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ANALYSIS
JERUSALEM (JA) Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
yahu is acing one o the most acute dilemmas since his
return to power last March: How to respond to the U.N.-
sponsored Goldstone reports charges that Israel may
have committed war crimes in the Gaza war last January.
Pressure is mounting to est ablish an independent Israeli
commission o inquiry. Key international players including
the United States, Britain and France even Richard G old-
stone, the author o the U.N. report have intimated that i
Israel sets up a credible civilia n inquiry, in Goldstones ownwords, it would be the end o the matter.
Ending the Goldstone process would constitute a con-
siderable diplomatic gain or Israel, and several members
o the Israeli government, including Foreign Minister Avig-
dor Lieberman, are advising Netany ahu to go that route.
But Deense Minister Ehud Barak and the Israel
Deense Forces are strongly against such an inquiry.
Tey argue that a civilian-led investigation could cause
chaos in the army, with senior ocers looking or lawyers
instead o ocusing on military planning and training.
On Oct. 25, ater convening a meeting o his top advis-
ers, senior ministers and the top IDF brass, Netanyahu
made some initial decisions.
He promised the army that whatever commission was
nally decided on, no ocers or soldiers would be called
upon to testiy. He also ordered a team o proessionals
under Justice Minister Yaacov Neeman to come up with a
set o proposed legal, diplomatic and public relations coun-
terpoints to the Goldstone report as soon as possible.
On the commission o inquiry, Netanyahu seems to
be leaning toward a compromise proposal by Attorney
Iplications o Israli
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Andrew, a volunteer at the Jewish Family Service ood sort on Sun., Oct. 18, wheels bags and boxes rom the dropo spot at the Acme Food Sales warehouse to a table where the
packages were then sorted by type. Ater they were sorted, the ood was taken to be boxed or easy identifcation. In under two hours, a record 350 volunteers fnished sorting
about 50,000 pounds o ood, a dip o about 10,000 pounds over last year (though still more than the 40,000 donated in 2007).
Leyna KrowAssistant Editor, JTNews
Te second trial or Naveed Haq began on Wed., Oct.
21 at the King County Superior Court. Haq, 34, the man
who wounded ve women and killed one at the oce
o the Jewish Federation in July o 2006, rst stood trial
in the spring o 2008. But ater a lmost six weeks o testi-
mony, members o the jury were unable to agree on 14 o
the 15 counts against Haq.
Tis time around, the charges against Haq have been
lessened to eight counts in hopes o decreasing the number
o points the new jury must ag ree upon to reach a verdict.
Again, Haq is pleading not guilty by reason o insan ity,
with the deense claiming that mental il lness aggravated
by changes in his medication and treatment led Haq to
attack the Jewish Federation.
I Mr. Haq was not mentally ill, you would havethe perect cold-blooded killing. But the evidence
will show that this was because o an illness, deense
attorney John Carpenter said during his opening state-
ment.
Carpenter cited erratic behavior, road rage incidents,
increased paranoia and an inability to hold a job as evi-
dence o Haqs declining mental state in the months prior
to the shootings. He noted, however, that Haq had always
been attentive to his own mental health needs, seeking
out treatment rom the time he was rst diagnosed with
bipolar disorder in college until just three days beore the
attack at the Jewish Federation when he checked in with
his medication nurse.
Something thats consistent in Mr. Haqs history is
that he has always sought help, Carpenter said, later
adding that, It was the mental illness and medication
that caused this shit .
Senior deputy prosecutor Don Raz argued that
although Haq clearly suers rom mental illness, his
actions cannot be attr ibuted to his disorder. Rather, the
shootings were a deliberate choice made out o anger,
not delusion.
Naveed Haqs mental illness did not cause him
to attack the Jewish Federation, Raz said. His anger
did.
Raz pointed to well-thought-out documents Haq had
written on a computer at his parents home in Pasco in
the days beore the shooting that detailed his rustra-
tion with both Israels war with Lebanon, which had been
occurring at that time, and the U.S.s involvement in the
Middle East. Raz then described the process Haq went
through to acquire the g uns and ammunition he used or
the attack, as well as his I nternet searches that led him to
learn about the Jewish Federation o Greater Seattle, all
o which, according to Raz, indicated rational premedita-
tion on Haqs part.
He said he was doing this just to make a political
statement, Raz said. In this day and age, whats the
quickest way to make a point? Get a gun, shoot a bunch o
people and get on CNN.In his opening statement, Raz also made reerence to
including newly admitted evidence to this trial, speci-
cally, the phone calls that Haq made to his parents rom
jail in the days ollowing his arrest i n which he allegedly
said he was proud o what he had done and assumed he
would be hailed as a celebrity.
In pretrial hearings, deputy prosecutor Erin Ehlert
argued that the phone calls refect Haqs state o mind
most closely to the time o the shootings, including his
initial justications or why he committed the attack and
ought to be heard by the jury. Tey had not been heard
during the rst trial in 2008.
Why a person does something is extremely relevant,
Ehlert said.
Judge Paris K. Kallas agreed to allow the jury to hear
the phone calls.
he trials irst week ocused primarily on testi-
mony our o the ive surviving victims o the shooting,
Carol Goldman, Cheryl Stumbo, Christina Rexroad
and Layla Bush.
Te rst witness to take the stand was Kelsey Burkum,
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Rabbi ChaimLevineLivingJudaism
Te problem with trying to nd the
solution to the current economic insta-
bility is that the ans wer has nothing to do
with money. Te solution is this: We are
Blessed. Beyond imagination.
How could this be the answer? Aside
rom the act that it is one o the most un-
damental truths we can ever know, grat-
itude is a spiritual state that unleashes
creativity, perspective, and all the wisdom we need to walk through lie. Imagine i
collectively, as a nation, we turned toward
gratitude. How would that change our
think ing about how much money we have,
what we consume, and our understanding
o what is happening right now?
Judaism teaches that what happens
in the outside world is always, always,
a refection o what is happening on the
inside world. A greedy mind is a mind
without wisdom and common sense. A
earul mind is a mind without wisdom
and common sense. Te insecurity we
see today is the inevitable result o people
living in a state o agitation, without
peace o mind. Te solution thereore is
in the opposite direction.
Seeing with eyes o gratitude; eel-
ing like but or the grace o God go I, is
a simple, honest truth about our lives, no
matter what our nancial position may be
at the moment. Its also the most practi-
cal course o action we could take to deal
with the nancial situation or any situa-
tion. Te reason is simple: What perpetu-
ates downward and upward spirals is the
very thing that created it in the rst place.
People eel bound by their earul or
sometimes greedy thinking. Te moment
this changes we will begin again to do
commerce with perspective and coni-
dence. Our minds will automatically move
rom ocusing on what we dont have toseeing what we can do with what we do
have. Tis shit spurs the creativity, per-
spective, and vision to see and capitalize
on the daily opportunities that are being
created around us.
