JTNews - November 29, 2013 Hanukkah Edition

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Rabbis Turn
Rabbi Lauren Kurland offers the suggestion that while as we celebrate the combined Thanksgiving-Hanukkah holiday, we should take the opportunity to learn how both holidays should make us feel thankful.
What exactly is Hanukkah?

Rabbi Donniel Hartman from the Shalom Hartman Institute questions what exactly Hanukkah stands for, and how the holiday should t into our modern lives.
How we fund terrorism
By allowing Congress to provide aid to the Palestinian Authority, writes investigative journalist Edwin Black, we are unwittingly funneling money to further terrorist acts.
REMEMBER WHEN
From the Jewish Transcript, November 25, 1938. As the Nazi party attempted to use the spectacle of the Munich Olympics as a way to showcase its transformation of Germany, cartoons such as this made clear that not everyone believed they should turn a blind eye to the way the country was treating its Jewish population.
A celebration of Ladino
For the rst time, a day has been set aside to celebrate the language and culture of Sephardic Jewry.
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What the Iran deal means
With the analysis and handwringing that has followed last weekends deal between major world powers and Iran on its nuclear ambitions, what has been missing from the conversation is the nuts and bolts of the deal itself.
A celebration of Thanksgivukkah
Plenty of articles abound in this issue, from a city built upon the ruins of the ancient Hasmoneans to recipes and gifts. Some highlights:
A look at modern Modiin Recipes from the Queen of Kosher When holidays collide Local glass artist Yat Haba The Jewish movie of the year
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Everyone Celebrates!
The Book Thief is at the same time a touching Holocaust lm and a coming-of-age story during a difcult time. Either way, its worth a trip to the theater.
Israels leaders on the silver screen
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The rst of two lms that focus on Israels pioneers show never-before-seen footage of the rugged leaders that built the country.
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Our special Jew-ish.com young adult contributor wanted to know why she should care about the Holocaust when so many other genocides demand her attention until she saw Music of Remembrance.
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For a complete listing of events, or to add your event to the JTNews calendar, visit calendar.jtnews.net. Calendar events must be submitted no later than 10 days before publication. donations welcome online or at the door. At the Hillman City Collaboratory, 5623 Rainier Ave. S, Seattle. 6 6:30 a.m. Shalom Sesame-Hanukkah: The Missing Menorah
www.kcts9.org Have the kids get you up early to watch Hanukkah: The Missing Menorah. Broadcasts at 6 a.m. and repeats at 6:30 a.m. On KCTS Channel 9. www.seattlejewishchorale.org Seattle Jewish Chorale invites the whole family to A Feast of Grace and Light, celebrating Hanukkah, Thanksgiving, and more. $12/adults; $10/seniors; $5/kids. At Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
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Elizabeth Fagin at elizabeth@betalef.org or 206-527-9399 or www.betalef.org Rabbi Olivier BenHaim and Lynne Carol MA, LMHC lead a yearlong, monthly 12-step program based on spiritual teachings from Buddhist and Jewish mystical traditions. $200. At Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue, 1111 Harvard Ave., Seattle.
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911 p.m. PBS Fall Arts Festival Great Performances: Barbra Streisand Back to Brooklyn
kcts9.org/tv-schedule The legendary Barbra Streisand makes a historic homecoming to Brooklyn, marking the superstars rst Brooklyn concert since her childhood. Record the performance to watch after Shabbat. On KCTS Channel 9. 5 p.m. Shabbaton with Rabbi Zev Goldberg
Julie Greene at julie@bcmhseattle.org or 206-721-0970 Shabbos Hanukkah dinner with Rabbi Zev Goldberg, assistant rabbi of Young Israel of Century City in Los Angeles. At BCMH, 5145 S Morgan St., Seattle. 69 p.m. Put the H back in Hanukkah ThanksHanukkah Party
206-651-5891 or info@mitriyah.org or bit.ly/17RkoVF Bring your menorah and Shabbat candles to this vegetarian potluck featuring klezmer music by Julie Egger and Yiddish storytelling by Dvorah Kost. Free;
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46 p.m. SJC Hanukkah Concert
Seattle Jewish Chorale at jewishchorale@ live.com or www.seattlejewishchorale.org Seattle Jewish Chorale presents an interactive, familyfriendly concert featuring traditional and contemporary holiday songs in various languages, followed by a reception and holiday bake sale. Adults/$12, Children/$6, Unemployed/pay-what-you-can. At Temple Beth Hatloh, 201 Eighth Ave. SE, Olympia.
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6:157:30 p.m. Hanukkah at HNT: Sparks & Spuds
Rebecca Levy at rebecca@h-nt.org or 206-232-8555 or www.h-nt.org Enjoy an oil-free twist on the usual latkes with a baked potato bar, then go back to tradition with some sweet sufganiot. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. 7:309 p.m. Hanukkah Concert-Seattle Jewish Chorale
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10:30 a.m.12 p.m. Celebrate Hanukkah with the Shalom Klezmer Band
Ellen Hendin at endlessopps@jfsseattle.org or 206-461-3240 or www.jfsseattle.org It isnt Hanukkah without the Shalom Klezmer Band. Sing Hanukkah songs, dance, and spin dreidels while the talented Mirel family and band rocks your morning with klezmer. Free. At Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue. 7 p.m. International Ladino Day
Prof. Devin Naar at denaar@uw.edu or ladinoday.eventbrite.com Celebrate the rst International Ladino Day with the Sephardic Studies Program of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington. In collaboration with the local Sephardic community, this celebration of Ladino language and Sephardic culture will include poetry readings, the singing of Ladino songs, and a brief presentation of the history of Seattles Sephardic community. Kosher reception to follow. Free. Seating limited. At Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.
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11 a.m.1 p.m. SJCC and HNT Senior Community Hanukkah Celebration
Dana Azose at danaa@sjcc.org or 206-388-0836 or www.sjcc.org Post-Hanukkah brunch of latkes, bagels, fruit, and more. SJCC chief operating ofcer Rene CohenGoodwin will share inspirational Hanukkah insights and Herzl-Ner Tamid Cantor Brad Kurland will lead Hanukkah songs. $7. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
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Ellen Hendin at endlessopps@jfsseattle.org or 206-461-3240 or www.jfsseattle.org Randy Hilfman, winner of numerous adult spelling bees, will talk about the history of spelling bees, his
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Leonid Orlov at familylife@jfsseattle.org or 206-861-8784 or www.jfsseattle.org What are normal changes during aging, as opposed to changes that might be part of an illness? How can you detect depression or substance abuse? What services are available and how much do they cost? Jane Relin, LICSW, discusses all this and more. $13/person in advance, $18/at the door. At Jewish Family Service, 1601 16th Ave., Seattle. 12 p.m. Mother-Daughter Book Group
Sara Jensen at sjensen@kcls.org or kcls.org/ sammamish Come discuss My Basmati Bat Mitzvah by Paula Freedman. For girls ages 10 to 13 and their mothers. Free. At Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. SE, Sammamish. 34 p.m. Hanukkah Concert-Seattle Jewish Chorale
Seattle Jewish Chorale at jewishchorale@ live.com or 800-838-3006 or www.SeattleJewishchorale.org Seattle Jewish Chorale invites the whole family to A Feast of Grace and Light, celebrating Hanukkah, Thanksgiving, and more. $12/adults, $10/seniors. $5/kids. At Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 Eighth Ave. NE, Seattle.
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OPINION
The Hanukkah identity crisis

DOnnIEL HARtMAn Shalom Hartman Institute
Hanukkah is a holiday with an identity crisis. From the beginning, the rabbis had difficulty pinpointing what it was that we are celebrating. Was it the Maccabees or Gods military victory over the Assyrians? Was it a spiritual victory of Judaism over Hellenism? Or was it the miracle in which one small jar gave light in the Temple for eight days? Or is it a holiday celebrating a victory of the Jewish people against religious oppression? What we often do when we have many options is that we pick all of them. Instead of clarifying, however, this creates confusion and a lack of focus and a relegating of the holiday away from values to the realm of ritual observance alone. We light candles without really knowing why and celebrate without a clear understanding of the cause of our joy. The identity crisis of Hanukkah, however, comes from an even deeper source. Many of these potential meanings for celebration are no longer compelling or meaningful. Military victories are wonderful, especially when one takes into account the alternative, but in a world in which Jewish power is integral to the Jewish experience, the celebration of a victory more than 2,000 years ago is not particularly compelling or meaningful. For a military victory to be memorable, its outcome needs to have produced a tipping point. The Maccabean victory was no such tipping point in Jewish history. Today, however, we face an even more substantive issue. When Hanukkah became a holiday, we lived in a world of dichotomies between Judaism and Hellenism, in which the lights of Hanukkah symbolized a purity of faith and commitment to Torah, free from Hellenistic influence and corruption. We spoke of Athens and Jerusalem as two alternative and mutually exclusive paths. Ones identity was either grounded in and nurtured by Jerusalem or was rooted and guided by Athens. Each creates a distinct and mutually exclusive identity. The victory of one is the defeat of the other. The essence of the modern era, however, may be encapsulated as the period in which such dichotomies have come to an end. A modern Jew is one who has multiple identities and multiple loyalties. He or she is a traveler in an open marketplace of ideas in search of new synergies and meanings. What a previous generation would call assimilation that is, the penetration of outside ideas and cultures within a Jewish one the modern Jew sees as essential to building a life of meaning and a Judaism of excellence. Whatever Athens or Jerusalem might have signified in the past, today they represent the notion that to be a Jew is to live in the larger world and aspire to create a new dialogue with that world in which both sides learn from and impact on each other. As a result, Jewish identity has changed. We no longer see our identity as singular and unique, but as integrated and complex. Jews today see themselves as citizens of both Athens and Jerusalem. What then does Hanukkah mean? For many, it acquires special significance as a buttress to Jewish identity during a Christmas season, where Christian identity shines. The Hanukkah menorah is the antidote to the Christmas tree, and we can give our children presents for eight days and not merely one. Far from ridiculing this practice, I actually believe that therein may lie the beginning of a new meaning for Hanukkah. Not, however, in its commercial sense or as an antidote to anything, but in its aspirations to create a space for Jews and Judaism within a larger world. We do not yearn to reject Athens or to go back to a singular identity. We celebrate the possibilities of engaging one of our identities with the other, one idea with another, to the mutual growth and benefit of each. The challenge, however, in a multicultural, multi-identity world is how not to descend into mediocre notions of common denominators and superficial syntheses. If the real gift of modernity is the moral and spiritual consequences of having a complex identity and living in both the metaphorical Jerusalem and Athens, the challenge is how to sustain all the various features of ones identity. Assimilation today is no longer the removal of dichotomies, but the abandonment of difference. Our enemy is not outside but within. The purpose of lighting a candle is not to celebrate a miracle of yesteryear but to declare a commitment to ensuring that to maintain a Jewish identity is a part of my being. One is obligated to place the menorah in a window where passersby can see and in so doing, to make space within ones public persona for Judaism to shine forth. A so-called good Jew is no longer one
THE RABBIS TURN
Thinking Thanksgivukkah
RABBI LAUREn KURLAnD Special to JTNews
As you may have guessed from the incredibly close proximity of Labor Day and Rosh Hashanah this year, Hanukkah is also coming early so early, in fact, that rather than coinciding with Christmas, its usual American holiday tango partner, this year its crashing Thanksgiving. Yes, thats right as you may have heard, Thursday, November 28, 2013 is Thanksgivukkah 2013/5774 the mashup of the first full day of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving! (You know a holiday is official when it has its own website.) Thanksgivukkah is as rare as its name is funky: According to an article by Maggie Goldman, writing for the Combined Jewish Philanthropies Thanksgivukkahboston.com website in Boston, the two holidays wouldve overlapped in 1861, but Thanksgiving wasnt formally established until two years later, in 1863. That means Thanksgivukkah has never happened before and it wont happen again until 79811. This holiday being truly once in a lifetime, its certainly not an occasion to waste. Some bloggers have recommended taking full advantage of it by cooking fun Thanksgiving and Hanukkah mashup dishes like cranberry sauce-filled sufganiyot or making your very own menurkey. There are even shirts for sale to commemorate the day. But heres a radical idea: This November 28, let us celebrate the serendipitous merging of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah by gathering together with family and friends to give thanks, and only thanks. A Thanksgivukkah feast: Menorah meets mashed potatoes; sufganiyot alongside stuffing. Yes, share a meal together. Yes, light Hanukkah candles and play dreidel. Yes, laugh about the overlap of the holidays and marvel at its rarity. But rather than celebrating Thanksgivukkah by stuffing our bodies with crazy concoctions of turkeyinfused latkes and showering our children with shticky presents, let us be inspired to take a moment to say the shehecheyanu for reaching this moment and just being together. As Stefanie Zelkinds eloquent column on ejewishphilanthropy.com puts it, we can move beyond the kitsch that has inevitably accompanied this calendar coincidence, and instead use Thanksgivukkah as a launch pad for learning, giving, and values-based family activities. For as Americans and as Jews, Thanksgivukkah represents the overlap of deeply held and shared cultural values: The importance of gratitude, fortitude, perseverance and blessing. What greater honor can we afford the merging of these two holidays than a quiet moment, bathed in the light of our friends and family while the candles burn low, dedicated to the awe of our blessings?
