JTNews | May 23, 2014 | A 90-Year Retrospective

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Welcome to our celebration of 90 years

This paper you hold in your hand is a labor of love — and hard work. It reflects not only the hard work of the editors of the Jewish Transcript, starting with Herman Horowitz 90 years ago until today with me, but also the hard work of the staff of the JTNews and a team of volunteers who looked through decades’ worth of old print copies of the Jewish Tran-script as well as the approximately 20 years of newspapers that were archived digitally and posted online earlier this year.

What we are trying to tell in these 32 pages is the story of Washington State’s Jewish community over the past 90 years, in a way that reflects the people who built our institu-tions, our families, our strength. Sometimes these stories are significant, sometimes they made us laugh out loud at the differences between then and now. At the same time, we wanted to make sure that world events didn’t get ignored, such as how early we knew about what was happening in Nazi Germany, or this region’s undying dedication to Soviet Jewry.

You’ll also hear from the people who built the Jewish Transcript, four of our past edi-tors (myself included).

The most difficult part of producing this issue of JTNews was to figure out what not to include. So much of it was valuable, so much of it was important, but not all of it could fit. But that’s the nature of the news business.

Also included are Bar and Bat Mitzvah announcements, wedding announcements, and even anniversaries that were sponsored by many of our readers. Rather than limit those visits to the past to just this one issue, we have decided to begin re-running previous life-cycles moving forward. More information about how to find your family’s events will be forthcoming.

If you want to see more, or get a more complete story from something you found in this issue, you can do that in a number of ways. First, you can find the digitally archived edi-tions online at http://jtn.stparchive.com. Second, if you’ve got the ability, head to the Seattle Room on the tenth floor of the Seattle Public Library’s main downtown building and request a look at our bound copies of the Jewish Transcript. And finally, you can help us put more of these bound editions online by making a donation to complete the next phase of digi-tal archiving. Each batch costs about $5,000 to ship, scan and post, so every little bit helps.

Finally, we would like to offer thanks to the people and organizations that made this 90th edition of JTNews possible. First, our associate editor Emily K. Alhadeff spearheaded the entire effort, from writing grants to leading volunteers to the library and our offices to help find our community’s story; volunteers Steven Cohn, Linda Elman, Charlene Kahn, Dikla Tuchman, Joanne Rossignol, and Jeffrey Barton, who spent hours hunched over our archives; our art director Susan Beardsley, who took on more than we all bar-gained for when laying out this issue; the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and King County’s 4Culture, who provided grants to launch our digital archiving process; and the Seattle Public Library, which graciously lent out its copies of our bound archives to allow this entire project to happen.

We hope you enjoy our celebration of 90 years, and we look forward to 90 more!

Joel magalnick

Publisher and editor, JTNews, The Voice of Jewish washington

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Candlelighting timesmay 23 ..................................8:31 p.m.may 30 ..................................8:39 p.m.June 6 ...................................8:45 p.m.June 13 .................................8:50 p.m.

Friday 23 May11 a.m. — ravenna Jewish Junction PJ library storytime

Kate Speizer at 206-315-7429 or [email protected] PJ Library educator Betsy Dischel leads a free community storytime for tots and their caregivers the fourth Friday of the month. At Ravenna Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave. NE, Seattle.2 p.m. — nCsY spring regional

Ari Hoffman at 206-295-5888 or [email protected] Year-end Shabbaton on Keats Island off of Vancouver, B.C. Mountain biking, rock climbing, hiking, kayaking, friends, Havdalah awards ceremony and more.

Saturday 24 May10 a.m. — Family shabbat morning

Kate Speizer at 206-315-7429 or [email protected] Brief prayer service (with guitar) and snack, a project or story, and free play. All are welcome, no membership or experience required. Free. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle.8–9 p.m. — extraordinary Women: hedy lamarr

Nancy Geiger at 206-443-6701 or [email protected] This episode of “Extraordinary Women” features Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in film, and one of the most controversial. On KCTS Channel 9, Seattle.

