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The crowds that came to al-Tahrir Square during the mass protests against the Egyptian government were diverse, but largely cooperative and organized despite
reported brutality from pro-government forces. However, labor strikes that have broken out across the country since Wednesday could erupt in new violence. A dispatch
from University of Washington professor Ellis Goldberg, who is currently teaching in Cairo, is on page 34.

Shalom Bayit furniture bank in danger of closing

Janis Siegel JTNews Correspondent
More than 900 families who have escaped the tragedy of domestic
violence have moved into new, beautifully furnished, safer homes in the
last decade since the National Council of Jewish Women’s Shalom Bayit:
Furnishing Peaceful Homes program has been around. But now the pro-
gram itself is in immediate danger of closing its doors.
Currently more than 38 women are on a waiting list for the program,
which has suspended operations unless organizers can raise a minimum
of $100,000 to pay program staff and the costs of the moving company
that retrieves donated items and delivers it to clients’ new homes. There
is no cost to the clients.
Should Shalom Bayit close, it will lose its 1,700-sq.-ft. warehouse
located in an undisclosed area in Redmond, where hundreds of women
and men trying rebuild their lives free from a battering partner can
choose quality furniture and household items.
“The need has actually increased and we still have growing num-
bers of women who are survivors of domestic violence,” NCJW Presi-
dent Sandra Elman told JTNews, in a last-minute plea for help from the
Jewish community. “Given the strained economy, donations are down
considerably, and grants have been reduced dramatically. We’ve been
hit on both fronts.”
A donation of free warehouse space in the Seattle metro area would
be a miracle of sorts that Elman believes would reflect upon the highest
of Jewish values — charity.
“We have dramatically reduced our expenses and taken all possible
belt-tightening measures,” Elman wrote in an open letter to NCJW sup-
porters, “yet the cost of operating the program and serving women in
need continues to far exceed donations on which we depend.”
On any given day, the state houses 912 survivors in either an emer-
gency domestic violence shelter or transitional housing, according to a
2009 Department of Social and Health Services report.
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the rabbi’s turn
Jews of the world, unite!
Rabbi Berry Farkash Chabad of the Central Cascades
I encountered  the follow-
ing story on several Web sites:
A number of years ago at the
Seattle Special Olympics, nine
contestants, all physically or
mentally disabled, assembled
at the starting line for the 100-
yard dash.
At the gun, they all started
out, not exactly in a dash, but
with a relish to run the race
to the finish, and win. All,
that is, except one little boy who stumbled
on the asphalt, tumbled over and began
to cry.
The other eight heard the boy cry. They
slowed down and looked back. Then they
all turned around and went back. Every
one of them.
One girl with Down syndrome  bent
down and kissed him and said, “This will
make it feel better.”
Then all nine linked arms, and walked
together to the finish line. Everyone in the
stadium stood and cheered.
There is something about unity that
touches all of our hearts. The cheering
during those games was unparalleled. Can
we unite as Jews?
For this we must reflect on what really
makes us one people. What defines us
as a single nation? What is the common
denominator between all Jews, between
the Chasidim in Meah Shearim and the
liberals in Berkeley? Between the Yeme-
nite Jews and the West Side Ashkenazim?
Between Eli Wiesel and Noam Chomsky?
Between the humanistic Jewish atheist and
the ultra-Orthodox Jew from Boro Park?
When did the Israelites become a nation?
Who was the first one who defined them as
a nation? At what point did they cease to
be merely a “family,” Children of Jacob,
children of Israel, and become an “am,” a
nation? Who crafted this transition?
You know, nothing with Jews is simple.
The Bible gives us two contradictory
answers.
In the beginning of Exodus, the title
“nation” is conferred upon the Hebrews
by none other than Pharaoh, the emperor
of Egypt.
“The nation of the children of Israel is
growing stronger than us,” Pharaoh said
to his people. “Let us devise a clever way
to rid ourselves of them.”
He then developed a program of geno-
cide for the blossoming nation who, he
feared, would take over Egypt and take
over the world.
(We also read in Deuteronomy 26
in the portion of Ki Tavo: “Our ances-
tors went down to Egypt and there they
became a nation.”)
Yet later, in the same book of Exodus,
“I hope I have the same enthusiasm and maybe a little more wisdom — but that’s a debatable thing, maybe somebody else can weigh in on that.”
— Rabbi James Mirel of Temple B’nai Torah, on his celebration of 36 years in the rabbinate. See page 8.
we have an entirely different
story: When the Israelites left
Egypt and stood at the foot
of Mount Sinai, Moses tells
them: “You shall become to
me [God] a kingdom of priests
and a holy nation.”
In Deuteronomy (Ki Tavo)
Moses says it clearly: “Hayom
hazeh nehayata Laam!” Today
you have become a nation!
This is more than a cen-
tury after Pharaoh defined the Jews as a
nation.
When did we become a nation? Who
made us into a nation?
The Bible, in a very subtle and sophisti-
cated way, teaches us of the great identity
crisis that would define Jews throughout
history. What does it mean to be a Jew?
What does it mean to be a member of the
people of Israel? What is the common
thread that bonds all Jews? These are the
great questions still debated today.
There are two definitions to Jewish
nationhood: One given by Pharaoh, the
other by Moses. Pharaoh defines us as a
nation in terms of anti-Semitism. We are
the group that poses a challenge to the
Egyptian Empire and to humanity in gen-
eral. What makes us Jewish is that Pha-
raoh is threatened by us, loathes us, and is
determined to destroy us.
Moses’ definition is radically different:
“You shall become a kingdom of priests
and a holy nation.” We are bound together
by a vision to construct a holy world, to
grant history the dignity of purpose, to
build a world saturated with light and love.
What unites is a covenant of love, a shared
commitment to recognize the image of
God in every human being and the unity
of humanity under a singular God.
I once asked someone who is extremely
secular, “What makes you a Jew? Are you
my brother?”
“Yes I am,” he replied. “I am Jewish. A
proud Jew.”
“What connects you and I?” I
responded.
“We share the same destiny,” he said.
“Hitler would have sent us both to the
gas chambers. Ahmadinejad sees us both
as a manifestation of the devil. You are
a Jew, I am a Jew. We are subject to the
same fate.”
He is right. But this definition alone is
the one that Pharaoh gave us. In his mind
we were “Am B’nei Yisroel,” a nation in
the sense that our blood is less red, that
our honor is meaningless, that our prop-
erty can be taken, that our freedom is non-
existent. We have laws different from the
others. We were a minority in Egypt with
no rights at all. Discrimination against us
letter to the community
To our Jewish community:
Over the last two years, the economy has taken its toll on our Jewish
community and many of its vital organizations that provide important
services. We are not alone in seeing a more competitive environment
for fundraising. Our donors, who so generously and with such com-
mitment support our Jewish community, have not been able recently to
maintain their contributions at previous levels.
After a great deal of thought, and much consideration, we have made
the very difficult decision to reduce and restructure our current staffing,
eliminating several positions. We sincerely regret having to make these
decisions. Every one of the individuals whose position is being affected
has contributed to our Jewish community. We value their service and
wish them the best in their future endeavors.
Key in the deliberation on these staffing cuts was our commitment to
the Jewish community. We held off on making these cuts as long as pos-
sible, but determined that maintaining our commitment to distributing
as much funding as possible to the community was our overriding pri-
ority. We feel these cuts are in the best interest of those we serve.
We continually seek more and better ways to serve our Jewish com-
munity. As the economy starts to rebound, we hope that this stream-
lined staffing along with increased contributions will result in additional
funding for our partner agencies, in the next year and beyond.
We invite all members of the Jewish community to join us as we work
to build and sustain a vibrant Jewish community that will grow and
nourish generations to come.
Richard Fruchter
President and CEO, The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle
Ron Leibsohn
Board chair, The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle
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is justified. David, Rabbi Akiva, Abaye and Rava,
Sixty-five years ago, we experienced Rashi, Rambam and the Baal Shem Tov
the same fate. Jews from Berlin and Jews who will tell us what it means to be
from Warsaw had the same fate. Chas- Jewish?
sidim, Misnagdim, Ashkenazim, Sep- Will we be bound only in the covenant
hardim, Jews from Bulgaria, Greece, of fate? When we suffer together, when
Ukraine, Italy — we all shared the same we face a common enemy, we will unite
destiny. Left-wing communist Jews and because we have shared tears, shared fears,
right-wing Zionists, Reform and Ortho- so we will huddle together for comfort and
dox, all were decimated with the same glee mutual protection?
and passion. We were united by hate. Or will we be bound by the fact that
“Who will define you as a Jew?” Moses we share dreams, aspirations, ideals? We
asked. Pharaoh? Nebuchadnezzar? Vespa- will not need a common enemy, because
sian? Titus? Constantine? Muhammad? we will have a common hope? Will we
Torquemada? Chmelnitzky? Adolf Eich- come together to create something new,
mann? Julius Streicher? Alfred Rosenberg? beautiful and exciting? Will we be defined
Yasser Arafat? Hassan Nasrallah? Will not by what happens to us but by what we
they answer the question of what is a Jew? commit ourselves to do? Not by a cove-
Or will it be Abraham, Moses, King nant of fate, but by a bond of faith?
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The Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not occupy

Richard Silverstein Special to JTNews
Robert Wilkes, in the last issue of
JTNews, wrote this about me:
…Many American [Jews]…sup-
port pro-Palestinian groups and the
BDS movement…and seek to delegit-
imize Israel. They employ tropes such
as “apartheid” and “Israeli-Nazi war
machine” to create a smokescreen of
twisted facts and history…  or they will die together.”
Among them…Seattle blogger
Richard Silverstein… hyperbolically
depict[s] Israel as a Nazi state inflicting
a Shoah on the Palestinians.”
Before he published this, I had no idea
who Robert Wilkes was. Even now, I wish
I didn’t know, and didn’t have to rebut the
false claims he made about my beliefs.
Let me tell you who I really am and
what I really believe. I live in Seattle with
my family, including three young children.
We belong to Congregation Beth Shalom.
I’ve published “Tikun Olam” since
2003. It was one of the earliest blogs advo-
cating Israeli-Arab peace. I am a progres-
sive, or critical Zionist. I support Israel, but
oppose the occupation. I support Israeli
withdrawal to pre-1967 borders (with
minor territorial swaps), a plan advocated
by Bill Clinton, the Geneva Initiative and
the Arab League in various iterations.
I believe the only way for Israel to be
safe and secure is for Palestinians to have
their own state in the West Bank and
Gaza. As the Dr. Izzeldine Abuelaish, who
in 2009 lost three daughters and a niece to
an IDF tank shell during Operation Cast
Lead, said in a speech at Temple B’nai
Torah last month: “Israel and Palestine are
conjoined twins. They must live together
I don’t believe that Israeli military
might, in the long run, will guarantee Isra-
el’s survival. Settlements won’t. Occu-
pation won’t. The only way to ensure
Israel’s future is through negotiation with
its adversaries.
As far as Israel itself, I believe its future
lies in being a democratic state for all its
citizens. While most Israelis are Jews, 1
million are Palestinian. They must be as
much a part of the life of Israel as African-
Americans are part of this country.
Currently, Palestinians face huge
obstacles: There is massive discrimination
both tacit and explicit against them. Their
communities receive far less government
funding for basic services, and their edu-
cational opportunities and health care are
inferior. There are fewer jobs for Israeli
minorities and they are lower-paying,
lower-skilled ones. In politics, no Jewish
governing coalition will include any Arab
party, meaning that Israeli Arabs and ethnic populations. If they have found a way
Palestinians have very little political clout. to live together, I have no doubt Israel can.
What many Israelis and I envision is Does Israel live in a dangerous neigh-
an Israel which treats everyone equally, borhood? Sure. Do the ideas I’ve proposed
whether Jew or non-Jew. Judaism will not involve risks? Yes. But what’s the alterna-
be a religion superior to any other citi- tive? Endless war? Can Israel live forever
zen’s religion, nor will it be inferior. Every surrounded by hostile nations? I don’t
religion worshipped by every citizen will believe so.
be respected, whether Judaism, Islam or Now let’s address Robert Wilkes’ bit
Christianity. of character assassination. Do I believe
We have a U.S. Constitution that guar- the things he ascribed to me? No. I have
antees our freedoms. Israel should have never written, nor do I believe Israel is a
one, too. Its constitution should enshrine “Nazi war machine.” As a Zionist, I don’t
the basic rights enumerated in our own believe in delegitimizing Israel. That’s just
Bill of Rights. It should ensure that all reli- a slogan tossed around by extremists with
gions and ethnic groups, whether minor- no substance. Nor have I ever written or
ity or majority, have basic rights. And do I believe Israel “inflicted a Shoah on the
those rights should not be infringed by the Palestinians.”
majority, whether Jewish or Arab. As a teenager, I sat in my grandmoth-
This is what a democracy is. This is er’s living room in Washington Heights
what Israel should be. asking about her family I never knew. She
Israel is a Jewish homeland. But it told me of her brothers and sisters who
should also be a Palestinian homeland perished in the Holocaust. One heart-
(for its Palestinian citizens). If you can breakingly returned to Poland after emi-
walk and chew gum at the same time, why grating here, telling her in disgust: “T’iz a
can’t a country embrace two ethnic groups genayvushe land!”
living together? I once published an oral history of a
Why would Robert Wilkes find this so Hungarian survivor of Auschwitz in the
radical? Look at the United States, look at Los Angeles Times. I participated in, and
Canada, Switzerland, Ireland. These are all was a technical advisor to Pierre Sauvage’s
countries which have grappled with the con-
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Ladino Lesson inside this issue

By Isaac Azose The Federation’s new model 6
Responding to a suffering community campaign and adjusting to a new model for staffing, fundraising, and
Ken kere la roza, no mira al espino. allocations, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle is changing the way it does business.
He who wants the rose does not pay attention to the thorns.
Conservative adjustments 7
The leader of the Conservative movement came through Seattle last week to discuss its new direction.
Rabbi Steven Weil, executive vice president
of the Orthodox Union, presents Jessica Rabbi Mirel celebrates 8
Hoffman, co-director of Seattle’s National A dinner gala will honor Temple B’nai Torah’s rabbi James Mirel for 25 years at the congregation and 36 in
Council of Synagogue Youth chapter, with the rabbinate.
its Ben Zakkai Honor Society award at a
reception on Jan. 30 in New York. Society A rabbi out of water 9
members are nominated, and voted on, by Most authorities think Elizabeth Goldstein is the first rabbi to ever teach at Gonzaga University. Goldstein is
its current members based on the making the most of her opportunity.
nominees’ service to NCSY and the Jewish
community. Seattle’s Jewish supergroup? 11
Three local cantors, a rabbi, and an accompanist will perform this Sunday at the Stroum JCC. JTNews
takes you backstage at rehearsals.
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Jews and Baseball 12

Al Rosen, once of the Cleveland Indians, is one of many Jewish ballplayers who appear in a new documen-
tary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story. His eye – and his tongue – are still sharp.