Lauren Kurland received ordination and a masters in Jewish Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary. Lauren has served as associate director for educational resources at American Jewish World Service, and presently writes curriculum for supplementary schools through the Davidson School of Education. She and her family live in Seattle. This article is adapted from a post on the University of Washington Stroum Center for Jewish Studies blog.
who fights Hellenism but one who maintains a Jewish core within the multiple facets of their life. It was often much easier to be a Jew when we were fighting them, whoever they may have been. To maintain a Jewish commitment within a world in which dichotomies are gone requires a level of Jewish education and knowledge unparalleled in Jewish history. A dialogue between Jerusalem and Athens in which
the value of each is maintained will only be possible if one knows what Jerusalem means and what values and ideas Judaism can contribute to living a meaningful life. We are free today to light our menorahs but the light must not only shine outside as a wall between us and them, but must shine within as a commitment to discovering a Judaism of ideas and values as an integral part of our journey.
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You can celebrate Judaism, you can celebrate America, and you celebrate the Jewish-American experience on the same day, because how would this be possible if we didnt have a country as free and as welcoming as America? Dana Gitell, a Massachusetts-based marketing professional who coined the term Thanksgivukkah. Read about her take on the Thanksgiving-Hanukkah mashup on page 20.
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How the United States fans the flames of Mideast conflict

EDwIn BLACk JTA World News Service
WASHINGTON (JTA) As the current round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks flounder and seek to regain momentum, many are wondering what America can do with its prodigious economic resources to encourage peace and reconciliation between the parties. For this reason, it may astound many that American taxpayers already are deploying significant dollars in Israel not to pay for peace but to fungibly fund terrorism. Each year, U.S. aid and financial programs fund terrorist salaries paid by the Palestinian Authority. For the past half decade or so, the level has reached hundreds of millions of dollars annually. The fact that the Palestinian Authority devotes much of its fiscal resources to rewarding terrorists with generous salaries is an astonishing financial dynamic known to most Israeli leaders, Jewish media editors, and Western journalists in Israel. But it is still a shock to most in Congress, who are unaware that U.S. money going to the Palestinian Authority is regularly diverted to a program that systematically rewards terrorists with cash benefits. Equally astonished are the voters whose money is being used in this fashion. These transactions squarely violate American laws prohibiting U.S. funding from directly or indirectly benefiting terrorists. More than that, such monies grandly incentivize murder and terror against innocent civilians. Heres how the system works: When a Palestinian is convicted of an act of terror against the Israeli government or innocent civilians, such as a bombing or a murder, the convicted terrorist automatically receives a generous salary from the Palestinian Authority. The salary is specified by the Palestinian Law of the Prisoner and administered by the P.A.s Ministry of Prisoner Affairs. A Palestinian watchdog group, the Prisoners Club, ensures the P.A.s compliance with the law and pushes for payments as a priority expenditure. This means that even during frequent budget shortfalls and financial crises, the P.A. pays the terrorists salaries first and foremost before its other fiscal obligations. The Law of the Prisoner narrowly delineates just who is entitled to receive an official salary. In a recent interview, Ministry of Prisoners spokesman Amr Nasser read aloud the definition: A detainee is each and every person who is in an occupation prison based on his or her participation in the resistance to occupation. This means crimes against Israel or Israelis. Nasser was careful to explain, It does not include common-law thieves and burglars. They are not included and are not part of the mandate of the ministry. Under a sliding scale carefully articulated in the Law of the Prisoner, the more heinous the act of terrorism, the longer the prison sentence and, consequently, the higher the salary. Detention for up to three years fetches a salary of nearly $400 per month. Prisoners incarcerated from three to five years are paid about $560 monthly a compensation level already higher than for many ordinary West Bank jobs. Even greater acts of terrorism, punished with sentences between 15 and 20 years, earn almost $2,000 per month. These are the best salaries in the Palestinian territories. The Arabic word ratib, meaning salary, is the official term for the compensation. The law ensures the greatest reward for the most egregious acts of terrorism. In the Palestinian community, the salaries are no secret they are publicly hailed in public speeches and special TV reports. From time to time, the salaries are augmented with special additional financial perks. For example, in 2009, a $150-per-prisoner bonus was approved to mark the religious holiday of Eid alAdha. P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas also directed that an extra $190 be added to the stipends given to Palestinians affiliated with PLO factions in Israeli prisons this month. Reporting on the additional emolument, the Palestinian news service Maan explained, Each PLO-affiliated prisoner [already] receives [a special allocation of] $238 per month, plus an extra $71 if they are married, and an extra $12 for each child. The stipend is paid by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) each month. About 6 percent of the Palestinian budget is diverted to prisoner salaries. All the money comes from so-called donor countries such as the United States, Great Britain and Denmark. Palestinian officials react with defiance to any foreign governmental effort to end the salaries. Deputy Minister of Prisoners Affairs Ziyad Abu Ein declared: If the financial assistance and support to the P.A. are stopped, the [payment of] salaries (rawatib) and allowances (mukhassasat) to Palestinian prisoners will not be stopped, whatever the cost may be. The prisoners are our joy. We will sacrifice everything for them and continue to provide for their families. Ironically, one Jewish media editor asked this question: If the United States is fungibly funding terrorist salaries with payments to the P.A., is not Israel doing the same when it supplies and transfers cash to the P.A.? The uncomfortable
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HANUKKAH GREETINGS!
Hanukkah Greetings!
Natalie & Bob Malin Lori Goldfarb & daughter Samantha Rogel Keith, Linda, Alec & Kylie Goldfarb Melissa, Todd & Brandon Reninger
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JoAnn Goldman Dan, Cheryl, Candace & David Becker Arthur, Susie, Brandon & Mackenzie Goldman
Happy Hanukkah!
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FRANCES ROGERS JIMMY, ZOEY & SABINA ROGERS LINDA & MICHAEL MORGAN TODD MORGAN & WENDY LAWRENCE OLIVER & JACOB MELISSA, MARTY, ARIELLA & SASHA NELSON
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Happy Hanukkah!
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An evening of everything Ladino

JOEL MAGALnICk Editor, JTNews
It took more than 500 years of waiting, then six or so months of planning, and on Dec. 5, the last day of Hanukkah, the first International Ladino Day will take place in Seattle and cities around the world. It came as a result of a proposal by an institution in Jerusalem called the National Authority for Ladino, which is an official organization in Israel, said Devin Naar, the Marsha and Jay Glazer Assistant Professor in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington, and heads the Sephardic Studies Initiative in the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. Ladino, the language that many Jews of Sephardic heritage spoke over the centuries as their day-to-day tongue, came close to extinction with the eradication of many of Europes Jewish communities during the Holocaust. The last generation of native Ladino speakers is aging, so the languages champions want to celebrate it while those speakers are still alive. The hour-and-a-half-long event will be an attempt to highlight the richness and diversity of the Ladino language and culture, said Naar. Given that the Seattle program is a collaboration between community members and UW faculty and students, the presenters will range in age from 19 to 90-plus, Naar said. A group of approximately 25 Ladino speakers that meets each week in Seattles Central District will play a prominent role in the event, telling histories of the citys Sephardic History. Ive got a whole history of Sephardic Jewry and how it got started in Seattle, said Isaac Azose, hazzan emeritus of Sephardic Congregation Ezra Bessaroth. He translated portions of the history into Ladino, and then distributed them to members of the weekly Ladino group for them to read onstage. Azose will lead a few songs as well, including Flory Jagodas Sephardic Hanukkah hit Ocho Kandelikas. Also attending will be Lela Abravanel, a Greek-born woman who now lives in the Seattle area who has collected more than 500 Ladino proverbs. Ive asked her to share her top five, Naar said. In addition to Jewish Studies sponsoring the program, the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies is involved, as are Congregations Sephardic Bikur Holim and Ezra Bessaroth, and the Seattle Sephardic Brotherhood. Azose told JTNews that everything started in January of this year, when Zelda Ovadia, who works for a Ladino-language magazine called Ki Yerushalayim, posted
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in Ladino, naturally a message to the online Yahoo! listserve Ladino Komunita. Organizing something like this, it would be necessary for a lot of cooperation among different facets in the world, Azose translated to JTNews, but with everyones good will, we can do the impossible. The Israel National Authority for Ladinos founder and head, Yitzchak Navon, a native Ladino speaker, listened and issued
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TEL AVIV (JTA) For the first time in a decade, the United States and a coalition of world powers have reached an agreement with Iran to curb the countrys nuclear program. The deal requires Iran to limit its nuclear enrichment and freeze most of its centrifuges for six months, as well as halt construction on its plutonium reactor. In exchange, the U.S.-led coalition including Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany will roll back some of the sanctions on Iran. Both the United States and Iran have strongly praised the deal, but Israeli officials are lambasting it. President Obama said in a speech Saturday night that the deal makes possible a future in which we can verify that Irans nuclear program is peaceful and that it cannot build a nuclear weapon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the deal a historic mistake, telling his Cabinet on Sunday that Iran has taken a significant step toward attaining the most dangerous weapon in the world. What does the deal include and what do its provisions mean? With the help of experts, JTA answers some questions about the agreement and what lies ahead. What does Iran give up? What does it get to keep? Irans key commitment is to limit its enrichment of uranium the element needed to make a nuclear bomb to 5 percent, according to a summary of the agreement released by the White House. Iran will dilute its stockpile of 20 percentenriched uranium down to 5 percent, freeze many of its centrifuges that produce uranium, and disable some technical features of some centrifuges. Iran also will stop construction and fuel production for its unfinished plutonium reactor and not expand its enrichment capabilities. Under the agreement, Iran may continue to enrich uranium and does not need to dismantle any centrifuges or its plutonium reactor conditions Netanyahu has said are necessary. What is the significance of different levels of uranium enrichment? Only a rare and specific type of uranium, uranium 235, can be used for a nuclear weapon. Enrichment, which is conducted using centrifuges, is the process of separating that material from the rest of the uranium supply. Five percent enrichment, for example, means that 5 percent of the uranium stockpile in question is uranium 235. Five percent-enriched uranium can be used for civilian purposes like nuclear power; to be used for a nuclear weapon, uranium needs to be enriched to 90 percent. Iran long has claimed that its nuclear program is for civilian purposes only. The agreement aims to curb Irans uranium enrichment at 5 percent. So why are Israeli officials criticizing the deal? Getting uranium from zero to 5 percent is still the hardest part of enrichment; jumping from 5 to 90 percent is easier. So by allowing Iran to enrich to 5 percent, the agreement allows Iran to continue clearing the biggest enrichment-related hurdle to bomb-making capacity. Iran also possesses next-generation centrifuges that allow it to jump from 5 to 90 percent in a matter of weeks what Israelis call a breakout capacity. The agreement freezes those centrifuges but doesnt require Iran to fully dismantle them. Israelis fear that Iran could renege on the deal and then, using its next-generation centrifuges, produce bomb-grade uranium within as little as a month. They agreed to freeze their program, but they can continue to enrich, said Ephraim Inbar, director of the BeginSadat Center for Strategic Studies at BarIlan University. How does the plutonium reactor figure in? The plutonium reactor is another way Tehran can obtain a nuclear weapon. Iran has been constructing its plutonium facility since 2002. To obtain weapons-grade plutonium, the reactor would have to convert uranium to plutonium. This process is harder than enriching uranium but would create a lighter material, giving missiles longer range. The agreement freezes the reactors construction and fuel production, but if those activities resume, the facility could begin the plutonium production process within a year, according to Ephraim Asculai, a senior researcher on the nuclear process at Tel Aviv Universitys Institute for National Security Studies. Once plutonium production begins, it becomes much harder for an enemy to bomb the reactor because of radioactive fallout. Once you put nuclear fuel into the reactor, the fission produced with the uranium is highly radioactive, Asculai said. Iran continued enrichment even after a deal in 2003. At the time it had 164 centrifuges; now it has 19,000. How will the coalition make sure Iran doesnt cheat this time?
