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I just want to say that I am very pleased with the performance of this journal. Here is an example of why I feel that way: Recently, the paper informed that a visiting professor at the University of Washington was none other than world-class Israeli author Joshua Sobol (the award-winning author who is famous for his play Ghetto). The news was that the famous artist was to be doing a reading and book signing at the UW Bookstore in honor of his newly released translation of his latest novel (The Israeli stage, as seen from Seattle, April 13). Without JTNews, I would not have had the opportunity to meet and chat with this Shakespeare of Israel. I read the book he autographed for me and loved it. I also attended a wonderful short version of his play Ghetto at Congregation Beth Shalom on Shavuot evening. I am deeply grateful to this publication for providing me with important news like this. It had been decades since I have had any kind of connection with the Israeli literati. I had the opportunity to share with Mr. Sobol some of my manuscripts and hopefully they will be translated into Hebrew soon, as I am an expatriate Israeli-American. Thank you and keep up the good work youre doing! Mordecai Goldstein Everett
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We still have three more weddings. Seattle dentist Louis Isquith on why after more than 40 years of practicing he has no immediate plans to retire. Read about Dr. Isquith and the four other local dentists were profiling, starting on page 11.
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The Seattle Hebrew Day School existed from 1947 to 1967 before moving and its building becoming the Islamic School of Seattle. With the Islamic School now closing its doors, the fate of the building hangs in limbo. Seattle Hebrew Day School graduates from around the country are gathering at their old school grounds for a return to roots reunion, to see the school one last time. Alumni, parents, teachers and community members are invited to attend the very casual event.Light refreshments will be provided. Takes place Mon., July 16, 6:309:30 p.m. at the Islamic School of Seattle, 720 25th Ave., Seattle. For more information and to sign up, contact Karenat karenneedle1@gmail.comor 678-520-8636, or Sherry Willner Feuer at sherry4er@gmail.com. Rabbi Marc Angel will deliver a series of lectures to honor the memory of the Jews of the Greek islands of Rhodes and Kos, who were deported to Nazi death camps on Fri., July 20, 1944. On Thurs., July 19 at 7:30 p.m. he will speak on Re-inventing Sephardic Seattle: Nostalgia and the Future of our Community, and on Sat., July 21 he will give the Shabbat sermon, Remembering the Jewish Martyrs of Rhodes: Lessons for our Times. That evening at 7 p.m., Angel will speak on Maimonides: Essential Teachings in Jewish Faith and Ethics. Takes place July 1921 at Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., Seattle. For more information visit www.ezrabessaroth.net.
The Stroum Jewish Community Center and the Washington State Jewish Historical Society are teaming up for a softball reunion. To celebrate Instant Replay, the Historical Societys year of Jews in sports, and the history of the SJCCs softball league, the event will include a home run derby, water balloon toss, inflatable bouncy house and hot dogs on the grill. A small exhibition of past softball championship teams will be on display. Takes place Sun., July 22, 11:30 a.m.2 p.m. at South Mercer Field, Mercer Island. For more information visit bit.ly/softballreunion or www.wsjhs.org/events.php. Temple Bnai Torah and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will honor the fasts of Tisha BAv, the commemoration of the destruction of the Jewish Temple, and Ramadan, the daily fast during the month when the Quran was revealed, together. The two groups will pray and study sources from both traditions before breaking the fast after sunset. A Quran and Torah scripture exhibition will be on display. Takes place July 29 at 7 p.m. at Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St.,Bellevue. For more information and to RSVP, visit www.amiseattle.org.
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Seattle area to receive Homeland Security funds
The Department of Homeland security will grant $9.7 million out of $10 million to Jewish organizations nationwide this year as a part of its seventh annual Non-Profit Security Grant Program. The Seattle area is set to receive $139,500, yet it is unclear exactly how much of this will be allotted to Jewish organizations. A committee will meet this September to determine the final sums that each applicant will receive. In past years, Jewish organizations and synagogues have been the overwhelming beneficiaries of funds. The program is intended to fund security enhancements for nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of terrorist attacks and this year, Jewish organizations made up an overwhelming 97 percent of the total allocations. Due to a $9 million program cut, Jewish organizations will receive $6 million less than last year, yet the proportion of Jewish recipients has risen 19 percent.