Remember when
From Feb. 9, 1977, page 5.
Yuri Vinetsky, refusenik from Kiev in
the former Soviet Union, tries to spread
awareness of his son Valery, who is in
danger of being drafted into the Soviet
Army, which means he won’t be able to
emigrate to Israel.
Moving to a wider audience 17
The next step for departing Seattle Symphony music director Gerard Schwarz is a new media program for
online education.
Spring books 26
JTNews book critic Diana Brement runs down at least a season’s worth of new reading on Israel, American
Judaism, food, and more.
On Jews and Egypt 34
UW Professor Ellis Goldberg, who currently lives in Cairo, breaks down the potential Jewish consequences
of democracy in Egypt.

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Remaking Jewish community

Part of it’s the economy, part of it’s Facebook, and part of it is just the way people view religion and culture. All put together,
it’s clear that the way Jews see themselves and how they relate to the world is undergoing a dramatic shift, and Jewish orga-
nizations from synagogues to fundraising agencies have struggled to keep up. Here are two — one local, one national — that
are attempting to do just that.

Federation’s newest campaign: Reinventing itself

Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
Last summer, the Jewish Federation
of Greater Seattle held a special fundrais-
ing campaign alongside its regular com-
munity campaign. At the deepest point in
the recession, the agency raised approx-
imately $100,000 to send 236 children
whose parents might otherwise have had
trouble affording it to overnight Jewish
camps in the region.
“We’ve been successful in going to
donors for extra things, but its been frag-
mented, and it hasn’t been a part of our
core mission,” said Richard Fruchter,
president and CEO of the Jewish Federa-
tion. “If we understand that Jewish camp-
ing is one of the great identity builders for
youth, why is that an extra thing?… Why
isn’t it part of the core work that we do?”
Thinking about situations like this, the
Federation’s Center for Jewish Philan-
thropy, its fundraising arm, and several
key volunteers began to reinvent the Fed-
eration both in how it raises money and
how, as a grant-making organization, it
gives that money away.
“We have been talking about this and
working on this for the past one-and-a-
half to two years,” said Keith Krivitzky, the
Federation’s vice president for the Center
for Jewish Philanthropy. “What it’s been
forcing us to do is to really look at all ele-
ments of how we do business, from fund-
raising to grant making and allocations to
priorities.”
What has emerged — though some of
the details are still being discussed and the
plan has yet to be approved by the Feder-
ation’s board, a vote that should happen
later this month — is a model that gives
donors a choice in how their money is
allocated.
At the same time — and this has its
current beneficiary agencies nervous
about the future — the model moves from
an unrestricted allocation that can be used
for anything like salaries or operations or
internal initiatives to goal-based, specific
projects that will be mapped out by each
agency.
“Allocations will be made based upon
an agency’s request to a specific goal
within an impact area, and allocations will
be made to agencies based upon the pro-
grammatic request that they’re making,”
said Amy Wasser-Simpson, the Feder-
ation’s vice president for planning and
community services.
The Federation began rolling out the
plan about three months ago to its benefi-
ciary agencies, as well as to representatives
from synagogues and organizations it cur-
rently does not support. A series of meet-
ings explained the new system and sought
feedback. Refinements, Federation offi-
cials say, are ongoing.
“I have been impressed by the pro-
cess in which they have listened to either
me or to my staff people,” said Ken Wein-
berg, CEO of Jewish Family Service. “I
think it helps our agency, but I also think
it helps the Federation develop as good
a model as possible by incorporating the
folks who actually do the work give [them]
their input.”
Judy Neuman, CEO of the Stroum
Jewish Community Center, said that
though she and several lay leaders have
attended as many meetings as possible and
have tried to be an active voice at the table,
she is taking a wait-and-see approach as to
how well the new model will work.
“I’m optimistic, but I don’t think
any of us have any specifics to say, ‘Yes,
this model is going to work,’” she said.
“Change is always difficult, but sometimes
at the end of that change you have a much
better end result, and I think that’s what
we’re really looking for as community.”
One major change for this new model
is in who can receive money from the Fed-
eration’s community campaign.

QFC is Heart Smart

By Eric Miller, QFC Public Affairs Specialist

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, I thought
this would be the perfect opportunity to talk about the
ways QFC can help support your heart health. February is
American Heart Month and we are proud to partner with
the American Heart Association’s “Go Red For Women” as
our Checkstand Charity of the month. So when you visit
your neighborhood QFC florist to pick up that beautiful
rose arrangement, as well as the ingredients for your
romantic heart-healthy Valentine’s meal, remember that
a small donation at our checkstands can have a positive
impact on the health of many other hearts too!
There are three ways you can contribute this February:
ask your cashier to scan a $1, $5, or $10 donation card,
designate that your 3-cent reusable bag credit be donated
or simply place your extra change in our coin boxes. You
will be helping to fund life-saving research and education
powered by the American Heart Association.
Heart disease is the number one killer of women in the
United States. An alarming statistic reveals our mothers,
sisters, daughters and friends are dying at the rate of 1 per
minute. Heart disease actually kills more American women
than the next five causes of death combined, including
cancer. This is why “Go Red for Women” exists — it is a way
to raise awareness and dispel the myth that this is an “older
man’s disease.” It is a passionate social initiative designed
to empower women to take charge of their heart health.
You can begin by taking small but significant actions
recommended by the American Heart Association:
1. Celebrate with a checkup
Let each birthday remind you that
it’s time for your yearly physical
and a talk with your doctor about
how you can reduce your risk for
heart disease.
2. Get off the couch
Work up to at least 30 minutes of
physical activity on a weekly
routine. Step, march, jog in place
— you can even do it while watching TV.
Speak with your doctor before starting a new
exercise program.
3. Quit smoking in four steps
If you smoke, but can’t quit “cold turkey,” cut Eating a healthy diet along with regular physical
the number of cigarettes you smoke each day activity are important steps in reducing risk factors
in half; then cut that number in half; cut it in for heart disease. The American Heart Association
half again; finally, cut down to zero! recommends eating a variety of nutritious foods, and
4. Drop a pound or two QFC offers many great-tasting, convenient, nutritious
By cutting out 500 to 1,000 calories a day you options in just about every aisle. When it comes to
can lose up to two pounds per week, and packaged goods, the American Heart Association’s (AHA)
gradually bring yourself closer to a heart- heart check mark is a great tool to identify a product that
healthy weight. meets the AHA’s certification criteria for saturated fat,
5. Become a salt detective cholesterol, sodium and healthful nutrients. This way,
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“Any agency that we don’t currently
give an unrestricted allocation to is a
potential new partner for us,” said Amy
Wasser-Simpson, the Federation’s vice
president for planning and community
services. “Any synagogue would be a new
partner. We don’t now give them an unre-
stricted allocation.”
According to Weinberg, this is the
aspect of the plan that has him and other
leaders of current beneficiaries nervous.
“We’re anxious over the notion of if all
Jewish agencies are now eligible, does it
divide the pie into too many pieces where
everyone gets too small a piece?” he said.
But, he noted, he has been assured that
the Federation will do what it can to keep
that from happening.
Fruchter said the solution comes from
the donations side: “If we raise more
money, we have the ability to continue to
sustain all the great work that’s done now
and to really drive some innovative and
exciting new ideas in the community,” he
said.
The assumption by Federation officials
with this new model is that there will be
more money to go around, even though it
has been harder in the past two campaigns
to come by. It’s this aspect of the model
that has them excited about what comes
next: Donors will be able to decide where
their dollars go.
“The next generation that’s coming up
is much more interested in having an abil-
ity to see where the donation goes and
measure it,” Fruchter said. “They’re less
enamored of the idea of umbrella giving
and having enough trust to allow the orga-
nization to make the allocation for them.”
The donor choice model would not
mean giving to specific agencies — the
Federation makes major staff reductions
In response to a community campaign
that is suffering and the need to create a
staffing plan that reflects its new fund-
raising and allocations model, the Jewish
Federation of Greater Seattle made per-
sonnel cuts this month that by June will
reduce 25 percent of its workforce.
“We’ve had a down campaign for the
past two years, so there was sense that
we needed to reset the level of our oper-
ating costs within the Federation,” said
CEO and president Richard Fruchter.
Most of the agency’s departments
are being restructured, many programs
consolidated, and anything not cen-
tral to its core fundraising mission will
either be discontinued or attempts will
be made to find outside funding to keep
them going. On the potential chop-
ping block are education programs such
as the community-wide Hebrew High
School and teacher education seminars,
among others.
“Unless it can afford to be fully
funded for what it does, we can’t afford
to run it out of here,” Fruchter said.
The cuts will shave about 19 percent
from the Federation’s budget — about
Federation has long facilitated pass-
through donations — but toward specific
projects or goals in what they’re calling
impact areas, which are largely based upon
the current community campaign pillars:
Jewish education from birth to grade 12,
social services, building community from
college through adulthood, and helping
Jews overseas.
“There are people now, no matter what
age, [who say], ‘If only I could just direct
my money to Israel, I don’t have to give
it locally,’ you could have that. Or ‘If only
I could give to human need,’ we have the
opportunity to tap into people who would
be philanthropic but who haven’t found
the vehicle through us,” Fruchter said.
At the same time, there is “a large group
of people who’ve said, ‘I’d give you more if
I didn’t have to have my money go here, or
if I wanted to say Israel or not here,’” Kriv-
itzky said. “‘We like 85 percent, or 90 per-
cent of what you do, but….’”
Donors who were comfortable giving
unrestricted gifts will continue to be able
to do so.
“There still are people who are perfectly
happy with the way things went, know that
we do a good job of prioritizing and vet-
ting and making sure that their dollars are
going to the places most needed,” Fruchter
said. “I assume that many of the gifts will
still come in as unrestricted gifts, which
will give us the opportunity to move them
where they’re most needed.”
The question about what constitutes the
most needed is still under discussion. If the
economic hardship of past two years con-
tinues, for example, how will social service
organizations that are seeing more need
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$500,000 — and eliminate the equiva-
lent of seven full-time positions. Eleven
employees have been affected, some
with reduced hours. It’s a move that
has been in planning for eight months,
Fruchter said.
“We knew we had to bring overhead
down since we weren’t raising more
money,” he said. “In our world that
means cutting personnel because pro-
grams are personnel. There isn’t that
much more to cut.”
The Federation also sees a need to
push more of the money it brings in
through its community campaign out to
its beneficiaries, Fruchter added.
“We want to get more money out into
the community, because the community
needs more in difficult times,” he said.
Despite the layoffs, with the launch
of its new strategic plan in July the Fed-
eration is also hiring. A major gifts and
planned giving officer will round out a
restructured campaign department and
a community planning associate will
work on looking at big-picture needs for
the community.
— Joel Magalnick
Conservative movement
embarks upon plan to retain
its relevance
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
As a congregational rabbi at Adat Israel
in Lower Marion, Penn., Rabbi Steven
Wernick about five years ago began to
recognize a shift in how his congregants
began to view their relationship to their
religious affiliation.
“There’s been a radical shift in the
nature of Jewish identity of North Amer-
ica, and that shift mirrors really all of reli-
gious identity, which is much more fluid
today than it ever has been in the past,”
said Wernick, now the executive vice pres-
ident of United Synagogue of Conserva-
tive Judaism, the organization that sets the
direction and guidelines for the Conserva-
tive movement.
Joel Magalnick
Rabbi Steven Wernick, executive vice president
of United Synagogue for Conservative
Judaism.
Wernick visited Seattle on Jan. 31 to
meet with local rabbis and members of
Congregation Beth Shalom, two days
before the movement released a draft stra-
tegic plan that drastically changes the way
Conservative synagogues will relate to
their communities. This new plan, which
was created over the course of the year
since Wernick took his post, is broken
up into four main initiatives, with each
broken down into several subsets:
• Work with congregations and other
Jewish organizations to, as Wernick put it,
“bring about a transformation in the nature
of congregational life in the next decade, a
transformation that responds to this shift
in identity, moving from membership to
meaning and programming to purpose.”
• Transform education programs, from
early childhood to high school, by inte-
grating all of its resources, including
the Jewish Theological Seminary, Camp
Ramah, and its youth groups into syna-
gogue learning.
• Build post-high school outreach through-
out the college years and increase invest-
ment in Jews in their 20s and 30s, in
particular in major metropolitan com-
munities.
• Adjust to demographic shifts and build
infrastructure for those growing Jewish
populations.
The USCJ’s board of directors is
expected to vote to adopt the plan on
March 13. Should the plan be adopted,
every program that comes out of USCJ will
fit into each of its new functions.
Noting the necessity to implement and
fund the initiative, Wernick said recruit-
ing what he called philanthropic investors
and thought leaders to engage the move-
ment’s professional and lay leaders will be
a high priority.
The shift in Jewish identity that Wer-
nick saw, and what he said congregational
leaders across the country were seeing as
well, was the idea that religious identity —
and not just among Jews, but among many
mainline Protestant Christians as well —
has changed from identities of affiliation,
which could be based on ethnicity or a spe-
cific group, to an identity of purpose.
“People today are less interested in
joining a group or club than they are in
participating in organizations and expe-
riences that they deem to be interesting,”
Wernick said.
Taking that argument a step further, he
said, the idea of synagogue dues as a finan-
cial model becomes non-viable. A part of
this plan will help them to work through
such a funding conundrum.
“The challenge of the congregations
is they spend so much time on member-
ship and money is they forget to focus on
meaning and movement,” Wernick said.
“Synagogues that… are willing to take
responsible risk to bring new models of
engagement to bear will succeed.”
In Seattle, Rabbi Jill Borodin of Con-
gregation Beth Shalom said her congrega-
tion has already been working to diversify
its income through new programming and
by creating an endowment.
Not every synagogue or institution will
survive this sea change, Wernick acknowl-
edges, but as he has traveled the country, he
said he has seen a universal hunger for new
thinking that responds to North American
Jews’ needs, within the context of the tradi-
tional aspects of Conservative Judaism.
“They have kind of instinctively known
it all along, but haven’t really heard it artic-
ulated aloud,” Wernick said. “Once they
hear it articulated aloud it’s as if it gives
them permission to think about their orga-
nizations in new ways, and so we respond
to the challenges.”
Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum of Herzl-Ner
Tamid Conservative Congregation on
Mercer Island said he agrees with Wer-
nick’s assessment of Judaism today.
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The Jerusalem Post Crossword Puzzle
By David Benkof
Across
1. Role in Larry Gelbart’s “M*A*S*H”
6. Israel’s has a menorah on it
10. Up to snuff
14. Prayer recited while standing
15. Hint
16. Fishing spot
17. Author, “The Apprenticeship of
Duddy Kravitz”
20. Garfunkel and Spiegelman
21. Liberal pro-Israel grp.
22. Exploits
23. Fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
24. Dog biter
25. ___ of knowledge
26. Shofar source
27. He co-founded Google
29. “When you’re a ___...” (“West Side
Story” lyric)
32. Subsequently
35. Shipshape
36. Ralph Lauren symbol
37. Author, “The Uses of Enchantment:
The Meaning and Importance of
Fairy Tales”
40. She played Lilith on “Cheers”
41. Cries at fireworks
42. Runs without moving
43. Koch and Asner
44. Exertion
45. Hadassah hospital employees
(abbr.)
46. No-goodnik
48. “___’s Irish Rose”
50. It’s eaten with an egg before Tisha
B’Av
53. Swelling
55. Actress Cannon (“Deathtrap”)
56. Anne Frank’s father
57. Author, “The Best and the
Brightest”
60. Month before Nisan
61. Hand lotion ingredient
62. ___ B. Toklas
63. Yarmulkes, in a way
64. Towel inscription
65. Prepares to shoot
Answers on page 28
Rabbi celebrates a double
chai and a quarter century
Eric Nusbaum Assistant Editor, JTNews
Already it has been a long ride for
Rabbi James Mirel. But the theme of the
gala being thrown in his honor by Temple
B’nai Torah indicates that Rabbi Mirel, his
congregation, and the community at large
can always work to make things better.
This year, Mirel is celebrating 25 years at
Temple B’nai Torah and 36 in the rab-
binate.
“I wanted to do something beyond
B’nai Torah,” Mirel told JTNews, “more
like a career thing. Thirty-six years and
in Seattle the whole time — it’s more of a
community celebration.”
More than 420 people will be on hand
to celebrate, including Mirel’s mentor,
Rabbi William Cutter from Los Angeles,
who officiated at the wedding of Mirel and
his wife Julie, a singer. Cutter will deliver a
speech at the gala and also lead a kabbalat
Shabbat service at Temple B’nai Torah.
“He’s taught me a lot about how to be a
rabbi and how to be a mensch,” Mirel said.
Down “Since he’s still around, I thought, he’s the
1. JTS-sponsored camp guy to come up here and do some teach-
2. Talmudic commentator
ing.”
3. “___ Dancing” (movie set in the
Mirel himself has done plenty of
Catskills)
4. Puts two and two together teaching. And, like Rabbi Cutter, he has
5. “Norma ___” (movie with Ron performed his fair share of lifecycles —
Liebman) including the baby naming 30-plus years
6. Red ___ (1917-1920) ago of his assistant rabbi at Temple B’nai
7. Famous friend of Michael Torah, Yohanna Kinberg. Kinberg said
Jackson’s she’s learned a lot from Mirel, who went to
8. Torah ___ (textbook company) rabbinical school with her father.
9. Island chain? “He’s very cool, calm, and collected,”
10. Ladybug’s prey Kinberg told JTNews. “And that’s some-
11. “Piano Man” singer
thing that I’ve really learned from him.
12. Soup ingredient
How to listen and observe before you
13. Bungles
18. Storm preceder speak — how to be a calm presence in the
19. “Let’s go!” community, to really know that part of
24. Casino game your role as rabbi is to give people a sense
25. Snack of calm, stability, and warmth in a some-
26. French human rights crusader what chaotic world.”
Cassin Calm does not mean quiet, however.
28. “Phooey!” Mirel hopes that his passions for the com-
30. First name in Holocaust novelists munity and for the rabbinate have not
31. Arnold and Bosley wavered.
32. Philosemite Gregoire
“I feel just as young as the day I started,
33. Lyricist Ebb
I don’t feel a day older,” Mirel said. “I hope
34. New year of the trees
35. Light on Broadway I have the same enthusiasm and maybe a
36. Hebrew University mints them little more wisdom — but that’s a debat-
38. “Thou shalt not ___ a kid...” able thing, maybe somebody else can
(Deuteronomy 14:21) weigh in on that.”
39. Pre-euro money He’s Mr. Energy,” said David Serkin-
44. ___ Sea Scrolls Poole, the cantor who has worked with
45. Eat Mirel for 25 years at Temple B’nai Torah,
47. Mideast leaders and played with him in a band for five
49. Innocent ones years prior. “He’s the Energizer Bunny
50. Shel Silverstein’s “A Light in the
that just keeps going and keeps everything
___”
going forward. He has a clear vision of
51. Group of latkes
52. Development developments what he want to do and you better go with
53. Modern Orthodox organization it, because he’s moving forward.”
54. Early baby word Steve Katz, a co-president of Temple
55. Valley B’nai Torah, said Mirel’s enthusiasm has
56. 1993 Israel-PLO Accords site been a key to his longevity. Katz noted that
58. Derisive laugh it seems like Mirel has presided over every
59. Reform social justice office in D.C. kind of lifecycle event for many of the con-
gregation’s families — including his own
— and that the rabbi always makes him-
Joel Magalnick
Rabbi James Mirel performs at the Hanukkah
2010 fundraising dinner for MAZON: A Jewish
Response to Hunger, a pet project he has
organized for several years.
self available.
“He’s the supreme pastoral rabbi —
he’s there for any person at any time,
whether they are members or not,” said
Katz. “He has really shown such concern
for our family, both in times of need and
in times of joy.”
Mirel has augmented his rabbini-
cal career as well, as a musician. He co-
founded one of Seattle’s first klezmer
groups, the Mazel Tones and currently
performs with the Shalom Ensemble as he
continues to relish his role in the ongoing
klezmer revival.
“Whether it’s to counsel them spiritu-
ally, to appear as Tevye in Fiddler on the
Roof, or to lead music groups, Rabbi Mirel
is always there to take care of the residents
of Kline Galland,” said Jeff Cohen, CEO of
the Kline Galland Jewish nursing facility.
Mirel says he has sought to be involved
in local, national, and international causes.
He was among the first of the Seattle area’s
Reform rabbis to perform a same-sex wed-
ding, and has taken part in various social
movements, helping to provide sanctuary
for refugees from Nicaragua, El Salvador,
and Cambodia, as well as Jews from the
Soviet Union.
“I’m not saying I was on the cutting
edge,” said Mirel of his social justice work,
“But that’s a big part of who I am, and a big
part of what Temple B’nai Torah is.”
Richard Fruchter, CEO of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Seattle, recalled
Mirel’s progressive nature and his will-
ingness to take on leadership roles beyond
Temple B’nai Torah
“Rabbi Mirel has always been very sup-
portive of the Federation and the commu-
nity,” Fruchter said. “He’s always available
to make a call to, let’s say, a legislator to
remind them how important a particular
bill or a service is to our community — both
to our Jewish and regular community.”
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Rabbi receives a warm welcome at Spokane’s Jesuit university

