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Some headway, but no resolution yet ‘Land Day’ march

in Olympia
Joel Magalnick
Editor, JTNews
Pushing their way past the budgetary roadblocks that
have kept legislators stuck in Olympia have been at least
two pieces of legislation to benefit the Jewish community.
The first is a small benefit, adding up to just two words,
but the effect may have a big impact.
Senate Bill 6398, which amended the words “imme-
diate or” to the state’s malicious harassment stat-
ute, Washington’s hate crimes law, means that crimes
against any person based upon traits such as gender,
race, religion, disability or sexual orientation in the heat
of the moment are now covered under the statute. Pre-
viously, the law protected people based upon threats
based in the future.
“Most of the time, most of those threats that are made
toward those targeted based on something having to do
with their identity…[are] an immediate threat,” Hilary
Bernstein, director of the Pacific Northwest chapter of the
Anti-Defamation League, told JTNews.
“It’s a good change,” said Zach Carstensen, director of
government affairs for the Jewish Federation of Greater
Seattle, who worked to help craft the legislation. “It fixes
a problem in the law.”
The ADL and the Federation worked with the King
County Prosecutor’s office to pass the legislation.
Bernstein said the updated statute would be a useful
tool for prosecutors, who were previously hamstrung by
those two missing words from being able to prosecute
cases as hate crimes.
“We want to make sure that our prosecutors and law
enforcement folks have the best and most thorough tools
available in order to keep the community safe,” Bern-
stein said.
Governor Christine Gregoire signed the bill into law
on the week of March 23.
Another passed bill the ADL was paying attention to,
House Bill 2801, added more teeth to a current law that
prohibits bullying and cyberbullying.
“Despite those things on the books… there still is wide-
spread documentation of continued bullying and harass-
ment in schools,” Bernstein said. “It hasn’t declined since
that law was originally enacted, so there was a new sec-
tion enacted…to underscore the school districts’ need to
educate parents and community members and students
on how to report bullying and how to address it.”
House Bill 2497, which would have provided penal-
ties for any crimes committed against a person perceived
to be homeless, passed the House unanimously but died
in the Senate.
A section of the bill not supported by the ADL that
would have protected the homeless under the mali-
cious harassment statute was removed, while provisions
for more serious penalties at the sentencing phase were
added. That version of the bill will likely be reintroduced
next session by its primary sponsor, Rep. Scott White
(D–N. Seattle).
Having a condition such as homelessness as a part
of the malicious harassment statute “would open up a
slippery slope where you could start adding all sorts of
things” such as political leanings, Bernstein said. “We
felt that that was not the appropriate place to address
this serious issue of targeting homeless people, because
those other characteristics that currently exist in the hate
crimes bill, those are more permanent types of charac-
teristics.”
However, Carstensen said the Federation supported
the bill in its original form.
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highlights dilemmas
facing Israel and its
Arab citizens
Leslie Susser
JTA World News Service
ANALYSIS
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A mass demonstration by Israeli
Arabs highlighted the core contradiction at the heart of
the Israeli-Arab experience: demands for greater equal-
ity within Israeli society amid growing alienation from
the Israeli state.
An estimated 50,000 demonstrators marched in two
long columns March 30 to the Galilee town of Sakhnin
to commemorate “Land Day,” an annual protest against
unequal distribution of land resources and in memory of
19 Arabs killed in clashes with Israeli security forces in
1976 and 2000.
In the first Land Day demonstration, in March 1976, six
Arabs protesting the expropriation of about 5,000 acres
in the Galilee were killed; 13 died in Land Day rioting
following the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada
in the fall of 2000.
This year’s protest was one of the biggest and best orga-
nized to date. For the first time, large numbers of Arab
women took part, there was no police presence along the
route, and no violence.
The message, however, was not uniform. While speak-
ers focused mainly on land allocation, thousands of dem-
onstrators waved Palestinian flags, emphasizing their
own Palestinian identity and suggesting identification
with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
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the Holocaust.
I am also tired of reading about the
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the Holocaust, and nodding slowly with
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face whenever anyone else so much as
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I just don’t want to talk about it any-
more.
I know I’m not the only person out
there suffering from exterminated-Jew
overload. From elementary school on,
Jewish youngsters bear witness to the
Shoah. First in religious school, and then
in public school, well-meaning teachers
offer up horrifying pictures, unfathom-
able numbers, and graphic accounts of
concentration camp conditions for the
sake of education. And it’s important to
know what happened. But by the time
I was in the 4th grade I knew how a gas
chamber worked and what Jews look like
when you shave their heads, dress them
in prison stripes, and starve them. I knew
that we were victims.
Dee Simon, co-director of the Washing-
ton State Holocaust Education Resource
Center, told me she believes this is no longer
the case — that children are now being
taught a more balanced view of the Holo-
caust in which it is examined in context
with other genocides — as opposed to an
isolated tragedy that could only befall Jews
— and with a focus on Jewish partisans and
resistance groups. This new curriculum
shows the range of ways Jews responded to
the Holocaust, she explained.
“The way it’s being taught today is
through a totally different lens,” Simon
said. “We all grew up thinking the Jews
were sheep, right? But that’s not true. We
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Myths and misperceptions
The facts behind the controversy surrounding new construction in Jerusalem
Nevet Basker
Special to JTNews
Much has been written in recent
weeks about the announcement of new
construction permits in Jerusalem. The
timing of the announcement was unfor-
tunate and embarrassing, and Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
has apologized for it. But lost in the noise
were some basic facts about the dispute
and its broader context. Here’s an oppor-
tunity to set the record straight.
1. The construction in question is not
in “Arab East Jerusalem,” but in a Jewish
neighborhood in the northern part of the
city. Yes, it’s beyond the “Green Line” —
the undeclared and unrecognized border
between Israel and Jordan from 1948 to
1967. But under every conceivable two-
state scenario, including those advanced
by President Clinton at Camp David in
2000 and by President Bush in his 2004
letter to Israeli prime minister Sharon,
these areas would be excluded from any
future Palestinian state.
2. Jerusalem is not a “settlement.”
The 3,000-year-old city — which has had
a Jewish majority since 1870 — is the
united capital of Israel, not part of the
occupied West Bank. Jerusalem’s munic-
ipal boundaries include Arab neighbor-
hoods, and all its residents are — or have
the right to become — Israeli citizens.
While it is true that many in the Arab
world have refused to recognize Isra-
el’s sovereignty over parts of Jerusalem,
many of them also refuse to recognize its
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Why it’s important to humanize and bring awareness
of the Holocaust and all genocides
Ilana Cone Kennedy
Special to JTNews
I work at a Holocaust Center. My daily
language consists of the most obscene of
numbers, concentration camps, death, suf-
fering, and incredible personal miracles.
I am just about to complete my sev-
enth year as the director of education.
When I tell people where I work, I am
often met with looks of pity or silence, and
then a change of subject.
“Isn’t that depressing?” is the most fre-
quent question I receive.
Until recently, I would answer that I
am inspired daily by the educators with
whom I work. The teachers in our schools
who teach this subject — a subject that is
not required or mandated — are creative,
insightful, and motivated. Seven years
later I am only more impressed by their
efforts and determination.
However, my answer to the question
has changed. The gravity of the Holo-
caust — of any and all genocides — is
severe. The depth of human suffering is
beyond description. This tragedy did not
end in 1945, but continues in the survi-
vors’ memories, in their children, and
in new generations of survivors of more
recent genocides. As I type this, there are
at least four places in the world on the
brink of genocide. No one should suffer so
extremely at the hands of another person
or group of people. No one.
It’s easier for us to turn the other way,
sovereignty over Tel Aviv and the rest of
pre-1967 Israel.
3. Settlements are not the obstacle to
peace. Israel has twice removed settle-
ments and displaced civilians in its quest
for peace, once following the 1980 peace
accord with Egypt and again during the
2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
Alternately, a future peace agreement
could include population exchanges (20
percent of Israeli citizens are Palestinian
Arabs) or border adjustments, or allow
Israeli Jews to remain in a future Palestine
just as there are Palestinian Arabs living
as full citizens in Israel. The true obsta-
cles to peace are Arab denial of Israel’s
legitimacy within any borders, continued
anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement
and demonization, and the genocidal
Islamist rule of Hamas in Gaza.
4. The Obama administration is now
opposing an Israeli policy that it explic-
itly praised only four months ago. In
November 2009, despite heavy domestic
criticism and political risk, Prime Min-
ister Netanyahu announced a 10-month
moratorium on new construction in the
West Bank — explicitly excluding Jeru-
salem. At the time, Hilary Clinton found
that announcement “unprecedented” —
which it was — and praised it as a “move
forward.” Now the U.S. government has
reversed course, condemning the very
same policy it previously applauded.
5. American intervention is not help-
ing the peace process. On the contrary,
the Obama administration’s insistence
last summer that Israel halt all settle-
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to bury ourselves in our own lives, to
glance over the headlines without associ-
ating the individuals involved. It is easier
because we have no explanation for inno-
cent people being persecuted and suffer-
ing so greatly — we know it is unjust, we
recognize the absurdity of it all, and this
is why we can hardly bear to face it.
I am the mother of two young chil-
dren. When they were born, as everyone
warned me it would, my view of the world
changed. I think I was always sensitive to
people’s feelings, fears, and to the pain
and hurt a person experiences at being
rejected, put down, disappointed. After
having children of my own, the stories of
parents hiding their kids, sending them
to safety, holding on to them — all of it
was too personal.
The fear experienced by children, par-
ents, grandparents, the grappling with
the unknown, the efforts to save loved
ones, and even the pursuit of joy that
occurred in the worst of conditions — all
of this becomes part of the world we live
in. We wish this was history, but in fact,
people around the world continue these
experiences on a daily basis.
No, depressing is not the word I would
use. Overwhelming, really, is more like it.
I love my job. Many people have heard
me say it. I work with the most incredi-
ble people — survivors, educators, and a
staff of the most driven, intelligent, pas-
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ment expansion set back the talks by at
least a year, as the Palestinian Authority
and Arab League adopted that demand
as a precondition to any further negotia-
tion. Israel and the Palestinians had been
in direct talks for at least the last 17 years,
during which time Jewish settlement
population increased under a succes-
sion of Israeli governments from both the
right and the left. The American require-
ment for a settlement freeze has caused
a hardening of the Palestinian and Arab
positions and made it more difficult to
resume direct bilateral discussions on
final-status issues.
6. Disputes between friends should
be resolved privately, not in the media.
Every friendship has its disagreements,
and the long-term U.S.-Israel alliance is
no different. But when friends disagree,
they should work out their conflicts and
reach agreement without public procla-
mations and posturing that only inflame
the situation.
The Obama administration should
tone down the rhetoric and focus on
restarting negotiations. The Israeli-Pales-
tinian conflict must be resolved through
direct, bilateral talks in which all issues
— including Israeli construction, settle-
ments, final borders, the future of Jerusa-
lem, population exchanges and security
arrangements — are discussed under
mutual recognition and trust.
Nevet Basker is the Northwest regional
chair of the Israel advocacy and
education organization StandWithUs.
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the synagogue chronicles