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(JTA) The U.S.-based Episcopal Church adopted a resolution at its General Convention Assembly calling for a negotiated two-state solution and positive investment as responses to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Also at the meeting in Indianapolis, delegates tabled a resolution urging corporate engagement by the church and dissemination of information on products made in the West Bank. The moves distanced the church from the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, according to an American Jewish Committee statement. The Episcopal Church has demonstrated its commitment to a negotiated resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and a rejection of unhelpful one-sided judgments aimed at Israel that do not advance the cause of peace, Rabbi Noam Marans, AJCs director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations, said in the statement. Marans attended the General Convention Assembly as an invited guest. The Episcopal Church has heard from the Anglican bishop in Jerusalem and other Christians, and has recognized that divestment is not a path to peacemaking the same conclusion reached by every other American church that has considered the strategy, Ethan Felson, vice president of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, told JTA. Last week, the Presbyterian Church USA narrowly defeated a resolution calling to divest its portfolio from three companies that it says is helping Israels occupation of the West Bank. At the same time, its delegates handily defeated a resolution likening the occupation to apartheid, but also approved a boycott of products made in the West Bank. In May, the United Methodist Church turned down a divestment initiative.
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The day can be seen from the dawn. Some people believe that certain events the occur at the start of the day is an omen of what will happen for the rest of the day.
Weinberg retires
When he steps down in a year, Ken Weinberg will have spent 38 years working tirelessly for Jewish Family Service. Now, its time to relax (and catch some rays).
Lau visits
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, former chief rabbi of Israel and Buchenwalds youngest survivor, united a community and changed lives during a historic visit to Seattle.
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Who said a trip to the dentist has to be painful? JTNews readers told us which local dentists for whom they choose to flash their pearly whites. Here are five of our favorite local Jewish dentists.
David Aronowitz Louis Isquith Bobby Cohanim Wendy Spektor Paul Amato Still believing
For Neil Diamond, life is better than ever. The legendary musician plays Seattle later this month.
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An Olympic struggle
Israeli athletes dont prepare for failure, but their fight for a moment of silence at the 2012 games has not been granted.
From July 14, 1976. At the bicentennial of our nation, an article by Rabbi Samuel Silver stated that the Jewish population during colonial times was small but nonetheless important to the forming of the United States, in particular the biblical story of the Israelites who escaped from their Egyptian captors. This illustration portrayed a Jewish man, Haym Solomon, who was twice arrested by the British and twice escaped execution.
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Clarification In the article about Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheders financial troubles (Day school hangs by a thread, June 22), the terms of loan the school received from the Samis Foundation would convert to a grant should MMSC raise the amount of the loan. The school also defaulted on a bridge loan from the Avi Chai Foundation, for which Samis has assumed payment. Samis will subtract that amount from the operating funds it gives to MMSC. Correction In the arts listing for the Crossing the Line arts exhibit at Columbia City Gallery, the artwork printed and attributed to artist Hannah Voss was the work of Lita Kenyon, whose works are appearing in the same exhibit. JTNews regrets the error.
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Unfortunately, not every military member returns home alive. When troops die outside the U.S., the USO has a program to help their loved ones called Families of the Fallen. The bodies of those who have died overseas are flown to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and many families travel there to witness the return. The USO works with families to expedite the travel process to Dover, supports the families onsite needs, and introduces parents, spouses, peers and children to special programs to help cope with their grief when they return home. The USO stands as an exemplary organization that is making a difference in the lives of thousands of troops and their families. If you would like to support their efforts we invite you to make a donation at any QFC checkstand. Thank you for your support!
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The heart of Jewish comedy is suffering. In his book The People of the Joke, author Elliott Oring describes Jewish humor as transcending the conditions of despair and distinctive in its reflection of an unperturbable optimism and zest for living. Of course, in these quotes from famous Jewish comedians, you might have to dig pretty darn deep for that optimism and zest for living.
ACROSS 1 1051, to Nero 4 Potato pancake 9 Moist 13 When I was kidnapped, my parents DOWN 1 Fantastic Roald Dahl title character 2 Sierra ___ 3 The Woman ___ (Gene Wilder film) 4 Maui neckwear 5 Rockys wife 6 Smashes up, as a car 7 Baseball commissioner Bowie 8 And the like 9 Current producer 10 They may be visual or martial 11 Ex-Seahawks coach Jim 12 Where to wear your Speedo 14 Very funny network 15 Mutt 16 Sounders assoc. 22 Milk actor Sean 23 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings author 24 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 36 37 38 43 44 45 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 58 59
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snapped into action. They ___.Woody Allen One year they wanted to make me poster boy... ___.Rodney Dangerfield Billfold contents Gandalf portrayer McKellen Certain French vowel sounds Crossed (out) Buddy Film studio whose logo roars Cameras eye Excites German city that hosts the worlds largest board game convention You got it, captain! 99 Luftballons singer/band When youre in love its the most glorious ___ of your life.Richard Lewis ___ and feathers Historical period Some psychics read them Like most Lady Gaga songs Financial advisor Orman Antiquated Chowed down on Baseball execs Recently retired catcher Jorge who spent his entire 17-year career with the Yankees Victorias Secret purchase Plunder Its a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or Id be ___.Phyllis Diller Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an ___.Mel Brooks Notice The Offspring hit The Kids ___ Alright Big fat mouth
Angelou Car dealers contract Not warranted Cook tuna, perhaps Airy-voiced Irish singer Backtalk Accusatory words from Caesar Exchange Prepare clothes for laundering I found it! Enter Sea-Tac, in a way Ex-Mariner on the Yankees, for short Discombobulate Humble French existentialist who wrote Nausea Person about 60% likely to be a Mormon Neato! Dwarven realm where Gandalf fought the Balrog Like the Counterbalance in Queen Anne In favor of My bad! Put your best foot forward? ___ charge (free) Orange Free State settler Component of some HDTVs Pan Am competitor Suffix with differ or depend
Answers on page 13 2012 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cafe, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle. All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb.
