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Convicted murderer Naveed Haq is escorted from the courtroom on Dec. 15 following the announcement of his guilty verdict.

Seattle Federation gunman found guilty on all counts

Leyna Krow and Joel Magalnick
JTNews Staff
A jury has found Naveed Haq guilty of first-degree
murder for his attack on the Jewish Federation of Greater
Seattle in July of 2006.
This was the second trial for Haq, 34, who had pled not
guilty by reason of insanity. The first, in the spring of
2008, ended in a mistrial after two weeks of deliberation.
This time around, the jury was able to reach a verdict after
just two and a half days, bringing the almost nine-week-
long trial to an end.
As King County Superior Court Judge Paris K. Kallas read
the jury’s decision to a packed courtroom on the morning of
Tues., Dec. 15, the surviving victims of the shooting and their
friends, family and co-workers reacted with hugs and tears.
Haq’s demeanor did not change throughout the read-
ing of the verdict.
Senior deputy prosecuting attorney Don Raz said he
believes the key to the guilty verdict in this trial was
largely due to the admission of new evidence: Tapes from
a series of phone conversations Haq had from jail with his
mother and other family members shortly after his arrest.
During these recordings, Haq’s mother can be heard tell-
ing her son he is sick and it is because of his illness that he
committed his attack. Haq repeatedly denies this, saying
he feels fine and that he is proud of what he did.
“I think the difference this time was certainly having
the jailhouse conversations [included],” Raz said. “Jurors
indicated they were very significant” in helping them
reach a decision.
Carol Goldman, one of the surviving victims of the
attack who attended much of the trial, concurred.
“The tapes really did represent the calm, deliberat-
ing actions” Haq had shown throughout the duration
of the shooting, Goldman said. “He was so calm and he
sounded so confident in himself.”
The prosecution throughout the trial had acknowl-
edged Haq had suffered from mental illness. Symptoms
appeared mostly in the form of paranoia and paranoid
delusions, Raz said. “It’s why he lost all his jobs.”
“No one ever asserted that paranoia had anything to
do with his attack on the Jewish Federation,” Raz said.
Juror John Bennett said the defense was simply unable
to convince he and his fellow jurors of Haq’s insanity at
the time of the shooting.
“We were waiting with an open mind ­— waiting for
someone to tell us that he was not sane. But there was just
never anything to convince us,” he said.
Still, Bennett said, the guilty verdict was not a decision
the jurors came to lightly.
“There was a lot of emotion in the jury. There were
tears for both sides, for Mr. Haq’s family as well as the vic-
tims,” he said.
Robert, another juror who didn’t want his last name
used, also said it was a very difficult and emotional deci-
sion for the jury.
In addition to the charge of first-degree murder for the
killing of 58-year-old Federation employee Pam Waech-
ter, the jury also found Haq guilty of all seven other
charges brought against him, including five counts of
attempted first-degree murder, one count of unlawful
imprisonment, and one count of malicious harassment.
The prosecution had simplified the case against Haq
from 15 counts in his initial trial.
Following the verdict, King County Prosecutor Dan
Satterberg said Haq’s conviction brought a legal resolu-
tion to “our state’s worst hate crime.”
The victims, he said, were “selected mainly because of
what they represented: The state of Israel and people of
the Jewish faith everywhere.”
“The jury spoke loudly today and for all of us,” Sat-
terberg told reporters. “Hate crimes have no place here.
Holding extremist views does not make you insane, but it
does make you dangerous.”
“I’m relieved and very excited,” said Goldman, a coor-
dinator for the Federation’s community fundraising
campaign, following the guilty verdict. “It’s nice to finally
be able to move on and put this chapter to bed.”
Shooting victim Cheryl Stumbo agreed.
“I couldn’t be happier,” said Stumbo, the Federation’s
former marketing manager. “I felt like I was floating off
the bench.”
Stumbo sustained a gunshot to the abdomen that still
affects her today: She had been in the hospital having a
pump installed in the wound to drain excess fluid when
she received the call that a verdict was forthcoming.
Stumbo told reporters that she had been experiencing
complications from a hysterectomy performed in April of
this year to remove the bullet.
“We’re hoping by Christmas this will be resolved,”
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What do Jews believe about Jesus?
Christmas is an appropriate time to understand what Jesus means to Jews and Judaism
Rabbi Bruce
Kadden
Temple Beth El,
Tacoma
Like most rabbis, I often speak to non-
Jewish groups who want to learn more
about Judaism. One of the most common
questions I get is: “What do Jews believe
about Jesus?” Although most Christians
understand that we do not believe he was
the Messiah, they usually are not sure
why. And many assume that, at the very
least, we consider him to be a rabbi or
prophet.
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lematic for different reasons. Accord-
ing to the book of John in the Christian
scriptures, Jesus was called “rabbi.” Some
scholars have suggested that the writer of
John was familiar with the term and used
it, although it was not used in Jesus’ day.
But even if it was used then and his fol-
lowers did call him “rabbi,” the mean-
ing and significance of the term was far
different than it came to mean after the
destruction of the Second Temple.
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rabbi may have been used to mean “my
teacher” or “my master,” but would not
have indicated any formal training or
ordination. With the destruction of the
Temple, however, the process of formal
study and ordination was developed and
the term rabbi was then used to recog-
nize one who had completed this process.
Thus it is confusing, at the very least, to
call Jesus a rabbi, since the significance
of the term at the end of the first century
and later was quite a bit different than its
meaning in Jesus’ day.
As for the term prophet, Judaism
insists that prophecy ended with Mal-
achai in the fifth century B.C.E. While
until then God communicated with many
individuals, from that point on our com-
munication with God is through the
Torah and its interpretation. In a famous
Talmudic discussion (Baba Matzia, 59b),
a Divine Voice comes to the support of
Rabbi Eliezer in his dispute with Rabbi
Joshua and the sages. But Rabbi Jeremiah
responds to this voice by stating that the
Torah has already been given at Mount
Sinai. We do not give authority to a Divine
Voice, for it is already written at Mount
Sinai in the Torah: “One must incline
after the majority” (Exodus 23:2).
If Jesus is neither a rabbi nor a prophet,
Innovators wanted, non-rich need not apply
The new crop of social entrepreneurship incubators are not all they’re cracked up to be
Daniel Sieradski
JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) — In November 2007,
I had the distinct honor of representing the
Jewish innovation sector in a plenary
speech at the General Assembly of what
was then called the United Jewish Com-
munities. During my presentation in Nash-
v ille before 3,000 Jew ish nonprof it
professionals and board members, I made
allusion to the fact that the expectations of
existing incubators and social entrepre-
neur fellowships were perhaps outside the
reach of many young social innovators
eager to make an impact within the Ameri-
can and global Jewish communities. I
therefore encouraged the creation of more
opportunities for Jewish social entrepre-
neurs, insisting on the need for more pro-
grams across the country like Bikkurim
that provide more accessibility and flexi-
bility than offered by even Bikkurim itself.
Now, more than two years later, Jewish
social innovation think tanks and incu-
bators are beginning to dominate the
inst it ut iona l landscape. Jumpstar t,
Upstart, PresenTense, JHub — every-
where you look, it seems, efforts are under
way to support the next generation of
Jewish communal initiatives. This is an
inherently good thing: more people with
innovative ideas will have greater oppor-
tunities to have a significant impact.
But this model is not without its flaws,
and as a Jewish social entrepreneur
myself, one such flaw keeps repeatedly
knocking me in the face: Who can possibly
afford to participate in these programs?
I recently attended an informational
w i l l b e the first
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how might we describe him? Reading
the stories about him, it seems that he is
an itinerant preacher, healer and mir-
acle worker. It is impossible to deter-
mine whether the healing and miracles
ascribed to him actually occurred, but it
is significant to note that at least some of
the stories are similar to those of Elijah
as well as stories of healing and miracles
ascribed to individuals in the Talmud.
And Jesus’ conflict with the Pharisees can
also be understood as conflict that often
occurred among Jewish sages. Some
scholars even claim Jesus was a Pharisee,
though it is difficult if not impossible to
validate such a claim.
Throughout our history, Jewish think-
ers have offered a variety of views of Jesus.
Rabbi Moses ben Maimon observed that
we humans cannot “fathom the designs
of the Creator” and that both Jesus and
Mohammed “served to clear the way
for King Messiah, to prepare the whole
world to worship God with one accord.”
Eighteenth-century rabbi Jacob Emden
claimed that Jesus did the world a great
favor by distilling the teachings of the
Torah, and draw ing non-Jews away
from false gods and idolatry and toward
observing the Noahide laws.
More recent ly, Kabbalah scholar
session held by the newly reconstituted
Joshua Venture Group in New York. Dozens
of potential applicants, with projects rang-
ing from the arts to education to spiritual-
ity to social justice, assembled for a
half-hour presentation by the Joshua Ven-
ture’s newly minted executive director,
Lisa Lepson, on the finer details of their
2010-11 fellowship program. The program
seems like an outstanding, exciting and
unparalleled opportunity — one to which I
am eager to apply. One hundred thousand
dollars over two years is no small shakes,
and the networking and mentoring oppor-
tunities alone would prove invaluable.
As I did the math in my head, however,
I realized it would be virtually impossible
for me to do this fellowship without under-
taking a massive lifestyle change, includ-
ing moving out of New York City. Were I to
pay myself exclusively and not spend a
dime of the Joshua Venture’s money on my
actual project, it would constitute a mas-
sive pay cut and a huge step back in my
career trajectory. I would end up earning
less than my fiancée, a Jewish day school
teacher (who by no means is rolling in it),
and I would be buying my own individual
health insurance coverage.
Furthermore, should I opt to spend
that money exclusively on myself and not
on my project, I would have nothing to
show to other funders to elicit their inter-
est and solicit their support.
If I went the other way, spending noth-
ing on myself and everything on my proj-
ect, how would I earn any money? The
program obligates fellows to devote a
minimum of 35 hours per week to their
projects, thereby severely limiting my
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viewpoints
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Daniel Matt has referred to Jesus as “a
Galilean hasid, someone passionately
in love with God, drunk on the divine,
unconventional and extreme in his devo-
tion to God and to fellow human beings.”
These scholars and others have tried to
discover the appropriate theological per-
spective that we Jews should have toward
Jesus. As our fellow Christians celebrate
his birth, it is an appropriate time to
reflect on how we, as Jews, view this first-
century Jew who had a lasting impact on
the world.
Letters
Where’s the condemnation?
After reading the Jewish Federation’s
response to the Haq guilty verdict, I had
the following angry reaction:
I saw no condemnation of Islamic
extremist ideology/Muslim hatred — the
motivation and driving force of Haq’s
actions. The Federation is against “hatred”