Sunday 25 May4–6:30 p.m. — J.team livnot Chai

Robert Beiser at [email protected] or www.livnotchai.org/j-team-monthly-optionJ.Team focuses on developing youth philanthropy and civic engagement through the principles of tzedakah (charitable acts) and tikkun olam (repairing the world). At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

Monday 26 May9:45–11:30 a.m. — memorial day learning

The Seattle Kollel at 206-722-8289 or [email protected] or www.seattlekollel.org9:45: Bagels and coffee. 10: lecture by Rabbi Roy Neuberger: “Hope for Redemption in a Chaotic World: Based on ‘2020 Vision.’” 11:30: Learning for boys and girls 3rd grade and up. Neuberger is the author of three books, “From Central Park to Sinai: How I Found My Jewish Soul,” “Worldstorm,” and his novel of Jewish redemption, “2020 Vision.” Free. At The Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.7–9 p.m. — tds Wine and dine

Sasha Mail at 206-722-1200 or [email protected] An elegant evening with gourmet food and wine with guest wine steward Michael Bernstein from the Cask. $180. At a private location, RSVP for details.

WedneSday 28 May12–1:30 p.m. — Cle: the law of holocaust reparations

Shayna Rosen at 206-774-2219 or [email protected] Foster Pepper hosts and sponsors a Cardozo Society CLE focusing on the law of Holocaust reparations. Learn about the complex law governing Holocaust reparations, the funds and resources available, the efforts of attorneys around the world, and how to volunteer. 1.5 CLE credits pending. Kosher lunch provided. $36. At Foster Pepper PLLC, 1111 Third Ave. #3400, Seattle.

7–8:30 p.m. — holy tongues and mother tongues: learning about Jewish languages

Congregation Beth Shalom at 206-524-0075 or [email protected] or www.bethshalomseattle.orgJoin professors from the UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies for a global tour of the history and culture of Jewish languages. Find out why Yiddish connects to popular culture and learn about the role of Ladino in Sephardic communities. Part three of three. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

thurSday 29 May10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. — Christian science: religion, science and healing

Ellen Hendin at 206-461-3240 or [email protected] Brian Talcott, Christian Science practitioner, will give an overview of the religion. He’ll discuss founder Mary Baker Eddy, the church’s organization, and share Christian Science’s concepts of healing, faith and prayer. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.6–8 p.m. — Cardozo society annual l’dor v’dor reception

Shayna Rosen at 206-774-2219 or [email protected] Honoring Rochelle Kleinberg Goffe. At the Law Offices of Dorsey and Whitney LLP, 701 5th Ave. #6100, Seattle.6–9 p.m. — Challah Baking Class

Masha Shtern at 206-684-7245 Taught by chef Carrie Ancel Carrillo, learn the entire process from flour to loaf: Mixing, kneading, rising, and baking, plus several braiding techniques. Ingredients provided. Bring your own apron. Leave with your own warm bread. $25. At Montlake Community Center, 1618 E Calhoun St., Seattle.6:30–9 p.m. — nYhs Gourmet Food and dessert auction

Joy Maimon at [email protected] or 206-232-5272

Sample and bid and buy delicacies whipped up by community chefs. All proceeds benefit NYHS. Free and open to all. At a private home, call for location.7–8:30 p.m. — synagogue open house

Jewish Junction at 206-384-6020 or [email protected] or jewishjunction.netHave you thought about joining a synagogue, but not sure where to start? Meet representatives from Seattle-area Jewish congregations all in one place, at one time. Free. At the Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 Eighth Ave. NE, Seattle.

Saturday 31 May10 a.m. — J explorers Campout

Stroum Jewish Community Center at 206-232-7115 or [email protected] or www.sjcc.orgGaga, canoeing, archery, arts and crafts, s’mores, campfires, a Havdalah celebration, and more. Lunch and dinner on Saturday and breakfast Sunday are provided. At Camp Kalsman, 14724 184th St. NE, Arlington.

