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It takes an air raid siren and a bomb shelter to make us realize were all the same.
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Israels somewhat surprise discovery of the intricacy of terrorists tunnels under the Gaza Strip has
changed the name of the game.
Schoolhouse rockets
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From the Jewish Transcript,
July 14, 1964.
Three carloads of members of the
Seattle Jewish Community Centers
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Vancouver, B.C., to tour the city, meet
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OPInion
Finding equality in a
Jerusalem bomb shelter
Aaron D. Panken JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) When the siren sounded, the Rolling Stones tortured 1969 track
Gimme Shelter popped into my head, oddly enough.
That haunting song offered a stunning reminder of the endless horrors of war, reawakening a sleepy world with a vivid musical picture of human pain in times of combat. Merry
Claytons evocative vocalization of disturbing lyrics over a harsh musical background
focused global attention on the awful realities of the Vietnam War.
Nowadays, though,
one hardly requires a song
to experience war live
news feeds, endless websites and constant e-alerts
satiate us with such input
constantly. Such has certainly been the case with
the ongoing Gaza-Israel
crisis of the past weeks.
Often ignored amid the
images we see, however,
are the more human sides
of military conflict.
Wikimedia Commons/The israel project
Last week in JerusaChildren heading into a bomb shelter.
lem, I witnessed this more
human side. It started in a crowded lecture hall when the alarming, warbling music of the
first siren in the city immediately captured the attention of all present. Quickly, though
not very quietly, we filed into the miklat the shelter located in the basement of almost
every building in Israel.
Many Israelis do this with a practiced nonchalance learned over many wars and missile
attacks. They roll their eyes at the inconvenience, remark on the fact that a little siren can
take precedence over even the most important conversation or event, chuckle at morbid
jokes and generally riff on the annoyance of such happenings.
It is, I suppose, a way of normalizing the abnormal if quotidian life can continue even
in the face of the fear, then the victory of Hamas, Hezbollah or whoever the present enemy
may be is thereby restricted and limited.
In the shelter, the most remarkable equality reigns. Babies, young children, teens, soldiers, the elderly are all there the entire cycle of life walks down those stairs to seek safety,
with all its glories and challenges blatantly displayed. Those bedecked in yarmulkes or
dressed in the black suits and hats of the Haredi Orthodox stand alongside those who live
Reform, Conservative, secular or more postmodern lives, along with Israeli Arabs, Druze,
Christians and others.
Some pray, others recite Psalms, some chat, but most sit quietly and await the all clear.
For a few minutes, the divergent, contradictory and competitive streams of life in Israel all
converge, and human safety becomes the sole communal objective.
Walking on the street in Jerusalem when the alarm sounds, the scene is even more profound. As people move to their private shelters, whoever happens to be on the street is
welcomed in, no questions asked. Shopkeepers, normally reticent to share their precious
stockrooms with strangers, welcome passers-by into their inner sanctum without hesitation. Doors everywhere fly rapidly open, and the true value of hakhnasat orhim welcoming the stranger happens all over the country.
On buses and in cars, the same principle holds true, for wherever one stops, one is welcomed. Such shared vulnerability unites the country, reminding everyone of their inescapable linkage to state and people, shared government and collective fate.
This particular night, I happened to be with a group of our North American students
who had come to Jerusalem just days before to begin the first year of their studies to become
rabbis, cantors and Jewish educators. It was surreal for them, to be sure, these young visitors so recently transplanted into a new and foreign culture at a very challenging time.
Along with a palpable nervousness, what emerged with them as we left the shelter
together and dispersed into the balmy Jerusalem night was a sense of being at one with their
people. A people sheltered together, against whatever the world might tender.
Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, Ph.D, is the president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute
of Religion.
After reading a recent article, Suicide in Jewish tradition by Rabbi Jaron Matlow
(Rabbis Turn, July 11), I wanted to humbly offer a comment to the community.
He wrote: People who commit suicide cannot be buried in Jewish cemeteries. Traditional rabbis will decline to officiate at funerals for people who have committed suicide.
