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Depending upon which agency you talk to, the end of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s 2012 Community Campaign is either the best of times or the worst of times. The campaign is expected to close at $4.9 million — on par with last year’s campaign but lower than the 2011 Fiscal Year — but the way the Federation allocates its money has changed significantly between this year and last.

Given the past years’ economic conditions, “I think staying even in the campaign is a success,” said Richard Fruchter, the Federation’s president and CEO.

Fruchter said the implementation of its new fundraising and alloca-tions model likely affected the campaigns growth this year, but donor education should help to increase the campaign in the future.

The new model is two-fold: Donors can choose between either giving to specific areas such as early childhood, building Jewish iden-tity, and helping older adults, or to a general unrestricted fund, as they had done in the past; then committees from each area assess grant pro-posals that resulted in 48 agencies — 20 of which had never received Federation campaign funding in the past — receiving grants for spe-cific projects or programs. Allocations in the past went toward orga-nizations’ bottom lines with no requirements about how the money should be used.

“The Federation’s mandate is looking at the community as a whole,” said Jack Almo, chair of the Federation’s Planning and Allocations

committee. “We really opened up the process this year to be able to fund ini-tiatives that we believe are important, such as camping, and supplementary and synagogue school funding, and organizations that we haven’t histori-cally had a relationship with, but are actually doing good work in the com-munity.”

Besides requiring requests that focused on specific projects, the Planning and Allocations committee gave enthusiastic consideration to collaborative programs. What was labeled the “joint-camp proposal,” for example, gives $58,370 to help bring first-timers to one of five summer camps.

Though the Federation had raised money for need-based camp scholar-ships in the past, “this is an identity builder that’s really important for the community, and we ought to be funding it through the community cam-paign,” Fruchter said.

In all, the Federation gave a $156,000 increase to local agencies over 2012 as well as $40,000 to contingency and emergency funds that had gone unfunded for several years.

In its first time opening the process to synagogues, a $7,000 grant to Con-gregation Beth Hatikvah in Bremerton will allow the Reform congregation to expand its small education program beyond the 7th grade as well as create a curriculum for its membership of mostly military families that often come to the area with little or no Jewish background.

Rabbi Sarah Newmark said the grant plants the seeds for a program

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President Obama’s ‘Polish death camps’ mistake is commonMichael BerenBauM JTA World News Service

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — President Obama made a simple and very basic mis-take when he spoke of Polish death camps during the presentation of a posthumous Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, a Polish resistance fighter who was among the first to report German atrocities in his country.

The president spoke during the May 29 ceremony of how the Polish underground “smuggled [Karski] into the Warsaw Ghetto and a Polish death camp to see for himself.”

The next day, after objections from the Polish government, a spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council said the president “misspoke” and meant “Nazi death camps in Poland.”

There were death camps and they were situated in Poland — deliberately so — but there were no Polish death camps. The most accurate way to refer to these camps is “Nazi death camps in German-occupied Poland.”

Let me tell you why: Poland was occu-pied by Germany. Occupation was an act

of state, not of the Nazi Party. So there was no Nazi occupation, no Nazi army, no Nazi laws. There was German occupation, a German army — the Wehrmacht — and German laws. These were instruments of the state.

These mistakes are all too common even in articles written by scholars and historians. For example, the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust commonly refers to Nazi occupation. Its editor is a distinguished scholar.

That which was undertaken by the Nazi Party to realize its ideology can be properly referred to as Nazi. Hence the death camps were Nazi in origin, con-ception and operation, but they were sit-uated in German-occupied Poland, an area known as the General Government (except for Auschwitz, which was situated in Upper Silesia, and Chlemno, located in the Warthegau).

Another caution: Between September 1939 and June 1941, Western Poland was occupied by Germany and Eastern Poland

by the Soviet Union. So Soviet — not Rus-sian — occupation was the rule in Eastern Poland for 22 months. Thereafter, Ger-many occupied these lands until the Soviet Union reentered these territories in its march to victory in 1944 and 1945.

For clarity’s sake, we should specify that Poland itself was divided. Some West-ern areas were annexed to the Reich, some were occupied by the Reich — the General Government.

In the areas incorporated into the Reich, all existing Polish institutions were dissolved and new administrative units were established. In the occupied but non-incorporated territories, not all Polish institutions were dissolved.

One other common mistake: Many write of the Jews who “perished” in the Holocaust. Jews did not perish in the Holocaust. They were murdered, annihi-lated.

Extermination is a Nazi term; some-thing that is done to vermin and rats, not to people. We should not use Nazi terms,

except when we specify that they are Nazi terms.

The Poles are properly sensitive to the common mistake of speaking of Polish death camps. They have labored hard in the post-Communist era to correct this mistake and to change common usage. Their efforts deserve our support. Simply put, they are truthful.

The president’s speech writers ill served him and ill served the late Jan Karski, the man so deserving of the Presiden-tial Medal of Freedom. They should have known better or verified these matters. The president’s mistake is entirely forgiv-able. I can cite many distinguished schol-ars who have made the very same mistake.

His correction is equally proper. It might go a long way toward ensuring that this mistake is not repeated.

Michael Berenbaum is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University.

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“The issue for me is above all, domestic, moral, and democratic.”— Avner Cohen, an expert on nuclear nonproliferation, on Israel’s relationship with the bomb. See the story on page 15.

My God and the God of my father raBBi Jay rosenBauM Herzl–Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation

When I was in my early 20s, I went through a period of several years when I set Judaism aside. I was raised with the best Jewish upbring-ing you can imagine: My father was a Conservative rabbi, our family was shomer Shabbat and our home was kosher, and I attended a Jewish day school through high school. Yet for several years, I exper-imented with living as if I’d had none of this Jewish influence. This period of my life coincided with a lot of personal soul searching on my part. I was unsure of my direction, especially what career I wanted to pursue. Even after I entered rabbini-cal school, I was far from clear on what I would do when I completed my training.

Shortly after I entered rabbinical school, my father gave me a copy of Elie Wiesel’s “Messengers of God.” The inscription my father addressed to me on the inside cover has often come back as an example of the power of words of Torah to impact us in a very personal way. The inscription began with the words of Moses to God. When God sent Moses to rescue the Jewish people from slavery, the first reaction of our people was excitement. But then Pharoah increased the already-crushing burden on the Jewish slaves and anticipation quickly turned to despair and anger. The Jewish people complained to Moses that it would have been better if God had never sent him in the first place. Their lives were even more miserable because of his interference.

When the Jewish people cried out to Moses, Moses in turn cried out to God: “Lama harei’ota la’am ha’zeh. Lama zeh shlachtani?” “Why have you brought suffer-ing on this people? Why did you send me?”

These were the opening words of my father’s inscription, followed by God’s somewhat cryptic response, “Vayomer Adonai…ani Adonai” “And God said…I am the Lord,” and then Rashi’s interpreta-tion: “V’lo l’chinam shelachticha” “And I have not sent you in vain.”

My father was a gifted writer. He knew a thing or two about words. Yet, my father chose to speak to me in a deeply personal way in words that were not his own. They were words of Torah. What was my father

saying to me? He was reassur-ing me that everything was going to be all right.

“Look at Moses,” he was telling me. “Can you imagine a more meaningful and suc-cessful life than his? Yet, as a young man, Moses had pro-found doubts about himself and his mission in life. If even Moses had his moments of

uncertainty, the rest of us are entitled to our own period of confusion. It worked out for Moses. It will work out for you, too.”

Of course, there was more. The words “v’lo l’chinam shelachticha” were the words Rashi imagined God speaking to Moses. Now my father was speaking them to me. He was telling me he had not sent me into this world in vain. I had a purpose, my life had a meaning. I hadn’t found it yet, but in time I would.

Looking back over the years, I’m still amazed by how deeply affecting a mes-sage my father was able to convey to me in words he did not compose. He let me know he had faith in me. He dignified my own confusion by anchoring it in the his-tory of our people. He showed me that the lessons of our Jewish path could speak to the most personal issues of our own lives.

Not least of all, my father was respond-ing to my questions about Judaism itself. Years of Jewish learning had given both my father and me a language of commu-nication: The language of Torah. If we can learn to speak it, this language can con-nect us intimately to Jewish history, yet at the same time it can enable us to express something absolutely personal. The words my father wrote to me were meant for me and me alone. No one but my father would have used those words the way he did. Yet in speaking to my heart in Rashi’s words, my father was reminding me of how much we are connected to each other, and how our lives can mean so much more if we can find in them an echo of the lives that came before us.

There was a time I believed that to be myself, I had to define myself in contrast to my family, my community and my her-itage. With three simple words, my father showed me that the deeper our connec-tions to others, the richer are our tools for self-expression.

Our fates are all tied togetherlena FriedMan Special to JTNews

When I first read my parashah, the part of the Torah we read today, I saw words like leprosy, and discussion of people with boils and all kinds of skin diseases, and the Torah told the story of how these people were to be dealt with and treated. And the first thing I thought was, “Yuck”!

But then I thought more seriously, and I could tell that the Jewish people were really struggling with what to do — how to deal with people with illness. On one hand, these people had diseases that would spread by contact, and because there was no medicine available, the disease would be fatal to all if caught. But on the other hand, the Jews were still plainly strug-gling. After all, it would have been easy to simply banish these people and forget about them altogether. But that is not what they decided. That is not what happened.

Instead, difficult choices were made: Choices about where one can safely live, what one should wear to cover the infected area, and what treatments one should receive, even if there were no doctors, so the people could go on with their lives with as much meaning and dignity as pos-sible.

It was then I realized what this part of the Torah is really all about! It is about recognizing the justice that is due to those who are infected with disease, and the need to remember that they are a part of us. We are all in this together. As Rabbi Simcha Weintraub states: “Our genera-tion, as those before and after us, will be judged by how we listen to those who are sick and how we care for them. In the end, there is no them. There is only us.”

