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In a pair of talks, professional genealogist Meredith Hoffman explores the difficulties of working with Jewish personal, family, and place names as they morphed through time and place. In My Grandfather Came from Poison, she shows how online resources can help navigate name changes. In Who the Heck is Ida Gerskill? Hoffman provides tools for puzzling out the various names you may come across in your genealogical quest. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. Free to Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State members; $5 for non-members. For more information contact Mary Kozy at genmail@marykozy.net or visit www.jgsws.org/meetings.php.
Eli Varon caters this annual carnivorous pig-out (no pun intended) and fundraiser for NCSY. Stuff yourself silly on a meat cook-off, chili competition, and an offal sample table. But wait, theres more: Jumping castle for the kids, a photobooth, music, and contests and prizes. $15 by May 16, $20 at the door, $70 per family of five and up, or $125 for a table for 10. To enter the cook-off, and for more information and tickets, contact Ari Hoffman at thehoffather@gmail.com or SeattleNCSY.com At Sephardic Bikur Holim, 6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
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MOR receives NEA Art Works grant
Music of Remembrance, an organization that puts artistic works from the Holocaust to music, received a grant for $15,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts for its Sparks of Glory outreach programs, a free concert-with-commentary series held at the Seattle Art Museum. Art Works grants support the creation of high-quality arts projects that encourage public engagement, lifelong learning, and community strengthening. The NEA awarded $26.3 million to 817 non-profit arts organizations around the country.
The Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest awarded Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg of Temple Bnai Torah its Silver Wings Award for outstanding clergy making contributions to the cause of reproductive justice. In a press release, PPVotesNW leaders wrote, Whenever we need a diverse voice to be on a panel, to offer testimony, to write a letter to the editor, or anything else, we know we can call on Yohanna and she will always jump to our aid. The organization named her a she-ro for the cause.
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Reconstructing memory
The stories of the Sephardic experience in the Holocaust have largely been lost in the greater context of Eastern European Jewrys destruction. The University of Washington is changing that, starting with a symposium of national and international scholars.
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Why has Qatar, of all countries, stepped in to put forth a peace plan between Israelis and Palestinians? In a word: Money. In another word: Iran.
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Revelations of Charles Kraffts Holocaust denial shook the local art world. What should be the Jewish communitys response to this and to other troubling works that surface in the area?
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Music of Remembrances spring concert pays tribute to a Polish resistor, whose poems reflect the extraordinary decisions she had to make in her young life.
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from Israel it became obvious to me that we needed to use this as a peace-building tool, Barkan said. I could see it had an effect on the kids that we worked with. From that, Ultimate Peace was born. The idea was simple, Barkan said. You bring them together, with Ultimate as the tool, to build bridges of understanding across the cultures, across the borders, with the hope that they not only enjoy playing Ultimate, and playing Ultimate together, but potentially change and transform, and become friends. Sixteen of these coaches in training, or CITs, who create new teams in their home communities as well as coach the players, visited Seattle during the last weekend of April, both to compete at Spring Reign in Burlington, the largest youth Ultimate tournament in the world, and to talk about the program. One of those players, Areen Shihade, 16, is an Arab Israeli girl from the northern Israeli town of Tamira and a budding leader in Ultimate Peace. Before she joined the group, she would quickly become
to their lives outside: How they behave with their families, how they are interested in other sports, and what kind of students and citizens they are, Barkan said. Like the game itself, the Bay Area-based Ultimate Peace operates from the grassroots, relying upon donations and sponsorships to hold weeklong summer camps in Israel, pay its coaches, buy equipment and uniforms, and send its players to tournaments such as Spring Reign. More than 300 teens from the Middle East have participated in Ultimate Peace since its inception. While in Seattle, members of Temple Beth Am provided home hospitality and transportation. Moses Rivkin, an Ultimate coach and teacher at University Prep in Seattles Northend, has been involved with Ultimate Peace since its beginning and worked with the camp in Israel. The visiting CITs spoke at his school, as well as rode the bus from Seattle to Burlington with his students, where he could see how they interacted with each other. It was cool to see them plugging into
