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White House:
Palestinian unity
gov’t must
renounce terror,
accept Israel
JTA World News Service
(JTA) — Reacting to news that rival Palestinian factions
Fatah and Hamas had agreed to a reconciliation deal, the
Obama government said any Palestinian unity government
must accept Israel’s right to exist and renounce terrorism
— conditions that Hamas does not meet.
The surprise deal to form an interim government and
hold general elections within a year was reached Wednes-
day in secret negotiations in Cairo between the two sides,
according to reports. A formal announcement of the rec-
onciliation reportedly will be made next week.
“All points of differences have been overcome,” said
Taher Al-Nono, a Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip,
according to Reuters.
The two sides have been at odds since Hamas violently
ousted Fatah from the Gaza Strip in 2007. Fatah, which
dominates the Palestinian Authority, rules in the West
Bank, while Hamas rules in Gaza.
Israel has a working relationship with Fatah but has no
direct contact with Hamas, a designated terrorist organiza-
tion that remains sworn to Israel’s destruction.
Reacting to news of the reconciliation, Israeli Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel could not carry out
peace negotiations with a government that includes Hamas.
“You can’t have peace with both Israel and Hamas,”
Netanyahu said of the Palestinian Authority. “Choose
peace with Israel.”
Tommy Vietor, the U.S. National Security Council
spokesman, said the White House had seen news reports
of the deal and was seeking more information.
“As we have said before, the United States supports Pal-
estinian reconciliation on terms which promote the cause
of peace,” he said. “Hamas, however, is a terrorist organi-
zation which targets civilians.”
Vietor referred to conditions set by the Quartet, the
U.S.-guided diplomatic grouping that also includes Russia,
the United Nations and the European Union.
“To play a constructive role in achieving peace,” he said,
“any Palestinian government must accept the Quartet prin-
ciples and renounce violence, abide by past agreements and
recognize Israel’s right to exist.”

Paul Malakoff, the founding organizer of the annual Passover

lunches at Hillel at the University of Washington, takes a break
from greeting the nearly 400 hungry attendees on Thurs., April 21
for a piece of Leah’s Catering’s chicken and some roasted
Joel Magalnick potatoes.

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the rabbi’s turn
Royally flushed
Rabbi Daniel A. Weiner Temple De Hirsch Sinai
Is it senseless hype or civil
heresy? Simple celebrity stalk-
ing or something deeper and
more disturbing? Today’s
(as of this printing) nup-
tials of Britain’s Prince Wil-
liam to Kate Middleton have
sent the dream-weavers and
lotus-eaters of pop culture
into unprecedented states of
intoxicated bliss. The joining
of the inaccessible to the unat-
tainable used to warrant a large piece in
the Style section, a pre-dawn broadcast for
the bizarrely dedicated, or at most, a Bar-
bara Walters post-Super Bowl special to
occupy sports widows while they cleared
away the detritus of the Big Game.
Something else is going on here, some-
thing attributable to more than the ubiq-
uity and demands of the 24/7 media
shark sifting through the chum of the
new and notable. A Lifetime movie about
the couple is preceding the actual event
it gauzily fictionalizes, begging the philo-
sophical question: Does life imitate niche
women’s programming?
Every major TV “news” outlet (not-so-
ironic air quotes becoming more neces-
sary with each passing, trivializing story)
plans lengthy profiles in advance of their
full-day, real-time coverage, from dawn’s
first fluffing of the Grenadier Guard’s hel-
mets to the shoveling of the royal car-
riage’s monarchical manure as it fades into
the waning twilight.
It’s one thing for the British and their
remnant of a kingdom to embrace this
moment in the imperial lifecycle. But why
are so many Americans jonesing for this
fix of fantasy? Despite a collective national
memory bounded by the span between
Lady Gaga’s tweets, was it so long ago that
we threw off the yoke of our redcoat-wear-
ing, tea-swilling oppressors to embark on
this exemplary experiment in indepen-
dence and democracy? Don’t we celebrate
this triumph every summer, albeit often
with less pride and principle than with a
dubious mix of fireworks and alcohol that
bears out Darwin’s case?
We fought against the very elitism and
exclusivism that this event embodies, and
sought to create an egalitarian meritocracy
that still rankles the landed gentry of that
aloof isle. Are we so enamored of spec-
tacle and pomp, so sick and tired of the
plodding sausage making that passes for
democracy in our current Congress, that
we’ve regressed into playing a vast, cul-
ture-wide version of Pretty, Pretty Prin-
cess?
Perhaps our current, and often literal,
idolization of celebrity expresses a longing
“This is a heritage project. This is a business model that is about community.”
letters to the editor
for romanticism. The near-
deification of the Kennedy
dynasty, and its identification
with the mythical Camelot,
reflects this cultural quirk.
But maybe there’s something
more telling and more trou-
bling going on. Despite our
protestations for freedom and
representation, and despite
the sacrifices we’ve endured
to achieve them, is there
something in us that compels an attach-
ment to royalty?
This ambivalence is as old as the Bible.
The Book of Samuel recounts the tension
between a longing for concentrated, defin-
itive leadership and the perils of investing
power in a single individual. The disorga-
nized and diffuse Israelites needed a com-
pelling figure to rally them against the
Philistine threat. As his tenure draws to a
close, the prophet Samuel hopes his spe-
cial brand of leadership, as God’s agent,
will continue through his sons. Though
they are morally unsuitable for the job,
there is something more to the Israelite’s
insistence on a monarch. They aspire to
be like other peoples, with a king to lead
them into battle and serve as object of
their pride.
Samuel admonishes the people for
compromising their fidelity to God as sole
leader, and he lists regal excesses and the
rights and property that the people would
concede. It reads like the middle section
of our Declaration of Independence, with
its litany of royal abuses. Still, the people
persist in wanting a king, so strong is their
desire to be led and to adore a human
sovereign. The succeeding history of the
Jewish monarchy is filled with concession
and consequence. Even the iconic David
and Solomon demonstrate the frailty and
failures of flesh and blood, despite their
selection and ordination by God.
The lesson seems clear if not trite: Be
careful what you wish for! As is so often
the case, Judaism inspires and guides
us to transcend what is easy, obvious
and impulsive toward embracing what
is challenging, affirming and empower-
ing. It may be easier to project our fears,
needs and longings on an overly idealized
person, but the costs of such an invest-
ment in lost freedom and opportunity far
outweigh the temporary quelling of our
existential angst.
So while today’s royal wedding may
tap the wellsprings of nostalgia, it is also
a reminder of how far we’ve come in our
national enterprise, and how far we’ve yet
to go.
“Quote of the
— Chef
week.”
Robin
Missed opportunities
Dr. Baskin believes a fair peace between Palestinian Arabs and Israel is best achieved
by arguing equality and the two-state solution (“Encountering peace: The bombs bursting
in air,” April 15). However, when I read his articles, I notice that he focuses more on what
Israel is doing wrong and what it must give up to make peace. The reality is that Palestin-
ians in Gaza have voted Hamas in as their government. Hamas is much less interested in
establishing a nation and a state and more interested in its Muslim aspirations to estab-
lish a caliphate. Palestinians want nothing to do with those pesky “colonial Jews” occupy-
ing their land, such that the present two-state solution is a metaphor for the obliteration
of Israel by simply making Israel give up more land until it ceases to exist altogether.
Frankly, if the Palestinians wanted a Palestinian state living next to Israel, they would
have agreed to one long ago. They were given that opportunity in 1926 with the British
Mandate based on the 1922 League of Nations partition; in 1947 with the UN partition of
Palestine; and finally with the Oslo Accord in 1993. They could have recognized Israel and
its right to self-determination. And in turn they would have had a Palestine state.
In the latest round of agreements, each side would have to agree to the “Road Map”
and the contingent 14 “reservations” sent to the Americans by the Israelis. These are
viewed as “red lines beyond which Israel cannot and will not withdraw.” It is beyond this
rebuttal to list them all, but needless to say terrorism is not tolerable and terrorist orga-
nizations are to be dismantled.
Dr. Baskin’s point of view is best stated as “Israel is the bad guy,” and were it not
for its war-mongering and aggression, there would be peace. Never mind the “few scat-
tered occasional rockets and mortars fired into Israel” and in the meantime, until there
is peace in Palestinian hearts and minds regarding Jews and Israel, Dr. Baskin’s point
of view miserably fails to persuade me that his plans for peace are appropriate, fair and
even-handed.
Rocky Silverman
Seattle
Taking sides
Re: Rochelle Kochin’s letter, (“A Moral Compass,” April 15): Thanks.
If Ms. Kochin cannot see any moral wrong in the 1948 displacement of 750,000 Pales-
tinians from their ancestral and modern homelands, towns, villages, cities and farmlands
then “she must have no moral compass.” And yes, Jews were displaced from North Afri-
can and Mid-eastern countries, but don’t languish intergenerationally in camps.
Israel occupies or controls the lives of over 1 million Palestinians mired in despair,
poverty, serious mental health illnesses (and yes, hatred of Israel). Yet the lack of prog-
ress toward the realization of a Palestinian state is a moral bankruptcy for all of us. Both
sides (and supporters) blame the other, yet feel smug their side is the only moral side.
Thankfully, Mr. Goldstone’s “retraction” has been refuted by other panelists. I stand
firm on my views regarding the stupidity of the winter 2008-09. Contrary to Ms. Kochin’s
baseless claim that I have a “blind defense of terrorists,” I have been outspoken in not
only criticizing Israel for settlements (in the JTNews since my first teaching trip to Israel,
1999) but in criticizing Hamas and Palestinian terror groups for ongoing war crimes and
crimes against humanity.
We who are strongly pro-Israel (including those of us who visit Israel regularly) must
continue to publicly air to all Americans that war crimes and crimes against human-
ity must be publicly spoken of wherever and whenever perpetrated. Comparably, if we
remain silent regarding Palestinian war crimes and Israel’s self-destructive West Bank
occupation, we defeat the numerous moral and ethical lessons that we engage children,
youth and young adults about when we teach the Shoah and its lessons for today’s world
and conflict-ridden world.
Lastly, Ms. Kochin questions why the JTNews “found it necessary” to print my letter.
Thankfully, the JTNews editors and publisher show great respect for dialogue and an open
press. It remains unfortunate American Jewry lags far behind Israel in publicly airing dis-
agreements of opinion about what Israelis call “The Situation.” Here in the Diaspora, that
can change.
Akiva Kenny Segan
Seattle
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American Jews are twice chosen