I talked to my mom, since my father found this story from the Torah kind of gross. My mom is a doctor who treats

people with AIDS, and she made me aware of stories from very recent years where people with AIDS were treated very badly while we all tried to figure out what to do, and about how much injury was done by us to these AIDS-stricken people.

This made me think beyond sickness — it made me think of things I see in my own life, at my own school. People who are different in their own way. People who wear braces like I did, people who are tall, people who are small, people who think more quickly than others, or at least seem to. People who set high school run-ning records, and people who have trouble walking at all. People who dress differ-ently. People whose religion is different. Or maybe they have no religion at all.

To me, the world is anything but a uni-form place. Anything but a single color. Or a single shape. Or size.

To me, the world is one big rainbow filled with all sorts of people, healthy and unhealthy, and with all sorts of challenges before them! And the important thing, as the Torah teaches, is to treat everyone with dignity, fairness, respect, compassion, and the truth that we are all in this together.

It is as if we are all inside one big Noah’s ark, floating down the river, and our fates are tied by how we treat each other. My fate is tied with that person who has AIDS just as her fate is tied with mine. And on this ark there is no room for bully-ing. Instead, we all work together, and we laugh, and we love.

Lena Friedman is a student at the Northwest School. She wrote this dvar Torah for the occasion of her becoming a Bat Mitzvah at Temple Beth Am on April 27, 2012.

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nized speaker and author who, at the age of 8, was one of the youngest survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp, will make a historic visit to Seattle June 21–24 to speak about Jewish life today and Holocaust remembrance. Starting on Thurs., June 21 at 7:30 p.m., you can find Rabbi Lau at Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath, 5145 S Morgan St., Seat-tle, where he will speak about “From Shoah to Rebirth” and sign his new book. On Sat., June 23, Rabbi Lau has two speaking engagements at Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., one at 10:15 a.m. and the other at 12 p.m. A lunch will follow the noon talk. Lunch is $20 per family and requires a reservation at RabbiLauSeattle@gmail.com. Later that evening, the rabbi will speak again at BCMH at 7 p.m. and then at 8:30 p.m. at Sep-hardic Bikur Holim, 6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle. All lectures are free but space is limited and nearing capacity. For more information, visit facebook.com/RabbiLau.

■ Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s annual meeting

The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle will celebrate another year of supporting the Seattle area’s Jewish community at its annual meeting, recognizing community members for their service over the year. Join chairs Andrea and Michael Dickstein and the staff and leadership of the Jewish Federation in honoring the volunteers and leaders who are work-ing together to transform the way the Federation delivers critical funds to its community partners.

The reception includes light dinner, beer and wine. The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Thurs., June 21 at the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park, 1400 E Prospect St., Seattle. Registration for the meeting is $36 and $72 for patrons at www.jewishinseattle.org/annualmeeting.

■ First comes love, then comes commitmentHe loves me, but he just can’t commit! Heard that one before? Jewish Family Service

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make commitment tangible and to build a relationship based on trust and support. On Tues., June 19 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Jewish Family Service, 1601 16th Ave., Seattle. $15 per couple. People of all backgrounds are welcome to attend, and financial assistance is available. Regis-ter in advance with Marjorie Schnyder at 206-861-3146 or familylife@jfsseattle.org.

■ Slam dunk: Another chance to catch some SJFF films

Did you miss out on this year’s Seattle Jewish Film Festival? The AJC Seattle Jewish Film Festival and the Stroum Jewish Community Center present its year-round, encore film series “Best of Fest,” which brings back featured festival films. The series starts with a Father’s Day movie screening of “The First Basket” by director David Vyorst. This film pays homage to the role sports played in the Jewish immigrant experience and the fabric of America. Co-sponsored by the Washington State Jewish Historical Society. The screen-ing will begin at 3 p.m. on Sun., June 17 at the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. Tickets are $8 general admission, $6 for seniors and youth. For more information, contact Roni Antebi at RoniA@sjcc.org or 206-232-7115. To purchase tickets in advance, visit ow.ly/blTgi.

■ Walk for a cure Take Steps for Crohn’s & Colitis is the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Ameri-

ca’s largest annual event. The casual 2-3 mile stroll raises money for crucial research to bring about a future free from Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. While many suffer in silence, Take Steps brings together this community in a fun and energetic atmosphere, encouraging supporters to make noise and be heard.

Of the 1.4 million American adults and children affected by this disease, Ashkenazi Jews make up a large portion of those impacted by Crohn’s and colitis. Donations help to sup-port local patient programs, as well as important research projects. Young adults can join Jconnect at the event and be a member of their team. There will be food, music and kids’ activities.

The walk begins at 3 p.m. on Sat., June 9 at Magnuson Park, 7400 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle. For more information, contact Deborah Jacoby at djacoby@ccfa.org or 425-451-8455 or visit bit.ly/NiLPBq.

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From the Jewish Transcript, June 7, 1979.

Things certainly have changed in 33 years. At an event in which he was hon-ored for his service, former Senator Henry Jackson said that Israel should not accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank. Today, the Netanyahu government has set as a matter of policy the goal of a two-state solution.

Meals on wheels 7Hazon’s cross-country environmental bike ride, which brings attention to sustainable food sources this year, departs from Seattle June 10.

Today, you are a man. Or a woman. 10The JTNews pays tribute to 2012’s day school and Hebrew school graduates

Israel to your health: Climbing the ranks 16Israeli universities churn out cutting-edge science and tech programs, climbing up the ranks of the world’s best schools.

Lifting the nuclear curtain 17Armed with a cache of declassified documents, an Israel nuclear weapons expert wants you to know the truth.

Sweet Misery 20Nationwide panic over Trader Joe’s kosher chocolate chips reaches Seattle. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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Some little-known Israeli triviaWho owns the land upon which the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, sits? Want

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federation grants by Program/Project title FY 2013 grant BUILDING JEWISH COMMUNITY ■ adult Education Herzl-ner tamid / torahthon $5,000 adult Education totals $5,000 ■ Building JEwisH idEntitY Birthright/taglit / Birthright israel $10,000 Hillel at uw / Passover $20,000 Jewish Family service / Family life Education & Endless opportunities and shaarei tikvah $97,290 Jtnews Media / community outreach Free distribution initiative $22,700 stroum Jewish community center / Jewish community Holiday celebrations $48,645 washington state Holocaust Education resource center / Yom Hashoah community commemorations $5,000 washington state Jewish Historical society / instant replay: Featuring washington Jews in sports $5,000 Building JEwisH idEntitY totals $208,635 ■ Young adults: agEd 18–35 chabad at uw / shabbat and Holiday celebrations $5,000 Hillel at uw / Jconnect seattle $92,425 Hillel at uw / undergraduate shabbat and Holidays $10,000 Young adults totals $107,425 BUILDING JEWISH COMMUNITY TOTALS $321,060 EXPERIENCING JUDAISM ■ EarlY cHildHood PJ library $119,760 stroum Jewish community center / new Family outreach $90,480 seattle Jewish community school / leveraging our community campus $15,000 EarlY cHildHood totals $225,240 ■ ForMal JEwisH Education Beth Hatikvah / Yesodot Hazakim $7,000 Education services / Encouraging Excellence through collaboration $97,290 Joint day school application / tuition assistance Program (Participating schools: Jewish day school, Menachem Mendel seattle cheder, northwest Yeshiva High school, seattle Hebrew academy, seattle Jewish community school, torah day school) $291,870 Kavana cooperative / Educational array $5,000 Kol Haneshamah / out of the Box $8,000 livnot Project $35,000 ForMal JEwisH Education totals $444,160 ■ tEEn ExPEriEncEs anti-defamation league / confronting anti-semitism / Empowering Jewish teens $5,000 BBYo Evergreen / seattle BBYo $9,000 community need-Based teen israel Program scholarships $20,000 Jewish day school, seattle Hebrew academy / 8th grade israel trips $15,000 Joint teen israel incentives (Participating agencies: alexander Muss High school in israel, BBYo, camp solomon schechter, nesiya, north american Federation of temple Youth, ncsY, united synagogue Youth, Young Judaea) $48,645 seattle ncsY / torah High $9,000 tEEn ExPEriEncEs total $106,645 ■ JEwisH caMPing community need-Based summer camp scholarships $48,645 Joint camp Proposal / inter-camp First-time camper incentive (Participating camps: Bikur cholim-Machzikay Hadath camp Kol rena, camp solomon schechter, sephardic adventure camp, stroum Jewish community center summer camp, urJ camp Kalsman) $58,370 stroum Jewish community center / overnight camp initiative $18,400 stroum Jewish community center / summer camp $67,080 JEwisH caMPing totals $192,495 EXPERIENCING JUDAISM TOTALS $968,540 STRENGTHENING GLOBAL JEWRY ■ HuMan nEEd ovErsEas Joint distribution committee / caring for impoverished children in ukraine $48,788 HuMan nEEd ovErsEas total $48,788 ■ sErvicEs to tHE EldErlY Joint distribution committee / Providing vital relief for impoverished Elderly in the Former soviet union $48,788 sErvicEs to tHE EldErlY totals $48,788 ■ HuMan nEEd in israEl development Fund for Kiryat Malachi / Kiryat Malachi Emergency clinic $7,000 leket israel / nutritional support for vulnerable Populations in the Kiryat Malachi & Hof ashkelon region $22,000 sElaH / direct Emergency aid to immigrants in crisis $25,000 tiPs / tiPs Partnership with Kiryat Malachi & Hof ashkelon region $105,944 YEdid / Kiryat Malachi citizens rights center $17,500 HuMan nEEd in israEl totals $177,444 ■ JEwisH FEdErations oF nortH aMErica unrEstrictEd allocation $503,309STRENGTHENING GLOBAL JEWRY TOTALS $778,329 HELPING OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY IN NEED ■ oldEr adults Kline galland / Home-Health agency $45,000 oldEr adults totals $45,000 ■ staBilizing livEs in crisis Jewish Family service / Emergency services and Food Bank $97,290 Jewish Family service / Project dvora $72,960 staBilizing livEs in crisis totals $170,250 ■ MEntal HEaltH Eastern European counseling center / Mental Health treatment $5,000 Friendship circle / sunday circle $21,750 Jewish Family service / alternatives to addiction $48,645 MEntal HEaltH total $75,395HELPING OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY TOTALS $290,645 TOTAL ALLOCATIONS $2,358,573

that will enable them to hire an educa-tion director and integrate Jewish learning more fully into the synagogue.

