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From the Jewish Transcript, June 17, 1957.Golf anyone? These eight local leaders were among the 64 men who partici-
pated in the first of what was promised would become an annual golf tournament, sponsored by Seattle Lodge No. 503, B’nai B’rith, and the Seattle Jewish Commu-nity Center. Each of the winners in three categories was presented with a trophy by Mayor Gordon S. Clinton.
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ten things about the ten commandments 5Rabbi’s Turn columnist Bruce Kadden introduces us to 10 things we probably didn’t know about those ever-important Ten Commandments.
what’s our responsibility? 6Given the number of mass shootings in recent years, what are Jews’ attitudes toward gun ownership?
how a student beat divestment 7Even before a motion was introduced, one student at Western Washington University was pivotal in ensur-ing that no motions to divest from Israel will see the light of day.
holocaust museum breaks ground 8The new Belltown museum, when it opens in early 2015, will bring in thousands of visitors each year to give them a better understanding of the Holocaust and other genocides.
rallying for the kids 11A rally last week on Mercer Island let the families of three kidnapped Israeli teens know they’re not alone.
northwest jewish Familyif universal preschool comes to seattle 18Should voters approve a universal pre-K levy this November, the benefits would likely outweigh any draw-backs.second fiddle 19Abba Knows Best columnist Ed Harris relishes his status as the lesser parent.
mixed families 22Children’s book reviewer Rita Berman Frischer looks at stories that tell of being Jewish and “something else.”
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candlelighting timesJune 27 .................................8:53 p.m.July 4 ....................................8:51 p.m.July 11 ..................................8:47 p.m.July 18 ..................................8:41 p.m.
Friday 27 June6–9 p.m. — pride shabbat at Temple beth am
Alexis Kort at 206-525-0915 or [email protected] or www.templebetham.orgA celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer jews with their friends, allies, and families. Kosher Shabbat dinner after services. ASL interpreter available. Free. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.8 p.m. — Funny girl
Box Office at 425-392-2202 or [email protected] or villagetheatre.org/issaquah/Funny-Girl.phpThe irrepressible story of Fanny Brice: comedienne, Vaudeville star, and one of the most celebrated entertainers of her time. Select Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m., Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Senior and youth discounts available. $46-$65. At Village Theatre,
303 Front St. N, Issaquah.6–11 p.m. — The amazing adventures of kavalier & clay
Book-It Repertory Theatre at 206-216-0833 or [email protected] or www.book-it.orgIn 1939 Joe Kavalier smuggles himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague and reappears in New York to live with his cousin, Sammy Clay. Based on Michael Chabon’s tale of escape, transformation, magic, and moxie. Theatrical event complete with dinner break. $23-$42. Through July 13. At The Center Theatre at the Armory, 305 Harrison St., Seattle.
Sunday 29 June8–10 p.m. — Jewish comedy show: guilty giggle
Erez Benari at 425-501-7225 or [email protected] or www.erezbenari.comFeaturing comedians Nick Decktor, Paul Barach, Tyler Schnupp, Rome Davis and Ron Reid, hosted by Erez Benari. Adults only. $15. At Parlor Billiards and Spirits, 700 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue.
Friday 4 July6–7:15 p.m. — kinder kabbalat shabbat
Alexis Kort at 206-525-0915 or [email protected] or www.templebetham.org/community/familiesDesigned for kids 6 and younger. Greetings, candle blessings, challah, prayers, dancing, a story, and blessings. Led by Shoshanah Stombaugh. Light dinner for kids before services at 6:15. No RSVP
sunday, july 13 at 8 p.m.
the lego movie
outdoor film
Come to the J’s Kesher Com-
munity Garden to watch “The
Lego Movie” under the stars.
Ordinary Lego minifigure
Emmet prophesies to save
the Lego universe from the
tyrannical Lord Business, who plans to use the Kragle to glue everything in place.
S’mores at 8, movie starts at approximately 8:30. Free. At the Stroum JCC,
3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. For more information contact 206-232-7115 or
[email protected] or www.sjcc.org.
sunday, june 29 at 3 p.m.
the lost town
film
“Lost Town” tells the story of Trochen-
brod, an almost exclusively Jewish
town in Ukraine decimated by the
Nazis in 1942 and made famous by
Jonathan Safran Foer’s book “Every-
thing is Illuminated.” The film follows Avrom Bendavid-Val, who has dedicated his
life to piecing together his family and the town’s history and interviewing former
residents, such as Betty Gold, a Cleveland Jewish leader who is one of the last
survivors of Trochenbrod. Gold will speak after the film and sign copies of her new
book, “Beyond Trochenbrod: The Betty Gold Story.” Reception to follow.
At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. For
more information contact 206-232-7115 or [email protected].
thursday, july 10 at 7 p.m.
tzofim friendship caravan concert
performance
The Tzofim Friendship Caravan, a troupe of 10 talented Israeli youth, part of the
Friends of Israel Scouts, comes stateside to sing, dance, and tell personal stories
in a performance that depicts the vitality of Israel. Started in 1973, the Friendship
Caravan tours North America every summer to promote a “message of hope and
peace for Israel.” $5 child, $10 adult, $25 family. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer
Way, Mercer Island. For more information contact 206-232-7115 or [email protected],
or visit www.sjcc.org.
required. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.
ThurSday 10 July10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — The ecosystem of the book business
JFS Endless Opportunities at 206-461-3240 or [email protected] or
www.jfsseattle.orgCan a bookstore be both an economic ecosystem and feed the soul? A panel of managers and owners discuss their roles in building communities where book lovers, authors and the public come together to exchange ideas. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.
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“i believe strongly that high tuition and low wages prevent many families from affording quality programs and prevent quality teachers from remaining in the field of early learning.” – leah lemchen, director of early childhood education at congregation beth shalom, on the proposed universal preschool program possibly coming to seattle. see the story on page 18.
alleged friends
Shoshana Wineburg’s impassioned plea for “transparency” regarding BDS and other
issues germane to the Israel-Palestinian conflict in her open letter to Ari Shavit (June 13)
begs an obvious question: Short of unconditional surrender to Mahmoud Abbas and his
kleptocratic Palestinian Authority, when might we expect some transparency on the part
of Ms. Wineburg and her coterie of insatiable critics vis à vis their intentions toward Israel?
For what she has given us is yet another warmed-over serving of the half-truths and
fables she and her ilk, past and present, have been circulating since Israel made the unforgiv-
able mistake of winning a 1967 war thrust upon it by an Egyptian-Syrian cabal, a war openly
aimed at Israel’s destruction.
Is there “suffering” and poverty among the Palestinians? Without doubt. But it is hardly
as a result of the Jews or Israel having disdained their plight. Israel has provided the jobs that
put food on the tables of thousands of Palestinian families who cross the Green Line daily to
work in construction, manufacturing and the retail trades.
Ms. Wineburg laments the Palestinians’ lack of a “home.” There are already two Palestin-
ian states: Jordan, illegally gouged by the British mandatory power out of the land set aside
for a Jewish national home, and Gaza, from which Israel unilaterally withdrew in 2005. Hash-
emite Jordan has a 70 percent Palestinian majority. Gush Katif, from which 10,000 Jews
were expelled, was being readied as a rocket-launching site by its new Hamas tenants as
soon as the last Jewish bus left.
Despite all this, three Israeli governments were prepared to vacate 80-97 percent of
Judea and Samaria for a third Palestinian state in exchange for peace and recognition of
Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. There were no takers. Mr. Abbas and Mr.
Arafat before him made it quite clear, in word and deed, that the only Palestinian state they
would accept is one that would have made Israel’s existence an historic footnote.
