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1Since graduating rom
Northwest Yeshiva High
School in 2006, Elisheva
Goldberg has achieved her
goal o living and working in
Israel.Te resident o Jerusalem’s
Abu or neighborhood (and
ormer JNews intern) wears
two proessional hats: She
is an international relations
analyst and editor or Molad:
Te Center or the Renewal o
Israeli Democracy, and a ree-
lance writer o Open Zion, a
blog on Te Daily Beast. (Find
her work easily with your avorite search
engine.)
Molad, where she primarily does
research, is “an incredible place,” says Eli-
sheva, “an Israeli progressive policy insti-
tution,” or “think tank,” modeled on
American counterparts like the Center or
American Progress.
Open Zion is where she can express
her opinions. he blog, which takes
“a solid two-state
editorial line,” is “a
great place or me to
explore Israeli poli-
tics when they inter-
sect with Americanpolitics.”
S h e r e c e n t l y
wrote two pieces
that became quite
popular — they
explored a politi-
cal balance between
why young Dias-
pora Jews don’t like
conservative Israeli
politician Nafali Bennett and a “parallel
piece about why young Israeli Jews do like
Nafali Bennett.”
She wanted to understand Bennett’s
appeal, even when he says things “that
are hard to hear…especially or Ameri-
can Jews,” she says, and translate “in some
part” or American readers.
Like “many Modern Orthodox kids,”
Elisheva spent a year in Israel afer high
school. Even then, “I wanted
to be in that political world,”
she says.
During that year she
went on a tour that included
spending a day with Pal-estinian peers in Hebron,
which drove home the
importance o being able to
communicate with them.
She began studying Arabic
at Penn (class o 2011), has
been on a summer program
in Egypt, spent a semester in
Morocco, and is currently in
“an advanced spoken class”
at Al Quds University in Jerusalem.
Living in New York beore moving to
Israel, Elisheva says she “grappled with
issues o egalitarianism,” studying with
Rabbi Ethan ucker at Yeshivat Hadar. It
was while living in New York that Elisheva
met journalist Peter Beinart and helped
him start the Open Zion blog.
A basketball player in high school
and college, Elisheva continues to play in
Israel “with a group o middle aged men,”
mostly American, “and they’re very, very
good.” She’s also learning to play accor-
dion, an interest she shares with her dad,
Dr. Sheldon Goldberg (JNews, “Singing
or a cure, March 22, 2013).
2It was good news and bad new
when purse designer and artisa
Susan Amira Weinstein oun
she’d lost her job earlier this year. T
good news? She could finally throw he
sel ull-time into launching Susan AmiDesigns and to building inventory —
which she does hersel, one bag at a time
“I love to sew,” she says. “I’ve bee
sewing since I was 12 years old.”
She started at Seattle’s Sharples Juni
High School with teacher Mrs. Cushio
Really. She still has “the apron I made
that class,” she says, and uses it rom tim
to time.
Ater getting a speech and hearin
degree rom the University o Washin
ton, Susan decided against teaching an
enrolled at Seattle Central Communi
College or a degree in apparel and desig
services. She then worked or Nordstro
where, by coincidence, her husband Ala
also worked, although they actually met
the JCC. Susan ofen consults their grow
daughters, Sari and ori, on her designs
Currently, you can see and purcha
her bags, and contact her at www.ets
com. She says that building her own we
site with selling capability is a high prio
ity or her this year. Each handbag sty
M.O.T.Member of
the Tribe
TOMER APPLEBAUM
Elisheva Goldberg, who
works as an analyst for an
Israeli NGO and as a writer
for Open Zion.
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Rabbi’s Turn
With Hanukkah approaching so early this year, Rabbi Ron-Ami Meyer exlains why the Jews of the Hel-
lenic era felt the need to fight back against the Greeks, and what it means within our changing Jewish
landscape.
News in brief
Kavana Cooperative is honored, a noted educator will be teaching in Seattle, and a Seattle doctor is hon-
ored for his lifelong work.
Guns on the ballot
An effort to bring gun reform to next year’s election has strong backing from our Jewish community.
A celebration of Torah learning
Herzl-Ner Tamid’s seventh annual Torahthon brings in rabbis and educators from Seattle and as far away
as Israel to make Torah relevant — and fun — for all of us.
Meet the rabbis
Temple Beth Am has not one, but two new rabbis to lead its congregation. Learn about who they are and
where they come from.
Tzedakah Center sectio
Looking for ways to give your time and money as the holidays approach? We have suggestions galore for
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Golems, deserts and unknown destinations 1
Music of Remembrance celebrates its 15th season with a mix of performances ranging from a dance
performance to chamber-style sonatas.
Northwest Jewish Family
Preparing for college 1
Two students thinking about what happens after graduation give tips on how high schoolers can make su
they’re properly preparing for college.
Northwest Jewish Seniors
Being holier than thou 1
Sometimes the best way to save a relationship with a loved one is to become more flexible in your beliefs
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Canada’s first Yiddish-language film, a story of lost love found, makes its way to Seattle this weekend, wit
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From the Jewish ranscript, November 1, 1965.
Members o emple Beth Am in Seattle’s Wedgwood neighborhood celebrated
at our events as their new building across rom Dahl Field Park was dedicated.
Tough it has gone through extensive remodels in the ensuing 48 years, the temple
has always embraced change. Most recently that change has been with its rabbini-
cal leadership, who you can meet page 9.
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FRIDAY1 NOVEMBER
6:30–9 p.m. — Secular Shabbat with Anne
Levinson
Secular Jewish Circle at
info@secularjewishcircle.org or 206-528-1944
or secularjewishcircle.org
“Jewish Roots and Social Engagement” features
the Honorable Anne Levinson, who will speak about
issues related to social welfare and justice. Contact
SJC for location details.
SUNDAY3 NOVEMBER
9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — Cookies Galore
Shelly Goldman at
sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or
425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.org
Karen Baer teaches how to make coconutmacaroons (not just for Passover!) and mandel
bread. Space limited, register early. $5 at the door.
At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
2 p.m. — Expose Yourself to Art with
Beersheva Hadassah
Meryl Alcabes at
Beersheva.Hadassah@gmail.com or 206-723-1558
Docent-led tour of Frye Art Museum with Hadassah.
$10 suggested donation. At Frye Art Museum/
Sorrento Hotel, 704 Terry Ave., Seattle.
6–9 p.m. — StandWithUs Northwest Annual
Community Reception Event
Rob Jacobs at Northwest@StandWithUs.com
or 206-801-0902 or www.standwithus.com/
northwest
Featuring author, columnist and commentator Yossi
Klein Halevi and Pakistani-born “Muslim Zionist”
Kasim Hafeez. Israeli wines and kosher hors
d’oeuvres served with book signing. $36. At Town
Hall, 1119 8th Ave., Seattle.
7 p.m. — Abráce: Vocal Harmonies andPercussion from Around the World
Karen Sakamoto at
ksakamoto@templebnaitorah.org or
425-603-9677 or templebnaitorah.org
Abráce, named for the Spanish and Portuguese word
for “embrace,” is dedicated to building intercultural
understanding through musical collaboration. Free.
At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
WEDNESDAY6 NOVEMBER
7–9:30 p.m. — Torahthon
Rabbi Jill Levy at rabbi.levy@h-nt.org or
206-232-8555 or www.h-nt.org
Area rabbis, professors and teachers present topics
of personal and professional interest to a broad
spectrum of learners. Attend one, two or all three
days: November 6, 10 and 13. At Herzl-Ner Tamid
Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way,
Mercer Island.
THURSDAY7 NOVEMBER
7:30 p.m. — WSJHS Presents: ‘In the Land of
Rain and Salmon’
Lori Ceyhun at loric@wsjhs.org or
206-774-2277 or www.wsjhs.org/events.php
Witness the experiences of Washington State’s
Jewish pioneers, brought to life on stage by the
Washington State Jewish Historical Society and
Book-It Repertory Theatre. Doors open at 7 p.m. At
Nordic Heritage Museum, 3014 NW 67th St., Seattle.
