The Jewish Sound - March 6, 2015

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Russian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov was
fatally shot on a bridge in the shadow of the Kremlin on Feb. 27, in what authorities
said appeared to be a contract killing. Nemtsov, who was Jewish, was scheduled to lead
a mass antigovernment rally in Moscow on March 1 and vowed to free Russia from
Putin. In a recent interview, Nemtsov had said he feared Putin would have him killed
because of his opposition to the war in Ukraine.
The New York Times
Rabbis Turn: Get into that Pesach state of mind
Under the radar
Israels former deputy ambassador to Norway paid a visit to Seattle last week to discuss how the Arab
world needs to stop pinning its bad fortunes on Israel.
According to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, half of the
18,000 Jews living in Sweden said they fear to publicly identify as Jewish in a recent
survey. The survey also found that nearly a quarter of European Jews say theyre
afraid to publicly self-identify as Jewish. The release of the survey coincides with a
host of a Swedish public radio program asking if Jews are responsible for anti-Semitism.
Tablet
Simpson sells out
When the University of Washingtons Simpson Center for the Humanities hosted Palestinian activist
Omar Barghouti last week, retired professor Edward Alexander hoped for better. Much better.
A young voice for Israel
Reconstruction for the ages
The president of the Reconstructionist movement came to the Pacific Northwest to meet with multiple
synagogues in the region and talk about how this progressive denomination continues to break ground.
Bibis visit to Washington
Benjamin Netanyahus controversial speech before Congress went on as planned, though without the
presence of the president and multiple Congressional representatives.
Hate, updated
Ever since Adolf Hitlers demise in 1945, his manifesto Mein Kampf has gone
unprinted in Germany. But that will soon change. The autobiographys copyright is
now held by the state of Bavaria in Germany, but will expire at the end of the year, and
Germanys Institute for Contemporary History will publish a new, heavily annotated
version that will be available at German bookstores.
Washington Post
No hiding now
Barry Freundel, the rabbi of a large Washington, D.C. synagogue, pleaded guilty
to 52 counts of voyeurism and resigned as professor from Towson University after
authorities found he videotaped numerous women in the mikvah. Freundel, 63, had
taught ethics and religion at the university and was on paid leave since his arrest in
October. He is scheduled to be sentenced May 15.
Baltimore Sun
The final frontier
Leonard Nimoy, best known Spock on Star Trek, died Friday, February 27, from
end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 83. Thanks to Nimoys
Jewish upbringing in Boston, the sign of the Priestly Blessing became the universal Vulcan sign. In addition to Star Trek, Nimoy played Golda Meirs husband in
A Woman Called Golda, among many other roles. He was known as an artist and
as a supporter of the arts and Jewish causes. Most of all, he will be remembered as a
mensch.
The New York Times
Remember when
Rabbi Josh Samuels is getting into the Passover mindset in particular with his preparations for kids.
From the Jewish Transcript, March 12,

1962.
The brotherhood and sisterhood of
Temple De Hirsch jointly sponsored The
Show of Shows, an evening of fun and
entertainment with performances by various members of the temple. In this photo,
Sue Waldbaum, Sue Stern, Helen Stusser
and Mary Lou Walters performed a dance
number for the crowd.
This photo comes from the second
batch of our digital archiving project, funded by the Jewish Federation of
Greater Seattle and King Countys 4Culture arts program. Find this and 20 more
years of old Jewish Transcripts online at
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A final look on the bookshelf
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In her last column, Diana Brement gives us a selection of books to read for spring.
Twenty years of film
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A look at a selection of films in 20th annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival, which begins on March 14.
Northwest Jewish Seniors

Congregation Ner Tamids 50th anniversary
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Though it only lasted five years before merging with Herzl Congregation, the families that created the
Eastsides first Conservative congregation still form a cohesive group.
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Letters 5
Crossword 6
M.O.T.: Books youll never read
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Israel: To Your Health: Medicine with a kickstart
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Lifecycles 23
Jewish and Veggie: Delicious green beans
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Professional Services/Classified
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Clarity: The Gift of a Pure Heart
^^ 206-527-9399 or info@betalef.org or
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,, At Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue, 1111
Harvard Ave., Seattle
Sylvia Boorstein leads a day of contemplation,
storytelling, and deepening spiritual teachings
punctuated by periods of mindfulness and lovingkindness meditations. $60.
23:15 p.m. Sparks of Glory: Until When?
^^ 206-365-7770 or
info@musicofremembrance.org or
www.musicofremembrance.org
,, Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., Seattle
Free concert-with-commentary with works by
two American and two Israeli composers touching
on the emotional struggle of loss and destruction
and the renewal of self and community. Free.
36 p.m. Womens Interfaith Group
Tour of the Gates Foundation
^^ Nanci Gerstman at
n.gerstman@comcast.net or 425-502-7473
,, Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St.,
Bellevue
TBT Sisterhood invites members and women from
other faiths on a tour of the Gates Foundation.
Interfaith dialogue following the tour. $5 for bus
ride.
Sunday, March 8
10 a.m.12:30 p.m.
Temple Beth El Celebrates Purim
^^ 253-564-7101 or rebecca@tbetacoma.org
or www.templebethel18.org
,, Temple Beth El, 5975 S 12th St., Tacoma
Purim spiel, singing, screaming, and fun. Followed
by a carnival.
10:30 a.m.12 p.m. Megillah Reading and
Religious School Carnival
^^ 425-603-9677 or rsvp@templebnaitorah.org
or templebnaitorah.org
,, Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St.,
Bellevue.
Megillah reading at 10:30 a.m. followed by a
free Purim carnival Disneyland. Proceeds
from Brotherhood hot dogs and Sisterhood
hamentaschen go toward BTY/NFTY event and
Camp Kalsmanscholarships.
11 a.m.12 p.m. Young Family at
Beth Am Pre-Carnival
^^ Alexis Kort at 206-525-0915 or
alexis@templebetham.org or
www.templebetham.org
,, Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle
Hear the Purim story, shake groggers, eat
hamantaschen. With professional balloon artist

and face painter, crafts, and a little-kids-only
bouncy castle. Free.
11 a.m.6 p.m. Super Sunday
^^ 206-443-5400 or www.jewishinseattle.org
,, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, 2031
Third Ave., Seattle.
Annual Super Sunday phone-a-thon.
12:302:30 p.m. Purim Carnival
^^ Alexis Kort at 206-525-0915 or alexis@
templebetham.org or www.templebetham.org
Facepainting and balloon artists, games,
activities, and bouncy house. Purim lunch $7.
Lunch proceeds benefit the 2015 10th Grade
Covenant Renewal class New York City trip. $18.
3:154:30 p.m. Chai Mitzvah:
Grow your Judaism
^^ 425-844-1604 or admin@kolaminw.org or
www.kolaminw.org
,, Congregation Kol Ami, 16530 Avondale Rd.
NE, Woodinville
Class 6: Adding New Insights and Personal
Meaning to Passover Seder.
Tuesday, March 10
9:4510:45 a.m. Developing Critical
Thinking Skills in Children
^^ 206-232-7115 or saraht@sjcc.org or
www.sjcc.org
,, Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island
Learn how the SJCC early childhood schools
constructivist approach to education helps children
develop the stamina to think, problem solve, and be
creative. Free.
Wednesday, March 11
78:30 p.m. Beth Shaloms Artist Beit
Midrash Class on Exodus: The Ten Plagues
^^ Nancy Current at 206-604-8298 or
nancy@ncurrent.com or ncurrent.com
,, Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave.
NE, Seattle
The Genesis of Creativity, taught by Jeremy
Alk and Robin Atlas. Make visual interpretations
about the stories of the plagues. No experience
necessary.
79 p.m. University Lecture Series 2015
Paranoia with a Purpose: Conspiracy
Theories in the Post-Soviet Region
^^ Alexis Kort at 206-525-0915 or
alexis@templebetham.org or
www.templebetham.org
2015 Jewish Family Service Community of Caring Luncheon
THURSDAY, April 30, 2015

