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Oh, the nerve! Giant leaps in repairing body damage

Janis Siegel JTNews Columnist
Millions who suffer from nerve damage and even paralysis may soon be able to take a heretofore impossible giant leap forward after the results of two successful Tel Aviv University studies one using a gel inside a biodegradable nerve wall implant, and the second that injected a newly discovered protein compound in animal subjects that provided substantial To Your healing results. While medical discov- Health eries bring us ever closer to regenerating organs such as the liver and even the heart muscle, the nervous system, whose damage leaves many people with permanent pain, loss of movement, and paralysis, remains uncured. Earlier this year, a team headed by Prof. Zvi Nevo and Dr. Shimon Rochkind from Tel Aviv University created the gelimplant therapy that regenerated peripheral nerves. Although the doctors say that the procedure is still a few years away from use in a clinical setting, the gel, called Guiding Regeneration Gel, promotes nerve growth and was also found to potentially restore function to a damaged or torn nerve, with or without the use of the biodegradable implant. The gel by itself can be used as a stand-alone product, acting as an aid to cell therapy, said Rochkind in a TAU interview. GRG is not only able to preserve cells, it can support their survival while being used for therapy and transplantation. Every day, our bodies use a vast nerve network set in motion by electrical signals within our body. Peripheral nerves transmit signals from the spinal cord out to the rest of the body and they also reverse the process, transmitting external signals back to the spinal cord. A damaged nerve cannot communicate with the rest of the nervous system or transmit signals back and forth as its designed to, which impacts a persons ability to move and feel. The key to the gel-implant healing process, said Rochkind, is that the implant, which is tube-like, creates a bridge that encourages the torn cell ends to connect. The gel is derived from antioxidants, synthetic fibrous protein peptides, and hyaluronic acid to prevent drying. The tube was a major factor in the restoration process, said Rockind, even in cases with massive nerve damage. When grown in the gel, cells show excellent development as well as intensive fiber growth, he said. This could have implications for the treatment of diseases such as Parkinsons, for which researchers are actively exploring cell therapy as a potential solution. Another 2013 study at TAU by Prof. Illana Gozes, a recent recipient of the Meitner-Humboldt Research Award for her lifelong contribution to brain sciences, shows great promise but is further away from an applied clinical use. Gozes, the director of TAUs Adams Super Center for Brain Studies, who holds the Lily and Avraham Gildor chair for the investigation of growth factors, with her research team developed davunetide, or NAP, a peptide compound that heals microscopic tube-like units found inside brain cells called microtubule networks. The compounds ultimately transmit important proteins that allow the cells to communicate. This is the kind of communication that fails in diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers. The experiment, using two groups of animal subjects, found that one injection of NAP could preserve and revive damaged microtubule networks. Both the mouse group that was genetically produced to have the nerve cell damage and the group in which it was induced by the use of an injected substance showed retarded cell damage or restored nerve cell function. In both control groups of mice that did not receive the NAP, each continued to experience nerve cell decline. The study was published in the journal Neurobiology of Disease. Gozes said that future research might discover which patients would benefit the most from the therapy by developing a better clinical application. Earlier research with NAP indicated that patients with low cognitive function scores, which are usually an indication of a developing case of Alzheimers disease, improved with the use of NAP. In addition, earlier studies were shown to improve the damaged microtubule networks of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Longtime JTNews correspondent and freelance journalist Janis Siegel has covered international health research for SELF magazine and campaigns for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

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You may have noticed on the front cover that weve done a little design refresh in this issue of JTNews. But the changes go deeper. Weve reorganized the order of some features to make them more consistent and easier to find. In addition, we are also debuting four special sections this month two in this issue and two in the next. J-Teen, the teen section we have run a couple times a year, now goes monthly. That starts on page 14. On page 25 you will find the premiere of Northwest Jewish Seniors, which will provide advice, events listings and more. Coming later this month will be an expansion of our popular Northwest Jewish Family magazine and articles from our Jew-ish.com young adults website. Enjoy!

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Get over yourselves
Rabbi Donniel Hartman muses on the newly released Pew Research Center of U.S. Jews and says that once we get past our own biases in the results, we can find some important nuggets about our Jewish future.

Jewish learning, teenager style

Our two largest community supplementary high school programs have been expanding their footprints and programs in interesting and diverse ways.

For shes a jolly good fellow

Hillel at the University of Washington has a new member on staff a liaison between Israelis and Jewish students.

Its ladies night

A recent Hadassah event at a local art gallery seeks to show that the womens organization can be relevant to women of all ages.

Helping Israels disabled from Seattle

Remember when
From the Jewish Transcript, October 17, 1960. Seattleites got a special treat this year, as the announcement came of a visit by the Baruch Yeffeth Yemenite dance troupe. Many of Yemens Jewish traditions have been lost with the emigration and dying out of the countrys Jewish community.

An organization in Israel that works with the countrys developmentally disabled has set up shop in Seattle for fundraising and programming efforts.

Meet Anne Frank

Millie Perkins, who played Anne Frank in the 1959 film based on the young girls diary, spoke to JTNews in advance of her visit to Mercer Island later this month.

J-Teen 1416 Celebrate a global Shabbat 14 Learning teamwork on the high seas 15 Upcoming teen events 15 Building a love of Israel 16 The pope in Israel? 24

The pontiff has responded warmly to two invitations to visit the Jewish State. So when will he make the trip?

Northwest Jewish Seniors Managing retirement funds Upcoming seniors events

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For a complete listing of events, or to add your event to the JTNews calendar, visit calendar.jtnews.net. Calendar events must be submitted no later than 10 days before publication. 6 p.m. Go Wild: A Night to Celebrate Larry Broder

Charlene Polyansky at Charlene@tdhs-nw.org or 206-315-7389 or tdhs-nw.org Honor Larry Broders 20 years of service to Temple De Hirsch Sinai and his retirement. Rock Shabbat service at 6 p.m. Go Wild dinner (RSVP required) at 7 p.m. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle. Rabbi Danny Landes Shabbaton

minyanohrchadash@gmail.com or www.minyanohrchadash.org Rabbi Landes, director of Pardes in Jerusalem, will give four talks on Sages in Collision, about rabbinic figures relationships of tension, polarity and love. For topics and times check the website. At Minyan Ohr Chadash, 6701 51st Ave. S, Seattle. Rabbi Ken Spiro Shabbaton

rsvpsbh@gmail.com or 206-723-3028 Talks include Back to the Future The Jewish View of History and Israel and Ishmael The Metaphysical Roots of the Middle East Conflict. RSVP for schedule. Adults $25, kids $18. At Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath, 5145 S Morgan St. and Sephardic Bikur Holim, 6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.

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9:30 a.m.3:30 p.m. SJCC Schools Out Camp: Rockstar Showdown

Daliah Silver at daliahs@sjcc.org or 206-388-0839 or www.sjcc.org Each day features a theme, swimming, playing in the gym, arts and crafts, plus the rockstar showdown. SJCC Members $50/Guests $60. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

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10 a.m.3 p.m. Pre-Holiday Art and Gift Sale

Kathy Gallagher at 206-547-3914 or www.kadima.org Third annual Kadima pre-holiday art and gift sale, featuring Judaic and secular art: Jewelry, ceramics, wall art, mosaics, and fiber art. At Kadima House, 12353 Eighth Ave. NE, Seattle. 12:303:30 p.m. Walk With Friendship

Erica Newman Nash at erica@friendshipcirclewa.org or 206-374-3637 or www.walkwithfriendship.com Walk to create awareness, solidarity, and support for special-needs children and their families. At Luther Burbank Park, 2040 84th Ave. SE, Mercer Island. 46 p.m. SJFF Film and Discussion: Two-Sided Story

Pamela Lavitt at sjff@sjcc.org or 206-388-0832 or seattlejewishfilmfestival.org Documentary film created by the Parent CircleFamilies Forum, an Israeli/Palestinian reconciliation organization and bereavement group. Free. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. 7:309:30 p.m. Songs From My Heritage

Shelly Goldman at sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.org David Krohn of the Seattle Opera Young Artist program presents classical and Jewish songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, Italian, and English. Dessert reception follows. Free. At Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.

13 October

10 a.m.2 p.m. SJCC Open House

Heidi Turner at heidit@sjcc.org or 206-2327117 or www.sjcc.org Tour the facility, work out with a personal trainer, enjoy refreshments, and maybe win a prize. The J will waive joining fees for this event. Free. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. 5:308:30 p.m. Jewish Federation 2014 Community Campaign Kickoff

Shoshannah Hoffman at shoshannahh@ jewishinseattle.org or 206-774-2246 or www.jewishinseattle.org/kickoff An evening of food, music and fun. Special welcome by JFGS president and CEO Keith Dvorchik. $60. At the Hyatt Regency, 900 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue.

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5:30 p.m. SJCC J Explorers Trick-or-Treat For Hunger

Katie London at Katiel@sjcc.org or 206-388-0828 or www.sjcc.org Trick-or-treat for canned food for the Jewish Family Service food bank. Bring non-perishable food items to donate. J Explorers membership required. Free. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

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7:309 p.m. The Knowles Collection: Jewish Resources at FamilySearch.org

Mary Kozy at genmail@marykozy.net or jgsws.org/meetings.php W. Todd Knowles of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City began a search for his Polish Jewish grandfather over 35 years ago. The records began the Knowles Collection, six databases of Jewish genealogical records. Free. At the LDS Factoria Building, 4200 124th Ave. SE, Bellevue.

