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Rabbi Dan Bridge, former executive director of Hillel at the University of Washington, had the platter; longtime supporter and former board president Michele Rosen had the fire;
and longtime supporter Joel Gamoran had the actual piece of paper — the mortgage of the Karen Mayers Gamoran Family Center for Jewish Life, home of Hillel at the University
of Washington — that after six years and $12 million became worth nothing more than its ashes. “It was a communal endeavor. There were certainly some incredibly generous
donors,” said Rabbi Will Berkovitz, current Greenstein Family executive director at Hillel UW, “but it wasn’t just folks like that. It was really the $100 gifts, the $50 gifts, the
$1,000 gifts. It was a communal effort. That, I think, says a lot about the Seattle Jewish community.”

Area Jewish day schools surviving —

but with much-needed help
Joel Magalnick
Editor, JTNews
Special Report
Relative to the news that some Jewish day schools
across the country are shutting their doors, Jewish
schools in Seattle appear to be surviving, and in some
cases thriving.
But the past two years have not been easy. While the
five primary and secondary day schools have seen steady
or slightly reduced attendance, drops in fundraising and
increases in requests for tuition assistance have been
much larger. The Northwest Yeshiva High School, the
state’s only Jewish high school, will be covered in a future
issue of JTNews.
To account for these shortfalls, school administrators have
had to get creative in finding grants, shifting priorities, and
in some cases finding new modes of learning for the students.
Compared to a number of schools in places like Mem-
phis, Tenn., Lakewood, N.J. and even Los Angeles that
have shut down or will do so at the end of the school year,
things in Seattle aren’t so bad.
The overriding theme at a January conference of four
Jewish day school associations, at which representatives
from several local schools were in attendance, was how to
stay afloat during the economic crisis.
“We’re all dealing with the same challenges of trying to
make quality Jewish educational experiences for children,”
Scott Goldberg, director of the Institute for University-
School Partnership at Yeshiva University, told the JTA World
News Service. “That commonality drove our programming
from the macro-level — needing to do more with less and
really forcing us to reassess how we do things.”
While reassessment at local day schools has been
ongoing — some staff has been laid off or positions have
been left unfilled, for example — it has not for the most
part resulted in massive infrastructure changes.
School leaders acknowledge a private education is
expensive, and understand all too well the gap between
the actual cost of a child’s education and his or her fam-
ily’s ability to pay for it. Yet many are captive to that cost
— Orthodox families, and some non-Orthodox fami-
lies, will not accept anything less than a comprehensive
Jewish education.
“Public school is not an option,” said Rivy Poupko
Kletenik, head of school at the Seattle Hebrew Academy.
“For our population there really aren’t alternatives.”
Two organizations have tried to fill that gap. The Jewish
Federation of Greater Seattle this past year gave nearly
$450,000 of campaign and auxiliary funds to each school,
with the exception of the Torah Day School. But the Fed-
eration also brought in fewer dollars last year in its cam-
paign and is running slightly behind that this year.
“Our goal, of course, is that any family that wants to
have their kid have a quality Jewish education should be
able to have that, so I think we’re all struggling with that
same issue,” said Richard Fruchter, the Federation’s CEO.
The Samis Foundation, a trust intended specifically to
provide funding for Jewish day schools that’s unique to
this state’s Jewish community, has also been able to pro-
vide much-needed relief.
“We have to thank God every day that we have a Samis
Foundation that is helping us,” Kletenik said. “That is
really what sets Seattle apart from other cities that are
really struggling.”
“Samis has stepped up for us,” said Robert Sulkin,
board president of the Jewish Day School. “If we didn’t
have Samis, we couldn’t give tuition assistance to the
[level] we’re giving it and not reduce programming.”
But if the recession continues, all the assistance going
to the five elementary day schools may simply be pro-
longing some difficult decisions.
“If the recession continues,…certainly Samis does not
have enough resources that we can make up the gap of
increasing scholarship needs and decreasing individual
donations,” said Rabbi Rob Toren, Samis’s grants admin-
istrator.
In response to the recession, Samis increased its allo-
cation to schools by 7 percent last year and 8 percent for
the upcoming year. “We’re looking at deficits despite that
increase,” Toren said.
The Federation assesses the increase in need will be
20 to 30 percent.
“Though there’s some glimmer of blue sky in the econ-
omy, it takes time for that to translate to individual fam-
ilies, and then campaigns and philanthropy,” Fruchter
said. “It’s still not a happy scenario for schools, or our
social service agencies, or even the Federation itself.”
Despite the economic difficulties, all five schools
believe they are doing okay, if not well.
Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle
According to Maria Erlitz, head of school at the Jewish
Day School in Bellevue’s Crossroads neighborhood,
things are going “very, very well.”
They have lost some students, though not all attrition
has been directly related to the economy, but the incom-
ing kindergarten is larger than this year’s 8th grade grad-
uating class. In addition, Erlitz told JTNews, she has been
receiving an inordinate number of inquiries from par-
ents with children in public schools about applying for
the middle school.
“Classes, even on Mercer Island, [are] getting to be
over 30 kids,” she said. “It’s not looking as pretty as they
hoped it would.”
That every 8th grade student who applied last year
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rabbi’s turn
Seeking beauty
Taking a moment to stop and smell the flowers of our Jewishness can yield intellectual and spiritual treasures
Rabbi
Rob Toren
Samis
Foundation
I received in my e-mail inbox a link to
a fascinating YouTube video: A violinist
playing at a subway station in a Washing-
ton, D.C. Metro stop. What was interest-
ing was that this was somewhat of an
experiment or, more accurately, a “gen-
tleman’s wager” (an un-PC expression for
a dollar-less bet).
This was not your typical street musi-
cian looking to pick up an extra buck or
two. It was Joshua Bell, world-renowned
concert violinist, playing solo Bach parti-
tas during rush hour. The bet was around
the question of whether anyone would pay
any attention and notice extraordinarily
beautiful music being played by a consum-
mate concert artist.
Guess who won the bet? The person
who bet there would be significant num-
bers of passersby who would stop in their
busy lives and take notice — akin to us
Seattleites noticing “when the mountain’s
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out” even while driving to work in agoniz-
ingly slow rush hour traffic on 520 — lost.
Sure, one or two people stopped and
dropped quarters into Bell’s violin case, a
case that cradles a violin worth hundreds
of thousands of dollars! But the video
revealed countless passersby not paying
any discernible notice to the artistry and
beauty right in front of them. (Subway
stations often have quite good acoustics,
by the way, albeit a bit too echo-y.)
This interesting story of human oblivi-
ousness to beauty or, let’s say generously,
obliviousness to beauty out of context,
seemed to me a Midrashic parable, or
what our sages called a “mashal.” Expla-
nation/digression: Rabbinic midrashic
parables are stories our sages created to
explicate or explain a usually challeng-
ing narrative in the Torah, essentially
interpreting one narrative by means of
another, apparently more accessible one.
The “Joshua Bell in the Subway Tale”
occurred to me as a “mashal” of many of
our people’s response to Jewish life these
days in the U.S. Here we have something of
extraordinary beauty and power, attested
to by its adherents throughout the his-
tory of this culture and this people, being
ignored, passed by; our people too busy or
oblivious or otherwise occupied to stop,
observe, and appreciate. (Confession: I’m
a snob, which means I don’t believe that
music or other great art is simply a matter
of personal taste. Beethoven, or in this
case, Bach, is simply better, greater music
than Led Zeppelin or whatever goofy noise
teenagers listen to nowadays. Mozart is
even much greater than Abbey Road, a
noisy album even an old snob like me can
appreciate!). But, parentheses aside, I also
don’t believe that Shabbat or Pesach or
“Shnayim ochazin b’talit” (the provocative
opening mishna of Bava Metzia discussing
the dispute between two litigants laying
apparently equal claim to a found object,
but pick any other nearly infinitely fas-
cinating and compelling teachings from
the wellsprings of Torah, both written and
oral) are equal to whatever is “out there”
in the marketplace of ideas and sensations
competing for Jewish time, Jewish energy,
Jewish wisdom.
On an aesthetic plane, I suppose one
could argue whether Shabbat is more
moving or beautiful than hearing Joshua
Bell play Mozart. But Jewish life is not
about aesthetics, a value we inherit some-
what from Classical Greece, though aes-
Accentuating the positive
The article which appeared in the
April 9 edition of JTNews (“Opting out”)
was offensive to me as a Holocaust survi-
vor. Other survivors who read this article
shared some of the same feelings with me
that a Jewish paper supported by Jewish
people would be so insensitive to publish
this opinion in the week of Yom HaShoah.
When we commemorate Yom Ha-
Shoah, we pay respects to those who have
perished during the Holocaust. We also
pay respects to those survivors who have
risen from the ashes and come to America
without knowing the language or customs.
As survivors, we worked very hard to raise
families for years, and many of us kept our
past inside. In the last few decades many
have decided to share their experiences
by going to schools and sharing their sto-
ries to prevent future Holocaust from hap-
pening.
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thetics play an important but limited role
in traditional Judaism. Indeed, so much
of Jewish life deals with ways of living
one’s life and how a community should
ideally live in “holiness.”
Jewish tradition concerns itself so
often with limits. This emphasis on limits
may be the core problem as to why so
many pass by its beauty, opting for what-
ever else. Much of the message of our
Wikipedia, cable TV with 700-plus chan-
nels, Google culture eschews limits.
We celebrate freedom, bordering on an
unbridled if not anarchic freedom.
The entire corpus of Jewish life and
law embraces norms and rhythms of per-
mitted and forbidden, kosher and non-
kosher, categories of work and rest, pure
and impure; the word kadosh/holy has as
its root meaning “separation.” It is similar
to classical music, with its rigors of form,
melody, rhythm, instrumentation, yet
mysteriously facilitating and providing a
platform and framework for genius — in
addition to the significant technical facil-
ity required to bring a score, a written
code, to life. In addition to the discomfit-
ing fit between authentic Jewish concepts
of holiness — not the spiritual, super-
ficial fluff of “holiness” as some sort of
disembodied or out-of-body experience
— and popular culture, the misfit is also
expressed by the disconnected if not nar-
cissistic self (cf. Robert Putnam’s Bowling
Alone) in contrast to this collective iden-
tity known as “the Jewish people” or, clas-
sically, “Knesset Yisrael/Klal Yisrael.”