in general — so Muslim fanatics are off
the hook and free to commit the next out-
rage against Jews and other Americans.
The Federation sanitizes Muslim outrages,
and protects Muslim extremists from con-
demnation!
Lawrence Black
Seattle
ability to make up the lost income with
freelance work. In effect, I’d be screwed.
I had the same issue with Bikkurim,
which is why I rescinded my application
after making it into the second round of its
application process in 2007, prompting
my remarks at the GA. Bikkurim requires
that you sit behind a desk at its Manhattan
offices at least half the week, yet the yearly
stipend it offers wouldn’t even cover two
months rent’ and utilities (let alone food)
in New York or its suburban environs. I
would have to take it on faith that I could
somehow manage to raise significant
funds for my project within the first four
months online — in this economy — or I’d
have to move back in with my parents.
I spoke to Nina Bruder, Bikkurim’s
executive director, and Lepson about these
concerns at the Joshua Venture gathering.
Both seemed to indicate that I was essen-
tially out of luck — which is not to say they
were unsympathetic or their initiatives are
any less valuable in spite of their limita-
tions. It merely affirms that such opportu-
nities are not accessible to everyone.
The folks who most often participate in
these programs, Ms. Bruder suggested, are
usually fresh out of school, or living off
their parents, spouses or savings. And
despite these incubators bandying the
word “sustainability” about like “mazal
tovs” at a Jewish wedding, there is posi-
tively nothing sustainable about that, let
alone practical — at least not for people
like me. My parents are struggling to pay
their mortgage, my soon-to-be wife will
probably never break the six-figure income
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Iran, from the left
A panel on Iran, in response to another panel on Iran, disavows sanctions, military option
Leyna Krow
Assistant Editor, JTNews
On Dec. 16, a day after the U.S. House
of Representatives approved a sanctions
plan that would restrict the sale of refined
petroleum to Iran, a group of about 40
people gathered at Town Hall Seattle to
listen to a panel of experts discuss the
U.S. and Israel’s policies toward Iran.
The views shared at the Town Hall event,
intended to be a left-leaning counter to a
similar Jewish Federation-sponsored event
held in October, have become increasingly
less popular among the Jewish community
in the past few months.
According to a recent survey by the
American Jewish Committee, more than
60 percent of American Jews would sup-
port an attack on Iran by the U.S. Even left-
leaning lobbying organization J Street has
voiced its support of sanctions, a tactic it
initially opposed.
Still, a good deal of the American
public sees sanctions as a poor choice for
dealing with Iran, and they deserve to
have their opinions heard, said organizer
and local blogger Richard Silverstein .
“We’re here because we want to hear
intelligent, thoughtful discussion on this
topic,” he said.
Keith Weissman, former director of
AIPAC’s Iran desk, kicked off the event
with a discussion about why sanctions
won’t work in Iran and what he feels the U.S.
ought to do instead.
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“No sanction that Southern California, filled in a few of the
has ever been gaps through his assessment of the state
enacted unilaterally of Iran’s nuclear program at this time.
by the U.S. has ever He presented Iran’s drive for nuclear
gotten anyone to do weapons as a program of national secu-
anything,” he said. rity rather than part of any ambition to
The best thing the attack another country.
U.S. can do right now, “The lesson Iran has learned from
Weissman argued, is other countries in the Middle East is if
to take a wait-and-see you have the bomb, they will leave you
approach. Since Iran’s alone,” he said. “Iran, just like Israel, has
contested elections in Cliff Wells legitimate security concerns.”
June, the country has Prof. Muhammad Sahimi, left, and Keith Weissman, share He stressed that despite Iran’s hostility
been in a state of tur- comments during the “Iran-Israel-U.S.: Breaking the Nuclear toward Israel, an actual attack is unlikely,
moil, lack ing in a Impasse” panel discussion on Dec. 16. given the horrendous consequences such
clear chain of com- an attack would have for Iran itself.
mand or cohesive political ideology. sons for wanting to curtail Iran’s nuclear “I cannot think of any conceivable sce-
“When we say ‘dealing with Iran,’ who activities, they too have overestimated nario in which they would use a bomb
exactly are we talking about?” Weissman the risk Iran actually poses. [against Israel],” Sahimi said.
asked. “There is really no way for us to tell “There is no bona fide threat from Iran to Since the threat of real aggression
how decisions are being made on [the Israel,” Lustick said. “Why then the hysteria from Iran is so low, he said, the best way to
nuclear] issue.” if not for actual risk of a nuclear attack?” inf luence Iran’s nuclear policy is to
The political landscape of Iran may Lustick painted a picture of Israel as a encourage the nation to move toward real
change dramatically over the next couple country still mired in the trauma of the democracy.
of years, negating the need for aggressive Holocaust, unable to see the political “The way to go is to support Iran’s dem-
action on the part of other nations want- reality of the Iran situation. ocratic efforts,” Sahimi said. He noted that
ing to halt its nuclear program. But right “If you want to understand Israeli for- if Iran were to become a more democratic
now, Weissman insisted, Iran’s future is eign policy, it is really kind of a Post-Trau- nation, there would be less international
too hazy for the U.S. or any other country matic Stress Disorder situation,” he said. concern about their nuclear program.
to be able to see what threat, if any, Iran Lustick neglected to explain why “India has the bomb, but no one wor-
will actually pose. Israel should disregard the consistent ries about it because India is a democracy
“We have no control over this and no threats of violence and anti-Semitic rhet- and we can talk with them,” he said.
reason to try to control it,” he said. oric from Iranian leaders as less than Sahimi stressed that supporting dem-
Ian Lustick, political science professor legitimate, however. ocratic movement in Iran does not mean
at the University of Pennsylvania, said Muhammad Sahimi, a professor of military intervention, however. What it
that although Israelis have different rea- chemical engineering at the University of does mean, he did not say.
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Where’s the beef?
Lawsuit seeks to make religious rules of animal slaughter consistent with non-religious rules
Janis Siegel
JTNews Correspondent
For Adam Karp, it’s usually about the
animals. This time, religion has gotten
involved.
That’s how Karp, a Bellingham-based
attorney who pioneered the field of animal
law in Washington State, waded into
church/state issues. Karp told members of
the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s
attorneys’ affinity group the Cardozo
Society of Washington State at its Dec. 1
meeting that his client wants to see the
Washington Humane Slaughter Act,
which exempts religious ritual slaughter-
ers from meeting state guidelines and
criminal prosecution, changed.
Representing Pasado’s Safe Haven in
a lawsuit filed in King County Superior
Court against Snohomish County and the
State of Washington, Karp said that if they
prevail, all religious ritual slaughterers
would lose their religious exemption and
be required to “stun” an animal before
slaughtering them.
“The question is whether the state
has created an unconstitutional exemp-
tion in favor of religion,” said Karp, who
founded the Washington State Bar Asso-
ciation’s Animal Law Section.
“Eliminate, ‘In accordance with the
ritual requirements of any religious faith,’”
said Karp, who disclosed he is a strict
kosher vegan and that his personal views
would prohibit slaughter entirely. “That
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phrase could be excised from the statute.”
By allowing the slaughtering of an
animal without stunning it first, he said,
the law also unconstitutionally pre-
scribes different punishments to groups
and individuals according to their reli-
gious practices.
“Washington’s Humane Slaughter Act
violates its religious establishment clause
by allowing a religious person or group
to conduct ritual slaughter without the
threat of criminal prosecution,” Karp told
the attorneys, “while secular slaughterers
must conform to the stringent rules against
animal cruelty set forth in the state law.”
The suit would affect not just the
Jewish community, but observant Mus-
lims as well, whose meat is similarly
slaughtered for it to be considered halal.
Washington State currently does not have
any slaughterhouses that kill animals for
kosher or halal consumers.
Present ing t he v iew t hat kosher
slaughtering laws are humane and that
the legal exemption should remain was
Rabbi Moshe Kletenik of Orthodox con-
g regat ion Bik ur Cholim-Machzikay
Hadath in Seattle.
Kletenik is also president of the Rab-
binical Council of America, and a board
member of the Va’ad HaRabanim of
Greater Seattle, the state’s kosher-certifi-
cation body.
“The proposed change would require
stunning the animal first,” Kletenik told
JTNews. “If the animal is stunned, that
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would render the meat not fit for kosher
use, even if slaughtered afterwards. In
order to be kosher, the animal must be
healthy and uninjured at the time of
slaughter and must die as a result of the
slaughter.”
Kletenik also said that Jewish slaugh-
ter laws are in compliance with Wash-
ington’s Humane Slaughter Act because
Jewish law puts the highest priority on
slaughtering practices that would pre-
vent the needless suffering of the animal.
Current ly, Washing ton State law
exempts ritual religious slaughter from the
guidelines detailed in the Humane Slaugh-
ter Act. It states: “Nothing…shall be con-
strued to prohibit, abridge, or in any way
hinder the religious freedom of any person
or group…. Ritual slaughter and the han-
dling or other preparation of livestock for
ritual slaughter is defined as humane.”
The law allows two humane methods
of slaughter for livestock: The first requires
the animal to be rendered insensible to
pain by “mechanical, electrical, chemical
or other means that is rapid and effective.”
The second is “a method in accordance
with the ritual requirements of any reli-
gious faith whereby the animal suffers
loss of consciousness by anemia of the
brain caused by the simultaneous and
instantaneous severance of the carotid
arteries with a sharp instrument.”
This second method, according to the
Pasado lawsuit, would be a misdemeanor
when not performed as a religious ritual.
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They argue that if a Christian were to use
the same kosher slaughter technique as
the Jewish method, the Christian slaugh-
terer would be criminally charged and the
Jewish slaughterer would not.
“If you’re not religiously qualified,”
Karp asked, “is the state qualified to judge
who is religious and if their methods are
in accordance with the religious laws
practiced by that sect?”
W hen a Jew ish ritual slaughterer
approaches an animal to take its life, the
requirement to cut the carotid arteries
quickly, with a surgically sharp knife, is
only one of the many laws found in the
Hebrew Bible, The Torah, and its com-
mentaries, said Kletenik.
These laws, he said, must be closely
followed to spare the animal any pain
and render the meat kosher.
“The Talmud, Maimonides’ Code of
Jewish Law, and the Code of Jewish Law,
the Shulchan Aruch, discuss the five basic
elements of slaughter,” Kletenik said. “If
there is any pause in the act of the slaugh-
ter, that disqualifies the act…. There has
to be a back and forth motion, with a sur-
gically sharp instrument — there cannot
be dow nward pressure against t he
esophagus or the trachea. The knife has
to be long enough to always be seen and
not covered by the feathers or the skin or
another object that would obscure the
view…. The slaughter will almost inevi-
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community news

