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MARCH 13, 2015: NW Jewish Family, Passover Prep & Wine Reviews

remember whenFrom the Jewish Transcript, March 12,

1962.The brotherhood and sisterhood of

Temple De Hirsch jointly sponsored The Show of Shows, an evening of fun and entertainment with performances by vari-ous members of the temple. In this photo, Sue Waldbaum, Sue Stern, Helen Stusser and Mary Lou Walters performed a dance number for the crowd.

This photo comes from the second batch of our digital archiving proj-ect, funded by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and King Countys 4Cul-ture arts program. Find this and 20 more years of old Jewish Transcripts online at jtn.stparchive.com.

Welcome, new advertisers! Tell them you saw them in The Jewish Sound! Tacoma Art museum, Kirkland maserati

Rabbis Turn: Get into that Pesach state of mind 5Rabbi Josh Samuels is getting into the Passover mindset in particular with his preparations for kids.

Simpson sells out 5When the University of Washingtons Simpson Center for the Humanities hosted Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti last week, retired professor Edward Alexander hoped for better. Much better.

A young voice for Israel 6Israels former deputy ambassador to Norway paid a visit to Seattle last week to discuss how the Arab world needs to stop pinning its bad fortunes on Israel.

Reconstruction for the ages 7The president of the Reconstructionist movement came to the Pacific Northwest to meet with multiple synagogues in the region and talk about how this progressive denomination continues to break ground.

Bibis visit to Washington 8Benjamin Netanyahus controversial speech before Congress went on as planned, though without the presence of the president and multiple Congressional representatives.

A final look on the bookshelf 10In her last column, Diana Brement gives us a selection of books to read for spring.

Twenty years of film 12A look at a selection of films in 20th annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival, which begins on March 14.

Northwest Jewish SeniorsCongregation Ner Tamids 50th anniversary 20Though it only lasted five years before merging with Herzl Congregation, the families that created the Eastsides first Conservative congregation still form a cohesive group.

MORELetters 5Crossword 6M.O.T.: Books youll never read 9Israel: To Your Health: Medicine with a kickstart 22Lifecycles 23Jewish and Veggie: Delicious green beans 24Professional Services/Classified 18

In cold bloodRussian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov was

fatally shot on a bridge in the shadow of the Kremlin on Feb. 27, in what authorities said appeared to be a contract killing. Nemtsov, who was Jewish, was scheduled to lead a mass antigovernment rally in Moscow on March 1 and vowed to free Russia from Putin. In a recent interview, Nemtsov had said he feared Putin would have him killed because of his opposition to the war in Ukraine.

The New York Times

Under the radarAccording to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, half of the

18,000 Jews living in Sweden said they fear to publicly identify as Jewish in a recent survey. The survey also found that nearly a quarter of European Jews say theyre afraid to publicly self-identify as Jewish. The release of the survey coincides with a host of a Swedish public radio program asking if Jews are responsible for anti-Semi-tism.

Tablet

Hate, updatedEver since Adolf Hitlers demise in 1945, his manifesto Mein Kampf has gone

unprinted in Germany. But that will soon change. The autobiographys copyright is now held by the state of Bavaria in Germany, but will expire at the end of the year, and Germanys Institute for Contemporary History will publish a new, heavily annotated version that will be available at German bookstores.

Washington Post

No hiding nowBarry Freundel, the rabbi of a large Washington, D.C. synagogue, pleaded guilty

to 52 counts of voyeurism and resigned as professor from Towson University after authorities found he videotaped numerous women in the mikvah. Freundel, 63, had taught ethics and religion at the university and was on paid leave since his arrest in October. He is scheduled to be sentenced May 15.

Baltimore Sun

The final frontierLeonard Nimoy, best known Spock on Star Trek, died Friday, February 27, from

end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 83. Thanks to Nimoys Jewish upbringing in Boston, the sign of the Priestly Blessing became the univer-sal Vulcan sign. In addition to Star Trek, Nimoy played Golda Meirs husband in A Woman Called Golda, among many other roles. He was known as an artist and as a supporter of the arts and Jewish causes. Most of all, he will be remembered as a mensch.

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Clarity: The Gift of a Pure Heart ^ 206-527-9399 or [email protected] or

www.betalef.org , At Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue, 1111

Harvard Ave., SeattleSylvia Boorstein leads a day of contemplation, storytelling, and deepening spiritual teachings punctuated by periods of mindfulness and loving-kindness meditations. $60.

23:15 p.m. Sparks of Glory: Until When? ^ 206-365-7770 or

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, Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., SeattleFree concert-with-commentary with works by two American and two Israeli composers touching on the emotional struggle of loss and destruction and the renewal of self and community. Free.

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, Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., BellevueTBT Sisterhood invites members and women from other faiths on a tour of the Gates Foundation. Interfaith dialogue following the tour. $5 for bus ride.

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Temple Beth El Celebrates Purim ^ 253-564-7101 or [email protected]

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Purim spiel, singing, screaming, and fun. Followed by a carnival.

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, Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.Megillah reading at 10:30 a.m. followed by a free Purim carnival Disneyland. Proceeds from Brotherhood hot dogs and Sisterhood hamentaschen go toward BTY/NFTY event and Camp Kalsmanscholarships.

11 a.m.12 p.m. Young Family at Beth Am Pre-Carnival

^ Alexis Kort at 206-525-0915 or [email protected] or www.templebetham.org

, Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., SeattleHear the Purim story, shake groggers, eat

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Facepainting and balloon artists, games, activities, and bouncy house. Purim lunch $7. Lunch proceeds benefit the 2015 10th Grade Covenant Renewal class New York City trip. $18.