Synagogue chronicles: Temple Beth Am

Staying the course

Leyna Krow Meanwhile, teens in the confirmation

Assistant Editor, JTNews
Although a lot has changed at Temple
Beth Am since the synagogue first opened
its doors in 1956, the last few years have
seen little growth. And that’s the way
executive director Esther Herst likes it.
The synagogue currently boasts 890
member households.
“It’s a happy number,” Herst said. “We
haven’t done a lot of very public outreach.
We are very proud of what we do and we
want the world to know it, but we don’t
consider ourselves out there in terms of
pushing people to join.”
That’s not to say new members aren’t
always encouraged at Temple Beth Am,
of course.
“Everyone is welcome,” Herst empha-
sized.
The synagogue is run by two full-time
rabbis, husband-and-wife team Jonathan
and Beth Singer, 10 administrative staff,
and 50 religious school staff. Herst noted
that a lot of Beth Am’s programming is
made possible because of the volunteer
efforts of congregants.
“It’s a nice partnership between staff
and volunteers,” she said. “[The staff]
makes sure things can happen, but the
happening part of it is the volunteers.”
She said she was particularly thrilled
to see volunteers step up to fill gaps this
last year after a decreased budget led to
cuts in staff and programming. She cited
Rabbi Beth Singer with members of the Temple Beth Am congregational trip to Turkey
at the archaeological site of the 3rd Century CE Roman Synagogue in Sardis.
inviting knowledgeable congregants to
lead the synagogue’s popular Sunday
Forums adult learning program instead
of paying for guest speakers. Also, instead
of having a catered break-the-fast meal
after Yom Kippur as the synagogue has
done in the past, Beth Am this past year
asked members to contribute dishes for a
potluck meal as a way to keep costs low.
“It was the most fun and the tastiest
break-the-fast we’ve ever had,” Herst said.
“People loved it. It was amazing to see that
we can do things like this for ourselves;
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that we don’t need to pay someone.”
Thankfully, Herst noted, despite a
slightly smaller budget, Temple Beth Am
has seen relatively little impact from the
recession.
Not surprisingly, the most popu-
lar programs at Beth Am are those
geared toward the congregation’s young-
est members — the 400 kids currently
enrolled in the religious school program.
Herst noted that many teens stay on after
their Sunday school years to help out as
madrichim, or classroom volunteers.
class are preparing for an upcoming trip
to New York with Rabbi Jonathan Singer.
“They’ll get the classic American
Jewish experience — find out what a tra-
ditional corned beef sandwich tastes
like,” Herst said.
In March, Temple Beth Am hosted a
trip to Turkey, this one aimed at adults
interested in the country’s Jewish history.
More than 20 congregants went along.
Temple Beth Am also began a new
program this year geared toward young
adults in their 20s and 30s. It’s called
YABA (Young Adults at Beth Am) and
is aimed at a demographic that often
doesn’t see a place for itself in the syna-
gogue landscape. According to Herst, the
program will provide an opportunity for
Jewish young adults to take part in both
religious activities like holiday celebra-
tions, and secular get-togethers like bike
rides and movie nights, with their own
peer group.
“It’s not just for temple members and
not all of the activities take place at the
temple,” she said.
She added that she hopes the addi-
tion of the YABA program will help young
adults feel more at home at Beth Am if
they choose to join.
“We value everyone’s participation,”
she said. “We want to be here for our
members and for Jews in the Northend
as a place of spiritual support and com-
munity.”

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Entrepreneur and former bagel baker incorporates tikkun olam into the business model

Joel Magalnick
Editor, JTNews
Noah Alper, a serial entrepreneur who
founded the natural foods market Bread
& Circus in Cambridge, Mass. and was the
namesake behind Noah’s Bagels, recently
wrote the book Business Mensch: Timeless
Wisdom for Today’s Entrepreneur. He’ll be
visiting the Stroum Jewish Community
Center on Mercer Island later this month
to talk about combining business with
Jewish values. Alper spoke with JTNews
from his home in Berkeley, Calif.
JTNews: What are you working on these
days?
Noah Alper: I’m still working on my book,
and I’ve been touring since September, so
its been a good lengthy tour. It’s been very
exciting, and I’m doing small business
consulting as well.
If you go:
Noah Alper will speak about
incorporating Jewish values into your
career on Thurs., April 15 at 7 p.m.
at the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer
Way, Mercer Island. $15. Members
of the Greater Seattle Jewish Business
Network are invited to attend a
reception at 6:15 p.m. Contact Roni
Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269 or
ronia@sjcc.org to RSVP.
JT: How has the reception been to the
book?
Alper: It’s been great. I think I’ve sort of
hit a sweet spot, unintentional when I
wrote it, which was, with the difficulties
in the economy, a book on entrepreneur-
ialism is being very well received. As I’ve
said to people and what has sort of res-
onated with them, having a 9 to 5 job is
sort of a scary thing these days. It makes
becoming an entrepreneur a little bit
less frightening, because in some cases
there’s no options at least to consider as
backup. So I’ve had a lot of interest in that.
Also, the other sort of major theme of the
book is how doing good is good for busi-
ness. That seems, especially in the Jewish
community, to be getting a lot of reso-
nance. I would say, especially after some
of the financial scandals we’ve had: The
Madoff thing, all of these various impro-
prieties, the message seems to be one
that’s being well received.
JT: While you’ve talked about the social
aspects of your book, it’s clearly written
from a Jewish angle. Is it that connec-
tion that resonates or is it something
else as well?
Alper: I think that is important. I think it’s
also “nice Jewish boy does good” and they
want to hear the story. I think the fact that
Noah’s was such a success that the com-
munities I’ve spoken to that have Noah’s
Bagels are very receptive to it.
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Entrepreneur Noah Alper
JT: We could talk about your big suc-
cesses, but it seems like you’ve had more
misses than hits. Can you talk about les-
sons learned?
Alper: As I say in my talks, I’m hitting
a .666. That’s my batting average. I’ve
started basically six ventures, four of
which were successful, a couple of them
less than successful.
I definitely have learned a lot from the
failures — probably more from the fail-
ures. Definitely humility — what not to do
— which sometimes for a business person
is as important as what to do. In the case
of successes, I think I was able to identify
trends just as they were emerging, in the
case of both Bread & Circus in the natural
foods area, in Alper International, which
was a housewares business of mine, gour-
met housewares was starting to get pop-
ular in the late ’70s and early ’80s when
Americans had been to Europe for the first
time and became very interested in Con-
tinental cuisine, Julia Child was popular,
etc. I had a gourmet housewares business
that was able to ride that wave.
And the third one being Noah’s, of
course. The fresh bagel shops in the late
’80s were a very dramatic and hot trend,
so I think I’ve been successful in identi-
fying some of these trends that have been
coming along.
JT: As far as life lessons go, what has taught
you more, the successes or the failures?
Alper: What stood out, and one of the
motivations from writing the book was,
the notion that you don’t have to be cut-
throat and mean and totally selfish to do
totally well in business.
One of the keys to the success at
Noah’s was our approach to the commu-
nity, to the customers, and to our employ-
ees: Sort of the golden rule. We treated
these constituencies as we wanted to be
treated, and we wanted to be rewarded
for it in terms of customer loyalty and
appreciation over and above.
We had great product, but it’s that kind
of intangible that really drove our success,
and I wanted to make that point very clear.
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in her own words

Discovering AIPAC, discovering my voice

A visit to the “other” Washington to lobby for Israel is citizen democracy at its finest

Michele Hathaway
Special to JTNews
The kippah count rose exponentially
on The East Coast Hollywood two weeks
ago. Washington D.C. buzzed with the
voices of Israel supporters from all 50
states during the annual AIPAC confer-
ence on Capitol Hill. A whopping 7,500
U.S. citizens eager to proclaim their sup-
port for AIPAC and the U.S.-Israel rela-
tionship convened at the convention
center for a weekend of listening, learn-
ing, and lobbying. I was among them.  most historically controversial topics on
I was a music major. Political life
wasn’t a part of my college experience.
I never dreamed I would be sitting face
to face with my two senators speak-
ing openly about the growing threat of a
nuclear Iran. Yet I felt the same adrena-
line rush speaking with our state’s lead-
ers as I did singing onstage. The day of
lobbying combined my passion for Israel
with a sense of camaraderie, much like
being a part of a sports team, or the violist
in an ensemble. As thousands of attend-
ees spoke with their senators and con-
gressional representatives, each person
became a key player in the orchestra of
pro-Israel activists.
For those not familiar with AIPAC, it
is the largest pro-Israel lobby in Amer-
ica. AIPAC isn’t Democrat or Republican.
It isn’t even “Jewish” (though some might
call the youth leadership receptions an
extended form of J-Date). AIPAC is a voice
to our elected officials explaining why the
United States must continue fostering a
supportive partnership with the only dem-
ocratic country in the Middle East: Israel.
This was my second year attending
the conference. As a recent USC gradu-
ate missing the bygone days of lecture
halls and late-night projects, it felt like a
long-awaited brain massage dissecting
the thoughts of Hillary Clinton, Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
and author and law professor Alan Der-
showitz as they spoke about one of the
the Hill, the Middle East. Empowered by
AIPAC, I discovered I have a voice in Con-
gress. Chatting with Sens. Maria Cantwell
and Patty Murray, both staunch support-
ers of AIPAC’s missions, I felt their undi-
vided attention and realized my voice was
making a difference. I am not a lawyer,
a businesswoman, or a politician, but as
an American activist, I am a person of
influence. Surrounded by people who are
inspiring, successful, and love our grass-
roots democracy, AIPAC changed my life.
It was a colorful setting. Amid the red,
white and blue backdrop, hundreds of
characters clustered in packs from New
York’s trendy Upper East Side, to cou-
ture-clad Los Angeles, everyone drinking
from the same bottle of Manischewitz —
Kool-Aid for Israel. Jews, Christians, and
over a thousand students jumped from
room to room, hearing lectures given by
college professors, renowned journal-
ists, and high-rank-
ing military officials
from both Israel and
the U.S. 
W hen t he t ime
came to return home
to Seattle’s Capitol
Hill, I had energ y,
new ideas, and sev-
eral business cards
in my pocket. I felt
like I had done what I
could to protect the
country that changed
my life a year ago Courtesy AIPAC
when I was singing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to
opera in Tel Aviv. I thousands of pro-Israel activists in Washington, D.C. at the
S k y p e d w i t h m y annual AIPAC policy conference last month.
Israeli friends, boast-
ing about the conference, and the changes the IDF, as an opera singer I am fighting
we’re making by getting Israeli military by utilizing what I know best: My voice.
funding. Though I’ll never be a soldier in
Olympia t Page 1 up in the air. Some policy language con-
tains the cuts to $30 million, though they
“If people are being targeted because could go deeper if the two chambers are
of who they are, there should be protec- unable to come to an agreement by next
tions,” he said. week and the governor chooses to bal-
With the legislature dickering over ance the budget through making across-
sin taxes and trying to find other ways to the-board cuts.
close the approximately last $200 million A possible bed tax for nursing homes
gap in the state’s $2.6 billion projected that would have been opposed by the
deficit, items such as the future of the Kline Galland Jewish assisted living and
General Assistance–Unemployable sti- nursing facilities was introduced but
pend for people unable to work are still rejected before coming to a vote.