Leyna Krow JTNews Correspondent
Although she’s only been at Gonzaga
University a few short months, Elizabeth
Goldstein has already made her mark on
campus as the faculty’s only rabbi.
In fact, it is believed that Goldstein is
the first rabbi ever to teach at the univer-
sity. A Gonzaga spokesperson was unable
to confirm whether this is true, saying
the school has seen a lot of faculty pass
through in its 125-year history, but he felt
it was probably a safe bet.
It’s a distinction Goldstein, 38, is happy
to embrace. This semester, Goldstein is
leading classes in Judaism and the Hebrew
Bible.
“They really seem to love having a rabbi
here,” she said.
Gonzaga is a private Jesuit university
and Goldstein is by no means the only
member of the clergy in the religious stud-
ies department.
“But they didn’t really have anyone
who was teaching Judaism,” Goldstein
said.
Goldstein received her rabbinical ordi-
nation from the Reform movement’s
Hebrew Union College and her Ph.D. in
Biblical Studies from the University of
California at San Diego. She said it has
always been her intention to teach Jewish
studies, and when she saw
Gonzaga was looking for
someone for such a posi-
tion, she jumped at the
chance.
She said she feels Gon-
zaga is a particularly good
fit for her.
“As a Jesuit university,
Gonzaga takes a serious
approach to religious stud-
ies,” she said. “There’s also Elizabeth Goldstein
a heavy emphasis among
Jesuits for social justice, which is a passion were there chant in Hebrew.”
of mine as well.”
In addition to her academic responsi-
bilities, Goldstein said she has also become
a default spiritual advisor for many of
Gonzaga’s Jewish students. She said she’s
planning to organize a campus Passover
seder and is looking for ways to act as a
bridge between the university and the
Spokane Jewish community at large.
“In my Judaism class, one of the
requirements is for students to visit a
Jewish congregation,” she said. “So that’s
one way of exposing Gonzaga to Judaism
and the Jewish community to Gonzaga.”
Goldstein has also involved herself in
a number of the spiritual activities taking
place on campus. She said
she’s been attending a
Taize prayer group, which
she describes as “mostly
just meditation and chant-
ing from Psalms.” Last
month, she was invited to
help lead the group with
some chants of her own
choosing.
“It was very fun,” she
said. “The best part was
watching the nuns who
She said that the university, and her
colleagues in the religious studies depart-
ment in particular, have all be very wel-
coming.
“Everyone has been super enthusias-
tic,” she said. “It’s a great department with
a lot of very smart people. We always have
something to talk about.”
Moving from California to Eastern
Washington was a big change for her and
her family, Goldstein said, but they’re
adapting to their new home.
“I just haven’t been in a place where
you have to go so far to be in a big city,”
she said. “But we’ve found the Jewish com-
munity to be very welcoming. And I can
get what I need here — kosher meat and
that sort of thing.”
Goldstein is not the only one in the
family working in a Jewish capacity. Her
partner, also a rabbi, is the new execu-
tive director for the Spokane Area Jewish
Family Services. In addition to getting
acquainted with their new professional
posts, the couple is busy raising two sets
of twins.
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Father Michael Ryan, the pastor at St.
James Cathedral in Seattle, has known
Mirel since the 1980s. He praised Mirel as a
friend, a religious leader, and as a partner.
“I quickly came to know him as a bright
light in the interfaith community here,”
said Ryan. “Jim has always been part of the
dialogue, giving a warm and human and
approachable face to the Jewish faith in our
community.”
Mirel himself is just appreciative that
he’s had a chance.
“I’m grateful to God that I’m still
around,” he said. “And I’m grateful to the
congregation for keeping me around.”

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The tempest in Toronto: “Normal anti-Semitism” in academe

Martin Jaffee JTNews Columnist
I don’t know about you, but I can’t
pass up a gory traffic accident. I’m always
among the gawkers, staring at the blood-
ied victims with a mixture of repulsion
and fascination. I’m ashamed of this, but
it’s true.
I’m not sure that a name for my afflic-
tion exists. Call it “fascination with the
unmentionable.” But whatever it is, I’ve
got it.
Which is why, I suppose, I have always
been fascinated by anti-Semitism of all
kinds. All of it, from today’s wacko Web
pages charging Jewish doctors with the
invention of AIDS to the ancient claim of
the Babylonian historian Manetho that the
Jews were thrown out of Egypt for spread-
ing leprosy, throws me into a trance of
morbid fascination.
Of all the fascinating anti-Semites and
Judeophobes that exist in recorded his-
tory, my all-time favorites are those MOTs
— from Pablo de Santa Maria to Noam
Chomsky — who defy all the comforts
of herd thinking to “go over to the other
side” of the great Jewish-goyish divide
and publicly burn their Jewish bridges in a
stunning auto de fe of sanctimony.
By telling “an insider’s truth” about the
Jews, they liberate themselves from the
confining constraints of parochial Jewish
society and win the congratulations of
the larger world beyond, which, in its
deep knowledge and respect for all things
Jewish, accords them the honor of being
the “real Jews” or the “Jewish exceptions.”
It is this willingness to be “beyond good
and evil” that wins my rapt attention.
The most recent object of my obsession
is a newcomer to the club of Jewish “truth
tellers,” Ms. Jennifer Peto, a 29-year-old
Jewish woman who grew up in the Ortho-
dox community of Toronto and is a prod-
uct of its Jewish day school
system.
She is of late the number
one celebrity in Toronto’s
Jewish community by virtue
of the Internet publication of
her Master’s thesis, titled “The
Victimhood of the Powerful:
White Jews and the Racism of
Hegemonic Holocaust Edu-
cation.”
This graduate of the Uni-
versity of Toronto, whose thesis was
approved by her mentors in the gradu-
ate department of Sociology and Equity
Studies in Education, argues, among other
things, that Holocaust education is in fact
a regime of indoctrination designed to use
the Holocaust as a smoke screen (pardon
the pun) to obscure the crimes of “racist-
colonialist Zionism” in creating the State
of Israel.
Let me quote from the introduction to
her thesis:
“Instead of taking Jewish victim-
hood as a fact, I have made it the very
subject I want to interrogate. I start
from the premise that Jewish people of
European descent are a group that today
holds power and privilege. In Israel, this
dominant group oppresses Palestinians
and non-white Jews.” (p. 6)
“In my thesis, I will build on the
work of these and other anti-Zionist
Jewish scholars. I hope to contribute to
this growing body of literature by inte-
grating critical anti-racist theory into
Jewish anti-Zionism. My work is based
in the understanding that Zionism
— the belief that Jewish people have
a right to a nation-state built on top
of the ruins of Palestine — is a racist,
imperialist ideology that can
only effectively be challenged
through anti-racist, anti-
imperialist theory and activ-
ism.” (pp 9-10)
This thesis goes the Holo-
caust deniers one better.
According to Ms. Peta, you
see, the Holocaust certainly
happened. But the Jews in
view general, and the Zionists
among them in particular, have
ever since used it cynically as a
moral bludgeon with which to
beat the West, mired in guilt, into letting
Zionism have its way with the rightful res-
idents of Palestine, who now suffer under
an apartheid regime that reflects the inher-
ent racism of Zionist ideology.
Had enough? Not me!
As a victim of “immersion in the
unmentionable” syndrome, reading such
cant arouses in me not a desire to refute
or capitulate. Rather it engages me phys-
iologically, engendering an exhilarating
rush of endorphins, an acute heighten-
ing of the powers of concentration, and
rapidity of breath, leading to a swoon of
hyper-oxygenization. In other words, I’m
hooked by the buzz.
So I read the thing — 100 pages! —
online.
Critics of the piece had led me to
believe that Peto “hadn’t done her home-
work” and generally was uninformed
about her topic. But, frankly, I learned a
lot about Leftist anti-Zionism and anti-
Semitism.
Given her slant on the Holocaust and
Zionism (which you either buy or don’t
buy — there is no “case” made here), she
very industriously turns up a long tradi-
tion of Jewish anti-Zionists, both vanished
and living among us (mostly in Tel Aviv
and Brooklyn, of course), who support
and sharpen her claims.
But is Ms. Peto’s thesis, as some charge,
an academic “obscenity?”
I’m not sure. True, unlike the best
scholarship, she doesn’t “challenge the
field.” Like any good MA candidate, she
adds footnotes to an established academic
tradition of anti-Zionism just this side of
outright anti-Semitism (check her bibli-
ography!).
This is “normal science,” whose method
is no more horrendous than many other
works that fail to question the govern-
ing paradigms of received wisdom. It just
happens to use the Holocaust as an excuse
for the reckless disregard of Jewish life
and safety. That it is hateful and offen-
sive to most members of the Jewish com-
munity says nothing about its claim to be
protected by the freedom of inquiry and
speech taken for granted in the academy.
But is the thesis “obscene” in the sense
that it violates all standards of conven-
tional scholarship to grind a genocidal
axe of Jew-hatred? Well, like justice Potter
Stewart opined in the obscenity trial of
Louis Malle’s film, The Lovers: “I know
pornography when I see it. And the motion
picture involved in this case is not that.”
Sadly, Ms. Peto’s thesis is not obscene.
It is a bore. I know, because I didn’t get my
endorphin rush.
Martin S. Jaffee currently holds the Samuel &
Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies at the
University of Washington. His award-winning
columns for JTNews have recently been
published in book form as The End of Jewish
Radar: Snapshots of a Post-Ethnic American
Judaism by iUniverse press.