14 October

1:152:30 p.m. Jewish Yoga

Shelly Goldman at sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.org Asher Hashash will help you stretch your spirit with the Aleph-Bet as the mystics understood it. Bring comfortable shoes and a desire to relax Shabbat style. Free. At Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue. 510 p.m. Parents Night Out: 90s Night

Daliah Silver at daliahs@sjcc.org or 206-388-0839 or www.sjcc.org Games, arts and crafts, and dinner for kids while parents go out. Pin the Platform Shoe on the Spice Girl, singing contests, and musical dance party. SJCC member $30, sibling $15; guest $40, sibling $20. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

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Sunday

6:30 p.m. Celebrating the 15th Birthday of Music of Remembrance

John Huffstetler at john@musicofremembrance.org or 206-365-7770 or musicofremembrance.org Reception, dinner, music. At Womens University Club, 1105 Sixth Ave., Seattle.

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Its time to get over ourselves: letters to the editor The lessons of the Pew survey
If not now, when?

Donniel Hartman Special to JTNews

Facts rarely shape or change our opinions. We prefer to select the facts that mirror and justify that which we already hold. The release of the recent Pew survey, A Portrait of Jewish Americans, with its treasury of facts and figures, has caused a tsunami among Jewish leadership and social media as we all scramble to locate the facts that can serve our preexisting individual or institutional purposes and cherished truths. This process has a celebratory and self-congratulatory feature. For example, many Israeli voices find in the survey the proof that they have been searching for to justify the Zionist claim of the unviability and unsustainability of Diaspora Jewish life. Some within Orthodoxy find evidence to the unviability and unsustainability of a liberal Judaism. Many voices within other denominations find evidence proving the superiority of their approach. The discourse around the survey invariably takes on a form of I told you so. When one frees oneself from ones ideological and institutional loyalties, however, the survey provides important information and insight into the nature of our people and future directions that may warrant consideration. One interesting fact exposed by the survey is the scarcity of movement from less to more observance. People leave their denominations to become increasingly Jewish without religion, but rarely increase their commitment to tradition with its consequent faith and required practices. The fundamental lesson to be learned is that we all have to get over ourselves. Whether our denomination or belief fares better in the commitment of its adherents to Judaism, to raising children Jewishly, and to the State of Israel, it is simply irrelevant. The less or differently observant are not going to change, if change means accepting religious presuppositions and categories that are at present alien or absent in their lives. Diversity is not the product of failed education or the lack of exposure of one group to the truth and beauty of the other. We differ Jewishly because as people we have different notions regarding the essence of our tradition, and different approaches to what makes a life a life of value. The plurality of Judaisms is the result of an ideological gap not a lack of knowledge. The fundamental challenge we face regarding the future vitality of our peoples Jewish identity and commitment is how to create ideas and experiences internal to each conceptual and ideological framework that are capable of garnering

greater excitement and depth of commitment. In the end, victory will not be achieved through the withering away of those who disagree with me nor through the proven sustainability of my approach. As I mentioned, we have to get over ourselves. Victory will be attained when everincreasing numbers of Jews, regardless of their affiliation or lack thereof, will feel more deeply connected and committed to their Judaism. In this process, it is critical to distinguish between that which is a core and essential feature or reality of a particular Jewish ideology, denomination, or sociological classification and that which is a current manifestation and expression alone. The facts that shed light on the latter provide insight for educational responses and new programmatic possibilities; the facts that shed light on the former obligate us to reshape our definitions of ourselves as a people. Thus, for example, even if living in Israel, being Orthodox, or not intermarrying increases the chances of ones children being Jewish, this is merely a statistical fact as to the new reality of contemporary Jewish life, and not one with educational or programmatic significance. North American Jews on the whole are not going to move to Israel, abandon their liberal sensibilities, nor stop marrying fellow Americans who embrace them and want to marry them. These are not current manifestations of 21st-century Jewish life, but ongoing and core features of this reality. The key question for the future of Jewish life is not whether one can change this reality, but what one must do to change the seemingly detrimental consequences of this reality for the future of Jewish identity. Accepting this is one of the greatest challenges of leaders and ideologues to work within a given reality to improve it instead of fantasizing about shaping it in ones image. An interesting, important, and as-yetopen question is whether the move away from institutions and denominations, as identified in the survey, is a new reality or merely a current manifestation. That Jews see Judaism and Jewish identity increasingly in terms that are less religious, I suspect, is a reality. Here, paradoxically, North American and Israeli Jewry are becoming similar. The religious-secular divide of Israel is increasingly an appropriate lens with which to view North American Jewry. But as we have been learning here in Israel over the last decade or so, the categories of both religious and secular are neither monolithic nor onedimensional. For example, secular does not mean

When Abraham our father opened his tent to two strangers, he was committing a revolutionary act. Fear of the stranger is deeply ingrained in human consciousness. When we examine the word kindness we see that it contains the root kin. It is far easier to be kind to our kin, those from our own tribe. Our ancestors established a system of ethics that sees the humanity in all people. Yet, we read further on in the story that Abraham drove away his son Ishmael and the boys mother. Surely this is a tear in the fabric of our heritage that caused and still causes endless bloodshed and suffering. As I write this, leaders from Israel and the Palestinian Authority are in Washington, D.C. engaged in negotiations. This process is of necessity secret. Will they succeed in birthing a Palestinian state within the agreed upon nine months? So far neither party has walked out. All of us who love Israel hope and pray for her to remain Jewish and democratic, and gain respect from the rest of the world. I maintain that we as American Jews need to support the peace process wholeheartedly. To do so requires a leap of faith, yes. We need to put aside thousands of years of fear and mistrust, all based on brutal historic reality. If not now, when? Paula Libes Chester Mercer Island

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I agree with Steven Hemmat (Allowing diverse opinions, Letters, Sept. 13). Why does JTNews give a floor to opinions that side with people that want to destroy the Jewish state of Israel? Palestinian leadership tried to destroy Israel even before 1948 under British rule and more so after 1948. Can anyone find a map of Israel in Palestinian school books or media? Have you read the Hamas charter that calls for the destruction of every inch of Israel and calls explicitly for the killing of Jews? Isnt it against the mission statement of JTNews as a Jewish newspaper? I am surprised the JTNews didnt find it necessary to respond nor to fix the inconsistency of the action with the JTNews mission statement. Eran Ben-Sira Rainier, Wash.

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less Jewish, but differently Jewish. While most secular Israeli Jews believe in God, the essence of their secularity is not determined by their faith but by the fact that they do not see in the worship of God, and the rituals it entails, an essential part of their Judaism. Jewish secular Israelis can have a robust Jewish life that entails commitment to Jewish values, observance of the Jewish calendar and lifecycles, participation in Jewish culture and learning, and loyalty to the Jewish people and their wellbeing. Many of these features are or can be defining aspects of a future, vibrant, less religious North American Jewry. The open question is whether Jewish institutions and denominations can adapt and continue to serve as important vehicles for deepening Jewish identity and connections. It is my hope that what we are seeing is merely a contemporary manifestation and not a new reality. Our institutions will require new thinking as they reimagine their roles, but I believe we will do a huge disservice to our future if we believe we will be better served without them. The human being is still a social animal in need of community, particularity, and

individual connections. We are still in need of partners, friends, services, assistance, guidance, and leadership at different moments of our lives. We still experience moments when a connection to our past is a source of strength and inspiration. An innovative and courageous educational, religious, and lay leadership are capable of providing the above, so long as we are open to rethinking the way we approach our tasks and define our goals. One of the important features of our traditions understanding of Jewish identity is that it is a national one and not merely a religious one. One becomes Jewish through birth, conversion, or marriage and remains so regardless of faith and practice. Consequently, sociological data about the Jews are not merely descriptive, but definitive as to who we are. Modernity and, in particular, life in Israel and North America have changed the rules of the game. The question is how we are going to play.
Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman is president of Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem and director of the institutes iEngage Project.

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The key word in growing high school programs: Opportunity

Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
When it comes to Jewish education, teens in search of something more than the typical classroom learning experience have plenty of options. While several synagogues around the area have long offered supplementary education within their walls, two programs have been growing either independently or as consolidations of multiple congregations to allow teenagers who might not otherwise have an opportunity to meet to study and work together. The Livnot Project debuted last year as a social-justice-learning program between Conservative congregations Beth Shalom in Seattle and Herzl-Ner Tamid on Mercer Island. It has renamed itself Livnot Chai upon bringing the Chai School, a fouryear-old joint program between Temple De Hirsch Sinai and Temple Bnai Torah, both Reform synagogues in Bellevue, into its fold as the school year began. Creating a multi-denominational setting for high school students is really important in terms of how theyre going to experience their Jewish selves in college and post-college, said Julie Hayon, Livnot Chais director. This model is setting them up to feel connected to the Jewish community in a more successful way. Students also attend from Everetts Temple Beth Or, the Kavana Cooperative in Seattle, and Congregation Kol Ami in Woodinville, as well as a handful of students who are unaffiliated with a congregation. Hayon said the program will see some changes with its larger footprint. On the Eastside we broadened the curriculum, she said. Whereas Livnot was always purely a social justice-based program, this is three tracks: An arts track, called Bezalel, a chochma track, which is more philosophy and learning, and then this Livnot social justice track. All three are going to be through the lens of social justice.

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To learn more about both schools, as well as receive registration information, visit Livnot Chai at www. livnotchai.org or Jewish High at www.jewishhighseattle.com.