Robert Wilkes Special to JTNews
My new friends from Zimbabwe saw
their homeland devastated and looted in
a manner not seen since Attila swept west
from the Volga. They left Zimbabwe for a
time and lived in South Africa, where the
murder rate is 34 per 100,000 (it is 5 in the
U.S., 2.8 in Israel). I’ve been to Zimbabwe
and South Africa, so I have a small notion
of their experience.
They arrived in Seattle five months ago
and we became friends. Last week, my wife
Nancy and I took them to a French bistro
on Madison. We enjoyed a lively conver-
sation that rambled to travel experiences.
“I have just left two struggling third-
world countries,” he said. “I don’t need to
see any more of them.”
His meaning was clear: We’re in Amer-
ica — the best place on earth. His perspec-
tive is heartfelt by immigrants, yet widely
underappreciated by our native born.
America is exceptional, a theme I wrote
about in 2007. Given the turbulent events
in North Africa and elsewhere, I think the
subject is even more relevant today:
America is a light unto the nations.
We are a beacon of freedom, equal
rights, prosperity, and security. As
such, we have a moral duty to lead the
world, protect the peace, and bring our
message of liberty to all peoples.
America is a chosen nation. As
American Jews, we are twice chosen.
We cannot opt out of either and be true
to our birthrights. To deny our lead-
ership role in the world is to succumb
to fashionable but absurd notions of
American guilt. All human enterprises
are flawed, and America is flawed.
But thinking people can discriminate
between what is truly good and what
is truly evil.
America is not just a place on a
map. It is tikkun olam on an epic scale.
American industry lifted the world
from drudgery into the modern age.
American medicine overcame ravaging
diseases and extended our lives. One
mechanized American farmer feeds
144 people around the world. Ameri-
cans spend 10 percent of their income
on food, lowest in the world, compared
to 51 percent in India.
America saved Western Civilization
in two world wars and won the exis-
tential struggle against dehumanizing
Communism. We sought no empire,
no spoils of war. We even rebuilt coun-
tries we vanquished. The view of Amer-
ica as an imperialist bully is a lie that
erodes our national will and under-
mines our leadership role in an uncer-
tain world.
America is chosen not because
of her power or her prosperity, but
because of her values. The supremacy
of the individual over the state. Lim-
ited government. A classless meritocracy
with equal opportunity for all. Free-
dom that inspires the bold to imagine,
to dream, and to build on an unprece-
dented scale.
Our constitutional republic was
built on Western cultural traditions
and Judeo-Christian ethical mores
from the Torah and the Ten Com-
mandments. As a Jew, I am especially
proud of that heritage. It is yours and
mine whether your ancestors landed at
Plymouth Rock or Ellis Island.
Americans are chosen because each
individual citizen knows, or should
know, he is responsible for his gov-
ernment, his nation and his neighbors.
The world needs a strong America. To
retreat from our responsibilities will
leave a vacuum into which chaos and
suffering will surely follow.
It’s easy to imagine such a place.
It is on exhibit every day in Turtle
Bay, New York. The United Nations is
where the U.S. and Israel are margin-
alized and despised by grandstanding
despots from miserable, unsuccess-
ful countries; a corrupt and ineffectual
charade openly hostile to Jews. If you
like the U.N., you’ll love a world with-
out American leadership.
So, brave readers, embrace the
Torah, the Constitution, the Bill of
Rights and the American flag! Carry
them high. Stand tall. You are the few,
the proud, the twice chosen. You are
the Jewish Americans.
My premise seems even more relevant
today. President Obama said that Amer-
ica is no more exceptional than Greece is
exceptional to Greeks. He’s wrong. The
Wall Street Journal recently editorialized
that if President Obama is trying not to
lead, he is remarkably successful. We once
had leaders who understood American
exceptionalism:
“Let every nation know, whether it
wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay
any price, bear any burden, meet any
hardship, support any friend, oppose
any foe, in order to assure the survival
and the success of liberty.”
I’m a Republican, but I remember
and miss JFK. Get out ahead, Mr. Presi-
dent. The world can little afford another
Iran. One Jimmy Carter in my lifetime is
enough.
Robert Wilkes is an occasional guest columnist
from the political right. He lives in Bellevue.

WWletters Page 3

A careful reading
I was appalled to read Fred Ferate’s distorted letter (“The constant struggle,” April 15).
He erroneously states that I have described all Palestinians as savages. He should re-
read my letter carefully and will find that I am referring to only those Palestinian Arabs
that engage in terrorist attacks on innocent Israeli civilians such as the Fogel family.
When such people in the Gaza Strip celebrate these inhuman killings by giving candy
to their children it shows that they have no intention to live in peace with Israel. When
Abbas and other Palestinian leaders make martyrs of Palestinian terrorists guilty of mas-
sacring and maiming Israeli civilians, that indicates they want to destroy Israel. Both
Hamas and Fatah’s charters still call for the destruction of Israel and refuse to recognize
Israel as a Jewish state.
In view of the existential threat Israel currently faces, a negotiated two-state solution
may not be the right approach to attain an enduring peace, especially since the Pales-
tinians do not wish to negotiate in good faith with the Israelis. Israel should not be pres-
sured to commit suicide by continuing to make one-sided concessions against its national
interest, and end up with indefensible borders.
I take strong exception to Ferate’s inference that Israel is an oppressive “apartheid
state.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Israel is the only true democracy in the
Mideast. Its population includes 20 percent Palestinian citizens who enjoy full rights as
other Israelis. They enjoy a much higher standard of living than their brethren in neigh-
boring Arab states. Some are members of the Knesset (Parliament), judges, cabinet min-
isters and ambassadors.
The general public should not be deceived by all the lying Palestinian propaganda lies
stating that Israel has no connection to their ancestral homeland. Their claim to the land is
far superior than that of the Palestinians. It has international law on its side. The Palestin-
ians should not be allowed to steal the tiny sliver of land rightly belonging to the Israelis.
Josh Basson
Seattle

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By Isaac Azose Slavery, then and now 6
Ke se kayenten los huesos Though Passover is a celebration of our return from slavery, not everyone today can claim that same
freedom. A community forum at Herzl-Ner Tamid discussed just that.
May our bones be warmed up
When spring or summer is late in coming, we hope for some sunny days that will put an
end to the chills of the body by absorbing some of the beneficial rays of the sun.
Israel for the masses 6
Christians United for Israel held another night in honor of the Holy Land earlier this month. Speakers
included Jews, Christians, and a Holocaust survivor who told his story.

