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The newest member of Washington State’s congressional delegation professes strong sup-port for U.S. aid to Israel, but is undecided about two-state-solution funding for the Pal-estinians.

In an interview with JTNews, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R–3rd District), also said she believes her views are common among the 87 Republican House freshmen despite their nearly unanimous demands for big-time budget cutting and strong skepticism of for-eign aid.

“We’ve heard strong support for Israel,” Herrera Beutler said.

“When I think about foreign aid to Israel,

I think about long-term relationships,” she said. “I think it’s in our interests to retain that relationship…. I think there’s a lot of that same kind of feeling within my fresh-man class.”

Herrera Beutler, 32, photogenic and well-spoken, was a Bush White House intern and served three years in the state House before winning an open seat last fall that had been held for six terms by Democratic Rep. Brian Baird.

One of the youngest members of Con-gress, she delivered the GOP weekly address on March 19, focusing on what Republicans consider regulatory barriers to job creation

and gaining national exposure that is rare for a new arrival in the House. The Washington Post lists her as one of 10 House newcomers — eight Republicans and two Democrats — to watch in the 112th Congress.

Rainer Waldman Adkins, co-chair of the Seattle chapter of the pro-Israel peace orga-nization J Street, said he asked Herrera Beut-ler during a lobbying trip to Washington, D.C. last month to support foreign aid gener-ally, and funds for both Israel and the Pales-tinian Authority in particular, as essential to achieving a two-state solution and peace in the Middle East.

Where she stands: Washington’s newest congresswoman on IsraelTim Klass JTNews Correspondent

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Volunteer and former food competition winner Linda Blustein (right) surveys the challah entrants before judging the best in four categories at Temple Beth Hatfiloh’s 23rd annual Blintzapalooza on March 27 in Olympia. The temple raised $11,000 for three Olympia-area charities.

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“My fa ther was a wander ing Aramean….”

It is with these words that our Pass-over Haggadah reminds us each year of the wanderings of our people throughout the ages. As we read the familiar passages, sing the well-known melodies and eat the traditional Pesach foods, we recall the tale of our people’s passage from slavery and exile into freedom in the land of Israel. We feel connected, linked to past generations, as if indeed this was our own personal story. We were there in Egypt; we crossed the Sea of Reeds; we sang the songs of vic-tory with Miriam; we stood at Mt. Sinai and received the Torah from God.

And we remember what it was like to be slaves, to be the oppressed. “In every generation, we are commanded to see our-selves as if we came forth from Egypt.”

Empathy, one of the highest values in our Jewish tradition, demands that we do not separate ourselves from those around us whose lot in life is less pleasant than our own. To be a Jew means identifying with the downtrodden and persecuted.

During this time of year, our festival of

Pesach reminds us of this obligation. We think of others and try to feel what they might feel. We look outward at our world, at the hungry, the homeless, the sick and the needy, and we reach out a helping hand.

Near the beginning of our seder, there is an ancient reading that some Jews recite in Aramaic as well as in the ver-nacular. This prayer declares: “Let all who are hungry come and eat.” In our world, especially during these difficult economic times, it is incumbent upon us to remem-ber this reading.

So what can we do to help the needy within our community? It is no longer enough to invite the hungry to come in. Often the hungry do not live in our neigh-borhoods. So what should we do? Some-time between now and Pesach, bring cans and packages of chametz to Bet Chaverim and place them in the receptacle near the front door. This food will be distributed to the poor and hungry in our area.

Doing this is very simple. It is also very Jewish.

May God bless you and your loved ones with a sweet and meaningful Pesach.

The act of remembering — and givingRabbi RicK HaRKavy Congregation Bet Chaverim

a gentile critic of the new anti-SemitismEdwaRd alExandER Special to JTNews

Jews often have occasion to lament the truth of the biblical text that says that our enemies will arise from among us: Many of Israel’s fiercest enemies today are themselves Jews. But we also (sometimes) have occasion to rejoice that some of Israel’s staunchest and most articulate friends are gentiles. One such righteous stranger is England’s Pro-fessor Bernard Harrison, who will lecture at the University of Washington on April 7 on “Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Intellectuals.” He will come to Seattle from Indiana University, where he is to give the keynote address at an international confer-ence on “Resurgent Anti-Semitism.”

Resurgent anti-Semitism is by now the subject of numer-ous books (and hundreds of articles). Their shared conclu-sions, set forth from a vari-ety of perspectives, is that the physical violence of the new Jew hatred is largely the work of young Muslims. But the ide-ological violence is the work primarily of leftists, self-identified anti-rac-ists, humanitarians, and liberals (including Jewish ones).

Harrison’s book, The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism: Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion (2006), brought to its subject a new authorial identity, a different academic background, a distinctive and exhilarat-ing voice. It was the first in English about contemporary anti-Semitism (mainly of the British sort) by a gentile. According to Harrison, his gentile identity not only con-tradicted a major premise of the new anti-Semitism, i.e., that only Jews support Israel, but also made him privy to the expressions of anti-Semitic prejudice, political and social, by apparently respectable academic people, “when Jews are absent.”

Harrison is a scholar trained in “habit-ual skepticism, bitterly close reading, and aggressive contentiousness contributed by forty years in the amiable sharkpool of analytic philosophy.” His book mercilessly dissects anti-Israel invective and smug cliché coming from the New Statesman, Guardian, BBC, and other British bastions of anti-Jewish sentiment. He devotes all of chapter two, for example, to a single infa-mous issue of the New Statesman of Janu-ary 2002. Its cover showed a tiny Union Jack, placed horizontally, being pierced by the sharp apex of a large Star of David, made of gold; below, in large black let-ters, was the question: “A Kosher Con-spiracy?” A cover right out of Der Sturmer; and the articles that accompanied it had at first suggested to Harrison that he should title his analysis of them “In the Foot-steps of Dr. Goebbels.” He later decided that would be “inadequate to the gravity of the case.”

Among the many left-liberal canards, slanders, slogans, and clichés that Harri-son dismembers in his book are the fol-lowing: “Israel is a colonialist state”; “Israel is a Nazi state, and the Jews who support it are as guilty as Nazi collaborators were”; “anybody who criticizes Israel is called an anti-Semite”; “Jews do not express grief over their dead except for political or

financial ends”; and on and on ad nauseam.

Some will say that, in response to these vicious or insane allegations, the best response is: “Why did you kill your grandmother?” i.e., to merely go on the defen-sive is already to concede defeat. Harrison thinks oth-

erwise, and those who do wish to engage the current enemies of the Jews and Israel would do well to attend carefully to what he says. Take, for example, the way in which he draws out the implications of the Israeli-Nazi equation, without which many of Israel’s defamers would be ren-dered nearly speechless. The first is that to demonize Israel or Zionism is to demon-ize the Jews as well. The second is that “To attach the label ‘Nazi’ to Israel, or to couple the Star of David with the swastika is…not just to express opposition…to the policies of one or another Israeli govern-ment. It is to defame Israel by association with the most powerful symbol of evil, of that which must be utterly rejected and uprooted from the face of the earth.”

Harrison also wrote a stunning little booklet for the American Jewish Com-mittee called “Israel, Anti-Semitism, and Free Speech” (2007) in which he rebuts the accusation (made by such world-class haters of Israel as George Soros, the late Tony Judt, and the Walt-Mearsheimer duo) that anybody who takes issue with attacks on Israel as the devil’s own experi-ment station, or the epitome of apartheid, or the true inheritor of Nazism, is trying to “stifle” all criticism of the Jewish State, to shut down debate, to stifle free speech.

Harrison confesses to a personal motive in his written combat with “pro-gressive” anti-Semitism: “As a gentile with some interest in Jewish religion, history, and culture, and some…understanding of the importance of the Jewish contribu-tion to Western civilization, I have been encountering this sort of thing…for sixty years..and I find it wearisome and con-temptible in the extreme.”

bernard harrison will speak on thurs., april 7

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letters to the editorinflammatory Words

While Josh Basson has made another case for Israel to push aggressively for negotiations with Palestinians (“Obstacles to peace,” Letters, March 25), he’s also continuing a remark-able vilification and hate campaign about them.

It’s of inflammatory words: “Savage killers” brings to mind European-British descriptions of “savage” black Africans; and our homegrown campaign of gross and ugly stereotyping (and eradication) in “taming the West” of “the noble savages” of the plains.

There is “horrific slaughter;” “what sort of human being deliberately butchers a human baby;” and “unspeakable evil.”