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Livnot Chai student Rebecca Brown chants Torah as a group of Muslim girls listen during the programs Muslim/Jewish dialogue.

Yohanna Kinberg, associate rabbi at Temple Bnai Torah, is running the Bezalel track, which runs the gamut from songleading to photography. I have 30 kids in my elective, and they all have different interests, Kinberg said, which means that within the curriculum she is piloting ideas almost in real time, working with the actual kids. The ability to make on-the-fly changes to the program made integrating the Chai School into Livnot a big draw for the temples and for the teens. You need to meet them right where they are, Kinberg said, and provide them the best experience possible. Rabbi Jill Levy, Herzl-Ner Tamids director of congregational learning, called the growth of Livnot an amazing opportunity. For her students, it increases the course offerings while increasing their friendship base. We really feel like its crucial in the

post Bnai Mitzvah years that these kids are part of one Seattle Jewish community, she said. I would call this a broad-reach effort to bring as many teens together as possible and to form a partnership that previously hasnt existed in the past. Another addition to the partnership is the J.Team teen philanthropy program, which was a program of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. J.Team will consist of monthly get-togethers for students to discuss social justice and charitable giving. Hayon said that because they found challenges in getting kids to cross Lake Washington each week, this program will run concurrently on both sides of the water with occasional joint meet-ups. There are a lot of ways that were bringing the two sides together, through grade-level retreats and through some service-learning opportunities through the community, and also through trips, said Rabbi Daniel Septimus, director of

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congregational learning at Temple De Hirsch Sinai. Opportunities include volunteering at events such as We Day, which will connect 15,000 teens from around the world in the spring to discuss creating social change. Septimus said the consolidation of the schools creates better opportunities for everyone involved. What Livnot is bringing is wonderful community resources, such as the Muslim-Jewish dialogue were doing, he said. The more resources you have in the same room, the better. Were living in an age in the Jewish community where we have fewer and fewer resources and we have to figure out better ways to better utilize them together. Because, as Kinberg noted, the curriculum for the original Chai School was already in place when Livnot approached, Septimus said he doesnt envision a huge shift from what the original Chai School was doing, at least in the near term. But, he said, Livnot is adding some more selections and options for electives, and of course bringing new kids into the fold. While many of the original Chai School teachers have been integrated into Livnot Chai, the model established last year in Seattle brings in teachers who are experts in their fields. The way that weve chosen teachers is to pick professionals in the community who are passionate about what they do in their own work, and were asking them to teach teens about doing that and getting teens involved in that kind of work, said Hayon. This method of bringing in experts is very similar to a popular course called Business, Ethics and Torah (BET), a part of the supplementary Jewish High that meets each week at the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island. One of Jewish Highs many offerings for high school credit, BET last year focused on personal finance, but is expanding outward this year to have more of a focus on the ethics and education of corporate business. Its not finalized yet, but were looking at people who are in our community who are leaders of industry, said Ari Hoffman, who oversees Jewish High as well as the NCSY youth group and Jewish Student Union groups that meet in public high schools across the Puget Sound Region. In addition, some people are coming in from out of town who fit that mold as well who we hope to have the kids talk to.
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An emissary reaches out to students and beyond

Diana Brement JTNews Correspondent
While shes not a formal member of any diplomatic corps, Tal Goshen-Gottstein is an ambassador of sorts. Goshen-Gottstein is Hillel at the University of Washingtons first Israel fellow, one of a handful around the country. The Israel fellow program is a joint venture between the Jewish Agency for Israel and Hillels Schusterman International Center. She was selected after an extensive search process. My focus, Goshen-Gottstein says, is to work with anyone who identifies as Jewish from age 18 to 32 interested in Taglit-Birthright the fully funded trips to Israel for young adults or MASA for older students. But theres more to her mission. I think the main thing is just having an Israeli walking around, smilingtalking to people, she says. She will also bring some Israel-centered programming to Hillel that could be political, yes, but also food and cultural. Mostly, she adds, I want to be a resource for students who have questions, about Israel and Judaism, no matter what their background. She really understands the value of pluralism, says Rabbi Oren Hayon, Hillel UWs executive director, and recognizes the wide diversity of views on Israel within the young adult community in Seattle She is the perfect professional to meet people where they are, and help deepen their understanding of Israel. Growing up Modern Orthodox in Jerusalem, Tal attended a religious high school, but says she is not observant anymore. She lived in Canada for the first four years of her life, so her English her first language, but not my strong language is fluent, but charmingly accented. The 25-year-old has a strong interest in programs that combine education and searching for Jewish identity. She first worked in the U.S. three years ago as a shlicha, or emissary, at the Conservative movements Camp Ramah in Wisconsin. That opened my appetite, if you can

Hadassah: Not just for your grandma anymore

Emily K. Alhadeff Associate Editor, JTNews
On a cool evening in early October, approximately 60 women gathered in the contemporary Winston Wachter Fine Art gallery in South Lake Union. Over wine and Mediterranean-inspired appetizers, they chatted and perused the exhibits before taking their seats for a short presentation. Hadassahs not just about our grandmas. Its about us, said Tamar Boden, a Hadassah regional board member and one of the event organizers. The occasion, Hadassah Plus Art, was the first of three new Hadassah Plus events geared toward bringing a wider demographic of women into the Hadassah fold. Hadassah Plus Cuisine and Hadassah Plus Wellness are in the docket, due to roll out in early 2014. Space Travel, large paintings of architectural spaces laced with neon gridlines. Sternberg, an art educator, tied the evening to Hadassah with a presentation on Marc Chagalls stained-glass windows installed at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital chapel in Jerusalem. Sternberg said she first saw the windows as a 15-year-old on a visit to Israel and was blown away. Through descriptions of five of the windows and a history of the artists life and relationship to Israel, Sternberg explained that the stained glass was meant by Chagall to be a transparent partition between [his] heart and the heart of the world. Of the 60 or so women in attendance, Boden and her co-planner Naomi Newman estimated about 50 of them were new faces to Hadassah events. The turnout

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Tal Goshen-Gottstein, Hillel UWs new Jewish Agency fellow.

say that in English, she says. Tal just finished her BA in psychology and philosophy from Hebrew University, having submitted her thesis paper just this month. Most Israelis attend university after military service, so finishing school quickly is the norm. But Tal wanted to get a broader education before I got a degree and took an extra year of classes in the humanities: A lot of Bible, Jewish thought, she says. As a commander in the IDF Education Corps Israels is the only army in the world with one Tal taught soldiers who didnt finish high school in a GED-type program. She instructed immigrants from around the world and members of minority communities, including many from Muslim and ultra-Orthodox communities, in English, Israeli citizenship, history, computers and more. I loved it, Goshen-Gottstein said. We got a microcosm of the Israeli education system.
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From left: Mimi Sternberg, Naomi Newman, Stacey Winston-Levitan, and Tamar Boden, the women behind Hadassah Plus Art, posing near Peter Waites Space Travel.

The organizers didnt spend much time talking about Hadassah, but quickly handed the proverbial mic over to Stacey Winston-Levitan and Mimi Sternberg. Winston-Levitan, a co-founder and owner of the gallery, briefly described the exhibitions: Erich Wolls When Things Go South glass installation, and Peter Waites

was mostly the result of outreach to about 300 women in their personal networks. According to Boden, they received good feedback and acquired a handful of new members. Newman noted the challenge of
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Strive for Clarity

by Mike Selinker

Israels mentally disabled will get a boost from Seattleites

Janis Siegel JTNews Correspondent
on a project called Sar-El, which conIts hard to imagine any organization sists of small groups of disabled individhaving 64 locations inside of Israel, but uals between 21 and 30 years old who are with its newest office in Seattle, the list now accompanied by Israeli soldier-mentors includes three in the United States for the who provide them with support, training Friends of AKIM USA, the Association for and leadership. the Habilitation of the Developmentally Disabled. The satellite location is mainly a place to raise funds for the agency and share its vast expertise, but Pacific Northwesterners will also benefit from AKIMs decades of expertise in offering employmentworthy job training and cradle-tograve shelter to those who cannot fend for themselves. Our vision is that we will carry out projects that will facilitate the cooperation and sharing of the Israeli experience, said Anat Brovman, director of the Seattle areas newly opened Friends of AKIM USA office, which will most likely be Courtesy Akim located in Bellevue. A developmentally disabled Bedouin woman from the The Seattle branch will be Negev Desert city of Rahat is a beneficiary of AKIMs mostly concerned with fundraisservices. ing and launching prospective proj[The disabled] work in the kitchen and ects, said Brovman, such as camps, visits in factories assembling computers or perto Israel to existing facilities, or sharing forming other duties that are essential for AKIMs Israeli experience with local orgathe army, Brovman said. nizations willing to cooperate with us. AKIM also collaborates with global Headquartered in New York, Friends companies on work-training programs of AKIM USA currently has locations in through a project called Open Market Palm Beach, Fla., Los Angeles, and CleveEmployment. Ikea and Promedico are land and Columbus, Ohio. two businesses that employ AKIM parIn the U.S, AKIM is a 501(c)(3) taxticipants and give them an opportunity to exempt nonprofit organization. have a job. In Israel, AKIM operates within a $15 Once we all learn how to treat and to million annual budget, with half of its behave equally and with respect to those expenses covered by the government and who are different from us, said Danieli, Israels social security program and the we shall enjoy life in a better and a hapother half generated from private donapier society for us and for our next gentions and global philanthropy. eration. In 2012, Israels minister of health iniAKIMs New York administrative tiated mental health reform through a director, Ben Rabinovitch, told JTNews national health insurance order, which the organization wants to grow and is transferred the costs of mental health continually scouting for new locations, crisis services from the Ministry of Health including potential outlets on Long Island to Israels HMOs. This change also comand in Phoenix. bined the mental-health-crisis-care system We are interested in raising awareness with the general physical-medical-healthand growing as much as possible here in care system. the U.S., said Rabinovitch. Our goal is According to Haaretz, one of the more to help people with special needs in Israel endangered groups impacted by this as much as we possibly can, and we will shift in resources is the mentally ill. spread our message wherever and however AKIM in Israel operates group homes, we can in order to reach that goal. social clubs, summer camps, workshops, When asked why AKIM would open in and apartments for the disabled within Seattle, Rabinovitch said this population is commercial residential buildings for more a nice fit for AKIMs goals. than 30,000 disabled persons of all ages The Seattle metro area is home to a throughout the country. large and vibrant Jewish community, We believe that it is in our hands to he said. It serves as a hotspot for young improve and to turn our society into a people looking to work in the high-tech better and a healthier one, said Mica Danand related industries. ieli, head of AKIM headquarters in the AKIM is open to all people who are disU.S. We believe that it can be done by abled on a nonpartisan, nonsectarian, apoproviding the people with special needs litical, and multicultural basis. with an equal attitude. A special IDF unit works with AKIM