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After 26 years in Seattle, Leslie Fried has moved to Anchorage to be curator of the Alaska Jewish Museum. Founded in 2004, the museum is just now becoming a physical reality. An inaugural exhibit opens this November in a small building in a larger complex known as the Alaska Jewish Campus. In addition to the museum, the complex includes a cultural center, a Chabad preschool, and synagogue. Although the museum was spearheaded by Rabbi Yosef Greenberg of Chabad, it is a separate non-profit entity run by our own separate board, says Leslie, adding that one of my goals isto bring together all the different members of the community. The museum will introduce Alaskans to Jewish culture and history, celebrate it, and provide a safe place for the Jewish communitys cultural artifacts. As a heritage museum, similar to many around the country, it will also promote diversity and tolerance. Leslie spent many of her years in Seattle working as a scenic artist for a number
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ical Society on Jews of Southeast Seattle. of local theaters and was the Stored in the City of Seattles archives, it head painter for Intiman for can be found at HistoryLink.org. five seasons from 1993 to Leslie calls her current position a for1998. She also ran her own tuitous melding of influences, in which painting and design comshe can use all of her skills. Being in the pany, doing special finishes arts for years, working in theater, working and murals for architects and in exhibits, getting my library degree interior designers. [and] graduate certificate, all dovetail In 2003, she was diagnosed nicely with her interest in Judaica, my with heavy metal poisoning, family, and in the arts. forcing her to change careers. Leslie is very excited about the first two She returned to school to exhibits, which include Ruth Gruber, finish the fine and applied arts Photojournalist, created by the Interdegree shed started in 1978 national Center of Photogat the University of Oregon, raphy, which will be hosted and went immediately into by the Anchorage Museum. graduate school at the UniThe second will tell the story versity of Washington, getof Operation Magic Carpet, ting a masters in library the airlift of over 47,000 and information science Yemenite Jews from 1948 and a graduate certificate in to 1950, who were flown museology. to Israel by Alaska Airlines While at the UW she pilots. worked on the Samuel E. That second exhibit had Goldfarb collection (Goldpersonal resonance because farb was music director at Leslies father was a pilot Temple De Hirsch Sinai for over 30 years), and helped courTeSy leSlie FrieD and part of the Machal write a report for the Wash- Leslie Fried, curator of the Boys who airlifted airplane parts and other supplies into ington State Jewish Histor- alaska Jewish Museum.
Palestine before Israeli independence. He then served in the Israeli Air Force and became an El Al pilot after that, which took the family from Israel, where Leslie was born, to England and finally back to New York, where she was raised on Long Island. Leslie says winter has proven to be one of her biggest challenges. She landed in Anchorage at the beginning of one of the worst winters for a long time, and had to learn how to drive again. She had to get studded snow tires for her car and cleats for her shoes in order to get around, but adds that up there, theres a feeling that whatever you want to do can be done. If youre heading to Alaska and want to visit the museum, or would just like more information, email Leslie at museum@alaskajewishcampus.org.
Speaking of Samuel Goldfarb, weve received word that his greatgrandson Alec Goldfarb is following in Sams musical tradition. Alec won Downbeat Magazines Outstanding High School Music Performance Award for his original sheet music composition, Pendulum.
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Everyone needs a good dentist. Oral health sets the tone for the rest of your body, and what better way to start than your six-month checkup? Weve found five local Jewish dentists, all of whom are devoted to their patients and their community, with the help of you, our readers.
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Dr. David aronowitz stands behind his daughter Tania as she became a Bat Mitzvah in Jerusalem this month.
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Mexico City following dental schoolhe studied at the University of Dentistry and Medicine of New Jersey for his specialty and masters in oral and facial pain. He finished his thesis at the University of Washington, which brought him to the Seattle area, and he spends close to a third of his time working with what might be called short-term patients.
