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Jack Benaroya, 1921-2012: A leader who built a community

Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
Jack Benaroya was a first-generation American. Having felt that this country had given so much to him, he wanted to give what he had in return. He always felt that there were so many opportunities here, said Becky Benaroya, Jacks wife of 70 years. He always felt that life had been good to him. He wanted to share. Jack Benaroya, 90, died May 11 due to complications from Parkinsons Disease. Jack was part of a generation of philanthropists who made Seattle what it is today, yet shaped the citys Jewish community even more. As anyone who knew him would attest, however, Jack could have done without the recognition. He was a leading philanthropist and he was an unusual person because he was very humble. He really did not need any acknowledgment or accolades, said Richard Fruchter, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. That was not his style. His style, according to Ken Weinberg, CEO of Jewish Family Service, was plain and simple: Recognize where he could help, and then commit to it. He knew we needed help to help other people, Weinberg said. I never had to go through extensive explanations and expensive rationales. He got it, he got it right away. The Benaroyas tended to focus their giving on JFSs food bank and Emergency Services department, those services who help people who are really down on their luck, Weinberg said, and will continue to do so. Judy Neuman, CEO of the Stroum Jewish Community Center, last saw Jack in the fall during a tribute program for Althea Stroum, whose own familys contributions were just as significant in building Seattles Jewish community. The event took place in an auditorium for which the Benaroyas had provided major support to build, in the JCC building that Jacks company had constructed in the 1960s. Im in awe of what he did for our community, Neuman said. While the Benaroyas were always happy to lend their financial support to help build the Jewish community and to push their peers to join them honoring Jack because of his good fortune misses the point of Jacks generosity. If I were to sum up Jacks life with one word, it would be a Yiddish word: mensch, said Josh Gortler, a longtime friend of the Benaroyas and former CEO of the Caroline Kline Galland Jewish nursing and retirement facilities.
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Jack and Becky Benaroya in the Samuel and Althea Stroum Grand Lobby of Benaroya Hall prior to its opening in 1998.
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For complete details about these and other upcoming JFS events and workshops, please visit our website: www.jfsseattle.org
For AdultS Age 60+ For the community For SurViVorS oF intimAte pArtner ABuSe Programs of Project DVORA (Domestic Violence Outreach, Response & Advocacy) are free of charge.
Endless Opportunities
A community-wide program offered in partnership with Temple Bnai Torah & Temple De Hirsch Sinai. EO events are open to the public.
AA Meetings at JFS
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The Jews of Harbin, China

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Caring for Aging Parents: A Teamwork Approach

Wednesday, may 30 7:00 8:30 p.m. Contact Leonid Orlov, (206) 861-8784 or familylife@jfsseattle.org
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Support Group for Jewish Women with Controlling Partners

Location, Date and Time are strictly confidential Contact Project DVORA at (206) 461-3240 SAVe the dAteS!
thursday, may 31 10:30 a.m. noon
The Jewish Community in Khabarovsk, Russia: Success, Failure & the Unknown
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Raising Voices, Lifting Spirits

Seattle Jewish Chorale Sunday, June 3 7:00 p.m. Tickets at www.brownpapertickets.org or 1-800-838-3006
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Holy Hell Raisers

Wednesdays, July 11 & 18 7:00 8:30 p.m. Contact Project DVORA at (206) 461-3240
The Titanic: The Great Sea Disaster

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Kosher Food Bank Event

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Shaarei Tikvah: Gates of Hope

Summer Shabbat Experience for People of All Abilities Friday, June 29 5:30 p.m. Contact Marjorie Schnyder, (206) 861-3146 or familylife@jfsseattle.org
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Bringing Baby Home

Keep your relationship strong while being a great parenting team. Sundays, June 24, July 1 & July 8 9:30 a.m. 2:00 p.m. Contact Marjorie Schnyder, (206) 861-3146 or familylife@jfsseattle.org
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A LIFELOng TEAcHER
From crackers to cheesecake: The interplay between Passover and Shavuot

Rabbi Ron-aMi MeyeRs Congregation Ezra Bessaroth
Various theories are advanced in our classic literature as to why on Passover, chametz leavened products are so reviled: Some suggest they represent haughtiness, while the Talmud views it as symbolic of mans evil inclination that draws him away from adhering to the Torah. Once a year, we are bidden to clean house and reassess the degree to which such forces determine the direction of our lives. Perplexing, though, is that after the 49-day count from Passover to Shavuot, the Jewish community of the Temple period was expected to offer a korban, a sacrifice, made of fine flour and baked into chametz loaves! If Shavuot is the culmination of a process that starts with Pesach we were freed from bondage so we could receive the Torah why ischametz forbidden with the exodus from Egypt, but allowed and even celebrated a mere seven weeks later? Not only to eat, but as an offering to God? Shavuot has another strange element: Usually, the Torah mentions what day a specificholidayis on, and then it instructs us what to do on that day. Shavuotis just the opposite: The Torah says to count and then bring the specialchametzsacrifice on Day 50. Onlythendoes the Torah mandate that the day be ayom tov, a holiday. In other words, we dont offer akorbanon Shavuot. Instead,we observe the festival on the day that we bring the offering! Yeshivat Har Etzions Rabbi Ezra Bick offers this explanation: Whenchallahdough is left to sit for a while, especially in a warm place, it rises. Left in the oven without supervision or intervention, it inflates and grows. The doughs hidden potential is expressed, it becomes manifest. Obviously, actualizing potential is positive, not a negative thing. In fact, it would be fair to say that the Torahs whole agenda for our people is to bring out our potential as individuals and as a nation.... That said, the development of something, when left on its own, without guidance, can have disastrous results. Without structure, premature expression of potential may well lead to anarchy. In the Passover context, one who suddenly becomes free should not allow all of his previously suppressed drives and inclinations to run wild, to express themselves. It is at this point the moment of freedom that a person must eat matzoh, must hold himself back, while he slowly develops a sensitivity and awareness of his potential.
Seven weeks had to pass, counting every day, while the Israelites waited for the giving of the Torah. During this time, they meditated on the infinite possibilities lying before them. Nachmanides notes that after the giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai, the Jewish people built theMishkan,the Tabernacle. Itcaptured the spirituality of the Sinaitic experience. In the course of time, thatMishkanarrived in the Land of Israel and ultimately transformed into the Bet Hamikdash, the Temple. Our sages teach us that every synagogue today is amikdash meat, a miniature Temple. On one level, mirroring the giving of the Torah on Har Sinai,the synagogue is an educational center. Just as at Mt. Sinai, we learned Torah. To know how to behave as a nation, we come to synagogue to learn Torah. On another level, mirroring the function of the Mishkan, the synagogue is a house of worship. We come to spiritually connect with God. The synagogue also serves a third function: In the Haggadah we sing, If you had brought us to Har Sinai and not have given us the Torah, that would have been enough for us! But why would it have been enough for us?What good would standing at the foot of the mountain have been had it not been followed byMatan Torah? The answer is that at Sinai, we also coalesced into one nation as one man with one heart. We became a people. The synagogue is abeit haknesset a gathering place for the community. In every congregation there are those who are drawn primarily to Torah study; others, though they value Torah study, connect more to the tefillah, the prayers, their customs, tunes and melodies.A third group is drawn by the simple feeling ofkehilla, the community a synagogue provides.
I wish to commend the JTNews and Charlene Kahn for the coverage of the disbanding of the Jewish Club of Washington (Mission complete: Clubs disbanding marks the passing of a generation, May 11). I was especially pleased at seeing the photo of Klaus and Paula Stern and the comments of their daughter, Marion Kitz. I have considered Klaus to be my teacher, although that relationship was never formalized. When I first joined Congregation Beth Shalom in the late 1980s, Klaus was the gabbai. The way he conducted himself and the way he related to people in the congregation was itself a lesson to me and to many others. Klaus and I had a number of discussions about how to do the things he did in the shul and, again, I learned much from him. In addition, Klaus and Paula never missed the opportunity to teach the lessons of the Holocaust, including their own horrific personal experiences and what we could take away from that time. Klaus never acted in any way other than as a gentleman and he will always be remembered by me as one who gave of himself and always thought of others. All through the years that I have known them, Paula has remained the woman behind the man, yet she has always thought of others and has been of great help to those in need. I thank them for their years of service and congratulate them on achieving a sense of recognition. Jerry Barrish Seattle
nO InJuSTIcE OF MARRIAgE
Rebuttal to the plea: Justice, justice we will pursue and make history by Rabbi Zari Weiss (Rabbis Turn, May 11). With all deference not to offend the rabbi, Washington State has same-sex partnership laws that contain over 170 rights and responsibilities in its provisions for civil union partnerships, which address discrimination and other civil rights concerns of same-sex domestic partnerships. These statutes form a body of legal remedy almost indistinguishable from the legal bases of civil marriage. After 2008s expanded domestic partnership law took effect, some of the domestic partners benefits and responsibilities included visitation, healthcare decision-making and information-access rights, as well as administration rights and veterans benefits. Post-Referendum 71 in 2009, under state law domestic partners are treated the same as married spouses. Some of the more notable changes include rights to injured partners wages and benefits, unpaid wages upon the death of a partner, and access to unemployment, disability insurance, and workers compensation coverage. Her arguments that all people deserve to be treated equally advances the notion that since God created man and women as equals, then they are interchangeable in every way such that a traditional family unit of a mother and father is equivalent to a same-sex couple. This is a radical departure from millennia of Jewish thought and law, in which marriage is between the parental ideal of a man and women sealed under the chuppah as a covenant with God and the family of Israel as witness. One might ask, so what would be the difference if marriage can be between a samesex domestic couple? And the answer may surprise you since if there is no special relationship in a marriage, then what is to prevent someone wanting to marry his daughter, his mother or his son? There isnt an injustice of marriage. Rabbis can, if they choose, perform the same ceremonies with same-sex domestic partners. They cant call it civil marriage. Legislation was introduced on January 28, 2009 intended to provide everything but marriage to domestic partners. In terms of support for this position, 31 states have enacted legislation defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Rocky Silverman Seattle
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Whatever ones focus, the time between Pesach and Shavuot is a time for us to orient ourselves toward the synagogue as the center of our community, a time to
slowly ponder our priorities as each of us with the help of the kehilla to strive to actualize his potential.
When I travel I talk about spiritual practice, thats my primary focus as well as God realization the divine is the essence of everything. Rabbi Rami Shapiro, on using Judaism and spirituality to assist in combating addiction. See the story on page 7.
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How settlements may bring peace