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Passover, Russian-style
A first-of-its-kind seder for the area’s Russian Jewish community brings hundreds to local temple
Janis Siegel
JTNews Correspondent
As twilight descended on the social
hall at Temple Beth Am on April 1, 160
Russian immigrants from the former
Soviet Union, with a modern Exodus
story of their own, examined the Russian-
Hebrew haggadah created just for them,
and awaited Jewish Family Service’s
Passover seder that was about to begin in
their honor.
Preparing to lead the ancient ritual
meal was Seattleite and Russian émigré
Cantor Marina Belenky, along with her
musical trio, Marianna, who were warm-
ing up for the post-seder Jewish-Russian
world music and dancing.
Children helped their “bubbies” and
parents preview the text, while others just
kept them company as the crowd gath-
ered and latecomers took their seats.
Anticipation gave way to a warm wel-
come from Beth Am’s senior rabbi, Jona-
than Singer, with a translator behind him
to deliver his speech in the participants’
mother tongue.
“We invite you…to come and decorate
our houses of Torah,” he said, reflecting
on his grandmother’s journey here from
the Ukraine. “Had it not been for her will-
ingness to join the Jewish community, I
would not be a rabbi. You will be a bless-
ing and we will bless you.”
Although Chabad-Lubavitch of the
Pacific Northwest has been hosting an
Orthodox Jewish seder for the Russian
immigrant community for several years,
this was the first Reform Russian seder
in Seattle.
“We’ve been wanting to do a Russian
seder for years,” said Wendy Marcus,
music director for Beth Am. “But we
didn’t have that connection to the older
Russian community that JFS has. In
reality, this whole thing is about getting
people connected, not only to the com-
A participant at the Russian seder at Temple Beth Am looks through her specially made
Russian-Hebrew haggadah.
munity, but also to their tradition.”
Ken Weinberg, CEO of JFS, also gave
translated remarks just before the seder
got underway.
“I am very grateful to my grandpar-
ents that they left Russia when they did,”
Weinberg said as he greeted the group.
“That gave me the kind of life that I’ve
been able to live. This is a first for us at
Jewish Family Service…but not the last.”
According to Jane Relin, the clinical
director at JFS, these Russian immigrants
are, for the most part, a surviving rem-
nant from the Holocaust, who were left
in the Soviet Union without any family
records or religious infrastructure. They
were also denied their religious freedom
to practice Judaism.
“For the most part, these are secu-
lar Jews who have not had the ability to
learn about the religion because of the
language barrier,” Relin, who has been
working with the more than 200 Russian
elderly in JFS’s Russian program for the
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last five years, told JTNews.
Most live in public housing in Belle-
vue’s Crossroads area, she said, while
other large communities live in Kirkland
and Mercer Island. A few also live in Red-
mond.
“The people who are good at speaking
English are the younger people,” Relin
said. “They were able to integrate into the
community and get pretty good jobs. But
a lot of the elderly people have remained
pretty isolated in their own community
and stuck without much support.”
Two local Jewish families, the Alhad-
effs and the Pollacks, paid for the catered
kosher dinner provided at a reduced rate
by Nosh Away in Seattle.
Volunteers f rom JFS copied and
assembled each 32-page haggadah by
hand. It included Hebrew and Russian
prayer texts on each page, along with all
of the traditional Passover songs in Rus-
sian, with the music included.
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rituals for the Russian community, said
she is more involved with them now that
she has been collaborating on this proj-
ect with JFS.
As the only Russian-speaking member
of the clergy who could lead the seder for
the group, Belenky chanted each prayer
in Hebrew, translated it into Russian,
and then explained the meaning of each
ritual for the crowd.
“I am putting my heart and soul into
it,” Belenky said. “I see the analogy of my
Exodus, when I left Russia. When I was
growing up, I didn’t see any of that and I
was jealous of the kids that lived here in
America, that they had seder every year. I
had my first seder when I was 29.”
Belenky graduated from the Rimsky-
Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg,
Russia and came to the United States in
1982, where she was ordained as a cantor
at the School of Sacred Music at the
Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute
of Religion.
After serving for 11 years as a cantor
and musical director for a temple in Con-
necticut, Belenky moved to the Pacific
Northwest and was the cantor and musi-
cal director at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in
Seattle from 1999 to 2005. She selected
the contents of the haggadah for the
seder, which was originally translated
into Russian and prepared by the Reform
movement’s Central Conference of Amer-
ican Rabbis.
Her performing trio, Marianna, plays a
diverse repertoire of world music, liturgi-
cal music, contemporary Hebrew Israeli
songs, and Russian gypsy music.
“We are very excited,” Belenky said
prior to the event. “I am just going to
explain as much as I can. This is such a
great beginning for the Russian-speaking
community. I would love to do it annu-
ally.”
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m.o.t.: member of the tribe

Lice Knowing You not nice for lice

The Jerusalem Post
Crossword Puzzle
By David Benkof
Across
1. Be a gonif
4. Reprimand, in a way
8. Meaning of 70-Across
11. Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo
13. “___ see!”
15. What makes matzoh brei yellow
16. Loyal
17. Abram’s wife
18. Just
19. Haman’s hat had three
21. Red-haired, rubber-faced actor
23. ___ Hachareidis
25. Oscar winner for portraying
Harvey
26. Daniel of the Pentagon Papers
30. Joseph’s were notable
34. Music star originally named
Ahinoam Nini
35. A tribe of Israel
37. Hebrew letter, literally “door”
38. Portenting evil
40. ___ Galilee
42. Prepared
43. Mistake
45. Nadel and Mayer
47. Jerusalem Mayor Barkat
48. Actress Sobieski (“Deep Impact”)
50. Willy Loman’s profession
52. Corn measurement
54. Kind of honey
55. Jewish Daily Forward attention-
getters
60. Mishnaic commentator
63. Western Gallilee city
64. Location of the AJU
66. Main thing
67. “___ me, worry?”
68. ADL enemy
69. “God of Carnage” playwright
Yasmina
70. See 8-Across
71. Biblical metaphor for offspring
Down
1. Darn!
2. First Israeli NBAer Casspi
3. Family in Lemony Snicket’s
books
4. Hersh and Agnon
5. Burden
6. Torah ___ (textbook company)
7. Plots
8. Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Metzger
9. Philanthropist Kadoorie
10. Actress Ione (“Say Anything”)
12. Baby Moses’ location
14. Word with tree or paper
15. City near the Technion
20. Kfar ___
22. Place to play
24. Proto-Zionist Moses
26. Congressman Eliot (D-N.Y.)
27. “Mr. Moto” actor Peter
28. Actress Perlman (“Cheers”)
29. Machines may have them
31. “Little Mermaid” composer
32. Jews are accused of controlling it
33. Shock jock Howard
36. Barrett or Jaffe
39. Right-wing political party
41. Go out of business
44. Honest
46. Tush
49. Yoffie and Cantor
51. Word with way or case
53. Doesn’t button
55. “Private Benjamin” actress
Goldie
56. Sound in a cave
57. Southern Israeli city
58. First name in Holocaust novelists
59. Location
61. Eichmann, e.g.
62. Gaza resident, most likely
65. Nourished
Also: New director of Equal Rights Washington
Diana
Brement
JTNews
Columnist
Lice Knowing You. No, that’s not
a typo. It’s Nancy Gordon’s new lice-
removal salon on Mercer Island.
After running a mobile business for
three years, “I decided to go to the salon
model for a variety of reasons,” she says.
Customers asked for it, she can work on
more than one client at a time, and she has
a place where people can buy products.
Personally, my children escaped the
plague of those blood-sucking human
parasites (a growing problem worldwide,
by the way), but I learned a lot talking to
Nancy, who uses only natural products.
In fact, the search
for pest ic ide-f ree
treatments led her
into this business.
M a n y y e a r s a go,
w hen her daug h-
ter Emily, now 11,
caught lice at school,
she was reluctant to
use pesticide treat-
ments t hat m ig ht
harm her son Josh, 9,
who is autistic. She
also learned that lice Courtesy Nancy Gordon he served as Hillel
have become resis- Lice eradication expert Nancy Gordon.
tant to most pesti-
cide products and that some of these
treatments contain more pesticide than
“a can of Raid,” she says.
More problems occur when direc-
tions aren’t followed or treatments aren’t
used for long enough. Nancy and her staff
provide the most important part of lice
removal, also the one most parents fall
down on: Combing. She and her staff,
all certified through the Shepherd Insti-
tute in Florida, use a strand-by-strand
removal method, making them “the only
trained and certified head lice removal
experts in the state of Washington.”
This isn’t the first business Nancy
and her husband Matt have started. Also
propelled by Josh’s needs they founded
the Academy for Precision Learning,
a 19-student school that occupies two
classrooms in the University Heights
building in Seattle’s University District
where typically and atypically devel-
oping kids (as they say in the education
world) learn side by side.
The school is expanding, adding
middle school grades one at a time, and a
new principal, Jennifer Annable, coming
over from the University of Washington’s
EEU program in July.
Originally from Denver and trained as
an attorney, Nancy moved here in 1999
from San Francisco where she had worked
for the Anti-Defamation League. The
family belongs to Temple De Hirsch Sinai.
In addition to the Mercer Island salon, a
new one opens May 1 in Federal Way. For
appointments call 206-910-3615 and
there’s more information (including the
•••
“I actually came out here to do a six-
week consulting job and never left,” says
Josh Friedes of his arrival in Seattle in
2005. The newly appointed director of
Equal Rights Washington is a long-time
LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans-
gender) rights activist who managed
last year’s Approve 71 campaign to keep
our state’s domestic partnership law
(www.equalrightswashington.org).
As a volunteer, Josh spent the “better
part of [a] decade fighting for marriage
equality in Massachusetts.” Eventually he
left a job with AARP to become a senior
staff member of the Freedom to Marry
Coalition in that state.
The Jewish community “has always
been [one of] our strongest supporters,” Josh
observes, adding that polls show that Jews
are very supportive of marriage equality.
“The Jewish community is…wonder-
ful in respect to LGBT issues,” he adds.
“The [Jewish Federation of Greater Seat-
tle] has been won-
derful in lobbying,
Jew ish Family Ser-
vice is phenomenal,
the clergy are great.”
Raised in East
Brunswick, N.J., in a
“fairly strict kosher
h o m e ,” Jo s h w a s
a lways act ive in
Jew ish life. At t he
University of Roches-
ter (18 percent Jewish)
president, worked on
the Jewish paper and
studied abroad at the University of Tel Aviv.
“I really grappled as I came out…with
my religious identity,” he explains, during
a time when the Conservative movement
was also struggling with attitudes toward
homosexuality. “I realized I could not
feel comfortable in an institution that
wouldn’t feel comfortable with me.”
He started attending Reform ser-
vices and is now an active member of
Kol HaNeshemah in West Seattle. But he
notes that the Conservative movement
“has evolved… I thought they did a won-
derful job when they decided to ordain
gay and lesbian rabbis” and host events
like Pride Shabbat.
His grandmother was a big influence
on him and remains an influence in his
work. A survivor of pogroms and blood
libels, she taught him that anti-Semitism
was based in fear. Anti-homosexual sen-
timent is also “based on fear,” says Josh.
“She lived her life so openly and so
deliberately to make sure her non-Jewish
neighbors in Davenport, Iowa, understood
her and were welcome in her home,” he
says. She understood that “if people knew
you, if you were transparent, then they
would support you.
“That has been my attitude toward my
work,” Josh says. “Have people see the
differences that should be celebrated.”
•••
Correction: In the March 12 issue,
a digit was accidentally dropped from
the phone number of Green Elms Press,
publisher of Exoneration: The Rosen-
berg-Sobell Case in the 21st Century. The