Is it any wonder a sizeable and vocal number of American Jews are fiercely opposed to a Palestinian state? Indeed, Jewish Israelis are more supportive of relinquishing the West Bank than American Jews.

Basson continues with linguistic fury: “Murder;” “point-blank range;” of students “gunned down;” and “the civilized mind struggling to make sense of such savagery.” He writes of Jews being described by the P.A. as “vermin,” “enemies to be destroyed” and “infidels.”

In June 2006 I was in a cab in Jerusalem; the Jewish cabbie called the Arabs “animals.” Didn’t the Nazis claim Jews, Romany and Sinti were “sub-human”? Is there any difference between the hate propaganda Mr. Basson detests and his own derision and contempt for Palestinians?

And what of the 750,000 Palestinians displaced in 1948? Will Mr. Basson speak out force-fully about their languishing in — what we euphemistically sanitize-by-name as — “refugee camps” for a mere 63 years?

What of Palestinian children and infants “killed” by missiles targeting Hamas? Are their deaths less “savage,” “toxic,” “hateful” or “violent” from an F-16 jet rather than a knife or handgun?

The settlers’ movement and their militants who wantonly murder Palestinians and destroy orchards and olive trees are the best friends Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs can hope for. And the Palestinians who “savagely” murder Israelis are the best friends the settlers movement can dream of.

So is it any wonder right-wing Israeli and settlers are enraged and infuriated over the West Bank Palestinian non-violent and civil disobedient oriented economic boycott of settler-made goods as they are about terror attacks?

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In memory of our Queen esther: althea Diesenhaus Stroum, 1922-2011maRTin JaffEE JTNews Columnist

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The upcoming Stroum Lec-tures in Jewish Studies, this year featuring the renowned historian of American Jewry, Jonathan Sarna, will be missing something vital. This will be the first year — in over 30 years of lectures — that the lectures’ principal founding visionar-ies and financial benefactors — Sam and Althea Stroum — will not be among the living.

Sam, of course, was taken from us by cancer a decade ago. And this past March 14, after a period of ill health, Althea, too passed into the “World of Truth.” Together, Sam and Althea built a scaf-folding of communal philanthropy that touched the lives of virtually every Seattle-ite in one way or another.

The mark they made on the Univer-sity of Washington alone would inscribe their names in Seattle’s communal Book of Life. But in the smaller world of Jewish Seattle, there is no evading the pervasive influence of Sam and Althea Stroum.

Who among us, in search of meaning-ful Jewish fellowship, has not enjoyed the

facilities, the broad program-ming, and the sociability afforded by the “J”? By now a generation of Seattle Jewry has followed the course of contemporary Jewish schol-arship as documented in the Stroum Lecture series, one of the nation’s most presti-gious Jewish Studies lecture-ships. And, for over a quarter century, Jewish and non-Jew-

ish undergraduates at the “U” have been guided in the fields of academic Jewish learning by

the remarkably committed and creative faculty of what was recently named the Samuel and Althea Stroum Jewish Stud-ies Program.

It was a bad enough blow to lose Sam. But we all thought Althea would some-how be immune from time. Wasn’t she right there every spring for the Stroum Lectures, always resplendently turned out, the closest thing to a Jewish queen we Seattleites have ever known? For those of us connected to the Jewish Studies pro-gram, the loss is particularly acute.

Some of us knew Althea well; others, like myself, were too intimidated by “roy-alty” to mumble more than an annual greeting at a lecture: “Mmm. Hi, Althea. Nice to see you!” And, of course, my role as Stroum Professor has for years included the happy task of submitting to Althea an annual report about how I’m spending her cash.

Other than that, I didn’t think that I mattered much to Althea. Why should I? That’s why I was shocked one morning last autumn when my office phone rang. The voice at the other end said, “Hi, Marty. I just wanted you to know that I’m reading your book on Jewish radar! It really gives me a chuckle!”

“Thanks,” I replied. “But who’s this?” After a loud laugh from the other end,

I was informed: “Why, it’s Althea! Didn’t you recognize my voice after all these years?”

After I got my bearings, and over-came my embarrassment, we had a chatty little conversation that ended with resolutions to “keep in better touch.” I was, naturally, astonished. How could it happen that my little book

was even a blip on the screen of one of Jewish America’s premier philanthropic personages? How had I not known how down-to-earth and friendly The Queen was? How much had I missed out on by being shy and tongue-tied before a woman whose majestic bearing was out-shone only by her simplicity?

But I guess that was what Althea Stroum was all about: A Queen Esther who never forgot her people and never lost touch with her roots. She and Sam lived large and small; large in their influence, small in affect and pretense. All of us will miss her dearly.

As for my colleagues and me in the Stroum Jewish Studies Program, the open-ing night of this year’s Stroum Lectures will be particularly bittersweet. Last year, who could have imagined that our cele-bration of her philanthropy at the open-ing ceremony would be our last chance to publicly offer our thanks?

Well, this year, in Professor Sarna, we have a truly great speaker. Let’s have a turnout that truly reflects our gratitude for the great lady who made it possible for him to address us!

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Remember whenFrom the Jewish Transcript, March

22, 1991.Former Seattleite Rabbi Marc Angel

makes his first visit to Seattle follow-ing his installation as the first Sephardic rabbi of the Rabbinical Council of Amer-ica. He spoke at several local venues before returning to his congregation in New York. Rabbi Angel, incidentally, was in Seattle again last weekend as Congre-gation Ezra Bessaroth’s scholar in resi-dence. See page 7 for the story.

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El kuento de kaza no uydea al charshiThe amount of expenses you plan at home never equal that of the marketplace.Moral: If a person plans to spend a limited amount of dollars when he goes shopping, he invariably sees some extra things he needs, so he spends a lot more than he originally planned.

central district art plan seeks jewish community inputGiven Seattle’s Jewish history in the Central District, organizers for a neighbor-

hood art plan hope to include synagogues and Jewish community members to a Dept. of Neighborhoods-sponsored workshop to move the plan forward. Meetings will take place on Thurs., April 28 from 6:30–8:30 p.m. and Sat., May 21 from 3–5 p.m. at the Central Area Senior Center, 500 30th Ave. South.

Visit www.artproject.centraldistrictseattle.org for more information.

how many students does it take to light a shabbat candle? 6UW Jewish organizations combine forces to create one big unity Shabbat dinner this Friday night.

angel in seattle 7Rabbi Mark Angel called for unity and compassion among Jewish denominations at a Shabbaton last weekend at Congregation Ezra Bessaroth.

oaky and floral, with a gefilte finish 12JTNews editors, Royal Wine Corp. and friends sample this year’s kosher-for-Passover wine selection.

need a place for pesach? 10JTNews’ annual listing of Passover seders has arrived. If you need a place to go, surely you’ll find it here!

of cakes and miracles 17New Jewish books bring heroes, holidays, even yoga to children.

a voice of israel’s history goes silent 23Netiva Ben Yehuda, a fighter in Israel’s war of independence and in later years a radio talk show host, had an effect on one Seattle listener.

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This Shabbat, the Chabad at the Uni-versity of Washington is going where no other Shabbat has gone before — at least in recent memory. The destination isn’t physical, but rather spiritual, bringing all of the university’s Jewish groups together for one Shabbat dinner extravaganza.

“It’s a program that’s done on a lot of other campuses,” said Chaya Estrin, rebbetzin at Chabad of UW. Campuses around the country have “from 100 students to 1,000 students celebrating Shabbat together.” Organizers expect a turnout of about 200 to this dinner, which will take place in Mary Gates Hall. Partial funding for the event comes from a grant from the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s Small and Simple Ini-tiatives fund.

Shabbat for a Lot, also called Unity Shabbat, is an attempt to bring the diverse population of Jewish students on campus together.

“One element is just to give a taste of what Shabbat is,” Estrin said. The other is to show that “we’re more united than we’re different.”

Much of that unity comes from a rela-tively small Jewish presence on campus.

“UW Jewish students feel like a minority. It will be very powerful to them,” she said. “The Jewish community is vibrant. It is strong.”

But getting them together is harder than it sounds. Estrin explained that students sometimes feel loyalties to par-ticular organizations. With the Jewish community growing and strengthening on campus, Estrin feels that the time is ripe to promote unity among factions.

Greek organizations AEPi, AEPhi, and ZBT, as well as Jewish sisterhood Banot, American Students for Israel, Hillel, the Seattle Kollel’s Jewish Student Experience, Huskies for Israel and Israel Forever are sponsoring the dinner along with Chabad.