The Sanhedrin courts had the rule, If it be as clear to you as the light of morn, say it! If it be not, say it not! But clarity is hard to obtain. Theres a type of word called a Janus word, which means both a thing and the opposite of that thing. When you say somethings fast, is it moving quickly, or not at all? When youre dusting, are you adding a fine powder or removing it? The italicized clues will lead to an understandable lack of certainty.
ACROSS 1 Bible subject 4 Grooms garb 7 Chose 12 Work to cause disease, or work to ward 15 Less frequent 16 Fended off the elements, or damaged as 17 18 19 20 21 23 25 28 30 32 35 36 37 40 42 43 44 45 48 51 52 54 56 58 60 61 63 66 67 68 69 70 DOWN 1 Michael Gspurning, for the Sounders 2 Baseball playoffs mo. 3 I mean, cmon! 4 Stick around 5 Where the endometrium is 6 Signed simply 7 Symbolic animal of the Pacific Northwest 8 Shipping platform 9 Adding to a tree, or subtracting from a tree 10 Wild ___ (classic alert sound on early 11 12 13 14 20 22 24 26 27 29 31 33 34 37 38 39 41 46 47 49 50 53 55 57 59 61 62 63 64 65

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from the elements Separates, or fastens together Woodsy is one Screw up Still Toolbox item 3:10 to ___ Book that inspired Clueless Golf bag contents Approval, or disapproval Crafters site Genetic building block Word whose middle letter is often replaced by an apostrophe Issue forth, or hide away Goes away from a job, or comes back to a job News org. ___ Poetica Genesis locale Making a place more active, or making a place less active Users of a certain type of park Recently deceased NFL player Junior Nu metal band whose third letter is often displayed in reverse Its charters Article 5 has been invoked just once, on 9/12/01 Choice on a two-answer question Favorable vote Starmaking Angelina Jolie role Adds a covering, or subtracts a covering Attention to detail, or lack of attention to detail Talks like 18-Acrosses Exactly, or not exactly exactly Girl Scouts quality Letters after a periodontists name Unified

Macs) No and Pepper, e.g. Congratulations to me! Inexperienced in Director Spike or director Ang Preserved for ones use, or removed from ones presence Commit sexual harassment, maybe Sierra ___ Heavenly body on a Tarot card Hill residents Break the Eighth Commandment Checked out illicitly Hit with a bat, or miss with a bat Type of question ___ out (understand) Fencing item What you get for a good deed, or what you get for a bad deed Aware of Seek help from Pregnant Group of geese Brand of chainsaw Putins opposites of 58-Across Like some stout beers Bygone national acronym Poetical preposition Sound with a finger placed before ones lips Kathleen Dee-Anne Stark, familiarly Decrepit Abbr. on box offices The Vampire Diaries star Somerhalder

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Growing investments and vegetables abroad and at home

met and married his wife With the addition of Yael, director of the aliyah Aaron Katsman to our program Nefesh bNefesh, stable of JTNews coland worked his way up in the umnists, we can truly say we financial community, eventuare a world-renowned orgaally becoming head of private nization. banking for Citibank there. A Seattle native, the son As a licensed financial of Rabbi Phillip Katsman adviser, hes had his own firm and the late Tzivia Katsfor almost five years. He has man, Aaron attended Seattle a global clientele, he says, Hebrew Academy, Northwest including a lot of Israelis, Yeshiva High School (class but also Americans or Anglos of 88) and Yeshiva Univer- Member of who have come on aliyah, sity, but has lived in Israel the Tribe plus clients in Europe and since graduating college. Hell Asia. be writing, for this papers This past August, bimonthly seniors section, McGraw-Hill published his which debuts in this issue. book, Retirement GPS: How My plan was always to to Navigate Your Way to A work on Wall Street, he conSecure Financial Future with fessed, but he promised himGlobal Investing. Aaron self if he got a job in Israel he writes regularly for The Jeruwould stay. He got an internsalem Post, Seeking Alpha ship at a financial firm and (a financial website), and the it stuck, he said. I lost a bet Wall Street Journals Marketwith myself. Watch website. With his 17 years of Jewish Courtesy Aaron Katsman Outside of work, hes often education, Aaron says he Financial adviser, author, and arrived in Israel able to con- new JTNews columnist busy with his five kids and is active in his central Jerusajugate verbs, but unable Aaron Katsman. lem neighborhoods counto carry on a conversation. cil. As a volunteer he helps people in debt, Entering the army fixed that fast. He then

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and as a sports-lover he plays on a softball league. Yes, softball, and Aaron reports there are a handful of leagues there, for adults and kids. His own team and his sons team both won their recent respective league tournaments and Aaron reports that while 65 percent of his sons team is made up of kids whose parents made aliyah, the Betsy Schneier rest are Israelis who Jason Schneier in one of his five gardens. go to school with [those kids] and think its kind of cool. dens at the Magnuson Park p-patch where he is a founding board member when I called, so I spoke to his wife I dont think Ive ever done a secBetsy. Jason is a gastroenterologist with ond-hand interview of an MOT, a full-time practice and Betsy wisely sugbut thats what happened inadgested she might be easier to pin down vertently when I reached out to Jason than her husband. Schneier to learn more about the vegJason started gardening about 30 years etable garden he started and tends to at ago, Betsy recalls, around the time they Congregation Beth Shalom in Seattles bought their house and had identical twin Wedgwood neighborhood. The congregirls. gation donates the produce to the Jewish Family Service food bank. Jason was tending one of his five garXXPage 22

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Hollywoods Anne Frank makes Seattle debut

Emily K. Alhadeff Associate Editor, JTNews
Millie Perkins was on her way to becoming a successful model in Paris when history intervened. I had never decided to be an actress, she said. I was probably 18 or 19 years old. Little did I know I was going to be a movie star. Now 77, Perkins is best known for her role as Anne in the 1959 film production of The Diary of Anne Frank. Perkins will be interviewed by film buff Foster Hirsch at the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Oct. 27 as part of the Js Jewish Touch lecture series. Hirsch, in addition to teaching and writing about film, handles celebrity interviews and has brought Perkins to Chicago and Israel. Fosters one of my most favorite people around, so I said yes [to Seattle], Perkins told JTNews from her home in Beverly Hills. Born in Passaic, N.J. in 1938, Perkinss face was gracing magazine covers around the world by 1958. Director George Stevens noticed her looks and invited her to read for the part of Anne. But acting had never occurred to Perkins, and she knew nothing of the story of the Dutch girl whose diary would come to impact Western civilization. She had already been modeling in London and Paris when the opportunity arose to audition. Its kind of a fairytale story, she said. All my French friends said, Oh Millie, you must go, Perkins said. Perkins was one of 10,000 girls to audition for the part. The diary hit me right in the heart, she said. After six months of shooting, Perkins could have returned 20th Century Fox to her Parisian fairy Millie Perkins, left, with Joseph Schildkraut in the 1959 production of The tale, but it wasnt Diary of Anne Frank. meant to be. When Thom died in 1979, Perkins said I met this actor, Dean Stockwell, who I she had to get back to reality, and in married for like two minutes, and became 1980 returned to Hollywood to support a Hollywood person, she said. her family, where she acted mostly in teleWhile Anne Frank went on to win vision, B-movies, and cult films espethree Academy Awards, Perkinss acting cially in mother roles. She appeared as career never exploded. In the late 1970s, Sean Penns mother in At Close Range a rumor spread that she had died. In fact, and as the mother of Charlie Sheens charshe had relocated to tiny Jacksonville, Ore. acter in Wall Street. to raise the two daughters she had with her Though Perkins sounds wistful as she second, late husband Robert Thom. reflects on the turns her life has taken, it I moved to Oregon to get off the locohas been an adventure. motive, Perkins recalled. I was raising I went out into the world, and I think I my children. It was heaven to me. really wanted to be my father, a merchant marine, she said. While shooting the 1985 miniseries A.D., in which Perkins played Mary, mother of Jesus, in Tunisia, she was held at gunpoint by Yasser Arafats soldiers at the airport. The guard looked at my passport and my face and said, No, she recounted. He shoved me in the chest with his gun. Perkins escort pushed her into a crowd onto the tarmac. It was scary. Of the whole experience, she said, It was quite

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wonderful and difficult. But it was fun. On another occasion, Perkins was seated next to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak on a flight. He told me wonderful stories, she said, like the time he came upon an Egyptian soldier alone during the Yom Kippur War. In a standoff, they held their guns on one another. Then, they looked in each others eyes and they both put their guns down and shared their lunches. He never told anyone that story. Perkinss talk comes at a significant time: This November marks the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht. The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles is currently holding an exhibit about Anne Frank. The film lay dormant for many years, Perkins said. Then about 10 years ago there was a new flurry of interest. She suggests the popularity of the story is related to the increased access to information and with it, hate. I see terrible hate going on, and I see great strides going on to change that, she said. I think Pandoras Box has been opened. Who knows how the human race will be in 10 or 20 years? To this day, Perkins says she receives hordes of fan mail from viewers touched by Anne Frank. Anne Frank is the reason they write the letter, she said. Thats a good thing.