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Midrash Class on Exodus: The Ten Plagues ^ Nancy Current at 206-604-8298 or

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Change management

Like many of my friends, I was alarmed and frustrated to learn of the change being made

to the JTNews/Jewish Sound. I doubt I will gain what I look for from the format that will

replace our reliable newspaper. My dad gave me a Jewish Transcript subscription when I

left for college in 1971 and I have been a subscriber ever since, although I lived all over the

country. I am not as connected to the traditional/institutional Jewish community as my dad

or other family members are. Hence, getting the JT has been a wonderful way to learn of

what is going on in the cultural realm; who is being honored; important passages and cel-

ebrations; and so forth. Reading the columns provided a doorway into different aspects of

the Jewish community.

The decision to radically change the format is not well received in this household.

Yes, I use electronic media and in fact, I am in the profession of change management. It

is not change I resist in general. It is this change.

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Change is necessary to survive and stay current.

My wife and I have been subscribers to the Jewish Washington newspaper ever since

our arrival from Naples, Italy to Washington State in the summer of 1995. As a Navy family

we have always reached out to the Jewish community and subscribed to the Jewish news-

paper for the area in which we lived. It has been a challenge at times, as we have lived in

many locations in the United States and overseas, but we have always tried to stay con-

nected.

We now live in Port Angeles. We have a small but dedicated group of Jewish families

that continue to follow customs and traditions. We do our best to try and stay connected

to the larger Jewish community. Planning an outing to Seattle is not like going to a distant

land, but it is not something that is a spur-of-the-moment decision.

We look forward to checking out the new format and see how timely information will

be provided in a quarterly magazine.

We realize that the super majority of Jews in Washington State are in the Seattle met-

ropolitan area (Puget Sound), as well as most of the Jewish services. Please dont forget

about those that live far away from the Jewish center of Washington State. It is challeng-

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Jewish life in Washington State.

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I have no idea what that Jewish community is going to look like, because were living in this time of unprecedented change. Rabbi Deborah Waxman, president of the Reconstructionist movement, on our Jewish future. See the article on page 7.

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LeTTers To The ediTorThe rAbbis Turn 5Purim, Pesach and the season of childrenBy Rabbi Joshua Samuels, Congregation Beth Israel, Bellingham

The season of children has officially arrived! Many of us shook our graggers and jeered as we heard Hamans name just the other night and some of us are looking forward to more fun at Purim carnivals this weekend. In addition, erev Pesach begins in just under a month.

Purim is the fes t iva l where everything is topsy-turvy and has arguably become the Jewish holi-day most associated with children. We have carnivals and games, costumes, noisy graggers, and my favorite Jewish sweet treat: Apricot hamentaschen. Passover too is centered around chil-dren. A seder is not a seder without the Four Children, the Four Questions, and the search for the afikomen. Pass-over is linked with children primar-ily because of the importance it places on conveying the story and meaning of Passover to the youngest generations. Many seders will not even begin until a child asks a question. Thus, teaching our children is paramount to Passover.

Now the question is: How should we teach our children? Jewish clinical psychologist and accomplished author Wendy Mogel has written multiple books on parenting: The Blessings of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers (Scribner, 2010); and, The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children (Scribner, 2008). Mogul thinks parents should set standards for their children but then back off, allowing the children to expe-rience lifes ups and downs.

You have to recognize that they [children] cant be good problem solv-ers unless they have problems to solve, she teaches. They have to make dumb mistakes to get smart. You [parents] need to be alert, but not alarmed.

And what does the Torah teach us on this subject? Very little. The fifth commandment, however, instructs us to honor our parents. No command-ment tells us specifically to honor our children and few mitzvot illustrate how

to raise our children. We are commanded to teach these words to our children and to recount our Passover nar-rative every year, but thats about it. In Proverbs 22:6, we get a little more clar-ity about parenting styles: Educate a child accord-ing to his/her own path. Therefore, a parent must have patience and uncondi-

tional love. After I became a parent the first

time around, a friend gave my wife and me a book called The Parents Tao Te Ching (Da Capo, 1999). Based on the legendary Chinese sage Lao Tzus masterful Tao Te Ching, this con-temporary version delicately teaches parents how to raise children according to Taoist philosophy, or The Way. Heres an excerpt from the book:

There are only three qualities you must teach your children. Compassion, patience, and simplicity. Some would say this is absurd. They would teach instead, ambition, drive, and consumption, and say it is the way of success.

But if they learn patience, they see the world as it truly is. If they learn simplic-ity, they see themselves as they truly are. And if they learn compassion, they heal themselves and the world.This ancient Chinese teaching is

actually very Jewish, for it resembles the lessons our great Mussar rabbis taught many years ago.

As we find ourselves in the middle of the season of children whether or not you have children of your own lets think about how we teach those we care about and love. If we demand excel-lence, are we also encouraging patience and simplicity? Are we patient when we teach? And if we expect specific results, are we also teaching according to that persons own unique path? We all have much wisdom and specific skills to pass on to others, at every stage in our lives. May those who learn from us grow in multiple ways and may we, more often than not, become the students in these sacred relationships.

UWs Simpson Center puts Israel in the dockBy Edward Alexander, Special to the Jewish Sound

In the modern world, the Jew has per-petually been on trial; still today the Jew is on trial, in the person of the Israeliand this modern trial of the Jew, this trial which never ends, begins with the trial of Shylock.

Philip Roth, Operation Shylock, (1993)

Although millions are assaulted daily by the claim that their worlds misfor-tunes are caused by Israel, the Uni-versity of Washingtons Simpson Center has decided to augment this calumny with a research cluster entitled Pal-estine and the Public Sphere. Its first featured speaker was Omar Barghouti, stalwart of the Boycott, Divest, Sanc-tion movement (BDS) to expel Israel from the family of nations; its three fac-ulty contacts Silberstein, Chernia-

vsky, Bawarshi are all (like Simpson director Kathleen Woodward) UW Eng-lish professors.