FRIDAY
8 NOVEMBER
5:30 p.m. – Shabbaton with Rabbi Hillel Goldberg
scholar@shevetachim.com or 206-236-7200
Scholar, author and lecturer Rabbi Hillel Goldberg
will lead Shevet Achim’s fall Shabbaton, titled “What
Mussar Means for Us Today.” Goldberg will lead
three lectures throughout the weekend. Free. At
Congregation Shevet Achim, NYHS, 5017 90th Ave.
SE, Mercer Island.
7:30 p.m. — Meaning Well and Doing Harm:
Potential Pitfalls of Tikkun Olam
Stacy Schill at 206-498-1066 or
www.kolaminw.org
Guest speaker Cliff Mass, an authority on weather in
the Pacific Northwest, will speak about tikkun olam in
relation to his work and his life. Free. At Congregation
Kol Ami, 16530 Avondale Rd. NE, Woodinville.
9–11 p.m. — PBS Fall Arts Festival: Stephen
Sondheim’s Company with the N.Y. Philharmonic
kcts9.org/tv-schedule
PBS Fall Arts Festival brings world-class arts to
your living room. This episode features Stephen
Sondheim’s company in concert with the New Yo
Philharmonic. Record this Friday night broadcast
watch after Shabbat. On KCTS Channel 9.
SATURDAY9 NOVEMBER
5–7 p.m. — SJCC Parents Night Out: Nick at Ni Daliah Silver at daliahs@sjcc.org or
206-388-0839 or www.sjcc.org
Games, arts and crafts, and dinner for kids wh
parents go out. SJCC member $30/sibling $15;gue
$40/sibling $20. At the Stroum Jewish Commun
Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
SUNDAY10 NOVEMBER
6:45–9 p.m. — Fall Concert: Until When?
John Huffstetler at
info@musicofremembrance.org or 206-365-
7770 or www.musicofremembrance.org
World premiere of a new dance set to “The Golem
score by Betty Olivero, plus music by two other Isra
composers and a jazz-inflected sonata by Erw
Schulhoff. $40. At the Illsley Ball Nordstrom Reci
Hall, Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle.
7:30–9:30 p.m. — BCMH Sisterhood Ceramic
Painting
Rhonda Rubin at Rhonda@rhonda.rubin.nam
BCMH Sisterhood hosts a “paint the fall blues awa
party for women only. All items range from $5
$60 (w/average price around $18). RSVP requir
no later than Mon., Nov. 4. At Emerald City Fir
Arts, 333 3 Rainier Ave. S, Seattle.
MONDAY11 NOVEMBER
9:30 a.m.– 3:30 p.m. — SJCC School’s Out
Camp: Spy Day
Daliah Silver at daliahs@sjcc.org or
206-388-0839 or www.sjcc.org
Full and half-day camp features Spy Day: Solve ridd
and clues like James Bond, perform challenges li
in “Mission: Impossible,” and use detective skills li
investigators on CSI. S JCC member $50/guest $6
At the SJCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
FRIDAY15 NOVEMBER
12–3:30 p.m. — Half-Day School’s Out Camp
Iron Chef
Daliah Silver at daliahs@sjcc.org or
206-388-0839 or www.sjcc.org
Themed camp day “Iron Chef”: Compete in
cooking contest with a secret ingredient. At t
SJCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
9–11 p.m. — PBS Fall Arts Festival, Great
Performances: Rogers and Hammerstein’s
Oklahoma
kcts9.org/tv-schedule
This episode features Rogers and Hammerstein
“Oklahoma.” On KCTS Channel 9.
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THE RABBI’S TURN
OPINION
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The candle is the mitzvah, the Torah is the light
RABBI RON-AMI MEYERS Congregation Ezra BessarothFor most Americans, November means
Tanksgiving is just around the corner.
Tis year, in an unusual con-fluence o the Gregorian and
Jewish calendars, Hanuk-
kah alls out on Tanksgiv-
ing. According to my sources,
it will only happen again in
the year 79,811! Tis year’s
reality, then, offers a unique
opportunity to relect on
Hanukkah independent o the
atmosphere o the American
holiday season.
We are all amiliar with the Hasmo-
neans’ unlikely military victory and the
miracle o the cruse o oil. But i we delve
deeper, we should ask: What was the root
o the conflict between ourselves and the
Greeks? Our sources state that on the
Greek agenda was the spiritual annihi-
lation o our people; since the Greeks
knew us as the “People o the Book,” they
attempted to rob us o this identity. In the
words o the Hanukkah prayer Al Hanisim,
inserted into the Amidah and the Birkat
Hamazon, the plan was “to cause us to
orget Your orah and have us transgress
Your statutes.”
And yet the Greeks themselves,
immersed in art, literature and philosophy,
were anything but anti-intellectual. Why,
then, does Jewish tradition characterize the
Hellenistic influence as “darkness?” What
was there about the Greek orientation that
posed such a threat to the Jewish survival?
Te answer may lie in thenuanced language o the Al
Hanisim: We don’t assert that
the Greeks opposed orah
learning per se, but that they
threatened hukei ritzonach,
Your statutes. Te Hellenists
supported orah study only as
a branch o Greek wisdom, as
another intellectual discipline.
Jewish resistance against such
an orientation, and the ulti-
mate rediscovery o the lask o oil,
prompted the sages to institute the light-
ing o the Hanukkah menorah or eight
consecutive days. Each Hanukkah night
we celebrate “Ki ner mitzvah v’orah or”
— “A candle is a mitzvah, and the orah is
light.” Te pure oil with the Kohen Gadol’s
stamp mirrors the rekindling o an authen-
tic, Godly orah that had been withheld
rom us.
In the wake o the Pew Research Center
survey on American Jews, many o us par-
ents, educators and communal leaders
have begun to re-examine the messages we
are conveying and the direction in which
we are taking our respective Jewish amilies
and communities. Along with an emphasis
on Jewish engagement and the apprecia-
tion o diversity within our communities,
it’s now time to ask some tough questions:
Are we, the Jewish leadership, also suc-
cessully conveying the eternal, immutable
components o Jewish belie and practice?Are we effectively transmitting the proun-
dity and beauty o a personal lie built on
orah study and mitzvot? Are we igniting
the uniquely Jewish flame in the souls o
our ellow Jews?
In a recent blog post in the imes o
Israel, Pro. Jeffrey Wool o Bar Ilan Uni-
versity remarked on the stark contr ast
between the Pew findings and a parallel
Israeli study. Pro. Wool notes:
Te findings are almost symmetrical
opposites. Israeli Jews believe in God
(over 80 percent). Tere is a Jewish
Renaissance (in Study, Culture, and
Observance) in Israel that literally
boggles the imagination (even as it
confounds the usual definitions of
Religious and Secular). And, while
individualism and individual expres-
sion are certainly not absent, the
sense of national cohesion, what we
call bayachad, is movingly strong.
Wool observes that while Judaism pro-
tects and values the individual, it mak
demands upon him. Instead o striking
balance between Jewish particularism anuniversalism, “American Jews,” Woo
laments, “have attempted to effect that se
aration by totally recasting and denudin
Jewish tradition, in order to align it wi
contemporary mores.”
On the eve o Hanukkah 5774, we as
Jewish community must consider certa
existential issues that we have been avoid
ing until now. Comortable in our respe
tive “denominations,” preaching to th
converted, many are realizing that we hav
been lulling ourselves into believing th
everything will be just fine.
Question: I the Jews o the first Hanuk
kah took such an approach, what would th
Jewish world look like today?
Rabbi Meyers is rabbi of Congregation Ezra
Bessaroth, head teacher of the new women’s
learning program, “The Midrasha of Seattle,”
and a rebbe of Talmud and Chumash at
Northwest Yeshiva High School.
SUNDAY17 NOVEMBER
2–3:30 p.m. — Global Day of Jewish Learning:
Focus on Creating Friendship
Shelly Goldman at
sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or
425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.org
Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg will explore friendships in
the Bible, the Talmud, and the ancient world. At
Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
3 p.m. — WSJHS Presents: ‘In the Land of
Rain and Salmon’
Lori Ceyhun at loric@jewishinseattle.org or
www.wsjhs.org/events.php
Witness the experiences of Washington State’s
Jewish pioneers, brought to life on stage. Doors
open at 2:30 p.m. At Temple Beth El, 5975 S 12th
St., Tacoma.