RobeRt Wilkes special to JTNews
Most American Jews agree; Israeli settlements on the West Bank are an impediment to peace. Not me. In my view, settlements hasten peace. Before you order me boiled in matzoh ball soup, consider this. Those who fault Israel for the failure to achieve peace ignore two realities: First, Israels vibrant democracy has been governed by left, right and center. They have attempted virtually every plausible path to peace, including public, secret, high level, low level, land for peace, bilateral, unilateral and with mediating third parties all with no result. It can be said, without reservation, that Israel has no strategy to thwart the national aspirations of the Palestinians and crush the hopes of the civilized world. The truth is quite the opposite. If there is a strategy, it is survival, the sovereign right of any nation. Second, the Palestinians are not passive victims in this ongoing drama. Since 1947 they have taken an unwavering position never to agree to the existence of the Zionist Entity. It is anathema for them even to say the word Israel. But give them credit; they are remarkably consistent and predictable. They change only the level of violence, until Israel is forced to make the price of violence too high. It is unfair and simply wrong to indict Israel for the failure to reach a peace agreement. Israel is governed by capable leaders who, while certainly not infallible, act in the best interests of the nation to achieve a just peace. Most of their decisions have been the best option for peace possible given the situation at that moment in history. After all the exhaustive efforts to make peace, it no longer surprises us when outcomes fail to meet expectations; it is simply beyond Israels control without a willing peace partner. If no peace partner exists, the settlements and the security wall are not impediments to peace, as Israels self-appointed critics complain. Further, it is far too soon to know what historys judgment of settlements will be. I illustrate with two examples from Americas past: The most fractious quarrel in our fledgling republic was the rancorous debate in 1795 over ratification of the Jay Treaty with Britain. Disagreements were so intense they split the nation into political parties for the first time. John Jay said he could travel the length of the country by the glow of his figure burning in effigy. Many decades later, the hated treaty came to be lauded by historians. It placed American shipping under the protection of the British Navy and established American trade and industry. More recently, President Reagan refused to give up Star Wars at Reykjavik and turned away from decades of peaceful coexistence. Reagan called the Soviets an evil empire. Well win, he declared, and public opinion around the world, save Britains Thatcher, was aghast at the recklessness of the dangerous cowboy. History, however, says otherwise. If you still have doubts, ask a Pole, a Czech, or an East German. Prevailing wisdom is often wrong. I believe it is wrong in respect to settlements. If Israel had never built a settlement, would the Palestinians have made peace? I think not. A learned friend whose opinion I respect agreed with me, but noted that without settlements Israel would have greater moral authority to extricate itself on its own terms. Again, I think not. Israel is awash in moral authority. It has not helped them. So, how can the settlements foster peace? It is revelatory to think of the issue in terms of game theory. The Palestinian game and they are very good at it is to wait out the Israelis and delegitimize Israel. It has been so since 1967, when the Palestinians realized they could not win militarily. The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, with its apartheid rhetoric and college professors who teach hatred of Israel, are the point of the spear in this war by other means. Palestinians believe time is on their side. What would change their minds? The settlements might. The longer the Palestinians delay, the more territory they may have to forfeit when the lines of a future state are drawn, as they eventually will be. Other hopeful impulses toward peace are in evidence. The intractable leadership of the Arafat generation is expiring, and new leaders exemplified by Salam Fayyad are emerging. Security and prosperity are flourishing in the West Bank, eroding Palestinian desire to continue the impasse. So there you have it. Settlements send this message: Time is not on your side. Your best chance for a state is sooner rather than later. So in the words of Joshua, be strong and have courage. With settlements, time is on our side.
Robert Wilkes is a Jewish activist who lives in Bellevue.
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2012 PRIDE SHABBAT AT TEMPLE!

We are proud to again host Pride Shabbat as we join with many area congregations and community partners for this open, welcoming, and afrming Rock Shabbat service. The entire community is invited to stay for a reception following services.
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The new ones have yet to meet the test of time through success and failure, pleasure and pain.
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The spiritual solution to addiction
Rabbi Rami Shapiro has brought the 12-Step Program of battling addiction into a Jewish context. Last weekend he brought his knowledge to addiction professionals in Seattle.
An alter fraynd is beser vi tvey nayeh.
Parents and kids learn together

Trying to turn around the drop-off and pickup cycle of Hebrew school, Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue is starting a new program next year to have parents and children learn with each other.
Remember when
Not being idle with the idlers
By asking parents to turn off their engines while getting the kids from school, Seattle Hebrew Academy is on its way to becoming a certified green school.
Teens who make a difference
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Each year, the American Jewish Committees Max Block Awards honor local teens, whether Jewish or not, for making a difference in their community. Meet some of those students.
Books for summer

The weather might be getting warm, but the books are getting a bit heavier. Heres a guide to some righteous non-beach reads.
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Books in brief Suddenly, this book got strange
Israeli author Etgar Kerets newest book of short stories just came out in English translation, and what we have is an exceptional collection of mostly unexceptional people.
Shavuot for kids

A collection of books that will help kids climb that mountain so they can understand what it meant to receive those Ten Commandments.
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From the Jewish Transcript, May 30, 1949. Many of us know about the Jews who fled Europe to Shanghai, China, during the Holocaust, but where did they go after? Using money from the Federated Jewish Fund (now known as the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle) and its national umbrella, United Jewish Appeal, two planes filled with 92 refugees were whisked away from China and came to Paine Field. Here, Mrs. Harry Druxman and Mrs. Herbert Stein (the womens names were not given) handed boxed meals to the family of Lutz Haase upon their arrival in Everett.
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Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren will visit Seattle next month to speak about the current situation in the Middle East and his experience working as the liaison between the U.S. and Israel. Prior to his appointment, Oren was a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown Universities, and has received fellowships from the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, and from the British and Canadian governments. He has written extensively for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The New Republic. His talk will begin at 7 p.m. on Wed., June 6 at Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle. RSVP required at www.surveymonkey.com/s/6JSYLWN.
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members about what is happening now in Iran and what the countrys effect on the region has been and continues to be. Rock Shabbat and scholar dinner will follow. The lecture will begin at 6 p.m. on Fri., June 8 at Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle.
Visiting Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol will join in Shavuot festivities with a dramatization of his play Ghetto. After the performance, audience members will have a chance to participate in a conversation with the author. Later in the evening, cheesecake will be served to energize the crowd for a lively learning session, including topics introduced in Ghetto. Begins on Sat., May 26 at 10 p.m. at Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle. The event is free, but Beth Shalom requests an RSVP at www.bethshalomseattle.org or by contacting 206-524-0075 or marjiecogan@bethshalomseattle.org. Temple De Hirsch Sinai and AIPAC invite the community to participate in a discussion with Ali Alfoneh, resident fellow for the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Alfonehs research areas include civil-military relations in Iran with a special focus on the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. His writings have been included in the Middle Eastern Forum, Middle East Quarterly, National Review, RAND, The Washington Times and The New York Times. Alfoneh will talk with community
Learn through the arts at Joshua Sobol Shavuot study session
Engage in a two-day discussion on Jewish education and its role in this diverse community. Participants in the summit will discuss current and future trends for the Jewish educational community, led by Jonathan Woocher, chief ideas officer of Jewish Education Service of North America. Taking what is learned at the first evening session, through interactive dialogue facilitated by Woocher, participants will then envision how best to achieve innovative and engaging Jewish education and provide a framework for the role of an educational umbrella organization for a diverse community. Summit begins with the evening session on Wed., May 30 at 6:45 p.m. at the Mercer Island Community Center, 8236 SE 24th St., Mercer Island. To register and for Thursday session times, visit www.bit.ly/JESNA. What do Sandy Koufax, Mark Spitz, and Rod Carew all have in common? Undoubtedly they are all Jewish sports legends of our time but the list doesnt stop there. For its 2012 Instant Replay campaign, the Washington State Jewish Historical Society is calling on all athletes to send in their own stories or those of a friend or relative from their local Jewish community who have participated or made a contribution at any level of play (high school, college, professional or even current youth participant). This includes players, coaches, team managers or owners, announcers, videographers, sports writers, statisticians and collectors of sports memorabilia from any and all competitive sports. Please contact assistant@wsjhs.org or 206-774-2277 to submit your artifacts.
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Iranian Infighting: Inside the Islamic Republic
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It is not what one says, but rather what one does, that makes all the difference in the world.
Pirkei Avot 1:17
Jack Benaroya
his legacy will live forever. May his memory be a blessing.
And oh what a difference Jack A. Benaroya madein our community and our world. He led by example, his deeds of goodness and giving back have touched us all. As Jack thought in his heart, so he was.
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Using the Divine to break free of addiction

dikla tuchMan JTNews Correspondent
People in recovery typically dont associate the Twelve-Step program with Judaism. Rabbi Rami Shapiro would argue otherwise. Shapiro has spent decades working with the concepts of Judaism and spirituality and their applications to our daily lives. While also a practicing spiritual leader, he brings his workshops, retreats and conversations to multiple religious communities worldwide. From May 18 to 20, Shapiro was invited to Seattles Bet Alef Meditative Congregation to participate in several events that focused on Jewish learning and healing. When I travel I talk about spiritual practice, thats my primary focus as well as God realization the divine is the essence of everything, Shapiro told JTNews. Our purpose on the planet is to realize that and to relate it to all of our relationships in the world. On May 20, Shapiro engaged a diverse cross section of the community in an allday workshop held at Hillel at the University of Washington, sponsored by Bet Alef and Jewish Family Service. The workshop focused on the principles laid out in his book, Recovery the Sacred Art: The Twelve Steps as Spiritual Practice (Art of Spiritual Living). The workshop brought more than 130 As BenHaim pointed attendees from all walks of out, most people who are life to discuss the benefits of not in recovery have prethe 12 Steps, though not as a conceived notions about way of dealing with specific this subject that 12-Steps addictions. Instead, they is more of a Christian thing, tackled the bigger picture. not so much a Jewish thing. The 12 Steps also speaks Questions addressed at the to the ultimate addiction, workshop included, How is the addiction to control this relevant to my practice? the ego and the egos need How is this relevant to the to control our lives and the spiritual journey I am on? lives of everyone else, ShaBecause he knew the piro said. What we need to Rabbi Rami Shapiro audience was going to be do is be surrendered to the diverse, he brought in teachings from all Divine and live through that state of sursorts of places. But most of his teaching render. 70 to 80 percent was drawn from Jewish While perhaps 40 to 50 percent of traditions, Benhaim said. It was very, attendees at Sundays workshop were very helpful for many of us who are not members of Bet Alef, there were a lot of connected to the 12-Step program, but are people who were outside of our specific connected with Jewish traditions. community; all sorts of denominations Shapiro laid the foundation for the were represented, said Rabbi Olivier Ben12-Step program itself and then spent time Haim of Bet Alef. People who were not answering peoples questions and addressJewish and people in recovery were presing concerns for how to apply the steps ent, as well as a good number of profesand Jewish teaching to each individuals sionals in attendance, which was great circumstances. because they were able to take what was He is able to derive a lot of what he done in the workshop and apply it to the shares with people from his own experi12-Step programs they do. ence, BenHaim said. Overall, he said, the crowd was very Through the use of diagrams and realdiverse, which was exactly what we life examples, participants were able to wanted. fully relate to Shapiros teachings. As co-sponsors of Shapiros workshop, representatives of Jewish Family Service evaluated and gleaned some of the tactics Shapiro used. Having worked one-onone with people in recovery from all types of addiction, Diane Burnett, director of JFSs Alternatives to Addiciton program, looked at Shapiros methodology through a different lens. While many who attended the Sunday workshop were at more advanced stages in their recovery process, most of the patients Burnett sees are dealing with the very nuts-and-bolts stage of recovery, she said, whereas being able to deal with the spiritual aspect of recovery comes further along in the process. For Burnett, the most important message to send through workshops such as Shapiros and JFSs presence in the community is that Jews have a place where they can come and start to work on [recovery] wherever they are in the struggle, she said. Its important that Jews know that they have somewhere they can go, and they dont have to feel shame or fear of the community knowing that they are struggling. BenHaim agreed. He said his own congregants can benefit from Shapiros lessons. Its a big part of our community. Its been something that has been present for some time, he said.
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A giant in Seattles civic life and a leader in Seattles Jewish community without equal, Jack and his beloved wife of 70 years, Becky, shaped and nurtured the citys institutions that today touch tens of thousands of people. For decades, their tzedakah advanced the mission of the Jewish Federation, including the establishment of a named endowment fund to ensure that their generosity to our Jewish community continues in perpetuity. Our tradition shares: When a person becomes a leader in the community, that person becomes enriched by his service. (Talmud, Yona) Jack lived that teaching to the fullest through his familys support of the arts and culture, education, medicine, human need services, Israel and the Seattle Jewish community. May the name of Jack Benaroya be a blessing to all those who knew him, and may Becky and his family take comfort in knowing that Jacks legacy is that he made our world a better place. Shelley Bensussen Executive Board Chair Richard Fruchter President & CEO
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Aaron Copland
as quoted on the north wall of Benaroya Hall
We deeply mourn the passing of our longtime friend and benefactor, Jack Benaroya. Jacks passion and commitment to the community and his service to others will inspire us forever.
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The cure to the drive-by Hebrew school dropoff