Israel will have to carry on without her niggardly blessings. There are limits to what
alleged friends think they can demand of friends and still be regarded as friends.
william mehlman
efrat, israel
speak for yourself
This is in response to Shoshana Wineburg’s open letter to Ari Shavit of June 13. I am a Mil-
lennial. I have been on Birthright and formed lasting friendships. I have participated in the full
range of Jewish observance, from Reform to Orthodox, and have invested much personal
time and effort studying the histories of our people and the modern State of Israel. While I
respect Shoshana’s right to share her opinion, I found her statements on Jewish Millennials
and Israel disturbing and full of error, both in fact and degree. She describes this “universal-
ism” that appeals so much to us Millennials and what we all feel concerning Israeli-Palestinian
relations. I can only speak for myself; and what I’d like to say is that Shoshana doesn’t know
me, and hasn’t a clue about how I feel. So the next time Ms. Wineburg decides to speak on
behalf of an entire generation, please remember to exclude me.
elizabeth meyers
seattle
Ten things you might not know about the Ten Commandmentsrabbi bruce Kadden Temple beth el
Earlier this month we cel-ebrated Shavuot, the holi-day of “matan Torah,” the “giving” or “gift” of Torah. It had special meaning for our family this year because our first grandchild, Matan Aviv Ballon, was born on May 5, which was not only Cinco de Mayo, but the fifth of Iyar, Israel Independence Day; I guess that means he is destined to be inde-pendent.
In any case, the Torah reading for the first day of Shavuot is Exodus 19-20, which includes the Ten Commandments. While most of us are familiar with this text, over the years I have discovered a variety of interesting facts about the Ten Commandments that are not as well known. So here are ten things you might not know about the Ten Commandments:• The Ten Commandments are not referred to in the Torah as the ten mitzvot, but most commonly “aseret had’varim,” literally “the ten words” (Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 4:13, 10:4). They are also referred to in Jewish texts as “aseret ha-dibrot” which also means “the ten words” or “the ten sayings.” This understanding helps make sense of the fact that “I am the Eternal your God who led you out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage,” which is a statement and not a command-ment, is the first of the ten.• The Ten Commandments were recited as part of the daily sacrificial ritual in the Temple but were omitted by the rabbis when they created the worship service. Talmud Brachot 12a tells us the Ten Command-ments were recited in the Temple along with the three paragraphs of the Shema, the priestly blessing from Numbers, and other blessings. The text then says that the people wanted to do the same thing outside of the Temple, but were prevented from doing so due to the “minim.” These were sectarians (early Jewish-Christians according to some) who claimed that the Ten Commandments were the only mitzvot incumbent upon the community. In response to this claim, the rabbis refused to allow the Ten Com-mandments to be recited as part of the daily prayers outside the Temple.• The Ten Commandments are found not only in Exodus (chapter 20) and Deuter-onomy (chapter 5) but also, according to the rabbis (Leviticus Rabbah 24:5), in Leviticus (chapter 19). The order of the commandments and their wording in Leviticus are different, and in a couple of
instances the identification is a stretch. For example, “You shall not murder” is said to be reflected in the teaching “Do not stand by the blood of your neighbor” (Leviticus 19:16).• While Judaism and Chris-tianity agree there are ten commandments, they do not agree on what those com-mandments are. Judaism con-
siders “I am the Eternal your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage,” to be the first com-mandment, but Christianity does not. So how does Christianity still end up with ten? The Catholic Church divides the commandment against coveting in two: One prohibiting coveting one’s neighbor’s wife and the other prohibiting coveting one’s neighbor’s goods. In the Protestant tradition, “You shall have no other gods beside me” is considered distinct from the prohibition against graven images that follows, whereas these are considered as one commandment in the Jewish and Catholic traditions.• The word Torah in gematria (Jewish numerology) has a value of 611; but the rabbis enumerated 613 commandments in the Torah. They accounted for this dis-crepancy by teaching that the first two of the Ten Commandments were directly spoken by God to the Jewish People, whereas the other 611 were transmitted through Moses (Makkot 23b-24a).• There are different ways to chant the Ten Commandments depending on whether one is studying them or reading them aloud during a worship service. When one chants the Ten Commandments during a worship service, the trope is arranged so each commandment is chanted as if it were a single verse (even though some are more than one verse). However, when one is studying this text, the trope treats each verse individually.• Many synagogues have a representation of the Ten Commandments above the ark; this is a relatively recent innovation. Responsa both supporting and opposing the displaying of the Ten Commandments above the ark only began appearing with the rise of the practice among 19th-cen-tury Reform Judaism.• The commandment to honor our par-ents is one of the few commandments in the Torah that promises a reward. “Honor your father and your mother, that you may long endure on the land that the Eternal your God is giving you” (Exodus 20:12). In
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Deuteronomy 5:16, a second promise, “and that you may fare well” is also included. For the rabbis, these rewards indicate the importance of this mitzvah. According to the Talmud, it is one of the mitzvot for which one is rewarded both in this world and in the world to come (Shabbat 127a).• According to the rabbis, “You shall not steal” refers not to the stealing of pos-sessions, but to kidnapping. The rabbis concluded that the prohibition against stealing found in Leviticus 19:11 refers to stealing property, whereas the prohibition against stealing in the Ten Command-ments prohibits stealing a human being.
They arrived at this conclusion because in the Ten Commandments, stealing is listed among murder and adultery, both of which are crimes against persons.• The tenth commandment, which forbids coveting, on the surface seems to deal with a thought or a feeling rather than a behav-ior, which raised a concern for many rabbis. The rabbis taught that a desire for an object might lead to stealing the object and a desire for another man’s wife might lead to adul-tery or even murder. They also note that the text is specific, referring to one’s neighbor’s property and one’s neighbor’s wife, some-thing that belongs to someone else.
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Jews and guns: What’s our responsibility?emily K. alhadeFF associate editor, JTnews
Mike Tobias lives on a boat in Ballard with his wife, their dogs, and two guns. On the back of his car are two bumper stick-ers: One has an image of a Star of David in American flag print, two rifles, and the unequivocal statement, “Gun control is NOT kosher”; the other has an X-ed out swastika and reads, “Gun control made the Holocaust possible. No more Nazi gun control laws.”
“What the anti-gun community fre-quently ignores is that every year, on average, guns are used 2 million times to stop crimes,” Tobias explained in his native Kentucky drawl. “You never see the headline, ‘Yesterday 88 million legal gun owners didn’t kill anyone.’”
Tobias, a security officer in downtown Seattle, is involved with Jews for the Pres-ervation of Firearms Ownership, a Wiscon-sin-based nonprofit aimed at educating Jews about “the historical evils that Jews have suf-fered when they have been disarmed.”
Tobias is of the opinion that individu-als are in charge of their own safety. Twice in the past two years, he’s been glad to have a gun on him when he encountered aggressive figures while out late at night. He’s in his 60s; he has a pacemaker. He can’t protect himself like he might have once been able to, he told me.
“If you’re a criminal and a lot of people
have concealed weapons, you’re going to think twice,” he said.
Tobias will not be voting in favor of Initiative 594 in November, a ballot mea-sure that, if passed, will require criminal background checks on all gun sales.
“It’s another law that won’t do any good,” he said.
The spate of recent shootings up the West Coast, not to mention the massa-cres in Colorado and Connecticut, have made it clear that something needs to be done, and whether that means more guns or fewer is a point of debate.
Much of the organized Jewish com-munity, affected by the July 2006 shoot-ing at the Jewish Federation of Greater
Seattle, has gotten behind gun control in the form of the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility, a 501(c)(4) non-profit formed in January 2013 advocating for the legislation, and the Center for Gun Responsibility, a 501(c)(3) that launched last month, which is looking beyond the November election.
According to Daniel Weiner, senior rabbi at Temple De Hirsch Sinai, the alli-ance formed in response to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in New-town, Conn., in December 2012.
“Something needed to be done,” he said. About 60-70 leaders of different faith groups got together, and the result of their conversations became the alliance and the initiative. At this point, 16 Jewish orga-nizations and congregations, including the Jewish Federation, the Stroum Jewish Community Center, and the Anti-Def-amation League have signed on, plus a number of clergy.
I-594 will close the “gun show loop-hole” and require everyone who wishes to purchase a gun, even privately, to undergo a criminal background check. The state legislature was charged with addressing the initiative but declined to do so, thereby sending it to voters in the fall.
Though many recent shooters stole their guns from relatives, according to the alli-ance, mandatory background checks will make it harder for people who shouldn’t have access to guns to obtain them.