Groups are asked to leave their agen-das at the door, and instead of students encouraging one another to join each other’s organizations and causes, each participant will take home a booklet with group descriptions, Shabbat songs and blessings. Estrin described it as the cre-ation of a sort of Jewish UW directory.

“We’re asking people to be respect-ful,” said Estrin.

Jaclyn Rubinchik, a junior, is involved

with Chabad and Huskies for Israel and is helping to organize the dinner. She says that given the diversity of Jewish groups on campus, at first they didn’t know how the program was going to shape itself.

“It’s going to be Hillel and Chabad and fraternities and sororities,” she mar-veled. “What does a Shabbat that has all of these groups together look like?”

“To have 200 students singing ‘Shalom Aleichem’ together — this will be really amazing,” Estrin said.

Estrin estimates that 60 to 70 stu-dents observe Shabbat on a regular basis, meaning more than half the attendees on Friday night will not be Shabbat-observant.

But the Estrins’ goal is not, at least outwardly, to encourage the students to be more observant.

“Our goal is to introduce people to Judaism, and let them take their journey where they’re going to go,” she said. “We just try to be there for people and give them a positive Jewish experience.”

To that end, students have the option to go to one of five different ser-vice options: Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, meditative, or a “why I’m not

in services” discussion. “I think it’s good for students to connect and find their place,” Estrin said.

The evening will commence with candle lighting at 6 p.m., followed by an hour of “shmoozing and food” and then services. After services, students are invited to a traditional dinner, much of which Estrin and 10 to 12 volunteers will be preparing themselves. Estrin, who reg-ularly cooks for a crowd of 40 to 60 Shab-bat guests, does not appear daunted by the task. Following dinner, participants can snack, play board games, and hang out.

Students are excited for the dinner and its unity potential.

“I’m a junior, In all the years I’ve been here there’s never been an...event like this,” Rubinchik said. “I’m really excited it’s actually happening.”

uw’s unity shabbat to find common ground among jewish studentsEmily K. alHadEff assistant editor, JTNews

shabbat for a lot takes place fri., april 1,

from 6-11 p.m. at mary Gates hall, uW campus, seattle. to rsVp, contact sara engesser at [email protected].

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As anti-Semitism resurges around the world, and Jews, once again, top the FBI’s most recent list of religious hate-crime victims in the U.S. by a whopping 71.9 percent, what many people may find sur-prising is that the most threatening enemy to world Jewry today might just be Jews themselves.

The intolerance and hatred between religious and nonreligious Jews divided by differing ideologies, as well as the overall failure of non-Orthodox Jews to give the next generation a solid Jewish education, might both deliver the most fatal blows of all to the survival of the Jewish people.

So said Rabbi Marc Angel, the Seattle-born-and-raised Sephardic rabbi emeritus of New York City’s Congregation Shearith Israel, and Sephardic Congregation Ezra Bessaroth’s scholar-in-residence last weekend. He told an audience of 85 com-munity members on March 24 that Jews across the spectrum of belief need to see the “grace” and the “charm” in each other to stem the tide of alienation and, in many cases, downright contempt.

“We should realize that we’re all in it together,” Angel told the crowd in his talk, “Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Jews: Can We Learn from Each Other?” “Instead of hurting each other, let’s use our energies to defend ourselves from the enemy.”

Reform and “liberal” Jews simply reject the Orthodox authoritarian structure that dictates behavior by prescribing a “we make the rules and you listen to us — I’ll tell you how it is and you follow” doctrine, Angel said.

In contrast, liberal and Reform Jews see themselves as advocating for more demo-cratic values, including the political concept of social justice, intellectual freedom, and freedom of speech and thought, he said.

“Let’s look at each other not as mem-bers of a movement or members of an ide-ology,” said Angel, “but as fellow human beings and fellow Jews who might have something new to teach us.”

Still, said Angel, the stereotypes persist: While Orthodox Jews are seen as insular, using their financial resources to afford private religious schools for their chil-dren, maintain ritual bath centers known as mikvot, and observe the Sabbath, liberal Jews view themselves as more humanitar-ian, with an externally focused worldview that cares about all people, not just Jews.

“We should be liberal and democratic,” said Angel, “but we shouldn’t be suicidal. The Orthodox have something important we’re doing right that they can learn from us, and we need to be compassionate and inclusive, but at the same time, we need to have a borderline.”

Although Angel didn’t offer any evi-dence in support of his claim to the current rise in animosity between Jewish denomi-nations, both members and nonmembers in attendance said they have seen it them-selves, and they appreciate the discussion.

“It’s sort of a hotbed in the Ameri-can Jewish world and people are really being divisive,” longtime Ezra Bessar-oth member Sal Cohen told JTNews. “I just can’t get over how Jews have gotten so angry at each other. That’s just not my approach to anything I do and I think a lot of people, including myself, are really anx-ious for this kind of approach.”

Nondenominational rabbi Charna Klein also agreed with Angel. Klein told JTNews that Jews need to rethink their relationships with each other and make them stronger.

“I think that the acrimony that Rabbi Angel was talking about between the Reform and the Orthodox is definitely there,” said Klein. “We need to work to bring our people together and to be more unified instead of this split into separate Jewish peoples. It’s not an easy thing to do, to have your own identity and, at the same time, respect every-body else. And yet, we have to do that for the sake of the Jewish people, as a whole.”

But while some are calling for improved relations among the different types of reli-gious observance as a way to strengthen the Jewish community from within, Angel noted a far more ominous threat to the survival of the Jewish people, citing 2005 data projections from a 2000 National Jewish Population Survey.

Using the 2000 NJPS intermarriage rate and the average number of children for women in each group, researchers looked at 100 people between the ages of 18 to 39 in five groups, the Hasidic/Orthodox, the centrist Orthodox, the Conservative, the Reform, and the secular. They calculated that within four generations there will be almost no trace of young American Jews not cur-rently being raised in Orthodox homes with a complete Jewish day school education.

After four generations, the research showed, 100 secular Jews would have seven Jewish descendants; Reform Jews, 10, Con-servative Jews, 49, Centrist Orthodox Jews, 434, and Hassidic/Orthodox, 3,401.

making us whole: how we must find the charm and grace in each otherJanis siEgEl JTNews Correspondent

JaNiS Siegel

Former Seattleite Rabbi Marc angel, who was Congregation ezra Bessaroth’s scholar-in-residence in late March.

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The Washington State Jewish Historical Society celebrates a year in food.

2031 Third Ave • Seattle Wa 98121

We’re hosting half a dozen scrumptious, inspiring events celebrating food and

community, all leading up to our cookbook launch extravaganza on November 6.

ChallahWednesday, April 27 at 2:00 p.m.

Seattle Hebrew Academy Library

$8 members/$10 nonmembers

Rivy Poupko Kletenik and daughter Gilah will teach

1. us the story of challah and how to make, knead,

separate, braid, bake and bless.

Recipes included.2.

The Art of CheesemakingThursday, May 5 at 6:30–9:00 p.m.Congregation Beth Shalom$40 members/$55 nonmembers Co-sponsored with Congregation Beth Shalom

Mark Solomon, instructor and home cheesemaker, will 1. teach us how to make easy soft kosher cheeses at home, including fresh mozzarella, cream cheese, chevre and ricotta.

Recipes included.2. A Taste of Sephardic FoodsWednesday, May 11 & Thursday, May 12 at 11:00 a.m.Congregation Beth Shalom$40 members/$55 nonmembers Co-sponsored with Congregation Beth Shalom

Sephardic food is Mediterranean — full of flavor, fresh, 1. scrumptious. Katherine Scharhon will be our teacher as we learn to make traditional Sephardic borekas and biscochos.

Recipes included.2.

The Great Kugel ThrowdownThursday, May 26 at 7:00 p.m.UW Hillel$8 members/$10 nonmembers Co-sponsored with Hillel J-Connect, & JTNewsSurprise judges will consider kugels of every type — sweet,

1. savory, noodle, potato, lokshen and matzah …Everyone will taste, vote, and take home recipes.

2. Top CholentThursday, June 23 at 6:00 p.m.Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath$8 members/$10 nonmembersThe traditional stew made for the Shabbat midday meal is

1. so much more than stew. Come and learn, taste, and choose your favorite.

We’ll make cholent that is traditional, Sephardic,

2. vegetarian, & nouveau.And, of course, you’ll take home recipes.3. Northwest Gefilte Fish:

A Family Affair

Tuesday, August 16 at 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Dorothy Becker and her family make their fish together &

1. have it down to a science. Come and learn. Step by step.