Making history personal through music 10

Hey teens — It’s J-Serve time!
The annual teen day of service is this Sunday, May 1. Join teens from around
the region as various youth groups, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, and
the Stroum Jewish Community Center work with the City of Seattle to paint out
graffiti. In addition, a special Jr. Serve, a program for 8th graders, is being offered
for the first time.
Meet at 1:15 p.m. at the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way on Mercer Island.
Visit http://bit.ly/h4Ylf9 to register.
Composer Betty Olivero lost much of her family when the Nazis decimated the Jewish community of Thes-
salonika, Greece. The upcoming Music of Remembrance concert tells of that history through song.
Five Women to Watch 12
We feature the first two women as our Five Women to Watch series returns: Chef Robin Leventhal, who is
overseeing a new Jewish delicatessen with a different kind of menu, and Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg, whose
lifetime of activism can be summed up in a day’s work.
Musical therapy 14
Daniel Alpern spent decades making music and theater for kids. Now he’s doing it for himself.

Holocaust books through a child’s eyes 20

Many new books are being written about the Holocaust, but the intended audience is young — very young.
These new books might be a bit heavy for bedtime, but they’re still important.

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This year’s Pesach goal:
Ending modern slavery
Janis Siegel JTNews Correspondent
Call it prostitution, sexual slavery, or
human trafficking — whatever the term,
it must end, said Urmi Basu, the director
of the New Light Center in Kolkata, India,
who asked 130 activists, health workers,
and concerned citizens at Mercer Island’s
Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congre-
gation on April 13 to get involved in her
mission to rescue the children and young
women who are victims of this crime.
Speaking via a live Skype feed from Cal-
cutta at 3 a.m. local time, the founder of
New Light, a shelter that houses boys and
girls, ages 5–18 who would otherwise be
selling their bodies on the street for sexual
favors, said she won’t stop this work until
it’s ended.
“In this day and age, nobody should be
a slave anymore,” Basu told a rapt crowd at
Herzl-Ner Tamid. “These young girls and
women who are sold into prostitution are
nothing better than slaves. It is our fight
and we have to do it until the last person,
the last girl is free.
“This is a question of humanity,” Basu
said. “These are really joyous girls on their
way to having joyous lives. We cannot let
anybody — a child, a woman, or a man —
sell their bodies for survival or be sold as
slaves.”
“No One Should Be Forced: An Inter-
faith Dialogue on Modern Slavery” was co-
hosted by Herzl-Ner Tamid and the Mercer
Island Presbyterian Church, and cospon-
sored by 17 other groups that included the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Mercer Island Ward, St. Monica’s Catholic
Church, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, and
three other local churches.
Temple B’nai Torah, Temple Beth
Am, and Congregation Beth Shalom also
signed on as co-sponsors, along with the
Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, the
Stroum Jewish Community Center, the
National Council of Jewish Women, and
the American Jewish Committee.
Although many victims of human traf-
ficking are forced to work in prostitu-
tion or the sex industry, trafficking is also
defined as exploitative labor.
The U.S. State Department’s 2010
Annual Trafficking in Persons Report has
determined that more than 12 million chil-
dren and adults who are enslaved globally
in “forced labor, bonded labor, and forced
prostitution around the world.”
In Washington State, an anti-trafficking
law prohibits the “recruitment, transport,
or sale” of humans for forced labor, either
coerced through violence or threats of vio-
lence. Any activity proliferated by exploit-
ing vulnerable groups against the person’s
will is prohibited. The H-NT gathering
focused mainly on sexual slavery.
“I’ve been reading a lot about this for
four or five years,” Herzl-Ner Tamid’s
rabbi, Jay Rosenbaum, told JTNews.
While on sabbatical last year, Rosen-
baum volunteered at New Light for two
Monika MacGuffie
Urmi Basu, founder of Kolkata, India’s New Light
Center, who hopes to end sex trafficking in her
city’s streets.
weeks. He taught English to the students
— mostly boys — played games with them,
and read to them.
“A lot of these boys don’t have men in
their lives, at all,” Rosenbaum said. “If this
group of young men grows up with a dif-
ferent attitude towards women, it changes
everything. You have to change their atti-
tude.”
During his time at the New Light Center,
Rosenbaum found that almost everyone he
worked with had mothers and grandmoth-
ers who had worked as prostitutes. They all
came from desperately poor backgrounds
and had tragic stories to tell, he said.
Pastor Sheila Houston, director of Out-
reach Services for New Horizons Minis-
tries in Seattle, knows firsthand how this
exploitative business goes on day after day
right here in the Emerald City.
At the age of 5, Houston’s last memory
of her father before he deserted his family
was a gift he gave her, a “pleather” coat. This
memory, she said, and the pain of watching
him walk away, later became the bittersweet
connection that recaptured her heart as a
15-year-old girl with the wrong man.
Today, she leads a team of men and
women who go into the streets and neigh-
borhoods of Seattle every Friday night
and every other Saturday night to help the
women who work for sex.
Houston said that to understand these
women, it is important to learn about the
psychology of a sexual trafficking victim,
which is most often rooted in a basic need for
parental love, acceptance, and closeness.
When she was 16, Houston married the
man who was already coercing her to sell her
body for the money they needed to live, and
demanding it as a sign of her love for him.
“Her father was a man who always
promised and never fulfilled his prom-
ises,” Houston said, concealing her iden-
tity as the child in this story until the end
of her remarks. “She didn’t understand
her father’s love because he was no longer
in her life, and so she would go out into
the streets.”
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Christian supporters of Israel
continue their local outreach
Janis Siegel JTNews Correspondent
Randy Neal, Christians United for Isra-
el’s western regional coordinator, wor-
ries that the same story he tells at the close
of many of the group’s meetings around
the country will be a bore. But the group
of supporters that filled Seattle Church in
mid-April silenced to a hush, then broke
into applause in support of its core mes-
sage to Israel: You are not alone.
As CUFI increases its presence in the
Northwest to counter what it sees as a
landslide of anti-Israel rhetoric, one of
Randy Neal, right, Christians United for Israel’s western regional director
and Holocaust survivor Irving Roth take questions from the audience at year began, Roth
Seattle Church in April.
the largest pro-Israel grassroots politi-
cal member organizations in the country
brought Holocaust survivor Irving Roth to
Portland and Seattle, attracting Jewish and
Christian community members alike.
“You, living up in the greater Seattle
area, live in a hotbed of some of the meth-
ods and some of the strategies and some of
the propaganda that’s being recycled and
repeated that really opened the door to
the Holocaust being ushered in in the first
place,” Neal told the crowd. “This message
is meant to suggest the radical notion that
Israel has the right to exist. If that issue is
going to agitate you, you might want to
leave right now.”
CUFI, founded in 2006 by the Texas-
based, fifth-generation San Antonio
preacher Pastor John Hagee, is now pre-
paring for its sixth “National Night to
Honor Israel” event in Washington, D.C.,
where organizers expect a crowd of 13,000
members and supporters. That kicks off a
weekend summit, when CUFI delegates
lobby Congress on continued support for
the protection and safety of Israel.
“The things Irving is about to touch on
are the things that we need to lock arms on
to make sure that they don’t get a foothold
in our community,” Neal said. “Irving’s
message is a warning, because he’s talking
about a chapter in history where there are
figures, there are leaders, there are orga-
nizations trying to make marks on the
international stage that would love to see
history repeat itself.”
Seated in the audience were Rabbi Jim
Mirel, from Temple B’nai Torah in Belle-
vue, who delivered the invocation, profes-
sional vocalist Julie Mirel, who followed
with a Hebrew-English song, and Wendy
Rosen, director of the American Jewish
Committee’s Seattle chapter.
As Roth took to the microphone, the
82-year-old struck a decidedly histori-
cal tone, detailing the small, incremental
events that, in retro-
spect, now astonish
him, but at the time,
only caused confu-
sion.
One day in
1943, said Roth, he
was a 14-year-old
boy playing with
his friends during
summer vacation in
the park in his home-
town of Humenne,
Czechoslovakia. The
next day, a police-
man guarded the
entrance, telling him
that “Jews and dogs
Janis Siegel were not allowed.”
When the school
showed up on that
early fall day with the
excitement of a young boy anxious to see
his friends and resume his lessons, only to
find another policeman forbidding Jews
to enter.
“There’s one word that describes the
whole process,” Roth said. “Demonization.”
Roth was eventually removed from the
school, ousted from his home, and finally
forced from his hometown to an unknown
destination, he said, all done with the
stroke of a pen and a written decree from
government officials.
Roth asked aloud several rhetorical and
existential questions that often seem to
haunt those who survived the Holocaust.
“How is it possible that neighbors, that
not only knew what was happening to their
next-door neighbors, would participate in
this murder?” said Roth. “How is it possible
that cultured, moral men would do that?”
In May of 1944, Roth and 4,000 Jews
from Hungary, where his family had relo-
cated thinking it was safer, were loaded
onto a train for what would be a three-day
journey to the Auschwitz concentration
camp. When they disembarked from the
train, guards immediately began yelling
and screaming, “Form lines and begin to
move,” said Roth.
“And so we begin to move,” he said.
Roth’s aunt’s family and his grandpar-
ents were taken to a group shower, where
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Hizzoner the windsurfer • Also: A new business for