“There’s no single solution to ending gun violence,” said Cheryl Stumbo, the initiative’s citizen-sponsor and a survivor of the shooting at the Jewish Federation. “Background checks are the foundation piece to make anything happen.”
“We know states that do have criminal background checks experience lower levels of intimate partner violence and suicide by gun,” said Zach Carstensen, the Fed-eration’s director of government relations and public affairs. “Missouri had a crim-inal background check. They repealed it. The homicide rate went through the roof.”
Carstensen and Stumbo assure that this is not an anti-Second Amendment initia-tive. Literature put out by the alliance notes that eight out of 10 Washington State resi-dents support background checks.
“We have a number of responsi-ble firearm owners who believe in back-
ground checks,” said Stumbo. “I am all for people with concealed carry permits being around me. You’re a good guy.”
Weiner points out that the Second Amendment is preceded by the First, which is the right to life, liberty, and happiness. “From a Jewish perspective, if this will save one life it’s already a success,” he said.
Rabbi Moshe Kletenik echoes this sen-timent.
“Judaism recognizes the intrinsic value of life. There is an obligation to protect life,” he said. “There’s also an obligation of the government to protect its citizens. Background checks don’t infringe on any-body’s rights.”
Kletenik, the director of the Seattle Vaad HaRabanim, also testified before the legis-lature at the initiative’s hearing in January.
“The sources kind of speak for them-selves,” said Rabbi Ben Hassan of Seph -ardic Bikur Holim Congregation. “I would say there should be tighter legisla-tion for buying weapons based on a rab-binic tradition.”
In the same way a bartender should stop serving a customer who has had too much to drink, gun sellers have an obliga-tion not to sell weapons to customers who might do harm, Hassan said.
“These things for me are quite clear,” he said. “If someone is spiritually blind we cannot allow them to stumble.”
Hassan received some critical feedback after a talk he gave on the subject earlier this year. Like Tobias, some congregants look to the Holocaust as a cautionary tale. (“We have 6 million reasons to carry guns,” Tobias said.)
“Those who want to have personal arms, [its] because of what happened in the Holocaust, and they never want to be in a position where they are vulnerable,” said Hassan.
The Washington State Holocaust and Education Resource Center is part of the alliance, and according to the center’s direc-tor Dee Simon, its mission is to educate and help eliminate the causes of violence by encouraging students to call out injustice.
“By using the stories of rescuers we teach students that one person can make a difference,” she said. “We are concerned about all violence and work hard to help students navigate a complex world.”
But in the meantime, with neo-Nazis and others still out there who seek Jews harm — a lesson learned from the Fed-eration and more recently the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City — some Jewish community firearms owners may be inclined to carry their weapons into synagogues and community institutions. (Most sources agree that car-rying a gun on Shabbat is not prohibited.)
It’s a possibility Kletenik and Hassan are opposed to. Both prefer security pro-tocols, like hosts and screeners.
“There should be no reason for anyone
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misplaced priorities
Asher A. Nov’s letter (“The Greatest Sin?” June 13th) decrying the JTNews’s reporting of the
facts surrounding the Eli Varon case displays an unfortunate corruption of priorities.
Janis Siegel did not humiliate anybody. She reported the facts of an important case that deals
with an issue that our community must honestly confront. The charges being brought are the
result of an investigation by the police and have nothing to do with “destroying this young man’s
reputation.” They are about protecting the victim.
Dr. Nov also injects anti-Semitism and BDS into a topic that has nothing to do with either. To
imply that they are relevant to this case merely distracts from the important conversations that
we should be having about making sure our children are safe.
joshua strassman
seattle
a long line of leaders
After reading the recent opinion piece by Rabbi Oren Hayon (“What have we lost?” May 30)
about the divisive BDS debate at the UW, I’m struck by the strong, thoughtful, effective leader-
ship we enjoy and have enjoyed at our Hillel. Rabbi Hayon didn’t fully describe the important stra-
tegic role he played in coordinating campus and community resources during the past two years
in anticipation of the threat to Israel’s legitimacy posed by the BDS campus effort. But he didn’t
stop there. He recognizes the collateral damage caused by such a campaign, even while the BDS
effort was stymied at UW. He understands that the real battle is over the hearts and minds of our
young Jews, a large segment of whom are not comfortable with Israel or the portrayal of Israel in
the media. Our community’s challenge is to continue reaching out and embracing the next gen-
eration, helping them to live Jewishly, and connect to Jews world wide and in Israel in particular.
This thoughtful approach, which looks at the overall struggle and not just today’s battle, is con-
sistent with a tradition of wise, talented leaders we’ve enjoyed at Hillel at the UW, such as Rabbis
Jacobovitz, Bridge and Berkovitz. As a community, we’ve been blessed with this leadership.
rob spitzer, mercer island
Western students’ proactive defense of IsraelJaniS Siegel JTnews correspondent
The Associated Students of Western Washington University’s board of direc-tors, in an unprecedented move for a U.S. college or university, proactively and unanimously voted in June to reject all boycott, divestment, and sanctions move-ments at the school, a policy Israel-advo-cacy groups have endorsed.
Aimed at prohibiting discrimination against all national entities, the resolution, affirmed by all seven board members states that “the ASWWU shall not take positions advocating divestment from, boycott of, sanctioning, or ceasing collaboration with companies, products, or organizations due to their nation of origin.”
“We didn’t set out to do anything rev-olutionary, we set out to just live out our values,” outgoing ASWWU president Carly Roberts told JTNews. “We discussed a desire to be proactive, get in front of these discussions, and set down some pos-itive precedents for people coming after us so if these discussions do come up they will have a positive framework from which to approach them.”
It took one Jewish student at WWU in Bellingham, Alysa Kipersztok, an Emer-
son fellow for Israel advocacy organi-zation StandWithUs, who brought the document to the board.
“It was not difficult to persuade members of the Associated Students to pass the resolu-tion,” Kipersztok told JTNews. “The resolu-tion was discussed in two consecutive weekly meetings and took less than 30 minutes.”
Kipersztok said she hadn’t received much feedback from the student body on the passage of the resolution, but the handful of replies she did receive sup-ported the vote.
Kipersztok objected to the boycott and divestment strategy against Israel on the grounds that it was divisive and unrepre-sentative of the views of the student body there, although the final language in the resolution makes no mention of Israel.
“She did not want to go through the same thing that the University of Washing-ton had just gone through,” SWU North-west regional director Robert Jacobs told JTNews, referencing the contentious divest-ment vote in May at the UW, where a resolu-tion to adopt a divestment policy was voted down in a 59-8 vote with 11 abstentions.
“They used the national draft language
for a resolution that SWU put together,” said Jacobs. “It was modified to make it fit better with WWU’s situation.”
Passage of the resolution would preserve the nature and the culture of the campus, according to Roberts. The new policy will guide all future debate on campus when contentious political issues come up.
“As a liberal arts institution, we value taking complex issues and taking col-laborative approaches to learning and to issues of the day and not making blan-ket judgments or blanket decisions,” she said. “We acknowledged that Israel was the presenting situation that caused Alysa to bring it forward, but Israel is not men-tioned anywhere in the document. It’s meant to apply to any situation where international conflict is in question.”
The resolution condemns the target-ing of individual countries “based on their national origin or other identity-based features.”
Such movements, it continues, threaten the safety and inclusive atmosphere of the university and can promote hostility and isolation toward certain student groups. Boycott and divestment efforts against
Israel continue to be debated on college campuses around the country, though ear-lier this year a similar resolution passed at the University of Oregon, which specifi-cally stated that Israel would be protected from any divestiture campaigns.
StandWithUs Northwest plans to insert both the WWU and UW resolution into its materials package for students to use if they want to bring a similar docu-ment to their student organizations.
“We want students to take the lead,” said Jacobs. “We don’t tell students what they should do. We think Alysa and the board did an incredible job and we’re working with a number of student orga-nizations and schools around the country right now. We believe that they know their campuses the best.”
Jacobs said that SWU Northwest is looking forward to more actions like this one in Washington State and around the country to keep boycott and divestment resolutions from further dividing aca-demic institutions.