5–9 p.m. — AIPAC Washington Gala Event
Seattle Office at seattle_office@aipac.org
or 206-624-5152 or www.aipac.org
Annual A IPAC gala dinner. Contact the offi ce f
details and location.
5–9 p.m. — Seattle Hebrew Academy’s
Annual Gala
Bev Falgione at bfalgione@sha613.org or
206-323-5750 or www.seattlehebrewacademy.o
Honoring Hazzan Isaac Azose. At the Showb
SoDo, 1700 First Ave. S, Seattle.
MONDAY18 NOVEMBER
6:30 p.m. — SJCC: Hanukkah Cooking Clas
Kim Lawson at klawson@sjcc.org or
206-388-0823 or www.sjcc.org
The head chef of Stopsky’s Delicatessen puts a n
spin on classic Hanukkah dishes. Class includ
appetizers, wine, dinner, and delicious recipe
SJCC member $65/guest $80. At Stopsky
Delicatessen, 3016 78th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.
bears a Sephardic woman’s name, reflect-
ing her heritage. (I like “Estreya” in the big
polka dots, although “Rachel” has practi-
cal appeal.)
“I love abric,” Susan declares, and
enjoys the creative process. “I get bored i I
make the same thing [repeatedly].”
She likes print designs, but knows that
customers need “basic colors” that go with
everything.
Susan grew up in, and she and Alan
were married at, Seward Park’s Sephardic
Bikur Holim. Tey are active members o
Herzl-Ner amid Conservative Congre-
gation, but maintain “a strong Sephardic
influence” in the home, says Susan, who
notes that her grandmother and namesake,
Amira, also sewed.
When she’s not sewing — which is
almost all the time now — Susan makes
time or Jazzercize classes.
You’ll find her bags at the Grow Wash-
ington artisans’ cooperative in Snohom-
ish and she’ll be at a number o upcoming
crats airs, including Pickering Barn
through Nov. 2 in Issaquah and at the Bel-
levue Club holiday bazaar Nov. 9, and at the
Vasa Park Craf Fair the weekend afer that.
(Reminder: Hanukkah begins on Nov. 27).
3Northwest Yeshiva High School
senior Joshua Strassman has been
named a National Merit Com-
mended Scholar. Tese scholars have placed
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Susan Amira Weinstein with one of her purse
designs.
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Kavana named as one of America’s top 50 Jewishinnovators
For the fifh time in its seven-year existence, the Kavana Cooperative was listed in the
annual Slingshot Guide as being among the top 50 innovative Jewish organizations in the
country.
In light o the recently released Pew Research Center survey on American Jews, “It’snice external validation that the work we’re doing here is important or the bigger picture,
particularly with all the talk in the Jewish community in recent weeks,” said Rabbi Rachel
Nussbaum, Kavana’s ounder and executive director.
Kavana, based in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood, ormed in 2006 to bring together
prayer, community-building, and social justice to allow any o its participants to express
their Judaism in ways that make them eel most comortable. With the Pew study show-
ing that Jewish organizations do need to adjust to the changing landscape o involvement,
“ours is one o the models that’s being held up on the national level,” Nussbaum said.
While Slingshot was originally ormed by the Andrea and Charles Bronman Philan-
thropies in 2004 to help young Jews with amily oundations understand where they should
direct their unding, it has since become a resource or creating best practices and connect-
ing these organizations.
Meeting with these organizations has “been a really nice source or a peer network. Out
o that have grown a number o collaborative relationships,” Nussbaum said.
At the same time, however, with the unding opportunities that being included in the
guidebook present, “it’s really nice or our individual donors to understand that the work
we’re doing is important,” she said.
Renowned educator to bring theories to earlychildhood teachers
Alise Shaer Ivey, ounder and director o Evergreen Community School in Santa Monica,
Cali., will teach two courses or local Jewish early-childhood teachers on Nov. 4 and 5. Ivey
is a pioneer on helping young children explore and develop their higher-level thinking skills.
“All the big ideas o society and community and how people have to behave — all those
big ideas and big questions, the little ones are testing their theories,” said Liat Zaidenber
director o education services at the Jewish Federation o Greater Seattle, which is sponso
ing the event. “We thought that bringing her to expose her ideas, with her examples, he
in Seattle would be beneficial to all the teachers.”
Ivey’s two courses will be hands-on and put her theories into practice, Zaidenberg sai
Te first course, “Tinking About Tinking: Developing Metacognition in Young Chdren,” will take place Mon., Nov. 4 at 4 p.m. at Seattle Hebrew Academy. Te second
“Doubting and Believing: Te Roots o Constructivism,” is scheduled or ues., Nov. 5,
4 p.m. at Congregation Beth Shalom. SARS, Clock Hours and JC credits are available
both courses. Each will ocus on how teachers can develop their students’ cognitive abi
ties and support their ideas. Interested teachers should contact capria@jewishinseattle.o
or 206-774-2256 or registration inormation.
“I’m excited to bring someone like her to our community,” Zaidenberg said. “We hav
to be open to make our work better and work toward excellence, and this is a great way t
start and continue.”
Rivkin to be honored for ovarian cancer workDr. Saul Rivkin, who ounded the Marsha Rivkin Center or Ovarian Cancer Researc
will be honored on Nov. 9 by the center or his 17 years o work in research and treatme
o the disease. Te center is named or his first wie, Marsha, who died o ovarian cance
in 1993. Te award, called the Babs Fisher Valor Award, is named or Fisher, a member
the Jewish community who died o the disease in 2004. According to the Rivkin Cente
ovarian cancer affects approximately 200,000 women worldwide, 18,000 o them in th
U.S., and 70 percent o those diagnoses are terminal. However, the center also notes that 9
percent o early diagnoses offer greater chances or survival. Jewish women who carry th
BRCA1 or 2 gene mutation, which is better known or its high connection to breast canc
risk, also has a 45 percent risk o developing ovarian cancer.
Rivkin was one o Swedish Medical Center’s first medical oncologists when he bega
working there in 1971, and retired rom Swedish this past July to devote more time to th
Rivkin Center.
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Jewish community seeks to influence gun reform initiative
DIKLA TUCHMAN JTNews CorrespondentIt has been almost one year since the
Sandy Hook school shooting that rocked
the nation last December.
As demolition crews this week razed
the school in Newtown, Conn., where 20
1st graders and six employees were killedby a 20-year-old gunman, grassroots com-
munity organizers have been taking to the
streets in Washington State with petitions
or new gun-reorm legislation, Initiative
594, which community leaders hope will
appear on the all 2014 ballot.
I-594 would require background checks
or online sales and private transactions,
such as those that occur at gun shows. Te
checks would be conducted at ederally
licensed firearm dealers, where potential
buyers must already undergo such scrutiny
beore purchasing a new weapon.
Helping to lead the way or the I-594
campaign is Cheryl Stumbo, a ormer
marketing director or the Jewish Fed-
eration o Greater Seattle, who filed the
motion with the secretary o state. Stumbo
was one o five women wounded during
the 2006 shooting at the Federation’s
offices. One woman, Pamela Waechter,
died in the attack.
Stumbo now works with the non-
profit group Washington Alliance or Gun
Responsibility as one o its aith organizers.
“We go out and help different orga-
nizations work with their social justice
congregation members and aith lead-
ers getting those congregations activated
around this issue,” she told JNews.
Because o the divisive nature o this
issue, WAAGR decided to dedicate orga-
nizers to the aith community.
“We help support their efforts because
[the aith communities] support this issue
o gun responsibility and background
checks,” Stumbo said.Stumbo did not immediately gravitate
toward gun-reorm activism. Even afer
physically healing rom the incident at the
Jewish Federation, she continued to strug-
gle with the winding path o emotional
recovery.
“Whenever I saw anything on the news
[about the shooting] I would eel a little
destroyed or a ew days or a week,” she
said. “I didn’t want to eel that way any-
more. I wanted to do something about it.”