Eight lights
Jconnect LGBT group honors community members who have fought for gay rights.

Joel Magalnick Phil Bereano

Editor, JTNews
As Louise Chernin noted, the major-
ity of leaders in Seattle’s gay rights move-
ment are Jewish. That’s not a surprise, said
Chernin, director of the Greater Seattle
Business Alliance, the largest lesbian/gay/
bisexual/transgender Chamber of Com-
merce in the country, given the decades of
Jews having been on the front lines of fight-
ing for all kinds of civil rights.
Chernin was one of eight gay or les-
bian Jews honored for their work in
advancing Seattle’s gay community on
Dec. 17 at a Hanukkah party thrown by
Kolenu, the LGBT group within Hillel at
the University of Washington’s Jconnect
young adults program.
While in some ways it felt like a pass-
ing of the torch from an older generation
of activists to the up-and-coming activ-
ists, as one of the honorees noted, “We’re
not done yet.”
Cantor David Serkin-Poole
Cantor Serkin-Poole of Temple B’nai
Torah lit the candles and led the blessings.
“This is a miracle to be all together this
Hanukkah,” he told the party’s celebrants.
“Sometimes we forget the miracles of
today when we think of 2,000 years ago.”
David and Michael Serkin-Poole were
among several couples to challenge the
state’s Defense of Marriage Act in 2004.
He also sits on the board of the Legal Mar-
Six of the eight honorees at the Kolenu Light the Night Hanukkah celebrations.
riage Alliance and is a longtime orga-
nizer of the annual Pride Shabbat. He is a
member of the JTNews board as well.
Audrey Haberman
Having been involved with several gay
and lesbian organizations locally and
nationally, including as executive director
of the Pride Foundation, Haberman has
been active in ensuring that these cam-
paigns have the money to do their work.
But that’s not all they need, she said.
“We have maintained a sense of
humor,” Haberman said of the gay Jewish
community. Despite the “darkness, what
I wish for us is that we continue to…strive
for that sense of humor.”
Louise Chernin
The ability of the Jewish LGBT popula-
tion to combine both of these aspects of
their identities was, until about 30 years
Joel Magalnick
ago, very difficult, Chernin said.
“For many of us, it hasn’t been easy
to bring these communities together,”
Chernin said.
Chernin, through the GSBA and her
own activism, said that in the near future
she hopes as well to be done voting on
civil rights.
“I hope we can be whole people wher-
ever we are,” she said.
Marlee Blonsky
Probably the youngest honoree of the
evening, Blonsky has still made her name
known in Seattle’s LGBT community,
from volunteering with Lifelong AIDS
Alliance to being an organizer for LGBTQ
Equality Weekend. She is currently the
Get Engaged commissioner for the City of
Seattle’s LGBT Commission.
“My wish and my blessing is that we
can all be true to ourselves,” Blonsky said.
Bereano has been on the front lines of
fighting for civil rights for decades, and
was a critical member of the group that
founded Tikvah Chadashah, Seattle’s
LGBT congregation, in 1980. Now also
active in West Seattle’s Kol HaNeshamah,
Bereano noted that not too long ago, it
was “not possible to meet like this.
“It’s just a measure of how incredibly far
we’ve all come to be here tonight,” he said.
Roy Hamrick
According to investment advisor Roy
Hamrick, “I cherish my gayness and I
cherish my Jewishness.”
He has been involved with MultiFaith
Works, and the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force as well as with Tikvah Cha-
dashah from its early days. Hamrick said
that where today the need for such a syna-
gogue might not be as acute, it’s still a safe
space for young, gay Jews to help build
their identities.
Hamrick was quick to give credit
for advancements in gay and lesbian
rights to the others who stood in front
of the crowd. Of Haberman, he said that
Pride Foundation’s success lies in part
“because of the Jewish values she brings
to the organization.”
Michael Taylor-Judd
Taylor-Judd has been active in gay
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The verdict
Thoughts on Naveed Haq
Martin Jaffee
JTNews Columnist
Like most everyone I know, my first
reaction at hearing about the guilty ver-
dict delivered against Naveed Haq was
relief. Not joy. Not exultation. Not even a
rush of vindication. Just relief.
Relief that a jury agreed upon what
was so obvious — Haq’s attack on the
Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle con-
sciously targeted a Jewish institution for
murderous assault in order to make a
political point. Relief also that, somehow,
Jewish sensibilities about the deadly seri-
ousness of contemporary anti-Semitism
— whether it decks itself in the rhetoric
of contemporary Islamist ideology, in the
fantasies of Christian Identity “evange-
lists,” or in the “anti-Zionism” of so many
of those educated enough to know better
— are validated in this verdict.
Whatever Haq’s clinical portrait might
be on his medical chart, the bottom line
is that this guy wanted to kill some Jews,
searched out a vulnerable target that
symbolized the American Jewish con-
nection with Israel, selected his weap-
ons with care, and took a day trip over the
pass to reach his target.
On that Friday afternoon in late July,
2006, Haq was no doubt “crazy.” But only
in the colloquial sense that we apply to
people whose judgment seems clouded
by passion. In the same way, perhaps, that
certain well-married politicos risk every-
thing in their world for some cheap trysts.
It’s the kind of “craziness” embodied in the
words of the old Merle Haggard tune, “I’m
old enough to know better, and still young
enough not to care.” This sort of “crazy”
doesn’t get you off the hook for murder.
But the relief I shared with so many
others in the Jewish and general commu-
nities is not unmixed with other feelings.
For one thing, it is colored by remorse at
my own error.
Readers may remember the column I
wrote in this paper about Haq’s attack (it
is still on the JTNews Web site under the
title, “A Muslim-American mad at Israel”).
There, writing a day or two after the event
itself, I argued that we should not rush to
chalk up Haq’s crime to “Islamic terror-
ism.” Rather, on the basis of what we knew
at the time — his psychiatric history with
a manic-depressive disorder, a recent
conversion to an obscure Christian sect,
and other erratic behavior — this shoot-
ing seemed more like the deadly assaults
in American public spaces colorfully
summarized as “going postal.”
Well, now I know better. Since 2006
we all have read frequently of middle-
class, second-generation Muslims in the
U.S. and Europe who, despite an appar-
ently thorough acculturation to their new
homelands, find their “true” identities
in one or another internet Islamist chat
room, and re-brand themselves as “sol-
diers of Islam” in the “global jihad.”
We are all still reeling, after all, from
the shock of Nidal Malik Hassan’s attack
in Ft. Hood. And we have even more
recently learned of the five Pakistani-
American youngsters who tried to join
the “global jihad” against American
forces in Afghanistan.
Had I known in July 2006 what I know
now, I would have interpreted Naveed
Haq more cautiously as yet a further
example of a personality warped by the
combination, in equal measures, of pow-
erful personal resentment toward Jews
and the religiously legitimized language
of divine vengeance that Islam, after all,
shares with its “sister traditions.”
It is too much to dismiss Haq as a
“Muslim terrorist.” I don’t believe that
“Islam” transformed him from being
“angry at Israel” (and who isn’t these
days?) to being a murderer of American
Jews. I am convinced that he acted in
response to private, personal demons who
spoke in the convenient language of a reli-
gious tradition that — again, like its sisters
— can and has been too easily hijacked in
the service of psychopathic hatreds.
And here my relief turns to anxiety and
concern. For the Naveed Haq who walked
the streets as a free man prior to the Fed-
eration shootings was not so different
from any of the dozens of Muslim college
students whom I have had the pleasure
of teaching in my years at the UW. Their
ancestry spans the Islamic globe; Ameri-
can-born or foreign, they claim origins in
lands as diverse as Somalia, Egypt, Indo-
nesia, Sudan, Nigeria, Morocco, Paki-
stan, Bosnia, and, yes, Palestine.
They are uniformly excellent stu-
dents, and one or two have become close
friends and colleagues, sharing meals
at the family table and swapping stories
about immigration to America, the trials
of assimilation, and so forth.
Their curiosity about Jews leads them
to routinely seek out my courses on Juda-
ism or anti-Semitism. This past quarter I
was honored to have some 20 Muslim stu-
dents among the 200 who took my course
on “Globalization & the Monotheistic Tra-
ditions.” Many of them were among the
strongest students, eager to master a way
of speaking about religions which both
honors their own, yet compares it — warts
and all — with fair-minded representations
of Judaism and Christianity. And two of
these students, I am proud to say, are now
registered in my course on the Talmud.
Do I have a budding Internet jihadist
among my students? Rachmana litzlan!
But I must say this: Despite what the
news cont inues to bring about t he
extremities of Islamic anti-Westernism
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New Seattle-based TV show is a hit

