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“I contacted a few rabbis on the Internet and told them my story. They helped me with what I needed to practice Shabbat and so on and they even said I can open a shul. I had no idea how to do that.” — Yaakov Baruch, Indonesia’s only rabbi, when he discovered his Jewish roots. Read about this unique man on page 24.

The spiritual check-upRabbi Joshua samuels Congregation Beth Israel, Bellingham

In less than a week, we’re going to be in the thick of the High Holy Days. This might not be a time of celebration like Simchat Torah or Purim, but unlike those festivals, the High Holy Days — and espe-cially the days leading up to them — force us to think deeply about how we interact with God, the world around us, our loved ones, and our-selves. This is what the month of Elul, the month we are in right now, is all about.

In case some of us haven’t yet begun the process of preparing for the High Holy Days, I would like to share a list of ques-tions which might get us in the proper mindset of the yamim nora’im. If nothing else, this exercise could very well open our eyes and hearts to one specific area in our lives. These questions are meant for every-one to ponder regardless of age, Jewish communal participation or denomination.

Our world• Am I walking as lightly as possible upon the earth? Do I pay attention to my con-sumption of resources and how I dispose of waste? • Do I make myself aware of other cultures and peoples? Do I learn about other ways of living and seeing the world?• Am I informed about pockets of intense suffering in the world and have I done what I can to contribute to easing that suf-fering?• What role does Israel play in my life as a Jew?

Our community• Do I participate in the life of my city? Do I know who the local political leaders are and what they stand for? • Am I registered to vote and have I stud-ied the issues that may affect my daily life?• Do I support, in one way or another, the individuals and groups who are creating Jewish life in this city? Does my Jewish life extend beyond the walls of my synagogue, JCC, chavurah or university?• Do I encourage and support those who have taken on the responsibility of Jewish leadership?• Have I thought about taking on more leadership within my Jewish community?

Our family, friends and work• How are my closest relationships? If any of them are strained, is there anything I could be doing differently to help improve them? • Do I make time for the most important relationships in my life? Do I treat my

siblings, children, partner and parents with respect? Am I able to see the image of God within each of them?• Have I called my grandpar-ents or in-laws recently?• Do I have close friends in whom I am able to confide? Do I accept people as they are or do I try to change them? Have I made any new friends this past year?

• Am I satisfied with my occupation? Is my work an extension of a personal pas-sion? Am I helping others in some mean-ingful way whether they know it or not? • Am I making a difference as a retiree?

Ourselves• Am I taking care of my body? Do I exer-cise enough? Do I eat properly? Do I get enough rest? Do I floss?• Do I keep my mind active? Do I read good books? Do I talk about ideas and important matters with friends and family?• Do I see myself as a child of God — someone completely unique and special in this world?• Is music part of my life? What about meditation? Do I allow myself to deeply experience beauty in nature? • Are there any hobbies I would like to take up?

God• Do I pray? Do I speak to God without asking for anything in return? Do I take the time to listen for an answer?• Have I thanked God for existence, for connecting with specific individuals, for food, for the whole array of mitzvot?• Have I thought about my relationship with God and concept of God recently?

This is not a test. It does not matter how many yeses or nos you answered. This is just our annual check-up. Luckily for us, we don’t have to actually get on that scale or get our teeth scraped. But usually, after our annual doctor and dentist visits, we are told what we need to do in the coming year. (“Floss more” — that’s what I’m always told. When will I learn?) Well, no one is going to tell you what you need to do for this spiritual check-up. You are the doctor and the patient. You know what you ought to do. I hope it’s painless. And I hope you pay attention to yourselves.

I hope you have a meaningful Elul and High Holy Day experience. K’tivah v’chatima tovah, may you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.

a letter from the editor

The letters you are about to read are in response to a letter from a member of our

community that ran in the August 16 issue of JTNews. This person, who the respondents below

see as vehemently critical of Israel, suggested that comments made by the president of the

Palestinian Authority differ from what these writers believe. That they have a difference of

opinion is natural and appropriate. We are proud of this paper’s commitment to the concept

of free speech, which allows JTNews to present different facets of what these writers see as

flaws in their opponent’s argument. What is not appropriate is that some — not all — of these

letter writers do not believe the person they are responding to should be allowed a forum in

the pages of this newspaper to express her views.

Let me be clear: We are a community newspaper. We represent our entire community.

While I, as editor, do not agree with every letter I receive, it does not mean we will not print

them. As a community newspaper we must represent the whole community, whether or not

the views expressed comport with our beliefs.

It is also inappropriate to tie our policy of allowing controversial letters in our pages to the

Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. Yes, the Federation owns JTNews, but we are an indepen-

dent entity. The Federation does not approve our content, the Federation does not pay our sal-

aries, and the opinions of our contributors do not have to reflect the opinion of the Federation. If

we are to have an independent Jewish newspaper in our community, that is the way it should be.

Suggesting, as some critics of us running this letter have done, that people suspend their

donations to the Federation because we print letters that represent opinions contrary to theirs

is not only odious, it’s counterproductive. Pulling support from the Federation will not change

our letters policy, but it harms our community as a whole.

A vibrant Jewish community needs a vibrant newspaper to cover and report what’s hap-

pening all across its spectrum. As Rabbi Sholom Ber Levitin stated in his Rabbi’s Turn column

two weeks ago, which ran on the same page as this letter being protested: “As we prepare our-

selves for the New Year, standing before the Almighty unified as one people in order to realize

that unity, the challenge is to further develop and sensitize ourselves to true mutual respect.”

May you all enter the New Year with a sense of reflection and respect for each other.

Shana tova,

joel magalnick

publisher and editor, jtnews

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the third option

When someone you support says something objectionable, something that’s inconsistent

with your values and incongruent with your beliefs, you generally have two options. You can

distance yourself from the offensive message — “I mostly agree with this person, but must take

exception this time.” Or, you can try to rationalize away the disagreement — the other person

was misquoted or mistranslated, the comments were taken out of context, etc. But Linda Frank

(“PA does not call for Jew-free state,” Letters, Aug. 16) has found an ingenious, if dishonest,

third option: To simply deny the distasteful statement ever took place, even in the face of incon-

trovertible evidence and plenty of publicity. Despite clear facts, Ms. Frank plays the role of the

toddler in the sandbox, sticking her fingers in her ears and singing, “La-la-la, I can’t hear you!”

The inconvenient and unpleasant truth flies in the face of Ms. Frank’s head-in-the-sand,

hear-no-evil naïveté or plain ignorance. Mahmoud Abbas most definitely did say, publicly,

unambiguously, and repeatedly — most recently in a speech in Cairo four weeks ago, not

a two-year-old “rumor” from two years ago — that there would be no room for Israelis in a

future Palestinian state. (And it is the Palestinians who equate “Israeli” and “Jew”; Israeli Arabs

— whom they consider their brethren — obviously would not be excluded from Palestine.) In

contrast, of course, any suggestion that 1.6 million Arabs — one fifth of Israelis — should lose

their Israeli citizenship or their homes in Israel when a Palestinian state is established, would be

— rightly! — loudly, swiftly, and universally denounced. This is another instance of toddler logic

— “what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine, too” — demonstrating that Mahmoud Abbas

and Linda Frank are birds of a feather.

People who claim to be working toward peace and human rights must start by facing and

acknowledging the truth, including the nature and views of some of the players they support.

Lies, myths, and falsehoods are not a constructive basis for engagement, let alone for recon-

ciliation or peace.

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Washington News Council invited to Press and Media Conference in Tel Aviv

Independent media ethics forum, the Washington News Council (WNC), will attend this year’s Alliance of Independent Press Councils conference September 9-12 in Tel Aviv. Israel’s President Shimon Peres will address the conference. The press councils review

complaints from organizations or individuals against media outlets that have produced unfair or unethical stories about them. John Hamer, WNC’s president and executive director, will join a panel on the topic of “Ethical Dilemmas in the Age of Transparency.” The WNC is the only one of its kind in the United States. Hamer, who wrote for the Seat-tle Times for 13 years and started the “Lifetime Letters” project to help Soviet Jews in the Gulag, lives with his wife, Mariana Parks, on Mercer Island.

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Gut geton bay tog iz der beste kishn bay nakht. Well done by day is the best pillow at night.

a congressman’s first trip to Israel 6When Rep. Derek Kilmer of Washington’s 6th District visited Israel this month, he saw firsthand the chal-lenges people in the Middle East must live with.

Building up Bellingham 7Bellingham’s Congregation Beth Israel has been working to build a new synagogue for nearly a quarter century. At last, finally, they have a skeleton structure.

a new leader for Torah day School 8Following the resignation of its founding director at the beginning of the summer, the Torah Day School of Seattle’s new head arrived just in time to start the new year.

Rhodes once again traveled 12Much of Seattle’s large Sephardic Jewish community hails from the Greek isle of Rhodes. A man whose father barely escaped the Nazis there once again walked the same roads as his ancestors.

high holiday Greetings 16Shana tova! We’ve got more High Holy Day stories, complete with ideas to prepare yourself physically, emotionally and gastronomically, than we can list here.

Indonesia’s only rabbi 24Using YouTube to find recipes and with a small congregation to lead, Indonesia’s only rabbi is feeling ready to mark this year’s holiday season.

Bees make honey 32 & 44The sweetness of our Rosh Hashanah honey should make us think about the work that goes into that sweet goodness, and the serious plight those bees currently face.

Food, glorious holiday food 47Cookbook authors Mollie Katzen and Helen Nash have interesting and inspiring recipes for your Rosh Hashanah table.

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In the Middle east, a congressman learns that nothing’s simpleJanis siegel JTNews Correspondent

If there’s one thing Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) learned during a weeklong trip to Israel, it’s that nothing in the region, in particular peace talks, is simple.

“I don’t think anybody was Pollyanna-ish about thinking it’s going to be easy,” Kilmer told JTNews.

Kilmer was part of a 37-member U.S. congressional democratic delegation in Israel in August to meet with Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahu, receive high-level military and diplomatic briefings, and tour sensitive security zones, includ-ing the northern border with Lebanon, the Gaza border, the Golan Heights, and the Syrian and Jordanian borders.

The American Israel Education Foun-dation, the educational affiliate of the American Israel Public Affairs Commit-tee, sponsored the visit that allows law-makers to learn about Middle East issues that influence U.S. policy. Kilmer, a former state legislator, began his first term this year in a district that encompasses the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas, Tacoma and parts of the South Sound, and nearly all of the islands in the Puget Sound. He is a Princeton University graduate and a University of Oxford Ph.D.

At the top of the list of issues to be dis-cussed on his visit was the Israel-Palestin-

ian conflict. “There are very complicated

areas of disagreement,” Kilmer said. Among other complex issues, “there’s an ongoing dis-cussion about security, because if there is a two-state solution, how do you ensure Israel’s long term security? That is a chal-lenging needle to thread.”

The group met with mem-bers of the Israeli government to discuss the importance of strengthening the long-estab-lished partnership between the U.S. and Israel as the U.S.’s only reliable democratic ally in the Middle East.

Kilmer said he saw first-hand the threats that Israelis face “basically along every border.”

“That’s really, really important,” he said. “When you’re sitting there across from Gaza, there’s a reality of rockets from Hamas. When you’re up on the Lebanese border, there’s the reality of the presence of Hezbollah. These threats to Israel are very real.”

In addition to meetings with Netan-yahu, President Shimon Peres, and a negotiator on the Israeli side, they also

went to Bethlehem, and finally to Ramal-lah in the West Bank, where Kilmer spoke with chief Palestinian Authority negotia-tor Saeb Erekat, along with another nego-tiator in his party.

“The most positive thing to come out of all of the discussions is the degree to which there was appreciation for the role the United States was playing in trying to reig-nite the peace discussion,” noted Kilmer. “Erekat mentioned Secretary of State John Kerry by name numerous times and the very active role he’s playing.”

Kilmer said he was surprised by how “substantially developed” Ramallah was, saying he met Erekat in a “really upscale hotel.”

In March 2013, Kilmer was one of 338 cosponsors of H.R. 938, the United States-Israel Strategic Part-nership Act of 2013 introduced by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), “to strengthen the strategic alli-ance between the United States and Israel, and for other pur-poses.”

The legislation reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to partnering with Israel in several areas includ-ing technology, homeland secu-rity, cyber-security, intelligence,

energy, water, agriculture, alternative fuel technologies, an Israel visa waiver pro-gram, and military defense and deter-rence.

“That strategic cooperation was a key element of the trip I went on,” Kilmer said. “We met with a group of young innova-tors and talked about trade relationships and our economic relationship and our nation’s military partnership. I also visited an Iron Dome battery.”

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Rep. Derek Kilmer meets with Israeli president Shimon Peres during a weeklong trip to Israel this month.

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Joel magalnick editor, JTNewsThe construction of a new synagogue

in Bellingham has been a decades-long process. But much has changed, in par-ticular over the past year — including an actual structure.

“In a year we went from a hole in the ground to this magnificent shed,” said Rabbi Joshua Samuels of the northwest Washington city’s Congregation Beth Israel, of the two-story wooden shell at the back of an otherwise empty seven acre-lot.

The full size of the Reform congrega-tion’s parcel is 17 acres, and the rest of the forested land will remain that way for the time being, with the possible exception of a road deeded to the city to connect the two neighborhoods the synagogue’s land straddles.

The genesis of the project goes as far back as 1990, when Beth Israel’s leader-ship launched a campaign to replace its 1925 synagogue near downtown Belling-ham. They purchased the land in 2003, and have patiently raised money since to move forward in building phases.

Aside from Beth Israel, the only other Jewish organizations in Bellingham are Chabad and Hillel at Western Washing-ton University. Given the community’s small size — Beth Israel’s membership currently stands at about 220 families — finding an angel to fund a $7 million proj-ect has been challenging at best. Without a large pool of money, the project must be completed in fits and starts.

“When we have enough money to clear the land, we clear the land. When we have enough money to build the foundation, we build the foundation,” said Dave Gold-man, the chair of the capital campaign. “A lot of it is being patient. Fiscally responsi-ble and patient.”

“We’ve done this while running a syna-gogue in the black, and not gone and done it with a loan,” said Jeff Jaffe, a second-

generation Beth Israel member and past-president, who has been one of the prime forces behind getting the new synagogue constructed.

The next big push is to raise enough to begin protecting the existing structure from the elements, including installation of windows and roofing materials. Gold-man said he hopes to have that money raised soon — recent rains have left shal-low puddles on the subfloor in what will be the sanctuary.

The front of the building is currently being covered with concrete ground from a large rock that used to sit where the building now stands, molded to look like Jerusalem stone.

A look inside shows the bones of what will be a light and spacious struc-ture when it’s finished. Just past the grand

front entrance is a room that has Samu-els excited: The library. Though most of its members probably don’t know it, the synagogue has an extensive collection of books, but due to lack of space in the cur-rent building they have remained in boxes at Jaffe’s home.

Samuels envisions classes, study ses-sions, nearly anything related to Jewish learning. It can “really serve much more of a purpose than a library,” he said.

The majority of the main floor will com-pose the sanctuary and social hall, where exposed wood beams already line the ceiling and tall windows look out onto forest land.

“Right now it’s like a Jewish barn,” said Rabbi Samuels.

A patio behind the sanctuary will allow for outdoor social gatherings. A 6,000-square-foot second floor was added

late in the game “for the cost of the floor,” according to Goldman, that can be used as recreation space or classrooms.

The main floor will also include a large kitchen and the rabbi’s study. Underneath, a second, smaller kitchen will be placed alongside eight classrooms, which will fit the 100 registered kids in the religious

Between the mountains and the water, a synagogue inches closer to completion

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all pHoTos By Joel MagalNICk

above: Rabbi Joshua Samuels looks out at what will be the sanctuary and social hall of Bellingham’s Congregation Beth Israel.Left: The front of the new Congregation Beth Israel from the front of the 17-acre property.Below: Rabbi Joshua Samuels and capital campaign chair Dave goldman look onto the lot from the second floor.


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With new head of school, Torah Day School turns over a new leafemily k. alhadeff associate editor, JTNews

Back-to-school season is always a little chaotic. All the more so for Torah Day School, which in addition to preparing a new school building this fall had about three months to hire a new head of school.