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each others earbuds and sitting in these close quarters together, laughing together, and talking about how their days had gone, Rivkin said. Several University Prep students that Rivkin coaches have since applied to the Ultimate Peace coach-in-training program at this summers camp, he said. Though these Middle East kids talked to many groups about their program, they also came to play Ultimate. Spring Reign organizers were at the last minute able to seed MashUP, as the team calls itself, with the A-level high school teams, which ended up being the right call. They are so good. They would have rolled over the B division, said Jeff Jorgenson, one of the directors of Spring Reign. It was highly competitive, a lot of strong throws, a lot of big jumps, a lot of downfield all the elements you want to checkbox in a quality Ultimate match. The team members talked about Ultimate Peace at the awards ceremony, but they spent plenty of time on the field intermingling with the other teams. It was emotional for me, because Ive got so many games under my belt, Jorgenson said, to see that players from Ultimate Peace have come from such a troubled part of the world, where they can still rise up and play with respect for themselves, respect for their teammates, and remember the
from the city of Raanana, being a part of the program changed my perspective about Arabs and Palestinians, he said. The former soccer player said that being a part of the leadership program has given him the courage to say something if one of his peers makes a disparaging remark about his newfound friends cultures. The real test will occur in the coming years, when the first cohort of players and coaches-in-training leave the nest and faces the high pressure of the military or the receiving end of Israels military tactics. Barkan said Ultimate Peace hopes to get the Israelis who join the army to take advantage of a community-service program that would allow them to continue coaching. But Barkan hopes active duty will allow his players to see the ongoing conflict differently. If they have a relationship, theyre way more likely to do the right thing when these guys go in the army, and they go into the neighborhoods of the kids who are in
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real victor in a game is how well you play if you give it your all. Asmaa Hijazi, a 16-year-old Arab Israeli from the town of Tamira, said the energies she has devoted to the program have been life changing. Hijazi first heard about Ultimate Peaces weeklong camp two years ago and decided to attend because she was interested in the sport. It quickly became much more than a game. Just going through the camp, and having weekend practices, we talk about many things, she said of her teammates. Were always talking about our lives just as if I was in Tamira and Id see Arab Muslims. Hijazi has been traveling to other towns, both Arab and Jewish, to teach the sport and to recruit kids to come to the camp. She said her family has noticed a change in her, in particular how she has gotten less temperamental. When they saw me getting involved in the program and the national team, they saw how much I love it, and how good it is, she said. For Elad Strasman, 16, a Jewish Israeli
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Stanford professor Aron Rodrigue presents on Sephardim, Memory and the Holocaust to a packed room at the University of Washington on April 28.
This symposium was also an opportunity for the center and the museum to engage with the Pacific Northwest, Wolfson told JTNews. Given the strength of the Sephardic community here and the recent appointment of Dr. Devin Naar in the Jewish Studies Program and history department at the University of Washing-
ton, Seattle was a logical choice to convene this type of an endeavor. The symposium was scheduled for spring 2013 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the start of the Jewish communitys deportations from Salonika (now Thessaloniki, Greece) to Auschwitz. Eighty percent of the community perished.
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GREATER SEATTLE Bet Alef (Meditative) 206/527-9399 1111 Harvard Ave., Seattle Chabad House 206/527-1411 4541 19th Ave. NE Congregation Kol Ami (Reform) 425/844-1604 16530 Avondale Rd. NE, Woodinville Cong. Beis Menachem (Traditional Hassidic) 1837 156th Ave. NE, Bellevue 425/957-7860 Congregation Beth Shalom (Conservative) 6800 35th Ave. NE 206/524-0075 Cong. Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath (Orthodox) 5145 S Morgan St. 206/721-0970 Capitol Hill Minyan-BCMH (Orthodox) 1501 17th Ave. E 206/721-0970 Congregation Eitz Or (Jewish Renewal) Call for locations 206/467-2617 Cong. Ezra Bessaroth (Sephardic Orthodox) 5217 S Brandon St. 206/722-5500 Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch (Orthodox/Chabad) 6250 43rd Ave. NE 206/527-1411 Congregation Shevet Achim (Orthodox) 5017 90th Ave. SE (at NW Yeshiva HS) Mercer Island 206/275-1539 Congregation Tikvah Chadashah (LGBTQ) 206/355-1414 Emanuel Congregation (Modern Orthodox) 3412 NE 65th St. 206/525-1055 Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation (Conservative) 206/232-8555 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island Hillel (Multi-denominational) 4745 17th Ave. NE 206/527-1997 Kadima (Reconstructionist) 206/547-3914 12353 8th Ave. NE, Seattle Kavana Cooperative kavanaseattle@gmail.com Khal Ateres Zekainim (Orthodox) 206/722-1464 at Kline Galland Home, 7500 Seward Park Ave. S Mitriyah (Progressive, Unaffiliated) www.mitriyah.com 206/651-5891 Secular Jewish Circle of Puget Sound (Humanist) www.secularjewishcircle.org 206/528-1944 Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation (Orthodox) 6500 52nd Ave. S 206/723-3028 The Summit at First Hill (Orthodox) 1200 University St. 206/652-4444 Temple Beth Am (Reform) 206/525-0915 2632 NE 80th St. Temple Bnai Torah (Reform) 425/603-9677 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue Temple De Hirsch Sinai (Reform) Seattle, 1441 16th Ave. 206/323-8486 Bellevue, 3850 156th Ave. SE SOuTH KiNg COuNTy Bet Chaverim (Reform) 206/577-0403 25701 14th Place S, Des Moines WEST SEATTLE Kol HaNeshamah (Reform) 206/935-1590 Alki UCC, 6115 SW Hinds St. Torah Learning Center (Orthodox) 5121 SW Olga St. 206/643-5353 WASHINGTON STATE AbERdEEN Temple Beth israel 360/533-5755 1819 Sumner at Martin bAINbRIdGE ISLANd Congregation Kol Shalom (Reform) 9010 Miller Rd. NE 206/855-0885 Chavurat Shir Hayam 206/842-8453 bELLINGHAm Chabad Jewish Center of Whatcom County 102 Highland Dr. 360/393-3845 Congregation Beth israel (Reform) 2200 Broadway 360/733-8890 bREmERTON Congregation Beth Hatikvah 360/373-9884 11th and Veneta EvERETT / LyNNWOOd Chabad Jewish Center of Snohomish County 19626 76th Ave. W, Lynnwood 425/640-2811 Temple Beth Or (Reform) 425/259-7125 3215 Lombard St., Everett FORT LEWIS Jewish Chapel 253/967-6590 Liggett Avenue and 12th ISSAquAH Chabad of the Central Cascades 24121 SE Black Nugget Rd. 425/427-1654 OLympIA Chabad Jewish Discovery Center 1611 Legion Way SE 360/584-4306 Congregation Bnai Torah (Conservative) 3437 Libby Rd. 360/943-7354 Temple Beth Hatfiloh (Reconstructionist) 201 8th Ave. SE 360/754-8519 pORT ANGELES ANd SEquIm Congregation Bnai Shalom 360/452-2471 pORT TOWNSENd Congregation Bet Shira 360/379-3042 puLLmAN, WA ANd mOScOW, Id Jewish Community of the Palouse 509/334-7868 or 208/882-1280 SpOkANE Chabad of Spokane County 4116 E 37th Ave. 509/443-0770 Congregation Emanu-El (Reform) P O Box 30234 509/835-5050 www.spokaneemanu-el.org Temple Beth Shalom (Conservative) 1322 E 30th Ave. 509/747-3304 TAcOmA Chabad-Lubavitch of Pierce County 2146 N Mildred St.. 253/565-8770 Temple Beth El (Reform) 253/564-7101 5975 S 12th St. TRI cITIES Congregation Beth Sholom (Conservative) 312 Thayer Dr., Richland 509/375-4740 vANcOuvER Chabad-Lubavitch of Clark County 9604 NE 126th Ave., Suite 2320 360/993-5222 Rabbi@ChabadClarkCounty.com www.chabadclarkcounty.com Congregation Kol Ami 360/574-5169 www.jewishvancouverusa.org vASHON ISLANd Havurat Ee Shalom 206/567-1608 15401 Westside Highway P O Box 89, Vashon Island, WA 98070 WALLA WALLA Congregation Beth israel 509/522-2511 WENATcHEE greater Wenatchee Jewish Community 509/662-3333 or 206/782-1044 WHIdbEy ISLANd Jewish Community of Whidbey island 360/331-2190 yAkImA Temple Shalom (Reform) 509/453-8988 1517 Browne Ave. yakimatemple@gmail.com
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and their twins, Max and Ben, At the book launch who were 11 at the time. party for HoraOnce complete, Josh sent tios One Wish, held the book to some publishers, at Seattles Mockingbird but found the adventure, with Books, newly minted chilits heroic hedgehog named drens author Joshua KriesHoratio, didnt fit with curberg related that hed written rent publishing interests. He voraciously as a child. In writput the manuscript away for ing Horatios One Wish, a four years, but once he left book for middle-grade readMicrosoft he decided to pubers (ages 8 to 12) he tried to lish it on his own, a popucapture the free and unhamlar route for authors these pered writing of those years. Member of days. He found an illustraGrowing up in Bethesda, tor, James Bernardin, hired Md., Josh remembers math the Tribe a book designer, and used and creative writing were the CreateSpace (Amazon) for production. subjects I was most interested in, findNow he is gearing up for what many ing that one helps the other. Doing math authors find most daunting marketing sometimes brings out the creative side. his book. In addition to Mockingbird, hes After working for Microsoft for 16 made one school appearance and hopes years, he left last year to focus on promotto appear at other schools, libraries and ing the book, most of which he wrote in bookstores. He is doing some consulting 2007 and 2008. for tech startups, but a lot of my attention I was at a crossroads, he says, not is on the book, he says. doing what I really wanted to do, and He has a website, www.joshuakriesberg. decided to return to his dream of writing. com, and an Amazon page where all but During that year he came home from work one reviewer has given the book five stars. and wrote for two to three hours a day He finds that in the virtual world youre with the support of his wife, Jane Lichty,
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reaching out to a lot of people, but theyre not hearing you, he says. The physical world goes a long way.