You’ll go home with a packet of fish recipes — gefilte, sweet

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Join us! We’ll launch our community’s own historical cookbook on November 6 at a community-wide celebration. Stay tuned for details!

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Space is limited.Mark your calender & reserve space early!For reservations and information, e-mail: [email protected] or call: 206-774-2277.

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1Just a few months into her first year at Whitman College, Talia Rudee started a

chapter of Challah for Hunger. Every Friday afternoon you can find her and another vol-unteer selling fresh-baked challah at Reid Hall — chal-lah that volunteers have made over the previous two days.

She was inspired by Chal-lah for Hunger chapters she’d seen when visiting the Clare-mont Colleges in previous years. Scripps and Pomona — where her brother, Alex, goes — have chapters.

Even before the club got official

approval, “we started baking,” she says. She purchased the ingredients and asked a group of friends to assist.

“I got people who were very committed…so I would have a lot of help,” she says.

Most of the volunteers are not Jewish, but Talia sensed correctly that the type of advocacy work supported by the organization would appeal to Whitman students.

Baking starts on Wednes-day, with three to five people

making dough at Glover Alston Center, a house owned by the college.

“On Thursday we have a team of people that braid it and stuff it” with flavors includ-ing cinnamon and chocolate chips before baking the finished loaves. On Friday, another group bags the challah before the selling starts. The 50 to 60 loaves net about $250, which covers the cost of supplies and a percentage of which is donated to a local charity, in this case Helpline, a Walla Walla homeless aid group.

The Garfield High graduate had never baked bread before this.

“We’re still learning,” she says. “Every week our challah gets better.”

Challah fights hunger • Also: PNB dancer concludes his season in Seattle

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Pacific Northwest Ballet Corps de Ballet dancer Barry Kerollis (center) with company dancers in Christopher Wheeldon’s Carousel (A Dance).

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Talia Rudee, who started the Challah for Hunger chapter at Whitman College in Walla Walla.

The daughter of Don Rudee and Gail Benezra Rudee, Talia grew up at Temple Beth Am in Seattle and is used to an active Jewish life, something that is limited at the small southwestern Washington school.

“There are a lot of Jewish people” on campus, she says, but for most, Jewish observance is something they practice “with their families at home.”

A small group meets to say Shab-bat blessings on Friday evenings and the campus Hillel has about 120 people on its listserve.

Talia is active in her sorority, plays in the school jazz band, and races on the cycling team. She plans to be active in Chal-lah for Hunger for her entire college career. Visit www.challahforhunger.org.

2 Toward the end of each season of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s iconic Nutcracker, the company turns one

performance into a silly-fest. “We do a Nutty Nutcracker,” con-

firmed a member of the corps, Barry Ker-ollis, who also confirmed that in one show he wore a kippah.

“I was dancing all the time,” explains the 27-year-old Downingtown, Penn.,

native about how his formal Jewish edu-cation ended at 13. Classes at the Chester Valley Dance Academy and performance dominated his free time. He has stud-ied all forms of dance including jazz, tap, modern and Irish step.

Although he first started dance les-sons at age 2, at 5 he turned to piano and Tae Kwon Do. As luck would have it, the dance studio next door to his dojo borrowed four boys to play soldiers in their annual Nutcracker. That became an annual tradition and, “slowly…I fell in love with dance,” he says.

Barry leaves PNB at the end of his seventh season, having “reached a point where I need to expand,” he says. “Dance is such a short career that if you feel slightly stagnant you need to make a change.”

He’s auditioned for other companies, but if he doesn’t get a position he and his partner plan to move to New York where he’ll pursue choreography, “something I am pretty passionate about,” and other dance opportunities. He’s even open to some Broadway show work.

While he ’s choreographed for advanced students at PNB’s school the past few years, his public choreography debut was in last fall’s Men In Dance showcase, with a piece called Cypher.

Barry augments a schedule packed with classes and rehearsals with a little hot yoga and flute practice when he can. He occasionally still plays the piano and clarinet. Travel is high on his list of fun activities. He went to Israel last summer on a Birthright trip, and Japan, too.

He’ll wrap up the season appearing in Giselle in early June and in the season “Encore” show on June 12 (www.pnb.org). You can watch Barry on YouTube on either the PNB or his own channel at www.youtube.com/user/BKerollis, where you’ll find his new piece, It Gets Better, which he created in honor of the gay rights project of the same name.

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Holocaust Remembrance DayA Community Event

Sunday, May 1, 2011 | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pmStroum Jewish Community Center

3801 East Mercer Way, Mercer IslandFree and open to the Public

Yom HashoahWith My Own Eyes

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Also sponsored by the Holocaust Center: Yom Hashoahprogram at Hillel, University of Washington

May 1st from 4:30-6:00 pm.

Performance by the Seattle Jewish ChoraleKaddish by Rabbi James Mirel

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fRiday 1 apRil2 p.m. — portland/Seattle Shabbat Shebang

Ari Hoffman at ncsynewsletter@

seattlencsy.com or 206-295-5888 or www.seattlencsy.comA joint event between the Portland and Seattle NCSY chapters. Catch up with friends and make new ones between the big Seattle Shabbaton and Spring Regional. Sign up for Portland location.

saTuRday 2 apRil7:30–10 p.m. — vagabond opera

Rabbi James Mirel at rabbi@

templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.orgTBT welcomes Vagabond Opera, a renowned Jewish cabaret described as vintage Americana, Balkan belly dance, neo-classical opera and old-world Yiddish theater. Free and open to all. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.

sunday 3 apRilJoin a habitat for humanity crew

Sheryl Kipnis at [email protected] or

206-524-0075 or http://jew.sh/8MV3Members of Congregation Beth Shalom join a Habitat for Humanity building crew at Rainier Vista Housing. Participants must be 16 or older. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

monday 4 apRil9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. — SJCC Spring Break Camp

Matt Korch at [email protected]

or 206-388-0830 or http://jew.sh/QAnKSpring break camp at the J, April 4-8. $55/day. At the Stroum SJCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

TuEsday 5 apRil7:45–11 p.m. — Bistro Night at The Summit

Chef Michael at michaelr@summitatfirsthill.

org or 206-652-4444, ext.105The second monthly bistro night, open to the community. Special prix fixe, five-course kosher menu by Chef Michael Rogozinski at the Summit at First Hill. Reservations required. Cash or check only. $30 per person. At The Summit at First Hill, 1200 University St., Seattle.

wEdnEsday 6 apRil7–9 p.m. — israel matters Series

Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg at rabbikinberg@

templebnaitorah.org David Brumer, executive committee member of the American Jewish Committee’s Seattle chapter, speaks on the Goldstone Report and the Gaza Flotilla. Program followed by reception. $5 suggested donation. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.

THuRsday 7 apRil3:30 p.m. — anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, and the intellectuals

Josh Basson at [email protected] or

206-543-0138Professor Bernard Harrison, a specialist in analytic philosophy and a critic of the “new” anti-Semitism,

will speak. Harrison is professor emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Sussex (U. K.) and University of Utah. At University of Washington, Savery Hall 260, Seattle.

fRiday 8 apRil12 p.m. — men’s Camp

Cheryl Puterman at development@

campschechter.org or 206-447-1967 or www.campschechter.orgA three-day weekend for guys only. Great food, sports, fishing, poker, challenge course, networking and more. $200. At Camp Solomon Schechter, Olympia.7:30–9 p.m. — Nishmat Shabbat

Shellie Oakley at [email protected] or

206-577-2391 or www.betalef.org/shabbat.html#nishmatBet Alef teachers share their passion for meditation, mystical chant and the deeper transformational messages of Jewish tradition. $10 donation. At Queen Anne United Methodist Church, 1606 5th Ave. W, Seattle.

sunday 10 apRil3–5 p.m. — Discovering passover Together: a passover gathering for interfaith Couples and Families

Emily Harris-Shears at eharris@jfsseattle.

org or 206-861-8784 or http://jew.sh/YJJZDiscover the richness of historic and contemporary Passover rituals and themes. Learn about the holiday and get energized to share the holiday. Couples and families with kids of all ages welcome to join the fun. Advance registration required. $10 suggested donation/family. At Miller Community Center, 330 19th Ave. E, Seattle.