Once she made that decision, it became
easier or Stumbo to become proactive in
the gun-reorm movement in Washington
State. “I went down to Olympia and tes-
tified about the bill that [State Rep. Jamie
Peterson (D–43rd)] was trying to advance
or background checks in the state,”
Stumbo said. “Tat’s when I met Zach Silk.”
As campaign director or Washington
United or Marriage, which successully
worked to pass the reerendum last year
uphold same-sex marriage, Silk had move
on to the group Washington Alliance
Gun Responsibility to lead the initiativ
campaign or gun responsibility. Wor
ing closely with Silk was Zach Carstensethe director o government relations an
public affairs at the Jewish Federation.
“Tis community, this Federation h
had firsthand experience with gun vi
lence,” Carstensen said. “At the most bas
level, that is the reason why this Jewi
Federation cares so much about this issue
Carstensen emphasized the manda
that Federation leadership has issue
over the years since the shooting to pav
the way or signiicant, impactul gu
reorm. He points out that the Federatio
has supported all manner o policy sol
tions — mapping public schools and rel
gious schools, increased security undin
or vulnerable institutions, and in parti
ular, improving the mental health syste
in the state.
Alongside the efforts o the WAAG
ZACH CARSTENSEN
Naomi Kramer and Charyl Kay Sedlik take part
in a training session to talk about I-594 at
signature gathering spots and in synagogues.
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Torahthon 5774: Expansive questions to ponder
JANIS SIEGEL JTNews Correspondentorah study goes way outside the box
at each year’s orahthon. Tis year, at
Herzl-Ner amid Conservative Congre-
gation’s seventh event, they are going to
need an even bigger box.
Learners can take in political sessionslike “Israel’s Settlements: Fulfilling God’s
Will or Leading to Disaster?”; social justice
topics like “Te Immigration Debate: 1914
and 2014”; eco-sessions on “What’s Jewish
About Jewish Environmentalism”; or tra-
ditional prayer subjects like “Te Kaddish:
What is it and Why?”; and even personal
development modules like “Jewish Crit-
icism: Must I ell You When You Are
Wrong?”
But don’t stop there.
Tere will be wider opportunities this
year to expand your mind with topics like
“Southern Rabbis and Civil Rights” or
“Sex: What is the Jewish Perspective on
Pleasure?” Going urther out, how about
“Te Jewish Virgin Mary,” or even “Break-
ing Bad and Te Yetzer HaRa: Morality
ale or Moral Relativism?”
O course, there’s plenty o traditional
and analytical text study, too, which is
why the variety o teaching at the event
has enough to satisy questions that many
Jews probably haven’t yet thought o.
“A record number o teachers
approached us, without having to be
asked, and offered to teach,” Rabbi Jay
Rosenbaum, senior rabbi at Herzl-Ner
amid told JNews. “We tried not to turn
anyone away. We had more offers than we
could accommodate this year — a won-
derul problem to have.”During his teaching, Rosenbaum will
examine the male-emale duality o the
Shechinah, the Hebrew word or God’s
eminine qualities. I God is one, posits
Rosenbaum, than both male and emale
must operate simultaneously.
“For example, on the High Holidays, I
quoted thinkers who believed that women
are better at relationships than men,”
Rosenbaum said. “Do we agree, or is that
sexist?”
Rosenbaum cited the almud, the
compilation o Jewish law and legend,
which says that when two people study
together the Shechinah is there, too. Tis
“presence,” Rosenbaum said, embodies
“receptivity, acceptance, listening, and
relationship.”
On the continuum o an individual’s
tendency to ocus on the sel, emple De
Hirsch Sinai’s senior rabbi, Daniel Weiner,
will take on the subject o the yetzer ha-ra,
or the “evil inclination,” which according
to Weiner, the rabbis say we all have but
probably don’t manage very well.
Trough the lens o Walter White, the
cancer-plagued ormer chemistry teacher
who decides to sell crystal methadrine
in AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” Weiner told
JNews that this ofen rejected or hidden
part o our personalities can also be used
as a orce or good, even when it seemsso “bad.”
“It has opened a window into the soul
o our cultural moment, as many o us
were both horrified by his descent and
rooting or his success,” wrote Weiner in
his course description.
But, without giving it all away, Weiner
told JNews that we also have the ability
to transorm this part o ourselves.
“Remember, the rabbis also teach that
the yetzer ha-ra is necessary or a healthy
ambition,” said Weiner. “A channeling o
the yetzer ha-ra is what is advised. Tere’s
no way to extinguish it.”
Shirah Bell, the senior teacher at Te
Mussar Institute who directs its core pro-
gram, Everyday Holiness, may be able to
help with that. Bell’s central mission is
to guide individuals toward turning their
daily schedules into spiritual opportuni-
ties.
Her session, “Guilt-Free Parenting!
Mussar Principles or Raising a Mensch
While Becoming More o One Yoursel,”
could transorm a parent’s daily routine
o car trips to and rom the market and
school into a personal growth class.
“Interactions with our children gi
us ample opportunities to see where o
behaviors and attitudes are poor refle
tions o our pure soul,” Bell told JNew
“Rather than ‘fixing’ our children or o
spouses, we can use the difficulties to g
to work repairing ourselves.”
Bell also holds local Mussar classes an
mentors individuals in Mussar and spir
tuality.
“As a parent we can treat our childr
as seeds that are sprouting,” said Be
IF YOU GO
Torahthon will be held on Wed.,
Nov. 6 at 7 p.m., and on Sun., Nov.
10 at 9:30 a.m. at Herzl-Ner Tamid,3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
On Wed., Nov. 13 sessions will
take place at 7 p.m. at Temple De
Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seat-
tle. Cost is $15 per session, or $36
for all three days. Visit www.h-nt.
org to register online or call 206-
232-8555, ext. 207.
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A tale of two rabbis
JOEL MAGALNICK Editor, JTNewsWhen Rabbis Beth and Jonathan
Singer announced they would be leav-
ing their positions as co-senior rabbis o
emple Beth Am earlier this year, it lef
this North Seattle synagogue in the unen-
viable position o having to find not onenew rabbi, but two. Following multiple
discussions within the synagogue commu-
nity and with the Union or Reorm Juda-
ism’s Central Conerence o American
Rabbis, Beth Am introduced its two new
rabbis at the beginning o August. One
plans to stick around or a while. Te other
hopes she won’t.
Rabbi Jason Levine, Beth Am’s new
assistant rabbi, graduated rom Hebrew
Union College this past spring.
“For me, as a new rabbi, it’s an
extremely supportive place,” Levine told
JNews. “People so ar have been very
receptive to a new rabbi who’s still learn-
ing on the job, learning the ropes as I go.”
Levine, a born-and-bred Midwesterner
— he grew up in St. Louis and Cleveland —
originally intended to become a scientist.
He didn’t actually eel the call o the rab-
binate until he went to college.
“I got involved in a lot o community-
building activities, social justice activities,
a lot o interaith activities,” he said. “All
the things that I love doing in my lie are
the tasks and roles o the rabbi, and they
just melded perectly together.”
Where he particularly ound joy in
the idea o becoming a rabbi was the idea
that “I could work with people, help them
during the difficult parts o their lives, the
celebratory parts o their lives, help them
grow up together, [and] help them enjoy
lie together,” he said.
While many o his ellow rabbinical
students stayed relatively close to HUC’s
Cincinnati campus, “I was keeping my
options open as wide as possible,” Levine
said. “I love traveling, I love trying out
new places, so geography was not limit-
ing or me.”
Among other options were return-
ing to Hillel to work with students, but
Levine said he doesn’t see a big differ-
ence between that and what he’s doing at
Beth Am.
“One o the things that I’m happy
about here is this sense o curiosity, this
sense o community building, this sense
o responsibility to the world, which is so
passionate in the Hillel community,” he
said, “along with the sense o inormality
and just sheer un.”
On the lipside o Levine is Rabbi
Ilene Bogosian, whose role as intentional
interim senior rabbi is to be just that:
Interim. Bogosian had long dreamed othe rabbinate long beore women were
allowed ordination. And because women
— “they called them girls in those days,”
she said — did not go to seminary, Bogo-
sian instead became a psychiatric social
worker.
“I’ve since discovered that a lot o the
women o my generation who had a call-
ing or the rabbinate wound up in psychol-
ogy one way or another,” she said.