Sunday 1 June9:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m. — Frankel religious school Brunch and open house

Leslie Mickel at 206-232-8555, ext. 220 or [email protected] or h-nt.org/calendarVisit the preschool and kindergarten classrooms. The preschool, for ages 3-5, is open to the community. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.5 p.m. — Basarfest

Ari Hoffman at 206-295-5888 or [email protected] NCSY’s annual BBQ and meat cookoff. At Sephardic Bikur Holim, 6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.7:30–11 p.m. — hoedown at helene Behar’s

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Belle & Sebastian (France, 2013)

A boy and his dog guide Jewish refugees to safety across the

Alps during World War II.

Sun., May 25, 10:30 a.m. at Pacific Place

Fri., May 30, 11 a.m. at Pacific Place

Sun., June 1, 12 p.m. at Kirkland Performance Center

A Place in Heaven (Israel, 2013)

The fateful contract between a secular Israeli army officer and

a devout young Holocaust survivor has profound and unex-

pected consequences.

Sat., May 24, 6:30 p.m. at Harvard Exit

Sun., May 25, 1 p.m. at Harvard Exit

Mon., May 26, 5:30 p.m. at Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center

The Pawnbroker (USA, 1964)

Sidney Lumet’s 1964 drama about a Holocaust survivor-turned-

pawnbroker in East Harlem haunted by the wickedness of the

world, boasts Quincy Jones’ groundbreaking score and Rod

Steiger’s star-making lead performance.

Tues., June 3, 7 p.m. at Harvard Exit

You Must Be Joking (USA, 2014)

Sas Goldberg plays Barb, a listless woman inspired by her

childhood best friend, a ballet dancer, to pick up her long-

shelved passion for standup comedy.

Fri., May 23, 7 p.m. at Pacific Place

Sat., May 24, 4 p.m. at Pacific Place

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the Second World War. Book-It

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Writing our history: Four editors reflecteMily K. alhadeFF associate editor, Jtnews

Phil Scheier moves slowly and uses a walker to shuffle from place to place, but his presence is as imposing as ever, and his mind and opinions are as sharp as tacks.

The 98-year-old former Jewish Tran-script editor makes no mention of his age.

“I ain’t never been good at arithme-tic,” he says.

Scheier took over the Transcript in 1975, when he was already in his 50s.

“I didn’t think I’d be around here for this interview,” he admits.

Scheier joined former editor Craig Degginger and current editor and pub-lisher Joel Magalnick last week to reflect on the 90th anniversary of the Jewish Transcript.

Scheier came to Seattle from Massa-chusetts, where he churned out three daily

newspapers . The temperate weather here appealed to him, and he’s glad he took the job. What he didn’t know, when he got here, was that the paper was about to go under.

“They were think-ing of junking the paper,” he said. “No one was reading it…. They’d have it mim-eographed twice a month.”

Within two years, Scheier had the Transcript operating

in the black. The community was reading the paper again — and paying for sub-scriptions.

“It was on the cusp of the electronic way of doing papers,” Scheier reflects. “I’d have to walk down to Murray Publish-ing on Third Avenue [to proof the gal-leys], and I think that was what kept me in good shape.”

“The really the big moment came in early 1987 with the advent of desktop pub-lishing,” says Degginger, who was hired by Scheier to write a campus column for $1 an inch in the early 1980s.

“We saw that as a savior of the paper. We quickly went to the computer store and bought a little Apple Plus, with a little screen, and an external hard drive. And now look where you are today.”

The world of galleys and paste-ups and waxing machines is a fond, albeit some-what anxious memory for the editors.

“The stuff from JTA came by mail,” remembers Degginger of wire stories from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, which now arrive like clockwork in email inboxes, or on the JTA website.

Scheier used to leave space for a break-ing story, call JTA in New York, and have them read it to him while he typed it up on deadline.

He laughs. “What do these kids know?”Soon after Magalnick started in 2002,

he got tired of driving the completed flats — the paper laid out on tabloid-sized graph paper — down to the printing plant in Kent.

“Pretty quickly I pushed us into elec-tronic publishing,” he says.

Times have changed, but they’ve also stayed the same. That’s sort of the theme this year. When we look at the 90 years of Transcript stories, op-eds and letters, we are struck both by outrageous advances and stunning sameness.