I went to Mockingbird Books another time last month to see Betsy Dischel in her monthly PJ Library appearance there.
PJ Library is an outreach program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation that sends interested families a Jewish-themed childrens book or CD each month, in partnership with philanthropists and local Jewish organizations. In the Seattle area it is administered by our Jewish Federation, which hosts storytelling events around Seattle. Trained in special education, Betsy brings an additional dimension to the two to five PJ Library events she leads each month. As a special-ed teacher in California, she explains, I was working with students with disabilities, who spoke Spanish and also American Sign Language, all passions of mine. After moving to Seattle she was inspired by a preschool music class her son Diego attended. She started Musikal Magic, creating classes for preschoolers that she brings to schools and organizations around the Seattle area. Its become popular, says the New York City native, and there is a waiting list. People want Spanish, they want American Sign Language, they want
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Akiva Kenny Segan describes his mosaics, part of his Holocaust-themed Under the Wings of G-d series.
in the house. At an estate sale, they picked up a box full of painstakingly preserved Nazi propaganda magazines saved by a German immigrant who turned out to be a pilot for the Luftwaffe. Other items, like a postcard for Germanys 1937 The Eternal Jew exhibit and a massive poster advertising a world Jewish conspiracy, are picked up by travelers who, for whatever reason, are interested in propaganda.
So whats to be done with it? And should our local Jewish community be concerned with revelations of Nazi sympathies and Holocaust denial in our midst? I think the Charles Krafft incident heightens our awareness into the subject of anti-Semitism, and how we as a community need to be ever vigilant and never assume that something isnt anti-Semitic because we dont want it to be, Simon told JTNews. We see cases of anti-Semitism happening
throughout our own region. And it makes our work that much more important. Simon cited a phone call from concerned parents in nearby Federal Way whose son was acting violently and had joined an Aryan group. In some parts of the state people dont know what a Jew is. We use [the propaganda and art] as a case study to show future generations what it looks like when a country and its laws can marginalize its people, and how that manifests itself first as something as simple as paintings, to eventually the ultimate extermination of a people, and how a society as a whole tolerated what was subtle in the beginning. And how that occurs today, Simon said. In light of this, a question looms large: What should be done with Charles Kraffts Hitler teapot, Ahmadinejad hot water bottle, and swastika windmills? Krafft, who has been long considered by admirers as a provocateur and encyclopedic in historical knowledge, skirts around his artistic intentions. In an email correspondence, he avoided that topic, instead adjuring me to do my homework, which would have involved watching several Holocaust revisionism YouTube videos and reading blog posts. He denies the Holocaust denier title, but appreciates revisionist research that includes the study of the holocaust as a psy ops, according to a comment he left on a blog. In a short documentary film produced for the Seattle Channel around 2007, he says, I know exactly what Im doing, and any good artist knows exactly what buttons theyre going to be pushing, or they wouldnt be artists. So I take full responsibility for the imagery I use. While the revelation of Kraffts affiliations stunned the art world, one response has been to shrug off this fringe outlier. There is an assumed separation between art and artist. Akiva Kenny Segan, a Seattle-based artist and human rights educator whose Under the Wings of G-d series portrays Holocaust victims with angel wings, is understandably disturbed by Kraffts views. I find it troubling that people are willing to divorce a famous art persons politicsfrom whatever their works are, even if their work doesnt reflect it directly, Segan said. If this guy is a professed anti-Semite or racistand his work was continuing to be popular, I would find it troubling. But as an artist, Segan finds it difficult to answer the question of intentionality versus interpretation. When an artist puts his or her work out for public view, its
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out of their hands, he said. Its up for grabs in terms of what people are going to make of it. On that note, Segan dismisses Kraffts work as boring. In terms of creativity I dont find it exciting at all, he said. Its just kitschy to me. According to Mark Mulder, a museology masters student at the University of Washington and the collections assistant intern at the Holocaust Center, whatever Kraffts intentions were, the exposure of his views changes the game. Its easy to see Hitlers head on a skunk body as being kitschy, as being ironic, a way of showing absurdity, he said. But when the artist is revealed as a Holocaust revisionist, the pieces are not as ironic as they once appeared. Mulder, like Segan and many others, squirms when asked what museums and art collectors should do with the art of offensive artists. He says hes not sure if its
the responsibility of museums to say hes a Holocaust denier. Its contested argument, he said. I dont think theres any one answer. How should the Jew react to this socalled gentlemans beliefs? Thats a difficult question to answer, said Michael Ehrenthal of Moriah Judaica in New York. Ultimately, it depends [on] each ones personal belief and opinion. Ehrenthals fathers collection of antiSemitica is on display at the Wolfson Museum of Jewish Art at Hechal Shlomo in Jerusalem. His catalog, The Jew in Anti-Semitic Art, includes benign Jewish figurines and vicious Nazi propaganda, as well as a porcelain ashtray with a Jew beckoning a naked little boy, captioned The Yiddish Clipper. This souvenir is marked Niagara Falls, N.Y. and dates to around 1900. Decorative plates, a porcelain tobacco jar in the shape of a Jews head, and (conversely) a chamber pot with Hitlers face populate the collection.