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But the answer kept being After her brother Mark yes, says Thellea. Koller died from kidney With her husband Jerry cancer in 2011 at age 51, it Kutzkes blessing, Lisa proset Lisa Kutzke on a quest ceeded with initial testing. to do something in memory Thellea is an opthalmolof him. ogist, says Lisa, and her One day, the long-time father is a retired patholoStroum Jewish Commu gist, so we had tons of infornity Center fitness trainer mation. spotted her client, Thellea Lisa spoke to other doctors Leveque, sitting on a bench and donors, and began a corat the Mercer Island facilrespondence with Thelleas ity. She was visibly upset, Member of dad, Gary Kukes, in Long Lisa recalled. When Thellea the Tribe Beach, Calif. revealed that her fathers kidAfter extensive physical neys were failing, Lisa offered, and psychological testing at the Mayo on the spot, to donate one to him. Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Lisa came Something came over me, she says. home to wait. It was an amazing feeling. I should have been his sister, I matched Remembering the moment, Thellea so well, she says. Emotionally, she was says, It was like a light went on in her thrilled to do this for my brother. face. Both women report a providential feelThellea was devastated that day, ing surrounded the process. I knew having just learned she could not be her everything was going to work out, says dads kidney donor. A carrier of the BRCA Lisa. I dont even know how to explain it. mutation, she had too high a risk of develFor Thellea, Lisas offer was a spirioping cancer. tual experience the likes of which shed Moved by Lisas offer, but wanting never had in regards to a human action to be certain Lisa was not just reacting before. Shed been moved by a sunset, or impulsively in the moment, Thellea says in synagogue, but never by the actions of she contacted Lisa repeatedly to assure her an individual. she could change her mind. met in person for a happy dinner with Thellea and all their spouses. After a few postponements, the surgery was finally scheduled for June 18 this year, adding that significant number to Lisas sense that things would be okay. Transplant recipients are allowed to help donors with certain costs, and Lisa is grateful that Gary was in a position to cover the cost of her and Jerrys flights and their hotel expenses in Minnesota. Lisas parents came from Wisconsin, too. And while anonymous donors are kept completely separate from recipients, Gary and Lisa were on the same floor and saw each other after the surgery. Originally from the small Wisconsin town of Spring Green, Lisa and Jerry came to Seattle in 1985 for a family wedding. The next year, after graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Lacrosse, they moved here. After working odd jobs, teaching PE, gymnastics, she says, Lisa applied in 1988 to be a fitness specialist at the JCC, and got the job. After three years she began seeing clients at her home. For part of the 1990s she only had her home business and had a lot of Jewish clients. Eventually she returned to the J and in 2006 became the health, fitness and
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Dear Rivy, Lets talk about those who are adamantly against Thanksgivukkah. Thanksgiving is Thanksgiving its American and its celebration marks an adaptation into American society. Hanukkah is Hanukkah its a festival that celebrates the distinction between Jews and the prevailing culture. Whats There has to be more than JQ? a menurkey the menorah in the shape of a turkey to this confluence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. Obviously, there are shared themes and values of both festivals. Both involve struggles for religious freedom. Both are gatherings of giving thanks and expressing gratitude, maybe even a similar derivation from the Biblical harvest holiday of Sukkot. Hanukkah, according to some, was a postponement of the celebration of Sukkot due to the war. And the American holiday of Thanksgiving, an autumnal harvest festival, itself has roots in the ancient holiday of Sukkot. So whats the big idea here? All of these notions seem superficial and exceedingly banal. A once-in79,000-years phenomenon must have something a bit more to it, no? Thanksgivukkah! Welcome to the 21st centurys Your most distinctive synergistic phenomenon. Cheers to our most favorite portmanteau neologism of the year. Agreed, there has to be more here than an opportunity for fusion cuisine such as sweet potato bourbon noodle kugel or roasted brussels sprouts with pastrami and pickled onions. Is there something here other than the much-too-professed platitudes? Something more substantial than the colossal spectacle of kitsch? More than the fine opportunities for spoof such as a giant dreidel in the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade, or the hysterically funny parody of a faux scary movie trailer, or the compelling anti-Thanksgivukkah anthem now featured on YouTube? I think so. In a word, the big idea here is, wait for it: Sanctuary. It links these seemingly disparate holidays. Lets see what happens when we think sanctuary in response to Hanukkah and Thanksgiving. First, a definition of sanctuary, our chosen lens into this Thanksgivukkah exploration. A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine. By the use of such places as a safe haven, by extension the term has come to be used for any place of safety. First up? Hanukkah. After all, it does predate Thanksgiving by about 1,400 years. The Book of the Maccabees I and II both discuss the purification of the Temple after its desecration by the GrecoSyrians, as does the prayer Al Hanisim. For Yourself you made a great and holy name in Your world, and for your people Israel you worked a great victory and salvation as this very day. Thereafter, Your children came to the Holy of Holies of Your House, cleansed Your Temple, purified the site of Your Holiness, and kindled lights in the courtyards of Your Sanctuary; and they established these eight days of Hanukkah to express thanks praise to Your great Name. The temple of old, the Bet Hamikdash, is at the center of the Maccabean revolt. Its being defiled is a key impetus to the start of the struggle against the invaders. What of this Temple and what of is its significance? The initial command to the Israelites in the desert to construct a mishkan sanctuary is found in the Book of Shemoth: And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. A lofty idea, indeed. The Temple is a potent symbol for our people. It reminds us that God can be drawn down to earth and that a people can unite and build a community with God at its center. This sanctuary is significant to our people. Though we live 1,944 years later, without the Temple we have rejiggered our ancient Jerusalemite Temple idea into the concept of many synagogues, and houses of worship, some even called temples. In what way is this very Jewish notion of sanctuary connected to Thanksgiving? The key may be a passage tucked away in the Book of Kings I, which describes a scene shortly after the death of King David. His deathbed wish is that his son Solomon be the heir apparent. The pretender to the throne, his brother Adonijahu, grabs on to the horns of the altar to be protected from Solomons retribution. Ah, sanctuary in the sanctuary. This is a function of the Temple as sanctuary, as in protection or safe haven. Its a precursor to the notion that refuge is often sought in churches and monasteries. This idea of refuge leads us to the notion of America serving as a land that offers sanctuary to the pilgrims, Puritans, and subsequent generations afterward, including my own family. America, for many of its citizens, is not only the land of opportunity, it is the land of refuge not unlike the Temple, which also offers refuge. This country gave our families sanctuary.
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Consider this from George Washingtons Thanksgiving proclamation: Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Remarkably, these themes of sanctuary, freedom, and even Greece come
together in the celebrated poem, The New Colossus by Jewish poet Emma Lazarus read it again for the first time! Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beaconhand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. Keep ancient lands, your storied impulses of the Palestinian people the burning rage to commit acts of terrorism against Israelis. However, nearly 100,000 Palestinians come into Israeli territory to work side by side with their Jewish colleagues at jobs across the country. They work under equal conditions, equal pay, enjoy equal company outings, and advance their Palestinian families through peaceful coexistence and normal employment. If the United States and other Western donor countries abruptly halted all funding of the P.A. like a slammed door until the prisoner salary program was eliminated, and conditioned all future funding on joint Arab-Israeli economic and development projects, then the world could give peace a chance. As it is now, peace does not pay and terrorism does.
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pomp! cries she With silent lips. Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempesttost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! Notice Lazaruss images of light they resonate in this particular conversation around Hanukkah. A fine reading for your Thanksgivukkah celebration. Now back to the big idea of sanctuary and its relationship to our grappling with this rare, chance coming together of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving. Sanctuary is the idea of sacred protection. The physical structure imbued with the otherworldliness
of the holy, provides mental, emotional and physical sanctuary to those seeking protection. It stands as a powerful symbol of Gods immanence; indeed, sanctuary. This blessed country, for so many of our ancestors, has done something comparable for those seeking shelter from the terrors of other places and other times. Sanctuary and sanctuary. The sanctuary for the Maccabees was worth fighting for, as is the freedom America offers. Is life and identity complicated on these shores? Yes. But, on this particular day let us give thanks.
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answer is yes. The only difference is Israel does so when it has no choice due to international pressures. That doesnt change the piercing reality that in America we pay for terrorism abroad and Israel pays for it at home. Understandably, many argue that the United States and its allies are in a no-win situation. Unless the West continues to fund the Palestinian Authority, Israel has no partner for peace, and Jerusalem itself has strongly advocated that the P.A. is its sole partner for peace. Indeed, without foreign funding, the P.A. would collapse. But by continuing to financially reward the scourge of terrorism, the West ensures a stalemate, since terrorism is an institution in the P.A. judging by the popular prisoner salary law, its priority in P.A. spending, and the enthusiastic social mandate of the Palestinian people who support such terrorist acts and the salaries that arise from them. There is another view that could win. At the moment, Western aid is catering to and bolstering the basest instincts and
wellness director, stepping down to just fitness director four years later. Now shes back to being just a personal exercise trainer. Lisa is not Jewish but calls the local Jewish community amazing. Recalling her first Hanukkah at the J, to which 600 people showed up, it just blew me away. She has always found a helping hand there for me and my family, she says, so what a great way to give back. Fully recuperated, Lisa has returned to
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Modiin is a town mentioned in the Mishnah that was home to the Maccabees of Hanukkah fame, and where the oldest synagogue in Israel was discovered, but it is also the Jewish states largest planned community and bills itself as The City of the Future. Reconciling those two images of Modiin is at the heart of a struggle playing itself out on the local, national, and international level, as archeologists and preservationists try to raise awareness of Modiins rich Hanukkah-related history and preserve ancient sites, while most city and government officials prefer to focus resources on development of services for todays residents. In 1993, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin laid the cornerstone for Modiin on a rocky hillside in the center of the country. The idea was to develop a large city in the center of the country equidistant from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, to spread the population and take advantage of the limited amount of land available for development. Today, Modiin is a diverse and successful city of more than 85,000 people, spread over 10 neighborhoods built on wadis and hilltops. The city features an extensive park system and a high level of cultural, commercial, and sports facilities. Among the first people to arrive in modern-day Modiin in 1996 was Marion Stone, an immigrant from the U.K. who had been living in the Galilee development town of Carmiel since 1979. I moved in two days before Hanukkah, recalls Stone. She was appalled to learn that bulldozers were then already working on the Titora Hill, where evidence of First Temple-era settlement was found along with a complex of cisterns, mikvaot (ritual baths), tunnels, and dovecotes. Some experts believe the area may have been used as a hideout during the Bar Kochba revolt. Stone immediately joined the Society for Preservation of Sites and Landscape in Modiin that undertook legal action to prevent destruction of the hill. The societys efforts were only partially successful, as ultimately part of Modiin was built on portions of the Titora, covering many of the ancient artifacts. Finally, last spring, a court ruling ordered developers to find an alternative site for construction of an additional 750 apartments. Stone and Leiah Elbaum another early resident of Modiin, who has a background in Land of Israel studies and has conducted extensive research into her hometown agree that elected officials in Modiin have neglected to capitalize on
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the rich Maccabean heritage of the area. Elbaum and Stone cite Titora, as well as the extraordinary find of the remains of the Umm el-Umdan (Mother of Pillars) synagogue, which boasts a roof supported by eight pillars constructed in the time of Herod. The structure, located near the Buchman neighborhood on the ModiinLatrun road, closely resembles other renowned Second Temple-period syna-
gogues, such as those at Masada, Herodium, and Gamla, which have all become major tourism sites. Theres never been a proper archeological survey done of this area, Elbaum asserts. We have places here that could raise the profile of Modiin and enhance the connection of the people to the land, but its not a priority for local officials. Part of what attracted her to the area
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It was momentous, Stone remembers. I was in tears. The hanukkiah lighting ceremony at the ancient synagogue went on for a number of years after that, until the event grew too large and there was concern over damage to the site. In recent years, nearby residents have been marking Shabbat Hanukkah by coming to pray at Umm el-Umdan. Modiin resident Howie Mischel wrote of the impact of last years Hanukkah s gat h ering: The men stood in the central part of the site, in a rectangular area that was BuKVOEd/WIKImEdIa COmmONs In Modiin, remains of the Umm el-Umdan (Mother of Pillars in Arabic) probably the main floor of the beit synagogue, which was built in the Hasmonean period. knesset. In front of me was a small indentation in the stone nean-era figures. framework surrounding the floor, perStone says one of her most profound fectly positioned to accommodate an ark experiences took place during Hanukkah to hold Torah scrolls. As I looked past it, 2002 at the Umm el-Umdan synagogue, I realized that it was perfectly oriented on just days after 13 Israelis were killed in this hill to face Jerusalem. a terror attack in Mombasa, Kenya. StuMischel said the group recognized the dents from the nearby Nitzanim School significance of the moment. held a torchlight march to the synagogue How could we have been standing and lit a Hanukkah menorah there. was the idea of building a new Jewish community where an ancient one had existed. But she also expressed disappointment that no neighborhood or school in Modiin is named after important Hasmo-
on this incredibly meaningful site, in the town where the Maccabees efforts assured Jewish continuity, and be in the dark? he asked. How could this archaeological site be so ignored and treated almost as a nuisance by the municipal government, without aside from the weeds being plucked a shekel having been invested in site preservation? According to a spokesman for the Prime Ministers office, the Umm elUmdan compound was approved for inclusion in the Prime Ministers Cultural Heritage Program that designates funding for heritage sites across the country. With a projected total budget of 2.1 million shekels, half from the government and half to be raised from outside sources, the spokesman told JNS.org that renovation of the pathways has been completed; preservation of the synagogue itself, the residential quarters of the Hasmonean village, and artifacts is almost finished, and restoration of the synagogue interior is underway. A protective pergola will be in place in coming months, and the final phase will include an on-site visitor center. Alex Weinreb, 55, stood in front of the tractors at Umm el-Umdan during Hanukkah 2001 to prevent the destruction of the synagogue. His concern led him to run for office, and the New York native subsequently served as deputy mayor of Modiin between 2003-2010. Weinreb, who has an advanced degree
in archeology, has long been in the forefront of efforts to put Modiins history on the map. One initiative he pushed through is the annual Hanukkah and Modiin Heritage Conference, which brings together scholars, archeologists, and community members to study aspects of the areas history. Weinreb also initiated the approach to the Prime Ministers Cultural Heritage Program. In 2010, Weinreb and a team of architects, designers and museum specialists put together a proposal to create a Hasmonean educational and tourist center for the promotion of the Maccabean heritage in Modiin on the site of the synagogue that dates back to the Maccabee period. Theyre still seeking donors and government support to jumpstart the project. Meanwhile, some local families mark Hanukkah by taking an outing to the Maccabean Graves just outside Modiin. They take the kids and a hanukkiah, then set up camp on the rocks surrounding the caves in the national park. Some even bring a stove and fry up latkes. Despite the official sign at the entrance, contemporary archeologists believe the site just outside Modiin is of Byzantine origin. The true location of the graves of the Maccabees continues to be the subject of speculation, and, like many other parts of history in Modiin, is awaiting funds for methodical research.
