, record and
and provides connections, and educates and entertains. produce one song a week for a year. 12 Mondays is comprised
Deadline is Dec. 15, 2009. Submissions can be mailed to of 12 fan-picked songs from the original 52. Cost is $8 in
Wendy Marcus, Drash Editor, Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE advance, $10 at the door. Must be 21 or over. At the Highdive,
80th St., Seattle, WA 98115. Additional guidelines can be 513 N 36th Ave., Seattle.
found at www.templebetham.org/music/drash.
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to the public. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
Monday, November 23, 7 p.m.

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4th Night of Hanukkah 5th Night of Hanukkah

Birmuelos Kubeh (Oval meat-filled grain patties)
2 onions
2 pkg. dry yeast 2 lb. ground meat
1 cup warm water 2 lb. semolina
1 tsp. salt 1 lb. bulgur wheat
1 Tbs. sugar 2 tsp. chopped parsley
3 cups water 1/2 tsp. black pepper
6 to 6-1/2 cups flour A little salt
2 Tbs. oil 1 tsp. chicken soup powder
Dissolve the yeast in 1 cup of warm water. Add salt and sugar. Add 3 cups water and add A little Baharat spice (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baharat)
the flour gradually, working to form soft dough. Brush dough with oil. Cover with a towel 1 tsp. sweet paprika
and let the dough rise for an hour or until double in bulk. Punch down the dough and shape Water (as much as you will need)
into walnut sized balls. Twirl each ball of dough in your fingers, gently pushing your thumbs The filling:
into the center to form a hole and ‘doughnut’ shape. Let rest on work surface until a few Fry the meat with a little oil. In a large pan, fry onions with a little oil. Add meat, spices and
birmuelos are formed. Drop the shaped dough into 350º hot oil and cook on one side until parsley. Cook for 5 minutes, and then cool.
golden brown, turn once and finish cooking. Remove birmuelos with slotted spoon and drain
on paper towels. Serve with syrup, honey or dusted with powdered sugar. The dough:
Soak the bulgur for 15 minutes in water. Wash and rinse well. Add semolina, adding a little
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Sculptor looks back on life’s work

kane’s Veterans’ Arena. Tom Jay, the other
contributor to Levine’s book, calls the
sculptor “a midwife to wonder.”
Exhibit and book gives Phillip Levine chance for reflection These days, Levine works mostly on
a smaller scale, making models that can
Diana Brement by the museum and dis- easily be created in his studio. He uses
JTNews Columnist tributed by University what he calls a “lost carbon” method, cre-
of Washington Press, it’s ating a sculpture out of wood, cloth, paper,
On the Shabbat before Simchat Torah, short on words and long or other carbon-based material. A mold is
at the weekly Torah study at North Seat- on pictures, with photos built around the sculpture and the molten
tle’s Temple Beth Am, Rabbi Beth Singer of about 100 of the 700 to bronze is poured in, vaporizing the carbon-
asked regular participants to share their 800 sculptures he’s pro- based materials. It’s a faster concept-to-
favorite Torah verse. duced in his long work- sculpture process for the artist compared
Most offered stories from Genesis, a ing life. to the “lost wax” method, in which the cre-
few noted the Exodus from Egypt while “ I d o n ’t b e l i e v e ation of the sculpture and mold may take
others singled out Moses’ final speech. anyone knows what I’ve six months. He has also returned to oil
But sculptor Phillip Levine’s (say done in the larger sense,” painting after many decades.
“vine,” not “veen”) favorite verses begin he says of the overview. “I didn’t paint for 45 years,” he remarks.
in Exodus 35, when the Israelites begin Br on z e s c u lpt u r e Occasionally he opens up his studio to
receiving directions for building the tab- comes to us through an exhibit and sell his work, but he doesn’t
ernacle. It starts with a description of industrial process, so it’s Diana Brement show much in galleries now.
“all these wondrous materials,” Levine fitting that the Levines Phillip and Rachael Levine, with one of Phillip’s larger Levine now has more of the luxury of
observes, followed by an “extremely live in far-South Seat- sculptures, at their home and studio in Seattle’s South time, time to reflect, time to enjoy his four
detailed process” of construction. Most tle. To get to their quiet Park neighborhood. grandchildren and, of course, to continue
fittingly, we read repeatedly in Lev. 36:1 of neighborhood you need creating.
“every skilled person whom the Lord has to pass through the city’s most indus- Master’s degree in sculpture and teaching “To do something well,” he says, “that
endowed with skill and ability.” trial neighborhoods, flanked on the way at the University of Washington in 1961. has been my main focus.”