Also: Fishing with the black sheep of Seward Park
Diana Brement
JTNews
Columnist
A guilty secret: I’m hooked on “Hoard-
ers,” the new hit TV show on A&E. So it
was great to find out it was conceived
and is produced right here in Seattle by
Jodi Flynn, director of development for
Screaming Flea Productions, and her
team.
“We are busy,” says Jodi, with orders
for 13 more episodes. “People don’t real-
ize that most television is not produced
by a network.”
Hundreds of production companies
produce most shows we watch, and there
are “more now with the advent of the Mac
[computer] and good digital cameras,”
she says.
Yet demand still increases as more
networks emerge.
Like me, you may have wondered what
a TV producer does.
“Everything,” Jodi explains, from gen-
erating ideas and getting guests to deliv-
ering the tape. “We put the elements
together to tell a story.”
Growing up in Manhattan, Jodi stud-
ied political communications at George
Washington University.
“I knew I wanted to be in television
news,” she says, but 20 years ago “you
couldn’t really study television.” (How
times have changed!)
She got her first TV job in Washington,
D.C., and she’s never worked in another
industry.
“Hoarding,” a mental illness believed
to be related to obsessive-compulsive dis-
order, causes people to collect things or
animals in their homes to the point that it
harms their relationships or health.
The show was inspired by an unaired
program about cleaning up hoarders’
houses. That proved too depressing, but
it led Jodi to the idea of focusing on the
hoarders themselves. The production
team decided to spotlight those in crisis,
waiting for authorities to take their chil-
dren, to condemn their property or arrest
them for animal cruelty.
“We wanted a show where we could…
help people,” and to do “justice to their
problem without being exploitive,” she
says, although she notes, “it can take 20
years to really help a hoarder.”
Jodi’s staff provides professional help
for their subjects — clean-up crews, psy-
chologists and organizers, and “after-
care…to keep them on track.”
The first show aired in August and was
immediately popular, like “lightning in a
bottle.” The crew originally worked hard
to find subjects; now they are getting
more than 100 submissions a week.
It still takes time to develop each
show.
“There is a trust issue,” says Jodi.
These days Jodi spends her pre-
cious free time exclusively with her kids,
Sydney and Aidan. “We ski, we play
golf…I’m a learning golfer. All three of us
are learning together.”
•••
Finding far-flung Jews, and those with
unusual occupations, is part of the fun worked in Mexico for a couple of years,
of this column, so I hit a jackpot when then returned to Seattle where he helped
Seattle-born Alaska fishing guide and start the Alaska Sport Fishing Lodge
all-around funny guy Morry Israel con- Association, which fell apart after the
tacted me recently. Exxon Valdez disaster. He lived a few
“I showered and put on fresh clothes years in Israel and started an Alaska
for this phone call,” he told me from travel office in Tel Aviv.
above the 49th parallel. “I’m really not tough enough to do
business in Israel,”
he says.
Event ua l ly he
returned to Alaska
as a fishing and wild-
life guide, moving
to Angoon, a Tlin-
git village on Admi-
ralty Island, a U.S.
National Monument
where the bear pop-
ulation outnumbers
hu ma ns t h ree-to-
one.
“I liked the
area because there
weren’t any ot her
lodges,” at the time
Courtesy Jodi Flynn other than Whaler’s
Jodi Flynn with her son Aidan and her daughter Sydney. Cove where he was
guiding. He says it’s
a bit like the Wild
The self-described “black sheep of West, an area “least impacted by civiliza-
Seward Park” and Franklin High gradu- tion than any I’ve been to,” he says.
ate was introduced to Alaska at 18 when Morr y loves to take visitors from
he was sent to work on a “halibut schooner around the world up remote streams
out of Kodiak” as punishment for some and rivers with Tlingit names where the
teenage misdeed. One particularly rough salmon “pop out of the gravel” and bears
storm convinced him he needed to go to and whales abound.
college. He returned home to attend The It’s like “living in a National Geo-
Evergreen College, and was a member of graphic magazine,” he says.
the school’s first graduating class.
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december 24, 2009 – january 14 , 2010
The JTNews calendar presents a selection of
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December
Thursday 24
■■6 p.m. – Moo Shoo, Matzoh Balls, and a
Couple of Wise Guys
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A night of live music, stand-up comedy, film,
and a Chinese dinner buffet. Cost is $25 in
advance, $30 at the door. At the Little Red
Bistro, 400 Dexter Ave. N, Seattle.
■■9:30 p.m. – Latkepalooza
www.hilleluw.org
A Jewish Christmas Eve party hosted by
Jconnect and the Jewish Federation’s Young
Leadership Division. Cost is $15 in advance,
$20 at the door. At the Triple Door, 216 Union
St., Seattle.
Friday 25
■■9 p.m. – Chinese Food Shabbat Dinner
Josh at joshf@hilleluw.org
Shabbat dinner with Jconnect and The Tribe
at Shanghai Garden following services at
Temple De Hirsch Sinai. At Shanghai Garden,
524 6th Ave. S, Seattle.
Sunday 27
■■7:30 p.m. – Yiddish Crash Course, Part
Two
kibbutznik@ravennakibbutz.org
Work on reading, speaking, grammar, and
singing. At the Ravenna Kibbutz, House Bet,
6316 23rd Ave. NE, Seattle.
Wednesday 30
■■10 a.m. - 4 p.m. – Snowshoeing at Lower
Gold Creek Basin
Jacob at jacob@jconnectseattle.org
A snowshoeing adventure with Jconnect. Meet
at Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.
January
Tuesday 5
■■12 p.m. – AIPAC Downtowner’s Briefing
Sarah Persitz at 206-624-5152 or
spersitz@aipac.org
This event is part of a new initiative uniting
downtown professionals who are committed
to securing and supporting the U.S.-Israel
relationship. Call for location.
■■6 p.m. – AIPAC Young Professionals’
Network
Sarah Persitz at 206-624-5152
A night of networking, nosh and everything
Israel. Location provided upon RSVP,
Seattle.
Wednesday 6
■■11:30 a.m. – Daytimers Lunch & Film
Leslie Reibman at 206-232-8555, ext. 207
or leslie@h-nt.org
This month’s film is The Ritchie Boys, about
a group of young German-Jewish academics
who fled to the U.S. before World War II, then
volunteered for intelligence work with the
U.S. Army. $7 per person includes the movie
and homemade lunch. At Herzl-Ner Tamid
Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer
Way, Mercer Island.
■■2 p.m. – Dolls for Democracy
WSJHS at 206-774-2277
The Washington State Jewish Historical
Society co-hosts the opening celebration for
an exhibit called “Dolls for Democracy,” a
special collection of dolls used by local King
County B’nai B’rith women. At the Winters
House, 2102 Bellevue Way SE, Bellevue.
■■3 p.m. – The Fourth Stage of the Arab-Israel
Conflict
The Stroum Jewish Studies Program presents
a talk by Dr. Alan Dowty on the current state
of the Arab-Israel conflict. At 317 Thomson
Hall, University of Washington.
■■7:30 p.m. – Locating Yourself on the
Spectrum of Faith
Rainer Waldman Adkins at 206-547-3914
or office@kadima.org
This four-part series led by Rabbi Zari Weiss
highlights different ideas and beliefs about
God from various stages in Jewish history. At
Kadima House, 12353 8th Ave. NE, Seattle.
Friday 8
■■6 p.m. – Jews on Television: Navigating
the Wasteland
Rock Shabbat at TDHS with dinner and a
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meet the synagogue
what’s your jq?
The Coen question
A Serious Man opens a discussion about essential
Jewish questions
Rivy Poupko
Kletenik
JTNews
Columnist
Dear Rivy,
I saw the Coen brothers’ new film
A Serious Man, and I don’t know what
to think. Is it good for the Jews or not?
I couldn’t help but squirm during the
film, thinking about what my non-Jew-
ish fellow viewers were thinking about
“Hashem,” “goy,” the rabbis and other
such nuances of our Jewish lives. The
whole experience left me in quite a state
of confusion; what was the point of the
film? What is the connection of the Yid-
dish opening to the movie itself? What
is a dybbuk? What are we to think about
the rabbis? And what about the Hebrew
letters on the teeth?
Whenever Jewish movies come out
they inevitably evoke a range of emotional
responses. A reasonable reminder about
such phenomena is that movies are first
and foremost about entertainment and not
necessarily part of a conspiracy to humil-
iate Jewish moviegoers. The film conjures
up a number of cogent Jewish issues. It is, at
its heart, an extremely engaging and evoc-
ative film that should move us to reflect
on some of that very discomfort that had
us squirming. What should Jewish learn-
ing look like for children? What should Bar
Mitzvah preparation entail? What does it
take to have a deeply thoughtful conversa-
tion with a rabbi?
Thank you, Joel and Ethan Coen,
for giving us an opportunity to have an
important Jewish conversation. Indulge
us as we use your film to be the palette
upon which we launch our dialogue,
delving into Jewish big ideas and investi-
gating some “essential questions.” For it
is essential questions aplenty that drive
this movie.
First, a quick primer in “essential
questions.” Here is what Grant Wiggins,
one of the authors of Understanding by
Design writes about essential questions:
One meaning of “essential” involves
important questions that recur
throughout one’s life. Such questions
are broad in scope and timeless by
nature. They are perpetually argu-
able.… We may arrive at or be helped
to grasp understandings for these
questions, but we soon learn that
answers to them are invariably pro-
visional. In other words, we are liable
to change our minds in response to
reflection and experience concerning
such questions as we go through life,
and that such changes of mind are
not only expected, but beneficial. A
good education is grounded in such
life-long questions, even if we some-
times lose sight of them while focus-
ing on content mastery. The big-idea
questions signal that education is
not just about learning “the answer”
but about learning how to learn.
A Serious Man is about essential ques-
tions, from the first vignette till the clos-
ing scene. Why do the good suffer? Given
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the suffering, what then is the purpose of
life? How are we to navigate this imper-
fect world?
Some would say that the Coens’ point
is that, back in Europe, the Jewish answer
was a primitive backward superstitious
religion that did not work; people were
stabbed for being possessed. Welcome
to America, where we learned how to be
more, well, American. This did not work
either. All those ethics-focused Jews were
preaching one thing while stealing the
other’s spouse and undermining their
tenure. What’s a Jew to do?
Don’t look for signs. Even Hebrew let-
ters on a “goy’s” teeth are a meaningless
marvel. Certainly don’t look for answers
that involve the corny spirituality of an
assistant rabbi’s parking lot.
This pattern of searching for answers
and their rejection thereof reminds me of
You
the lesson God teaches Elijah the prophet
and his immediate rebuff of that lesson in
Kings I. Elijah has run away from Jezebel
and those seeking to kill him. Elijah of the
Bible is a prophet greatly confident in his
belief, yet finds himself not, so to speak,
on the same page as the people.
“What are you doing here, Elijah?”
It might be a match!
God asks him.
“I have been very zealous for the
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Lord God of hosts; for the people of
Israel have forsaken your covenant,
thrown down your altars, and killed
service or fun filled
your prophets with the sword; and
I am the only one left; and they seek
my life, to take it away,” is Elijah’s
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response.
And He said, ‘Go out, and stand
upon the mount before the Lord.”
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And, behold, the Lord passed by,
and a great and strong wind tore the
mountains, and broke in pieces the
rocks before the Lord; but the Lord
was not in the wind; and after the
wind an earthquake; but the Lord
was not in the earthquake; And after
the earthquake a fire; but the Lord
was not in the fire; and after the fire a
still small voice. And it was so, when
Elijah heard it that he wrapped his
face in his mantle, and went out,
and stood in the entrance of the cave.
And, behold, there came a voice to
him, and said, “What are you doing
here, Elijah?”
Elijah repeats his answer. Enough.
God lets him know he will no longer be
the prophet — instead the mantle will be
passed to his disciple Elisha.
God attempts to let Elijah know that
his harsh attitude is not working for God; Temple B’nai Torah
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For the Coen brothers, God will not be
found in the Hebrew school lesson, not in Bellevue, WA 98008
the college math class, not with the phil-
osophical Pollyanna rabbi, and not with 425.603.9677
the storytelling rabbi. There is no truth in
the supernatural; not in dybbuks, not in www.templebnaitorah.org
Hebrew letters inscribed on teeth.
Truth is not found in drug-induced
dalliances or in extramarital relation-
ships. The lone meaningful interaction
that seems authentic is when the older,
white-bearded rabbi slowly hands the
Rabbi James L. Mirel
young Bar mitzvah student back his
transistor radio and in his European-
Cantor David Serkin-Poole
accented English repeats the Jefferson
Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg
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meet the synagogue