But she reached a turning point in her
career, and someone suggested she actu-
ally go through with rabbinical school.
Upon ordination, she spent 10 years at a
Hillel in the Boston area, but decided she
wanted to work with a broader popula-
tion. Tat work included chaplaincies in
long- and short-term care acilities. Ten
the Reorm movement’s placement direc-
tor suggested interim work.
“I was very skeptical at the time, I think
partly because o my psychiatry back-
ground,” Bogosian said. “And here I am,
nine years later, still doing this work, and
getting eedback rom people that there’s
something about my presence and the way
I work with congregations when they’re
transition that is very useul, very helpu
Rabbi Deborah Prinz, who overse
CCAR’s intentional interim rabbi pr
gram, told JNews that “the need is ve
clear or there to be a transitional time the congregation to regroup and recov
and reassess what it is and what it wants
be under the circumstances in the inte
tional interim period.”
Due in part to her social work bac
ground, Bogosian has a “great skillset
this area,” Prinz said. “We turn to h
as one o the veterans and really skill
people in the field.”
Te intentional interim program beg
because leadership within the URJ an
CCAR became concerned about congr
gations making mistakes in their rabbin
cal searches.
“Congregations that didn’t allow them
selves this time and the expertise o
intentional rabbi would ofen find them
selves having an unintentional interim
Prinz said. “Te rabbi would end up sta
ing or a year or two instead o a long
time.”
While Bogosian has her normal rabbi
ical duties — leading services, comortin
bereaved amilies, teaching courses — s
JOEL MAGALNICK
Temple Beth Am’s new rabbis, Jason Levine and
Ilene Bogosian.
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ISRAEL:To Your
Health
Confused by I-522?Look to Israel for guidance
JANIS SIEGEL JTNews ColumnistI you’re baled by Ini-
tiative Measure No. 522, the
proposed genetically modi-
fied ood labeling ballot mea-sure in the upcoming Nov.
2013 Washington State elec-
tion, it might be instructive
to explore Israel’s agricul-
tural research and its regula-
tion o GM oods. It may not
necessarily clariy your posi-
tion on the subject, but Isra-
el’s approach to the use o
the technology along with
the rest o the world’s varied
responses to allowing it into their ood
supplies are worth considering.
GM oods typically contain DNA rom
a plant or animal o the same species
inserted into them to obtain a desired trait.
Many detractors o the process have raised
serious objections to the more unconven-
tional transplantation o DNA or genetic
material rom one species to another non-
related species. Tis is relatively new ter-
ritory that began in the early 1970s and is
on the verge o entering the mainstream
ood chain in the U.S., where genetically
engineered salmon is expected to be FDA-
approved in the next ew weeks or sale in
stores. It will be the first GM animal ever
approved or human consumption and
contains genes rom an “eel-like fish” and
another breed o salmon.
Te genetic engineering o plant seeds
can save populations by optimizing the
presence o lie-saving vitamins in them,
increasing their insect and virus resistance,
upping their yields, and designing them to
tolerate higher amounts o herbicides.
However, GM seed can also leave
human populations vulnerable to every-
thing rom serious digestive problems to
documented deadly allergic reactions, as
well as their economic and environmental
effects on the land.
For over a decade, the European Union
has resisted pressure rom the United
States, via the Free rade Agreement, to
accept our GM ood imports. Te U.S. has
already genetically modified several crops
used in most domestic ood products,
including corn, soy, and canola, and the
modification o the cottonseed oil crop is
quickly accelerating.
Just this past month, a Mexico judge
banned GM corn due to its harmul envi-
ronmental effects.
In Israel, agricultural research in uni-
vers iti es is heavily subsidiz ed by the
Israeli government and international cor-
porations. Universities are very accept-
ing o GMs in the laboratory. Most o
the research is on the genetic modifica-
tion o plants and it ocuses on improv-
ing its resistance to diseases, herbicides,
and pests.
Currently, ood researchers are exper-
imenting with a tomato that would
be resistant to viruses an
grown without seeds. oma
researchers are also workin
to modiy genes to manipulathe amount o non-saturate
at in the plants.
But Israel’s Ministry
Agriculture highly regulat
the research on GM oods
prevent the contamination
GM seed to other non-mod
fied crops within the countr
Seed drif is a large proble
wherever GM oods are grow
Globally, local and organ
armers have sued corporations accu
ing them o intentionally allowing the
seed to contaminate local crops in ord
to claim patent inringement and ove
take them.
In Israel, a highly specific research pla
must be submitted by anyone wantin
to experiment with GM plants and the
related microorganisms.
But perhaps most importantly, in add
tion to the initial strict application pr
cess in Israel, researchers can only develo
a technology to the “proo o concept,” o
research, stage.
Although Israel allows the use and sale
GM oods in the country, it does not allo
them to be grown there commercially.
Once developed, a GM technology th
is ready or a real-world application mu
be exported to other countries or testin
GM researchers can only test small pro
ects in enclosed greenhouses or, i in ope
fields, it must be ar away rom agricu
tural areas.
In addition to the health effects o GM
oods, which are in dispute with many
its promoters, Israel’s laws o kashrut com
plicate the issue. Some religious groups d
not see it as a threat while others suppo
its detractors.
Te Israeli kosher authority has rule
that genetic engineering doesn’t affect
product’s kosher status because genes a
microscopic.
However, other Jewish groups belie
that the oods created by transerrin
DNA rom one species to another is
direct violation o the biblical directiv
to not mingle different seeds and breed
together — whether plant or animal.
Tere are no requirements or labe
ing GMs in Israel. However, its Mini
try o Health is preparing regulations
require labeling when a ood product con
tains GM corn or soy. Te proposal wou
require the words “genetically modified
to be printed on packaging.
Should Washington State do the sam
Longtime JTNews correspondent and freelan
journalist Janis Siegel has covered internation
health research for SELF magazine and
campaigns for Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center.
Stabilize Your Government by Mike Selinker
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fear of the government, men would swallow each other alive.” A functioning government seems
crucial to societal progress, yet in recent weeks that has seemed quite elusive. This puzzle
includes some pointedly punny barbs in the direction of those who turned off the lights.
ACROSS
1 Republicans4 Shine brightly
8 He inspired Kevin Clash’s book My Life as a FurryRed Monster
12 Country that opposed 13-Across13 WWII faction
14 Cook ahi, perhaps
15 What the Republicans reached a point of, or hoped to get from voting the way they do most of the time?
17 What some Oscars honor19 Rent-___
20 This American Life ’s Glass21 Greek letter
22 Emulate the House since the Republicans gained amajority?
27 With “The,” its 10/08/13 headline was
“Congressional Aides Withholding Sex Until BudgetCompromise Is Reached”
28 ___ Day Now (Alan Cumming film)29 Alternative to Slurpees
30 Nonetheless31 Least frequent NFL result
32 Noted hallucinogen33 What the Republicans found the government
impasse to be?
40 Hill occupant41 DC Comics cowboy Jonah
42 Vote against
43 He-Man’s sister46 It was founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation47 Palmolive spokesperson who said “You’re soaking in
it!”