“Sometimes it feels like I could come back tomorrow and nothing would have changed,” says Degginger. “I look at the most recent issue: Disinvestment at the University of Washington. Been there, wrote that…. When I left in 1996, Benjamin Netanyahu was prime minister of the State of Israel. It’s 2014. Benjamin Netanyahu is prime minister of the State of Israel. It just feels sometimes like things haven’t moved along as much as I thought they would.”

Yet Degginger claims he had an inter-esting decade as the editor between 1986

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Current editor Joel Magalnick edits this story onscreen. As Phil Scheier, Jewish Transcript editor from 1975-1984 noted, putting the paper to bed is much easier today than it was when each page had to be built manually, from the ground up, to fit onto the press.


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and 1996. This University of Washing-ton campus columnist went on to cover the “handshake,” the plights of Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, Yitzhak Rabin’s assassina-tion, and the Gulf War. Back in the day, he published columns by Wolf Blitzer.

“I wrote $25 checks to Wolf Blitzer,” he says.

Until one day, when Blitzer let him know he would be moving on to CNN.

“I write back and I said, ‘What’s CNN?’” Degginger recalls with a laugh.

Degginger remembers one of his more controversial stories being the com-ing-out-of-the-closet announcement of Temple B’nai Torah cantor David Serkin-Poole in 1986. Serkin-Poole, who now sits on the JTNews board, has since married his longtime partner after decades of fight-ing for that right.

“There’s an example of where the Jewish community has evolved,” he says. “I don’t mind telling you, I got in a lot of trouble for

that. That was earth-shaking stuff. I think we’ve all had an issue where Federation wasn’t happy with what we did.”

Scheier laughs. “The more often you get them riled up

— and I used to get them riled up all the time —that means you’re doing your job,” Scheier says.

“I don’t think I ran anything that embarrassed my mother,” says Degginger. “That was a measure for me.”

Donna Blankinship, who edited the Transcript between Degginger and Magal-nick in the late 1990s-early 2000s, is no stranger to controversy, and eventually left the paper because of it. Blankinship made waves with a story about an Israel rally, when she reported on arrests of some Jewish community members.

I caught up with her at the Associated Press office in Seattle, where she has been for several years.

“ P e o p l e w e r e l i v i d b e c a u s e

t h e y j u s t w a n t e d m e t o w r i t e that there was this lovely, well- attended Israel rally,” she says.

“It was the first time the paper took on some of the tougher issues,” Blankin-ship recalls. She also infiltrated local mes-sianic Jewish groups, and she plastered the front page in January 1999 with the first Jewish baby of the year — born to a lesbian couple. But she may have paved the way for more honesty and openness.

“I’ve seen stuff in the JT way beyond anything I would have considered doing,” she says.

For Blankinship, the big stories were the World Trade Organization protests in

1999 and the September 11, 2001 attacks.“The WTO almost shut down the

paper,” she says, noting she had to walk some employees home during the riots. “The WTO had a good local connection. People sent me poems. The WTO was huge.”

The perennial question for Jewish organizations is about relevancy. Espe-cially during this era of the 24-hour digital news cycle, what’s the purpose of a twice-monthly Jewish newspaper?

“In the end it’s about community,” says Degginger. News comes and goes, and people will always want to read about people.

It’s a question Magalnick grapples with on a regular basis.

“When it comes down to it, this is information that people will not find any-place else,” he says.

“To me it’s a real precious legacy,” Degginger adds. “I was proud to do this job. No matter where I go, it’s the job everybody remembers. I can’t go to any Jewish event without someone talking about it.”

Blankinship recalls someone telling her, “Five years from now, people will stop you on the street and say, ‘Aren’t you Donna Blankinship?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, right.’ It still happens. Twelve years later.”

“A community newspaper is the gel that holds the community together,” says Scheier. “It’s a challenge, though. Believe me, it’s a challenge.”

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Former Jewish Transcript editors Craig Degginger, left, Phil Scheier, right, with current publisher and editor Joel Magalnick.