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Backstage with the three cantors (plus one) If

Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
“I’ll change that!” Cantor David Ser-
kin-Poole calls out, pointing to Isaac
Azose during rehearsal on Feb. 2, then get-
ting right back to the music.
Azose nods an affirmation.
“That” which Serkin-Poole is referring
to is the accidental mention of God’s name
in a passage of liturgical music he’s been
singing, and which he’ll need to remember
to replace with a similar (but meaningless)
word, when the three cantors — Serkin-
Poole of Temple B’nai Torah, Azose, hazzan
emeritus of Congregation Ezra Bessaroth,
and Bradlee Kurland of Herzl-Ner Tamid
Conservative Congregation — plus one,
Rabbi Simon Benzaquen of Sephardic Bikur
Holim, take the stage at the Stroum Jewish
Community Center on Sun., Feb. 13.
This is an encore of a performance the
three cantors had last spring, but with the
addition of Benzaquen and an accompa-
nist, Peter Pundy, who also has the job of
keeping these four in line.
you
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will perform as a part of the
Stroum JCC’s The Jewish Touch
program on Sun., Feb. 13 at 2
p.m. Tickets cost $10 adults/$5
students and seniors. Buy tickets
online at http://jew.sh/IDwv.
“It’s a pleasure to work with such a
wide variety of wonderful musicians,”
Pundy says, at the same time forcing the
stars of the show and its emcee, Rabbi
Robert Maslow, to make decisions on
what should be simple motions, such as
how to instruct the audience to rise.
But right now they’re practicing, and
their audience consists of a friend, the
sound guy, a journalist, and a couple of
Joel Magalnick
From foreground to back, cantors Bradlee Kurland, David Serkin-Poole, and Isaac Azose, and the plus XXPage 32
one, Rabbi Simon Benzaquen, will perform at the Stroum JCC on Sunday.

The key to survival? Adapt to change

Martin Westerman JTNews Columnist
We brainy homo sapiens
are the latest hominid in 2.5
million years of evolution,
from long-term hunter-gath-
erers to recent cultivator-herd-
ers. We began domesticating
plants and animals just over
11,000 years ago, (you can
read the executive summary in
Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs
and Steel). That set off an
explosion of innovation that
continues to this day.
Archeologists and anthropologists
agree this human “big bang” started in the
Fertile Crescent (arcing between today’s
Iraq, Turkey and Sinai), blessed with
more edible food and animal species than
anywhere else on earth — emmer and
einkorn wheat, barley, peas, lentils, chick-
peas, olives, grapes, figs and dates, and
cows, pigs, sheep and goats.
The next most abundant area,
Southwest Asia, only offered
wheat, peas, olives, sheep and
goats.
Most of the earth’s bio-
mass is bound up in wood
and leaves — all indigestible,
poisonous, barely nutritional,
or hard for us to prepare.
Among animals, most species
earth can’t be tamed or bred in cap-
tivity. Now, hunter-gather-
ers need as much as a square
mile per person to find enough vegeta-
tion and game to support their lives. But
on an acre of land, cultivator-herders can
select and grow just the species of plants
and animals that can be eaten, so they
constitute 90 percent rather than 0.1 per-
cent of the biomass. Concentrating edible
calories enables us to feed 10 to 100 times
more herders and farmers than hunter-
gatherers (Michael Pollan outlines how
we domesticated, and were domesticated
by, plants in The Botany of Desire). Set-
tled farmer-herders can also bear and feed
more children, in shorter time frames,
than roving hunter-gatherer bands, and
grow population faster, encounter more
diseases and develop more immunities,
and create more space for inventing, gov-
erning, and supporting armies.
From the Fertile Crescent (and South-
west Asia), farming and herding spread
eastward and westward. As new societ-
ies encountered these ideas, some opened
to them, some resisted them. Generally,
societies that adopted new crops, live-
stock and/or technology got better nour-
ished, and outbred, displaced, conquered
or killed off societies that resisted nov-
elty and change. Adapting societies grew
visionaries, inventors and traders, chief-
tains and religions, and became kingdoms
and empires.
Among the innovators was a hardy
people, distinguished by their laws and
customs, curiosity and inventiveness.
Their endurance over five millennia
prompted Mark Twain to marvel in 1898,
that despite numbers akin to “a nebu-
lous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze
of the Milky Way,” the Jew “is as promi-
nent on the planet as any other people.”
Twain remarked that the Jew’s commer-
cial importance and contributions to the
world’s list of great names in literature,
science, art, music, finance, medicine, and
abstruse learning are “extravagantly out of
proportion to the smallness of his bulk...
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Former ballplayer Al Rosen still slams line drives
Michael Fox Special to JTNews
On his way to becoming a perennial
All-Star in the mid-1950s, Cleveland Indi-
ans clean-up hitter Al Rosen received
more than his share of barbs from oppos-
ing dugouts and the stands.
All these years later, the slugging
Jewish third baseman recalls how he dis-
tinguished casual insults from malicious
slurs.
“There’s a line where you can accept
it because you know it’s not right but
it’s not that offensive,” he says. “It’s the
moment that it becomes offensive that you
make a decision, and I’m sure there’s not
a lot of forethought to this, but the deci-
sion is, ‘I’m going to stop this right now
because if I don’t it’s going to go on and
on and on.’”
Rosen makes a memorable appearance
in Jews and Baseball: An American Love
Story, Peter Miller’s entertaining and sur-
prisingly thoughtful documentary about
the relationship between the national pas-
time, an immigrant population and their
assimilated sons and daughters.
Jews and Baseball, which boasts a first-
rate narration written by New York Times
sportswriter Ira Berkow and read by
Dustin Hoffman, and an ultra-rare inter-
view with Sandy Koufax, screens as part of
the Seattle Jewish Film Festival.
Rosen wasn’t raised with any formal
training in Judaism, he said in an inter-
view during the San Francisco Jewish Film
Festival last summer, but he knew who
he was. Actually, growing up in the 1930s
in a lower-middle-class neighborhood
in Miami (where Little Havana is today)
with no other Jews, there was always some
kid to remind him.
Awards from a different kind of “academy”
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
In film terms, they might be called
Ocean’s Seven, but with a few crucial dif-
ferences from the movie series: Instead of
engineering intricate, flawlessly planned
heists, this group of volunteers gives
dozens of hours a week to ensure that
every aspect of handling a death of a fellow
synagogue member is managed smoothly,
carefully and judiciously; instead of innu-
merable inane sequels, this group gets
better and more effective over time; and
rather than finishing the job and disap-
pearing into the woodwork, this group is
in it for the long haul.
Also, said Herzl-Ner Tamid Conser-
vative Congregation’s executive director
Nadine Strauss of the seven members of
its cemetery committee, not one of them
would take the honor of the synagogue’s
humanitarian award alone.
“It was all for one or one for all,”
Strauss said.
Could Clooney or Pitt or Roberts say
the same thing?
Courtesy Seventh Art Releasing/SJFF
L.A. Dodger Sandy Koufax takes the field, a still
from Peter Miller’s Jews and Baseball.
“You’re picked on, you’re made fun of,
you’re the butt of jokes, and unless you
assert yourself soon and often, you soon
become cast aside,” Rosen relates. “Well, I
was never one to be cast aside.”
That’s not false bravado. Even at 86, the
wiry Rosen gives off the vibe of a man who
won’t be pushed around. As he describes
his adolescence, it’s easy to see why he
wasn’t hesitant to use his fists to silence an
anti-Semite in the minors or even after he
reached the big leagues in 1947.
“Some kids are bigger than others, and
they want to be bullies,” he notes. “And
When Herzl-Ner Tamid holds its
“Hooray for Herzlwood” event this week-
end, it is honoring several members of its
own community that have done much for
the greater community as well — with an
Oscars theme.
Anyone who attends lunch during
Passover at Hillel at the University of
Washington will recognize Paul Malakoff
as the guy in the apron — he’s the guy who
started the lunches and is always there to
ensure everything runs smoothly. But he
also was instrumental in starting Herzl-
Ner Tamid’s endowment and began a pro-
gram at Seattle’s Garfield High School that
raised money to give out 50 $1,000 schol-
arships for students there.
Iantha Sidell is the former board chair
of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle,
and current capital campaign chair for the
Stroum Jewish Community Center, but
calls Herzl-Ner Tamid her home.
Two of their young leaders are being
honored as well: Jonathan Langman
sometimes you have to know that you’re
not going to win, but you have to take on
the bully. That’s what happened more than
once in my growing up in the southwest
section of Miami.”
Rosen came within one hit of the elu-
sive batting Triple Crown in 1953, and
garnered the American League MVP
award in a unanimous vote. But both-
ered by injuries and livid at the way Indi-
ans general manager (and Detroit Tigers
legend) Hank Greenberg treated him—
cutting his salary after the 1954 season
and trading him to Boston after the ’56
campaign—Rosen retired at the age of 32
rather than start over in a new city.
Jews and Baseball suggests that Green-
berg was tougher on Rosen, a fellow
member of the tribe, than he was on any
other Tribe player. When I bring up his
predecessor’s name, Rosen only says,
“Greenberg and I were not friendly.”
He does credit Greenberg with being
the first great Jewish ballplayer, and for
inspiring other Jews to enter the game. But
Rosen attributes the decline in overt anti-
Semitism to the establishment of the state
of Israel in 1948.
“Once the Jew began to fight, people
realized the Jews were not just shopkeep-
ers, nor were they just accountants or
doctors or lawyers or musicians,” Rosen
declares. “I think there was a metamor-
phosis that took place. All of us who were
in [public] life benefited from that.”
Speaking of fighting, Rosen was long-
time teammates with Larry Doby, who
broke the color barrier in the American
League two months before Rosen was
called up.
helped to start the NextGen young adults
group and used his financial knowledge
that “helped us through that economic
slump,” Strauss said.
Dan Mintz wins the Unsung Hero
award. He is “one of those people that
every organization wants. He can do any-
thing and does so much of it all,” Strauss
said. “He’s created all kinds of programs
that bring people that pass through our
doors a sense of community.”
But Strauss was most emphatic about the
ongoing efforts of the cemetery committee.
“They volunteer all their time to run
every aspect of that memorial park, from
the first call that comes in from the chevra
kadisha [burial society], from the rabbi,
to the family, to the moment that they are
ushered to their final resting place, fur-
ther on to the unveiling,” she said. “[Even
if] it’s the middle of the workday, it just
doesn’t matter, and it’s extraordinary.”
Two of the members of that commit-
tee, George Siegel and Johnny Cohn, have
If
you
go:
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival
runs March 3 and 12–20. Jews and
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screens Sun., March 13 at 11 a.m.
at AMC Pacific Place 11, 600 Pine
St., Seattle. Visit
www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org
for tickets and further information.
“I don’t know that Doby was of any help
to me as a Jew or I was any help to Doby as
a black man,” Rosen says, before recount-
ing an incident in Texas involving a cabbie
who refused to drive the black player.
“I got out of the cab and told him he
was going to take us and he said, ‘No,
I’m not,’ and I grabbed him and punched
him,” Rosen says. “I think that sort of
resolved Doby’s feelings about how I felt
about him.”
Rosen returned to baseball in the late
1970s as president of the Yankees after his
old friend, George Steinbrenner, bought
the team. Rosen was also a successful GM
with the Houston Astros and San Francisco
Giants, and he continues to follow the game
and hold strong, well-considered opinions.
If one word could be used to describe
Al Rosen, it would be character.
“I wore my feelings on my sleeves,” he
confides. “I always felt that I want to con-
duct myself that, if I were walking down
the street, one Jew could look at another
Jew and say, ‘He’s a mensch.’ That was sort
of ingrained in me.”
If
you
go:
“Hooray for Herzlwood” takes
place on Sat., Feb 12 from 7–11
p.m. at Herzl-Ner Tamid Con-
servative Congregation, 3700 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island. Visit
www.h-nt.org/herzlwood.htm for
ticket and RSVP information.
been volunteering for 33 years apiece.
Elaine Weinstein has done it for 23 years,
Jack Farber for 22. Peter Michel, Corinne
Farber, and Steve Burns round out the
group.
Herzl-Ner Tamid’s rabbi, Jay Rosen-
baum, said he appreciates what his mem-
bers have done for their community.
“When you look at all of them together,
you’re grateful how much effort has gone
in by so many people from so many gener-
ations, each in their own way,” he said.
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Next stop for Maestro Schwarz:
New media project for music education
Gigi Yellen-Kohn JTNews Correspondent
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a
multi-part series honoring Seattle Symphony
Music Director Gerard Schwarz’s final season.
Seattle Symphony has already released
its schedule of concerts for next season,
starting in September of 2011, when its new
music director, Ludovic Morlot, takes over.
But right now, at the midway point in this
season celebrating Schwarz’s 26-year legacy
as music director, the soon-to-be Conduc-
tor Laureate is excited about “one of the
most important things, if not the most
important thing I’ve ever done”: an educa-
tional TV project, to be aired on PBS.
The series is being called “All-Star
Orchestra.” Schwarz is music director and
conductor of an inaugural season of eight
one-hour-long shows designed “to talk
about and then perform the greatest music.
“There has been an enormous out-
pouring of excitement” about the proj-
ect, Schwarz says, “and there are still loose
ends” at this midwinter point. “If all fund-
raising is complete, the first year will be
recorded at the end of August 2011.”
Is Gerard Schwarz doing a Leonard
Bernstein? Not quite, insists the conduc-
tor who once played principal trumpet in
Bernstein’s New York Philharmonic.
“What Leonard Bernstein did — fabu-
lously, with his Young People’s Concerts
— was, pick a subject. I’ll do that. Talk
about it. I’ll do that, but more! And it’s not
just me. It’ll be historians, could be another
performer, could be a musicologist, a biog-
rapher of a composer, whoever has some-
thing to offer. And then we’re going to play
the piece. Complete.”
The “All-Star Orchestra” will be made
up of musicians from all over the country.
“The greatest of the great will come
together for a week in New York, and
record these eight shows — television
shows, not concerts,” Schwarz says.
There will be no studio audience; the
audience addressed is the one watching
the screen.
Who’s this “greatest of the great”? Is
their concertmaster Yitzchak Perlman?
“No,” smiles Schwarz, emphasizing
that this is not a group of famous soloists.
“They’re orchestral musicians. So in the
first violin section there’ll probably be 12
or 14 concertmasters. And they’ll rotate,”
meaning the solo honors will be shared.
“The same with all the sections,” he
adds. “In the winds, we pick individuals
who will create their favorite section. It’ll
be people from here, Seattle, obviously, as
well as from the New York Philharmonic
and the [Metropolitan Opera Orchestra],
and Cleveland and Chicago and Boston,
and so forth.”
All the players are to come from Amer-
ican orchestras. The project, Schwarz says,
is “to create a musical library,” produc-
ing as many eight-show seasons as pos-
and you can click on Beethoven’s life, you
can click on what was life like in Vienna in
the early 19th century; click on interviews
with the players; you can click on rehearsal
shots,” he says.
And then there’s to be the thrill of
moving in close to the music-making
itself: “You can be your own camera-
man or woman: you can pick the cameras
you want to look at, so if you’re an oboe
player and you want to look at the oboe
player, you punch the oboe camera, and
we have nine cameras that you can actu-
ally choose.”
One of the tracks will be Schwarz him-
Ben VanHouten self, voicing his thoughts while he’s con-
Gerard Schwarz ducting. “Can you imagine what that’s
going to be like?” Schwarz laughs.
sible over an undetermined number of Ultimately, it’s the current state of
years. That library will consist not only of school music education, or lack thereof,
the one-hour shows, Schwarz adds, but that inspired this project.
“the intention is to have a DVD for each “We’re going to have a teacher’s
show plus an extended educational com- guide—it’s not so much for school sys-
ponent to be released in conjunction with tems that have big music programs—there
the airing of each show.” aren’t many left of those,” he laments.
Of course, an interactive Web site is Rather, he points out, “There are so many
part of the plan. communities that don’t even have sym-
Schwarz and his team are particularly phony orchestras. So a teacher of mathemat-
excited about the bonus material they plan ics who’s interested could, with the teacher’s
to release after each show airs: guide and the material, learn enough to
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throughout Gerard Schwarz’s final
season continue on Feb. 17 and
19 with a “Viola Spectacular with
Pinchas Zukerman.”
At Benaroya Hall, 200 University
St., Seattle. For tickets, visit
www.seattlesymphony.org.
specific, so if it’s primary school, this one,
secondary school, that one.”
Recording will take place probably in
the Juilliard complex at Lincoln Center.
A series sounds like it could be expen-
sive, but according to Schwarz, it’s “not as
expensive as you might think. A budget of
maybe $2.5 million for eight one-hour TV
shows. Usually you spend that much on
eight commercials of 30 seconds each!”
There’s quite a team involved in this
project, some in New York and some in
Seattle. Schwarz, as music director, works
with “a whole group that weigh in on the
programming, and two personnel manag-
ers in New York to line up the musicians,”
he says. “It’s just huge.”
So, no resting on laurels for the future
Conductor Laureate of Seattle Symphony.
While he’s enjoying the celebrations of his
long service here, he’s already busy secur-
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Saturday, February 12,
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Sasson
Klezmer and Jewish Music
Seattle’s trio of young Jewish art-
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Mixing between klezmer, jazz fu-
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show. Free. At Island Crust, 7525
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Tuesday, February 15,
7:30 p.m.
Shraga Biran: We All Could
Profit from Your Ideas
Lecture
Shraga Biran is an Israeli attorney
and civic leader, and the author of
Opportunism: How to Change the
World – One Idea at a Time. He
envisions a world full of citizens
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and benefit from them financially.
At Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave., Se-
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7:30 and 8 p.m.
Viola Spectacular with
Pinchas Zukerman
Classical Concert
Yet another ultra-talented Is-
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dimensional Pinchas Zuckerman
performing viola. Zuckerman was
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also principal guest conductor of Britain’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. At
Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle. Tickets at www.seattlesymphony.org.
Wednesday, February 23 at 1 p.m.
Shir l’Shalom: Songs of Peace
Sing-a-long
In response to a campus art exhibition that calls Hebrew a “language of abuse,”
the Evergreen State College Hillel invites people to join them in singing Hebrew
songs of peace. The event is free and all are invited — no Hebrew knowledge
required. At the Evergreen State College, Red Square, 2700 Evergreen Parkway,
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alterations, please call Beverly at 206-283-0655.
n Cinema Books
Cinema Books is the film bookstore of the Northwest. Collections include
biographies of movie stars and directors, glamorous picture books of Hollywood,
posters, stills and cards of the stars, and technical filmmaking books for the novice
or professional. They also carry criticism and reference film books to lead you to