Levine, who works mostly in bronze, by trucks of all sizes, with a view of fac- The couple raised three sons in the
has never spent much time trying to dissect tories, warehouses and scrap metal piles. house where they still live.
where ideas come from. He’s the kind of guy His studio shares the lot with his home, “I raised them in the studio,” says Phil-
who just wants to get to work — so Torah but for a period of time he had a larger lip, whose home studio allowed him to
reflection is new to the 78-year-old artist. studio in South Park where he produced be a stay-at-home dad before that was in
“These are all late thoughts,” he says, large commissioned works such as Triad, vogue. “That was wonderful.”
adding that he and his wife Rachael only a piece for Martin Selig, which resides at Josh and Aaron are now both artists
started going regularly to Torah study 300 Elliott Avenue West in Seattle. “I love and craftsmen in their own right. Phillip
about four years ago, although they’ve being close to [industry],” he says, noting and Rachael’s youngest son Jacob was an
belonged to the congregation since the that he owned a foundry for 25 years. artist, too, but also a pilot who died tragi-
early 1960s. Born in Chicago, Levine grew up in cally in a plane crash when he was just 25. 9OUDONTHAVETOBEATRADITIONAL*EW
“I don’t think it’s made me more spir- Denver and went to the University of Col- Levine’s specialty is the figure, and par- TOSHAREIN*EWISHTRADITIONS
itual,” he observes, but says with age he orado, expecting to study that most tradi- ticularly the figure in action. He was ath-
has become more philosophical. “You tional of Jewish subjects, medicine. After letic and “doing sports and the awareness *OINUSINCELEBRATING
realize you’re part of that context.” two years he found himself unhappy of what the body does and the pleasure of 3HABBAT
This fits in with an insightful phase that with the subject and took a variety of it was underlying much of the sculpture,” .OVEMBERTH PM
began with putting together a book, Myth, courses, including one in three-dimen- he says. •
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retrospective exhibit of his work that was he recalls, saying he was also “doing well in Levine’s book that getting the human
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mounted at the Museum of Northwest Art in accounting,” but he just walked out of figure right is an enduring problem in PLEASECONTACTUSAT
in La Conner this past spring. that class. Returning to school as a junior, Western art, but Levine “gets the gesture INFO SECULARJEWISHCIRCLEORG
“The book was a reflective process,” he spent two years taking art classes, right.” You can see it in “Woman Danc- WWWSECULARJEWISHCIRCLEORG
Levine says, and gave him the opportu- graduating with a degree in the subject. ing,” the sculpture on the East Capitol
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6th Night of Hanukkah 7th Night of Hanukkah

Plain ol’ basic no-frills latkes Apple Latkes (Dairy)
4 to 5 medium to large Yukon Gold potatoes 1 egg 2 Tbs. sugar
1 large onion, shredded 2/3 cup plain yogurt 1 cup grated apple (I like Granny Smith)
(you can use a food processor) 1 cup flour Oil for frying
2 eggs 1/2 tsp. baking powder Maple syrup or confectioners’ sugar and
1-1/2 Tbs. flour or matzoh meal 1/4 tsp. baking soda ground cinnamon for garnish
1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. black pepper In a bowl combine the egg with the yogurt, mix to combine and set aside. In another bowl
Oil for frying Creative Commons/IsobelH
combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and sugar. Peel and core the
Peel and cut two of the potatoes into 1-inch chunks. Boil the chunks in salted water until apples, then grate them; you can use a food processor. Pour egg-yogurt mixture into the
tender (15 to 20 minutes). Drain and mash the potatoes slightly. Sprinkle the flour or bowl with the flour mixture, add grated apples and fold all the ingredients together. Pour
matzoh meal on top of the mashed potatoes and set the mixture aside. Shred the remaining enough oil to come about 1/4 inch up a skillet and put on stove to heat.
potatoes and mix them, in a large bowl with the shredded onions (this mixing is to keep Dollop spoonfuls of apple batter into sizzling oil; a rubber spatula — the one you used to fold
the potato from turning brown). Squeeze and drain as much liquid as possible from onion/ the batter together — will help you scrape the batter off the spoon and press down on the
potato mixture. Add the eggs, pepper, and salt to the onion mixture and mix to combine. Add little latkes in the pan. Fry for a minute or two, until latkes are golden brown on underside;
the mashed potatoes to the shredded potatoes and mix to combine. you can see from the top as they start firming up underneath. Flip them with two metal
Make 3-inch patties. Heat oil and fry the patties in 1/4 to 1/2 inches of oil. Cook for about spatulas, and fry for another minute on the uncooked side. Remove to tray lined with paper
5 minutes on the first side and then turn them over with a spatula and cook for 2 to 3 more towels or brown paper to blot excess oil, and continue cooking until you’ve used up all the
minutes or until golden brown. Drain on paper towels. batter. Serve with syrup or confectioners’ sugar and ground cinnamon.