Holy communication
Synagogues blogging and tweeting their way to new kinds of member outreach

Sue Fishkoff
JTA World News Service
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — Congrega-
tion Ner Tamid in Henderson, Nev., web-
casts its Bar and Bat Mitzvah services for
family and friends who cannot attend.
The preschool director at Congrega-
tion Beth Israel in Charlottesville, Va.,
tweets from the classroom several times a
day, so parents can feel part of what their
children are learning.
Within this past year, synagogues,
religious schools and other Jewish groups
have been signing on to Facebook, blogs,
Twitter and other social media eager to
learn how new technology can strengthen
their organizations and improve their
outreach.
Faith-based organizations have been
“the last to the social media party,” say
experts at NTEN: The Nonprofit Tech-
nology Network. Now they’re jumping in
with enthusiasm — even the pope has a
Facebook page, with nearly 80,000 fans.
What they’re finding out is that these
tools are transforming who they are and
how they operate. That can be scary to
leaders comfortable with old organiza-
tional models.
“Social media changes the way people
look at their faith-based institutions,”
says former Seattleite Lisa Colton, founder
and president of Darim Online, a Vir-
ginia-based nonprofit that helps Jewish
organizations get over their trepidation
and understand new media’s potential.
“Organizations don’t have a monopoly on
organizing anymore. People can talk to
each other directly.”
W hen sy nagog ues a nd rel ig ious
schools first turn to new media, Colton
says, they tend to use them to perform
typical tasks, just more efficiently. They
send event invitations by e-mail instead
of snail mail, or create a Web site that
clergy and staff use as an online bulle-
tin board. The messages arrive quicker at
homes, and without stamps, but it’s still
one-way, top-down communication.
By delving deeper, Colton continues,
Jewish clergy, educators and others dis-
cover that these media tools demand a
different way of talking and listening,
encouraging active participation and
grass-roots involvement.
“Even at the simplest level, social
media tools allow people to come together
around a shared idea and shared goals in
a decentralized and asynchronous way,”
Colton says.
Fancy words, but what do they mean?
For Gabby Volodarsky, program direc-
tor at Temple Sinai in Oakland, Calif.,
they mean being able to rally support
quickly for someone in need.
Someone posted a note recently on the
temple’s year-old Facebook page saying she
was “praying for the speedy recovery” of
two new members. Volodarsky wrote back
immediately and found out that the couple,
who didn’t know many people in the con-
gregation yet, had been in a car accident.
“Within an hour they got calls from all
our clergy and me,” Volodarsky reports. “I
asked what our Caring Community could
bring them. Because I saw that posting,
I was able to reach out and make them
feel cared about. Now they’re among our
most active members.”
People often share information online
that they would not share face to face.
That’s especially true of younger people,
says Rabbi Jonathan Blake of Westchester
Reform Temple in Scarsdale, N.Y., who
uses Facebook to keep in touch with his
religious school graduates when they
head off to college.
When he first set up his page, Blake
was pleasantly surprised that so many of
his former students “friended” him. Now
the rabbi is an ongoing presence in their
lives, a link to their hometown Jewish
community.
“I’m not there to spy on them,” Blake
says. “But I know more about what they’re
doing Friday night than their parents.”
If they’re involved in anything dan-
gerous, he can step in — as a pastor, not
a parent.
Social media enables congregants to
talk to each other as well as to clergy or
staff — a fact used by the Sixth and I His-
toric Synagogue in Washington, D.C. to
help promote its Hanukkah cooking con-
test. Instead of sending out a straightfor-
ward invitation, the staff used Twitter to
create online buzz, tweeting about the
potato dish one woman planned to bring
and linking to her blog.
Her blog linked back to the syna-
gogue’s Web page — better advertising
than anything else the synagogue might
have come up with, says Meredith Jacobs,
director of family programming.
“Why do young people come to syn-
agogue? For community,” Jacobs posits.
“They could see who else is going [to
events] and get the word out fast.”
Temple Bet h Sholom i n Rosly n
Heights, N.Y., did something even riskier
— the congregation gave its senior rabbi a
video camera.
Although many older folks hesitate to
use new media, Rabbi Alan Lucas took
to the gadget immediately. Last week he
posted his first YouTube video discussing
the recent Hanukkah song written by Sen.
Orrin Hatch (R-Utah).
Lucas already is preparing a second
YouTube video, says Rabbi Jeni Fried-
man, who works with Lucas at Beth
Sholom. Friedman at tended Darim
Online’s first Social Media Boot Camp
at UJA-Federation of New York’s Long
Island office in October, and is a huge fan
of how new technology can help syna-
gogues stay vital.
“I anticipate these videos will be a
regular part of our congregational life,”
Friedman says. “Our congregants are
already on Facebook. They are using
these tools, and it behooves us to get on
board.”

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Before they rocked out with Caspar Babypants, there was a lot of
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By Matt Gaffney

Haq verdict t Page 1 Federation of Greater Seattle on July 28,

2006 and shot six women, killing one.
The prosecution did not dispute the
existence of Haq’s mental illness; how-
ever, senior deputy prosecuting attorney
Erin Ehlert told the jury, in closing argu-
ments, “The fact that someone is mentally
ill is not a defense in itself.”
Haq took steps to plan the attack prior
to July 28, including filling out paperwork
and allowing for the three-day waiting to
purchase firearms, conducting Internet
research to decide on his target, obtain-
ing maps and directions to the Jewish
Federation, and lying to his parents about
his reasons for driving more than 200
Joel Magalnick miles from his home in Pasco to Seattle.
Carol Goldman, upon hearing the verdict. Defense attorney Christopher Swaby
attributed Haq’s mental decline prior to
she said. the shooting both to mismanagement of
Both Goldman and Stumbo invoked his medication and a change in his insur-
the memory of Waechter. ance coverage that no longer allowed him
“I don’t know what Pam would have to see counselors as often as he should.
wished for, but she got the justice she “The system failed,” Swaby said. “It
deserved,” Stumbo said. failed Mr. Haq and then, as a result, it failed
Some Federation employees called the the people at the Jewish Federation.”
guilty verdict “a Hanukkah miracle.” The jury saw otherwise. Haq’s con-