This reminds me of the wicked son’s
question at the Pesach seder: “What’s
all this to you, not him.” He denies his
involvement in the collective Jewish
experience of redemption and thus —
and here’s the point — he denies a funda-
mental truth of Judaism.
The sages of the Haggadah declare
one of their most serious opprobriums on
this wicked one: He is a “kopher b’ikkar,”
a denier of the essence of Judaism. Prob-
ably, more accurately, an essence, since
there is considerable, ongoing dispute as
to what the essence or ikkar of Judaism
is. By denying the centrality of the col-
lective Jewish people, elevating himself
as an individual over the collective, he
is deemed a heretic. (Oh, how modernity
hates the word heresy; again, the culture-
conflict between an unbridled individ-
ualism and a collective with norms and
standards.)
We survivors tell students about love and
compassion and the quest to live and never
to give up. We are the witnesses to some of
the worst horrors—we don’t teach hate, we
teach compassion and love for each other.
Therefore, when we commemorate
Yom HaShoah we have to see the posi-
tive — that each human is special and that
each one of us is different. Personally, I am
alive because one person risked her life.
In Germany today, before you gradu-
ate from high school, you have to visit a
concentration camp. I personally speak to
thousands of people each year because
educators feel it is important to teach the
history of the Holocaust.
I hope that survivors are helping put an
end to genocide by telling their stories.
Henry Friedman
Founder and President Emeritus
Washington State Holocaust Education
Resource Center
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Many devote their professional lives
to reversing or stemming this seemingly
inexorable march of assimilation. Assim-
ilation accompanied by low birthrates
and high rates of perpetual “passing by”
(read: “opting out”). In many ways, the
challenges of cultivating a classical musi-
cal audience are parallel to those facing
Jewish professionals and organizations.
Attend a typical Seattle Symphony or
opera or chamber music concert — and
we are truly blessed in this city by these
wonderful world-class organizations and
many other “minor” ones — and you’ll
see what advocates observe as the “gray-
ing of the audience.” Many wonder where
the next generation of devotees will come
from once all these gray heads — and I
count myself proudly among this “wise”
elite — are no more.
And the “assimilation” or, more accu-
rately, attrition is a serious problem. On
the other hand, the concerns about the
next generation both among classical
music advocates and Jewish communal
leaders are decades old. I recall reading
a 1954 study conducted by the American
Jewish Committee about the crisis of con-
tinuity, the lack of effective Jewish educa-
tion, the ongoing disaster of assimilation
and intermarriage, even if rates back
then were much lower than the current
roughly 50 percent. Sometimes I think
we Jews just love a crisis mentality, even
if the crisis is real. It’s the mentality, the
drama, the “oy vey!” that we Jews so love.
As noted Jewish historian, formerly of the
UW faculty, Deborah Lipstadt famously
quipped, “We Jews never fail to find the
cloud in the silver lining.”
For those of us at the Samis Founda-
tion, devoted to Jewish education and
the continuity of the Jewish people,
what other choice is there but to invest
in effective Jewish education? We are
truly blessed in our community to have
such wonderful day schools and camps
for those families possessing the wisdom
and insight to not just “pass by” our glori-
ous tradition. Even if we were not facing
a crisis, which we Jews seem to so enjoy
masochistically, this is the legacy Sam
Israel bequeathed to the Jewish commu-
nity of Washington State. If only more
would pause for a moment and not just
pass by, but stop and listen to this ach-
ingly beautiful way of life, which has sus-
tained our people for 4,000 years.
Protesting Grandpa
So the South African Zionist Federa-
tion has arranged to prevent Judge Richard
Goldstone from attending his grandson’s
Bar Mitzvah next month. Thus contin-
ues the vilification and rejection of Gold-
stone since the Goldstone Report on
Israel’s 2008-9 campaign in Gaza. A blog-
ger wants to “spit in his face and kick him
in the ass.” What more is left — assas-
sination? When a segment of Jewry cre-
ates a safe haven for hatemongers, they
are taking the proverbial serpents to their
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Correction
The name of Anna Cherkasov, one
of the 10 Jews Under 40 (April 16), was
misspelled throughout the article.
JTNews regrets the error.
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Sharing Jerusalem: The key to peace?
Two states means both sides need to work — and act — productively
Rainer Waldman Adkins
and Teri Citterman
Special to JTNews
I looked up, and I saw a man holding a
measuring line. “Where are you going?” I
asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied,
“to see how long and wide it is to be.
— Zechariah 2:1-2
Let’s be clear: Jerusalem must remain
the capital of the Jewish homeland. But
the only way to ensure Jerusalem’s future
is to prevent the city from being reduced
to a rhetorical flourish.
We are supporters of a t wo-state
solution and want to see international
recognition for the capital of Israel in
Jerusalem. But we cannot help but be
frustrated by how much of this debate
is marred by a lack of information about
what is really happening on the ground,
and by simplistic rhetoric which mythol-
ogizes Jerusalem as eternally united and
undivided. We are troubled by the omis-
sion that some recent Israeli actions are
undermining the two-state solution, and
with it, the future of Israel as a Jewish,
democratic home.
The Obama administration was right
to speak out against Israeli construc-
tion in East Jerusalem because it makes it
more difficult to achieve a successful two-
state solution. No credible peace process
can survive unproductive steps by either
side, and Israeli actions in Jerusalem cer-
tainly fit that bill. So, too, must the United
States hold the Palestinians accountable
against continued incitement to violence
and glorification of terrorists.
We also believe that a viable two-state
solution — the only way to secure Israel’s
future as a Jewish, democratic home —
must be based on 1967 lines with agreed
and reciprocal land swaps, as well as a
shared Jerusalem that houses the capitals
of both states. Previous negotiations have
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Furthermore, many simplistic talking
points about Jerusalem do not hold up
under scrutiny.
Many American Jews know only West
Jerusalem and the Old City, the latter of
which represents just 1/60th of municipal
Jerusalem. Yet greater Jerusalem, stretch-
ing almost from Bethlehem to Ramallah
(East Jerusalem was added to Jerusalem
in 1967 and formally annexed by Israel
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regard for Arab and Jewish needs.
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can Jews, with our deep personal con-
nections to Israel and to Jerusalem, can
either choose to ensure Israel’s security
and peace for Jerusalem by supporting
pragmatic, win-win peace options or tac-
itly support a dangerous, dead-end status
quo.
We can line up with those who would
hold on to all the land of Israel, even if it
is destructive to Israel’s future or in con-
flict with democratic and Jewish values.
Or we can recognize the painful, yet nec-
essary, steps we need to take to achieve
a two-state solution and support Presi-
dent Obama’s sensible leadership in the
Middle East.
Thankfully, many throughout the
American Jewish community agree. A
March J Street poll found that 82 percent
of American Jews support the United
States playing an active role in resolving
the Arab-Israeli conflict, with 73 percent
of American Jews supporting this even if
the United States publicly states its dis-
agreements with both Israelis and Arabs.
Nearly three-quarters of American Jews
support the United States “exerting pres-
sure” on all parties to make the necessary
compromises to achieve peace.
With that kind of backing, now is the
time for the United States to assert itself
as a credible steward of peace through a
two-state solution. It is critical President
Obama receives support and encour-
agement from pro-Israel and pro-peace
American Jews as he presses for tough
decisions from Israel and the Palestin-
ians, because the gates of opportunity for
real peace and security for Israel and the
Palestinians are closing.
Rainer Waldman Adkins chairs the
Western Washington branch of J Street,
which defines itself as “the political home
for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans.”
Teri Citterman is a J Street steering
committee member.
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breasts, without being able to predict
what might come next. Goldstone did not
“betray the Jewish people,” as some have
said. Rather, the hatemongers do. Those
who would keep him from his grandson’s
Bar Mitzvah reject a whole array of Jewish
values. I agree with retired South Afri-
can justice Arthur Chaskalson that “they
should hang their heads in shame.”
Edna Oberman
Seattle
Direct talks, now
Your front page article “Senate letter
urging tensions tamp-down gets 76 signa-
tures,” (April 16), was quite informative.
I hope the Obama administration
heeds the words of more than three quar-
ters of U.S. Senators urging them not to
allow tensions with Israel to harm Israeli-
Palestinian talks. It is more important than
ever for Israel and the Palestinians to enter
into direct face-to-face negotiations with-
out pre-conditions on either side. The
Senate letter rightly pointed out that Pal-
estinian leaders are refusing to enter into
direct negotiations with Israel.
Interestingly, a companion letter in the
U.S. House of Representatives won over-
whelming support in 72 hours.
Since Obama became president, his
administration seems to view Israel as the
primary cause of instability in the Middle
East. They seem to forget the number of
times Israel has unsuccessfully taken bold
moves to make peace with Palestinian
Arabs. Also, they overlook the fact that the
U.S. has never had to go to war to defend
the Jewish State. Israel is being unfairly
accused of being an obstacle to peace.
The greatest obstacle to peace remains
Israel’s neighbors’ refusal to recognize the
right of the Jewish people to a tiny state in
their historic homeland.
On May 24, 2007, candidate Obama
said Israel is our most reliable ally and the
only established democracy in the Middle
East. Israel’s security — which is of vital
importance to the U.S. — can best be
guaranteed by reaching negotiated peace
agreements with its neighbors. But Israel
must have credible partners with whom
to negotiate.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu rightly
stated that Jerusalem is not “a settlement.”
We must not allow Jerusalem to be used as
a propaganda tool in the hands of people
who sadly crave Israel’s destruction. We
cannot accept a divided Jerusalem. People
of all faiths have been allowed to pray
there under Israeli rule since 1967. Jerusa-
lem is the eternal capital of Israel and the
Jewish people. It is not “the third holiest
city” as it is for the Muslims. It is the only
holy city of the Jewish people. It has been
so for over 3,300 years. Jerusalem is men-
tioned 700 times in the Jewish Holy Scrip-
tures. Jerusalem is not mentioned even
once in the Koran. King David founded the
city of Jerusalem. Mohammad never came
to Jerusalem.
A lasting peace can only be achieved
if Hamas and Fatah nullify their charters
calling for the total destruction of Israel,
renounce violence and end their hate
campaign against Israelis and Jews living
in their ancestral home.
Josh Basson
Seattle
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community news