Hitler Idaho, better known as the Hitler teapot. A Jewish collector donated the piece to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco before his death.
then? Should we be outraged? This is really nothing new under the sun, said Ehrenthal. We Jews have experienced this over the centuries. But Ehrenthal separates it from antiSemitica. Mr. Krafft has not exhibited or shown anything that is anti-Semitic other than personal beliefs, he said. You dont necessarily have a good criticism regarding his artwork, at least up until now, unless he comes up with some thing anti-Semitic. Segan hopes Krafft will come around to education, especially if he were amenable to folks like me. But should Kraffts rendering of Charles Mansons swastika-engraved head show up at the Holocaust Centers door someday, the organization will just have to keep educating about the dangers of propaganda. Propaganda can be a powerful tool to show institutional bigotry, brainwashing, said Mulder. It can start conversations about how the public was okay with acts that were committed.
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live music, which Betsy provides on her guitar. She also took Diego to a Tot Shabbat at Temple Beth Am and was further inspired by the synagogues song leader Shoshana Stombaugh, also a kindergarten and music teacher at the Seattle Jewish Community School. I wanted Diego to go to school where she worked, says Betsy. A school administrator suggested I become a storyteller, Betsy told me, and connected her with Amy Paquette at the Jewish Federation, who invited her to be a PJ Library teacher. In her classes and PJ Library events, kids are getting a professional level of instruction, [including] brain development, language development, and visual development as well as fun, says Betsy. The day I saw her at Mockingbird, there was a deaf toddler and mother in the audience. Betsy is quick to point out that she welcomes kids of all capabilities to her programs with a joy and a heart for sharing language and stories with people of all abilities.
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Monday, May 13 at 8 p.m. An Evening with Michael Pollan Rabbi Michael Pollan, Jewish foodie guru and best-selling author of The Omnivores Dilemma, will speak about his new book, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. In his latest work, Pollan explores his own kitchen and learns how to harness the elements earth, air, wind, and fire to transform basic things into delicious foods. Pollan aims to reclaim cooking as a way to make the American food system more sustainable and healthier, and to lead to Fran Collin more fulfilling and nourishing lives. At Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle. Tickets are $24-$52 for regular seating, $125 for prime seating (includes private reception with Pollan), and are available through the box office, online at www.benaroyahall.org, or by calling 206-215-4747.
Sunday, May 12, 12-9 p.m. Mothers Day Sing-Along and Fundraiser Tasty, musical fun Visit Peaks Frozen Custard in North Seattle anytime on Mothers Day, and a percentage of the price of your frozen deliciousness will go to the Seattle Jewish Chorale. From 2-4 p.m., Chorale members and friends will lead a kumsitz, an informal sing-along of popular favorites, including songs that honor mothers. At Peaks Frozen Custard, 1026 NE 65th St., Seattle. For more information contact Michele Yanow at 206-708-7518.
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Sunday, May 19 at 4 p.m. A Jewish Dueling Piano Revue Concert The Stroum Jewish Community Centers Jewish Touch lecture series continues with a dueling piano revue with Cantor David Serkin-Poole, music director Peter Pundy, and special guests. The musicians will host a lively afternoon of Jewish greatest hits, new and old. Sing, laugh, and cry out for more! At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. For more information and to register visit www.sjcc.org or contact Kim at klawson@sjcc.org or 206-388-0823.