On any given day in Jewish lie, grat-
itude is being imbedded in our expe-
rience through the blessings we make
during the day. Tere is a custom to say
a beautiul prayer o thanks t he moment
we open our eyes in the morning . We have
blessings in the morning or the most
simple, yet undamental, things about
being alive. We make blessings o thanks
beore and ater we have the privilege o
eating. Te almud actually states that
we should strive each day to say at least a
hundred blessings; a hundred moments
o ocusing us on gratitude; a hundred
opportunities to not ocus on what we
dont have and to treasure what we do.
On a personal level, this moment in
time is an opportunity or all o us to have
a shit in our relationsh ip to money and its
value in our lie. We have to ask ourselves,
i what we truly value is all the things
money cannot buy amily, love, giving
then why does it righten us so much iwe lose money? Have we started to belie ve
that people who dont have money cant
have those things? Tat is impossible. So,
as they say these days, Its on us.
Having said that, we are all human and
have our moments o railty. Its a given
that we are going to have moments o eel-
ing rightened, regretul, and like weve
lost that something that makes us eel
secure. Tere will be times that it looks like
security can only come rom something
outside o us. How do we relate to those
moments? Does it seem like our human
railty is comi ng out, or more like we really
have something to be araid o?
Im not suggesting there arent people
going through great challenges. People
have been orced to sell their homes,
declare bankruptcy, and le or unem-
ployment. However, many o the people
who ace these challenges go through with
great grace, perspective, and yes, even
gratitude. We have all met people like this
in our lives. What allows them to do so is
their level o understanding about where
value and joy come rom at any given
moment. heir understanding protects
and guides them through the most di-cult times and lights a path or the rest o
us when we are eeling challenged.
Its time or us to turn away rom the
problem and continue looking toward
the solution. ime to look or the eel-
ing that comes rom seeing we are truly
blessed.
As always, gratitude will save the day.
On th conoy withinTe solution to our economic malaise is to throw o the chains o greed and ear
rabbis turn
Making us look bad
I was puzzled by the story, Answer-
ing questions on Iran (Oct., 16) about the
meeting at De Hirsch on the Iran threat.
The puzzle is that Iran is not a threat and
every rational person who examines the
details agrees with the inspectors that the
notion that there is a threat is a ction. To
host a discussion in which a alse view
o reality is contained in the title (Facing
the Iranian Threat) o the event indicates
someone is intent on ostering lies and
conusion. As a Jew and an inormed and
moral human being, I am disgusted that
any Jewish organization, indeed any orga-
nization committed to justice in any orm,
would sponsor an event that clearly is just
a pack o lies, simple war mongering.
Why are so many Jews so gullible when
it comes to right-wing nuts tr ying to make
war? It is just like Iraq all over again and
people pretend there is a discussion to
have, an open issue to debate. There isnot. There simply is no threat!
Must the right-wing nuts constantly
embarrass us? Why do we let the insane
anatics dene the way the world per-
ceives the Jewish perspective? These
jackasses just lie to create war or their
own prot and they make us all look bad
in the process. Who are these lying pigs
and why does anyone listen to them?
Dr. Richard Curtis, Seattle
a danger to the free world
The Islamic Republic o Iran is a des-
potic undamentalist military dictatorship
whose goal is hegemony in the Middle
East. Irans ability to acquire nuclear mis-
sile technology is a threat to Israel, its
Arab neighbors, Europe and America and
would set o an arms race in the Middle
East. Richard Silverstein in his Special to
JTNews Misunderstanding the Iranian
threat (Oct. 16) would have you believe
that the diplomacy that hasnt worked or
the past 30 years with Iran is the sensi-
ble way to proceed and all who disagree
with him are partisan and hard-line.
He, on the other hand, is even-handed
and moderate. Nothing could be urther
rom reality.
Mr. Silverstein, who is more comort-
able with the likes o Norman Finkelstein
and Noam Chomsky, has assembled a dis-
gruntled ormer AIPAC employee, the head
o the National Iranian Council o America
(no partisanship there), and a political sci-
entist rom the University o Pennsylvania
to be on a panel to discuss the t rue path in
dealing with Iran.
Mr. Silverstein gets many o his acts a
bit skewed as well. In a recent Washing-
ton Post /ABC poll, 78 percent o Ameri-
cans avor strong sanctions against Iran to
prevent it rom developing nuclear weap-
ons. That number approaches 90 percent
among Jews. He states that 1/3 o Jews
dont avor an attack on Iran. What is more
telling is that 2/3 would avor such action
even though none o the organizations
that support sanctions against Iran avor
an attack unless it is an absolute last resor t.
He makes a point o saying that unless you
visit Iran one cannot comment on its his-
tory and political landscape.Tell that to all the journalists and aca-
demics who have been silenced, impris-
oned or worse or commenting on this
landscape. Mr. Silversteins description
o the brutal, repressive, terror-support-
ing, Holocaust-denying and murderous
Iranian regime as an unsavory lot says
much about how he views this threat.
Mr. Silverstein is certainly entitled to
air his views on Iran, but he should be
careul when he labels people who dis-
agree with him as right-wing warmongers.
Iran is a danger to the ree world and pre-
venting them rom developing a nuclear
weapon by placing strong sanctions as an
incentive is recognized by all serious Iran
analysts as well as our European allies as
the way to proceed. We are hardly right-
wing warmongers.
Dr. Michael Spektor, Bellevue
apologists
I was dismally shocked and horried
to see JTNews run an Op-Ed by Edwin
Black a ew weeks back that used the title
Holocaust Industry, (Conronting the
Holocaust industry, Oct. 2) the phrase
invented by the countrys worst Jewish
anti-Semite, Norman Finkelstein, to justiy
the claim by neo-Nazis that Israel uses the
Holocaust to justiy its crimes.
Was the JTNews trying to grant credi-
bility to Finkelstein, himsel generally seen
as a neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier? And
then soon ollowing that,JTNews saw t to
run a column by Seattles leading apolo-
gist or Finkelstein, the anti-Semitic Jewish
blogger and pro-terror, Israel-hating smear
master Richard Silverstein. Silverstein has
yet to hear o an Islamic terrorist he does
not wish to cheer on as a moderate, nor
an Israeli he does not think needs to be
bombed in order to promote peace.
He avors Israels annihilation as part
o the so-called one state solution, in
which Israel is replaced by a Muslim Arab
state with a Jewish minority.
William Arenstein, Ramat Gan, Israel
the absurdity
Thank you or your support o Reer-
endum 71 (Editorial, Oct. 16). I agree that
it is absurd to put peoples happiness andrights to a vote. These rights and respon-
sibilities are important to me, my partner
o 22 years, and many, many others in
Washington.