For older adult services, Jeff Cohen, CEO of the Caroline Kline Galland and Affiliates nursing and assisted living cen-ters, said his organization’s $45,000 grant will help the agency launch a service that takes healthcare outside of the confines of its facilities.

“It’s allowing us to apply for seed money for a new home-health agency that will allow Kline Galland to send in licensed nurses and therapists into peo-ple’s homes,” Cohen said.

The home-based program can eventu-ally be funded by Medicare, but qualifying agencies must be up and running before they can be certified.

“This [grant] will help to defray some of those startup costs,” Cohen said. “In future years we’re planning that the program will fund itself.”

The Kline Galland received $11,997 last year in unrestricted funds, just over a quarter of the grant it received this year. While Cohen expressed enthusiasm about his agency’s grant, Jewish Family Service, historically the Federation’s single larg-est beneficiary, expressed disappointment.

“We received a 28 percent cut from last year’s allocation to this year’s allocation. That is a very significant cut,” said Ken Weinberg, JFS’s CEO. That equals a reduc-tion of $121,860.

“You do not cut the social service agency that deals with the most vulnerable people in our society during the worst eco-nomic crisis since the 1930s,” he said.

Though JFS did raise $1 million at its annual luncheon last month, that money, plus another $200,000 it needs to raise before June 30, is slated for the current fiscal year.

Almo noted that the Federation’s man-date is to look at the community as a whole, which meant spreading the avail-able funds beyond the same organizations that had been funded for decades.

“With looking at helping our commu-nity in need, they did receive the lion’s share of the funding,” Almo said of JFS. “They’re our primary agency in that area.”

He noted as well that the Federation also uses its resources to advocate for agen-cies, including JFS, in Olympia.

JFS will be a partner in a new Jewish supplementary high school program called Livnot, administered by congregations Beth Shalom and Herzl–Ner Tamid. It launches next school year with the help of a $35,000 grant.

“While this is a project that has been piloted by two congregations, our vision of it was not one that belonged to congre-gations, but is open to all teens in the city,” said Rabbi Jill Borodin of Congregation Beth Shalom.

The synagogues are joining with JFS and the social-action organization Repair the World to create leadership courses for the teens within various social service agencies around the region.

“They’re creating change and being empowered for the work they’re doing through Jewish learning,” Borodin said. “That’s going to carry them forward into [becoming] leaders on campus [and] into their lives.”

Hillel at the University of Washing-ton saw a total reduction of $22,676 in the three grants it received. But that money still will need to be made up in its budget.

“Like everyone else in this economy these days, it means economizing, down-sizing and sort of being thrifty about the way we do business,” said Rabbi Oren

Hayon, Hillel’s executive director. He said he found it curious that Hillel

had received $92, 425 for its Jconnect young adults program but only $10,000 for under-graduate services, its bread and butter.

“If we’re not delivering Jewish content for college students, we don’t need to be here,” Hayon said. But “if it means that we’re not throwing the kinds of events or feeding them the kinds of food or offering the same kinds of decorations as before, I’m confident that they’ll walk away from

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Chains oiled, legs stretched: Jewish cross-country bike ride rolls from Seattledikla TuchMan JTNews Correspondent

Why wouldn’t a Jewish cross-country bike ride launch from Seattle? The region ranks number two among major Amer-ican cities in which people commute to work by bike. The percentage of people who use bicycles as their primary mode of getting to work in Seattle increased 22 percent between 2009 and 2010, accord-ing to the annual American Communi-ties Survey conducted by the U.S. Census. Promoting cycling as a major means of transportation is “a huge part of what this ride is about and the organization,” said Wendy Levine, ride director of the Hazon Jewish environmental organization’s Cross-USA bike ride, which launches June 10 in Kenmore.

Hazon creates programs to establish entry points for Jews of all backgrounds who are concerned about the environ-ment. The organization runs its programs primarily out of New York, San Francisco and Israel and focuses on aspects of sus-tainable living, such as transportation and food education. While most of the bike rides it sponsors take place only in these regions, for the first time since 2000 Hazon decided to bring its cross-country biking expedition back to Seattle.

“Seattle is very well known for how they

care about their environment and sustain-ability,” Levine said. “The theme of our ride is sustainable food sources around the country, and Seattle is very conscious about the sustainable food system.”

The full ride will last 10 weeks. The route will take riders through Spokane, across Montana and into the Twin Cities,

then down to Chicago, across southern Ohio, with a stop in Pittsburgh before roll-ing into Washington, D.C. on Aug. 16.

Twenty riders will leave from Bastyr University, 11 of them to make the full trek. The rest, as many as 45 in total, will do half the ride or legs between cities. The cyclists will cover an average of 70 miles per day, but take Shabbat off. Two trucks with gear and food will follow the riders, but in the spirit of Hazon’s focus on sus-tainable agriculture, they will of course stop for fresh produce from local farms and farmers markets.

In addition to the cross-country ride, Hazon will also sponsor a Seattle one-day ride to promote the launch on June 10. This ride will be fully supported with sus-tainable food thanks to a $5,000 grant pro-vided by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.

“The one-day ride is a really great opportunity to introduce Hazon to the community. This will get the ideas going and give the exposure and is the first step in having regional bike rides in the future,” Levine said.

Jessica Aronson of Seattle has been working locally with Levine on market-ing and promotion for the Seattle one-

day ride. Aronson is no stranger to long bike rides: Her first cross-country ride in 2004 with the American Lung Association started here.

“I fell in love with [the city] and ended up moving here,” Aronson said. “I think it speaks to the Seattle Jewish community and it’s such a big opportunity.”

She will ride with the cross-country group for the first three days.

Although the goal had been to sign up 50 riders for the Seattle day ride, Aronson said it was difficult to get people to commit to participating, mostly because it had a

If you go:

The Hazon cross-usA ride and the seattle day ride begin at Bastyr university, 14500 Juanita Dr. nE, Kenmore on sun., June 10 at 9 a.m. The day ride ends at Tolt McDonald Park and camp-ground in carnation. $50/adult, $25/19 and under. visit www.hazon.org to register. Prior to the sunday ride, Hazon will host a saturday evening dinner and Havdalah event at Bastyr university at 7:15 p.m. RsvP at ow.ly/blPXO.

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Two riders from one of Hazon’s regional rides in 2010.

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For questions or more information, please contact Ken Banks at 425-462-2205 or ken.banks@qfci.com.

QFC supports Boys and Girls ClubsQFC is proud to support the Boys and Girls Clubs of Washington as our checkstand

charity for the month of June. The Boys and Girls Clubs have 102 Clubs and another 100 outreach sites throughout Washington that serve over 147,000 youth annually. This includes 13 Clubs in King County and 13 Clubs in Snohomish County. The Boys and Girls Clubs have been serving the youth of Western Washington for over 63 years. These Clubs are often among the only safe and supervised places many young people from age 6 to 18 can go after school or during the summer.

Youths who take part in Boys and Girls Club activities typically stay involved in the Clubs for an average of 5.2 years at an average of 4 days a week. Among Club alumni who participated in a comprehensive survey several years ago, their Club experiences provided numerous positive benefits. It helped many stay in school and graduate from high school and many others to pursue college degrees. It helped many with their self-confidence, personal ethics, self-esteem, leadership skills, ability to develop goals and aspirations, and community involvement.

The Boys and Girls Clubs have a set of core programs to promote youth development. Those core programs fall into the following categories: n Character and Leadership Development

n Education and Career Developmentn Health and Life Skillsn The Artsn Sports, Fitness and Recreationn TechnologyIn particular, Clubs are focusing on impacting children in three key areas. The

first is academic success; teaching kids to see themselves as learners with the goals of reducing drop-out rates and helping them improve their grades. A second area is character and citizenship. The Clubs’ goals are to reduce juvenile crime rates, encourage community service and help kids become more engaged with their peers and adults. The third area is healthy lifestyles. This includes fostering a positive self-image, teaching healthy behaviors and reducing drug use and obesity.

In the fall of 2011 Boys and Girls Clubs of Washington hosted its first ever TechFest. It was a daylong event held on Microsoft’s Redmond Campus that was

attended by over 250 youth from across the state. Attendees were exposed to a variety of technology related skills and opportunities. These included meeting professionals from different technology companies to learn about career possibilities and learning about digital arts, robotics, social media and environmental sustainability.

In 2012 the Boys and Girls Clubs will be focusing on increasing the frequency of participation of the teens it serves and enhancing its services to them. During June, we invite you to make a donation at any QFC check stand or designate your bag reuse credit go toward the great work that they make possible. Thank you for your support!

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Last fall, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle took a big gamble on how it raises funds and makes grants. Responding to a changing Jewish com-munity in which choice and account-ability are paramount to philanthropic decision-making, Federation donors were invited to make their gifts via 18 Impact Areas and Priority Areas.