Janis siegel JTNews Correspondent
Some call it drive-by Judaism, when parents drop their kids at a synagogue for Hebrew school, take off to shop or grab some coffee, and then return to shuttle them home or out for a meal. It is exactly the model Rabbi Olivier BenHaim of Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue is committed to changing. When he and his staff open their startup Hebrew school in a new Northend Seattle location in October 2012, hell have his chance. Everyone will be all in: Parents, kids, and teachers, studying and meditating together. I certainly didnt want to repeat that, said BenHaim, speaking with JTNews about the need for Bet Alefs new curriculum under development for what it will call its BYachad program. We hope to create that spiritual ground at home. Also unique to Bet Alef is its approach to prayer, God, and the divine, which BenHaim called panentheistic. Its the Kabbalah and the Chassidic masters understanding of God, BenHaim explained. Everything is an expression of Gods likeness. There is no thing, no one, no where, no when that God is not. The transcendent is not the old-fashioned God-in-the-clouds. It is an authentic, Jewishly rooted, long-held, Jewishly grounded path. Longtime Bet Alef member Dianna Rose has been attending services there since she moved to Seattle from Sacramento, Calif., over 13 years ago. She and her 6-year-old son, Nathan, who will attend school there this fall, are one of 110 families who now belong to the synagogue. I was raised meditating in a multifaith family, Rose said. I didnt grow up in Hebrew school or Sunday school. This approach has a universal thread but its in a Jewish context. This is for people who dont like to go to synagogue. Elizabeth Fagin, a Bet Alef member and its director of education, is developing the administrative and curricular side of the upcoming three-hour Saturday program. After a welcoming ceremony, adults will study with BenHaim. The children, ranging from grades 1 through 6, will study with teachers. Families will then reunite for Hebrew prayer, and to finish up with the remainder of the synagogue service. The programs that work the best are where parents and kids learn together, teaching each other, Fagin said. Were going to provide them with the tools. Bet Alefs formal Hebrew reading program will be self-paced. Its current Bnai Mitzvah program will eventually merge into the BYachad program. Fagin and BenHaim envision an eventual high school component to the school as well. This is going to be a very active classroom situation, Fagin said. There isnt going to be a lot of book reading and frontal teaching. In addition to teaching meditation in the sanctuary and in the classroom, Fagin and BenHaim are organizing the core teaching content around middot, Jewish virtues and principles. Covering one value a month for each of the nine months of school, students will use the Torah and Jewish biblical historical texts to explore the traditional stories through the lens of mindfulness, compassion, trust, service, loving kindness, truth, generosity, humility, and joy. In the Jewish community, we look at tikkun olam, tzedakah, and treating others as we want to be treated, Fagin said. We hold these as high values. In real lifethe struggle comes when there is some kind of stressor, which is part of life, Its hard to keep those values. That is where the meditation technique helps kids stay connected to these values, said Fagin, allowing them to become
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Jack Benaroya, To an unparalleled leader, philanthropist, visionary, entrepreneur, mensch and mofet. You made our community and our world a better place to live. From your admiring community at Temple De Hirsch Sinai.
Rabbi Olivier and a young member shake the lulav during Sukkot last fall.
familiar with their reactions and to reflect on their behavior. You know that space between an action and your reaction? she asked. Meditation expands that space so that you really have more choice. Meditation for children is used quite widely in other settings, even in secular settings. BenHaim believes his congregation serves many adults and families who dont feel at home in more conventional venues of Jewish worship. The kinds of people we attract are often from interfaith marriages, BenHaim said. It also helps a lot of people who have been disenfranchised in their early life. Rose said she found her spiritual home there and lauds its inclusiveness. There are Jew-Bus who are into Buddhism, people into Native American spirituality, and a lot who are more into mystical spirituality, Rose said, but their lineage is Jewish, so it is a way that they can incorporate that thread, using the language, culture, tradition and the Jewish liturgy.
More than 1,100 community members attended Jewish Family Services annual Community of Caring luncheon, including Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, left, who joined JFS board president CourTEsy Jfs Emily Alhadeff, second from left, luncheon co-chair Lynn Behar, second from right, and JFS CEO Ken Weinberg. For the first time in the agencys 120-year history, the income from the fundraiser topped $1 million.
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Day school environmental program isnt idle about idlers

dikla tuchMan JTNews Correspondent
Seattle Hebrew Academy parent Jo Kershaw cares about the environment. But her passion for being green goes beyond recycling and composting she saw a way to improve the environmental impact on her childrens school and made it happen. This month, SHA will receive its certificate from the Washington Green Schools program for reaching Level One status. Led by a team of teachers, parents most notably Kershaw and students, SHA paved the way for entry into the program through a no idling campaign at the beginning of the school year. People didnt realize how detrimental the pollution that idling caused was, said SHA principal Katie May. Being primarily a commuter school, SHA has a high percentage of cars and buses in its parking lot at drop-off and pick-up times, and it became apparent to parents like Kershaw that vehicles were creating a large amount of exhaust pollution as they sat idling in the lot. I saw the no idle thing at one of the Mercer Island elementary schools, Kershaw said. I carpool and I noticed that people were really just sitting there and idling a lot. And it was really disgusting. Kershaw did her homework, and eventually stumbled upon the Washington Green Schools program, which places schools on a five-level track to becoming a green school in various areas of focus. Washington Green Schools program coordinator Rebecca Meredith has been working with SHA over the last year on its initiative. Meredith pointed out that few schools begin their participation in the program with transportation as their focus. She said that as SHA students began to monitor the idling times in the parking lot, the total time vehicles idled amounted to 238 minutes in one week (morning and afternoon pick-up times). Students stood in the parking lot with stopwatches and clipboards and carefully tracked bus drivers and parents as they sat with their motors running. Kershaw said that at first, parents were nervous about what was going on. But after the initial assessment, the education began. Kershaw, May and other members of the green team sent out fliers, posted signs, had parents sign a pledge, and included information about the program in the school newsletters and emails. Most parents, once they knew what was going on, were really on board with it, said May. Its not an attempt to control peoples habits but a way to make them aware. After the education came the change. Meredith said that by the spring, total idling time at SHA had dropped to 17 minutes per week, a 92 percent reduction from the beginning of the program. And idling times continue to diminish. We really encourage [students] to make a change that is feasible and measurable. It can be quantitative or qualitative, Meredith said. Clearly impressed, Meredith reflected with a smile, [SHA] achieved dramatic, beautiful results. Of course, there are still occasional idlers. We politely remind them to switch off. Its peaceful and quiet and Im really, really proud of [the change], Kershaw said. Kershaw said completing the project didnt cost the school a penny. Help from the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, which monitors clean air throughout the Puget Sound, provided signage, fliers, pencils and key rings for incentive to say, Thank you for signing the pledge, which went a
Take a Day of Rest

by Mike Selinker and Gaby Weidling
This Weeks Wisdom
These days, taking time to rest is often as much work as well, work. Many faiths deal with this by reserving a day of the week for rest. In Jewish tradition, Shabbat is held from Friday evening to Saturday evening. On Shabbat, 39 activities are often prohibited, among them winnowing, flaying, separating two threads, and threshing. Since we dont thresh as much as we used to, this puzzle shows some modern equivalents to old prohibitions.
ACROSS 1 When Macbeth meets the three 5 8 13 15 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 27 30 31 32 33 38 39 40 41 45 46 47 48 51 52 53 54 59 60 DOWN 1 Specialized vocabulary 2 Pennies 3 General ___ chicken 4 Neighbor of Syr. and Jor. 5 DC Comics supervillain who creates weapons 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 17 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 33 34 35 36 37 42 43 44 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58
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SHA 4th graders Regie Mezistrano and Sophia Kershaw carefully monitor vehicles idling in the parking lot.
long way. PSCAA also provided SHA with a comprehensive plan and materials for monitoring. Both May and Kershaw say the students have felt encouraged by the project. While they have not decided upon an area of focus to achieve Level Two certification, some ideas are floating around as students continue to implement other green programs around the school. The 2nd grade class is starting to put up laminated signs and hanging them near the light switches reminding people to turn off lights, said May. In addition, Kershaw is working with Seattle Public Utilities on a grant for SHA to do more composting and recycling. Educating parents and children about composting is important because they sometimes get really confused, she said. Seattle Hebrew Academy is not the first Jewish school to get green credentials. Bellevues Jewish Day School has achieved Level Two certification as a green school
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witches Playground game Introduction to Neuroscience, for one Follow the rule against tying objects ___-Tikki-Tavi Follow the rule against writing Tootsie Rolls brand of gum drops Roman 950 Words that turn a groom into a husband ___ your lucky day! It may be scaled or feathered Type of FX Lucy of Kill Bill: Vol. 1 Follow the rule against igniting a fire Prefix with friendly or logical Vinegars counterpart The 411, effectively Follow the rule against transferring between domains Like 5-Down Donkey ___ Lingus Follow the rule against cooking and baking AMA members Singer whose hand gesture caused a stir at Super Bowl XLVI Chopins Piano Concerto No. 1 ___ minor Org. for Titans, but not Giants Distress call Seattle-to-Las Vegas dir. Folk singer Guthrie Follow the rule against dyeing Informed Follow the rule against planting, plowing, reaping, and all other forms of labor Chromosome components Icky ooze Ella Enchanted actress Hathaway
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such as explosive teddy bears Private no-show? Wildebeest Opposite of debit VIPs vehicle Acronym that precedes an alias Go downhill fast? ___ vous plat Coy response to You failed! Room motif Brightest star in Orion, which is part of a binary system with a much fainter B star Floating marker Fashionable Hermit Not set in stone Sightings near Area 51 Immune system component Area above the waist Minnesota team, to its fans Makes a crossword puzzle better Follow, as a rule Haglund who started a chain of Seattle seafood restaurants All thumbs Org. that encourages racketeers to come to court? Nearly unique Hams it up Scenic views Foe The lights ___ but no ones home Unlikely stroke of luck Duplicate Your highness Takeis Star Trek character Hip hop singer who was Billboard magazines 2007 Artist of the Year Choke Be in debt Obi-___ Kenobi Naughty by Nature hit with the repeated lyric Yeah, you know me Exclamation of realization
2012 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cafe, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle. All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb.
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2012 Community Campaign