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JEffREY GROBERMAn Special to JTNews
Each year around this time I make a pilgrimage to the sleepy little Mexican village of Yelapa. Yelapa is a town of under 1,200 and accessible only by water taxi from Puerto Vallarta. This delightful, traditional Mexican village is comprised of a church, two or three small grocery stores, about a half dozen restaurants, 50 burros, a handful of ATVs, and intermittent highspeed Internet. A lovely beach receives daily visits by excursion boats from Puerto Vallarta loaded with lily-white tourists frantically waving their free cerveza tickets at a half dozen beach wranglers, all competing to cut their share of them from the herd. A couple of years ago my visit coincided with Hanukkah. I decided it might be an interesting experience to introduce Yelapa to the holiday. My good friend Dave Billman is not Jewish, but in a moment of ecumenical zeal he agreed, and we went about planning a Hanukkah fiesta, complete with candle lighting and potato latkes. I downloaded a template of a Hanukkah invitation and printed off two dozen invitations in both English and Spanish, then disseminated them to people we knew either from previous visits or the folks wed met in town. It came as a great surprise that we encountered at least two other people who claimed to be Jewish and asked to be included. Sure, we said. The more the merrier! Being a small town, word quickly spread we were planning a fiesta with free food and beer. The Mexicans were confused right from the start by the invitation with all the candles on it and assumed it was a birthday party. I had to keep telling them presents were optional. We of course wanted to include our traditional Hanukkah foods. Making potato latkes at home isnt too difficult if you have a food processor. Unfortunately, we didnt have one and had to revert to grating the potatoes and onions by hand a somewhat labor-intensive and dangerous activity, as Dave can attest, given the number of Band-Aids he sported by the end of the grating process. We werent sure how many people might show up, so we decided to make a hundred latkes, which led to the now-infamous Yelapa Potato Famine, as we virtually emptied the town of spuds. For three days Dave and I sweated over oil-spitting frying pans, manufacturing latkes in 85-degree heat and 90 percent humidity. At some point a thought occured to us: What if the whole town shows up? Immediate plans were implemented to augment our supply of latkes in case they proved inadequate. We strongarmed our neighbors to contribute to the cause: A gallon of ceviche from one, a tub of guacamole from another, a foot-high stack of tortillas and a five-gallon jug of a local fruit drink for the children and non-alcoholic drinkers. Dave and I had been fishing a few days earlier and caught a sailfish and several mahi-mahi. We decided to contribute those to the fiesta as well. We employed a burro to pull cases of beer and bushels of ice up the hill. Finally, the big night arrived. Dave and I anxiously awaited the arrival of our guests and waited and waited. Eventually about a dozen or so wandered in. It appears there was a fair amount of competition in Yelapa that evening: The opening of the Yelapa Yacht
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Club which has neither members nor yachts a baby shower, a wedding, and a boxing match on TV. Hanukkah was definitely a low-priority event in Yelapa even with free beer and latkes. Still, I explained the significance of the festival: How 2,500 years ago the Syrians captured the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and desecrated it. And then a few years later a rebellion under Judah Maccabee recaptured the temple, but the sacred olive oil they needed to rededicate it was only enough to last for one day and by some miracle the oil lasted for eight until a resupply arrived. I explained the tradition of saying short prayers as we light the candles. My Mexican guests nodded and broke into a spirited Spanish version of Happy Birthday. Accompanied by the Barenaked Ladies, who just happened to be in Yelapa on my iPod, we quickly dispensed with the blessings and I sent Dave down to our suite to bring up the latkes. Given the massive
amount we had made, I figured if each of the assembled guests ate 17 of them, wed be okay. The latkes and Dave arrived amid a cacophony of barking dogs that had just flushed out a skunk from under the stairs that immediately made his presence known to all far and wide and that put a quick end to the first Yelapa Hanukkah party. As one of our guests said as he left, That Judah hombre should have just sent a skunk into the Temple that would have cleared out those Syrians in no time. I had no rebuttal. Dave and I decided not to plan a second party, so now the question was: What to do with 60 surplus latkes? Happy Hanukkah from Yelapa.
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Markus Zusaks acclaimed novel, The Book Thief, could neither compare with nor replace the first-person reality of The Diary of Anne Frank. The success of the 2006 book does demonstrate, though, that younger generations will identify with and embrace a contemporary, accessible introduction to the Holocaust. The moving film adaptation of The Book Thief, opening Wed., Nov. 27 and appropriate for adolescents, tilts slightly more toward a coming-of-age story than a Holocaust film. Theres no question, though, that its the major Jewish-themed film of the year. I did want to avoid the Holocaustmovie approach because its been done so well at times, director Brian Percival said in an interview in San Francisco the day after The Book Thief opened the Mill Valley Film Festival last month. I was never going to make another Schindlers List. This film was not about that. This film really was about the human triumph. The Book Thief recounts the saga of Leisel (played by Sophie Nlisse), a girl raised by foster parents in a German town during World War II. For a chunk of those harrowing years, the Hubermanns (a kindly Geoffrey Rush and a gruff Emily Watson) also hide a young Jewish man named Max Vandenburg (Ben Schnetzer), who nurtures Leisels budding imagination and nascent love for words and stories. Max is so important because he shows Liesel a different way to think about the world, Percival explains. Theres a beauty about his outlook that we find very engaging and Liesel finds engaging enough to invest in it and believe what he says. Its because of Maxs inspiration that she sees the world in a different way and has the life that she does eventually have. Academy Award-winner Rush, who
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The latest documentary from the Simon Wiesenthal Centers Moriah Films, The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers, opens in Seattle on Nov. 29 and gives viewers a rare and almost-never-before-seen insiders look at three decades of Israeli history through the lens of an insider: Ambassador Yehuda Avner, the former chief aide, English-language speechwriter, and note-taker for Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, and Shimon Peres. From the rare archival footage of Israels War of Independence, the capture and retaking of the Old City of Jerusalem, and the Six-Day and Yom Kippur wars to the resignation of Golda Meir in 1974, Avner calls the play-by-play for critical turning points in Israels struggle to survive and grow. The nearly two-hour film is adapted from his best-selling book of the same name and is the first of a two-part collaboration between the Academy Award-winning Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Wiesenthal Center, who produced and cowrote the film, and Moriah Films Richard Trank, the executive producer and principal writer and director. Moriah Films is a division of the Wiesenthal Center. After Avner introduces himself, simply identifying as an unwitting public servant in the right place at the right time, he transports us back in time. His first-hand accounts of crucial highlevel conversations, supported by photos, video, and documentation from 44 archival sources, reveal how this historic group of leaders carved out a nation by sheer nerve, guts, and will.
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President Harry Truman in his living room where, according to Avner, Truman finally realized that Hitlers war against the Jews was not just a Jewish problem. It was an American problem. In another pivotal conversation between Prime Minister Eshkol and Pres. Lyndon Johnson in the living room of Johnsons Texas ranch, Avner recalls that Johnson was reluctant to give Israel the F4 Phantom jets Eshkol was requesting.
The big problem is how two and a half million Jews can live in a sea of Arabs Johnson told Eshkol. The real question, asked Johnson, is What kind of Israel do you want? Eshkol caught his inner ear, said Avner. There was something inside him that said, We have to help in some way. Starting with that meeting with Eshkol and LBJ, said Trank in an interview with JTNews, the relationship between Israel and the United States started to become a strategic one and it kept strengthening with each successive administration. LBJ was really one of the first to recognize that this was not just a conflict between Israelis and Arabs, added Trank, but a geopolitical conflict that involved the United States and the Soviet Union. Avner tells how the two cemented their friendship at the ranch when LBJ, the Texas rancher and Eshkol, the original kibbutznik,
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Nov. 28 marks Thanksgiving Day, as well as the first day of Hanukkah 2013. It would be a natural reaction for an American Jew, when noticing that overlap during a casual reading of the calendar, to smile or even laugh. But Dana Gitell took things much further. A marketing professional living in Norwood, Mass., Gitell coined and trademarked the word Thanksgivukkah, launched a website as well as Facebook and Twitter pages for the joint holiday, and partnered with Judaica retailer ModernTribe.com on a line of t-shirts and greeting cards to mark the occasion one that, according to one analysis of the Jewish and Gregorian calendars, wont occur again for more than 75,000 years. Gitell, who had known for five years that Thanksgivukkah was coming, said the more she thought about it, the more she came to appreciate the significance behind the overlap of two holidays which both celebrate religious freedom and have similar themes. You can celebrate Judaism, you can celebrate America, and you celebrate the Jewish-American experience on the same day, because how would this be possible if we didnt have a country as free and as welcoming as America? Gitell said. Gitell got enthusiastic feedback when she started posting juxtapositions and mashups of different cultural aspects from Thanksgiving and Hanukkah online. So many people that I talked to, many who arent Jewish, think its exciting and funny, she said. After creating the Thanksgivukkah Facebook page with her sister Deborah, Gitell worked with graphic illustrator Kim DeMarco to design t-shirts and greeting cards, and approached ModernTribe.com
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The Queen of Koshers Hanukkah latkes and cookies

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All kinds of uber-creative latke recipes appear around Hanukkah-time: Appleparsnip latkes, sweet potato-leek latkes, sweet cheesy latkes, and savory cheese and chive latkes. But the truth is, you cant go anywhere in the world of latkes until youve mastered the classic potato version, says celebrity chef Jamie Geller, who likes to try the latkes, keep them warm, and then layer them with show-stopping toppings. Hailed as the Queen of Kosher and the Jewish Rachael Ray, Geller is the co-founder of the Kosher Media Network, publisher of the Joy of Kosher with Jamie Geller magazine and companion website JoyofKosher.com, and author of the Quick & Kosher cookbook series. Gellers online cooking videos have garnered more than half a million views. The following two recipes for Hanukkah latkes and cookies come from Joy of Kosher, Gellers new cookbook.
latkes arent touching and there is room around each for the edges to crisp. Thats the perfect latke soft, fluffy, and creamy on the inside with crispy edges. Sweet Cinnamon Latkes: My friend Anitas grandmother used to make her latkes with a pinch of cinnamon. Omit the onion and the pepper, reduce the salt to a pinch, and add 2 tsp. ground cinnamon and 3 Tbs. sugar. Mix 1 cup sour cream with 1/4 cup maple syrup and serve it on the side. 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar 1 large egg 1 Tbs. fresh orange juice 1 cup confectioners sugar Blue sugar or sprinkles, for decorating Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, cardamom, and ginger in a small bowl. Beat together the butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add the egg and orange juice and beat until combined. Add the flour mixture and mix just until incorporated. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 15 to 30 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 350. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Lightly flour your work surface. Flour your rolling pin and cookie cutters. Roll out the dough to 1/4inch thick on the work surface. Cut into desired shapes and place on the prepared baking sheets. Reroll the scraps and continue until all the dough has been used. Bake until the edges are just golden, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool two minutes on the baking sheet, then move to a wire rack to cool completely. XXPAGE 22
Cardamom-Scented Hanukkah Cookies

I really feel like a good mom when I bake with my kids, especially for the holidays. Hanukkah cookies can also be a lot of fun to make, but theyre usually so one-dimensional, no one really craves them. With just one touch of cardamom, this recipe immediately transforms those bland little cookies into something special. You dont even need to decorate them. Just pile them on your party tray and watch them go! 1-1/2 cups all-purpose our, plus more for rolling 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1/4 tsp. kosher salt 1/4 tsp. ground cardamom 1/4 tsp. ground ginger 8 Tbs. (1 stick) unsalted butter at room temperature 1/4 cup granulated sugar
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Latkes with caviar and cream, by Jamie Geller. per in a large bowl; set aside. Heat about 1 inch of oil in a large saut pan over medium-high heat. Put the onions and potatoes in a food processor and pulse until pured. Transfer the mixture into the large bowl with the eggs. Add matzoh meal and mix. Line a baking sheet with paper towels. Using a 1/4-cup measuring cup, scoop up the potato mixture and carefully drop it into the hot oil. Use the back of the measuring cup to flatten the latke. Fill the pan with as many latkes as you can, but do not let them touch. Do not overcrowd your pan, or the latkes will be soggy instead of crispy. Fry until golden brown and crispy, three to five minutes per side. Drain on the prepared baking sheet. Repeat with remaining batter. To keep latkes warm and crispy once fried, spread them in a single layer on a baking sheet and place in a 200 oven until ready to serve. To serve, place the latkes on a large serving tray and garnish each with a generous Tbs. of crme friche and caviar. Yield: 20 latkes Quick Tip: Remember, dont overcrowd your pan when frying. Make sure the
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Consider creating a latke-topping bar, so your Hanukkah party guests can mix and match or try them all. I like topping latkes with guacamole and an over-easy or poached egg, or doing Caprese latke towers with slices of mozzarella and tomato, plus a few fresh basil leaves. I love a smear of brie cheese topped with a dollop of jam, or blue cheese, pear, and arugula piled on top. You can go exotic, country or Brooklyn, but this superelegant cream and caviar version can only be described as posh and simply divine. 4 large russet potatoes (about 2-1/2 pounds) 3 large eggs, beaten 2 tsp. kosher salt 1 tsp. freshly ground black pepper Canola oil for frying 1 medium onion, quartered 1/4 cup matzoh meal 1-1/4 cups crme friche or sour cream Caviar, for garnish Fill a large bowl with cold water. Peel the potatoes, cut them into quarters lengthwise, and place them in the bowl of cold water to prevent browning. Combine the eggs, salt, and pep-
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Place the confectioners sugar in a small bowl. Add water, 1 Tbs. at a time, and whisk until a smooth, thick but pourable consistency is reached. Drizzle the frosting on the cookies and decorate them with blue sugar or sprinkles. Yield: About 24 2-inch cookies Variation: Use 1 cup all-purpose flour and 1/2 cup whole wheat flour, or 3/4 of each.