“We’re working with any students,” Jacobs said, “that are trying to avoid the BDS divestment battle.”
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With ribbon cut and prizes awarded, construction of a Holocaust museum prepares to commenceJoel magalnicK editor, JTnews
Henry Friedman had a message for the nearly 100 school-aged kids and their par-ents who sat in the shell of what will soon become the museum that bears his name: “It’s not for Holocaust survivors,” he said. “It’s for you.”
The event, an award ceremony for the winners of the Washington State Holo-caust Education Resource Center’s annual writing and art contest, also marked the groundbreaking, so to speak, of construc-tion of the Henry and Sandra Friedman Holocaust Center for Humanity. When it opens in early 2015 at Second and Lenora in downtown Seattle, the center will be the first Holocaust museum in the Pacific Northwest and will nearly triple the amount of space the Holocaust Center has at its current location a block away, which it rents from the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.
“We chose this as a location because we want to welcome as many visitors as possi-ble,” said Dee Simon, the Holocaust Cen-ter’s executive director. The museum will lie along a “museum corridor” bound by Seattle Art Museum and the Pacific Sci-ence Center.
The $3.4 million project — $1.2 mil-lion already raised went to purchase the cavernous 6,000-square-foot space in the recently constructed Cristalla building, while $1.2 million is still needed to com-plete the capital campaign — is expected to serve 15,000 visitors in the first year, with that number projected to double by 2019. Those figures come from compari-sons to similar-sized museums in Cincin-nati and St. Louis, according to Simon.
In addition to the exhibit gallery, the museum will host conference space, a research area, a bookstore, and library.
“It will allow us to provide primary
sources, which teachers who are teach-ing social studies require,” Simon said. In addition, “students will now have an opportunity to learn through local Holo-caust testimony and artifacts…and about stages of human rights violations that in the extreme lead to genocide, and in the every-day lives of the students that lead to lessons on bullying, suicide, hate crimes and dis-crimination, which they know all too well.”
The new museum will be a working space, as the Holocaust Center will con-tinue to fulfill its ongoing mission of build-ing curricula and sending educational materials for schools across the state as well as operate its speakers’ bureau of Holo-caust survivors. Simon said the technology infrastructure of the new space will allow the center to increase its offerings and its reach by teaching via Skype, for example, and having the nearly 200 local survivor testimonies more easily accessible. Among those testimonies is that of the man whose
name will be on the museum, Henry Fried-man, who with a group of fellow survivors founded the Holocaust Center 25 years ago.
Rather than a typical exhibit of the Holo-caust based on the historical timeline, the new museum will be able to provide the-matic exhibits based on the 5,000 artifacts it currently has, as well as focus on four stages of human rights violations: Identification, exclusion, violence and rebuilding.
“When we look at those stages of those human rights violations through the Holocaust,” Simon said, “we saw that those stages apply to other human rights violations and discrimination not only globally, but locally as well.”
Which means that traveling exhib-its from Densho: The Japanese Ameri-can Legacy Project can bring the Japanese internment during World War II into the conversation, as well as local Native tribes.
“What we are doing is using the Holo-caust as a way of teaching, because there
is no greater example, and there is no example that is as well-documented as the Holocaust,” Simon said.
Hahnna Christenson, a 6th-grade his-tory teacher at Cedar Park Christian School in Bothell and the granddaughter of two survivors, looks forward to having addi-tional resources both for herself and her students.
“It’s important to teach about the Holocaust,” she said. “Most of them had never learned about the Holocaust before.”
While growing up, Christenson, who is Jewish, said she knew that her grandpar-ents had survived, and would hear “bits and pieces,” but began to learn much more once she started using the Holocaust Cen-ter’s curriculum six years ago.
“For myself it’s been more reward-ing,” she said. “I feel more of my story has come teaching my students, which is really a gift.”
Teaching 6th graders is a challenge, Christenson said, because they’re not quite old enough to wrap their heads around the magnitude of such an atroc-ity, but she also doesn’t want to minimize it. Having these materials available to her has been important to her students’ learn-ing, she said.
The museum and the center’s new name, the Holocaust Center for Human-ity, will be dedicated later this year, with the opening set to take place in January 2015. In addition to ongoing donations from the Jewish community, “we have had a lot of support, both in public fund-ing and in private funding from non-Jew-ish sources,” Simon said. “We are grateful that the greater community has embraced this.”
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like father, like daughter: recognizing two civic leadersdiana bremenT JTnews columnist
1 It was awards season for one Northwest family this spring.
First, Francine Richlen Cohen was named Edmonds Citizen of the Year by the local Kiwanis on May 22. Nominated often, and now a winner, she was noted for her voluntary policing of trash around Edmonds’ central business district.
She and her husband Sidney moved to their down-town Edmonds condo in 2000 and Frannie, as she’s known, wondered how she could give back to her new community. An exercise aficionado, she noticed a lot of garbage, including dog waste, on her thrice-weekly, four-mile walks.
Not one to mince words, Frannie says, “after stepping in it one too many times I said, ‘When I see that I have to pick it up.’” Armed with gloves and grabbers, she has picked up “children’s clothes, adult clothes...tampons and condoms...food containers....” You get the picture.
She washes clothes and donates them, and recycles what she can. It’s a good workout, she notes, all that walking and bending, that supplements the exercise classes she takes three times a week.
Growing up in Seattle’s Central District, Frannie learned to work hard when her parents, Jack and Pearl Richlen, opened a small butcher store at 23rd and Union, which they operated for 51 years. She and her sister Merle Richlen packed and marked meat, “stacked shelves, we ran the cash registers,” she says. “We did e v e r y t h i n g . . .scrubbing the b a t h r o o m ,
cleaning the floors.” Later, the family added fruit, veg-etables and canned goods, taking over a bigger space on the same block. The business moved to the Shell station across the street, becoming one of the first “mini-marts” in the region. Adding “Kickin’ Chicken” fried chicken to their offerings, Frannie said it sold well even with Ezell’s nearby. Eventually, Fran-nie and Sidney took over the store, but stepped away from that in the late ’90s.
“I came from a family of volunteers,” notes Frannie. Her Richlen grandparents helped start Ashkenazic Bikur Cholim and her dad, Jack, helped start a bank in the neighborhood when other banks wouldn’t serve the local black community (see below). An active member of City of Hope and Hadassah, Frannie has made a hobby of asking people for their unused yarn from which she crochets afghans
for Kline Galland residents, foster children, and local raffles and auctions. She has made over 100 for Kline Gal-land residents alone.
A frequent volunteer at events like the annual Taste of Edmonds, you can often find Frannie at the infor-mation booth in downtown Edmonds.
“I’m an energy bunny,” she says. “I love giving and I love watching people smile.”
2 A few days before Frannie received her award, her dad Jack
Richlen, 93, received one as well for his role as one of the founders of Seattle’s Lib-erty Bank in 1967. When
running his store in Seattle’s Central Dis-trict, he observed that African Americans were treated unfairly by local banks, often denied mortgages and business loans. Banding together with minority com-munity leaders, including Japanese- and Chinese-Americans, they formed a bank to serve the neighborhood, with Jack the only white person involved. On June 3, 1967, he told the Seattle Times, “We know the area will prosper if the people have an
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Jack richlen, in his seattle apartment, holds his award recognizing his work in the founding of liberty Bank.
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Despite the tumult in the Middle East, CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg urges us to exercise our basic right to journey abroad. He writes, “It is a time to never forget that travel remains the most effective and powerful tool to break down barriers and build bridges.” From a space in the top row of this grid, a path of horizontally and vertically adjacent letters spells a series of nine Mideastern nations, ending in a space somewhere in the bottom row. We wish you safe journeys!
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six action items to #bringbackourboysrivy PouPKo KleTeniK JTnews columnist
Dear Rivy,I know there seems to be
no shortage of awful things that happen to us Jews, and maybe on some level we should get used to it. As I read about anti-Jewish activities in France for example, I confess — I sometimes just glaze over. I mean, how many times can we let ourselves get worked up over these things? What with being Jewish — bad things seem to be inevitable.