For more information, contact Leslie Sugiura, (206) 861-3151
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the rabbis turn
Purim, Pesach and the season

of children
By Rabbi Joshua Samuels, Congregation Beth Israel, Bellingham
The season of children
has officially arrived! Many
of us shook our graggers
and jeered as we heard
Hamans name just the
other night and some of us
are looking forward to more
fun at Purim carnivals this
weekend. In addition, erev
Pesach begins in just under
a month.
Purim is the festival
where everything is topsy-turvy and
has arguably become the Jewish holiday most associated with children. We
have carnivals and games, costumes,
noisy graggers, and my favorite Jewish
sweet treat: Apricot hamentaschen.
Passover too is centered around children. A seder is not a seder without
the Four Children, the Four Questions,
and the search for the afikomen. Passover is linked with children primarily because of the importance it places
on conveying the story and meaning of
Passover to the youngest generations.
Many seders will not even begin until
a child asks a question. Thus, teaching
our children is paramount to Passover.
Now the question is: How should
we teach our children? Jewish clinical
psychologist and accomplished author
Wendy Mogel has written multiple
books on parenting: The Blessings of
a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to
Raise Resilient Teenagers (Scribner,
2010); and, The Blessing of a Skinned
Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to
Raise Self-Reliant Children (Scribner,
2008). Mogul thinks parents should set
standards for their children but then
back off, allowing the children to experience lifes ups and downs.
You have to recognize that they
[children] cant be good problem solvers unless they have problems to solve,
she teaches. They have to make dumb
mistakes to get smart. You [parents]
need to be alert, but not alarmed.
And what does the Torah teach us
on this subject? Very little. The fifth
commandment, however, instructs us
to honor our parents. No commandment tells us specifically to honor our
children and few mitzvot illustrate how
to raise our children. We are

commanded to teach these
words to our children and
to recount our Passover narrative every year, but thats
about it. In Proverbs 22:6,
we get a little more clarity about parenting styles:
Educate a child according to his/her own path.
Therefore, a parent must
have patience and unconditional love.
After I became a parent the first
time around, a friend gave my wife and
me a book called The Parents Tao
Te Ching (Da Capo, 1999). Based on
the legendary Chinese sage Lao Tzus
masterful Tao Te Ching, this contemporary version delicately teaches
parents how to raise children according
to Taoist philosophy, or The Way.
Heres an excerpt from the book:
There are only three qualities you
must teach your children. Compassion,
patience, and simplicity. Some would say
this is absurd. They would teach instead,
ambition, drive, and consumption, and
say it is the way of success.
But if they learn patience, they see the
world as it truly is. If they learn simplicity, they see themselves as they truly are.
And if they learn compassion, they heal
themselves and the world.
This ancient Chinese teaching is
actually very Jewish, for it resembles
the lessons our great Mussar rabbis
taught many years ago.
As we find ourselves in the middle of
the season of children whether or not
you have children of your own lets
think about how we teach those we care
about and love. If we demand excellence, are we also encouraging patience
and simplicity? Are we patient when we
teach? And if we expect specific results,
are we also teaching according to that
persons own unique path? We all have
much wisdom and specific skills to pass
on to others, at every stage in our lives.
May those who learn from us grow in
multiple ways and may we, more often
than not, become the students in these
sacred relationships.
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Change management
Like many of my friends, I was alarmed and frustrated to learn of the change being made
to the JTNews/Jewish Sound. I doubt I will gain what I look for from the format that will
replace our reliable newspaper. My dad gave me a Jewish Transcript subscription when I
left for college in 1971 and I have been a subscriber ever since, although I lived all over the
country. I am not as connected to the traditional/institutional Jewish community as my dad
or other family members are. Hence, getting the JT has been a wonderful way to learn of
what is going on in the cultural realm; who is being honored; important passages and celebrations; and so forth. Reading the columns provided a doorway into different aspects of
the Jewish community.
The decision to radically change the format is not well received in this household.
Yes, I use electronic media and in fact, I am in the profession of change management. It
is not change I resist in general. It is this change.
Janet Boguch
Seattle
Remember the outliers
Change is necessary to survive and stay current.

My wife and I have been subscribers to the Jewish Washington newspaper ever since
our arrival from Naples, Italy to Washington State in the summer of 1995. As a Navy family
we have always reached out to the Jewish community and subscribed to the Jewish newspaper for the area in which we lived. It has been a challenge at times, as we have lived in
many locations in the United States and overseas, but we have always tried to stay connected.
We now live in Port Angeles. We have a small but dedicated group of Jewish families
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land, but it is not something that is a spur-of-the-moment decision.
We look forward to checking out the new format and see how timely information will
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We realize that the super majority of Jews in Washington State are in the Seattle metropolitan area (Puget Sound), as well as most of the Jewish services. Please dont forget
about those that live far away from the Jewish center of Washington State. It is challenging enough for those of us who have chosen or are required to live far from the center of
Jewish life in Washington State.
We look forward to the reading the first edition.
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UWs Simpson Center puts

Israel in the dock
By Edward Alexander, Special to the Jewish Sound
In the modern world, the Jew has perpetually been on trial; still today the Jew
is on trial, in the person of the Israeli
and this modern trial of the Jew, this trial
which never ends, begins with the trial of
Shylock.
Philip Roth, Operation Shylock,
(1993)
Although millions are assaulted daily

by the claim that their worlds misfortunes are caused by Israel, the University of Washingtons Simpson Center
has decided to augment this calumny
with a research cluster entitled Palestine and the Public Sphere. Its first
featured speaker was Omar Barghouti,
stalwart of the Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement (BDS) to expel Israel
from the family of nations; its three faculty contacts Silberstein, Chernia-
vsky, Bawarshi are all (like Simpson

director Kathleen Woodward) UW English professors.
Defamations of Israel by academic
boycotters blame this tiny country for
every evil on the planet with the exception of avian flu. But let us examine their
favorite one: Israel is an apartheid
state. According to the Campaign for the
Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel,
All academic exchanges with Israeli
academicshave the effect of normalizing Israel and its politics of occupation
and apartheid. On progressive campuses, Israel Apartheid Week is a spring
ritual in which self-anointed friends of
the human species spew fire and vitriol
at the country inhabited by over half the
worlds Jewish population.
I have no idea what that Jewish community is going to look like, because were living in this time of unprecedented change.
Rabbi Deborah Waxman, president of the Reconstructionist movement, on our Jewish future. See the article on page 7.
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community news
Avoid Isolation
by Mike Selinker
Ambassador divides the

perpetratorvictim narrative
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent
Theres a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector
of emotional well-being, says wellness expert Andrew Weil. Theres no question that social
isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years. This trend is reflected in
our popular culture, especially on our television sets. Break out and join your fellow humans.
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of households told by Arab officials to