Lisa E. Schuchman, Seattle
enough laws
You are absolutely incorrect in your
portrayal o Reerendum 71. Everyone has
the ability to make out a power o attorney
that will enable him/her to do everything
you say some people cant do now. We
already have in place the legal means and
dont need another.
Suzette Cohen, Steilacoom
the Missing ingredient
Just wanted to say a great big thank you
to everyone atJTNews who helped solve
the problem o the missing ingredient.
I was in the midst o making the Bee-
keepers Bundt Cake (Eat something
sweet! Sept. 11) when I realized that there
was an error in the ingredient list. It was late
in the aternoon when I called, hoping to
get a hold o Emily Moore, the ood colum-
nist. Emily was unavailable, but your sta
was so incredible. Within 30 minutes, (and
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QFC Invites You to Share Your Feast
This Holiday SeasonBy Kristin Maas, QFC Public Afairs Director
Whats or breakast or dinner is something we maynot always know or plan ahead or, but most o us knowthat there will be something or breakast, lunch anddinner today.
Unortunately, many amilies in our region are goinghungry more than ever in recent memory. FoodLieline is Western Washingtons largest hunger relieagency; providing more than 17 million meals in 2008. 51%ofthehungrypeopleFoodLifelineservesmust
choose between ood and paying or heat. 40%ofthehungrypeopleFoodLifelineservesmust
choose between ood and paying or medicine ormedical care.
40%ofthehungrypeopleFoodLifelineservesmustchoose between ood and rent.
So, what can we do to help? In 2002, QFC launchedour annual Share Your Feast ood drive benefting FoodLieline and their more than 300 member agencies,including neighborhood ood banks, shelters, and hotmeal programs.
QFC is ofering several ways customers
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Customercandonatecashat anyQFCcheckstandNovember 1st, 2009 through January 2nd, 2010.
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We all know that the economy is tough and thateveryone has tightened their nancial belts. But ifeach o us can help a little, it will make a hugedierence in the lives o hungry people throughoutour community. No one should go hungry pleasejoin us and Share Your Feast this holiday season.
Tankyou!
Edmund C. CaseJTA World News Service
NEWON, Mass. (JA) In the wake
o the Masa Lost Jews controversy last
month, reports that Jewish Agency Chair-
man Natan Sharansky believes that Israeli
Jews need to understand Jewish lie in the
Diaspora better are welcome. But what do
Israelis need to know about intermarriage
and who is going to tell them?
By implicitly equating assimilation
and intermarriage, the ad by the Jewish
Agency or Israel-unded scholarship
organization (MASA) expressed a mis-
conception that appears requently in the
English-language Israeli press. All agree
that assimilation the loss o Jewish
identity and connection is terrible. But
intermarriage does not necessarily resultin loss o Jewish identity.
o the contrary, intermarriage is
already enlarging American Jewish com-
munities. Te 2005 Boston Jewish Com-
munity Survey ound that 60 percent
o interaith amilies are raising their
children as Jews, and concluded that
although intermarriage is generally pre-
sumed to have a negative impact on the
size o the Jewish population, in Boston it
appears to have increased [it].
In addition, more than 25 percent
o the member amilies in Reorm syn-
agogues are intermarried; the Reorm
movement has been growing in both
numbers and market share.
Moreover, the inlux o non-Jewish
partners has the potential to qualitatively
enrich Jewish lie. At I nteraithFamily.com,
weve attracted thousands o personal
narratives.
Many Jewish partners express a very
strong commitment to Jewish lie and
have very supportive non-Jewish partners.
One intermarried man wrote to his ather
about his young daughter: Dad, you wont
believe this, but she speaks Hebrew. She
goes to synagogue and observes Shab-
bat. She almost knows more about our
people and our religion than I do, prob-
ably because she pays more attention in
services t han I ever did. She is a Jew, Dad. I
want you to know t hat.
Many people tell us that because they
are in i nteraith relationships, they work
harder at their Jewish involvement. Oneinterdating Jewish woman described her
eelings as she brought her non-Jewish
boyriend to meet her Holocaust-survivor
grandparents: I desperately wanted my
grandparents to know that dating Nathan
had not made me any less Jewish and had,
in many ways, strengt hened my personal
commitment to a aith that was easy
to take or granted in a Jewish home, a
Jewish grade school, and a largely Jewish
community.
Many intermarried parents recognize
the importance o giving children a single
religious identity, and there are partic-
ular aspects o Jewish lie that appeal to
them. One wrote about Shabbat, When
we sit down together, theres a peace-
ulness that comes over us. Something
about it, about the ancient Jewish prayers,
about being linked to a worldwide tradi-
tion, about sharing it together, all o us,
has truly brought the beauty and bond o
Judaism into our intermarried home.
Another wrote, I enjoyed the Jewish
encouragement o asking and answer-
ing questions. I am still ascinated that
through the guidance o texts, traditions
and teachers, I have the reedom to ques-
tion my religion and search or answers.
Intermarriage also has the potential to
increase support or Israel in America. Te
entire extended amily o the non-Jewish
partner becomes related to a Jew, and to
that extent connected with the Jewish com-
munity. Many young adult children with
one Jewish parent are interested enough toparticipate in growing numbers in Birth-
right Israel trips, returning to America with
strengthened Jewish identity.
One non-Jewish wie on an Israel
Encounter interaith couples trip told us
that when the tour director greeted the
group by welcoming them home, she
bristled, thinking, I do not agree with
the politics o this country and this is not
my home.
But by the end o the trip, I elt as
though I was leaving my extended amily,
leaving my home. I am carrying this
momentum with me back to Atlanta, she
said. For the rst time in I am embar-
rassed to admit how long, we went to
epaning th triWhat Israelis need to know about intermarriage in North America
Shabbat services. It just seemed right ater
being in Jerusalem or our last Shabbat. I
purchased a transliterated siddurso that
I can ollow along at servic es next Friday. I
am also attempting to learn Hebrew. I am
determined to read and speak some basic
Hebrew when we return home.
Israelis dont have a monopoly on
viewing intermarriage as a danger; there
are North American critics o the Boston
survey and o the Reorm movement.
Rabbi Norman Lamms hateul com-
ment that Reorm has grown by add[ing]
goyim to Jews suggests that he would
write o the young woman who now
thinks o Israel as home.
So it is very important in providing
Israelis with inormation about Jewish
lie in North America that some o the
perspectives come rom people who con-
sider intermarriage not a threat but an
opportunity that cries out or a positive
response.
Te Lost Jews ad was interpreted in
America as attacking mixed marriages,and that generated a very negative reac-
tion. People will not be attracted to a
community, a country or a way o lie i
they do not eel welcomed.
Helping Israelis to learn not to think
and talk about intermarriage as the
equivalent o assimilation will contrib-
ute to increased Jewish identity and con-
nection among intermarried amilies
something that is o vital interest to the
Jewish communities o both North Amer-
ica and Israel.