I was worried that readers might come to the conclusion that if one of their loved ones
committed suicide, they would decide to bury the deceased in a non-Jewish cemetery,
which is what the article seems to say is correct according to Jewish law. Just like any other
area of Jewish law, many factors are at play, and for every issue, the applicable law must be
looked at on a case-by-case basis. After doing a bit of research on my own it seems that in
most suicide cases a person should in fact be buried normally in a Jewish cemetery and
it is only in specific cases of suicides were they are buried in a separate area of a Jewish
cemetery. I only wanted to comment that everyone should treat suicide just like every other
area of Jewish law, carefully researching, and most importantly, making sure to take their
case to a rabbi educated in the fine details of Jewish burial before deciding to bury their
loved ones among non-Jews.
Uriel Cohen
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Until this latest war, if you asked most Israelis about the threat from Gaza, they would
probably start talking about Hamas rockets.
But that has changed over the last few days of fighting, for two reasons. One, the muchheralded success of the Iron Dome missile defense system has all but neutralized Hamas
rocket threat. Two, and far more troubling for Israelis, they have woken up to the true
extent of the subterranean threat from Gaza: the tunnels that snake underneath the densely
populated coastal territory into Israel proper.
The tunnels discovered by the Israel Defense
Forces are reinforced by
concrete walls and ceilings. Some are 90 feet deep
and extend more than a
mile in length, terminating
inside Israel not far from
residential neighborhoods.
Israeli troops have discovered phone lines, electricity wires, pulley systems and
stockpiles ofexplosivesand
Wikimedia Commons/IDF Spokesman Unit weaponsin the tunnels.
Many of the tunnels have
Israel Defense Force soldiers prepare to look for tunnels in Gaza.
multiple branches and a
multitude of exit points, which explains why the precise number the IDF says it has found
keeps fluctuating. As of Tuesday, the number was66 access shafts as part of 23 tunnels.
The terror tunnels, the IDF said in a statement, are meant to carry out attacks such
as abductions of Israeli civilians and soldiers alike; infiltrations into Israeli communities,
mass murders and hostage-taking scenarios.
It seems that the extent to which the ground underneath the Gaza-Israel border resembles Swiss cheese has caught the IDF and the Israeli public by surprise.
Before Israel launched its ground invasion on July 17, the Israeli government seemed
reluctant to send troops into Gaza and pay the price in Israeli blood, Palestinian collateral
damage and international censure that a ground invasion probably would entail.
But now that Israel has awakened to the true extent of the tunnel threat and Israeli
troops are already fighting and dying in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
seems determined to have the IDF destroy as many tunnels as it can.
The operation will be expanded until the goal is achieved: restoring quiet to the citizens of Israel for a long period, Netanyahu said Monday, keeping things vague enough so
as not to be boxed into a corner.
If the war ends before the tunnel threat can be addressed adequately, the IDFs job in
Gaza will have been left unfinished. Though Israelis are agonizing over the death toll on
their side, they dont want those soldiers to have died in vain.
This is seen inside Israel as a war of necessity, not of choice.
But with the Palestinian death toll soaring since the launch of the ground invasion,
international pressure for a cease-fire is growing.
While Israels eagerness for a cease-fire and well publicized efforts to avoid civilian casualties bought it some time early on, the escalating violence andrapidly mounting Palestinian civilian deaths including several well-documented cases of Israeli strikes killing
children, wiping out multiple members of the same family and targeting a hospital are
shifting international opinion away from Israels favor.
It remains to be seen how long Netanyahu can withstand the pressure, or how the fighting that lies ahead will affect the calculus.
For its part, Hamas doesnt appear to want to stop fighting either. It views every Israeli
death as a triumph and every Palestinian civilian death as fodder with which to build international criticism of Israel.
But now the existence of tunnels through which terrorists can infiltrate the country
again threatens to bring the war into Israel, and thats a frightening thought for Israelis.
The country still well remembers theMaalot massacre of 1974, when Palestinian terrorists slipped across the border from Lebanon and took more than 100 children hostage at a
school in the northern Israeli town of Maalot. More than 25 Israelis were killed during that
incident, which ended when Israeli troops stormed the school building.
With the Israeli death toll rising fast, this war already has turned into a nightmare for
many Israelis, particularly those burying their loves ones. But theres a reason IDF troops
are still pushing hard in Gaza: Theyre working to avert something worse.
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post when it opened last year, but Zlotnicks words jumped off the page.
The depth of her thinking, the clarity of her purpose, and the nuances of
her personality put her at the top tier of
the 42 applications we received, Rutberg
said. There was just something grounded
in the way she wrote and the passion she
evoked during the interview process. She
makes it easy to share your feelings, knowing she understands exactly what youre
trying to say.