While Middle East experts wring their
leave their homes after Israels founding
hands in hopes that moderate leaders can
in 1948 because Jews wanted them dead.
prevail in the region, George Deek, IsraThey promised a quick victory in the war
els former vice ambassador to Norway,
with the Jews and were assured a swift
is calling upon Palestinian Arabs to take
return to their homes in a matter of days.
charge of their own fate and their own
Deeks hastily wed grandparents took
future, and to stop dividing the world
next to nothing and fled north toward
into perpetrators and victims.
Lebanon. However, when the Israelis
Deek, a 30-year-old Christian Israeli
prevailed, many of the Palestinian Arabs,
Arab and a descendent of a family with
including many of his relatives, did not or
a 400-year-old legacy in Jaffa, is no
could not return, and are now scattered
preacher, but he exhorts Palestinians to
around the globe.
quit blaming Jews for their problems. He
Deeks grandfather, however, took a
believes they can do it and they must
bold step, went back to Jaffa and recon or be swallowed whole by their hatred.
nected with his Jewish co-workers at an
Israel is a place where a Christian
Israeli electricity company. His co-worklike me can wear a cross, and a Jew can
ers got him his old job
wear a kippah, withback, which allowed him
out fear, Deek told The
to reestablish his family
Jewish Sound during a
in Israel.
visit to Seattle on Feb.
Today, according to
27. Muslims in Israel
Deek, what Palestinians
can wear a hijab anynow call the Nakba, or
where, unlike in France.
catastrophe, sabotages
They can build minaand frustrates the lives
rets to their mosques,
of Palestinians who use
unlike in Switzerland. It
the past as a premise for
is where the Bahai built
continued fighting.
their dazzling temple in
Back then, it was
Haifa. It is where Druze
not anti-Semitism,
feel safe.
Arabs serve as
Courtesy George Deek said Deek. It was conjudges in the Supreme George Deek at the Break the Hate tempt because there was
Court, added Deek. Summit conference in Boston in a notion that the Jews
should not have a state
Some of the best doc- February.
there. The idea was, We
tors in Israel are Arabs,
are the Arabs, we are the dominant
working in almost every hospital in the
people here, we should rule the land, and
country. There are 13 Arab members of
the Middle East has no room for Jews,
parliament who enjoy the right to critiand whats the big deal? They are Holocize the government.... That diversity has
caust survivors. We can just go there,
made Israel a world leader in every field
wipe them out, and have the land. I
from technology to modern dance.
believe that it was the beginning of the
Deek was Israels deputy chief of misrise of anti-Semitism at that moment.
sion in Nigeria from 2009-2012 and
Deek believes these Arabs could have
the deputy chief of mission at Israels
admitted their mistake and accepted the
embassy in Norway from 2012-2014. He
Jewish refugees in their new land.
holds two academic degrees from Israel,
The Arab world started dehumanizone in government and the other in law.
ing Jews and demonizing Israel using the
Deeks Seattle trip was sponsored by
same rhetoric as anti-Semites in the past
the Jewish Federation of Greater Seatin order to explain their failure, he said.
tle, StandWithUs Northwest, Hillel at the
Coincidentally, at the same time of the
University of Washington, and JConnect.
vice ambassadors visit, Omar Barghouti,
At the end of the day, nobody will be
the outspoken de facto leader of the interable to save the Middle East except the
national boycott, divestment, and sancpeople of the Middle East themselves.
tion movement against Israel, spoke on
Deek said. There needs to be a new interthe University of Washingtons campus
pretation [of Islam] that accepts other
as a guest of the Simpson Center for
people who are different.
the Humanities. The crowd consisted of
What that means, he said, is the rejecroughly 200 people from the wider comtion of the narrative of victimhood,
munity and some 50 students.
acceptance of responsibility for past
The goal of the BDS movement is not
actions, and holding the same values that
to help Palestinians, commented Deek.
brought the Arab world success in the
If they were really caring about the Palpast: Honesty, hard work, responsibilestinians, instead of promoting hate
ity these values will determine our suctoward others they would promote coopcess, he said.
eration and taking responsibility.
Deeks family was one of thousands
Trail-blazing leader visits

the Northwest to inspire,
learn
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound
TBH has been affiliated

In 1935, Lithuania-born
with the ReconstructionRabbi Mordecai Kaplan
ist movement for about 15
wrote Judaism as a Civiliyears, according to Goldzation, a book that reimagstein, who was ordained at
ined the religion as a way of
the RRC in Wyncote, Penn.
living and became the founReconstructionism takes
dation for the Reconstrucan approach that Judaism
tionist Movement.
is the evolving religious
Many of Kaplans ideas
expression of the Jewish
are taken for granted today,
people, he said. Its more
but they were radical for
bottom-up and democratic,
Kaplans Orthodox world
and continually evolving
back then. The movement
Jordan Cassway
that sprung from his vision Rabbi Deborah Waxman, with the idea of making Judais now the most progressive president of the Recon- ism more meaningful.
Goldstein hopes the five
in North America.
structionist movement.
Northwest congregations
In keeping with that
will put together a Shabbaton in the near
progress is Rabbi Deborah Waxman,
future.
the Reconstructionist movements presIn addition to pluralism, social activident. The first female (and lesbian)
ism, and the evolving American Jewish
president of the Reconstructionist moveidentity, Waxman explained that the
ment, Waxman is also the first leader
movement is also active in Israels Jewish
of the organization since its restructurrenaissance the growing intering in 2012, which saw the merger of
est of secular Israelis in Jewish study.
the Reconstructionist Rabbinical ColThe movement is formalizing that relalege and the congregational wing, Recontionship, starting with a Facebook
structionist Jewish Communities.
page called Gateways to Israeli-Jewish
Waxman was in Olympia visiting
Renaissance. Waxman hopes the libTemple Beth Hatfiloh on Monday, Feberal American Jewish community can
ruary 23, and in Seattle the next day to
promote a more pluralistic Jewish socivisit with Kadima, as part of a Northety in Israel.
west tour to a total of five congregations.
Yet shes hesitant to speculate on the
Since taking her post a year ago, shes visfuture of the Reconstructionist moveited some 35 congregations around the
ment in America and beyond.
country to introduce herself and underI deeply hope the Jewish community
stand their needs.
will develop the preservation of differThe Reconstructionist movement
ence while being open to other faith trahas been significantly influential on
ditions, she said. [But] I have no idea
North American Jewish life, Waxman
what that Jewish community is going
told The Jewish Sound during her Seatto look like, because were living in this
tle stop.
time of unprecedented change.
The movement is the leader in gender
The economic downturn, the exploand sexuality issues and the inclusion of
sion of digital technology, and the effects
non-Jews, Waxman said. Kaplan, who
of these events on media, education, and
grew disenchanted with Orthodoxy and
society could greatly impact a vision of
sought to build a Jewish identity on more
Judaism based on people and evolution.
American values, is credited with inventI focus on a lot of values that will
ing the Bat Mitzvah.
help us through the change, she said.
The values that have created this
That will help us build a self-aware and
optimistic and embracing, inclusive
affirmative Jewish community.
vision push us to continue to be on the
For Waxman, the essence of Judaism
cutting edge, said Waxman. I see a
is asking the hard questions.
real need for what the Reconstructionist
I often joke that Im the chief evanapproach has to offer.
gelizer for Reconstructionism, she said.
Rabbi Seth Goldstein of Temple Beth
Part of that means evangelizing for proHatfiloh welcomed Waxmans visit.
gressive Judaism and progressive reliIt was really positive when she came
gion. I am not interested in being
to Temple Beth Hatfiloh, because people
Jewish for the sake of being Jewish. I
are able to make a more direct connecthink that being Jewish is a means to sevtion with the movement, with Rabbi
eral ends, that I aim to be a good Jew
Waxman, with the ideology were conbecause it helps me be fully human. With
nected to, he said. The fact that she
the Divine, to try to work through these
visited the Northwest, which is so far
perpetual questions: Why am I here?
from the center of the Reconstructionist
And what am I supposed to be doing?
movement, says a lot.
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Netanyahu to Congress: Deal with Iran paves way to bomb

