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Eric Nusbaum Assistant Editor, JTNews
Noah Milstein enrolled at The Evergreen State Col-
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What he got instead was an education in political activism
and campus politics.
Milstein founded a pro-Israel group at Evergreen in
2008. He left the college feeling like a campus villain in
2009. At a school famous for its left-
wing values, Milstein felt unable to func-
tion on campus due to the ever-present
specter of his vocal Zionism.
“I became the token campus Zion-
ist Nazi,” Milstein said. “It really was
damaging psychologically. I felt like I
couldn’t trust anyone. I became com-
pletely paranoid.”
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before graduation. Five fellow members of the short-lived
club Students Interested in Israel Advocacy and Peace
(SIIAShalom) followed suit. Milstein’s experience, and
others like it, are symbolic of what some key members of
the state’s Jewish community see as a broader issue: A poi-
sonous discourse over Israel that makes life at Evergreen
uncomfortable for Jewish students, especially those with
Zionist views.
In this article and in our next issue we’ll explore the
nature of that discourse. We’ll ask whether Evergreen is a
hard place to be a Jew or a Zionist, or whether debate about
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Take a stand against boycotts this holiday season
Ethan Felson JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) — What’s old
is new, and unfortunately this holiday
season, wrapped in a bow, is a boycott of
things Israeli and Jewish. The relics of past
boycotts — from Nuremberg to Damas-
cus — are back.
Uninterested in reconciliation, the
extremist and myopic fervor that under-
girds the campaign to boycott Israel
should be a wake-up call for those who
have hit the snooze button too many
times.
Issuing the latest appeal for boycotts is
the North American affiliate of the Sabeel
Center, a group that wraps its disdain for
the Jewish State in a cloak of Christian
concern. Sabeel’s leader has said that Israel
operates a “crucifixion machine” and that
“security is a pagan god that Israel wor-
ships.” It wields the word “apartheid” like
a cudgel.
The center’s holiday boycott call targets
more than a dozen companies because
they operate in Israel or their owners are
guilty of the sin of being Israeli, Jewish or
affiliated with either. They manufacture
goods in Israel, in the West Bank and in
America. Their products include cosmet-
ics, clothing, cell phones and prepared
foods. Most cannot be tied in any rational
way to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
That gets to the heart of it. The so-called
BDS movement (boycotts, divestment and
sanctions) isn’t here to help Palestinians;
it’s a pernicious call to harm Israel and
world Jewry. Its proponents seek to bring
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into every
sphere of American life. Boycott support-
ers don’t seem to care who gets caught in
their snare, including tens of thousands
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From left to right, Adam Goldblatt, Marjorie Kaiz Offer, Racquel Holcman and Barbara Shulman went
to the Albertson’s on Mercer Island on Nov. 30 to participate in a “buycott,” in which they specifically
bought products made in Israel to support the country. That Albertson’s store has an expanded kosher
section that includes a wide array of Israeli foods.
of American workers employed by these
companies. In so many ways it is a boycott
of American values.
Estee Lauder’s sin is being owned by
the volunteer leader of the Jewish National
Fund. Sara Lee and L’Oreal are guilty of
having been praised by Israeli Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu. Another com-
pany is guilty of being owned by a friend of
former Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Also
in Sabeel’s crosshairs is a California-based
business building a green transportation
infrastructure — electric car charging sta-
tions in Denmark, Australia, Hawaii — and
Israel. Its owner was named to Time maga-
zine’s list of environmental heroes. But he is
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Israeli, so his company makes the list.
What can we do? Here are some sug-
gestions:
Build bridges. Most Americans under-
stand that such campaigns will not change
governmental or corporate policies. So
reach out to them — in their churches,
civic groups, where you work and in your
neighborhood. The people calling for boy-
cotts, divestment and sanctions are at the
margins of public debate. Their goal is to
poison the well at home. Don’t let them.
Make the case. Israel is the national
homeland of the Jewish people. It seeks to
live in peace and security. BDS is a tactic
aimed to delegitimize Israel. None of the
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groups backing BDS support Israel’s right
to exist as a Jewish state.
Promote peace. Call on churches and
others being roped into the BDS drama to
seek something better. Israelis and Pales-
tinians deserve peace: Two peoples, two
states, living side by side. Their peace will
come when the parties are confident.
Foster reconciliation. Many orga-
nizations are working tirelessly to bring
together Israelis and Palestinians, and
Jews, Christians and Muslims. They
deserve our support. Balanced travel mis-
sions demonstrate the complexity of the
conflict and the need for peacemakers, not
bomb throwers, rhetorical or otherwise.
Stay civil. Avoid shouting and name
calling. As tempting as it may be to call for
a boycott of companies owned by Sabeel’s
supporters, we need to reject ineffective
and partisan virtual warfare. We are not
the parties to the conflict. A zero-sum,
scorched earth approach that thrives on
division helps no one.
Buycott instead of boycott. A few mud
masks and an extra container of hummus
can’t hurt.
Get involved. Thankfully, the alarm has
gone off and friends of Israeli-Palestinian
peace are pushing back. The Israel Action
Network, a partnership of the Jewish Fed-
erations of North America and the Jewish
Council for Public Affairs, will mobilize
Jewish federations, agencies and JCRCs
across North America to respond effec-
tively to the assault on Israel’s legitimacy.
Get up. Get trained. And go to work.
Ethan Felson is the vice president of the Jewish
Council for Public Affairs.
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the rabbi’s turn
Curbing our enthusiasm
Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation
The character Larry David
plays on TV is one of the most
annoying, infuriating people
any one of us could ever meet.
He is self-centered to the point
of absurdity and his need to be
right about everything jeopar-
dizes his closest relationships.
In the seventh season of “Curb
Your Enthusiasm,” Larry tries
to reconcile with his estranged
wife, Cheryl. In the season’s last
episode, Cheryl’s resistance is finally break-
ing down. But, in the meantime, Larry has
been accused by a friend of putting a glass
of water on a wooden table and staining the
wood. He is convinced he is innocent and
passionately searches for the real criminal.
In the last scene of the season, Cheryl
looks at Larry lovingly, and tells him she
thinks they really belong together. They
are about to embrace.
But Cheryl has a drink in her hand.
She puts it down on the wooden
table so she can give Larry a hug. At that
moment, Larry’s eyes open wide and a
look of horror crosses his face. He looks
at Cheryl accusingly and says, “Do you
respect wood?”
The moment of tenderness passes, and
the season ends.
In the book of Devarim, we read the
famous line: “Tzedek, tzedek tirdof!” —
justice, justice, you shall pursue. To be a
rodef tzedek is to be emotionally churned
up about what’s wrong in the world. Yet
the rabbis went out of their way to under-
mine this text. Why “tzedek tzedek,” asked
the rabbis? Wouldn’t one tzedek have
been enough? They answered: “Echad din,
v’echad p’shara.” One tzedek is to teach us
we should pursue what’s right. And, the
other tzedek teaches us to compromise.
Why did the rabbis do this? After all,
compromise is about letting go of some
of our desire for justice. But the rabbis
understood that our unchecked passion
for justice has the potential to do tremen-
dous damage to our relationships.
In Benjamin Balint’s new book, Run-
ning Commentary, he says that Commen-
tary Magazine has lost some of its vibrance
because it has settled into an ideological
position that is too comfortable and pre-
dictable. There was a time, says Balint,
that you could see warriors of the right
and the left slugging it out in the pages of
Commentary. Nowadays, you pretty much
know what you’re going to get when you
read Commentary, and that is a loss to the
Jewish community.
I would add to Balint’s observation that
this dynamic is true of the Jewish commu-
nity as a whole: There is a loss of tolerance
for diversity in our own community. We
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are increasingly quick to pre-
judge people based on what we
think they believe, and we are
more prone than ever before to
demand that our loyal friends
march with us lockstep on a
checklist of issues which we
determine are the right way
and the only way.
We say we love diversity.
But do we really deserve that
reputation? Can we really dis-
agree with each other on issues close to
our heart without name calling? If that’s
the case, no Jew should be called an enemy
of Israel or a self-hating Jew because they
support J Street. And no Jew should be
ostracized or looked down upon because
he or she belongs to the Republican Party.
The recent debate over whether a
mosque should be built in New York near
Ground Zero is a good example. Wherever
we come down on this issue, I think we can
all acknowledge that this issue is complex.
You are not an idiot or anti-American if
you believe the primary value that needs to
be upheld here is that of religious freedom.
And, you are not a bigot and a racist if you
believe that a mosque should not be built in
this particular place at this particular time.
The politics of contempt has become all
too pervasive across the spectrum, on the
left and on the right. The derisive label-
ing of the other and the crude lumping
together of people we’ve decided are our
opponents has stifled real conversation
and has put a damper on the truly open
exchange of ideas. I’ve heard more than
one story of friends and family members
who have stopped talking to each other
over political differences.
Diversity begins at home, in our own
community, in our own congregation, in
our own relationships. Benjy Balint’s pre-
scription for Commentary is a great model
for community, too. We are far more
interesting, dynamic, and ethically sensi-
tive when we have not settled into a pre-
dictable way of thinking or acting.
So, I want to encourage all of us to try
this technique. Whenever we’re in danger
of feeling a little too self-righteous, let’s get
in touch with our inner Larry David. The
next time an argument threatens to get
heated and personal, let’s turn to our part-
ner, our friend, or our neighbor and ask
them: “Do you respect wood?”
For the sake of shalom bayit, the time
has come for all of us to curb our enthusi-
asm — to step back from our own passion
just enough to respect our friend’s point
of view. We don’t have to relinquish our
deepest convictions. Just a little bit will go
a long way to preserving the relationships
that are so important to us.
letters to the editor
Words of wisdom?
“Jewelry is something which can make even an ugly one beautiful.”
Seriously? I must be missing something here. Is this the best you can cull from the
wisdom of the Ladinos (Ladino Lesson, Nov. 19)?
I am appalled that something so trite and offensive would appear in our community news-
paper. What exactly is the point of this Ladino lesson? Should we look for someone ugly to
buy jewelry for? And exactly who is it that is playing God and deciding who is ugly and who is
not? How about something to inspire? To uplift? To make us think? This was none of that.
Sheryl Kipnis
Seattle
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The gender disconnect
Dan Brown eJewishPhilanthropy.com
The Jewish communal world has a women, building their capabilities, exper-
problem. Well, several, but today let’s tise, leadership.” That’s probably true, and
focus on one: The continuing gender gap the federation system certainly has not
in North American Jewish organizations. been setting any examples in this regard.
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Communal Professionals in North Amer- a woman has been selected CEO of a big
ican: A Profile,” provides an unprece- city federation.
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communal professionals throughout the icle of Philanthropy, Shifra Bronznick and
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Wagner Graduate School, the study pro- force — are not being cultivated for chief-
vides the first in-depth look, across the executive posts, nonprofit groups are not
organizational divide, at who is working in making the best use of the dollars and
U.S. Jewish communal institutions, their professional development that they have
education, responsibilities, training, com- already invested in their staffs. The persis-
pensation and more. tence of the gender gap also signals a com-
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Why? Why is all this so important?
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smaller budgets? Is it because women are the largest federations — need to harness
not as strong at the negotiating table? the very best talent that’s out there. They
Or men are stronger in marketing them- need to not only attract, but also retain,
selves? Or is it, plain and simple, gender the cream of the crop to drive their agen-
discrimination — are women just not pro- das forward. Seasoned talent is needed to
vided the same opportunities? fill the thousands of expected vacancies as
Jerry Silverman, the president and baby boomers begin to retire.
CEO of Jewish Federations of North The gender disconnect is also a mind-
America has said, “I don’t know that
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Looking for a few good teens inside this issue

The Stroum Jewish Community Center is looking for a few good teens. The SJCC will
send Team Seattle, teens ages 14-17 as of July 31, 2011, to the 2011 JCC Maccabi Experience
in Israel. Twelve teen athletes and two teen artists will leave from New York on July 24, and
return to Seattle August 5. During their stay, Team Seattle will participate in the JCC Mac-
cabi Games, ArtsFest, and embark on a cultural experience exploring Israel.
Apply and receive more information at www.sjcc.org or by contacting recreation man-
ager Jessica Wilkinson at 206-388-0826. Priority registration deadline is Fri., Dec. 17.
Five Women to Watch 30
JTNews profiles five women from our region that are doing a wide array of amazing, important things
within our community. We’re excited about them — we hope you are, too!
Hanukkah parties galore! 6
Is it us, or did it feel like you couldn’t turn around without tripping over some sort of Hanukkah celebration?
We got photos from as many as we could find so we could show you what you hopefully didn’t miss!