Love songs
Stroum lecturer offers a different take on influential Israeli writer Agnon

Janis Siegel
JTNews Correspondent
Though it threatened her arrival, vol-
canic ash clouds from Iceland couldn’t
keep Israeli Comparative Literature pro-
fessor Ilana Pardes from making it to
Seattle to deliver her first evening lecture
that kicked off the 35th Annual Samuel &
Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies.
There was no need to worry about any
pulverized powder deterring her flight,
University of Washington Prof. Gad Bar-
zilai, chair of the Stroum Jewish Studies
Program and Pruzan Professor of Jewish
Studies, jokingly told the nearly full audi-
ence at the UW’s Kane Hall, because “the
Stroums would take care of business.”
Pardes, a widely recognized scholar,
was born and raised in Israel, and has
been teaching at the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem since 1992. Prior to return-
ing to Israel, she taught at the University
of California at Berkeley and Princeton
University. Pardes spent last fall at The
Center for Judaic Studies in Philadelphia.
“She is the most prominent expert on
literal interpretations of the Bible and
how the Old Testament has been gener-
ated through and reproduced in poetry
and literature,” Barzilai told JTNews.
Pardes’ books include Countertradi-
tions in the Bible: A Feminist Approach
(Harvard University Press, 1992), The
Biography of Ancient Israel: National Nar-
ratives in the Bible (University of Cali-
fornia Press, 2000), and Melville’s Bibles
(University of California, 2008).
In the her first lecture of the series,
“Upon the Handles of the Lock: Agnon,
Balak, and the Israeli Bible,” Pardes
explored the works of S.Y. Agnon, one of
Israel’s most prominent authors, who won
the Israel Prize in 1954 and the Nobel Prize
in 1966, and who died in 1970, to gain a
greater understanding of how the Bible is
reflected in popular Israeli culture.
“This is really my first plunge into
modern Hebrew literature,” Pardes told
JTNews. “I always deal with the nexus of
Bible, literature and culture, but these
are stories and texts from the ’50s, mostly
the Bible, within the Zionist imagination,
explored through Agnon. I’m investigat-
ing my own culture, the culture of my
childhood.”
Born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes in 1888
to an observant Jewish family in Buczacz,
Galicia, S.Y. Agnon, learned biblical texts,
rabbinical commentary and Hassidic liter-
ature as a youth through his formal educa-
tion and through the influence of his father,
a rabbi, while his mother introduced him
to German philosophical writings.
As an adult, he became interested in
Zionism and emigrated to Palestine in
1907, joining the secular literati of the
day there, before moving to Berlin, where
he befriended other great writers includ-
ing Martin Buber, Franz Rosensweig and
Gershom Sholem.
Having established a close friend-
ship with both Rosensweig and Sholem,
the three writers debated the sacredness
of the Hebrew language and considered
whether a more secular interpretation
of biblical texts wouldn’t better reflect
the character and ideology belonging to
those Zionists who resettled the land.
“It is as though he were saying,” imag-
ined Pardes in her prepared remarks,
“‘Since you will not accept the continuity of
tradition and its language in their true con-
text, take them in the transformation which
they have undergone in my work. Take them
from someone who stands at the crossroads
and can see from both directions.’”
In another work, Agnon reinterpreted
the classical biblical book about love,
“Song of Songs,” traditionally understood
to be a metaphor of the love that God T. Sasson
has for Israel. Agnon recast the themes 2010 Stroum lecturer Ilana Pardes.
of the story in secular Zionist tones that
reflected the ideology of the then-fledg- text to questions about the Bible itself in
ling country’s founders. modern literature and modern culture,”
This romantic and celebratory narra- Pardes added. “This is a formative moment
tive, said Pardes, is put on a pedestal in the that I’m dealing with, but of course, it has
writings of those who resettled the land. implications for contemporary culture.”
“‘The Song of Songs’ is sort of an exem- Pardes’ second lecture was titled
plary text,” Pardes told JTNews. “It has its “Agnon’s Ethnographies of Love and the
own special status within secular Zion- Quest for the Ultimate Song.”
ism. That’s why I chose it.” This year, the Stroum series intro-
Agnon, according to Pardes, inter- duced a new format for the third lec-
preted the love poem as a “new national ture. Pardes’ final presentation, “Freud,
allegory…providing modern forms of col- Zipporah, and the Bridegroom of Blood:
lective love, primarily the love between National Ambivalence in the Bible” was
the community and the land.”
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Schools t Page 1
got into the private high school of his or
her choice probably helped to spur those
inquiries, Erlitz noted.
The fundraising event the school held
in March raised more than $400,000,
but that highlight has not come with-
out a cost. The school made cuts over the
past year and a half that reduced staffing
hours and reached into the hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
Those cuts included “taking our IT guy
from full-time to part-time,” Erlitz said,
as well as reducing hours of support staff
to keep from doing actual layoffs.
Two Jewish Day School students rock out at a concert by Jewish musician Eytan Katz
in February at an all-day-school event at the Seattle Hebrew Academy. The event was
sponsored by local developer Martin Selig and his wife Catherine Mayer. Katz also
played a fundraiser that benefited all the local day schools.
Erlitz doesn’t expect these efficiencies to
revert to former levels, at least in the short
term. The school has received grant money,
including from the Women’s Endowment
Foundation at the Jewish Federation of
Greater Seattle and the Samis Foundation,
for teacher development programs to help
continue the globally based curriculum
the middle school has adopted.
“We’re very excited about the changes
we’re looking at in the middle school,”
she said. It is “more project-based, more
global-based, more getting the kids out
into the world. Even my most seasoned
teachers are really excited about that.”
Erlitz emphasized that none of the
cuts affected programming or services
that directly affect the students.
“If you’re asking me to cut the quality,
you need to get another head of school,”
Erlitz said she told her board. “Why be
here if you can’t enrich what’s happening
with the students?”
Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder
When the Menachem Mendel Seat-
tle Cheder moves into its newly acquired
facility in Seattle’s Maple Leaf neigh-
borhood — hopefully by mid-summer,
school leaders say — they will have, in
addition to the elementary school and
girls’ high school, their recently opened
early-childhood Montessori program
in place. They’re also looking to open a
licensed childcare within the facility.
According to MMSC’s head of school,
Rabbi Yosef Charytan, the economy has
been somewhat hard on the school, but
they also felt effects of the recession on
the early side.
“We always have been very budget con-
scious, and I think that we as a school felt
the economic downturn before many of
the other schools did, and we were able to
respond to it in advance of everything really
coming down for the overall school com-
munity…in Seattle.” Charytan told JTNews.
Currently, he said, “we’re doing great.
Things, thank God, are running well.”
In the past two years, MMSC has made
some budget cuts and tried to be conser-
vative in spending while launching its
capital campaign and keeping program-
ming intact.
Cuts have included discontinuing or
suspending some extracurricular pro-
grams or switching them from staff-led to
volunteer efforts.
In addition, he said, “we’ve begun to
explore other learning options that can
help reduce our overall staff size, such as
Internet-based instruction.”
Despite the cutbacks MMSC has had
to make, admissions are looking steady
and families are showing interest in the
new facility.
“It’s something that has generated a
Joel Magalnick
tremendous amount of excitement and
interest overall from people who are cur-
rently touring, and if they are current
parents as well,” Charytan said.
Seattle Hebrew Academy
In addition to the Seattle Hebrew
Academy, Seattle’s oldest day school,
being hit hard by the economy came two
unplanned incidents: A landslide in the
urban forest behind their 100-year-old
building’s grounds, and the entrance
onto the campus of a man spouting
anti-Semitic epithets that resulted in a
$50,000 security expenditure. The school
has appealed to the Jewish Federation
for an emergency grant to help cover
the approximately $100,000 it will cost
to repair the damage and shore up the
affected area.
“It is such a gift to be housed in this
school,” said Kletenik, SHA’s head of
school. “It is a beautiful campus…the sur-
roundings are inspired, and it is a huge
responsibility to keep it the way it is.”
Joanna Sandorffy, SHA’s board presi-
dent, said figuring out how to maintain
the school’s programming and grounds,
particularly with the additional budget
line items, has been a top priority.
“We’ve definitely had hard decisions to
make, and our finance office, together with
the volunteers, the finance committee, has
scrutinized and painstakingly looked at
items all the while,” Sandorffy said.
When SHA’s Judaics principal left the
school last year, Kletenik took on those
responsibilities to keep costs down.
“We decided not to fill the position,
thinking that would be good for our
budget — and it was,” Kletenik said.
Some teachers have stepped in to fill in
any holes left by the absence of a dedicated
person in the position as well, she said.
But things are looking up. Fundrais-
ing for this year appears to be on track
for reaching the school’s goals, Kletenik
said, and a 2-for-1 challenge grant from
the Samis Foundation announced this
month has garnered enthusiasm from
school staff.
“To tell you the truth, we’re euphoric,”
Kletenik said. “Every single teacher is
going to give $10. It’s a line item of giving
that we had not anticipated this spring,
and we’re hoping t hat parents and
board members are going to be equally
inspired.”
A salary freeze instituted last year will
be dropped; teachers will receive a 3 per-
cent pay increase as of July 1.
Kletenik credited the school’s steady
enrollment to its status as an Orthodox
school. The preschool program, San-
dorffy said, is at capacity as well.
Seattle Jewish Community School
The Seattle Jewish Community School
in North Seattle has one big change in its
immediate future: A new head of school,
Shoshana Bilavsky, arrives from Boul-
der, Colo. this summer. The school she
comes to is vastly different from the one
that existed just five years ago — a new
school building, a larger student body —
and according to board president Yonah
Karp, “we finally look like our vision of
ourselves, the vision that we had for 18
years before we bought the building.”
One of the biggest bonuses of the facil-
ity, which previously housed a Christian
elementary school, is the science lab that
became available when SJCS made the
purchase.
“We do have a brand new science cur-
riculum that’s an extension of previous
curricula, and because we have a build-
ing that’s basically a turnkey building
with a science lab, we’ve been able to do
things that we haven’t in the past,” Karp
said.
The economy had an effect on the
school over the past school year, mainly in
the form of the need for increased schol-
arships.
“The request for tuition assistance,
and the number of families that are eli-
gible, had gone up,” Karp said. “It’s made
increases in fundraising much more
appreciated than ever before.”
Enrollment has stayed fairly consis-
tent, with some attrition, and mid-year
applications have been strong this year,
Karp said. Though the school did not lay
off any staff, pay raises and retirement
contributions were taken off the table.
SJCS plans to reintroduce both into its
budget for next year.
“Our staff is the backbone of our
school. We would not be who we are with-
out the teachers and staff,” Karp said. “We
need to honor that as well as we can in
any economy.”
One reason the school has managed
to stay fairly consistent with its budget
has been due to strong community sup-
port, even from people not otherwise
connected to the school. Samis has been
crucial in helping SJCS reach its fund-
raising goals, however, by instituting a
2-for-1 matching grant, similar to the one
offered to SHA, through the end of the
school year.
Bilavsky will also be crucial to future
fundraising.
“She’s got quite a track record of fund-
raising at her previous school,” Karp said.
Bilavsky’s impending arrival comes
with high expectations, as well.
“I think she’s going to take us places
that we haven’t been before, and we are
every excited,” Karp said. “She has been
in three different community day schools
before coming to us…. I think that that
richness of experience that she’s bringing
to the table is certainly something that’s
going to inform our growth as a school.”
Torah Day School of Seattle
W hen the Torah Day School first
opened in 2006, the rented space near the
Seward Park neighborhood from where
the Orthodox school draws most of its
students was ample for its 52 elementary
students. Four years later, finding a build-
ing that will fit its 90 children (down from
94 earlier this year — any loss of students
has come not from economic hardship
but from families making aliyah) is one of
TDS’ highest priorities.
“We are actively looking,” said Mike
Eisenstein, co-president of the TDS
board. They expect to find another space
to rent — a building purchase is not rec-
ommended for such a young school.
“Not all of our parameters are well-
defined in terms of demographic and
ultimate size at the rate we’re growing,”
Eisenstein said.
Though school leaders believe the
economy has not had a dramatic impact
on the school, having to account for more
tuition assistance requests, meaning less
income, has clearly delayed some initia-
tives, Eisenstein said. But being the new
kid on the block has its benefits.
“When I sit around at a [heads of
school] meeting and hear the discussion
surrounding how to cut back and which
programs need to be cut back, we’re not
even there yet,” said Rabbi Sheftel Skaist,
TDS’ head of school.
“There are so many things that we’re
looking to add to the program,” he added.
“Electives for middle school kids, and
various programs that this facility can’t
[handle]. We don’t have a gym. We don’t
have a place for an art room. Our library is
minuscule. So we’re looking to build.”
Eisenstein said many TDS students
attend after-school and weekend supple-
mental programs as well.
“You don’t need a Bunsen burner to
learn science,” he said. “I’ve been very
impressed with the biology and basic
chemistry my daughter comes home
spouting, without having a formal sci-
ence lab in school. And that’s 2nd grade.”
The board has worked with outside
consultants, including Samis, to help
them with strategic planning in regards
Joel Magalnick
Torah Day School’s head of school,
Rabbi Sheftel Skaist, in his office.
to the school’s v ision and financial
responsibilities.
Where TDS has firmly established
itself is in its Judaics curriculum. Outside
of Skaist’s office is a large grid, adapted by
Rabbi Jonathan Rietti, founder of a New
York-based organization called Jewish
Inspiration, that allows for the use of
mnemonic devices to help students take
numerical values of English words and
apply them to the Torah. The mention of
the phrase “Rolls Royce,” for example,
refers students to a specific passage in all
five books.
“It’s astounding. They can do that now
in Genesis, and in Exodus,” Skaist said. “If
the English word translates to the word
42, then they make a connection between
that English word and the subject matter
in chapter 42 of Genesis.”
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m.o.t.: member of the tribe