Like North Korea, Iran, too, has defied
(JTA) In his address to Congress,
international inspectors, Netanyahu said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Iran has proven time and again that it
argued that the proposed nuclear deal being
cannot be trusted.
negotiated with Iran will lead inexorably to a
Because Iran threatnuclear-armed Iran and
ens many of its neighwar in the Middle East.
bors, other countries in
This deal has two
the region likely would
major concessions: One,
develop their own nuclear
leaving Iran with a vast
weapons to keep pace
nuclear program, and
with the Islamic Repubtwo, lifting the restrictions
lic, Netanyahu warned,
on that program in about
leaving the region crissa decade, Netanyahu
crossed with nuclear tinsaid in his speech Tuesday
der-wires.
morning. Thats why this
If anyone thinks this
deal is so bad. It doesnt
JTA World News Service
block Irans path to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin deal kicks the can down
bomb, it paves Irans path Netanyahu during his March 3 speech the road, think again, he
said. When we get down
to the bomb.
before Congress.
that road, we will face a much more dangerNetanyahu argued that the deal under
ous Iran, a Middle East littered with nuclear
consideration, which is being negotiated with
bombs, and a countdown to a potential
Iran by the United States and other world
nuclear nightmare.
powers, would let most of Irans nuclear
Netanyahu urged Congress to reject the
infrastructure stay in place, including thoudeal.
sands of centrifuges. That would leave
For over a year, weve been told that no
Tehran with a very short breakout time
deal is better than a bad deal, Netanyahu
with which it could produce nuclear weapsaid. Well, this is a bad deal. Its a very bad
ons, he said.
deal. Were better off without it.
The Israeli leader also said that the inspecThe audience responded with a standtion regime under negotiation would be
ing ovation.
insufficient because inspectors can only docThis was Netanyahus third address to
ument violations, not stop them, and Iran
a joint session of Congress, tying him with
has a history of maintaining secret nuclear
Winston Churchill for most speeches to joint
facilities.
sessions of Congress by a foreign leader.

Organized by House of Representatives
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and the
Israeli prime minister unbeknownst to the
White House, the speech proved highly controversial in the run-up to Tuesday. President Barack Obama said he would not attend
because of its occurrence within weeks of
Israels scheduled elections on March 17, and
Vice President Joe Biden cited a scheduling
conflict in saying he would not be present.
Numerous Democratic lawmakers, Israeli
political figures and prominent American Jews called on Netanyahu to scrap the
planned speech, warning that it risked the
appearance of a partisan political move.
More than 50 Democratic lawmakers and
one Republican lawmaker including six
Jewish lawmakers said they would not
attend.
But Netanyahu insisted that the speech
was necessary to warn Congress and the
American people about the dangers of the
developing deal with Iran.
At the outset of his address, Netanyahu
sought to dismiss the notion that it was a partisan political play, praising Obamas record
on Israel and citing several specific instances
of support, including U.S. assistance in helping the staff at Israels embassy in Cairo
escape unharmed during a siege in 2011 and
bolstering Israels anti-rocket infrastructure
during last summers Gaza war.
The remarkable alliance between Israel
and the United States has always been above

politics; it must always remain above politics, Netanyahu said. Israel is grateful
for the support of Americas people and of
Americas presidents, from Harry Truman
to Barack Obama.
But, he said, As prime minister of Israel,
I feel a profound obligation to speak to you
about an issue that could well threaten the
survival of my country and the future of my
people: Irans quest for nuclear weapons.
Netanyahu argued that war is not the only
alternative to a deal, saying Iran needs an
agreement more than America does, especially given the pressure on its economy.
Now were being told that the only alternative to this bad deal is war. Thats just not
true. The alternative to this bad deal is a much
better deal, Netanyahu said, a better deal
that Israel and its neighbors may not like, but
with which we could live, literally.
If Iran threatens to walk away from the
table and this often happens in a Persian
bazaar call their bluff, Netanyahu said.
Theyll be back because they need the deal a
lot more than you do.
Following the speech, House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus speech to Congress nearly brought her to tears because it
insulted the intelligence of the United States.
Pelosi (D-Calif.) emphasized the
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M.O.T.: Member of the Tribe
Books youll never read

By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound Columnist
sor of restorative dentistry

to legal cases, he explains. It has been a
Unless youre a
at the UW. In demand as a
hole in the business of law.
prosthodontist or the
speaker, he presents around
Senior lawyers already spend at least a
managing partner of a
the world to professional
third of their time managing projects
law firm, chances are youll
dental organizations and
doing the business of law which is not
never read these books
academies in places as varied
taught in law school.
and might never have heard
as Nebraska and Mumbai.
I dont promise to make it fun, he
of them until now.
He especially enjoys travel
says, but he can promise to make it less
Soft Tissue Manageif his family is with him, but
painful.
ment: The Restorative Perhe likes teaching and interSteven grew up in Woodmere on Long
spective, Ariel Raigrodskis
acting with people best, he
Island, N.Y., and attended Rensselaer
first book, comes out in May.
Polytechnic, but dropped out because he
Its for the restorative gen- M.O.T.: Member says.
I try to keep it interacwasnt interested in studying chemistry
eral dentist as well as the of the Tribe
tive, he says of his talks.
or math and you could not get a degree
periodontist, he says. The
Dialogue is the most productive way of
in computer science back then.
Israeli-born author is a professor at the
learning...whether I teach in the school
Living in various places around the
University of Washington with a priCourtesy Steven Levy
or Im seeing a patient.
city, including Brooklyn before it was
vate restorative, implant and esthetic
Legal project management author Steven
When hes not teaching, seeing
cool, Steven became part of the Greendentistry practice in Bothell. He is also a
Levy.
patients, or writing youre most likely to
wich Village folk music scene, playing
photographer who considers his work to
Arriving in Seattle on Halloween in
find Ariel on a soccer field all his kids,
guitar and hanging out with people who
be part technological and part artistry
1988, Steven went to work for Quicksoft,
ages 15, 13 and 9, play soccer at an elite
became more famous and successful than
most of the photos in the book are his.
where he met his wife, Anya Levysmith.
level. The family belongs to CongregaI did. Finishing his degree at City UniThis book truly discusses how to
He still enjoys playing a little guitar and
tion Beth Shalom.
versity of New York, he started working
blend the teeth and implants with the
a little golf, too. He and Anya have two
in publishing. This led him to software
restorations on top and the soft tissue,
teenage children and belong to Temple
when
he
became
an
early
adopter
of
the gums, he explains, to achieve a balWhen he left Microsoft about
Beth Am in Seattle.
using personal computing to track sales.
ance of esthetic appeal and health. He
eight years ago, Steven Levy
uses his photographs in patient care, to
wasnt quite
diagnose and track progress for both his
ready to retire, but
and the patients benefit.
he wanted to work
less than full time.
Having spent six
years at the software
giant running technology and operations for legal and
corporate affairs,
he realized that he
not only liked working with lawyers,
but he also gained
israel educaTion on campus:
some insights into
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how law firmscould
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better serve their clients.
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defined the field of
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agement (cleverly
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titled Legal ProjAriel, and thats why I love this profesect Management),
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sion.
formed his comBorn and raised in Tel Aviv, he says
pany, and now gives
his dads interests in technology and art
workshops around
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10
spring books
The final bookshelf