The maestro’s parting season 9

Longtime Seattle Symphony music director Gerard Schwarz sat down with JTNews reporter Gigi Yellen-
ladino lesson Kohn to talk about his history with the symphony, his inspiration for his final season, and the Jewish
themes woven throughout.
By Isaac Azose
Breaking down a barrier 10
Se alevantaron los pipinos para aharvar a The Israeli documentary Budrus, which opens in Seattle next week, is the story of a man in a Palestinian
village that brings together his fellow villages and several Israelis to keep the security barrier off of his
los bahchevanes. town’s land, and the nonviolent movement that emerged from that experience.
The cucumbers rose (in rebellion) to strike the farmers.
A coming together of high schools 23
Used in situations when a youngster, or someone without experience, thinks he knows In Bellevue, the two Reform synagogues, Temple De Hirsch Sinai and Temple B’nai Torah, have long had
more than an elder with much more experience. a crossover of teens doing youth group programs. This fall, the two congregations decided to make the
relationship a little more formal by merging their high schools.

Remember when
The fire’s out, so now what? 24
The most disastrous fire in Israel’s history is out, but the political fallout is even greater than the ash fallout.
Now the north’s citizens must pick up the pieces and attempt to rebuild what they’ve lost while the
politicians figure out what went wrong.
From December 9, 1994, page 1.
Henry Friedman looks up at the WikiLeaks not so bad for Israel 27
mezuzah hanging in the doorway of the The big hubbub around the hundreds of thousands of pages of documents released by the WikiLeaks
newly opened Washington State Holo- Web site (the sexual exploits of its founder notwithstanding) has gone relatively easy on Israel — with the
caust Education Resource Center. exception of some bumbling diplomacy.

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Katherine Lloyd/SJCC

Families lined up to light the 100

menorahs at the end of the “Coming
Home for Hanukkah” celebration at
the Stroum JCC.

Community
Celebrations
Joel Magalnick

Rabbi Jim and Julie Mirel sing

“Maoz Tzur” following the
candle lighting at the benefit
Rabbi Sholom Elishevitz dinner for MAZON: A Jewish
Boys from the Eastside Torah Center’s Hebrew school reenact the story Response to Hunger, held on
of the Maccabees for a group of about 200 at a first-night Hanukkah Dec. 5 at Temple De Hirsch
celebration at Crossroads shopping center in Bellevue. Participants lit Sinai in Seattle.
a six-foot menorah built out of Starbucks cups.

Keep the light of hope burning for thousands of Jewish people.

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Joel Magalnick

About 50 people showed up at the Pan Pacific Hotel on a rainy Tuesday evening to participate in the
Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s “Hanukkah Flash Mob.” The group walked from the Cascade
neighborhood to Westlake Park in downtown Seattle, handing out glow stick “candles” and wishing
people a happy holiday.

Joel Magalnick

Miriam gets a little help

making her hanukkiah out of
clay. When it was dry and
ready, she was able to watch
the candles lit inside it.

Joel Magalnick

The Seattle Kollel had a

booth with decorate-
Courtesy JDS your-own doughnuts,
Second graders Rifa, left, Celia, and Ben did just that.
center, and Kaylee perform a Then he ate it.
skit at the Jewish Day School’s
all-school Hanukkah assembly
on Dec. 5.

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8 a view from the u JTNews . www.jtnews.net . friday, december 10, 2010
Shabbos Hodu: For God’s sake, have a turkey!
Martin Jaffee JTNews Columnist
Back in the old days
— when the Diaspora was
known as Golus — Jews knew
how to party. What would it
take to get a Jewish celebra-
tion going? Why, little more
than an impending pogrom
thwarted by the intervention
of a wealthy local Jew who had
the ear (and the purse strings)
of the local prince or bishop!
Every year, at the anni-
versary of the “nullification of the evil
decree,” the local Jews would throw a
Purim katan, a mini-Purim. Some com-
munities even had “megillah readings”
narrating the details of the planned atroc-
ity and the heroic back-scene machina-
tions that foiled the current “Haman,
yimach shmo!”
The contemporary celebration of Israel
Independence Day, Yom Ha-Atzma’ut,
is the most recent reflex of this custom.
Now, of course, instead of a Jewish queen,
it is Zionism that comes to the rescue of
the Jewish people “from another place”
(namely, modern secular nationalism),
saying “yes” to Jewish survival and “no” to
past and future Holocausts.
I suspect that even the ardent Zion-
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that way.
So I ask — in the spirit
of Purim katan — shouldn’t
American Jews find a way
of celebrating America as a
unique redemptive moment
in the pageant of contempo-
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view it time to acknowledge in a
formal way — on the commu-
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that this country has bestowed
upon the Jewish people?
If you’re with me this far, the next
question is: “Where on the calendar can
we look?” The Fourth of July? I don’t think
so. It’s already drenched in Americana,
for one thing; for another, it has no Jewish
resonance other than the depressing fact
that it sometimes falls on the Fast of the
17th of Tammuz. Not good.
As it happens, the American holiday
calendar already contains a perfect oppor-
tunity to infuse Jewish meaning into the
American national saga: None other than
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There’s only one problem, of course:
The Thursday thing. You eat your turkey
dinner on Thursday night and what hap-
pens to Shabbos dinner on Friday night?
Turkey leftovers? How does one give
kavod to Thanksgiving without slighting
Shabbos?
Well, over the years, my family has
evolved the perfect solution to the “Thanks-
giving conundrum.” In our house we cele-
brate the Shabbos after Thanksgiving with
the turkey dinner appropriate to Thanks-
giving Day. We call it Shabbos Hodu (“The
Shabbos of Thanksgiving”). This way, we
do justice to the American dimension of
being grateful for the blessing of Ameri-
can freedom while continuing to honor
the Sabbath as a day to revel in the free-
dom of release from labor and, as we say
in the kiddush, “a memorial of the libera-
tion from Egypt.”
I’ll admit that the name, Shabbos Hodu,
conceals a sly pun. In Hebrew, you see,
the third-person plural imperative “give
thanks” (hodu) is identical to the word for
“turkey.” You know the Hallel Psalm hodu
lashem ki tov (“Give thanks to God, for He
is good,” Psalm 118:1)? Well, with only a
twist of the translator’s art it could just as
well be rendered “Have turkey for God’s
sake, it’s so good!”
If you doubt the linguistic legitimacy
of Shabbos Hodu, I would note that it
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has a pedigree that goes back to the story
of Purim. The megillah informs us in its
first lines that King Ahasueros’s Persian
empire extended from mi Hodu ad Kush”
— from India to Ethiopia.”
Hodu, of course is the ancient (and
modern) Hebrew name for India. Okay,
so if hodu also means “India” what does
that have to do with a new world bird like
the turkey?
Chalk it up to the Zionist conspiracy!
When the pioneers found it necessary to
create Hebrew words for foods that never
existed in the Bible or Mishna, and consid-
ered what to call this tasty new world bird,
they naturally leaned on the precedent of
familiar languages like Arabic, Polish, and
Russian.
As it happened, the Arabs called the
turkey “the Indian rooster” (diiq Hindi),
while in Russian and Polish it was known
as “the Indian bird” (Indjushka, Inyczka).
After all, it was native to “India” — as in
West Indies, that is!
Why, even in Turkey, the bird is called
“Hindi!”
And that, my friends, is how the
Hebrew turkey became hodu. So, you may
ask, how did this new world bird, in its
own habitat, acquire a Turkish rather than
a Hindu genealogy?
Let me appeal to the authority of NPR
science blogger Robert Krulwich (“Why a
Turkey is Called a Turkey”):
Long before Christopher Colum-
bus went to America, Europeans
already had a wild fowl they liked to
eat. It came from Guinea, in Western
Africa. It was a guinea fowl, imported
to Europe by, yes, Turkish merchants.
It was eaten in London. So it got the
nickname Turkey coq, because it came
from Constantinople. When British
settlers got off the Mayflower in Massa-
chusetts Bay Colony and saw their first
American woodland fowl, even though
it is larger than the African Guinea
fowl, they decided to call it by the name
they already used for the African bird.
Wild forest birds like that were called
“turkeys” at home.
There you have it all in a neat package,
from Hodu to hodu, from Thanksgiving
to Shabbos Hodu, from the old world to
the new, from enslavement to freedom. So
remember, when next November comes
around — for God’s sake, have a turkey for
www
Shabbos Hodu!
Martin S. Jaffee currently holds the Samuel &
Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies at the
University of Washington. His award-winning
columns for JTNews have recently been
published in book form as The End of Jewish
Radar: Snapshots of a Post-Ethnic American
Judaism by iUniverse press.
www.jtnews.net
friday, december 10, 2010 . www.jtnews.net . JTNews the arts 9

Gerard Schwarz’s farewell season: The maestro celebrates

friendship as the source of new music
Gigi Yellen-Kohn JTNews Correspondent
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a multi-part
series that will run throughout the next
several months on thoughts from Seattle
Symphony music director Gerard Schwarz
during his final season.
“When you do what you do for the right
reasons, it usually works. Not always. But
usually.”
Seattle Symphony music director
Gerard Schwarz is assessing his legacy
here, in the midst of his farewell season,
a most remarkable time in his remarkable
professional life. In the dining room of
his comfortable Queen Anne home, with
sweeping views of Elliott Bay at his back,
the maestro settled in for a wide-ranging
visit with JTNews.
Many people get nostalgic at this time of
year, musing about time passing, and about
what has been done and what not. But as this
city celebrates what he’s done during 26 years
at the Symphony, Maestro Schwarz speaks
with more enthusiasm than nostalgia.
What he’s done for “the right reasons,”
he says, has lifted Seattle Symphony, and
its city, to new levels of prominence: More
than 125 recordings, 12 Grammy nomi-
nations, two Emmys, and Benaroya Hall
itself. The magnificent concert hall that
came into existence during his tenure —
and in great part thanks to his personal
campaign — not only transformed down-
town Seattle with its Chihuly-spangled
beauty, but earned international praise for
its splendid acoustics. And Schwarz him-
self has earned a slew of personal kudos,
including ASCAP honors for exemplify-
ing “the ideal American conductor,” Musi-
music that they write, and the fact that we
had a relationship. So I didn’t ask younger
composers who I might like, and think
are tremendous, and think that they have
great careers for the future, just because we
don’t have that relationship.”
Sharing the programs with Beethoven’s
Ninth Symphony in concerts on and
around New Year’s Eve will be the world
premiere of “Prelude to Black Swan,”
an interpretation of Brahms by Bright
Sheng, one of several former Seattle Sym-
phony composers-in-residence to receive
a Gund/Simonyi commission.
The oldest of the commissioned com-
posers is Gunther Schuller.
“He and I started working together
when I was a trumpet player 43 years ago,”
Schwarz recalls. “We were very close. It was
a wonderful period. I haven’t done much
with Gunther in recent years, so it also gave
me the opportunity to reconnect.”
Schuller has written “a huge work, big
orchestra, very fun, wild, eccentric in a way,
also very short. I think it will be perfect.”
That commission, “Bagatelle: With
Swing,” will be performed Jan. 6 and 8.
Schwarz’s nostalgia muscle warms up
and stretches back: “Ellen Zwillich (Feb-
ruary 3, 5, 6) was a friend when we were
both at Juilliard together. She wrote for
Northwest Yeshiva High School Dinner and Auction
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the trumpet a lot. She might even have
played the trumpet, I don’t know. She was
the [associate] producer of my famous
Haydn/Hummel Trumpet Concertos.”
Schwarz has brought commissions to
other old friends: Bernard Rands (Decem-
ber 7), Augusta Read Thomas (opening
night, September 2010), Aaron Kernis
(October), Portland-based David Schiff
(March 31, 2011). Current composer-in-
residence Samuel Jones premiered a piece
in October; former composers-in-resi-
dence include David Stock (November)
and Richard Danielpour (April 2-3, 2011).
Some of Robert Beaser’s music (February
17-19) is included on Schwarz’s record-
ings for the Milken Archive of American
Jewish Music. The season will conclude
with new works by Paul Schoenfield (June
2, 4, 5) and Philip Glass (June 16 and 18).
Another project in honor of the Fare-
well Season: Two new recordings.
Schwarz and Seattle Symphony have
just released a three-disc set of all four
Brahms Symphonies.
“Seattle Symphony and I have per-
formed the Brahms symphonies more
than one hundred times together,” the
conductor notes. The orchestra will per-
form the Brahms 4th Symphony in con-
cert this season, too, on one of its new
Rush Hour concerts, February 4.
And just in time for their tradi-
tional New Year’s Eve performances of
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Schwarz
and the orchestra have this month released
a new recording of the Beethoven 9th,
famous for its “Ode to Joy” finale. Both
Beethoven and Brahms recordings are
being distributed by Seattle Symphony,
available on amazon.com, cdbaby, and at
the Symphony’s Symphonica store in the
Boeing Gallery at Benaroya Hall.
Gerard Schwarz embraces his Jewish
identity, making it an active part of his
artistic life. More about that and about
the TV show he’s working on, in the next
parts of this conversation. But for now,
a bit more of Schwarz’s self-assessment:
“What I’ve done all my life, whether it’s
been my personal life or my musical life,
I’ve always tried to do everything for the
right reasons. Always. And sometimes it’s
popular, and sometimes it’s not so pop-
ular. Y’know, you make decisions in an
orchestra, as a leader, sometimes you do
things and someone doesn’t like you for it.
But that’s the way it goes.”
Visit www.seattlesymphony.org for ticket and
schedule information on upcoming Farewell
Season concerts.