According to Rutberg, the selection
committee told the board they were especially impressed with how the rabbi was
able to weave words from the Torah and
Talmud into her philosophy for Reform
Judaism in todays society.
Her first concerns are with the spiritual health of the community. That is the
priority we wanted to find in our next
rabbi, said Rutberg. She captivated us
with her rachmones [sympathy]. We all
had the feeling she understood our community. She wanted to be part of the solution.
Before she took her place with the
clergy in uptown New York, Zlotnick
earned her bachelors degree in religious studies from Wesleyan University
in Middletown, Conn. and a masters in
the philosophy of religion from Yale. She
received ordination from the Hebrew
Union CollegeInstitute of Jewish Religion in New York in 2001.
Zlotnick comes to Seattle with her
husband, Richard Cicale, and daughter
Suzannah. She predicted that the family
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day we left on our trip. We spent our first night on the road in Ashland, Oregon, where
we were welcomed by air baked to a toasty 104 degrees. I happened to notice on CNN
the temperature hit a high of 114 that same day in Las Vegas. Of course, as those foolish
enough to live year-round in the Southwest like to say, its a dry heat, which is about the
same consolation as being told the safe that fell out of 10-story window and flattened your
loved one was in fact a small one, as far as safes go.
The next day, while driving on I-5 (or as they say in California, The Five) the tire
pressure indicator on our dashboard light went on. My wife, seated in the back, said the
car felt like it was bobbing on the ocean. Nonsense, I replied: what she noticed was the
high winds buffeting the vehicle. What does a woman know about cars, anyway? Five
minutes later we could hear the sound of deflated rubber flapping against the pavement
and I quickly pulled to the shoulder of an exit ramp, where I parked on a sloped surface
composed of loose gravel. I decided that of all the possible ways to shuffle off this mortal
coil, pinned underneath a Honda SUV was not high on my list, so I called AAA road
service for a tire change.
Fortunately, the temperature had cooled all the way down to 98 degrees by then. To
gain access to our spare tire, I unloaded the entire cargo compartment of our hatchback,
the contents of which included a chair, a prop in one of Izzys dance acts that we were
transporting to the convention. So on his chair sat I, 20 miles south of Sacramento, traffic
whizzing by, surrounded by suitcases, waiting for a mechanic amidst a bleak, sweltering
terrain. No one said being a parent would be easy.
I wonder what next year holds in store. I hear the Pacific Northwest Ballet puts on a
great summer student ballet program. A man can dream, cant he?
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AKIM Israel, Israels National Association for the Habilitation of the Mentally Handicapped, and the largest provider of services to the disabled, is now moving hundreds of
kids and their families to safer cities in the north of the country to keep them stable and
calm. Friends of AKIM USA Seattle chapter is helping from our area.
In this photo, children with developmental disabilities sit in a bomb shelter in
Ashkelon. Photo courtesy AKIM.
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extensively with children, teens, and families, with an emphasis on issues facing Jewish
teenagers. As head of school, he wants to look at students not just academically, but emotionally, too.
Were very big on having the teachers give homework thats going to be relevant to the
students, and not busywork, he said. We believe strongly that students should have time
with their families.
When the students leave the school, they should have time to play sports and just be
themselves, he explained.
Margolese expects to spend the first year of his tenure getting to know the job and what
the community wants.
Year one is always good to learn things, he said. My first step is just to learn.
Beyond that, Margolese said he hopes to find a way to concretize the mission of the
school in a clear and measurable way and articulate the schools uniqueness.
TDS has a really diverse group of families, said board vice president Yossi Babani.
What that requires is someone who knows the community well. Having someone who is
well-rooted here, like Rabbi Margolese, is a huge plus.
Babani added that Margoleses experience as a community member, a former TDS
board member, a teacher, administrator and family therapist make him situated to deal
with students, parents, and teachers effectively.
We need solid and stable leadership, and we also need a relationship builder, said
Babani. Rabbi Margolese fits that bill well.
It may sound clich, Margolese said, [but] I love Jews. I love people. I see in this position the opportunity to bring Jews closer together, I think to bring the community together.
I would love to be a part of that.
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tremendous opportunity with early childhood, tremendous opportunity with building the
middle school further to imbuing strong Jewish values into the students to the growth
of the learning philosophy.
The school nationally, hopefully, will be known and other institutions will come to us
and see how we really do the process of inquiry in the school, which integrates the Judaics
and the general studies, she said.