Defamations of Israel by academic boycotters blame this tiny country for every evil on the planet with the excep-tion of avian flu. But let us examine their favorite one: Israel is an apartheid state. According to the Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, All academic exchanges with Israeli academicshave the effect of normaliz-ing Israel and its politics of occupation and apartheid. On progressive cam-puses, Israel Apartheid Week is a spring ritual in which self-anointed friends of the human species spew fire and vitriol at the country inhabited by over half the worlds Jewish population.

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Avoid Isolationby Mike Selinker

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Theres a great deal of scientifi c evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, says wellness expert Andrew Weil. Theres no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years. This trend is refl ected in our popular culture, especially on our television sets. Break out and join your fellow humans.

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carpentry hazard6 Some appliances, briefl y9 Show about isolation after a plane crash13 Person like an Osmond15 Egyptian who toured America16 Songwriter Paul17 Recitation of the rosary, e.g.18 With 4-Down, show about isolation in a

prison20 Once ___ a Time21 Character on 18-Across/4-Down23 11-Down adornment, slangily24 Upscale Italian tire brand26 Challenge28 Life ___ Know It (Josh Duhamel fi lm)29 Primary prime31 B.J. ___ (Stonewall Jackson hit)35 Constricting one37 Globe39 Rust Belt lake40 Show about isolation after a boat crash45 Swedish chain46 Treebeard, for one47 Indian locale48 Doggies favorite game50 Broadcast52 The Concorde, et al.55 Australian model Miranda57 See 38-Down60 Regret63 Lionel of pop65 Really dry66 With 73-Across, show about isolation in a

small town68 Follow instructions70 June commemoration71 Prepare, as a pistol72 Hit like a ghost in Ghostbusters73 See 66-Across74 Poli ___75 Boxes for practice

DOWN 1 Make larger and larger, as a bill2 Show about isolation in a colony3 Takes ones time enjoying4 See 18-Across5 ___ Can Cook (Chinese food show)6 It may be split7 Museum employees8 Attest9 Delay10 The ___ Love (REM song)11 What 23-Across is put on12 Chore14 See 1-Across19 Where eggs hatch22 It may be picked25 5th century pope27 Show about isolation on a Navy destroyer30 You never will! response32 Time period33 Clangor34 Televisions Bartlet or Clampett36 Mature38 With 57-Across, show about isolation in a

house40 Moving picture on the internet41 WWII nickname42 Permit43 Advancing the cause of chaos44 Of moderate quality49 Munich mister51 Mariners stat53 Doctors lobby54 Where fi les are kept56 Brand of Italian ice58 Confederates, for short59 Clarinetists supply60 Paul of the Anchorman fi lms61 Computer command62 Dutch cheese64 Prefi x meaning half 67 Peeper69 Golfer Ernie

ambassador divides the perpetratorvictim narrativeBy Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent

While Middle East experts wring their hands in hopes that moderate leaders can prevail in the region, George Deek, Isra-els former vice ambassador to Norway, is calling upon Palestinian Arabs to take charge of their own fate and their own future, and to stop dividing the world into perpetrators and victims.

Deek, a 30-year-old Christian Israeli Arab and a descendent of a family with a 400-year-old legacy in Jaffa, is no preacher, but he exhorts Palestinians to quit blaming Jews for their problems. He believes they can do it and they must or be swallowed whole by their hatred.

Israel is a place where a Christian like me can wear a cross, and a Jew can wear a kippah, with-out fear, Deek told The Jewish Sound during a visit to Seattle on Feb. 27. Muslims in Israel can wear a hijab any-where, unlike in France. They can build mina-rets to their mosques, unlike in Switzerland. It is where the Bahai built their dazzling temple in Haifa. It is where Druze feel safe.

A r a b s s e r v e a s judges in the Supreme Court, added Deek. Some of the best doc-tors in Israel are Arabs, working in almost every hospital in the country. There are 13 Arab members of parliament who enjoy the right to criti-cize the government.... That diversity has made Israel a world leader in every field from technology to modern dance.

Deek was Israels deputy chief of mis-sion in Nigeria from 2009-2012 and the deputy chief of mission at Israels embassy in Norway from 2012-2014. He holds two academic degrees from Israel, one in government and the other in law.

Deeks Seattle trip was sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seat-tle, StandWithUs Northwest, Hillel at the University of Washington, and JConnect.

At the end of the day, nobody will be able to save the Middle East except the people of the Middle East themselves. Deek said. There needs to be a new inter-pretation [of Islam] that accepts other people who are different.

What that means, he said, is the rejec-tion of the narrative of victimhood, acceptance of responsibility for past actions, and holding the same values that brought the Arab world success in the past: Honesty, hard work, responsibil-ity these values will determine our suc-cess, he said.

Deeks family was one of thousands

of households told by Arab officials to leave their homes after Israels founding in 1948 because Jews wanted them dead. They promised a quick victory in the war with the Jews and were assured a swift return to their homes in a matter of days.

Deeks hastily wed grandparents took next to nothing and fled north toward Lebanon. However, when the Israelis prevailed, many of the Palestinian Arabs, including many of his relatives, did not or could not return, and are now scattered around the globe.

Deeks grandfather, however, took a bold step, went back to Jaffa and recon-nected with his Jewish co-workers at an Israeli electricity company. His co-work-

ers got him his old job back, which allowed him to reestablish his family in Israel.

Today, according to Deek, what Palestinians now call the Nakba, or catastrophe, sabotages and frustrates the lives of Palestinians who use the past as a premise for continued fighting.