n The Bellevue Club and Hotel Bellevue

movies you may have missed. Call 206-547-7667 or visit www.cinemabooks.net.

The Bellevue Club and Hotel Bellevue is a four- n City Catering Company
star, four-diamond, internationally recognized Weddings have a special place in the world. No celebration carries
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Ballroom is the perfect setting for your special
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n Fremont Jewelry Design

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n Emmanuel’s Fine Rug
Fremont Jewelry Design is a small, comfortable, boutique-like shop where there
is true passion when it comes to designing and creating jewelry. It flows from
owner Lisa Magetteri’s desire to make her customers’ jewelry dreams come true.
Design elements are drawn from customers’ ideas as well as her own sense of style.
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n Herzl-Ner Tamid Judaica Shop foot grand ballroom is the largest hotel ballroom east of Lake Washington, and the
Herzl-Ner Tamid Judaica Shop has what third largest in Washington State. The hotel specializes in customized menus for
you need to “Do Jewish!” From traditional your wedding, Bar or Bat Mitzvah, or special family occasion. Group overnight room
to unique, artisan to boutique, come rates are available. Please contact their catering consultants at 425-698-4240 or
see an amazing variety of merchandise visit bellevue.hyatt.com.

n Joel Dames Photography

to make your simcha special: Ketubot or
personalized kippot; jewelry in gold, silver,
enamel, ceramic, acrylic; tallitot in many Award-winning photographers Joel and Hitomi are prepared to capture your
fabrics, sizes, and colors; mezzuzot in every simcha. They offer DVD full-resolution printable images and 60-day private
metals, acrylic, wood and mixed materials; Web sites as well as glove-leather coffee table albums digitally designed by graphic
ritual and holiday items, and much more. designer Hitomi. Read testimonials at
See artisan Judaica by Adi Sidler, Judit www.joeldamesphotography.com, or call
Leiser, Emily Rosenfeld, Gary Rosenthal, 206-367-1276 for more information.

n Kaspars
Lalo and other artists. Open Wednesdays
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and the second
Sunday of the month from 10 a.m. to You will remember your special day for the rest of your life,
12:15 p.m. Also open by appointment for so choosing the right partners to help you is an important
your convenience. Call the shul office at 206-232-8555. For more information visit decision. The team at Kaspars Special Events and Catering,
www.h-nt.org/judaicashop.htm. At 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. with more than 20 years of experience and a reputation for

n Hyatt Regency Bellevue

On Seattle’s Eastside, nine miles from downtown
Seattle, Hyatt Regency Bellevue offers 733
guestrooms and 70,000 square feet of event space
following a stunning 2009 $185-million expansion.
Ideally located in the heart of The Bellevue
Collection, a premier urban streetscape with more
than 250 shops, 45 restaurants and lounges, a landmark cinema, a stylish billiards
and comedy club, day spas, and upscale bowling lanes — all connected to the hotel
via convenient sky bridges. With Asian-inspired elegance, the new 17,745-square-
excellence, will support you through the entire planning
process, including venue selection, menu creation, ceremony,
and reception planning, ensuring you are stress-free.
Family owned and operated, Kaspars’ passion is to provide
creative, fresh cuisine and superior service at a reasonable price.
They cater to groups of all sizes, both within Kaspars as well as at off-site locations
including private homes. Whether you are entertaining a few or a few hundred
guests, the elements for success are the same: Superb fare, impeccable service, the
proper ambience, and the right caterer! Kaspars Special Events and Catering has it
all. Call 206-298-0123, fax 206-298-0146 or visit www.kaspars.com.

4500–4 th Ave. South, Seattle WA 206.749.5400

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n The Landing and Northcut Conference Room n Mercer Island’s Community Center
at Mercer View
Give your casual graduation party an extra touch
of elegance, welcome your teen into adulthood with
sophistication, or make your wedding sparkle. The The Community Center at Mercer View
Landing also transforms into the perfect setting for your overlooks Luther Burbank Park, Lake Washington
theatre performance, wedding reception, prom, live band, or dance workshop. The and the Cascade Mountains. This center is a
patio with open terrace setting extends the pleasant ambience of any special events. primary event hot spot in the Northwest.
The Northcut Conference Room meeting facility is an extraordinary setting for your While this state-of-the-art facility may be a
off-site meetings, conferences, executive retreats, and ideas for all-staff retreats. For community center in name, the quality of the
more information, please contact 206-786-0627 or info@northcutlanding.com. venue competes with many upscale wedding
locations while remaining at competitive
n The Little Red Bistro rates. Conveniently located between Seattle
The Little Red Bistro could very well be the most unique bistro and event space and Bellevue, the CCMV offers several room
in the Northwest. Some have described it as part Cirque, part soirée, with touches accommodations for wedding-related events,
of fine dining elegance. The brainchild of highly accomplished artist Jeff Hengst with free parking available for over 220 vehicles.
and filled with art, antiques, rich colors and velvet curtains, this place makes The Mercer Room, a sophisticated, modern
you feel like you have been transported to magical places you may be longing to space, provides banquet seating for 200
revisit. The menu is French bistro-style (including Vietnamese and Cajun touches) guests, three levels of lighting, and many more
and the catering menu is growing fast to include what is needed to support many amenities. The adjoining terrace features tables, chairs, warm lighting and cover. A
wonderful occasions. The 250-person event space is perfect for weddings, rehearsal catering kitchen is also available for rent and you are welcome to bring in a caterer
dinners and all kinds of celebrations. Contact Jeff at 206-963-0633. Bon appetít. of your choosing.
Reservations are taken 18 months in advance! Visit www.mercergov.org/
n Mary Frimer mercerroom or call 206-275-7609 to reserve your date!
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• Full-service real estate — first-class service, first-class results
• President’s Gold award 2009 • Fluent in Spanish
Contact Mary for all your real estate needs! 206-391-6161 or
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n Menashe & Sons Jewelers
celebration is spectacular!
Menashe & Sons is a full-service store featuring a large estate jewelry department, Chef Kaspar offers exceptional
custom design jewelry, and a complete repair department for clocks, watches, and Northwest cuisine along with a
jewelry. The store has a G.I.A. gemologist on staff for a full appraisal service. It superior staff versed in weddings,
also has one of the largest diamond engagement inventories in the city of Seattle. rehearsal dinners, showers and
Menashe & Sons specializes in one-of-a-kind custom jewelry pieces featuring oriental b'nai mitzvahs.
jade, Tahitian pearls, fine emeralds, rubies, sapphires, and tanzanite. Kaspars dining rooms can accommodate
For honest, professional service call 206-932-4272 or visit www. up to 300 guests or can offer full
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n Nosh Away Catering n Pogacha

Voted best caterer by JTNews readers! Nosh Away, Inc. is
a full-service kosher catering company servicing the greater
Seattle community. Size and type of event have no limitations.
Whether it is dinner for two, or a gala event for 2,000, Nosh
Away will bring to bear amazing concern for the event by
paying meticulous attention to all of the details that ensure
success. Nosh Away has teamed up with many venues in the
Seattle area to provide customers and guests with a wonderful dining experience,
providing excellent quality and professional service. Under kosher supervision of the
Va’ad of Greater Seattle, their 3,000-square-foot, fully equipped commissary and
bakery operates daily to provide for all of Nosh Away’s catering needs.
Pogacha of Issaquah is a casual fine-
dining restaurant nestled in Issaquah
with easy access from I-90. They pride
themselves on their fresh delicious
food, exceptional service, and friendly neighborhood atmosphere. Pogacha has two
private dining rooms and full-service catering, and they are delighted to provide
personalized event planning with their friendly Pogacha touch.
They offer Northwest cuisine with an Adriatic flair. All of the food is made from
scratch, using only the freshest ingredients. For questions or information, contact
event dining manager Sarah Barnes at 425-392-5550 (office), 425-269-2616 (cell)
or sarah@pogacha.com. For catering contact Justin McMartin at 425-894-7441.

n Rent - a - C hef Catering

www.noshaway.com.

n Onionskin Design Thierry Adam specializes in private events. He

Joan Lite Miller specializes in one-of-a-kind invitations
for weddings and B’nai Mitzvah, custom ketubot, English
and Hebrew calligraphy, expressive hand lettering, original
paper-cuts and logo design.
For more information, call 206-527-6320 or visit www.onionskindesign.com.
designs, prepares and serves elegant dinners at
home or on location. Serving the Jewish community
for 27 years, Thierry is able to prepare his menu
to accommodate dietary laws and preferences. He
specializes in French cuisine, but can tailor every

n Pedersen’s
The Event Rental Experts
Stylish party rentals including:
• Specialty linen • Glassware • Tables • China • Cutlery • Chair covers
• Designer chairs • Catering equipment • Unique tabletop items.
4500 4th Ave. S, Seattle. Call 206-719-5400 or visit www.pedersens.com.
meal to the client’s taste and budget. He excels at
B’nai Mitzvah parties, weddings and business and
private dinners from four to 80 people — perfect
for an intimate affair. This is world-class catering
perfect for special occasions. Contact Thierry at
206-622-8199, 800-593-2283, rentachef@aol.com
or www.rent-a-chef-catering.com.

n Photos by Rachelle n The Ruins

Rachelle Erickson’s style reflects her artistic eye and lends a fresh, modern
spin as a “lifestyle photographer,” capturing all the love, laughter, tears, family
and friends of your wedding day that makes it
priceless! With 18 years of experience, she is
dedicated to telling your story that you will
cherish forever. Contact Rachelle Erickson at 425-
829-0532 or visit www.photosbyrachelle.com.
The Ruins is a private dining club with catering facilities open to the public.
It is one of the most unique venues in the country. The founder and creator, Joe
McDonnal, built a mansion inside of a warehouse with landscaped gardens and four
beautifully appointed rooms. The rooms used collectively can accommodate up to
160 for a seated dinner, or 250 for a stand-up cocktail reception. From beginning
to end, their professional staff and beautiful venue will offer you and your guests a
truly unique and memorable experience. Contact The Ruins at 206-285-7846 or visit
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n Say I Do...Nutrition Services, LLC n What the Chelm!