faces future
cal America’s Conductor of the Year, and
Seattle’s 2009 First Citizen Award.
Maestro Schwarz’s Farewell Season,
he
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launched on Seattle Symphony’s open-

ing night in September, continues through
June 2011. When it’s over, he’ll become the
orchestra’s Conductor Laureate, taking the
podium every now and then as a visitor,
while he moves his career in new direc-
tions. He and his family plan to keep Seat-
tle as their home base.
While the orchestra’s new artistic and
administrative personnel prepare for next
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season—the new music director, Ludovic

Morlot, takes over next summer, and the Seattle, WA
new executive director, Simon Woods, in
May — Maestro Schwarz, this season, con-
tinues premiering new music and releasing Auction Co-Chairs:
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The 18 world premieres spread out across
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received commissions from philanthropists
Agnes Gund and Charles Simonyi.
“These commissions came up because John Curley, Auctioneer
I identified my closest associates who are
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thought about one thing, and that’s the
10 the arts JTNews . www.jtnews.net . friday, december 10, 2010
‘Budrus’ producer touts Palestinian
nonviolence
Michael Fox Special to JTNews
The end of the Israeli-Palestinian con-
flict will happen as a result of the everyday
efforts of ordinary people, not the procla-
mations of politicians, filmmakers Ronit
Avni and Julia Bacha are convinced.
Encounter Point, their powerhouse
2006 documentary, focused on Jews and
Arabs who’d lost loved ones to violence
yet were committed to forgiveness and
peace. The duo’s new film, Budrus, spot-
lights a Palestinian man who forged alli-
ances between local Fatah and Hamas
followers to organize an ongoing protest
— joined by dozens of Israelis — to stop
the construction of the separation barrier
on the titular village’s land.
“The film came about very much in
response to a curiosity and a desire expressed
in the Jewish community in the West, in
America, in Israel, where people were asking
where is the Palestinian nonviolence move-
ment,” Avni explained in an interview after
Budrus screened in the San Francisco Inter-
national Film Festival in May.
“Often the phrase that followed the
question was something along the lines of,
‘If only Palestinians adopted nonviolence,
there would be peace,’” Avni related. “The
film explores what it looks like when a Pal-
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The Jerusalem Post Crossword Puzzle
By David Benkof
Across
1. Yemenite Jewish singer Ofra
5. Erie or Panama
10. Ben Gurion carousel item
13. “Cheers” actress Pearlman
14. Excuse
15. First name in Holocaust novelists
16. “Bruno” actor ___ Cohen
18. Tiny particles
19. Skirt’s edge
20. 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit
Issue cover model Bar
22. ACLU President, 1991-2008
26. ___ HaTzofim (Mount Scopus)
27. Doofus
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29. Arm of Israel
30. Israeli, for example
32. The Alter ___
36. Make-up artist?
38. The Jerusalem Leonardo Plaza, e.g.
40. “___ on Entebbe” (1977 film)
41. Essayist Ginsberg, AKA Ahad
Ha’am
43. “Give me your ___, your poor...”
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57. Much
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65. One kind of change
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67. Eliminate
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69. Addition column
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Washington residents walked
in historic Israel event
Diana Brement JTNews Columnist
1
When Lauren Mayo left
Seattle for the Young
Judaea Year Course in
Israel, the Ballard High School
grad probably didn’t realize
that she’d get to participate in
an historic event.
On Oct. 28, Lauren joined
the first Susan G. Komen Race
for the Cure ever to be held in
that country. The race (most
participants walked) around
the walls of Jerusalem was the inaugu-
ral event of the Israel Breast Cancer Ini-
tiative Collaborative, a new partnership
between Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist
Organization, and the Komen foundation,
which raises cancer awareness and money
for cancer research. More than 6,000 men
and women of all religions, many of them
cancer patients or survivors, wearing pink,
carried pink balloons and walked together,
demonstrating their commitment to find-
ing a cure for the disease.
Courtesy Lauren Mayo
Lauren Mayo, left, with one of her Young Judaea
Year Course buddies, after the Susan Komen
Race for the Cure in Israel last month.
Lauren e-mailed me that Young Judae-
ans participated in the walk as an orga-
nized group activity and said it was a fun
event. (Young Judaea is the youth program
of Hadassah.) At the end there were speak-
ers and music.
“Survivors and organizers,
a male victim of breast cancer
even spoke,” Lauren wrote.
Bellingham resident Katie
Edelstein walked, too. The
Hadassah national board
member says she planned
to be there the moment the
organization announced the
event. The event began for
her the evening before with a
tribe reception at the U.S. Ambas-
sador’s residence. She met
Nancy Brinker, Susan G.
Komen for the Cure founder and sister of
the late Susan Komen, as well as Senator
Joe and Hadassah Lieberman. That night,
the walls of Jerusalem were lit pink in sup-
port of the race.
The day of the walk, Katie wrote, she
was thrilled to see “Jewish, non-Jewish and
Arab women (and men) coming together
and walking side by side in the streets of
Jerusalem for a common cause.” It cre-
ated “an extraordinary image that proved
people can work together under the right
circumstances.”
Katie said she has been inspired and
infused with “greater determination to do
what I can to fight the fight against breast
cancer.”
A slide show of the day’s events is at
www.hadassah.org.
Seattle Chapter Hadassah will be hold-
ing a cancer-awareness event called Breast
Cancer Exposed this coming spring.
Watch for details in early 2011.
2
Robin Rogel-Goldstein of Bellevue
will be installed as a vice president
of Women’s League for Conserva-
tive Judaism at its 2010 biennial conven-
tion on Dec. 12 in Baltimore. Women’s
League is the largest synagogue women’s
organization in the world and almost 1,000
women are expected to attend the event.
Robin grew up in Congregation Herzl-
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Ongoing Events
Event names, locations, and times are provided
here for ongoing weekly events. Please visit
calendar.jtnews.net for descriptions and contact
information.
Fridays
12:30–3:30 p.m. – Bridge Group
Stroum Jewish Community Center
12:30–3:30 p.m. – Drop-in Mah Jongg
Stroum JCC
9:30–10:30 a.m. – SJCC Tot Shabbat
Stroum JCC
11 a.m.–12 p.m. – Tots Welcoming Shabbat
Temple B’nai Torah
Saturdays
9–10:15.am. – Learner’s Minyan with Ron
Scheenweiss
Congregation Beth Shalom (2nd Saturday of month)
10 a.m. – Morning Youth Program
Congregation Ezra Bessaroth
10:30 a.m. – Adult Torah Study
Temple B’nai Torah
5 p.m. – The Ramchal’s Derech Hashem,
Portal from the Ari to Modernity
Congregation Beth Ha’Ari Beit Midrash
6:30 p.m. – Avot Ubanim
Seattle Kollel
9:45 a.m. – BCMH Youth Services
Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath
Sundays
10:15 a.m. – Sunday Torah Study
Congregation Beth Shalom
7:30–10:30 p.m. – He’Ari Israeli Dancing
Danceland Ballroom
8:30 p.m. – Talmud, Yeshiva-Style
Eastside Torah Center
Mondays
10 a.m.–2 p.m. – JCC Seniors Group
Stroum JCC
12:30 p.m. – Caffeine for the Soul
Chabad of the Central Cascades
7 p.m. – CSA Monday Night Classes
Congregation Shevet Achim (at Northwest Yeshiva
High School)
7 p.m. – Ein Yaakov in English
Congregation Shaarei Tefilah
10 a.m. – Jewish Mommy and Me
West Seattle Torah Learning Center (at Hiawatha
Community Center)
8:30 p.m. – Talmud in Hebrew
Eastside Torah Center
8 p.m. – Women’s Israeli Dance Class
Lakewood/Seward Park Community Club
11 a.m.–12 p.m. – Women-Only Torah Study 7 p.m. – Beginning Israeli
Class Dancing for Adults with Rhona Feldman
Chabad of the Central Cascades Congregation Beth Shalom
7–8 p.m. – Beginning Modern Hebrew
Tuesdays Congregation Beth Shalom
11 a.m.–12 p.m. – Mommy and Me Program 7–8:30 p.m. – Modern Hebrew Literature
Chabad of the Central Cascades. Call for location. Congregation Beth Shalom (1st Wednesday)
12 p.m. – Torah for Women 7–9 p.m. – Teen Lounge for Middle Schoolers
Eastside Torah Center (at Starbucks Bellevue Galleria) NCSY (at Congregation BCMH)
7 p.m. – Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings 7:30 p.m. – Parshas Hashavuah
Jewish Family Service Eastside Torah Center
8:15 p.m. – Psalms with Beth Huppin 8:15–9:15 p.m. – Resurrection, the Afterlife
Congregation Beth Shalom & Reincarnation
7 p.m. – Teen Center Congregation Beth Shalom
Stroum JCC
7–8 p.m. – Hebrew I (Alef Bet) Thursdays
Congregation Beth Shalom. 10 –2 p.m. – JCC Seniors Group
7:30 p.m. – Weekly Round Table Kabbalah Stroum JCC
Class 6:50 p.m. – Introduction to Hebrew
Eastside Torah Center (call for location) Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation
8:15–9:30 p.m. – Living Judaism-The 7 p.m. – Junior Teen Center
Basics with Mary Potter NCSY (at the Stroum JCC)
Congregation Beth Shalom 8–10 p.m. – Teen Lounge for High Schoolers
Congregation BCMH
Wednesdays 8–9:30 p.m. – Beth Shalom Beit Midrash
11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – Talmud Berachot Congregation Beth Shalom (2nd Thursday of month)
Tullys Westlake Center
1:30 p.m. – Book Club at the Stroum JCC
Stroum JCC

Have you visited the new online Jewish community calendar?

Find it at calendar.jtnews.net!

Camp Solomon Schechter

JoIn uS
for the Summer
of 2011!

registration
open
now!
registration
now open

Check us out…
www.campschechter.org
Info@campschechter.org
206-447-1967
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Candle Lighting Times
12/10/10........................... 4:00 p.m.
12/17/10........................... 4:01 p.m.
12/24/10.......................... 4:04 p.m.
12/31/10........................... 4:09 p.m.
Hanukkah event featuring music, fantastic crafts and
delicious food. Join organizers to help raise money
for Seattle Children’s Hospital. At MOHAI, 2700 24th
Ave. E, Seattle.
5–9 p.m. – Lamplighter Annual Dinner &
Auction
or 206-861-3183 or www.jfsseattle.org/ WWthe arts Page 11
uploads/pdf/EO_Dec10_V1.pdf
Jews have lived in China for more than 1,000 years.
Learn about the fascinating stories of the Jews of
China in an illustrated talk by Rabbi Anson Laytner,
president of the Sino-Judaic Institute. Please RSVP.

Tammy Nguyen at Free. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 3850 156th Ave.

Sunday 12 December tammy@mmscdayschool.org or 206-523-9766 SE, Bellevue.
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. –Choices, Changes and or www.mmscdayschool.org
Challenges: Parenting a Tween or Teen Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder’s annual Wednesday 15 December

Marjorie Schnyder at familylife@jfsseattle.org fundraising dinner and auction. $90. At the social hall 7:30 p.m. – Heroines of the Bible — Her Wednesday, December 22,
or 206-861-3146 or www.jfsseattle.org/ at Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., Seattle. Story, My Story 1:30 p.m.
uploads/pdf/ParentingTeens.pdf 7–9 p.m. – Rosh Chodesh Group

Devorah Kornfeld at Uncle Moishy

As children grow they go through many changes.

Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@ roshchodeshmi@gmail.com Family Concert

Parents must adapt to new roles, learn new parenting
approaches, and adjust to a changing relationship.
Gain insight and tools on three topics of significant
interest. Led by professionals from JFS. $10 per
session. At Jewish Family Service, 1601 16th Ave.,
Seattle.
2–5 p.m. – The Big Spin!
bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or
www.bethshalomseattle.org
Cynthia Gayle will guide the group in a bibliodrama
on the first heroines of Exodus, the midwives Shifrah
and Puah. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th
Ave. NE, Seattle.
Presented by the Jewish Learning Institute’s Rosh
Chodesh Society, discuss six celebrated personalities
in Jewish history in this monthly series. Connect with
these women and enter their stories. For December:
Sarah, the mother of intention, our matriarch’s
mission. Presented by Devorah Kornfeld. For women
only. Cost includes materials. $75 for series. At the
Premier entertainer-educator Uncle
Moishy brings his act to Seattle.
There will be singing, dancing, and
Jewish learning at a show fit for all
ages. Tickets $18/$10 kids, avail-
able at Island Crust Pizza, the Bikur
Cholim-Machzikay Hadath office, and

Laura Glass at Laura@thebigspin.org or Tuesday 14 December Community Center at Mercer View, 8236 SE 24th at the door. At Torah Day School,
206-579-5372 or thebigspin.org 10–11:30 a.m. – Jews in China St., Mercer Island. 3528 S Ferdinand St., Seattle.
Get ready for The 2nd Annual Big Spin! The blow-out

Ellen Hendin at endlessopps@jfsseattle.org

garlic loverS – we mean BuSineSS!