49 Emulated a Republican strategist on 10/01/13?
52 Path of a catapulted stone
53 “Blecch”54 Type of saxophone
55 French Polynesian vacation site57 Ex-House Majority Leader who last shuttered the
government in 1995, suggesting his name was apt?61 Mortgage option, slangily
62 Cain’s brother
63 Caustic agent64 House Majority Leader Cantor
65 Feel bad for66 Use a needle
DOWN
1 Second Amendment concern2 Disney Junior’s spy bear series
Special Agent ___3 One who takes something and gives
nothing4 Death March origin
5 Town far from the city’s core
6 Broadcast7 Site with a Bing search button
8 One seeking mental diversion9 Permit
10 ___ d’11 Lavishly decorated
16 ___-1 (Ghostbusters’ automobile)17 Quest for Indy
18 With 37-Down, Detroit vehicle?
20 Unwelcoming22 Train rider, perhaps
23 And higher, as in a cost24 Placed
25 What My Son John had off, and alsoon
26 Hard rock band that released...31 ...this explosive single in 1976
32 Unit of illuminance
34 Drug buster35 Skilled at thinking logically
36 Clutched
37 See 18-Down38 Herb in a Simon & Garfunkel line39 Looked at
43 2003 Samuel L. Jackson remake
44 Zimbabwe’s capital
45 Reptiles lithographer
46 Query47 One way to put it
48 Kick in, as chips50 French assent
51 Glengarry Glen Ross author56 “___ Fell” (Beatles tune)
57 Beer source
58 ___-Wan59 Vote for
60 Tree used for making longbows
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16th Season • Mina Miller, Artistic Director
Concert Tickets: $40 | (206) 365-7770 | musicofremembrance.org
Until When? A concert to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of Kristallnacht
November 10 at 7:00 pm
Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall6:15 p.m. Meet the Artists: Choreographer Pat Hon & Clarinetist Laura DeLuca
One Night Only!World Premiere of Dance Commission and
Works by Three Israeli Composers
Cornish College of the Arts dancers unveil Pat
Hon’s choreography to Israeli composer Betty
Olivero’s klezmer-like suite from The Golem. Also
Eugene Levitas’ song cycle Until When? sung
in the original Hebrew with a
dramatic reading in English by
Kurt Beattie, Artistic Director
of ACT Theater. Plus MOR’s
stellar chamber ensemble in
works by Ernest Bloch, Erwin
Schulhoff and Marc Lavry.
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Saturday, November 16 at 8 p.m.
Una Festa Hebraica
Concert
Ensemble Lucidarium’s “Una Festa Hebraica – Celebrating Life” employs a variety
of Renaissance instruments to capture the party music of Jewish lifecycle events.
Using recorders, lutes, dulcians, percussion, colascione, viola da mano, and more,
the ensemble will share the music from around the liturgical year, from humorous
poems to the music of women’s gatherings. Lucidarium’s current Ars Hebraica
project seeks to reconstruct Jewish music of Medieval and Renaissance Europe.Presented by the Early Music Guild.
At Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle. Tickets $20-$42. For more information visit
townhallseattle.org, or reserve tickets through Kadima by calling Richard at
206-547-3914.
Thursday, November 7 at 7 p.m.
JewDub Talks
Lecture
Back by popular demand, the second
annual JewDub talks are back in action.
These TED Talk-style lectures are fast-
paced discussions on big ideas in Jew-
ish history and culture, organized and
presented by the Stroum Jewish StudiesProgram at the University of Wash-
ington. This one-night event features
four UW faculty members giving quick,
memorable talks on compelling issues
such as converso Jews in medieval
Spain, the modern legacy of Spinoza, anti-Semitism as a Christian problem and
searching for shtetl roots in the Pale of Settlement.
At the UW Tower Auditorium, 4333 Brooklyn Ave. NE, Seattle. Free. Following the
talks, a kosher reception will kick off the Stroum Jewish Studies Program’s 40th
anniversary celebration. For registration information, visit
jewishstudies.washington.edu/jewdubtalks.
Wednesday, November 13 at 8 p.m.
Yermi Kaplan
Music
With five solo albums in his repertoire,
Yermi Kaplan has been called one of
the most passionate musicians in
Israeli rock. Born in Chicago, Kaplan
started his music career during high
school with Israeli singer and compos-
er Rami Kleinstein. In the early ‘90s, he
was a member of rock trio “Taarovet
Eskot.” Later, as a solo artist, Kaplan
released hits such as “Modedet”
(Measuring) and “Madua Lo Bat” (Why didn’t you come).
At the Kirkland Performance Center, 350 Kirkland Ave., Kirkland. Doors open at
7:30 p.m. Tickets are $45 for adults, $35 for youth and seniors. For tickets, visit
kpcenter.org/performances/yermi-kaplan.
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The poetry of Music of Remembrance:Golem dance coupled with desert music
JACK FALK Special to JTNewsFor its all concert “Until When?” Seat-
tle’s Music o Remembrance promises an
enticing mix o music, theatre, and dance,
including a newly commissioned chore-ography to accompany a suite o inciden-
tal music or the silent film “Der Golem”;
a suite rom the Israeli composer who first
recorded “Hatikvah”; a song cycle based on
the poetry o a Hungarian survivor, with a
dramatic reading o the English transla-
tion; a 12-year-old violinist whose passion
or Jewish music took him to Berlin last
summer; and a violin sonata written by a
Holocaust victim whose work was banned
by the Nazis as “entartete” — degenerate.
According to MOR ounder and artis-
tic director Mina Miller, “Until When?”
invites listeners to “share in the transor-
mative power o music to move rom the
depths o human suffering to the healing
beauty o hope and renewal.” Te concert
will be perormed Nov. 10 at Benaroya Hall.
Betty Olivero’s “Zeks Yiddishe Lider un
antz,” a klezmer-inflected suite or clari-
net and string quartet, was originally com-
posed or MOR as incidental music or Paul
Wegener’s 1927 silent
ilm “he Golem:
How He Came into
the World.” Oliverocaptures the legend o
the Golem, in which
a massive clay crea-
ture is brought to lie
by the wonder-rabbi
Judah Loew, to pro-
tect the threatened
Jewish community
o medieval Prague.
Olivero’s suite jux-
taposes traditional
Hebrew melodies
with Western con-
temporary music to
evoke the creation o the Golem, tender love
scenes, and moments o fire and prayer as
the community comes under siege. Miller
calls the Golem legend “a metaphor or the
struggle to survive during a time o persecu-
tion” — a metaphor that was all too amil-
iar to the Jews o Europe so soon afer the
film’s release.
Tis perormance o Olivero’s suite will
serve as the premiere or Pat Hon’s dance
composition “Destination Unknown.”
Hon’s choreography, which recreates the
story o the Golem through dance and move-
ment, will be perormed by her students rom
Seattle’s Cornish College o the Arts.
MOR commissioned Hon’s work afer
a previous collaboration with Dona
Byrd o Spectrum Dance Teatre.
“Working with live perormers o
stage…was a transormative experien
or Donald’s dancers,” Miller said. “We’
eager to give young artists, at an ear
stage o their careers, the opportunity
collaborate with proessional musician
And ‘Te Golem’ is a perect story to te
through movement.”
Marc Lavry’s “Suite Concertante
Flute, Viola, and Harp” conveys sev
eral acets o Israeli music: Pastoral an
naïve, lyrical and intimate, rhythmic
and energetic. Afer emigrating to Pale
tine ollowing a Fascist coup in his nativ
Latvia, Lavry (1903-1967) was eager
toss aside the constraints o Europea
COURTESY CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
Cornish College of the Arts dancers, who will be performing to Betty Olivero’s
composition that was set to “The Golem.”
IF YOU GO
“Until When?” takes place on Sun.,
Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at Benaroya Hall,
200 Union St., Seattle. A “Meet the
Artists” pre-concert talk will take
place at 6:15 p.m. Tickets cost $40
and are available through
www.musicofremembrance.org,
206-365-7770, or at the door.
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An anticipated 200 attendees from across the U.and Canada will gather in Seward Park with a speakand activities. Shabbaton runs through SundaNovember 3. At Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadat5145 S Morgan St., Seattle.
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NYHS family Shabbat dinner for the NYHS commnity. $22/adults, $18/children. At Congregation EzBessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., Seattle.
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The Top Five tips for getting in and staying sane
Insight into the college admission process By Mathias Cohanim and Justin Coskey
As a senior knee-deep in college applications and a junior who just took thePSAT, we went to the Northwest Yeshiva High School college night on Oct. 22hoping for a little extra guidance and some secret insight into the admissionsprocess. We weren’t disappointed.
Peter Brodkin, the NYHS college counselor, and David Blum, co-chair of thePenn Alumni Interview Program, discussed college admissions and fielded ques-tions from anxious students and parents for more than two hours. Students, par-ents and younger siblings listened intently on how to survive the most gruelingprocess of an adolescent’s life. Here are five tips for getting it done right:
1. Plan early.Planning for college doesn’t begin as a senior, or even as a junior. It is never
too early to prepare for college. You can do this by taking the PSAT for practicein 9th and 10th grades, maintaining good grades, being intentional about yourextracurricular activities, and researching colleges early. In 9th grade, start plan-ning for life after high school graduation. You won’t be sorry.2. Academic Performance.