Yield: Approximately 8 to 12 latkes, depending upon size. Yield: about 20 2-1/2 inch latkes
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A tribute in memory of Ann Moises

By Sheryl Stern
Ann Moises, long time Seattle resident, passed Thank you for teaching me to love kites and
away August 26, 2009 on a beautiful summer’s day canoes, daffodils and dandelions, stars and sand
in Boca Raton, Florida. She was my mother. Ann lived castle, puppies and parades. Thank you for the
a full and vibrant life to the age of 85. She died peace- wonderful birthday parties and family picnics,
fully in hospice, with her two children by her side. vacations and holiday celebrations. Bat Mitzvah
Ann was born in Seattle on April 24, 1924 to Thank you for demonstrating love for people,
Ariella Kleiman
Hyman and Ethel Lerner. Her father died when Ann loyalty and learning.
was just 5. She and her mother then moved to You taught me concern for others, truth and
Cleveland, Ohio, where Ann spent her youth. At age honesty, and to never give up on my dreams. Ariella will be called to the Torah as a
16, Ann returned to Seattle. She attended Garfield Thank you for teaching me pride in being a Jew. Bat Mitzvah on November 1, 2009 at Con-
High School. Ann then met and married her future We were members of Herzl Conservative Congrega- gregation Beth Shalom in Seattle.  
husband, Harry Moises. After their two children were tion, going all the way back to the early 1940s. You
Ariella is the daughter of Sidney and
grown, Ann attended the University of Washington, were very active in the synagogue, serving as Sister-
graduating with a degree in education, realizing her hood president in 1950. Thank you for enrolling my Israella Kleiman, the big sister of Caleb and
life-long passion of becoming a teacher. During brother Hylan and me in Hebrew School and providing Gabrielle and little sister of Jessica Crain
retirement Ann and Harry traveled the world. They us with a good Jewish education. and Kandra Kleiman. She is the grand-
later moved to Florida to be close to family. At home I remember welcoming the Sabbath on Friday nights. daughter of Ellis and Vera Kantor of Kirkland
Ann taught English and American Literature at Federal Way High I remember blessing the Shabbat candles with you. We called it
and the late Rosa and Solomon Kleiman.
School for 27 years. Ann was a popular teacher. She was tough. She benching licht.
expected the best from her students. She inspired them through her I remember the warmth and glow from the candles, and the peace  Ariella is a 7th grader at Eckstein Middle
high standards of teaching and by her genuine concern for them. She and joy it brought into our hearts and home. School. She enjoys soccer, violin, piano,
helped shape their lives by teaching them to believe in themselves. I remember the beautifully set Shabbat table. hanging out with family and friends, listening
Many of Ann’s colleagues and former students, from all over the I remember you opening our home to guests. to music, shopping, dancing and school.
country, were deeply affected by her passing. Mother, you were my teacher, my advisor, my confidante, my
My mother, Ann Moises, was a woman of wisdom and beauty, inspiration and my friend.
strength and courage. You laughed with me and cried with me. You praised me and
I am forever grateful for her love and guidance, her devotion to consoled me. And at my wedding, you beamed with happiness and
family, and the positive influence she had on my life. danced with joy.
Thank you, Mother, for being my role model. For teaching me Mother, your accomplishments were many, but it was your love
good moral values. For inspiring me to be a better person. For helping of family, strength of character, and good deeds that will become your
to make this world a better place. lasting legacy.
Thank you for your unconditional love. You kvelled when I first All those who knew you will miss you.
smiled, began to crawl, took my first steps, and said my first words. You May Hashem bless you and may you rest in peace in Gan Eden.
nursed me when I was sick, wiped my runny nose, and dried my salty tears. Ann was laid to rest at Bikur Cholim Cemetery in Seattle.
Thank you for your encouragement and support. You were the She was preceded in death by her husband of 64 years, Harry Moises
best customer at my lemonade stand. You applauded the loudest at and her grandson Mark Stern and is survived by daughter Sheryl (Eddie)
Bar Mitzvah
my ballet performances, piano recitals, and school plays. You believed Stern, son Dr. Hylan Moises and daughter-in-law Dr. Dianne Longo;
in me. You told me I could succeed at whatever I put my mind to. grandchildren Leslie (Dr. Paul) Kaplan, and Justin Moises; great- Matthew Jonah Manner
Thank you for teaching me about the big world out there, and for grandchildren Zachary Kaplan, Brooke Kaplan, and Zoe Stern.
giving me a safe place to come home to when the world was over- Donations to Ann’s memory may be made to The City of Hope. Matthew will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah
whelming. Thank you for teaching me that life isn’t always fair. Remembrances may also be sent to Sheryl Stern: sherylhs@hotmail.com. on November 21, 2009 at Temple B’nai
Torah in Bellevue.