The Orthodox day school in South Seattle lost its temporary Columbia City home when Seattle Public Schools decided to re-commission the building for a middle school. The school came upon more hard times when one of its teach-ers was convicted of child molestation in May. Head of school Rabbi Sheftel Skaist stepped down, leaving a vacancy with three months to fill.

Despite a delay in permits for the new, semi-permanent school on Beacon Hill — students will spend the first month of the new school year between Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath and the Seattle Kollel — everything seems to be under control. Three days before the first day of school on August 28, Rabbi Moshe Abady moved to Seattle from Los Angeles to take the reins.

When JTNews connected with Abady, he had been up since 2:30 in the morning.

“It’s not an easy transition for us,” said Abady, who with his wife Leora has eight children between the ages of 1 and 17. However, he feels leading Torah Day

School is an opportunity and a respon-sibility for personal growth not available in L.A.

“I’m seeing a community which is very ripe for growth,” he said. “I’m coming aboard…at a very unique time in Seat-tle’s history. We have an opportunity to embrace the new leadership and to use it as a springboard for growth. I’m excited to be a part of it.”

Abady spent 12 years as a middle school Judaics teacher at the Maimonides Academy in Los Angeles, where he also served as director of co-curricular activi-ties, adult educator, and program coor-dinator for parent learning. In addition to serving as rabbi at two Sephardic con-gregations, he was the Sephardic Studies Chair at Yeshivat Shaarei Yerushalayim in Har Nof, Israel, before coming to Los Angeles. He holds a master’s of educa-tional leadership from Bellevue Univer-sity. This is Abady’s first head of school position.

“I’ve developed a passion for leader-ship,” he said. “Even though it is my first experience being head of school, it feels very natural for me.”

TDS board president Binyomin Edel-stone said the search committee worked

with several organizations to come up with a candidate pool so late in the year.

Abady, Edelstone explained, had started thinking about a change in the early spring, and his rabbinic mentors encouraged him to pursue the job.

An initial 12 candidates yielded four or five serious ones, and two, including Abady, were invited to Seattle. The posi-tion was initially offered to the other can-didate, who turned it down.

But Edelstone is happy with the out-come.

“After the first interview we felt great,” he said. “There were a lot of things that attracted us to him…. Since coming here there’s been great chemistry between him and the people he’s met.”

Abady is technologically savvy — he has his own YouTube channel and encourages technology as a learning tool. Edelstone thinks Abady’s fresh perspec-tive could work to his advantage.

Abady will also be more involved in school security. After the spring scandal, TDS brought out the director of Aleinu Family Resource Center, a program of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles, that educates, counsels, and sets policies regarding various issues, including abuse in Orthodox schools. They held a two-day seminar with kids, parents and staff. The school also received a comprehensive physical security assessment.

“Rabbi Abady has plans to be a lot more present in the classrooms,” Edel-stone said. “He knows and the teachers know that the doors are open and that he can walk in at any second.”

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On July 29 and 30 at the Hillel Institute in St. Louis, Mo., Hillel at the University of Washington was presented with a Visions and Values Award from Hillel: The Foun-dation for Jewish Campus Life for its inno-vative development program.

Four other Vision and Values award-ees include Hillel at Kent State, Santa Bar-bara Hillel, MIT Hillel, and the University of Maryland Hillel. Each Hillel was given the award for its own exemplary charac-teristic. Hillel UW was chosen because of its accomplishments in its development program.

Hillel UW’s executive director Rabbi Oren Hayon is enthusiastic about the staff involved in receiving this award, stating that it is the “staff’s hard work that brings students through the door.”

The Hillel has been able to “bolster and enlarge the development team,” said

Hayon. According to Hayon, what makes Hillel UW unique is that it has “support from the whole community, not just stu-dents, parents, and alumni.”

Indeed, it is the support from the whole community that was harnessed in Hillel’s new development strategy that made it possible to receive this award.

The “key to successful development is being really good at cultivating relation-ships,” said Hayon. By creating mean-ingful and long-term relationships with donors and investors, UW Hillel has taken leaps and bounds in the develop-ment aspect of the organization. Accord-ing to Hayon, if the staff’s enthusiasm and energy is palpable to the investors, stu-dents, and community at large, they will be more inclined to get involved with the CourTesy HIllel: THe FouNdaTIoN For JewIsH CaMpus lIFe

Hillel UW staff pose with their award at the Hillel Institute in St. Louis, Mo. in July. From left: Tal goshen-gottstein, Reyna Shoihat, Josh Furman, Talia Stein, Rabbi Oren J. Hayon. X Page 46

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More Maccabiah medals for our statediana bRement JTNews Columnist

1 Our state sent three competitors and one coach to the Maccabiah

games in Israel last month. Since reporting two issues ago that tennis player Bill Cohon came home with two medals, I learned that both our state’s other athletes medaled, too.

Half-marathoner Terry Robinson, profiled in the Aug. 27, 2012 issue of JTNews, alerted us that he was “ecstatic to return with a silver medal…from compet-ing in the World Maccabiah Games in the Half Marathon!”

He calls the race one of the tough-est he’d ever run, due to the humidity. (I never knew Israel was humid in the summer.) Two of his teammates required brief hospitalization for IV fluids after the race and, in retrospect, Terry says he should have done the same.

“I did spend a week in Scottsdale train-ing,” in 110 degree heat, he said, “but it’s a different type of heat, it’s a dryer heat.”

Competitors and spectators reported that the humidity increased as the race went on. Still, Terry finished in just over 1:20 and came home with his medal.

The last time Terry was in Israel was for his Bar Mitzvah 27 years ago, and he was

thrilled to be back. The open-ing ceremonies were a distinct highlight, entering Teddy Sta-dium with the 1,100 other Americans and 7,000 athletes from around the world — including countries, like Cuba and Mongolia, bringing dele-gations for the first time.

“To fill up a stadium of all Jewish people not only [puts] tingles down my spine but tears in my eyes,” he said. The Jerusalem stadium holds 34,000 and the games,

the third largest Olympic-style competition in the world, are hugely popular in Israel.

A Seattle native and member of Sephardic Bikur Holim, Terry is an alumnus of Seattle Hebrew Academy, Mercer Island High School and Univer-sity of Washington. His parents were very active in, and worked in, the Jewish community, which he says inspired him. He spoke at Camp Solomon Schechter last year about his preparations, and hopes he’ll get to go back next year to relate his experiences.

2 Buckley’s David Munden, head coach of the karate team, expressed a common sentiment among our

state’s competitors: “Aside from the com-petition, the trip itself was amazing,” he told me. “We got to see and do some amazing stuff, and learn a lot of history.”

This was the first trip to Israel for both David and his son Joseph, 16, a member of the team. The U.S. karate team came away with 18 medals and Joseph earned two: A bronze in sparring and a silver in team kata — a “series of pre-set movements,” explains David, that mimic a fight. And

witnessing his son earning the silver medal was also “amazing.”

Among the trip’s many highlights — too numer-ous to recount — was that David and Joseph became Bar Mitzvah together. In a tradition that dates to the 1989 games, the U.S. del-egation arranged for two large groups of athletes who had never experienced the Bar or Bat Mitzvah ritual to enter adulthood.

David singled out Yad Vashem as a significant moment in his visit, but even more important is that his son loved Israel and wants to go back. Then there are the national and international friendships that were made.

“I saw what [those connections] did for the kids, seeing the kind of bonding and friendships that went on,” he said. “Hope-fully they’ll stay involved.”

Both David and Terry said transpor-tation logistics were the biggest problem they encountered. Buses were generally late, and sometimes they were early. They didn’t let that spoil things, though. “We had to realize…if we were going to enjoy

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Don’t Give in to Fearby Mike Selinker

© 2013 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cafe, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle. All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Gaby Weidling.

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“The words ‘hope, not fear’ still resonate within me,” says the author Edgar M. Bronfman. “We must look to the future with hope. Even if we can’t finish the task within our lifetime, neither can we shirk from giving it our all.” In this puzzle, we dutifully follow Bronfman’s sage words to the letter.

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Embracing thE past

Vic alhadeff special to JTNewsThe Jewish community of Rhodes, Greece came to life when 35 people from around the

world journeyed to the island recently for a special service. The service was held in the syn-agogue in which the Jewish story is infused in every brick, ingrained in every stone of the mosaic floor…

Last month I went to synagogue for a Friday night service with my son-in-law, my future son-in-law, and his father. The synagogue filled, the rabbi called out the page numbers in Sephardi and Ashkenazi prayer books, and the proceedings began.

So what makes a Shabbat service news-worthy? Why was this night different from every other night?

Because it was a Shabbat service like no other — it brought together 35 people from Israel, the U.S., South Africa and Australia with the objective of celebrating the aufruf of my daughter’s fiancé.

In so doing, we honored a once-vibrant community that was decimated by the Nazis. We paid tribute to a community that saw one-third of its finest destroyed in the Nazi camps, leaving but a handful to call it home. We brought the Jews of Rhodes back to life.

The Jewish community of the Isle of Rhodes numbered 5,000 at its peak. So vibrant was it, so rich in tradition, it was dubbed Little Jerusalem. But exactly 75 years ago, on September 1, 1938, its world came crashing down. That Friday evening, the community was shattered to learn that Mussolini had enacted a raft of decrees that effectively spelled the beginning of the end for the Jews of Rhodes.

Jews were henceforth forbidden to attend public schools, teach, own prop-erty, manage businesses, or serve in the army. Jewish graves were to be exhumed, kosher slaughtering was banned, other Italians were forbidden from mar-rying Jews, Jewish schools were closed, and Jews who had settled on Rhodes in the previous 20 years had to emigrate or be imprisoned, fined and expelled.

The news devastated the community and many made plans to emigrate. My father, 25, was an accountant and engaged to be married to Becky Hassan.

Fast forward five weeks. Yom Kippur. My father spent the day in synagogue with his father. The following day he set sail for South Africa — never to see his par-ents again.

His intention was to settle in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) and bring out his parents, teenage sisters, and Becky, his fiancée.

It wasn’t to be. His parents and sisters were deported

to Auschwitz, where his mother was gassed on arrival and his father perished toward the end of the Holocaust. What of Becky? She too was deported to Auschwitz and that was the last he heard of her. Informed that she had perished, he mar-ried the woman who became my mother.

Some years ago, while on holiday in Cape Town, he overheard the name Becky Hassan — it was the same Becky Hassan to whom he had been engaged half a cen-tury earlier! She had survived — and been told he had perished — and was living in Belgium, a grandmother in her 70s. He was a grandfather, also in his 70s, living in Johannesburg. Several months later, he flew to Belgium and they spent an hour at Brussels Airport, reminiscing.

When Jews were banished from Spain during the Inquisition, they dispersed across Europe, many finding refuge on Rhodes. The Spanish, or Sephardic, Jews outnumbered the original inhabitants. Their language, Ladino, and customs became the way of the land.

They initially lived in peace under the Knights of St. John until the Knights ordered them to accept Catholicism, or be expelled or put to death. For a period, the community was virtually non-exis-tent, so the remaining Jews welcomed the 16th-century conquest of Rhodes by the Ottoman emperor Suleiman the Magnifi-cent. Jews returned to their faith and the community flourished under Turkish rule for 400 years.

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Most lived in the Jewish Quarter — a fortress of cobbled streets, narrow alley-ways and open-air markets. They were confined to a dozen streets, the names of which had a charming logic — The Wide Street, The Cold and Windy Street, The Street to the Sea, The Street of the Great Synagogue, The Street of the Fig Trees, The Street of the Crazy Ones.

This vibrant community included six synagogues, a school, kashrut facilities, and the pride of the community — a rab-binical college with an international repu-tation, where my mother’s father served as the principal. My father, whose father had been a tailor, worked as a translator at Sal-amon Alhadeff & Son, one of the island’s largest banks with a staff of 500 and 20 branches on the mainland.

My father’s community was steeped in tradition. The family gathered to light the Shabbat candles, which the mother did with her head covered. After the blessing over the wine, children kissed their par-ents’ hands and were told, “We hope to see you married.”

It devised its own remedies: Head-aches were treated with slices of potato and cucumber on the forehead, while infected eyes were washed with tea and blue beads around the forehead. And the superstitions: If you saw a hunchback, you had good luck. If you touched the hunch-back, you had better luck. You never drank water while standing. Babies born on Fri-days were considered intelligent. If a child had hiccups, parents intoned, “Let the hic-

cups go to the bottom of the sea and keep my child from harm.”

This was the community whose exis-tence came crashing down in 1938. Of the 5,000 Jews on the island, over 3,000 departed — my mother’s Menashe family on the last ship allowed to leave. Italian forces occupied the island and the remain-ing 1,757 Jews were able to live in relative peace over the next five years.

But Italy capitulated and on July 19, 1944 German forces arrived — with orders to liquidate. The Jews were ordered to report to the Aviation Palace, where they were held for four days with neither food nor water.

Turkish Consul-General Selahattin Ulkumen, a Muslim, was aware that 42 of the incarcerated Jews had Turkish origins.

“I went to the Commander, General Von Kleeman, and asked him to release the 42,” he said later. “The commander said that according to Nazi law, all Jews had to go to concentration camps because Germany needed manpower. But I knew their real purpose — to kill them in the gas chambers. So I objected. I said Turkish law didn’t differentiate between whether a citizen was Jewish, Christian or Muslim. According to Turkish law, all citizens are equal. I said I would advise my govern-ment and it would cause an international incident.”

Ulkumen saved the 42, issuing Turkish passports to them against Nazi orders and

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On august 14, David ashkenazi, who wrote his doctoral dissertation at Bar Ilan University on Rabbi Jacob Meir, the chief rabbi of Salonica and the first Sephardic chief rabbi of British Mandate Palestine, met with a small group of community members at Island Crust Café. ashkenazi visited Seattle and shared some of his research, including Ladino correspondences between the Jewish community in Rhodes and the chief rabbinate. In attendance at the lively conversation were members of Seattle’s Sephardic community and University of Washington faculty and students. ashkenazi concluded with an invitation to collaborate on his project, which focuses on Ottoman Jewish communities through the eyes of the Ottoman chief rabbinate.

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distorting abbas

Linda Frank defends PA President Abbas after he was

caught stating he envisioned a Jew-free Palestine and distorts

the record to make it look like Abbas and the Palestinian Arabs

on the whole are ready to live in peace and harmony with their

Jewish neighbors (Letters, Aug. 16). Unfortunately, she is sorely

mistaken. What Abbas actually said — not in 2011, but just last

month: “In a final resolution we would not see the presence of a

single Israeli — civilian or soldier — on our lands.”

This quote is not from Pamela Geller’s website, but The

Guardian.

So no Israeli civilians — does any one seriously think this

quote includes the 1.6 million Israeli Arabs, or does he intend for

a Palestinian State to be Judenrein? He is not the only PA offi-

cial to so state: In 2011, USA Today claimed PA negotiator Maen

Areikat said expressly no Jews in a future Palestinian State (the

article did point out he hotly denied he meant “Jews” — only

“Israelis,” as if there was a difference as explained above).

After whitewashing Abbas’s thinly veiled anti-Jewish pro-

nouncement, Frank repeats the lie that Israel is “dispossess-

ing” the Palestinians and committing “weekly acts of violence.”

Really? Who is committing the violence? Palestinans, often chil-

dren, constantly attack Israelis with stones and other weapons.

Last March, a 2-year-old girl was sent to the hospital in critical

condition from injuries she sustained from Arab stone-throwing

youth. A year earlier, a father and his infant son were outright

killed under similar circumstances. There is violence, unfortu-

nately, in the West Bank, but the Arab side perpetuates most of it.

And as for dispossession, the Arab populations of Gaza and

the West Bank have tripled since 1967 — and this is according

to the “Jerusalem Fund” a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel website.

Exactly how is this “dispossession?”

Nobody likes the occupation. Most Israelis want it to end as

soon as possible. But peace has to be a two-way street and the

Palestinians have to be willing to accept Jews as their neighbors

and stop attacking them in reality, not just in Ms. Frank’s mind.

david shayne, seattle

Community standards

In your August 16 edition you published a letter from Linda

Frank who regurgitated the standard boilerplate common

among anti-Israel types.