Although it may seem intuitive, you need strong academics to get into manycolleges. This means that you need a strong GPA, and should take as manyhonors classes as you can (within reason). Colleges like to see that you chal-lenged yourself. They know far more about your school than you do, so theycan fairly compare your grades with other schools and students. Blum addition-ally mentioned that parity between grades and test scores is crucial. If a collegesees a student has very high grades, but poor test scores (or vice versa), the per-formance looks much worse than the performance of a student who had decentgrades, and respectable standardized test scores.
3. Intellectual achievement outside of school.Colleges like to see a student who is dedicated to knowledge even when h
or she is not at school. These intellectual activities include reading heaps of lierature (not for school), participating in academic competitions (a science faifor example) or contests. These activities show the student is ambitious and pasionate about learning and would thrive at a particular college or university. Thmost frequently asked interview question is “What have you read lately?” If yoanswer is a required reading book like “The Once and Future King,” you lospoints! Read for pleasure and you will go far.4. Colleges are not looking for a “well-rounded” student but a well-rounded freshman class.
So when choosing extra-curricular activities, go for your passion. Don’t choosextra-curricular activities based on what you think will look good on your appliction. Find what you love to do and do it!5. The world is flat.
This is the title of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s best-sellinbook that Blum recommended we read. Simply put, in today’s global culture, whave a lot more competition than our parents or grandparents did when it cometo college admissions. We are not just competing with those in our state or coutry, but with students from all over the world.
Obviously, these are only a few important pointers you need to know wheapplying for college. Good luck to all and start early. Seniors…we feel your pai
Mathias Cohanim, a senior, and Justin Coskey, a junior, are students at NYHS.
NYHS STUDENTS RECOGNIZED AT ART FAIRSeveral students from Northwest Yeshiva High School
were recognized at the 39th annual juried junior art
show sponsored by the Mercer Island Visual Arts
League this past summer. The awards honored works
submitted by artists in kindergarten through the 12th
grade.
Among the winners from NYHS were Sarah Boldor, who
graduated in 2013, with “Flowers,” above. She received
the Pia Messina Award and the Cascade Frames Award.
Sophomore Maya Pogrebinsky’s “Twilight,” left,
received second place.
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musical composition. Lavry, the ormer
conductor o the Berlin Symphony
Orchestra, wanted to compose a uniquely
Israeli music that would draw upon
the sounds o his new land: Sephardic
music, Arabic music, the inflections o
the Hebrew language, the sounds o the
desert, shepherd’s tunes. Inspired by themusical modes, rhythms, and melodies
o his new country, Lavry is perhaps best
known or “Shir Ha’Emek” (song o the
valley), which he wrote almost immedi-
ately afer his arrival.
Te three movements o Lavry’s “Suite
Concertante” are based on songs com-
posed by Lavry: Shir Ro’im (a shepherd
song), Prayer, and Machol (Dance). Te
second movement alternates between the
past (minor modes that suggest Ashkenazic
prayer) and present (major modes that
express Lavry’s optimism at living in Israel).
I poetry is indeed “the orce o ew
words,” Israeli composer Eugene Levitas
seeks to distill it even urther. His song
cycle “Until When?” — which lends its
name to the concert as a whole — incorpo-
rates five short poems by Hungarian-born
Holocaust survivor Yaakov Barzilai, none
o them longer than five lines.
Barzilai composed more than 130
poems about his experience in Auschwitz.
MOR previously presented two song
cycles based upon Barzilai’s poetry, which
has been set to music by numerous com-
posers. For this program, AC artistic
director Kurt Beattie will introduce eachsong with a dramatic reading o the cor-
responding poem in English, enabling the
audience to grasp the emotional essence
o the perormance even without know-
ing Hebrew, the language in which Barzi-
lai wrote afer emigrating rom Hungary.
Te song cycle will be perormed by
soprano Karen Early Evans with cel-
list Walter Grey and Mina Miller on the
piano. Te composition takes its title rom
the final poem in the song cycle:
Until when will we be obsessed
With their memory?
Until the very last of them
Is revived.
Each year, MOR chooses a recipient
o the David onkonogui award, which
oers young artists the opportunity to
work with proes-
sional musicians. Te
award honors cellist
David onkonogui,
who “believed deeply
in human rights
and social justice,”
according to Miller.
In e v aluat ing
applicants, MORlooks or not only
outstanding musi-
cianship but also a
commitme nt to
humanitarian causes,
including a desire
to learn about the
musical legacy o the
Holocaust.
Tis year’s recipient is 12-year-old vio-
linist akumi aguchi. At the MOR con-
cert, akumi will perorm Ernest Bloch’s
“Nigun.” As he learned the music, akumi
became inspired to look deeper into the
piece and its history and to understand the
challenges acing Jewish musicians during
the Nazi era. Tis led him to travel with
his parents last summer to visit the Berlin
Jewish Museum.
Also on the program is Erwin Schu
hoff’s “Sonata No. 2 or Violin and Piano
which will be perormed by Seattle Sym
phony violinist Mikhail Shmidt with Ma
Salman on piano. Schulhoff, an audacio
Czech-Jewish composer whose avan
garde work was banned by the Nazis
“degenerate,” drew upon his amiliari
with jazz and olkloric themes.
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LEO V. SANTIAGO PHOTOGRAP
A performance of Betty Olivero’s suite, “Zeks Yiddishe Lider un Tantz
from the score to “The Golem.”
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also has the role o providing guidance or
the temple’s rabbinical search committee.
“here’s an additional layer o the
awareness o helping the congregation
through this huge change, and it varies
rom congregation to congregation as
to what it may or may not need or that
intentional interim period,” Prinz said.Because she is by design not allowed to
be in the running or the permanent posi-
tion, Bogosian knows she will hand her
reins to a new rabbi at the end o the one-
year process, and will also help the new
rabbi transition onto his or her pulpit.
“Te most challenging part o my year
is the part when I have to say goodbye,”
she said, “because part o the integrity o
my work is I have to disappear, or the
most part, at the end o the year so that
people can bond with their new rabbi.”Having a home base, a husband and
strong support network, and the kids out
o the house makes her transitions much
easier, she said.
Elizabeth Asher, Beth Am’s board presi-
dent, said the decision to go with an interim
rabbi and assistant rabbi was the right one.
“We’re both learning rom each other,”
she said. “Out o that learning we’re both
growing and I think the temple is on a
steady course.”
One thing both Levine and Bogosianhave ound is that their new synagogue
is an active, busy place. “Tere’s so much
energy here. People are so engaged an
committed,” Bogosian said. “here’s
higher proportion than in many places
people with core levels o involvement
this community, and I enjoy seeing that.
Levine agreed.
“o find a place like Beth Am is a rar
thing indeed, where there are so man
things happening at once, and people a
so open to each other,” Levine said. could not think o a place I’d rather be
start my rabbinical career.”
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the Federation continues to seek compre-
hensive solutions to gun reorm.
“Fiteen Jewish organizations have
endorsed the need to have universal back-
ground checks,” Carstensen said. “We’re
going to keep growing that list, ollow
every lead and every possibility until we
make a change in the state.”Another key player in this effort, Rabbi
Daniel Weiner o emple De Hirsch Sinai,
has been working with his congregation,
Seattle’s Jewish community, and the aith
community at large toward gun responsi-
bility education and reorm.
“Tis has been a long-standing con-
cern, especially with the Reorm Judaism
movement,” Weiner said. “Te real cata-
lyst was the Connecticut shooting.”
In the afermath o Sandy Hook, Weiner
and other Seattle clergy banded together
and made a pledge to work toward making
a difference with gun reorm.
“Washington is at the oreront,” Weiner
said. “Our state has the opportunity to again
lead the way in sensible social policy.”On the other side o the coin is the Second
Amendment Foundation, whose headquar-
ters in Bellevue are working toward an ini-
tiative o their own, Initiative 591.
I-591 was written this past spring by
Alan Gottlieb, chairman o the Citizens
Committee or the Right to Keep and
Bear Arms and the ounder o the Second
Amendment Foundation.