Hearts and bloodlines

Cancer survivor celebrates son’s Bar Mitzvah • Also: Helping cardiac patients get well
Diana
Brement
JTNews
Columnist
All Bar and Bat Mitzvah kids are spe-
cial, but Andrew and Esther Schorr of
Mercer Island can be allowed a little
leeway in thinking their son, Eitan is
even more special — in fact they call him
their “miracle baby.”
In 1996 Andrew was diagnosed with
chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). At
the time, the Schorrs had been think-
ing about having a third child, but knew
chemotherapy drugs could cause infer-
tility. Andrew’s doctor at the Anderson
Cancer Center in Houston, where he later
took part in clinical trials, suggested the
cancer was slow-growing enough to put
off treatment. When Esther told the doctor
of their plan, “he gave her a big hug and
said, ‘Go have your baby,’” says Andrew.
“And that’s the kid who stood on the
bima last Saturday,” April 17, at Temple
B’nai Torah.
“He did a great job, by the way,” added
Dad. “It was a very life-affirming thing.”
In a little twist of irony or destiny,
Andrew, who grew up in New York’s
Westchester County, was already a medi-
cal journalist when he received his diag- but growing. hear audio shows or watch short videos
nosis. He holds journalism degrees from “Now the typical person, especially narrated by Andrew and Peter Frishauf,
Columbia and the University of North the typical Jewish person, will look for featuring a variety of medical experts.
Carolina, and had worked mostly in tele- health information online,” Andrew The Schorrs live on Mercer Island,
vision, including for the groundbreaking adds. where Andrew runs his small business.
“PM/Evening Magazine.” Five years ago he started Patient “It’s much less a business and much
He also assumed he didn’t have much Power — www.patientpower.info — and more a passion,” he says. “We zap audio
time to live. Diagnosed around the same he still does occasional programming, and video files,” plus provide content to
time as Seattle School District Superin- sponsored by the University of Washing- hospital Web sites, including the UW and
tendent John Stanford, he was horrified ton, on KOMO radio during drive time. Harborview. Sixty percent of the content
at how quickly Stanford died. He estimates those segments reach about is cancer-oriented, with a variety of other
“To me, that was leukemia,” he says. 100,000 people a day, but 2.2 million subjects covered, “connecting the most
“Strong guy, do not pass go, you’re dead.” people went to Patient Power last year, to remote patient with the smartest doc-
However, Andrew tors,” says Andrew.
got a more favorable And just to show the pace of research,
diagnosis, allowing the experimental drug combination
him to forgo treat- Andrew had in 2000 in Houston has only
ment u nt i l 2 0 0 0 just been approved by the FDA.
w hen t he c a ncer Meanwhile, he knows he is blessed to
began to affect his have been in remission and lead a normal
immune system. life for the past 10 years. He enjoys Boy
His illness cata- Scout outings with Eitan and running
pulted his work in a with their dog, Candy. He goes to the
different direction. gym almost every day with Esther, “a ter-
He started doing a rific lady,” who works for Microsoft. Their
Su nd a y mor n i n g oldest son, Ari, 20, is at the University of
radio show on KVI Michigan and middle daughter Ruth is a
on different health junior at Mercer Island High School.
topics. •••
“Soon it became It’s been quite a different type of job for
apparent to me that Karen Portman, who took over running
its home base should The Beat — the Stroum Jewish Commu-
be on the Internet,” nity Center’s cardiac rehabilitation pro-
he says. Courtesy Schorr Family gram — from Kathy Hutchinson in 2008.
Internet use at The Schorr family, University of Michigan fans, on campus in
the time was low, Ann Arbor. u Page 18

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The coal miner’s son who

The Jerusalem Post teaches a man to fish
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Joel Magalnick lucky I’ve been. I’ve been very fortunate.

Editor, JTNews
Jim Sinegal, co-founder and CEO of
Costco Wholesale Corp., runs the larg-
est chain of discount warehouses in the
world. But he also has a charitable streak.
In advance of his speaking engagement
at Jewish Family Service of Greater Seat-
tle’s annual Community of Caring lun-
cheon, JTNews talked with Sinegal about
his views on philanthropy, both person-
ally and for his company. An abridged
version of the conversation can be found
here. Find the full transcript online at
www.jtnews.net.
I came from a very humble background
— my father worked in the coal mines
and steel mills in the Pittsburgh area. It’s
quite a leap from there, an immigrant
family, to be in a position like I am in right
now. So life has been very good to me, the
country has been very good to me. You’d
have to be pretty foolish not to under-
stand how lucky you’ve been and to want
to share that. And, I think, I’ve been for-
tunate to have people who have mentored
me in that direction.
It goes back to when I went to school.
The nuns would beat it into our heads, “To
whom much is given, much is expected.”
I guess after a period of time it starts to
seep in. Why they ever thought we would
ever have anything, I don’t know. But we
were fortunate enough in my particular
case, and in many of my colleagues’ at
school at that time.