Edmund C. Case is CEO o
InteraithFamily.com. This originally
appeared in The Jerusalem Post.
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Fred aucher speaks the language o
international business. Literally. Not only
is he fuent in both Japanese and German ,
aucher boasts several decades worth o
experience working with oreign corpo-
rations as a ormer employee or the Euro-
pean Space Administration and Canon
Camera in Japan, and as a member o
the Advisory Board rade Development
Alliance and the Washington-China
Relations Committee.
None o the [current] port commis-
sioners have that kind o experience, he
said. None o them k now how to get busi-
ness to Everett.
Tats why hes applying or the job.aucher, who will be 77 in January, is one
o ve candidates running or the District
2 position o commissioner or the Port
o Everett.
aucher ran beore or port commis-
sioner in 2005 and lost.
Tat was my rst time running or
any political oce. Its very rare to win
your irst time, he said. I think my
chances are a little better now.
I elected, aucher said he hopes to
make changes to both the kind o business
the port does and the way the port is r un.
Currently, the Port o Everett has three
commissioners who each serve six-year
terms. aucher would like to see instead
ve commissioners serving or our years
each or the sake o expanding the diver-
sity o opinion on the commission and
increasing the amount o thought and
discussion that goes into port decisions.
As or the port itsel, aucher said he
would ocus heavily on developing oreign
business partners or the Port o Everett.
For instance, right now automobiles
coming rom Asia are going to acoma
or Portland rather than Everett, he said.
Teres no reason or that.
aucher said he hopes to oster rela-
tionships with automobile manuactur-
ers in Japan as well as China, which he
expects will begin selling cars to the U.S.
in the coming years.Focusing the Port o Everetts atten-
tion on automobile shipping will have
an added benet or Everett residents as
well by decreasing the need or unsightly
cranes along the Everett waterront.
Most cars come rom the actory with
enough gas in the tank to be driven on
and o the ships, he explained.
aucher said that he has been attend-
ing community meetings to introduce
himsel to people in Everett and ex plain
his goals or the port. Campaigning or
port commissioner is particularly chal-
lenging however, he said, because its not
a position most people know a lot about.
I try to talk about why I want to be
port commissioner, and then aterwards
Joel MagalnickEditor, JTNews
David Kaplans got work to do. Te
second-term Des Moines city coun-
cilmember originally ran or oice in
1997 because he saw a need or economic
development and an intransigent council
standi ng in the way. oday, his platorm is
based on those same issues, though with
dierent circumstances.
Its a very diicult economic cli-
mate, Kaplan told JNews. Its horri-
ble. Teres a lot o businesses that have
closed just this year, and we anticipate
that theres going to be others beore it all
shakes out.
his small city o about 29,000
(according to 2006 gures) and almostseven square miles has long had trou-
ble attracting business development,
Kaplan said, and one o his ongoing
goals has been to make the town more
business-riendly.
he citys at a crossroads andwe
need to continue to make some prog-
ress in terms o [having a] business base
in town i were able to sustain the ser-
vices that the citys currently provid-
ing, Kaplan said.
Tough he does see some o the citys
council unwilling to move orward,
the majority, he believes, are in avor o
doing what it takes to strengthen the Des
Moines economy.
Tis next term, should he be reelected
hes got two challengers or his seat
will be about addressing the citys reve-
nue streams and business base. Kaplan
said that in its current state, since the
passage o Initiative 695, Des Moines has
been running o o one-time inusions
into the budget. I-695 is the 10-year-old
initiative that reduced the states motorvehicles excise tax to $30. While the ini-
tiative itsel was declared unconstitu-
tional, the gist o the bill was later passed
into law by the legislature.
Tere are no more one-time projects
to bail our butt out, Kaplan said. We
need to make the budget sustainable and
we need to bring in revenue.
Some o the ideas he said he is working
on include development o about 90 acres
o land purchased by the Port o Seattle
when it developed the second runway
at Seaac Air port that have gotten nib-
bles rom developers, he said, as well as
Jws on th allot: fr TachrEverett port commissioner candidate bringsunorthodox experience and ideas to his campaign
Jws on th allot: da KaplanDes Moines councilmember up or reelection ocuses onkeeping city services sustainable
people come up to me and ask what a port
commissioner does, aucher lamented.
aucher admits that he may not have
much in the way o political experience,
but likes to think that he makes up or
it with lie experience. Well past the age
most people choose to retire, he still ser ves
as chair man or Corporate Computer, Inc.,
which he ounded in t he 1980s. aucher is
a U.S. military veteran who served during
the Korean War. He has traveled exten-
sively and is a martial arts black belt,
claiming expertise in Judo and karate.
Yet his childhood was ar dierent rom
most o his contemporaries: aucher spent
his early years hiding rom the Nazis in
Berlin during World War II. Born t he same
year Hitler came to power in Germany,
auchers survival to adulthood hingedon luck and personal connections. He and
his brother were sheltered and given ake
ID cards by a pair o German women who
were riendly with auchers parents. Te
siblings were the only members o their
amily to survive the war.
oday, aucher volunteers as a speake r
or the Washington State Holocaust Edu-
cation Resource Center, telling his story
at local schools. He also recently returned
to Berlin to participate in a documen-
tary being made about Jewish children
hidden during the war.
aucher is a member o emple Beth
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City Council-
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candidate
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What surprised Naama Levi and
Doron Dvir was the appreciation they got
rom people outside o Seattles Jewish
community.
Te two Israelis, ages 25 and 24 respec-
tively, spent six weeks in the area as el-
lows or the international arm o the Israel
advocacy organization StandWithUs. Tey
had an oten-ull daily calendar o speak-
ing at both Jewish and non-Jewish insti-
tutions, including schools, churches and
synagogues about daily lie in Israel and
their experiences serving in the army.
Tey assumed it was going to be crit-
ical throughout and many people were
very welcoming, said Rob Jacobs, execu-
tive director o StandWithUs Northwestchapter.
But plenty o people wanted to hear
what these Israelis had to say.
When they went to visit high school
classes, they said that though some o
the students asked i Israelis traveled by
camel, they learned rom Levi and Dvirs
lives, including stories about their army
experience and the Israeli-Palestinian
confict, which they said they did their best
not to portray as a black-and-white issue.
Ater so many years o hearing that
speakers were going out to the schools
sort o representing the pro-Palestinian,
anti-Israel perspective, it was nice to be
able to put some young people in ront o
the students who they were able to iden-
tiy with, Jacobs said.
Levi mentioned a mixed group o Jews
and non-Jews at an inormal event they
attended during one o their last days in
town.
hey wanted to know. hey were
curious about our experience as Israe-
lis. Tey put some good questions, some
hard questions. hey were looking to
hear answers, but they werent blocked,
she said. Tey were there to listen, and
I think thats what we accept the most people willing to be curious and open-
minded about how does it really go.