The results for the 2012 Community Campaign are in and the Federa-tion received nearly 1,000 directed gifts, representing 27.5% of the total number of gifts made to the campaign. Among donors who directed their gifts, Helping Our Community in Need was the most prevalent choice (40% of all designated gifts). This was followed by

Experiencing Judaism (28%) support-ing programs for families with children birth to grade 12; then Strengthening Global Jewry (23%); and finally Build-ing Jewish Community (9%), which focuses on college students and adult education programs.

“Our community has spoken and they told us that they appreciated being able to choose how their Federation gift impacts our Jewish community,” explained Celie Brown, Chair of the 2012 Community Cam-paign. “We are buoyed by this enthu-siastic response and we look forward to having the new model strengthen our fundraising efforts during the 2013 campaign.”

For the first time, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle is making a Community Campaign grant to The Friendship Circle of Washington, an organization serving families who have children with special needs by providing them with a range of social and educational experiences.

“The Federation’s new philanthropy model included a Mental Health Priority Area enabling the funding of initiatives that help people with a diverse set of special needs,” explained Sarah Boden, Federation’s incoming Vice Chair of Plan-ning & Allocations. “When we learned of the great work provided by The Friend-ship Circle, we were excited to fund a proposal that will help this agency serve its population and grow.”

The Friendship Circle matches over 75 children with special needs, including developmental, neurological, social and physical disabilities with teen volunteers around shared activities that include play,

Dear Friends,

On behalf of the Board and staff of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, I would like to thank the thousands of individuals who made our community stronger through your support of the 2012 Community Campaign. Your gift helps people in need locally and world-wide, strengthens our Jewish communi-ty, advocates for justice, builds support for Israel and so much more.

The 2012 Community Campaign was the inaugural year of the Federation’s new philanthropic model. Whether you gave an unrestricted gift or directed your support, we appreciate your car-ing. We would like to call out the hun-dreds of donors who gave this year for the first time! Together, all of our donors

New Philanthropy Model Yields Impressive Results

Partner Spotlight: The Friendship Circle

Thank You for Making Our Community Better

The Jewish Federation of Greater Seat-tle is pleased to announce grants to 48 organizations this year, including 20 grantees who are receiving Federation Community Campaign funding for the first time. Through its new philanthropy model, donors to the Jewish Federa-tion’s annual Community Campaign can designate their gifts to specific impact or priority areas. Reflecting the community’s priorities, grants to local organizations advancing Jewish life in Western Washington increased by $156,000.

“In response to our changing com-munity, one that is increasingly diverse and geographically dispersed than ever before we opened our grant process to all Jewish organizations in Western Washington and in Israel, serving our partnership communities of Kiryat Malachi and the Hof Ashkelon Region,” said Jack Almo, chair of the Federation’s Planning and Allocations Committee. “We’re delighted that, thanks to the generosity of our Jewish community, we’re able to support orga-nizations that are doing excellent work and fostering Jewish peoplehood.”

According to Dan Lowen, vice chair of the Federation’s Planning and Al-

locations Committee, the new model enabled the Federation to begin work-ing with new partners and created stra-tegic alliances among agencies which have never collaborated before, to move our community forward. “While we could not fund every proposal this year, our leadership was energized by the forward-thinking initiatives presented which will help our Jewish community flourish,” he said.

“Our focus is advancing the quality of Jewish life by working together with highly effective organizations operat-ing in Seattle, in Israel and across the globe,” added Federation president and CEO Richard Fruchter. “Through our grants to Jewish Family Service, Kline Galland, the Stroum Jewish Community Center and Hillel UW, plus Jewish schools, camps and synagogues in our area, and our overseas partners such as the American Jewish Joint Dis-tribution Committee and Jewish Agency for Israel, we are helping strengthen Jewish life and creating a community that cares about one another locally and around the world.”

View our Community Partner list at www.JewishInSeattle.org/ CommunityPartners

Federation Announces Allocations

2012 AnnuAl Meeting Honoring Our Volunteers

June 21 at 5:30pm Light kosher dinner reception

Seattle Asian Art Museum at Volunteer Park

1400 E Prospect Street Seattle, WA 98112

Registration: $36 or $72 JewishInSeattle.org/AnnualMeeting

Teen Israel Scholarship Applications Due July 25

More info at www.JewishInSeattle.org/

IsraelScholarships

“The one who causes others to do good is even greater than the doer.”

—Talmud, Bava Batra

are building a community of which we can be proud.

My thanks also go out to the hundreds of volunteers who dedicated thousands of hours on behalf of our community. Indeed, whether it is raising tzedakah, serving on boards and committees or interacting directly with the people who need our help, the spirit of volunteerism is at the heart of what makes our com-munity strong.

Sincerely,

Richard Fruchter President & CEO Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle

music, arts, Kung Fu and social activi-ties.  Participants attend workshops at The Friendship Circle’s facility on Mercer Island; there are many programs they of-fer throughout the year – Sunday Circle, Holiday Programs, sib-workshops, Teen Scene, MVP and Summer camp. for those children with more severe needs, they enjoy a teen Friend each week at their home, called Friends@Home. All programs are offered free of charge.

“Every member of our community deserves to share the joys of friendship and love, and through our 96 teen volunteers we turn this aspiration into reality,” said Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky, executive director of The Friendship Circle. “We thank the Federation for partnering with us and enabling us to grow this rewarding program in the year to come.”

This Spotlight is the first in a series of articles that will feature the work of both new and traditional Federation partners to show how Federation support is being invested in the Jewish community.

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This Week’s Wisdom

Know Your Studentsby Andrew Marc Greene

© 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.

Answers on page 13

Pirkei Avot, a section of the Talmud that translates to “Ethics of the Fathers,” describes four types of students: one who absorbs everything, one who takes it in at one end and lets it out the other, one who rejects the wine and retains the dregs, and one who rejects the coarse meal and retains the fine flour. Only by knowing who you are teaching can you know how to teach.

ACROSS1 They can be opened, rolled, or shielded5 We Bought a ___8 Milkshake accoutrement13 Blue-skinned Avatar race14 Spend a night with the stars?15 Drive away16 With 60-Across, 9-Down, and 24-Down,

the four types of students described in the introduction

18 Drive away19 Long time20 “___ live and breathe!”21 Potentially at risk for tsunami damage23 Nuns’ prayer aids26 Make a choice27 Like a direct flight29 Tabula ___33 Caress lovingly36 Uses Photoshop to change the size of, say38 Furious39 Ben-___40 ___-hole41 Brought together43 Hors d’oeuvre44 Plumlike fruit used to flavor gin45 Carry out47 Luke Skywalker, to Darth Vader49 Like a novelist’s aspirations53 Comeback57 Showing up at the ER late?58 Role for Keanu59 Owning a sizable amount of land60 See 16-Across63 Push out of the way64 Football field material65 Soak up some sun66 Clout67 Downton Abbey network68 Pub offerings

DOWN 1 “Come in!”2 Google competitor3 Makes equal4 Princess Leia, to Luke Skywalker5 They’re off the wall6 Texter’s jaw-drop7 Crude grp.?8 Toss into the junk heap9 See 16-Across10 Enthralled11 On a yachting trip12 Source of water or wishes14 Trigonometric function17 Halfway house resident, perhaps22 “My bad!”24 See 16-Across25 @ in Israel, or the pastry whose shape

inspired that name28 “___ the ramparts we watched...”30 M*A*S*H actor Alan31 Move like water through a cave wall32 “___ sow, so shall...”33 Ingredients in a cookie named for Newton,

MA34 Word with vaccine or hygiene35 Post-WWII alliance37 Mayenne manor39 Place under a spell42 1996 Tony winner for Best Musical43 Swerve right in front of46 Orchard beverages48 A barista may take yours50 Year-long record51 Sweet Home Alabama actress Witherspoon52 What egg-white omelets lack53 Speak despite laryngitis54 Comeback55 Body part that may be furrowed56 It often precedes www61 Center62 LeBron’s league

Yakima’s one-woman arts booster • an influential physician • The moneyman with heart and his wife, the actressdiana BreMenT JTNews Columnist

1 She was born and raised on the wet side, but Seattle native Josey

Fast is now enjoying life on the dry side of the Cascade curtain as the owner of the only commercial art gallery in the Yakima Valley.

The Franklin High and Western Washington Univer-sity grad first headed east in 2005, living for a while in La Grande, Ore.

After deciding that was too far away from her grown daughter and other family, she moved to eastern Washington for a short-term opportunity to do marketing for the arts community in Tieton, Wash., known as “Mighty Tieton,” as well as a bookkeeping post and other odd jobs.

“I never had a retail busi-ness,” she told me, but she had run her own business in Seattle as a freelance assis-tant and organizer. When she learned last fall that the owner of Oak Hollow Custom Frames and Gal-lery in Yakima’s West Valley neighborhood was retir-ing, Josey jumped on what “turned out to be a really, really good opportunity.”

Josey has kept Oak Hol-low’s business model of custom framing, fine crafts and art gallery intact, which has pleased local artists and the community. She exhibits a new artist every month and, “I’m booked all the way through the middle of 2014 with shows.” You can learn about current shows and read Josey’s blog at www.oakhollowframes.blogspot.com.

The work is fun and “challenges every-thing I like to do,” she says, including busi-ness details, problem solving, “the creative part” of cutting mats and frames and, most of all, “not sitting behind a desk.” Josey cuts every mat and frame, and hangs every show herself.

“People accuse me of being artistic,” she says dryly.

When not at the store (Tuesday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.), she walks her dog in the orchards near her house, gardens, and takes advantage of the area’s cultural offerings, including sym-phony and theater.

“It’s beautiful, it’s peaceful,” she says.Josey has found a synagogue home at

Yakima’s Reform Temple Shalom, which meets Friday evenings, some Saturdays, and holidays in an old house in town. A student rabbi visits once a month and cur-rently the congregation is served by Molly Plotnik, who grew up in the Seattle area.