Father of Isaac and Joshua, husband of Michelle, and pride of his Jewish mother Joanne, Justice Gonzalez has long served the people of Washington. Ten years on the Superior Court. Awarded Outstanding Judge of the Year by the State Bar in 2011. Rated Exceptionally Well Qualified by 10 legal and civic organizations, including the Cardozo Society of Jewish lawyers and judges. Experience as Assistant U.S. Attorney, Domestic Violence Prosecutor, Business lawyer in private practice. Longtime mentor of disadvantaged youth.
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studied it at the University of Washington, health profession, but medicine becomes Dr. Louis Isquith was hesitant to speak The connection between engineerbut discovered dentistry after he took an your mistress, and with dentistry you still with the JTNews upon selection as one of ing and orthodontics is closer than the introduction course. He thanks his sister, have a family, time despite having to be on our five featured dentists. spaces between your teeth even smaller Shoreh, for steering him into dentistry. call for emergencies. I dont need any press or if youve had the benefits of orthodonCohanim ended up transAnd family is something publicity, he said. tic work. And with technoferring to the University he has a lot of. Isquith This, from the dentist logical developments like of Southern California to has eight children six who does not even have invisible braces and threestudy bioengineering before girls and two boys now a website. Just about all dimensional computer entering the dental school. between the ages of 26 and one can find on the Intermodeling, the bioengineerHe and his wife Beth 43. Like their father, theyre net about Isquith is that his ing and dentistry fields have have a raucous home: Their all in helping professions practice is located at 509 made great gains together. blended family has a total of like speech pathology and Olive Way, in Seattle. The As the product of 70s-era five teenagers. He and one social work. one review a basic search orthodontia, I admittedly of his daughters are seriWe went from PTA to conjures up praises Isquiths entered the Broadway office ous skiers, and the family Medicare, he says with a gentle team and his lowof Dr. Bobby Cohanim, an hikes and enjoys boating. laugh. tech, quality-guaranteed orthodontist and owner of courTeSy BoBBy coHanim Isquith specializes in service. Smileworks, with some trep- D r . B o b b y C o h a n i m o f Cohanim has also been a supporter of the Jewish FedYou wont get DVD idation. But I was welcomed SmileWorks in Seattle. Daniela ciuFFa restorative dentistry and eration of Greater Seattle, players, cool technology, Louis Isquith at his sons did all of his schooling at into an aura of Zen-like calm Jewish Family Service and Seattle Hebrew the UW. As an instructor, or a swank office. You will wedding in February. and relaxation, further enhanced by the Academy. hes seen many of his stuget someone who will make top docs impending departure for a vacaCohanim gives a straightforward dents become his colleagues, including sure your teeth dont fall out, the reviewer tion in Israel later that day. answer as to why he loves his practice. one of our other featured dentists, Wendy writes. In a world of shoddy dental work So when I queried where that calm I work with people who used to hate Spektor. (take it from me), thats worth a lot. came from, Dr. Cohanim said quietly, its smiling. Now they have a lot more confiHe is just a very kind and wonderIsquith has been in practice for 41 years a family trait. My grandfather was a calm dence, he says. ful person, Spektor says. She emphasizes come August, and hes been teaching at man. Aziz Cohanim, his grandfather, was a He finds his work with adults rewardhis dedication, and marvels at his ability the University of Washington for as long. textile manufacturer in Shiraz, Iran, part of ing and challenging because of those chalto build a successful practice while raising His private practice consists of himself, an a long lineage of Persian Jews whose family lenges, he says. People come to me with such a large family. assistant, a receptionist, and a hygienist lived in Iran since biblical times. Cohanim gum, jaw problems, with missing teeth. I was Jewish dust, she says.Ad 7-2012 up in Shiraz, a city near Persepolis, left in the Transcript whos been with him for 20 years. grew Sometimes I work with a surgeon on cases Isquith is a member of Temple De When asked what he likes most about 600 miles from Tehran. A city known for where there are orthodontia and jaw issues. Hirsch Sinai, and he likes to reminisce his profession, Isquith answers squarely: its wine and poets, Cohanims family left Cohanim showed a handwritten thank about the old days, when all the synaThe people. when the Shah fell when he was a teenyou note from an adult patient who gogues were in the Central District. Most jobs, its the same thing, he says. ager. He has no family left in Shiraz. expressed her appreciation of the staff and Although now a grandfather of eight, In dentistry, he gets to enjoy new interacThe Cohanims eventually settled in doctor. Isquith does not allude to any plans to tions every day. (He also manages to get in a Seattle. Young Bobby graduated from I like talking to patients; Im a good retire. We still have three more wedjoke about doctors who go into proctology.) the Northwest Yeshiva High School and listener. I tend to be calm, he says. dings, he says. Isquith knew he wanted to go into a has long been a member of Congregation Hes also a big proponent of orthodonEzra Bessaroth, one of the Sephardic synatic technology, some of which ties back gogues in Seward Park. to Israel: Or Yehuda-based Cadent manThe customs are very similar, said ufactures a machine that produces accuCohanim of the cultural differences rate imaging. between his Persian upbringing and the No more molds, he says. Rhodes Sephardic roots of his synagogue. To keep current on changes in orthoThe food is different. dontics, Cohanim also teaches and studies: Cohanims parents had plans for their son they wanted him to be a CPA. He liked computer science, however, and X PaGE 13
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He is an adjunct faculty member of the UW School of Dentistry and founded the First Hill Dental Study Club. He is also a member of the Puget Sound Orthodontic Study Club. Cohanim was also an early adopter of Invisalign mouth aligners with his patients, a series of invisible, removable aligners that help to straighten the teeth. Not surprisingly Dr. Cohanim is a true techie: He likes gadgets and does his own IT and networking in the office. Everything is on computer, he says. I like the digital age.