7–9 p.m. — lunar latte’s Women’s Rosh Chodesh gathering

Mrs. Giti Fredman at gitifredman@

seattlekollel.org or 206-852-6418 or seattlekollel.orgAll Jewish women are invited to celebrate Rosh Chodesh Nisan. This month’s title is “Cheeky Chocolate.” In Bellevue — call for location.

monday 11 apRil7:30 p.m. —Jews, genetics, and the DNa Shoah project

Beverly Blum at [email protected]

or www.jgsws.orgThe Jewish Genealogical Society presents University of Arizona Genetics Core laboratory scientist Matthew Kaplan. Kaplan will present research findings from studies of Jewish genetics and Jewish population history and talk about the DNA Shoah Project, a unique humanitarian effort to reunite survivors of the Holocaust. Free for members, $5 for non-members. At the Stroum SJCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

TuEsday 12 apRil4–7 p.m. — What’s a gefilte Fish? Tastes of passover

Emily Harris-Shears at familylife@

jfsseattle.org or 206-861-8784 or http://jew.sh/xMI4Come learn about Passover and its foods. Sample a selection of wines for $1 to help you pick your four glasses. Tasting free. At Whole Foods Market, Roosevelt Square, 1026 NE 64th St., Seattle.

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Looking for a place to celebrate the seder? All over the state you’ll find differ-ent organizations and synagogues host-ing a seder that will be perfect for you. Please contact the individual organization to make your reservations — and hurry, many sell out before the holiday!

Passover sederssaTuRday 16 apRil5–7:30 p.m. — Bet alef meditative Synagogue

[email protected] or 206-527-9399 or www.

betalef.orgThis family potluck seder is an interactive, kid-friendly event, led by Rabbi Olivier BenHaim. Share in blessings and storytelling, sing and have a great time together. Non-members welcome. Suggested donation $25/family. At Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue, location TBA, Seattle.

monday 18 apRil8 p.m. — Chabad Jewish Center of vancouver, Wash.

[email protected] or 360-993-

5222 or www.jewishclarkcounty.com$30/adults, $20/children before April 11. $35/adults, $25/children after April 11. At Chabad Jewish Center, 9604 NE 126th Ave. Suite 2320, Vancouver.7 p.m. — Chabad Jewish Discovery Center

[email protected] or 360-584-4306

or www.jewisholympia.com$18/adults, $9/students, free/children under 12. At Phoenix Inn, 415 Capitol Way N, Olympia.8:30 p.m. — Family-Style Seder for uW Students

Rabbi Elie and Chaya Estrin at chabaduw@

earthlink.net or 206-523-1359 or www.jewishuw.comFamily-style seder for students at the University of Washington and surrounding campuses. To sponsor a student please call 206-523-1359. Free for students. At Chabad at the University of Washington, 5200 21st Ave. NE, Seattle.

7 p.m. — hillel uW206-527-1997 or www.hilleluw.org/

passoverJoin Hillel undergraduates, Jconnectors and community members for festive-themed seders led by Hillel staff and volunteers. RSVP by April 11. Supervised by the Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle. $54/community, $25/Jconnect, $12/students. At Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.8 p.m. — Chabad Jewish Center of Whatcom County and WWu


3845 or www.jewishbellingham.com$25/adults, $15/children under 12, $72/families, $5/student. At the WWU Viking Union, Room 565, Bellingham.7:30 p.m. — Chabad of Central Cascades


1654 or www.chabadissaquah.com/SederRelive the exodus, discover the eternal meaning of the Haggadah, and enjoy a community seder complete with hand-baked matzoh, wine, and a wonderful dinner spiced with unique traditional customs. Explore the Kabalistic insight on the number four. RSVP by April 10. $36/adults, $25/children. At Chabad of the Central Cascades, 24121 SE Black Nugget Rd., Issaquah.8 p.m. — Chabad of pierce County

Rabbi Zalman Heber at rabbi@

chabadpiercecounty.com or 253-565-8770In-depth Hebrew/English Passover experience, with plenty of translation, traditional songs and lively discussion. No one turned away due to lack of funds. $25/adults, $18/children under 12. At Chabad of Pierce County, 2146 N Mildred St., Tacoma.8:30 p.m. — West Seattle TlC

Rabbi David Fredman at rabbifredman@

gmail.com or 206-251-4063All-inclusive community seder. $18. No one turned away for lack of funds. Make checks payable to the Seattle Kollel. Location TBA, Seattle.

TuEsday 19 apRil6 p.m. — Bet alef meditative Synagogue

[email protected] or 206-527-9399 or www.

betalef.orgWith a new Haggadah and Rabbi Olivier BenHaim as guide, explore the deeper mystical teachings of Jewish lineage. Discover anew the spiritual dimensions of Passover. Reservations required. $38/members, $48/non-members, $20/member children 6 and up, $25/non-member children. After April 12, add $5 per person. At Unitarian Universalist Church, 6556 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.8 p.m. — Chabad Russian Community Seder


$16/adults, $8/children and students, free/seniors. At Congregation Shaarei Tefilah–Lubavitch, 6250 43rd Ave. NE, Seattle.6 p.m. — Congregation Beth hatikvah

Harriet Greenberg at 360-373-9884

$25/members and their guests, $10/children ages 5–12, $36/non-members and guests, $15/children. At Silverdale Community Center.6 p.m. — Congregation Kol Shalom

[email protected] or 206-842-9010 or

www.kolshalom.netFree community potluck seder. At Congregation Kol Shalom, 9010 Miller Rd. NE, Bainbridge Island.

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8:30 p.m. — Congregation Shevet achimVivian Blum at [email protected] or

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[email protected] or

206-328-6586Co-sponsored by Kolenu. Meat potluck, no chametz. $20/adult, $10/student and low-income, free/children. RSVP by April 11. At Graham Visitor Center, Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle.8:30 p.m. — Family-Style Seder for uW Students

Rabbi Elie and Chaya Estrin at chabaduw@

earthlink.net or 206-523-1359 or www.jewishuw.comFamily-style seder for students at the UW and surrounding campuses. To sponsor a student call 206-523-1359. Free for students. At Chabad at University of Washington, 5200 21st Ave. NE, Seattle.9:30–12:15 p.m. — passover First Day yom Tov Service

Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@

bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or www.bethshalomseattle.orgHoliday service for Passover. No kiddush lunch served during the holiday. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.8 p.m. — Chabad Jewish Center of Whatcom County and WWu


3845 or www.jewishbellingham.com$25/adults, $15/under 12, $72/families, $5/student. At Chabad Jewish Center of Whatcom County and WWU, 820 Newell St., Bellingham.8:30 p.m. — Chabad of the Central Cascades


1654 or www.chabadissaquah.com/SederExperience the liberation and freedom of Passover. Discover the seder’s relevance to today’s modern Jew. $36/adult, $25/child. At Chabad of the Central Cascades, 24121 SE Black Nugget Rd., Issaquah.8:30 p.m. — Chabad of Seattle/Congregation Shaarei Tefilah


$20/adults, $8/seniors, students and children. At Congregation Shaarei Tefilah–Lubavitch, 6250 43rd Ave. NE, Seattle.6 p.m. — Temple B’nai Torah

Melissa Bloom at mbloom@

TempleBnaiTorah.org or 425-603-9677 or www.TempleBnaiTorah.org$45/adults, $20/children 6–12, free/children under 5. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.6 p.m. — Temple Beth el

Petra Masellas at 253-564-7101 or

tbeseder.eventbrite.com$20/adult, $15/child. At Temple Beth El, 5975 S 12th St., Tacoma.6:30–9 p.m. — Stroum Jewish Community Center

Roni Antebi at [email protected] or 206-388-

0832Second-night seder geared toward adults and families with children over the age of 10. Led by Rabbi Anson Laytner. Kosher meal catered by Nosh Away. Register and make payment no later than April 15. $35/SJCC members, $50/non-members, $25/senior SJCC members (65-plus), $35/senior non-members (65-plus), $22/children 7–15, free/children 6 and under. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

8 p.m. — Traditional passover SederRabbi Zalman Heber at rabbi@

chabadpiercecounty.com or 253-565-8770Enjoy an in-depth Hebrew/English Passover experience, with plenty of translation, traditional songs and lively discussion. No one turned away due to lack of funds. $25/adults, $18/children under 12. At Chabad of Pierce County, 2146 N Mildred St., Tacoma.

saTuRday 23 apRil4 p.m. — Congregation olympic B’nai Shalom

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$17/adults, $12/children 5–16. At Congregation Olympic B’nai Shalom, Unitarian Universalist Church, Agnew.5 p.m. — Congregation Kol ami


$36/members, $18/children 5–12, free/children under 5. $40/non-members, $20/non-member children, free/under five. Please pay by April 15. Mail check to 16530 Avondale Rd. NE, Woodinville, WA 98077. At Northshore Senior Center, 10201 E