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arts & entertainment

Music review: Let’s Go Coconuts!

A taste of music from the tough critics who might actually listen to it

Second and Third Graders
Seattle Jewish Community School
When JDub Records sent us its first
foray into children’s music, an album
called Let’s Go Coconuts! by a band called
The Macaroons, we knew that by actually
transferring it onto our iPod, we would
have one of two reactions: We’d either
want to throw the device at the wall after
suffering through so much kids’ music,
or we’d want to drive into a wall because
we couldn’t get the catchy tunes out of
our heads.
So we decided to get the kids who
would actually listen to The Macaroons
to do the review for us. Second and third
grade teachers Amee Sherer and Jeff
Stombaugh at the Seattle Jewish Com-
munity School subjected themselves to
a full process for reviewing the album,
including explaining to the students how
to understand musical terms and to write
down their honest impressions. Here’s
what the kids had to say:
Track 1: Mezuzah
Third grader and aspiring guitar rock
hero Charlie loved it. “It has a great beat
and the guitar is awesome,” he said. “I love
a rock beat.” His classmate Yacov agreed:
“I like it loud,” he said, adding: “I liked how
you put some good-to-know facts in it.”
Another of their classmates was not as
impressed. “The lyrics are really bad, but
the beat is good,” Micah said.
But Talia, from the 2nd grade, said,
“It’s funny because it’s just funny.”
Track 2: Magic Talis Ride
Steppenwolf fans can see where this
one’s going, but the kids had other ideas:
“Reminds me of a bored kid in shul
that wants to go outside and play,” said
2nd grader Talia.
Both Alexis, in 2nd grade, and Uri, in
the 3rd grade had similar experiences
when hearing the song: “When I hear it
I feel like I am actually flying,” Uri said.
Third grader Sol, however, got a head-
ache. “Too much stuttering,” he said.
Track 3: Apples and Honey
“I loved it,” said 2nd grader Ava, who
called it “a little jazzy, good melody.”
Fut u re rocker Cha rl ie sa id “t he
lyrics need to be worked on,” but 3rd
grader Jacob thought it had a “cool, nice
melody.”
Track 4: Dreidel Bird
Shall we inject a bit of controversy into
the proceedings?
“A little bit too slow,” said 2nd grader
Nov.
“I like it a lot because it is slow,” said
his classmate Madeleine.
We’ll let them fight it out on the play-
ground after school. Alexis, also a 2nd
grader, liked the song. “I’m so impressed
that I wonder how they came up with
the words,” she said, while 2nd grader
Heather said, “It’s funny with an interest-
ing melody.”
“I liked the guitar solo,” said Charlie.
Track 5: Matzoh Ball (Don’t Kick It!)
How ’s t h is
for a c atc hy
tune? “Makes
me w a nt t o
get up a nd
dance,” said
2nd g rader
Meira.
“ G o o d
drumbeat,
good voices,
good tempo,” agreed Josh, also
in the 2nd grade. Their classmate Ava
said she loved it, particularly the funny
melody.
Track 6: Shabbos Morning
Third grader Jacob gave it two thumbs
up, though 2nd grader Josh said the first
part was not so good. Madeleine, in the
2nd grade, called it “the best song I ever
heard.”
Track 7: Haman! Boo!
If you were to take a vote on the favor-
ite song on the album, hands down the
winner would be this one. It’s short, only
eight words long, but it made an impact.
“Love it. Funny!” said 3rd grader Abra-
ham.
Said Uri, also in the 3rd grade: “It’s
kind of like rock and roll, and it makes me
feel kind of wired.”
Sol said it was pretty good, but too short.
Track 8: Billy Bagel
This song that lists all the different
kinds of bagels, got a mixed response.
“The music’s okay, but the words are a
little weird,” said 3rd
grader Max.
Second grader Meira liked the famil-
iar tune, and how they were able to work
in the phrase “baker’s dozen.”
But Micah was having none of it. “The
instruments it uses sound really bad and
the words are pretty bad,” he said.
But where most people listen to music
with their ears, 3rd grader Jack uses his
stomach. “It’s about food!” he exclaimed.
Track 9: Elijah
Amalya, in the 3rd grade, liked this
song about the well-known prophet:
“Fast, nice rhyming, odd, weird, silly,”
she said.
Second grader Nov liked it as well.
“The beat is cool and it is funny,” he said,
while 3rd grader Yakov said, “I like how it
was like a story.”
Track 10: Seder Plate
Not a lot of response on this song for
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Ongoing
Friday
■■9:30–10:30 a.m. – SJCC Tot Shabbat
Dana Weiner at 206-232-7115, ext. 237
Parents with children ages infant-3 celebrate
Shabbat with challah, live music, singing,
and dancing in the JCC’s foyer. Free. At the
Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■11 a.m.–12 p.m. – Tots Welcoming
Shabbat
425-603-9677 or
www.templebnaitorah.org
This Temple B’nai Torah program for kids
ages infant-5 includes songs, stories, candle
lighting, challah, and open play. Free. At
Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St.,
Bellevue.
■■12:30–3:30 p.m. – Drop-in Mah Jongg
Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269
A friendly game of Mah Jongg. Free for
members, $2 for guests. At the Stroum JCC,
3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■12:30–3:30 p.m. – Bridge Group
Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269
Prior bridge playing experience necessary.
Coffee and tea provided. Bring a brown bag
lunch. Free for members, $2 for non-
members. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer
Way, Mercer Island.
Saturday
■■9–10:30 a.m. – Temple B’nai Torah Adult
Torah Study
425-603-9677
A discussion of each week’s parshah. No
experience needed. At the Temple B’nai Torah
youth room, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
■■9:45 a.m. – BCMH Youth Services
Julie Greene at 206-721-0970 or
julie@bcmhseattle.org
Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath Congrega-
tion has something for all ages: Teen minyan,
Yavneh program, Junior minyan, Torah Tots,
Mommy and Me, and Navi class. Starting times
vary. At Congregation Bikur Cholim-Machzi-
kay Hadath, 5145 S Morgan St., Seattle.
■■10 a.m. – Morning Youth Program
206-722-5500 or www.ezrabessaroth.net
Congregation Ezra Bessaroth’s full-service
april 9 – 19
Shabbat morning youth program focuses on
tefillah, the weekly parshah and the congre-
gation’s unique customs in a creative and
fun environment. For infant to 5th grade. At
Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon
St., Seattle.
■■10:45 a.m.–12 p.m. – Herzl Mishpacha
Minyan
206-232-8555 or www.herzl-ner-tamid.org
A Shabbat morning service at Herzl-Ner Tamid
Conservative Congregation that meets twice a
month and features songs, stories and treats for
2- to 5-year-olds and their families. Meets first
and third Shabbat of the month. At Herzl-Ner
Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■5 p.m. – The Ramchal’s Derech Hashem,
Portal from the Ari to Modernity
Rabbi Harry Zeitlin at 206-524-9740 or
hlzeitlin@comcast.net
This is the earliest systematic and reliable
explanation of Kabbalah, which is grounded
in tradition and comprehensible to contem-
porary, educated Jews. At Congregation Beth
Ha’Ari Beit Midrash, 5508 35th Ave. NE,
Seattle.
■■6:30 p.m. – Avot Ubanim
Rabbi Yehuda Bresler at 206-722-8289
A class where children can learn alongside
their parents. Refreshments and prizes at
each session. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd
Ave. S, Seattle.
Sunday
■■9 a.m. – Intermediate Halachah
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or
info@seattlekollel.org
Designed for students who want to learn
comprehensive, in-depth, everyday
halachah. Taught by Rabbi Yeshoshua
Pinkus. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave.
S, Seattle.
■■9:30 a.m. – The Role of Conscience in
Judaism
Mimi Porad at 206-323-8486 or
mimi@tdhs-nw.org
Seven-week class exploring the role of con-
science in religion in general and Judaism
in particular. $75. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai,
1530 E Union, Seattle.
■■10 a.m. – Mitzvot: The Fabric of Jewish
Living
206-722-8289 or info@seattlekollel.org
An ongoing course about the philosophical
underpinnings and practical implications of
the 613 mitzvot. Free. Part of the Seattle
Kollel’s “Breakfast Club,” offering bagels, lox
and cream cheese, Starbucks coffee and
Krispy Kreme Donuts. At the Seattle Kollel,
5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
■■10:15 a.m. – Sunday Torah Study
Carol Benedick at 206-524-0075
Weekly study group. At Congregation Beth
Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■10:30 a.m. – Intermediate/Advanced
Prayerbook Hebrew
Alysa Rosen at 206-525-0915, ext. 210 or
alysa@templebetham.org
This course focuses on developing a basic
Hebrew vocabulary necessary for under-
standing the siddur. At Temple Beth Am,
2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.
■■11 a.m.–12 p.m. – Hebrew From
Scratch
Melanie Berman at melanie@h-nt.org
Learn the basics of the Aleph-Bet. $170. At
the Frankel Library at Herzl-Ner Tamid, 3700
E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■11 a.m.–12 p.m. – Moving on in
Hebrew
Melanie Berman at melanie@h-nt.org
Reading, comprehension and basic grammar.
$170. At the Frankel Library at Herzl-Ner
Tamid, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■7:15 p.m. – Beginners’ Talmud
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or
info@seattlekollel.org
This course will walk the novice through the
basic learning skills to begin to learn Talmud.
At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S,
Seattle.
■■7:30-10:30 p.m. – He’Ari Israeli
Dancing
Ellie at 206-232-3560, tiaellie1@yahoo.com
or israelidanceseattle.com
Seattle’s oldest Israeli dance session. Couples
and singles welcome. Call for schedule
changes. Cost is $6. At Danceland Ballroom,
327 NE 91st St., Seattle.
Monday
■■10 a.m.–2 p.m. – JCC Seniors Group
Roni 206-232-7115, ext. 269
The Stroum JCC’s Seniors Group meets on
Mondays and Thursdays for activities and
celebrations. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■10 a.m. – Jewish Mommy and Me
Giti Fredman at 206-935-4035 or
info@seattlekollel.org
Giti Fredman leads a weekly playgroup for
Jewish moms and young children. Sponsored
by the Seattle Kollel. At the Hiawatha
Community Center, 2700 California Ave.
SW, Seattle.
■■7–8 p.m. – Ein Yaakov in English
Joseph N. Trachtman at 206-412-5985 or
tracht@accommotrac.com
Ein Yaakov has been studied since its publi-
cation in 1516 by those desiring an introduc-
tion to the Talmud through its stories. Free.
At Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch,
6250 43rd Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■7:45–8:45 p.m. – For Women Only
206-527-1411
Rabbi Levitin offers classic commentaries on
the weekly parshah, Rashi, Rambam and Or
HaChaim. At Congregation Shaarei Tefilah,
6250 43rd Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■8–10 p.m. – Women’s Israeli Dance
Class
Ruth Fast at 206-725-0930
Learn Israeli dance steps in an all-female
environment. At the Lakewood/Seward Park
Community Club, corner of 50th Ave. S and
Angeline St., Seattle.
■■8:30 p.m. – Iyun (in-depth) class in
Tehillim
info@seattlekollel.org