That said, the shooting in the Brussels Jewish Museum this past May gave me great pause. But the recent kidnapping of the three young men in Israel really has me disturbed and engrossed in their fate. I feel it’s offensive to get political about it — it does not matter from where they were kidnapped. Three Jewish kids are kidnapped? This is just awful. They were not soldiers, just kids on their way home. What can we do about this?
Two demeanors that I disdain? Being cynical and being jaded. So good for you that you care. We must care. It is tempt-ing to change the channel and not let our-selves get disturbed, and easy to rationalize that one person can’t really make a differ-ence. Many here in the Pacific Northwest fall prey to assuming there is little we can accomplish, and that we should allow the government of Israel to handle the situ-ation or allow some of the larger Jewish communities take action. I disagree. For every reason you mentioned, we must not sit idly by the blood of our brothers.
Moreover, we are compelled, accord-ing to Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, in his essay “Kol Dodi Dofek,” as detailed by Dr. Moshe Sokolow, by a covenant of “arevut” — mutual responsibility that we collec-tively entered into as we arrived in the land of Israel. We have a shared responsi-bility and liability, he writes, “Kol Yisrael areivim zeh bazeh — all Jews are guaran-tors for one another.” This is not merely a lofty philosophical aspiration. It functions, in halachah, as a principle of law.
We do not have the luxury to turn a blind eye to the fate of our fellow Jews. Indeed, we should be proud that it is our mandate to be involved and intricately connected to each other. In that very arti-cle by Sokolow, he cites this oft-told joke to display the very idea:
A Jewish immigrant arrives as a new-comer to New York’s Lower East Side and frantically seeks the company of other Jews. Not knowing whom, or where they might be, he goes out into the street and shouts, in Yiddish: “Men schlogt de Yidden!” — they are beating Jews! People quickly surround him and demand to know what was going on and how they could help. The man replies: “In my shtetl, back in the alter heim, they are beating
Jews — I only wanted to know whether anybody here cared.”
Self-deprecating device and wolf-crying ploy aside, the joke communicates the core notion that we are a people that cares about each other. This is who we are. In every generation it looks a little bit different and in some cases we do better than other cases. For now, in this gener-ation, at this moment, it looks like this: #bringbackourboys.
Here are six action items all grounded on Jewish values — let’s get busy.1. Write letters to the family. Let them know you care, that their sons are on all of our minds, and that we too are desper-ate for their return. When going through a crisis or a time of immense stress and hardship, knowing that others are pres-ent with us and sharing in our burden is meaningful and serves to alleviate of some of the pain. Our tradition teaches us that if one-sixth of the pain of an ailing patient is relieved by one compassionate visitor, just think what a flood of letters could do. You can even write online by going here: www.onefamilytogether.org/letters-of-support.2. Stay informed. One of the endearing attributes of most Israelis is their predilec-tion for compulsively listening to the hourly news. Can you hear the “beep beep beep Kol Yisrael…” yet? Tragically, the habit is borne from the reality of the highly charged situation, fondly known as the “matzav.” In times such as these we must adopt this stance. It is our duty to check in with Israeli news sites on a daily basis to keep apprised of the situation’s latest developments. This way, our sensitivities are never diverted from the plight of these boys and their fam-ilies lest our hearts become hardened. 3. Engage Jewishly: Rabbi Adin Stenhalz, in whose yeshiva one of the boys is a stu-dent, implores us to take action: “What we can do — and this has been the Jewish way from time immemorial — is to add more holiness and learn more Torah. If we can, each of us should take upon ourselves something additional, no matter how small, especially and explicitly devoted for the sake and well-being of the miss-ing boys: Naftali Frenkel (Yaakov Naftali ben Rachel Devorah), Gilad Shaar (Gilad Michael ben Bat Galim), Eyal Yifrach (Eyal ben Iris Tesura.)”
What could this increase in holiness look like? Light an additional Shabbat candle for the students. Be conscious of your daily activities — how you speak, eat and spend your time. Each of us is blessed with free-dom and self-actualization — those held hostage are not. How do we use our bless-ings, our time and our wherewithal? How can we be sure to not squander them?
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seattle rallies for kidnapped teensboriS Kurbanov special to JTnews
Members of Seattle’s Jewish commu-nity gathered Wednesday, June 18 at the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island to express solidarity, love, and support for the three Israeli teenagers kidnapped in the West Bank on June 12.
Jews around the world have been galva-nized by the incident in which Eyal Yifrach, 19, and 16-year-olds Gilad Shaar and Naf-tali Frenkel — all students at yeshivas in Jewish settlements in the West Bank — van-ished while hitchhik-ing at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank, a Jewish settle-ment bloc that is under direct Israeli control.
R a b b i C h a i m Levine, whose organi-zation Hope for Hero-ism helped organized the rally, was contem-plative and somber after the event.
“The Jewish People are one. This is not an issue that affects just Israel — it affects every Jewish person in the world, and it’s more than just show-ing our complete support and solidarity,” Levine said. “We are all part of this — these are our children. Every Jewish parent feels that way. The very least we could do for them is to come together and pray.”
In addition to Hope for Heroism, which helps injured Israeli soldiers put their lives back together, the rally was organized by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, StandWithUs Northwest, and the Stroum JCC.
During the rally, Levine spoke via Skype with Aralah Wattenstain, who is serving as a commander in the field in Hebron, where
the boys attend yeshiva. Wattenstain asked the crowd in attendance for prayers for the teenagers to come home safely.
The boys’ disappearance has gripped Israel, setting off a large Israeli security operation dubbed “Brother’s Keeper” in the West Bank, and especially in Hebron in the southern West Bank to Nablus in the north. Israeli troops have conducted a large-scale, door-to-door search for
the teens, and have detained more than 280 Palestinians since the kidnapping — including high-ranking members of the Islamic militant group Hamas — while confiscating its cash and weapons.
The kidnappings have also sparked the Twitter campaign #BringBackOurBoys, a hashtag used to mobilize support for Israel and modeled after May’s viral #BringBack-OurGirls movement led by Michelle Obama that brought international attention to the mass kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls by terrorist group Boko Haram. A petition on the White House website was created June
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Members of the Jewish community gathered at the stroum JCC last week to offer prayers and support for the missing Israeli teens.
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gray and white matters: Mapping autism in the brainJaniS Siegel JTnews columnist
As part of his U.S. brain initiative in 2014, President Obama visited Israel and learned about groundbreak-ing brain research developed by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers. This is part one of a two-part look at some of those technologies.
He’s Ben-Gurion Univer-sity of the Negev’s resident warrior against autism.
His lab’s credo, the Din-stein Computational Neuro-imaging Lab reads, “We want to transform the definition of autism from one that is behavioral to one that is bio-logical.”
Ilan Dinstein, 38, a senior lecturer in the department of psychology and the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, along with his research team, are singly focused on detecting autism in children well before the current age of 2 or 3 years old by studying how each part of the autistic brain performs differently.
“My passion is understanding the brain,” said Dinstein in a BGU interview. “What we want to do in my lab is to develop techniques to identify autism at the age of 1 or 2 using biology. We want to look at the brains of children and be able to identify
those who will later develop autism. The earlier you inter-vene, the better the outcome.”
While many researchers concentrate on surveying the whole brain, looking for areas that do not fire the way a normal brain would, Din-stein is exploring each section of the brain while assessing its ability to function properly.
“Of all the parts of the body, the brain is probably the least understood organ,” Dinstein said. “Even though
it weighs only three kilograms, it’s what makes you yourself. It’s all located in this small box that we know very little about.”
Globally, according to the World Health Organization, an autism spectrum diagno-sis occurs in roughly one in every 160 chil-dren and in one out of 100 in the U.S. An autism diagnosis covers a spectrum of con-ditions that include Asperger syndrome and childhood disintegrative disorder.
Children with autism have problems interacting and communicating socially. They exhibit many physical “tells” such as chronic repetitive behaviors, pronounced clumsiness, and an overly sensitive reac-tion to sound and sensory experiences.