Back then, it was not ant i -Semit i sm, said Deek. It was con-tempt because there was a notion that the Jews should not have a state there. The idea was, We

are the Arabs, we are the dominant people here, we should rule the land, and the Middle East has no room for Jews, and whats the big deal? They are Holo-caust survivors. We can just go there, wipe them out, and have the land. I believe that it was the beginning of the rise of anti-Semitism at that moment.

Deek believes these Arabs could have admitted their mistake and accepted the Jewish refugees in their new land.

The Arab world started dehumaniz-ing Jews and demonizing Israel using the same rhetoric as anti-Semites in the past in order to explain their failure, he said.

Coincidentally, at the same time of the vice ambassadors visit, Omar Barghouti, the outspoken de facto leader of the inter-national boycott, divestment, and sanc-tion movement against Israel, spoke on the University of Washingtons campus as a guest of the Simpson Center for the Humanities. The crowd consisted of roughly 200 people from the wider com-munity and some 50 students.

The goal of the BDS movement is not to help Palestinians, commented Deek. If they were really caring about the Pal-estinians, instead of promoting hate toward others they would promote coop-eration and taking responsibility.

Courtesy GeorGe Deek

george Deek at the Break the Hate Summit conference in Boston in February.

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Trail-blazing leader visits the Northwest to inspire, learnBy Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound

In 1935, Lithuania-born Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan wrote Judaism as a Civili-zation, a book that reimag-ined the religion as a way of living and became the foun-dation for the Reconstruc-tionist Movement.

Many of Kaplans ideas are taken for granted today, but they were radical for Kaplans Orthodox world back then. The movement that sprung from his vision is now the most progressive in North America.

In keeping with that progress is Rabbi Deborah Waxman, the Reconstructionist movements pres-ident. The first female (and lesbian) president of the Reconstructionist move-ment, Waxman is also the first leader of the organization since its restructur-ing in 2012, which saw the merger of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Col-lege and the congregational wing, Recon-structionist Jewish Communities.

Waxman was in Olympia visiting Temple Beth Hatfiloh on Monday, Feb-ruary 23, and in Seattle the next day to visit with Kadima, as part of a North-west tour to a total of five congregations. Since taking her post a year ago, shes vis-ited some 35 congregations around the country to introduce herself and under-stand their needs.

The Reconstructionist movement has been significantly influential on North American Jewish life, Waxman told The Jewish Sound during her Seat-tle stop.

The movement is the leader in gender and sexuality issues and the inclusion of non-Jews, Waxman said. Kaplan, who grew disenchanted with Orthodoxy and sought to build a Jewish identity on more American values, is credited with invent-ing the Bat Mitzvah.

The values that have created this optimistic and embracing, inclusive vision push us to continue to be on the cutting edge, said Waxman. I see a real need for what the Reconstructionist approach has to offer.

Rabbi Seth Goldstein of Temple Beth Hatfiloh welcomed Waxmans visit.

It was really positive when she came to Temple Beth Hatfiloh, because people are able to make a more direct connec-tion with the movement, with Rabbi Waxman, with the ideology were con-nected to, he said. The fact that she visited the Northwest, which is so far from the center of the Reconstructionist movement, says a lot.

TBH has been affiliated with the Reconstruction-ist movement for about 15 years, according to Gold-stein, who was ordained at the RRC in Wyncote, Penn.

Reconstructionism takes an approach that Judaism is the evolving religious expression of the Jewish people, he said. Its more bottom-up and democratic, and continually evolving with the idea of making Juda-ism more meaningful.

Goldstein hopes the five Northwest congregations

will put together a Shabbaton in the near future.

In addition to pluralism, social activ-ism, and the evolving American Jewish identity, Waxman explained that the movement is also active in Israels Jewish renaissance the growing inter-est of secular Israelis in Jewish study. The movement is formalizing that rela-tionship, starting with a Facebook page called Gateways to Israeli-Jewish Renaissance. Waxman hopes the lib-eral American Jewish community can promote a more pluralistic Jewish soci-ety in Israel.

Yet shes hesitant to speculate on the future of the Reconstructionist move-ment in America and beyond.

I deeply hope the Jewish community will develop the preservation of differ-ence while being open to other faith tra-ditions, she said. [But] I have no idea what that Jewish community is going to look like, because were living in this time of unprecedented change.

The economic downturn, the explo-sion of digital technology, and the effects of these events on media, education, and society could greatly impact a vision of Judaism based on people and evolution.

I focus on a lot of values that will help us through the change, she said. That will help us build a self-aware and affirmative Jewish community.

For Waxman, the essence of Judaism is asking the hard questions.

I often joke that Im the chief evan-gelizer for Reconstructionism, she said. Part of that means evangelizing for pro-gressive Judaism and progressive reli-gion. I am not interested in being Jewish for the sake of being Jewish. I think that being Jewish is a means to sev-eral ends, that I aim to be a good Jew because it helps me be fully human. With the Divine, to try to work through these perpetual questions: Why am I here? And what am I supposed to be doing?

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Netanyahu to Congress: Deal with Iran paves way to bomb(JTA) In his address to Congress,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that the proposed nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran will lead inexorably to a nuclear-armed Iran and war in the Middle East.

This deal has two major concessions: One, leaving Iran with a vast nuclear program, and two, lifting the restrictions on that program in about a decade, Netanyahu said in his speech Tuesday morning. Thats why this deal is so bad. It doesnt block Irans path to the bomb, it paves Irans path to the bomb.

Netanyahu argued that the deal under consideration, which is being negotiated with Iran by the United States and other world powers, would let most of Irans nuclear infrastructure stay in place, including thou-sands of centrifuges. That would leave Tehran with a very short breakout time with which it could produce nuclear weap-ons, he said.

The Israeli leader also said that the inspec-tion regime under negotiation would be insufficient because inspectors can only doc-ument violations, not stop them, and Iran has a history of maintaining secret nuclear facilities.