Class led by Rebbetzin Shirley Edelstone and
sponsored by the Seattle Kollel. For women
only. Free. Location provided upon RSVP.
■■8:30 p.m. – Talmud in Hebrew
Rabbi Farkash at
rabbifarkash@earthlink.net
An in-depth Talmud class in Hebrew for men
taught by Rabbi Mordechai Farkash. At the
Eastside Torah Center, 1837 156th Ave. NE,
# 303, Bellevue.
■■8:30 p.m. – Talmud, Yeshiva-Style
eastsidechabad@earthlink.net
This class tackles sections of ritual, civil and
criminal law. Be prepared for lively discus-
sion, debate and analysis. Students must be
able to read Hebrew and should have had
some experience with in-text Torah study.
At the Eastside Torah Center, 1837 156th
Ave. NE, #303, Bellevue.
Tuesday
■■11 a.m.–12 p.m. – Mommy and Me
Program
Nechama Farkash at 425-427-1654
A chance for parents and kids to explore the
child’s world through story, song, cooking,
crafts and circle time. At a private address.
Call for location.
■■12 p.m. – Torah for Women
Rochie Farkash at 206-383-8441 or
eastsidechabad@earthlink.net
Rochie Farkash leads a group of Eastside
women in a discussion of the weekly Torah
portion. At Starbucks (backroom), Bellevue
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■■7 p.m. – Alcoholics Anonymous
Meetings
Eve M. Ruff at 206-461-3240 or
emruff@jfsseattle.org
Meeting for anyone who has stopped or
would like to stop drinking. At Jewish Family
Service, 1601 16th Ave., Seattle.
■■7:15 p.m. – A Treasury of Wisdom
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or
info@seattlekollel.org
Six-week class exploring the history of Musar.
Taught by Rabbi Yehuda Bresler. $25. At the
Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
■■7-8 p.m. – Portraits in Leadership
425-957-7860
A study of the life stories of six figures whose
courage and determination helped Judaism
weather its darkest hours. Lessons will
examine a range of classic Jewish sources,
drawing extensively from the stories of the
Talmud and modern commentaries. Led by
Rabbi Sholom Ber Elishevitz. At the Eastside
Torah Center, 1837 156th Ave. NE, #303,
Bellevue.
■■7:30 p.m. – Why Be Jewish?
Melanie Berman at 206-232-8555 or
melanie@h-nt.org
This class explores what is distinctive about
Judaism and the Jewish people. At Herzl-Ner
Tamid, 3700 E Mercer Island Way, Mercer
Island.
■■8 : 3 0 p . m . – U n d e r s t a n d i n g t h e
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Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or
info@seattlekollel.org
This course will explore the role of the
rabbinate and some of the greatest leaders
in recent centuries. Taught by Rabbi Yitzchak
Goldman. $25. At Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd
Ave. S, Seattle.
Wednesday
■■11 a.m.-12 p.m. – Torah with a Twist
206-938-4852
Women learn Torah with Rabbi Ephraim
Schwartz of the Seattle Kollel at this weekly
class. At a Mercer Island location. Call for
directions.
■■11:45 a.m. – Talmud Berachot
Rabbi Yehoshua Pinkus at 206-718-2887
or rabbipinkus@seattlekollel.org
Interactive discussion and study session of
the Talmud Berachot. Hosted by the Seattle
Kollel. Free. At Tully’s Westlake Center, 1601
5th Ave., Seattle.
■■1:30 p.m. – Book Club at the Stroum
JCC
Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269
Book discussions the first Wednesday of every
month. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer
Way, Mercer Island.
■■3 p.m. – The Mother’s Circle
Marjorie Schnyder at 206-461-3240, ext.
3146
A program for moms from other backgrounds
raising Jewish kids to get support, learn about
Jewish rituals, practices and values, and get
connected to the Jewish community.
Sponsored by Jewish Family Service. Every
other Wednesday. At Whole Foods Market,
1026 NE 64th St., Seattle.
■■7–9 p.m. – Teen Lounge for Middle
Schoolers
Ari at 206-295-5888
Foosball, ping-pong, pool, basketball, arcade
games and optional classes. At the Yavneh
building at Congregation Bikur Cholim-
Machzikay Hadath, 5145 S Morgan St.,
Seattle.
■■7 p.m. – Beginning Israeli Dancing for
Adults with Rhona Feldman
Carol Benedick at 206-524-0075
Older teens and all experience levels are
welcome. $40 for a five-session punch card.
Discount for members. At Congregation Beth
Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■7 p.m. – Wisdom for Women 14+
Rabbi Bresler at 206-331-8767 or
info@seattlekollel.org
Jewish Women ages 14 and up are invited
to take part in an afternoon of thought-pro-
voking learning, wisdom, and ideas from the
Torah. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave.
S, Seattle.
■■7 p.m. – Kosher for the Clueless but
Curious
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or
info@seattlekollel.org
Six-week introduction to kosher foods, kosher
cooking, and dietary law. Taught by Rabbi
Dovid Fredman. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305
52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
■■7:30 p.m. – Parshas Hashavuah
eastsidechabad@earthlink.net
This class provides a general overview of the
Torah portion of the week accompanied by
Midrashic commentaries, philosophical
insight, and practical lessons. At the Eastside
Torah Center, 1837 156th Ave. NE #303,
Bellevue.
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■■8:15 p.m. – Jewish Things that Go Bump
in the Night
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or
info@seattlekollel.org
Six-week course exploring the mystical side
of Judaism. Taught by Rabbi Dovid Fredman.
$25. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S,
Seattle.
■■8:15 p.m. – Proverbially Profound
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or
info@seattlekollel.org
Six-week course on the Book of Proverbs. Taught
by Rebbetzin Shirley Edelstone. $25. At the
Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
Thursday
■■9:30–10:30 a.m. – Women’s Talmud
Sasha Mail at 206-323-7933, ext. 301
Talmud study class for women led by Rivy
Poupko Kletenik. Free. At Seattle Hebrew
Academy, 1617 Interlaken Dr. E, Seattle.
■■12 p.m. – Ramban on Chumash for
Women
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289
A discussion of foundational Jewish concepts
through the eyes of Nachmanides on Chumash
in the Book of Genesis, as well as an analysis
of key Rashis. Prerequisite: the ability to
recognize the Hebrew letters and a desire to
learn basic Hebrew grammar. For women
only. $25. Sponsored by the Seattle Kollel. At
a private home, Mercer Island.
■■7 p.m. – Junior Teen Center
Ari Hoffman at thehoffather@aol.com
Video games, game tables, food, and fun for
middle schoolers. Hosted by NCSY. At the Stroum
JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■7 p.m. – Beginners Bridge Class
Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269 or
ronia@sjcc.org
An eight-week class to familiarize students
with the basic principles of bridge. $60/JCC
members, $70/non-members. At the Stroum
JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■8 p.m. – Beth Shalom Beit Midrash
Carol Benedick at 206-524-0075 or
carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or
www.bethshalomseattle.org
Rabbi Stuart Light will teach Masechet
Berachot from the Mishna. $5/class or 6 classes
for $25. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800
35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
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■■6 p.m. – Mussar 3: The Way Continues
Devlin Donnelly at 206-323-8486 or
publications@tdhs-nw.org
Rock Shabbat includes dinner and a look at
the Mussar ethical movement with Rabbi
Daniel Weiner. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai,
1441 16th Ave., Seattle.
Saturday 10
■■7 p.m. – This I Believe at Temple B’nai
Torah
Temple B’nai Torah at 425-603-9677 or
www.templebnaitorah.org
Hear the personal philosophies of individual
members of the synagogue community. At
Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St.,
Bellevue.
Sunday 11
■■11:30 a.m. – Daytimers Lunch & Movie
Isolde Shiebert at 206-232-8555, ext. 204
or rsvp@h-nt.org
The documentary A Cantor’s Tale follows
chazzan Jack Mendelson as he tours his old
Brooklyn neighborhood sharing his love of
chazzanut with anyone who will listen. $7
for lunch and the movie. At Herzl-Ner Tamid
Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer
Way, Mercer Island.
■■1 p.m. –Yom HaShoah: Holocaust
Community Remembrance
Lauren Bianchi at admin@wsherc.org
Community commemoration for Holocaust
Remembrance Day. All are welcome. At the
Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
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■■5–6 p.m. – Yom HaShoah Commemora-
tion
Robert Beiser at robert@hilleluw.org
Holocaust survivor Hester Kool shares her
story of hiding with a Dutch family in
Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of
Holland. RSVP requested. At Hillel UW, 4745
17th Ave. NE, Seattle.
Monday 12
■■9 a.m. – 6th Annual Yom HaShoah —
Holocaust & Genocide Remembrance
This year’s event commemorates the lives of
the victims and affirms the lives of European,
Cambodian, and Rwandan survivors of
genocide. At South Seattle Community
College, 6000 16th Ave. SW, Seattle.
■■6–8 p.m. – Young Professionals Happy
Hour
Josh at joshf@hilleluw.org
Join fellow Jewish professionals for happy
hour. Hosted by Jconnect and JPro. At Purple,
430 106th Ave. NE, Bellevue.
Wednesday 14
■■12–1 p.m. – Microsoft Lox ’n’ Learn
Jacob at jacob@hilleluw.org
Lunch and a discussion led by Rabbi Jacob
Fine. RSVP requested. At Microsoft, building
9, room 2569, Redmond.
■■5:30 p.m. – Small Business Owner Net-
working
Jay Bakst at 253-709-2850 or
raviyah@comcast.net
Share ideas with other small business owners
with the Greater Seattle Jewish Business
Network. At the East Side Bar and Grill, Coast
Bellevue Hotel, 625 116th Ave. NE, Seattle.
Thursday 15
■■7 p.m. – Noah Alper
Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269 or
ronia@sjcc.org
Noah Alper, founder of Noah’s New York
Bagels and author of Business Mensch, talks
about incorporating Jewish values into your
life and career. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
Sunday 18
■■10 a.m. – Aging in Place with Don
Armstrong
Alysa Rosen at 206-525-0915 or
alysa@templebetham.org
A workshop about in-home care led by Don
Armstrong, director of home care and com-
munity-based services for Jewish Family
Service. Free. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE
80th St., Seattle.
■■6:30 p.m. – Make It After You Break It:
Seven Habits for a Happy Jewish Marriage
YLD@JewishInSeattle.org
Kosher dinner and interactive discussion on
building and maintaining a strong Jewish
relationship. With Rabbi Chaim Levine. $18
per couple. Hosted by the Jewish Federation’s
Young Leadership Division. At the home of
Patty and Jonathan Lazarus, address provided
upon RSVP.
Monday 19
■■12 p.m. – AIPAC Downtowner’s Briefing
Sarah Persitz at 206-624-5152 or
spersitz@aipac.org
This series is part of a new initiative uniting
downtown professionals committed to
securing and supporting the U.S.-Israel rela-
tionship. Location provided upon RSVP.
■■6:30 p.m. – 2010 StandWithUs Yom
Ha’atzmaut Dinner
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dinner and Yom Ha’Atzmaut celebration. At
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Shoah week on PBS