food entrepreneur
Diana Brement JTNews columnist

1
A self-described “small-
town kid from Vashon,”
Gary Johnson feels like
he’s come a long way to his
recent appointment by Gov.
Chris Gregoire to the Pierce
County Superior Court,
replacing Judge Gary Steiner,
who retired Feb. 1.
He traces his success
directly to the National
Defense Student Loan (now
Federal Perkins) that sent him to college.
“Everyone in this country contributed
to my chance to get an education,” he says.
“Now it’s my turn to pay back.”
Since 1987 Gary has been an attorney
at Kram, Johnson, Wooster & McLaughlin
in Tacoma. He’s has done a little of every-
thing in his career, he explains, having
started work when there were only a hand-
ful of attorneys in Kitsap County.
“I have about as broad a background
as you can find for a lawyer,” he says. “I’ve
been a prosecutor, defense lawyer, served
as pro tem judge” for Kitsap County Dis-
trict and Port Orchard Municipal, and
Pierce County Superior Court.
It’s an intense vetting process for judi-
cial appointments in this state.
“This governor has done a terrific job of
having a process in place,” he says, includ-
ing a 50-page application, judges’ recom-
mendations and interviews with minority
bar associations.
Why bother?
the news, he was having an
appendicitis attack and wait-
ing for a call from his doctor.
“I was in considerable
pain while she was talking
very eloquently,” says Gary
who was saying to himself,
“this is unbelievable,” while at
the same time, “I’m thinking,
‘I gotta get off the phone!’”
While an undergraduate
tribe and law student at Univer-
sity of Puget Sound, Gary first
met the late Rabbi Richard
Rosenthal of Tacoma’s Temple Beth El.
“This was before I met Jackie,” he says,
referring to his wife, Jackie Rosenblatt.
The rabbi, an adjunct professor of reli-
gion, became a great influence. “He was
exceptional” and “brilliant,” Gary says. Peter Serko
“He was my rabbi and always will be.” Jackie Rosenblatt and Judge Gary Johnson, at center, with their sons Josh, left, and Joseph, right.
Jackie and Gary were married at Herzl-
Ner Tamid, where Jackie grew up. Their
two grown sons, Josh and Joseph, both has launched a “daily deal” site called Ideal about buying and selling.”
work at the Stroum Jewish Community Network, a group-buying website that People often tell him what an impor-
Center on Mercer Island and Gary says, raises funds for good causes. The company, tant part of their lives Hebrew National
“I’m incredibly proud of them.” founded with business partner Jon Ramer, has been, “and I don’t think they mean the
When he’s not working, His Honor is is still small enough that when I called hot dogs,” he says. It’s the emotional rela-
a “rabid” windsurfer and an equally rabid there, Ronny answered the phone. It com- tionship that’s essential.
reader who enjoys historical fiction and bines group buying (like Groupon), crowd Describing himself as a cultural Jew
current affairs. funding (like causes.com), social media with Buddhist leanings, Ronny says he’s
Gary began work April 18, but his formal (like Facebook) with “cause marketing” having fun with his 8-month-old daugh-
swearing-in is May 12 at 4 p.m. at the Pierce (buying things while helping people). ter as well as with his business. In his free
County-City Building (930 Tacoma Ave. A recent example was a deal on Mighty- time, he says, “I cook and play hockey.”
South, Tacoma), and is open to the public. O donuts that benefitted the Moyer Foun- And he’s managed to stick to the objec-
dation. The site showed me that a little tives stated above.

“It really is a chance to do what I’m
good at at a different level.” He says he
told the governor it was like being raised
on Vashon, where “you don’t drive past
someone with a flat tire.”
Of course, what the governor doesn’t
know is that the day she called to give Gary
2
Ronny Bell,  whose grandfather over a dollar of my purchase would be The company launched Feb. 1 and
founded Hebrew National, left col- donated to the foundation — or I could Ronny says things are going well. He’s
lege with three objectives: 1. Never pick a different cause. interested in hearing from Jewish char-
wear a tie 2. Never create a résumé 3. With Hebrew National such an inte- itable organizations that might like to
Never wear a watch.  gral part of his family’s life, Ronny says he partner with the company. Contact infor-
Now 38, the founder of Pioneer Organ- learned “an early lesson that having a busi- mation — and the deal of the day — are at
ics — he sold his interest a few years ago — ness [should be] meaningful,” not “just www.idealnetwork.com.

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Israel Day Community-Wide Celebration
Join the party on May 22 when the entire
community is invited to celebrate Israel
Independence Day with a fun-filled cel-
ebration for the whole family. The party
begins at 4pm at the SJCC with family
activities for all ages and an Israel Fair.
You’ll find lots of Israeli products, informa-
tion on Israeli culture and something for
everyone.
The party continues at 5:30pm across
the street at Herzl-Ner Tamid with a PJ
Library® Storytime for children ages 6
months - 5 years old.
Then enjoy a traditional bonfire and
kosher BBQ dinner at Herzl-Ner Tamid.
Catered by Nosh Away.
All activities, except the dinner, are free.
Breast Cancer and the J-Serve 2011
Jewish Community Paint Out Hate
Much has been reported in May 1, 2011
recent years about the BRCA 1:15 PM - 5:00 PM
1 / 2 genes that, if present,
mean that Jewish women
have a greater propensity
for certain kinds of breast
cancer. Carriers of this alteration are
three to seven times more likely to
develop breast cancer before the age
of 50. Talk to your doctor about it.
Increased screening and/or genetic
counseling are two ways to help ad-
dress this elevated risk – and both can
help save lives.
The Jewish Federation, with support
from community members such as Eva
Corets, educates the women in our
community about the risks of breast
cancer so they can be proactive in fight-
ing this disease.
If you would like more information, or
want to help support the fight against
breast cancer in our Jewish community,
contact the Federation office at 206-
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May 1 • J-Serve “Paint Out Hate”
May 18 • An Evening of Women’s Learning
May 22 • Israel Day Celebration
May 26 & May 31 • “Faces of Israel”
program/discussion
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the door.
J-Serve (the national day of Jewish Teen
Service) will bring together over 100 teens to
work with the City of Seattle to paint out graf-
fiti, literally painting out hate. In addition, we
are hosting the first Jr. Serve – an 8th grade
additional component to this year’s J-Serve.
Details at www.JewishInSeattle.org/JServe
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Washington’s Jewish legal community
and honor our 2011 award recipient,
the Honorable Carol Schapira, King County
Superior Court Judge. Law students and
new professionals invited free of charge.
Thursday, June 2, 2011 ~ 6-8pm
Chinese Room at the Smith Tower,
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Faces of Israel: A Discus-
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State, and Religion in
the Jewish Homeland
Join Amy Beth Oppenheimer, director/
producer of the film “Faces of Israel,” for a
special free screening and discussion on the
balance between religion and democracy in
the modern Jewish state.
Thursday, May 26: 7pm at Temple B’nai
Torah, 15727 NE 4th Street in Bellevue
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4745 17th Avenue NE in Seattle
Both screenings are free and open to
the public. Material is appropriate for
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More information on the movie at
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Now through end of May
The Lily Series
Art Exhibit
Colorful oil pastel pieces in celebration
of spring by Paula Chester Libes will
be on display at T’Latte Café through
the end of May. Libes, who holds art
degrees from SUNY Stony Brook and
Bellevue College, is a resident of Mercer
Island. This is her first art show.
T’Latte, 37 103rd Ave. NE, Suite B,
Bellevue. 425-709-6868. The café is
open until 6 p.m. daily.
arts
May 10, 12 and 13
Wherever You Go
Joan Leegant will give three speaking engagements in
Seattle about her award-winning novel, Wherever You Go.
The book follows three unique American characters in Israel,
probing religious extremism and Israeli life from an Ameri-
can perspective. The novel has received extensive praise in
the Jewish literary world.
May 10 at 6:45 p.m. at Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St.,
Seattle
May 12 at 7:30 p.m. at The Summit, 1200 University St., Seattle
May 13 at 8 p.m. at Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue

May 3 at 8 p.m.
Charlie Sheen
April 30 at 7 p.m. Human curiosity
Marianna Music Group Charlie Sheen’s Violent
Concert Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is
Marina Belenky, Anna Not An Option Show will play
Vasilevskaya, Oleg Ru- the Comcast Arena in Ever-
vinov and special guest ett. The description on the
Andrey Zasypkin on the arena’s website says “This IS
drums will perform tra- where you will hear the REAL story from the Warlock.  Bring it.” Ahem.
ditional to contemporary If you buy the $575 ticket you can have a personal meet-and-greet and your
pieces in Hebrew, Yiddish, photo taken with Mr. Sheen. It may be worth something once the flameout is
Russian, Italian, Spanish, complete. If you buy the $49.50 ticket you’re probably just a sucker — especially
French and more. because the people who really might want to see this catastrophe, teenage boys,
At Crossroads Mall, will be turned away at the door. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Bellevue. Free. Why are we telling you this? Because when the Sheen exploded, he mentioned
somewhere that his mother was Jewish. She must be so proud.

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13th Season • Mina Miller, Artistic Director

A concert to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day

7:30 p.m. Two Premieres! MOR

Monday, May 9, 2011
Illsley Ball Nordstrom
Recital Hall
at Benaroya Hall, Seattle
6:45 p.m. Pre-Concert Talk:
John Sharify interviews
Terezín survivor
Sidney Taussig
“an impressive record of performances
with some of the region’s finest
musicians” –(Seattle Times)
Commissions from Betty
Olivero and Lori Laitman
MOR presents renowned Israeli
composer Betty Olivero’s personal
tribute to the Sephardic community
at Thessalonika. The world premiere
of Kolo’t (“Voices”) will be sung in
Ladino by Portland Opera mezzo-
soprano Angela Niederloh. Hear an
intimate song cycle version of Lori
Laitman’s Vedem, based on the secret
poetry of teens from Terezín. Also:
Olivero’s Golem klezmer suite, Haas’
String Quartet No. 2.

Tickets: $36 • (206) 365-7770 • www.musicofremembrance.org

10 the arts JTNews . www.jtnews.net . friday, april 29, 2011
Setting a personal history to music
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
When Music of Remembrance com-
missioned Betty Olivero to write a piece
for this year’s spring concert, they didn’t
expect one of Israel’s most respected com-
posers to draw from her own personal his-
tory. It’s one that Seattle’s large Sephardic
community can relate to.
“She’s chosen to weave the story
around Ladino ballads and love poems
alongside a very poignant letter from an
Auschwitz survivor from Thessalonika,”
said Mina Miller, music director of Music
of Remembrance. MOR commissions and
performs music based upon the experi-
ences and legacies of the survivors and vic-
tims of the Holocaust.
This spring, MOR approaches the expe-
rience of Sephardic Jews for the first time
with the story of the Jewish community of
the Greek isle of Thessalonika, which saw
98 percent of its population perish.
Mezzo-soprano Angela Niederloh will
perform, with an ensemble of violin, viola,
cello, clarinet, harp, and percussion, Oli-
vero’s work “Kolo’t” (“Voices”) at Music
of Remembrance’s Holocaust Remem-
brance Day concert at Benaroya Hall on
May 9.
Joining Olivero’s work is a smaller
version of last year’s headline piece. For
last year’s spring concert, MOR commis-
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“They made their secret world as a way
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“When I read the book in 1995,” Miller
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a premiere screening of a Music of Remembrance method that she used for this song cycle.
documentary based on their experience in the This time, however, came one exception:
Terezìn camp in Seattle on May 7. A poem called “Love in the Floodgates,”
which was, believe it or not, comic relief.
into schools and for other educational “I took it because…instead of the suf-
opportunities. fering of the boys, it showed their longing
“The music is accessible and really taps for having a relationship that was kind of
into richly emotional human experience,” thwarted by the situation,” Laitman said. “It
she said. was a good contrast to the other poems.”
When originally composing the works, What made it special, though, was the
Laitman used her two well-tested crite- day after Laitman completed a draft, she
ria to choose the poems she ultimately set
to music: “I look for a good story and I XXPage 18
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Saturday 30 April
8 p.m. — The Last Seder Staged Reading
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The Last Seder, a critically acclaimed play by Jennifer
Maisel, produced and directed by Art Feinglass and
performed by Temple Beth Am performers will be
held as a staged reading on the bima. At Temple
Roni Antebi at RoniA@sjcc.org or
B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
Mina Miller at
Sunday 1 May
10 a.m.–1 p.m. — The Art of Caregiving
Marjorie Schnyder at
Sarah Persitz at spersitz@aipac.org or
familylife@jfsseattle.org or 206-861-3146 or
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“How Jewish Tradition Can Inform Our Caregiving
Journey” featuring Rabbi Richard Address, founder of
the Sacred Aging Project. Reservations recommended,
as space is limited. Purchase tickets through Brown
Paper Tickets. $5 (financial assistance available). At
Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg at
Lori Weinberg Ceyhun at assistant@wsjhs.
REI Seattle Store, 222 Yale Ave. N., Seattle.
12:45–5:30 p.m. — Mussar - Light of Torah,
Third Seattle Mussar Kallah
Carol Benedick at
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Learn about the path of spiritual development called
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Mussar with Rabbi Ira Stone, Dr. Alan Morinis, Rivy
Kletenik, Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, and Shirah Bell.
$36 in advance, $45 at the door. At Congregation
Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
3 p.m. — Yom HaShoah Commemoration
and StandWithUs Presentation
Vivian Morrison at viviansm@earthlink.net
or 360-779-7619
Commemorate Yom Hashoah and continue the
conversation to support Israel’s desire for peace.
Free. At Congregation Kol Shalom, 9010 Miller Rd.,
Bainbridge Island.
1–3 p.m. — Yom HaShoah, Holocaust
Remembrance
Janna Charles at info@wsherc.org or
206-774-2201 or www.wsherc.org
With My Own Eyes: A film preview and a dialogue with
Holocaust survivors. Commemoration includes a reading
of names, laying stones in remembrance, kaddish by
Rabbi James Mirel and a performance by the Seattle
Jewish Chorale. Free. At the Stroum Jewish Community
Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
4:30–6 p.m. — Yom HaShoah: Holocaust
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Janna at admin@wsherc.org or
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Sneak peek at the Holocaust Center’s new documentary
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candlelighting ceremony prior to the panel discussion
will honor all those killed in the Holocaust. Refreshments
following program. Co-sponsored by Jconnect and
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University of Washington, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.
Monday 2 May
2–4 p.m. — SJCC Beginner Mah Jongg Class
RoniA@sjcc.org or 206-388-0832 or
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Mah Jongg provides fun, a challenge and social
camaraderie. Learn the tiles and the rules of the
game. $20-$30. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer knows what makes marriages succeed or fail. Advance Friday 6 May
Way, Mercer Island. tickets available through www.brownpapertickets. 9 a.m. — Breakfast with Elaine Geller and
7:30–8:45 p.m. — Yom HaShoah Observance com. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. At Town Hall Holocaust Survivors
Seattle, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle.
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A special observance of Yom HaShoah at the Monday
experiences with students across the country.
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6 million. Ruvane Richman will share stories of his Presented by the Jewish Learning Institute’s Rosh breakfast with the 2011 graduating class following
parents’ experience. At Congregation Beth Shalom, Chodesh Society, discuss six celebrated personalities the talk. Students should notify how many family
6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle. in Jewish history in this monthly series. For May: members they will be bringing. At Northwest Yeshiva
Shulamit, a woman and a prophet the strength and High School, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.
Tuesday 3 May seeking guidance. For women only. Presented by
7–9 p.m. — SJCC Israel 360: Women of the Wall Devorah Kornfeld. Cost includes materials. $75 for Saturday 7 May
series. Community Center at Mercer View, 8236 SE 5:30 p.m. — Music of Remembrance Film
206-388-0832 or www.sjcc.org 24th St., Mercer Island. Screening and Vedem Tribute Dinner
The Women of the Wall and their efforts to pray and
to read Torah at the Kotel have been widely publicized Thursday 5 May info@musicofremembrance.org or
in Israel and the United States. Their struggle has 6–8:30 p.m. — AIPAC Lobbying 101 206-365-7770 or
produced strong emotions on both sides of the issue
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2011 ParentMap Lecture Series. For three decades, nonmembers. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800
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12 five women to watch JTNews . www.jtnews.net . friday, april 29, 2011

Over the next three issues of JTNews, we will be profiling five women in Washington State’s Jewish
community who have dedicated their lives to building community, following their passions, and in
their own ways trying to make the world a better place. We will be doing these profiles twice a year,
so if there’s someone you think is doing something important, please let us know!