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October 11-20 Seattle Polish Film Festival The Seattle Polish Film Festival features two Jewishthemed films. Siberian Exile (2013, 125 mins.) follows Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews deported to the Soviet Union in 1939. Through the eyes of young Staszek, the exiles face starvation and the ruthless elements in a brutal coming-of-age tale. In addition to learning survival skills, Staszek has to choose between Jewish Zinnia and Russian Luybk. In Redcurrants (2011, 34 mins.) Swedish resident, academic and journalist Leo Kantor reenacts his life story: His childhood in Russia in World War II, his adoption by his Polish-Jewish stepfather, and the witnessing of Germans leaving Poland after the war that shaped his memories. Films are in Polish with English subtitles. Tickets $5 for SIFF members, $10 for non-members. At SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., Seattle. For more information visit www.polishfilms.org.

Tuesday, October 15 at 7 p.m. Black is a Color Art exhibit and lecture Stan (Shlomo) Lebovics photo-realist artwork depicts the Holocausts profound and indelible impact on the generations born from the horror. Dark, yet colorful, surreal compositions seem to infuse light and hope into the darkest images of modern Jewish history. Free. At The Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle. For more information contact Rabbi Avrohom David at info@seattlekollel.org or 206-722-8289 or visit seattlekollel.org. For more information on the artist, visit blackisacolor.com.

Wednesday, October 16 at 7 p.m. Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bibles Harlot Queen Author talk Lesley Hazleton, author of Mary and The First Muslim, will talk about her biography of Jezebel. The book was published six years ago, but the accidental theologist is still half in love with the Bibles villain harlot queen whose history she reclaimed. Hazelton has given a TED Talk and is the recipient of a Literature Genius Award from The Stranger. Dessert reception follows presentation. Free. At Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue. For more information, contact Shelly Goldman at sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677, or visit www.templebnaitorah.org. For more information on Lesley Hazelton, visit accidentaltheologist.com.

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Through October 20 Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival The 18th annual Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival features one local and two Israeli shorts. Benignly titled Summer Vacation (Israel, 2012) can only be a setup for the problems that ensue when a family man runs into his past while vacationing with his wife and kids. Little Man (UK/ Israel, 2012) is director Eldar Rapaports third film based on tense relationships between men, and another Israeli foray into the suspense/horror genre. And Pinko Fag Jew (U.S., 2000) depicts the surprisingly little-known life of Faygele ben Miriam, the Seattle-based activist of the 1970s who pioneered for gay marriage way before his time. Summer Vacation (22 mins.) screens with Boys Shorts Sunday, October 13 at 2 p.m. at the Harvard Exit Theatre, 807 E Roy St., Seattle. Little Man (22 mins.) screens with Scream Queens Wednesday, October 16 at 9:30 p.m. at the Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle. Pinko Fag Jew (13 mins.) screens with the Radical Faerie Short Film Festival Saturday, October 12 at 4:30 p.m. at the Northwest Film Forum. For more information visit www.threedollarbillcinema.org/2013.

Tuesday, October 22 at 7 p.m. Hannah Arendt Film In partnership with the University of Washington Germanic Department and the Seattle Jewish Film Festival, the Stroum Jewish Studies Program will screen Hannah Arendt, the 2012 biopic about the German-American Jewish philosopher and her controversial coverage of the Eichmann trials in Jerusalem. At 220 Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle. For more information contact Lauren Spokane at laurenjs@uw.edu or 206-543-0138 or visit stroumjewishstudies.org/events.

Saturday and Sunday, October 26 and 27 SJFF Best of Fest Family Film Series Film On Saturday at 7:30 p.m., head to the Rainier Valley Cultural Center for Sixty Six, a cute comedy about a hapless Bar Mitzvah boy whose big day conflicts with the World Cup in 1966. Helena Bonham Carter plays his loving Jewish mother. On Sunday at 2 p.m., check out the award-winning animated feature The Rabbis Cat, about an Algerian feline in the 1920s who actually wants to have a Bar Mitzvah. Then at 4:30 p.m., enjoy My Dad is Baryshnikov, about a Russian ballet student who convinces his peers that hes the illegitimate son of esteemed dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. All films at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center, 3515 S Alaska St., Seattle. $5. For more information contact Pamela Lavitt at sjff@sjcc.org or 206-388-0832 or visit bit.ly/FamilyFilms.

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GREATER SEATTLE Bet Alef (Meditative) 206/527-9399 1111 Harvard Ave., Seattle Chabad House 206/527-1411 4541 19th Ave. NE Congregation Kol Ami (Reform) 425/844-1604 16530 Avondale Rd. NE, Woodinville Cong. Beis Menachem (Traditional Hassidic) 1837 156th Ave. NE, Bellevue 425/957-7860 Congregation Beth Shalom (Conservative) 6800 35th Ave. NE 206/524-0075 Cong. Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath (Orthodox) 5145 S Morgan St. 206/721-0970 Capitol Hill Minyan-BCMH (Orthodox) 1501 17th Ave. E 206/721-0970 Congregation Eitz Or (Jewish Renewal) Call for locations 206/467-2617 Cong. Ezra Bessaroth (Sephardic Orthodox) 5217 S Brandon St. 206/722-5500 Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch (Orthodox/Chabad) 6250 43rd Ave. NE 206/527-1411 Congregation Shevet Achim (Orthodox) 5017 90th Ave. SE (at NW Yeshiva HS) Mercer Island 206/275-1539 Congregation Tikvah Chadashah (LGBTQ) 206/355-1414 Emanuel Congregation (Modern Orthodox) 3412 NE 65th St. 206/525-1055 Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation (Conservative) 206/232-8555 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island Hillel (Multi-denominational) 4745 17th Ave. NE 206/527-1997 Kadima (Reconstructionist) 206/547-3914 12353 8th Ave. NE, Seattle Kavana Cooperative kavanaseattle@gmail.com Kehilla (Traditional) 206-397-2671 5134 S Holly St., Seattle www.seattlekehilla.com Khal Ateres Zekainim (Orthodox) 206/722-1464 at Kline Galland Home, 7500 Seward Park Ave. S Mercaz Seattle (Modern Orthodox) 5720 37th Ave. NE rachelirosenfeld@gmail.com www.mercazseattle.org Minyan Ohr Chadash (Modern Orthodox) Brighton Building, 6701 51st Ave. S www.minyanohrchadash.org Mitriyah (Progressive, Unaffiliated) www.mitriyah.com 206/651-5891 Secular Jewish Circle of Puget Sound (Humanist) www.secularjewishcircle.org 206/528-1944 Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation (Orthodox) 6500 52nd Ave. S 206/723-3028 The Summit at First Hill (Orthodox) 1200 University St. 206/652-4444 Temple Beth Am (Reform) 206/525-0915 2632 NE 80th St. Temple Bnai Torah (Reform) 425/603-9677 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue Temple De Hirsch Sinai (Reform) Seattle, 1441 16th Ave. 206/323-8486 Bellevue, 3850 156th Ave. SE SOuTH KiNg COuNTy Bet Chaverim (Reform) 206/577-0403 25701 14th Place S, Des Moines WEST SEATTLE Kol HaNeshamah (Progressive Reform) 206/935-1590 Alki UCC, 6115 SW Hinds St. Torah Learning Center (Orthodox) 5121 SW Olga St. 206/643-5353 WASHINGTON STATE AbERdEEN Temple Beth israel 360/533-5755 1819 Sumner at Martin bAINbRIdGE ISLANd Congregation Kol Shalom (Reform) 9010 Miller Rd. NE 206/855-0885 Chavurat Shir Hayam 206/842-8453 bELLINGHAm Chabad Jewish Center of Whatcom County 102 Highland Dr. 360/393-3845 Congregation Beth israel (Reform) 2200 Broadway 360/733-8890 bREmERTON Congregation Beth Hatikvah 360/373-9884 11th and Veneta EvERETT / LyNNWOOd Chabad Jewish Center of Snohomish County 19626 76th Ave. W, Lynnwood 425/640-2811 Temple Beth Or (Reform) 425/259-7125 3215 Lombard St., Everett FORT LEWIS Jewish Chapel 253/967-6590 Liggett Avenue and 12th ISSAquAH Chabad of the Central Cascades 24121 SE Black Nugget Rd. 425/427-1654 OLympIA Chabad Jewish Discovery Center 1611 Legion Way SE 360/584-4306 Congregation Bnai Torah (Conservative) 3437 Libby Rd. 360/943-7354 Temple Beth Hatfiloh (Reconstructionist) 201 8th Ave. SE 360/754-8519 pORT ANGELES ANd SEquIm Congregation Bnai Shalom 360/452-2471 pORT TOWNSENd Congregation Bet Shira 360/379-3042 puLLmAN, WA ANd mOScOW, Id Jewish Community of the Palouse 509/334-7868 or 208/882-1280 SpOkANE Chabad of Spokane County 4116 E 37th Ave. 509/443-0770 Congregation Emanu-El (Reform) P O Box 30234 509/835-5050 www.spokaneemanu-el.org Temple Beth Shalom (Conservative) 1322 E 30th Ave. 509/747-3304 TAcOmA Chabad-Lubavitch of Pierce County 2146 N Mildred St.. 253/565-8770 Temple Beth El (Reform) 253/564-7101 5975 S 12th St. TRI cITIES Congregation Beth Sholom (Conservative) 312 Thayer Dr., Richland 509/375-4740 vANcOuvER Chabad-Lubavitch of Clark County 9604 NE 126th Ave., Suite 2320 360/993-5222 Rabbi@ChabadClarkCounty.com www.chabadclarkcounty.com Congregation Kol Ami 360/574-5169 www.jewishvancouverusa.org vASHON ISLANd Havurat Ee Shalom 206/567-1608 15401 Westside Highway P O Box 89, Vashon Island, WA 98070 WALLA WALLA Congregation Beth israel 509/522-2511 WENATcHEE greater Wenatchee Jewish Community 509/662-3333 or 206/782-1044 WHIdbEy ISLANd Jewish Community of Whidbey island 360/331-2190 yAkImA Temple Shalom (Reform) 509/453-8988 1517 Browne Ave. yakimatemple@gmail.com