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Obituary: Rabbi Arthur A. Jacobovitz

Former Hillel director still visited, met with students years after retiring
More than two decades after he left his It was that openness that Spitzer said approached community member Herb
post, former students who had attended made Jacobovitz so successful in his posi- Pruzan to help him establish and manage
events at Hillel at the University of Wash- tion. Each week, Rabbi J would hold court the Jacobovitz Institute. The philan-
ington still stopped in to ask how Rabbi at Clark’s, a now-shuttered restaurant thropic foundation gave a major gift
J, as people knew him, was doing. That’s near campus, for heated discussions that to rebuild the Karen Mayers Gamo-
the impact Arthur Jacobovitz had on the would go late into the night. ran Family Center for Jewish Life, Hil-
Seattle Jewish community, said Rabbi “During the radical times, there were lel’s center that opened in 2004, and still
Will Berkovitz, Hillel at the UW’s current people from all political backgrounds, funds organizations that further the
executive director. all religious backgrounds, all Jewish reli- cause of appreciation for Judaism.
“He was tremendously giving,” Berk- gious backgrounds coming to debate, to “He was seeking to dispel anti-Sem-
ovitz said. “To this day, I still get calls talk,” Bridge said. “Everything he really itism and its evils through an enhanced
from his old students asking me if I know built was to help students grow, to kind of image of the Jewish people,” Pruzan said.
where he is or what he’s up to.” be prickly, to push them to grow. Hope- “This was what he felt was important. He
Rabbi Arthur Jacobovitz died Tues., fully that’s something we’ve continued.” felt Jewish people had been maligned
Nov. 3 at the age of 79. He had been in ill Yet as open as he was, he was also throughout history.”
health for the past several years. opinionated and always seeking to teach Though he retired from his job, Rabbi
Though it was more than 20 years others. That part of his personality would J never really left Hillel. Until the new
Joel Magalnick
since he retired, Rabbi J would still sometimes create friction in his relation- building opened, Jacobovitz served as
In this 2004 photo, Rabbi Arthur Jacobo-
come to events, most recently for a ships. mashgiach, ensuring the facility kept up
vitz, left, creator of the Hillel Passover
meal in the Hillel sukkah, as well as to “He stood up for what he believed, and its kosher standards, and provided advice
lunch program that brings in hundreds of
the annual Passover luncheon he orig- he got into a lot of conflicts with people on Jewish law to both of his successors.
Jews from all walks of life in the Puget
inally created. because of that,” Bridge said, “but he One of the downsides to being so
Sound region, with Paul Malakoff, former
When he arrived in Seattle in 1959, also spoke, in the vernacular today, his involved with the organization and the
luncheon committee chair. Rabbi J, as he
he was a young Orthodox rabbi sent by truth.” students was that he never settled down
was known, died Nov. 3.
the national Hillel Foundation to rescue The Hillel that exists today is largely with a family of his own.
an organization in disarray, having been built upon much of what Jacobovitz cre- “He was a great people person and he
through five directors in 10 years. He university and making this place a Jewish ated. That includes the kosher Passover always had relationships,” Spitzer said. “I
indeed brought stability to Hillel — he center for all students,” said Rabbi Dan lunches that bring Jews together from think the great tragedy in his life was that,
served in his position for nearly 30 years. Bridge, who was not only Jacobovitz’s across the religious spectrum, weekly in a way, Hillel always came first, so that
He also worked with Jewish students and successor, but a student active in Rabbi campus discussions for anyone — not kept him from having his own family.”
the community to make Hillel a magnet J’s Hillel. “He did it. If you look back to the just Jews — over bagels, and Grads Plus, Students from the ’60s said Jacobovitz
for the area’s Jewish students, regardless years in the ’60s, the ’70s, the ’80s, there the precursor to Hillel’s popular Jconnect always expressed interest in their dating
of belief or affiliation. were Jews from every Jewish walk of life.” program for young adults ages 22-32. lives and overlooked what may have been
“He had a lot of struggles as an Ortho- Jacobovitz was well-read and relished “We stand on the shoulders of those considered unseemly behavior at the time
dox rabbi coming to this town and to this intellectual conversations with his stu- who came ahead of us,” Berkovitz told a — as long as the partner was Jewish.
dents and community members. Rob class of students he teaches when word In many ways, the people he met at
Spitzer, whose involvement in Seattle’s came of Jacobovitz’s death. Hillel and stayed in touch with throughout
If you go: Jewish community for nearly his entire One of his disappointments during his the years were his family. Even as his health
adult life can be attributed to Jacobovitz, tenure was his inability to get a Hebrew grew more fragile, a group of women who
A memorial service honoring Rabbi agreed. language program started in the Arab had maintained a following over the years
Arthur Jacobovitz will be held at Hillel “He was an extremely learned and Studies dept., prior to the creation of the would bring him groceries and help him
at the University of Washington, 4745 devout and pious Jew, and at the same time, Jewish Studies Program. He ended up get to doctor appointments, Bridge said.