Robin Leventhal:
Passion for the pastrami
Emily K. Alhadeff Assistant Editor, JTNews
What’s Robin Leventhal, Seattle
restaurateur and former “Top Chef”
competitor, doing going to work for a
community-based Jewish delicatessen
on Mercer Island? The first answer that
comes to her mind: Kismet.
“It’s been a magical process,” Leventhal
says. “I truly feel like this has been a gift.”
Stopsky’s Delicatessen, which will open
next month on “the rock” under the direc-
torship of locals Jeff and Lara Sander-
son, will feature traditional Jewish food
“updated,” calling on Northwest resources
and fusing them with an international flavor
palate. Leventhal will take the helm as chef.
Perhaps surprisingly, Leventhal spoke
less like a competitive chef and more like
a girl in love, frequently describing her job
in spiritual terms.
“This is a heritage project,” Leven-
thal says. “This is a business model that is
about community.”
Stopsky’s focus is on community as
much as it is about food, and will feature
panels about local families and history on
its walls.
“It’s about a celebration of love,” she
says. “We need community and that suste-
nance. That’s what drives me in life.”
What brought Leventhal and the Sand-
ersons together, however, is not nearly as
romantic: The Sandersons made a cold call.
“Lara did some research,” Leventhal
explains. “She stumbled across my name,
was endeared by my spirit...my history
and my work experience.”
Instead of consulting, Leventhal offered
to be the chef. The result is “bringing their
vision to light paired with my creativity.”
Leventhal was planning on a job as a
corporate chef before the opportunity to
work for Stopsky’s presented itself. But,
she says, “I wasn’t feeling the passion.”
Leventhal, who studied ceramics in
college and originally thought she would
go into advertising, thought that after her
experience on the popular Bravo network
reality show she might take her career in
Courtesy Robin Leventhal
Robin Leventhal lands a big one.
another direction.
“I thought I would get away from the
kitchen,” she says. “I kind of walked away
from part of it because it wasn’t true to
who I was.”
She started to design a tableware line
but became disillusioned. “I don’t like
to spend my time doing things that are
meaningless.”
As for her “Top Chef” claim to fame?
“It’s a piece of me. It’s not what defines
me,” she says.
The kitchen, ironically, is “still domi-
nated by men.” Despite great female chef
role models, Leventhal admits, “It’s not
for the weak.” Her own innate competitive
personality gave her the strength to push
through the drama.
“I was a fighter before agreeing to take
that challenge on.”
That competitive edge in large part
comes from her business-oriented, indepen-
dent mother, who raised her to be tough.
“I’m not afraid to voice my opinion,”
Leventhal says.
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Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg:

Preacher, pastor, educator
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
The day before JTNews spoke with
Yohanna Kinberg during the middle of
Passover, she was at home making charo-
set cupcakes for one of her sons to take to
his school’s bake sale.
“I didn’t want him to feel left out,” she
says.
Such is life as a working mom who
happens to be a rabbi. But it’s her job — if
something so intertwined with a commu-
nity can be considered a job — as associate
rabbi at Temple B’nai Torah that informs
so much of the way Kinberg lives her life,
from her family to her pulpit to her com-
munity activism.
The activist in Kinberg comes from a
very early age — in 1973, while still a baby,
she attended the ordination of the first
woman rabbi. Her late father, also a Reform
rabbi, was ordained at the same ceremony.
Growing up in Eugene, Ore., where the
women’s rights movement was very active
at the time, also had a strong influence.
“My whole life has been in this reality of
feminism, and of women breaking bound-
aries, and so in high school and in college I
was involved in activism,” she says.
“She’s definitely an advocate for
human rights and for social justice,” says
Jim Mirel, Temple B’nai Torah’s senior
rabbi, who has known Kinberg since her
birth. “That’s why she fits in so well with
our temple. She’s just a social justice advo-
cate in all its ways.”
Kinberg’s vision of boundaries broken
comes from beyond Eugene, however. Her
mother, Chana, was born in Morocco and
immigrated to Israel as a teen. Seeing how
that move allowed her mother to grow and
thrive, Kinberg says, “has allowed me to be
the full person I have become.”
Throughout her life, Kinberg has also
had strong commitments to reproduc-
tive rights and the environment, as well as
to Israel. That manifests itself these days
through her involvement with J Street.
“Working on issues that pertain to
peace and justice in Israel is something
that I’ve been doing since I was a teenager
and has always been an important part of
my life,” she says.
Then came the responsibilities of adult-
hood, and with it a fresh look at tikkun
olam.
“There was a resurgence of feminist
energy in my life when I became a work-
ing mother and when I was ordained as
a rabbi,” Kinberg says. “[I] came into the
workplace and realized that there’s still
a very strong need for feminism in our
Courtesy Temple B’nai Torah
Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg
world and within the Jewish world.”
As Temple B’nai Torah’s director of
education, Kinberg puts her own family’s
experiences front and center. Her husband,
Seth Goldstein, is the rabbi at Temple Beth
Hatfiloh in Olympia, which means that
both parents must navigate similar sched-
ules and demands — not unlike working
families where the parents aren’t rabbis.
For Kinberg, sometimes what some people
once called radical is really the mundane.
“We have the same two kids, we do a
lot of shared parenting, and that’s really
important and part of our shared feminist
vision,” Kinberg says.
Kinberg has also become active in a
group called Women of the Wall, which
protests the ban on women praying with a
Torah at the Kotel, the western wall of the
old Temple. When she leads trips to Israel,
she spends a lot of time focusing on the
issue and educates at home.
“In Asia, in Australia, everywhere,
there are women who are reading and
engaging with Torah,” Kinberg says. “If
you go to the Wall, and want to be at
the Wall, the holiest place for the Jewish
people, you don’t have that option…. It’s
the last holdout for a place for full egalitar-
ianism for women.”
It was with this in mind that she pro-
vided educational opportunities for the
Women’s Torah Project, one of the first
Torahs scribed entirely by women, com-
pleted its scroll last October.
At her temple, being sandwiched, as
she put it, between the generations of
parent and children gives her more insight
into the issues her congregants, many of
whom have been facing financial, health-
related and educational difficulties, face.
“I see myself as a preacher, a pastor and
an educator,” she said. “I can help people
receive support, set them in the right
direction, or just give them someone to
listen or to provide spiritual support.”
She’s also a baker — those charoset
cupcakes were a sellout.

See What’s Cooking at

Yom Hashoah The Washington State Jewish Historical Society

With My Own Eyes: heese. making

The AMrtay 5,o6:3f 0–C9:0 0 p.m
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Co-sponsored wi instructor and
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semaker, will teach
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Sunday, May 1, 2011 | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm chevre and ricotta.
Biscochos on Thursday, May 12, 11 a.m.
The Summit at First Hill, Second Floor
Stroum Jewish Community Center $8 members/$10 nonmembers per program
No charge for Summit residents
3801 East Mercer Way, Mercer Island Katherine Scharhon will be our teacher and guide as we learn
Free and open to the public to make (and eat) borekas, those divine filled pies and bisco-
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and shaped for a variety of occasions.