2 Gary S. Kaplan, M.D., chairman and CEO of Seattle’s Virginia

Mason Medical Center, was ranked No. 2 in Modern Phy-sician and Modern Healthcare magazine’s annual listing of the “50 Most Influential Phy-sician Executives.”

This is Gary’s seventh time on the list and he placed 12th last year. More than 17,000 reader votes were cast

for 2012’s 2,700 nominations. The votes counted toward half of the final outcome, with the magazine’s editors providing the

remaining input. Gary was singled out for

his use of the Toyota pro-duction system to reduce costs and improve quality. The magazine noted a “shift in culture and re-engineer-ing of core practices” under his leadership.

The University of Michi-gan alumnus has been chair-man and CEO of Virginia Mason since 2000. He is a University of Washington clinical professor who gives a lot of time to service orga-nizations in his field. He was

recently elected chair of the board of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

3 Registered Rep, a print and digital magazine for retail finance invest-ment professionals, nominated

broker George T. Cox of Morgan Stan-ley Smith Barney’s Seattle office as one of its top ten “Advisors with Heart” this year.

George is the founder of the Alexan-der Hamilton Friends Association. He was

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Josey Fast, the owner of the only art gallery in Yakima.

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Carolyn and George Cox.

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We proudly congratulate

the JDS Class of 2012and share their academic choices for next year:

15749 NE 4th Street n Bellevue, WA 98008

www.jds.org n 425-460-0200

JDS is accepting applications for our Preschool program and limited openings in Kindergarten–8th Grade classrooms.

Contact us at admissions@jds.org and ask about Discovery Grants available for new families.

Amanda BaruchSammamish High School

Evan BrownSeattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Rebecca BrownUniversity Prep

Benjamin CapeThe Bush School

Noa DunnMercer Island High School

Audrey ImmelRedmond High School

Jake LewineBesant Hill (Ojai, CA)

Lia LewineStevenson School (Pebble Beach, CA)

Alexander LustigEastside Preparatory School

Lotan MizrahiSkyline High School

Jamie PearlSeattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Sophie RittenbergIngraham High School

Zach RobinEastside Preparatory School

Sophie RosenkranzThe Northwest School

Lauren SteinerIssaquah High School

Michaela StrangeSammamish High School

Madeline WeinsteinMt. Si High School

(Jamie Pearl not pictured)

Mazel Tov2012 Graduates

Temple Beth Am

Temple Beth Am Covenant Renewal

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Temple Beth am’s graduating seniors, from front to back, left to right:Rabbi Beth Singer, alexandra MacKay, anya Tudisco, Megan Warshaw, Madeline Berkman, Rabbi Jonathan Singer.Max Wasser, Evan Futran, Ben Kahle, Youth Director Dorothy Kahn.Rabbi allison Flash, Patrick Westgaard, amy Fair.Rabbi Janine Schloss, Jacob Stashower, Ben Sabath, Jesse Stout.not pictured: lauren Fishman, Elayne Flicker, Jessica deRoulet, Sophia Goodfriend, alexander Kaufman, Joshua Rubenstein, andrew Uhrich, louis Weissman, William Westgaard.

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Temple Beth am’s covenant renewal class, from front to back, left to right:Rabbi Jonathan Singer, Sophia Twersky, allison Fishman, lilia Cohen, Mara Shuster, Tess Jurcik, Rabbi Beth Singer.aaron alter, nate Yasuda, Ben Faigin, Jackson Fair, ira Fleming, adam Gruenbaum, and Ben Ramsey.Jonathan Frankel, Micah nacht, Hannah Heyrich, Kit Hipple, Eli Etzioni, Dylan McClain, Vlad Spektor.noah Weinstein, ari Cooper, Matan Bilavsky, Ella Hansen.Jacob Rosenthal, isaac Rubenstein, aidan Maifeld, Max Konsker, Jeremy Meyer.

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The 8th-grade graduating class of the Jewish Day School, in alphabetical order: amanda Baruch, Evan Brown, Rebecca Brown, Benjamin Cape, noa Dunn, audrey immel, Jake lewine, lia lewine, alexander lustig, lotan Mizrahi, Jamie Pearl, Sophie Rittenberg, Zach Robin, Sophie Rosenkranz, lauren Steiner, Michaela Strange, Madeline Weinstein.

Jewish Day School Northwest Yeshiva High School

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The graduating class of northwest Yeshiva High School, in alphabetical order: Reid Marcus alberstone, nicholas Brett alkan, avraham Moshe amon, Joshua David appelbaum, Milana Y. Davydova, Molly Rose Dubow, Joshua Sanford Gladstein, Benjamin Frederick Golden, ilana Beverly Greenberg, Benjamin Joseph Greene, Jacob Soloman Hanan, Sarah Michelle lizer, Jennifer Mendoza, Devon Raymond nikfard, andrew isaac Orenstein, Julia Rena Owen, Makena Flory Owens, Dena Raizel Phillips, Racquelle S. Ramirez, Zecharia Ethan Shayne, naomi Rose Steinberg, Suzannah ariella Steinberg.

Hebrew HighThe Hebrew High graduating class, from left to right: Jacob Bock, nadav ashkenazi, alex Sanchez-Stern, aliza Mossman, Maddie Peha, Justyn Jacobs, Joey Rudee, nathan Steifal, ari Dahukey, Kayla Mogil, nathan Hemphill. in front: Jonathan newman, left, and aviv Caspi.

Amy HilzmAN-pAquETTE

Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder

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The graduating 8th-grade class at the Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder, from left to right: Rochel allen, nava levine, Dassi Bogomilsky.

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The senior graduating class from the Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder, from left to right: inbal levin, Sarale Farkash, naomi Kavka, natalie Krasnow and Perel Marasow.

Congratulations Northwest Yeshiva High School

Graduating Class of 2012

Join Us on 6.13.12!Sephardic Bikur Holim

7:30pm

The Class of 2012 college, university and Israel program acceptances:

Congratulations to NYHS Alumni graduating this year:

American University

Bar Ilan University

Binghampton College

Brandeis University

Chapman University

Derech Etz Chayim

Fashion Institute of Technology

Goucher College

Lander College

Midreshet HaRova

Midreshet Moriah

Rutgers University

Seattle University

Stern College

Stern College, Honors Prog.

Syracuse University

Tulane University

University of British Columbia

University of Denver

University of Miami

University of North Dakota

University of Oregon

University of Washington

Washington State University

Western Washington University

Yeshiva University

Yeshivat Reishit Yerushalayim

Yeshivat Sha’arei Mevaseret Zion

Yeshivat Yesodai HaTorah

Daniela Aaron 2007Stern College

Daniella Barber 2008 U. of Maryland

Jordan Behar 2008 U. of Maryland

Gabe Cahn 2008 Whitman College

Mercedes Cohen 2008Stern College

Yair Cohenca 2008 U. of Washington

Moshe Fox 2003 Georgia Tech (Ph.D.)

Adam Goldberg 2008 Wheaton College

Daniele Goldberg 2008Smith College

Gavriella Golden 2007 UCLA

Abe Leavitt 2007 Yeshiva UniversitySy Syms School of Business

Drew Lovy 2003 Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Mushky Notik 2008U. of Washington School of Nursing

Gavriela (Golden) Nomanim 2007 UCLA

Yael Nov 2007U. of Washington

Shoshana Rosenbaum 2007Brandeis University

Michal Salmon 2008 Cornell University

Rabbi Matt Schneeweis 2002 Yeshiva University Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education

Jodi Schwartz 2008U. of Washington

Aviva Shayne 2007Stern College

Karl Sobel 2008U. of Maryland

Esther (Cohen) Varon 2007 Stern College

Sarah Voss 2008U. of Washington

Solomon Waldbaum 2008U. of Washington

Rachel Weinstein 2008Brandeis University

If we missed you, please contact admin@nyhs.net.www.nyhs.net06.04.12 - Graphics by Edison Leonen

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Temple De Hirsch Sinai The Temple De Hirsch Sinai graduates from the joint high school program with Temple B’nai Torah.From left to right: Rabbi alan Cook, Rabbi Daniel Weiner, Robby Soble, ashley Bobman, Rabbi aaron Meyers, Rabbi Daniel Septimus.not Pictured: Michael Edmond, Melissa Kipersztok, Joshua Esfeld, Kara Glass, Ben Eggers, Ethan Gottlieb.

Seattle Jewish Community School

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The Seattle Jewish Community School’s 5th-grade graduating class.Bottom, from left to right: Jacob, Micah, Sol, Yacov.Top, from left to right: Thea, amalya, Jack, Max abraham.

Seattle Hebrew Academy

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The 8th grade graduating class from Seattle Hebrew academy.Front row from left to right: Esther a. Goldberg, Gabriella Joelle naggar, Roxanna Sikavi, nora Yagolnitser. Back row from left to right: akiva Jacob Greenberg, Raphael Shlomo alcabés, Eli alexander Brawerman.

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Mazel Tov 2012 Graduates! May you continue to Lead the Way!

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Temple B’nai Torahsunday, June 10 at 3 p.m.A night of Debbie FriedmanconcertIn honor and memory of the 10th anniversary of the passing of beloved Seattle Jewish community member Hermine Pruzan, join the entire community for a night of music by the late, great Debbie Friedman. Led by Chava Mirel and accompanied by Peter Pundy and Dean Schmidt, this concert will take listeners on a tour of Friedman’s inspirational music, with classic Friedman compositions as well as some of Mirel’s own interpretations. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue. Free and open to all. For more information, contact Jennifer Fliss at 425-603-9677 or jfliss@templebnaitorah.org.