By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound Columnist
As I explained in my previous book
column, these are not reviews, but overviews of some Jewish themed books our
readers might be interested in.
Cookbooks
Spiritual Kneading through the
Jewish Months: Building the Sacred
through Challah, by Dahlia AbrahamKline (Shamshi, paper, $24.95). This chal-
lah-baking cookbook, with its full-color

photos, offers a spiritual twist (get it?)
on preparing the weekly Shabbat bread.
Each Jewish month (including a 13th leapmonth) includes a guided meditation
over the kneading of dough, educational
discussion questions, and a bread shape
reflecting a theme for the month. A pomegranate-shaped challah is the recipe for
Shevat, for example, and the holiday is Tu
BShevat, the new year of the trees. Focused
on women, who have traditionally baked
challah at home, the author includes a section on the new moon observance, Rosh
Chodesh, a ritual that has also traditionally belonged to women. Abraham-Kline
brings lowly bread into a higher realm.
She leads spiritual baking classes on New
Yorks Long Island.
Secret Restaurant Recipes from
the Worlds Top Kosher Restaurants,
by Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek
(Artscroll, cloth, $29.99). You can go

straight to the recipes, because Ive already
checked the index for a top kosher restaurant in Seattle. There isnt one.
Theres nothing in this large-format,
full-color cookbook that doesnt look fabu-
lous and delicious enough to make a foodie

go weak in the knees. Tips and anecdotes
from top kosher chefs are included and
I even learned something on one quick
perusal: Youll get a creamier texture in
your parve vegetable soup by skipping the
onion. The sugar in the onion is a stabilizer
that keeps the veggies from breaking down.
(Cauliflower Bisque, page 80.)
Dating
500 Dates: Dispatches from the
Front Lines of the Online Dating Wars,
by Mark Miller (Skyhorse, paper, $16.95).
Comedian and humor writer Miller entertains us with a combination of true stories
and made-up ones
from the dating world,
so those both living
vicariously and looking
for advice can enjoy his
stories equally. Miller
includes quizzes and
advice like Test-aJew, and Interpolitical Dating Tips.
Kosher Porn, by Sarah Rosen (Stein-
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nudity here (except for a guy or two without a shirt). This little book stemmed
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attractive young men and women have
Jewish-themed captions ranging from
sweet to suggestive. A handsome young
man offers a challah and a bottle and says,
Whos your abba? while another with
a knife-full of cream cheese suggests Ill
schmear you with love. Another by the sea
opens her arms and promises, Ill be your
promised land. Along with the eye candy,
the author hopes youll learn a little something about Judaism, too.
Memoir/Family History
The Year My Mother Came Back,
by Alice Eve
Cohen (Algonquin, cloth,
$23.95). The
author revisits the subject
of a previous
memoir and
a play a
late-in-life,
completely
unexpected
and complicated pregnancy but this
time, she concentrates on her own mother,
who died young, and how she came to
terms with that tragedy and learned how
to be a daughter in order to parent her own
children.
American Ghost: The True Story of

a Familys Haunted Past, by Hannah
Nordhaus (Harper, cloth, $25.99). How
many of us can say our great-great
grandmother is
a ghost? Julia
Sta a bs gh os t
has been seen
and heard in
the Victorian
mansion in the
heart of Santa
Fe, now the
hotel La Posada.
Julias husband
built the splendid house for
his ailing wife in the mid-19th century.
Deciding to ferret out the truth about her
famous relative was she mentally or
physically ill, was she loved or abused?
Nordhaus consults psychics, ghost hunters, historians and genealogists in an
effort to uncover the truth. A fascinating
family history is the result.
Motherland: Growing Up with the
Holocaust, by Rita Goldberg (New Press,
cloth, $27.95). Blending memoir and history, Goldberg brings us the story of her
mother, Hilde
Jacobsthal, a
close friend of
Anne Franks
family, who was
15 when the
Nazis invaded
Holland. When
her parents were
arrested in 1943,
she fled to Belgium and spent
the remainder
of the war with the resistance, and then in
Bergen-Belsen after its liberation. But this
is also Goldbergs story of growing up in
a family haunted by personal tragedy. The
author is a lecturer in comparative literature at Harvard. The book will be available in April.
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Seattle jewish film festival
Twenty years in film, coming to a theater near you

Who are we as a people? What is our
identity as Jews? These are the questions
that the 2015 Seattle Jewish Film Festival
its 20th anniversary asks with its mix of
films over the course of nine days.
SJFF closes its second decade with a
huge lineup of movies that range from
the local how one woman whose life
changed irrevocably in a moment of tragedy rose from the ashes to the international Nazi art intrigue in Paris,
an Arab-Israeli student who must navigate his identity, a coming-of-age story
of Iraqi Jews scripted entirely in the dialect of the era and so much in between.
Through this issue and the next we
will have short reviews of many of the
films, but youll find all of the films at
www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org.
These are the venues:
SIFF Uptown Theatre,
511 Queen Anne Ave., Seattle
AMC Pacific Place,
600 Pine St., Seattle
Stroum Jewish Community Center,
3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island
Sit back, relax and enjoy the show!
All film potos Courtesty Seattle Jewish Film Festival
Hannas Journey
Dir. Julia von Heinz (2013, Israel/Germany)

Sat., March 14, 7:30 p.m. at Pacific
Place, preceded by a 6:30 p.m. no-host
happy hour in the lobby.
Is it possible to set a German-Jewish romantic comedy in the still-long
Hannas Journey
shadow of the Holocaust?

The answer, obviously, is its complicated.
When Berliner Hanna schemes her
way to Israel to pad her resume through
her estranged mothers volunteer organization, she (predictably) finds herself
drawn to Itay, the adorable coordinator
at a home for special-needs Israelis. Itay
and Hanna are simultaneously pulled
toward and repelled by one another, with
their peoples histories the zinging raw
nerve between them.
Between Hannahs crude and ironic
ambivalence toward her countrys past
and Itays unseverable ties to his family,
their relationship is fraught, and their
chemistry is less than spicy.
But the real question is not, can
Hannah and Itay have a normal and
healthy love affair? Rather, Hannas

Journey in the limited time and space
of a feature film attempts to probe the
possibility of relationships between the
descendants of victims and perpetrators
in a connected world.
In the process, Hanna starts to realize
for the first time her own familys complicity in the Holocaust, which takes her
on the actual journey of the title.
According to SJFF director Pamela
Lavitt, Hannas Journey was picked for
opening night in recognition of 50 years
of diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel.
Identity grappling is a big part of
the festival this year, said Lavitt. What
does it mean for those still struggling in
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Hear the songs that inspired a generation of artists. In 1968, a little-known
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1900: Adornment for the Home
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Frye Art Museum presents 1900:
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a celebration of adornment for the
home and body. With over 200 objects
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19th and early 20th century. The exhibition also includes key paintings from
the Frye Founding Collection.
On view through May 3. Free admission
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Pan: A Graphic Arts Time Capsule
of Europe 1895-1900
An exhibition of graphic works published in Pan, the journal of an
eponymous Berlin-based cooperative
of artists, poets, and critics. Published
from 1895 to 1900, Pan served as an important document of the transformation
of taste and ideas during this period. It
recorded the transition from modern
forms of representation in the 19th century to the emergence of abstraction
and expressionism in the 20th.
On view through May 3.
Free admission and parking.
Future Ruins: Rodrigo Valenzuela
Future Ruins is the first solo museum
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Cornish College of the Arts
Summer at Cornish takes place at the
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Students are placed in classes with
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Tacoma Art Museum presents the rare
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rich cultures of the American Southwest
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Birthers, Truthers, and Polonium Poisoners

Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in the U.S.
and the Former Soviet Union. How attitudes
toward political institutions in the U.S. and the
former Soviet states influence the propensity to
believe conspiracy theories. $15.
Friday, March 13
9 a.m.5 p.m. Teacher Training:
Echoes and Reflections
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Professional development event to provide
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Poker, blackjack, roulette, and craps, catered
by Celes Meals, with a stocked bar and auction
items. A portion of the proceeds benefits Jewish
Family Service of Seattle. $40 per person, $75
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Seattle
An opportunity to think about the ways the
community can get involved with JFS, to hear a
compelling story, and participate in an activity in
the food bank. By invitation only.
4:308:30 p.m.
JDS Spring Gala and Auction
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Kids at SJCC Summer Camp explore the

outdoors, play sports, embrace Jewish
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611 p.m. Congregation Kol Ami
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Eden Rests
the wake of shared history?