Say I Do... is a nutrition consulting company based
on loving food and enjoying life. They specialize in
healthy lifestyle changes to prepare you and your loved
ones for your wedding day.
They believe that all foods — ice cream or apples
— have a place in our lives (no food police here!). Say
I Do... takes a non-diet approach to nutrition, relying
What the Chelm! has enlivened simchot since 1993 and entertained at countless
B’nai Mitzvah and weddings around the Puget Sound area. Public
performances have included Folklife, Klezfest, the Juan de Fuca Festival and moving
the Boise synagogue to its new home, as well as annual gigs for the Bellingham
Parks and the Whatcom Museum. The band plays klezmer, Israeli, Yiddish, Ladino
and other types of music. Contact Dan Raas at 360-676-1621 or visit
www.whatthechelm.com.

solely on tried-and-true, evidenced-based practices.
They work with a wide variety of clientele, from
complex medical conditions to weight loss, or general
information to improve your health and well-being.
Let Say I Do… help you feel your best now and forever and transform you from
saying “I can” and “I will” to “I do!”
Nutrition consulting in the greater Seattle area, they meet you in the
environment of your choice, whether it is your home or the local coffee shop. For
more information, visit www.SayIDoNutrition.com or call 425-998-7044.
n Woodmark Weddings
A Woodmark wedding under the gleaming
white canopy of the Olympic Terrace provides the
ideal Lake Washington setting: Water, mountains,
sunset and cityscape, simple elements brought
together to create the backdrop for a lavish
affair. A host of perks will make your special day
that much more exquisite. From the expertise

n Shawn’s Kugel
of your own Woodmark Wedding bridal director to distinctive bride and groom spa
packages to an unforgettable lake cruise aboard their 1956 28-foot classic Chris
Shawn’s Kugel is the premier Jewish band in the Pacific Northwest. 
Voted Craft — your wedding will be memory-making. Love your life. Visit thewoodmark.
Best Jewish Band by JTNews readers in 2007, they have performed for com or call 425-827-1986.
enthusiastic clients for more than 11 years. They specialize in getting guests to
participate 
in folk dancing and horas at weddings, B’nai Mitzvah and other lifecycle
events. 
Shawn’s Kugel has released four CDs, with the latest being Odyssey.
Check out Shawn’s Kugel on MySpace, 
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and learn more about this
 Northwest treasure.
Contact 206-523-9298 or shawnsax@jps.net or
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n Tulalip Resort Casino

The AAA Four Diamond Tulalip Resort Casino
takes the stress out of wedding planning and
ensures that your wedding day is memorable,
from an elegant rehearsal dinner to a luxurious
suite for the bride and groom. The bridal lounge
provides a private area for staging and preparation that leads directly to the bride’s
perfect entrance: descending down the grand staircase to a ceremonial podium at
the edge of the indoor Oasis Pool, complete with rock formations and waterfalls.
Thirty thousand square feet of elegant function space can accommodate receptions
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To plan your special day at Tulalip Resort Casino, please contact James Hillman
at 360-716-6830, james.hillman@tulalipresort.com or www.TulalipResort.com. Voted Best Jewish Band by
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WWconservative movement Page 7
“I think he really understands what the
challenges are, how things have changed
over the last 30 years or so, and I think he’s
committed to out-of-the-box thinking
and some really creative action,” Rosen-
baum said.
Herzl-Ner Tamid, he said, is constantly
working on new ways of making atten-
dance compelling and interesting.
“The burden of proof is on the Jewish
institution to prove that we are worth
a look, we are worth the commitment,”
Rosenbaum said. “There’s no automatic,
it’s not going to happen by inertia, it’s not
going to happen by nostalgia.”
Congregation B’nai Torah, a small,
mostly lay-led Conservative synagogue
in Olympia, has questioned in the past
whether its dues are worth the services
they receive. According to Stan Finkel-
stein, B’nai Torah’s president, “what
they’re doing is probably the right thing,
maybe a little bit late in coming,” he said.
“Will it work? I’m optimistic that if they
step back enough and say, ‘What’s wrong
and what do we do to fix it?’ they can make
some progress, but it takes regional people
who are committed to it.”
Being an hour or more from the closest
Conservative shuls in Seattle, Finkelstein
said the emphasis on greater regional ser-
vices would be welcomed.
Beth Shalom’s Borodin agreed, saying
she receives calls from small communities
wanting services that she doesn’t have the
resources to provide. Beth Shalom, how-
ever, would likely not be terribly affected
by this new strategic plan because they’re
doing many of the things it calls for
already.
“All of the problems they’re respond-
ing to are not problems we’re seeing as a
congregation,” Borodin said. “We’ve actu-
ally had a large increase in members and
we are a very vibrant place.”
One comment she heard from Wer-
nick during his visit was that Beth Shalom
was the only community he had visited —
of 100 in his first year — in which young
adults came to his presentation and asked
questions.
“‘How do you integrate young adults
into the congregation?’” Borodin said he
asked her.
That question, and how to engage col-
lege students, are where Borodin said she
would like to see more emphasis.
Wernick began oversight on the strate-
gic planning process when he took his lead-
ership post a year ago, but it came about as
a result of duress. At around the time Wer-
nick came in, a number of prominent syn-
agogues and rabbis formed a coalition
called Hayom (Today) that demanded
changes in governance and a better return
on their congregations’ investment. USCJ
worked closely with Hayom on building
its plan, Wernick said.
Rabbi Michael Siegel, one of Hay-
om’s leaders from Chicago, told the JTA
news service that he appreciates the effort,
but called it a good first step that would
require a “leap of faith” on the behalf of its
member congregations.
Borodin had similar, though less harsh,
sentiments.
“I don’t think it’s particularly trail-
blazing or radical or visionary,” she said.
“I think it’s a realistic plan that will take
the movement 100 steps forward. Because
the movement structure is so antiquated,
there’s a lot of work to be done. I think
this is the right way to approach how to
get there.”
Rosenbaum of Herzl-Ner Tamid said
he hopes this plan will allow the move-
ment to overcome what he said was its
inability to connect its member syna-
gogues together.
“There’s a lot of interesting stuff going
on in all the congregations in America.
Everybody’s doing at least one thing that’s
really working,” he said. But “there’s not
connective tissue. We’re not a movement,
as we really ought to be.”
Still, Rosenbaum said he likes what he
sees so far.
“I’m impressed with what Rabbi Wer-
nick has already done, and with his
vision,” he said. “I’m optimistic that some-
thing is going to happen.”
Ultimately, what Wernick believes
should happen is that the Conservative
movement will create sacred communi-
ties “that [add] to a person’s sense of rela-
tionship with the Divine. Social justice
that really gives people an opportunity to
change the world, but most importantly,
to get out of the mud of thinking that the
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Of the approximately 887 emergency
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programs and the 43 domestic violence
programs that contract with the state,
Shalom Bayit takes referrals from more
than 20 of these programs.
Other county and state agencies simul-
taneously help survivors find housing,
employment, and school placement for
their children.
Shalom Bayit is the only program of its
kind in Washington, and one of the few
in the country that stores, distributes, and
delivers household furnishings to these
victims.
“We are now facing a tremendous
financial crisis,” said Karen Besserman,
NCJW Seattle Section’s executive direc-
tor. “Without our programming, a lot of
these women — these victims and their
families — may be able to get a house, but
they will certainly have trouble turning it
into a home.”
Operational funds for the Shalom Bayit
program also come from NCJW’s $50 per
year membership dues. NCJW’s Seattle
Section currently has 400 members.
Though Shalom Bayit had served
approximately 150 families per year,
mainly women and children, Besserman
said, in 2009 referrals spiked to 250.
“We’ve seen a greater increase in the
need for our services in difficult economic
times,” she said. “I think you see greater
incidences of domestic violence.”
Since the program was created in the
fall of 2001, Shalom Bayit has collected
over 14,000 pieces of “gently used” furni-
ture from nearly 2,000 donors. More than
96 percent of its clients are not Jewish.
“Our mission is to serve everyone,”
said Jennifer Cohen, a former co-presi-
dent of the NCJW Seattle section who has
been a volunteer with the organization
since 1998. Cohen received its Lifetime
Achievement Award in 2010 for creating
the Shalom Bayit program.
In the early days of the program,
Shalom Bayit staff would give its clients
a mezuzah to place on their doors to wel-
come them into their new home.
“We had a lot of Jewish clients at the
beginning,” said Cohen, telling one of her
favorite stories from the early days of the
program, when a Jewish woman who had
selected a living room full of nearly-new
furniture, brought her to tears.
“At the end, I gave her a mezuzah, and
she just looked at it, she hugged me, and
she said, ‘This is all I needed.’”
Cohen recalled another story of one
young mother she helped move into a
new apartment after escaping abuse at
the hands of her spouse. The two women
watched her five young sons, all under
the age of 10, jump up and down on their
new beds, laughing and shrieking over not
having to sleep on the floor in their sleep-
ing bags again for one more night. It was
a time of joy and not for scolding, recalled
Cohen.
“They’ve had so many things controlled
for them,” Cohen said. “The women come
in and select what they want that would
help them create a home. That is really
important — to have that choice.”
Besserman said the board is exploring
the idea of spinning Shalom Bayit off of
NCJW in the hopes of reducing expenses.
That “is certainly our hope,” Besser-
man said. “But we’re desperately seeking
support to buy some time.”
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UW profs edit new book on Jewish identity
By Diana Brement JTNews Columnist
It happened, as these things
often do, at a conference.
“It,” being Boundaries
of Jewish Identity (Univer-
sity of Washington Press), a
new collection of essays on
Jewish identity edited by UW
Professors Susan Glenn, the
Howard and Frances Keller
Endowed Professor in His-
tory, and Naomi Sokoloff,
Professor of Near Eastern
Languages and Professor of Comparative
Literature.
The essays that make up the book
began as papers presented at a 2007 con-
ference organized by the two professors.
“I was interested in two things,” Susan
explained to me, “how social scientists
were trying to put a public face on Jewish
[culture] and Jewish identity [and] the
relationship between what they were
doing and…popular culture.”
The conference was a “huge success,”
she says. “People were so fascinated.”
Both Susan and Naomi singled out
the keynote address — and the book’s
first essay — as among the most interest-
ing works. “Are Genes Jewish? Concep-
tual Ambiguities in the New Genetic Age”
is by Susan Martha Kahn of
Harvard’s Center for Middle
Eastern Studies.
“The lead article in the
collection,” observes Naomi,
“about changing genetic
research and assisted repro-
duction…strikes me as a very
contemporary issue that will
affect many different com-
munities…on deciding on
tribe identity issues.”
That article “generated the
most amazing conversations,”
says Susan. “It highlights the
importance of a book like this,” and “the
many different forms this conversation
can take.”
Prof. Glenn’s work in the book centers
on the intriguing and entertaining prac-
tice or game by which Jews have tried to
identify who is Jewish on the basis of their
looks. This goes against social scientific
writings, which attempted to undercut the
notion that you could tell who was a Jew
on the basis of physical features.
“There’s this intense curiosity among
Jews to try and find other Jews,” she says.
Haven’t we all done that? Susan calls
this “Jewhooing.”
I asked Naomi if she thought the inter-
est in Jewish identity is stronger among
unaffiliated Jews than affiliated, and she
disagreed.
“Jews move in and out of identities
a lot,” she says, depending on a variety
of factors. “Every generation finds itself
in some way,” she adds. “We didn’t put
this volume together to specifically speak
about groups at the margins.”
A member of Temple De Hirsch Sinai,
Naomi says her Yiddishist-Socialist grand-
parents might be shocked that she attends
synagogue.
“I came from a secular but highly Jew-
ishly identified home,” she says.
Prof. Sokoloff’s piece in the book,
“Jewish Character? Stereotype and Identity
in Fiction from Israel by Aharon Appelf-
eld and Sayed Kashua” examines the use of
Jewish stereotypes in defining Jewish iden-
tity in two specific works by those prom-
inent Israeli writers, one a well-known
Holocaust survivor and the other an Israeli
Arab. Naomi will continue this discussion
with the general public at an April 12 lec-
ture at the Stroum SJCC, part of the Israel
360 lecture series organized by the UW’s
Stroum Jewish Studies Program.
Susan’s scholarship and teaching have
focused on 20th-century cultural and
social history and she says anti-Semi-
tism, particularly in the 20th century, is an
enduring interest of hers and the subject of
one of her UW classes.
“Everyone thinks they know what it
means, but it’s used very elastically,” she
says.
She has also taught — although not
recently — “a really fascinating course on
Jews and blacks in the United States.”
Both Susan and Naomi say that most of
the students in their classes are not Jewish,
with the possible exception, Naomi says,
of advanced Hebrew.
I couldn’t resist asking Prof. Glenn if
she thought there was a difference between
East Coast and West Coast Jews.
“It depends on context,” she responded,
illustrating her point with an anecdote:
Growing up in L.A. she felt quite Jewish,
but while doing research at the YIVO
Institute in New York, “I was fascinated by
how un-Jewish I felt in that context.”
Gad Barzilai of the UW’s Jackson
School and the Lucia S. and Herbert L.
Pruzan Professor of Jewish Studies, has
an essay in the book, too, titled “Who is a
Jew? Categories, Boundaries, Communi-
ties, and Citizenship Law in Israel.”
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Diana Brement JTNews Columnist
It’s probably no accident that the two chapters on
Israel in Rabbi Jonathan Sack’s new book, Future Tense
(Schocken, cloth, $26.95) occupy almost the exact center
of the work. Sacks is England’s chief rabbi, and a pro-
lific and eloquent writer. Israel is just one component of
this book that captures the rabbi’s worries on the state of
the Jewish people — over-assimilated, over-intermarried,
fractious and factionalized, he says. As a microcosm of
the Jewish world, Sacks calls on Israel to be the beacon of
justice the Bible says it is, to create “a new civic Judaism,
one that embraces religious and secular, Jew and Palestin-
ian, alike.” (Perhaps he could extend this attitude to inter-
denominational relations within Judaism.)
Two other sides of Israel — with its dizzying array
of facets — are presented in Lone Soldiers by Jerusalem
Post columnist Herb Keinon (Devora, cloth, $27.95) and
By Hook and by Crook: Israeli Settlement Policy in the
West Bank, a report from B’tselem, the Israeli Information
Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
Lone Soldier is the uplifting story, told in words and
photos, of Jews from around the world who come to
Israel to serve as volunteers in its otherwise all-conscrip-
tion army. Oftentimes living out of their cultural and lin-
guistic element, they are dubbed “lone soldiers” and their
plight can indeed be lonely but for the help they get from
reserve officer Tzvika Levy, a volunteer himself, who seeks
them out and provides a sense of connection and family.
The lone soldier phenomenon is increasing, according to
the author, because of the Birthright program, which is
exposing increasing numbers of young Diaspora men and
women to Israel and the IDF.
The B’tselem report is not so uplifting. It’s a detailed
— though short — accounting of the legal maneuvers to
which Israel has resorted in order to acquire land to build
Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The report demon-
strates the deception behind these land claims, calling the
settlements “illegal.”
The same Birthright program that has brought more
lone soldiers to Israel is the topic of artist Sara Glidden’s
fascinating graphic (comic book) memoir, How to Under-
stand Israel in 60 Days or Less (Vertigo, cloth, $24.99).
Glidden arrived in Israel a confirmed skeptic with decid-
Spring books:
Perspectives on Israel
edly negative views about her host country. As the tour
proceeds and she learns about both Israel’s history and the
lives of all of its residents today, she struggles to assimilate
her beliefs and her experiences, at times becoming emo-
tionally overwrought. Despite her doubts she honors those
she meets on her trip with balance and an open mind.
Glidden’s account is moving and honest, funny and enter-
taining, and she captures some of the combination of angst
and affection American Jews often feel about Israel.
Among the most moving sections of Glidden’s Birth-
right tour comes when the group meets a bereavement
group. Glidden pays tribute to the victims of terrorism,
depicting them as ghosts who stand beside their surviving
family members as they share their stories.
In A New Shoah, (Encounter, cloth, $27.95) Italian
journalist Gulio Meotti also honors Israeli victims of Isla-
mist terrorism by telling the stories of their lives. Meotti
is outraged at these deaths, which he feels are generally
ignored by media in the West. He draws a straight line
between Nazi anti-Semitism and Islamist anti-Zionism,
calling both an excuse to kill Jews.
While the writing is impassioned, Meotti’s tone can be
strident and a little off-putting. There’s no arguing, how-
ever, with his tender obituaries or his view that these vic-
tims probably deserve more recognition, even within
Israel. Some of their plights are all the more tragic because
they are either Holocaust survivors or their descendants.
While generally well translated, there are still some errors
in English and continuity within.
Finally, an Israeli-Moroccan author, Therese Zri-
hen-Dvir, puts her tribute to Israeli victims of terrorism
into novella form in Stairway to Heaven (Gefen, paper,
$14.95). The life of protagonist Naomi is permanently
altered when she witnesses a terror attack on soldiers wait-
ing at the Beit Lid junction, a waypoint between Tel Aviv
and Haifa. The attack is real — it happened on January 22,
1995 — as are all the events in the story, although parts
have been fictionalized for privacy. A memorial there, a
stairway with 22 soldiers climbing it, inspired the author
when she saw it in 2003. She interviewed surviving fami-
lies and incorporates their words into a moving homage,
weaving the fictional details of Naomi’s life with the sto-
ries of the dead. By the time Naomi’s grandson is born, she
is, despite her pain — her own and her country’s — con-
vinced that “life will always beat death.”