17th Ave. NE, Seattle at 7 p.m. on he had an openness and kind of a wonder teaching Hebrew at Seattle University Jacobovitz left behind a niece and
Tues., Nov. 17. about the world,” Spitzer said. “It was just a instead. some cousins. He was buried in Israel.
combination I’d never seen before.” Upon his ret irement, Jacobov it z — Joel Magalnick
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Generations
Election day
think how my actions have been shaped
by my own personal history, and how per-
haps somewhere in my future I too can
The president’s had a rough few months, but there was, at first, optimism have a positive impact on the world.
Obama being elected shows every-
Masada Siegel matic. She amazes me. I don’t know how should be allowed to vote who are intel- one in the USA and the world that their
and Stefanie Zweig she manages to work full-time, cook ligent and well-educated. By the way: actions should not be taken lightly. Hard
JTNews Columnists full-time, be a mom full-time, and even Voting isn’t a privilege, it is a duty. Off work, brains, luck and timing can change
occasionally be able to read two pages to my book now. Somebody is coming to the planet.
Generations is a series of across-the- of a book before she passes out to sleep. I steal my time this afternoon and draw a His acceptance speech was excellent
ocean e-mail conversations between think my brother-in-law is exceptionally picture of me for a local museum. last night, no big surprise. He was smart
70-something author Stefanie Zweig and lucky to have married her! Love, to set realistic expectations. The USA is in
30-something writer Masada Siegel. We will see how the election plays out Stefanie a mess financially, we have two wars, and
today. Both McCain and Obama have the rest of the world is looking to expand
From: Masada Siegel worked really hard, and I am happy to Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:20 a.m. their own power, so it is no easy task
Tue, Nov. 4, 2008 at 11:32 a.m. see democracy in action. However, being From: Masada Siegel ahead to literally solve the world’s issues.
To: Stefanie Zweig president of the United States is truly a To: Stefanie Zweig Mark my words, while the press and
Subject: I Voted Today! thankless job. Whoever wins will have Hey Stefanie! the people love Obama now, political cov-
Hi Stefanie! a lot of work ahead and will need to pull It’s a good morning in America, con- erage always goes on a curve. At first the
I voted today! I get emotional about this country up out of what is looking like firming my belief that I do live in the great- press loves the candidate for a few years,
voting — call me an international/ a rough next few years economically! est country in the world, and that if you can and I hate to say it, but it also happened
national policy geek — but I feel blessed No matter, it’s good to be an American! dream it, you can make it happen — with a with Clinton. There comes a point where
to be able to vote. There was a time in the We’ll see what the future holds — hope- lot of hard work. I wasn’t immediately sold the press starts to get rough with politi-
USA when women couldn’t vote, and I fully only wonderful new adventures! on Obama, especially since I have met Sen- cians and, well, then it is downhill.
know all over the world today there are Hugs, ator McCain and Hillary Clinton over the Alas, I think too much — it’s time to
places where people, especially women, Masada years of my working in TV news and they celebrate a new direction, with a really
can’t vote, so I know it’s a privilege. both have gone out of their way to be nice smart president. While he’s the first Afri-
What’s wonderful is everyone in my From: Stefanie Zweig to me. (Really, I’m just your average Amer- can American to become president, I hope
family votes differently. It’s not group Wed, Nov. 5, 2008 at 12:25 a.m. ican, so it was always inspirational that in a few days that discussion goes away. It’s
think, it’s an individual choice in my To: Masada Siegel world leaders took time to talk, both as a time to see the world not in black or white,
family. So many families all vote the Subject: Congratulations journalist and sometimes just as a person). but in action and deeds, so I hope we get
same way. My sister and I have a variety of Dear Masada, Over time, I investigated Obama’s Web past the color and really see the man!
viewpoints, sometimes we vote the same, Congratulations on Mr. O. I hope you site and the more I learned, the more I Enough said! Where is your lovely por-
sometime differently. voted for him. I certainly held thumbs liked him. I am a little biased, as we both trait going to hang? I hope you are smiling
Speaking of my sister, Audrey and I up for him, but I was sure he would win. are alumni from Columbia University, for your painting for all eternity to see. No
had a nice long talk this morning. She’s Good that you take such pride in voting. I and my father is also African. pressure. Heh, heh, heh.