Event includes performance by the Seattle Jewish

Chorale and Kaddish by Rabbi James Mirel. The Great Kugel Throwdown
Thursday, May 26th
Also sponsored by the Holocaust Center: Yom Hashoah
UW Hillel at 7:00 pm Space is limited.
$8 members / $10 nonmembers Purchase tickets or call
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This Week’s Wisdom Music as therapy:

Greet Others First A moment in time
by Andrew Marc Greene

Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews

Following the death of his father last that gave him the confidence and purpose
year, a funny thing happened to Daniel to start making music again — but this
Alpern as his life began to crumble. He time for himself.
began to talk to God and to his recently “They all said all these wonderful
deceased dad as a way of helping him ease things, and it made my life feel like it had a
his troubled mind — purpose,” Alpern says.
and he got a response. Alpern says
“I realized my father, he has written in
for 30 years, said ‘Make the neighborhood
an album, publish your of 1,000 songs.
music,’” Alpern says. The music on the
So with the help of album is either
a friend, Alpern did based on the plays
just that; A Moment he has written or, in
in Time was released a couple of cases, on
earlier this year as the process of making
a download from the record itself. Other
the iTunes store. songs were rewrites of
A physical CD is previous versions.
forthcoming. “I kept stealing from
People who grew up at myself,” he says.
Temple B’nai Torah or the Stroum Jewish After seven months
Community Center will likely know Alp- at his keyboard, working from a studio in
ern’s name — he has been using drama a house that adjoins Alpern’s apartment,
The Talmud advises on how to strengthen friendships: “Be the first to inquire after the peace of others.” Rabbi as a teaching tool as well as writing songs he emerged with A Moment in Time. The
Huna said, “If your friend is usually the first to greet you, you should anticipate him.” It was said of Rabbi
Yochanan ben Zakkai that he was so assiduous about following this principle that no one ever got to greet him and plays for children for close to three process was hard, painful, and a learning
first. And so here. No matter what the medium, it’s important to start things off with a pleasant greeting. decades. He spent 10 years doing music of many lessons he often gave the kids he
and theater at B’nai Torah, and it was worked with, but ultimately cathartic.
ACROSS DOWN
1 Slice down the middle, as a bagel
through Alpern that the JCC revived its He isn’t finished, however. A compan-
1 Substance banned by the NCAA
6 1982 movie with a 2010 sequel 2 Jeremy’s character on Entourage Center Stage theater program in 2009. He ion album will feature four alternative ver-
10 Legal tender 3 “Now I ___ me down to sleep...” left last year after his father’s death. sions to songs on this record as well as
14 Cup sought by Indiana Jones 4 Broke, as a law He wrote plays and music, but these remastered songs he recorded profession-
15 Dynamic opener? 5 Mary Poppins actress Lanchester productions were less about the audience ally in the 1980s. He’s also got an album of
16 Palo ___ 6 Speak about
17 Western film that greets first?
and more about the performers — every Jewish rock music kicking around in his
7 MLK Jr., for one
19 Get together 8 Stuff to smelt kid who came had a tailor-made part. head that he may try to take somewhere.
20 Absence 9 Boolean operator “The key was the kids having fun, and But for now, Alpern’s pulling his life
21 Wild 10 Small roles for big stars feeling good about what they were able to back together, playing weekly gigs, and
22 Out on the water 11 Last Oldsmobile ever made achieve to their talent level,” Alpern says. talking to his old friends on Facebook. He
25 Kids’ show that greets first? 12 Place
29 The Grim Reaper
But he never really knew how his career hopes, as he continues to make music, to
13 How a tight race may be contested
31 ___ Club Roast 18 “___ bin ein Berliner” as a playwright affected the kids he worked be able to give back to a Jewish community
32 Buy into the hand 21 WWII POTUS with until he joined Facebook and began that has been so meaningful in his life.
34 Always, to a poet 22 Snippet of wisdom hearing from them. Some had come to his “I feel like if I can make it with my music
35 Guacamole, for one 23 Monsieur, across the Pyrenees theater as an escape from otherwise troubled I can give back to the community financially
38 Beatles song that greets first? 24 Use as dinnerware
42 Suffix for east or west
lives. Alpern said he heard from one woman one day, and I can reach people,” he says.
26 Tore away (from)
43 Permit 27 God, at Notre Dame who told him, “‘You gave me an outlet and
44 Takes to the ice 28 Outlandish tales you talked to me,’” Alpern said. “‘You let Daniel Alpern’s A Moment in Time can be found
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WWleventhal Page 12 “There is a part of me that’s a little lost,”

This character trait surely comes into play
regarding her health: Leventhal’s experi-
ence with cancer — she had Hodgkin’s lym-
phoma, which is in permanent remission;
her non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma will be with
her throughout her lifetime. Still she says,
“My health is a gift.” And she doesn’t neces-
sarily mean a gift to herself: Ten percent of
pickle sales at Stopsky’s will benefit the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Leventhal added that her Jewish roots
factor into her strong character, even
though she was raised in Idaho without a
strong sense of identity or community.
she says.
At the same time, “I feel very lucky that
I am Jewish. It has given me strength and
spirit,” she says. “I feel like I’m worldly
because of my Jewish heritage. I’m proud
to be Jewish. I feel really luck to have that
part of my cultural makeup.”
The fluidity of identity informs Lev-
enthal’s approach to the kitchen and to
her relationship with Stopsky’s, which she
wants to take beyond the standard delica-
tessen menu to embrace world cuisines.
She has what she calls “perfect creative
license,” Leventhal says. “I’ve been given
the perfect job.”
Cantor Marina Belenky holds the
matzoh and Temple Beth Am
music director Wendy Marcus
shows the elements on the seder
plate at a Russian-language
seder held at Beth Am on April
24. More than 300 Russian
speakers and their families came
to the event, which was hosted
in conjunction with Jewish Family
Service and the Alhadeff Family
Charitable Foundation.
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WWslavery Page 6
Houston said some girls are unwittingly
recruited by boyfriends and husbands
while others are introduced to prostitution
though mothers, sisters, aunts, or other
relatives. In addition, runaways become
vulnerable to the risks inherent in life on
the streets. Others follow the lifestyles of
their parents. Houston said she sees some
young girls on the streets with mental
health issues as well.
In addition to providing spiritual sup-
port to the women they meet, New Hori-
zons tries to minimize the danger these
women face by distributing a weekly “bad
date list,” documenting the names of men
who were violent with them in the past.
Compounding this problem, said
Houston, is a biased legal system that
favors the men who buy sex and arrests
the women who sell it. In 2005 in Seat-
tle, 49 men were arrested compared to 400
female prostitutes who were charged.
A U.S. State Department report echoed
the same result. Of the 12.3 million victims
documented in the 2010 report, only 4,166
successful trafficking prosecutions were
won in 2009.
“We need men who want to mentor
young men,” Houston said.
Washington is one of four states in the
country that has adopted the Safe Harbor
Act, a law that protects from prosecution
underage girls and boys who are trafficked
for sex.
Still, each week, hundreds of girls in
Washington State and around the world sell
their bodies for sexual favors to survive and
make money for someone else, usually their
pimp or trafficker. But it’s not all bad news.
“Things are changing in our city and
moving in the right direction,” Houston
said. “Seattle is on the cutting edge.”
WWcufi Page 6
the Nazis concealed from them the real-
ity that they were about to be gassed to
death.
“Of the 4,000 that arrived that night on
that train,” said Roth, “3,700 were nothing
but smoke and ashes 24 hours later.”
As the son of an accountant, a major,
and a highly decorated war hero who was
honored for his years of dedicated service
to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Roth
would not be spared from Hitler’s attempt
at the so-called “final solution.”
“Twenty-five years later,” said Roth,
“his son is put into a cattle car by the Hun-
garian police, his comrades-in-arms. How
is that possible? How is it possible that in
the 20th century, man could build machin-
ery and places to murder, for people who
lived within their midst for more than 10
centuries?”
Roth would survive imprisonment in
the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concen-
tration camps. He was rescued and liber-
ated in April of 1945.
CUFI is now targeting college-aged stu-
dents with its latest campaign, CUFI on
Campus. It has recently hired a national
campus organizer to lead the outreach and
create a network of chapters on campuses
throughout the U.S. CUFI believes this
will be a critical strategy in moving toward
what it calls a more balanced conversation
about Israel on colleges and universities.
“The seemingly politically correct
methods, the seemingly nonviolent mes-
sages, to delegitimize the Jewish people,
to demonize the Jewish people,” said Neal,
“the boycott, divestment, sanctions cam-
paign, seems like a harmless campaign, but
it serves, very effectively, to delegitimize
Israel and the Jewish people. It’s wrong.”

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WWcommunity calendar Page 11 Judaism nonmembers, free for Summit residents. At The Saturday 14 May

Jennifer Cohen at Summit at First Hill, 1200 University St., Seattle. 10:30–11:15 a.m. — Learner’s Minyan
must be pre-registered. $150 minimum donation. At jencohen@u.washington.edu or 206-543-0138

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7:30–9:30 p.m. — 2011 Stroum Lectures in With Prof. Jonathan Sarna of Brandeis University. At Kane 10 a.m.–3:30 p.m. — May Mishugas Mah Jongg or www.bethshalomseattle.org
Jewish Studies: The Shaping of American Hall, University of Washington, 15th Ave. NE, Seattle.