Public TV stations will show several specials during
Holocaust Remembrance Week
Tom Tugend
JTA World News Service
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The Public
Broadcasting Service will offer U.S. tele-
vision viewers a concentrated history
lesson during Holocaust Remembrance
Week, with seven films and documenta-
ries on Jewish death and defiance in the
past and on the genocides of the present.
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Four main films will be aired in prime
time by 365 member stations, starting
April 11 with a British version of The Diary
of Anne Frank at 9 p.m. (check local list-
ings to confirm date and time of all pro-
grams).
The story of the high-spirited Jewish
girl in hiding from the Nazis for two years
in a crowded Amsterdam attic, while at
the same time facing the highs and lows
of adolescence and first love, is too famil-
iar and revered to permit tampering with
the plot. However, director Jon Jones does
allow himself to vary the relationships
among the key characters.
Ellie Kendrick (one of the young
school girls in An Education) gives us an
Anne with all her exuberance, as well as
occasional orneriness and chutzpah. But
the major surprise is Otto Frank, Anne’s
father, as portrayed by Iain Glen.
In her intimate diary, Ann was not
uncritical of her parents, and Otto has
been frequently pictured as cold and
ineffectual.
By contrast, in the current production,
Otto is very much the central and domi-
nating figure, who keeps his family and
their friends from falling apart amid the
crowded tension and boredom of their
tight quarters.
It is also Otto who enforces a degree
of normalcy in the most abnormal of cir-
cumstances. The three adult men in the
attic dress in jacket and tie, and in the cel-
ebration of a joyous Hanukkah the actors
seem to convince themselves and the
viewers that all is (or soon will be) all right
with the world.
“Among the Righteous,” airing April 12
at 10 p.m., documents the dogged search
by historian and writer Robert Satloff to
the Desert.”
Satloff finds his hero in Khaled Abdul-
Wahab, a prosperous Tunis businessman,
who, like Oskar Schindler, entertained
Nazi officials to cover sheltering Jewish
families on his family farm.
There is also a brief testimony by Tuni-
sian-born Sivan Shalom, Israel’s former
foreign minister, on the help extended to
his father by Arab friends.
“Blessed Is the Match,” scheduled for
April 13 at 10 p.m., recounts the bravery
of Hannah Senesh, a young poet and dia-
rist. In 1944, Senesh joined an elite group
of Palestinian Jews to parachute behind
Nazi lines and rescue Jews in her native
Hungary.
Senesh was caught, tortured and exe-
cuted by the Germans, but her name lives
on in the annals of Israeli heroism.
Turning from the horrors of the past to
the bloody present (and future), historian
Daniel Goldhagen (author of Hitler’s Will-
ing Executioners) premieres his book and
documentary feature, “Worse Than War,”
on April 14 at 9 p.m. on PBS.
Looking at the sorry record of the last
100 years, Goldhagen counts 100 million
civilians, mostly women and children,
killed in genocides — from 1 million
Armenians in Turkey, to 9 million in the
Ukraine, and on to China, Guatemala,
Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur.
That staggering figure, he says, exceeds
all the military deaths in all the wars of
the century.
Followed by a camera crew, Goldha-
gen last year went to 10 countries in Asia,
Africa, the former Soviet Union and Cen-
tral America, interviewing survivors,
perpetrators and families of victims.
Amid horrifying footage and testi-
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April 9-11 April 12, 2010

Laurence Juber   at 7 p.m.
Music
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Two-time Grammy-winning musician and
former Wings guitarist Laurence Juber will play
three concerts in Western Washington with
appearances Fri., April 9 at 7 p.m. at Christ
Memorial Church, 18901 8th Ave. NE, Poulsbo;
Sat., April 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Accent on Music,
6419 Larimer Rd., Everett; and April 11 at 7:30
p.m. at The Triple Door, 216 Union St., Seattle.
He will also teach a workshop, “Arranging for
Solo Guitar,” on April 11 at 1 pm. At Dusty
Strings, 3406 Fremont Ave. N, Seattle.
“Among the Righteous: Lost
Stories from the Holocaust
in Arab Lands”
Television program
Narrated by Robert MacNeil,
“Among the Righteous” is
the story of Robert Satloff,
head of a Washington, D.C.
policy center, and his eight-
year search to find a North African man who, in the face of the German occupation, took
action to save his Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust. Presented by PBS.
April 14, various times
“Making the Crooked Straight”
Television program

the arts april 9 – 17 Driven by his devotion to Judaism, Dr. Rick Hodes has dedicated his life to helping heal
the sick and poor of Ethiopia. “Making the Crooked Straight,” tells the story of Dr. Hodes’
work, unusual family life, and the spirituality that has guided his choices and sacrifices.
Saturday, April 10th at 7 p.m. Presented by HBO2. Check local listings for show times.
David Kirkpatrick
Author reading
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Psychiatrist David Kirkpatrick will discuss his
book, In Praise of Strong Women: A Psychia-
trist’s Memoir, a tribute to strong girls and
women everywhere, which provides unique
insights into the relationships between these
women and the people who love them. East
West Bookshop in Seattle, 6500 Roosevelt
Way NE, Seattle.

Sun., April 11 Saturday, April 17 at 2 p.m.