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The menorah forever commemorates the eight-day stretch of Jewish history during which one days worth of oil gave the kohanim of the Jewish Temple eight blessed days filled with light. But dating back to the first Hanukkah, celebrated by our ancestors in 165 B.C.E., the seven-candle menorah has come a long way. For the modern holiday of Hanukkah, the menorah or more specifically, its eight-candle iteration, the hanukkiah has come to reflect whoever owns it, with all sorts of funky, crazy, and beautiful versions presenting contemporary ways to memorialize Gods miracle. Here are some unique present-day menorahs. Art Lovers will glow over these contemporary menorahs that double as pieces of fine art. Creations like these are easy to keep around the house as regular sculptures during the year. Focus the festive energy of the holiday season on the color schemes of these menorahs, to provide a modern ambiance.
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is.gd/4TV7WS This beautiful Gary Rosenthal piece will pique the interests of anyone loving an industrial look. Made of embossed copper, steel, brass, and crackled-glass, this menorah incorporates items found at a typical warehouse. The pop of color adds excitement to an otherwise gritty demeanor.
tage brass menorah from the Eames Era takes cues from the monolithic, crude style of Brutalist art to stylishly update what resembles the Temples original menorah. Traditionalists will appreciate the masterful nod to other important Hanukkah symbols with these menorahs. Even if your version of Hanukkah is merely a time to give and receive gifts, these menorahs are a perfect way to bring back the true meaning of what the holiday celebrates.
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leaves no doubt that you are proud of who you are and where you came from. Hipsters and hobbyists can incorporate favorite activities into their holiday celebrations with these do-it-yourself creations. These menorahs add a fun touch and a talking point perfect for youthful, creative types.
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www.menorah.com/catalog2/ shopexd.asp?id=1305 This stained glass menorah is too beautiful to bounce. Perfect for the sports lover in the family, this menorah is a must-have for any self-proclaimed basketball addict. Travelers will love these mini-menorahs they can use if they happen to be away during the holiday season. Toss these in your pocket with a box of candles, and you have a makeshift celebration anywhere you decide to post them up! In some of the first television ever recorded in Israel, we see Meir crying at Labor Party headquarters, her face in her hands, as she is elected Prime Minister. We found some things that were buried in the archives in Israel, Trank said. Television had just come into being in Israel when she was elected. It was probably a very early film, maybe aired once on Israeli TV, and was just buried.
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www.etsy.com/shop/Bobbyharr The aluminum base and anodized aluminum make it easy to throw this palmsized menorah into any traveling bag for your trip. With a bright, festive, stainedglass look, the menorah can cheer up even the glummest holiday traveling experience. We were able to find it. The original musical score, written and conducted by Emmy and Grammy winner Lee Holdridge, is performed by the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra and adds depth, beauty and drama to the historical accounts. The voices of Sandra Bullock as Golda Meir, Michael Douglas as Yitzhak Rabin, Leonard Nimoy as Levi Eshkol, and Chris-
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victims, being given a new and exuberant The way that my generation connects to life in 2013 a life I was joyfully connectthe Holocaust is experiencing a major shift. I ing to without being drawn into a weeklong have many friends who have never interacted Holocaust-induced depression. It was an directly with a survivor. The odds of running unexpected feeling. into a survivor grow slimmer each day, as The incredible last performance of the the generations who endured the brutality evening included dance choreographed by of the Third Reich have grown older and are Pat Hon, featuring dancers from Cornish passing on. Those without family ties to the College of the Arts. The music (by Betty Holocaust often rely solely on education Olivero, from The Golem) and choreog a museum, perhaps, or their school, to raphy meshed well, a blend of gestures of inform them of the horrors their family was strength and isolation with group poeticism, so blessedly spared. which received a well-earned standing Additionally, my generations constant ovation. connection to world news and the ability of This is all to say, I believe that Music international tragedy to involve us immediof Remembrance has an advantage other ately through means of technology creates Holocaust organizations may lack: Art and the very real problem of choice. Which cause vivacity. I have already added MORs next do we advocate for today? When there is so concert to my calendar, and I cannot wait. much injustice, when there are so many aws Having a young, 20-something looking in cases of domestic capitalism and interforward to an event related to the Holocaust national human rights, when genocide is a is no easy accomplishment, and I hope that term that has to exist, when that term belongs other organizations nd a way to similarly to multiple horrors throughout history and connect. It is not easy, but I urge you to keep present-day what story do we choose to trying. Dont give up. As I just learned, there share? Which cases of murder, rape, and are ways to get my generation involved and social turmoil do we selectively advocate? to carry on the lessons of the Holocaust. Who am I, careerless and debt-ridden, to say They may not be traditional and will require anything in the rst place? COurTEsY COrNIsH COllEgE OF THE ArTs the exploration of new mediums, but it is the Its that familiar feeling of being both Cornish College of the Arts dancers perform to Betty Oliveros The Golem. only way the stories will live on. overwhelmed and voiceless thats the most prominent accompaniment to my consideration of the Holocaust, as shared by many of my peers. Because of this inability to look at one case without immediately considering all intercon RECOMMEnDs nected issues attached, I typically avoid Holocaust stories unless Im, quite morbidly, in the mood. That is, it takes a certain kind of anger, a certain kind of melancholy to be able to deal with the reality of the Holocaust. I cannot merely read a page or two of Maus on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 a brief bus ride, or pop in Schindlers List on a whim. I cannot take the Holocaust lightly. 7 p.m. Bubbes Old-Fashioned Hanukkah Shindig I have to curl up, get a box of tissues ready, and cancel social obligations while I become www.ticketweb.com or www.jconnectseattle.org briey lost, equal parts enraged and crushed. Make bubbe proud, and celebrate Thanksgivukkah with four Jewish, klez and BalPeople like me are the cause of problems for Holocaust-memorial organizations seeking kan-inspired party bands. Get ready for the high-octane Hanukkah event of the year! to bring in young people as their average demographic continues to age. How do you Featuring live music by Bucharest Drinking Team, Erev Rav Klezmer Orchestra, The engage young people in lessons and stories of the Holocaust without scaring them away? Debaucherauntes and The Mongrel Jews. The evening also features themed Burlesque Its a gigantic marketing problem with a signicant nancial reality: Who will support these by Dizzy Von Damn, re dancers, performance art, and more. Happy hour at 7 p.m., institutions when their founders are gone? doors at 8, menorah lighting at 8:30, and music begins at 9 p.m. Tickets cost $10/ The key to connecting the stories of the Holocaust to young people who may not already advance, $15/day-of-show. At the Nectar Lounge, 412 N 36th St., Seattle. be connected lies in nding the proper medium. This is the realization I had this month at Benaroya Hall, as I stood to applaud the nal act of Music of Remembrances fall concert, MOnDAY, DECEMBER 2 Until When? 79:30 p.m. Light the Night: A GLBTQ Hanukkah The arts have long been my lens of choice for observing and commenting on the Josh Furman at joshf@hilleluw.org realities of humanity. They provide a more complex and often beautiful shape to history Join Kolenu and Jconnect for the 5th annual GLBTQ Hanukkah celebration. Enjoy and stories, a quality that is especially hard to achieve when that history is a harsh one. tasty latkes, colorful dreidels, music and a beautiful candlelighting symbolizing the Still, I was surprised by how affected I was by MORs event. I am typically a patron of the miracle of Hanukkah and the idea that leadership and community action will prevail experimental the risky and risqu. I feared I might be totally out of place in the formality against oppression. Free. At Calamus Auditorium at Gay City, 517 E Pike St., Seattle. of a classical concert, or bored. But I was not. Though I may well have been the youngest in the audience, the fact that there were masterful musicians of all ages (the youngest being WEDnEsDAY, DECEMBER 4 12) represented on stage certainly helped me connect. 79 p.m. Young Professionals Hanukkah Party And as Mikhail Schmidt sawed violently on his violin, with his precise focus punctuElie Estrin or Chaya Elishevitz at rabbi.estrin@gmail.com ated by an occasional, passionate stomp during a Sonata written by Erwin Schulhoff (d. The ultimate Seattle Hanukkah party for young professionals, on the penultimate Wulzburg concentration camp in 1942) I found myself marveling at how contemporary it night of the holiday. Come to Temple Billiards in downtown Seattle for drinks, sushi felt. Put Schmidt in casual clothes, with some video projections up behind him in a gallery, and latke bar, games, music and schmooze. 21-plus. $5 cover. At Temple Billiards, and I would be watching performance art. 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LOS ANGELES (JTA) If the Pilgrims are lighting menorahs and the Maccabees are chasing turkeys, it must be Thanksgivukkah, as some have come to call the confluence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah that will happen this year on Nov. 28. How do we celebrate this rare holiday alignment? Do we stick candles in the turkey and stuff the horns of plenty with gelt? Put payes on the pilgrims? What about starting by wishing each other gobble tov and then changing the words to a favorite Hanukkah melody: I cooked a little turkey, Just like Im Bobby Flay, And when its sliced and ready, Ill fress the day away. The holiday mashup has its limits. We know the Macys Thanksgiving parade will not end with a float carrying a Maccabee. But it has created opportunities as well: Raise your hand if you plan to wait until the post-Thanksgiving Day sales for your Hanukkah shopping. Ritually, just as weve figured out that we add candles to our menorahs from right to left and light them from left to right, a new question looms this year: Should we slice the turkey before or after? For our household, the dreidel-wishbone overlap means that our son at college who always comes home for Thanksgiving will be home to light the family hanukkiah, too. I think its wonderful, said Dr. Ron Wolfson, whose book Relational Judaism (Jewish Lights Publishing) speaks to how our communal relationships how we listen and welcome can make our Jewish communities more meaningful. This year is about bringing friends and family together. Wolfson, also the author of The Hanukkah Family Guide to Spiritual Celebration, said in a recent interview that this years calendrical collision was a way to enhance Thanksgiving beyond football and a big meal. In our land of commercial plenty, the confluence certainly has served up a feast of merchandise. There are T-shirts saying 8 Days of Light, Liberty & Latkes and a coffee mug picturing a turkey with nine burning tail feathers. And then theres the ceramic menorah in the shape of a turkey a Menurkey, created by 9-year-old Asher Weintraub of New York. But being more of a do-it-yourselfer, I recycled an old sukkah decoration to create my own Thankgivukkah centerpiece the cornukiyah. For the holiday cook trying to blend the two holidays flavors, theres a recipe that calls for turkeys brined in Manischewitz, and I found another for cranberry latkes. But what about a replacement for the now infamous Frankenstein of Thanksgiving cuisine, the turducken? How about a turchitke, a latke inside of a chicken inside of a turkey? For Wolfson, who has largely ignored the merch and wordplay, this year simply is an opportunity to change the script. At his Thanksgiving dinner, he is going combine Hanukkah ritual with holiday elements found on FreedomsFeast.us, a website that uses American holidays to pass on stories, values and behaviors. Searching the site, I found a Thanksgiving Service for Interfaith Gatherings by Rabbi Jack Moline that includes a reading that also could work for Hanukkah a holiday of religious freedom as it celebrates many of the occupations that we can do when we are free, including activists, writers, artists, entrepreneurs, even journalists. For our own celebrations Wolfson, a Fingerhut professor of education at American Jewish University, wants us to consider the similarities of the stories at the heart of each holiday. The Pilgrims were escaping religious persecution in Europe. They did not want to be assimilated, Wolfson said, adding that the Maccabees were fighting against Hellenization, another form of assimilation. Counter to the usual December dilemma for the intermarried whose numbers have increased to 58 percent since 2005, according to the recent Pew study Wolfson noted the opportunities and challenges presented this year by Hanukkah and Christmas not coinciding. We usually feel the tension between the two holidays, he said. This year we can feel the compatibility of the two. The early Hanukkah will help people to appreciate its cultural integrity, said Wolfson, adding that he would not be surprised by a spike in candle lighting this year. But for others in the Jewish community, the pushing together of the Festival of Lights with Turkey Day has forced other changes, some unwanted. Rabbi Steven Silver of Temple Menorah in Redondo Beach, Calif., is canceling his temples traditional Friday night Hanukkah dinner. That holiday weekend will be vacation time, people will be out visiting family and friends, he said. The rabbis wont have anyone in front of them that weekend, and thats a problem. Yet Silver also has found the confluence has presented an opportunity. The day before Hanukkah, his congregation is planning to attend an interfaith Thanksgiving service at a Catholic church. There will between 800 and 900 in attendance, from Buddhists to Sikhs, and three Jewish congregations Silver said. We are planning to bring a 6-foot-high wooden menorah and symbolically light it. The holidays overlapping, he said, are giving us an opportunity to show the miracle.