We live in a remarkable community where Jewish life is flourishing. Thanks to more than 3,000 donors, were 95% of the way to completing our 2012 Community Campaign. When I accepted the role of Jewish Federation Campaign Chair last July, I knew that it was going to be a challenging undertaking. My experience was in real estate and sales training, not fundraising, yet here I was tasked with raising nearly $5 million for our community. What I did not realize is how moving and inspiring the experience would be for me.
Reflections from Campaign Chair Celie Brown

Over the past 10 months, Ive seen literally thousands of individuals and families giving from their hearts to help those in need; to send children to camp; to educate the next generation and to strengthen Jewish life. Nothing I have ever done can equal this feeling of being part of something bigger than oneself than leading our Community Campaign. For those who have given so generously, please accept my thanks. If you have not already made a gift, please do so today. Youll not only help us get to 100% of our goal but youll also be our partner in making Seattles Jewish community better. For more information, visit our website at www.JewishInSeattle.org.
PJ Library Seattle: The Best in the Country

PJ Library Seattle was honored on May 3, 2012 as being the most successful PJ Library community in terms of market penetration. PJ Library, a donor-funded outreach strategy of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle to engage parents of young children, hosted Rosalie Eisen, director of community development from the Harold Grinspoon Foundation for a day of meetings and celebration. Seattle is reaching the highest percentage (74%) normally see an enrollment rate of 3040%. Therefore, the fact that Seattle is reaching 74% of the eligible population is an indicator that families are interested in exploring their Jewish identity as a family and sharing their experiences and knowledge with their children. The Harold Grinspoon Foundation, which subsidizes a portion our local PJ Library, presented a symbolic check of $166,160 to Jewish Federation President & CEO Richard Fruchter, signifying their support over the past three years. This is representative of what we have granted to the Seattle Jewish community and as you grow, this number will grow, said Eisen. Donors, volunteers, Jewish organizational leaders, song leaders, staff and PJ Library parents attended the celebration. PJ Library wouldnt be here without the generosity of our PJ Library donors and the support of our program partners, said PJ Library manager Amy Paquette, it is because of their philanthropy, their dedication to the Jewish people and the love of children that PJ Library in Seattle is so successful. And PJ Library Seattle isnt slowing down. PJ Library Seattle hopes to expand its outreach both in terms of numbers served and geography covered. We know that families are moving to the suburbs and in order for PJ Library to succeed in its mission of engaging families in the Jewish community, we need to find them wherever they are living, said Paquette. To find out more about PJ Library, visit us online at: www.JewishInSeattle.org/PJLibrary www.facebook.com/PJLibrarySeattle
Celie Brown is the Community Campaign Chair for 2012 and 2013. She lives with husband, Dr. Zane Brown, in Yarrow Point.
of eligible children of any of the 160 PJ Library communities! That is fantastic, even more so for a West Coast community, said Eisen. PJ Library started as a book-based program through the Harold Grinspoon Foundation in Massachusetts. The phenomenon of its success in sending free books and CDs on a monthly basis spread quickly and now over 160 cities have PJ Library communities. In addition, PJ Library is in Canada, Israel and is looking to launch in Australia, Mexico and Latin America. The visit from the Grinspoon Foundation was to celebrate the success of PJ Library in Seattle. The West Coast, the Northwest in particular, has a reputation as a less affiliated area of the country. Studies have shown that Jewish participation rates are low and larger cities with higher Jewish populations
2012 Annual Meeting Awardees Announced

The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle will recognize the achievements of four exceptional community volunteers at its 2012 Annual Meeting. Corey Salka, chair of the Federations Center for Jewish Philanthropy, will accept the Dr. Charles and Lillian Kaplan Board Chairs Award; Kim Fisher and Zane Brown, Jr. will receive the Jack J. and Charlotte Spitzer Young Leadership Awards; and the Pamela Waechter Jewish Communal Professional Award will be given to Marcie Wirth, special events manager at the Stroum Jewish Community Center. The Jewish Federation will also acknowledge community members who have served on the working groups charged with delivering grants through the Federations new process for allocating funds raised by the 2012 AnnuAl Meeting 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
FATHERS DAY TRIBUTES: Honor your father on June 17

with a tribute e-card from the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. Show your father you care and help our Jewish community at the same time. Send one today at www.JewishInSeattle.org/Tribute
Center for Jewish Philanthropy, and will be welcoming new board members to the Federations leadership. We are especially grateful for the continuing service of Robin Boehler, Andrew Cohen and Jack Almo, who will be departing as standing committee chairs and will remain as members of the Board of Directors.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Details for all programs at www.Jewishinseattle.org
MAY 30-31 MAY 31 6:00PM JuNE 21 5:30PM
jewish education summit: an invitation to dream reinventing jewish education for the 21st century cardozo society ldor vdor reception annual meeting 2012
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A Facebook profile for a kidney Also: Author chronicles Mariners management failures
Brett Alkan found a kidney donor through Facebook and it appears he is on the, ahem, cutting edge of a trend (sorry!). The day after I interviewed the future transplant recipient, NPR aired a story on trends in organ donation. These include adding donation status to your Facebook profile and an increasing public interest in compensating live donors, which is currently illegal. Bretts page was set up by his oldest son, Nicholas, a Northwest Yeshiva High School senior. Diagnosed with congenital Polycystic Kidney Disease at age 12, Brett knew hed need a kidney eventually. I got on the transplant list two years ago, he explains, but an initial handful of volunteer donors didnt qualify. We just werent getting anybody across the finish line. Then in January a local news story told of a Seattle man who found a kidney donor through Facebook. I toyed with the idea, says Brett, but I just didnt want to be knownas the
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kidney disease guy, preferring to be known as a good fatheror husband, or citizen. Its also awkward to ask for such a demanding gift. Nicholas, however, went ahead and did it without asking me. Brett confesses he was more relieved than mad. The page got a huge response, including one from Kari Alexander, his daughters former Girl Scout troop leader who wasnt close to the family, but she knew them. Most donors want to know who the recipient is, explains Brett. Kari got tested and she was an excellent match! As he awaits surgery, Brett says his main goal is to stay off dialysis, which has a significant impact on the life of a kidney. These days he feels more like my 80-year-old father as he contends with the joint and muscle pain, fatigue and anemia that come with kidney failure. He does work limited hours in his familys property management business and, while he and Nicholas climbed Mt. Rainier four
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Brett Alkan, second from right, will be receiving a new kidney from Kari Alexander, left, his daughters former scout troop leader. Alkans son Nick, second from left, created the match through Facebook. Bretts wife Ellen is on the right.
years ago, hes happy now if he can walk the dog once a week. Im blessed with a father and brother and a good crew, supporting him at work and wife Ellen and two younger kids, Lauren, 14, and Jonathan, 16, supporting him at home. Those two are awaiting their own trip up our states iconic mountain. If everything goes well, I will be climbing Mt. Rainier next summer, Brett says.
Nicholas and Jonathan members of the Jewish Federations teen tzedakah J-Team group advocated successfully for J-Team to take part in and raise money for the Oct. 9 Seattle PKD walk. (None of the Alkan kids have been tested, but each has a 50 percent chance of having PKD.) And, dear readers, if you have not
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The Songs of Debbie Friedman

Sunday, June 10, 3:00 p.m. at Temple Bnai Torah
Honoring the memory of community member Hermine Pruzan, with a concert of inspiring and heart-opening songs from the late great Debbie Friedman.
performed by
Chava Mirel
accompanied by Peter Pundy & Dean Schmidt
Chava Mirel
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Through the generosity of the Hermine Pruzan Endowment, this event is free and open to all.
Temple Bnai Torah * 15727 NE 4th St. Bellevue, WA 98008 * (425) 603-9677 * TempleBnaiTorah.org
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The kids really are alright

For 53 years, the Seattle chapter of the American Jewish Committee has awarded more than 1,000 Seattle area teens some of them Jewish, many of them not the Max Block award, in honor of one of the chapters early presidents. These high school juniors and seniors in Washington State, in their daily lives, according to AJC Seattle executive director Wendy Rosen, demonstrate exemplary human relations conduct in their dealings with others without regard to race, creed or national origin. These students, she said, are not always the ones with the highest grades or the stars of the football team. Young people, who in the face of street violence, complicated family lives, poverty and disease, have a vision to create a better world for all of us, Rosen told family and friends of this years 24 award winners at a ceremony on May 10. Despite the pressures of their daily lives, they take the time to make their vision a reality. The students come from many different ethnic and economic backgrounds. They include Juleh Eide, who suffered hearing loss as an infant and currently volunteers at Seattle Childrens Hospital. And Saba Hadush, a student at Ballard High School, who has been recognized in her school for her work with the suicide prevention and awareness group, Student Lives Always Matter. Or Olivia Ochoa, whose love of theater brought her to Second Story Repertory in Redmond and the community of Jonestown, Miss. as an on-stage teaching assistant. Three of the students honored received $2,000 scholarships from former AJC Seattle board president Deborah Rosen. Deborah Rosen told the audience that all of the students in attendance had made
X PAGE 24 Rosen award winner Gillian Friedman of Roosevelt High School attended a weeklong program called Youth Undoing Institutional Racism at Seattle Freedom School two summers ago, where her eyes opened to the poverty she never knew existed in her own city. Id never been in a room with so many people of color, she said of her experience. I felt vulnerable, different, and most of all ignorant. I knew nothing of poor neighborhoods, racial profiling, police brutality, losing a friend to gang violence or a brother to jail.
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All of the 2012 Block Award and Rosen Scholarship recipients onstage at the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island.
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Doing right and doing good:

Righteous books for summer
Tzedakah, the word we are most likely to translate as charity, is actually derived from a Hebrew root meaning righteous or justice. Judaism gives us many ways to perform tzedakah correct acts, or acts of integrity whether that be a simple donation of money or direct service to the needy. Where Justice Dwells is, as the subtitle explains, Rabbi Jill Jacobss HandsOn Guide to Doing Social Justice in Your Jewish Community (Jewish Lights, paper, $24.99). Jacobs is the director of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America and was named one of Newsweeks most influential rabbis. This, her second book, is a practical manual and textbook for doing the right things, and gives us the opportunity to explore the motivation for our actions. The book could be used for a class or book discussion group, as each chapter concludes with a list of discussion questions. In three sections, Jacobs explores what makes social justice Jewish, integrating Jewish life and social justice (including some text study) and how to take action, along with additional resources for action and further reading. One of the more interesting questions Jacobs asks, accompanied by a bit of Talmud, is: What constitutes your community, and which is the community to which you are required to give? Is your obligation to your neighborhood or to Israel? To your school or to your synagogue? To your people or to your country? Our lives have become a complex web of charitable opportunity both within and without the Jewish community and this book will either propel you to action or enhance what you do already. What is more righteous than raising a happily Jewish child? In Raising Kids to Love Being Jewish (Khal, paper, $15.99), Doron Kornbluth sets out a clearcut recipe for achieving just that. Kornbluths opening chapter offers the most important advice, Practice Joyful Judaism, followed by the second chapters Be a Role Model. Theres little reason to follow the rest of the usual advice send kids to a Jewish preschool or day school, or at least to Hebrew school, send them to camp, observe the holidays, belong to a synagogue, explore your genealogy and get grandparents involved if you arent going to do it with a positive attitude and demonstrate that you enjoy it yourself. (Raise your hand if you were told you had to go to Hebrew school, but were treated to a litany of complaints about religion when you got home.) Despite Kornbluths upbeat writing peppered with interesting personal anecdotes, there is a dark side to all this: It doesnt always work, as parents know, despite all efforts. I recently met a woman whose parents had followed most of these principles, including Jewish summer camp, which many experts regard as the top Jewish retention tool. Yet this woman found her camping comrades so cliquish and arrogant it turned her off her religion forever.
There are no pat answers for something this complex, but I would add to Kornbluths list to keep an open dialogue between you and your kids, be receptive to hard questions, and dont pretend that you or anyone has all the answers. Readers can enjoy entertaining stories of good deeds in Tales of the Righteous, retold by Simcha Raz and translated by Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins (Gefen, cloth, $24.95). The author has rendered these Chassidic tales into a format easily appreciated by a modern audience. As Elie Wiesel notes in his foreword, [Raz] presents us with the fair, literary, and humane countenance of Chassidism. These short stories are grouped by category, alphabetized from Anger to Prayer to Wisdom (plus a separate section on This World and the Next at the end).
Certainly another great righteousness act is to help women who suffer from post-partum depression, as husbandwife team Rabbi Baruch and Michal Finkelstein do in Delivery from Darkness (Feldheim, paper, $19.99). Feldheim publishers has a mission of producing books on essential, worldly topics, written with sensitivity toward the Torah-observant Jew. While the authors assume their readers are observant, theres plenty of good information here from which any reader can pick and choose. The authors explain the physiology and psychology of this fairly common disorder, and take pains to assure the reader that no one should be blamed for having it. Because of the religious angle, the authors are able to add a spiritual dimension to the multipronged approach medical, nutrition and mental health they propose.
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The Prize is pleased to announce our 2012 recipient, Eric Greitens. Shaped by his experience as a humanitarian, a scholar and a Navy SEAL, he founded The Mission Continues, challenging post-9/11 veterans to continue to lead through community service at home. Eric exemplies what can be accomplished when courage and compassion are combined. We salute his remarkable energy and leadership, his deep commitment to his fellow service men and women, his steadfast spirit of compassion and joy, and the inspiration he provides to the next generations.
The Charles Bronfman Prize celebrates the vision and endeavors of innovative humanitarians whose inspiring work benets the world. We are committed to recognizing young, dynamic individuals whose Jewish values inform their work and inspire future generations.
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Books in brief
Local interest Torch in the Dark: One Womans Journey, by Hadiyah Joan Carlyle (Book Publishers, paper, $16.95). This is a brave and poignant memoir about the authors young adult years trying to survive as a single parent in the counter-culture movement, first in California and then in Bellingham. Carlyles dreamlike writing is entrancing as she takes us on her difficult journey, haunted by memories of abuse and grappling with emotional and physical illness. The title alludes to her career as one of the countrys first women welders since World War II, but also to her son, Washington State Representative Reuven Carlyle. He clearly was a light she followed as they both, in a way, grew up together. Inhuman Resources, by Rita Weinstein (Amazon, paper/ebook, $2.99) Set in the grittier side of Ballard, this mystery introduces Piper Steele, who is thrust into the world of the jobless and homeless when she loses her job and her unemployment, and turns to a food bank for help. A new friend from the food bank soon turns up murdered and Piper sets out to help solve the mystery. Weinstein draws on people she met and stories she heard setting up a soup kitchen and clothing bank in Ballard. She uses Inhuman Resources to draw attention to the struggles of the unemployed and often newly homeless, victims of the current recession. Matricide, and Uncle Louie, by Michael B. Druxman (Create Space, paper, $9.99 each). Druxman, a Seattle native and Garfield alumni, had a long career as a Hollywood screenwriter. As he notes in his introductions to these screenplays, every screenwriter has spec scripts sitting on his shelf that did not sell. Now retired, Druxman has effectively used the independent publishing industry to get these screenplays out in book form so they can entertain us on the page. In Uncle Louie, an aging Damon Runyonesque gangster visits his modern-day family in Hollywood in the late 1980s and gets his grand-nephew out of a pickle. Matricide is a darker murder mystery set in Seattle, where the violent murder of a former starlet leads a public defender and her ex-cop/ ex-husband on an adventure of international intrigue. Screenplays make for quick reads and half the fun is imagining how you yourself would make the movie. Literature Burnt Books: Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka, by Rodger Kamenetz, (Nextbook/Schocken, cloth, $25). This wonderfully imagined and written book delves into two of the authors literary and religious interests, Kafka and Nachman. Although they lived centuries apart, Kamenetz draws fascinating parallels between the two storytellers, including troubling father-son relationships, an interest in Chassidic tales, and a mystical streak. Kamenetz, author of the equally engaging memoir, The Jew in the Lotus, wonders, in Kabbalistic fashion, if Kafka somehow influenced Nachman instead of the other way around. Worship All These Vows: Kol Nidre, edited by Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman (Jewish Lights, cloth, $24.95). Kol Nidre is possibly the most perplexing piece of the Jewish liturgy. Its in Aramaic and its a legal document, yet it has become one of the most significant and memorable High Holiday prayers for Jews around the world. This volume, part of the Prayers of Awe series, brings together the writings of 30 scholars and rabbis who analyze and explain this prayers history, sources, relevance and contemporary meaning in a very readable way. Festpredigten: Twenty Festival Sermons (1897-1902), by Isaac Rosenberg, translated from the German by Fred Gottleib (Gefen, cloth, $18.95). The audience for this little book is probably narrow, but even the general reader might be interested in comparing these 110-year-old sermons to what might be heard in our synagogues today.
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Sunday, May 28 at 2 p.m. Fiddler on the Roof Musical Theater Experience a classic piece of Jewish theater in a unique setting. The Kitsap Forest Theater and The Mountaineers Players present the timeless musical classic, Fiddler on the Roof. The story of Tevye and his family, struggling to live traditional Jewish lives in the small Soviet village of Anatevka, is told through song, witty dialogue and rich historical fiction. The production will be performed in the scenic outdoor amphitheater through the spring, closing Fathers Day weekend. At the Kitsap Forest Theater, 3000 Seabeck Hwy., Bremerton. For ticket pricing and purchase, contact 800-573-8484 or 206-521-6000 or visit foresttheater.com/tickets.
Sunday, June 3 at 7 p.m. Raising Voices, Lifting Spirits: Music of Humor, Hope and Healing for Hard Times Music Seattle Jewish Chorale explores the ways in which individuals and community overcome lifes challenges. The 30 voices of the chorale, accompanied by pianist Harumi Flesher, will perform songs in English, Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew melodies and lyrics that have comforted and sustained the Jewish people throughout history, and inspire hope for all who struggle through difficult times. Special guests include writer/host Gigi Yellen, percussionist Will Dowd, clarinetist John Stiffler, and dancers from Israeli Folk Dance at the University of Washington. A portion of the evenings proceeds will be donated to Jewish Family Service. At Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle. General admission: $18 in advance at brownpapertickets.com or 800-838-3006.
Sunday, June 3 at 2 p.m. Author Hadiyah carlyle Reading Hadiyah Carlyle will be reading from her powerful new memoir, Torch in the Dark. Carlyle was a pioneer of her time one of the first women since World War II to enter the trades as a union welder. The story of Hadiyahs journey to healing offers inspiration for women struggling with issues of abuse and oppression. At Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle.
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Sunday, June 3 at 4 p.m. Drash: northwest Mosaic Book Reading Drash is a Northwest literary review filled with poetry, prose, and photos encouraging the redemptive nature of life from Jewish and other perspectives. Volume VI includes everything from a mini-memoir of a Jewish cowboy and Flying Karamazov Brother (Howard Jay Patterson) to a meditation on a pebble (Michael Fontana). This reading kicks off the first of several that will take place over the summer. Open to the community, and attendees will have the opportunity to listen and rub shoulders with several local contributors. At Ravenna Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave. NE, Seattle. For more information, contact Wendy Marcus at wendy@templebetham.org.
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Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau: A Historic Visit to Seattle
Etgar Kerets answer to everyday malaise