Like North Korea, Iran, too, has defied international inspectors, Netanyahu said. Iran has proven time and again that it cannot be trusted.

Because Iran threat-ens many of its neigh-bors, other countries in the region likely would develop their own nuclear weapons to keep pace with the Islamic Repub-lic, Netanyahu warned, leaving the region criss-crossed with nuclear tin-der-wires.

If anyone thinks this deal kicks the can down the road, think again, he said. When we get down

that road, we will face a much more danger-ous Iran, a Middle East littered with nuclear bombs, and a countdown to a potential nuclear nightmare.

Netanyahu urged Congress to reject the deal.

For over a year, weve been told that no deal is better than a bad deal, Netanyahu said. Well, this is a bad deal. Its a very bad deal. Were better off without it.

The audience responded with a stand-ing ovation.

This was Netanyahus third address to a joint session of Congress, tying him with Winston Churchill for most speeches to joint

sessions of Congress by a foreign leader.Organized by House of Representatives

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and the Israeli prime minister unbeknownst to the White House, the speech proved highly con-troversial in the run-up to Tuesday. Presi-dent Barack Obama said he would not attend because of its occurrence within weeks of Israels scheduled elections on March 17, and Vice President Joe Biden cited a scheduling conflict in saying he would not be present.

Numerous Democratic lawmakers, Israeli political figures and prominent Ameri-can Jews called on Netanyahu to scrap the planned speech, warning that it risked the appearance of a partisan political move. More than 50 Democratic lawmakers and one Republican lawmaker including six Jewish lawmakers said they would not attend.

But Netanyahu insisted that the speech was necessary to warn Congress and the American people about the dangers of the developing deal with Iran.

At the outset of his address, Netanyahu sought to dismiss the notion that it was a par-tisan political play, praising Obamas record on Israel and citing several specific instances of support, including U.S. assistance in help-ing the staff at Israels embassy in Cairo escape unharmed during a siege in 2011 and bolstering Israels anti-rocket infrastructure during last summers Gaza war.

The remarkable alliance between Israel

and the United States has always been above politics; it must always remain above pol-itics, Netanyahu said. Israel is grateful for the support of Americas people and of Americas presidents, from Harry Truman to Barack Obama.

But, he said, As prime minister of Israel, I feel a profound obligation to speak to you about an issue that could well threaten the survival of my country and the future of my people: Irans quest for nuclear weapons.

Netanyahu argued that war is not the only alternative to a deal, saying Iran needs an agreement more than America does, espe-cially given the pressure on its economy.

Now were being told that the only alter-native to this bad deal is war. Thats just not true. The alternative to this bad deal is a much better deal, Netanyahu said, a better deal that Israel and its neighbors may not like, but with which we could live, literally.

If Iran threatens to walk away from the table and this often happens in a Persian bazaar call their bluff, Netanyahu said. Theyll be back because they need the deal a lot more than you do.

Following the speech, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Israeli Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahus speech to Con-gress nearly brought her to tears because it insulted the intelligence of the United States.

Pelosi (D-Calif.) emphasized the

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Books youll never readBy Diana Brement, Jewish Sound Columnist

1 U n l e s s y o u r e a prosthodontist or the managing partner of a law firm, chances are youll never read these books and might never have heard of them until now.

Soft Tissue Manage-ment: The Restorative Per-spective, Ariel Raigrodskis first book, comes out in May. Its for the restorative gen-eral dentist as well as the periodontist, he says. The Israeli-born author is a professor at the University of Washington with a pri-vate restorative, implant and esthetic dentistry practice in Bothell. He is also a photographer who considers his work to be part technological and part artistry most of the photos in the book are his.

This book truly discusses how to blend the teeth and implants with the restorations on top and the soft tissue, the gums, he explains, to achieve a bal-ance of esthetic appeal and health. He uses his photographs in patient care, to diagnose and track progress for both his and the patients benefit.

Prosthodontics is an amalgamation of art, science and patient care, observes Ariel, and thats why I love this profes-sion.

Born and raised in Tel Aviv, he says his dads interests in technology and art inspired his career choice. Ariel went directly to dentistry school from high school and studied in Jerusalem for six years before entering the army as a den-tist, stationed at the Lebanese border.

I was treating the people who truly deserved it, he says, and doing some moonlighting at kibbutzim nearby.

After working at headquarters of the armys chief of staff, Ariel was encour-aged by a friend to study at Tulane. His wife Dana, an attorney, followed. He then taught there while Dana completed a masters and Ph.D. at LSU. Two of their three children were born there.

The couple moved to Seattle 11 years ago when Ariel became a profes-

sor of restorative dentistry at the UW. In demand as a speaker, he presents around the world to professional dental organizations and academies in places as varied as Nebraska and Mumbai. He especially enjoys travel if his family is with him, but he likes teaching and inter-acting with people best, he says.

I try to keep it interac-tive, he says of his talks.

Dialogue is the most productive way of learning...whether I teach in the school or Im seeing a patient.

When hes not teaching, seeing patients, or writing youre most likely to find Ariel on a soccer field all his kids, ages 15, 13 and 9, play soccer at an elite level. The family belongs to Congrega-tion Beth Shalom.

2 When he left Microsoft about eight years ago, Steven Levy wasnt quite ready to retire, but he wanted to work less than full time.

Having spent six years at the software giant running tech-nology and opera-tions for legal and corporate affairs , he realized that he not only liked work-ing with lawyers, but he also gained some insights into how law firmscould better serve their cli-ents.

So, he says, I wrote the book that defined the field of legal project man-agement (cleverly titled Legal Proj-ect Management), formed his com-pany, and now gives workshops around the country.