This year, were celebrating something that wont happen again for another 79,043 years: The convergence of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving. Since both are family gatherings with lots of tasty food, we decided to hypothesize what the menu for this rare event would look like. For example, cranberry-sauce stuffed donuts sound pretty good to us.
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At Thanksgivukkah, celebrate uniqueness of the separate holidays

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NEW YORK (JTA) Some folks are taking the rare confluence this year of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah to heart, renaming it Thanksgivukkah, redesigning their menus for the occasion and refashioning ritual objects (a turkey-shaped hanukkiah called the Menurkey is gaining traction on Kickstarter). Others are taking it one step deeper, celebrating how the combined holidays enable us to fully appreciate being both Jewish and American. Its a perfect symbiosis: As we freely celebrate Hanukkah this year, we recognize that we directly benefit from the freedoms that were at the core of what brought the Puritans and pilgrims to settle a new land. But Jewish tradition doesnt love conflating holidays. In fact, theres a concept ein mearvin simcha bsimcha that we shouldnt mix one happy occasion with another. No weddings during Sukkot or Passover, or any Jewish holiday, for that matter. At first glance it seems like a downer. Shouldnt doubling up on our celebration just enhance our enjoyment and be a net gain? For those of us with birthdays on Rosh Hashanah or New Years Day, we know that conflating celebrations doesnt really work one celebration usually gets lost into the other. Keeping celebrations separate enables us to be fully present for each. So instead of conflating Hanukkah and Thanksgiving, lets look at it another way: How can the unique aspects of each holiday help us more fully celebrate the other? Thanksgiving teaches us to give thanks for the harvest and for all we have without the need to acquire more. How can that concept inform our celebration of Hanukkah, a holiday that has become overrun with gift giving that verges on the excessive? Instead of being thankful for the plenty that so many of us experience we take the most basic things for granted, like waking up in a dry, warm bed each morning we want more, and on Hanukkah we watch children tear through gifts wondering what else awaits them each night of the Festival of Lights. Parents can help children appreciate that Mom and Dads presence in their lives can be present enough by giving the gift of time to their kids at Hanukkah. So often we are distracted by everything we must do in life I have been shamed by my son asking me to stand still as a statue as he tries to get my attention or by my daughter saying Ima, just listen to me. Pick a night of Hanukkah and give your child a period of your undivided attention. Friends and significant others can also give each other the gift of an evening unplugged. Go out with your friends or spouses unmediated by a screen of any kind. For your children, help them cultivate a sense of gratitude and the plenty in their own lives. On one night of Hanukkah, ask your kids to recycle some of their own toys and gift them to others. On another night, they can give some money or time to charity.
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We dont need more things, we need to appreciate the people who fill our lives with meaning and the power we have to help others. What lessons can Hanukkah provide in our celebration of Thanksgiving? For starters, it can teach us not to shy away from ritual. Significant Jewish occasions are ritualized, from lighting the hanukkiah to recounting the Exodus story on Passover, to a Shabbat meal replete with blessings over candles, grape juice and wine. The rituals help to connect us to Jewish time and to the drama of Jewish history. They transport us from the realm of the ordinary into the realm of the sacred. They enable us to slow down and pay attention to the experiences that are
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unfolding before us. While each family may have its own rituals on Thanksgiving the football game or carving of the turkey many of us feel self-conscious about rituals that enter the sphere of the sacred, like inviting guests to share what they are grateful for or chanting a blessing to thank God for the food we are about to eat. Invite everyone to pause before eating and say one thing for which they are grateful from the food, the chef or the One who makes it all possible. Connect your feelings of gratitude to the company that surrounds you or for what it means for you to be an American today. Make this sharing circle or some other activity you create as a group a ritualized part of what you do each Thanksgiving. Hanukkah can also teach Thanksgivsity in Ramat Gan, Israel to celebrate the language and culture. The aspiration, I think, is that it would be an annual event and that it would be celebrated annually on the last day of Hanukkah in a variety of places across the world, Naar said, so our hope would be to do another program next year. Prof. Noam Pianko, director of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, said the
ing a thing or two about being different. Whereas Thanksgiving sends us a powerful message about intergroup relations and the coming together of the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Indians for a fall harvest feast, Hanukkah celebrates what sets us apart and makes us different. Hanukkah honors the Maccabean revolt to safeguard practices unique to Jewish people (like Shabbat, holiday celebration and circumcision). The strong impulse to develop our unique and particular identities is an important first stage to pass through before coming together with others and celebrate multiculturalism. We need to know who we are first before we can share that with others. And while I love Thanksgiving because it is a holiday celebrated by so many Americans, with common foods and customs, lets celebrate what makes our famiInternational Ladino Day is just one of many initiatives within the centers Sephardic Studies Program that has gathered steam over the past two years. That includes bringing in a visiting professor, David Bunis, who heads the Ladino language program at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and, starting in winter quarter, the only Ladino language course in the U.S. that will use Hebrew letters instead of transliterations.
lies different and unique. What is particular about your family that you would like your kids to learn about this Thanksgiving? Stories of resilience or bravery? Others? This Thanksgiving, encourage those gathered around the table to share the particular legacy they would like to leave to their children and grandchildren. Ein mearvin simcha bsimcha suggests that we shouldnt mix our celebrations. But when the calendar leaves us no other choice, lets do so with integrity. Let each holidays central values being thankful for what we already have, celebrating ritual that connects us to that which is sacred and rejoicing in our differences inform how we experience both festivals this fall. One of the advantages of having the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington is, thanks to Devins leadership, we are able to mobilize around a major event like [International Ladino Day] and provide a home, Pianko said. It shows how quickly the Sephardic Studies Program has grown into a real central player in helping to contribute to Sephardic life and culture in Seattle.
the proclamation for Dia de Ladino Internacionale. Conversations that followed between Azose and Naar, among others, fueled the drive for a Seattle event. For this years event, Seattle joins cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Dallas in the U.S., and Buenos Aires, Sao Paolo, Madrid, and Bar Ilan Univer-
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Reinventing Hanukkah: The battle over the Maccabees in the streets of Jerusalem, 1881-1908
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Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the reviver of Hebrew as a modern secular language, believed that the Talmudic rabbis had intentionally downplayed the proto-Zionist military heroism of the Maccabees, while upgrading the exilic holiday of Purim. Purims story was included in the Bible and a full tractate dedicated to its observance in the Mishnah and Talmud. Many mitzvot and customs fill the day of Purim (reading, costumes, eating and drinking), while the rabbinic Hanukkah has no tractate and few observances and no mention of Judah the Maccabee at all. So Ben Yehuda wrote school plays for Hanukkah, and in 1881 published in his Hebrew newspaper, issued in Jerusalem, an article calling metaphorically to gather strength (military?), and proceed forward (eastward?) like Judah the Maccabee. The anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox informed on Ben Yehuda to the Turkish authorities ruling Palestine and accused him of calling for armed revolt. Ben Yehuda was jailed until the Turks could be persuaded that he had no concrete plans for an uprising. In the light of the harassment by the ultra-Orthodox, Eliezer Ben Yehuda sought to enlighten his Zionist colleagues about the dangers of the romanticization of the Maccabees. When the secular Zionist artist Boris Schatz, founder of the Jerusalem Institute of Art, Bezalel, unveiled his famous statue of Mattathias the Zealot, Eliezer Ben Yehuda refused to make a speech in its honor at the Zionist Hanukkah party in 1908. Ben Yehuda explained: It is a mistake to think of the Hasmoneans as the middle way, the moderates combining foreign content with national form, bringing the beauty of the Greeks into the tents of Israel. The truth is the Hasmoneans never succeeded in finding a middle way of compromise between Hellenist and Hassidic Jews, because it was not really possible then nor is it possible in our day. When Professor Schatz asked me to speak in honor of his new statue of Mattathias holding a sword, I refused, because I was afraid of the wrath of that image of Mattathias. I imagined that Mattathias eyes were looking at our Hanukkah party with zealous anger. If his statue were to come to rise from his grave and find himself in this Temple of Art, (the Bezalel Institute of Art in Jerusalem), surrounded by statues and pictures, then he would surely stab me with his sword with the same holy zealous emotion that he stabbed the Jew who agreed to sacrifice pig on the altar in his hometown of Modiin two thousand years ago. He would smash all the statues, while screaming in a great voice: Accursed Hellenists! Violators of the Covenant! Are you the inheritors of the Maccabees? Did we spill our blood so that you would come to our land, pollute it and put statues in the Temple?
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NEW YORK (JTA) The phenomenon this year of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving coinciding could mean even larger family gatherings than usual. So here are some tips: Pick recipes that are easy to follow and make them well in advance. This way, cooks can enjoy their company. I like to start my holiday gatherings with soup, and for Hanukkah-Thanksgiving I suggest barley soup with miso. Its a delicious variation on the traditional mushroom barley that most of us know (and love) from childhood. This recipe is vegetarian, its a perfect fall dish, and can be made ahead of time because it freezes well. What would Thanksgiving be without turkey? And Hanukkah without latkes? My roast turkey is surprisingly easy to make. For Hanukkah I like to make a grated potato pancake, which is ideal when you are expecting many guests. (For another potato recipe, try the baked latkes dish in my latest cookbook, Helen Nashs New Kosher Cuisine.) Another holiday favorite for the holidays is Osso Buco (Braised Veal Shanks); make it ahead of time. To end the festive meal for this oncein-a-lifetime occurrence, I recommend everyones favorite: Brownies. The fudgy treats can be cut into any size or shape. They freeze well and can be served with sorbet or fruit.
quarters. Pulse until coarse and set aside. (If you chop everything together, the vegetables will become mushy.) Heat the oil in a large saucepan. Saut the onions, garlic, celery, and carrots for 1 minute. Add the barley and broth and bring to a boil over high heat. Lower the heat and cook, covered, for 15 minutes. Add the mushrooms to the soup along with half the dill. Cook for another 15 minutes or until the barley is tender. Remove and discard the dill. Stir in the miso and season to taste with salt and pepper. Snip the remaining dill for garnish. Note: You can buy barley miso in most health-food stores. Makes 12 servings. Peel and quarter the potatoes. If you are not grating them immediately, place them in a bowl of cold water to prevent discoloration. Using the medium grating attachment of a food processor, grate the potatoes coarsely. Place in a dish towel and wring dry to remove the liquid. Transfer to a bowl. Season well with salt and pepper. Heat 2 Tbs. of the oil in a 12-inch nonstick skillet. Add the potatoes, patting them down firmly with a spatula to flatten them and even out the edges. Cook over medium-high heat for about 8 minutes, until the bottom is golden. Invert the pancake onto a plate and add the remaining 2 Tbs. of oil to the skillet to heat. Slide the pancake back into the skillet. Pat it down again with the spatula and cook for another 8 minutes, or until the underside is golden. Invert onto a platter and cut into the desired number of slices. Makes 12 servings.
Barley Soup With Miso

The addition of miso adds a delicate Asian flavor; the bright green dill, a nice jolt of color. 2 medium onions 3 garlic cloves 4 celery stalks, peeled 4 medium carrots, peeled 1 lb. white mushrooms 3 Tbs. extra virgin olive oil 1/2 cup medium pearl barley 8 cups vegetable broth 1 bunch fresh dill 2 Tbs. barley miso paste Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper It is easy to chop the vegetables in a food processor. Quarter the onions and garlic, and pulse in the food processor until coarse; remove to a bowl. Cut the celery and carrots into large pieces. Pulse them separately until coarse, and add to the onions and garlic. Wipe the mushrooms with a damp paper towel and cut them in
Grated Potato Pancake

This large pancake is fun to serve to a large gathering you just cut it into cake-like wedges and its not greasy. Another plus: You can prepare it ahead of time and reheat before serving. 4 large Idaho baking potatoes Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper 4 Tbs. vegetable oil
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These fudgy bite-size brownies can be cut into any size. 16 Tbs. unsalted margarine, at room temperature, plus 1 Tbs. for greasing the pan 1 cup unbleached all-purpose our, plus 1 Tbs. for dusting the pan 5 ounces good-quality, imported semisweet chocolate, broken into small pieces Scant 1-3/4 cups sugar 4 large eggs, room temperature 1 tsp. vanilla extract Generous 1 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped Preheat oven to 350. Line a 9-by-13by-2-inch baking pan with wax paper. Grease the paper with 1 Tbs. of the margarine and dust it with 1 Tbs. of the flour. Invert and tap the pan to shake out the excess flour. Place the remaining margarine and the chocolate in the top of a double boiler. Cover and set over simmering water. Stir from time to time until all is melted. Remove the top from the double boiler. Using a wooden spoon, gradually add the sugar, stirring continuously until the chocolate is smooth. Stir in 1 egg at a time until well mixed. Add the vanilla and flour and blend well. Stir in
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the chopped nuts. Pour the batter into the prepared pan, tilting the pan to spread the batter evenly. Bake on the middle shelf of the oven for 20 minutes, or until the top is slightly firm to the touch and a cake tester inserted in the center comes out moist. Cool on a wire rack. Run a metal spatula around the sides of the pan to loosen the brownies. Invert the pan onto a board and cut into squares. Note: These brownies freeze well. Place them side by side in an airtight plastic container, with wax paper between the layers. Makes 7 dozen 1-inch squares.