Inquiry-based learning is a process for kids to ask questions. For kids to identify what
theyre learning, not to come with an end product, Gavish said. When the kids have that,
when they do leave school like this, they engage in anything that they do with this go-getit attitude rather than I dont know the answer, Im not going to try.
Gavish moved to the U.S. from Israel at the age of 16, and while she knew she wanted
to spend her life as a Jewish educator, she focused in her undergraduate years more on
math and science. She spent many years working with the Conservative movements Camp
Ramah, had a few teaching jobs at Jewish schools, then went to the Reform movements
Hebrew Union College to give her the credentials to begin working in administration. Her
first administrative position focused more on the Hebrew language and Judaics, however,
and she felt that she missed the general studies side of the teaching equation.
Judaics should be integrated into everything that we do, she said.
Thats how she ended up in Boston, and then in the Bay Area, and now in Bellevue.
Friedman, the boards president, said Gavish is one of those people who is warm and loyal
and has great relationships with people. We knew that not only from our interactions with
her, but her reputation in the community.
People say that I lead from behind, Gavish said. I use a lot of empathy and active listening.
She firmly believes in building one-on-relationships, hence the goal of sitting down with
every family in her school over the next few months.
That said, decisions have to be made, it cant just be that its all, Lets just sit together
and figure this out and make a decision. But there are many times that people feel their
voices are heard, and they might not agree, and we might agree to disagree with you, but
Ive heard you.
Gavish clearly relishes taking on her new role. As the incoming leader of a school that
teaches a wide range of families at different levels of observance and income, given her
experience, what I have here is kind of a blend of Israeli-American, Conservative-Reform,
secular-traditional, Gavish said. Im not pegged into any one place, and thats something
I see in this environment as well.
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Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg used one leadership transition to create a career shift of
her own she chose to leave the associate rabbi position shed held for 11 years
at Temple Bnai Torah in Bellevue when
senior rabbi Jim Mirel retired from there
this June.
Kinberg will become the rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami in Woodinville this fall.
I wanted to try something different,
Eugene, Oregon
she said. Already acquainted with the congregation through the annual Reform comI pretty much inhale books
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thrilled to help a congregation close by.
Kinberg believes the congregation
Rabbi Israel Salanter
reflects her own eclectic background and
her love of music. Its a really good fit for
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We are very excited to have Rabbi
Kinberg, said Kol Amis newly elected
president, Donna Lurie. Kinberg comes with experience and knowledge about all aspects
of congregational life, and we hope to tap into that expertise and be able to grow and thrive
as a congregation.
Kinberg lives in Olympia with her husband, Rabbi Seth Goldstein of Temple Beth Hatfiloh, and their two sons. I spend a lot of time in my car, she said. Her new job is just a
couple of freeway stops north of where she used to exit I-405.
Closer to Redmond than Woodinville, Kol Ami shares a building with Bear Creek
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United Methodist Church and features a worship space designed to be both a sanctuary and a church. Kinberg notes that theres a competition in Germany now to design a
multi-faith space, but at Kol Ami, this has been going on for a while. Tapestries on pulleys are lowered to cover the cross on the wall, the ark is on rollers, and there are Jewish
symbols on the doors.
Theres nothing about the room that doesnt say Jewish once youve moved everything around, which takes about five minutes, she said. Plus, a huge parking lot, accommodates High Holiday attendance.
The half-time position lets Kinberg, 41, resume or start a number of community projects. This summer shes the camp rabbi at Camp Solomon Schechter, a stones throw from
her home, and shes started blogging again at www.freerangerabbi.blogspot.com. Look for
her class on parenting and parsha to be taught in the community this fall. Shes also hoping
Kol Ami can sponsor some classes on holidays and food at a local food market.
Community-based learning lets all the Jews who are living up here know that were
here and ready to be a center for Jewish life on the northern Eastside.
Kinberg wants to help Kol Ami become a place that provides everything people need
for their Jewish life while keeping the congregation a manageable size. Right now it serves
about 90 families with weekly Friday night services and Sunday afternoon religion school.
No one has to get up early, she says.
Another of Kinbergs visions is to help Kol Ami become a place where we nurture
ahavat Yisrael [love of Israel] in the community.