Ms. Frank, a local anti-Israel activist, is well known for her

libelous claims against the Jewish State. Her most spurious

canard (although not made in your pages) is her assertion that

Israel uses snipers to murder Palestinian children.

As the only Jewish newspaper in Washington State, the

JTNews has a special responsibility to defend the Jewish commu-

nity from such incendiary and libelous accusations. Instead you

provide this practitioner of what can only be called a blood libel,

with free access to our community newspaper.

I for one would never presume to deny Ms. Frank her free

speech rights, but by what obligation do we as a community

have to cloak her in the mantle of legitimacy?

It is clear from this incident and past actions, such as pro-

viding a forum for BDS propagandists, that JTNews requires

a review of whatever moral standards you have for facilitating

publication in your pages.

While it would be absurd to assert that Israel should be

beyond criticism, I respectfully suggest that the editorial board

draw a red line against providing a forum for those who spread

anti-Semitic canards or who publicly advocate by word or deed

for the dismantling of the Jewish state.

michael behar, seattle

where the jews wouldn’t live

Linda Frank’s attack on the Pamela Geller bus ads lack both

facts and logic (Letters, Aug. 16).

Her defense of her interpretation is as damning to Abbas as

Geller’s attack. She argues that he did not use the words “Jew-

free,” but merely said “...that there would be no Israeli soldiers or

Israeli settlers in any future Palestinian state.”

Am I missing something? Is there a third category of human

being that cannot be accurately described as either a soldier or

a civilian? Of course he said there would be no Jews.

In case she needs more corroboration, if this Jew-hating

state ever comes into being, its neighbor to the east will be

Jordan, which has had a peace treaty with Israel since the 1990s

yet still allows no Jews to reside there.

I was in Israel in July and my daughter wanted to hear more of

the Arab perspective, so we signed up for a Palestinian-run tour

of Bethlehem in the PA controlled area. As we approached the

checkpoint, the driver instructed me to take off my kippah. Since

I had promised my daughter not to get into arguments, I obeyed.

A kippah doesn’t identify a man as an Israeli; it identifies him

as a Jew. What’s up with that, Ms. Frank?

Perhaps you should share your view with Tzipi Livni, the

most optimistic, left-wing Israeli on the negotiating team. Asked

recently if Israelis could live in a Palestinian state she replied, “No.

The Arabs would kill them.”

Nice try, Ms. Frank, but I’m afraid that whatever your views

of Pamela Geller, she is telling this story correctly and you aren’t.

robert Kaufman, seattle

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Rabbi and cantor to help shul with ‘spiritual work’toRi gottlieb JTNews Correspondent

With the departure of Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hada-th’s rabbi earlier this summer, members of the congregation’s religious committee knew they would have their hands full finding someone to lead ser-vices for the quickly approach-ing High Holy Days.

“Repentance is a big goal [of the holidays], and it’s something that’s difficult to achieve fully,” said Michael Friend, who chairs BCMH’s religious committee. “An excellent rabbi and excellent cantor help us do our spiri-tual work.”

The committee set out to find not only a rabbi to lead services, but also a cantor to chant the powerful melodies unique to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. They were lucky enough to find both in Rabbi Pinchas Dunner, who is currently serving as mashgiach ruchani (spiritual counselor) and Jewish studies teacher at Yeshiva Uni-versity High School in Los Angeles.

“We were looking for somebody fresh, somebody young, somebody who could bring a balance of professionalism and warmth,” said Friend of Dunner.

Dunner was born in London to a family

with a rich history of Jewish involvement. His grandfather, Rabbi Josef Hirsch Dunner, served as chief rabbi of Prussia prior to World War II. In 1938, he escaped to the United King-dom with his family, where his son Avraham would go on to serve as an educator and as the executive director of the Con-ference of European Rabbis.

“My parents and grandpar-ents on both sides were excep-tionally actively involved in Jewish life and Jewish affairs,” Rabbi Dunner recalled. “Wher-ever I went, there were ref-erences to my family being

involved all over Europe. I couldn’t escape it.”A fifth-generation rabbi, Dunner

left religious service for several years to work in business, but eventually left that because he “just wasn’t happy.” He has since found a calling in Southern Califor-nia, teaching at YULA and working with secular Israeli expatriates to connect them to Jewish life and culture.

Joining Dunner will be Meir Brisk-man, who will serve as ba’al tefillah (prayer leader). A world-renowned Israeli con-ductor and composer, Briskman knew he had a natural affinity for music at a young

age, but received no formal music education until he was in his 20s.

“I was raised to study in yeshiva,” said Briskman, who grew up in a Haredi Orthodox household and whose father still teaches at Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. At 24, with two years of private music les-sons under his belt, he began attending the Jerusalem Acad-emy of Music and Dance. It was there he would receive his two bachelor’s degrees — one in musical composition and the other in conducting — and his master’s degree, also in conducting.

“I found a connection between my musical world and my religious world [through cantorial work],” explained Briskman, who conducts the Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute Choir and the Jerusa-lem Cantors Choir. Briskman also has his own choir, Lishmoa el HaRina, which, at only a year and a half old, was invited to participate in the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland this past July.

Briskman was approached by one of his singers in the Jerusalem Cantors Choir to help lead High Holy Day ser-

vices at BCMH. He submitted his audio files to the religious committee at BCMH, and Friend was floored.

“I was absolutely amazed at what I was listening to,” said Friend. “He has a beauti-ful voice.”

Friend is looking forward to the combination of talents Dunner and Briskman can bring to services at BCMH. He hopes the services will not only provide spiritual meaning for current members, but for non-members, as well.

“Maybe there are people that never thought that tradi-

tional Jewish worship could be a mean-ingful path,” he said. “If [we] could speak to those people and get them excited and give them new thoughts, that would be very important. It isn’t just about helping bring the congregants we currently have to a higher state, but also reaching out.”

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Temple Beth Or welcomes ‘star’ cantoremily k. alhadeff associate editor, JTNews

Cantor Ellen Dreskin will join Rabbi Jes-sica Marshall on the bima at Temple Beth Or in Everett this High Holiday season.

Dreskin is the coordinator of the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music Cantorial Certification Program at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Following in the late, great Friedman’s footsteps, Dreskin is nation-ally known for enlivening Jewish liturgical music and “re-energizing synagogue life,” according to a bio from HUC-JIR.

Marshall says the 130-family congrega-tion loves music.

“Many of us connect to the Eternal, the transcendent, through song and music,” she said. “It’s important to provide that modality for people.”

The temple’s cantorial soloist moved out of state and enrolled in graduate school, leaving them with good song leaders and volunteers to lead Shabbat services, but no one to take on the hefty liturgical melodies of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

As it turned out, Dreskin was planning to be in the area as scholar in residence at Camp Kesher, an annual camp for local Reform congregations, on Vashon Island over Labor Day weekend, where she’ll be leading study and music sessions for adults. When she heard Temple Beth Or was looking for a cantor, “it just seemed to fit,” she said.

“I hope to integrate traditional and contemporary melodies to help the con-gregation to celebrate and to reflect, and to

come together as a community in prayer and song,” she said. “I hope that the con-gregation will consider that I am also one who loves to pray, and I that am looking forward to us raising our voices together.”

While Dreskin is considered some-thing of a star in the Reform music world, “that’s really not my style,” she said with a laugh. “It really is all about my leading the community, and not just starring or any-thing like that.”

Marshall hopes “to create a sacred space where congregants can connect to their own personal teshuva process, and also their communal connection through music and prayer.

“I think these are going to be very moving High Holiday services,” she said. kaTIe dreskIN

Rapper and Sephardic Bikur Holim member Nissim blew the roof off Camp Solomon Schechter at a concert august 6. His new album, “World elevation,” comes out Sept. 17. For more on Nissim, see “The rabbi and the rapper” online at jtnews.net.

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“Bring in the New Year on a High Note” Congregation Bikur Cholim–maChzikay hadath

warmly invites you to High Holiday Services in our beautiful Main Sanctuary

rosh hashanah: Wednesday eve, September 4 thursday & Friday, September 5 & 6

yom kippur: kol nidre Friday eve, September 13 Saturday, September 14

Rabbi Pinchas Dunner of Los Angeles, founding rabbi of London’s Saatchi Synagogue, will officiate

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Rabbi “Pini” Dunner’s nontraditional approach to traditional prayer galvanized London’s young Jewish world. His forthcoming biography of a radical British rabbi

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The great escape: How Danish Jews evaded the Nazis during Rosh Hashanah 1943 Rafael medoff JNs.org

As the final minutes of Rosh Hashanah ticked away, 13-year-old Leo Goldberger was hiding, along with his parents and three brothers, in the thick brush along the shore of Dragor, a small fishing village south of Copenhagen. The year was 1943, and the Goldbergers, like thousands of other Danish Jews, were desperately trying to escape an imminent Nazi roundup.

“Finally, after what seemed like an excruciatingly long wait, we saw our signal offshore,” Goldberger later recalled. His family “strode straight into the ocean and waded through three or four feet of icy water until we were hauled aboard a fish-ing boat” and covered themselves “with smelly canvases.” Shivering and fright-ened, but grateful, the Goldberger family soon found itself in the safety and freedom of neighboring Sweden.

For years, the Allied leaders had insisted nothing could be done to rescue Jews from the Nazis except to win the war. But in one extraordinary night, 70 years ago next month, the Danish people exploded that myth and changed history.

When the Nazis occupied Denmark during the Holocaust in 1940, the Danes put up little resistance. As a result, the German authorities agreed to let the

Danish government continue function-ing with greater autonomy than other occupied countries. They also postponed taking steps against Denmark’s 8,000 Jewish citizens.

In the late summer of 1943, amid rising tensions between the occupation regime and the Danish government, the Nazis declared martial law and decided the time had come to deport Danish Jews to the death camps. But Georg Duckwitz, a German diplomat in Denmark, leaked the information to Danish friends. Duck-witz was later honored by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations. As word of the Germans’ plans spread, the Danish public responded with a sponta-neous nationwide grassroots effort to help the Jews.

The Danes’ remarkable response gave rise to the legend that King Christian X himself rode through the streets of Copen-hagen on horseback, wearing a yellow Star of David, and that the citizens of the city likewise donned the star in solidarity with the Jews.

The story may have had its origins in a political cartoon that appeared in a Swed-ish newspaper in 1942. It showed King Christian pointing to a Star of David

and declaring that if the Nazis imposed it upon the Jews of Demark, “then we must all wear the star.” Leon Uris’s novel

“Exodus,” and the movie based on that book, helped spread the legend. But sub-sequent investigations by historians have concluded the story is a myth.

On Rosh Hashanah — which fell on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 in 1943 — and the days that followed, numerous Danish Chris-tian families hid Jews from Holocaust persecution in their homes or farms, and then smuggled them to the seashore late at night. From there, fishermen took them across the Kattegat Straits to neighboring Sweden. This three-week operation had the strong support of Danish church lead-ers, who used their pulpits to urge aid to the Jews, as well as Danish universities, which shut down so students could assist the smugglers. More than 7,000 Danish Jews reached Sweden and were sheltered there until the end of the war.

Esther Finkler, a young newlywed, hid with her husband and their mothers in a greenhouse.

“At night, we saw the [German] search-lights sweeping back and forth throughout the neighborhood,” as the Nazis hunted for Jews, Esther later recalled. One evening, a member of the Danish Underground

FroM “CarTooNIsTs agaINsT THe HoloCausT”

This cartoon by arie Navon appeared in the Hebrew-language daily newspaper Davar on Oct. 13, 1943. Navon contrasted the rescue of Denmark’s Jews with the farcical refugee conference the allies staged earlier that year in Bermuda. The title of the cartoon is a Hebrew word that means both “lifeguards” and “rescuers.” The lifeguards, one smoking a Churchill-style pipe, and the other wearing Roosevelt-style glasses, are standing next to an unused life preserver labeled “Bermuda.” The scrawny man diving into the swastika-infested ocean to rescue a drowning person is labeled “Sweden.”

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The earliest holiday season: getting ready for the ‘big game’estheR goldbeRg JTNews Intern

Rosh Hashanah really is “heading” off the year, starting earlier than ever before in our lifetimes. The whole Jewish calendar is premature, leaving us with the burden of making both turkey and latkes on Thanks-giving/Hanukkah and celebrating Pesach eating matzoh while watching March Mad-ness. This year’s calendar is definitely an anomaly, because the last time Rosh Hasha-nah was so early was all the way back in 1899, when it started on September 5. The next time it will be this early again is 2089.

Unlike our civil, Gregorian calendar, which is solar-based, the Jewish calendar syncs the lunar, solar, and daily calendars. The months are lunar-based — but the years are based on the solar calendar. Since the holidays are partly fixed to agricultural themes, holding Hebrew dates to a lunar calendar alone would mean that the hol-

idays would drift all around the year. To rectify this problem, every two to three years out of a 19-year cycle, a month (an extra Adar) is added to synchronize the 12 lunar cycles with the longer solar year. This is known as the leap month. The last leap month didn’t match up the calendars very effectively, which is why the holidays fall so early this year.

So the big issue we face is prepara-tion: How will we brace ourselves for the High Holidays when they are coming at us head-on at 60 miles an hour? In real-ity, the time between Shavuot and Rosh Hashanah never changes, but the illusion is set because we base our holidays in rela-tion to the seasons. So the High Holidays seem rushed, because the summer has just faded away. But Rosh Hashanah occurs on the first of Tishrei, just like it always does.

As we all know, the High Holidays are a time for us to do some self-reflection and take a good look at the life we are living. It is a time for us to welcome the New Year (literally, this time) with sweetness

and joy. Although we may not feel totally warmed up and ready for the “big game,” we should spend the short time that we do have to prepare emotionally and “wake up” with the sound of the shofar.

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5145 S Morgan St., Seattle Contact: Dee Wilson at [email protected] or 206-721-0970 or www.bcmhseattle.org.Non-member adult: $225. Non-member children (age 13-17): $50. Non-member student: $75.Erev Rosh Hashanah: Candlelighting: 7:26 p.m. Mincha: 7:30 p.m. Rosh Hashanah First Day: 7:45 a.m. Shacha-ris: 7:45 a.m. Torah reading: Approx. 9:40 a.m. Sermon: Approx. 10:15 a.m. Shofar blowing: Approx. 10:40 a.m. Musaf: Approx. 11 a.m. Mincha: 7:15 p.m. Tashlich following Mincha. Candlelighting for second day after 8:27 p.m. Rosh Hashanah Second Day: 7:45 p.m. Shacharis: 7:45 a.m. Torah reading: Approx. 9:40 a.m. Sermon: Approx. 10:15 a.m. Shofar blowing: Approx. 10:40 a.m. Musaf: Approx. 11 a.m. Mincha: 7:30 p.m. Candlelighting for Shabbos Shuva: 7:22 p.m. Kol Nidre: 7:10 p.m. Yom Kippur: Shacharis: 8 a.m. Torah read-ing: 10:45 a.m. Sermon: 11:30 a.m. Yizkor: 12 p.m. Musaf: 12:15 p.m. Mincha: 6 p.m.

Ne’ilah: 7:15 p.m. Fast concludes: 8:09 p.m. Chabad House Seattle

4541 19th Ave. NE, SeattleContact: [email protected] Rosh Hashanah: Candlelighting: 7:26 p.m. Rosh Hashanah First Day: Services: 10 a.m. Evening services: 7:30 p.m. Light candles after 8:27 p.m.Rosh Hashanah Second Day: Services: 10 a.m. Evening services: 7:30 p.m. Light can-dles after 8:25 p.m.Kol Nidre: 7:08 p.m.Yom Kippur: 9 a.m. Ne’ilah: 7:15 p.m.

Congregation Beth Hatikvah1410 11th St., Bremerton Non-member suggested donation: $75Contact: Rabbi Sarah Newmark at [email protected] Rosh Hashanah: 7:30 p.m. Rosh Hashanah First Day: Morning service: 9:30 a.m. Torah/youth service: Approx. 10:30 a.m. Tashlich immediately following at Lions Park. Rosh Hashanah Second Day: Morning ser-vice: 10 a.m.Kol Nidre: Evening service: 7 p.m.