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Amato adds. Hes also been named one of Seattles best dentists by Seattle Metropolitan magazine for the past three years. In addition to his busy practice, Amato is in his second year as president of the Seattle chapter of Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity (AO), and before that I was secretary for a couple of years. The group meets about six times per academic year, often to hear from people who are doing something interesting in the Jewish community, but tzedakah is really [our] reason for being, he explains. Chapter fundraisers have benefited the Kline Galland Home, Jewish Family Service, and some Israeli organizations and dental schools. Some AO members, Amato included,also serve the community with pro-bono treatment for low-income clients of JFS. Originally from Huntington Station, N.Y., Amato went to The College of Wooster and then entered Washington State University to get a doctorate in chemistry. Two years into my Ph.D. I changed my mind, he says. I decided I wanted to do something different. A friend in graduate school talked my ear off about dental school and after some soul searchingit sounded like something Id like to do. Amato finds dentistry an amalgamation of a lot of different skills and fields (the pun was definitely not intended). You have the artistic aspectto make things look really nice; you have the functional part [to take] something thats broken and fix it, and the biology aspect. Of course he uses his chemistry knowledge in applied dental materials. I am fortunate, he says. I made the leap of faith and it has turned out to be anamazing career that I really enjoy. A Seattle resident for 12 years, he says the reason he stayed is because my wife Rebecca [Piha] is from here and Seattle is one of the epicenters of dentistry in the world. When the couple met, he was in dental school and she was preparing to go. They married in 2006 and she graduated in 2009 and practices in Tacoma. Amato enjoys gardening, playing soccer and reading in his spare time. The couple is active in animal rescue and in 11 years, weve probably rescued over 1,000 cats and dogs, which they rehabilitate and tame in their home.
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neil Diamond performs in concert July 23 at 8 p.m. at Key Arena, 401 First Ave. n, seattle. For tickets, call 206-684-7200 or visit www.keyarena.com.
hooked on a music career ever since. His first marriage to Jewish schoolteacher Jaye Posner, in 1963, with whom he had two daughters, lasted for six years. Diamond married Marcia Murphy in 1969 and had two sons with her before divorcing in 1994. Diamond has performed for Chabad, singing America at the 2002 LChaim To Life Telethon and donated funds to Hebrew University of Jerusalem at a 2003 dinner in honor of Barbra Streisand (with whom he sang a duet in You Dont Bring Me Flowers). Although Diamond has some disdain for organized religion, he wants to embrace Jewishness and raises funds for organizations he personally admires. I am Jewish. I believe in God, love the traditions I learned growing up, and tend to be very spiritual, so I want to pass on to my four grandchildren all I know about their heritage. Following the end of the concert tour in September, Diamond will be going on a six-month honeymoon to New York, Israel and Italy, among other stops. I want Katie to know everything about me and my past. Aside from my natural ties to New York City and Israel, my mother has relatives in Italy, so we look forward to a wonderful journey together.
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Friday, July 13sunday July 29, showtimes vary The sound of Music Theatre Youth Theatre Northwest brings life to one of the most beloved Rogers and Hammerstein classics, the story of the curious, boisterous young nun, Maria, the stern Captain von Trapp and his seven motherless children during wartime Austria. Filled with songs iconic to the American cultural landscape, The Sound of Music will be performed by talented local children and teens. Performances are on the Youth Theatre NWs Mainstage Friday and Saturday evenings at 7 p.m., Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. and weekday matinees Tuesday Thursday at 2 p.m. At The Youth Theatre NW, 8805 SE 40th St., Mercer Island. Tickets $1317. Call 206-232-4145, ext. 109, or visit www.youththeatre.org.