The firm is Lexi-cian (rhymes with magician), which matches the firms phone number. Plus there were very few names left in the dot-com world that [were] pronounce-able at the time, says Steven.

L e g a l p r o j -ect management is applying techniques and principles of project management

to legal cases, he explains. It has been a hole in the business of law.

Senior lawyers already spend at least a third of their time managing projects doing the business of law which is not taught in law school.

I dont promise to make it fun, he says, but he can promise to make it less painful.

Steven grew up in Woodmere on Long Island, N.Y., and attended Rensselaer Polytechnic, but dropped out because he wasnt interested in studying chemistry or math and you could not get a degree in computer science back then.

Living in various places around the city, including Brooklyn before it was cool, Steven became part of the Green-wich Village folk music scene, playing guitar and hanging out with people who became more famous and successful than I did. Finishing his degree at City Uni-versity of New York, he started working in publishing. This led him to software when he became an early adopter of using personal computing to track sales.

Arriving in Seattle on Halloween in 1988, Steven went to work for Quicksoft, where he met his wife, Anya Levysmith. He still enjoys playing a little guitar and a little golf, too. He and Anya have two teenage children and belong to Temple Beth Am in Seattle.

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The final bookshelf By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound Columnist

As I explained in my previous book column, these are not reviews, but over-views of some Jewish themed books our readers might be interested in.

cookbooksSpiritual Kneading through the

Jewish Months: Building the Sacred through Challah, by Dahlia Abraham-Kline (Shamshi, paper, $24.95). This chal-

lah-baking cookbook, with its full-color photos, offers a spiritual twist (get it?) on preparing the weekly Shabbat bread. Each Jewish month (including a 13th leap-month) includes a guided meditation over the kneading of dough, educational discussion questions, and a bread shape reflecting a theme for the month. A pome-granate-shaped challah is the recipe for Shevat, for example, and the holiday is Tu BShevat, the new year of the trees. Focused on women, who have traditionally baked challah at home, the author includes a sec-tion on the new moon observance, Rosh Chodesh, a ritual that has also tradition-ally belonged to women. Abraham-Kline brings lowly bread into a higher realm. She leads spiritual baking classes on New Yorks Long Island.

Secret Restaurant Recipes from the Worlds Top Kosher Restaurants, by Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek

(Artscroll, cloth, $29.99). You can go straight to the recipes, because Ive already checked the index for a top kosher restau-rant in Seattle. There isnt one.

Theres nothing in this large-format, full-color cookbook that doesnt look fabu-

lous and delicious enough to make a foodie go weak in the knees. Tips and anecdotes from top kosher chefs are included and I even learned something on one quick perusal: Youll get a creamier texture in your parve vegetable soup by skipping the onion. The sugar in the onion is a stabilizer that keeps the veggies from breaking down. (Cauliflower Bisque, page 80.)

dating500 Dates: Dispatches from the

Front Lines of the Online Dating Wars, by Mark Miller (Skyhorse, paper, $16.95). Comedian and humor writer Miller enter-

tains us with a combi-nation of true stories and made-up ones from the dating world, so those both living vicariously and looking for advice can enjoy his stories equally. Miller includes quizzes and advice like Test-a-

Jew, and Interpolitical Dating Tips.Kosher Porn, by Sarah Rosen (Stein-

reich, cloth, $14). No worries, theres no nudity here (except for a guy or two with-out a shirt). This little book stemmed from the authors experience dating in New York and her desire to see Juda-

ism portrayed as sexy. Photos of seriously attractive young men and women have Jewish-themed captions ranging from sweet to suggestive. A handsome young man offers a challah and a bottle and says, Whos your abba? while another with a knife-full of cream cheese suggests Ill schmear you with love. Another by the sea opens her arms and promises, Ill be your promised land. Along with the eye candy, the author hopes youll learn a little some-thing about Judaism, too.

memoir/Family historyThe Year My Mother Came Back,

by Alice Eve Cohen (Algon-quin , c loth , $23.95). The author revis-its the subject of a previous memoir and a play a l a t e - i n - l i f e , c o m p l e t e l y u n e x p e c t e d

and complicated pregnancy but this time, she concentrates on her own mother, who died young, and how she came to terms with that tragedy and learned how to be a daughter in order to parent her own children.

American Ghost: The True Story of a Familys Haunted Past, by Hannah Nordhaus (Harper, cloth, $25.99). How many of us can say our great-great

grandmother is a ghost? Julia Staabs ghost has been seen and heard in the Victorian mansion in the heart of Santa F e , n o w t h e hotel La Posada. Julias husband built the splen-did house for

his ailing wife in the mid-19th century. Deciding to ferret out the truth about her famous relative was she mentally or physically ill, was she loved or abused? Nordhaus consults psychics, ghost hunt-ers, historians and genealogists in an effort to uncover the truth. A fascinating family history is the result.

Motherland: Growing Up with the Holocaust, by Rita Goldberg (New Press, cloth, $27.95). Blending memoir and his-tory, Goldberg brings us the story of her

mother, Hilde Jacobs tha l , a close friend of Anne Franks family, who was 15 when the Nazis invaded Holland. When her parents were arrested in 1943, she fled to Bel-gium and spent the remainder

of the war with the resistance, and then in Bergen-Belsen after its liberation. But this is also Goldbergs story of growing up in a family haunted by personal tragedy. The author is a lecturer in comparative litera-ture at Harvard. The book will be avail-able in April.

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Georgia OKeeffe (18871986), Yellow Cactus, 1929. Oil on canvas, 30 42 inches. Dallas Museum of Art, Texas. Patsy Lacy Griffith Collection, Bequest of Patsy Lacy Griffith. 1998.217. (OKeeffe 675). 2015 Georgia OKeeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy International Arts.