Across Down “This guilty verdict will provide some viction is an automatic life sentence. The
1 Steven directed him in “Saving 1 Dance variety closure for many in the Seattle Jewish sentencing hearing, largely a formality,
Private Ryan” 2 Had debts community,” said Richard Fruchter, pres- will be held Jan. 14.
4 Kunitz and Ginsberg 3 Deli reading material ident and CEO of the Federation. “How-
9 Prefix with glycerin 4 Actor Kevin (“Shark”) ever, even with this strong message that A Victim’s Fund set up for the survivors
14 Radical amazement 5 Golf club violence and hate crimes will not be tol- of the July 2006 attack to help with
15 Winning 6 Noted English prep school erated, we are painfully aware that we medical and ongoing assistance is taking
16 Ziegfeld’s theater employee 7 Author Morrison cannot bring back Pam, nor erase all the donations at the Jewish Community
17 It may be a fountain 8 Box scars and lifelong challenges to be faced Federation of San Francisco, Seattle
18 Name in New York hotels 9 Scientific centers? by the survivors.” Victims Assistance Fund, 121 Steuart St.,
19 Bris sounds 10 Netanyahu or Bamba What was never in dispute in both trials San Francisco, CA 94105.
20 Site of Machzekei Hadass 11 Like Winona Ryder was that Haq, now 34, entered the Jewish
Synagogue 12 Oboist’s need
23 Rowboat tool 13 M.D.’s workplaces
24 The capital of Denmark? 21 Swamps
Where’s the beef? t Page 5 animal is then pronounced kosher. If the
25 Site of Beth Elisheva Synagogue 22 Dutch cheese
slaughter has been done improperly, he
34 British Mandate and Early 25 “I ___ you!” (“please!”)
tably cause the blood to be removed from said, it is sold as non-kosher meat. 
Statehood 26 Stadium
the brain, the trachea and the esophagus The plaintiff, Pasado’s Safe Haven, is
35 7th century B.C.E. prophet 27 Book of Ruth character
have to be cut, and if the knife is not with- an animal rights and rescue organization
36 Stravinsky or Sikorsky 28 The K in DKNY
out nicks and imperfections, that would created in memory of a donkey named
37 World: prefix 29 Say “todah”
disqualify the slaughter.” Pasado who was beaten and hanged by
38 Fled 30 Looks for game
The rabbi referred to several studies teenagers in Bellevue in 1992.
39 One of the Gabors 31 Golden-___ (retirees)
and university experiments that showed In a November ruling in the case, the
40 “Lean ___” 32 Evans’ partner
that once the carotid arteries are sev- court decided in favor of the state, saying
42 ___ Domingo 33 Genre of some Woody Allen
ered, the blood flow out of the brain is they had no jurisdiction in the case, that
44 London transport works
catastrophic, taking no more than two Pasado is not hurt by this law, and that the
45 Site of Beth B’rith Synagogue 41 Gofer’s tasks
seconds to kill the animal. suit was not ready for review. The appeal will
48 Silver of the silver screen 42 Emulated Garfunkel
“There is much scientific evidence be heard in the Division 1 Court of Appeals.
49 ___-Mex food 43 Healthy snack
to support the notion that, very, very The evening’s final speaker, Rabbi Jacob
50 Site of Beth Manachem 44 Judd Hirsch’s show
quickly, stunning does occur through the Fine from Hillel at the University of Wash-
Synagogue 46 African drums
act of shechitah [Jewish slaughter], and ington and Jconnect Seattle, discussed the
57 Sampras rival 47 Shearson’s partner
the animal does not sense any pain,” he expanding debate on Jewish food ethics
58 Skyscraper part 50 Yiddish for “school”
said. “The Torah and Jewish law are cer- that not only tackles animal cruelty but
59 ___ out a living 51 Despise
tainly very, very sensitive to avoid impos- also focuses on worker rights, fair labor
61 Perform better than 52 Roseanne’s are wide
ing pain, if possible, on animals.” practices, and food sustainability.
62 Rain gear 53 Blind as ___
In addition, said Kletenik, it’s not until “As consumers, we cannot just wash
63 Gives the go-ahead 54 “Able was ___ I saw Elba” (noted
an inspector verifies that the esophagus our hands of these issues and say that we
64 Irving Berlin title word palindrome)
and trachea were severed, that the vital aren’t implicated in them,” Fine said. “We
65 Dutch painter Jan 55 Light element
organs were not diseased, and that there are complicit in the act by, in any way,
66 M following 56 Acre’s other name
were no perforations in the lungs that the supporting it.”
57 Corn’s home
60 Weird “ability”
Calendar t Pull-out Page 2 alysa@templebetham.org
Answers on page 6 Professor Scott B. Noegel conducts a series
lecture on Jewish involvement in the television of lectures on the topic “From Pithom to Sinai:
industry, from leadership of networks, to Exodus in the Light of Ancient Egypt.” Cost is
Mordecai Goldstein, retired scribe and a winner behind-the-scenes, to on-camera talent. At $35 for the series. At Temple Beth Am, 2632
of the Bialik award (Hebrew Composition, 1964) Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave. E, NE 80th St., Seattle.
Instruction in Hebrew
Seattle.
If the connection between the inner ear
Thursday 14
Sunday 10
and our sense of balance is a “modern”
medical discovery, why does ancient ■■7 p.m. – A Taste of Judaism
Hebrew have the same etymology for
both words? (The words are “ear” ozen ■■9:30 a.m. – NYHS Open House Devlin Donnelly at 206-323-8486
and “balance” izun). Rabbi Yona Margolese at 206-232-5272 or Rabbi Daniel Weiner leads a three-session
A professor of linguistics claims that rym@nyhs.com or www.nyhs.net exploration of God, Torah and Israel. At
the single most important achievement
of the State of Israel may be the revival Open house for prospective students and Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave. E,
of the Hebrew language. Others think families. At Northwest Yeshiva High School, Seattle.
that proto-Semitic was the original
human language, the mother tongue — a 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island. ■■7:30 a.m. – Global Challenges for Jewish
window to our shared semantic heritage ■■1 p.m. – Growing up Jewish in Hitler’s Diplomacy
and the undisputed ancestor of all of the
world’s languages. Germany 206-622-6315 or
Understanding Hebrew’s unique root Marga Griesbach shares her experience as a seattle.ajc.org/davidharrisbreakfast
structure and applying the rules of Holocaust survivor. At Congregation Beth American Jewish Committee community
linguistics, it is possible to see how the
pre-Babel language devolved into the Hatikvah, 1410 11th St., Bremerton. briefing and fundraising breakfast with David
multitude of languages we use today. Harris, national executive director for the AJC.
Being a kind of linguistic “land bridge,”
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languages. ■■7 p.m. – University Lecture Series with of $150). At the Grand Hyatt, 721 Pine St.,
For Hebrew instruction:
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arts & entertainment