JT: How are you taking those chari-

table values to the stores, to the employ-
ees, to the customers, to the company?
Sinegal: Well, first of all, we’ve got a
Across Down pretty simple code of ethics. You may
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perhaps 12. “To ___ shall I make out the charities, United Way and Children’s don’t you’re going to stumble somewhere
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philanthropist, especially to 48. Yiddish actress Picon and I’m on the board of San Diego State JT: To name an example, right?
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to school and we provided a scholarship with United Way, for instance, that
59. Grow 51. Poet Marcia
program for…people who just need help employees can give and Costco would
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getting through school. Even though it’s match?
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JT: What’s driven your desire to be so own charitable giving.
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In memoriam
Why we cover our mirrors during the week of shiva
Rivy Poupko
Kletenik
JTNews
Columnist
Dear Rivy,
Knowing that your father has just
passed away I thought it would be
timely to ask about the mirrors in a
house of mourning. I recall the practice
of covering all the mirrors in the house
from my childhood, when my parents
sat shiva for relatives. Where does this
practice come from, why do we do it,
and is it still practiced?
For an hour or so during the Shabbat
morning of shiva, I was charged with the
watching of our grandchild as his tired
jet-lagged-East-Coast mother took a nap
and the rest of the family was in syna-
gogue. At a bit of a desperate moment of
having exhausted many an entertain-
ment option, I plunked little Ilan down in
front of a full-length mirror, the bottom
of which did not get covered as it should
have been. As I watched him curiously
consider his image, it never occurred
to me that this odd juxtaposition of the
week of shiva for my father, of blessed
memory, who lived till the beautiful old
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age of 93, and this fetching, little gazing
10-month-old, was a hint as to why mir-
rors are indeed covered in a Jewish house
of mourning. More on this later, but first
the basics.
During the week of shiva, I, along with
most mourners, had the opportunity to
revisit, discuss and learn about the host of
rituals that are part of the Jewish customs
of mourning. Most would agree there is a
tremendous amount of sense and prac-
ticality about the Jewish way in death.
In the case of covering mirrors, there is
much meaning to the symbolism.
The basic practice is that as soon as
mourning begins for a loved one who has
passed away, the mirrors in the home are
covered. According to Jewish law, there
are seven relatives for whom one officially
mourns: Father, mother, sister, brother,
son, daughter and spouse. It is for these
that one observes shiva and then addi-
tional mourning of 30 days, and for parents
only, a full year. Some practices are pretty
self-explanatory: Tearing clothes, sitting
low to the ground, not wearing leather, not
offering greetings, not studying Torah —
all resonate with shades of sorrow. Does
this practice of mirror covering fit in this
category as well? It just might. We are sad
and therefore not inclined to vainly pretty-
up. But there seems to be more.
Some suggest the mirror is a cynical
instrument. It reflects only what it sees in
the immediate present. It has no memory
and no skill for anticipating the future.
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Cover the mirror. We wish to distance
ourselves from such behavior; we hope to
remember the person who has died and
treasure him or her well into the future.
We are not the only ones to have this
practice. Far be it for me to attempt a
“who came first” on this one. Many cul-
tures have the practice of covering mir-
rors upon a death in the family. It is
attributed to Irish, Italians, to the Vic-
torian age, to Germany, Belgium, Eng-
land and France. For some, the basic
explanation is similar to our most preva-
lent explanation: That is, that the mirror
draws attention to one’s self and the time
of mourning is a time to focus on the indi-
vidual who has passed — not on our own
particular narcissistic diversions.
But for some, the explanation is more
of the paranormal, Snow White variety:
“Mirror, mirror on the wall!” Mirrors are
seen as a portal to the afterworld, to spir-
its and ghosts on “the other side.” Some
were wont to conjure up souls by divin-
ing through mirrors and feared being
swept away by a returning soul still roam-
ing about who through the mirror might
draw a live soul into the netherworld. For
this reason the mirrors are covered so as
to stymie these activities.
Yet the fundamental reason, sensible
though it is, would be enough: Our tra-
dition has recorded a number of other
perspectives with further layers to this
conversation. Some offer a matter-of-fact,
utilitarian explanation. Mirrors are cov-
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in a house of mourning and one may not
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Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, in the
chapter, “Sitting Shiva is Doing Tes-
huvah” in Reflections of the Rav, cites the
Talmud Moed Katan’s exhortation that
“a mourner is obligated to overturn his
bed” as the precursor to the modern-day
practice of covering the mirrors. In Tal-
mudic times it was the practice to turn
one’s bed upside down during the week
of shiva. On one hand, this would pre-
clude the sitting on the bed, which is for-
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on the other hand, it evokes the idea that
new souls are drawn into this world in the
bed of mother and father, the bed being
the agent of the procreative process. With
the passing of one of these links we real-
ize our human failure at perhaps not
living up to the mission of being a bridge
in the tradition being passed from parent
to child. He writes:
Overturning the bed was later
replaced by turning the mirrors to
the wall or covering them. The sym-
bolism is the same as the turning of
the bed, namely that our image is
not as lustrous as it should be. The
period of mourning suggest human
failure and covering the mirror is a
form of vidui, confession.
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Seattle cyclists prepare for a trip to California for Jewish environmental group’s bike ride
Leyna Krow
Assistant Editor, JTNews
Can riding a bicycle make you a better
Jew?
That question remains open for debate,
but organizers of the upcoming Hazon
California Bike Ride believe that riding
bikes can help Jewish environmentalists
make the connection between their pas-
sion for protecting the planet and their
religion.
“A lot of people have environmental
ethics – to behave responsibly, be it with
regard to food or transportation,” said
Ilana Mantell, director of operations for
the Kavana Cooperative, who is co-orga-
nizing a team of cyclists from Seattle to
take part in the ride. “For a lot of people
there’s a desire to connect those ethics
with Jewish values, though how to do that
isn’t always obvious. Hazon is trying to
make that connection.”
The event, which runs May 7-10,
includes a two-day Shabbat retreat in
Sonoma County, followed by a two-day
bike ride to San Francisco. The retreat will
feature rabbis and Jewish educators from
around the country offering lectures,
classes, and services centered around the
connection between Judaism and envi-
ronmentalism.
“By the time people get on their bikes,
they will have been marinating for two
days in the idea that Jews are caretakers
of the world,” Mantell said.
The ride isn’t just an educational
oppor t unit y; it’s a lso a f undraiser.
Cyclists are asked to raise a minimum
of $1,000 to participate, with the money
being distributed by Hazon, a New York-
based Jewish environmental advocacy
organization, to a variety of American
and Israeli projects. Recipients include
ADAMAH: The Jewish Environmental
Members of Team Seattle before a Sunday training ride.
Fellowship, a three-month leadership
training program for young adults, and
The Jewish Farm School, which hosts
alternative spring breaks for students on
the East Coast and in California. Some of
the money stays with Hazon to help fund
their annual food conference, commu-
nity supported agriculture program, and
future bike rides.
Hazon began hosting bike rides in
2001, with previous events taking place in
New York and Israel. This is the first time a
ride has been held on the West Coast.
Mantell said the idea to field a team of
Seattleites for the Hazon ride first came
in December when she and several other
leaders from Seattle Jewish organizations
attended Hazon’s annual food confer-
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“They were advertising the ride at
the conference, and we were so thrilled
to find another way for people to com-
bine Judaism with environmentalism,”
she said.
Rabbi Jessica Kessler Marshall of Ever-
ett’s Temple Beth Or took part in Hazon’s
New York ride last summer.
“Hazon announced they would be
doing a California ride in 2010 and
I thought, ‘Great, I don’t have to f ly
across the country to do this anymore,’”
recalled Marshall, an avid cyclist and
outdoor enthusiast. “And then I thought,
‘Wouldn’t it be wonderful to get other
people from Seattle to come along?’”
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they represented the largest single con-
tingent to sign up from any city.
Participants needn’t be affiliates of
any of the organizing communities, how-
ever. According to Mantell, the team is a
mix of people from a broad cross section
of Jewish life.
“For the most part these aren’t Talmud
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lot of people, they’re looking for a way to
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For the past few months, the team
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“It’s a mix of people who are partici-
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For Marshall, riding a bicycle is not
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Poetry from imprisonment

Music of Remembrance’s spring concert inspired by a secret magazine created by boys at Terezín camp

Peter A. Klein one — handwritten, in a concentration incidental music to

Special to JTNews
The poetry of teenaged Jewish boys
imprisoned in the Terezín concentra-
tion camp will be given new life in the
oratorio Vedem, by composer Lori Lait-
man and librettist David Mason. Vedem
will receive its world premiere at Music
of Remembrance’s spring concert on
May 10. Laitman believes these lines of
Mason’s express the essence of the piece:
We lived for what we wrote and
painted,
as if imagination were a jewel.
Terezín (aka Theresienstadt) is an old
Czech fortress town that the Nazis turned
into a transit camp during the Holocaust.
144,000 Jews were sent to Terezín, includ-
ing many from the arts and letters. One-
quarter of the prisoners died there, and
two-thirds were later killed in the death
camps. Yet they created an astounding
cultural life in the camp, which existed
right alongside starvation, cold, over-
crowding, disease, and death.
Boys in Terezín lived in a converted
school building designated L417, with the
oldest occupying a room known as Home
Number One. Educating the children was
forbidden, but the Jewish leaders of the
homes did so secretly.
Home No. One’s adult leader, Valtr Eis-
inger, was a teacher of Czech language and
literature. With Eisinger’s encouragement,
the boys created their own clandestine
literary magazine, called Vedem, which
means “We Lead” in Czech. Vedem existed
for two years between 1942 and 1944. The
key contributors were aged about 14-16.
Petr Ginz, a multi-talented writer, artist and
diarist, was editor-in-chief. The magazine’s
logo was a Jules Verne-inspired rocket ship
flying past a book toward a star.
Imagine your high school newspaper
and creative writing magazine rolled into
camp. The boys created stories, poems,
essays and drawings which expressed
their observations, hopes, fears and
dreams. Every Friday night, they read
aloud and critiqued the week’s work.
According to Mason, an acclaimed
poet and Bellingham native who now
lives in Colorado, the story of Vedem is “an
opportunity to get at the lives of very spe-
cific boys, and they’re not angels, they’re
rascally little guys,” he said. “They’re in
that strange period between childhood
and adolescence…and I find that pro-
foundly interesting. We’re not only writ-
ing about mechanistic, institutionalized
victimization…it’s a story about human
aspiration and fire and creativity in the
face of absolute annihilation.”
Mason is the author or editor of nine
books of poetry, and a regular contribu-
tor to magazines such as The New Yorker,
Poetry and The Nation.
Approximately 100 boys worked on
Vedem. Only about 15 survived. Most,
including Ginz, died at Auschwitz. One
boy, Sydney Taussig, was allowed to remain
in Terezín because he had worked in his
father’s blacksmith shop, which the Ger-
mans considered essential. Taussig buried
about 800 pages of the magazine in a metal
container meant to hold crematorium
ashes, and retrieved them after liberation.
In the mid-1990s, the Vedem boys’
story and work were published in the book
We Are Children Just the Same, first in
Czech, then in English. Israeli astronaut
Ilan Ramon, who went into space on the
ill-fated Columbia shuttle mission, took
with him a copy of Ginz’s drawing of Earth
viewed from a fanciful lunar landscape.
When MOR Artistic Director Mina
Miller read the book about Vedem, she
told herself, “One day I will commission
a piece on this.” Miller had someone in
mind — Lori Laitman, one of America’s
foremost composers of art songs. Over
the years, MOR has performed several of
Shakespeare’s The
Taming of the Shrew.
Motherhood
occupied most of her
time in the 1980s.
Then in 1991 soprano
Lauren Wagner, an
old f r iend, asked
Laitman to write an
ar t song for Wag-
ner’s debut CD. It
turned out to be the
spark t hat ignited
her career.
“I haven’t stopped
si nce,” sa id L a it-
man. “I found my
voice writing for the
voice.”
She now has more
than 200 songs to
her credit, to texts
by many noted poets
past and present.
Talk to Laitman
about her craft today,
Courtesy MOR and she radiates self-
Sydney Taussig, a survivor of Terezin who saved the 800-page confidence. Her work-
manuscript of the magazine Vedem, with his bound replica of ing method is differ-
the recovered publications. ent from that of many
other composers.
Laitman’s Holocaust-related song cycles. “I always write the vocal line first,”
But this time, Miller wanted something Laitman said. “I never think of a musical
bigger, an oratorio with soloists, a chil- structure and squish words into it.”
dren’s chorus, and a chamber ensemble. Each melody is “custom crafted,” she
Laitman turned to Mason, with whom said, with musical notes matched to the
she recently collaborated on her first text’s meaning, flow and dramatic content.
full-length opera, The Scarlet Letter. She Only after she is satisfied with the vocal
selected a group of the boys’ poems, which line will she begin to flesh out other ele-
Mason wove into a narrative libretto. ments, such as harmony and accompani-
Laitman studied at the Yale School of ment. Each of these layers exists to further
Music in the 1970s. She earned her mas- “color and magnify the emotions that are
ter’s degree in flute performance, but also inside and behind the words,” she said.
studied composition. At that time, she was Mason desc r ibes t hei r work i ng
mostly interested in composing for film partnership as “a collaboration of great
and theater. After Yale, she taught flute,
scored several industrial films, and wrote u Page 15

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joy for both of us,” he said. Now – June