Yom Kippur: Morning service: 9:30 a.m. Torah/youth service: Approx. 10:30 a.m. Yizkor service: Immediately following. Ne’ilah: Approx. 5:30 p.m. Shofar: Approx. 6:30 p.m. Break-fast immediately following.

Congregation B’nai Torah3437 Libby Rd. NE, OlympiaAll are welcome, no tickets needed.Contact: Larry Perrin at 360-866-0862Erev Rosh Hashanah: 7:30 p.m.Rosh Hashanah First Day: 9:30 a.m. Tashlich following kosher dairy lunch.Rosh Hashanah Second Day: 9:30 a.m. Kol Nidre: 6:30 p.m. Yom Kippur: 9 a.m. Community break-fast following.

Congregation Eitz OrAt University Unitarian Church, 6556 35th Ave., SeattleReb Arik Labowitz will be joined by his team of “super-hero holy music makers” whose combination of musicianship and spirit ele-vates souls and connects hearts.Contact: [email protected] or 206-467-2617 or www.eitzor.org

Erev Rosh Hashanah: 6:45 pm. Kiddush with honey and apples at 9 p.m.Rosh Hashanah: Services: 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Vegetarian potluck lunch: 1-2 p.m. Tashlich and shofar service at Green Lake: 4-5:30 p.m. Kol Nidre: 7 p.m. Yom Kippur: Services: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Break: 1-4:45 p.m. Healing service: 5-5:45 p.m. Yizkor and Ne’ilah: 6-8 p.m. Havdalah: 8-8:30 p.m. Veg-etarian potluck break-fast: 8:30-9:30 p.m.

Congregation Shaarei Tefillah Lubavitch

6250 43rd Ave. NE, SeattleNo event fees or tickets. Hebrew-English prayer books. Warm and friendly atmosphere. No background or affiliation necessary. Tradi-tional and contemporary services. Contact: [email protected] or 206-527-1411Erev Rosh Hashanah: Candlelighting: 7:26 p.m. Rosh Hashanah First Day: Services: 9 a.m. Evening services: 7:30 p.m. Light candles after 8:27 p.m.

The annual high holiday services guideCompiled by Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews

These listings were not included in the Aug. 16 issue of JTNews. A full guide can be found online at www.jtnews.net/holidays5774

Holiday timesErev Rosh Hashanah: Wednesday, September 4. Candlelighting 7:25 p.m. ■ Rosh Hashanah First Day: Thursday, September 5. Candlelighting after 8:30 p.m.

Rosh Hashanah Second Day: Friday, September 6. Candlelighting 7:21 p.m. ■ Erev Yom Kippur: Friday, September 13. Candlelighting 7:07 p.m. Yom Kippur: Saturday, September 14. Fast ends 8:13 p.m.

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Rosh Hashanah Second Day: Services at 9 a.m. Evening services at 7:30 p.m. Light candles after 8:25 p.m.Kol Nidre: 7:08 p.m.Yom Kippur: Services at 9 a.m. Ne’ilah: 7 p.m.

Paths to AwakeningAt Unity in Lynnwood, 16727 Alderwood Mall Pky., Lynnwood Rabbi Ted Falcon, with musicians led by Stephen Merritt, welcomes all who yearn to

open their hearts more fully to themselves and to each other in a warm and supportive spiritual environment.All services $140. Rosh Hashanah (both ser-vices): $70. Rosh Hashanah (single service): $38. Yom Kippur (both services): $75. Yom Kippur (single service): $41. No one will be turned away due to inability to pay. Please email to make financial arrangements. Contact: Rabbi Ted Falcon at [email protected] or www.RabbiTedFalcon.comErev Rosh Hashanah: “The Celebration of

Creation”: 7:30 p.m. Rosh Hashanah Day: “Beginner’s Mind”: 10:30 a.m. Worship: 2:30 p.m. Tashlich at Edmonds Beach.Kol Nidre: “The Song of the Soul”: 7:30 p.m. Yom Kippur: “Returning to Source.” Morn-ing worship: 10:30 a.m. Chanting meditation: 1:30 p.m. Healing service: 2:30 p.m. Yizkor and concluding worship: 4:30 p.m. West Seattle Torah Learning CenterContact for location details Join the TLC family for inspiring, explanatory, and interactive High Holiday services. Come for it all or just pop in for a traditional holi-

day experience that is sure to leave you on a “high” for the rest of the year. Meals follow services. Free.Contact: [email protected] or 206-722-8289Erev Rosh Hashanah: 7:30 pm. Rosh Hashanah First Day: 8:45 a.m. Torah reading and shofar: 10:30 a.m. Rosh Hashanah Second Day: 8:45 a.m. Torah reading and shofar: 10:30 a.m. Kol Nidre: 7:15 p.m. Yom Kippur: 8:45 am. Yizkor: 10:30 a.m. Ne’ilah: 6:45 p.m. Fast ends: 8:09 p.m. Light break-fast served.

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Iron Dome, Israel’s anti-missile defense technology, showed its effective-ness during the November 2012 Pillar of Defense operation, and most recently as last week in cross-border skirmishes with Syria.

When Kilmer met the families in the rocket-plagued border town of Sderot, located about a half of a mile from Gaza, and toured the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, it was the safety of his young daughters and the past plight of his 103-year-old Holocaust survivor grand-mother back home that suddenly became

very personal.“I have two little girls,” said Kilmer,

who is not Jewish. “I cannot imagine what that’s like. The children’s recreation center had to have its roof reinforced because of concerns about rocket fire from Gaza.”

One mother told Kilmer they don’t have post-traumatic stress disorder, but

“constant traumatic stress.”“Sitting and talking to the kids and the

parents, that’s a very real experience that you don’t get from a policy briefing,” he said. “Not only do you see how an invest-ment like [Iron Dome] provides protec-tion, you see what it protects.”

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Shluchim and RepReSentativeS of the lubavitcheR Rebbe o.b.m., WaShington State

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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In memory of Shmuel ben Nisan O.B.M. — Samuel Stroum — Yartzeit March 9, 2001/14 Adar 5761Sponsored by a friend of Samuel Stroum and Chabad-Lubavitch. For more information on any of these events and/or service times in all Washington State locations,

please contact Chabad House at 206-527-1411, [email protected], or visit our website at chabadofseattle.org.

a neW yeaR’S meSSage fRom the Rebbe of bleSSed memoRy an honeSt balance Sheet

Chabad-Lubavitch of Washington State would like to wish the entire Jewish community a Wonderful & Blessed New Year.

23Rd annual yom KippuR SympoSiumTuesday, September 10 7:30 p.m.

Light refreshments served

Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch 6250 43rd Avenue Northeast, Seattle, WA 98115

Join community rabbis for discussion and reflections on Yom Kippur concepts and Mitzvot.

Rabbi Simon Benzaquen Rabbi Emeritus Sephardic Bikur Cholim

Rabbi Mordechai Farkash Director, Eastside Torah Center Chabad of Bellevue

Rabbi Sholom Ber Levitin Regional Director, Chabad-Lubavitch Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch

Rabbi Bernard Fox Dean, Northwest Yeshiva High School

Rabbi Moshe Kletenik Av Beit Din — Seattle Va’ad

Rabbi Avraham David Rosh Kollel — Kollel Seattle

Rabbi Ron-Ami Meyers Congregation Ezra Bessaroth Rav Bet Sefer, Seattle Hebrew Academy

Moderated by Rabbi Yechezkel Kornfeld Education Director, Chabad-Lubavitch Director, Chabad-Lubavitch, Mercer IslandRabbi, Congregation Shevet Achim, Mercer Island

Chabad-Lubavitch Annual Sukkot PartyCongregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch

For more information, visit our website www.chabadofseattle.org or email [email protected]

Save the dateMonday, September 23

Evening

Rabbi and Mrs. Sholom Ber Levitin Regional Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific Northwest Rabbi, Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch

Rabbi and Mrs. Elazar Bogomilsky Director, Northwest Friends of Chabad Director, Friendship Circle

Rabbi and Mrs. Cheski Edelman Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Thurston County

Rabbi and Mrs. Shmulik Greenberg Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Clark County

Rabbi and Mrs. Yechezkel Kornfeld Educational Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific Northwest Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Mercer Island Rabbi, Congregation Shevet Achim

Rabbi and Mrs. Zalman Heber Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Pierce County

Rabbi and Mrs. Eli Estrin Director, University of Washington Campus Activities

Rabbi and Mrs. Avrohom Yarmush Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Whatcom County

Rabbi and Mrs. Avroham Kavka Administrator, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific Northwest Director, Gan Israel Day Camp

Rabbi and Mrs. Berel Paltiel Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Snohomish County

Rabbi and Mrs. Avi Herbstman Educator, Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder

Rabbi and Mrs. Shimon Emlen Community Educator

Rabbi and Mrs. Yechezkel Rapoport Director, Projects for Russian Speaking Community

Rabbi and Mrs. Mordechai Farkash Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Bellevue Rabbi, Eastside Torah Center

Rabbi and Mrs. Sholom Ber Farkash Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Central Cascades

Rabbi and Mrs. Yisroel Hahn Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Spokane County

Rabbi and Mrs. Sholom Ber Elishevitz Educational Director, Eastside Torah Center

These days at the end of the outgoing year, and on the eve of the new year, may it bring blessings to us all, call for self evaluation in respect of the year about to end, and - in the light of this self-appraisal - for making the necessary resolutions for the coming year.

Such a “balance sheet” can be valid only if the evaluation of the full extent of one’s powers and opportunities was a correct one. Only then can one truly regret, in a commeasurable degree, the missed opportunities, and resolve to utilize one’s capacities to the fullest extent from now on.

The period of time before and during Rosh Hashanah is not only the occasion which demands spiritual stock-taking in general, but it also begs for a profound inner appreciation of the tremendous capacities which one possesses, as a human - the crown of Creation. For Rosh Hashanah is the day when Man was created.

…When Adam was created, the Creator immediately

apprised him of his powers and told him what his purpose in life would be:

“Replenish the earth, and conquer it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” (Gen. 1:28).

Man was given the power to conquer the whole world and to rule over it with sensitivity and love, on land, sea and in the air, and he was enjoined so to do; this was his task.

How was this “world conquest” to be attained, and what is

the purpose and true meaning of it? This is what our Sages tell us and teach us in this regard:

When G-d created Adam, his soul - his Divine image permeated and irradiated his whole being, by virtue of which he became the caretaker over the entire Creation. All the creatures gathered to serve him and to crown him as their creator. But Adam, pointing out their error, said to them: “Let us all come and worship G-d, our Maker!”

…The “world conquest” which was given to man as his task

and mission in life, is to elevate the whole of Nature, including the beasts and animals, to the service of true humanity, humanity permeated and illuminated by the Divine Image, by the soul which is veritably a part of G-d above, so that the whole of Creation will realize that G-d is our Maker.

Needless to say, before a man sets out to conquer the world, he must first conquer himself, through the subjugation of the “earthly” and “beastly” in his own nature. This is attained through actions which accord with the directives of the Torah, the Law of Life - the practical guide in every-day living - so that the material becomes permeated and illuminated with the light of the One G-d, our G-d.

G-d created one man and on this single person on earth He imposed the said duty and task. Herein lies the profound, yet clear, directive, namely, that each and every person is potentially capable of “conquering the world”.

If a person does not fulfill his task, and does not utilize his

inestimable divine powers - it is not merely a personal loss and failure, but something that affects the destiny of the whole world.

By the process of Teshuvah (return) the soul realizes its capacity to return to its original state – to its pristine core. As we pass through life, we are invariable coarsened and sullied by our errors and misjudgments, or simply by the travails of physical life; but our innermost self, the “veritable part of G-d” that is the essence of our soul – remains untouched. Teshuvah is the G-d given ability to access and reconnect to that untouched self, reestablish our lives upon its foundation, and even redefine a negative past in its purifying light.

…In these days of introspection, we are duty-bound to

reflect that each and every one of us - through carrying out the instructions of the Creator of the World which are contained in His Torah - has the capacity to transform the world. Everyone must therefore ask himself, how much has he accomplished in this direction, and to what extent has he failed, so that he can make the proper resolutions for the coming year.

G-d, Who looks into the heart, on seeing the determination behind these good resolutions, will send His blessing for their realization in the fullest measure - in joy and gladness of heart and affluence, materially and spiritually.

With the blessing of Kesivo Vachasimo Toivo for a happy and sweet year,

— from Rosh Hashanah 5719 (1959)


SHANAH TOVAH!Best Wishes for a Sweet New Year From The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle

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THE STRENGTH OF A PEOPLE.THE POWER OF COMMUNITY.OF GREATER SEATTLE

5774Celie Brown, Board Chair Keith Dvorchik, President & CEO

The Indonesian rabbi: baila lazaRus special to JTNews

Traveling through the mountain roads of Indonesia, just outside the town of Manado on the island of Sulawesi, you will come across some incongruous sites.

The wrought iron gate surrounding a home is as likely to have a sculpted Magen David in its design as it is to have a cross. A taxi might have a photo of the Virgin Mary on the front dashboard and an Israeli flag in the back window.

Though Indonesia is almost 90 percent Muslim, this enclave, about an hour’s flight from Jakarta, is 90 percent Christian, and the residents have embraced Jews as family.

It’s this community characteristic that has enabled the one lone rabbi in Indo-nesia — Yaakov Baruch — to practice his religion and even maintain a synagogue in the heart of an Islamic population.

Baruch found out about his Judaism about 12 years ago, when he was 18, after his great aunt let slip the fact in a casual conver-sation. He became interested in his heritage, finding out that his background was from a line of Dutch Jews. The Dutch presence in the area can be traced to the 17th century when the Dutch East India Company built a fortress in Manado in the 1650s.

Baruch, an instructor of law at Sam Ratulangi University in Manado, began to research his background and decided he wanted to reconnect with his Judaism.

“When I found out I was Jewish, it made

me excited,” he said in broken English. “I contacted a few rabbis on the Inter-net and told them my story. They helped me with what I needed to practice Shabbat and so on and they even said I can open a shul. I had no idea how to do that.”

With records in hand and a strong curiosity, Baruch set out to study with the closest rabbi to Indo-nesia — in Singa-pore — to learn how to properly carry out daily prayers, Shab-bat and holidays.

“He was step by step guiding me,” Baruch said. “He led me back to my roots.”

After a few years he decided to have a Shabbat service in Jakarta and received support from Chabad, who sent a rabbi

down to help with the service. It wasn’t that easy to “come out” as a

Jew in Indonesia, however. Though the constitution officially allows practice of all religions, animosity toward Jews exists outside Christian enclaves like Manado. Baruch was once chased while walking through a mall in Jakarta because he was wearing his kippah. When the pursuers caught him, they told him to take it off.

“Thankfully, there was security in the mall that helped me,” he explained. “Baruch Hashem, I’m fine.”

That was the only time he had ever had a bad experience wearing identifiably Jewish clothing.

“My father even told me to keep silent about our identity,” Baruch admitted. Many members of his grandfather’s family had died in Europe in the Holocaust and his father was worried about repercussions. But Baruch was determined to explore his background and questioned any relatives he could find. He discovered grandparents and great uncles who had mementos such as prayer books from family members who had been lost in the Holocaust.

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Wishing our children and grandchildren and all our

friends a sweet year!

Yaakov Baruch can be contacted at [email protected].

Though the synagogue is hard to find, he is willing to meet visitors in

Manado and bring them out to the shul for a tour. If looking for

something else to do around Sulawesi, visit world-renowned Bunaken

Marine Park, a 40-minute boat ride from Manado. It’s a perfect place

for first-time snorklers or experienced SCUBA divers to take in

stunning coral reefs and marine life. Visit www.sulawesi-info.com.

Jakarta heard about Baruch and decided to buy a small house to transform into a synagogue, which is now the Shaar Hashamayim in Minahasa, Indonesia.

Over the years, Baruch has been able to visit Israel several times and eventually would like to make aliyah and join the hand-ful of other Indonesian Jews living there.