More than just eggrolls

What’s a Jew to do on Christmas Eve?

Leyna Krow
Assistant Editor, JTNews
The routine of going out for Chinese
food and a movie on Christmas Eve is
so ubiquitous among Jews that it seems
to have moved from the realm of tradi-
tion to cliché. But the problem remains
— what to do while everyone celebrates
Christmas?
“There’s a void to be filled. All our
friends are celebrating. We know that
others are celebrating, having family
moments, and we want that experience as
well. So we’ve hit upon the Chinese food
and movie tradition,” said Ari Levitt.
This year, however, Levitt, a 43-year-
old Seattle physician, entrepreneur, and
If you go
Tickets for Moo Shoo, Matzoh Balls,
and A Couple of Wise Guys are $25
in advance or $30 at the door. The
Little Red Bistro is located at 400
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sell out, so order tickets early at www.
brownpapertickets.com.
Latkepalooza will be held at the Triple
Door, 216 Union St., Seattle. Tickets
cost $15 in advance or $20 at the
door. Visit www.jconnectseattle.org
to purchase.
dance instructor, has decided to expand
on this theme and make it into a commu-
nity event.
“The idea came about because I was
meeting with some friends of mine in the
30-plus demographic and we were talk-
ing about what was going on Christmas
Eve,” he said.
When no one was able to offer up a
suitable answer, Levitt suggested they
take matters into their own hands. The
result is Moo Shoo, Matzoh Balls, and a
Couple of Wise Guys, a night of live music,
stand-up comedy, film, and, of course,
Chinese food. The event will take place
the evening of Dec. 24 (obviously) at the
Little Red Bistro in South Lake Union.
Levitt said Moo Shoo, Matzoh Balls,
and a Couple of Wise Guys is modeled
after an annual Christmas Eve party he
had attended in San Francisco called
Kung Pow Comedy.
“It’s always very popular, and really
a lot of fun, with food and different per-
formers,” he said. “And I thought, why not
do something like that here in Seattle?”
Moo Shoo, Matzoh Balls, and a Couple
of Wise Guys isn’t Seattle’s first or only
Jewish Christmas eve party, of course.
For almost 15 years, the Young Leader-
ship Division of the Jewish Federation
of Greater Seattle has been hosting Lat-
kepalooza, a night out at a Seattle club for
young local Jews to dance their Christ-
mas blues away. This year’s Latkepalooza
party, co-hosted by Jconnect, will take
place downtown at the Triple Door, with
proceeds from the event benefiting after-
school programs for children in Kiryat
Malachi, Israel.
Cameron Levin, director of YLD, said
the facility at the Triple Door allows this
year’s Latkepalooza to be a little different
from previous parties.
“We will have the whole space for use,
so this year is different to other years in
that people can actually dine — they have
a full meal instead of just nosh,” she said.
Lat kepalooza w ill also feature a
screening of the film Showgirls 2, hosted
by The Stranger’s associate editor David
Schmader prior to the main party.
And as always, there will be plenty of
dance music, provided this year by DJ
Piha and Team Photogenic.
Still, Latkepalooza may not appeal to
everyone.
Levitt said most of his friends felt “they
were out of that age bracket and energy
level.”
Although Levin stressed that Latkepal-
ooza organizers seek to make the event as
inclusive as possible, she noted that the
age range of participants has been incon-
sistent in the past, with some years bring-
ing in partiers of all ages, while other
years seem to be dominated by the just-
out-of-college crowd. And she allowed
there is certainly room for more than one
Jewish Christmas Eve party in Seattle.
“Seattle has a history of a lot of differ-
ent things happening on Christmas Eve.
I don’t look at is as any kind of competi-
tion,” she said.
Mai Li Pittard, who will be the MC
for the music stage at Moo Shoo, Matzoh
Balls, and A Couple of Wise Guys, said
she wasn’t worried about drawing crowds
away from Latkepalooza either.
“Latkepalooza is a dance party where
people go drinking. That’s very differ-
ent from a night of live performance art,
music and film,” Pittard said. “I don’t
think we’ll be competing over the same
people.”
Moo Shoo organizers also stressed
that their event is open to all ages, and
that kids are invited, at least for the first
part of the night.
“Everything before 10:30 p.m. is really
family friendly. The late night stuff,
maybe a little less so,” Pittard said.
Levitt said that because the party at the
Little Red Bistro came together as some-
thing of a last-minute affair, most of the per-
formers are either friends of his, or friends
of friends. Still, it’s quite an ensemble.
Attendees can expect to hear music
from local bands Sasson and The Lathe
Symphonic as well as musicians Keith
Judelman, Benjamin Gown, Adam Kes-
sler and Aaron Shay. Pittard added that
in addition to her hosting duties, she
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Sunday, January 10, 8 p.m. Wednesday, January 13, 7:30 p.m.

Dengue Fever Joe Sacco: A Graphic Investigation of Gaza Killings
Music Author reading
Cambodian surf-rock band Dengue Fever is the In 1956, 111 Palestinian refugees were fatally shot by Israeli
brainchild of Jewish brothers and musicians Zac and soldiers in Rafah, a town at the tip of the Gaza Strip. Graphic
Ethan Holtzman. Prior to joining Dengue Fever, lead novelist Joe Sacco (author of Palestine, Safe Area Goradze, and
singer Chhom Nimol regularly sang for the king and the new Footnotes in Gaza) reconstructs this event in a story
queen of Cambodia. The band has performed aimed to challenge the way we look at memory, history, and
throughout the U.S. and Southeast Asia. Tickets are war. Advance tickets are $5 at www.brownpapertickets.com or
$15. 21-plus. At Neumos, 925 E Pike St., Seattle. 800-838-3006. At Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave., Seattle.

the arts january 10 – 15, 2010

Tuesday, January 12, Thursday, January 14, 7 p.m.
7:30 p.m. Waltz with Bashir
Jane and Michael Stern Film and discussion
Author reading Waltz with Bashir is an animated quasi-docu-
Food writers Jane and Michael Stern mentary that follows filmmaker Ari Folman’s
have traveled the country looking effort to recover the lost memories of a group
for the best of what they call “road of veterans who served in the 1982 war in
food.” They’ve shared their findings Lebanon. Post-viewing discussion guests will
in Gourmet Magazine, on NPR, include Israeli veterans of the war with Lebanon
and in their book Two for the Road: and other service in the IDF. This event is free,
Our Love Affair with American although donations are welcome. At Kadima
Food. Tickets are available at House, 12353 8th Ave. NE, Seattle.
www.lectures.org. Sponsored by PlanitJewish and Seattle Arts & Lectures. At Benaroya Hall,
200 University St. Seattle.

Wednesday, January 13, 7 p.m. Friday, January 15, 5:30 p.m.

Modern Hebrew Literature
Class
This course, taught by Joel Altus and Lisa Orlick, will look at the themes and aesthetics of
modern Hebrew and Israeli literature. The number of sessions for this weekly class depends
on group consensus. Free, pre-registration requested. Contact Carol Benedick at 206-524-
0075, ext. 4 or carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org for more information, or to sign up.
At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
Noam Katz
Music
Temple Beth El will host the popular Jewish musician Noam Katz for its Synaplex Shabbat
program. This event will also include a wine and cheese reception, catered dinner, musical
meditation service, an art through music session, and song rewriting for kids. Cost is $18 for
adults, $10 for kids 10 and under. For more information, contact 253-564-7101, ext.103 or
pmasellas@templebethel18.org. At Temple Beth El, 5975 S 12th St., Tacoma.