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HomeCare Associates A program of Jewish Family Service 206-861-3193 www.homecareassoc.org Provides personal care, assistance with daily activities, medication reminders, light housekeeping, meal preparation and companionship to older adults living at home or in assisted-living facilities.
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For a complete listing of events, or to add your event to the JTNews calendar, visit calendar.jtnews.net. Calendar events must be submitted no later than 10 days before publication. or 206-461-3240 or jfsseattle.org Guide and artist Akiva Segan will discuss his powerful mosaics and drawings in which he explores the Shoah and human rights. At Hillel at the University of Washington, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle. 7:3010 p.m. Music of Remembrance Spring Concert
Micah Shelton at info@musicofremembrance.org or 206-365-7770 or www.musicofremembrance.org World premiere by Jake Heggie, commissioned by MOR. Guest artists soprano Caitlin Lynch and baritone Morgan Smith. $36. At Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall, Seattle. 7:30 p.m. Shavuot Leil Tikkun: Weaving Art, Torah, and Relationships
Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org Study all night at Beth Shalom. Learn with Prof. Shalom Sabar and others. Cheesecake bakeoff. Learning for kids. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle. 911:30 p.m. Tikkun Leyl Shavuot
Shelly Goldman at sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.org Join Rabbi James Mirel, Rabbi Anson Laytner and Rabbi Olivier BenHaim for an evening of studying spiritual texts. Free. At Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue. 11:59 p.m.6 a.m. NCSY Shavuot All-nighter
Ari Hoffman at thehoffather@gmail.com or SeattleNCSY.com All-night learning with an Eli Varon-catered breakfast. At Sephardic Bikur Holim, 6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
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Shelly Goldman at sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.org Instructor Anna Satenstein will help students practice listening to the still small voice within. Cultivate shalom and compassion in these informative and experiential classes. Free. At Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.
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Candlelighting times May 10..............................8:15 p.m. May 17............................. 8:24 p.m. May 24............................. 8:32 p.m. May 31............................. 8:40 p.m. Friday
Amy Paquette at amyhp@jewishinseattle.org The PJ Library welcomes Shoshana Stombaugh as guest musician and storyteller. Songs and a story, activities and playgroup fun. At the Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 Eighth Ave. NE, Seattle.
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Shelly Goldman at sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.org Instructor Cindy Droker will introduce you to Israeli folk dancing. No experience necessary. Come with comfortable clothing and sneakers. Free. At Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.
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6:309 p.m. My Grandfather Came from Poison, and Who the Heck is Ida Gerskill? Some Challenges of Researching Jewish Names
Mary Kozy at genmail@marykozy.net or www.jgsws.org/meetings.php Meredith Hoffman uses real examples to explore the difficulties encountered when working with Jewish personal, family, and place names as they morphed through time and space. Free to Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State members; $5 for nonmembers. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. 7:309 p.m. Jewish Soul Food
Yiscah Smith at yiscah.smith@gmail.com or 206-427-9096 or www.yiscahsara.com Discuss the inner soul dimension of the Torah. Discover the personal spiritual meaning in the weekly Torah portion. Ongoing class. Suggested donation $15. At private home, Seattle. Contact for location details.
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Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org Using Yotam Ottolenghis new cookbook, prepare a fattoush salad with buttermilk dressing and a basmati and wild rice pilaf with chickpeas and fresh herbs. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle. 10:3011 a.m. Shavuot Katan
Leah Lemchen at leah@bethshalomseattle. org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org Shavuot songs, stories, and treats for children 1-5 years and their parents. RSVP appreciated. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
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Marjorie Schnyder at familylife@jfsseattle.org or 206-861-3146 or www.jfsseattle.org Explore how parents can express emotions and beliefs in balanced ways and look at both traditional Jewish writings and contemporary research and literature. Best for parents of children up to 12 years old. Free; limited babysitting with advance request. At Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue. 3:305:30 p.m. The Livnot Project Think Tank
Julie Hayon at info@thelivnotproject.org or 206-486-0104 or thelivnotproject.org Two Muslim-Jewish dialogue groups will present and record a vision for how the communities can continue to work together to promote peace and dialogue. Celebration to conclude the first year of The Livnot Project in Seattle. At Jewish Family Service, 1601 16th Ave., Seattle. 5 p.m. BasarFest
Ari Hoffman at thehoffather@gmail.com or SeattleNCSY.com NCSYs annual meat festival, with massive BBQ and gourmet meat dishes. At Sephardic Bikur Holim, 6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle. 69 p.m. Friendship Circle Annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner
Esther at dinner@friendshipcirclewa.org or 206-374-3637 or www.friendshipcirclewa.org An evening of appreciation for the 100-plus teen volunteers, dinner honorees Don and Deanne Etsekson, and volunteer of the year Talia Etsekson, for their support for families and children with special needs. At the Showbox SODO, 1700 First Ave. S, Seattle.