“For me, Indonesia is still safe, but I would like another place to keep my faith,” said Baruch, who is married to a non-Jew-ish Indonesian and has a 19-month-old son, Levi Yitzhak, who was circumcised in a hospital in Indonesia. On one of his trips to Israel, a friend of his at the Israel Museum said they might be interested in dismantling the synagogue and rebuilding it in the museum, when he is ready.

Baruch celebrates as many Jewish holi-days as he can. He makes his own challah and hamantaschen and hosted a dinner last Passover for Jewish travelers in Bali. With the help of YouTube, he has been able to access Jewish recipes.

Rosh Hashanah will be spent in the small synagogue in his hometown, his father and son by his side and those locals that have also discovered their own con-nection to the Jewish faith.

“You can’t compare us with a Jewish synagogue in Mea Shearim,” he said, “but we’re trying.”

Baila Lazarus is a Vancouver-based writer and

photographer. Her work can be seen at

www.orchiddesigns.net.

above, Shaar Hashamayim synagogue in Minahasa, Indonesia. at right, local government and townspeople raised money to build a 30-foot

menorah in the mountains outside Manado.


L'Shana TovaIn memory of

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a good & sweet year!

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L’Shana Tova!

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Let the children teach us well at Rosh Hashanahdasee beRkowitz JTa world News service

NEW YORK (JTA) — A deep spiri-tual life is hard to find. While opportu-nities abound for spiritual connections (yoga, meditation, retreats and the like), for most of us it doesn’t come easy. The noise, unfinished to-do lists and the dis-tractions of everyday life interfere with quieting our minds, letting go of our egos for a moment, and connecting to some-thing far greater than ourselves.

On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we notice just how difficult it is to connect spiritually. As we log in hours of prayer at our neighborhood synagogues, with unfa-miliar liturgy and an unfamiliar language, we can easily let the longing for spiritual growth morph into a longing for the ser-vice to be over.

But for some, the spiritual life that we crave comes naturally. This is especially true for children.

Yes, they may be running through the synagogue’s aisles and “whispering” too loudly, but this time of year they can become our best teachers. We just need to slow down enough to listen to them.

Cultivating a rela-tionship with God comes easy for chil-dren. As an adult, a relationship with God has never been central to my Jewish identity. It might sound strange because I live an observant life and prayer is impor-tant to me. The weekly holiday cycle punc-tuates my family’s calendar and Jewish

ethics frame much of my behavior.Still, I seldom credit my observance to

God. Judaism is important to me because it adds meaning to my life. And if I start

speaking about God, I start to feel self-conscious, too “religious,” and slightly fundamentalist. Then I notice how easily my kids speak about God.

At 3, my son periodically gave a high five to God and explained to others what a blessing was. “A bracha,” he would say, “is like a group hug.” With his simple young mind, he experienced both a level of inti-macy with God and recognized that con-necting to God helps one develop a sense of intimacy with others.

The rabbis call Rosh Hashanah “Cor-onation Day.” In the rabbinic mind, the metaphor of crowning God as ruler and giving God the right to judge our actions was a powerful way to galvanize Jews to do the hard work of repentance, or teshuvah.

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even the simplest things can inspire wonder in a child.

L’Shana Tova U-Metukah!

May you be inscribed for a good and

sweet year

2012–2013 JDS AnnuAl RepoRt“We grow and build community because you believe in us.”

As we begin 5774, we head into a time of great opportunity and we want to express our gratitude to the Seattle Jewish community. At The Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle (JDS), we are fortunate to have inherited a legacy from Maria Erlitz (Retired Head of School) and Richard Galanti (Immediate Past Board President) that is rich in its focus on continually enhancing the programming for our children. We forge ahead with a strong 21st century curriculum that inspires a love of learning, prepares our students for academic and personal success throughout their lives, and is grounded in Judaic values.

JDS is grateful for your support! To all of those who attend events, volunteer throughout the year, speak to students and give so much of your time, talents and treasures, we say…”Thank You!, Todah Robah Me’od!” Because of you, we have been able to accomplish the following:

• Thecreationofour STEM Innovation Lab designed to inspire a child’s imagination in science, technology, engineering and math. To bring the lab to life, we have recruited Jesse Mostipak, an exceptional and highly qualified STEM educator who comes to JDS from a science teaching position in New York.

• AsweworktoinstilltheprincipleofTikkunOlaminourstudents,JDSisdelightedtoberecognizedasoneofthe few independent schools to be named a Level 3 King County Green School. Level Three is awarded to schools for achievement in water and energy conversation, waste reduction and recycling.

• Inquiry-basedJunior Kindergarten is a nurturing, fun and engaging learning environment where each child’s innate curiosity is cultivated and celebrated as their teachers guide them to construct new knowledge and understanding of themselves, Jewish culture, their learning and their world.

Also, thanks to the community’s generosity, JDS is realizing its vision of becoming a true eastside gathering space for the Jewish community. The campus is:

• HometotheJewishFamilyServices’EastsideFoodBank• Thelocationforalocalsynagogue’sSundaySchoolprogram• WeeklymeetingspaceforanIsraeliscouttroop• Eastsidedropoff/pickuplocationfornumerousJewishcampprograms

This summer at JDS, we partnered with the SJCC and PJ Library to host a free concert for area Jewish families. And, we are proud to announce the creation of a Community Rabbinic Advisory Council to ensure that our campus represents the Judaic diversity of our families.

Ourvibrantschoolwillcontinuetostrengthenbecauseofyoursupport.Asyoureviewour2012–13AnnualReport,knowthatwecherishtheparticipationofeachandeveryindividualwhosupportsourprogram.Fromparenttograndparentstocommunitydonors;fromfamilyfoundations,SAMISandTheJewishFederation,toournational support from grants made by PEJE (Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education) and others; we grow and build community because you believe in us. We are excited about the opportunities that lie before us and know that, with your support, we will continue to go from Strength to Strength.

Shana Tova! Mike Downs Jill Friedman Interim Head of School President, JDS Board of Trustees

JDS thanks to the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and the Samis Foundation for their ongoing support.

Kathy BrazeauAliza BreidbordMariana & Roni BrizitskiSheri BrownIris BrumerFran CalderonDilia & Martin CartagenaMargaret* & Derrick Chasan

Rob & Andrea DanenBella Davydova & Alex DavydovMarina Davydova & Yakov Davydov

Naomi* FineDavey* FriedmanEva & Eli GenauerRandi* GordnerVitaly GrinshtatLinda & Lloyd GrossmanJean HaasKari & Jeff HaasBerthe & Stanley Habib

Traci Huffer-MayerBeth Huppin & David BennettShannon*& J. Michael JayLynn & Steve KatzSharon & Isaac KellermanCarole Kenyon & Ralph KlineRakhilya & Roman KhanatayevJoyce & Don KruskySandy Samuel & Cantor Bradlee KurlandPriscilla* & Steven LeytusSevil Manashirova & Fikret ManashirovLois MayersMaggie Halela-Mosholder & Mark

MosholderLinda* & Zlatko NalisRobyn* NathanDianne & Dr. Martin NewmanAileen* & Aaron OkrentRegina & Dr. Alan PearlmanCesia PechShelly & Harry PomeranzRenee Katz & Eric RadmanAmy RossPaula* & Raphael SchwimmerBarbara & David ShererAmy & Michael ShererMichael ShufflerEllen & Brad SpearWilliam & Joyce StandingJodi & Ryan SternoffDr. Doris StiefelJeff SullivanNina & Rod WaldbaumPriscilla WayneFarah & Jim* WiesenRachel* & Yaron YedidiaKarin & Gil ZaharoniRita* & Pinchas Zohav

§ Husband or wife 2012–2013 JDS Board Member

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EndowmEnt FundIn memory of mr. Corey Erlitz, z”l Laurie Minsk & Jerry Dunietz

GEnEral FundIn honor of mr. richard Galanti’s birthday Maureen & Joel BenolielIn honor of high school graduates: Sam

Epstein, Joshua lazar, andy Paige, Jacob Eisner, talia Etsekson, ariel mizrahi, Victoria anderson, Sarah Bowman, Yael Egnal, Elizabeth Engel, Jenna levin, ali Parsons, lev marcus, Jaclyn leytus, Hannah robin,david Schwartz, Jessica Schwartz, and max Zambrowsky.

Gordon Chanen & Sherri RichmanIn honor of Hannah robin’s graduation

from high schoolKaren & Dr. Stuart Epstein

In honor of ariel mizrahi’s gradua-tion from high school

Karen & Dr. Stuart EpsteinIn honor of Joshua lazar’s gradua-

tion from high schoolKaren & Dr. Stuart EpsteinIn appreciation of ms. laurie minskNancy & Paul EtseksonIn honor of ms. amy SchottensteinJill & Chuck FriedmanIn honor of dr. and mrs. marc GoncharMarcia & Alfred FriedmanIn honor of mr. adam Gillman’s graduation

from western washington universityLinda* & Efrem KrisherIn honor of ms. mindy Goldberg’s marriageLinda* & Efrem KrisherIn appreciation of mrs. Sharon Farac’s

leadership of the Parent associationDrs. Kara & Kerry MoscovitzIn appreciation of mrs. luminita Gruia’s

leadership of the Parent associationDrs. Kara & Kerry MoscovitzIn honor of avi magaram’s graduation

from JdSAlayne & Bobby SulkinIn honor of Ben Friedman’s graduation

from JdSAlayne & Bobby SulkinIn honor of Joshua Greenstein’s graduation

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In honor of Joey Peha’s graduation from JdSPaul SytmanIn honor of mr. Stuart weinstein’s birthdayRonald & Devorah WeinsteinIn honor of Sam Grossman Gerlach’s

Bar mitzvahDiane Zipperman* & Carl Bloommrs. Judy lynn rice—

In honor of being named Pa Volunteer of the Year

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ms. dianne dougherty’s weddingSusan Cohen-AndersonDennis DoughertyClaudia & Stanley Hevel & DotyLinda* & Efrem KrisherDebbie Salzman & Marc Hagan

In honor of ms. Elisa Erlitz’s marriage to mr. dan Barr

Risa* & Adam ColemanJulie* & David ChivoPeggy & Bruce GladnerLinda* & Efrem KrisherIn appreciation of rabbi Stuart lightJewish Family Service of SeattleJDS Middle School Parents In honor of mrs. maria Erlitz Sharon & Larry Finegold Amy & David FultonJDS Middle School Parents In memory of mr. al Sanft z”l Peggy & Bruce Gladner Susan & Victor Alhadeff Ronald & Devorah WeinsteinIn memory of mr. Benji mayers z”lRonald & Devorah WeinsteinIn memory of mr. Jack Berg z”lEsther & Lawrence BarsherTamara and Randy BergIn memory of mr. Jack Farber z”lPeggy & Bruce GladnerRonald & Devorah Weinstein

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tributes from JdS are the perfect way to celebrate, commemorate or commiserate. Contact us today and make a donation to JdS in your special person’s honor and let us do the work. we send a beautiful card on your behalf from the school and you receive a 100% tax deductible donation. Call our development office:

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tributesJdS is grateful to receive support from families and community members who wish to recognize a life cycle event or send condolences through our Special occasion tribute Program.

donations provide funding for various school programs and professional development opportunities for

our faculty and staff.

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honor roll JdS is grateful for your support! to all of those who attend events, volunteer throughout the year, speak to students and give so much of your time, talents and treasures, we say…”Thank You!, Todah Robah Me’od!” JdS is here because of the generous and significant support of our donors. Your contributions help JdS provide amazing programming and experiential learning opportunities that our kids are so fortunate to have! If you have any questions about giving, contact development director risa Coleman at [email protected], or call: 425-460-0242.

Ellie Halevy & Larry KalmanFlorence Katz-Burstein & Paul BursteinJodi & Dr. Jerry KentAnne & Ed HarrisStephanie Hemsworth & Vance DingfelderYael & Ron KohaviLaura & Jeff KrinskyDebra LevinCindy & Sandy LevyWiebke & Rabbi Stuart* LightCindy & Steve LinkonSharon & Marty LottKatherine Zinger & Corey MillerDrs. Kara & Kerry MoscovitzBea & Bruce NahonErica & Joshua NashNaomi & Jon NewmanMargaret & Tad PearlJoy & Craig PearlMarci Pliskin & Renee RussakJim PolackGwenn & Dean PolikLucy & Herb PruzanMargaret & David RudinFran & Stan SchillJudy & Joseph SchockenSchwartz-Fisher Donor Advised Fund of JFGSKelly & Jeremiah ScottMary Dion & Jim ScurlockSeattle Sephardic BrotherhoodDebbie & Andy SeresErika & Mark SimonMichelle & Marc SloanRonnie & Dr. Ronald SpiegelDeborah & Martin WahlLisa & Andy Woods

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Sheryl & Mark StiefelRenee StolleCindy & Bob StraussEli SulkinLucy & Dr. Alex SytmanTemple B’nai TorahNoga & Uri UngerVisaElise Wayne

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Sharon & Marty Lott Roberta*& Ken LyonLeslie Mickel & Dr. Randy CarschDrs. Kara & Kerry Moscovitz Bea & Bruce NahonTina* & Michael Novick Sandra & Gerry Ostroff Ann Marie & Sonny Putter Renee Katz & Eric Radman Drs. Pauline & Jack Reiter Fran & Stan Schill Amy Schottenstein & Justin Magaram Rabbi Arlene SchusterSeattle Jewish Community SchoolRonnie and Dr. Ronald Spiegel Charlene & Gregory Steinhauer Diane & Dennis WarshalLynn & The Hon. Anthony Wartnik Marcie & Terry Wirth Lee & Jack Weissman

rEYnoldS FundIn appreciation of JdS Rebecca Bearman

roSEntHal tECHnoloGY FundIn memory of mrs. Harriet Katz z”lBarbara Rosenthal

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In memory of mrs. marcia migdal z”l Lynn & Anthony WartnikIn memory of mrs. Joel Starin z”lJoan Alexander

Please note that all of the information is current as of June 30, 2013. we apologize for any inadvertent errors or omissions.

“We grow and build community because you believe in us.” the Jewish day School of metropolitan Seattle excels because of the tremendous support our children receive from JdS parents, faculty, staff and our community. Your generosity helped to further the JdS mission:To provide an exceptional education that empowers Jewish children to be confident, wise, and compassionate upstanders who are committed to life-long learning and community stewardship.

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Claire & Allan ShumofskyRenee StolleLucy & Dr. Alex SytmanLee & Jack Weissman

l’dor v’dor From generation to generation, our grandparents are investing in the future that the Jewish day School helps provide. we are proud to have the generous support of grandparents who exemplify the spirit of tzedekah for our children.

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Jds alumni updatesJDS is grateful that our alumni are doing such wonderful things in the world and that they stay connected to their former classmates and the school. Thank you to all of our alumni and their families who continue to support the school in so many ways including 2012 and 2013 alumni donors: Elisa Erlitz Barr (’99), Daniella Bayley (’02), David Bayley (’01), Sarah Castoriano (’96), Davey Friedman (’03), Russell Katz (’87), Mimi Rosen (’92), Jane Rutstein Shay (’96), Eli Sulkin (’05), Sarah Toner (’92) and Elise Wayne (’02).

• Michaela Calderon (’05, right) graduated from Washing-ton State university with degrees in Hospitality Business Management and finance. She is currently working as a management associate in hotel operations at MGM Resorts’ Bellagio in Las Vegas.

• JDSalumnaandBoardofTrusteesmemberDr. Sarah Toner is guiding the school’s alumni relations effort which received a boost over the summer by having two alumnae, Emily Caditz and Becky Constantine, intern in the

office helping plan alumni events and gathering alumni updates below. Also, thanks to Natanya Auerbach who worked with our Development team.

• Natanya Auerbach (’05) heads to Boston this fall to work in the Development office of Gateways, a non-profit organization that enables Jewish children with special educational needs to become successful participants in the Jewish community.

• Becky Constantine (’05) attends the university of oregon where she is majoring in business marketing.

• Kayla Krauthamer (’05, right) graduated from uW in June and is working with a digital advertising agency in Seattle.