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BBYO invites every Jewish teen in the world to Global Shabbat

By Madee Ehrenberg
As the worlds leading Jewish youth movement, the Bnai Brith Youth Organization (BBYO) always has something going on. Summer programs stretch from June to August, regions hold multiple conventions throughout the year, and chapters all over the international order are conducting their weekly meetings on any given day. The world participates in BBYO on countless schedules and with unique regularity. One day each year, however, is designated as a time for all Jewish teens to join in the same special event. That day is Global Shabbat. Global Shabbat is all about the unity of the organization, and to further promote this unity, the event is given a theme relating to our lives and our identities as Jewish high school students. These themes are chosen at the start of the programming year by vote, and the polls are open to all members of BBYO. Members this year have chosen, for girls, Omdim Byachad, Am Echad, Bayit Echad We Stand Together, One Nation, One Home. For boys, the theme is Im Tirzu Ein Zoh Agadah If You Will It, It Is No Dream. Chapters around the world will coordinate events based on these themes to celebrate Global Shabbat and the community BBYO has given us. This years Global Shabbat falls on November 8-9. In past years, the Evergreen Region BBYO, which covers Seattle, Portland, Eugene, and now Kitsap, have held individual Global Shabbat events. However, 5774 is going to be different. Each Evergreen regional center will hold its own citywide Shabbat event, complete with original programming, engaging services, and valuable opportunities for sisterhood or fraternity, all planned and fueled by high school students. Throughout the evening, participants will be able to share their experiences with BBYO members celebrating around the world and hear about others Global Shabbat events. Global Shabbat is open to all Jewish teens, and we want the entire Jewish high school community of the Pacific Northwest present. Anyone who is interested, Jewish, and in grades 8-12 is encouraged to attend. Madee Ehrenberg is BBYOs regional board officer in charge of Judaic programming. For more information about Global Shabbat, contact her at egrdoverit@gmail.com, or BBYO regional director Ben Starsky at bstarsky@bbyo.org.

Challenging K-12 students in an intellectual community through early entrance, and outreach learning programs.

We offer on the University of Washington Seattle campus: Transition School UW Academy Saturday Enrichment Summer Programs Professional Development

For more information, visit our website: https://depts.washington.edu/cscy/ Phone: 206-543-4160 Email: cscy@uw.edu

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Sailing the Salish seas

By Shlomit Menashe
Recently I went on a trip with my freshman class at Northwest Yeshiva High School that was like no other. We sailed around Puget Sound for three days without cell phones, showers and iPods aboard the S.S. Adventuress , a 100-year-old wooden schooner. My initial thoughts before embarking were, Oy vey, how am I supposed to get through this? Upon boarding the boat I was ready to chill with my friends for three days and enjoy the scenery, but that was not to be the case. Within the first hour of the trip, we were hauling up the sails and cleaning pots and pans like real crew. We were given no Courtesy nyhs slack because we were inexperienced and young; we were put to work like every other sailor to board the S.S. Adventuress. At first it was a little overwhelming, having so much duty to fill all the time, but by the end of the trip we got through all our tasks easily and with much more enthusiasm than on day one! Being on the boat gave me a different perspective on teamwork. On the boat, its literally all for one and one for all. In my life I had never seen that phrase used so literally. Whether it was all hands on deck to haul up the four sails in the morning, or taking turns watching the schooner in the middle of the night, everyone looked out for and helped one another. For three days we experienced an alternate universe. We looked at nature first-hand, from porpoises to sea otters. We learned about sail theory and the physics of sailing. We learned about the ecology of the ocean and how important it is to keep it clean. Most importantly, we learned the true meaning of teamwork and caring for one another.

79 p.m. n College Night at NYHS kfranke@nyhs.net or 206-232-5272 or www.nyhs.net

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Saturday, October 19 811 p.m. n SJCC Tween Extreme Haunted Havdalah

Explore the college admissions process with David Blum, co-chair of the Penn Alumni Interview Program, who will present on How do colleges make their admissions decisions? Free, but RSVP requested. Recommended for 7th grade and up. At Northwest Yeshiva High School, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.

Ari Hoffman at thehoffather@gmail.com or 206-295-5888 or seattlencsy.com

Monday, October 28 9:1511 a.m. n Meet with Millie Perkins, Hollywoods Anne Frank
Melissa Rivkin at mrivkin@nyhs.net or 206-232-5272, ext. 515 or www.nyhs.net

Come scream and shout at Stokker Farms. Transportation provided to and from the event. $20. RSVP for pickup locations.

Friday, November 1 4 p.m. n NCSY Seattle Shabbaton

Millie Perkins will speak about her experiences working on the landmark drama. Breakfast follows. Free. At NYHS, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.

Ari Hoffman at thehoffather@gmail.com or 206-295-5888 or seattlencsy.com

Join over 200 attendees in Seward Park with a speaker and activities. Through Sun., Nov. 3. At Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath, 5145 S Morgan St., Seattle.

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Teen Israel trips show hope for the future

By Esther Goldberg
The results of the survey of attitudes of American Jews in A Portrait of Jewish America, conducted by Pew Research and published October 1, have sent shock waves through the American Jewish community. One disturbing aspect of the survey results is the lack of connection younger Jews have to the State of Israel. The survey found that while over half of those Jews 65 and older feel caring about Israel is an essential aspect of what it means to be Jewish, of those 30 and younger, only 32 percent feel this way. Equally startling, 68 percent of American Jews in high school or younger have not been to Israel. These results show that the number of young people who feel connected to Israel is drastically declining. There is hope! Interviews conducted with Seattle-area high school students who recently traveled to Israel paint a different picture. While many Jewish teens are choosing to be unaffiliated and secular, some are strengthening their Jewish identity and connection with Israel. These summer programs enrich high school students and instill them with a love and appreciation of the Jewish identity and homeland. Amit Perlin, a junior at the Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences, went on the Alexander Muss High School in Israel (AMHSI) program and said he gained a stronger Jewish identity, which includes Israel. Amits experience with Alexander Muss entailed studying in Israel for eight weeks last spring and essentially attending high school in Israel, credits and all. Every week, Amit had classes as they hiked around Israel and learned by experiencing the land one step at a time. He also learned Jewish history from the Biblical beginning of Adam, to the creation of Zionism, to present-day Israel. There was a lot to learn in little time, he said. The hardest part, according to Amit, was at first 24/7 being with people I never met and [going] out of your comfort zone. But overall, an amazing experience. Leah Ball, a senior at Auburn Riverside High School, went on United Synagogue Youth Israel Pilgrimage/Poland Seminar. I never felt so Jewish before, she said. Leah spent one week in Poland and four weeks in Israel with USY. Her views were extended, she said. I learned more than I thought I did. Leah realized that the world is huge, but its also really small. Leah created connections with strangers she encountered in Israel, which

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she called a testament to the Jewish identity she developed on her trip. la e Leah also shared an intense tie with her Youd b oking for scho : lo adlines e e d r u e peers based on what they experienced s e h If yo t o t ention ouple together. Leah recalls they all cried pay att just a c 5 2 r ed) together over tragedies that brought us Octobe y! (needs-bas sed a aw eds-ba closer than we ever could have gotten. weeks 014 (ne 2 , 7 1 y Albert Hanan, a junior at Northwest Januar sed) entive) c in eds-ba d Yeshiva High School, went on National e (n an 4 1 / 21, 20 ttle.org Council of Synagogue Youths (NCSY) March ishinsea eas/ w e .j w program, The Jewish Journey. This monthVisit ww o/israel-overs e-d more. long program began in the north of Israel what-w o learn t s t ip h s re abou and toured down all the way down to the scholar info the s o ls ip a h south, full of hikes, visits to kibbutzim, and Theres camp scholars ht exploring. With his program open and overnig nts. a accepting of different levels of religiosity, and gr Albert shared that it was interesting to learn about different types of Judaism and how other people connect to Judaism. Albert also discovered the culture of Israel, saying it fascinated him to see that even though Israelis share our religion, the culture is very different. In the end, Albert explained that his group really had become as close as a family. From Amit, Leah, and Alberts experiences, it is clear that although Israel is a foreign land in some ways to Jewish America, a common connection will always bring us back and link us to the homeland. Each said they grew as people and as Jews as their two identities became one. Leah said there are no words to describe how amazing it was. So if A Portrait of Jewish America finds that younger Jews have less of a connection to the state and land of Israel and that Israel is not essential to their Jewish identity, I think these three would beg to differ. JTNews intern Esther Goldberg is a sophomore at Northwest Yeshiva High School.