Were trying to show all sides o the
confict, Dvir said. When they nish
our lecture, [their] time with us, t hey eel,
I think, theyre getting a lot o inorma-
tion rom both sides.
Yet the pair was also surprised by the
amount o misinormation they heard
rom Seattleites about their home country.
I had conversations with people rom
the Jewish community and rom the non-
Jewish community, and I heard a lot o
things I elt like, Tis is not the army or
this is not the country I know, Dvir said.
We heard that the Israeli soldiers
[were] authorized to rape and kill Pal-
estinian women, and Israeli soldiers
killed Palestinians and buried them in
unmarked graves, and just hitting and
beating up innocent Palestinians, said
Dvir, who served as a paratrooper in the
Israel Deense Forces. [Tese are] not the
things I was told to do and these were not
the orders I received as a soldier.
What they had learned during their nine-
month training period a volunteer eort
done concurrently while they attended uni-
versity, and rom which they were selectedout o about 150 applicants was that they
would expect to ind anti-Israel senti-
ments on college campuses throughout the
U.S. Seattle was no exception.
[We] read all kinds o materials that
were spread around the university terri-
ble, terrible things about the state o Israel,
about the IDF, Levi said. Ten you go and
you talk to people rom the Jewish com-
munity, and you expect them at least to
be supportive o Israel, the Israel that you
know and grew up in in t he past 25 years.
Tey were shocked, however, in the
instances that that was not the case.
People who barely visited Israel are
putting acts to your ace that they read
somewhere or some rumors that theyve
[heard] about, Levi said.
Tat included an event they attended
that eatured two Israeli Army reuseniks
strongly critical o its policies.
I couldnt believe that someone out
o my country, an Israeli girl at the age o
18told that to people, Levi said. Tese
people [that hear] that later on go to other
people and say, Yeah, we heard this
Israeli say and this and that and that.
Tats so wrong.
But expressing those senti ments to out-
siders wasnt all that was wrong, Levi said.
So were their acts, particularly in regard
to statements she said they made about
Israeli discrimination against women.
A lie that is told is still a lie, no matter
how many times you are telling it, Levi
said. [Tis reusenik] chose not to go
in the army, and Im a lieutenant in
the Israel Deense orces. Tere are a
number o women in the Israeli parlia-
ment more than in America. We had
a prime minister who was a woman. Our
head o the Knesset is a woman. Te
head o the Supreme Court is a woman.
Tats act. Its not what I think about it.
Dvir said he was disappointed that
their visit to the Kadima Reconstruc-
tionist Community was met with closed
minds.
Tey were very polite, but I elt all the
time while I was talking, they asked me, is
it trueabout Israelis torturing or kil ling,
orillegal orders o the Israeli soldiers
against the Palestinians, he said.Dvir said he never received orders he
elt were illegal or immoral, and that he
and his ellow soldiers would jeopardize
their own lives to keep civilians sae. His
response was greeted with disbelie.
I saw them looking among each other
and smiling, and in the end they told me,
Okay, maybe youre just saying hal the
truth, maybe youre lying, youre nave.
Its not whats going on there. What can
I say? I served there. Ive seen it, he said.
I elt like Im talking to someone who has
already made up his mind. Tey were very
polite, and they were very nice, but I elt
like they [didnt] come there to li sten.
Rainer Waldman Adkins, Kadimas
program di rector, said he didnt eel those
sentiments rom his congregants.
I did not get a sense that people were
telling them t hat they were nave or speak-
ing hal-truths, Adkins said. I heard
rom a number o Kadima people that t hey
really admired [Levi and Dvir] being there
and their comportment, sharing their sto-
ries and responding to people, and that
people appreciatedthat the two o them
had a more complex view o things than
might have been the stereoty pe.
fighting th lowackVisiting Israeli StandWithUs ellows meet with appreciation, resistance or Jewish State
J M
StandWithUs International Israeli ellows Naama Levi and Doron Dvir, who spent six
weeks in Seattle representing their home country.
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Columnist
A UW graduate is rubbing shoulders
and leashes with some o Hollywoods
most popular stars and their pets.
Jacob Fenton, originally rom Port-
land, graduated rom the University
o Washington in 2001 with a business
degree. While attending the U, he served
as undergraduate president o Hillel and
chair o the Senior Student Body Council.
Now living in Los A ngeles and working
or United alent Agencies, hes an active
volunteer or Much Love Animal Rescue
(www.muchlove.org) and recently received
their Golden Heart Award. Tis is given
annually to an animal advocate or help-
ing abused and neglected animals. Jacobs
riend and client ori Spelling presented
the award at the organizations Bow Wow
Howlywood undraiser in August where
Jacob shared the stage with Priscilla Pres-
leyand other Hollywood luminaries.
Jacob has been involved with the no-
kill shelter since moving to Caliornia
almost nine years ago. His amily, ownersand operators o the Elmers Restaurant
chain or many years, has a long history o
community activism in t he Northwest.
George Cox, president o the Seat-
tle-based non-prot Alexander Hamil-
ton Friends Association, has been i nvited
to serve on the 2010 National Selection
Committee o the Coca-Cola Scholars
Foundation. Te oundation, established
in 1986 by Coca-Cola bottlers and Te
Coca-Cola Company, provides col-
lege scholarships or outstanding young
people across the country.
George says he is excited and hon-
ored to have been chosen, but it is less o
a personal recognition than it is a refec-
tion o the work we have done these past
ve years at Hamilton Friends.
Hamilton Friends recognizes high
school juniors around the country who
exhibit the characteristics o the young
Alexander Hamilton economically
challenged high achievers with proven
public service records by enrolling
them as Hamilton Scholars in its Hamil-
ton Leaders Academy. Te academy is a
mentoring program that helps students
develop strong character tra its and leader-
ship skills, gain an appreciation or Amer-
icas heritage, become nancially literate
and successully transition to college and
beyond (www.hamiltonriends.org).
J. Mark Davis, president o the Coca-
Cola Scholars Foundation, says several
Coca-Cola scholarship winners have
been Hamilton scholars and it did not gounnoticed.
Tats what brought Hamilton Fr iends
to our attention, said Davis. Tey are
obviously doing something right.
Te oundation awards 450 scholar-
ships annually. Slightly more than hal
are or $20,000 ($5,000 per year renewable
up to our years). Te remainder are or
$10,000, also on a renewable basis. Tis
represents a commitment o $7 million
over a our-year period.
When hes not involved in the Hami lton
organization (which he ounded), George
works at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney,
and says, Im still on the board o emple
Beth Am and Im still married to Puddin
[his wie, also known as Carolyn].