When working on a project, they talk
almost daily, with Laitman often singing
themes to Mason and playing the piano
over the telephone.
“He understands what it is that I need.
He understands how to write a libretto,
how to write a poem,” Laitman said. “He’s
a genius.”
“I’m in the hands of a great composer,
and I can trust her absolutely,” Mason
said. “She responds to language in a way
that I cannot even begin to describe.”
For Vedem, Laitman stretched her
“vocal line first” rule a bit, she said, cre-
ating an instrumental theme that recurs
and develops throughout the work.
Vedem is MOR’s most ambitious proj-
ect to date. In addition to the full oratorio,
Laitman has crafted a more portable ver-
sion without choir that can be performed at
schools and outreach concerts. Filmmaker
John Sharify is creating a Vedem docu-
mentary that includes interviews with five
of the six survivors still alive today. Miller
and Laitman each met separately with two
survivors — Emil Kopel and Leopold Lowy
— at Lowy’s New Jersey home.
Because Miller was a musician and
would understand, Kopel took her aside and
revealed something he’d never told anyone
before, fearing he’d be thought crazy —
how a well-known piece of classical music
saved his life during a death march out of
Buchenwald. Prisoners who collapsed or
fell behind were shot. Kopel kept pace by
“listening” to Dvorák’s “Humoresque No.
7” over and over in his mind.
“I was stunned,” Miller said. Her
If you go: Leonard Bernstein Arts Festival
Music and Theater
Vedem will be performed Mon., www.seattlecelebratesbernstein.org
May 10 at 8 p.m. at the Illsley Ball A consortium of 19 arts organizations
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or call 206-365-7770 for tickets.
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and they told Laitman the story. Laitman Sunday, May 2 at 3:30 p.m.
agreed to include the “Humoresque” in Tzuza Dancers of Israel
Vedem, then found to her surprise that Dance
the melody “fit exactly” into a section of www.jewishinseattle.org/lagbomer
music she had just written. Tzuza Dancers of Israel, a teen dance troupe from Kiryat Malachi, an Israeli town provided
The concert also includes the String assistance by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s TIPS partnership, will perform at the
Quartet No. 3 (1938) by the Czech-Jew- Stroum Jewish Community Center’s Lag B’Omer celebration. Tzuza Dancers of Israel compete
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A 20-year project, now completed

A Sephardic hazzan’s musical project is a reflection on his people’s history

Emily Keeler
Special to JTNews
Hazzan Isaac Azose’s CD, Ladino
Reflections, took just six months to pro-
duce, but it took 20 years to dream. His
double-disc collection of Ladino folk-
songs is t he cherr y atop a lifet ime
of Sephardic liturgical and cantorial
achievements.
The CD follows Azose’s far-reaching
contributions to the preservation of Turk-
ish and Rhodesli Jewish customs and
the Ladino language. Azose’s first CD,
The Liturgy of Ezra Bessaroth, came out
in 1999, and 2002 saw the release of his
Seattle Sephardic Siddur, the only prayer
book to follow the customs of Jews from
Turkey and the Greek Isle of Rhodes.
The siddur became an overnight sen-
sation and is used not only in Seattle but
also in Sephardic congregations as far
as Maryland and South Africa. In 2007,
Azose published the Seattle Sephardic
mahzor — festival prayer book — for
Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot.
Azose’s production of a Ladino album
is a natural progression from his back-
ground as hazzan (cantor) of Ezra Bessar-
oth for nearly half a century. Born in 1930
to Turkish parents, Azose was intrigued
with liturgy from a young age. He came
to learn nearly all the synagogue liturgy
by listening intently to the different Seat-
tle hazzanim. Azose began working for
Boeing in 1950, moonlighting as a hazzan
in the early ’60s at the site of the then-
new Sephardic Bikur Holim, then called
“The Branch.” In 1966, Azose became
the hazzan of Ezra Bessaroth, where he
remained until his retirement in 2000.
The preservation of Ladino language,
Courtesy Isaac Azose
Ezra Bessaroth’s Hazzan emeritus Isaac Azose.
in which he is fluent, is one of Azose’s
passions. Also known as Judeo-Spanish,
Judezmo, Spaniolit and a number of other
names, Ladino is a Hebrew and old Span-
ish hybrid colored primarily by Turkish,
Hebrew, Arabic and Greek and, to a lesser
extent, Italian and French. Fewer than an
estimated 200,000 people still speak this
language, which became specific to the
Jews after the Spanish expulsion in 1492.
Efforts to preserve the language and cul-
ture are being made, particularly in Israel
and in Internet forums like LadinoKo-
munita.
The origins of the 34 songs on Azose’s
CD are virtually unknown. Riding the
wave of migration, their roots can only
be traced so far before they disappear
into history. What-
ever t hei r beg i n-
n i ng s, S eph a rd ic
life has preser ved
its Ladino roman-
zas, or romanceras,
remarkably well. The
folk songs appear
to be part of some
Sephardic collective
unconscious.
“Some of t hese
I’ve learned as part
of the liturgy,” says
Azose. “Some of them
I’ve learned f rom
Mom and Dad and
t heir f r iends who
used to get together
on a Saturday night.”
He recalls listen-
ing to Ladino songs
i n h is home as a
child, when, before
television, the adults gathered on Satur-
day nights to listen to records and dance.
The songs on Ladino Reflections cap-
ture those eternal themes of love: Love
found, love lost, love forbidden. Cryptic
and beautiful, “La Serena” (“The Siren”)
begins: “If the sea were made of milk /
And the boats of cinnamon / I would stain
myself completely / To save your banner.
/ If the sea were made of milk / I would
become a fisherman / I would fish for my
sorrows / With little words of love.”
Each romanza should be a lesson for
aspiring poets, many of them reminis-
cent of the biblical “Song of Songs.” The
voice of “La Rosa Enflorese” (“The Rose
Blooms”) sings, “The rose blooms in the
month of May / My soul darkens suf-
fering with love / Come quickly, dove,
come quickly to me / (Come) quickly my
soul, because I shall die.” The instru-
mental accompaniment of guitar, piano,
mandolin and cittern — a three-string
guitar popular during the Renaissance
— appeals to the emotions of each song
with a sound reminiscent of Spain and
the Orient.
Although the folksongs largely speak
of love, others, like “La Vida Do El Por
Raki” (“I Would Give My Life for Arak”)
attest to the fact that every culture has a
drinking ballad. On the other side of the
spectrum is “Kuando El Rey Nimrod.” In
this uplifting folksong, Nimrod sees a
holy light above the Jewish quarter pre-
dicting Abraham’s birth.
Several songs have experienced a
rebirth, and tracing them back to their
sources becomes a musicological excava-
tion. For instance, “Miserlu” (Greek and
Turkish: “Egyptian Girl”) is well known
in Greek, Turkish and Arab cultures and
likely filtered into Sephardic Jewry during
its years in the Ottoman Empire. “Miserlu”
was introduced to America in 1963 by
Dick Dale (formerly Richard Mansour, a
Lebanese American), and it spawned the
genre of surfer rock, going on to be fea-
tured in the film Pulp Fiction. This catchy
tune was most recently sampled in 2006
by hip-hop group The Black Eyed Peas.
And no one can be sure whether “Adio
Kerida” (“Farewell, My Love”) preceded or
emerged from Verdi’s opera, La Traviata.
Debate on this subject abounds. Rising
star and Ladino Shakira Yasmin Levy per-
forms this haunting and mysterious song
on her 2009 album, Mano Suave.
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community calendar

The JTNews calendar presents a selection of
ongoing events in the Jewish community. For
a complete listing of events, or to add your
event to the JTNews calendar, visit www.
jtnews.net. Calendar events must be submit-
ted no later than 10 days before publication.
Candle Lighting Times
4/30/10 8:01 p.m.
5/7/10 8:11 p.m.
5/14/10 8:20 p.m.
5/21/10 8:29 p.m.
April
Friday 30
■■6 p.m. – Reclaiming Spinoza
Kristine Ganes at 206-528-1944 or
info@secularjewishcircle.org
Shabbat potluck with the Secular Jewish Circle
and a program on 17th-century Dutch phi-
losopher Baruch Spinoza. Location provided
upon RSVP.
May
Saturday 1
■■1:15 p.m. – Rabbi’s Tisch
Carol Benedick at 206-524-0075, ext. 4 or
carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org
An hour of study and discussion with Rabbi
Jill Borodin on mitzvot and middot. At Con-
gregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE,
Seattle.
Sunday 2
■■10 a.m. – History Tour of the Paramount
www.wsjhs.org
A special tour of the Paramount Theatre for
members of the Washington State Jewish
Historical Society. At the Paramount Theatre,
911 Pine St., Seattle.
■■11:30 a.m. – Lag B’Omer
Isolde Shiebert at 206-232-8555, ext. 204
or rsvp@h-nt.org
BBQ and bonfire to celebrate Lag B’Omer. At
Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation,
3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
april 30 – may 18
■■4 p.m.–Lag B’Omer Picnic
Lag B’Omer picnic and scavenger hunt hosted
by the Capitol Hill Minyan. All are welcome.
At the Volunteer Park playfield, 1400 E
Prospect St., Seattle.
■■4 p.m.–Torah Dedication and Lag B’Omer
Celebration
Rabbi Zevi Goldberg at 425-967-3036 or
rabbi@jewishsnohomish.com
Chabad Jewish Center of Snohomish County
dedicates its new Torah and celebrates Lag
B’Omer. All are welcome. At the Edmonds
Conference Center, 201 4th Ave. N,
Edmonds.
Monday 3
■■11 a.m. – Parenting Mindfully
Marjorie Schnyder at 206-861-3146 or
familylife@jfsseattle.org
Jewish Family Service presents a four-session
class aimed at exploring how parents can
express their emotions and beliefs in balanced
and healthy ways. At Temple B’nai Torah,
15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
Tuesday 4
■■7 p.m. – Making Marriage Work
www.townhallseattle.org
Dr. John Gottman, founder of the Gottman
Institute for Marriage Research and the author
of more than 40 books, will offer tools and
insights to couples who want to take their
marriage to the next level. Sponsored by
ParentMap. Tickets are $20 in advance and
$25 at the door. At Town Hall Seattle, 1119
8th Ave., Seattle.
Thursday 6
■■7 p.m. – Israel to Haiti: Across the World
in 48 Hours
Rebecca at 206-774-2272 or
rebeccac@jewishinseattle.org
Daniel Biran, administrative ambassador to
the Israel Consulate of New York, will share
his experience as a first responder to Haiti
after its recent earthquake and the Israeli
Defense Force’s efforts in aiding Haiti. Hosted
by the Maimonides Society of Washington
State. $18. RSVP requested. At Top of the
Market, 93 Pike St., Seattle.
Sunday 9
■■10 a.m. – Rescuers of Jews During the
Holocaust
Alysa Rosen at 206-525-0915 or
rsvp@templebetham.org
Sunday morning forum with Dr. Patrick Henry,
author of We Only Know Men: The Rescue
of Jews in France during the Holocaust, about
why rescuers risked their lives to save strangers,
and why it is important to make them part of
Holocaust education. At Temple Beth Am,
2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.
Monday 10
■■7 p.m. – The Y Chromosome and Beyond:
Tracing Your Genealogy with the “Other”
DNA
programs@jgsws.org or www.jgsws.org
Bennett Greenspan, founder and CEO of Family
Tree DNA, explains the nuances of Y-DNA
and mtDNA testing for the Jewish Genealogi-
cal Society of Washington State. At the Stroum
JCC, 3801 East Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■7:30 p.m. – The Way to Pray
info@shevetachim.com
Rabbi Yechezkel Kornfeld explains the
structure of Shavuot davening, including when
to do what and why. Free. At Northwest
Yeshiva High School, 5017 90th Ave. SE,
Seattle.
Tuesday 11
■■11:30 a.m. – Injured Soldiers Helping
Injured Soldiers
U.S. and Israeli soldiers wounded in combat
reflect on their experiences and shared
struggles. At Seward Park.
■■12 p.m. – Community of Caring
Luncheon
Gail Pollack at 206-861-3151 or
gpollack@jfsseattle.org
Eighth annual Community of Caring luncheon
benefiting Jewish Family Service, featuring
Costco CEO Jim Sinegal. At the Westin Seattle,
1900 5th Ave., Seattle.
Thursday 13
■■6:30 p.m. – NYHS Cake, Food and Dessert
Auction
206-232-5272, ext. 515 or admin@nyhs.net
A fundraiser for Northwest Yeshiva High
School featuring home-baked dishes to be
auctioned off to the highest bidder. Location
provided upon RSVP.
Friday 14
■■6 p.m. – Edwin L. Bierman Scholar in
Residence Weekend with Prof. Vanessa L.
Ochs
Carol Benedick at 206-524-0075 or
carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or
www.bethshalomseattle.org
Vanessa L. Ochs, professor of religious studies
at the University of Virginia, offers an explo-
ration of new Jewish rituals. $25/person.
Includes dinner and Shabbat service. Member
discount available. Children 3 years and under
free. Childcare available during program by
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the Temple B’nai Torah member, who fall, and learn “more are staying healthy.”
adds that patients’ cardiologists pro- Courtesy Karen Portman about their body and The Beat is open to non-members (and
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Jim Sinegal t Page 8
JT: Talking about not just Costco,
but corporate America in general, what
role should companies play in giving to
charity or giving a leg up to people who
might not even be fortunate enough to
shop at your stores?
Sinegal: I think an awful lot of it goes
back to the philosophy that Peter Drucker
has, the business guru…. It’s about more
than making money.
It’s about the fact that you have a con-
tract with society, that there’s a social
contract that you’re going to do the right
things in the community where you’re
doing business, that you’re going to pro-
vide good jobs, that you’re going to pro-
vide good merchandise, and you’re going
to be honest and above board in what
you do.... Think of the suppliers that pro-
vide goods for us, and their families, and
how many factories would go out of busi-
ness or have serious layoffs if we weren’t
around.
JT: Do you see a lot of companies not
holding up their end of that contract?
Sinegal: I think in corporate America
we have allowed ourselves to get sucked
into the situation where there are a lot of
short-term goals that are forcing every-
body to act differently than they would if
they really were looking at how they sur-
vive their business 50 years from now.
One of the things about Costco, one of the
things that we’re proud about, when Jeff
[Brotman] and I started the business, we
could have sold the business hundreds of
times. There were all kinds of people cov-
eting the business in the early days. But
we never wanted to sell it.
We wanted to build an institution.
We wanted the company to be here years
from now, and still be flourishing and still
be prosperous and still to be an impor-
tant part of the community.
I’ve been involved recent ly w it h
Rwanda. I was introduced to the presi-
dent of the country, and met him and have
introduced him to several other business
people. He was the guy who liberated the
country from that terrible genocide that
was taking place. They lost like a million
people in 100 days in the worst fashion
you can imagine — machetes out in the
street. It was just horrible. As the presi-
dent of the country, he’s determined that
aid is bad.
Just taking money and continuing to
take money is never going to move his
country forward. If he’s ever going to have
any chance of success in his country, they
have to build some commercial base. They
have to develop a middle class and to have
a form of business. And really, businesses
in every country of the world, in every suc-
cessful country, in every non-third world
country, that’s really what makes the dif-
ference: Successful business, a middle
class that develops out of that business.
That creation of jobs, as they say, is the
highest form of social service, and it also
creates the types of entrepreneurs that you
see flourishing in our country.