Riverside Dr., Bothell.5:30–9:30 p.m. — Secular Jewish Circle of puget Sound


1944 or secularjewishcircle.org$20/members, $35/non-members, $10/children over 5, free/children under 5. At Secular Jewish Circle of Puget Sound. Call for location. Seattle (Wallingford).5:45 p.m. — Temple Beth el Women’s Seder

[email protected] or

templebethel18sisterhood.eventbrite.comTemple Beth El Sisterhood women’s seder. $13–$24. At Temple Beth El, 5975 S 12th St., Tacoma.

sunday 24 apRil5 p.m. — passover Seder in Russian

Irina Vorona at [email protected] or

425-643-2221, ext. 14Cantor Marina Belenky will lead a Reform seder in Russian with the assistance of Wendy Marcus, Temple Beth Am music director, and her own Russian language trio, Marianna. For non-English speaking immigrants. Space is limited. Please make

reservations by April 8. Printed confirmation will be required for admission. Children and grandchildren are welcome. Free. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.5 p.m. — Walla Walla’s Congregation Beth israel

Jennifer Winchell at winchelljennifer@

yahoo.comAnyone in Walla Walla is welcome to join Congregation Beth Israel’s seder at the synagogue. Everyone will either bring something or help lead part of the seder. Free. At Congregation Beth Israel, Walla Walla.

monday 25 apRil5 p.m. — havurat ee Shalom

Gayle Sommers at [email protected]

or 206-463-4687Potluck, no charge. Reservations required and attendees are expected to either help with setup or cleanup. At Havurat Ee Shalom, 15401 Westside Hwy SW, Vashon Island.

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BARKAN WINERY WISHES ALL OUR CUSTOMERS A JOYOUS PASSOVER

חג שמחFirst Seder isApril 18th

FINE WINES

F or the past nine years, JTNews and Royal Wine Corp. have tasted var-ious kosher-for-Passover wines to

give you a sense of the best of the year’s crop. And while in the greater world of oenophilia, especially in this state, the mastery of vintners has seen more people than ever drinking wine, the rise of high-quality, well-rated kosher wines over forti-fied concord grape over that time has been just as meteoric. So with our new selection of wines, we once again set out to success-fully prove that wine can be kosher, holy and not sickly sweet. As always, we thank Michael Friend of Royal Wine for provid-ing and pouring, as well as our tasters: Emily Alhadeff, JTNews’s assistant editor (on her first day — hope she doesn’t think we treat her to wine every day!)

Cup Cupby

with a tangy frisante — that refreshing feel-ing you might get from champagne, but without the bubbles — and hints of vanilla and banana.

“I’d pair it with fish and asparagus,” he said. Michael suggested a lightly flavored chicken, while Julie added legumes to the menu.

“Very smooth, and just a slight sour astringency to it,” said Ned.

Next came Gamla Chardonnay, 2006, from the Galilee ($17.99). Dave smelled green olive in the nose while Emily sensed eucalyptus.

“This is complex,” said Michael. “My first shot, and wow!”

Adam noted he could taste the 13.9 percent alcohol content, and Ned said he thought the taste could cut through strong flavors.

I thought the nose on the Barkan Sau-vignon Blanc ($11.99) from Adulam, Israel, was quite smooth, and indeed it was a favorite of the whites we tasted.

Julie found it “really complex and evoc-ative of all kinds of things.” Those things, noted Dave, could be apples and cheese.

Cup 2: We’re knee deep into the story of the

Exodus, and the mood is much more heavy. Time to switch to red?

Three different appellations — caber-net, cabernet franc, and merlot — make up Segal’s Red Fusion Blend (M), from the Galilee ($14.99). If you like legs, and you know how to use ’em, you’ll enjoy this tannic wine with the sweet afterglow.

Ned Porges gets a good feel for the nose of one of the reds.

Adam Balkany, wine enthusiastJoel Magalnick, JTNews editor and wine enthusiastNed Porges, professor emeritus of wine and spirits at Washington State University and Highline College. David Schor, wine enthusiast and amateur cider makerJulie Wilchins, wine enthusiast

The best selection of these and other kosher wines are at Albertson’s on Mercer Island, QFC in University Village, Costco on 4th Ave. S in Seattle, and a new wine megastore, Wine World, at 401 NE 45th St., in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood. All prices listed are suggested retail.

One note: For kosher-observant hosts using caterers, the wines designated as (M) are mevushal, which means they have been flash pasteurized for about two seconds, meaning anyone, not just observant Jews, can pour.

This year we have set recommendations by the point in the seder meal in which you’ll be drinking. Enjoy!

Cup 1: It’s spring. The evening is young, the

air is crisp, the seder is just getting rolling. So why not start with something light and crisp, like a chilled white? “Put your nose into the airspace of the glass,” said our host Michael as he poured the 2007 Alfasi Chardonnay (M) from Chile’s Maule Valley ($9.99). Dave found it refreshing,

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“It’s my favorite so far,” Emily said. Adam detected hints of leather and citrus, and marked it a favorite as well.

“I can’t tell if it’s more smoky or oaky,” he said. “I was really taken by the earthi-ness and the color from the get-go.”

With another from the same vintner, my favorite, Segal’s Cabernet Sauvignon Special Reserve (M) from 2008 ($21.99) we got something very complex and dif-ferent.

“It wasn’t one experience, it was many different experiences,” Michael said.

“Definitely smooth and woody, for sure,” Ned said.

Dave, however, preferred the Red Fusion to this one.

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noted Ned.“I like it,” he said. “I love the nose on this,” Michael said. “I

don’t have to drink it, I can just smell it.”Adam found it too floral in the nose

—he preferred to drink it. “I detect black currant,” Julie said, while

Emily sensed almond or hazelnut.Another pinot, Gamla Pinot Noir

($19.99) from the Galilee, was aged in oak barrels for seven months before bottling, Michael noted.

“I got a lot of pear — big juicy pear,” Adam said.

Emily’s impressions were much more spicy: “I picked up some saag paneer,” she said, referring to the Indian spinach and cheese dish.

Compared to the Barkan, this one felt lighter to me, but Dave thought the clay and vegetative features gave it some heft.

Another Israeli appellation, Barkan Classic Petite Syrah (M, $11.99), got the most spice-related ratings, with comments that included nutmeg, pepper, and even tobacco. It wasn’t terribly heavy, however.

“Sort of reminds me of a light rosé,” Ned said, saying it would go best with a light lunch.

It would probably go well with fish, or perhaps chicken, but not steak, Michael noted.

Cup 3: The seder meal is complete, dessert

lingers on the tongue, and if we feel like

getting back to the story, this cup needs something light and refreshing.

The Bartenura Prosecco Brüt (M) was semi-dry, but light enough to go finish off a heavy meal. Emily could see it pair-ing with pizza (though not, of course, on Pesach) and Dave could see it with caramel corn. “It’s almost like a bubbly chardon-nay,” he said.

“I detected hay,” Julie said.From Italy comes Carmel Moscato di

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Other eventsTHuRsday 7 apRil7–9 p.m. — passover gourmet Kosher Wine Tasting

Roni Antebi at [email protected] or 206-388-

0832Come experience flavorful and unique kosher wines from around the world. Professionally led wine tasting by Dr. David Isenberg. $25. At Chandler’s on Lake Union, 901 Fairview Ave. N, Seattle.

sunday 10 apRil2–4 p.m. — Bet alef meditative Synagogue passover Workshop

[email protected] or 206-527-9399 or

www.betalef.orgPre-Passover Workshop led by Rabbi Olivier BenHaim. Using the Passover story, explore ways

to step from places of stuckness into deeper meaning and greater joy. At Unity of Bellevue, 16330 NE 4th St., Bellevue.3–5 p.m. — Discovering passover Together: a passover gathering for interfaith Couples and Families

Emily Harris-Shears at

[email protected] or 206-861-8784 or http://jew.sh/YJJZA trip around the seder table, exploring symbols and traditions. Discover the richness of historic and contemporary Passover rituals and themes. Couples

and families with kids of all ages welcome. RSVP required. $10 suggested donation/family. At Miller Community Center, 330 19th Ave. E, Seattle.

wEdnEsday 13 apRil4– 5 p.m. — matzoh Roca Cooking Class

Matt at [email protected] or 206-388-0830

An exciting cooking class taught by Coach Katie for K–5th graders. $5/SJCC Kidstown members, $10/SJCC members and guests. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

wEdnEsday 20 apRil4–6 p.m. — ages 0–5 Family-Friendly Seder

Eli Warshal at [email protected] or 206-526-

8073Older siblings welcome. A light vegetarian meal will be served. $10/children 6 and over, $5/children 2–5, free/children 2 and under. At the Stroum JCC–Seattle, 2618 NE 80th St., Seattle.