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Books in brief
By Diana Brement JTNews Columnist Both books use the the Orthodox world, does a very good job explaining the
Art and Holocaust novel form to teach basics of each Torah portion in Bereshit, highlighting sig-
Burning Forest: The Art of Maria Frank Abrams, by about Judaism. Ragen nificant elements and showing their relevance. An index
Matthew Kagan (Northwest Museum of Art, cloth, $40). delves into prayer and and glossary serve the beginning student well.
This book gets high marks on all counts. It is the captivat- mysticism, and exam- Where’s My Miracle: Exploring Jewish Traditions for
ing biography of Maria Frank Abrams, Seattle-area artist ines how we treat people Dealing with Tragedy, by Morey Schwartz (Gefen, cloth,
and Holocaust survivor; it is a lavishly illustrated con- when things go wrong in $24.95). Put this book
temporary art history their lives (not well, usu- on the shelf next to the
text; and it highlights ally). Kreiger introduces classic When Bad Things
the career of a local artist Orthodox life to the Happen to Good People.
who enjoyed success in a unfamiliar reader openly Analyzing a wide variety
field that is challenging and positively. This edu- of Talmudic sources,
for anyone, but was par- cational approach some- Rabbi Schwartz — with
ticularly so for women times hijacks the flow of a background in psy-
in the mid-20th century. each book, but overall chology — demon-
The author, an art critic these are absorbing stories and good reads. strates that there is no
and author of 15 other one Jewish view on why
books, told this reviewer Food bad things happen to us,
that he decided to write Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s why the just sometimes
the book after Abrams Food Answers to a Higher Authority, by Sue Fishkoff suffer, and the wicked
had a revival show at (Schocken, cloth, $27.95). Another great book from jour- sometimes prosper.
Woodside Gallery in 2005, not only because of her artis- nalist Fishkoff (The Rebbe’s Army), this one takes us inside
tic contributions, but because “it’s always the right time the world of keeping kosher and kosher food production. Non-Fiction
to have something about remembering a Holocaust survi- Fishkoff covers the history of kosher food in America, then The Fiddler in the Subway, by Gene Weingar-
vor because their number is diminishing and we need to delves into the worlds ten (Simon & Schuster,
record their stories.” This is a beautiful book, to be enjoyed of kosher wine, meat paper, $15.99). After an
on many levels. and processed foods and early career as a reporter,
the people responsible Weingarten spent 20
Fiction for them. She examines years as an editor, includ-
Two new novels, one adult and one for pre- and the disappearance of the ing time at the Miami
younger teens, have much in common. Both are stories of kosher deli and the lives Herald where he edited
Orthodox Jewish families living in the Boston area with of mashgichim — the Dave Barry (yes, he’s
smart female protagonists struggling with Jewish commu- mostly men and a few that Gene) and learned
nity and family life. women who take on the to write humor from the
From Naomi Ragen, Orthodox feminist commentator often tedious work of man himself. He then
and author, playwright supervising kosher pro- returned to journalism at
and Internet colum- duction, including one the Washington Post, for-
nist, comes The Tenth who works in China. tunately for us, because
Song, about a family in Quite a few locals receive whether being funny or
crisis (St. Martins, cloth, mention in the book, and readers will learn that it’s not just serious he is a talented
$24.99). Abigail Sam- Jews who shop for kosher food and why so many manu- writer with an amazing ability to capture both the facts of,
uels, a mother, grand- facturers go to the trouble and expense of getting rabbinic and the emotion behind, a story. There isn’t a lot of Jewish
mother, bastion of her approval and reach the consumers driving this multi- content here, but the pieces about his father are among the
community and wife multi-billion dollar business. Finally, Fishkoff explores best in this collection.
of a successful CPA, is the new moral and ethical approach to food influencing Who Knew?! Unusual Stories in Jewish History, by Jack
happily planning her kosher keeping — or is it the other way around? Cooper (Gefen, cloth, $21.95). Did you know a medieval
youngest daughter Kay- Spanish Jew once headed the king’s army? That Rasputin
la’s wedding when her Text Study had a Jewish business manager? That Hitler couldn’t pass
husband is thrown into Truths Desired by God: An Excursion into the Weekly his own “Aryan” test?
the middle of a very Haftarah, by Meir Tamari (Gefen, cloth, $29.95). We are With his background
public international scandal. As their lives quickly unravel, enjoined to study Torah on Shabbat, but not the Haftarah in education, Cooper
Kayla flees to a desert commune in Israel. Abigail follows, — the selection from the Prophets read in synagogue after has put retirement to
but instead of a rescue she learns more about her family — the weekly Torah selection. Tamari, an economist better good use compiling this
and herself — than she ever did at home. known for his work in business ethics, questions that tra- entertaining and inter-
In One Is Not a Lonely Number, award-winning author dition, arguing we have just as much to learn from these esting book of little and
Evelyn Krieger brings us Talia Shumacher, the daughter of books in which “[a] major part of Judaism’s special and lesser-known Jewish
a wealthy Orthodox couple who struggles with the idea of specific message is played out.” He offers a quick and history from biblical to
being an only child in a community that values big fam- insightful analysis of each of the 54 regular readings plus modern times. No story
ilies (YM Books, paper, $15.95). As she worries over her those for festivals and holy days, and through the lens of here is more than a page
fate, she also faces academic and social challenges typi- ethics and 30 years in Israel, makes these relevant to his- long, so Who Knew?!
cal of her age: Friendships gone wrong and an important tory and the present day. makes good reading for
math tournament looming. Plus, she has to figure out why Torah Tapestries: Words of Wisdom Woven from the everyone in the family,
her parents have let a former ballet dancer stay in their Weekly Parasha-Bereishis, by Shira Smiles (Feldheim, from adults on the run
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7–11 p.m. – Herzlwood
206-232-8555, ext. 203
Fundraiser for Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative
Congregation with a Hollywood theme, featuring
dessert reception, awards, and more. At Herzl-Ner
Tamid, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
5–7 p.m. – SJCC Family Fun Night Performance
206-388-0824 or http://jew.sh/GFBX
Savor the last moments of Shabbat, enjoy dinner, and
watch Rosie the Riveter, an original musical from the
5th Ave. Theater’s Adventure Musical Theater Touring
Company — with a Q&A after the show. $45. At the
Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer
Way, Mercer Island.
5:45 p.m. – SJCS Gala 2011
development@seattlejcs.org or 206.522.5212
or www.sjcs.net/gala.php
Join the community as Seattle Jewish Community
School celebrates its 20th year. Honorees are Julie Lyss
and David Loren, and David Korch will be presented
with the Kaplan Award. Light cocktail reception begins
at 5:45 p.m. Program and live auction begin at 7 p.m.
$90 per person. At Seattle Jewish Community School,
12351 8th Ave. NE, Seattle.
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Providing adults with personal care,
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Jewish Family Service
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Expertise with life transitions, relationships
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Specializing in couples and individuals.
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Financial Services
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Roy A. Hamrick, CFA
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Professional portfolio management
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Mass Mutual Financial Group
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Sunday 13 February
schambers@mmscdayschool.org
Ellen Hendin at endlessopps@jfsseattle.org
9 a.m.–4 p.m. – Young Jewish Snowshoeing
info@secularjewishcircle.org or
trip to Snoqualmie Pass
Aaron Mass at
seattlejewishsinglesoutdoors@gmail.com or
206-719-5204 or http://jew.sh/OhTr
Seattle Jewish Singles Outdoors Group leads a
snowshoeing trip to Commonwealth Basin by
Emily Harris-Shears at eharris@jfsseattle.org
Snoqualmie Pass. Moderate difficulty. Meet at Nordic
Rental Equipment Center, 1001 State Route 906,
Snoqualmie Pass.
Monday 14 February
Emily Harris-Shears at eharris@jfsseattle.org
7–9:30 p.m. – Locating Jewish Records on
Orly Feldman at
the New National Archives Web sites
programs@jgsws.org or or www.jgsws.org
Carol Buswell, education specialist at the National
Archives’ Seattle facility, will show techniques for
using the redesigned NARA Web site and other new
Rabbi David Fredman at
resources to discover Jewish family, community, and
political records. Free for members of the Jewish
Genealogical Society of Washington State, $5 for
Amanda Tingle at office@rbccucc.org or
nonmembers. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer
Melissa Rivkin at mrivkin@nyhs.net or
Way, Mercer Island.
3–4:30 p.m. – Sacred Treasure – The Cairo
Genizah
Jennifer Cohen at jencohen@uw.edu or
206-543-0138 or jsis.washington.edu/jewish
Mark Glickman’s multimedia presentation will share
highlights of the Cario genizah — how it was
Kim Lawson at KLawson@sjcc.org or
discovered, what it contained, and some fascinating
new tools now used to preserve and study genizah
Carol Benedick at
manuscripts. Free and open to the public. At 202
Communications Bldg. (Simpson Center), UW Seattle
Campus, Seattle.
Wednesday 16 February
3–4:30 p.m. – The Specter of ‘Godless Jew-
ry’: Secularism and the ‘Jewish Question’ in
Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
Ellen Hendin at endlessopps@jfsseattle.org
Jennifer Cohen at jencohen@uw.edu or
Rabbi David Fredman at
206-543-0138 or jsis.washington.edu/jewish
Todd Weir from Queen’s University in Belfast examines
the relationship between secularism and the so-
called “Jewish question” from three vantage points.
Free and open to the public. At 317 Thompson Hall,
University of Washington, Seattle.
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7–8:30 p.m. – Peer Pressure and Making
Healthy Choices
Food Night
Learn new and appropriate tools for parenting a tween
or 206 861-3183 or http://jew.sh/YQQI
or a teen. Plus network with fellow parents. Led by
Diane Zipperman. $10. At MMSC Day School, 8511
15th Ave. NE, 2nd Floor, Seattle.
7–9 p.m. – Hospice: Honoring Life in its Final
Stages
Circle of Puget Sound, 117 East Louisa St., Seattle.
or 206-861-8784 or http://jew.sh/GodY
Hospice is a specialized method of care with a holistic
focus on the patient and family during the final phase
of life. Led by professionals from Kline Galland
Hospice Services. Advance registration required.
‘Chappy’ Hour and Services
$10/session; $45/all five sessions. At Temple B’nai
Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
Thursday 17 February
12–1 p.m. – Lunch and Learn
registration required. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727
rabbifredman@seattlekollel.org or
206-251-4063 or seattlekollel.org
Experience the Torah from a subterranean level.
4:30–9 p.m. – NYHS Dinner & Auction
Learn about what’s under the surface of the text
and explore what valuable treasures the Torah has
to offer. No charge for class, reduced lunch prices.
At Island Crust Pizza, 7525 SE 24th St., Suite 100,
Mercer Island.
10 a.m.–12 p.m. – SJCC Parent Talk: Sibling
Rivalry
Thursday 24 February
206-388-0829 or http://jew.sh/5dwn
While many kids become the best of friends with
dish: Di Mameloshn.”
their siblings, it’s common for brothers and sisters to
fight. It’s also common for them to swing back and
forth between adoring and detesting one other. $10.
At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer
Island.
10–11:30 a.m. – The Voice of Jewish Wash-
ington: The JTNews
12–1 p.m. – Lunch and Learn
or 206 861-3183 or http://jew.sh/uu2S
told him.
Joel Magalnick, editor of JTNews, will discuss the
realities and challenges of working for a Jewish
newspaper, what he does and how he does it, and
current hot news topics relevant to our community.
RSVP by Feb. 11. Free. At Temple B’nai Torah,
15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
Serving the community with dignity & respect.
Burial  Cremation
Columbarium  Receptions
On Queen Anne
at 520 W. Raye St., Seattle
(In front of Hills of Eternity Cemetery)
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Friday 18 February
6–9 p.m. – Open House, Shabbat, Jewish
206-528-1944 or secularjewishcircle.org
Join Secular Jewish Circle to celebrate Jewish food,
its meaning and history, and the memories built
around it. Learn about Jewish food, and Seattle’s
only secular Jewish group. Free. At Secular Jewish
At Hearing and Speech and Deafness Center, 1625
Wednesday 23 February
7–9 p.m. – Burials, Funerals and Cemeteries:
Jewish Traditions and Practical Concerns
or 206-861-8784 or http://jew.sh/GodY
In Jewish tradition, funerals take place just days after
a person passes away. What practical information do
you need to know? With Ross Kling of the Seattle
Jewish Chapel. Scholarships are available. Advance
15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
NE 4th St., Bellevue.
7–9 p.m. – The Interfaith Amigos
206-542-7477 or rbccucc.org
Richmond Beach Congregational Church United
Church of Christ hosts a conversation with “The
Interfaith Amigos” focused on the process of building
interfaith relationships. Free. At RBCCUCC, 1512 NW
195th St, Shoreline.
7–9 p.m. – Challah Baking Class
carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or
206-524-0075 or https://bethshalomseattle.org/
event_details.php?id=308
Join Susan Monas in the Beth Shalom kitchen and
learn how to bake a great challah. Class size limited.
RSVP on CBS’ Web site. At Congregation Beth
Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
calumnies about me on what others have
rabbifredman@seattlekollel.org or
206-251-4063 or seattlekollel.org
Experience the Torah from a subterranean level.
Learn about what’s under the surface of the text
and explore what valuable treasures the Torah has
to offer. No charge for class, reduced lunch prices.
At Island Crust Pizza, 7525 SE 24th St., Suite 100,
Barbara Cannon
or 206-282-5500
Mercer Island.
10–11:30 a.m. – What Are You Sayng!
Candace Kukino, Au.D. helps understand how to
hear, common causes of hearing loss, and how to
improve your ability to communicate. Technology
specialist Steve HiIlson will show a variety of assistive
listening and alerting devices. RSVP by Feb. 17. Free.
19th Ave., Seattle.
Friday 25 February
7 p.m.–9 p.m. – Thank God It’s Shabbat
ofeldman@templebnaitorah.org
Nosh and schmooze with other Jews and toast the
start of the weekend. Chappy hour starts at 7 p.m.;
service begins at 8 p.m. At Temple B’nai Torah,
Sunday 27 February
206-232-5272, ext. 515 or www.nyhs.net
Northwest Yeshiva High School’s annual dinner and
auction with John Curley. $150. At the Grand Hyatt,
721 Pine St., Seattle.
WWsilverstein Page 4
award-winning PBS documentary, “Yid-
I don’t abuse the Holocaust to score
political points. The memory of the 6 mil-
lion are too sacred for that.
Robert Wilkes doesn’t know me. If he’s
bothered to read a single word I’ve writ-
ten, he apparently hasn’t understood it.
I’d prefer to think he hasn’t, and bases his
But before I criticize the views of others
I do due diligence and read what they’ve
written. I quote their words and then cri-
tique them. Wilkes didn’t bother to do me
that favor.
There is an odious, intolerant, violent
process of demonization in this country
that led to the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle
Giffords. It’s also played out in the furor
over the so-called Ground Zero mosque.
Listen to Glenn Beck on any given night
and you’ll hear about Jewish bankers, or
Nazi leftists, or jihadi Muslims, or similar
venom against the feared minority du jour.
That, to me, is what Mr. Wilkes repre-
sents. He wants to turn me into a cartoon, a
demon, someone you can hate as he does.
We Jews have given the world so much
learning, culture, music, language, ideas.
Do we have to give the world hate as well?
Is that our legacy?
Judaism values one’s good name above
all else. Someone who lies about anoth-
er’s beliefs commits a grave form of gossip
called motzi shem ra. Robert Wilkes has
stolen my good name and I won’t let him do
it. I want my good name restored to me.
Richard Silverstein is a freelance journalist and
blogger living in Seattle. His blog is at
www.richardsilverstein.com.
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WWfederation Page 7 Ultimately, the Federation is setting its