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Obituary
Rabbi Dr. Bernard Poupko
1917–April 14, 2010
Rabbi Dr. Bernard Poupko, a nation-
ally prominent Orthodox rabbi recog-
nized for his initiatives in saving Soviet
Jewry, pioneering efforts in the Jewish
day school movement, and for his lead-
ership of religious Zionism, died April 14
in Seattle, where he had lived for the last
six years. He was 93 years old and suc-
cumbed to Alzheimer’s.
At the time of his death, Rabbi Poupko
was rabbi emeritus of Shaare Torah Con-
gregation in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he
served as rabbi from 1941-2004. He was
a former national president of the Reli-
gious Zionists of America and a national
vice-president of the Rabbinical Coun-
cil of America. Rabbi Poupko was influ-
ential in building the Jewish community
in Pittsburgh, serving as president of its
rabbinical council from 1949-1999, co-
founding Hillel Academy, the Holocaust
Center, and the Greater Association of
Pittsburgh Rabbis, as well as supporting
other Jewish institutions there.
Born in Velizh, a town in Smolensk
Oblast, Russia in 1917, Rabbi Poupko was
known to refer to himself in humor as “a
child of the revolution.” The fifth of eight
children born to the late Rabbi Eliezer
Poupko, the town’s religious leader, and
Pesha Chaya Sapir, a renowned Talmud
scholar, Rabbi Poupko became sensitized
from a young age to the implications that
the Bolshevik Revolution had for religious
observance. The scope became clear when
his father was twice arrested and tried by
the Communists and sentenced to years of
hard labor in Siberia for his leadership in
upholding Jewish practice in the town.
In 1930, by rowboat in the middle of the
night, the family escaped and made their
way to the home of the Hafetz Hayyim,
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan, in Radun,
Poland. There, Rabbi Poupko and his
family were reunited with his three older
brothers, who had been sent there nine
years earlier to study Torah. Rabbi Poupko
often recalled the life-shaping moment
when the Hafetz Hayyim turned to him
and said, “In Russia, the Communists pre-
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vented you from studying Torah. Now you
must devote the rest of your life to plumb-
ing its depths and spreading its word.”
From Poland the family, with help from
the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee, secured visas to the United
States and immigrated here in 1931.
Rabbi Poupko studied at Yeshiva Col-
lege, City College and Columbia University,
receiving his B.A. and M.A., as well as his
rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac
Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva
University in 1941. He moved to Pittsburgh,
and become rabbi of Shaare Torah Congre-
gation and married the late Gilda Twersky-
Novoseller Poupko. By 1952 Rabbi Poupko
had earned his Ph.D. from the University of
Pittsburgh. He wrote his dissertation on the
state of Jewish adult education in the U.S.,
tracing its history, studying its trends, and
prescribing its future.
A lt hough Rabbi Poupko escaped
Communism, he felt his escape was less
a privilege and more a responsibility.
His synagogue, therefore, was the first
to hang a “Free Soviet Jewry” sign, and
he was the first rabbi to speak publicly in
Moscow under Soviet rule. He risked his
life, being tracked by the KGB when he
traveled to Russia a dozen times to cam-
paign for the liberation of Soviet Jewry
and bear witness to their plight. Due in no
small part to these efforts, more than one
and a half million Soviet Jews emigrated
to Israel and the United States.
Rabbi Poupko’s efforts to save Soviet
Jewry are recounted in his award-win-
ning Yiddish book, In the Shadow of the
Kremlin, as well as in dozens of newspa-
per articles that he wrote. He also edited
and co-edited 38 sermon manuals for the
Rabbinical Council of America, many of
which include his own sermons.
Rabbi Poupko’s articles and sermons
took on a progressive, tolerant and vision-
ary tone, often calling for activism in
upholding social justice, understand-
ing of difference and confidence in the
Jewish future.
Rabbi Poupko is survived by his wife,
Miriam Bak-Poupko, five children, among
them Rivy Poupko Kletenik of Seattle, 28
grandchildren and 41 great-grandchil-
dren. Rabbi Poupko instilled within his
family a deep love for the people Israel,
the noble notion of community service,
and devotion to the State of Israel.
He is remembered for his stirring elo-
quence, buoyant optimism, and enduring
dignity. More than anything else, Rabbi
Poupko’s life was marked by a deep con-
cern for the human-other in service, of the
divinely Other, and commitment to mend-
ing whatever brokenness he encountered.
The family is deeply grateful to the Kline
Galland Home and its staff members for
providing Rabbi Poupko with a sanctuary
of dignity and Jewish respect in which to
complete his days on earth.
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lifecycles
Bar Mitzvah Bat Mitzvah
Isaac Cordes Sophie Katz
Isaac will Sophie will
celebrate his Bar celebrate her Bat
Mitzvah on May 8, Mitzvah on May
2010 at Congrega- 1, 2010 at Temple
tion Beth Shalom Beth Am in
in Seattle. Seattle.
Isaac is the son Sophie is the
of Bob and Hannah Cordes of Seattle and daughter of Audrey Fine and Stephen Katz
the brother of Sam. of Seattle and the sister of Adam and
Isaac is in the 7th grade at Eckstein Mitchell. Her grandparents are Ann and
Middle School. He enjoys baseball and Norman Katz of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.,
basketball, playing double bass in the Alice Fine of Seattle and the late Morton
Eckstein Middle School orchestra, reading, Fine.
drama, hanging out with his friends and Sophie is in the 7th grade at the
family, and he looks forward to going to Northwest School. She is an accomplished
Camp Solomon Schechter this summer. For equestrian.
his mitzvah project, Isaac will be volunteer-
ing with the JHarvest CSA program at Hillel
at the University of Washington.
Engagement
Briana Goldstein and Jeff Roberts
Briana and Jeff are engaged to be married
in October 2010 in Seattle. Rabbi Josh
Hearshen of Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative
Congregation will officiate the ceremony.
Briana is the daughter of Dennis
Goldstein and Robin Rogel-Goldstein of
Bellevue. Her grandparents are David and
Helaine Goldstein of Redmond and Joseph
and Ann Lee Rogel of Bellevue.
She is a graduate of the Bellevue Inter-
national School and holds bachelor’s
degrees in business administration and of Laguna Woods, Calif. and the late Gladys
French from Emory University. She works Friedenrich.
as a program manager in Microsoft’s Trust- He is a graduate of Garfield High School
worthy Computing organization. and holds a B.A. in business administration
Jeff is the son of Patrick and Marilyn from the University of Washington. He is
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Border crossings
New Arizona law brings renewed attention to immigration reform