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Not knowing what she wanted to do with her life after graduating from the Technion Institute with a bachelors degree in chemical engineering, Yafit Haba, encouraged by one of her professors, continued on to a masters program and eventually a doctoral program in chemical engineering. As a full-time doctoral student at the TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology in Haifa, Haba worked with the chemical engineering and materials science and engineering departments on the production of polymer blends containing PVC (polyvinyl chloride). But while she enjoyed the research, she felt she wanted a more flexible schedule so she could spend time with her family. Sometimes you have to make your decisions in life, she said. I was not sure I wanted to work from the morning to the afternoon. I wanted to have something more flexible. I wanted to be with my kids. That was when Haba decided to turn her childhood passion for art into a full-time career. As a child growing up in Israel, she had mostly created art using clay, wood, and knitting with yarn. But she soon discovered stained glass, and a few years taking off in Israel in the early 2000s, but was more labor intensive than stained glass and required a kiln to melt the materials. Three years after Haba first began working with fused glass, her husband received a job offer from Microsoft, and they and their two children moved to Redmond. She was finally able to purchase her own kiln and set up a studio for her artwork, but was still hesitant about sharing it with the public. In the beginning, I was creating for myself, Haba explained. I wasnt sure if someone would really like my art. But her friends encouraged her, and she soon began not only selling her pieces, but also offering classes in glass fusing, mosaics, and collage to adults and children alike. Ten years later, she now offers classes at her studio in Redmond, and also works closely with Smart With Art, an art education program available to preschools and elementary schools in the greater Seattle area. Haba has focused her personal work in
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When his son asked for The Elf on the Shelf the famed Christmas toy said to keep an eye on children and report back to Santa Claus regarding their behavior entrepreneur Neal Hoffman says he felt an admitted pang of elf envy and saw the need to offer something more appropriate. I said to myself that I wished there was a toy and book that was an alternative, that was rooted in Jewish traditions, Hoffman said. Hoffman, at the time an employee of the Hasbro toy and game company, would go on to create a new toy to ensure that those celebrating Hanukkah wouldnt experience the same elf envy. With roots tracing back to the 1970s, The Elf on the Shelf has sold nearly 2.5 million units. The elf has now met its Jewish match through Hoffmans The Mensch on a Bench, a toy and book set based on the story of the character Moshe the Mensch. Available for the first time this Hanukkah, the set costs $36 (plus shipping and handling at www.themenschonabench.com). Using the popular crowd-funding website Kickstarter to raise money (in Jewish-appropriate denominations of $18), Hoffman brought his dream of a Jewish recalls. It really made me apprecijudge of childhood behavior to life. ate the caliber of people I had worked The book that comes with Moshe with in the past. explains that this savvy tzaddik was While he didnt have his former in the Temple with the Maccabees Hasbro colleagues working with him, when they defeated the Greeks in the Hoffman was far from alone. He second century BCE. quickly found fans on Facebook and As the age-old story goes, there backers on Kickstarter, and says his was only sufficient oil for one night, biggest support came from his family. but it lasted for eight. How? Moshe The passion for Moshe the Mensch volunteered to sit on a bench all night was immediately contagious, he says. and keep an eye on it. Thousands of In an effort to explain Moshe to the years later, Moshe is still on a bench masses, Hoffman hurried to come up and still watching over Hanukkah, with a believable backstory, and cremuch like The Elf on the Shelf watches ated the book to accompany the toy. over Christmas. The book is inspired by the story Hoffman, a Massachusetts native of Hanukkah, Hoffman says. It tells who now lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, about how the Maccabees came back explains that as a father of two in to the Temple and were tired from the an interfaith household, he was well war and needed to sleep. familiar with The Elf on the Shelf from To give Moshe and his story more his nieces and nephews. When his MENsCH ON a BENCH staying power and appeal, the book son asked for one, he says he initially Moshe the Mensch, the newly offered Mensch on a Bench. also includes activities for each of laughed off his idea for a Hanukkahthe eight nights of the holiday. Hoffman tions of Judaism. themed alternative to the toy, but the idea hopes to bring the book not only to his The elf is more secular and not as relikept coming back until he could resist it local library, but also to the Jewish litergious, just pure fun, he says. no longer. acy nonprofit PJ Library, which to date Moshe may not be an answer to the While Hoffman sees The Elf on the has delivered more than 3 million books to elf, but it is an appropriate alternative for Shelf as a symbol of the commercialism youths. He also says sequels are possible. Jewish children that allows them to create of a holiday, he suggests that Moshe the There are still a lot of words that their own Hanukkah tradition, Hoffman Mensch is a keeper of the eternal tradirhyme with mensch that we can work says. with, Hoffman says. Hoffman used his years of experiIn the meantime, Hoffman is looking ence at Hasbro where he worked (and forward to opening his own Moshe on the played) with the legendary likes of G.I. Joe first night of Hanukkah (Nov. 27). and the Transformers to his advantage I think we have a fun idea that Jewish for creating The Mensch on a Bench. Yet families can rally around and use to make the experience was different than anything Hanukkah more fun, Hoffman says. he had done before, he says. Over the next couple years, Jewish famThis was the first time I had to take an ilies will decide if this is a great idea and idea and figure out everything, including And its time something they want, or if the Mensch will the design, engineering, packaging, marto celebrate! become a rare collectors item. keting, fundraising, Web development, and timeline management, Hoffman
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BOSTON (JTA) A textbook on the Arab-Israeli conflict co-authored by a Palestinian, an Israeli and an Egyptian has been published. The project was a seven-year undertaking by the founding scholars of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East is a collaboration of Shai Feldman, Abdel Monem Said Aly and Khalil Shikaki based on a course the trio has taught as a team at the suburban Boston university since 2006. The course and the textbook are based on the centers mission to engage in a balanced and dispassionate approach to what it describes as the most resilient of all international conflicts. The authors are widely published scholars who hold multiple academic appointments in the United States and the Middle East. We hope that this book will allow the teaching of the Arab-Israeli conflict to be more sophisticated than it is now, said Feldman, who has directed the Crown Center since it was established in 2005. The book helps students to become Which sanctions will be lifted? Which will remain? Most of the sanctions on Irans oil and banking sectors will stay in place, including about $100 billion in holdings that Iran cannot access. The total sanctions relief in the agreement amounts to $7 billion, including the release of funds from some Iranian oil sales and the suspension of sanctions on Irans auto, precious metals and petrochemical industries. Israeli opponents of the deal worry that the relief will erode more damaging sanctions. But in a news conference on Saturday night, U.S. Secretary of State John more sensitive to the competing narratives of the three perspectives an important dimension of the conflict, he told JTA and provides critical background for intelligence analysts. Each of the 13 chapters, structured to match a college semester, includes a section with uncontested facts, another that exposes the disagreements and competing narratives, and a final section of analysis, Feldman explained at a Nov. 22 panel discussion at Brandeis celebrating the books release. Agreeing on the facts was among the Kerry said, We are committed to maintaining our commitment to vigorously enforcing the vast majority of the sanctions that are currently in place. What happens now? Kerry emphasized that the deal is a first step toward a final agreement that the sides hope to reach within six months, when the interim deal expires. There is no difference whatsoever between the United States and Israel on what the end goal must be here, Kerry said. We cannot have an Iran that is going to threaten its neighbors and that has a nuclear weapon. most challenging aspects of writing the book, according to Shikaki, who noted that the task was made easier by the fact that the three have worked together for decades and are friends. The book demonstrates that collaboration doesnt require a uniformity of views, but rather the openness to listen to different perspectives, said Steve Goldstein, the universitys provost, who introduced the panel. This is a prerequisite for peacemaking.
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The agreement stipulates that inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency will conduct daily visits to enrichment and centrifuge production facilities that will permit inspectors to review surveillance camera footage to ensure comprehensive monitoring. But, Inbar says, daily access is insufficient if inspectors cant make surprise visits to the nuclear facilities. Its a routine that can be circumvented, he said. They know they are coming, so theyll put on a nice show.
Iran insists on its right to enrich uranium, and Netanyahu has expressed doubts consistently that negotiations can stop the program. On Sunday, he reiterated that Israel will strike Irans nuclear program with or without U.S. approval if Israel deems it necessary. This agreement and what it means endangers many countries, including, of course, Israel, Netanyahu said. Israel is not bound by this agreement. The Iranian regime is committed to the destruction of Israel, and Israel has the right and the obligation to defend itself, by itself, against any threat.
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GREATER SEATTLE Bet Alef (Meditative) 206/527-9399 1111 Harvard Ave., Seattle Chabad House 206/527-1411 4541 19th Ave. NE Congregation Kol Ami (Reform) 425/844-1604 16530 Avondale Rd. NE, Woodinville Cong. Beis Menachem (Traditional Hassidic) 1837 156th Ave. NE, Bellevue 425/957-7860 Congregation Beth Shalom (Conservative) 6800 35th Ave. NE 206/524-0075 Cong. Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath (Orthodox) 5145 S Morgan St. 206/721-0970 Capitol Hill Minyan-BCMH (Orthodox) 1501 17th Ave. E 206/721-0970 Congregation Eitz Or (Jewish Renewal) Call for locations 206/467-2617 Cong. Ezra Bessaroth (Sephardic Orthodox) 5217 S Brandon St. 206/722-5500 Congregation Shaarei Telah-Lubavitch (Orthodox/Chabad) 6250 43rd Ave. NE 206/527-1411 Congregation Shevet Achim (Orthodox) 5017 90th Ave. SE (at NW Yeshiva HS) Mercer Island 206/275-1539 Congregation Tikvah Chadashah (LGBTQ) 206/355-1414 Emanuel Congregation (Modern Orthodox) 3412 NE 65th St. 206/525-1055 Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation (Conservative) 206/232-8555 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island Hillel (Multi-denominational) 4745 17th Ave. NE 206/527-1997 Kadima (Reconstructionist) 206/547-3914 12353 8th Ave. NE, Seattle Kavana Cooperative kavanaseattle@gmail.com Kehilla (Traditional) 206-397-2671 5134 S Holly St., Seattle www.seattlekehilla.com Khal Ateres Zekainim (Orthodox) 206/722-1464 at Kline Galland Home, 7500 Seward Park Ave. S Kol HaNeshamah (Progressive Reform) 206/935-1590 Alki UCC, 6115 SW Hinds St., West Seattle Mercaz Seattle (Modern Orthodox) 5720 37th Ave. NE rachelirosenfeld@gmail.com www.mercazseattle.org Minyan Ohr Chadash (Modern Orthodox) Brighton Building, 6701 51st Ave. S www.minyanohrchadash.org Mitriyah (Progressive, Unafliated) www.mitriyah.com 206/651-5891 Secular Jewish Circle of Puget Sound (Humanist) www.secularjewishcircle.org 206/528-1944 Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation (Orthodox) 6500 52nd Ave. S 206/723-3028 The Summit at First Hill (Orthodox) 1200 University St. 206/652-4444 Temple Beth Am (Reform) 206/525-0915 2632 NE 80th St. Temple Bnai Torah (Reform) 425/603-9677 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue Temple De Hirsch Sinai (Reform) Seattle, 1441 16th Ave. 206/323-8486 Bellevue, 3850 156th Ave. SE Torah Learning Center (Orthodox) 5121 SW Olga St., West Seattle 206/722-8289 SOUTH KING COUNTY Bet Chaverim (Reform) 206/577-0403 25701 14th Place S, Des Moines WASHINGTON STATE ABERDEEN Temple Beth Israel 360/533-5755 1819 Sumner at Martin BAINBRIDGE ISLAND Congregation Kol Shalom (Reform) 9010 Miller Rd. NE 206/855-0885 Chavurat Shir Hayam 206/842-8453 BELLINGHAM Chabad Jewish Center of Whatcom County 102 Highland Dr. 360/393-3845 Congregation Beth Israel (Reform) 2200 Broadway 360/733-8890 BREMERTON Congregation Beth Hatikvah 360/373-9884 11th and Veneta EVERETT / LYNNWOOD Chabad Jewish Center of Snohomish County 19626 76th Ave. W, Lynnwood 425/640-2811 Temple Beth Or (Reform) 425/259-7125 3215 Lombard St., Everett FORT LEWIS Jewish Chapel 253/967-6590 Liggett Avenue and 12th ISSAQUAH Chabad of the Central Cascades 24121 SE Black Nugget Rd. 425/427-1654 OLYMPIA Chabad Jewish Discovery Center 1611 Legion Way SE 360/584-4306 Congregation Bnai Torah (Conservative) 3437 Libby Rd. 360/943-7354 Temple Beth Hatloh (Reconstructionist) 201 8th Ave. SE 360/754-8519 PORT ANGELES AND SEQUIM Congregation Bnai Shalom 360/452-2471 PORT TOWNSEND Congregation Bet Shira 360/379-3042 PULLMAN, WA AND MOSCOW, ID Jewish Community of the Palouse 509/334-7868 or 208/882-1280 SPOKANE Chabad of Spokane County 4116 E 37th Ave. 509/443-0770 Congregation Emanu-El (Reform) P O Box 30234 509/835-5050 www.spokaneemanu-el.org Temple Beth Shalom (Conservative) 1322 E 30th Ave. 509/747-3304 TACOMA Chabad-Lubavitch of Pierce County 2146 N Mildred St.. 253/565-8770 Temple Beth El (Reform) 253/564-7101 5975 S 12th St. TRI CITIES Congregation Beth Sholom (Conservative) 312 Thayer Dr., Richland 509/375-4 740 VANCOUVER Chabad-Lubavitch of Clark County 9604 NE 126th Ave., Suite 2320 360/993-5222 Rabbi@ChabadClarkCounty.com www.chabadclarkcounty.com Congregation Kol Ami 360/574-5169 www.jewishvancouverusa.org VASHON ISLAND Havurat Ee Shalom 206/567-1608 15401 Westside Highway P O Box 89, Vashon Island, WA 98070 WALLA WALLA Congregation Beth Israel 509/522-2511 WENATCHEE Greater Wenatchee Jewish Community 509/662-3333 or 206/782-1044 WHIDBEY ISLAND Jewish Community of Whidbey Island 360/331-2190 YAKIMA Temple Shalom (Reform) 509/453-8988 1517 Browne Ave. yakimatemple@gmail.com
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N ORT H W E S T J E WI S H FAMI LY
Marching to the beat of a different drumstick

Ed Harris JTNews Columnist