A habitual liar who sticks his hand into a hole in the ground and ends up in a place where he finds all the lies hes ever told. A divorced man whose toddler wants him to kill his ex-mother-in-law. A woman who discovers the man shes sleeping with has a zipper under his tongue, which turns him into another person after she unzips him. What goes on in the mind of Etgar Keret that he can produce such fantastical tales? His newest book of stories, Suddenly, A Knock on the Door, is so quintessento the Israeli psyche. What American, approached by an angry husband in a diner and accused of cheating with his wife, would play along and take the kick to the ribs rather than deny everything? Who else could spend two pages describing the contents of his pockets and turn it into a story about loneliness and the hope that a gift of a postage stamp might lead to love? Keret bottles the aggressive laissez faire attitude of so many Israeli men and the driven ebullience of its women into his
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Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, former Chief Rabbi of Israel is a world-revered public figure, internationally renowned speaker, and author who at age eight was one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald. Mark your calendar to join him this June for one or more of his inspiring talks around Jewish life today and Holocaust remembrance.
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tially Israeli, yet it isnt. Released last year in Hebrew, and in English last month by three translators (including Kerets protg Nathan Englander), Suddenly doesnt go where Oz, Appelfeld, Agron and so many others in the canon of Israeli literature have gone: War, identity, the land, the history. But his stories, stories of normal people living unexceptional lives who find themselves in exceptional situations, cut so close
35 stories, but he also captures the downtrodden, the depressed, the downright suicidal. Sure, these are Israelis (at least most of them), theyre Jews, theyre interesting. But theyre not special. Theyre just like everyone else, trying to live their lives no differently from you or me. But when were talking about Israeli literature, that makes Suddenly, A Knock on the Door exceptional.
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Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S. Brandon Street, Seattle 8:25am Shabbat Services 10:15am Speech: I believe. Even in the Holocaust. 12:00pm Lunch and Speech: What Makes the Jewish People One Nation Lunch: ($20 per family) must be reserved and prepaid. RSVP: RabbiLauSeattle@gmail.com Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath, 5145 S. Morgan Street, Seattle 7:00pm Speech: In Praise of Peace and in Condemnation of Conflict
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A Casino Event of Seattle
Dont gamble with the success of your next party! A Casino Event of Seattle produces the most authentic casino parties in the Puget Sound region. They bring quality, casino-grade gaming tables to your location and staff them with professionally trained, friendly and entertaining dealers. ACE Seattle casino parties provide lively and surprisingly affordable interactive entertainment for Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, weddings, company parties, home parties and other events. Click on the red Quote Request button at www.ACE-Seattle.com or call 206-801-1946 for a great casino experience. You can bet on it!
when she sees it and can usually tell the owner when their jewelry was made and its market value. For more information about Alana: Antique & Estate Jewelry, visit www.alanajewelry.com. The website has extensive photographs of inventory and pricing.
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Everything in Alanas is a treasure something exquisitely beautiful that cant be found anywhere else. People come to Alanas to find something different, says owner Alana Fornoni. They dont want something someone picked out of a catalogue or something all their friends have. They also would like to know the story behind the piece. Alana is happy to share that story, if she knows it. But she has observed that most people inherit a piece of jewelry with no idea who owned it originally or what its worth. With her expert eye and years of experience, Alana recognizes quality
In 1912 a personal jeweler opened a family-run store in downtown Seattle. One hundred years later, Ben Bridge is still a family-run business, but one that has grown to over 70 stores. Today, Bens grandsons, Ed and Jon Bridge, manage the company. They attribute Ben Bridges longevity and success to the companys commitment to quality and customer service. We want our customers to feel confident with every selection, explains Ed Bridge, thats why Ben Bridge has more Registered Jewelers and Certified Gemologists than any other jeweler in the country. Though celebrating its centennial, Ben Bridge is still growing. This includes opening multiple stores dedicated to the wildly popular jewelry line Pandora, and renovating their original Ben Bridge Jeweler store in Downtown Seattle. As they look to the next 100 years, the Bridge family knows one thing will never change: Ben Bridge is dedicated to being your personal jeweler.
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Cinema Books
Cinema Books is the film bookstore of the Northwest. Collections include biographies of movie stars and directors, glamorous picture books of Hollywood, posters, stills and cards of the stars, and technical filmmaking books for the novice or professional. They also carry criticism and reference film books to lead you to movies you may have missed. Call 206-547-7667 or visit www.cinemabooks.net.
your special day aboard a beautifully appointed yacht, with ever-changing views of Seattles skyline, surrounded by sparkling water and the scenic shorelines of Lake Union and Lake Washington. Waterways Cruises offers full service catering, event planning, a variety of wedding packages and elegant venues for receptions, rehearsal dinners, day-after-the-wedding brunch and other bridal events. 2441 N Northlake Way Seattle, WA 98103 206.223.2060 www.waterwayscruises.com
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Emmanuels Fine Rug & Upholstery Specialists Hoffmans Fine Pastries
Theyve been cleaning rugs, carpets, furniture and fine Orientals for more than 103 years. You can count on them! Highest-quality carpet cleaning, custom in-plant rug washing, rug repair and blind and upholstery cleaning. They specialize in Oriental care, repair and mending and restoration. Emmanuels is the place to go for consigned new and antique Orientals, rug sales and appraisals, as well as on-site carpet cleaning and maintenance. Fifteen percent off all in-home services and 30 percent off all cash-andcarry cleaning services. Gift certificates available. For more information call 206322-2200, fax 206-325-3841, or visit www.emmanuelsrug.com.
provide creative, fresh cuisine and superior service at a reasonable price. They cater to groups of all sizes, both within Kaspars as well as at off-site locations, including private homes. Whether you are entertaining a few or a few hundred guests, the elements for success are the same: Superb fare, impeccable service, the proper ambience, and the right caterer! Kaspars Special Events and Catering has it all. Visit www.kaspars.com or call 206-298-0123 or fax 206-298-0146.
Hoffmans Fine Pastries has been a Kirkland institution for over 25 years. Located at Kirkland Parkplace Shopping Center, Hoffmans is a European-style bakery that specializes in gourmet cakes for all occasions. Hoffmans also offers a wide variety of pastries, from breakfast strudel to desserts such as clairs and cream puffs. Hungry lunch crowds flock to Hoffmans for their delicious deli sandwiches prepared on fresh bread and housemade soups, both of which are made daily. Hoffmans also offers salads, quiche, and panini sandwiches, as well as an array of cookies and other tasty treats to please the palate.
Mary Frimer John L.Scott Real Estate Michael Bilavsky, Musician
Full-service real estate For all your Real Estate needs buying or selling give Mary a call. Mary has been with John L. Scott since 1996, achieving every year the Presidents Gold and Presidents Elite categories. She specializes in Mercer Island, the Eastside and Seattle. Born in Guatemala (fluent in Spanish) she moved to Mercer Island in 1969 and has lived there every since. First-class service, first-class results. 206-391-6161 maryfrimer@johnlscott.com 11040 Main St, #200, Bellevue, WA 98004
Kaspars Special Events and Catering
You will remember your special day for the rest of your life, so choosing the right partners to help you is an important decision. The team at Kaspars Special Events and Catering, with more than 22 years of experience and a reputation for excellence, will support you through the entire planning process, including venue selection, menu creation, ceremony, and reception planning, ensuring you are stress-free. Family owned and operated, Kasparss passion is to
Michael Bilavsky is a professional musician, singer, and composer with 35 years of experience performing all types of music (from Chassidic, klezmer and Israeli to swing and rock n roll) for weddings, Bnai Mitzvah, and parties. He has performed with such artists as Shlomo Carlebach, Mendy Wild and Ephee Cohen in Canada, Israel, Australia, Germany, and Moscow, and he has written and produced music for the popular Israeli TV comedy show Ze-Y-Ze. Michael strives to make his clients happy and will go to any length to do so. He will fulfill exactly what you envision for your event, customizing the music to your specific taste and within your budget. Call 206-972-3659 or email michael_bilavsky@yahoo.com.
he Tibbetts Creek Manor is a 7,000 sq. ft., two story, traditional home with country elegance and interior grace. Sitting on three creek-side acres, the Manor provides the serene & picturesque ambiance needed to create a memorable setting for any occasion. Conveniently located in downtown Issaquah, the Tibbetts Creek Manor can easily accommodate your indoor and outdoor event. Accommodating 130 guests in the interior and up to 175 guests utilizing the outdoor floral garden and white-tented deck, the Manor offers the privacy and space options you are seeking!
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Pedersens Pogacha
The Event Rental Experts Stylish party rentals including: Specialty linen Glassware China Cutlery Chair covers Designer chairs Catering equipment Tables Unique tabletop items 4500 4th Ave. S, Seattle. Call 206-719-5400 or visit www.pedersens.com.
The Ruins
Pogacha of Issaquah is a casual fine-dining restaurant nestled in Issaquah with easy access from I-90. They pride themselves on their fresh, delicious food, exceptional service, and friendly neighborhood atmosphere. Pogacha has two private dining rooms and full-service catering, and they are delighted to provide personalized event planning with their friendly Pogacha touch. They offer Northwest cuisine with an Adriatic flair. All of the food is made from scratch, using only the freshest ingredients. For questions or information, contact event dining manager Sarah Barnes at 425-392-5550 (office), 425-269-2616 (cell) or sarah@pogacha.com. For catering contact Justin McMartin at 425-894-7441.
The Ruins is a private dining club with catering facilities open to the public. It is one of the most unique venues in the country. The founder and creator, Joe McDonnal, built a mansion inside of a warehouse with landscaped gardens and four beautifully appointed rooms. The rooms used collectively can accommodate up to 160 for a seated dinner, or 250 for a stand-up cocktail reception. From beginning to end, their professional staff and beautiful venue will offer you and your guests a truly unique and memorable experience. Contact The Ruins at 206-285-7846 or visit www.theruins.net.
Sandra Levin John L. Scott Real Estate
Buying or selling, Sandra will be there for you every step of the way! Specializing in real estate on Mercer Island and the Eastside. A life-long resident of Mercer Island and the Eastside, and an active community leader and volunteer, she understands the needs of homebuyers and real estate investors. Award winner for client satisfaction and sales volume. Committed to providing the highest level of customer service and satisfaction. Realtor and Managing Broker, 2009 Five Star award 206-949-2845 sandra@sandralevin.com www.sandralevin.com
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Shawns Kugel
Shawns Kugel is one of the best Klezmer bands in the Pacific Northwest. They specialize in getting guests to participate in folk dancing and horas at weddings,Bnai Mitzvah and other lifecycle events. Shawns Kugel has released four CDs, with the latest being Odyssey. Check out Shawns Kugel on MySpace, CD Baby, or iTunes to hear some songs and learn more about this Northwest treasure. Contact 206-523-9298 or shawnsax@jps.net or visit pweb.jps.net/~shawnsax.
Conveniently located in downtown Issaquah, the Tibbetts Creek Manor can easily accommodate your indoor and outdoor event. Accommodating 130 guests in the interior and up to 175 guests utilizing the outdoor floral garden and white-tented deck, the Manor offers the privacy and space options you seek! Phone: 425-837-3367 Fax: 425-837-3338 tibbetts@ci.issaquah.wa.us www.issaquaheventsites.com
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TPC Snoqualmie Ridge is one of the most recognized and highly regarded wedding facilities in the Northwest. With breathtaking views of Mount Si, the Cascade Mountains, and its championship golf course, parties of up to 300 people can enjoy a premier wedding experience that will leave them with lasting memories. The complimentary on-site wedding coordinator, personal day-of wedding attendant, and the newly remodeled bridal suite help make the big day as relaxed and stress-free as possible. TPC Snoqualmie Ridge offers a first-class professional service team as well as an award-winning culinary team that can cater to all tastes and preferences. For more information on having your wedding at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge, please call 425-396-6024 or visit www.tpcsr.com.
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Tulalip Resort Casino
The AAA Four Diamond Tulalip Resort Casino is the perfect location to celebrate lifes milestones. With more than 30,000 square feet of flexible event space, two ballrooms and an expertly trained event staff, Tulalip Resort Casino can accommodate events of every size, from small gatherings to large functions with up to 1,500 attendees. Every need is addressed by a capable and conscientious staff, whether the requirements involve state-of-the-art technological equipment, customized catering, or providing the ideal venue for social gatherings. For more information about planning a special event at Tulalip Resort Casino, please contact James Hillman at 360-716-6830 or james.hillman@tulalipresort.com.
synagogue to its new home, as well as annual gigs for the Bellingham Parks and the Whatcom Museum. The band plays klezmer, Israeli, Yiddish, Ladino and other music, and teaches dance, too. Please visit www.whatthechelm.com, or call 360-676-1621 for booking info.
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What the Chelm! has enlivened simchot since 1993 and entertained at countless Bnai Mitzvah and weddings around the Puget Sound area. Public performances have included Folklife, Klezfest, the Juan de Fuca Festival and moving the Boise
Woodland Park Zoo, one of Seattles most cherished community resources, is the perfect location for your next event! Set on 92 acres with over 300 species of animal, the zoo offers 17 unique venues to host your Bar/Bat Mitzvah, holiday party, picnic, meeting, wedding, family reunion or birthday party. Funds generated by your event help support the zoos quality animal care, education programs, and field conservation projects to help preserve wildlife species and habitats in the Northwest and around the world. For more information, contact groupsales@zoo.org or 206-548-2590, or visit www.zoo.org.
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Kosher-style available Chef Kaspar offers exceptional Northwest cuisine along with a superior staff versed in weddings, rehearsal dinners, showers and b'nai mitzvahs. Kaspars can accommodate up to 300 guests or can offer full service off-premise catering at your home or other special location.
visit www.kaspars.com for menus and upcoming events WE OFFER FACILITIES FOR: Weddings, receptions and rehearsal dinners Bar and Bat Mitzvahs Business meetings and retreats Company picnics, dinners and cocktail parties Family reunions and other private celebrations For event planning call 206.548.2590 or email groupsales@zoo.org
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At Havurat Ee Shalom, 15401 Westside Hwy. SW, Vashon Island. 10 p.m.12 a.m. midnight madness Teen Basketball Tournament
Ben Starsky at BenS@sjcc.org or 206-388-0837 or www.sjcc.org Jewish high schoolers can compete in a three-onthree basketball tournament. Round robin games on Saturday night will determine tournament seeding; tournament bracket begins the following morning at 10 a.m. $100 per four-person team. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. of Jewish studies. Graduation ceremony with reception and refreshments to follow. Free. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
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7:309 p.m. dr. devin Naar speaks