At once light and heavy, Hannas
Journey represents how the next generation is artistically reckoning with the
Holocaust.
Emily K. Alhadeff
Eden Rests
Dir. Ofer Kapota, Natalie Chen, Hadar

Sitvuk (2013, Israel)
Sat., March 14, 7:30 p.m. at Pacific Place
Screens with Hannas Journey
In 1920s Palestine, back before statehood, when Tel Aviv was emerging as a real
city from its shtetl and Arab village roots,
there was a struggle going on. It wasnt
between Jews and Arabs, though you could
certainly find those issues emerging. It
wasnt necessarily between European migrs and the natives, though you could see
that as well. This was the natural tension
between the old and new people getting around by car rather than on horseback, between letting in foreign influences
or learning the important news from the
gossip grapevine. Nowhere could that be
more obvious than at the Eden Cinema, Tel

Avivs first movie house, which brought
that tension into full relief.
If you suspend your disbelief in the temporal reality Churchill visited in 1921,
Fritz Langs Metropolis, the poster of
which is pasted in Hebrew over the villages
walls, came out in 1927 youll be tickled pink by this lovely animated short film.
Directors Kapota, Chen and Sitvuk use the
Eden as the backdrop to bring all of these
tensions and the villagers together in
a wordless script that speaks to us in pictures. That the last frame before the credits roll shows the Eden today derelict,
crumbling only tells us that sometimes
we need to retain our structures because
they hold so much of our history.
Joel Magalnick
Havana Curveball
Dir. Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider

(U.S./Cuba, 2014)
Sunday, March 15, 11 a.m. (following
Matzoh Momma Brunch) at AMC Pacific
Place
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looking beyond the party and gifts to causes

For Mica Jarmel-Schneider, the plans
deserving support, the husband-and-wife
to normalize relations between the U.S.
team of Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider
and Cuba are exciting news albeit a bit
originally envisioned a short film that would
too late.
trigger conversations about social responsiAs his Bar Mitzvah approached several
bility during the Bar Mitzvah process.
years ago, the athletic San Francisco teenWe started with this notion that our
ager mulled various community-service
sons experience could be a vehicle for all
projects before hitting on the idea of sendkinds of kids having this conversation with
ing baseball gear to the island.
themselves, their families, and their comJarmel-Schneider had learned that
munities about what their responsibility
bats, balls and gloves were scarce due to
the embargo, and that
even used equipment
Havana Curveball
would be a major-league
upgrade for Cuban kids
his age.
His altruistic campaign, and eye-opening
odyssey to Cuba, is vividly depicted in Havana
Curveball, an inspiring
and unsentimental onehour documentary suitable for all ages.
Recognizing the positive trend of Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrants
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was in the world and how they might like

to contribute, Jarmel says.
The veteran filmmakers figured the
short would take three months to produce.
But as Micas project grew, so did the film.
The complications of shipping anything to
Cuba played a role, as did the familys history.
Cuba had granted residency to Micas
grandfather in 1941 when his family was
fleeing the Nazis and couldnt gain access
to the U.S. The humanitarian act resonated
Farewell BagHdad
Dir. Nissim Dayan (Israel, 2014)

Sun., March 16, 12:40 p.m. at Pacific
Place
Based on the book The Dove Flyer by
Eli Amir, Farewell Baghdad (a.k.a. The
Dove Flyer) recounts in dramatic detail
the disintegration of Iraqs Jewish community.
Established during the Babylonian
exile in 586 BCE, Iraqs Jewish community
withstood thousands of years of changing history and served as the seat of Jewish
only well received in Israel, but has stirred

up emotions among nostalgic Iraqi Muslims. Though it ends on a dark note, Farewell Baghdad reminds us that Jews and
Arabs were not always considered such
separate entities, and perhaps theres even
hope yet for rebuilding burned bridges.
Emily K. Alhadeff
G a y G e z u n t ! A n LGBT Q
Short Series
Sun., March 16, 3 p.m. at Pacific Place

Four films: Facing Fear, Summer Vacation, The Seder, and Zazaland from three
countries: The U.S., Canada and Israel
highlight the way gay life has become a part
of regular life for so many Jewish families.
Each of these four films approaches homosexuality in a different way. Facing Fear
(Dir. Jason Cohen and Steven Okazaki,
The Seder
together. Hijinks and uncomfortable

moments ensue. And finally, Zazaland
(Dir. Maayan Cohen, Israel, 2013) is a
comedic sendup of the 2001 Israeli film
Zazaland
Facing Fear
Farewell Baghdad
with Mica and informed his project, even

though Schneider didnt stay in Cuba very
long before relocating to America. In fact,
Micas grandfather declined to travel to
Cuba with the lad.
My dad was deeply grateful that Mica
was inspired by his life experience to go
and perform this bit of service in Cuba,
Schneider says, even though he no longer
feels a connection to the country which
saved his life.
Mica was also influenced by another
tenet of the Jewish experience, Schneider
relates.
His rabbi told him the story of tikkun
olam, which is about putting a broken
piece of the world back together, and how
small or large acts can be part of that.
Michael Fox
authority from the fall of Jerusalem until

the 11th century. The community more or
less lived comfortably in Iraq until 1948.
This is where our story begins.
Kabi is a young man when his uncle is
arrested for his involvement with the Zionist underground. Quickly, Kabis beloved
homeland turns from his friend to his
enemy, and it wont be long before hes a
target.
Caught up among his Israel-dreaming father, his nostalgic mother, the antiZionist dove-breeder who employs him
and his Zionist activist son, and two beautiful women, Kabi, who is still treated like a
child, comes of age alongside the unraveling of his community.
Filmed in the Iraqi Judeo-Arabic dialect, its a beautiful film that has been not
U.S., 2013) is a documentary that focuses

on the chance meeting between a former
neo-Nazi and a gay man he attacked 25
years earlier at the Museum of Tolerance. Summer Vacation (Dir. Tal Granit
and Sharon Maymon, Israel, 2012) dredges
up a long-held
family secret
Summer Vacation
during a familys beach vacation. The Seder
(Dir. Justin
Kelly, Canada,
2012) is a regular fish-outof-water story
of an openly
gay man who
brings his boyfriend to his
parents house
for their first
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arranged marriage between one and a
young woman waiting with her family in
the next room.
Joel Magalnick
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Theodor Bikel: In the Shoes

of Sholom Aleichem
Dir. John Lollos (U.S., 2014)

Monday, March 16, 6:30 p.m. at SIFF
Uptown
Theodor Bikel: In the
Shoes of Sholom
Aleichem
of Aleichems work. Bikel, 90, serves as

both the focus of the film and guide to the
legend of Aleichem, the charismatic storyteller and chronicler of 19th-century
Jewish life perhaps best known for his
Tevye the Dairyman stories that served
as the basis for the musical hit Fiddler on
the Roof.
An Austrian native whose
family escaped Nazi occupation,
Bikel switches from first to third
person with both humor and
pathos to underscore the importance of Aleichems work as a pioneer of modern Jewish literature,
as well as Aleichems influence
on his own storied career. Theodor Bikel is both a poignant and
thoroughly amusing portrayal of
two extraordinary talents.
Boris Kurbanov
Quality Balls
Quality Balls
Based on Theodor Bikels acclaimed

stage play Sholom Aleichem: Laughter through Tears and narrated by the
Emmy-winning Alan Alda, director John
Lollos double-portrait musical documentary attempts to preserve Yiddish culture
through song and dance, blending the stories of two revered Jewish icons: Sholom
Aleichem and Bikel himself, perhaps the
greatest living performer and interpreter
Dir. Barry Avrich (U.S., 2013)