Submissions for art show
The Ravenna Kibbutz is currently accepting submission for an upcoming community art
show. The show’s theme is “nesting.” Visual artists who would like to display work related
to the theme are encouraged to contact ravennaarts@gmail.com by April 11 to submit their
ideas. The show will take place Sat., May 8 at Ravenna Kibbutz House Gimel, 6211 23rd
Ave. NE, Seattle.
“Sparks of Glory: Rodas Recordada”
Music
Music of Remembrance’s Sparks of Glory series concludes this season with Canadian
composer Sid Robinovitch’s “Rodas Recordada.” This work relates a story that the Spanish
poet Guillermo Díaz-Plaja told about his encounters with the Sephardic community of
Rhodes before and after its destruction by the Nazis.  Free. At the Seattle Art Museum,
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Jewish Family Service is hold-
ing several programs for new and
expectant parents during the
month of April. The first, on Mon., April 12,
is Bringing Baby Home, followed on April
13 with the start of a Jewish-based PEPS
group for parents of newborns. On Sun.,
April 18, “Becoming Parents: A Workshop
for LGBTQ Couples and Individuals” will
explore parenting concerns specific to that
community. Also on April 18 will be “Par-
enting Mindfully: The Middah of Humil-
ity,” which will use the tradition of Mussar
to help build up parents’ and children’s
character, facilitated by Rabbi Yohanna
Kinberg of Temple B’nai Torah and Mar-
jorie Schnyder of JFS. Finally, on Thurs.,
April 29, “The Only Constant is Change”
will show parents how they can help their
kids with life transitions, from a new baby
to a move to a parent’s job change.
For details, times and costs of all these
events, contact Marjorie Schnyder at 206-
861-3146 or familylife@jfsseattle.org, or
visit www.jfsseattle.org.
Surviving the Holocaust
Hester Kool was 13 when the Nazis
invaded and occupied The Neth-
erlands in 1940. Several months
later her entire family was deported to
Auschwitz. Kool, who never received
an order to leave, stayed in Amsterdam
for a brief time before her friend Rosa, a
member of the Dutch Resistance, helped
Kool obtain a new identity and go into
hiding with a young family, where for two
years she cleaned their house and served
as a nanny to the family’s three small
children. All the while, she kept a diary of
her experience.
Kool will appear at Hillel at the Uni-
versity of Washington’s Yom HaShoah
commemoration on Sun., April 11 from
5–6 p.m. Contact Rober t Beiser at
robert@hilleluw.org to RSVP. She will also
speak at UW Prof. Naomi Sokoloff’s “Liter-
ature & the Holocaust” course on Thurs.,
April 15 from 2:30-4:20 p.m. at 135 Thom-
son Hall on the UW campus. Free and
open to the public, but space is limited.
Coconuts t Page 9
some reason, perhaps because it just
wasn’t very well received.
“I don’t like the beat that much,” said
Charlie, who knows about these things.
So did they like the album overall?
While some of the third graders would want
to have their own copy of Let’s Go Coconuts!
— as Jack said, “Because they teach you
stuff and they’re fun!” — the majority said
they were a bit too old for the album. Not
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South Seattle Community Col-
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HaShoah – Holocaust & Genocide
Remembrance Day on Mon., April 12,
from 9 a.m.–noon.
The commemoration honors the cour-
age and resilience shown by children
under the most dangerous and dire cir-
cumstances. This year’s event commem-
orates the lives of the victims and affirms
the lives of the European, Cambodian,
and Rwandan survivors.
Speakers will be Dr. Philip Wagenaar,
a Holocaust survivor, at 9 a.m., Maythia
Airhart, a survivor of the Cambodian kill-
ing fields at 10 a.m., and Liliane Kamikazi,
who survived the Rwandan genocide. At
the SSCC Jerry Brockey Student Center,
A&B, 6000 16th Ave. SW, Seattle. Contact
206-768-6749 or chjohnson@sccd.ctc.edu,
or visit www.wsherc.org. Free and open to
the public.
Call for Jewish fabric craft
projects
A new book, Jewish Threads, spot-
lighting Jewish fabric crafts, seeks
submissions of crafts created with
spiritual inspiration, such as sewn and
knitted tallitot, embroidered and appli-
quéd tallit and tefillin bags, crocheted yar-
mulkes, needle-pointed siddur covers,
embroidered Torah covers, and more.
The projects in the book will come
from people around the world. All proj-
ects submitted for the book must be
handcrafted Jewish ritual objects, cre-
ated with spiritual intention.
Anyone involved with Jewish fabric
craftmaking is encouraged to submit a
project for inclusion in the book. Submis-
sions should include step-by-step instruc-
tions for making each project, plus photos,
to give readers the tools they need to make
these projects on their own. Send sto-
ries about the ritual pieces, a jpeg photo,
and a brief bio plus a telephone number to
jewishcrafts18@gmail.com. The deadline
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so for the second graders, however, most
of whom really liked it. Miriam, in the 2nd
grade, said “all the songs are funny.”
Still, said 2nd grader Madeleine, “you
could do better.”
If you want your kids to have a fun listen,
find the Macaroons online at
www.jdubrecords.org. There’s a bonus
section of the album as well. You can read
those reviews online at www.jtnews.net.
Barbara Cannon
or 206-282-5500
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Gail Stuchinsky Stulberg
December 11, 1963–March 13, 2010
A graduate of Grant High School ’82, and Cal State
University at Northridge ’86, Gail was a CPA at KPMG
Peat Marwick and at the Walt Disney Company. She
served as controller at the L.A. Weekly magazine and she
taught accounting and finance at Bellevue Community
College. Gail loved the hours she spent volunteering at
her children’s Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle
and at the University of Washington Medical School.
A longtime member of Los Angeles’ Congregation
Adat Ariel, where she was confirmed, a member of the
United Synagogue Youth for seven years, a beloved
assistant director to the youth theatre program and where
she was married, and Seattle’s Herzl Ner-Tamid where
she was devoted to the Mitzvah Corps, Gail’s belief and
ties to her tradition were strong.
Long before and throughout Gail’s medical fight, this
amazing woman—who had it all and who was it all—
made memories for her family. There were summers in
Laguna Beach, dialysis cruises—chemo-delayed, but never
denied—vacations to sunny sights, the ocean breezes,
snow zones, the land of the mouse with the big black
ears, to Broadway, and more.
There are scrapbooks of memories, in the hearts of her
friends and family but also on the bookshelves of the family
home in albums in which she cut and pasted, decorated
and designed, capturing the “moment” in every moment.
Gail was always a challenger: She loved Scrabble, math,
languages, and the scariest rides at the amusement park.
She was a thrill seeker; a paraglider, a parasailer, and one
to swim in the seas with inhabitants therein.
Interviewed in a series in Pacific Northwest magazine,
on Comedy Cure’s “Laughtalk,” and numerous other
newspaper, radio, and television features, Gail opened
her heart to fellow cancer survivors and their loved
ones. She was an inspiration to all including her friends
at Gilda’s Club, and the medical teams of the Virginia
Mason Medical Center and the Marsha Rivkin Center for
Ovarian Cancer Research.
Gail is survived by Barry, her husband of 22 years, her
“shield,” and best friend who stood by her every breath
and her children Hannah and Noah who provided the best
medicine — the hugs, the care and caring, the baking,
the memory-making, the giggles. Gail’s parents Naomi
Stuchinsky and Yoram Stav and Elaine and Dr. H. Jerome
Stulberg and the rest of her backfield team of support,
including brothers Dori (Marivi) and Golan (Robin)
Stuchinsky, Jeff (Kate), Bob (Dana), and Brian Stulberg.
Her nieces and nephews; Elizabeth, Jenna, Keith,
Matt, and Victoria, were forever cheering her on to
good health. Friends and family in Seattle, Florida, Los
Angeles, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Texas,
and Israel, who all lived the last eight years in the spirit
of Gail’s strength, now stand empty-hearted.
A great fan of “Survivor,” Gail was the sole survivor —
outwit, outplay, outlast... almost! Her torch will never go
out. Gail. Strength. One-of-a-kind.
Services for Gail Stulberg were held on March 15
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Park. Memorials may be made in Gail Stulberg’s name to
Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research and
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Land Day t Page 1
A few masked men went further. As
the procession passed, they hoisted large
photographs of Hezbollah leader Hassan
Nasrallah and slain Hezbollah operations
chief Imad Mugniyeh, an expression of
support for the hostile Iranian-backed
Shiite militia. The Hezbollah supporters,
however, proved to be very much in the
minority. After angry exchanges with the
marchers, they were confronted by Sakh-
nin municipal stewards and, after a brief
scuffle, forced to leave.
Although public support for Isra-
el’s enemies is rare, there can be little
doubt that Israeli Arab alienation from
the Jewish State is growing. In late 2006,
the Higher Arab Monitoring Commit-
tee — the Arab community’s main rep-
resentative body — published its “Vision
Document,” calling for a large measure
of Arab political and cultural autonomy.
Israeli Jews saw in this a radical demand
for separation from the state; Arab leaders
countered it was more a plea for help, and
a warning of what might happen unless
the Jewish majority makes a genuine
effort to integrate the 20 percent-strong
Arab minority as fully equal citizens.
The main Arab charge on Land Day was
that the government continues to destroy
illegally built Arab homes, mainly in the
Wadi Ara area of central Israel and the
Negev desert in the south, without giving
the Arabs a chance to expand their villages,
towns and cities legally. According to the
Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, by not
drawing up new master plans that allow for
growth of Arab urban and rural areas, the
government is effectively choking them.
The ensuing tensions have been exac-
erbated by a string of legislative initiatives
by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s
hawkish Yisrael Beiteinu party, the latest
of which is a proposal to open the foreign
service only to people who have done
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military or national service — effectively
disqualifying most Arabs. Lieberman’s
argument is that Israeli Arabs must be
made to realize that sharing in the bene-
fits of Israeli life comes at a price: Loyalty
to the state. Israeli Arabs, however, see
this as discrimination on ethnic grounds.
And pointing to Lieberman’s key position
in government, Arab Knesset members
charge that racism has become a central
tenet in Israeli political life.
Some Israeli right-wing politicians
focused on the hoisting of the Hezbol-
lah photographs and the potential threat
a radicalized Israeli Arab community
could pose to the Jewish majority. Likud
Knesset member Ophir Akunis called for
tough measures against the masked Hez-
bollah supporters, arguing that a democ-
racy under threat must defend itself.
Avishai Braverman, a member of the
Labor Party and the minister in charge of
minority affairs, agreed that the men who
hoisted the photographs should be pun-
ished, but insisted that most Arabs want to
be part of Israeli society. Braverman argues
that integrating Israeli Arabs as equals in
Israeli society is a major strategic interest,
for both security and economic reasons.
A former World Bank economist and
president of Ben Gurion University, Braver-
man has set up a $40 million fund for proj-
ects in Arab communities, and intends to
raise more, partly from Diaspora Jews —
just as he did in transforming Ben Gurion
University into a major academic institu-
tion. He argues that would be money well
spent in defusing what might otherwise
become a major existential threat.
“When I go round the country Arabs say
to me: ‘Braverman, we finished the uni-
versity, now we want jobs here, because
we have nowhere else to go.’  On the other
side, there are people creating fear and
talking about a fifth column,” he told JTA.
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want Jewish kids to feel empowered, not
mired in victimhood.”
I hope she’s right and that the coming
generations of young Jews will have a dif-
ferent take on the Holocaust.
But for now, it seems that burden of vic-
timhood follows us everywhere we go. The
Holocaust is such a crucial part of modern
collective Jewish identity it’s hard to even
imagine who we would be without it. What
if being Jewish in America in 2010 had
nothing to do with the millions of Jews who
perished in Europe in the previous cen-
tury? What if we weren’t so wrapped up in
the fear of our people’s death and destruc-
tion? I can’t even imagine what that Juda-
ism might look like. Although I guess the
question is irrelevant — we can’t go back
in time, and we can’t pretend like the Holo-
caust didn’t happen. Nor should we.
But maybe not all of us need to walk
around under the weight of genocide all
the time?
For those who lived through the
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sionate people.
But, there are days I go home and
feel overwhelmed by the suffering, pain,
hatred, and ignorance that exists in this
world. What can I, one person, do? Some-
times I feel hopeless.
Still, I like to think that maybe I’m
making a microscopic dent. I’m idealis-
tic, I suppose. I try to live honestly by my
values, to practice the things that I tell
others Holocaust education imparts: To
stand up to intolerance, recognize the
dangers of stereotyping, be respectful of
each other’s differences, know that your
words and actions affect those around
you...because really, if I can’t do it, how
can I expect anyone else to? All I can do
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events of World War II, or even the first
generation after, it is easy to understand
why the memories of the Holocaust are so
consuming. But for those of us born much
later, it’s difficult to maintain the energy
for mourning.
Simon suggests that teaching and
studying the Holocaust can actually be a
process about inspiring hope, not sadness.
“It’s a way to talk about human dignity
and honoring life,” she said.
Some stories of Holocaust survival
really are incredible. But I’ve never been
able to find the message of hope in any
story that ended with millions of people
dead. And by the same token, I can’t see
myself in those stories. They are half a
world and 70 years away. It’s too far. And
I’ve heard it before.
So, I’m sorry. I don’t want to talk about
murdered Jews this week. I’d rather spend
my time with the living ones, celebrating
the parts of our culture that are vibrant,
exciting, and alive. It just seems like a
better kind of survival.
is to try to work toward these lofty ideals
and hope that maybe others will find it
worthwhile to do so too.
On this Holocaust Remembrance Day,
April 11, I am thankful to the survivors for
sharing their experiences and for trust-
ing their listeners with their stories. I am
thankful to all of those who have made an
effort to remember, search for, and hear
the stories of those that did not survive.
On this day, we must not simply remem-
ber, we must feel, and we must act.
The annual Yom HaShoah: Holocaust
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at the Stroum Jewish Community Center,
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Social justice poetry Bend it like Be