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THuRsday 21 apRil5–6 p.m. — Chocolate Family Seder


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It’s a seasonal phenomenon — this con-trast of holidays and observance, ping-ponging between solemn and celebration. Several children’s books this spring marked Purim’s story of threat and deliverance and should be noted, even if a bit late. But celebrated here are also some new works appropriate to Pesach, Yom Ha’atzmaut, or just for fun reading together.

Prolific Eric Kimmel of Portland has won numerous children’s book awards for his holiday and folk stories. His latest retelling, The Story of Esther, A Purim Tale, is illustrated by Jill Weber in brilliant mixed media, which adds a note of humor to the serious story he tells. While follow-ing the classic tale, Kimmel slips in les-sons about the cost of assimilation, about courage, and about feminism. He men-tions Mordecai’s descent from Babylonian captives, which may have influenced his

approach to dealing with a ruthless adver-sary, and shows clearly the foolishness of rulers who carelessly grant power to the unworthy and cruel.

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Marshall Cavendish (2010). New illustra-tions by Jaime Zollars and a slightly shorter text enhance this story of young Hershel, whose blindness does not affect his imag-ination nor hamper his ability to help his widowed mother bake wonderful cookies to sell on Purim. Notes on Purim appear at the end, making this story a learning experience about the holiday, as well as about compas-sion and determination.

Kar-Ben Publishing has provided a Purimspiel all ready for next Purim, since we missed this one. Tilda Balsley’s The Queen Who Saved Her People, comically illustrated by Ilene Richard, is written mostly in dia-logue and is intended to be used as Readers Theatre, with the text for each part printed in a different color. A bit of doggerel in the verse but an amusing concept, and isn’t that what Purim is all about?

In line with its founding as a publisher of materials for very young Jewish children, Kar-Ben’s Passover offering this season is Afikomen Mambo, a simple paperback story

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april 12 at 7 p.m.Why bonhoeffer? Why now?In conjunction with the production of The Beams Are Creaking, about Lutheran pastor and World War II resistance fighter Dietrich Bonhoef-fer, the Taproot Theatre Company is hosting an evening of discussion about Bonhoeffer’s relevance today. Panelists include local Christian theologians, a pastor and actor Matt Shimkus, who plays Bonhoeffer. Taproot Theatre Company, 204 North 85th Street, Seattle.Free admission, but reservations recommended to secure seats. Call 206-529-3666 to RSVP.

sunday, april 9 at 2 p.m.sparks of Glory free ConcertMusic of Remembrance, under the artistic directorship of Mina Miller, pays tribute to heartbreakingly beautiful pieces and their Jewish composers who were lost to the Holocaust. This final concert-with-commentary in the Sparks of Glory series, “Voic-es of Witness,” features pieces by Gideon Klein, Viktor Ullman, Hans Krasa, Carlo Taube and Isle Weber, who passed through Terezìn before perishing at Auschwitz. The performance will include “Theme with Variations” by Krasa and other works produced from within Terezìn. Also: “String Quartet No. 1” by Erwin Schulhoff, who died in a Bavarian camp. At the Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., Seattle.

tuesday, april 12 at 7 p.m.the fiction of sayed Kashuaauthor eventUniversity of Washington Pro-fessor Naomi Sokoloff will host an interactive presentation and discussion on the fiction of cel-ebrated Israeli Arab writer Sayed Kashua. Kashua is the author of several stories, a columnist for Ha’aretz and the creator of the hit show Arab Labor. His work focuses (usually humorously) on the two worlds that Israeli Arabs straddle. Kashua’s short story, “Cinderella” will be discussed and is available on the JCC website to read before-hand. $10–$15.At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.


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ACROSS1 Coffee, slangily5 It may welcome you8 Breaks a Commandment12 Mary Kay competitor13 September 7, 193616 August 14, 187519 Drivers’ licenses, e.g.20 Alec’s successor (or, in a sense,

predecessor) as Obi-Wan21 Pitcher’s stat22 Isn’t rad25 Sesame Street network26 N. Mex. neighbor27 A clairvoyant might read yours28 “Solved it!”29 Siddhartha author Hermann31 December 12, 187834 Greek M’s35 Ken Griffey, Jr., to Ken Griffey, Sr.36 Game with Skip and Reverse cards37 Hustle and bustle40 January 6, 200043 Dutch painter Jan45 German article46 Cleopatra’s river47 Light blue48 Internet portal that debuted at the same

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“Where’s the continuity coming from?” said Angel. “The continuity is coming from the Orthodox.”

Cohen sees these grim future Jewish population projections for the secular and the Reform as a wake-up call, telling him that something needs to change — but maybe not too fast and not too much.

“As I get older, I get a little more open to this idea, but when it gets too hardcore, it’s a turnoff,” added Cohen.

Charlene Kahn, a former seniors pro-gramming director who is active in inter-faith issues, preferred to stay focused on the rabbi’s central message of acceptance and inclusivity.

“I think that life is like a pendulum and we’re swinging towards the right, right now,” said Kahn. “Those who are saying ‘Let’s look in each other’s eyes, let’s be pos-itive, invite each other in, and be hospita-ble, that’s the proper thing to be saying and that’s really what Judaism is all about. Rabbi Angel is saying that.”

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in rhyme which deals only with the seder, its order and the repeated refrain “I’m gonna find it” as the search goes on. Author and songwriter Rabbi Joe Black has recorded a CD of the title music, which is included.

For Yom Ha’atzmaut, two Kar-Ben titles offer very different views of chil-dren coming to Israel for the first time. In Ella’s Trip to Israel by Vivian Newman, a consultant for PJ Library, and illustrated by Akemi Gutierrez, small Ella travels to Israel with her parents and her stuffed monkey, “Kof.” As the family explores various sites and has various adventures, every possible small mishap is greeted with a casual “Eyn ba’aya. No problem.” And so

it is: a small story with no problem. However, from the opening words of

Yuvi’s Candy Tree by Lesley Simpson, illus-trated by Janice Lee Porter, we know Yuvi’s will be a very different journey:

“I escaped on a donkey in the dark. I wore my white dress with embroidered flowers. I rode on a donkey because I was only five. I had no shoes.”

In Ethiopia, Yuvi had dreamt of a place where candy would grow on trees. After her escape in the dark and a simply described, effectively illustrated, and har-rowing trek to a Sudanese refugee camp, she and her family board a plane to Israel as part of Operation Moses. She finally arrives where sweet orange laden trees make her dreams seem to come true. “Eyn ba’aya?” No more problems? Perhaps.

On a light note, author Jacqueline Jules knows what matters to youngsters off at camp for the first time. In Picnic at Camp Shalom, charmingly illustrated by Debo-rah Melmon, a misunderstanding between Carly and Sara threatens to hurt Sara’s feel-ings and break up Carly’s new and special friendship. Happily, Carly finds a solution in time for the girls to sing Shabbat songs together while they look forward to being the most welcome people at the camp’s Sunday picnic.

Exercise is good for kids and these last two books both deal with exercise but again, in very different ways. Alef-Bet Yoga for Kids by Ruth Goldeen, with photos by Bill Goldeen, is bright and basic, with a single Hebrew letter on each page. Each letter is accompanied by a child in a varia-tion of some classic yoga pose. For exam-ple, alef is the traditional “trikonasana,” or triangle pose.

Author Ellen Bari, a spectacular pogo stick jumper in her childhood, wrote Jump-ing Jenny, inspired by a day school pro-gram in Brooklyn that adopted a school in Uganda. Jenny, who often gets scolded for her incessantly hippety-hopping self, decides to put her love of jumping to good use during her school’s tzedakah fundraiser. She announces a jumpathon — 1,000 jumps. This ambitious goal is enthusiastically supported by her friends and family and her superhuman effort is marvelously brought to life in lively illus-trations by Raquel Garcia Macia. Jump-ing Jenny sets a great example, exercising both her body and her desire to do good for others. Maybe she’ll inspire some of us to do the same.

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dessert white with just a hint of bubbly.“Ooooh, yeah,” Emily said.“This is good,” pronounced Ned.“When would you drink this wine?”

asked Michael. “The correct answer is, anytime you want.”