Its time to celebrate Thanksgiving, and like all families, we have our own traditions, some inherited, some of our own creation. Shortly after we moved to Seattle in 1990, my parents gave us a roasting pan as a gift. Before we had moved, my cousin Joan in West Caldwell, N.J. had always hosted the family Thanksgiving dinner (as well as the Passover seder). Now it was my turn. I was, at age 33, going to cook my rst turkey. Demonstrating the value of advertising, I obediently bought a Butterball at the Abba Knows Best local supermarket. As any devotee of American industrial turkey farming knows, the name is apt, as the bird is indeed completely spherical. Faced with the prospect of cooking this bird for the rst time, and entirely by accident, I put the fowl into the pan upside down. Cooking turkey is a challenge, as anyone who has tried to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner knows, because its difcult to roast the bird thoroughly without drying out the white meat. Like the accidental discovery of penicillin from mold by Alexander Fleming in the 19th century, my confusion over which part of the turkey was the top resulted in the fortunate coincidence of allowing the breast to cook sitting in the juices at the bottom of the pan. By sheer dumb beginners luck, my rst attempt at preparing what Ben Franklin wanted to make the American national bird resulted in a delicious meal, and for the next few years my signature dish was upside down turkey. (As a cook, I have a total repertoire of about four meals, one of which is pasta and another ordering takeout.) One year, as we entertained friends for the holiday, before sitting down to eat I brought the freshly roasted turkey out to the living room to show off to our guests. I knew it would elicit oohs and aahs, which indeed it did. Unfortunately, my carving skills were not commensurate with my cooking. The mouth-watering bird, which resembled the one set down on the table in the famous Norman Rockwell painting that celebrated American prosperity, was transformed into a platter of hacked chunks. My wife Anne remarked that it looked like Id put a hand grenade in the middle and pulled the pin. Thanks. The great thing about wives is their ability to restore ones ego to appropriately modest proportions; she once told me that a new haircut looked like it had been done with a lawnmower. At another family Thanksgiving dinner, when our middle son Sam was 6 years old, he promptly got up and walked out of the kitchen the moment we put the turkey on the table. He simply refused to sit in a room with a dead bird and participate in a celebration while its carcass sat in front of us. He repeated his exit of protest again the following year, when he was 7. Thinking about it from a childs perspective, I realized that in his innocence he simply decided he did not want an animal to be killed so he could eat it. Sometimes there are moments of moral clarity that are so succinct they change your perspective forever, like Dr. Martin Luther King saying, I have a dream. For years, I was surrounded by vegetarians. Anne had been one for most of our marriage, and ate meat only sparingly and with great reluctance, but I simply chalked it up to differences between husbands and wives. Some people like Garth Brooks while others like Bach. But there is a power to wisdom of a child that cannot be rationalized away. Shortly after the second consecutive year Sam turned our Thanksgiving dinner into his own personal Vietnam protest, I became a card-carrying vegetarian. The presence of our beloved dog Max (may his memory be a blessing) just added to the strength of my conviction. How could I love some animals and eat others? Not everyone has quietly gone along with the program, however. Our youngest, Izzy, is a dedicated carnivore who enjoys steak on the grill as much as your average ranch hand. And weve been keeping kosher for years, so there would be no more Butterballs regardless. Nowadays the Harris family Thanksgiving is a Tofurkey, along with some sliced turkey from the kosher deli at Albertsons, served on a paper plate for one particular individualist. This is the freedom we celebrate on Thanksgiving, although perhaps a little differently than envisioned by Norman Rockwell in his iconic painting of the holiday. But our family also reects the spirit of another particular individualist, Henry David Thoreau. If we appear to be a bit out of step, perhaps its because we march to the beat of a different drummer. One thing I know for sure: The kid with the turkey slices on his plate does. But Ill pass him the gravy anyway. Ed Harris, the author of Fifty Shades of Schwarz and several other books, was born in the Bronx and lives in Bellevue with his family. His long-suffering wife bears silent testimony to the saying that behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
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Jewish life on the decline? For local Jewish families, the mail says otherwise
By Dikla Tuchman
Though recent studies such as the Pew Research Center Survey suggests that engagement in Jewish life is on the decline, the grin on Amy Paquettes face when reading off the increasing number of families being reached by the Harold Grinspoon Foundations PJ Library programs in the greater Seattle area indicates otherwise. I love coming to Seattle because every time I come here theres just so much good news that happens, said Rosalie Eisen, national community development director for PJ Library. Eisen visited the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, which hosts PJ Library for King and Snohomish counties, on Nov. 21 to update stakeholders on where the program is headed as well as to award them with a check for $336,474 from the Grinspoon Foundation. The Seattle program has been running for ve years, with a total of 2,391 subscriptions since 2009 400 of which have begun since May of last year. Seattle PJ Librarys 1,467 active subscriptions represent 1 percent of the total subscriptions of the 205 active communities in North America. PJ Library sends out free books to Jewish families with children between the ages of 6 months and 5-1/2 years, though some communities run the program until age 8. For many Jewish moms and dads, the PJ programs are their rst point of contact and entry point into the Seattle Jewish community. The idea is that the books will spur member families to greater involvement in their communities. Paquette feels that Jewish books for children allow for a non-threatening entry into the Jewish community and a way for those families to increase their own Jewish identities. Following this mantra, back in March 2012, the PJ Library team strategized a more focused engagement plan that they began implementing for the scal year of 2013-2014. We made the strategic decision to do two things, Paquette said. One, were doing very few large community events and were instead putting most of our resources into what we call Neighborhood Song and Story. The idea behind Neighborhood Song and Story is that parents looking for a play date XXPAGE 38
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Rosalie Eisen, left side of the check, of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation in Springeld, Mass., presents a check for $336,474 to Celie Brown, also holding the check, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattles board chair, while Federation CEO Keith Dvorchik and Federation community manager Amy Paquette look on.
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want to stay close to home, can count on attending every week, its safe for them to meet other parents, and their kids can hang out, play, and develop their own communities. PJ Library has launched this program in neighborhoods all over the Seattle area. In addition to that, weve also put some dollars toward hiring PJ Library educators and outreach specialists, said Paquette. Educators attend Neighborhood Song and Story events every week to be a familiar face that provides high-quality education and work toward engaging the families and starting conversations between them. Along with the numbers that support the success of the new programming Paquette pointed to a 37 percent jump in new subscriptions to PJ Library at the Mockingbird books in Greenlake alone in the last year she sees the families follow the newly appointed outreach specialists, and bring in new faces to other Jewish programming throughout Seattle. That, said Paquette, is the sign of successful engagement. Thats what we want them to do nd [the programs] in secular places and then have them walk in the doors of Seattle Jewish Community School and Temple Beth Am, she said. [They will] see that the synagogues arent scary or not for them, and then hopefully maybe theyll engage further. Due to the success of PJ Librarys new programming over the past year, Paquette anticipates that for scal year 2015 they will continue the Neighborhood Song and Story program. But she also sees the future of PJ Library moving more toward a viral connection. When youre new or youre looking for something to do with your kid and you type in storytime [to a search engine], we want to have Jewish storytimes pop right up so that you connect with that, Paquette said. I dont know what thats going to look like, but thats our next step. To learn more about PJ Library, visit www.jewishinseattle.org/what-we-do/pj-library/ pj-library-sign.
FAMILY CALENDAR
57 P.M. HANUKKAh COMMUNITY PARTY Alexis Kort at alexis@templebetham.org or 206-525-0915 or templebetham.org/worship/holidays/chanukah A night out featuring magician Louie Foxx with up-close illusions, live music with TBAs KlezKidz, dinner and more. $10/adults, $5/children ages 3-12. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1
24 P.M. LEGO EVENT FOR KIDs Julie Greene at julie@bcmhseattle.org or LEGO expert and builder Dan Parker will run a program for kids. $10 per person. At BCMH, 5145 S Morgan St., Seattle.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8
4 P.M. JEWIsh HIgh ShABBATON Ari Hoffman at thehoffather@gmail.com or 206-295-5888 Weekend with friends, teachers, food, activities, and a party bus ride to Enchanted Village/Wild Waves. Open to prospective students for the 2015-16 school year. Counts for Jewish High hours. At BCMH, 5145 S Morgan St., Seattle.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13
510 P.M. SJCC PARENTs NIghT OUT: PAjAMA PARTY Daliah Silver at daliahs@sjcc.org or 206-388-0839 or www.sjcc.org Games, arts and crafts, and dinner for kids while parents go out. Come dressed in your favorite pajamas to build forts, watch movies, and make caramel corn. SJCC member $30;sibling $15/guest $40;sibling $20. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
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10 A.M.12 P.M. SJCC J EXPLORERs HANUKKAh PARTY Katie London at KatieL@sjcc.org or 206-388-0828 or www.sjcc.org Bring an unwrapped gift to this post-Hanukkah brunch, make holiday cards to adorn them, and deliver the gifts to families at Seattle Childrens Hospital. Must be a J Explorers member to attend. Free with J Explorers membership. At the SJCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
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DIY shechitah: Kosher slaughter in the backyard

REBECCA SpEnCE JTA World News Service
ASHLAND, Ore. (JTA) Its a crisp fall day in southern Oregon and Josh Shupack, 32, is gently whispering in a chickens ear. Were going to return your soul to heaven, your blood to the earth, he says, petting the birds bright red comb. And nourish our bodies with your flesh. This is what Shupack tells every chicken before he cuts its esophagus and trachea with a razor-sharp blade and holds it by the feet as it bleeds out into the dirt below. Its body quivers and shakes for a minute, black and orange feathers flapping, before it goes limp in his hands. After the birds are cut, he and his sister, Jamina, 26, hang them from a backyard arbor and spend half an hour plucking each one, their bodies still hot. Then the innards are removed and their hearts, gizzards and feet are placed in Mason jars lining a blood-spattered table. A freelance web programmer from San Diego, Shupack is one of a small but growing number of observant Jews taking matters of shechitah, or ritual kosher slaughter, into their own hands literally. Long considered the sole province of rigorously trained Orthodox men, these backyard slaughterers are hoping to liberate kosher meat production from the massive companies that dominate the industry and help kosher keepers forge a closer connection to the animals that nourish them. I want to empower people to have the experience to learn shechitah, said Yadidya Greenberg, a Boulder, Colo.based animal welfare educator and shochet, or ritual slaughterer. The point is that I want people to connect with the animals, to connect with death. Shupacks interest in kosher slaughter was sparked by the 2008 federal raid on Agriprocessors, then the largest kosher meat supplier in the United States. The company had long been a target of critics concerned about worker and animal abuses in the kosher meat industry. The raid on the Iowa slaughterhouse inspired a small group of dissatisfied Jews to apply the doctrine of do-it-yourself to ritual slaughter. Shupack soon linked up with Greenberg, one of the loudest voices in the growing chorus of eco-kosher Jews, who was organizing a weeklong course led by an Orthodox Brooklyn rabbi. Following a class in which he killed 15 chickens and a duck, Shupack studied the trove of Jewish law related to killing animals for consumption. On his blog, The Kosher Omnivores Quest, Greenberg has gained a legion of yard and is planning to teach herself how to ritually slaughter them. So Im going to have to just wing it at some point. Some in the small but growing world of ethical kosher meat suppliers frown on the notion of DIY slaughter, however. Naftali Hanau, who with his wife Anna founded Grow and Behold, a New Yorkbased company that distributes pastureraised kosher meat, says he has some reservations and questions about the idea of someone taking a weekend class, then starting to shecht without supervision. Hanau himself underwent a rigorous three-month training process in Brooklyn and Scranton, Pa., in which he killed at least 1,000 chickens before he received his first letter of reference toward certification, known as kabala. We have a very strong tradition of only letting those who are very qualified and trained and regularly checked up on by the communitys rabbis do this, Hanau said. And I think theres value in that. Greenberg, who hopes one day to open a school for kosher slaughter, clearly disagrees though on one point at least, he and Hanau are in perfect accord. This is not pickling, Greenberg said. This is life and death.
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followers in the Jewish food movement. People contact him on a regular basis wanting to learn shechitah, he says. And its not just men. According to Greenberg, more than five women have reached out to him in the past 18 months seeking a rabbi who will teach them kosher slaughter. But Greenberg doesnt know where to point them. While there is no specific Jewish law barring women from performing the ritual, and Greenberg believes women have as much of a right to shecht as men, Orthodox tradition states that women do not slaughter. No Orthodox rabbi will teach a woman how to shecht, said Tami Berman, who raises chickens in her New Jersey back-
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