• Liz Kent (’05, left) graduated with honors from uW with a major in Law, Societies and Justice. She is involved with the JCC, uW Hillel, is on the Jewish federation’s Global Jewry grant commit-

tee and advises a local BBYo chapter. • Halen Baker (’06) will be a senior at Bu studying

neuroscience with an eye towards medical school. She won an internship at The Psychology Neuroimaging Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Harvard Medical School and is studying schizophrenia by conducting MRi’s and studying the brain waves of different groups of people.

• Uri Chotzen (’05, left) is now an israeli citizen and lives on a kibbutz, Maagan Michael, where he is working and studying Hebrew.

• Mariel Dunietz (’07) completed a summer internship in New York City

with the Coalition for the international Criminal Court, www.iccnow.org.

• Jake Baker (’05) received his Multi-engine instrument Rated Commercial Pilots license and is completing his business degree while working as a flight instructor.

• JDSalumBen Gown (’96, right) brought his Jewish ensemble Sasson to JDS in July for a free, community ‘Concert on the field’ event presented in partnership with the SJCC and PJ Library.

• Jessica Brumer, Megan Brumer, Avi Fine and Zak Lazar spent the summer working as counselors at Camp Kalsman.

• Rachael Okrent, Maya Zwang, Kira Weiner, Yael Egnal, Andy Paige, Yotam Horowitz, David Schwartz, Sam Epstein, Karen Touboul and David Furman were counselors at Camp Solomon Schechter.

• Alyssa Zupnick (’00, left) lives in Scottsdale with her husband Dan and is an elementary school teacher at Phoenix Hebrew Academy.

• Weweredelightedthatmorethanadozenalumniattended our 2013 Auction and special thanks to Jill Erlitz (’88) for all of her invaluable help with making the auction so wonderful!

SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2014 at the Bellevue Hyatt Hotel

Co-chairs: Pamela Love & Ida Wicklund

2014 AuCTIoN HoNoREES: Dr. Marc and Gina Gonchar



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judgment might motivate some, the rabbis also knew that God is indescribable. Throughout the liturgy, they struggled to find other images that might penetrate the hearts of those who pray. The famous medieval piyut (liturgical poem) “Ki Anu Amecha” portrays God as a parent, a shep-herd, a creator and lover.

The images continued to proliferate in modern times. The theologian Morde-chai Kaplan spoke of God as the power that makes for good in the world. And the con-temporary poet Ruth Brin speaks about God as “the source of love springing up in us.”

The liturgy on Rosh Hashanah chal-lenges us to confront the meaning of God in our lives and then develop a level of inti-macy with the ineffable. While I am still not sure what God is, I am coming to appreci-

ate the view that God is what inspires us to live our lives in service to others.

Children have a natural ability to be awe-struck. There is so little they have experi-enced in life that it must be easy for them to experience wonder. We watch their delight as they find out how a salad spinner works, or when they find a worm squirming in the dirt, or when they observe how flowers change colors as they enter full bloom.

These are not simply the sweet moments of childhood. These are ways of being that have deep theological resonance.

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel recalls in “Who is Man” (1965), “Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference every-where to mystery beyond all things. It enables us… to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing

the stillness of the eternal.” Would that we could develop that

sense of awe by first simply noticing our surroundings instead of being preoccu-pied with what comes next.

We can make space this Rosh Hashanah to begin a journey toward wonder, whether you notice the cantor’s voice as she reaches a certain note, or hear the crackle of a candy wrapper, or connect to the sound of your own breathing during the standing silent Amidah prayer. Take a walk sometime during the High Holidays and notice the leaves on the trees, the sunlight refracting from a window, the taste of holiday food at a meal, or the voice of a loved one. Notice the small things and consider for that moment that they have ultimate significance.

Consider the concept that Rosh Hasha-nah marks the birth of the world. Act as if nothing existed before this moment. Slow

down, focus in, be silent and you may experience awe.

Children forgive easily, grown-ups not so much. The central work of the period of the High Holidays is teshuvah, or return. We return to our better selves and make amends with those whom we have hurt in some way. Every year I recognize how uncomfortable I am to ask for forgive-ness from family members, peers and col-leagues. “So much time has passed” or “I’m sure they forgot about that incident” are common rationalizations I offer.

What takes an adult days, weeks or even years to let go of resentment takes children a matter of minutes before they are back to laughing with those with whom they once were angry. While it might be difficult to coax an “I’m sorry” from a child’s lips, they rebound quickly. It is a lesson for us.

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While you celebrate the new year, think as you dipJoel magalnick editor, JTNews

I have a bush outside of my house that blooms brilliant flowers each spring. With those flowers come honeybees. Lots and lots of bees. When the bush starts growing out of control and I have this urge to break out my clippers and start trimming, some-thing stops me: The knowledge that these bees, whether they know it or not, have to work extra hard since they need to pick up the slack from the billions of others that have been dying prematurely over the past decade.

Known as colony collapse disorder, a perfect storm of factors has come together to decimate our bee populations, and the answers to why it’s happening have only now begun to become clear. Here’s what’s happening, in no particular order: The one-two punch of a virus and a fungus known as nosema ceranae, which alone aren’t enough to kill off the hives, but knock them out when brought together; a number of pes-ticides which in the lab were thought to be harmless to bees are actually showing up in nearly all bee carcass samples collected by government agencies; many of these pesticides sprayed on crops are drifting to wildflowers where bees collect pollen, increasing the chemicals in their fragile systems; dust that drifts from industrial harvests coats bees’ bodies and kills them — and there may be more factors. And these

findings are still relatively new.“Nosema ceranae was only recently

described in the U.S., the first time in 2007,” said Walter (Steve) Sheppard, a professor of entomology at Washington State University to the WSU News Ser-vice. “But while no one really noticed, it has spread throughout the country.”

Researchers in Sheppard’s department also discovered that nearly all of the dead bees sent to the WSU lab found “fairly high levels of multiple pesticide residues,” according to Sheppard.

While the pesticides didn’t kill the bees outright, they did affect the bees’ immune systems and significantly reduced their life expectancies.

The magnitude of this problem can be viewed in thirds: Every year since 2006, beekeepers have seen a loss of a third of their colonies. The U.S. Depart-ment of Agriculture estimates that one of every three bites of food we eat is depen-dent upon bee pollination. And as much as third of our crops could be wiped out completely if we don’t have the bees to pollinate them.

So why am I thinking about the bees right now? As Rosh Hashanah approaches, many of us begin thinking about the direct result of the bees’ pollination efforts: Honey. It’s wonderfully sweet, it’s about

as close as we can get to directly commune with nature, and it’s endangered.

Thinking about just the honey doesn’t take into account the apples, which we of course use for dipping. What would it mean for our state’s economy, not to men-tion access to one of our most ubiquitous fruits, if the apple harvest imploded? Or the disappearance of cherries, peaches, blueberries, squash, grapes? What would you hang in your sukkah?

While I don’t want to run around screaming as if the sky is falling, this is a

serious, serious issue. Many of farming’s greatest minds have begun to devote all of their energies to mitigate the problem, as it appears we may be too late for a real solution.

In the spirit of renewal, here are some suggestions to do your part to keep the honey on our Rosh Hashanah tables: Con-tact your legislators, both state and fed-eral, and let them know you support any efforts to pass the “Save America’s Polli-nator Act,” which includes tighter regula-tion of pesticide use. When you can, buy organic produce and products. Yes, it’s more expensive, but the more we buy, the more it shows support for pesticide alter-natives and our bees. Write to pesticide companies and let them know your con-cerns. Yes, most of these companies are major conglomerates and tend to ignore comments from a handful of activists, but if they hear from many people who just want to be sure they can have their honey-cake, it could make a difference.

So many of us try to live the good food life — and it all starts with bees. When you wish your family and friends a sweet New Year, remember where the honey you’re dipping into comes from, and the effort those bees make to bring it to you. In the meanwhile, I’m going to grab my tree clippers. Their work is done; now mine can begin.


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Thinking outside the boxRiVy PouPko kletenik JTNews Columnist

Dear Rivy,Not sure if you are the

address for this but let me give it a shot. I was feeling like people were always putting me in a box, presuming I am a certain way by virtue of the way I dress or the company I keep. I really want people to see me for who I am. Once I started to really think about this I began to notice: Gee, I do the same thing to others. Then I really started noticing it everywhere. We all put groups of people — ethnicities, religions, even fellow Jews — into boxes. Is this prejudice?

A wonderful conversation-starter for the High Holiday season. If we had to sum up what is at the heart of what is wrong in the world, some might say that if we

could solve this particular issue, world peace and the Messianic age would be right around the corner. The abil-ity to connect to and honor fellow human beings both on a community and world-wide scale is no small task. It can truly be the challenge of a lifetime. The first step is to acknowledge the problem; the next is setting out to tackle it!

This core theme of not seeing others for who they

truly are, but instead heaping upon them external preconceived notions, emerges throughout the Torah narrative. Many times what one heaps onto the other is in fact one’s own fears, projections, and inner demons. What was Cain thinking of Abel when he committed the first fratricide? The

text is silent, which might be telling us that it is less about the substance of the conflict and more about the idea of conflict.

Joseph’s brothers have him pegged as one who seeks to lord over them. Whether or not he does is unclear. Ironically, though, the brothers actually fail to recognize him years later when he is Egyptian viceroy. Talk about not seeing the face of the other.

The central thesis of renowned French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas is this notion of “seeing of the face of the other.” He writes:

The face, for its part, is inviolable; those eyes, which are absolutely with-out protection, the most naked part of the human body, nonetheless offer an absolute resistance to possession, an absolute resistance in which the temptation to murder is inscribed: the temptation of absolute negation.

The Other is the only being that can be tempted to kill. This temptation to murder and this impossibility of murder constitute the very vision of the face. To see a face is already to hear “You shall not kill,” and to hear “You shall not kill” is to hear “Social jus-tice”.... For in reality, murder is possi-ble, but it is possible only when one has not looked the Other in the face. Though he speaks of murder, I remind

you that there are many forms of murder that require no physical weapon. Many a reputation, a living, and an institution is destroyed not by the knife but by the word of mouth. The Talmud puts it this way: “The talk about a third person kills three persons: Him who tells, he who accepts it, and he about whom it is told.”

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Levinas asks us to consider the face of the other before we strike, a seemingly simple exercise that would demand of us to look — truly look — at the other. An authentic gaze would preclude objectifi-cation, labeling and placing the other in a box.

All this talk of people in the box brings me to the People of the Book — I mean, of the Box. We Jews as a community and as individuals are often placed in the prover-bial Jewish box. Few of us have navigated a life free of the sporadic slur, the prickly pun, the off-the-cuff comment.

Getting to the heart of this objectifica-tion is an exhibit in, of all places, Germa-ny’s Jewish Museum Berlin. The goal of a controversial show, “The Whole Truth…Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Jews,” is to debunk myths around Judaism and to confront various ques-

tions about Judaism and being Jewish. In a country where most people have never met a Jew, this is critical. The museum explains that it seeks to “examine issues that might make the questioner uneasy, some are politically incorrect, while others betray something about the person who asks them…With an even-handed and witty touch, we present questions through extraordinary objects and installations taken from religious practice, everyday life and contemporary art.”

One particularly provocative installa-tion is a box-like area with a seat for an actual Jew to sit in — on display. Visi-tors have an opportunity to interact with the Jew-in-the-box and to even ask ques-tions of them. This exhibit, as you can well imagine, has triggered many a reaction, not all positive. Though the stated goal is to educate, one cannot help but feel some degree of disequilibrium: A Jew on dis-play, is this a zoo? Perhaps if they had not

murdered their Jews they would not have to put one on display as a novelty.

How must it feel to sit there, answering people’s questions? Are those questions not Shylockesque — “Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?”

Or perhaps the questions are real and sincere, Germans of today truly want-ing to know and understand the Jewish People. This was the approach of those who undertook to sit on that pink bench and put themselves out there. Our daugh-ter, Gilah, who had been studying in Berlin for the summer was one of them. She felt that as a Jew, and as the grandchild

of two Holocaust survivors, it felt pecu-liarly empowering to actively place herself in a box, in Germany. She explained how she was drawn to the irony of the entire endeavor. Too often, as a Jew, especially in Germany, she was already “put in the box,” by others. By electing to place her-self in the box, she was subverting this tendency.

Ultimately, the physical box is not what it is about. It is really about not put-ting each other in the metaphoric box. Rather, our task is to look into the face of the other and to open to experiencing all people with generosity of spirit. Given the season, let us become vigilant about hon-oring the other.

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This is the season to tally our blessings, settle our debts, evaluate the year gone by and pray for good in the year to come. So, too, for those of us with an eye on the world of children’s book publishing. In years past, while we blessed the bounty — the sensitive authors, talented illustra-tors, and astute editors who give books the capacity to enchant and delight — we also struggled to forgive publishing its sins: The pictures that disappoint, the text that drags, the editor asleep on the job, the bindings that didn’t bind, and the distri-bution system that didn’t distribute until the week after the holiday ended.

However, with new technology chang-ing everything, this may be the year when these abuses dwindle and the lives of trees are less apt to be sacrificed in vain. While Kindles, Nooks and iPads can never replace the joyful human connection that comes from holding a real book while reading to a real child, judiciously sup-porting use of their electronic counterparts can help empower a budding reader and expand an early connection with words.

Meanwhile, here are a few recent works especially suitable to entertain and enlighten your favorite children as the New Year begins.

Jewish life calls on us to observe mitz-vot, but as we introduce children to God’s

sacred command-ments — learning from the Torah, listening to the shofar, observing Shabbat — we usu-ally broaden the meaning to include gemilut hasadim, acts of loving kindness. Why not use It’s a… It’s a… It’s a Mitzvah (Jewish Lights) by Liz Suneby and Diane Heiman, delight-fully illustrated by Laurel Molk? In this charming new book, a menagerie of appealing animals act out activities that show examples of good deeds even very young children can perform. Whether welcoming newcomers, sharing food, respecting elders, or forgiving mistakes, the exuberant Mitzvah Meerkat and his

chevra of happy do-gooders show clearly the warmth and satisfaction to be found in everyday kindness and a commitment to tikkun olam (repairing the world).

In What a Way to Start a New Year: a Rosh Hashanah Story (Lerner), Jac-queline Jules presents a perfect opportu-nity for a community to perform mitzvot as she imagines what it’s like for Dina and her family to move to a new house in a new town just as the New Year begins. A new beginning, it’s true, but one any child will

understand is full of difficulties, adjust-ments and fear of change. With the help of Judy Stead’s bright and expressive illustra-tions, the story describes how the gener-ous hospitality of Dina’s new community and the warm familiarity of synagogue tunes and Jewish rituals bring with them the promise of a truly happy New Year to be shared with many new friends

Hannah’s Way (Kar-Ben) by Linda Glaser, illustrated by Adam Gustavson, shows that friends don’t have to be Jewish to do mitzvot. When Hannah’s father loses his job during the Depression, her Ortho-dox Jewish family has to move to Minne-sota, where she is the only Jewish child in her class. Her teacher unwittingly arranges a special class picnic on a Saturday, trying to put Hannah into a carpool. What can she do? She wants to go to the picnic and maybe make some new friends, but she cannot ride on the Sabbath. Maybe she could go, Papa agrees, if someone would walk the two miles with her to the park.

The book’s last double spread answers Hannah’s doubts and fears, providing a lovely story of friendship, kindness and community.

Maybe people aren’t the only ones who can share and practice mitzvot. Mitzi’s Mitzvah (Lerner) by Gloria Koster, illus-trated by Holly Conger with charm and

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texture, shows what happens when a lov-able puppy is taken to a nursing home to visit the elderly residents on Rosh Hasha-nah. At first she’s excluded from the holi-day gathering while young visitors and the residents eat and play together. But once she’s invited inside, just by being Mitzi, she brings happiness to the residents, showing clearly that you’re never too young and puppyish, or too old, to need (or to provide) attention, companionship and the sweetness of friendship.

In Sylvia B. Epstein’s amusing tale, How the Rosh Hashanah Challah Became Round (Gefen), the rabbi’s wisdom saves the day after Yossi, the baker’s cocky son and assistant, drops a whole tray of long braided Rosh Hashanah challahs. To his dismay, they all roll down the stairs, chang-ing shape on the way. Too late to make a new batch, the baker brushes them off and sells them, even to the rabbi’s wife, who takes two. It’s the rabbi who gives the new shape a special meaning to suit a special day.