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ACME Bowling, Billiards & Events

ACME Bowling, Billiards & Events is the perfect spot for any occasion that requires fun! Their premium event services are custom tailored to ensure every detail of your event is perfectly executed, from start to finish. From Bar/Bat Mitzvahs to corporate events, from 10 to 1,000 guests, ACME Bowl delivers excitement and thrills for all ages. ACME Bowl features Seven10, their 10-lane private bowling area that offers an upscale lounge environment with custom leather couches and an exclusive 700-square-foot board room adjoining. Go for strikes at The Alley, with 30 stateof-the-art lanes and the latest in automatic pinsetter capabilities. To add to your experience, enjoy shooting stick on one of their seven pool tables at Q or test your skills on any of their 30 arcade games. With two additional private rooms, Ten Pin and Brooklyn, the possibilities for your events are endless. For more information call 206-340-0202 or visit acmebowl.com.

quality ice cream possible. Whether you are looking for a new and refreshing way to celebrate a special occasion, thank a client, or congratulate your staff on a job well done, they can accommodate your needs. From scooped ice cream to sundaes and ice cream bars, whatever you choose, their staff will deliver everything right to your event set up, serve, and clean up! Kosher-certified ice cream, frozen yogurt and sorbet, as well as an array of hot and dry toppings are available. For more information, to reserve a date, or receive a price quote, please visit their catering website at www.wabenjerry.com or contact them toll-free at 877-333-4799.

Ben Bridge Jeweler

Barrie Anne Photography

Recently relocated from Philadelphia, Barrie looks forward to bringing her talent and experience to the beautiful Pacific Northwest. In addition to specializing in Bnai Mitzvah, she also photographs weddings, portraits, and fashion. Known and recognized for her unique style, Barrie has a contemporary, creative, colorful, and natural style, with a photojournalistic approach. She strives to turn traditional settings into natural environments that inspire candid moments. Barries philosophy is to create beautiful, unique, and timeless images of these special times in life, allowing you to relive them over again, and will become as priceless as life itself. For more information, visit www.BarrieAnnePhotography.com or contact 610-888-5215.

In 1912 a personal jeweler opened a family-run store in downtown Seattle. Over a hundred years later, Ben Bridge Jeweler is still a family-run business, but one that has grown to more than 70 stores. Today, Bens grandsons Ed and Jon Bridge manage the company. They attribute Ben Bridges longevity and success to the companys commitment to quality and customer service. We want our customers to feel confident with every selection, explains Ed Bridge. Thats why Ben Bridge has more Certified Gemologists than any other jeweler in the country. Even after 100 years, Ben Bridge is still growing. This includes opening multiple stores dedicated to the wildly popular jewelry line Pandora. As they look to the next 100 years, the Bridge family knows one thing will never change: Ben Bridge is dedicated to being your personal jeweler. Find locations at www.benbridge.com.

Ben & Jerrys

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Ben & Jerrys ice cream catering, serving Western Washington, is the ultimate way to bring a fun and exciting experience to your next party or event. Ben & Jerrys has always been committed to serving nothing but the freshest and highest

Make your childs Bar or Bat Mitzvah the most talked-about party of the year at the Burke Museum! Your guests will enjoy dancing among dinosaurs and exploring gemstones and works of art from around the globe. Located on the
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beautiful University of Washington campus, their event spaces feature beautiful, quirky, and fascinating treasures. Whatever your vision and budget, the Burke Museum provides a variety of options that will have your guests talking about your party for years to come. For more information, contact them today at useburke@uw.edu or 206-221-7083, or visit their website at www.burkemuseum.org/rentals.

In addition to family celebrations photography, she shoots portraits and works freelance for several publications. Dani recently won the Best of JTNews for the sixth year in a row and has won the Brides Choice Award on Wedding Wire three years in a row. She holds a degree in fashion and commercial photography as well as photojournalism. She is currently involved with the Seattle Professional Photographers Association and The Greater Seattle Business Association. Contact her at www.daniweissphotography.com or 206-760-3336.

Cinema Books

Cinema Books is the film bookstore of the Northwest. Collections include biographies of movie stars and directors, glamorous picture books of Hollywood, posters, stills and cards of the stars, and technical filmmaking books for the novice or professional. They also carry criticism and reference film books to lead you to movies you may have missed. Call 206-547-7667 or visit www.cinemabooks.net.

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Dani Weiss has traveled the world perfecting her skills as a photographer and building a portfolio of her specialty: people and places. Portraits, weddings, Bnai Mitzvah, anniversaries, and family reunions are captured by Dani in a trueto-life documentary style. Dani has been a professional photographer since 1987.

Within the budget range you have established, Dennis Warshal can create the mitzvah event you envision! Enrich your religious ceremony with a beautiful bimah display of fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables that can be taken to a food bank. Use live plants and flowers you can plant in your garden. Beautiful flower arrangements can be repurposed for other family gatherings. At your kiddush reception, Dennis Warshal will work with your caterer to design the layout, color scheme and centerpieces. If you are having a special evening party, collaborate with Dennis Warshal to develop the celebration party theme and dcor which reflect both the personality of your daughter or son, and your family values! Your party dcor may include props, signage, color, lighting, centerpieces, etc. using a layout and timeline that is comfortable and fun for all your guests. Contact Dennis Warshal at 206-949-6663 or dennis@denniswarshal.com, or visit www.denniswarshal.com.

Events-4Life

Celebrating a Bar/Bat Mitzvah is a special moment with mixes of emotions: simcha, stress, tensions and bonding. You have a lot of details to take care of, such as venue, catering, entertainment, music, ceremony, dcor and much more. Events-4Life will lead you to a memorable event, personalizing your occasion based on your tradition, style, personality and, of course, budget, making this event stress-free for you to fully enjoy the moment with your family and friends.
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Your childs personality is important to Events-4Life, and they strive to make his/her event very special and unique. Events-4Life offers decoration services as well. They offer services in Seattle area and in Israel. If you wish to have the ceremony in Israel and a party with friends in Seattle, they can make it happen. Contact Ruti at ruti@events-4life.com for more information. Visit them at facebook.com/events4life.

rounding the guest of honor. Serve guests the best of the season with menus crafted by the Heathman Hotel Kirklands wine-country-inspired restaurant, Trellis. Executive chef and organic farmer Brian Scheehser offers farm-fresh dishes that capture the best of the Northwests harvest for a true farm-to-table experience, creating a memorable and extraordinary celebration.

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Greatest of Days

At Greatest of Days, they say We Coordinate, You Celebrate! If you want your creativity and your personality to be represented throughout your Bar/Bat Mitzvah or wedding, they believe in brainstorming any idea. The most important thing for them to do is listen. If you want a day with added touches that perhaps only have special meaning to you to help you relax or give you an extra smile, they can incorporate that into your event. If you want a Bar or Bat Mitzvah designed to match your childs personality, style and your budget, they can introduce you to vendors who will become a hand-picked team for your special day. They treat every event with as much care as if it was their own. Wishing you the Greatest of Days! For more information, contact Janis Flagg, 27111 167th Pl. SE, Suite 105242, or call 206-604-1908.

You will remember your special day for the rest of your life, so choosing the right partners to help you is an important decision. The team at Kaspars Special Events and Catering, with more than 22 years of experience and a reputation for excellence, will support you through the entire planning process, including venue selection, menu creation, ceremony, and reception planning, ensuring you are stress-free. Family owned and operated, Kaspars passion is to provide creative, fresh cuisine, and superior service at a reasonable price. They cater to groups of all sizes, both within Kaspars as well as at off-site locations, including private homes. Whether you are entertaining a few or a few hundred guests, the elements for success are the same: Superb fare, impeccable service, the proper ambience, and the right caterer! Kaspars Special Events and Catering has it all. Visit www.kaspars.com, call 206-298-0123 or fax 206-298-0146.

The Heathman Hotel Kirkland

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Celebrate the coming of age with a gala at the Heathman Hotel Kirkland. Located in the cultural center of the city and blocks from the vibrant waterfront, the hotel offers an unforgettable setting. Bask in the warmth of understated elegance throughout the hotel, including the San Juan Ballroom. With more than 2,000 square feet of space, the ballroom can be fashioned to accommodate an intimate gathering or a festive event. Warm colors, ambient lighting, and a window wall of natural light enhance stylish dcor sur-

For all your special occasions, weddings, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs and all your other simchas. Jewish and world music. Traditional and contemporary. Dance and concert. Many years of experience in all types of music. For more information about their music trio, please call 206-715-8796 or visit www.mariannagroup.com.

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Jewish comfort food at its most elegant. Matzoh Momma specializes in Bar and Bat Mitzvah kiddush luncheons that are fresh, bountiful and beautifully presented, with service that is uniquely personal. They will help you create the perfect event to mark the joyous occasion of your childs Bar/Bat Mitzvah. References available. Call Pip and Miriam Meyerson at 206324 6262.