Using several imaging tools, Din-
stein’s team takes functional and Mag-netic Resonance Imaging — fMRI and MRI — Diffusion Tensor Imaging, or DTI, and Electroencephalography, or EEG, to explore the brain’s ability to function. But that is only half of his process.
By taking an anatomical MRI, he then compares the volume, thickness, and fold-ing of the several frontal lobe areas of the brain, comparing it to brains that do not exhibit the autistic syndrome.
Next, he maps out the gray and white matter of a normal brain to use as a road-map, superimposing it over an image of the same brain matter from an autistic child to note differences.
Researchers can see how the sensory systems behave and whether an autistic brain’s connections are similar to the same system of a healthy brain.
In 2012, doctors believed that autism was a malfunction of the brain’s ability to generally process neural signals. In autism patients, those connections appeared to be “unreliable” and unclear.
Investigators concluded that the spec-trum of behavioral effects were originating from one part of the brain and producing the various autistic symptoms throughout the whole brain.
That year, Dinstein and his team tested several parts of the brain in autistic patients
to further identify which parts of the brain affected the autistic person’s ability to react and respond to everyday communi-cation. The results, titled “The Unreliable Evoked Responses in Autism,” were pub-lished in the September issue of the journal NEURON. The study included 28 subjects — 14 with autism and 14 subjects without. The autistic group had a median age of 26.5 and the non-autistic group’s median age range was 26 years old.
“Each participant completed three event-related fMRI experiments,” wrote Dinstein, “which enabled us to measure stimulus-evoked responses independently in the visual, auditory, and somatosensory systems.”
Researchers combined meticulous brain signal processing techniques with compli-cated computational methods that used classification and clustering algorithms.
Dinstein posited that a complete iden-tification and classification of the remain-ing basic neural processing characteristics, like plasticity and selectivity, are essen-tial to the understanding of autism. This approach could also be helpful in accu-rately connecting neurophysiological abnormalities with potential genetic or molecular functioning that may lead to the
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How would universal preschool affect Jewish early childhood programs?By Janis Siegel
Jewish preschools in Seattle may feel the impact of a city-wide ballot measure this November that would approve and fund Mayor Ed Murray’s Seattle Preschool Plan — a four-year, $58 million education levy for a voluntary universal preschool curriculum and performance assessment model.
Passed unanimously by the Seattle City Council in May 2014, the projected 20-year program is designed to serve 80 percent of all interested 3- and 4-year-olds in Seattle and would take effect in the 2015-2016 school year.
While public funds cannot be appropriated for private schools, final eligibility guidelines for participating in the program have not yet been set, according to the City of Seattle’s deputy director for Office of Education, Sid Sidorowicz.
“Guidelines for eligibility to participate will be developed later,” Sidorowicz told JTNews. “However, the approach taken by the city, to date, is that religious entities can serve as a location for a city-funded preschool, but they may not directly operate it. For example, a church can lease space to a private operator, or may have a separate nonprofit established that does not include religious elements.”
In order to qualify, schools need to be a part of the Early Achievers Program equal to a Level 3 or higher, meaning the schools provide quality instruction beyond basic licensing standards; comply with the Classroom Assessment Scoring System and the Revised Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale; and dedicate at least two classrooms to preschool learning.
If a school already contracts with Seattle Public Schools and meets additional standards, they would have priority status.
“It looks like our school could be eligible,” Leah Lemchen, early childhood director at Congregation Beth Shalom, told JTNews. “Our school serves primarily Jewish children,
but many non-Jewish families as well. We are licensed by the Washington State Department of Early Learning and we are participating in the Early Achievers program. We also have a dual language program and provide full daycare, which are priorities in the city’s proposal.”
Qualified organizations will need to be licensed by the Washington State Department of Early Learning to provide preschool services if they are not a public school or an institution of higher education.
“I believe that our 501(c)(3) status under IRS is as an educational, not a religious institution,” said Tziviah Goldberg, business and develop-ment director at the Chabad-based MMSC Day School, representing its early childhood center’s board. “On that basis, hopefully we would qualify, as would any independent school. In addition, since we are approved by the State of Washington as an institution, I hope
that we would be able to participate.”Tuition for a family of four with income under $47,700, 200 percent of the federal
poverty level, would be fully subsidized by taxpayers. On the proposed sliding scale fee structure, that same family of four with an income of $59,625 would pay a $535 annual copay, calculated in 2014 dollars. An amendment passed by the City Council on June 23 set the sliding scale threshold at 300 percent of the federal poverty level.
More than 25 percent of 3- and 4-year-old children in Seattle live in families that have incomes within the subsidized poverty level, according to the Seattle Preschool Program Action Plan report.
“I believe strongly that high tuition and low wages prevent many families from affording quality programs and prevent quality teachers from remaining in the field of early learning,” said Lemchen. “If the city of Seattle has a plan to address both of these challenges through subsidies, I think that can provide an excellent opportunity for preschool and childcare programs.”
To meet the demand for enhanced early childhood education, Murray has proposed new standards for all incoming teachers and gives all current staff four years to comply with the new criteria. A program supervisor or director would need to have a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education or equivalent college-level coursework, as well as classes in educational leadership and business management.
A lead teacher would need the same bachelor’s degree, but would have the option to add a state teaching certificate. Assistants in the classroom will need an associate’s degree in early childhood education or two years of comparable coursework that would satisfy the criteria in the Washington State Core Competencies for Early Care and Educational Professionals.
Given what teachers in even the highest-quality preschools are paid, satisfying these requirements may prove difficult.
“We do not currently meet the staff education requirements and I find them to be extremely unrealistic for the pay scale of early childhood, even with improved wages and subsidies,” said Lemchen. “I do see that there is an opportunity for waivers, but if that wasn’t something we received, I see those requirements as a significant problem.”
So what would that mean for Jewish schools that wouldn’t qualify to take part in the program? It’s possible some could lose students to a free program, but Sharon Mezistrano, director of the Seattle Hebrew Academy’s early childhood education program, believes hers wouldn’t.
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Mein Yiddishe Papa: In defense of dadBy Ed Harris
Households across America this month celebrated Father’s Day. June, with its “Dads and Grads,” is probably a great month for Hallmark, especially now that most of humanity has embraced Facebook as a way to offer free birthday congratula-tions, a transgression I have committed more than a few times myself. You can get away with posting an online birthday greeting for most friends and relatives. But when it comes to parents, the Fifth Commandment — honor thy mother and father — has been interpreted by the rabbis to mean, at a minimum, a card, a gift, and depending upon geography,
either a visit or phone call.Dads are clearly regarded as the secondary authority figure in the average heterosexual
two-parent family. This is true in popular culture generally, and especially in the Jewish community, where the term “Jewish mother” is iconic. The classic Yiddish song “Mein Yiddishe Mama” contains uplifting lyrics that compare a saintly Jewish mother, always ready to sacrifice for her children, as a “gift from God.” Note we dads don’t have a song of our own. If we did, it would probably ask whether the trash had been taken out or if we had done anything about the dashboard service light which came on last week in the minivan.
We dads enthusiastically relish this junior authority status. “Go ask your mother” is my general default response to any question requiring parental judgment.
When our kids were younger, they fought a lot, just like everyone else’s offspring. Sibling rivalry is the oldest story in the book, literally. According to the Torah, the first nuclear family in the history of the world contained two brothers — Cain and Abel — who famously could not get along. This theme was repeated a few generations later with Jacob, who tricked his brother Esau into giving up his birthright for a steaming bowl of lentil stew (before I became a vegetarian I would have entered into a similar bargain for the right corned beef and pastrami sandwich) and then in the very next generation when Joseph’s brothers, consumed with jealousy, threw him into a pit and sold him into slavery. I am not familiar with the sacred
books of all the other world religions, but I suspect most of them contain similar tales of siblings who could not share their toys nicely, with significant consequences for the rest of humanity.
In our home, whenever the roof was about ready to blow off the top of the house from the general commotion, I would calmly reassure my wife, “Don’t worry, if they need us to intervene, they’ll come downstairs.”
My placid demeanor, intended to have a calming effect, only made my spouse more hysterical.
“No wonder you never get worried. I’d be relaxed too, if I had your attitude,” she’d say. “You just sit there and do your crossword puzzle and tune out the rest of the world. Why do you think I’m so stressed out all the time?”