Jewish group to Glenn Beck: Haik U
Ben Harris
JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) — If Glenn Beck
has his way, many American Jews would
be abandoning their sy nagogues. If
one Jewish group has its way, the pop-
ular right-wing talk-show host will be
drowned out by a wave of haikus.
The popular right-wing talk show host
— who has called the health care reform
legislation “an assault on the republic”
and the first African American presi-
dent a “racist” — is urging people to quit
their churches if the term “social justice”
appears anywhere on their Web sites. “I
beg you, look for the words ‘social justice’
or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web
site,” Beck said on his nationally broad-
cast radio program March 2. “If you find
it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and
economic justice, they are code words.”
To illustrate the point further, Beck,
on his television show, held up cards
imprinted w it h a swast ika and t he
hammer and sickle. Social justice, Beck
said, was tantamount to Nazism and
communism.
Christian leaders of various stripes
were outraged. But surprisingly, consid-
ering that a good number of synagogues
in the United States would be shuttered
if American Jews followed Beck’s advice,
Jewish groups haven’t had much to say.
The exception was Jewish Funds for
Justice, which late last month launched a
Web site, “Haik U Glenn Beck,” in which
users are invited to respond to Beck —
poetically.
“Hurling expensive/coffee at t he
expensive/TV screen now, Ahhh,” wrote
the novelist and Daily Beast columnist
Christopher Buckley in one of nearly
1,000 haikus submitted during the site’s
first week of operation.
The Beck controversy comes at a
moment when social justice, for years a
growing — and minimally controversial
— area of communal activity, has emerged
as something of a dividing line between
Jewish liberals and conservatives.
Jack Wertheimer, a professor and
former provost of the Jewish Theolog-
ical Seminary of America, sparked a
minor uproar when, in the March issue
of Commentary magazine, he criticized
the diversion of community resources to
projects aimed at helping non-Jews under
the guise of social justice.
More recently, Jennifer Rubin, also
writing for Commentary, called Presi-
dent Obama’s Passover message, with
its emphasis on a universal social mes-
sage, “off-key, hyper-political, and con-
descending.” Obama’s “secularized
spiel,” Rubin wrote, denies the holiday’s
uniquely Jewish message. At the same
time, liberal Jewish bloggers sided with
the president, arguing that the retelling of
the Exodus story is meant to inspire Jews
and others to combat injustice.
Such talk, but especially Beck’s com-
ments, are a sign of desperation, said Mik
Moore, the chief strategy officer at Jewish
ck — and
Kick the words
around until
Justice is “Just
-Us”
Funds for Justice.
“It’s part of a
broader assault, in
this instance, on
faith communi-
ties that put social
justice at the center of their work,” Moore
said. “It stems from a fear that the side that
rejects the relationship between Judaism
and social justice, that they’re losing.”
It’s notewor t hy t hat t he tension
between Jewish particularism and wider
social concerns should come to a head
around Passover, perhaps t he most
expansively understood and universally
resonant of all Jewish holidays. Passover
seders have long been an occasion for
interfaith dialogue, and Jewish groups
routinely organize seders around such
diverse themes as labor rights, children’s
nutrition, and the civil rights struggle.
Jewish conservatives, for their part,
don’t call for Jews to abandon wide social
causes altogether, but rather to find a
better balance between them and the
specific needs of the Jewish community.
“Nobody here is claiming that we need
to expunge a universalist frame of refer-
ence from our Jewish point of view,” said
Jonathan Tobin, the executive editor of
Commentary, who asserted that putting
Beck and Wertheimer in the same cate-
gory is “screwy.”
“What we’re saying is: When things
get out of whack, when you are primarily
interested in the universal agenda, then
the Jewish end of it can suffer,” he said.
— Subm itted
by Sa m Slate
Newer Jewish non-profits often claim
that social justice is a greater animat-
ing cause for younger Jews than the
issues traditionally associated w ith
older, more established Jewish organi-
zations. But Tobin believes that if Jewish
affiliation and donations to specifically
Jewish causes continue to decline, then
all Jewish institutions will suffer — the
social justice groups included.
“The idea that only Jewish universalism
will survive while Jewish parochialism
goes down the tubes is, to me, a remark-
ably foolish point of view,” Tobin said.
For his part, Moore accepts that. Jewish
Funds for Justice, he said, wouldn’t be train-
ing rabbis and working with synagogues if
it was unconcerned with strengthening the
Jewish community. “But,” he added, “we’re
doing it in a way that is meaningful to them
and yet is genuinely rooted in Jewish his-
tory and tradition.”
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That’s kind of the central theme in the book. In terms of
the failures, I think that beyond anything was the humil-
ity that they taught me, and fire in the belly that they gave
me to succeed in the next business.
As a matter of fact, the business just before Noah’s was
really a total flop. I think the fact of having that flop made me
even more hungry to succeed in the next business.
One of the reasons that that business failed, and that
was a business called The Holy Land Gifts Company —
it was imported foods and gifts from Israel being sold to
Born Again Christians in America — was I really didn’t
have a good concept of who my customers were. I was
trying to perform a social mission through a business
milieu.
Social entrepreneurship is a very popular theme now-
adays, and I applaud it, but I also caution these social
entrepreneurs to be very careful: That basically the busi-
ness fundamentals are really in place, and their desire to
perform that social mission doesn’t cloud their business
judgment. In the case of the Holy Land Gifts Co., I think
it definitely did.
JT: How do you guard against that?
Alper: Getting a lot of input from others is, I think, the first
and foremost way to guard against it, and to, I heard the
expression, use sort of a reality mirror. Every so often, just
to test yourself and say, “How is this thing doing, is it shap-
ing up well — this is even even before it’s off the ground —
is this a direction that can be successful in business or am
I just totally all over saving the world, saving this that or
the other thing?” It’s a constant reality check to see the
self-directed, or directed from external, objective people.
JT: Can the serial entrepreneurship be addictive?
Alper: In my case, yeah. I think I could qualify as a serial
entrepreneur, and once you get into it, it is sort of a rush.
There’s a big emphasis on extreme sports these days.
There’s nothing more of an extreme sport than entrepre-
neurship, because you’re always on the edge. I say that in
order to be a successful entrepreneur you have to be will-
ing to be able to jump off a diving board knowing there’s
probably a 90 percent chance there’s water in it.
JT: Does having a tzedakah box on the counter of the
bagel shop cut it in a world much more sophisticated
about social justice and enterprise these days?
Alper: I don’t think it’s an either/or situation. What I found
with the bagel business, which I found fascinating, was
we were treating our employees as well as we could, and
so forth and so on, but these social programs after a while
really started to take on a life of their own. We found that
employees started to suggest different programs, and it
started to really grow as we got larger and become more
and more a significant part of our enterprise, and almost
sort of defined our culture. And it got really exciting, and
it not only helped in terms of customer loyalty, but got our
employees excited about
it, and it garnered loyalty
amongst them as well.
The proof of the pud-
ding was we had half
the turnover rate of
a comparable quick-
serve retailer, which is
the category we were
in, and I think in large
part it was not only our policies toward our employees but
it was the fact that we were the kind of company that was
doing these sorts of programs got them excited and inter-
ested and loyal to the enterprise.
JT: From what I understand, the last kosher Noah’s is
here in Seattle.
Alper: Noah’s was always very well received in Seattle. It’s
so ironic because we tried very hard to get the one a mile
from my house kosher, and we weren’t successful. I think
it’s a testimony to the Seattle Jewish community that it’s
the last kosher store. I just found in my trips to Seattle that
even though the size of the community is not huge like a
Los Angeles or a New York or whatever, the strength of it
is, and it’s really pretty exciting.
JT: Are you going to make a visit?
Alper: Absolutely.

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