Friday, July 20sunday, August 26, showtimes vary The Pinter Festival Theatre Comprised of an 11-person cast, the ACT Theatre Mainstage and Central Heating Lab present four Harold Pinter classic plays in repertory: The Dumb Waiter, Celebration, Old Times and No Mans Land. Also featured are rare Pinter sketches, free film screenings, master classes and other festivities. Famous for his biting humor and a favorite of professionals, scholars, and people who like their humor on the darker side, ACT looks to introduce Seattle to many of Nobel Prize laureate Pinters lesser-known and rarely produced works. At the ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle. Ticket costs vary depending upon event. Visit www.acttheatre.org/Tickets/OnStage/ThePinterFestival2012 for ticket information.
sunday, July 15 at 4 p.m. Two Among the Righteous Few. Reading/signing Author Marty Brounstein presents a remarkable true story of interfaith compassion, courage, and rescue involving a Christian couple who saved the lives of at least two dozen Jews during World War II and the Holocaust. The event is free and open to the public. Brounsteins book will be available for purchase. At the Stroum Jewish Community Centers Kesher Community Garden, weather permitting, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. For more information, contact Kim Lawson at 206-232-7115, ext. 267 or klawson@sjcc.org.
Thursday, July 26 at 7 p.m. Anne Mendels Etiquette for an Apocalypse Reading/signing Jewish American Princess, meet the four horsemen. Its 2023, the apocalypse just hit, and Sophie Cohen must keep her family alive through the predictable apocalyptic obstacles of starvation, earthquakes and plagues. If that werent enough, Sophie deprived of her Prius and iPhone has to hunt down a serial killer, diffuse the emergent power structure, and turn a pizza box into a solar oven. Hilarity ensues. At Third Place Books, 7171 Bothell Way, NE, Lake Forest Park.
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at Buchenwald after liberation at the same time a local woman, Margaret Hollinger, was deployed there as an army nurse. Simon coordinated a visit between Lau and Hollinger, now 102 and living at the Caroline Kline Galland Home (see sidebar). Additionally, she arranged for him to visit the center, where he met local Holocaust survivors Henry Friedman, Magda Schaloum, and Klaus and Paula Stern. Anna Marie Lawrence, daughter of former U.S. Sen. Henry M. Jackson, co-sponsor of the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which restricted trade with non-market economies such as the former Soviet Union, presented Lau with a medal to honor his work in bringing Soviet Jews to Israel. Lau also met Leo Hymas, a member of General Pattons army. Hymas was among the first Americans to enter Buchenwald (see sidebar). It was nice for us to be involved with the greater community, which we dont always have the opportunity to do, Simon said. Most of the Holocaust Centers work takes place in schools statewide. At his talks, Lau shared anecdotes from his childhood and rabbinic career, drawing on moments when things came full circle. On one of his hospital visits to a young terror victim as chief rabbi during the first intifada, he visited each of them he told her father to one day invite
him to her wedding. Seven years later, he officiated. He also recounted his visit from former basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, whose fathers friend was a Buchenwald liberator. The soldier lifted up a little boy to rebuke the townspeople, who were invited to see what the Nazis were doing in their backyard. Abdul-Jabbar and his father followed the life of that little boy, who grew up to be the chief rabbi of Israel. Many years later, when Abdul-Jabbar visited Lau at his office, Rabbi Lau remembers looking up at him, and asking him to please, sit down. After the congenial visit, Rabbi Lau received a warning from the Ku Klux Klan never to visit America. Blacks are not fighters, he said they told him. They were meant to be slaves. Laus disgust for hatred and desire for reconciliation led to a number of exceptional meetings, including with Pope John Paul II, and an appearance on a Muslim talk show. Meyers, who said he does not get emotional easily, said he was moved by rabbis visit. It was overwhelming, the whole thing, he said. The takeaway, for him, was the motivation to use the resources at the Jewish worlds disposal to work toward building a stronger community. He took us out of Yad Vashem, said Meyers, to a balcony overlooking Yerushalayim.