Melissa Apter
JTA World News Service
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jewish groups
are slamming Arizona’s stringent new
immigration-enforcement law, but hope
outrage over the measure will reignite
efforts to push comprehensive immigra-
tion reform on a national level.
“I believe that it has absolutely ignited
a movement across this country for com-
prehensive immigration reform,” said
U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), the
daughter of Jewish immigrants, who is a
co-sponsor of a bill that would provide
illegal immigrants with an opportunity
to normalize their status. “You see people
pouring out of their homes and into the
streets and halls of government reject-
ing this notion of allowing our country to
become a police state.”
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the
Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe
Neighborhoods Act into law last week,
though the measure won’t go into effect
for 90 days. The new law requires that
police check the immigration status of
anyone suspected of being an illegal
immigrant, a tactic civil liberties groups
and several Jewish organizations say
effectively mandates racial profiling.
Proponents of the law say the tough
measures are necessary — given the
federal government’s failure to act —
to rescue the state from a flood of ille-
gal immigrants from Mexico they say
sap taxpayer-funded programs and, in
some cases, commit violent crime. They
also note that the governor has issued an
executive order establishing a training
program on how to avoiding racial profil-
ing when implementing the new rules.
On Monday, following a weekend of
protests, vandals — apparently opposed
to the new law — smeared refried beans
in the shape of swastikas on the win-
dows of the Arizona State Capitol build-
ings, The Associated Press reported. More
protests were being planned, including a
vigil organized by the Jewish Council on
Urban Affairs.
The new law has been criticized by
an array of Jewish groups, including the
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Anti-Def-
amation League, American Jewish Com-
mittee, Simon Wiesenthal Center and the
National Council of Jewish Women.
Gideon Aronoff, the president and
CEO of HIAS, who supports legisla-
tion like Schakowsky’s and that of Sen.
Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), said he is
working actively with other Jewish orga-
nizations to draft a broad statement con-
demning the federal government’s failure
to enact comprehensive reform. HIAS
also is coordinating with its partners in
Arizona and anticipates that rallies, the
filing of amicus briefs and other actions
may be warranted in the near future.
“Are most of the Latinos who suffer
from this law Jewish? The answer is no,
but we look at this through the oral com-
mandment of ‘welcome the stranger,’”
Aronoff said. “We are all Americans, we
are all our brothers’ keepers. We have an
obligation not to stand by when legisla-
tion so harmful is put through.”
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, a Jewish
Democrat, referred to the immigration
bill as one that “nationally embarrasses
Arizona” in an Op-Ed piece published
April 25 in The Washington Post.
“Already, I have called a special meet-
ing of the Phoenix City Council to establish
standing to sue the state on the grounds
that S.B. 1070 unconstitutionally co-opts
precipitate an investigation into his or her
legal status is an anathema to American
values of justice and our historic status
as a nation of immigrants. The bill is also
likely to endanger our communities by
discouraging immigrants from cooper-
ating with law enforcement on issues of
national security.”
Along similar lines, Rabbi Marvin
Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center
issued a statement saying, “This law
makes no sense — it guarantees and stig-
matizes people of color as second-class
citizens and exposes them to intimida-
tion and the use of racial profiling as a
weapon of bias.”
Amy Laff, chair of the Arizona chapter
of the Republican Jewish Coalition, told
The Jewish News of Greater Phoenix that she
has lingering concerns about the new law.
“I’m concerned that the law will be
viewed by many as mean-spirited and
hostile to minorities,” she said. “I’m also
disturbed by the prospect of Arizona res-
idents filing actions against law enforce-
ment personnel whom they deem not to
be enforcing federal immigration stat-
utes to the full extent of the law.”
Another Jewish  Republican, state
Sen. Barbara Leff, voted for the law and

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Let us help. Eight of the state’s Reform rabbis
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stand all 613 mitzvot — a program
completed over the course of three years.
It’s all a part of the idea that connects stu-
dents to their religion and their history.
“The mitzvah is not just an isolated
piece of the puzzle, but the puzzle has
been assembled for them,” Skaist said.
“They have the complete picture — they
have the sense of ‘You are here.’”
Given the size of the area’s Jewish
community, are there too many day
schools in Seattle?
“I would say there are too few kids,”
SJCS’ Karp said. “I think there should be
two to three times as many kids in the day
schools.”
W hen the Torah Day School first
opened, SHA saw a slight dip in enroll-
ment that has since returned to previous
levels, Sandorffy said. Kletenik quoted
Maimonides to explain why one should
not stop his neighbor from opening up a
new school: “The more Jewish schools,
the more Torah schools, the better.”
Given Toren’s knowledge of the his-
tory of nearly all of the area’s schools, and
citing a study about “the boutique-ization
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Arts Calendar t Page 15 Community Calendar t Page 17 Communications, University of Washington.

Gala Dinner
Sunday, May 2, 5–8 p.m.
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or
Rashanim info@seattlekollel.org
Music and Lag B’Omer Celebration Fundraising gala for the Seattle Kollel. At Marriott
Rashanim, a fusion of mellifluous jazz, Waterfront, 1200 Alaskan Way, Seattle.
grungy Mediterranean, and light rock
will perform at Chabad at the UW’s Monday 17
annual Lag B’Omer picnic. Additional ■■3:30 p.m. – Israeli Secret Services and the
Struggle Against Terror
performances by local student artists
www.jsis.washington.edu/jewish
Philharmonic and Edison Trait. The An expert on terror and political extremism,
day will start at 2 p.m. for a children’s Prof. Ami Pedahzur of the University of Texas,
haircut celebration, with Rashanim Austin, argues in his talk “Israeli Secret Services
coming on stage at 5 p.m. Students and the Struggle Against Terrorism” that Israel’s
free/non-students $20. At Rohr Jewish Student Center, 5200 21st Ave. NE, Seattle. strict reliance on the elite units of the intelligence
community is fundamentally flawed. At 120
■■7:30 p.m. – The Way to Pray
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Rabbi Kornfeld explains the structure of
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May 7 – May 12 Ilana Pardes t Page 5 too much,” said Jennifer Cohen, assis-
Breath Made Visible tant director for the Samuel & Althea
Film held in a new “learn-in” format, which Stroum Jewish Studies Program. “We
www.nwfilmforum.org was reserved for educators, and UW fac- want people to feel that they are part of a
Breath Made Visible follows the life and career of ulty and students. All future series will learning community — that’s what we’re
dancer Anna Halprin. The daughter of Lithuanian feature this new format. Organizers hope trying to create.”
immigrants, Halprin was obsessed with dancing from this more intensive option, which came
the time she was a small child. She spent her life in response to past series attendees who A Web site set up by the UW’s Stroum
spreading a gospel of healing and wholeness through said they wanted more time with the Jewish Studies Program, www.
self-expression. Her story is told with the help of interviews and archival performance footage lecturer and the material, will allow for stroumlectures.org, has further
as a tribute to one of Northern California’s most beloved artists. At the Northwest Film Forum, additional interactivity and questions. information and audio recordings of
1515 12th Ave., Seattle. “Three lectures in this day and age are Pardes’ lectures.

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Caring for aging parents
As part of their Caring for Our
Aging Parents series, Congrega-
tions Bikur Cholim-Machzikay
Hadath, Sephardic Bikur Holim, Ezra
Bessaroth and the Seattle Kollel, in con-
junction with Jewish Family Service, will
present “Difficult Behaviors: Respond-
ing to Depression, Mental Illness & Sub-
stance Abuse.” This discussion, which
addresses new behaviors among parents
as they age, will help participants learn
to recognize warning signs and where to
help them obtain the support they need.
Mon., May 3, from 7–9 p.m. at the Seat-
tle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle. $10/
person. Advance registration encour-
aged. Contact Emily Harris-Shears at
206-861-8784 or familylife@jfsseattle.org
for information.
Snohomish Torah
dedication
Chabad of Washington State and
the Chabad Jew ish Center of
Snohomish County will hold a
Torah dedication and Lag B’Omer cele-
bration, including the completion of
the last letters of the center’s Torah, music,
dancing, and a festive meal. Open to all.
Sun., May 2 at 4 p.m. at the Edmonds
Conference Center, 201 4t h Ave. N,
Edmonds. For more information contact
rabbi@jew ishsnohom ish.com or
425-967-3036, or info@chabadofseattle.org
or 206-527-1411.
Israel to Haiti: Across the
World in 48 Hours
Daniel Biran, administrative
ambassador to the Israel Con-
sulate of New York, will share his
experience as a first responder to Haiti
following the January earthquake that
devasted much of the country in “Israel
to Haiti: Across the World in 48 Hours.”
Biran will focus on the Israeli Defense
Force’s efforts in aiding Haiti.
Hosted by the Maimonides Society of
Washington State. Thurs., May 6 at 7 p.m.
at the Top of the Market in Pike Place
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Making Marriage Work
Bestselling author and renowned
marriage expert Dr. John Gott-
man will appear in Seattle as a
part of ParentMap’s annual lecture series
for parents. Gottman is founder of The
Gottman Institute for Marriage Research
and the author of more than 40 books. He
will offer tools and insights to couples
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next level. Tickets $20 in advance/$25 at
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visit parentmap.com/pathways or call
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What’s Your JQ? t Page 9
Rabbi Moshe Lichtenstein elaborates
on this teaching: Death is the antithesis to
birth. In mourning, therefore, we mourn
not only a specific person but also the
loss of “demut deyukani” — the image of
God, now defeated with death. We mourn
the loss of the human-Divine image, and
therefore we must conceal it and overturn
the place where it is seen: The mirror.
Rabbi Maurice Lamm, in his book
Consolation, The Spiritual Journey Beyond
Grief, suggests that covering mirrors
addresses a primitive fear — the fear of
becoming invisible. As we mourn, we
inevitably begin to think about ourselves.
Funny thing about we humans, it seems
to always be about: Me!
This drama of vanishing calls our
very existence into question. And well it
should. We are not here forever; one gen-
eration comes and another passes. The
covered mirror tells the tale.
“Covering the mirror helps us con-
front our fears in both directions: that it
is real in a sense that life will go on with-
out us and that it is unreal that each of us
does make a difference.”
On one hand, we are not here forever; on
the other, a life well-lived is remembered.
One personal reflection: After a week of
not seeing myself I pulled down the paper
and took a good hard look. “Hmmm,”
I thought, “I am still here. There I am. I
have survived this deeply sad experience
of losing my father.”
But there is more. There is my little grand-
son, Ilan, plunked in front of the mirror. The
challenge for each of us after the passing of
a parent is to figure out the puzzle, of “What
now?” Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst
theorist of the “mirror stage,” had noticed
babies first become cognizant of themselves
and their own image at about the age of 6
months, when they recognize themselves
in the mirror. This mirror stage is a decisive
turning point in the mental development of
the child. It’s no accident we cover our mir-
rors as we face death. This Jewish mourning
practice of giving ourselves a break in look-
ing at the mirror demands of each of us to
look anew at our own image, to ask ourselves,
who are we now that a generation is past?
Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally
renowned educator and Head of School at
the Seattle Hebrew Academy. If you have
a question that’s been tickling your brain,
send Rivy an e-mail to kletenik6@aol.com.

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