Kinberg is the daughter of a Moroccan-Israeli mother who immigrated to Israel as a
teen, and Kinberg retains strong ties to that country. Her parents met in Israel when her
Ashkenazi father came to study Hebrew before starting rabbinical school. Rabbi Myron
Kinberg served the Jewish community of Eugene, Ore. for many years.
Kinberg will be installed on Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m. Speakers will include Rabbi Jim Mirel,
regional Hadassah president Peg Elefant, and Rev. Vincent Lachina of Planned Parenthood Northwest.
Bruchah HaBaah
Welcome to Seattle!
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Rabbi
Yohanna
Kinberg
Join us to welcome Rabbi Kinberg with open hearts into our small and loving community. She
will serve as Rabbi, leader, educator, counselor, and friend to us all. Please come to show
your support and be a part of this special celebration for Kol Ami!
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RABBI
FUN
FACTS
Los Angeles, California
The Little Prince
Maimonides
Acting, coaching basketball
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Like many Jewish leaders over the millennia who were called to serve their flocks,
it wasnt always obvious to the two new
clergy now on staff at Temple De Hirsch
Sinai, Rabbis Jaclyn Cohen and Micah
Ellenson, that the rabbinate was their destiny.
Multi-talented and drawn to the worlds
of psychology, music, theater, sports, and
history, once the two professionals who
had worked together at the Stephen S. Wise
Temple in Los Angeles finally chose rabbinical school, they never looked back.
Director of congregational learning
was the job I wanted and Seattle was the
town I wanted to move to, Ellenson said.
I thought about entertainment, I thought
about teaching, I thought about psychology, but I was always drawn back to the
Jewish world. Its where my passion really
lies.
The son of Rabbi David Ellenson, the
recently retired president of the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
in Los Angeles, Micah, 36, was not necessarily looking for his fathers blessing over
his choice of career, but he got it, nonetheless.
He said youll make an excellent rabbi
and that he was really proud that I was
going down this path, said Ellenson.
Ellenson was the youth director at Stephen S. Wise Temple for four years. Thats
where he met his wife, Sara. They have a
four-year-old daughter, Lily.
Micah brings a breadth and depth of
pedagogical training and experience that
will really help us build on the remarkable success of our educational program,
TDHS senior rabbi Daniel Weiner told
JTNews, and really take it to the next
level.
Ellenson is no stranger to the Puget
Sound. Yearly, his family would visit relatives in Issaquah and he often visited his
best friend who was stationed at the Puget
Sound Naval Ship Yard in Bremerton.
I love the community, said Ellenson.
I love how diverse it is. Everybodys so
warm and welcoming and friendly.
Ellenson is overseeing the Jennifer Rosen Meade Preschool, the Bridge
Family Religion School, all adult learning
at TDHS, youth programs, and the temple
library.
RABBI
FUN
FACTS
Los Angeles, California
Shes Come Undone,
by Wally Lamb
Biblical: Ruth;
Modern: Leo Baeck
I once made up the rhythm section
of a folk rock trio by playing the
shaker and the tambourine.
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Its also Jaclyn Cohens first congregational post. The newly married 30 year old
will be working with the 22-to-35-year-old
TDHS affinity group, The Tribe.
These are my people, Cohen said,
the sort of post-college, pre-marriagewith-children age range. Were all similarly
struggling and trying to make sense of this
bizarre world and I think Judaism is really
an essential part of having to navigate this
craziness.
Officially a member of the millennial
generation, Cohen said that 9/11 was its
JFK moment.
I was a senior in high school on Sept.
11, and thats when things really shifted,
she said. According to Cohen, the eco-
:
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Rabbi Micah & Sara Ellenson
and Daughter Lily
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RABBI
FUN
FACTS
Tustin, California
A Tale of Love and Darkness
by Amos Oz
Rashi and Shai Agnon
Basketball and sailing.
Reads Yiddish fluently.
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1625 S. Columbian Way, Seattle, Washington 98108
Help us welcome
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our new Senior Rabbi,
into our community!
Starting August 1, we will have
a variety of services, events,
and small intimate gatherings
to mark this exciting time.
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Hey parents, its 3:30 p.m. Do you know where your kids are?
Maybe at Hebrew school?
TORI GOTTLIEB JTNews Correspondent
How many people have fond memories of their childhood Hebrew school programs, of
sitting in their synagogues classrooms or social halls after a full day of English and algebra,
going over alphabets and pronunciation and vowels, without understanding much of what
was going on? Dont answer that.