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Last Friday afternoon our community was targeted by a terrorist seeking to harm Jews. Pamela Waechter was murdered in cold blood, and five others were wounded. I would like to offer a word of condolence to the family of Pam Waechter and to all those who were privileged to know her, and to benefit from her compassion and dedication. In the traditional expression of consolation, we pray that “The Omnipres-ent should comfort you among the other mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.”

In a letter to former prime minister Ariel Sharon upon the loss of his son, the Rebbe, of blessed memory, explained the solace inherent in mentioning the destruction of Jerusalem. Our enemies, no matter how vicious, are never able to destroy our spiri-tual essence. The Babylonians and Romans who sacked the Beit Hamikdash, the Holy Temple, only affected its wood and stone. They had absolutely no power over the inner Beit Hamikdash in the heart of every Jew, the spiritual accomplishment of mitz-vot and good deeds. So too, death can only affect the body, but the soul, and the mitz-vot one does are eternal. Indeed, the merit of Pamela Waechter’s work on behalf of the community will remain forever.

May the Almighty, healer of all flesh, send a speedy recovery to all those wounded

in this horrific attack, and may we all see the fulfillment of the verse in Isaiah 8:10, “Our enemies will plot and plan, but it will come to naught, for God is with us.”

Rabbi Elazar BogomilskyNorthwest Friends of Chabad

The ancient Psalmist must have been confronting the same kind of pain, loss, and fear we feel when he sang, “I lift up my eyes to the mountains. From where does my help come? My help comes from the One Eternal, Creator of all that is....” (Psalm 121:1,2)

Anger and violence are consequences of forgetting the true nature of our being. When we collapse into our separate selves, each striving to protect what is ours from others, each suspicious and watchful and fearful, we are vulnerable to prejudice, to programmed hatred, to demonizing and dehumanizing the other.

While we strive for solutions to human hate and violence on the level they express themselves, we somehow intuit that true healing requires a greater vision. We “look to the mountains,” seeking a more inclu-sive awareness.

What we need now is a greater vision. We need to remember who we are: unique expressions of One Life, One Awareness, One Being. Each being is sacred. Each being

is held in the embrace of the Eternal Pres-ence, from which none can ever be lost.

“The Eternal One guards you as you come and go, now and forever.” (Psalm 121:8)

Rabbi Ted FalconBet Alef Meditative Synagogue

Judaism is a religion not of “why” but of “how.” There are no satisfactory answers for why last week’s horror at the Seattle Jewish Federation took place. And our tradition does not focus on answering these “why” questions. Rather our focus is on “how.” How, after this tragedy, to once again laugh, have faith, find meaning, create sacred moments and be community.

Most of our prayers (just look at kad-dish or the Amidah) end with a prayer for Shalom. Why do we need to keep repeat-ing this same request for peace? Because it is elusive and fragile, and yet of absolute importance. As Jews, we are committed to Shalom: shalom nafshi — internal peace, shalom bayit — peace in our homes, shalom bimromav — peace in the heavens and shalom aleinu — peace upon us. We commit ourselves to the hope expressed in the morning silent prayer, calling for Sim Shalom tova u’vrecha ba’olam chen vachesed v’rahamim — Grant peace, well-

being and b l e s s i n g with grace and loving kindness and mercy. And we call to the Eternal One Ufros aleinu sukkat shlomecha — spread over us the sheltering presence of Your peace.

Rabbi Jill BorodinCongregation Beth Shalom

“Alas, how lonely is the City.” As we recite that verse from Lamentations this week in memory of the Destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem long ago, we feel a similar sense of devastation over the murder of our dear Pam Waechter and the senseless shootings of the five of her fellow colleagues — Layla Bush, Carol Goldman, Dayna Klein, Christina Rexroad, Cheryl Stumbo — who we pray are in the midst of recovery.

We cannot yet fully appreciate the trauma of this incident. The healing of our community will require years and decades, rather than weeks and months.

But it is the death of Pam that wrenches our very souls. What a wonderful person and dedicated Jew. She was beloved and precious in her lifetime, and death will not part her from us nor us from her.

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eulogy for Pam Waechter

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