absolutely wonderful and so great to take it for natural by this time — though I Great things are in store for Amer- Big hugs!
talk with. She’s kind, logical and prag- often say (half-jokingly) that only people ica and the world. This election made me Masada
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Camp Young Judaea t Page 1 Haq Trial t Page 1 “I’m a jihadi now,” and asked that she tell Back in the Saddle t Page 5
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West Merchav campers at a 10 percent with the 911 operators. Both the defense and the prosecution ever y $1 donated to JDS. They also
reduction. Klein teared up a number of times told the jury during their opening state- helped with financial planning that
Also, campers who attend a three- during her testimony and had to leave ments that they do not believe Haq’s action Erl it z sa id w i l l hopef u l ly keep t he
week session at CYJ Midwest for the first the courtroom once to regain her compo- was undertaken as martyrdom in the school on a more sustainable footing.
time are eligible for two years of funding. sure after describing how she had to walk name of Allah, however. The day after the Despite the challenges, when Erlitz
The grant application is available online past the body of her friend and colleague tapes were played, the detective responsi- stepped in last year as interim head, she
at www.onehappycamper.org. Pam Waechter as police led her from the ble for searching Haq’s computer told the didn’t want to act as merely a caretaker.
CYJ Midwest is also looking to hire building. court that his search did not turn up any of She instituted an enrichment program to
West Coast staffers to fill staff positions On Wed., Nov. 4, prosecutors intro- the phrases that are thought to be terror- help kids whose intelligence levels rose
there for the upcoming summer season. duced new evidence to the court that had ist code words, nor any Internet searches above the challenges of the dual Jewish-
“We want to welcome West camp- not been heard during the first trial — for extremist or violence-inciting Web general curriculum.
ers not as guests but as additions to our a series of phone calls Haq made to his sites. In the year prior to the shooting, Haq “We found that we were losing stu-
family,” said Noah Gallagher, the direc- parents from prison in the weeks follow- had converted to Christianity, but then dents to gifted schools,” Erlitz said. “Once
tor for CYJ Midwest, in Hadassah’s press ing the shooting. returned to Islam a few months later. we put the enrichment piece in, we didn’t
release about the camp’s closing. In one tape, Haq explained to his The defense began presenting its case lose a single child.”
In a subsequent e-mail, Gallagher mother, and then to a female family friend, to the jury on Nov. 6 and has called wit- She is also working to institute what
noted he has been hearing from CYJ West why he attacked the Jewish Federation. nesses who knew Haq personally to dis- she called “character education” through-
Coast families. “I want you to know the reason I did it. cuss his history of erratic and anti-social out the curriculum.
“We hope that 50 or so will come to I want to be a martyr,” he said on a tape behavior, as well as mental health pro- “Especially as a Jewish day school, it’s
us,” he wrote. “The others are eligible for played to the jury. fessionals who spoke about the vari- woven into our values,” she said, but this
Camp Tel Yehudah for [high school]-age Haq told his mother she should be ous medications Haq has taken and the new program will have a code of ethics to
campers. I have spoken to about 12 fami- proud of him and she in turn expressed course of his treatment. It is the defense’s which teachers, students and their par-
lies. I don’t know how many have applied concern about his mental illness, telling aim to prove that Haq, despite consis- ents will all adhere.
for camperships.” him that what he did was wrong and that tent attempts to seek help, had been con- One big difference Erlitz has seen in
CYJ West leadership plans to meet he should pray. sumed by his mental illness and was not the school since she was last involved
with national representatives this fall in His mother then put a family friend fully in control of himself at the time of is in the makeup of the students, which
Northern California to organize a board on the phone and Haq told the woman, his attack on the Jewish Federation. she sees as much more of a microcosm
of directors and develop a business plan of the greater Jewish community than
that could attract corporate donors. Hope- in the past.
fully, this will attract the $200,000 it needs Jewish On Earth t Page 10 What you buy for Hanukkah, or any “We draw from such a wide variety
to reopen the West Coast camp. other time of year, can change the world. of not only ZIP codes, but denomina-
“We’re open to any help t hat we birthrates? Would you buy from com- It’s that simple. It may be difficult for you tions. We have kids here with tzitzit, we
can get from anybody,” Caplan said. panies that operate so efficiently they to see the light at the end of the tunnel have kids who don’t belong anywhere,
“We’re ask ing those who’ve already create no carbon footprint? What about right now. But it’s there, and it’s green. kids whose parents are intermarried.
donated whether they want their money from companies that take good care of Just the widest range of Jewish prac-
returned, put into a scholarship fund, or their employees and the environment? Author and teacher Martin Westerman tice,” she said. “We have to service that
left with us for its original purpose. So Would you buy groceries from stores that writes and consults on sustainable living. microcosm in a way the school has not
far, many donors have chosen to leave sell local and organic, and power them- He can be contacted with questions at done before.”