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twenty years in film, coming to a theater near youWho are we as a people? What is our

identity as Jews? These are the questions that the 2015 Seattle Jewish Film Festival its 20th anniversary asks with its mix of films over the course of nine days.

SJFF closes its second decade with a huge lineup of movies that range from the local how one woman whose life changed irrevocably in a moment of trag-edy rose from the ashes to the inter-national Nazi art intrigue in Paris, an Arab-Israeli student who must navi-gate his identity, a coming-of-age story of Iraqi Jews scripted entirely in the dia-lect of the era and so much in between.

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Hannas JourneyDir. Julia von Heinz (2013, Israel/Ger-many)Sat., March 14, 7:30 p.m. at Pacific Place, preceded by a 6:30 p.m. no-host happy hour in the lobby.

Is it possible to set a German-Jew-ish romantic comedy in the still-long

shadow of the Holocaust?The answer, obviously, is its com-

plicated.When Berliner Hanna schemes her

way to Israel to pad her resume through her estranged mothers volunteer orga-nization, she (predictably) finds herself drawn to Itay, the adorable coordinator at a home for special-needs Israelis. Itay and Hanna are simultaneously pulled toward and repelled by one another, with their peoples histories the zinging raw nerve between them.

Between Hannahs crude and ironic ambivalence toward her countrys past and Itays unseverable ties to his family, their relationship is fraught, and their chemistry is less than spicy.

But the real question is not, can Hannah and Itay have a normal and

healthy love affair? Rather, Hannas Journey in the limited time and space of a feature film attempts to probe the possibility of relationships between the descendants of victims and perpetrators in a connected world.

In the process, Hanna starts to realize for the first time her own familys com-plicity in the Holocaust, which takes her on the actual journey of the title.

According to SJFF director Pamela Lavitt, Hannas Journey was picked for opening night in recognition of 50 years of diplomatic relations between Ger-many and Israel.

Identity grappling is a big part of the festival this year, said Lavitt. What does it mean for those still struggling in

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11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. Head, Heart and Hands: A Friends of JFS Event

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, Jewish Family Service, 1601 16th Ave., SeattleAn opportunity to think about the ways the community can get involved with JFS, to hear a compelling story, and participate in an activity in the food bank. By invitation only.

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the wake of shared history?At once light and heavy, Hannas

Journey represents how the next gen-eration is artistically reckoning with the Holocaust.

Emily K. Alhadeff

eden restsDir. Ofer Kapota, Natalie Chen, Hadar Sitvuk (2013, Israel)Sat., March 14, 7:30 p.m. at Pacific PlaceScreens with Hannas Journey

In 1920s Palestine, back before state-hood, when Tel Aviv was emerging as a real city from its shtetl and Arab village roots, there was a struggle going on. It wasnt between Jews and Arabs, though you could certainly find those issues emerging. It wasnt necessarily between European mi-grs and the natives, though you could see that as well. This was the natural tension between the old and new people get-ting around by car rather than on horse-back, between letting in foreign influences or learning the important news from the gossip grapevine. Nowhere could that be

more obvious than at the Eden Cinema, Tel Avivs first movie house, which brought that tension into full relief.

If you suspend your disbelief in the tem-poral reality Churchill visited in 1921, Fritz Langs Metropolis, the poster of which is pasted in Hebrew over the villages walls, came out in 1927 youll be tick-led pink by this lovely animated short film. Directors Kapota, Chen and Sitvuk use the Eden as the backdrop to bring all of these tensions and the villagers together in a wordless script that speaks to us in pic-tures. That the last frame before the cred-its roll shows the Eden today derelict, crumbling only tells us that sometimes we need to retain our structures because they hold so much of our history.

Joel Magalnick

Havana Curveball Dir. Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider (U.S./Cuba, 2014)Sunday, March 15, 11 a.m. (following Matzoh Momma Brunch) at AMC Pacific Place

For Mica Jarmel-Schneider, the plans to normalize relations between the U.S. and Cuba are exciting news albeit a bit too late.

As his Bar Mitzvah approached several years ago, the athletic San Francisco teen-ager mulled various community-service projects before hitting on the idea of send-ing baseball gear to the island.

Jarmel-Schneider had learned that bats, balls and gloves were scarce due to the embargo, and that even used equipment would be a major-league upgrade for Cuban kids his age.

His altruistic cam-paign, and eye-opening odyssey to Cuba, is viv-idly depicted in Havana Curveball, an inspiring and unsentimental one-hour documentary suit-able for all ages.

Recognizing the posi-tive trend of Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrants

looking beyond the party and gifts to causes deserving support, the husband-and-wife team of Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider originally envisioned a short film that would trigger conversations about social responsi-bility during the Bar Mitzvah process.

We started with this notion that our sons experience could be a vehicle for all kinds of kids having this conversation with themselves, their families, and their com-munities about what their responsibility

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was in the world and how they might like to contribute, Jarmel says.

The veteran filmmakers figured the short would take three months to produce. But as Micas project grew, so did the film. The complications of shipping anything to Cuba played a role, as did the familys his-tory.

Cuba had granted residency to Micas grandfather in 1941 when his family was fleeing the Nazis and couldnt gain access to the U.S. The humanitarian act resonated

with Mica and informed his project, even though Schneider didnt stay in Cuba very long before relocating to America. In fact, Micas grandfather declined to travel to Cuba with the lad.

My dad was deeply grateful that Mica was inspired by his life experience to go and perform this bit of service in Cuba, Schneider says, even though he no longer feels a connection to the country which saved his life.

Mica was also influenced by another tenet of the Jewish experience, Schneider relates.

His rabbi told him the story of tikkun olam, which is about putting a broken piece of the world back together, and how small or large acts can be part of that.