Administrator at admin@kolaminw.org or 425-844-1604 or www.kolaminw.org Dr. Devin Naar will speak about the topics of The Jerusalem of the Balkans and The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Community of Salonika, Greece. Free. At Congregation Kol Ami, 16530 Avondale Rd. NE, Woodinville.
25 May
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10 p.m. shavuot lail Tikkun with Joshua sobol

Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org Beth Shalom performers will act out two scenes from Joshua Sobols Ghetto. Afterward, attendees will engage with the author. All-night study follows. RSVP requested. Free. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
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Stephanie Butler at sbutler@sha613.org Annual meeting for Seattle Hebrew Academy. Free. At Seattle Hebrew Academy, 1617 Interlaken Dr. E, Seattle.
29 May
Discuss how to achieve innovative and engaging Jewish education and provide a framework for the role of an educational umbrella organization for a diverse community. Facilitated by Jonathan Woocher. Choose from one of the following session times: 8:3010:30 a.m. at the Jewish Federation offices, 2031 Third Ave., Seattle; 122 p.m. at the Jewish Federation offices; and 35 p.m. at the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. Free. 10:30 a.m.12 p.m. The Jews of harbin, China
Ellen Hendin at endlessopps@jfsseattle.org or 206-861-3183 or jfsseattle.org Buzz Coe shares the story of his familys life in Harbin, describing how a Jewish minority maintained its identity while creating a booming economy. Free. At Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue. 68 p.m. Cardozo society ldor vdor 2012
Michael Wardlow at MichaelW@JewishInSeattle.org or 206-774-2256 or www.JewishInSeattle.org The Cardozo Society of Washingtons annual LDor VDor reception, honoring Justice Bobbe Bridge and Judge Anthony Wartnik for their work to transform the juvenile justice system. Free. At the Swedish Cultural Center, 1920 Dexter Ave. N, Seattle. 69 p.m. End-of-year Educator Celebration
Jenna Oates at JennaO@JewishInSeattle.org or 206-774-2251 Celebrate the end of another successful school year. Awards and scholarships given out and a presentation by Jonathon Woocher focused on the role of teachers in the 21st century. Free. Call for location.
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10:30 a.m.12 p.m. Caspar Babypants Concert

Jen Fliss at jfliss@templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.org Concert with family favorite Caspar Babypants. Microsoft families free with Microsoft ID. $5/ children over 5; 5 and under free. At Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue. 46 p.m. ran Bar-yoshafat send-off
StandWithUs at Northwest@StandWithUs.com or 206-801-0902 StandWithUs Northwest is holding one last event before shaliach Ran Bar-Yoshafat returns to Israel. Light Israeli-style appetizers served. $5. RSVP for location.
3 June
78:30 p.m. whats a piyut and how do i make one?

Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org Poets and aspiring poets can learn about piyuts beginnings, evolution, and contemporary popularity with instructor Pat Hurshell. Free. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
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6:458:45 p.m. Jewish Education summit: reinventing Jewish Education for the 21st Century
Jenna Oates at JennaO@JewishInSeattle.org or 206-774-2251 Discuss current and future trends for the Jewish educational community, led by chief ideas officer of Jewish Education Service of North America Jonathan Woocher. Free. At Mercer Island Community and Events Center, 8236 SE 24th St., Mercer Island. 78:30 p.m. Caring for aging parents: a Teamwork approach
Leonid Orlov at familylife@jfsseattle.org or 206-861-8784 or www.jfsseattle.org An interactive workshop for the whole family. Learn to keep family relationships strong as you join in caring for a frail or ailing older person. $10/ person; $25/family of 3 or more. At Jewish Family Service, 1601 16th Ave., Seattle.
30 May
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8:30 a.m. Jewish Education summit: reinventing Jewish Education for the 21st Century
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31 May
9:3011 a.m. pJ library storytime at kol haNeshamah

Amy Hilzman-Paquette at amyhp@jewishinseattle.org The PJ Library welcomes Erik Lawson as guest musician, with PJ Library manager Amy Paquette as storyteller. At Kol HaNeshamah, 6115 SW Hinds St., Seattle. 6:309 p.m. wisdom of the heart spiritual singles Celebrations
Rabbi Alyjah Navy at info@kabbalahcommunity.org or www.kabbalahcommunity.org All are welcome to meet new friends, relax, meditate and enjoy a taste of intimacy through sharing personal insights about stuff that matters. $20. At Vashon Intuitive Arts, 17331 Vashon Hwy. SW, Vashon. 7 p.m. klezmer music and stories: havurat shavuot Celebration
Louise Olsen at louisedolsen@yahoo.com or www.vashonhavurah.org In celebration of Shavuot, storyteller Merna Ann Hecht is joined by Vashon Island musicians Emily Pruiksma, Shane Jewell and Tom Pruiksma in an evening of klezmer music and stories drawn from Ashkenazi and Sephardic traditions. Light refreshments served. Free/donations appreciated.
2 June
9:3010:30 a.m. pJ library storytime at Jds

Robyn Nathan at rnathan@jds.org Storytime with songleader and storyteller Erik Lawson. Check out special age-level programming: 9:309:50 for ages 3 and 4; 9:5010:10 or 10:1010:30 for age 5. At the Jewish Day School, 15749 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.
4 June
10:30 a.m.12 p.m. pJ library song and storytime at sJCs

Amy Hilzman-Paquette at amyhp@jewishinseattle.org or www.facebook.com/pjlibraryseattle Music, 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. Free. At the Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 Eighth Ave. NE, Seattle. 79 p.m. iranian infighting: inside the islamic republic
AIPAC at sf_office@aipac.org or 415-989-4140 A Shabbat evening lecture and dinner with Ali Alfoneh, resident fellow of American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Sponsored by Temple De Hirsch Sinai and AIPAC. Free. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle.
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Marjorie Schnyder at familylife@jfsseattle. org or 206-861-3146 or www.jfsseattle.org Parenting with positive discipline. Facilitated by Sarina Behar Natkin, LICSW, Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator, parent coach and co-founder of GROW Parenting. $15; financial assistance available. At Jewish Family Service, 1601 16th Ave., Seattle.
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StandWithUs at Northwest@StandWithUs.com or 206-801-0902 StandWithUs Northwest, the AJC Seattle, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, AIPAC and the ADL will host a talk with Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. Free. RSVP required. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle. 7:30 p.m. hebrew high graduation
Amy Hilzman-Paquette at amyhp@jewishinseattle.org Celebrate the culmination of Hebrew Highs year
6 June
36 p.m. CCfas Take steps western washington

Deborah Jacoby at djacoby@ccfa.org or 425-451-8455 or online.ccfa.org/site/TR?fr_id=3235&pg=entry Take Steps for Crohns and Colitis is CCFAs largest fundraising event. Register today and join thousands of others in the fight against digestive diseases. Free. At Magnuson Park, 7400 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle. 811 p.m. Jewish Tween spring fling
Ben Starsky at BenS@sjcc.org or 206-388-0837 or www.sjcc.org Celebrate the arrival of warmer spring weather. Invite your friends and practice your dance moves. Best dancer wins an exciting prize. Free. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
9 June
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Teaching kids about Shavuot through stories

Rita beRMan FRischeR special to JTNews
Unlike Hanukkah or Passover, childrens books specifically for Shavuot are few and far between. Instead, the holiday finds us using books for young children focused on mountains, large and small; rules, welcome or resisted; and blintzes always welcome. A perfect example is Kar-Ben Publishings new book for Shavuot, Sadie and the Big Mountain by Jamie Korngold, illustrated by Julie Fortenberry. Sadies synagogue nursery school classmates are excited about their forthcoming hike to commemorate Shavuot, but Sadie is definitely not. She hates hikes, is afraid of heights, and is sure shes much too little to climb, like Moses, high enough to reach God. Sadie worries each day as Morah Sarah helps everyone prepare for the dreaded Friday when they will make the ascent with Rabbi Jamie author Korngold is referred to as the adventure rabbi and picnic on the blintzes the class prepared. But her worries prove as out of scale as the mountain the class will climb. Rabbi Jamie explains that even the real Mt. Sinai was not so big, that God chose a small mountain to teach that anyone can climb high enough to reach God. To learn how and why God chose a small mountain, look for The Litsomely designed page that illustrator Rosalyn Schanzer has made double as a counting book by featuring a childs hand pop up the right number of fingers. In No Rules for Michael by Sylvia A. Rouss, Susan Simons pictures clearly show the chaos that results when his teacher grants Michaels wish for no rules at all in his classroom. You prefer blintzes? Sylvia Rouss also wrote Sammy Spiders First Shavuot, which takes preschoolers through the sequential preparations for making blintzes and otherwise celebrating receiving the Torah, to provide us with a recipe for life. (Kar-Ben, again, for all three.) Just for a change, PJ Library has reissued an old favorite, A Mountain of Blintzes by Barbara Diamond Goldin (Marshall Cavendish Children). Nicely illustrated by Anik McGrory, it humorously shows how a family works together to make a delicious holiday celebration possible. Includes a recipe and a web address, www.PJLibrary.org, where you can learn more about the Jewish-book-a-month program.
tlest Mountain, simply told by Barb Rosenstock, charmingly illustrated by Melanie Hall and published by Kar-Ben. Based on a Midrashic legend, the story attributes human qualities to the various mountains, all competing for the honor of being chosen as the site for the giving of the Ten Commandments. Only Mt. Sinai stands silent, convinced it is neither grand nor important nor beautiful enough to be considered for such an important job. The storys geography may not be
accurate, but this tale is right on the mark about arrogance and humility, whether in mountain or in humans. You want rules? Ten Good Rules by Susan Remick Topek lays out 10 simple rules for pre-schoolers, each set on a hand-
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it onto the stage that evening because of their core principle, which lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions which calls on us to help our fellow man. One of the three Rosen scholarship recipients was never expected to live beyond 2 months of age. But Ofelia Sanchez survived, and as she reached 2 years old, her doctors thought she would never walk. Born with a mild cerebral palsy to a poor family in Mexico, Sanchezs parents decided when she was in the 5th grade to come to the U.S. to make a better life. Despite her disabilities and the shyness that resulted from them, as a freshman at Interlake High School, Sanchez joined Elitas, a club that works with Latino students to help them achieve better grades and share their native traditions. At Interlake she has thrived, helping her fellow students and working to create programs to involve the non-Englishspeaking parents of those students so they can better understand what their children need to apply for college and why its important that they go to college. Sanchez, who crossed the stage on both feet to accept her award, said she wants
Hong Dinh of Evergreen Campus High School is a gifted artist who overcame learning disabilities to enroll in college-level AP classes. Below, Block Awards co-chair Barbara Shulman greets Jonathan Keyes of Hazen High School. Keyes helped to organize a program that fed 150 underprivileged individuals at Thanksgiving and is president of his schools Associated Student Body boys club.
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A short Haggadah for a short holiday