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his brothers near-death experience with typhus. He would visit his brother through a hospital window every day. According to Lau, 60 percent of Buchenwalds survivors died after liberation, many to the rampant disease. Today, the 102-year-old Hollinger lives at the Caroline Kline Galland Home in Seattle. Though wheelchair-bound and hooked to oxygen, Hollingers memory still serves her well. On June 22, she and Rabbi Lau met while with a small group of residents and together flipped through the album. Hollinger and her fellow nurses were barred from entering the camp, but she sent her camera in with a soldier. She said she could have been arrested, since taking pictures was not allowed. These are dead bodies, she said, running her finger over a pile of skeletal corpses, their eyes still open. How can they deny the Holocaust? the rabbi cried while speaking to residents at the Kline Galland. Send the president of Iran [here]. We dont want him! responded
nearly everyone in the room. When people with numbers on their arms are still alive! Lau continued. Almost on every bus in Tel Aviv you see numbers, when survivors reach up to hold onto a bar, he said. As for her reaction to encountering the conditions of the camp, I dont think we had time to think, Hollinger said. Acting fast seems to be a theme of Hollingers life. When she escaped to Bismarck, she had to do what had to be done, she said. When she volunteered to help a wounded soldier during the war, she ended up trapped behind enemy lines. Was she afraid? We didnt have time to be afraid, she answered. As Rabbi Lau prepared to leave, Josh Gortler, chair of the Kline Galland Foundation and also a Holocaust survivor, thanked Hollinger. Margaret, you have helped so many Jewish survivors, he said. You are an honorary Jew. It took you to 102, Margaret, but you made it, said Conrard.
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else I want a medal, but I want to enjoy it, she said. Typically, the Israeli team has a strong international flavor. Several of the athletes were born in the Soviet Union, and two were born and raised in the United States pole vaulter Jillian Schwartz and 400meter sprinter Donald Sanford. Schwartz connected with Israel after competing
there in 2009, while Sanford, who is not Jewish, married an Israeli and lives part of the year on her familys kibbutz. Both are now Israeli citizens. For his part, Sanford seems to have settled in well with his new Israeli family. Her ima, her abba and her savta live 400 meters from where we live, said Sanford, using the Hebrew words for his wifes mother, father and grandmother. We see them every day.
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When his turn came to speak with the rabbi, Hymas had one question: Can you forgive us for not coming sooner? Its not your fault, Rabbi Lau responded. Hymas says that telling his story with the Holocaust Center for the past 16 years has been a healing process. Each [talk] helps me overcome the terrible, terrible memories that I have, he says. The remaining SS guards at Buchenwald were ordered to kill the prisoners, destroy the records and burn the camp down. A large company of Americans came to the aid of Hymas and his com-
rades, because, he said, we had to knock off a few guards. Generals Patton and Eisenhower arrived with their staffs, and Eisenhower ordered the media to take pictures. Someday there will be people who will say this didnt happen, Hymas remembers him saying. The American troops gathered civilians living in nearby Weimar and brought them to the camp. They claimed they didnt know anything about it, he said. The soldiers made them each carry a body over their shoulder to a mass grave. After liberating Buchenwald, Hymas helped liberate Prague, where he caught
a roomful of Nazi soldiers and Gestapo changing out of their uniforms into civilian clothes. We caught them right in the very act, said Hymas. In the process, he found an American pistol tucked inside a Germans coat pocket. I pushed my pistol up his nose, and I came this close to pulling the trigger, he said. But Hymas, who is Mormon, remembered God, and instead stripped the soldier of his medals and took him to a prisoner-of-war camp. Hymas was shipped out to Japan after his European tour, but the atomic bombs blew up over Nagasaki and Hiroshima
while he was on the way. Back in America, the Utah native married his high school sweetheart, Amy, and did some police work for the military before being honorably discharged at the age of 20. Later he moved to the Seattle area to work for Boeing. Im grateful I survived, he said. Im pleased I had the opportunity to save so many people. I look back on it as a learning experience, for me to learn to love my God and his children, who are my brothers and sisters. Hymas is proud to have brought freedom to the survivors of Buchenwald, and Rabbi Lau, who was barely 8 years old at the time. The German plan to extinguish the Jewish people is the most evil, the most wicked thing Ive ever heard about, said Hymas. Im so grateful I had one little part in bringing it to an end.
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did extremely well in not only guiding us through that very difficult period, but also in instigating the numerous new programs and initiatives to the community, [and] kept us on a reasonably good financial basis in terms of getting through the diffi-
cult fundraising period. Current board chair Bensussen said now is the time for the Federation to move forward. Were just going to keep the momentum going, she said. Were moving ahead and fine-tuning the new model [and] moving the campaign.
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Great-grandpa Sam may be best known as the composer of The Dreidel Song, (you know, I have a little dreidel, I made it out of clay) and many other liturgical pieces still used in synagogues today, some of which were composed and arranged in partnership with his brother, Israel.
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Marilyn Leibert at info@seattlekollel.org or 206-722-8289 Shabbat afternoon meal for women only. Silver will give a talk, A Womens Ticket to Eternity: Inner Strengths Within That You Didnt Know You Had. Free. At the home of Lynda Wegodsky. Call for address.