Leslie Kimmelman’s Sam and Char-lie (and Sam too) (Whitman, Albert & Company) is an Easy Reader collection of five stories filled with Jewish flavor. The last is “I’m Sorry Day,” a.k.a. Yom Kippur. A silly story but with a serious

objective as Charlie and Sam determine to be better friends in the year ahead. However, they reserve the right to make a few mistakes so they’ll have some-thing to deal with on the next “I’m Sorry Day.” Illustrated by Stefano Tambellini.

Sylvia A. Rouss and Katherine Janus Kahn have again collaborated as writer and illustrator to bring you the best Jew-ishly informed arachnid in town, intrepid Sammy who lives in Josh Shapiro’s house. In Sammy Spider’s First Yom Kippur (Lerner), Sammy is, as usual, greatly inter-ested to listen and learn as his mom explains the Shapiros’ upcoming holiday. Mrs. Sha-

piro tells Josh to make a list after dinner of every-one to whom he should apologize. Before then, however, Josh’s disobedi-ence affects the welfare of

Sammy and his mother. Realizing he has destroyed their web, Josh knows he must add them to the list

of those he has wronged. As usual, the clear story and bright

pictures make this Sammy book a great way to introduce very young children to a simple understanding of taking personal responsibility, a basic Jewish value.

To remember those we love on Yom Kippur through the observance of Yizkor is an important facet of the holiday, but not one usually shared with young chil-

dren. However, let me recommend Zayde Comes to Live (Peachtree Publishers, Ltd.), an award-winning story by Sheri Sinykin, beautifully illustrated by Kristina Swarner. This sensitive work concentrates on what happens before the loss, when Rachel’s grandfather has come to live at her house because he is dying and she worries about what will happen to him afterwards.

Her friends reassure her: Megan says he’ll go to heaven if he believes in Jesus while Hakim describes a beautiful para-dise waiting for those who believe in Allah. But Rachel is Jewish, so she asks the rabbi what will happen. With great honesty and beauty, he describes to her the comforting continuity of life.

At peace, Zayde, too, helps her realize that as long as he is alive and she can snug-gle close to him, they are creating memories that will allow him to live forever in her love.

The pictures, linoleum prints with watercolor and colored pencil, show the family but backgrounds have a feeling of timelessness and depth. And though the family is Jewish, the situation and the emotions are universal. Zayde’s love and Rachel’s memories are set in a story that opens a door for discussions about many faith traditions and beliefs.


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There’s a reason Beth Israel purchased such a large parcel of land: It wants to be the center of “the infrastructure of Judaism in the city,” according to Goldman. That means the buildup of a Jewish community center, a day camp, even a Jewish senior center — but any such growth would be

years down the road. But it also addresses a reality that faces synagogues in general and fundraising to complete this project in particular: People don’t want to donate to a project to build a lovely building. They want to donate to something relevant to their lives.

“My spiel to people is we’re not build-ing a new Beth Israel synagogue,” Jaffe said. “What we’re doing is a Jewish center in the North Sound of Washington.”

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enabling them to flee. Five of the 42 were Alhadeffs, members of my family.

He paid a price for his courage. German aircraft bombed the consulate, where his wife was about to give birth. She was injured, yet had the baby and died a week later. Her mother commit-ted suicide upon hearing of her daughter’s death. Turkey severed relations with Ger-many and Ulkumen was arrested. He sur-vived and in 1990 was declared Righteous Among The Nations.

On July 23, 1944, these 1,757 Jews were marched to the port, deported to the mainland on three cargo vessels and trans-ported to Auschwitz, where 1,604 were murdered, including 151 Alhadeffs.

This was the community whose memory we honored last month. Thirty-five of us assembled outside the modest yet magnificent 450-year-old Kahal Shalom Synagogue that Friday morning for a “Jewish walking tour” of Rhodes.

Our leader was Isaac Habib, a knowledgeable South Afri-can whose family came from Rhodes and who spends four months a year there as a guide.

He led us to the sites of the rabbinical college; the French-Jewish school estab-lished by Baron Edmond de Rothschild; the remains of synagogues destroyed by Royal Air Force bombers attacking German troops; the cobbled square where Jews socialized, known today as The Square of the Jewish Martyrs; the Chevra Kadi-sha; the recently built six-sided Holocaust memorial, each face inscribed in a different language — and Alhadeff Park on Alhadeff Street, where we paused for a group photograph.

The service that evening was preceded by Lionel Lubitz, a cousin of the fiancé,

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man conducted the aufruf — a profoundly poignant moment, given the commu-nity history and the family story. The wedding followed three days later in Jerusalem, thereby closing the circle.

As for the seats on which we sat — they were the same seats on which my father sat the last time he saw his father, on Yom Kippur 1938, before the grandfather I would never meet was deported to Auschwitz.

I had a palpable sense that my father, my grandfa-ther before him, and all the Jews of Rhodes knew we were there.

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From the charts to your Machzor: The High Holiday playlistbinyamin kagedan JNs.org

In time for the 2013 High Holiday season, we’ve compiled a list of the top five popular songs to put you in the mood for introspection, repentance, and renewal — and a few just to make you smile.

Here is your High Holidays playlist:1. “Who By Fire” (Leonard Cohen)

The consummate coffeehouse theolo-gian lands in the number one spot on our list, having borrowed the title and concept of this song directly from the emotional centerpiece of the High Holidays liturgy, Un’taneh Tokef. Another song of Cohen’s deserves honorable mention here: “The Story of Isaac,” a post-modern retelling of the famous near-sacrifice that highlights the moral ambiguity of Abraham’s choice. The section of Genesis that contains the original story is read as the Rosh Hasha-

nah Torah service. 2. “Man in the Mirror” (Michael Jackson)

Back from the time when Top 40 songs were still allowed to have simple moral messages, the prince of pop reminds us that changing the world must always begin with changing one’s self. As with the silent confessions of the Yom Kippur musaf, the High Hol-idays are a time to give our friends and family a break and turn our critical eye to the person looking back at us in the mirror.3. “Getting Better” (The Beatles)

A golden oldie about turning things around: “Man, I was mean, but I’m chang-ing my scene and I’m doing the best that I can,” sings Paul. Sometimes we lose faith

in our ability to grow out of lifelong pat-terns of getting hurt and hurting back, but the song insists that change is always pos-sible when we open our hearts and truly

listen to our loved ones. 4. “Please Forgive Me” (Bryan Adams)

This one’s about saying sorry for loving too much, rather than too little. After all, don’t many of our conflicts come from holding on too tight? Not to mention the heart-wrenching power of Adams’s voice, which moves the listener like good chaz-zanut ought to. 5. “Unwritten” (Natasha Bedingfield)

Here’s one for the millennials. A tal-ented young British singer/songwriter, Bedingfield sings with conviction about the ever-present possibility of a fresh start. Her chorus offers an optimistic counter to the traditional image of the sealing of the book of fate: “Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten...”

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Those of us Jews who are not foot-ball players (you know, almost all of us) only take a knee once a year — during the Yom Kippur Musaf service, when can-tors, rabbis, and often whole congregations bow down in unison to commemorate the ancient temple service. “Wake Me Up When September Ends” (Green Day)

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LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Here’s the buzz about Rosh Hashanah: Beyond a congregation or family, it takes a hive to have a holiday. You may have your tick-ets, new dress or suit, and High Holidays app, but without the honey in which to dip a slice of apple, where would you be?

We wish each other “Shanah tovah umetuka,” “Have a good and sweet New Year.” To further sweeten the calendar change we eat honey cake — even Martha Stewart has a recipe — and teiglach, little twisted balls of dough boiled in honey syrup.

Little do we realize that to fill a jar or squeeze bottle containing two cups of the sticky, golden stuff, a hive of honeybees must visit 5 million flowers.

For most of us, the honey seems a somehow natural byproduct of the cute, bear-shaped squeeze bottle we pick up at the store. But for beekeeper Uri Laio, honey is like a gift from heaven. His motto, “Honey and Beeswax with Intention,” is on his website, chassidicbeekeeper.com.

“Everyone takes honey for granted; I did,” says Laio, who is affiliated with Chabad and attended yeshiva in Jerusalem and Morristown, N.J.

Not wanting to take my holiday honey for granted anymore, I suited up along with him in a white cotton bee suit and hood to visit the hives he keeps near the

large garden area of the Highland Hall Waldorf School, an 11-acre campus in Northridge, Calif.

After three years of beekeeping — he also leads sessions with the school’s stu-dents — Laio has learned to appreciate that “thousands of bees gave their entire lives to fill a jar of honey.” In the summer, that’s five to six weeks for an adult worker; in the winter it’s longer.

It’s been an appreciation gained through experience — the throbbing kind.

“It’s dangerous. I’ve been stung a lot. It’s part of the learning,” Laio says. “The first summer I thought I was going into anaphylactic shock,” he adds, advising me to stay out of the bees’ flight path to the hive’s entrance.

Drawing on his education, Laio puts a dab of honey on his finger and holds it out. Soon a bee lands and begins to feed.

“Have you ever been stung?” he asks.“A couple of times,” I answer, as Laio

uses a hand-held bee smoker to puff in some white smoke to “calm the hive.” After waiting a few minutes for the smoke to take effect, and with me watching wide-eyed, he carefully pries off the hive’s wooden lid.

Half expecting to see an angry swarm of bees come flying out like in a horror flick, I step back.

“They seem calm,” says Laio, bending down to listen to the buzz level coming from the hive. “Some days the humming sounds almost like song.”

The rectangular stack of boxes, called a Langstroth Hive, allows the bee colony — estimated by Laio to be 50,000 — to effi-ciently build the waxy cells of honeycomb into vertical frames.

As he inspects the frames, each still holding sedated bees, he finds few capped cells of honey. The bees have a way to go if Laio is going to be able to put up a small number of jars for sale, as he did last year for Rosh Hashanah.

According to Laio, hives can be attacked by ants, mites, moths and a dis-ease called bee colony collapse disorder that has been decimating hives increas-ingly over the last 10 years.

Pesticides contribute to the disorder as well as genetically modified plants, he says.

Underscoring the importance that bees have in our lives beyond the Days of Awe, Laio calculates that “one out of every three bites of food you eat is a result of honey-bee pollination.”

Laio practices backward, or treatment-free beekeeping, so-called because he relies on observation and natural practices and forgoes pesticides or chemicals in his

beekeeping.The resulting wildflower honey — Laio

hands me a jar to try — is sweet, flavor-ful and thick, tastier than any honey from the store.

“Honey is a superfood. And it heals better than Neosporin,” Laio claims. “In Europe there are bandages impregnated with honey.”

He says it takes a certain type of char-acter to be a beekeeper.

“You need to have patience. Be deter-mined. Learn your limitations. Be calm in stressful situations,” he says. “People are fascinated with it. I can’t tell you how many Shabbos table meals have been filled with people asking me about bees.”

On the Sabbath, Laio likes to sip on a mint iced tea sweetened with his honey — his only sweetener, he says.

“In the Talmud, honey is considered to be one-sixtieth of manna,” says Laio, referring to the “bread” that fell from the sky for 40 years while the Israelites wan-dered in the desert. “The blessing for manna ended with ‘min hashamayim,’ ‘from the heavens,’ and not ‘min haaretz,’ ‘from the earth.’”

With the honey-manna connection in mind, especially at the Jewish New Year, Laio finds that “all the sweetness, whatever form it is in, comes straight from God.”

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arrived and drove the four “through streets saturated with Nazi stormtroopers,” to a point near the shore.

There they hid in an underground shel-ter, and then in the attic of a bakery, until finally they were brought to a beach, where they boarded a small fishing vessel with other Jewish refugees.

“There were nine of us, lying down on the deck or the floor,” Esther said. “The cap-tain covered us with fishing nets. When everyone had been properly concealed, the fishermen started the boat, and as the motor started to run, so did my pent-up tears.”

Then, suddenly, trouble. “The cap-tain began to sing and whistle noncha-lantly, which puzzled us. Soon we heard

him shouting in German toward a pass-ing Nazi patrol boat: ‘Wollen sie einen beer haben?’ [Would you like a beer?] — a clever gimmick designed to avoid the Ger-mans’ suspicions. After three tense hours at sea, we heard shouting: ‘Get up! Get up! And welcome to Sweden!’ It was hard to believe, but we were now safe. We cried and the Swedes cried with us as they escorted as ashore. The nightmare was over,” Esther recalled.

The implications of the Danish rescue operation resonated strongly in the United States. The Roosevelt administra-tion had long insisted that rescue of Jews from the Nazis was not possible. The ref-ugee advocates known as the Bergson Group began citing the escape of Den-mark’s Jews as evidence that if the Allies

were sufficiently interested, ways could be found to save many European Jews.

The Bergson Group sponsored a series of full-page newspaper advertisements about the Danish-Swedish effort, head-lined “It Can Be Done!” On Oct. 31, thou-sands of New Yorkers jammed Carnegie Hall for the Bergson Group’s “Salute to Sweden and Denmark” rally.

Keynote speakers included members of Congress, Danish and Swedish diplomats, and one of the biggest names in Holly-wood — Orson Welles, director of “Citi-zen Kane” and “The War of the Worlds.” In another coup for the Bergson Group, one of the speakers was Leon Hender-son, one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s own former economic advis-ers (Henderson had headed the White

House’s Office of Price Administration). In blunt language that summed up the

tragedy — and the hope — Henderson declared: “The Allied governments have been guilty of moral cowardice. The issue of saving the Jewish people of Europe has been avoided, submerged, played down, hushed up, resisted with all the forms of political force that are available… Sweden and Denmark have proved the tragedy of Allied indecision… The Danes and Swedes have shown us the way… If this be a war for civilization, then most surely this is the time to be civilized!”

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“At Hillel UW we strive to create inno-vative development strategies and seek out new opportunities and strategic partner-ships,” said Ezekiel by email. “That said, this award is a testament to our outstand-ing volunteers, lay leaders and staff.”

Hayon said it is a “point of pride” that the UW Hillel has gotten national

recognition.“We submitted a nomination for the

award months ago but were surprised to be selected as this year’s award recipi-ent,” said Ezekiel. “We were told by Hillel International that there were a number of excellent Hillels vying for the development award, and we are extremely honored to receive this recognition.”

The award brings Hillel UW national, even international, recognition among the Hillel community.

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In the traditions of many Jewish holi-days, there’s a poetic relationship between the festival’s culinary laws and that sea-son’s foods. While the relationship link-ing Rosh Hashanah with apples and honey never grows old, the elegant and elu-sive pomegranate is less acknowledged, though profoundly tied to biblical litera-ture and ancient agriculture. Pomegran-ate seeds offer the kind of culinary beauty that cause us to slow down, take note, and absorb the scared spirit of newness. That being said, they can be a pain to wrangle.

Here are some strategies to help you conquer the pomegranate this Rosh Hashanah: Have ready a big bowl of water. Cut the fruit into quarters, and submerge them. Peel them under water, and keep them in there as you comb through with your fingers to loosen the seeds. The skins and inedible pith will float to the surface (skim this away thoroughly, and discard), and the seeds will sink to the bottom. Strain, and you’ve got the goods.

Roasted Acorn Squash Rings with Pomegranate-Lime Glaze

Simple and sweet, these golden circles topped with the contrasting tart glaze will round out your dinner plate. Be careful

slicing the squash. Use a very sharp paring knife, insert-ing the point first and using a gentle s a w i n g m o t i o n . The easiest way to remove the seeds is to cut loose the strand around them with scissors, and then scrape them away with a spoon.

You can make the glaze well ahead of time. It keeps indefi-nitely.Olive oil for the baking tray2 medium-sized acorn squash (about 3 pounds) — skin on, and cut into 1/2-inch ringsPomegranate-Lime Glaze (recipe follows)1/4 cup pomegranate molasses1 Tbs. fresh lime juice (possibly more to taste)Acorn squash directions:• Position a rack in the center of the

oven, and preheat the oven to 375°. Line a baking tray with foil, and coat it lightly with olive oil. (You can use

one of the squash rings to spread it around.) Arrange the squash slices on the prepared tray, and place the tray in the oven.