but bringing in less money bridge the gap?
“That’s partly where the unrestricted
[funds] will come in,” Wasser-Simpson
said.
Though a formula has not yet been
devised, Wasser-Simpson said, priorities
based upon the needs of any given year
would be developed and constantly revis-
ited to ensure that the Federation is allo-
cating its available dollars in a way that
best benefits the community.
future course as a leaner version of itself
that funds projects based upon their abil-
ity to grow and engage the Jewish commu-
nity, while calling upon organizations to
do more of the heavy lifting.
By working to eliminate redundancy
among programs and services throughout
the community and increasing collabora-
tion among all local Jewish organizations,
Federation officials hope to reverse their
own declining fortunes while increasing
those of the community they serve.
Accused Nazi dies before
denaturalization trial
(JTA) — A retiree living in Bellevue
accused of committing genocide and other
crimes as a Nazi officer during World War
II died a month before his denaturaliza-
tion trial.
Peter Egner, 88, died Jan. 26, Reuters
reported.
Egner, a Yugoslavia native, was accused
of joining in April 1941 the Nazi-con-
trolled Security Police and Security Ser-
vice in German-occupied Belgrade, a Nazi
mobile killing unit that participated in the
mass murder of more than 17,000 Serbian
civilians during World War II.
Egner came to the United States in 1960
and became a citizen six years later.
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The U.S. Justice Department filed a
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Still, applause is enthusiastic. Last
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a reason Benzaquen wanted to join in.
“He is a frustrated hazzan,” Azose says
of his rabbi friend.
Actually, Benzaquen notes, he actu-
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lived in London. On stage now, he’s clearly
having a wonderful time.
“They’re nice people, I like them,” he says
of his co-performers, wearing a sly grin.
As the foursome practices a selection,
a well-known ending to a daily prayer,
Pundy stops the piano and tells them to
slow down.
“We get excited,” Serkin-Poole says.
The quartet and Purdy all worked
together to build their set list, and while we
won’t give away too much about what they’re
singing so as not to ruin the surprise, we will
say that the audience will hear a departure
from each cantor’s native culture.
“We flipped it,” Serkin-Poole says.
“Each one should do the opposites.”
Kurland, while rehearsing a Sep-
hardic tune, asks of Azose: “Check on my
Ladino.”
Azose waves a finger from the floor as
he hears a mistake.
“Beautiful! Beautiful!” Benzaquen calls
out once Kurland finishes.
Cantorial music’s golden age passed
decades ago, and much of the audience
will likely consist of people who remem-
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the show. More than a few left their posts
at synagogues to make records and tour
the country to sold-out crowds.
But many others will be there to hear a
mix of Jewish and Israeli liturgical and folk
music from real professionals — not an
event that happens very often in these parts.
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34 world news JTNews . www.jtnews.net . friday, february 11, 2011
On Jews and Egypt: Dispatches from the front lines
Ellis Goldberg Special to JTNews
Editor’s note: Ellis Goldberg, a professor of
political science at the University of
Washington, is currently teaching at the
American University in Cairo. Below is an
abridged post from a blog he has been
writing that documents the past weeks’
protests from up close. Read is regular
dispatches at nisralnasr.blogspot.com.
I understand the concern among many
Israelis and within the Jewish community
in the U.S. about events in Egypt just as I
understand the fears that too sudden an
access of democracy in Egypt will bring
the Muslim Brotherhood to power, which
will more or less inevitably (so the argu-
ment goes) lead to a denunciation of the
Camp David Accords and the creation
of a solid bloc of Arab enmity against the
Jewish state and, probably in collabora-
tion with Hamas in Gaza if not with Fatah
in the West Bank, the elimination of Israel
in a paroxysm of war.
I understand those fears just as I under-
stand those Americans who have been
reluctant to do anything (as opposed to
saying anything) to further weaken the
regime. Mubarak has been our ally for 30
years and it would be at best unseemly and
at worse wrong and unwise to abandon
him at the first sign of trouble. We should,
at least, wait a bit before abandoning him.
I understand those fears and concerns,
and as with all deeply felt understandings
of politics I am far from telling those who
hold them that they should simply dismiss
them. They cannot.
What I fail to understand is the con-
struction of Mubarak and his regime as
being in any sense friendly to Israel or
even a solid support for the Israeli state.
Mubarak, as far as I can tell, no more cares
for Israel than do most Egyptians and his
regime has been as hostile to Israeli society
and Israelis as any other element in Egypt.
As far as I can tell, Mubarak, in 30
years, has visited Israel once very briefly:
to attend the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin.
Unlike Sadat he never addressed the Knes-
set nor has he shown any interest even in
reciprocating state visits that Israeli lead-
ers paid to Egypt. The Egyptian govern-
ment (though perhaps personally not all
of its high officials) has been unremittingly
hostile to Israel through the print media,
the television, and indeed the efforts of
its police. Egyptian movies abound in
descriptions of evil Israelis who kidnap,
torture, or otherwise abuse good-hearted
Egyptians and (more rarely) Palestinians.
So much is this the case that it has even
become a bit of a joke among young mid-
dle-class Egyptians. In one film, an Egyp-
tian is kidnapped to Israel as part of a
nefarious and complicated plot. Managing
to escape, the Egyptian hero then attempts
the complex journey back to the home-
land. Yet, as some Egyptian viewers noted,
why doesn’t he just go to the Egyptian
embassy in Tel Aviv which, as far as the
movie is concerned, doesn’t exist. In other
words, in the Egypt of Husni Mubarak —
although officially Egypt has diplomatic
relations with Israel — this is not permit-
ted to be part of the normal imaginative or
cognitive map of ordinary Egyptians. And
this is the regime on which the Israeli gov-
ernment wishes to rely?
The Muslim Brotherhood has said
that they would abrogate the peace treaty.
Some of my academic friends — people
I respect — say the Brotherhood has by
now become a different political force
than they once were. They are now liberals
or perhaps social democrats who simply
happen to pray in the direction of Mecca.
Others tell me that the Muslim Broth-
erhood are nothing of the kind: they are
blood-thirsty fanatics who can hardly wait
to get out of their confining suits and ties,
don traditional robes and turbans, and slit
the throats of infidels.
The question for now in Egypt is not
whether the Muslim Brotherhood comes
to power. The army is not, for its own rea-
sons, going to let that happen. The ques-
tion for now is whether there can be any
significant changes in the rules governing
a hierarchical and authoritarian military
system that has been in place since 1952
and that fought its own wars with Israel
when it pleased and made peace when it
pleased and that obstructed Israeli policy
in Gaza when it pleased and cooperated to
make it more effective when it pleased.
And the reason it pleased to do what
it did in the years since Anwar Sadat,
himself an authoritarian leader, came to
power after Abdel Nasser died has to do
with some home truths. Egyptians got
tired of doing most of the dying in wars
with Israel; Egyptians got tired of facing
the destructive barrage of the Israeli war
machine in the pursuit of the chimera of
Arab nationalism; Egyptians got tired of
paying the price for the inflated and irre-
sponsible rhetoric of military regimes that
proved to be incompetent at doing what
they claimed to do best: defending the
national borders.
Egyptians got tired but that doesn’t
and let me underline that perhaps — in
the longer run. What if by democracy we
meant a system that allowed for and even
encouraged the expression of pluralism in
society: religious pluralism, political plu-
ralism, and social pluralism? Israel would
not become any more popular tomorrow
but at least those who wanted to visit it, to
describe — for worse, as well as for better
— what they saw, and to discuss what
would be the most appropriate policies for
achieving what many here want — recog-
nition of a Palestinian state with its own
secure borders and the end of Israeli settle-
ments in the West Bank — would all have
the opportunity to do so.
Such an Egypt would, of course, put
far more pressure on Israel than does the
present government to change its policies.
Courtesy Ellis Goldberg It might, depending on exactly what polit-
ical and social forces upheld it, also be a far
mean they decided that the Israelis were more powerful agent for change in Israeli
their best friends. The best construction policy than is the present government. For
you can put on local feelings is that most the moment, in other words, within Israel
Egyptians find Israeli policies toward the itself the notion that security is congruent
Palestinians in West Bank and especially with settlement in the West Bank remains
Gaza somewhere between repellent and a plausible political argument. That would
abhorrent. be a more difficult argument to uphold if
But would a democratic Egyptian gov- their interlocutor was a democratic gov-
ernment be more inflexibly anti-Israeli ernment in Egypt committed both to
than the present government? If you think peace and to Palestinian statehood rather
of a democratic government as one that than an authoritarian dictatorship.
carries out the will of the majority regard- It is not so clear to me, in fact, that such
less of any other considerations (the will of a government would necessarily want
the minority, prudence, the role of inter- to abrogate the treaty; it might simply,
est groups), then that might be the case. instead, insist that it has not yet been
I notice that both the left and right in the implemented and indeed that the Israeli
U.S. seem to wave the flag of anti-Israeli government had a variety of obligations to
Islamism in the face of any government which it could be expected to conform.
initiatives in support of democracy. So, although I am far from religious, let
But if by democracy we meant some- me put this in terms that bring together
thing that many Egyptians have had in both popular, contemporary Egyptian and
mind and have even experienced in the traditional Jewish imagery. Why exactly
past two weeks, then things might be dif- is it that the security of the Jewish state is
ferent. Not immediately but perhaps — achieved by relying on Pharaoh?
Courtesy JDS
Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum of Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation speaks with Jewish
Day School middle school students at its weekly “Lunch and Learn” program about the
situation in Egypt. The rabbi asked, “Should we oppose Egyptian democracy?” and cited
how historically, a population wanting and moving toward democracy has not always had
a positive end result. Rosenbaum also expressed concerns about the future of existing
peace treaties in the Middle East and what will happen with Israel.
friday, february 11, 2011 . www.jtnews.net . JTNews lifecycles 35
Emanuel Vardi: 95-year-old
“Art Rebel” once played for FDR
Mary Miller
Emanuel Vardi paints in his studio in 2009.
Famed violist Emanuel Vardi, whose
life story encompasses nearly a century of
politics, art and music, died at his North
Bend home on Jan. 29 at the age of 95.
Born April 21, 1915 in Jerusalem, Vardi
was accepted to New York’s The Juilliard
School when he was 12 years old. He went
on to be considered one of the greatest vio-
lists of the 20th century. He had a long con-
cert career; worked in early television; and
as a conductor, producer, arranger and
commissioned fine artist.
“He was a true individual — musi-
cally and artistically — and he had a dose
of ‘rebel’ in him, so he was always trying
new things,” said Lenore Vardi, his wife
of 26 years.
Vardi’s father was a respected violinist
and violin teacher who started Emanuel on
the violin when he was 2-1/2. He attended
Juilliard, where he studied violin and viola
under Edouard Dethier, but left when he
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Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini.
During World War II, Vardi joined
the U.S. Navy Band. At one point, Eleanor
Roosevelt heard Vardi and whisked him to
the White House to play viola for FDR. He
is one of only two violists in the world to
have given a solo recital at Carnegie Hall.
Fine art was a lifelong interest, so Vardi
used his GI Bill to study at Florence’s Aca-
demia de Belle Arte from 1950-52. After
his return to New York, he attended The
Art Students League and the Brooklyn
Museum Art School, but music was his pri-
mary focus.
Throughout his long solo career, Vardi
recorded and performed with some of clas-
sical music’s biggest stars — Itzhak Per-
lman, Arthur Rubenstein, Van Cliburn,
Vladimir Horowitz — as well as with popu-
lar musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Nat
King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone and
Barbra Streisand. Vardi conducted orches-
tras for live performances, movie scores
and television and was the South Dakota
Symphony’s music director and conductor
in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
After a wrist injury, then a fall that hurt
his shoulder, Vardi stopped performing in
1993. He gave master classes throughout
the world and served as music director of
several festivals.
The music-themed paintings of Eman-
life
Jennifer Gamelin and
David Arensberg
Jennifer and David were married on
January 15, 2011 at the Washington Athletic
Club in Seattle. Rabbi James Mirel of Temple
B’nai Torah officiated the ceremony.
Jennifer is the daughter of Gordon Gamelin
and Susan McDaniel of Spokane. Her
grandparents are Beverly Gamelin of Spokane
and the late Ronald Gamelin, and Loretta
Hamley of Spokane and the late Mack Hamley.
Jennifer graduated from Ferris High School
and holds a bachelor’s degree in Communi-
cations from Washington State University. She works as a nurse technician.
David is the son of Jim and Marilyn Arensberg of Bellevue. His grandparents are Bert and Esther
Arensberg of Kirkland, and Shirley Fleischmann of Kirkland and the late Stanley Fleischmann.
David graduated from Newport High School and holds a bachelor’s degree in Business from
the University of Washington. He works as a senior account manager at Washington Athletic Club.
The couple lives in Seattle.
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uel and Lenore Vardi surrounded the recent shows in Waikiki and is currently
Greta Matassa Quartet at the 2009 Belle- featured at the Laurel Tree Gallery in Duvall
vue Jazz Festival, shortly after they moved and Revolution Gallery in Issaquah.
to North Bend. Emanuel acted as musi- Along with his wife, Vardi is survived
cal advisor to the Vardi Chamber Players by his daughters, Andrea Smith of Fair-
at this past summer’s Snoqualmie Valley field, Iowa and Pauline Normand of Bon-
Festival of Music while Lenore served as secours, Quebec. Memorial gatherings are
musical director and violinist. expected in the Seattle area in the coming
Their art was the centerpiece of two weeks and in New York later this year.
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