Join the Seattle BBYo The original from queen anne

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donations of $180 and above made by 12/31/10 will be generously matched
100% by the Spitzer Foundation up to $5000.

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celebrations
Alana Antique & Estate Jewelry...............................................16
Ben Bridge Jewelers.................................................................16
Bellevue Club and Hotel Bellevue...........................................22
Big Picture...............................................................................20
Embassy Suites Bellevue..........................................................18
Emmanuel’s Fine Rug & Upholstery Specialists.......................25
Kaspars Events & Catering......................................................19
The Landing & Northcut Conference Room..........................20
Madison Park Cafe..................................................................19
Nosh Away Catering...............................................................19
Organic Table.........................................................................18
Shawn’s Kugel.........................................................................19
Talaris Conference Center......................................................19
Tulalip Resort Casino..............................................................22
United Insurance Brokers, Inc.................................................25
Well Done Events...................................................................18
What the Chelm.....................................................................16
Woodland Park Zoo...............................................................22

Photo courtesy of Kaspars

Focus on Bellevue
Acura of Bellevue.....................................................................25
Aljoya......................................................................................26
The Bellettini...........................................................................17
Bellevue Club and Hotel Bellevue...........................................22
BMW Bellevue.........................................................................29
Crossroads...............................................................................28
Druxman, Esther/Realty Executives........................................27
Embassy Suites Bellevue..........................................................18
Evergreen Speech & Hearing..................................................27
Frimer, Mary/John L. Scott.....................................................32
Greenbaum Home Furnishings...............................................27
Minor & James Medical...........................................................21
Oh! Chocolate........................................................................18
Overlake Hospital...................................................................25
S. M. Piha Company...............................................................29
Sky High Sports......................................................................20
Temple B’nai Torah.................................................................23
Temple De Hirsch Sinai..........................................................28
Thai Ginger.............................................................................27
Uwajimaya..............................................................................29

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Alana Antique & Estate Jewelry
Everything in Alana’s is a treasure — something exquisitely beautiful that can’t be found
anywhere else.
“People come to Alana’s to find something different,” says owner Alana Fornoni. “They don’t want
something someone picked out of a catalogue or something all their friends have. They also would
like to know the story behind the piece.”
Alana is happy to share that story, if she knows it. But she has observed that most people inherit
a piece of jewelry with no idea who owned it originally or what it’s worth. With her expert eye and
years of experience, Alana recognizes quality when she sees it and can usually tell the owner when
their jewelry was made and its market value. For more information about Alana: Antique & Estate
Jewelry, visit www.alanajewelry.com. The Web site has extensive photographs of inventory and
pricing.
The Bellevue Club and Hotel Bellevue
The Bellevue Club and Hotel Bellevue is a four-star, four-diamond,
internationally recognized boutique property that provides a private retreat in
luxurious accommodations. Located in Bellevue, they are one of the Eastside’s
premier, most-sought-after locations to celebrate a special event.
Their versatile and beautifully appointed Olympic Ballroom is the
perfect setting for your special occasion. Their newly designed ballroom
has rich textural mixes of warm woods, resin walls and a glass focal point.
Suspenseful, color changing accent walls and cove lighting match your décor. Your guests will find
the intimate scale and elegant atmosphere to be truly exceptional. Whether you prefer a sit-down
dinner, an elaborate buffet or hors d’oeuvres reception, their culinary team will assist you in creating
the perfect menu with classic elegance to suit your style. They will help you to create a spectacular
event with their attentive and professionally trained culinary and service staff. Private, professional
and prestigious, they are the Eastside’s only social address. Contact catering@bellevueclub.com or
425-688-3380.
Chelm
the Jewish Band Music
t Klezmer, Israeli, Yiddish,
Wha
Ladino and more
For all occasions
Info and Bookings: 360-676-1621
www.whatthechelm.com
Ben Bridge
Nears A Century of Service
In 1912 a personal jeweler opened a family-
run store in downtown Seattle. Nearly 100 years
later, Ben Bridge is still a family-run business, but one that has grown to more than 70 stores.
Today, Ben’s grandsons Ed and Jon Bridge manage the company. They attribute Ben Bridge’s
longevity and success to the company’s commitment to quality and customer service.
“We want our customers to feel confident with every selection,” explains Ed Bridge, “that’s why
Ben Bridge has more Registered Jewelers and Certified Gemologists than any other jeweler in the
country.”
Though nearing its centennial, Ben Bridge is still growing. This includes opening a second store
at Seattle’s University Village — one dedicated to the wildly popular jewelry line Pandora, and
relocating a very successful Ben Bridge Jeweler in Alaska’s retail district in downtown Anchorage.
As they look to the next 100 years, the Bridge family knows one thing will never change: Ben
Bridge is dedicated to being your personal jeweler.
Big Picture
Big Picture is now available for all-ages parties! So now you can reserve Big Picture to celebrate
your birthday, graduation, sweet 16, Bar/Bat Mitzvah or family reunion. Feature your special star on
the big screen and enjoy a private DVD movie party.
Big Picture is affordable and uniquely entertaining.
To book your memorable event, contact at 425-556-0566 or info@thebigpicture.net. They have
two locations: Redmond Town Center and in Belltown.
Vintage Wedding Sets • 1 year interest-free financing available
Northgate Mall 206-362-6227
Visit us online: www.alanajewelry.com
We Buy
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Embassy Suites Kaspars

Bellevue
You will remember your special day for the rest of your life, so choosing
Whether it’s a holiday celebration, wedding, the right partners to help you is an important decision. The team at Kaspars
birthday, anniversary, Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah, Special Events and Catering, with more than 20 years of experience and a
Embassy Suites Bellevue can help make it a reputation for excellence, will support you through the entire planning process,
special event. A beautiful six-story garden atrium including venue selection, menu creation, ceremony, and reception planning,
with lush tropical plants, river and cascading ensuring you are stress-free.
waterfall, elegantly appointed ballrooms, great Family owned and operated, Kaspars’ passion is to provide creative, fresh cuisine and superior
food, two-room suites for your overnight guests, service at a reasonable price. They cater to groups of all sizes, both within Kaspars as well as at off-
and a professional staff, will make the planning site locations including private homes. Whether you are entertaining a few or a few hundred guests,
process easy. Their in-house chef is happy to the elements for success are the same: Superb fare, impeccable service, the proper ambience, and the
accommodate custom menu requests or you can right caterer! Kaspars Special Events and Catering has it all. Call 206-298-0123, fax 206-298-0146 or
choose one of their pre-planned menu options. visit www.kaspars.com.
Their catering managers can also assist you with
choosing your DJ, florist and photographer. With a
great location, just off I-90, they offer plenty of free parking. The Landing and Northcut Conference Room
Book an event with at least 30 guests and get a free night’s stay in a standard suite.
Not good with other offers. Give your casual graduation party an extra
For more information call Brittany at 425-698-6689 or visit touch of elegance, welcome your teen into
www.seattlebellevue.embassysuites.com. adulthood with sophistication, or make your
wedding sparkle. The Landing also transforms
into the perfect setting for your theatre
Emmanuel’s Fine Rug performance, wedding reception, prom, live band,
& Upholstery Specialists or dance workshop. The patio with open terrace
setting extends the pleasant ambience of any
They’ve been cleaning rugs, carpets, furniture and fine special event.
Orientals for more than 100 years. You can count on them! The Northcut Conference Room meeting
Highest-quality carpet cleaning, custom in-plant rug washing, facility is an extraordinary setting for your off-
rug repair and blind and upholstery cleaning. They specialize in site meetings, conferences, executive retreats, and
Oriental care, repair and mending and restoration. Emmanuel’s ideas for all-staff retreats. For more information,
is the place to go for consigned new and antique Orientals, rug sales and appraisals, as well as on-site please contact 206-786-0627 or
carpet cleaning and maintenance. Fifteen percent off all in-home services. info@northcutlanding.com.
Gift certificates available. For more information call 206-322-2200, fax 206-325-3841 or visit
www.emmanuelsrug.com.

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He’s sipping cocoa while relaxing in front of a warm fire. Be a smiley-face, move
into The Bellettini Retirement Community before the holidays. All of your needs
will be taken care of so you can just have fun. See, we’ve got you smiling already!
Call (425) 450-0800 now to schedule your complimentary guided tour and lunch.

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Madison Park Café 


Simmering in Seattle for more than
30 years.
The Madison Park Café provides full-service
catering for all your Jewish lifecycle events
including B’nai Mitzvah, weddings, and other
simchot. 
The café offers French bistro food
and professional service as well as wine, liquor,
beer and rentals. Contact Karen Binder at 206-324-2626 or madisonparkcafe@aol.com.
Nosh Away Catering
Nosh Away Inc. is a full-service kosher catering company
servicing the greater Seattle community. Size and type of
event have no limitations. Whether it is dinner for two, or a
gala event for 2,000, Nosh Away will bring to bear amazing
concern for the event by paying meticulous attention to all
of the details that ensure success. Nosh Away has teamed up
with many venues in the Seattle area to provide customers and
guests with a wonderful dining experience, providing excellent
quality and professional service. Under kosher supervision of the
Va’ad of Greater Seattle, their 3,000-square-foot, fully equipped
commissary and bakery operates daily to provide for all of Nosh Away’s catering needs.
Visit www.noshaway.com.
The Organic Table
Let The Organic Table cater your next event with delicious food made from seasonal, local and
organic ingredients.
Their menus feature a seasonal selection of local, organic fare from farmers, ranchers, bakers,
fishermen, and cheesemakers who they have grown to know personally in conjunction with their
sister restaurants, the three Seattle-area Portage Bay Cafés. Host your evening event in one of their
cafés, or let the Organic Table come to you. From full-service weddings and B’nai Mitzvah to simple
breakfast buffets, their team will create a memorable event that will garner raves from your guests.
Visit www.organictablecatering.com or call 206-551-4084.
Shawn’s Kugel
Shawn’s Kugel is the premier Jewish band in the Pacific Northwest. Voted Best Jewish Band by
JTNews readers in 2007, they have performed for enthusiastic clients for more than 11 years. They
specialize in getting guests to participate in folk dancing and horas at weddings, B’nai Mitzvah and
other lifecycle events. Shawn’s Kugel has released four CDs, with the latest being Odyssey.
Check out Shawn’s Kugel on MySpace, CD Baby, or iTunes to hear some songs and learn more
about this Northwest treasure. Contact 206-523-9298 or
shawnsax@jps.net or visit pweb.jps.net/~shawnsax.

Let The Organic Table cater your next event with delicious food
made from seasonal, local and organic ingredients.

B’nai Mitzvah, company parties,

reunions, weddings, a cozy dinner for 50...
What will make your event memorable, beautiful, and easy on you?
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Suite Simcha
 Flexible banquet and meeting space,
accommodating events with up to
500 guests
 Extensive catering menu selections
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 Six story atrium featuring lush tropical
plants and waterfall
 240 spacious two-room suites
 Complimentary full cooked-to-order
breakfast and evening reception
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 Complimentary parking
 Premier location to Eastside
synagogues and easy I-90 access
 Book an event and bring in this ad
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Contact our professional Catering Department at 425.698.6689

for more information or to book your next event.
Embassy Suites Bellevue, 3225 158th Avenue SE, Bellevue, WA 98008
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Talaris Conference
Center
Talaris Conference Center, a retreat, event and
meeting destination that combines a distinctively
Northwest environment with metropolitan
technology and amenities, is located on 18 acres in
a natural park-like setting near the University of
Washington in Seattle. It is within walking distance of neighborhood restaurants, cafes and jogging
trails.
With 31 guestrooms, three large conference rooms, two intimate meeting spaces, multiple
breakout areas and, for events, the Pacific dining room, this wooded oasis is an ideal destination
for intimate training workshops, meetings, retreats and other events for up to 150 people. And if
business or personal travel brings you to the University District, they are the perfect alternative to a
traditional hotel. Contact 206-268-7000 or visit
www.talariscc.com for more information.

Tulalip Resort Casino

United Insurance Brokers, Inc.
With more than 30,000 square feet of flexible special event and reception space, two ballrooms
Your insurance source since 1968 and an expertly trained catering staff, Tulalip Resort Casino is the perfect location to host a holiday
Commercial, Employee Benefits, Group Long Term Care and Personal Insurance. celebration. The AAA Four Diamond Tulalip Resort Casino accommodates events of every size, from
Contact Linda Kosin or Trisha Cacabelos at lkosin@uib.com. small gatherings to large functions with up to 1,500 attendees. Every need is addressed by a capable
Located at 50-116th Ave. SE, #201, Bellevue. and conscientious staff, whether the requirements involve state-of-the-art technological equipment,
customized catering or providing the ideal venue for social gatherings.
For more information about planning a special event at Tulalip Resort Casino, please contact
James Hillman at 360-716-6830 or james.hillman@tulalipresort.com.