Innovators t Page 3
mark. Since I’ve spent my entire career
working within the Jewish nonprofit
sector, my savings look more like an emer-
gency fund than a capital investment.
So what’s a broke social entrepreneur
to do?
I couldn’t help but decide that social
entrepreneurship is a privilege of the
wealthy, or at least those with no other pro-
fessional or personal responsibilities. Our
current innovation ecosphere, as it were, is
reinforcing that impression, with unrealis-
tic requirements and compensation for
those of us who cannot afford to make ends
meet without a full-time salary.
I’ve spent more than 10 years working
inside the Jewish nonprofit sector. I’m sit-
ting on a mountain of experience and
ideas yearning to upend Jewish life as we
know it. There is no doubt I would benefit
tremendously from the kind of guidance
and support these programs offer — if
only they were offered after work hours, to
accommodate those of us in need of full-
time work. But that opportunity exists
nowhere, as of yet.
When subjecting oneself to pauperdom
is the only way to get a shot at making a dif-
ference, our communa l leadership
shouldn’t be surprised when the best and
brightest take their energies and excite-
ment elsewhere.
As for me, looking at such prospects,
I’ve got one foot out the door.
Daniel Sieradski is director of digital
strategy of Repair the World, former
director of digital media of JTA and
founding publisher of the Jewschool blog.
Eight lights t Page 6
rights for several years, both as a member
of Kol HaNeshamah and, since 2003, as a
board member of the Legal Marriage Alli-
ance of Washington.
Josh Friedes
Friedes left his post as advocacy direc-
More than just eggrolls t Page 11
will be performing a musical set as well.
A second stage will feature comedy —
of a predominantly Jewish nature — by
Simon Kaufman, Jack Schaloum and
Annie Hughes. The Seattle Jewish Film
Festival has offered up one of their 2010
festival films for a sneak preview and
Levitt believes a late-night dreidel tour-
tor for Equal Rights Washington earlier
this year to give his full efforts to manag-
ing the campaign to approve Referendum
71, which conferred the rights of married
couples in Washington State to same-sex
couples. That referendum came in a chal-
lenge to the law passed by the state legis-
lature that gave couples those rights.
nament is not out of the question.
He added that the buffet won’t exactly
be the standard Chinese takeout fare.
Instead, the meal will be prepared in-
house by the Little Red Bistro’s owner,
Jeff Hengst. The Little Red Bistro does not
have a kosher kitchen, but the buffet will
be kosher-style.
“We won’t be serving pork or anything
like that,” he said.

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M.O.T. t Page 8
His neighbors are aware he’s Jewish
and since many are Christian they recog-
nize he’s from “the people of the book.
“They expect me to be good,” he says,
an enduring theme in his life. Growing
up, he says his dad and his grandfather
always told him, “your name is Israel, you
have to be good.”
He’s also “the only white guy who’s
ever been adopted into the Chaak Kudi
Hit” — Eagle Nest House — part of an
amalgamation of Tlingit clans. He’s
changed “a lot of cultural things, behav-
ioral things,” he says, to get along in the
village, including learning to speak softly,
but says there are shared “basic values”
among Jews and Tlingits.
Morry now has his own guide service
and has developed a Web site where you
can see photos of him and his environs
at www.alaskamorry.com. Summer, of
course, is the best time to come. In winter
Morry sometimes teaches at the local
school and does marketing for himself or
Joyce Sherman
Morry Israel and the one that didn’t get
away. Jonah would be proud.
the lodge.
“Sometimes I take a big vacation,”
including visits to Israel. He once caught
a trout in the Jordan River (they escape
from kibbutz fish farms).
“I found one thing that Israelis and
Arabs have in common…if they see an
American release a fish they both think
the American is crazy,” he laughs. “I got
yelled at in Hebrew and Arabic for releas-
ing trout.”
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Engagement
Emily Boehler and
Elan Shapiro
Emily and Elan are engaged to be married
on August 1, 2010. The ceremony will be
officiated by Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum and Cantor
Brad Kurland at the Golf Club at Newcastle.
Emily is the daughter of Stephen and Robin
Boehler of Mercer Island and the granddaugh-
ter of Winfield Boehler of New York, N.Y., the
late Jane Boehler, and the late Sheldon and Zelda Hamroff.
Emily is a graduate of Mercer Island High School and holds a B.S. in early childhood
education from the University of Vermont. She is a preschool teacher at the Stroum Jewish
Community Center.
Elan is the son of Raquel Shapiro of Newcastle and the late Gary Shapiro. His grand-
parents are Genia Guberek of Colombia, the late Bernard Guberek, Sol Shapiro of Seattle
and the late Yetta Shapiro.
He is a graduate of Newport High School and has a B.S. in communications from
Washington State University. He works as a recruiting manager at Revel Consulting.

A View from the U t Page 7
and rank anti-Semitism, and despite the
very close-to-home example of Naveed
Haq, I feel privileged that my work has
brought me to a closer knowledge of Islam
as embodied not only in academic books
and fiery blogs, but primarily in the simple
mentschlichkeit of my Muslim students.
By trusting my teaching, they have
honored me and they have honored the
Jewish sources that nourish me. And that
What’s your JQ? t Pull-out Page 3
Airplane lyric: “When the truth is found
to be lies/and all the joy within you dies.”
Their eyes meet in knowingness and the
rabbi says, simply, “be a good boy.”
There may be no satisfying answers
to our huge questions of meaning or fair-
ness. But that does not alter our responsi-
bility to do good. Larry Gopnik’s bad luck
with his money, his brother, his wife, and
his work ultimately should have no bear-
ing on his moral decisions. Maimonides
in his last section in the Laws of Repen-
tance puts it this way;
Let no person say: “Behold, I per-
form the precepts of the Torah, and
engage myself in its wisdom so that I
will receive all the blessings described
trust and honor has more a claim to being
rooted in Islam than anything dished out
by Naveed Haq.
Martin S. Jaffee currently holds the
Samuel & Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish
Studies at the University of Washington.
His award-winning columns for JTNews
have recently been published in book
form as The End of Jewish Radar:
Snapshots of a Post-Ethnic American
Judaism by iUniverse press.
therein…or so that I will escape the
curses therein. It is improper to serve
the Lord in such a way, for whoso-
ever serves the Lord in such a way, he
is a worshipper because of fear…And
the Lord should not be worshipped
that way. The worshipper because of
love engages himself in the study of
the Torah and the observance of pre-
cepts…for no account in the world,
neither for fear of evil nor in order to
inherit the good; but he does the true
thing because it is true.
Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally
renowned educator and Head of School
at the Seattle Hebrew Academy. If you
have a question that’s been tickling
your brain, send Rivy an e-mail to
kletenik6@aol.com.
University Lecture Series
with Scott Noegel
Professor Scott B. Noegel will
conduct a series of lectures on
the topic “From Pithom to Sinai:
Exodus in the Light of Ancient Egypt.”
Noegel serves as professor of Biblical and
Ancient Near Eastern Studies and chairs
the Department of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilization at the University of Wash-
ington. This course is designed to shed
light on several key narratives in the Book
of Exodus. Cost is $35 for the series. Classes
will be held Jan. 13, 20, and 27 at 7 p.m. For
more information, contact Alysa Rosen
206-525-0915 or alysa@templebetham.org.
At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St.,
Seattle.
The Fourth Stage of the
Arab-Israel Conflict
The Stroum Jewish Studies Pro-
gram presents a talk by Dr. Alan
Dowty on the current state of the
Arab-Israel conflict. Dowty is a profes-
sor emeritus at University of Notre Dame.
He has published six books and more
than 130 articles on the Arab-Israel con-
flict, Israel, U.S. foreign policy, and other
topics. Wed., Jan. 6, at 3 p.m. At 317 Thom-
son Hall, University of Washington.
community news
Locating Yourself on the
Spectrum of Faith
This four-part series led by
Rabbi Zari Weiss will highlight
different ideas and beliefs about
God from various stages in Jewish his-
tory. Participants will have opportuni-
ties to explore their own personal ideas
about, and relationship to, God. All levels
welcome. Classes will be held Jan. 6, 13,
20, and 27 at 7:30 p.m. Cost is between
$65-$95, depending upon students’ abil-
ity to pay. For more information, contact
Rainer Waldman Adkins at 206-547-3914
or office@kadima.org. At Kadima House,
12353 8th Ave. NE, Seattle.
A Taste of Judaism
Rabbi Daniel Weiner will lead
a three-session exploration of
God, Torah and Israel. Perfect for
those who have never studied Judaism
before and for those wanting a refresher
course. Open to the community. For more
information, contact Devlin Donnelly at
206-323-8486. January 14, 21 and 28 at 7
p.m. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th
Ave. E, Seattle.

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