Yes, my point exactly. Dads also expect greater recognition for their contribution to family responsibilities.
However, this may be more than merely old-fashioned male ego. According to a recent study by a University of British Columbia researcher, the extent to which fathers participate in household chores has a significant impact on the career goals of their daughters. Dads who do more housework, according to the study, tend to have more ambitious daughters. See, honey? That’s why I make such a big fuss and expect a round of applause every time I unload the dishwasher or do a load of laundry.
My kids are now adults, or nearly so, but they love each other enough to engage in the occasional squabble. Fortunately, the magazine section of the Sunday New York Times has an especially large, complex and challenging crossword puzzle. I only solve it about half of the time, and doing so takes hours. What’s a four-letter word for “torpid”? It starts with an “l” and the last two letters are “z” and “y”. And it may be the clue to being a successful father. Just ask my wife, once she’s done untangling everyone.
Ed Harris, the author of “Fifty Shades of Schwarz” and several other books, was born in the Bronx and lives in Bellevue with his family. His blog, Fizz-Ed, and additional information about his books are available at www.edharrisauthor.com.
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straight through 8th grade,” she said via email. “We are fortunate to have a dedicated group of families who understand the value of this, the integration of Judaic and general studies in an environment that is emotionally responsive to students.”
Still, she expressed excitement about the idea of such a program.“It is so crucial for excellent early childhood educational opportunities to be accessible
to all children,” she said. “This issue should be front and center, as its long-term effects on students is of utmost importance in the development of healthy, well-rounded individuals.”
Not everyone agreed, however.“This initiative would close all religious preschools down, unless parents can afford to
pay tuition,” said Nechama Farkash of the Gani Preschool of the Arts at Chabad of the Central Cascades in Sammamish. “We would be competing against free tuition, as do all Jewish day schools. I would not be willing to compromise or change the religious aspect of my curriculum in order to qualify for tax money.”
Local lawmakers have not ascertained whether Farkash’s program, based in Sammamish, would be affected, as it has not taken up the question of whether families living outside of Seattle would qualify. The city estimates that after the initial four years of the program, 660 3-year-olds and 1,340 4-year-olds will have benefitted from the preschool curriculum.
development of autistic symptoms. “The first goal is to better understand
what are the biological mechanisms that underlie the emergence of the strange and unique cognitive and social behaviors that are exhibited by individuals with autism,” said Dinstein. “The second goal is to iden-tify objective biological measures that will enable early and accurate clinical diag-
nosis of autism, which would be able to replace or at least complement the subjec-tive behavioral measures that are currently used for diagnosis.”
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Jeffrey A. Slotnick of Tacoma-based security company OR3M advises that all institutions have an emergency plan in place for natural, technical, and manmade disasters.
“Bottom line is, have a plan, train your plan, and practice your plan,” he said. “When the emergency happens is not the time to figure out what you’re going to do.”
Slotnick consults widely on security mea-sures, and frequently appears on television. He is opposed to the initiative, and believes most law enforcement officials are, too.
“It’s feel-good legislation at best,” he said. “We already have systems in place, and they work.”
According to Slotnick, membership to the Washington Arms Collectors requires a background check, and no one can walk in and buy a gun off the floor at a show.
“That’s not a loophole,” he said.Slotnick wants people to be able to
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their actions. He is acutely aware of threats to the Jewish community worldwide, and he helped found Safe Washington, a con-sulting and emergency response network for local Jewish communities.
“If someone in Aurora, Colorado had a firearm, would that have stopped it?” he asked. “Very likely. As soon as the shooter is presented with opposition, they commit suicide or give up.”
This leads to an uncomfortable ques-tion. Had someone at the Federation been trained to shoot, would Naveed Haq have been stopped before he shot six women, killing one?
The Federation’s Carstensen refuses to speculate.
“It’s always easy to look back eight years and say maybe something would have made a difference,” he said. “Who knows?”
Carstensen is focused on the legislation, the future, and the community support.
“In the Jewish community, there is a recognition that the Second Amendment exists, and there’s a place for it,” he said. “There is also recognition that there is a serious problem and we need to find solu-tions.”
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even break; if they have an opportunity to obtain loans under the same conditions as everyone else.”
Chatting with Jack in his apartment at the Summit at First Hill, surrounded by his collection of Red Skelton clown paintings and clown dolls and toys, he recounted how his parents had fled unrest in Russia to move to Tacoma. His father then lost his business during the Depres-
sion and they moved to Seattle and began all over again.
“I didn’t want to work for anybody,” Jack recalls, so he purchased the store where he and his late wife Pearl and their daughters worked for so many years.
“At the time, [the neighborhood] was a very good mix of black and white,” Jack says.
Pearl also served as the original secre-tary of the bank’s board.
Jack’s award was presented during a meeting of the Minority Business Hall of
Fame and Museum, which is now located at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.
Although Jack retired from the store after 51 years, and Frannie in the 1990s, the gas station, now an Exxon, still stands at the corner.
3 Short takes: Seattle’s Julia Owen makes an appearance in “Chal-lenges are Opportunities,” a Yeshiva
University video promoting its NCAA ath-
letic department and athletes. It’s one in a series and you can find it by searching that title on YouTube, or on the YU site.
Also, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle honored two local stars: Dana Weiner, the Stroum Jewish Community Center’s senior director of family education and outreach, and Zach Carstenson, the Federation’s director of government affairs, received the annual Pam Waechter Jewish Communal Professional Award for their service to our local Jewish community.
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a mix of cultures in children’s booksriTa berman FriScher special to JTnews
As the grandmother of cross-cultural Jewish children, I’m especially interested in how this phenomenon plays out in Jewish Seattle, with its seemingly open doors and open minds. So when I recently received three children’s books for review, all dealing with how young cross-culture Jews interact with their communities, schools and friends, I called the Jewish Federation for demographic information.
I found that the latest Seattle com-munity study dates back to 2000, with an updated survey only now underway. Noting that the 2010 U.S. Census cites a 50 percent increase in multiracial chil-dren since 2000, I turned for background instead to a 2012 article in New York’s The Jewish Week. Julie Wiener’s article seems to describe our local changing landscape as well, with its headline “Multiracial Jews moving beyond isolation.”
The UJA-Federation of New York included questions about race in its 2012 survey — the first Jewish population study to do so. It found that approximately 12 percent — or 87,000 — of N.Y. Jewish households are “multiracial or nonwhite.” Of course this includes a broad range of respondents including couples, adult chil-dren of multiracial couples, Jews with non-white adopted children, and non-whites born Jewish or converted to Judaism. But what multiracial households shared, according to April Baskin, then-president of the Jewish Multiracial Network, is a desire to meet other Jews of color and share their stories. They also shared a relatively low rate of Jewish engagement.
San Francisco’s Be’chol Lashon states as one of its prime goals bridging the gap between Jews of color and the organized Jewish community by increasing aware-ness in mainstream groups about the mul-tiracial Jews and “the global nature of the
Jewish community.” As part of its policy, Be’chol Lashon partners with Jewish orga-nizations when planning events so people are brought into Jewish spaces often and comfortably.
It will be interesting to see how our own commu-nity’s survey and resultant actions approach this part of our Jewish family. Now, to the books:
In 1970, Judy Blume was considered a maverick when her book “Are You There God? It’s Me Marga-ret” brought into the open the issues and confusions faced by a pre-teen girl in a Jew-ish-Christian mixed mar-riage. Now, over 40 years later, interreligious marriage is just one aspect of the broad diver-sity of intercultural and inter-racial families found in many of our Seattle public and pri-vate schools, our synagogues, and our playgrounds.
In February I reviewed “Elan, Son of Two Peoples,” in which Elan, son of a Jewish father and Native Ameri-can mother, now Jewish, became a Bar Mitzvah but also went through a coming-of-age ceremony important to his mother’s people. Such fusion of cultures, reflected more and more often in our lives and in children’s books for all ages, sparked this column. Here are three books I hope you will introduce to some of the young people in your lives:
Carolivia Herron, a pro-fessor of Comparative Lit-erature, is a Jew of African descent living in Wash-ington, D.C. After learn-ing surprising stories about her own family’s past, she wrote “Always an Olivia: A Remarkable Family His-tory,” illustrated by Jeremy Tugeau (Kar-Ben).