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of the best nursing homes in the United States. You have a stellar Hillel. You have a wonderful JFS. You have the [Jewish Community Center] thats undergoing a radical transformation now. You can go down the line and you can see that all of the various agencies are really pulling their act together. But everyones done it on their own. JT: What are some of the really hard decisions youve had to make over the years? Ken: There was a resettlement agency on the Eastside, and it was going out of business, and United Way phoned us and said, Are you interested in taking this agency over? That was an excruciating decision. We ultimately decided yes, and I think its been a terrific decision for us. And its made us one of the leaders in the state of Washington in resettlement. I think the building, and the building being here, were not always popular with my lay leaders, but I always felt it was what
was best and pushed for it. We were the first agency other than Federation who hired development people and then a development department. I think that was initially controversial because at first, even the board we had at that time said, You could be feeding a lot of people instead of spending on someone who does marketing, for example. But I certainly knew, and I think there were some people on the board who knew, that the way you would pay for all for these programs was investing in development and in marketing. Going into the homecare business was something which was scary and costly, but Im really, really pleased that we did it, and I think it provides a great service. Closing our two group homes and moving to a supportive living structure was controversial and painful painful to the parents who felt perhaps that we were abandoning them. It took us a while and a lot of work for us to make sure we were not abandoning them, nor were we abandoning their children, but we were moving into a new model.
JT: And as for your future? Ken: Definitely I will spend more time in better weather than this. But Im very committed to this agency and very committed to this community and I expect myself to remain busy either assisting this agency or assisting this community or assisting other communities. I feel like Im graduating from college and the world out there is waiting for me to make up my mind. I feel like Ive had 38 years. What am I going to pick and choose that will be meaningful, make a difference, continue to make a difference in the world, [and] fulfilling? I see that as a real challenge for me. Ive had all of that answered by my work here. I have to find a meaningful life in the world for the rest of my life. But it doesnt frighten me. It doesnt scare me. I have lots of things that Im interested in and lots of things that I think Im good at, and I think it will be a wonderful challenge.
A farewell to David
yossi kleiN halevi Special to JTnews
My friendship with David Brumer began with an email. Hed written an Op-Ed in defense of Israel for his local daily newspaper, David wrote me. Would I mind taking a look at it? It was during the terrible days of the second intifada, when buses and restaurants were blowing up and Israelis were feeling not only besieged, but abandoned. And now here was a Jew from Seattle, someone I didnt know, sending me what turned out to be a compelling defense of Israel. David died suddenly on Sunday, July 8. He was 56 years old. The news of his passing devastated me. Through his blogs and Op-Eds, his promotion of Israeli films and his nearly fulltime volunteer work for pro-Israel groups, David revealed an irresistible common sense on Israels behalf. Few knew as well as he did how to speak to Israels critics.
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He understood their concerns even as he refuted their distortions. He won an argument because he was ready to concede points to his opponents, because he was committed more to telling the truth than to winning. David soon became my favorite proIsrael advocate. Partly it was the way he combined reason with passion, never losing his good humor no matter how relentlessly he argued a point. Partly it was his empathy. Even many American Jews attached to Israel experienced a certain fatigue during the years of the suicide bombings. But David lived through each one with us, refused to allow
distance to undermine empathy. No one was more courageous in advocating for Israel. David wasnt afraid to take on the most difficult issues, like refuting the blood libel being promoted by the family of Rachel Corrie. David would laugh if hed heard me call him courageous. He didnt think he was doing anything special in devoting himself to Israel. In his mind he was simply doing what any stand-up guy would do. Israel was being unfairly judged and sentenced, and someone had to take on the defense. But no one defended Israel with such grace, such generosity. Israels opponents perplexed more than infuriated him. Why couldnt they see how wrong they were, what damage they were doing? David was
especially frustrated by the Jews among the anti-Israel lynch mob. But he was incapable of expressing rage against them. He loved the Jews too much, even those who were hurting their own people. Anyone privileged to have worked with David in defense of Israel knew that what inspired his prodigious energy and output was an open heart. As if David were trying to protect Israel by loving it as totally, as unconditionally, as its enemies hated it. In the end, it was about family. David loved Israel the way he loved his Israeli wife, Iris, the way he loved his two sons
Nadav and Asaph, the way he loved his friends. There was in David an inexhaustible generosity, a pride in the achievements of those he loved. And a quiet ferocity in defending those he loved from harm. With all his loves, David asked for nothing in return. He only wanted to continue to love. May his love continue to bless us.
Yossi Klein Halevi is a fellow of the Engaging Israel Project of the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
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