Adam recommended a different use: “Pour this over the nectarine or pears, let it set for an hour, put on some olive oil and nutmeg and put it on the grill,” he said.

We finished off with a chilled bubbly red, Alfasi Cabernet Sauvignon “Mis-tico” (M) from 2009 ($9.99). It’s low in alcohol — only 5 percent — and sweet, but not too sweet, good with barbecue, or

Asian food, or even buffalo wing s. “I was thinking something in an Italian

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Dave said, and like Emily, “something in the finish that’s sort of garlic.”

Ned called it a favorite.

Cup 4: It’s late, it’s been a long night, the kids

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Several years ago, while listening to Israeli radio, I noticed the announcer was a crotchety sounding, elderly woman engag-ing in free-wheeling discussions with call-ers —also elderly and sometimes crotchety sounding. In between the calls she would play old Hebrew songs rarely heard on Israeli media these days. Intrigued, I paid attention more closely and learned I had tuned into “Netiva M’daberet ve Mak-shiva” — Netiva Talks and Listens. I quickly became a regular listener.

After a while, a lightbulb went on: Could this be the same woman I read about back in high school, who had fought so fiercely during Israel’s War of Independence that the Arabs called her the “Blond Devil”?

Dan Kurzman, in his wonderful book Genesis 1948, had interviewed her, along with hundreds of others, to tell the story of Israel’s founding through the perspec-tive of the people who lived through those events. I pulled the book off the shelf and, sure enough, there she was: Netiva Ben Yehuda, a soldier of the Palmach, Jewish Palestine’s most highly trained and elite force, and, indeed, according to Kurzman, the “Blond Devil.”

Netiva died on February 28 at age 82. She leaves behind a unique legacy: She authored several books, was featured in a TV documentary, and logged hundreds of hours on the air. While never achieving more than “minor celebrity” status, many Israelis knew of her from her writings or her radio program.

Netiva was born in Tel Aviv on Tisha B’av in 1928. She joined the Palmach in 1946, while Palestine was still under Brit-

ish rule, and served until the war ended in 1949. She was briefly married and had one child, a daughter. In the ’70s, living in Jeru-salem, she co-authored the first official Dic-tionary of Hebrew Slang. In the early ’80s, after having been erroneously diagnosed with a fatal illness, she wrote her memoirs of her experiences as a Palmach fighter.

In 1996, Netiva went on the air with her program. At least during the years I listened, she was joined by Raya Admoni, who presented the music, and her pro-ducer, Claude Buchbinder, who would direct the callers. She always opened with her theme song “Po Eretz Hemdat Avot” (Here is the Land of our Forefathers’ Yearning), an early Zionist anthem. After introductory remarks, during which she reminded the listeners that “here, we speak only of good things,” she would ask, “Do we have a listener, Claude?” and almost always there would be one.

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Audrey will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on April 9, 2011 at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer Island.

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Her grandparents are Dale Ruis of Claremont, Calif. and the late Karen Ruis, Carolyn Ruis and Eddie Johnson of Claremont, Calif., and Dick and Penney Immel of Lakeside, Mont.

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Most — but not all — of the callers were of Netiva’s generation, many had been soldiers, and a few knew her person-ally. Often they would call to give her the sad news a comrade-in-arms had passed. Or a child of a soldier would call. Some-times Holocaust survivors would call. One such caller told how she not only sur-vived herself, but saved a friend by getting extra rations and skipping work shifts. She ended the call by stating how she got threefold revenge against the Nazis:1) The tricks she pulled to keep herself and her friend alive,2) The establishment of the State of Israel,3) Her two sons and seven grandchil-dren, two of whom were now serving in the IDF.

Another caller told of how his brother had fought in one of the several pitched battles against the invading Syrians and was never seen again. Out of the blue, the IDF called to notify him that his brother’s remains had been identified in a mass grave in Rosh Pina, and 57 years after he fell in battle, the caller was finally able to bury his brother and say kaddish over his grave.

In between the calls, Raya would play music, only songs written (in Netiva’s words) “from the beginning of Zionism to the founding of the State.” The songs were mostly Hebrew, but she played some Yid-

dish, Ladino and Jewish liturgical music as well. I discovered many wonderful old songs that I would not have discovered but for the program.

Ultimately, Netiva’s program — or, as she would say, “not my program, but all of ours” — celebrated the sacrifice and her-oism of Israel’s founding generation, but not just bygone times.

While Netiva’s program appealed largely to members of her generation and history buffs like me, she had young fans as well. Yaniv and his soldier friends once called to say they had just returned from a grueling exercise, and wanted, “y’know, some song about ‘eretz Yisrael hayafa,’” the beautiful land of Israel. After banter-ing with them for a while, Netiva closed by exhorting them to “keep watching over our homeland.”

“We’ll try,” Yaniv replied. “You must, you have no other choice,”

Netiva snapped back.That, more than anything, sums her up. Netiva’s passing is a painful reminder

that her generation, those men and women who, in the words of Natan Alter-man, constituted the “silver platter” upon which the Jewish State was presented to the Jewish people, is quickly disappearing from this world. She and all of her com-rades will be missed.

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“We were really pleased to meet with her…at a very busy time with a lot of budget votes going on,” Adkins said.

“We know that she considers herself to be supportive of Israel and we know that she’s very concerned about the budget,” he said. “She wasn’t specific. She was mostly listening.”

J Street, like the more established and hawkish American Israel Public Affairs Committee, supports the Obama admin-istration’s two-state aid requests as vital to achieving agreements that lead to Pales-tinian sovereignty and peace for Israel.

There is “a cadre of newly elected rep-resentatives who are pushing [for cuts] on foreign aid very hard,” but two-state money should not be “isolated from the general foreign aid package, because we believe that will be beneficial to Israel,” Adkins said.

Ari Goldberg, a spokesman for AIPAC in Washington, D.C., would not say whether anyone from that group had spoken with Herrera Beutler, nor would he comment on other lobbying by AIPAC among House freshmen.

“We don’t opine on the positions of individual members of Congress,” Gold-berg said.

Akiva Tor, Israel’s consul-general to the Pacific Northwest, has not spoken directly with Herrera Beutler but “under-stands that she is very friendly towards

Israel,” said Daniel Morgan, a spokesman for the Israeli consulate in San Francisco.

Herrera Buetler said she was unde-cided about aid to the Palestinian Author-ity because she felt she didn’t have enough information, “and that is the case of a lot of us in the House.”

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feel it’s important for the U.S. to have a strong role.”

Herrera Buetler said she considered herself a supporter of Israel before she took her seat in Congress, but added, “I’m not an expert in foreign aid. I’m not an expert on Israel.”

Her strong support for Israel might seem surprising, given that her back-ground is not Jewish and that the 3rd Dis-trict has only two Jewish communities large enough to support small synagogues, one in Olympia and one in Vancouver.

However, she has strong support from Christians who align themselves with Israel, especially state Sen. Joe Zarelli, for whom she was a student intern, and his wife Tani Zarelli, who regularly leads tours to Israel and was once featured on the cover of Ma’ariv, one of the country’s national newspapers.

Tani Zarelli, instrumental in arrang-ing for Salvador Brotons, conductor of the Vancouver, Wash., symphony to conduct

a series of performances by the Raanana Symphonette in Israel, said she invited Herrera Beutler to join her on a trip to Israel, but before that could happen the election race had begun.

Zarelli said she still hoped Herrera Buetler would be able to come to Israel with her, “not from a lobbying side but from a human side,” she said.

Zarelli also said she had not been able to discuss foreign aid with Herrera Beut-ler, “but it’s a conversation I would like to have with her.”

“I would be giving stronger foreign aid to them for military support, for protec-tion,” Zarelli said. “It is best for our aid to go to a country that supports us.”

Herrera Beutler said she expected Con-gress to neither reduce nor increase the level of aid to Israel. In seeking spend-ing cuts generally and in foreign aid, she added, “I’ve been an advocate for using a scalpel and not a blunt instrument.”

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www.h-nt.org.An interfaith event to address the issue of modern slavery, to raise the awareness about this issue, and to expand a growing movement for freedom and human rights around the world. At Herzl-Ner Tamid

Conservative Congregation, 3700 E. Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

sunday 17 apRil6–8 p.m. — Spaghetti Dinner & Chametz Fest

Irit Eliav at [email protected] or

206-524-0075 or www.bethshalomseattle.orgEnjoy that last bit of chametz before Pesach and support Congregation Beth Shalom youth. $12/adult, $8/child under 12. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

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