Gary S. Kaplan, M.D., chairman and
CEO o Seattle-based Virginia Mason
Medical Center, was recognized twice
by his peers with important awards this
month. First, he
was given the
Harry J. Har-
wick Lietime
Achiev ement
Award during
t h e M e d i c a l
Group Manage-
ment Associa-
tions annual
c o n e r e n c e .Presented to
one individual
each year, the
award recog-
nizes contributions to health-care admin-
istration, delivery and education.
A ew days later, Gary accepted the
John M. Eisenberg Patient Saety and
Quality Award rom the National Quality
Forum and Te Joint Commission (a hos-
pital accreditation group).
He was quick to share the honors with
the people with whom he works. he
awards really refect the work o a abu-
lous team eort at Virginia Mason com-
mitted to breaking new ground in quality
and patient saety and creating the perect
patient experience, he said. It is all about
a commitment to leadership [o a] team,
and commitment to nding the very best
ways tocreate an environment where
people can do their very best work.
As a member o Health CEOs or
Health Reorm, Gary is part o a coalition
o health-care leaders dedicated to cre-
ating a more sustainable health system.
He was part o a select group invited to
the White House earlier this year to dis-
cuss health-care reorm and share the
achievements o his VMMC team.
Gary is married to Wendy, a member
o the board o the Seattle chapter o the
American Jewish Committee.
Awars an honors all aronAlso: Coke and a smile Virginia Mason CEO recognized
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Virginia Mason CEO
Gary Kaplan.
am r
George Cox, president o the Alexander
Hamilton Friends Association.
c J f
Jacob Fenton, who received the Golden
Heart award rom Much Love Animal
Rescue, with his best riend.
Answers on page 9
Te Jerusalem Post
Crossword PuzzleBy Matt Gafney
Across
1 Country retreat
6 Like some kugel
10 Mimics
14 When some seders end
15 Prex or phobia16 Cleveland Jewish News location
17 Noted Dustin Homan portrayal
19 Black Jew Bonet
20 Previously owned, in ad-speak
21 Streisand-Hepburn 1968 Oscars
event
23 Gay Jewish writer Raphael
24 Allegra Goodmans workplace,
perhaps
27 Arctic bird
29 Fear Street creator
31 He shared a Nobel with
Menachem
33 Mountains top, maybe
36 Laughter sound38 Biblical verb ending
39 Unlike Sarah Michelle Gellar
42 Beore
43 Mayim Bialiks show
46 ___ o Me (im Roth show)
47 Finished
49 ___ Alamos (Feynmans hangout)
50 V miniseries o 1981
52 Wallenberg acilitated many
55 Mexican bread
56 It borders Gaza
58 But, to Browning
60 Second in command, or short
61 His wie became a pillar o the
community
62 Electronics giant
65 emple no-no
67 ons
69 Yiddish speakers
74 Tere you have it!
75 26-down, er, delicacy
76 Make one
77 Shabbat does it with Havdalah
78 Skater Lipinski
79 Actor George
Down
1 Goldman Sachs concern
2 Singer DiFranco
3 Dr. Browns ___-Ray soda
4 Overseas donations
5 Irving and an6 Second book o the Bible
7 Jewelers stock
8 Its oten shooed
9 Entebbe hero Netanyahu
10 It comes beore .com
11 Einstein on the Beach
composer
12 JS Chancellor Arnold
13 Wine variety
18 Zionist poet Goldberg
22 Computer key
24 Used rumster.com
25 First month in Madrid
26 Sondheim classic
28 Sadat once addressed it30 Zeta Beta ___ (Jewish raternity)
32 eacher
34 Extra pds.
35 Hemingway title word
37 Fitzgerald o scat
40 Beach resorts
41 Passover no-no
44 Alley ___
45 It may show Israel
48 Uri Geller claim
51 Ships route
53 Jewish Comm. ___
54 Kathy Grifn, or one
56 Send to cloud nine
57 Heights o controversy
59 Poetic work
63 Rank o Dreyus, e.g.
64 Irans setting
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70 Part o HMS
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72 Make ___ double!
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sprucing up the limited number o com-
mercial areas in the city.
In the past we havent been able to
take advantage o it, and we cant aord
to do that anymore, he said.
Te our-year gap in Kaplans coun-
cil career came rom a scandal that
resulted in the resignation o the citys
appointed mayor Don Wasson in 2003.
Wasson was alleged to have stacked the
Des Moines council with candidates
who would have been in avor o build-
ing Seaacs thi rd runway, a position t he
city was rmly against. A developer who
had hoped to create a conveyor system
on the citys waterront to provide the
runways inll was alleged to have given
$1,000 to Wasson and $49,000 to the
three candidates campaigns, which
they narrowly won.
Te total expenditures or all nine city
council candidates in this years race was,
as o Oct. 21, less than $17,000.
When the expenditures were not led
with the states Public Disclosure Com-
mission, Kaplan said he led a complaint
that resulted in the investigation that led
to Wassons resignation.
Kaplan won reelection in 2005, and
he said the rst two years o this term
were spent xing the issues that had been
neglected during what had been a our-
year stalemate.
Kaplan considers himsel somewhat
active in the Jewish community he
attends Bet Chaverim, his hometown
synagogue, and has gone to events at Kol
HaNeshamah in West Seattle. He is a con-
tributor to the Federation campaign, and
going back a ways, he says, I belonged to
ZB back in school.
Kaplan took his rst tr ip to Israel about
a year and a hal ago.
I was so inspired I wound up writing
daily e-mails to mysel, keeping track o
what I did, he said.
Upon his return, Kaplan turned
those e-mails and his photos into a
small book, which he gave to amily and
riends.
He is also one o between 15 and 20
openly gay ocials that serve in Wash-
ington State. Its a position he hopes to
keep, or the sake o nishing a job he
and his ellow council members have
started.
Ive been blessed with two terms on
the council and Id like one more to be
able to complete the changes the city
needs to be able to survive in the long
run, Kaplan said.
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Ellen Hendin at 206-861-3183 [email protected] cooking workshop led by Israeli womenvisiting rom Seattles sister city o KiryatMalachi. Hosted by Jewish Family ServicesEndless Opportunities Program. Open to all.Donations appreciated. At Temple De HirschSinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle.
6:15 p.m. A Taste o Ethnic IsraelnCarol Benedick at 206-524-0075 [email protected] orwww.bethshalomseattle.orgA special evening o ood, storytelling andcultural exploration with a group o womenrom Kiryat Malachi, Israel. $10 or adults,$3 or kids child 5-12. Free or 4 and under.Pre-registration required. At CongregationBeth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
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4 - 7 p.m. Spice It Up: Flavors o thenMiddle East!Josh Furman at [email protected] cooking workshop led by Israeli women
visiting rom Seattles sister city o KiryatMalachi. At the Hillel UW kitchen, 474517th Ave. NE, Seattle.