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Local rabbi works to help others find their spiritual centers
Janis Siegel to face in life. It could be a deep strug- cannot be compartmentalized. Also, the their everyday experience.
JTNews Correspondent gle with his or her self-image or image in Holocaust was a breach of faith. And the “There is no agenda, and for some, it pro-
the community, or a decision about life institutionalization of religion has lost a vides exactly what they need,” Weiss said.
Rabbi Zari Weiss is a spiritual friend, changes that are too sensitive to confront. lot of its realness.” “Spiritual direction is really spiritual
and a companion for the soul. As she Whatever it is, Rabbi Weiss will listen, and For most Jews today, this intimate companioning. I might ask them if they
practices a technique she’s been trained gently push this truth seeker deeper. sharing of such sacred stories is unusual, have a spiritual practice and take them
in since 1996, called “Spiritual Direc- She works with Jews and people of if not foreign; so Weiss has developed a through maybe one of the daily morning
tion,” her clients often become very quiet other faiths as well. contemplative model called Mishkan, the prayers in a personal way. I use prayer a lot.
as they try and listen to that knowing, “Most [Jewish] people go to services Hebrew word for a sacred place of dwell- “Or I might study text, or work with
intuitive voice inside them. to connect with God in a Jewish way,” ing. As she uses this concept in her work, them to find an image for the feeling, or
Weiss calls it holy listening or discern- Weiss said. “Some have that relation- she wants Jews to open up and allow an use a ritual. I also use scripture, and other
ment. ship but don’t identify it as Jewish. Others “intimate sharing.” writings.”
“It’s not therapy,” Weiss told JTNews have a longing for that but can’t name it Maybe, she said, they can shed what According to Weiss, in the last 10 years,
from her home and office near Seattle’s or access it.” she calls “their ambivalence or distrust” Spiritual Direction has been offered as part
View Ridge neighborhood. “There’s no Weiss’s job is to put a name to that con- of the Godly realm. of the curriculum at the Jewish Theological
explicit intention to heal anyone or to nection. “Science is not the whole story, it’s not Society, in the Reconstructionist Rabbin-
improve one’s psychology, and it’s not In a series of classes called “Cultivat- enough,” Weiss said. “We are spiritual ical College, and Hebrew Union College.
coaching. It’s a contemplative model. I ing a Meaningful Relationship with God” beings. We have a longing for more. We That is a strong indication, she said, that it
function as a midwife to the soul.” that she teaches at Tree of Life Books & want to know what it’s all about.” is a missing element in traditional Jewish
For more than 15 years, Weiss has been Judaica in Seattle, Weiss points out to stu- Weiss will be offering a three-class training programs but that it needs to be an
helping people get closer to the voice of dents that Jewish people are often sur- series on “Cultivating the Mind of God” essential component in their curriculums.
God inside them, although she won’t nec- rounded by stories of miracles given to for the Kadima Reconstructionist Com- “Sometimes a person is in the dark
essarily call it God in one of her sessions. ancestors of the faith. These stories con- munity in December. night of the soul where they don’t have
Her work in Jewish spirituality began tain rituals meant to remind us of God’s In the class, she uses traditional trust,” she said. “I can hold that trust for
after graduating from the Hebrew Union commitment to us, but we often don’t nail teachings about God and prayers to help them through their despair and anguish,
College-Jewish Institute of Religion in down the role of God in our own lives. students explore their own relationship or negativity and cynicism. There is in
New York in 1991. Weiss was a co-founder However, said Weiss, we also don’t look with God. Much like her one-on-one ses- them that longing, to have more synthe-
of Lev Shomea, a training program in for the meaning or the answers to our per- sions, the class uses a combination of sis and more meaning. I really believe
Spiritual Direction at Elat Chayyim, a sonal needs and desires, yet we sense that text study, discussion, and practice with that the spiritual is the only salvation.”
Jewish spiritual retreat center. they, too, must be part of the “bigger plan.” Jewish prayer.
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in his own words
Return to Berlin
A visit, by invitation, to the city of his birth from which he was forced to flee is a welcome change
Henry Haas divided the city, but what I wanted to see

Special to JTNews was in the eastern sector. My wife and I
crossed at Checkpoint Charlie and, after
Recently my wife and I spent one week an interrogation and a thorough search
in Berlin, Germany as guests of that city of our car, we spent the day in East Berlin.