Rivy PouPko kletenik JTNews Columnist
Dear Rivy, I am so sad for Shavuot. Its almost over before it gets started! The upcoming festival is so low key, with no big seder, no temporary abode on the deck or backyard. Cant we come up with something a bit, dare I say, meaty for the holiday of blintzes? words of Torah; some discuss the Torah portion, some the commentaries. Tonight we discuss the very giving of the Torah itself. On all other nights we eat sitting or leaning. On this night we are sure to sit up straight lest we lean too far and fall asleep let it not be said that we slept through the giving of the Torahagain! very Torah. It is told as well that on that very occasion of the receiving of the Torah, when Moshe went heavenward, ready to accept the Torah and carry it down, the angels conspired to keep it from him and from all human beings to save it for themselves. Moshes rejoinder to the seraphs? Do angels work, that they need a day of rest? Do angels have parents that they must honor Father and Mother? At that, the angels conceded to the Holy One, perhaps the Torah should indeed go to the People Israel. Now point to either the cheese blintzes or in the direction of the cheesecake and recite: The Torah is sweet as honey, just as these are sweet throughout. Just as milk is white and pure, so too are the words of Torah. Just as milk and honey when combined do not injure the body, so the words of Torah bring only healing to the body and to the soul. Now take the first of many a cup of water in hand. The Torah is compared to water. It too cleanses, it leaves the high and cleaves to the low, keeps best not in silver vessels but in the modest earthenware vessels. As with water, we all are anxious to drink of its clarity, as water brings forth growth and nurtures all, so does Torah. Drink it with thirst. The Torah is taught to four kinds of students. The sponge that soaks it all up, the funnel that receives it and passes it intact, the strainer that separates out the dregs like from wine, and the sieve, which distills the fine flour from the coarse. Which kind of student are you? No matter which, be sure to find the teacher who brings the best out of your learning. How many goodly favors did the Holy One do for us at Sinai? The Holy One brought us out on the wings of an eagle. We camped as one at the foot of the mountain while smoke poured out. Thunder and lightning brought forth terror as the world held still, frozen in time. We trembled and shook. As the two crowns of naaseh we will do and nishmah we will listen were placed on our heads, we made our split-second decision to tell the story of the spontaneous overwhelming passion for Torah and God. Let us give thanks. Halleluyah. Now rise and send one to open the door. Raise the glass of wine, for Torah is like wine. Just as the longer the wine stays in the jar, the better it becomes, so too the longer the Torah is within a person, the richer he or she becomes. Welcome all those who came before you, your ancestors from here and from far back and from even further back all the way to Sinai itself. Turn to them and proclaim with great joy, Its a Tree of Life to those who hold fast to it and all of its supporters are happy. Amen.
Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally renowned educator and Head of School at the Seattle Hebrew Academy. If you have a question thats been tickling your brain, send Rivy an e-mail at rivy.poupko.kletenik@gmail.com.
Do I hear a call to action for an evening around the table with friends and family to exchange lofty thoughts of Torah? Perhaps you need a guiding script to get the ball rolling. In that vein I introduce to you the Shavuot Haggadah a bit shorter than the one we just read, and not nearly as familiar. Immediately after you recite the kiddush, open the door and extend this offer: Let all who are hungry for knowledge, come and eat. As the verse teaches, They will hunger not for bread, nor thirst for water, but to hear the word of God. Tonight we are all students. Next year we shall be teachers. This year we are still learning. Next year may we have more knowledge to share. The youngest stands and asks: Mah Nishtanah. How is this night of Shavuot different from all other nights? On all other nights we go to sleep, some on time, some not. But on this night we all remain awake, studying the Holy Books and waiting to receive the Torah, as if at Sinai. On all other festival nights we eat many kinds of delicacies including chicken soup, meat balls and brisket. Tonight we eat only dairy a blintz, a boureka, a slice of cheesecake. On all other nights we exchange
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All respond: We were slaves in Egypt bereft of life and of Torah. The almighty took us out from there on the wings of eagles to bring us to the foot of Sinai. And there we waited and prepared for the awesome day. The mountain was full of smoke, there was thunder and lightning. With the sound of the shofar we all trembled. And though we all stood there in fright and though we all remember the day as if it were yesterday, we have a commandment to remind our children and our childrens children that we stood at Sinai, you and I. And the more we tell it over, the more praised we will be. It happened that as the Almighty was finishing the writing of the Torah, Moshe arrived to receive it. Those final crowns affixed on the top, what purpose are they? The Lord answered by revealing the scene of Rabbi Akivas classroom. Though you, Moshe, may not understand each and every nuance of these letters, your students will, for all students of Torah are your students, and this sage, he will interpret each and every crown, though his fate will be to give his life for this
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Seattle Mariners fans, those diehard loyalists, are probably familiar with Jon Wellss independent program The Grand Salami, sold outside the stadium on game days. Now he has written Shipwrecked (Epicenter), a book that chronicles years of management decisions that have led the franchise from distinction to medi-
ocrity from having Buhner, Rodriguez and Griffey on one team in 1999 to a 20-25 record as of this writing. Jon always wanted to write a book. My hope was someday the Mariners would make it to the World Series and Id write about [it], he says. But how long could I wait for that? The Mariners havent made that objective despite many great players, because their owners relentless passion for the bottom line has repeatedly undercut chances for success on the field, he believes. Released on April 1, Shipwrecked has
had a positive response from reviewers, sportswriters and the public. Jon is already a veteran of numerous appearances at book signings and readings, as well as on TV and radio. Ive had some great conversations with fans, he says, and there are a lot of passionate fans in this area, even if our team hasnt been doing well. Raised in upstate New York, Jon has lived in New Jersey, Manhattan and California, where he worked as an entertainment lawyer in the music industry. After the Northridge earthquake of 1994 he decided hed had enough of California. I was doing
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with King Countys green school program in spring of 2011. Another project Kershaw would like to focus on is providing healthier products in the school. This project would fall under the Healthy School Buildings category for the Washington Green Schools program. The Environmental Working Group website has a database of products found in schools and ranks them by safety and effectiveness. Of course, Kershaw would
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Speaking at a memorial service on May 14, Gortler told how Jacks negotiations to purchase the land on which the Jewish retirement community The Summit at First Hill was built, and Jack and Beckys lead gift on the Summit, led to the most successful capital campaign in Seattles Jewish history. The Benaroyas also made the lead gift in the Kline Galland Foundations endowment. In the Jewish tradition, we have the idea of tikkun olam, improving the community and the world we live in, Gortler said. Jack lived that idea: That it is everybodys responsibility to leave this world a little bit better than we found it when we arrived. Jacks granddaughter, Renee Herst, said that while her family didnt always
discuss its charitable giving, I observed it as a way of life. To her that meant choosing causes shes passionate about, including several within Seattles Jewish community. Leadership to me means showing up, contributing and encouraging others to be involved as well, and I saw that, Herst said. I saw my grandpa working with his peers as a team within the Jewish community to be able to create significant impact, whether it was the Jewish Federation or Jewish Family Service or the JCC. Gerard Schwarz, the recently retired music director of the Seattle Symphony, conducted the musical portions for the memorial service at the concert hall that bears Jack and Beckys name. He was a regular fixture [at the symphony], Schwarz said. So much so that when I asked the orchestra to volunteer for
the memorial service, everybody wanted to participate. Given the Benaroyas involvement with the symphony and in taking the lead to build Benaroya Hall, Schwarz said convincing Jack to name the building for his family was not as easy as it may have sounded. He didnt want to give the money so that he could get his name on the building, Schwarz said. But Schwarz explained to Jack that by not allowing your name on the building, it means youre not giving us the opportunity to thank you, he said. You represent the Jewish community, and isnt it wonderful that we, the Jewish community, are being so generous in this way. Rabbi Daniel Weiner, senior rabbi at Temple De Hirsch Sinai, saw Jack as thoughtful, with a gravitas that made people listen.
When he spoke you knew that it wasnt superfluous. You knew that it just wasnt for the sake of hearing his own voice, Weiner said. There was a real quiet strength and concerted sharing of ideas that I really appreciated. Though he wasnt religiously observant, Jack served on the boards of Temple De Hirsch Sinai and Congregation Ezra Bessaroth. Both Jack and Becky are of Sephardic descent. He certainly imbibed and embodied some of the best cultural, communal and ethnic aspects of being a Sephardic Jew, Weiner said. While the Benaroyas charitable contributions were often quite public, Weiner pointed to the lessons their philanthropy gave to their own family.
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Certainly what his children and his grandchildren have done, are doing, and will do for the Jewish and broader community will be very directly linked and go back to what Jack and Becky have done, he said. Herst, Jacks granddaughter, agreed. I feel like their example of involvement is action speaking louder than words, she said. Theyre very humble and quiet about their giving. And when it came to family, the Benaroyas were more than willing to give. When Jacks grandson Michael Benaroya was diagnosed as diabetic, there hadnt been much research on juvenile diabetes. Jack changed that. The Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason Medical Center has been a strong catalyst in creating treatments that have benefited diabetic children worldwide and this effort came even as Jack began to see the effects of his Parkinsons Disease. Herst said her grandfather always made sure he knew what was happening with his grandchildren. My grandpas presence was paramount in my young life. Spending time with him was always an incredible treat for me, she said. Id always like to sit next to him at the table and be able to talk to him and just absorb whatever he had to say. What he said, and what he did, impacted his community and his family. We had a very wonderful life, said Jacks wife Becky, adding, I hope that his giving has taught other people that theres more to life, that theres a lot of enjoyment out of giving. Its very gratifying.
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