Through July 14, Friday–sundaysusanna BluhmArt exhibitThe Song of Songs is an ancient, some-times puzzling inclusion in the Torah. Many people find the collection of poems with its themes of love to have little connec-tion to what she says is often seen as “the religious hang-ups of the rest of the Bible.” As a queer feminist artist, Susanna Bluhm therefore found it to be ripe “biblical” material to work with. Her exhibition of collaged etchings “look at the crown with

which his mother crowned him,” and serves as a love song to her wife and child. At Prole Drift, 523 S Main St., Seattle. Free. For more information, call 206-399-5506.

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Torah Day School The graduating class from the Torah Day School. Front row, from left to right: aviva Prizont, Ora Rivka Werblud, leah Post.Back row, left to right: Malca Dina Toban, Shayna Peromsik, lily allen, Elisheva Skaist.

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In other Cox family news, George’s

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israel’s nukes: DeclassifiedJanis siegel JTNews Correspondent

In his new book, “Israel and the Bomb,” writer, historian, and one of the world’s foremost voices on nuclear weapons and Israel, Dr. Avner Cohen, reveals the con-tents of newly declassified historical mem-oranda and transcripts from some of the highest-level conversations between world leaders and Israel during the creation and the escalation of Israel’s nuclear program, including correspondence between Prime Minister Golda Meir and U.S. President Richard Nixon, and between President John F. Kennedy and Israeli Prime Min-isters David Ben-Gurion and Levi Eshkol.

Cohen, a senior fellow and professor of nonproliferation studies at the Mon-terey Institute of International Stud-ies at Middlebury College in Mon-terey, Calif., spent eight years read-ing through thou-sands of documents from many different sources for his book, including the David Ben-Gurion Center and the Weizmann Institute Archives in Israel and the U.S. National Library and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Foundation in the U.S., as well as sources in Norway. Many of the documents in the Israel State Classifieds were declassified because, by law, they entered the public domain after

30 years.Cohen spoke at Town Hall Seat-

tle in late May against the backdrop of the NATO Chicago Summit that was underway which dealt, in part, with talks between the international community and Iran regarding the acceptable level of enrichment for its nuclear program.

Alumni and members of the Mon-terey Institute Board of Governors spon-sored the Town Hall Seattle event, “Israel’s Worst-Kept Secret,” as well as a pre-event reception at the Sorrento Hotel, “The

Nuclear Challenge of Iran: A Global Per-spective,” that fea-tured Cohen and Jon Wolfsthal, the deputy director of the James Martin Center for Nonpro-liferation Studies and former special adviser for nuclear security to Vice Pres-ident Joseph Biden.

Shedding light on the political and the psychological rea-sons that led to Isra-

el’s current level of secrecy about its nuclear weapons program, Cohen advo-cates for the abandonment of Israel’s policy of censorship on the issue, which it strictly enforces to this day.

While most in the foreign press refer to the question of Israel possessing nuclear bombs with a wink and a nod, Cohen

believes it’s time for Israel to depart from its “bargain” with the United States, which, he writes, hinges on secrecy, opac-ity, and ambiguity.

“The issue for me is above all domestic, moral, and democratic,” he told JTNews.

“Much of this book is an effort to inter-pret — to decode if you will — the fun-damentals of the Israeli bargain with the bomb, from its early seeds to the time when it was codified as a secret policy,” Cohen said at the Town Hall event. “Over time, it has become rooted in deeper soci-etal attitudes, something with psychologi-cal depth, following the political deal that was made between Prime Minister Golda Meir and U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1969.”

Cohen pointed to the deal Meir struck with Nixon, which bartered tacit U.S. sup-port for Israel’s budding nuclear program in exchange for the promise of keeping it below the political radar.

“The deal was made in a one-on-one conversation between Golda Meir and Nixon,” Cohen said, “where essentially she told him, apparently, that Israel has the bomb. He accepted it, was even sym-pathetic, and the issue was to keep it low profile. So, non-acknowledgement, invis-ibility, no tests, no declarations, and, of course, no use, not only no military use, but also no political use, in return for America’s private presidential sympathy, and also a public attitude of looking the other way.”

This arrangement suited Israel, said Cohen, who further explained that the

way that a country manages its relation-ship with the bomb is sourced in the rea-sons it originally sought to have it. Israel’s, he noted, were and are deterrence.

“In many ways, the pursuit of the bomb was a translation into concrete terms of Israel’s fundamental vow of ‘never again,’” Cohen said. “Israel must make it clear that another Holocaust could not happen again in Israel. The bargain is as much about Israel’s national identity as it is about strat-egy. It’s about something which is more than just policy. It’s a holistic concept and it incorporates politics, both domestic and international law, society, culture, dis-course, and national psychology.”

Complicating this all-encompass-ing relationship within Israel toward the bomb is its stance toward Iran and that nation’s nuclear ambitions.

Cohen believes Iran’s intentions are just as ambiguous and opaque as the Israeli nuclear strategy, but that Iran wants to enrich uranium to the maximum level to appear bomb-ready.

“If you look at Iran through an Israeli lens,” Cohen said, “you see another Israel. That is to say, you see a country that is determined to get the bomb, but it is not clear that Iran wants to build a nuclear arsenal. Iran wanted to promote its advanced status by having both sides of nuclear energy. They are trying to push as much as they can on the peaceful side but to the point, to be very clear, that they have very strong military options.”

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It’s difficult to overesti-mate the global impact that the new partnership between the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Cornell University, CornellNYC Tech, will have on the future of research and new technology.

But last month, on May 22, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Google, Inc. is giving these collaborative, world-class institutions the use of 22,000 square feet of its office space for free, so that classes can begin in September 2012. The “gift” will be in effect for a maximum of five and a half years starting July 1, which should be enough time for Cornell University to complete the campus construction. Even-tually, the campus will be expanded to 58,000 square feet.

Professor Craig Gotsman of the Tech-nion will serve as the founding director of the Technion-Cornell Innovation Insti-tute there and will partner with Cornell in its operation, when it opens in 2017.

During a meeting at the Technion with a visiting New York City Council member in February, the Technion’s president, Professor Peretz Lavie, explained that the new “hub” educational approach will be a curriculum that operates across several disciplines and targeted at tech companies located in New York City.

A few of these include tech giants like Tumblr, Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, Bitly and YouTube.

“It may be that Professor Shechtman is the last scien-tist to be awarded the Nobel Prize for research conducted by one person working alone in one laboratory,” said Lavie, referencing Technion profes-sor Dan Schechtman’s 2011 win in chemistry. “Nowadays, achieving significant scien-tific and engineering break-throughs requires tremendous knowledge that the single sci-entist does not possess.”

Lavie’s hope is that large technology companies will add satellites near the campus, and a high-tech startup culture will begin to surround the center, “just as such companies and extensions histori-cally developed near the Technion,” he said. “Our innovative venture will build a bridge of friendship and cooperation between New York and Haifa.”

These bridges and partnerships may increase as the academic profiles of several Israeli research institutions have risen in the last decade, making impressive show-ings in lists like the 2011 Academic Rank-ing of World Universities conducted by the Center for World-Class Universities.

According to last year’s list of the top 100 schools in computer science, the Weiz-mann Institute of Science came in at 11, and the Technion-Israel Institute of Tech-nology ranked at 15. Also on the list was The Hebrew University of Jerusalem at 26, and Tel Aviv University, coming in at 28.

The Hebrew University also ranked 22 out of 100 in CWCU’s 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities in mathe-matics. Tel Aviv University came in 32nd.

In the CWCU’s list of the top 500 universities in the world, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ranked 57; the Technion-Israel Insti-tute of Technology, Tel Aviv University, and the Weizmann Insti-tute of Science ranked in the 102-150 range; and Bar-Ilan University along with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev are listed in the 301-400 slot.

And the cutting-edge research continues to make news.

Just this past month, Lior Gepstein, profes-sor of medicine in car-diology and physiology at the Sohnis Research Laboratory for Cardiac Electrophysiology and Regenerative Med-icine at the Technion and Rambam Med-ical Center, successfully harvested skin stem cells from a patient with heart fail-ure and manipulated them into healthy heart muscle cells. One day in the future, researchers may be able to introduce healthy heart cells into the heart of a sick patient to regenerate healthy tissue. This method of using skin cells would

remove the ethical objections some have with using embryonic stem cells. Using a patient’s own skin stem cells also signifi-cantly lowers the probability of the body rejecting them.

In April 2012, Maty Tzukerman, a senior research scientist also at the Tech-

nion Rappaport Fac-ulty of Medicine and Research Institute and the Rambam Medi-cal Center, found that cancer cells grow and replicate themselves more quickly when exposed to human cells than they do in a Petri dish or mouse model. This research could lead to the development of new methods for con-trolling the growth of cancer. Tzukerman hopes it may lead to cancer treatments that would render the killer disease to be a chronic

condition, like HIV-AIDS, that is manage-able and treatable. The research was pub-lished in the current advanced online issue of the journal Stem Cells.

Longtime JTNews correspondent and freelance journalist Janis Siegel has covered international health research for SELF magazine and campaigns for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

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The Israeli attorney general’s office said Tuesday that Reform and Conservative rabbis in some parts of Israel will be rec-ognized as “rabbis of non-Orthodox com-munities” and will receive wages equal to

those of their Orthodox counterparts.For now, the decision applies only

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Two other Hillels, at Washington State University and Western Washington Uni-versity, as well as the Seattle Jewish Cho-rale, received campaign dollars from a new fund the Federation established, called the Small Agency Sustainability Grant, for $2,000, $3,600 and $5,000, respectively.

“There’s nowhere else for those organi-zations to turn to,” Fruchter said.

Judy Neuman, CEO of the Stroum Jewish Community Center, called her organization’s allocation of a combined $224,605, plus a portion of the joint-camp

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The SJCC’s grants are 30 percent less than the allocation of $320,131 in 2012, which Neuman said will affect some adult and family programs.