• After about 15 to 20 minutes (or when the squash is fork-tender and lightly browned on top and around the edges) remove the tray from the oven, and spoon or brush the still-hot squash with a light coating of the

glaze. Serve hot, warm, or at room temperature, decorated with pome-granate seeds. Pass a little dish of extra glaze at the table.

Yield: 6 servings (about 3 pieces per serving)Pomegranate-Lime Glaze directions:• Combine the pomegranate molas-

ses and lime juice in a small bowl and mix until smooth. Taste to adjust lime juice. Serve at room temperature, spooned over hot or room tempera-ture food.

Yield: 1/3 cup (about 1 Tbs. per serving). Good on all vegetables, grains, tofu, chicken, meat etc.

Curried Eggplant Slap-Down with Yogurt, Onion Relish, and Pomegranate

Adapted from “The Heart of the Plate.”Small eggplants, artfully prepared, can

be an elegant appetizer or a light lunch, in addition to a welcome side dish. 2 Tbs. grapeseed oil or peanut oilUp to 1 tsp. unsalted butter (optional)1 tsp. curry powderFour 4-ounce eggplants, trimmed and halved lengthwise

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1/2 tsp. salt (plus a big extra pinch)1/4 cup Greek yogurtAnother scant Tbs. oil (hot, so the seeds will sizzle on contact)1 tsp. cumin seeds1/4 tsp. (big pinch) turmeric1 cup minced onionPomegranate seeds and/or pomegranate concentrate or molasses• Place a medium (9-inch) skillet over

medium heat and wait about a min-ute, then add 1/2 Tbs. of the oil and swirl to coat the pan. Melt some but-ter into the oil, if desired, and sprinkle in the curry powder, which will sizzle upon contact.

• Add the eggplant halves, cut sides face down, into the oil, and swish them around (as if you’re wiping the pan with them) to both distribute and acquire the curry. Turn the heat to me-dium low, cover the pan, and cook un-disturbed for about 8 minutes — until each eggplant half becomes tender. (Peek underneath a few times to be

sure the cut surfaces are not becom-ing too dark. If they are, lower the heat, and/or turn the eggplants over onto their backs sooner than I am about to advise in the next step.) The eggplant is cooked when the stem end can easily be pierced with a fork. Flip the eggplants onto their backs, sprinkle with a 1/4 tsp. salt, and transfer to a plate. Spoon a little yogurt onto each open surface, spreading it to cover; set aside while you prepare the onion.

• Keeping the same pan over medium high heat, add another 1/2 Tbs. oil, swirling to coat the pan. Sprinkle in the cumin seeds and turmeric (should both sizzle on contact), and mix them a little to pick up some of the flavor that may have adhered. Add the onion and a big pinch of salt, tossing to coat. Cook quickly over medium heat (about five minutes, or until tender-crisp) then remove the pan from the heat. Divide the onions evenly among the four halves, spooning them over the yogurt (and scraping and maximally including any remaining tasty bits from the pan).

Top with pomegranate seeds and/or a drizzle of pomegranate concentrate or molasses. Serve hot, warm, or at room temperature.

Yield: 4 servings

Endive SaladAdapted from “The Heart of the Plate”Cook the wild rice ahead of time. You’ll

need only 1/2 cup — okay to use leftovers. If you can find both colors, it’s nice to use a combination of green and red Belgian endive in this salad.4 Belgian endives (about a pound), chopped crosswise1/2 medium jicama (about 3/4 pound, peeled and cut into matchsticks or any shape bite-sized pieces)1 medium-sized red apple, slicedSeeds from a medium-sized pomegranate1/2 cup cooked wild riceBlue cheese-yogurt dressing (recipe follows) Black pepper1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecans, lightly toasted

Blue cheese-yogurt dressing ingredients:1/4 cup plain yogurt

1 heaping Tbs. finely minced shallot1/4 tsp. salt2 Tbs. apple juice1 tsp. cider vinegar1 tsp. pure maple syrup3 Tbs. extra-virgin olive oil2 Tbs. crumbled blue cheese (possibly more, to taste)Black pepper• Combine the yogurt, shallot, salt,

apple juice, vinegar, and maple syrup in a small jar with a tight-fitting lid — or a medium-small bowl. Whisk until thoroughly blended. Keep whisking as you drizzle in the olive oil.

• Stir in the blue cheese, then taste the dressing. Add more cheese, if you like. Cover tightly, and refrigerate until use. Shake or stir from the bottom before using.

Yield: 3/4 cup

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NEW YORK (JTA) — Nearly 30 years ago, when my first cookbook was pub-lished, I wrote that kosher cooking wasn’t just about traditional recipes like gefilte fish and chopped liver, that you could make gourmet meals and international dishes using kosher ingredients.

Since then, many new kosher ingre-dients have become readily available, making all kinds of fusion cuisine even easier to prepare. Some of these ingre-dients include vinegars, oils, mustards, Panko bread crumbs and a larger selec-tion of cheeses.

But traditional recipes also have their place — and Rosh Hashanah is a great time to use them. There is something very satisfying about ushering in the New Year with old family recipes. I do, however, introduce one or two new dishes to make it more interesting for my friends and family with whom I celebrate every year.

For dinner on Rosh Hashanah, I like to begin my meal with chopped chicken

liver. This traditional dish brings me back to my Eastern European roots and my guests love it. The version offered here is incredibly easy to make and actually tastes like a paté.

Here’s a new dish for Rosh Hashanah lunch: Chicken rolls with orange sauce. The sauce adds some sweetness to the chicken, which is perfect for the holi-day. The dish can be made ahead of time and served at room temperature.

Brocco l i w i th panko, flaky Japa-nese breadcrumbs, is a delicious side dish that can be served with the chicken rolls. Panko is lighter

and crunchier than ordinary bread-crumbs. When toasted, they transform an ordinary vegetable into something quite special. This dish also can be made in advance and served at room temperature.

These are a sampling from my latest cookbook, “Helen Nash’s New Kosher Cui-sine” (Overlook Press). I hope they help make your preparations a little easier and your holiday more enjoyable. Shana Tova!

Chopped Chicken LiverFor an hors d’oeuvre, I like to serve

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Rather than throw their 1-year old son Idan a birthday party this past July, Amanda and Akiva Zablocki of Manhat-tan celebrated in a more unconventional way: By finally picking a hospital for Idan’s bone marrow transplant. Idan has Hyper IgM, a rare and genetic immune deficiency disorder that affects two in a million people and leaves them with an inability to produce antibodies. His only hope for a cure is the transplant, which carries a 10-15 percent risk of fatality.

Amanda, 28, and Akiva, 33, chose Seat-tle Children’s Hospital, after months of intensive research, interviews with doc-tors, and exhaustive trips to cities across the U.S.

“Not only was the bone marrow trans-plant first invented at Seattle, but immu-nologists at the hospital’s lab were the first to discover Hyper IgM,” explained Akiva. “Seattle is also the only hospital in the country to use Treosulfan, a che-motherapy drug that is associated with significantly fewer fatal risks and compli-cations than other pre-transplant drugs. The choice for our family is clear.”

The hospital’s transplant floor was built last year, “a huge plus if we have to live in a hospital nearly 24/7 for several months, and we loved the entire staff we met there,” he added.

Akiva, a survivor of a can-cerous tumor on his brain stem that was diagnosed when he was 25, is no stranger to spend-ing inordinate amounts of time in hospitals. But despite the

couple’s confidence in Seattle, Amanda and Akiva are under-standably nervous about leav-ing New York and virtually their entire support system behind when they fly to Seattle in September.

“We hope that we can build a new support network in Seat-tle, starting with a couple of good friends who live there,” said Amanda. “We’ll also be looking into joining a syna-gogue in the near vicinity of the

hospital. The more integrated we feel, the more outlets we will have to keep up our strength for Idan as we leave behind our friends and family.”

One friend in the city is Dr. Ohad Manor, a friend of Akiva’s since they were 6 years old. He recently arrived in Seattle to do postdoctoral work at the University of Washington.

“He has always been a resilient and resourceful person, qualities which became even more evident and pro-nounced after his battle against cancer,” said Manor. “I couldn’t believe it when he told me of Idan’s situation.”

Manor just enrolled his son in pre-school at Congregation Beth Shalom, about a mile from the hospital, and

expects to meet more families who he can then introduce to the Zablockis. Mean-while, he said, “I will support Akiva and his family in any way that I can.”

David Aaron Engle, a close friend of Akiva’s who works at Microsoft, is confi-dent the Zablockis will find a community in Seattle.

“They are both impossible not to like, and I’m sure they will make friends quickly,” Engle said.

“I see Amanda and Akiva’s love and dedication to each other and to Idan, that I believe that will carry them forward through this considerable challenge.”

But while carving out a community and support system is its own daunting task, the Zablockis will face a much bigger challenge in Seattle.

“Unfortunately, our belief that this hospital is the best place for our son’s sur-gery matters little to our insurance, which informed us that because the hospital is out of network, it will only pay for what-ever it deems reasonable — along with a $50,000 co-pay — and the rest is on us,” Amanda said. “The transplant will cost between $600,000 and $1 million, so we will end up needing to cover at least $250,000, and possibly much more.”


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minyanohrchadash.orgPrepare for a meaningful High Holiday davening experience with Rivy Poupko Kletenik. Review the holidays and the significance of the prayers. At Minyan Ohr Chadash, Brighton Building, 6701 51st Ave. S, Seattle.8:45–11:15 p.m. — HNT selichot Film and discussion

Rebecca Levy at [email protected] or 206-232-8555 or h-nt.org“Kumaré,” a documentary about a man who impersonates an Indian guru with followers in Arizona. A discussion with Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum and a short service will follow. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.9:30 p.m. — selichos Night live — Take Two

Julie Greene at [email protected] or 206-721-0970 “This Is My God and I Will Glorify Him: How Hashem Touches Our Lives. Sharing Our Personal Stories: An Interactive Evening.” Selichos services to follow. At BCMH, 5142 S Morgan St., Seattle.9:30 p.m. — selichot and ‘west side story’

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Carole Azose at [email protected] or 206-725-9094 “Rosh Hashanah: Coming Home” with Rabbi Ron-Ami Meyers. This shiur inaugurates a new program for women’s Torah study in Seattle. Coffee and light refreshments served.

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Rabbi Shalom Farkash at [email protected] Kippur preparation class. What’s more important: Arriving at the finish line, or endeavoring to get there? Why Judaism prefers the struggles of the less-than-perfect over the flawless score of the naturally talented. At Chabad of the Central Cascades, 24121 SE Black Nugget Rd., Issaquah.

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Lori Ceyhun at [email protected] or www.wsjhs.org/events.phpWitness the experiences of Washington State’s Jewish pioneers, brought to life on stage by the Washington State Jewish Historical Society and Book-It Repertory Theatre. This one-of-a kind performance sold out at its world premiere in Seattle in May and is now on tour. At Seattle Hebrew Academy, 1617 Interlaken Dr. E, Seattle.

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Kim Lawson at [email protected] or 206-388-0823 or www.sjcc.orgBranch out from peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. In this hands-on class, Teri will share creative school lunch ideas to make your kids excited to open their lunchbox every day. SJCC member $20/guest $25. At the Stroum JCC, 2618 NE 80th St., Seattle.

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The family launched a social media cam-paign to raise both awareness and funds for Idan’s medical care; and Amanda, an attorney, and Akiva, who holds a master’s degree in public health, use their combined knowledge and negotiating skills for hours on the phone each day with insurance administrators battling for more coverage.

“Instead of spending the remaining pre-cious days with our son before the trans-plant and planning for our trip to Seattle, we are spending most of our time dealing with insurance and trying to come up with creative solutions,” Amanda said.

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(JTA) — The head of the Jewish Federa-tion in Vancouver and the Canadian city’s transit agency are at odds over the legal-ity of an ad campaign critical of Israel run-ning on buses there.

The ads, which went up Tuesday, pur-port to show the “disappearance of Pales-

tine due to Israeli occupation over the past 65 years.” The ads — 15 bus posters and one large “mural” in a station — consist of four maps spanning from 1946 to 2012 and illus-trate “Palestine” shrinking over the years.

“This is of grave concern to our com-munity at large because the ads make the

use of the buses unwelcome and unsafe,” Mitchell Gropper, chair of the Jewish Fed-eration of Greater Vancouver, told The Province newspaper.

TransLink, the transit agency, said in a written statement it was advised by its law-yers that it was legally obligated to run the ads. Gropper, an attorney, disagrees with TransLink and said the Federation has retained a lawyer to consider its options.

“TransLink has said the law required

them to publish these ads,” he said, “but that is certainly not the case.”

Marty Roth, a member of the Palestine Awareness Coalition, which is behind the $15,000, four-month campaign, told The Province the battle had already been won.

“This will be controversial with a number of traditional Jewish organizations that have tried to suppress the ads,” Roth said. “But TransLink has refused to agree with them.”

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NEW YORK (JTA) — Last Satur-day, two weeks after Ethan Kadish’s 13th birthday, the members of his family gath-ered around a Torah scroll in the chapel of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for a small ceremony marking his entrance into adulthood.

This was not the Bar Mitzvah that Scott and Alexia Kadish envisioned two months ago when Ethan was still at the Goldman Union Camp Institute, a Reform Jewish summer camp in Zionsville, Ind.

Scott and Alexia had just finished mail-ing Ethan’s Bar Mitzvah invitations and were making final plans for a week of vaca-tion when they received the call: While helping younger campers learn the rules of Ultimate Frisbee, Ethan and two other children had been struck by lightning.

The other children were released from the hospital soon afterward. But Ethan, who suffered cardiac arrest as a result of the strike, was in critical condition. Two months later, he is still fighting the effects of a catastrophic brain injury.

“We know that Ethan will be in the hospital for many months,” Scott said. “But the progress we have seen — which we are measuring week to week and

month to month, not day to day — has been in a forward direction.”

Initially hospitalized in Indianapo-lis, Ethan was airlifted to Cincinnati Chil-dren’s Hospital in early July. After two weeks in intensive care, he has regained the ability to breathe on his own, but he remains unable to engage in purpose-ful movements. Although he has irregu-lar periods of open-eyed wakefulness, his parents told JTA they are not sure of the extent of his vision.

The family has benefited from the sup-port of their community, including their rabbi, Sissy Coran of Rockdale Temple in Cincinnati, who spent the night with the Kadishes on the second day of Ethan’s hospitalization. Meals have been deliv-ered to them three times a week, and hun-dreds have signed up for Team Ethan on the Lotsa Helping Hands website, which assists families caring for a sick relative.

“We have experienced the best of humanity,” Alexia said.

Now the family is seeking another kind of help.

In cooperation with the HelpHOPE-Live fundraising website and the Great Lakes Catastrophic Injury Fund, the

Kadishes are hoping to raise money to cover Ethan’s medical expenses, many of which will not be covered by insurance, they say.

Scott, who grew up on Mercer Island and still has family in the Seattle area, has been reaching out to his former commu-

nity as well.In an interview, the couple — who also

have set up a webpage to keep well-wish-ers informed of Ethan’s condition — were candid about the emotional difficulties of the preceding weeks, from the anguished ride from Cincinnati to the hospital in Indianapolis, to the emotional pain of having an unresponsive child. But they remain hopeful.

Recently they took Ethan outside into the sunlight and were rewarded with a response from their son: a tiny but unmis-takable laugh.

Nonetheless, as they prepare for the months and years ahead, the Kadishes are cognizant of the many challenges facing their family. They have two other children, ages 16 and 10.

“Our other children certainly know there has been a huge change in our family lifestyle,” Alexia said. “They see how many hours Scott and I spend at the hospital. But we’re trying really hard to create a sched-ule as the school year starts to provide some source of normalcy in our family unit.”

“This,” Scott added, “is our new normal.”

CourTesy kadIsH FaMIly

ethan Kadish during happier times. He remains critically ill in a Cincinnati hospital after being hit by lightning at summer camp.

JTNews | High Holidays Edition | August 30, 2013

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