Voted Best Jewish Band by

JTNews readers in 2007 full service catering
for all your Jewish Life Passages
Minutes from the city.
Miles from distraction.

Shawn’s Kugel Talaris Conference Center is the ideal event and

The Northwest’s Premier meeting destination on 18-acres near the University
Music Ensemble Weddings • Rehearsal Dinners of Washington for groups up to 150 guests.
Weddings, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs • Special Occasions
Special Events
Mention “JT News” when you book and
approved caterer of uW Hillel receive 5% off your master bill! Call for details. *

Contact: Shawn Weaver

call Karen Binder
206-523-9298 (206) 324-2626 talariscc.com q 206.268.7000 q info@talariscc.com
email: shawnsax@jps.net
Simmering in Seattle for 31 years
http://pweb.jps.net/~shawnsax *Event must be booked by December 31, 2010 and take place by March 31, 2011.

Kaspars will ensure your

“Seattle’s Finest Kosher Catering” celebration is spectacular!
419 Rainier Ave. N., Renton WA 98057
Chef Kaspar offers exceptional
206-772-5757 Northwest cuisine along with a
superior staff versed in weddings,
Glatt Kosher supervised by the Va’ad of Seattle rehearsal dinners, showers and
Meat, Parve, Dairy or Cholov Yisroale available b'nai mitzvahs.

Ask about our new venues! Kaspars dining rooms can accommodate
up to 300 guests or can offer full
JeWiSh WeDDiNGS OuR SPeCiAltY service off-premise catering at your
home or other special location.
Kosher banquet space available at venues such as: Benaroya hall, Seattle Marriott,
Visit
the Westin, the Sheraton, hillel, Bell harbor, Redmond Marriott & more!
www.kaspars.com
B’nai Mitzvot n Delicious boxed meals n Office luncheons and party trays for menus and
Shabbos and holiday take out n Private home events upcoming events:
Christmas eve buffet
Cooking classes
a seattle tradition Chef’s table
Free planning and consulting for every budget for over 20 years
www.noshaway.com 19 West Harrison  Seattle, WA 98119  206.298.0123  info@kaspars.com
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Well Done Events Artistry, thoughtfulness, and attention to detail. A sense of

Well Done Events are precious! They know that your
anniversary, wedding, and B’nai Mitzvah events create memories
that can’t be “done better the next time.” No, these celebrations are
the once-in-a-lifetime memory makers of your family story. Well
Done Events is proud to make them memorable, beautiful, and easy on you.
What makes an event Well Done? Communication skills, resourcefulness, and high energy.
timing, grace under pressure, and relentlessly high standards.
They believe that a Well Done Event is a reflection of them, the
founders and planners, so they give every event their best.
Well Done Events provides complete event planning services
in the Seattle area. They can plan it all or they can help with just
a few items on your to-do list. On the day of your event, relax and enjoy your own party!
Visit www.welldonevents.com.

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Reform Hebrew high schools merge
to keep their teens in the fold
Janis Siegel JTNews Correspondent
Temple De Hirsch Sinai’s senior rabbi,
Daniel Weiner, knows what just about
every Jewish professional knows — that
to keep Jewish teens interested in even the
best extracurricular Jewish studies pro-
gram, you’ve got to build in some major
socializing time.
Temple B’nai Torah’s assistant rabbi,
Yohanna Kinberg, picked up on a sim-
ilar idea for the future of their Hebrew
high school after noticing how many teens
from TDHS and other Reform congrega-
tions in the Seattle area were showing up
at its Tuesday night school, just to hang
out with their friends there.
It was a natural extension of the obvi-
ous for both of them, so in October of this
year, they combined the two high schools
for a trial run at TDHS’s Bellevue campus.
They move to B’nai Torah in February. It
makes Jewish education more fun, and all
agree that that’s a good thing.
So far, both congregations say the kids
really want to come and that parents are
happy that their children want to be there.
It’s a win-win-win for everyone.
“From a social science point of view,
the 9th through 12th grade is a critical time
where young people not only affirm their
identity as human beings, but particularly
as Jews,” Weiner told JTNews. “One of the
most compelling aspects of any kind of high
school program is the social component.”
“They clearly all know each other and
want to be together,” echoed Kinberg.
“Some kids are there exclusively for social
connections and some kids are there because
they want to continue their Judaic studies
learning. But part of the challenge of having
a high school program like our program is
the balance between social and academic.”
Outside of the religious school envi-
ronment, Reform Jewish teens across the
country who belong to the National Fed-
eration of Temple Youth meet hundreds
of other Jewish teens at events throughout
the year. Local teens can also meet their
peers in other congregations through the
NFTY-affiliated youth groups at Reform
synagogues in the area. The individual
groups often collaborate on program-
ming, and combine their efforts to connect
as many teens as often as possible.
“If we can reaffirm that cohort on a
weekly basis as well as during the summer
and during monthly youth group events,
that’s all to the better,” Weiner said.
About 130 Jewish teens from both con-
gregations attend the weekly one-hour
and 45-minute evening sessions, taught by
a total of six clergy members and five local
instructors from the Jewish community.
Each grade has a core curriculum from
which students learn for half the evening,
then choose from a wide range of electives
for the remainder.
The 9th grade students’ core class is
“Life Cycle and Year Cycle for Big Kids,”
an adult perspective on education for post- about Judaism and your
B’nai Mitzvah kids, based on the Union for background in a larger
Reform Judaism’s Sacred Choices curricu- environment, and also how
lum. Sacred Choices includes life cycles, to talk about Israel, anti-
human sexuality, and dealing with rela- Semitism, stereotypes, and
tionships from a Jewish perspective. about navigating relation-
Tenth graders study “Judaism and ships.”
Social Justice” for the first part of the year, Electives include “What’s
which culminates in a jam-packed week- Jewish About ‘Glee’?” as well
end in Washington, D.C. with Jewish as leadership and songleading
youth from across the country, to study classes, and a course on Israel.
the Jewish perspective on critical policy The students have opportuni-
issues. The URJ Religious Action Center’s ties for travel as well.
L’taken weekend program includes a full “The wonderful culmi-
day of lobbying, where students spend the nating aspect of our 12th-
day on the Hill, talking to representatives grade program, which we’ve
about those issues. The rest of the year is been doing for about 10
spent preparing for Confirmation. years, is our 12th grade trip
Students in the 11th grade take “Com- to Europe for two weeks Kate Bigam/RAC
parative Judaism and Comparative Reli- to Jewish and non-Jewish Students from Temple B’nai Torah who traveled to Washington,
gions” for their core course, and seniors sites,” said Weiner. “So far, D.C. to participate in the Reform movement’s Religious Action
participate in the URJ’s “Packing for Col- we’ve taken the students to Committee’s L’Taken program in 2008, in front of the Supreme
lege: Where does Judaism Fit?” curriculum. Italy, Prague, Budapest, and Court building.
“We ask them, ‘What are you looking Venice.” Though in the past
for in your Jewish life when you leave your it has been a Temple De
parents’ home?’” said Kinberg, “and we Hirsch Sinai trip, B’nai Torah kids have go to our program leave this area and the
give them the skills to find those sources, always been eligible to join the group. Reform congregations at a disadvantage
like a Jewish fraternity or a campus Hillel Kinberg believes so much in the value because there are so many positive and
location. of the combined program she thinks it’s a mind-expanding experiences through this
“The other really important compo- mistake to pass it up. program,” she said. “We really want to make
nent,” added Kinberg,” is how to talk “I really believe that kids who do not the Jewish lives of our students bigger.”
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After Israel’s deadly fire, mourning, vows to rebuild

and finger pointing
Marcy Oster JTA World News Service
JERUSALEM (JTA) — In the after-
math of the deadliest fire in Israel’s his-
tory, Israelis this week set to the task of
burying the dead, cleaning up and figur-
ing out what exactly went wrong — and
who is to blame.
Even before the blaze in the Carmel
Mountains near Haifa came under con-
trol Sunday afternoon, Israelis were asking
why the country wasn’t better prepared
for a wildfire of this magnitude. In all, 42
people were killed, about 250 homes were
destroyed or severely damaged, 17,000
people were forced to evacuate, more than
12,000 acres were burned, and an esti-
mated 5 million trees were lost.
“The Carmel disaster highlights the
outrageous gaps in Israel’s strategic and
day-to-day readiness,” the editorialists at
Ha’aretz wrote Dec. 5 while echoing a call
for a state commission of inquiry to exam-
ine who bears responsibility for the fail-
ures of the Israeli fire service.
“What’s better to spend the State of
Israel’s money on, firefighting aircraft or
an F-15 fighter jet?” wrote Eitan Haber, a
former Rabin administration official and
now a columnist for Ynet News.
The damage to the area of the Carmel
Forest in northern Israel was estimated at
about $75 million, including damage to
towns and kibbutzim, destroyed forests,
and damaged roads. Yemin Orde, an aliyah
youth village founded in 1953 that has
served as a home and school to thousands
of immigrant youths, most recently Ethio-
pians and Russians, was severely burned.
In the artists’ village of Ein Hod, 10 houses
and an art gallery were destroyed.
On Sunday, the Israeli Cabinet
approved a $16.5 million aid package to
assist damaged communities, and Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered
that each person whose home suffered
severe fire damage be given an immediate
aid disbursement of about $700.
Calls came from many quarters for Courtesy ZAKA
the resignation of Interior Minister Eli Members of the ZAKA religious disaster recovery service rappel down a ravine to search for remains
Yishai, whose ministry is responsible for of the 40 prison cadets killed in the massive forest fire in northern Israel.
the state’s firefighting forces. Yishai also
is accused of refusing fire truck dona-
tions from the International Fellowship of Israel has 16 firefighters per 100,000 reportedly said he was smoking a nargila
Christians and Jews. residents. By contrast, the United States, water pipe and threw a live coal into an
Yishai said his ministry was not funded Japan and Greece have five to seven times open area before returning to school.
well enough to purchase needed equip- that number per capita, The Associated The arrest was announced hours after
ment — in 2001, he noted, Ariel Sharon’s Press reported. In total, Israel has 1,400 two teenage brothers from the same village
government voted to eliminate air support firefighters. arrested over the weekend on suspicion of
for firefighting — and told Israel Radio A 14-year-old resident of the Druze vil- negligence in starting the fire were released
that he was a target because of his Sep- lage of Ussfiya was arrested Monday after from detention by a Haifa court. The teens
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its more Middle Eastern south, which
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Israeli government said it would invest the
resources to make the north green again.
The fire’s rapid spread revealed a stra-
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The Palestinian prime minister in the Gaza Germany, Russia, France, Switzerland, Brit-
Strip, Ismail Haniyeh, said the fire was a ain, Spain and the United States. The Pales-
“strike from Allah.” tinian Authority also sent 21 firefighters and
The spiritual leader of the Israeli four fire trucks to help battle the blaze.
Orthodox Shas Party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Thirty-five firefighting airplanes came
also said the fire was divine punishment, to Israel. New York sent a 747 loaded with
attributing the blaze to the sin of lack of Fire Troll 931, a fire retardant chemical, in
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WikiLeaks reveals secrets, backroom dealmaking
— and cluelessness
Ron Kampeas JTA World News Service
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A careful
reading of the WikiLeaks trove of State
Department cables — which is laying bare
some 250,000 secret dispatches detailing
private conversations, assessments and
dealmaking of U.S. diplomats — reveals a
notable if perhaps surprising pattern: How
often they get things wrong.
Again and again the cables show dip-
lomats, lawmakers and heads of state pre-
dicting outcomes that never come to pass.
A year ago, top Israeli defense offi-
cials in a meeting with their U.S. counter-
parts set 2010 as the absolute deadline to
squeeze Iran on its nuclear program. Now
Israeli officials say the date is 2012.
In a 2005 assessment, the same Israeli
cadre told U.S. interlocutors that the point
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of no return would be Iran’s ability to
enrich uranium without assistance. Iran
has had that capacity for years.
In January 2008, Egypt’s intelligence
chief said Hamas was isolated and would
not stand in the way of a peace agree-
ment. Hamas’ continuing control of Gaza,
even following the war that broke out 11
months after the Egyptian assessment, still
undercuts Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
In 2007, U.S. diplomats called Tzipi
Livni an up-and-comer. Though now the
leader of the Israeli opposition as head
of the Kadima Party, Livni twice failed in
bids to become Israel’s prime minister.
The same State Department cable said
the Israeli military and government don’t
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the result of the short-lived term of Amir
Peretz as Israeli defense minister.
The disparities between predictions
and reality reflect the on-the-fly nature
of the discussions detailed in the newly
revealed cables.
Ed Abington, a former U.S. consul in
Jerusalem who has consulted for the Pal-
estinian Authority, said the authors of
such cables work under pressure to come
up with “added value” in analysis and fill
in the vacuum with chatter that might not
have any basis in reality.
“You’re looking for what you can add
that makes it relevant to policymakers in
Washington and elsewhere — analysis,
insight,” Abington told JTA. “A lot of the
reporting, in hindsight, is irrelevant.”
David Makovsky, a senior analyst
with the Washington Institute for Near
East Policy, said facts on the ground
also change rapidly — a factor that helps
explain how dire Israeli predictions about
Iran’s imminent weapons program have
dissipated, at least for now.
Part of that may be attributable to
efforts by the West to sabotage Iran’s
nuclear program. Makovsky cited the
recent success of the Stuxnet computer
worm, which apparently disrupted Ira-
nian centrifuges necessary to enrich ura-
nium to bomb-making capacity.
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Much of the material in the leaked
cables offers frank U.S. assessments of
everything from the temperament of for-
eign leaders to the shipment of arms
between foes of the United States.
In late 2009, U.S. officials told their Rus-
sian counterparts that they believed North
Korea had shipped missiles to Iran capable
of hitting capitals in Western Europe. The
Russians were skeptical, but agreed that
there was evidence of increased coopera-
tion between the two rogue nations and it
posed new dangers.
The cables also track increasing con-
cern among the United States, Israel and
Western nations that Turkish Prime Min-
ister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is leading
Turkey along a path to Islamism — and
beyond the point of no return of accom-
modation with the West.
In Cairo, U.S. diplomats told Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton that in meet-
ings with Egyptian leaders, she should defer
to Egyptian self-regard as the indispensable
Arab state while acknowledging that the
perception is long past its due date.
Tracking the cables that straddle the
Bush and Obama administrations also
demonstrates that on some matters poli-
cies have changed little, if at all.
Stuart Levey, the treasury undersec-
retary charged with enforcing Iran sanc-
tions, reassured Israeli Mossad chief Meir
Dagan in December 2008 that President
Obama was as determined as George W.
Bush to isolate Iran through sanctions.
Within a few weeks, Obama would con-
firm the point by reappointing Levey to
the job, ensuring consistency.
The leaks also show Iranian and Syrian
duplicity. A 2008 memo, apparently from
an Iranian source, details how Iran used the
cover of the Iranian Red Crescent to smug-
gle officers into Lebanon in 2006 to assist in
Hezbollah’s war against Israel. Syria appar-
ently provided sophisticated weapons to
Hezbollah within weeks of pledging to U.S.
officials that it would not do so.
Some of those named in the leaks wor-
ried that their publication could inhibit
frank dialogue.
U.S. Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) was
outraged that her private exchange with
Netanyahu on Iran and Palestinian issues in
a 2009 meeting became public knowledge.
“If Congress has no ability to have
candid conversations with foreign leaders,
we won’t have some of the critical infor-
mation we need to make the judgments we
need to make about countries like Iran,”
she told The Daily Beast.
In condemning the leaks, Clinton said
Monday that they represent policymaking
only in its most nascent stages. Once the
heavy hitters become involved, the policy
is changed. So the content of the leaked
cables is not of vital importance, she tried
to argue.
“I want to make clear that our offi-
cial foreign policy is not set through these
messages but here in Washington,” Clin-
ton said. “Our policy is a matter of public
record, as reflected in our statements and
our actions around the world.”
But the cables reveal policy discus-
sions in blunter terms, and show the inner
workings of intergovernmental relation-
ships that the parties would rather have
kept private.
Saudi Arabia, for example, is shown in
the cables to be beating the war drum for
a U.S. attack against Iran — a stance quite
different from its public posture.
In a 2008 meeting, the Saudi ambassador
to United States reminds U.S. Gen. David
Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in
the Middle East, about the multiple times
Saudi King Abdullah called on the United
States to “cut off the head of the snake” —
attack Iran to stop its nuclear program.
But the message is not consistent.
Other cables describe meetings in the
Persian Gulf with Arab officials, includ-
ing Saudis, who counsel against a strike,
saying that the backlash would be incal-
culable.
The cables least prone to such disparity
may be those that describe meetings with
Israeli officials. Successive Israeli prime
ministers and defense ministers all say the
same things — and in the same ways that
they do in briefings with reporters.
Meeting with Israeli reporters after
WikiLeaks began publishing the cables,
Netanyahu said the Israeli government
takes pains to make sure the most sensi-
tive discussions between the two countries
are kept private.
“It influences our work, what we do
in meetings, who we bring into meetings,
what we say in them, and when we narrow
the meeting to two people,” he was quoted
as saying by the Jerusalem Post.
The most important exchanges between
the U.S. and Israeli governments are not
detailed in the cables because top U.S. and
Israeli political leaders speak directly to
each other.