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The nearly $4 million gap in the amount the Federation funded and the requests considered made for some hard decisions, he added.

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Beth Hatikvah’s Rabbi Newmark said the funding will have a transformative impact on her outlying congregation, but the help she received in improving her grant request was equally helpful.

The Kline Galland’s Cohen agreed that the process worked beyond the financial considerations. His agency collaborated with the Federation on a campaign to generate letters of support for the home-health program, which was a “wonderful partnership from beginning to end.”

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The sweet misery of Chocolate Chip-gateeMily k. alhadeFF Associate Editor, JTNews

Life is bittersweet for kosher consum-ers in Seattle.

On May 9, the kosher certification agency OK announced that Trader Joe’s chocolate chips, which it had previously certified parve, or acceptable for a milk or meat meal, would now be certified dairy.

Kosher certifications frequently undergo reevaluation, but outcry swept the country. A protest page emerged on Facebook, a petition called “Trader Joe’s: Keep the Chocolate Chips Pareve!” on Change.org has received almost 6,000 sig-natures, and on May 23 the news made the cover of the Wall Street Journal.

Seattle was not immune. Kosher-observant Jews flocked to area Trader Joe’s stores to stockpile what’s left of the parve chocolate chips, buying dozens of bags at a time.

Francine Birk, who runs a cottage kosher baking business in Seward Park, bought 153 bags on just one run and has ventured out to Capitol Hill, Ballard and Tacoma locations of the grocery store.

“The Trader Joe’s chocolate chips melt well. They make great ganache. It tastes a certain way. It melts a certain way,” said Birk. “I’m going to have to work around that unless they change it back.” Further-more, she said, other brands are just “not noshable” in the same way. She estimates

her supply will meet her baking needs through the High Holidays.

Kosher chocolate lovers rely on the Trader Joe’s brand because they can use the morsels for desserts served after meat meals. (Most kashrut observers need to wait six hours after a meat meal before consum-ing dairy.) According to an ambiguous statement by the OK, the parve-dairy switch results from a “change in the level of monitoring at the facility.” The koshering organization says it is work-ing with the manufacturer to remedy the situation. The recipe for the chips has not changed.

“At this point there isn’t enough information to eval-uate what happened,” said Rabbi Moshe Kletenik of Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath and the Va’ad HaRa-banim of Greater Seattle, the local kosher-ing agency. “In the interim, we have to take the word of the kosher supervising agency.”

Normally, the Trader Joe’s branch on Capitol Hill goes through a case of choc-olate chips, 48 bags’ worth, every two or three days, with holiday sales spik-ing around one case a day. According to a manager who identified himself as Josh

G., “in the last two weeks roughly 100 bags a day” have been sold, with two days top-ping out at 300 bags. At the time of this writing, 10 cases remained.

Though the petitioners on Change.org include advocates for vegan and lactose-free products, Josh said that concerns and com-

plaints mainly come from kosher consumers. “We get phone calls all the time,” he said, in particular from a local Jewish retirement facility.

“I have been showing up at Trader Joe’s since we heard the news, requesting what-ever parve chips they are will-ing to part with,” said Esther Friend, administrator at The Summit at First Hill, via email. “Our residents are big fans of our outrageous choc-

olate chip cookies during our 3 p.m. daily cookie hour.”

The assisted living facility’s baker pro-duces six-dozen cookies a day, she said.

Others are willing to switch brands, though not without a price. Robert Beiser, Repair the World director at Hillel at the University of Washington, said the weekly Challah for Justice program will switch from Trader Joe’s to Sunspire chocolate chips, which are parve and fair trade, for

its chocolate-chip challah.“We’ve been looking all year to find

a good substitute, because we want fair-trade chocolate in all of our challah,” said Beiser, who has helped spearhead a cam-paign to promote fair-trade, slavery-free chocolate among Jews in Seattle. More than half of the world’s chocolate produc-tion involves child slavery.

A 10-ounce bag of Sunspire chips retails at $5.89 per bag — a far cry from Trader Joe’s $2.29 for 12 ounces. By buying in bulk, Beiser said Hillel will be paying $4.42 per bag.

But he downplayed the price jump. “Now there will be Challah for Justice with even more justice in it.”

Executives at Trader Joe’s have not dis-closed to store-bound staff if they’ll over-turn their decision to switch the chips’ kashrut status.

“Right now it is completely out of our hands,” Josh, Trader Joe’s manager, said.

If they don’t, said Friend, “it’s a great niche market and someone, somewhere, will capitalize on the void — you can be sure we will track them down.”

Until then, the rush will continue while supplies last.

“People are dealing in chocolate chips now,” said Birk. “It’s so Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”

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Friday 8 June10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. — pJ library Song and Story-time at the Seattle Jewish Community School

Amy Hilzman-Paquette at amyhp@jewishinseattle.org or www.facebook.com/pjlibraryseattleMusic, singing and storytelling with the PJ Library and Jeff Stombaugh. Come for the songs and story, stay for activities and playgroup fun. Includes Hebrew storytime as well. Free. At the Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 Eighth Ave. NE, Seattle.7–9 p.m. — iranian infighting: inside the islamic republic

AIPAC at sf_office@aipac.org or 415-989-4140A Shabbat evening lecture and dinner with resident fellow of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Ali Alfoneh. Free. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle.

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8–11 p.m. — Jewish Tween Spring Fling Ben Starsky at BenS@sjcc.org or

206-388-0837 or www.sjcc.orgIt’s Saturday night – dance to the beat with a popular local DJ. Celebrate the arrival of warmer spring weather with friends and practice those dance moves. Free. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

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Michael Wardlow at MichaelW@JewishInSeattle.org or 206-774-2256 or www.JewishInSeattle.orgNinth–12th graders celebrate their hard work with the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle J-Team Teen Philanthropy Program’s annual end-of-year banquet. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

Wednesday 13 June11 a.m.–12 p.m. — pJ library Storytime at mockingbird Books

Amy Hilzman-Paquette at amyhp@jewishinseattle.org Music, storytelling and Hebrew through ASL with Betsy Dischel from Musikal Magik, a certified Signing Time academy. At Mockingbird Books, 7220 Woodlawn Ave. NE, Seattle.

7:30–9 p.m. — NyHS Graduation Michelle Haston at mhaston@nyhs.net or

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Roni Antebi at ronia@sjcc.org or 206-232-7115 or www.sjcc.orgFather’s Day screening by director David Vyost pays homage to the role sports played in the Jewish immigrant experience. Co-sponsored by the Washington State Jewish Historical Society. $8, $6/seniors and youth. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.5 p.m. — Seattle Kollel 21st Anniversary

Marilyn Leibert at info@seattlekollel.org or 206-722-8289 or www.seattlekollel.orgThe Seattle Kollel celebrates its 21st anniversary with a gala dinner. Cocktail reception at 5 p.m., dinner at 6 p.m. Honoring Dr. Elie and Miriam Levy. $90. At The Westin Seattle, 1900 Fifth Ave., Seattle.

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Melissa Rivkin at mrivkin@nyhs.net or 206-232-5272 or www.nyhs.netNorthwest Yeshiva High School’s annual meeting. At 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island. Free.

Wednesday 20 June11:30 a.m.– 2:30 p.m. — HNT Daytimers Summer Film Series: “radio Days”

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“The importance of the decision is that it sets the model for the relations between the non-Orthodox movements and the government,” said Rabbi Gilad Kariv, the executive director of Israel’s Reform movement.

The Reform movement also has a peti-tion in court to give Reform rabbis in cities the same rights of those in regional coun-cil areas. According to Kariv, the May 29 decision only gives full-service syna-gogues with at least 50 affiliated families in regional council areas eligibility for the funding.

“There’s no reason to adopt this in the regional councils and not in the cities, and the government knows it,” he said.

It’s not clear when the Israeli courts will decide on the Reform movement’s petition, but if the petition is accepted, the

change would affect virtually all Conserva-tive and Reform congregations.

The announcement followed out-of-court negotiations over a 2005 petition by the Israel Movement for Reform and Pro-gressive Judaism and Rabbi Miri Gold, a Reform rabbi from Kibbutz Gezer in cen-tral Israel. Gold had petitioned the state to fund the Gezer Reform community just as it funds Orthodox communities and their leaders.

Initially, the government has agreed to fund 15 non-Orthodox rabbis in the regional council areas. But the funding could increase as more Conservative and Reform congregations are established.

Yizhar Hess, the executive director of Israel’s Conservative movement, known as Masorti, said there is a more important issue than the initial number of commu-nities receiving financial support: Con-servative and Reform Jews in these areas no longer will have to donate privately to support their rabbis while also paying taxes to support the Orthodox-dominated Rabbinate.

This, he hopes, will allow more Conser-vative congregations to form and reduce the Israeli movement’s dependence on donations from America. Three-quarters

of the Masorti movement’s annual budget of approximately $4.5 million now comes from the Diaspora.

“The only way for a Masorti rabbi to act as a Masorti rabbi was to be able to raise enough funds from donations and dues to make a living,” Hess said. “We know that there are more communities that want to reach out and have us.”

For years the government has held the position that non-Orthodox rabbis deserve these rights: A 2008 government memorandum to the court in Gold’s case said that “a town with a non-Orthodox community that is interested in cultural and communal activities deserves funding from the state.”

The attorney general’s office used that memorandum as a basis for its decision, but by defining non-Orthodox activities as “cultural and communal,” it shifted responsibility for overseeing the activi-ties to the Ministry of Culture and Sport — meaning that Reform and Conservative rabbis still do not have state-recognized authority over Jewish law.

But Kariv, Hess and their American counterparts believe that last week’s deci-sion could pave the way to increased legiti-macy for their movements in Israel.