7 p.m. Torahthon3n206-232-8555A night o learning at Herzl-Ner Tamidsthird annual Torahthon. At Herzl- Ner TamidConservative Congregation, 3700 E MercerWay, Mercer Island.
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rom Kiryat Malachi206-723-3028Women visiting rom Seattles sister city oKiryat Malachi share stories rom Israel.Ezra Bessaroth members: $20/adult, $15/
child 12 & under, $85 per amily. Non-members: $25/adult, $18/child, $105 peramily. RSVP required. At CongregationEzra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St.,Seattle.
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Carol Benedick at 206-524-0075, ext. 4or [email protected] hour o study and discussion with Rabbi
Jill Borodin on mitzvot and middot. AtCongregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave.NE, Seattle.
SuNdAY 810 a.m. Labor Unions: Where are Wen
Today?Alysa Rosen at 206-525-0915, ext. 210 or
[email protected] Stern, chair o the Healthy Washing-ton Coalition, will discuss the new directionsthe labor movement is heading in thiscountry. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80thSt., Seattle.
1 p.m. Jewish Single Parent FamilynGet-TogetherMarjorie Schnyder at 206-861-3146 [email protected] opportunity or single Jewish parents toshare ideas or managing the upcomingwinter holidays, and to make Jewish cratswith their children. At Jewish Family Service,1601 16th Ave., Seattle.
4:30 7 p.m. A Taste o Ethnic IsraelnRoni Antebi at [email protected] cooking workshop led by Israeli womenvisiting rom Seattles sister city o KiryatMalachi. For Hebrew speakers and the Israelicommunity. $15 per person. RSVP orlocation, Issaquah.
7:30 p.m. NYHS Open HousenMelissa Rivkin at 206-232-5272, ext. 515or [email protected] house or prospective NYHS studentsand their amilies. At Northwest YeshivaHigh School, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Seattle.
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TheaterCarol Benedick at 206-524-0075 [email protected] orwww.bethshalomseattle.orgIn commemoration oKristallnacht, Congre-gation Beth Shalom and the WashingtonState Holocaust Education Resource Centerpresent a readers theater perormance o
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7 p.m. Bowling at the GaragenMadeline Bellar at 425-502-0255 [email protected], socializing, and drinks with theTribe at Temple De Hirsch Sinai. At theGarage, 1130 Broadway Ave., Seattle.
WedNeSdAY 117 p.m. Torahthon3n
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BazaarRisa Coleman at [email protected] Jewish Day School o MetropolitanSeattle is hosting a Hanukkah bazaar. At the
Jewish Day School, 15749 NE 4th St.,Bellevue.
12:30 p.m. School o Social Work Loxnn LearnJacob at [email protected] Will Berkovitz or Rabbi Jacob Finewill lead an inormal discussion on a topicto be announced. Non-social work studentsare welcome. RSVP requested. At the UWSchool o Social Work, room 116.
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Devlin Donnelly at 206-323-8486 [email protected] Rock Shabbat ollowed by dinner anda lecture by members o the Washington State
Jewish Historical Society about the history oJewish businesses in Washington. At TempleDe Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle.
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5 p.m. 2009 AIPAC Washington StatenMembership EventSarah Persitz at 206-624-5152, ext. 6201or [email protected] event or local AIPAC members. Atthe Westin Hotel, 1900 5th Ave., Seattle.
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Dear Rivy,
With the all holidays now over,
weve begun to read the orah rom
the beginning. Determined to have a
new beginning mysel, I attended ser-
vices on that frst Shabbat o the new
orah cycle. Following along the read-
ing I came across a very puzzling char-acter: Enoch. Ater Googling around, I
am still quite perplexed about him. Did
he die or not? What does it mean to be
taken by God? Is there another Enoch
who is in later books, such as the Book
o Enoch?
Given the almost unathomable
nature o the six days o creation, the
Garden o Eden and angels alling rom
heaven, I am impressed that you noticed
the diminutive episode o Enoch. I share
your curiosity and ind mysel oddly
drawn to Enoch as well. hough an
extremely minor character in the Bible,
he takes on an unoreseen second lie,
when he returns almost center stage in
the Second emple era to star in several
apocryphal and pseudepigraphal works,
including, o course, t he Book o Enoch.
He is a Zoharic mystical gure and
is listed in Derech Eretz Zuta as one o
those who entered the Garden o Eden
while yet alive. Actually, what with the
rumor o remarkable removal rom
this world, it is, ironically, quite tting
or him to enjoy a pronounced literary
comeback. Yet his name does not appear
in either o the almuds and the sages in
Bereshit Rabbah are quick to denounce
Enoch. He is ar rom perect and cer-
tainly not supernatural. he world
seems to be divided: Enoch devotees vs.Enoch detractors.
But we are getting ahead o ourselves.
Lets go to the source; time to open the
Enoch les. Consider the verses starting
rom the beginning o the th chapter
oBereshit. Notice that in this seemingly
methodical rote listing o one begat ater
another, there is a surprising, abrupt devi-
ation: Generation number seven. Here
we learn that Adam lives 930 years, Sheth
912, Enosh 905, Kenan 910, Mahalalel 895,
Jared 962, Enoch 365, Methuselah 969,
Lamech 777 and Noah 950 years. O the 10
generations, seven live into their 900s, one
into his 800s, and another into his 700s.
Yet Enoch lives a stunted 365 years, a
stark contrast and almost a third o that o
his own son, Methuselah, the longest-liv-
ing human ever. Te others listed have no
storyline, just quick data: How old at the
birth o their ch ild, how many years lived,
and then end o story. But suddenly, with
Enoch, our begat list is interrupted with
perhaps the shortest o short stories: And
Enoch walked with God, and he was not;
or God took him.
Tis terse tale has led to much spilled
ink, and or good reason. Our biblical ears
perk up when reading enigmatic expres-
sions such as Walked w ith God, And he
was not and God took him. Te parsing
o each individual phrase is the key to our
unlocking Enoch.
First, and Enoch walked with God.
He was the rst, but certainly not the
last to walk with God. We know o others
who walk with God. here is Noah,
then Abraham, whom God specically
instructs to walk with him but ends up
walking before God.
Walking beore God is something
decidedly dierent than walking with
God. According to Rabbi Amnon Bazak,
an Enoch detractor, there is walking and
there is walking. He theorizes that Enoch
walked with God, to the exclusion o
others and was thereore taken rom the
world beore his time. Noah, too, walked
with God without being involved with the
world around him and was secluded on
the ark while the rest o civilization per-
ished. It is only Abraham who walks beoreGod, as i showing the way or others and
can then become the patriarch o the
People Israel.
he expression and he was not
stands out or Dr. Avivah Zornberg. She
links this notion o einenu related to
the word, ein none and he was not
to the sale o Joseph, where the same
expression is used by brother Reuben,
and then later to Prophet Jeremiah
describing the weeping o Rachel or her
children, because they too were not.