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or 206-461-3240 or jfsseattle.org UW Professor Bruce Balick will portray the cosmic evolution of the universe for the first 100 seconds of physical existence and summarize how scientists have made this determination. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle. 46 p.m. Cooking Matters
Amelia at arighi@jfsseattle.org or 206-726-3603 or www.jfsseattle.org Six-week cooking and nutrition workshop. Strategies for preparing healthy, affordable meals, nutrition information for people with diabetes or high blood pressure, and cooking practice. Free groceries, cookbook and other resources. At Jewish Family Service, 1601 16th Ave., Seattle. 6:15 p.m. 8:45 p.m. Family Meetings: Finding Solutions Together
Marjorie Schnyder at familylife@jfsseattle.org or 206-861-3146 or jfsseattle.org Positive discipline builds parent confidence and guides children in a context of mutual respect. Facilitated by Sarina Behar Natkin. Best for parents with children 2-12 years old. Financial assistance available. $20/session per person. At Jewish Family Service, 1601 16th Ave., Seattle.
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Rich Greenwell at rich@cmsnaturalgas.com or 206-618-3738 or www.sjcc.org Over a dozen vehicles, including a fire truck, police car, school bus and mail truck will be on display for kids to test drive and admire. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. 68 p.m. Cardozo Societys Annual Ldor Vdor Event
Shayna Rosen at shaynar@jewishinseattle.org or 206-774-2219 or jewishinseattle.org The Jewish Federations Cardozo Society of Washington State invites the legal community to Ldor Vdor 2013, honoring Joel Benoliel with the 2013 Ldor Vdor award. $54 per person. At Dorsey & Whitney LLP, 701 Fifth Ave., Seattle.
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Ari Hoffman at thehoffather@gmail.com or SeattleNCSY.com Northwest NCSY returns to Keats Island, off the coast of Vancouver, B.C., for the final Shabbaton of the year. Mountain biking, rock climbing, canoeing/kayaking, ropes courses, hiking, and more. At Keats Island.
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Regarding the symposiums purpose shedding light on the Sephardic Holocaust experience and parsing out the future of the field Naar said, not only did we attempt to find a place for the varied experiences of Sephardic and North African Jews within the standard narratives of the Holocaust, but more importantly, we initiated a discussion about how the very nature of our understandings of the Holocaust change when viewed from the Mediterranean.
The issue of European colonialism and North African persecution widens the geographical scope of the Holocaust and welcomes discussion about Muslim-majority contexts. Together with the experiences of Jews in the Balkans and Greece, we can begin to develop a previously unexplored Mediterranean lens through which to view experiences of occupation, dispossession, persecution, resistance, and extermination that enrich and also challenge the more familiar narratives focused on Eastern Europe,said Naar. The enhanced learning offered by the
symposium offered an extended benefit for local organizations. The symposium offered the Holocaust Center a wonderful opportunity to learn about the latest research in the area of Sephardic studies, allowing us to share that knowledge and perspective with educators and students throughout the Pacific Northwest, said Delila Simon, executive director of the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center. At the end of the symposium, University of California at Irvine professor of history Marc Baer reiterated this idea of
dissemination and education. We also need to consider our audience, he said. While we have a built-in audience of Sephardic Jews because this is their history, we should address ourselves to a wider audience, because the stories we are telling have great significance for others, too. In all of our research, the question of what it means to be a Sephardic Jew also challenges what it means to be French, Spanish, German, Greek, or Turkish, and demonstrates how national identity changes over time.