David Lissy, executive director of the Masorti Foundation in New York, pointed to two recent surveys of Israeli Jews show-ing increased awareness of and identifi-cation with non-Orthodox movements. One, a recent report by the Israel Democ-racy Institute and the Avi Chai founda-tion, showed that 30 percent of Israeli Jews had attended a Conservative or Reform service.

“More and more people feel that they would like to take responsibility for their Jewish identity,” Hess said. “They under-stand that there is more than one way to be Jewish.”

Outside Israel, the Rabbinical Assem-bly of the U.S. Jewish Conservative movement and the World Union for Pro-gressive Judaism were among those that lauded the decision.

“This is a historic day for Israelis and Jews around the world,” said Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly. “In order for Juda-ism to grow and thrive in Israel, it is nec-essary that the government recognize its obligation to provide equal funding to var-ious Jewish religious streams and expres-sions that flower in the Jewish state.”

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Bat MitzvahEsther Rose Litwack-Lang

Esther will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on June 9, 2012, at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue.

Esther is the daughter of John Lang and Laurie Litwack of North Bend and the sister of Naomi. Her grandparents are Emanuel and Jane Litwack of Montreal, Quebec, and Fred and Glafre Lang of North Bend.

Esther is a 7th grader at Twin Falls Middle School in North Bend. She enjoys wrestling, Judo, Ultimate Frisbee and cooking. Her mitzvah project was to collect donations for Baking for a Cure, which raises money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Bat MitzvahHanna Rose Krasnowsky

Hanna will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on June 16, 2012, at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue.

Hanna is the daughter of Paul Krasnowsky of Mercer Island and Lori Krasnowsky of Bellevue. Her grandparents are Jane Rosenbaum of Portland, Ore. and the late Fred Rosenbaum and the late Bernie and Kay Krasnowsky.

Hanna is a 7th grader at Issaquah Middle School. She enjoys dance, art, drama and spending time with friends. For her mitzvah project, Hanna raised money for a special team-building structure for the camp her grandfather founded 42 years ago, Camp Rosenbaum, for underprivi-leged children.

Bat MitzvahKeara Allison Jerome Berlin

Keara will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on June 16, 2012. The Berlin-Ben-civengo family, members of Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue, will hold the ceremony at the Seattle Children’s Theater in Seattle.

Keara is the daughter of Meredith Berlin and Larry Bencivengo of Seattle, and the sister of Anthony. Her grandparents are Nancy and Mike Berlin of Truro, Mass., Lawrence Bencivengo of Wallingford, Conn. and the late Pauline Bencivengo.

Keara is a 7th grader at Eckstein Middle School. She enjoys fencing, playing the cello and reading. Her mitzvah project is working at the North Helpline food bank and establishing a website to sell art to raise money for the Pink Polka Dots Guild for cancer care at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

BirthCaleb Bryan Plotnik

Amy and David Plotnik of Shoreline are pleased to announce the birth of their son, Caleb Bryan, on May 10, 2012 at Swedish Hospital in Edmonds. Caleb weighed 8 lbs., 3 oz. and measured 20 inches.

Caleb is the brother of Noah. His grandparents are Robin and Darryll Plotnik of Redmond, Julie Cook of Baltimore, Md. and the late Bryan Cook. Caleb’s great-grandparents are Donna Plotnik of Hemet, Calif. and Robert Krueger of Newcastle.

Caleb’s middle name is for his mother Amy’s father, Bryan Cook.

Stephen L. Kessler1939–2012

The world lost a kind and caring man on May 9, 2012 when Steve Kessler passed on after living with MDS for 10 years, followed by leukemia for one year. Born in NYC in 1939, he was the only child of Al and Anne Kessler, who predeceased him. He was a highly regarded investment management professional who earned the trust and respect of his clients for more than four decades. Steve will be remembered for his cordial demeanor, warm smile and friendly greetings.

A humble and ethical man, he loved to read, tell a good joke, engage in stimulating conversation, attend cultural arts events and travel the world with the love of his life, Carolyn. He participated in and proudly supported numerous Jewish, community and professional causes. He was past president of Seattle B’nai B’rith Men and a member of Herzl-Ner Tamid for over 45 years. Steve treasured his family, his greatest source of joy in life. He was a devoted husband for 49 years to Carolyn, proud father of Randy (Jennifer) and Lynore (Roland) and adoring Papa to grandchildren Avi, Eliana, Corrie, Samantha, Alexandra, TasiAna and KamoLynn. He is also lovingly remembered by a large, closely knit extended family. His legacy lives on through his family members and he will be in their hearts forever. Donations in Steve’s memory to Puget Sound Blood Center (psbc.org/gifts), Jewish Family Service (jfsseattle.org) or charity of choice. The family extends its gratitude to Steve’s oncology teams over the years for their care and support.

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because people have been struggling with the fundraising component. There was a $200 entry for the day ride,” said Aron-son, which has since been removed as a requirement to sign up.

“With regards to the people who are participating, it seems like a very diverse group, very pluralistic,” Aronson said.

Renna Khuner-Haber of Seattle plans

to ride all the way to the finish line in Washington, D.C. Khuner-Haber interned with Hazon in New York and also worked in its San Francisco office before moving to Seattle in January of this year to begin graduate studies at Bastyr University.

“I told Wendy I was going to be going to Bastyr in Seattle and she said, ‘Oh, that’s where the bike ride is going to start!’” Khuner-Haber said. She said she looks for-ward to reuniting some of her colleagues from Hazon programs who will be riding

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Thursday 21 June4:30–8 p.m. — Jewish Federation Annual meeting

Michael Wardlow at MichaelW@JewishInSeattle.org or 206-774-2256 or www.JewishInSeattle.orgThe Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle honors its volunteers and leaders who are working together to transform the way they deliver critical funds to their community partners. Free. At the Seattle Asian Art Museum, Volunteer Park, Seattle.7:30 p.m. — rabbi israel meir lau

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Lori Ceyhun at assistant@wsjhs.org or 206-774-2277 or www.wsjhs.orgBring your friends and compete in this sports trivia contest. A Jeopardy-style competition, winners will compete at the championship in October at the Washington State Jewish Historical Society gala. $20 preregistered, $30 at the door. At The Summit at First Hill, 1200 University St., Seattle.

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Breaking out of the complexMarTin WesTerMan JTNews Columnist

With sabers rattling in Persia for nearly 3,000 years, the latest Iran flare-up looks boringly familiar. Jews have spent most of history around warring empires: Starting with Passover and the escape from Egypt, it’s where our “You tried to kill us, we sur-vived, let’s eat!” holidays come from. The prophets’ visions of a better world haven’t stopped anyone from making war or creating cul-tures that glorify it. But maybe we can learn something new if we view the cur-rent scenario with fresh eyes.

World War II made the United States a warrior empire. We created a military-industrial complex to mobilize for the war and to never again be caught unpre-

pared. But by 1960, President Eisenhower was warning that the MIC’s enormous influ-ence threatened to endanger our liberties and democratic processes. Only “an alert and knowledgeable citizenry” could compel the MIC to serve America’s “peaceful methods and goals.”

Today, we spend 53 per-cent of our federal budget on the MIC, choosing to spend less on other essentials like

education and health care. The MIC pro-vides massive employment, operates from thousands of U.S. and overseas facilities, and delivers production capacity and rev-enues for national-level projects, includ-ing the Internet, interstate highways,

satellites, renewable energy and interna-tional security. The MIC permeates our culture, language, media, fashion, designs, manufacturing and research. It endan-gers us through fossil fuel consumption and pollution, wars, laws and by promot-ing a culture of fear that encourages jingo-istic attitudes.

The world’s most prosperous econo-mies have always fielded the biggest mil-itaries and imposed their worldviews by force. Dominant empires believe that might makes right, and create us-versus-them situations to reaffirm that the “us” is more powerful.

Rutgers University Professor Robin Fox asserts that we waste too much time asking what causes violence, when “it is as much a part of the human life process as digesting or reproducing.” The real

question is how cultures manage to stop violent activity by de-escalating violent energy, managing it, and/or diverting it elsewhere. More broadly, defusing us-ver-sus-them attitudes reduces the need for military force.

In “What’s the Economy For, Anyway?” John DeGraaf and David Batker assert that it’s time for our society to invest less in our military-industrial complex, and more in our human resources and infrastructure. Basically, we need to provide the great-est good, for the greatest number, over the longest run. A starting point is to measure America’s wealth in other ways than dollar output, like with the Happiness Index, Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare, or Genuine Progress Indicator. Whereas bad outputs are added to good in the GDP — for example, the Gulf oil spill contrib-uted more to the GDP in cleanup and legal payments than just delivering the oil would have — in the alternative indi-cators, bads are subtracted from goods to yield a net measure of wealth and health.

Another approach is to subsidize and empower the goods. Rather than military service being the only “full credit” way to serve our country, we should be able to serve in many areas, like trades, health care, teaching, and helping to defuse inter-national conflicts.

People like University of Massachu-setts professor emeritus Ervin Staub and Tikkun magazine founder Michael Lerner encourage dialogue and other practices to humanize opposing groups, overcome fear, create trust, and promote inclusive, rather than destructive, viewpoints and actions.

That’s where we alert and knowl-edgeable citizens come in. To change the might-makes-right attitude, honor the humanity of others and ourselves, and strengthen our society, we must demand that our leaders make federal investments as massive as those in the military-indus-trial complex in domestic infrastructure, research and development and employ-ment, and — with adversarial countries — cultural exchanges, sports, open com-munication, and mutual, unrestricted travel.

It doesn’t mean we let down our guard. But it does mean we work toward Hosea’s vision: “I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make [all living things] to lie down safely” (2:18). And America will be more secure, and world history a little less bor-ingly familiar.

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