Te two key points I-591 address are
the confiscation o guns or other fire-
arms rom citizens without due process by
government agents and that government
agencies requiring background checks on
the recipient o a firearm should be ille-
gal unless those checks meet a uniorm
national standard.Dave Workman, communications
director or Citizens Committee or the
Right to Keep and Bear Arms, said I-591 is
a much simpler initiative than 594.
“I I wanted to buy a firearm in Bellevue
or Spokane or Walla Walla, it should be no
different than any background check in
another city in the United States,” Wor
man told JNews. “Tere’s no reason
add a bunch o hoops or people to jum
through.” Currently, no uniorm nation
standard or background checks exist
but Workman believes there should be.
“Why do you want to make it mo
difficult to exercise a undamental civ
right?” he asked.
Both initiatives will ramp up theefforts to meet the January 3, 2014 dead
line or gathering the 246,372 require
val id sig nat ure s or the ini tia tiv e
appear on next all’s ballot. Stumbo sa
WAAGR’s goal is to have all o its si
natures by December 14, the anniversa
date o the Sandy Hook massacre.
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“Tey can sprout on their own, but our job
is to guide the direction o the growth. We
can do that most effectively i we improve
our own character while we guide our
children in improving theirs.”
Other courses will bring in out-o-
town guests such as Alan Elsner, J Street’s
vice president o communications, and
Dr. Alon al, ounder o Israel’s Arava
Institute or Environmental Studies.
orahthon 7 is being co-hosted by
emple De Hirsch Sinai and supported
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Greater Seattle, the Alred & illie Shem
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co-sponsors including synagogues, Jewi
schools and university programs.
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HARFORD, Conn. (JA) —My wife stared at me as if I were fromanother planet.
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She had been looking forward toa weekend getaway with her husbandof 28 years.
“It’s on a Saturday afternoon,before Shabbat is over. It’s duringthe three weeks of mourning beforeisha b’Av, not to mention duringmy year of saying Kaddish,” I replied,
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Julia and I had met in our mid-20s — unaffiliated, Jewish Cata-log-kind of Jews loosely tied to ourreligion and tradition.
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As I became more observant ovethe span of several years — keeping kosher and eventually joining aOrthodox shul — I longed for a circthat could enthusiastically participain weekly Shabbat meals, Passoveseders, and my religious journey.
Instead, Shabbat and Jewisholidays became points of frictio
when service schedules clashed witsocial invitations or Julia’s desir
just to take in a movie on a Saturdanight, even if Shabbat’s end had yto arrive.
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“Why don’t you just find an Ortho-dox wife to marry?” Julia suggested inher most exasperated moments.
Ten one day, I saw our strug-gle from a new perspective. Ironically,it came from a real Hassid, Rebbe
Nachman of Breslov, who said youare never given an obstacle you cannotovercome. Tat meant committing tofinding a way to bring some kind ofwholeness to my marriage.
I still did not know what todo about the wedding of my wife’scousin. I did not think I shouldattend, but I knew this was my obsta-cle to overcome. I consulted a rabbiwho’d written about what he calledthe sacred messiness of life.
“Te only issue is whether youwant Judaism to be associated with
judgmental holier-than-thou energy.Obviously, you don’t,” the rabbi said,“or you wouldn’t be asking me whatto do.”
I came to realize that for at leastthe past 15 years I had been actingholier than thou — to Julia, our kids,and to our friends.
I went to the wedding. In prepa-ration, I envisioned how a more flexi-
ble and loving husband would behave.For that weekend, I also challengedmyself to suspend my judgments andbe the partner my wife had fallen inlove with years ago.
Tat Saturday afternoon, we sat
on folding chairs in the hot Floridasummer sun. A minister and rabbiofficiated. I held Julia’s hand. I sippedchampagne and toasted the newcouple. In short, I allowed myself tohave a ball.
“I like the new flexible you,” Juliasaid over the band’s music, a smile onher face.
hat weekend marked a turn-ing point. I had taken a vow to honormy wife no matter how we changed.Despite what often seemed like myaffair with God, I realized that I owed
Julia a commitment and to be there forher no matter what life’s challenges.
I also realized that to hold her inmy arms as we feel the joys and sor-rows of life is a spiritual practice, too.It’s not always easy. But when I feelmy inflexibility and holier-than-thouvoice creeping back, I try to remem-ber that having a sensitive heart is alsoone of God’s commandments.
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Werner was born in Glogau, the Silesia region of Germany. His father Alfred was a lawyer and
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convention and a delegate for Jackson for President.
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established Congregation Ner Tamid, which eventually became Herzl-Ner Tamid, and John served
as a board member.
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Center on Mercer Island.
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Cooperative of Puget Sound Foundation, and the Kline Galland Home.
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A Yiddish tale of love, loss and the Holocaust
TOM TUGEND Jewish Journal of Los AngelesWhen Canadian ilmmaker Naomi
Jaye, who had spent 10 years making short
films, told riends she was embarking on
her first eature, they cheered.
When she added that the project wouldbe the first Canadian movie in Yiddish,
which neither she nor her lead actors
knew, the riends questioned her sanity.
Five years later, the result o her per-
severance is “Te Pin,” a story o love and
loss during the Holocaust, o aithulness
to a promise and the question o whether
a sense o humanity can survive in a world
transormed into a slaughterhouse.
Te movie’s first scene shows Jacob,
somewhere between adolescence and
manhood, emerging rom a hole in a
orest, glancing around warily, and then
running as i escaping an unseen enemy.
In the second scene, set in a morgue, an
elderly shomer, who guards the body and
soul o the dead until burial, reads psalms
rom a prayer book while occasionally
glancing at a body resting on a gurney,
covered by a white sheet.
In a long flashback, the shomer recalls
his youth. Te year is 1941, Nazi armies
have overrun his hometown somewhere in
Eastern Europe and have killed his amily.
He finds shelter in a barn that seems
empty, but soon encounters a young
Jewish girl, Leah,
whose amily has met
the same ate and
who has also gone
into hiding.Afer initial suspi-
cion and conronta-
tion, the two orphans
move toward each
other, emotionally
and physically, all in
love, and eventually
conduct their own
impromptu wedding
ceremony.
When Leah hears
o an empty train that
travels “across the
border,” she and Jacob plan their escape
and a happy lie together. But ate and a
quarrel interere, and the young lovers
are separated, neither knowing what hap-
pened to the other.
What about “the pin” o the title?
Jaye says the inspiration or the story
and title came rom her grandmother, who
had an obsessive ear o being buried alive.
As she aged, she made her son, Jaye’s
ather, promise that when she died, he
would prick her hand with a pin, to make
absolutely certain she was actually dead
beore placing her body in a coffin.
Tis story, Jaye said, “always ascinated
me, because it required an act o true love
that was also an act o violence.”
When Jacob, now the aged shomer, lifs
the sheet and looks at the body beneath, he
realizes that lying beore him is his youth-
ul love, Leah. He remembers her ear o
being buried alive, his promise to her, and
he starts to look or a pin.
o Jaye, the tale represents the ultimate
triumph o the human spirit.She explained
this assertion by noting that the chie pro-
tagonists, “caught in a terrible situatio
are able to find beauty and love.”
Some viewers may find it difficult
accept this hopeul evaluation, or apprec
ate the extremely slow pace o the movi
marked by long, wordless pauses in sem
dark settings.
But Jaye has a cogent explanation o
using this technique: “Te lives o peop
in hiding, as or soldiers in war, are marke
by long periods o waiting,” between occ
sional bursts o extreme action. Tis w
the mood she was trying to convey.
Her main problem in casting the mov
was the lack o any young actors in Canad
who knew Yiddish.
She solved the problem, quite effe
tively, by putting Grisha Pasternak, wh
plays Jacob, and Milda Gecaite, as Lea
through a six-month Yiddish course, an
the results are quite satisying.
Both actors arrived in Canada as chi
dren, Pasternak rom Ukraine and Gecai
rom Lithuania. Neither is Jewish, an
both show considerable talent.
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THE PIN
Leah (Milda Geicate) comes up from the floor of her home after her family
is taken away by the Nazis.
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