Michael Fox

Farewell bagHdadDir. Nissim Dayan (Israel, 2014)Sun., March 16, 12:40 p.m. at Pacific Place

Based on the book The Dove Flyer by Eli Amir, Farewell Baghdad (a.k.a. The Dove Flyer) recounts in dramatic detail the disintegration of Iraqs Jewish com-munity.

Established during the Babylonian exile in 586 BCE, Iraqs Jewish community withstood thousands of years of chang-ing history and served as the seat of Jewish

authority from the fall of Jerusalem until the 11th century. The community more or less lived comfortably in Iraq until 1948. This is where our story begins.

Kabi is a young man when his uncle is arrested for his involvement with the Zion-ist underground. Quickly, Kabis beloved homeland turns from his friend to his enemy, and it wont be long before hes a target.

Caught up among his Israel-dream-ing father, his nostalgic mother, the anti-Zionist dove-breeder who employs him and his Zionist activist son, and two beau-tiful women, Kabi, who is still treated like a child, comes of age alongside the unravel-ing of his community.

Filmed in the Iraqi Judeo-Arabic dia-lect, its a beautiful film that has been not

only well received in Israel, but has stirred up emotions among nostalgic Iraqi Mus-lims. Though it ends on a dark note, Fare-well Baghdad reminds us that Jews and Arabs were not always considered such separate entities, and perhaps theres even hope yet for rebuilding burned bridges.

Emily K. Alhadeff

gay gezunt! an lgbtQ sHort seriesSun., March 16, 3 p.m. at Pacific Place

Four films: Facing Fear, Summer Vaca-tion, The Seder, and Zazaland from three countries: The U.S., Canada and Israel highlight the way gay life has become a part of regular life for so many Jewish families. Each of these four films approaches homo-sexuality in a different way. Facing Fear (Dir. Jason Cohen and Steven Okazaki,

U.S., 2013) is a documentary that focuses on the chance meeting between a former neo-Nazi and a gay man he attacked 25 years earlier at the Museum of Toler-ance. Summer Vacation (Dir. Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon, Israel, 2012) dredges up a long-held family secret during a fami-lys beach vaca-tion. The Seder (Dir . Jus t in Kelly, Canada, 2012) is a reg-ular fish-out-of-water story of an openly gay man who brings his boy-friend to his parents house for their first Passover seder

together. Hijinks and uncomfortable moments ensue. And finally, Zazaland (Dir. Maayan Cohen, Israel, 2013) is a comedic sendup of the 2001 Israeli film

A Late Marriage, only this time it fea-tures two Georgian men hiding their rela-tionship from what will otherwise be an arranged marriage between one and a young woman waiting with her family in the next room.

Joel Magalnick

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tHeodor bikel: in tHe sHoes oF sHolom aleiCHemDir. John Lollos (U.S., 2014)Monday, March 16, 6:30 p.m. at SIFF Uptown

Based on Theodor Bikels acclaimed stage play Sholom Aleichem: Laugh-ter through Tears and narrated by the Emmy-winning Alan Alda, director John Lollos double-portrait musical documen-tary attempts to preserve Yiddish culture through song and dance, blending the sto-ries of two revered Jewish icons: Sholom Aleichem and Bikel himself, perhaps the greatest living performer and interpreter

of Aleichems work. Bikel, 90, serves as both the focus of the film and guide to the legend of Aleichem, the charismatic sto-ryteller and chronicler of 19th-century Jewish life perhaps best known for his Tevye the Dairyman stories that served as the basis for the musical hit Fiddler on

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family escaped Nazi occupation, Bikel switches from first to third person with both humor and pathos to underscore the impor-tance of Aleichems work as a pio-neer of modern Jewish literature, as well as Aleichems influence on his own storied career. The-odor Bikel is both a poignant and thoroughly amusing portrayal of two extraordinary talents.

Boris KurbanovQuality ballsDir. Barry Avrich (U.S., 2013)Mon., March 16, 7:20 p.m. at SIFF Uptown

David Steinbergs the funni-est guy you hardly know. Many comedi-ans today see Steinberg as the man who gave them their craft. Departing from the Borscht Belt humor of their fathers, even powerhouses such as Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David look at Steinberg as the guy who gave them permission to use their sto-ries to make people laugh. Whether youre talking love, politics, or simple observations, Steinberg turned the notion of the one-liner

and laugh-a-minute comedy on its head. Funny, then, that it all began with sermons based on the Torah.

Smothers Brothers fans back in the late 60s and early 70s were probably surprised when their variety show suddenly disap-peared from the air. You can blame that on Steinberg, who would perform interpre-tations of the Torah (or Old Testament to those Christian audiences on TV) that were markedly different from what they heard

on Sunday mornings. Such was the wave of comedy that later begat Saturday Night Live and SCTV, among other programs.

Barry Avrichs Quality Balls take the title as you see fit brings in many of those comedy greats: Seinfeld, David, Johnny Carson, and Robert Klein, among others, to tell the story of this child of European immi-grants who eventually landed in Manitoba. And Avrich of course includes footage of Steinberg himself throughout the years. In some of these bits youll laugh so hard youll start crying. What we ultimately get is the story of a consummate professional, a per-former from birth whose only desire is to make people laugh. Whats missing, unfor-tunately, is the story of the man. We dont even learn, for example, that hes married until the last minutes of the documentary. But maybe some parts of life arent a laugh-ing matter.

Joel Magalnick

HannaH CoHens Holy Com-munionDir. Lana Citron (U.K., 2012)Screens Mon., March 16 at 8:30 p.m. at SIFF Cinema Uptown

Hannah Cohens Holy Communion is a sweet, playful telling of a young girl who craves acceptance and adventure. When Hannahs friend heads off in a fancy white dress to participate in holy communion, giddily explained to Hannah as the best

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