From this fictionalized historical picture book, young readers will learn about roots and backgrounds not often made accessible to them. It opens as Carol Oliv-ia’s great-grandma, another Olivia, tells the true tale of a Jewish family in the 1400s when Jews fled Spanish sol-diers during the Inquisi-tion. With five children, they sailed to Portugal for safety, taking a Portugese name and hiding their Judaism.
But to no avail. Persecution soon began;
again they were forced to leave. This time they sailed across the Mediterranean, landing in Venice, Italy, where they lived for many generations among other Jews who had escaped. Years later, one of their descen-dants, Sarah Shulamit, was kidnapped by pirates as she walked by the water. They planned to take her and
their other captives to North Africa where they would get rich Jews to pay ransom for their release.
Instead, Sarah was rescued by a seaman
she later married. The couple ended up in the Georgia Sea Islands among the Geechees, black people from West Africa. There Sarah changed her middle name from Shulamit to Olivia, because it made her think of the olive branch of peace.
Her children and her children’s chil-dren married the children of the African people among whom they lived safely and happily. But Sarah’s daughter, and all the daughters down through the years, light Shabbat candles on Friday nights and always name a daughter Olivia so they will never forget the people they came from.
“My Basmati Bat Mitzvah” by Paula J. Freedman (Amulet Books) is the story of “just your average Jewish-Indian-Ameri-can girl,” a description lifted right off the saffron yellow book jacket festooned with Jewish stars. Tara Feinstein has been doing well so far balancing Hebrew school and Bollywood movies. However, the pres-sure builds when she agrees with her con-verted-to-Judaism Indian mother that she’ll consider becoming a Bat Mitzvah.
Remembering her deceased Indian grandparents with love, she worries this major step into Judaism will somehow alienate her from that side of her back-ground. Luckily, her Jewish grandmother, while thrilled her granddaughter is going to be called to Torah, still respects Tara’s need to honor her whole identity. With her support, Tara overcomes all kinds of minor catastrophes en route to the bima. She picks the best boy, plans the best Indian appetizers, finds the most ethnically beautiful dress to wear, learns that nobody is perfect, and discovers her own capacity to understand others, accept and forgive. Perfect for middle graders (10-12).
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BirthJacob Mair Plotnick
David and Amy Plotnick announce the birth of their son, Jacob, on April 28, 2014, at Swedish Edmonds. Jacob weighed 7 lbs., 13 oz. and measured 20 inches.
Jacob’s big brothers are Noah and Caleb. His grandpar-ents are Robin and Darryll Plotnik of Redmond, Julie Cook of Washington, DC, and the late Bryan Cook. Jacob is named for his great-grandfather Mair Rodrigue.
Bar MitzvahNoah Michael Clancy
Noah will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on July 3, 2014, in Israel. His family attends Temple De Hirsch Sinai. Noah is the son of Scott and Deborah Kaplan Clancy and the brother of Ethan. His grandparents are Harold and Ruth Kaplan of Boynton Beach, Fla., and the late Gary and Mary Helen Clancy. Noah just finished 6th grade at Inglewood Middle School. He enjoys tennis, golf, skiing, camping, video games and caring for animals. For his mitzvah project, Noah volun-teers with feeding the homeless through TDHS.
Bar MitzvahEthan Louis Clancy
Ethan will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah July 3, 2014 in Israel. His family attends Temple De Hirsch Sinai. Ethan is the son of Scott and Deborah Kaplan Clancy and the brother of Noah. His grandparents are Harold and Ruth Kaplan of Boynton Beach, Fla., and the late Gary and Mary Helen Clancy. Ethan just finished 7th grade at Inglewood Middle School. He enjoys lacrosse, football, skiing, riding his scooter, and listening to music. For his mitzvah project, Ethan volunteers with feeding the homeless through TDHS.
BirthNoah Elliott Feldman
Orly and Matthew Feldman announce the birth of their son, Noah Elliott, on March 21, 2014 at Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue. Noah weighed 8 lbs., 12 oz., and measured 20-1/4 inches.
Noah has an older sister, Ella. His grandparents are Pearl and Meir Monk of Houston, Tex., and Lori and Lloyd Feldman of Parkland, Fla. His great-grandparents are Edith Mincberg of Houston, Sonia and Leon Monk of Ramat Gan, Israel, Hilda Feldman of Boca Raton, Fla., and the late Seymour Feldman, Josef Mincberg, and Frieda and Morris Black.
Noah’s Hebrew name is Noach Shai after his late great-grandfather, Seymour.
by Veera Hiranandani (Random House), Sonia Nadhamuni’s mixed identity wasn’t a problem in the progressive private school she’d always attended. Her mother and her BFF are Jewish, her father is Indian, her education is creative and exciting. Life is good. Then her father loses his job, money becomes tight, and she and her little sister must move into public school. There the first thing she realizes is that the white kids and the black kids never sit together in the lunch room — and suddenly everyone wants to know exactly what is she anyway? Now she wonders, too: Does she want to make friends with Kate, the cheerleader, or with Alisha, who rides a bus to get to this good school and who loves to write? Is Sonia Indian? Is she Jewish? Is she Jewish enough? Can’t she be both? Is she destined to be broken in half? Her identity problem is just one chal-lenge, since her family is also coping with her father’s unemployment and his resultant deep depression and disappearance.
Admirably, this work, while it deals com-passionately with the stresses of Sonia’s life, maintains a positive voice and moves quickly. It hits the right balance between serious con-tent and light reading, giving us another fine book for the circa Bat Mitzvah set. In receiv-ing starred reviews from both the Kirkus Review and Publishers Weekly, the Kirkus review compared Sonia to Blume’s main character in Blume’s aforementioned classic, “Are You There, God?” That puts Hiranan-dani’s work in the big leagues, indeed.
4. Fight evil: Evil pops up in all of our daily lives. It may sound extreme, but it is there. How often do we back down in family, work or community affairs when we feel it would be to no avail to stand up to the intimidator, the narcissist, or the social blackmailer? Many of us relent quickly when intimidated by the power-hungry. We need to practice standing up for what we believe in. Just as it is not okay for one human being to kidnap another, it is also not okay to hijack an organization, institution or community through strong arming, threatening and extortion. 5. Take political action. Call your gov-
ernmental representatives, sign the White House petition, write letters, and if some-one organizes a rally — go! 6. Finally, let’s together lift our eyes and hearts and offer heartfelt daily prayers for their safe return. Remember, we are collec-tively believers, the children of believers, and it is our deep belief that prayers have the power to effect change. Join me — time to do some knocking on heaven’s door.
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14 demanding the release of Frenkel, who is a dual Israeli-American citizen.
While the boys’ kidnapping has sparked nonstop coverage in Israeli media, the incident has received scarce journalistic attention in the West, said Keith Dvorchik, president and CEO of the Jewish Federa-tion. For him, the young age of the victims also conjured strong emotions.
“It’s really a shame,” Dvorchik said. “These were boys — they weren’t soldiers, they weren’t in uniform. That should be unacceptable.”
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed Hamas for the abductions and said he was holding the Palestinian Authority accountable, calling
it “a serious incident [that] will have grave consequences.” Hamas has since denied responsibility while celebrating the kid-napping.
The kidnapping revives memories of Gilad Shalit’s abduction by Hamas in 2006. Shalit was detained for five years and released in exchange for 10,000 Pal-estinian prisoners. With the recent Fatah-Hamas unity deal, Israel is in a precarious position to act.
“It’s very important that this took place today,” Levine said of the rally. “This is beyond any Jewish organization, and this is way beyond politics. This is about each one of us doing what we can individually to do anything we can. We are an inter-connected people, and we had to come together. We had to.”
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His Torah teachings and Persona continue to imbue in us a sense of mission, world vision and communal responsibility in enhancing the quality of spiritual growth and commitment in all of us.
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