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WWisrael fire Page 25 WWm.o.t. Page 12 As a tribute to his father, who died into the search bar to get to Irving Kaler’s
of a heart attack in 1986, Seattle tribute page. You’re invited to contrib-
the city’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg. Ner Tamid on Mercer Island and was resident Jonathan Kaler has cre- ute stories, photos, links and other media,
Israel also rented the American Ever- president of the synagogue’s sisterhood ated a public service announcement and “specifically on heart-attack survival or
green Boeing 747 Super Tanker, one of the before beginning her volunteer career with Facebook page to build awareness of heart loss” to the site, in particular to spread the
most advanced firefighting planes in the Women’s League. An active member and attack symptoms and hopefully prevent message that time is of the essence when
world, loaded with 80,000 liters of water former president of the regional branch, other deaths. experiencing heart attack symptoms.
and fire retardant. It arrived early Sunday she has been a member of the board of Jonathan’s writes that his dad Irving “When heart attack strikes, time is life,”
morning and had an immediate effect on directors since 1996 and chair of Z’havah, died “after seeking help too late,” for his writes Jonathan.
helping douse the flames. for younger women, since 2006. Robin has symptoms. Heart attacks can be fast and painful,
The deadliest incident came in the fire’s been a Girl Scout troop leader and served The short PSA can be viewed on but they can also be gradual and merely
early hours when a bus carrying about on the lay committee for the Jewish Feder- YouTube and shows a medical anima- uncomfortable, particularly in women.
three dozen cadets from the Israeli prisons ation of Greater Seattle’s J Team teen phi- tion of blood coursing through an aorta Please take the time to review heart attack
service on their way to evacuate a prison lanthropy group. She’s a Bar/Bat Mitzvah accompanied by a narration of a “fast- symptoms at the Heart Association Web
threatened by the blaze became trapped tutor and private jeweler, too. paced mix of actual survivor testimony.” page, or any number of other sites.
between burning trees. Nearly all those Founded in 1918, Women’s League It can be seen at www.youtube.com/ If you think you are having a heart
aboard perished, and the bus was left a is dedicated to the perpetuation of tradi- watch?v=wjo2P2hSxCg. attack, call 9-1-1.
scorched shell. tional Judaism in the home, synagogue Facebook members can go log on to
Two firefighters who rushed to rescue and community. that site and type “Heart Attack Stories”
the guards and a 16-year-old volunteer,
Elad Riven, also were killed. All of the
bodies were identified, some using DNA
technology, by Saturday night, and funer-
als began being held while the blaze was “ H A P P Y H A N U K K A H ”
still raging.
“No one sent you, no one called for
you, no one but your wonderful and brave
conscience,” Israeli President Shimon The PACIFIC NORTHWEST ’ S
Peres said during a eulogy at the funeral
for Riven on Dec. 5. The “disaster taught
us that all of us — Jews, Arabs, Druze and
other peoples — share the same fate.”
A day after the blaze was brought under
control, the fire’s death toll rose by one
with the death of Haifa Police Chief Ahuva
Tomer, who was burned over most of her
body while trying to assist the prison guard
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Women
to Watch
JTNews searched far and wide to find five Jewish women making a difference in
our community. We received far more nominations than we could possibly fit into
the final five, but that only shows five isn’t enough! But we’ll do it again in the spring,
so if you know of a local woman making a difference, tell us about her!
Wendy Goffe
The great equalizer
Diana Brement JTNews Correspondent
Name: Wendy Goffe
City: Seattle
Age: 46
Occupation: Attorney
What’s on her mind these days: “The possibility of gay marriage.”
You can often find attorney Wendy Goffe jetting around the country, speaking
about her work with unmarried couples.
Goffe hasn’t had any trouble keeping her career in an upward trajectory. As an
estate attorney with the firm Graham & Dunn, she works with high-net-worth indi-
viduals and is an expert in charitable giving and family business succession plans.
A 1992 graduate of the University of Washington law school (where she was also an
undergrad), she was designated a “rising star” by Washington Law & Politics in 2001, and
a “super lawyer” in the years since. The publication Best Lawyers singled her out as one
of the best lawyers in the country in 2009.
“She has a real passion for the law” and is a “great speaker” says Seattle attorney
David Stiefel. “She is a true professional. She is a pleasure to work with [and]…loves
dealing with clients and complicated issues.”
Along the way, Goffe has developed an interesting sub-specialty. She’s become an
expert in legal issues faced by same-sex couples and unmarried couples trying to craft
documents that give them the same rights automatically accorded to married people
“to the extent possible,” she says. “And if not possible, I’ve been working on legislation.”
Goffe gives talks around the country about the legal implications of changing laws on
same-gender partnerships. In Washington she helped draft the Domestic Partnership
Bill, and its two rewrites. The state legislature passed the first law in 2007, and the “every-
thing but marriage” bill in 2009. An initiative to repeal the law failed later in the year.
“Over time I’ve gotten to know and been fortunate to work with non-traditional
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Wendy Goffe and her family cook at home.
family structures and seen firsthand the challenges that people face caused by legis-
lation and societal attitudes, and the barriers they face having to take care of them-
selves and predictably raise a family,” Wendy says.
Wendy says the “challenges…[and] unfortunate situations,” she’s seen have driven
her to make a difference.
The dot-com boom and Goffe’s early career made a fortunate collision. A lot of
people in the Seattle area were getting jobs at Microsoft and “getting to the point
where they needed more advance planning. I was at the point in my career when I
could do it…I got involved with a lot of unmarried and same-gender couples.”
Wendy often travels to small towns and even fundamentalist churches to speak
on the subject.
“I just came back from giving a talk in South Dakota on gay marriage” where folks
feel they are “in a fishbowl, looking out, wondering what is happening out there [in
the world],” she says. (It was also the start of hunting season and Goffe says she was
among a small minority of people in the airport not carrying a rifle.)
She can make these speeches “because I’m married and I’m Jewish, and there are
a lot of places…that want to know about this, but not from a zealot,” she says. “I’m
pretty safe.” She did once receive “hate mail” from Jerry Falwell, Jr., which she jokes
was the “highlight of my career.” Falwell included a DVD about a Jewish man who
became a Christian.
Growing up at Temple De Hirsch Sinai, Goffe, her husband, Scott Schrum, and
their daughter Maya are currently unaffiliated. In recent years she has felt “the most
Jewish” while in Houston where Scott has had a number of treatments for pancreatic
cancer and the local Jewish Family Services reaches out to patients and families. For
now, Goffe says, “Gilda’s Club is our congregation.”
Goffe finds fun in her work, a lot of which she does on her own, “and it’s kind of
meditative.” She loves the travel, and “I always make time to go to a museum if there
is one.” Even in Sioux Falls she discovered the Museum of Visual Materials in a com-
pletely “green” building, featuring the founder’s collection of 80,000 buttons.
Sarina Natkin
on being named one of
5 Women to Watch
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Joel Magalnick
Esther Bogomilsky, right, holds the big check for $1,500 given to The Friendship Circle by the Jewish
Federation of Greater Seattle’s J Team teen philanthropy group. The teens were impressed with
Esther’s engagement with their peers and the special needs kids they work with.
Esther Bogomilsky
Making a safe and welcome space for kids who need it most
Diana Brement JTNews Correspondent
Name: Esther Bogomilsky
City: Seattle
Age: 34
Occupation: Director of Friendship Circle — “that’s one of them”
What’s on her mind these days: “Making sure I can run everything efficiently.”
Nominated for her role as director of the Friendship Circle, Esther Bogomilsky
describes herself in three ways: “I give classes for women, I hold women’s events, and
I’m a mom.”
A student and Friendship Circle supporter, Fibi Duke, observes that for Esther,
“nothing is too much trouble,” she says. “As a leader, teacher, mother, and friend, she is
always willing to get involved and make things happen.”
The Seattle native didn’t start the organization, which she calls “revolutionary,”
but brought it to the Seattle area and runs it with her husband, Rabbi Elazar Bogom-
ilsky, who serves as executive director. “Colleagues of mine started the Friendship
Circle in Michigan,” Esther says, and she felt it exemplified “the foundation of Judaism:
Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Friendship Circle gives special needs kids something most lack: A friend and a
social life. Carefully trained teen volunteers are matched with a participant, spend
two hours a week in that child’s home, and participate in group activities two Sun-
days a month, usually at the Mercer View Community Center on Mercer Island.
Families come from the whole Seattle area, Esther says, from both Jewish and non-
The volunteers and staff of
The Friendship Circle
would like to extend Mazel Tov to
Esther Bogomilsky
on being named one of
5 Women to Watch.
Her hard work and leadership
is an inspiration.
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Jessica Hoffman
(Seattle NCSY and summer programs Alum ‘98)
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Jewish homes. Even though Friendship Circle is affiliated with Chabad-Lubavitch, it is
a separate charitable organization and “very few families that are involved are Ortho-
dox,” she notes.
Esther regrets that “I can’t afford to service everyone and everybody…but my plan is,
in the future, that any family in King County that needs our help would be able to get it.”
None of the Jewish schools in the area have programs to serve special needs stu-
dents, so Friendship Circle fills a gap with Jewish-themed programs, prayers, songs
and holiday fun, “almost like a Jewish school.”
Careful screening and matching of volunteers and clients is a big part of Esther’s
job. Volunteers stay with their special friend for the duration of high school and homes
must be safe for them. The teens come from a variety of public and private schools in
the area and now number almost 100, up from nine kids just seven years ago.
The Bogomilskys also rely on volunteer coordinators and a slew of “behavioral,
music, art, movement therapists and [a] Kung Fu Master” for their Sunday programs.
“The amazing drive behind the Friendship Circle,” Esther wrote in an e-mail, “is not
only helping these families and their children …, [but] creating a generation of future
leaders that learn the most important act of kindness there is today: ‘How to give of
oneself to others.’”
Even before she took on Friendship Circle, Esther had started the Women’s Learn-
ing Circle.
“I’ve always been inspired to teach other women Judaism,” she says.
An upcoming Rosh Chodesh (new moon) series called Lunachicks, focuses on
female prophets, and Bogomilsky also organizes a “pretty cool” Shabbat retreat for
women every other year.
With the Friendship Circle, the women’s programming, and being a mother her-
self, “she’s able to juggle it,” says Esther’s own mother, Devorah Kornfeld, a community
leader and teacher in her own right. “She’s really an inspiration to me with everything
she’s done so successfully and with all the hard work.”
Esther’s passion is “to inspire people towards Judaism,” she says, as well as to speak
out about “how women are perceived in Judaism contrary to popular myth.”
Meanwhile, she dreams of a time when Friendship Circle has its own space, includ-
ing a therapy center where clients could come any time. “I would call us a ‘homeless
organization,’” Esther says. “It’s one of the hardest organizations to run because of this.”
Information on both circles can be found at www.seattlejewishwomen.org or
www.friendshipcirclewa.org.
Colleagues at
Congratulate
Wendy Goffe
for being honored as one of
5 Women to Watch
by JT News
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Sarina Behar Natkin
Overcoming the universal struggle
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
Name: Sarina Behar Natkin