Were not eels very dierent rom a
more denite and unequivocal expres-
sion, such as died.
Why say o Enoch that he was not, i
it could have been stated as directly as a ll
the others? Why the pronounced switch
to this demure poetic expression? Is our
say-it-like-it-is Bible going euphemisti-
cally Victorian?
Zornberg explains the phrase in her
book, Te Beginnings of Desire, it does and
does not mean death. All one can speak
o is the surprise, the shock, the specula-
tions, the hope, that not being evokes.
Enochs age should provoke us and wake
us up to the reality that even when the
numbers are drastically out o the ball-
park relative to our liespans, 365 is dying
young and that is not okay, even bibli-
cally speaking. It is riveting, poignant and
should eel as i it cannot quite be the na l-ity that the word death would bring. And
he was not. Enoch was not he was
taken beore his time.
he third phrase: Is there more to
being taken than decorous niceties?
here must be. he orah has no com-
punction o oering the ull rawness
o lie and the leaving o it. I the word
death could be used but was not, there
must be more going on. For some, it
conjures up Elijah like chariots o ire
and being translated up to the Divine
sphere. Apotheosis central, olks. Were
talking ull-scale transormation to an
all-spiritual being o an angelic nature.
Indeed, an early translation o the
orah, the argum Yonaton renders the
verse way beyond the basic removal to
Heaven and has Enoch becoming the
angel Metatron, the great scribe o the
upper world.
Tis being taken is the base upon
which all o the mystic legends o the
Second emple period are built. Tat this
very language being taken is used in
other biblical verses to describe uncom-
plicated everyday death is irrelevant to
those who wish to see here a supernatu-
ral mystical movement heavenward, cer-
tainly irrespective o staunch rabbinic
dismissal o such approaches.
Lis ct shortTe cryptic, short story o Enoch tells o a lieended beore its time
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Even trees have lie spans. But one
tree, a horse chestnut known to genera-
tions o teenagers the world over as the
only connection to the outside world or a
young woman in hiding during the Holo-
caust, is getting a new lie. Eleven new
lives, actually.
here was some talk o cutting it
down about a year or two years ago, and
there was a big uproar and protest, said
Ilana Kennedy, director o education at
the Washington State Holocaust Educa-
tion Resource Center.
When she began to read reports that
authorities in Amsterdam would take
cuttings rom this storied tree and grow
saplings so it could live on, Kennedy triedgure out a way to get one o those sap-
lings to Seattle.
I couldnt quite connect the dots on
what we could do with a tree, Kennedy
said. What was I going to do, plant it and
water it or something?
But then Kennedy, who said she has
a very black thumb, got a call rom the
Seattle Dept. o Parks and Recreation.
It turned out that the parks superin-
tendent had been paying attention to
the plight o the Anne Frank tree and
was hoping to bring one o the saplings
to Seattle as well. So one o the orest-
ers called Kennedy and made the con-
nection.
He was going to take care o it, they
were going to plant it, nd the place,
Kennedy said. We just had to come up
with the educational plan, which is what
they were looking or, which is what were
about anyway.
So Kennedy drew up the proposal to
the New York-based Anne Frank Center,
which had to show how the tree might
be used to teach tolerance and com-
memorate some event in that com-
munity that had displayed a type o
intolerance.
Te timing on this is actually quite
interesting, Kennedy said, because
what I proposed was I wanted the tree to
symbolize not just tolerance, and to be
a reminder in Seattle o this, but to also
commemorate the [Jewish Federation]
shooting that happened here in 2006.
Kennedy had testied in the Federa-
tion gunmans retrial the day she spoke
withJNews.
But more than memorialize the shoot-
ing at the Jewish Federation o Greater
Seattle itsel, she wanted to show how di-
erent groups within Seattles community
responded ater that tragedy.
I thought, thats what we want to
remember: What happens when we all
come together over something, she said.
So we put that in the proposal, along
with our educational plan on teachingabout the Holocaust and about teaching
tolerance.
Kennedy contacted several organiza-
tions both in and out o the Jewish com-
munity to sign on as supporters o the
application, and built a list that includes
the Washington State Jewish Histori-
cal Society, the Jewish Federation, the
Northwest Arican American Museum,
the Pride Foundation and others.
he Holocaust Center learned on
Oct. 16 that they would be one o 11 sites
in the U.S. to receive saplings rom the
tree. Other locations include the White
House, the Boston Common, Idahos
Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial,
branching otDying tree in ront o Anne Frank home to have rebirth in Seattle
and the National September 11 Memorial
& Museum in New York.
According to Yvonne Simons, exec-
utive director o the Anne Frank Center
USA, which decided upon the recipients
o the saplings, the Holocaust Centers
application was chosen both because
o the proposed site and your excellent
online resources to involve the commu-
nity and the act you have a Holocaust
speakers bureau, Simons said in a state-
ment. Your message o tolerance was
well received and compelling.
Simons also cited the Federation
shooting as a consideration.
Mark Mead, an urban orester who
works in the parks department, said they
decided upon Volunteer Park in Seattles
Capitol Hill neighborhood partly because
o its central location, but also because oits historical status as a John Olmsted-
designed park and the draw or the Asian
Art Museum and the conservatory. Te
tree will likely not need to acclimate to
Seattle weather.
Te species is very adapted to this
area, and theres no real consideration in
regard to [that] other than standard prep-
aration, Mead said.
Reports had stated that the saplings
at the 11 locations would be held under a
two-year quarantine beore being allowed
to take root, but in Seattles case at least,
the parks department has a workaround.
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The sounds of a forgotten languageJoel MagalnickEditor, JTNews
Renowned Israeli singer Yasmin Lev y
has broken through as an international
sensation in part because o her album
Mano Suave, which is sung largely in the
Sephardic language o Ladino. Levy, the
daughter o well-known urkish com-
poser and cantor Yitzhak Levy, will make
a stop in Seattle next month as a part o
her rst U.S. tour. She connected with
JNews via e-mail.
JNews: Tough youve studied musicmost o your lie, was it your athers
Ladino music and cantorial record-
ings that inspired you to become a pro-
essional musician? What about your
mother?
Levy: I was inspired by both my ather
and my mother. My mom taught me how
to sing, but she always considered my dad
as the great teacher, even i I didnt really
know him. She always had me liste n to his
singing and told me how he would have
sung any particular song. W hen I decided
to see i I could become a singer, she used
to sing with me day and night until she
elt I was ready to step out as a singer. Te
unny thing is that I always thought that
as a daughter o two singers, I wouldnt be
able to become anywhere near as good as
they were.
JNews: When you began your musical
career, did you hope to have the oppor-
tunity to work as internationally as you
have?
Levy: My irst album was released
when I was 24 years old. I ne