— a far different experience from when Back then it was a dark, dreary, and fore-
I visited in 1963, or when I was three boding place and we were glad to return
months old and my parents had to flee the to the western sector, which had already
city to save our lives. begun its restoration.
The city invited us under a program However, at that time, my personal
initiated by Germany to reconcile its past mood was somber and angry. I particu-
with “former persecuted citizens of Berlin.” larly resented the plea “Aber, Herr Haas,
Trips like these are part of a broader wier haben nichts gewusst” (But Mr. Haas,
national policy, which tries to make retri- we knew nothing). I simply did not accept
Courtesy Henry Haas
bution while never forgetting its role. the proposition that the generations old
Former Berliners who had escaped to Shanghai during the Holocaust before emigrating
On April 8, 1938, I was born in Berlin enough to have lived through the events
to the United States upon the war’s end. They were invited back at the behest of
into a Jewish family. We were forced to of the 1920s and 1930s were not complicit.
Berlin’s current mayor last summer. Local residents in this photo who visited were Rolf
flee Germany, so my parents and I spent I did not have a sense of their collective or
Preuss, left, of Seattle and Henry Haas, right, of Tacoma.
1939 to 1947 in refuge in Shanghai, China, personal social or political accountability.
and subsequently emigrating to the Reflecting on the comparison between
United States in 1947. While in Shanghai, historical Jewish sites, to the new Jewish parent glass panel in the plaza’s center the 1963 and 2009 visits, there was a real
we, along with about 18,000 other Jewish Museum of Berlin, and to all of the Holo- where, upon looking down and through and substantial difference. Certainly, the
refugees, lived in squalid and poor condi- caust memorials, of which there were it, one can see only empty library shelves. now-united Berlin is a much more beau-
tions and, for most of the war, under Japa- many. We visited City Hall, the German Nearby is an inscription of a quote from tiful city. Nevertheless, more important,
nese occupation. Parliament, cruised on the river Spree, the German philosopher Heinrich Heine: there is a sincere acknowledgment of his-
Now, in September 2009 in Berlin, we and on and on. There were receptions, “There, where they burn books, so too in toric responsibility and a determination
were part of a group of 36 former refu- greetings, and remarks by the mayor of the end will they burn people.” to ensure that similar events cannot be
gees and their spouses or guests who had Berlin, the vice president of the German There were many moving personal repeated.
been born in Berlin between 1931 and Parliament, the president of the Berlin moments, such as standing where my My persona l feel i ngs have a lso
1939 and forced to flee to many parts of House of Representatives, and the chief family lived, where I was born, where my changed. The fact that current genera-
the world. Everyone had a story. The par- protocol officer of the city. The general parents married and where my mother tions memorialize the Holocaust and
ticipants came from the U.S., England, tenor of the German representatives was went to school. However, t he most are committed to prevent a recurrence
South America, South Africa, and Israel. one of accountability, determination that moving and emotional event for me was is reassuring; there are numerous vis-
The group included a Harvard medical the events of the Holocaust would not be when I stood on the train platform where ible, public memorials about the Holo-
professor, a cinematographer, engineers, forgotten, and the prevention of a repeti- my grandparents were transported to caust and one example among many is
librarians, an architect, business people, tion addressed by legislative mandates. Auschwitz on March 23, 1943. Tears were the lamppost banners in the area of the
many from other walks of life, and me — We were even treated to a perfor- shed, a flash of anger erupted. Bayerische Platz.
a lawyer. Six of us had spent the war years mance of the opera La Traviata at the When in Berlin in 1963, I wanted to The 2009 trip was a wonderful experi-
in Shanghai. We shared our stories of sur- restored Berlin Opera house, located see where my parents, grandparents and ence and a great gesture by the people of
vival, how we made it to our ultimate des- adjacent to a plaza where, on May 10, many members of an extended family Berlin, and I am grateful I made the deci-
tinations, made our careers, and grew our 1933, the Nazi party ordered the burning, lived, worked, and worshipped, enjoy- sion to accept the city’s invitation.
families. New friends were made. in one night, of 20,000 books from authors ing a full and rich life. Approximately 150
The city wined and dined us for seven throughout Germany and the world. Sit- members of my family lost their lives in Henry Haas, an attorney, lives in
days, took us on tours of the city to the ting in this plaza is a memorial: A trans- the Holocaust. In 1963, the Berlin Wall Tacoma.
Join the members of Share your Heart and Help make a Home!
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Wednesday, November 25th
month from 8:30 p.m. until 7 a.m.,
7:30 pm at Temple B’nai Torah
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