City: Seattle
Age: 37
Occupation: Parent educator and consultant
What’s on her mind these days: “Parenting support. This is my passion.”
“Every parent deals with it.”
“It” is the toddler who won’t stop crying when she doesn’t get what she wants. It’s
the 3-year-old and his dad, both of whom are too stubborn to have a civil interaction.
It’s the kindergartener acting up in class, to the detriment of his fellow students.
“Every parent has fallouts with their children at one time or another,” says social
worker and parent educator Sarina Behar Natkin. “You’re elevated and angry and
frustrated, and so is your child, and you have nowhere to go.”
Sarina offers that support in private practice, on a local listserve for discussion
among parents, and in classes. She believes it’s high time the support network that
once existed among large, extended families needs to be reasserted and reinvented
for today’s harried, digitally connected parent.
“We’re expected to do more and more with less time. In most families, both par-
ents need to work now, and it just doesn’t leave a lot of time to read all the parenting
books,” she says. “They don’t have the support and they can’t take the time off.”
Sarina has been trained as an educator through the local Gottman Institute as
well as in a movement based upon the book series Positive Discipline by noted family
and marriage counselor Dr. Jane Nelsen.
“I really believe [Positive Discipline is] an ongoing role model for having healthy
respectful relationships among families and being self-reliant emotionally healthy
children,” Sarina says.
Though she has been a social worker for nearly 15 years, Sarina was originally
doing crisis work in domestic violence situations. When her first daughter was born
five and a half years ago, and she began to see parents struggling with many of the
same issues, she turned her attention to helping them. She has since substituted as
a parent educator in the Seattle Central Community College co-op preschool system,
taught “Bringing Baby Home” courses for Jewish Family Service, and was doing infor-
mal consulting for friends and their families. Earlier this year, Sarina bought a busi-
ness license, set up a Web site, and parlayed that informal consulting into a private
practice, in which she offers family coaching and workshops.
Around the same time, Sarina and another “Bringing Baby Home” instructor, Melissa
Benaroya, independently came up with the idea of creating what Benaroya said has
been lacking beyond Seattle’s rich offering of support for parents of newborns.
“We both kind of felt like we needed to create a place for all parents, no matter
what your parenting style is,” she says. “A place you could go with any normal issue.”
The two had met in several different venues, and they found a connection with
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“We have very similar backgrounds and upbringings, and so we’ve met one another
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So in addition to their private practices, she and Sarina have entered the nascent
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working with children ages newborn to 10 — in essence, being the resource for
normal problems that tells parents it’s okay to have these problems.
“Certainly you don’t go to a child psychologist because you’re having bedtime
struggles. Where do you go?” Sarina says. Their new program is “a preventative model.
It’s giving the people tools ahead of time before they hit the crisis.”
Sarina now has two children, and she and her husband Michael are active in the
Kavana Cooperative. Later this month, she’ll be offering a talk to Kavana preschool
parents about social and emotional development.
“I think it’s really nice when there’s a volunteer role that bridges between the pro-
fessional and personal,” says Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum, Kavana’s executive director.
Nussbaum calls Sarina “a wonderful social connector,” and said that when she sees
new faces at events, they often will have learned about the organization through
that connection.
As for her career, Sarina says she is happier now than she has ever been — and
loves helping parents learn about overcoming the inevitable challenges they run
into.
“We all need support. It’s not about failing,” she says. “We need to say it’s okay to take
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Jessica Nancy
Hoffman Goldov
Instilling Judaism in Seattle’s Better living through dance
teens
Lillian Cohen-Moore JTNews Intern
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
Name: Nancy Goldov
Name: Jessica Hoffman City: Seattle
Age: 29 Age: 54
City: Seattle Occupation: Clinical psychology
Occupation: NCSY Seattle co-director, doctoral candidate.
founder of the Seattle Gemach, board Ari Hoffman What’s on her mind these days: “Con- Kim Goldov
member of Torah Day School Jessica Hoffman serves food at a recent verting my knowledge to meaningful Despite interning, volunteering, work and of
Hanukkah party. work, where I can make a difference in course dancing, Nancy Goldov still needs to hit
Jessica Hoffman has spent more the community: So, creating a job!” the books as she works for her Psy. D. degree.
than half her life in NCSY. The Seattle native started in the Orthodox movement’s
youth group, the National Conference of Synagogue Youth, when she was 14. Now, Nancy Goldov began dancing in childhood, starting with ballet, modern and tap
at 29, she’s dedicated her life to the organization and to instilling Judaism into the dance. Exploring folk dance in high school and the piano along the way, Nancy took her
region’s Jewish teen population. And then some. love of dance and music into college with her as a dance major at Cornish College.
“The best opportunities are the ones that fall in your lap,” Jessica says. “I’d just But she long had a desire to bring people joy — through the use of movement.
moved home. I was 8 months pregnant with my first child.” Now working on doctoral studies in clinical psychology, Nancy Goldov leads a busy
And she just so happened upon an NCSY event, some kids selling brownies as a life. She volunteers at Cancer Lifeline, where she is a clinical psychology intern, and is
fundraiser. a licensed mental health counselor as well. Also, she’s a board-certified dance-move-
“‘Do you guys have a director, an advisor?’” she asked them. “They said, ‘Nope, we ment therapist.
have nobody this year. The best we can do is sell brownies.’” Dance-movement therapists, Nancy says, “focus on movement behavior as it
So she volunteered. And then became a paid staffer. And then her husband Ari emerges in the therapeutic relationship.” In dance-movement therapy, behavior and
joined up. Six years later, Seattle NCSY is no longer just a social club. Almost imme- emotions that may have only been expressed verbally in another therapeutic setting
diately the Hoffmans began injecting more of an educational focus into the pro- is seen in the movement of patients.
gramming, and doing more of what had attracted Jessica to NCSY when she was a Upon discovering a program in psychology and dance at Evergreen State College
teenager. while she was attending Cornish as a major, she fell in love with the idea of combining
“I was more excited to go on a Shabbaton or a Saturday movie night than hang both disciplines. Her program would provide a jumping point from an undergraduate
out with my friends in another scenario,” she says. “It wasn’t just a movie night, but a love of psychology to a need to combine dance and psychology.
movie night with other great stuff.” “I was immersed in the study of body movement as a core component of dance, as
Now she does much of the same thing, and builds one-on-one relationships with it provided a means of expression,” she says.
all of the teens at the same time. It’s the end result that makes her do what she does: Nancy moved to New York while she studied for her graduate degree, working in
“When you see a teenager that’s 20 now, and they’re living a Jewish life, and when they dance-movement therapy as she explored the body and mind as they coped with ill-
were 14 they were considering Buddhism, that’s inspirational to me.” ness and disability. After four years, Nancy returned home, once again pursuing her
Jessica was recently nominated for NCSY’s Ben Zakkai Honor Society, and will artistic interests. She joined the Radost Folk Ensemble, a dance troupe devoted to the
travel to New York next month to receive her honors. A major facet of the society is ethnic dance traditions of Eastern Europe, and steeped herself in Jewish music by per-
fundraising for NCSY summer programs, much of which will go toward Seattle NCSY forming in the Freylakh Klezmer band.
members. With a life spent dancing, even studying as far away as Eastern Europe, Nancy still
“This year we’re trying to focus on taking kids from the level of just simply wanted to use her talents to help others, however. A life performing, as a dancer and
attending programs locally to getting them off to summer programs,” she says. artist, still couldn’t match the fulfillment she had experienced in New York while
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“They just have a good time, it’s a safe environment,” Jessica says.
But the teens are just one part of the lifecycle in which Jessica is involved. She is
also in her first year on the board of the Torah Day School of Seattle.
“What we’re working on is boosting the image of Torah Day School and cementing
ourselves financially and really becoming a part of the community at large,” she says.
She also started and maintains the Seattle Gemach, in which she stores and loans
out modest wedding gowns — primarily to Orthodox brides and bridesmaids, but
really to anyone who needs it — for women who can’t afford their dream dress.
“Every day it grows,” Jessica says. “I get e-mails weekly from people to drop stuff
off.”
She’s the only Seattle resource listed on a Web site, donatemydress.org, that takes
donations for wedding and prom dresses, so much of what she receives is not neces-
sarily from the Jewish community.
Julie Greene, activities director at Congregation Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath,
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of when it comes to finding a true gem to have her daughter admire and emulate.”
With her fingers dipped in so many pots — plus three small children, the young-
est of which is just 3 months old — you may think Jessica is wearing herself out. But
growing up, her mother would always juggle at least five or six different volunteer
projects.
“To me, doing three things doesn’t feel like a lot,” Jessica says. “To me it feels like I’m
doing a minimal amount.”
practicing dance-movement therapy.
So Nancy began to work in elder care, opening a new chapter in her life when she
began to work at the Kline Galland Home in 1998, where she helped to provide a foun-
dation for what would evolve into a creative arts program at Kline Galland.
Feeling a drive to expand her own opportunities, both in employment and knowl-
edge, Nancy most recently enrolled in a doctoral program at Argosy University in
Seattle. Uniting dance-movement therapy and clinical psychology in health psychol-
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dissertation on body image and women with breast cancer, Nancy uses dance move-
ment therapy to help patients one on one through the difficult and often fraught
experience of dealing with cancer.
Her work at Cancer Lifeline includes much of the same compassionate psychology
practice, in particular while working with people during their time receiving trans-
fusions.
Jill Cohen met Nancy during their days in the Radost Folk Ensemble 18 years ago.
Immediately gravitating toward each other, the two have been friends since — and
Nancy helped Cohen when she had her own battle with breast cancer.
“I have always admired Nancy’s ability to be flexible and adapt to changing circum-
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Gilbert (Gil) Stern
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Gil is survived by his wife, Velva, and his children,
Meryll Dawson (Don), Bruce Stern (Maureen) and five
grandchildren. His son, Howard, preceded him in death.
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life
Bar Mitzvah
Ryan Kubasta
Ryan will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on December 18,
2010 at Congregation Kol Ami in Woodinville.
Ryan is the son of Stacy Schill and Ron Kubasta. His
grandparents are Stan and Fran Schill of Mercer Island,
JoEllen Schill of Bellevue, and the late Marlene (Marlie)
Kubasta.
Ryan is an 8th grader at Kenmore Jr. High. He is a Boy
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His interests include oceanography, swimming, animals,
camping, hiking, computers, and reading. For his mitzvah
projects, Ryan volunteered at the Jewish Family Service
Food Sort and on various Boy Scout projects.