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The Ruins is a private dining club (a restaurant for members and their guests) in lower Queen Anne with catering services available to the public. The founder, Joe McDonnal, built a party destination inside of a warehouse, with a garden entry and four beautifully appointed rooms. Collectively The Ruins can accommodate up to 150 guests for a seated dinner or 220 for a stand-up cocktail reception. From beginning to end, their professional staff and beautiful venue will offer you and your guests a truly unique and memorable experience. Contact The Ruins at 206285-7846 or visit www.theruins.net.

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One of the goals of the Seattle Jewish Film Festival since it moved to the Stroum Jewish Community Center has been to expand its programming beyond the confines of the 10-day festival program. For Sukkot, SJFF went way beyond those confines when it screened Renewal a compilation of eight film shorts that portrayed different faiths approaches to environmental conservation on a sukkah wall every night for a week. The sukkah was erected next to the historic Washington Hall in Seattles Central District. The festival partnered with the Washington State Jewish Historical Society, which performed In the Land of Rain and Salmon, a play about the early Jewish settlers in Washington State by Book-It Repertory Theatre, the first night.

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For teens interested in business careers, Hoffman said the mix of speakers from larger companies and local startups will be very compelling. One of the things that we based part of the curriculum on is the book Startup Nation, and using key points to create a successful business, he said. Hoffman also noted that all of the graduates of the BET program last year who applied for internships both locally and as far away as Israel had been selected. Jewish Highs principal, Rabbi Mark Spiro, said the other big draw for high school credit has been the conversational Hebrew courses, which qualify for language requirements. One new Jewish High leadership initiative, Jewish Unity Mentoring Program (JUMP), brings together JSU groups and day school students in this case from Northwest Yeshiva High School and Derech Emunah girls school for a national chal-

lenge contest that helps the teens broaden their management and leadership skills by creating community service, education, Israel-related, and fundraising projects. The team will compete against other JUMP groups across the country. Judges in the past have included Donald and Ivanka Trump. They always have big names involved, Hoffman said. Hoffman said enrollment has expanded from last year, in particular with junior high students whose parents are seeking more structured programs and teens whose families are unaffiliated with a synagogue. Spiro pointed to one such graduate of Jewish High, who sought out a Jewish education of her own accord, and has since joined the Israel Defense Forces. She really got a tremendous amount out of the school and actually was going on to further her Jewish education, he said. Both programs receive funding from the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, and are also funded through tuition, grants and private donations.

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He just wanted to mess around in the yard, she says. I think he started as a kidhe just loved digging. That house now has two vegetable gardens, one in the front and one in the back. Jason maintains the synagogue garden almost entirely on his own, with some help from congregants. Then theres the Magnuson garden and another p-patch on Decatur Island, where the couple has a second home. Its a good outlet for him, observes Betsy, a Seattle native. She attributes some of his success to his scientific approach to dirt. Chemistry has always been his thing, she says. Dirt has always been his thing. Jason and Betsy met when he came to Seattle to do his residency at the University of Washington. Growing up in Middletown, Penn., home of the infamous Three

Mile Island nuclear facility, Jason went to Harrisburg Yeshiva and earned money for college at UPenn doing construction on the nuclear plant. He studied medicine at University of Pittsburgh and after his residency the couple moved to Boston while Jason completed a fellowship. After that, Betsy says, she offered him a choice between Seattle and Hawaii. Jason confirmed all this in a later conversation, and says gardening for the food bank adds a dimension to charitable giving. In Jewish life, everyone is asked to open up your checkbook, he says, but sometimes its nice to just live it a little. Gardening has a spiritual component, too, observing that nothing works according to plan. Its like a Tibetan Buddhist sand paintingyou do it and it blows away, he says. It makes you humble.

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By Aaron Katsman Open up the business section or watch business TV and you are sure to find something about the federal reserve and tapering. Everyone keeps talking about it, but what is it and how can you adjust your investment portfolio to prepare for it? Those focused on retirement investing should pay close attention, as it will impact you the most. In laymans terms, tapering is the slowing down and eventual ending of the massive Federal Reserve stimulus program thats been aimed at getting the U.S. economy back on a solid growth track. The huge bond purchases of $85 billion a month have kept interest rates at historically low levels. The unintentional impact of this was that stock markets screamed higher as investors had nowhere else to generate any yield. Retirees, who had grown comfortable watching the value of their U.S. bond holdings rise on each monthly statement over the course of decades, suddenly reacted in horror as their June and July statements arrived in the mail, showing steep losses in almost all fixed income classes. For retirees looking for fixed income, this is serious. What should they do? Here are two sectors of the fixed income market that investors may want to seek out in a rising rate environment: Global Non-U.S. dollar bonds This is an asset class that is foreign to many investors, no pun intended! Believe it or not, investing in foreign bonds provides both value and stability. Its all about the business cycle. Alison Martier, senior portfolio manager of fixed income at AllianceBernstein, writes: A U.S.-only bond investor is affected by one business cycle, one yield curve, and a single monetary policy. As long as rates were falling, that seemed like a good thing. Not so these days. Going global diversifies an investors interest-rate risk and brings many other potential benefits. Although different countries economic cycles, business cycles, monetary policies and yield curves may briefly align, over long periods theyve not been highly correlated. While we may think foreign bonds are speculative and very volatile, they surprisingly are not. According to Douglas Peebles, chief investment officer and head of fixed income at AllianceBernstein, in adverse bond marketsthere has historically been a greater performance gap, with global bonds faring significantly better than U.S. bonds. While U.S. bonds declined 1.1 percent on average in down quarters, global bonds lost only 0.7 percent. Thats 62
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Hot soup for a cold day

Michael Natkin JTNews Columnist
Homemade minestrone filling the soup with umami. has got to be one of the best (Of course, you can omit this rainy day foods in the world. for a vegan version.) Living in Seattle, weve got You can toss this soup ample opportunity to test that together and let it simmer theory. It is certainly miles for just an hour, and it will beyond the canned version. be good. But if you can let Add a glass of wine and a it simmer for two or three couple of big garlicky croutons hours, the flavor will truly to soak up the broth, maybe a develop. Even better, make it salad, and you have a meal. a day ahead of time and reheat The version of minestrone Jewish and it. I havent been able to track I always come back to is based Veggie down the science behind it, on Marcella Hazans Minebut umami-rich foods, and strone alla Romagnola recipe tomato-flavored foods in parin Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. ticular, always improve after 24 hours. Marcella recently passed away after many If anyone has seen any research on this, years of touching hearts and tables around please let me know. the world. Ive just streamlined her recipe As Marcella points out, this is one of a bit (soaking zucchini? why?) and omitthose lovely dishes that doesnt require perted the beef broth. I think you will find it fect advance preparation. You can easily equally delicious with the simple tomatoey prepare and cut each vegetable as the prebroth, especially if you include the parmevious one is added to the pot and sauted. san rind. The what? Thats right, the parmesan Vegetarian Minestrone rind. You know when you buy a piece of ParVegetarian; gluten-free if you omit the migiano-Reggiano, theres always that piece crouton; vegan if you omit the cheese. at the end thats too hard to grate? Scrub 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil those a bit and throw them in the freezer. 1 medium onion, thinly sliced Then, when youre ready to make mine1-2 medium carrots, small diced strone, toss it in the pot. While the soup sim3 stalks celery, small diced (reserve leaves for mers, all that incredible flavor extracts out, garnish)
2 cups small-diced waxy potatoes, skin on 1 handful green beans, ends trimmed, cut in 1/2 lengths 3 medium zucchini, small diced 3 cups finely shredded cabbage (Savoy or green) 1-2 Tbs. vegetable broth powder; I like Seitenbacher (double check gluten-free/vegan status if important to you). Dont be tempted to use a thick vegetarian broth; you can use a pre-mixed one as long as it is a clear, brown type that tastes good. 1 parmesan rind (see above) 1 15-oz. can good-quality whole Italian tomatoes with juice Salt 1/2 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano 1 15-oz. can cannellini or white navy beans, drained and rinsed Big garlic-butter croutons for serving (optional) Heat the pot and the olive oil over a medium-low flame. Add the onion and a big pinch of salt and saut for 3 minutes. Add each of the following ingredients in turn, tossing and allowing to cook for 2-3 minutes after each one: carrots, celery, potatoes, green beans, zucchini, cabbage. Cook for 5 more minutes. Stir the broth powder into 6 cups of water and add to the pot. Add the parmesan rind. Add the tomatoes and their juice, and break them up a bit. Taste and add a little salt, with caution.

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Cover the pot and reduce the heat to a low simmer. Cook for at least another 30 minutes and preferably up to 2-1/2 hours. Uncover, add the cannelini, and simmer for another 15-30 minutes. If it gets too thick, add a bit more broth or water. If its too thin, raise the heat just a little dont boil hard or the vegetables will break up. To serve, discard the parmesan rind and stir in the grated cheese; taste and salt as needed. Ladle into soup bowls, garnish with the reserved celery leaves and a couple of the garlic-butter croutons. Pass more grated parmesan at the table. You might also like a little additional drizzle of good olive oil. Serves 6-8 as a main course.
Local food writer and chef Michael Natkins 2012 cookbook Herbivoracious, A Flavor Revolution with 150 Vibrant and Original Vegetarian Recipes, was a finalist this year for a James Beard award. The recipes are based on his food blog, herbivoracious.com.

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