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Similarly, as the Baby Boom generation approaches retirement age, the need for Medicare and other services will be unprecedented. For the next 10 years were going to see the largest increase of older adults in the history of the world, Weinberg said. What are we going to do about it? And who will assist us? Who will be our partners in facing those challenges? I will do my best to share with him my thinking on these, but he and his team here will have to come up with solutions, Weinberg said. As much as JFS supporters, and Berkovitz himself, acknowledge the big shoes he will need to fill following Weinbergs departure, Weinberg said Berkovitz needs to be judged on his own merits. He is his own unique human being with his own strengths, and I think its really important the community, the board, the workers, everyone pull for him,
and sort of let go of Ken, Weinberg said. Berkovitz agreed. I come from a rabbinic background, so I believe deeply in understanding the roots of the tradition that comes before you and not cutting yourself off from your roots, he said. Its in my nature to move with that understanding. That reflective perspective was a big reason why Berkovitz rose above, as LeVine put it, the 20 candidates the agency vetted for the CEO position. He brings a really outside-the-box creativity at how to look at some of the problems the agencys been looking at for decades, LeVine said. Michele Rosen, who with former Starbucks president Howard Behar led the CEO search committee, told JTNews that Berkovitzs ability to connect both with donors and the agencys clientele resonated with the search committee. That was the first thing that people noticed, that he really had empathy for the people that come to JFS, she said. I think
thats critical. Berkovitz did not slide through the search process, Rosen emphasized. Her committee began searching in August, and continued until the May 3 announcement. There were at least 20 candidates thathad long screening processes, so this was not a shoo-in at all, she said. We had to do right by us and by him. Rosen was a board member at Hillel UW during Berkovitzs tenure there, so she knew firsthand about his work on social justice issues and how he centered that mission around Judaism. But she said many members of the search committee learned only during the interview about that added dimension, and how it can move JFS forward. Wills ability to understand the role of Judaismand say this service that we perform on behalf of others, the responsibility we feel to take care of people in need who cant take care of themselves at that moment, is in the very of DNA of what
is in the Torah and other teachings, she said. Thats our responsibility. Berkovitz has long struggled with the idea of God and religion, and he said he has given a lot of thought into what the Jewish part of Jewish Family Service will mean in the future. Its some of the work thats done in a secular space that actually allows for the possibility of serving the Jewish community as well, he said. The balance of that is goingto have to be worked out deeply. It was only having the opportunity to work on a national scale that gave Berkovitz the realization he could be more effective at home. The impact I want to make is on the local scale in our community, he said. The degree to which that was important to me, that my kids could see [my wife] Lelach and I live out our values deeply like that, I dont think I could have understood it until I was in the thick of it.
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Jerome Katz passed away peacefully on April 28, 2013, Lag BOmer. Born in Seattle on October 12, 1930 to Freida and Max Katz, he attended Seattle Talmud Torah, Garfield High School, and graduated cum laude from the University of Washington School of Pharmacy at the age of 20. A proud ROTC graduate and Korean War veteran, Jerry married Rita Shulman Katz in 1957, to whom he was devoted throughout 55 years of loving marriage. Together they raised three daughters, Renee (Eric), Cindy (David) and Julie (Andrew). A dedicated pharmacist, Jerry established Jerrys Garden Pharmacy, and for 40 years served his loyal customers with compassion and care, delivering prescriptions to those too frail to pick them up from his counter. Jerry was a talented musician, playing piano, ukulele and harmonica and harmonizing at every opportunity. He was deeply committed to the Jewish community and to his shul, Herzl-Ner Tamid, where he was one of the morning minyannaires. A loving father, he particularly delighted in his grandchildren, Joshua, Leora, Elie, Hana and Nathan. His gentle, solid presence will be greatly missed. Remembrances to Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, Kline Galland Home, Parkinsons Foundation, or charity of your choice.
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manage mass-casualty crises by performing additional CT scans to detect smaller pieces of shrapnel, streamlining the victim identification process, keeping patients long enough to be sure of the extent of their injuries, and calling up large numbers of staff as soon as a terrorist attack occurs just in case. As soon as we heard about the blasts we didnt let any anesthesiologists or general or trauma surgeons or pediatricians leave the hospital, Conn said. I remember walking through the emergency department two hours after the bomb victims arrived. Many of the acute patients had already been moved, and it looked like there was more staff than patients in the ER. If there had been a third or a fourth bomb that day we could have managed.
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on Saturday afternoons, further proof that MORs outreach stretches way beyond the observant Jewish community. As Heggie puts it, I dont know anything quite like what Mina does. She is a force of nature. Its almost like shes a vessel through which these messages come. Scheer concurs: Its an amazing testament to what one person can do.
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2 cups buttermilk 1 cup heavy cream 1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract 1/4 tsp. salt 1/3 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup white sugar 1 tsp. Telephone brand agar agar powder (check if you need kosher, but other brands strength may vary) Gather 8 ramekins, pudding cups, or whatever you want to serve the panna cotta in onto a baking sheet that will fit in your refrigerator. Preheat oven to 400. Put bananas on a parchment line baking sheet and roast until very well browned and bubbling, about 30 minutes, mashing with a fork a couple of times throughout to expose more surface area. Put bananas, buttermilk, cream, vanil-