Paula Jean Sussman Rose

Our courageous and beautiful Paula left us on December 1. She has been an inspiration to Bar Mitzvah
us all. Elliott Jacob Moss
Paula’s smile and warmth is legendary. She would light up any room, her personality made Elliott celebrated his Bar Mitzvah on November 13, 2010
her friends with everyone she met. Paula’s friends were numerous, many dating from at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer
elementary and high school, and the University of Washington. Island.
The most important thing in her life was her family. She was wife, mother, grandmother, Elliott is the son of Brian and Brandy Moss of Bellevue. His
daughter and sister. She adored her children and grandchildren. brother is Ryan Moss. His grandparents are Leon and Phyllis
Paula was born in Tacoma in 1940 and was raised in Lakewood by her father Leslie Moss of Spokane, and the late Jacob and Ruth Schwartz.
Sussman and mother Sophie Sussman, who was by her side when she passed, along with Elliott is a 7th grader at Vista Academy. He enjoys many
her brother Alan and other family members. sports, including soccer and basketball, but mostly loves
Paula was a community leader and a patron of the arts. She was a board member of baseball. He has played Little League for the past six years.
Pacific Northwest Ballet and a founding board member of Northwest Parkinson Foundation. He has also attended Camp Solomon Schechter for the past
She served on the boards of United Way, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, and Jewish five years. For his mitzvah project, Elliott has been and will
Family Service. She was a counselor at Planned Parenthood. continue to fundraise and volunteer for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Alaska, Montana,
Paula was recognized as a woman of understated taste, style, and elegance. She loved her Northern Idaho and Washington.
homes on Mercer Island, and in Rancho Mirage, where she loved to play tennis.
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Paula is survived by her husband Ronald Leibsohn, mother Sophie Sussman, brother Alan Wedding
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(Jackie), Brian Leibsohn (Heather), David Leibsohn, and step-grandchildren Joshua, Alec, 2010. The ceremony was officiated by Rabbi Chalom
Jacob, and Noah. of San Diego Chabad at the Dana Hotel in San Diego.
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on Mercer Island with burial at Home of Peace Cemetery in Tacoma. Victoria, B.C. She is a graduate of McGill University
Contributions in her memory may be made to any of the following organizations: Jewish in Montreal and is currently a law student.
Federation of Greater Seattle, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Northwest Parkinson Foundation, or Jared is the son of Phil and Estelle Sanderson of
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Medical Center and the Booth Gardner Parkinson Clinic. Your care and compassion was of McGill University and works as an employment consultant.
extraordinary. The couple lives in San Diego.
Paula, we will cherish your memory forever.
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Israel is, like one professor said, “a tempest
in a tea pot.” And we’ll consider the differ-
ent ways Jewish and pro-Israel commu-
nity leaders on and off campus are seeking
to change the status quo at Evergreen.
To the extent that the Evergreen stu-
dents body is engaged in Middle East pol-
itics, it is strongly and vocally critical of
Israel. In June, students passed two non-
binding resolutions, one calling for the
college to divest “from companies that
profit from Israel’s illegal occupation of
Palestine.” The other would ban the use of
Caterpillar construction equipment from
campus. Evergreen is also the alma mater
of Rachel Corrie, the International Soli-
darity Movement activist who was killed
by an Israeli tractor in Gaza in 2003.
“From everything I’ve heard, it’s not
a place where it’s comfortable to have a
pro-Israel opinion or even to be openly
Jewish,” said Akiva Tor, Israel’s consul
general to the Pacific Northwest. “I think
the situation is totally outrageous.”
But not everyone even accepts that a
situation exists. Emily Weisberg, a Jewish
student actively involved in Evergreen’s
branch of the boycott, divestment, sanc-
tions movement, Tesc Divest, says she
personally knows more campus Jewish
students supportive of BDS than there are
members of the campus Hillel as a whole.
“I’m a Jew on campus and I have never
felt unsafe,” said Weisberg. “I am very
vocal about being Jewish. I wear a Star of
David around my neck. I have never felt
unsafe at all about being Jewish. “
Steve Niva, a professor of International
Politics and Middle East Studies, believes
that nothing more is going on at Ever-
green than a rigorous, if sometimes tense
and occasionally uncivil, debate. He sus-
pects that the discomfort felt by pro-Israel
students is the result of having only been
exposed to one mindset and one way of
framing the Israel-Palestine conflict.
“My take on it is that the self-described
pro-Israel side has really exaggerated their
feelings of being marginalized because
they’ve never really been in an environ-
ment where such strong criticism of Israel
has been aired,” Niva said.
Niva, however, is among the faculty
members accused of doing the margin-
alizing — and according to Rob Jacobs,
regional director of StandWithUs North-
west, delegitimizing Israel. The dissonance
between the perspectives is self-evident: A
stance that seems to Weisberg and Niva
to be not just critical but moral appears
to Jacobs as a worrisome effort to delegiti-
mize Israel with the added consequence of
offending Zionist students.
“I would say Niva puts [Israel] out in
the center as if it’s the world’s worst bad
guy,” Jacobs said.
The office of Evergreen president Les
Purce does not see a problem with the
nature of Israel-Palestine dialogue on
campus, and rejects the notion that Ever-
green is a single-issue campus. The school
has also made clear that it will not act on
the divestment resolutions.
“We’re a college,” said Jason Wittstein,
a spokesperson for the president’s office.
“A wide variety of opinions are going to be
expressed in the classroom. The fact is we
have a long tradition of respecting differ-
ences. We respect open debate and intel-
lectual freedom.”
Sheryl Shulman, a professor of Com-
puter Science and advisor to the campus
Hillel, does not believe Evergreen to be an
anti-Semitic place. But she does believe
that the dialogue about Israel could stand
a great deal of improvement — in the
classroom, between students, and even
between faculty members.
Shulman entered Evergreen’s Israel-
Palestine debate via TescTalk, an intra-
campus listserv, in the months after
Rachel Corrie’s death. Shulman describes
herself as pro-Israel and pro-Palestine – in
favor of a two state solution. She felt obli-
gated to join the fray when fellow profes-
sors began posting what she believed were
extremely polarizing statements critical
of Israel.
The resulting dialogue remained
extreme — only with Shulman in the
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middle of it. Exhausted and made to feel
uncomfortable after refusing a live debate
on Israel-Palestine issues because the
Middle East is not her area of expertise,
Shulman took a two-year leave of absence
from Evergreen and went to teach at St.
Martin’s College in Tacoma.
Although Shulman has since returned
to Evergreen, her story is reminiscent of
Milstein’s. The polarized and fiery nature
of the Israel-Palestine issue on campus
drove her to seek refuge elsewhere. But
Israel-Palestine is not the only issue, Shul-
man believes.
“I think Evergreen is a difficult place to
be Jewish for a variety of reasons,” Shul-
man said. “But I think part of it is that
there’s not a large enough Jewish commu-
nity and if you have that pro-Israel view,
it’s hard to find a comfortable place to
share an opinion.”
Israel under the radar: Sexy paranormalists
Marcy Oster JTA World News Service
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Here are some
recent stories out of Israel that you may
have missed.
Draft-dodging women caught
on Facebook
Memo to Israeli women: If you claim
to be religious to avoid army service, don’t
update your Facebook status on Shab-
bat. And don’t post photos of yourself in
immodest clothing.
The Israel Defense Forces is using the
social networking site to help catch draft-
dodging women — and reportedly has
nabbed 1,000.
Military investigators looking for
women who lied about being religious to
evade mandatory army service have found
young ladies posting photos of them-
selves in immodest clothing, dining in
non-kosher restaurants and responding
to invitations to parties taking place on
Friday night.
Some 42 percent of Jewish women in
Israel do not serve in the army — 35 per-
cent of them signed a declaration that they
are religiously observant. The army has 60
days to challenge the declaration, accord-
ing to The Jerusalem Post.
Sexy entertainer
One of the sexiest men alive, at least for
the year 2010, lives in Israel.
Israeli paranormalist Lior Suchard was
named to People magazine’s Sexiest Man
Alive list for 2010 representing his age
group, 28, on the Sexy at Every Age list of
100 men.
“I still can’t believe that I’m on the list;
I’m in shock,” Suchard, who is currently
performing his Uri Geller-esque act in Las
Vegas, told Ynet. “I got all sorts of text
messages from people telling me that I’m
in the magazine, so I immediately ran to
the store to buy it.
“On the one hand I’m a little embar-
rassed, but on the other hand this is very
exciting. It was never my goal to be on it, but
it is definitely cool to be included in the dis-
tinguished list.”
‘Sex and the City,’ Israeli style
Casting has begun for an Israeli ver-
sion of the hit HBO series “Sex and The
City,” Ynet reported. The series will follow
the lives and loves of three 30-something
gal pals. The four American women lived
in New York; the three Israelis will reside
in Tel Aviv.
Ynet reported that young Israeli actress
Neta Plotnik has been tapped to play the
Carrie Bradshaw character made famous
by Sarah Jessica Parker, a Jewish actress.

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to reinvent the movement
Sue Fishkoff JTA World News Service
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — After the
Reform movement broadcast online its
first session devoted to reassessing itself, in
mid-November, the comments poured in.
One viewer suggested that the move-
ment create a network of schools, camps,
shuls and seminaries focused on tikkun
olam, the Jewish injunction to repair the
world. Another said the movement should
train five times as many rabbis and cantors
to provide more entryways into Judaism
through music, social action and prayer.
Another wrote to express concern
about the lack of civility in Jewish dis-
course, particularly concerning Israel.
One asked how Jews could use media and
technology to create community.
It is exactly the sort of grass-roots input
that members of the reassessment team,
called the Reform Think Tank, want as they
take a hard look at where American Jewry’s
largest religious denomination is today and
where it ought to go in the future.
“Five years from now, congregations
won’t look like they do today,” said Rabbi
Eric Yoffie, the longtime president of the
Union for Reform Judaism, told JTA in
an interview.
Yoffie, who plans to retire in mid-2012,
is one of the major players in the move-
ment’s reassessment project.
The project is online and offline, top
down and bottom up. Each of the three
major Reform institutions — the syna-
gogue movement, rabbinical association
and seminary — nominated 10 members to
lead the 18-month discussion, which will be
punctuated by four live streaming forums
devoted to specific topics. Each is being
archived online at urj.org/thinktank.
The first, held Nov. 21 in Los Angeles,
dealt with the impact of social media on
religious life. About 300 individual viewers
watched in addition to about 50 watching
parties at Reform congregations. They could
follow a blog and Twitter feed along with
the broadcast, and sent in comments and
questions to help direct the conversation.
“We’ve never done anything like this
before,” Yoffie said.
“It’s kind of scary,” said Steven Wind-
mueller, a professor at the School of Jewish
Communal Service at Hebrew Union Col-
lege-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los
Angeles and one of the co-organizers of
the project. “Everything’s on the table. If
we reinvent this whole thing, what will
it look like? We’re not moving from one
place to another in linear fashion — we’re
experimenting.”
Demographic changes, financial chal-
lenges, new family structures and the chang-
ing nature of social media and how people
connect to each other are just some of the
pressures forcing change upon a movement
founded 200 years ago in Germany but that
developed its institutions in North America
following World War II, Yoffie said.
Back then, the world and American
Jewry had different needs and interests,
he said.
“We are primarily a suburban, family-
oriented movement,” Yoffie told JTA.
That’s one thing that must change if
Reform Judaism is to appeal to the next
generation, according to Yoffie.
“We need more synagogues in the
major metropolitan centers,” he said.
The recent economic downturn already
has forced changes, including the disman-
tling of much of the Union for Reform
Judaism itself, where consultants have
replaced many staff departments. That
was in the works already, Reform lead-
ers insist; the recession just advanced the
move quicker and gives a greater urgency
to the reassessment project.
Those who want to participate in the
project can send in their comments any-
time over the next year and a half. Pulpit
rabbis involved with the project will take
the conversation to their congregations
and “take the pulse of the community”
before the next forum, Windmueller said.
The team also will consult with youth
groups, synagogue presidents and other
Reform activists.
“Most of the questions we received were
in line with the questions we ourselves
have,” Tasch said after the first forum. “The
nature of community in a world where
everything is online; the tension between
face-to-face communication and technol-
ogy; the nature of membership; what does
it mean to belong in a world where every-
thing is out there and available?”
Yoffie believes that synagogues will
continue to be the foundation of Jewish
life in North America but must evolve rad-
ically to adjust to how people communi-
cate and relate via technology.
“Social media can be contentious,” he
told JTA, “and congregations are not con-
tentious places. It’s where you go for com-
fort and support. So how do we deal with
the contention of modern media while
preserving the congregation as a place of
menschlikeit and mutual respect?
“The truth is, we have to take risks if
we’re not going to be irrelevant.”

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