Mon., March 16, 7:20 p.m. at
SIFF Uptown
David Steinbergs the funniest guy you hardly know. Many comedians today see Steinberg as the man who
gave them their craft. Departing from the
Borscht Belt humor of their fathers, even
powerhouses such as Jerry Seinfeld and
Larry David look at Steinberg as the guy
who gave them permission to use their stories to make people laugh. Whether youre
talking love, politics, or simple observations,
Steinberg turned the notion of the one-liner
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on Sunday mornings. Such was the wave of

comedy that later begat Saturday Night Live
and SCTV, among other programs.
Barry Avrichs Quality Balls take the
title as you see fit brings in many of those
comedy greats: Seinfeld, David, Johnny
Carson, and Robert Klein, among others, to
tell the story of this child of European immigrants who eventually landed in Manitoba.
And Avrich of course includes footage of
Steinberg himself throughout the years. In
some of these bits youll laugh so hard youll
start crying. What we ultimately get is the
story of a consummate professional, a performer from birth whose only desire is to
make people laugh. Whats missing, unfortunately, is the story of the man. We dont
even learn, for example, that hes married
until the last minutes of the documentary.
But maybe some parts of life arent a laughing matter.
Joel Magalnick
Hannah Cohens Holy Communion

and laugh-a-minute comedy on its head.
Funny, then, that it all began with sermons
based on the Torah.
Smothers Brothers fans back in the late
60s and early 70s were probably surprised
when their variety show suddenly disappeared from the air. You can blame that on
Steinberg, who would perform interpretations of the Torah (or Old Testament to
those Christian audiences on TV) that were
markedly different from what they heard
Dir. Lana Citron (U.K., 2012)

Screens Mon., March 16 at 8:30 p.m. at
SIFF Cinema Uptown
Hannah Cohens Holy Communion is
a sweet, playful telling of a young girl who
craves acceptance and adventure. When
Hannahs friend heads off in a fancy white
dress to participate in holy communion,
giddily explained to Hannah as the best
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Hannah Cohens Holy Communion
day ever, Hannah embarks on a mission

to join in on the Catholic rite of passage. In
order to succeed, Hannah must sneak away
from her home, far from the watchful eyes
of her mother and neighbors. Writer Lana
Citron is excellent at establishing Hannahs
intentions as truthfully pure.
By seeking communion, Hannah does
self.
not mean to intentionally betray her Jewish

identity, but, rather, she
wants simply to experience a sense of belonging. Hannah longs to be
part of a community
one that involves getting
to wear pretty dresses
and spending time with
her best friend.
Director Marcus
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that directly reflects
Hannahs personality
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Cohens Holy Communion is a lovely and spirited family-friendly film
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childs participation in
the excitement of other
peoples lives can sometimes allow for a discovery of true identity and
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Dir. Cameron Levin (U.S., 2014)

Tues., March 17, 8:10 at SIFF Cinema
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Often times a tragedy can bring out
the best in people. Such is the case with

Cheryl Stumbo, one of the survivors of
the shooting at the Jewish Federation
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then worked as the Federations marketing director, endured multiple surgeries
and setbacks in the years following the
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including Mayor Ed Murray, who

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how those who experienced this trauma
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nearly a decade later.
And the story, of course, still goes on.
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In search of old members: Ner Tamids 50th anniversary

celebration for a shul that lasted five years
Five years is a relatively short life for a synagogue, yet the 200 families that were
members of Bellevues Congregation Ner Tamid from 1965 to 1970 share a special bond
that endures, like the eternal flame for which the shul was named. The young families
that established the Eastsides first Conservative synagogue and religious school share a
50-year bond to Judaism, community and friendship that will be celebrated this spring at
Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer Island. Bellevues Congregation
Ner Tamid and Seattles Herzl Conservative Congregation merged in 1970.
On May 9, Ner Tamid families will be honored during Shabbat morning services and
a kiddush luncheon at Herzl-Ner Tamid.
Ner Tamid means eternal flame, and the small, but mighty flame of Congregation Ner
Tamid continues to burn brightly thanks to the vision, passion and energy of the founding families, said Marilyn Corets, a Herzl-Ner Tamid board member and chair of the
50th anniversary committee. Her father is Ellis Corets, 83, a co-founder of Congregation
Ner Tamid. HNT wouldnt be what it is today without the big step forward taken by the
Ner Tamid generation. This milestone is a golden opportunity to learn from our history
as we honor the
legacy and plan
for the future, she
said.
Ner Tamids
first Shabbat service was held
Friday evening,
July 23, 1965 at
the Crossroads
Theatre. The
Louis F. Stern/Jewish Transcript archives first High HoliThe officers and board members of the 50-year-old congregation that lasted day services were
held at Glendale
for five years.
Country Club. In 1966, Ner Tamid purchased a building in Bellevues Lake Hills neighborhood as a permanent house of worship. In 1967, the board hired Rabbi Gilbert Kollin,
named Cantor Norman Migdal as school principal, and Cantor Joseph Frankel served
as school consultant. During its five years of existence, Ner Tamid celebrated the Bnai
Mitzvah of 26 students.
With membership of more than 200 families, Ner Tamid voted to merge with Herzl in
May 1970. An effort is underway to locate as many Ner Tamid families as possible to join
in the celebration. Former members are encouraged to visit www.h-nt.org/NerTamid to
add names to the mailing list and learn about other opportunities for participation.
WWnetanyahu Page 8
unbreakable bonds between the United

States and Israel but continued, That is
why, as one who values the U.S.-Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears
throughout the Prime Ministers speech
saddened by the insult to the intelligence of
the United States as part of the P5+1 nations,
and saddened by the condescension toward
our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran
and our broader commitment to preventing
nuclear proliferation.
The P5+1 is the acronym for the six major
powers negotiating with Iran: the United
States, Russia, China, Germany, France and
Britain.
Three Washington State lawmakers,
Rep. Jim McDermott (D7th), Rep. Denny

Heck (Dth), and Rep. Rick Larsen (D1st)
declined to attend the speech.
The U.S. and Israel have enjoyed 70
years of close friendship, said McDermott in a statement following the speech.
As such, the U.S. would never enter into
any agreement that would jeopardize the
security of Israel and it is shameful that
the Prime Minister has suggested otherwise. This nuclear deal is in the national
and strategic interests of both the U.S. and
Israel.
Read the full text of Netanyahus speech and see it on
video at jewishsound.org/netanyahus-speech-tocongress.
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There have never been apartheid laws

in Israel. Jews and Arabs use the same
buses, clinics, government offices, theatres, restaurants, soccer fields, beaches.
(Did I fail to mention universities in my
list? Here is Mr. Barghouti to remind me:
His academic institution of choice for
pursuing a Masters degree in philosophy
was Tel-Aviv University, of the nation
he paints as irredeemably biased against
his people.) All citizens of Israel, regardless of religion or ethnic origin, are
equal before the law. That law accords
full political, civil, and human rights to
all its people, including the more than
1 million Arab citizens, some of whom
serve in the Israeli parliament and cabinet. Israel is also the only country in the
world to have sought out and brought
to its shores, entirely on its own initia-
tive, tens of thousands of black Africans

for purposes other than slavery, granting
them full citizenship. There is, of course,
savage racial, sexual, and religious discrimination throughout the Middle East,
where Israel may be the only state where
apartheid is not practiced. But do BDSers
boycott Syrian academicians and goods
because of the 130,000 deaths and 20 million refugees from Assads war against
his own citizens?
To dispel uncertainty about its own
relation to the defamation of Israel as the
devils experiment station, Simpson recommends, for unmatched depth, tenor,
and thoughtfulness, The Question of
Zion, a frenzied polemic by another
English professor, Jacqueline Rose. A
critic of the psychoanalytic persuasion,
Rose has put Zionism on the couch in a
way that almost confirms allegations that
psychoanalysis is the disease it purports
to cure. She depicts mass murderers as

people driven to extremes, rhapsodizes
about bonding with Islamist fanatics,
lashes out against those wishing to denigrate suicide bombers and their culture.
Appalled at what the Israeli nation perpetrated in my name, Rose longs for a
world in which we did not have to be
ashamed of shame and looks forward to
curing her shame-sickness by destroying
its cause: Israel.
The books abysmal level of scholarship is exemplified in the following
sentence: It was the same Paris performance of Wagnerthat inspired Herzl
to write Der Judenstaat [the Jewish
State], and Hitler Mein Kampf. (Is
there a normally attentive middle school
student who would not laugh at this historical absurdity?)
Careful observers of organizations
that demonize Israel will notice that
they feature what Kafka called Display