For a little something different, a group of Seattle parents,
with the help of the Kavana Cooperative, seeks to change
after-school Jewish education from something obligatory
to something fun. This fall, they will introduce the Seattle
Jewish community to Shorashim, a play-based, camp-like,
afterschool environment where kids will be able to engage
with and enjoy Hebrew language and Jewish culture.
There have been so many studies that camp is so important in developing Jewish identity, said parent volunteer Abby Calvo. If we can capture
that camp-like atmosphere through the school year and ingrain that into learning, our kids
will be all the better for it.
Among the first of its kind in the country, Shorashim will follow in the footsteps of
recently developed programs in Berkeley, Boston, and Atlanta to provide kids with Hebrew
fluency, a strong understanding of Jewish culture, and perhaps most important, a passion
for Judaism. Shorashim seeks to get kids started as early as kindergarten so Jewish education becomes an integral part of their elementary school experience.
Led by Calvo and fellow parent volunteers Larry Nicholas, Sarina Natkin and Leslie Silverman, Shorashim also seeks to provide a community for families as a whole, with holiday celebrations and quarterly Shabbat dinners so all family members feel a connection to
and ownership of the program.
Our goal is supplementary Jewish education thats inspiring, lasting, convenient, different and fun, said Nicholas, whose search for an immersive Jewish experience for his
own children was the catalyst for Shorashim.
With the help of Kavanas Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum, Shorashim is developing a curriculum similar to its Moadon
Yeladim program, which currently provides a once-weekly
kids club that fuses games, stories, the arts, and discussion
to give kids a fuller understanding of Judaism and Hebrew. In
its first year, Shorashim will pilot a twice-weekly program on
Tuesdays and Thursdays, and is hiring a professional Jewish
educator to oversee teaching efforts. Over the next five years,
Shorashims goal is to expand the program to five days a week
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with separate curricular levels for each age group, from kindergarten through 5th grade.
This will give parents and children the opportunity to use Shorashim not just as a supplemental Jewish education option, but also as their primary afterschool care provider.
Shorashims pilot year will kick off in October, and programming will be held at the
MLK FAME Community Center at 3201 E Republican Street in Madison Valley.
Shorashim has also undertaken a crowd-funding initiative at www.indiegogo.com/
projects/shorashim-seattle-s-emerging-jewish-kids-project to help establish start-up
funds and to minimize costs to families in the first year of the program.
For more information about the program, and to put your child on the waitlist to be
notified when registration opens, visit kavana.org/shorashim.
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Financial Services
Hamrick Investment Counsel, LLC
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Professional portfolio management
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Funeral/Burial Services
Congregation Beth Shalom Cemetery
206-524-0075
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This beautiful cemetery is available to the
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Orthodontics
B. Robert Cohanim, DDS, MS
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Invisalign Premier Provider. On First Hill
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Photographers
Dani Weiss Photography
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Photographer Specializing in People.
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Creative and beautiful photography at
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families, children, special occasions.
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Jewish Family Service
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Comprehensive geriatric care management and support services for seniors
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Lifecycles
Sidney Earle
finishing his dissertation. The Evolution and Transformation of a Law: Speaking with the
Dead in Torah Through the 20th Century is an examination of the changing views and
treatment of magic in Judaism through varying ages and cultural contexts.
Congregation president Fielding calls Strasko an amazing man with remarkable experience, who is ordained as both a rabbi and cantor. His arrival has created a kind of excitement and energy that has galvanized the community. Fielding cites Straskos scholarship
and education, his five languages and his musical background, calling him a perfect
complement to our current cantorial soloist.
Fielding adds that a congregant expressed what they all feel: Wow. In Kitsap County
do we have a rabbi!
important, its not a rabbi-centric communitythe community itself is very participatory, he said.
Rubin is planning a class on the Talmuds tractate on blessings, and possibly another
exploring the environmental and economic symbolism of the shmita year, a traditional
agricultural sabbatical cycle, and the relationship of the diaspora to the land of Israel.
But for now hes exploring his relationship to this land. Gushing about Seattles scenery,
he said, I cant believe we live here.
Marvin Meyers
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Engelsberg is thankful for the opportunity to return to Seattle, where he started his
education career.
The community of Seattle has done so
much for me, he said. Now to be able to
come back in a leadership role, it fills my
heart with appreciation and thanks.
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ISRAEL