Jews like Rose, who become Jews only
by advertising the fact that they are not
Zionists. But stoking the fires of Jewhatred is risky business: Flames get out
of control, and Jew-haters are notoriously poor at distinguishing Zionist from
anti-Zionist Jews. Like poor Cinna, the
unfortunate poet in Julius Caesar who
is mistaken by the firebrands come to
avenge their murdered emperor insisting that he is not Cinna the conspirator, they will find it useless to plead I
am Jacqueline Rose the anti-Zionist! I
am not Jacqueline Rose the Zionist. The
killers in Paris or Toulouse or Copenhagen will nevertheless reply: It is no
matter. Tear her to pieces, shes a Jew.
Edward Alexander is professor emeritus of English
at the University of Washington. This article
originally appeared in the UW Daily.
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist
This latest research study

from Tel Aviv University is pioneering because its one of a
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to have successfully used crowdfunding to finance the research.
The study is also counterintuitive and atypical because
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ISRAEL:
Genomics Laboratory at TAU,
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Genomics Institute. TAU and
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began to lose her motor and speech skills.
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including the exome, which makes up nearly
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The first step in trying to cure a disease is
finding its cause, Shomron told The Jewish
Sound. By sequencing the DNA of these
children we give the opportunity to find the
causative gene or mutation.
The research was published in the Journal
of Genetics and Genomics.
Without any family history that would
leave researchers a clue for risk factors and
having exhausted all of its medical options available to them, the

family was desperate to help their
little girl, who eventually needed
help sitting and walking.
By sequencing someones
whole genetic code, including the
exome along with every letter of
DNA, researchers can see where
any genetic material in a patient
might be damaged or changed.
We know that genetic testHealth ing like this can reveal familial,
communal and regional mutations that can provide essential information
to patients and their doctors. Shomron said.
RGI is an international non-profit with
applications and requests for help coming
from nearly 20 countries around the world.
It partners with academic institutions at
Columbia University Medical Center, Duke
University, Emory University School of
Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute,
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University of Washington, and others.
The nonprofit group is comprised of volunteer scientists who work in full-time positions where they live but who deeply care
about the rare and unknown diseases that
overwhelm the families who must cope with
them.
RGI-Israel is dedicated to the rare diseases found in Israelis and operates under
the close supervision of its counterpart in the

U.S., using it as the model for operations and
organization.
Shomron, who opened the RGI-Israel
site, said that he believes performing this kind
of genetic research in Israel has advantages
over other populations.
Israels significant advantage is that
we have a unique local genetic Israeli and
Arab pool of patients, which substantially
increases our chances of identifying mutations, he said.
The price to identify a whole exome
sequence per person is $1,500. Approximately 250 million people globally are
affected by these rare types of diseases.
Because this kind of disease research
doesnt benefit the largest groups of the sick
around the world, funding such studies are
nearly impossible, leaving the families desperate for help.
RGI gives families hope that they might
find a cure for their loved ones disease that
might not otherwise be studied.
In Shomrons study, researchers had to
sequence both parents of the sick child, costing $4,500. Thats when he decided to crowdfund the medical cost, which the RGI-U.S.
system has perfected.
The more mutations we identify and
learn of, the easier it would be to solve these
cases, Shomron said. We know that genetic
testing like this can reveal familial, commu-
nal, and regional mutations that can provide

essential information to patients and their
doctors.
Once the whole genome of the patient
has been identified, doctors in RGI help the
patients interpret the results and decide what
the next steps will be.
The organization guarantees a tangible
result.
After completing this task the question
changed from what is wrong with me? to
what can we do to try to solve it? Shomron
said. There is still a long path of investigation
after mutation identification before a cure or
therapy will be reached.
In an interview with TAU staff, Shomron
said that occasionally lifestyle changes, drug
therapies, and physiotherapy can sometimes
affect the outcome for a child.
But the benefit of identifying a mutated
gene that is the cause of a disease pattern in
a family can extend far beyond the one child.
By knowing a childs DNA, you also
unlock a family secret that can possibly
reflect on cousins, siblings and so on, said
Shomron. It goes around and around in a
circle who else is carrying this gene?
Longtime Jewish Sound correspondent and
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jewish and veggie
Put a little Greek in your diet for the

freshness of springtime
By Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Columnist
Michael Natkin
These green
beans are perfect for a potluck; the beans
themselves are
blanched and
shocked and
then they will
easily keep for
in your
Jewish & Veggie ar eday
frigerator.
The keys to successful blanching are to use
a very large pot of well-salted water so the
temperature doesnt drop too much when
the beans are added, and plenty of ice to
rapidly cool them once they are as done as
you like.
Ive been on a big fresh marjoram kick
lately. It is in the same family as oregano,

but I think the flavor is more complex and
resinous and interesting. It is especially well
loved in Greek cuisine and pairs beautifully
with feta and olives. If you cant find fresh
marjoram, use fresh oregano and/or thyme.
This dish is so simple that the quality of
the feta and olives you use will make a big
difference; buy the best you can afford. You
might also add a bit of lemon or orange zest
for even more flavor.
Greek Green Bean Salad
Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
2-1/2 pounds green beans, trimmed and rinsed
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1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil

1 tsp. kosher salt
1-1/3 cups creamy feta, crumbled
1-1/2 cups pitted taste black olives
(I used Taggiascas), sliced
Freshly ground black pepper
Lots of fresh marjoram or oregano
Set up big container full of ice and just
a little water for shocking the blanched
green beans.
Bring a very large pot of salted water to
a boil. Boil the green beans until just
barely tender and still bright green,
working in two batches if necessary.
Shock in the ice water.
When the beans are well chilled, drain
and either transfer to a serving bowl or
reserve in the refrigerator until ready to
serve. When ready to serve, add the olive
oil and salt and toss well. Garnish with
the feta, black olives, pepper and marjoram. Toss again just before serving, as it
looks beautiful before tossing.
Yield: 12
Local food writer and chef Michael Natkins
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march 6, 2015 n 15 adar 5775 n volume 91, no. 5 n www.jewishsound.

Previously published as JTNews

Bibi goes to Congress

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ALL IN A WEEKS NEWS

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Rabbis Turn: Get into that Pesach state of mind

Under the radar

Simpson sells out

A young voice for Israel

Reconstruction for the ages

Bibis visit to Washington

The final frontier

From the Jewish Transcript, March 12,

Welcome, new advertisers!

A final look on the bookshelf

Twenty years of film

Northwest Jewish Seniors

A Proud Partner Agency of

Tacoma Art Museum, Kirkland Maserati

The Jewish community calendar

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Leisure Time Tours

Pesach On The Mountain

hamantaschen. With professional balloon artist

2015 Jewish Family Service Community of Caring Luncheon

THURSDAY, April 30, 2015

the rabbis turn

Purim, Pesach and the season

to raise our children. We are

letters to the editor

Change is necessary to survive and stay current.

UWs Simpson Center puts

Although millions are assaulted daily

vsky, Bawarshi are all (like Simpson

Ambassador divides the

With 14-Down, Scotch cocktail named for a

Make larger and larger, as a bill

of households told by Arab officials to

Trail-blazing leader visits

TBH has been affiliated

Vicki Robbins, CTC

Robbins Travel at Lake City

Your key to the world.

Russ Katz, Realtor

Windermere Real Estate/Wall St. Inc.

JDS Grad & Past Board of Trustees Member

Netanyahu to Congress: Deal with Iran paves way to bomb

sessions of Congress by a foreign leader.

and the United States has always been above

March 27 is our Passover issue and

___ Happy Passover!

Help us say LHitraot, until we meet again to The Jewish Sound

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