Darlene Siegel at 425-836-4539 Join Ron Schneeweiss on the second Saturday

Judaism Everyone is invited for a day of play, lunch, raffle and of the month to learn about a different aspect of

Jennifer Cohen at Wednesday 11 May fun. Make a table for Mah Jongg, bridge or pan for this the Shabbat morning service. No charge. RSVP
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The 2011 Stroum Lecturer in Jewish Studies is

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- Israeli Feast residents. At The Summit at First Hill, 1200 University passion for meditation, mystical chant and the deeper 10 a.m.–4 p.m. — Beth Shalom Blood Drive

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Isaac S. Morhaime Bat Mitzvah

Nov. 20, 1928–April 17, 2011
Isaac S. Morhaime was born November 20, 1928 in
Seattle to Samuel and Sultana Morhaime. He passed
away peacefully at his Mercer Island home on Sunday,
April 17, 2011.
Ike, as he was known to all of his family and friends,
married the love of his life, Sophie Baroh, on June 27,
1942. He is survived by his children, Stan (Esther)
Morhaime and Suzanne Morhaime; grandchildren Sarina
(Michael) Behar Natkin, Rob (Kate) Morhaime, Ben
Morhaime, and Ann Morhaime; and his four loving
great-grandchildren Zoey, Olivia, Hadassah and Shmuel.
Ike is also survived by Stan and Esther Morhaime’s children and grandchildren, Terry
Robinson and children Jordan, Aiden, Ander and Alena; and Ellie Morhaime (Rifky) and
children Sarala, Esterella, and Mia.
Ike enjoyed sports, playing golf until his mid 80s, and watching football, basketball and
baseball with his wife Sophie.
He also enjoyed playing cards with all his good friends; pinochle, poker and gin rummy
with his life-long friend who preceded him in death, Sam Sidis. He would take his wife to
the casino to play Texas Holdem.
Ike served with the 42nd Division during World War II, and was with the troops as they
liberated Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany.
Ike loved his family and friends dearly, along with his Sephardic Bikur Holim Congrega-
tion, where he served as president like his father and brother before him.
He will be greatly missed. He was buried at the Sephardic Bikur Holim Brotherhood
Cemetery on April 18. Donations can be made to the Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation or
the charity of your choice.
Gillian Sarah Yung Dewhurst
Gillian will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on April 30, 2011,
at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue.
Gillian is the daughter of Tim Dewhurst and Rebecca
Fox of Mercer Island and the sister of Ben Dewhurst. Her
grandparents are Renee I. Fox of Seattle, Margaret
Dewhurst of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and the late
William Dewhurst.
Gillian is a 7th grader at Islander Middle School. She
enjoys drawing, anime and manga, cooking, singing,
animals and playing flute. She is collecting comfort items
for homeless, abandoned and abused children for Project
Night-Night and the My Stuff Bags Foundation as her mitzvah project.
Wedding
Rothman-Zaychik
Danielle Rothman and Eliyahu Zaychik were married on March 31, 2011
in Jerusalem.
Danielle is the daughter of Ivan and Elizabeth Rothman of Seattle. She is
a graduate of Seattle Jewish Community School, the Jewish Day School of
Metropolitan Seattle, and Phillips Academy. She currently attends Michlala
Jerusalem.
Eliyahu is the son of Malka Zaychik and Alex Baranchuk of West
Roxbury, Mass. He is a graduate of Gann Academy in Boston and McGill
University. He currently studies at Bircat Mordechi in Beitar Illit, Israel. The
couple resides in Beitar Illit.

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Hiding, horror and hope:
The Holocaust in books for
young readers
Rita Berman Frischer Special to JTNews
Again, our Jewish calendar sets our
people’s history into bold contrast. Pass-
over’s triumphant exodus story is followed
swiftly by Yom HaShoah, a day mark-
ing the Holocaust’s horrifying unchecked
human cruelty. Despite some counter-
balancing examples of courage and com-
passion, how do we tell this tale to our
children? Here are some books for young
people that may help them — and you —
sort out the incomprehensible chaos of
war and its impact on real individuals and
families.
For Sharing with Younger Readers
Benno and the Night of Broken Glass
by Meg Wiviott (Lerner Publishing Group,
$7.95 paper), wonderfully illustrated with
multi-media collage by Josée Bisaillon,
received starred reviews in School Library
Journal and is highly recommended to
introduce the Holocaust to children 7
to 11. In 1938 Berlin, Benno, the neigh-
borhood’s favorite cat, sees his peaceful
Rosenstrasse gradually change into a wor-
ried, unfriendly place. Jewish Sophie Adler
no longer walks to school with church-
going Inge Schmidt. Booted men in brown
shirts strut about. Then comes Kristall-
nacht, the night of broken glass, and the
burning of Neue Synagogue and Professor
Goldfarb’s books. The points are clear but
not belabored: While Sophie, her family
and Professor Goldfarb disappeared, Herr
Gerber’s grocery stayed open for business.
Even for Benno, “Life on Rosenstrasse
would never be the same.” Includes a fac-
tual afterword and a bibliography.
Some books in picture book format
should be evaluated with care before
choosing them for young children. For
example, Otto: The Autobiography of a
Teddy Bear by Tomi Ungerer (Phaidon
Press, $16.95 hardcover), author/illus-
trator of many highly praised children’s
works, uses the viewpoint of this favorite
toy to describe life in Germany in the ’30s.
When David, Otto’s owner, is sent away,
his best friend Oskar takes care of Otto
until an explosion destroys their shel-
ter and Otto is on his own. He undergoes
the horrors of war, bombings and battles,
and after saving an American GI, ends up
in a New York antique shop window. An
unlikely but hopeful conclusion reunites
him years later with both boys, now lonely
old men glad to find him and each other.
Ungerer, who turns 80 this year and lived
in Alsace during the Nazi occupation, has
told his story simply but the illustrations
are graphic and scary. The first English
edition of a 1999 French publication, a
close look at the battered teddy bear on the
cover may warn you that Ungerer’s book
is most suited for ages 9 and up.
Irena Sendler and the Children of the
Warsaw Ghetto by Susan Goldman Rubin
(Holiday House, $18.95 hardcover), with
oil paintings by Bill Farnsworth, is another
illustrated work marked as being for 6 to
10 year olds. Because of its focus on the
rescue of children in jeopardy and because
of the separation and abandonment issues
involved, I’d call it more suited for 8 years
and up. The paintings are exceptional and
the story of this tiny Polish social worker
is inspiring as it shows how she quietly and
ingeniously helped smuggle nearly 400
Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto,
while keeping careful records of their
identities so they could be reunited with
their families should any survive the war.
Contains an afterword, resources, notes,
and index.
For Older Readers
Once by Aus-
tralian novelist
Morris Gleitzman
(Henry Holt and
Co., $16.99 hard-
cover), is an origi-
nal and imaginative work about 10-year-old
Felix’s adventures after he runs away from
the convent where his bookseller parents
had hidden him. Unaware, brave and hope-
ful, Felix lives in stories which juxtapose his
essentially naïve and poetic nature against
the brutal realities of the time in which he
lives. The noted children’s literature jour-
nal The Horn Book, in its starred review,
said “This is the rare Holocaust book for
young readers that doesn’t alleviate its dark
themes with a comforting ending.” Power-
ful and simple, it is most suitable for read-
ers 12 and up, including adults who loved
The Book Thief.
Is it Night or Day? A Novel of Immi-
gration and Survival, 1938-1942 by Fern
Schumer Chapman (Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, $17.99 hardcover) is based on the
experiences of the author’s mother, whose
German Jewish parents sent her to Amer-
ica in 1937 at the age of 12 to save her from
Nazi persecution. How she adjusts and
survives is both a very specific and very
universal story, leading to a deeper under-
standing of today’s immigrants, changing
their lives but not knowing what comes
next. Ages 12 up.
A Family Secret is the second of two
intertwined graphic novels by Eric Heuvel
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $9.99 paper-
back), one of the Netherlands’ top graphic
artists. It follows the story of Helena whose
father, a policeman, collaborated with the
Nazis. Helena never forgave him for appar-
ently not helping her Jewish best friend,
Esther, to escape. Helena’s grandson
Jeroen becomes instrumental in discover-
ing the truth about his grandfather’s actions
regarding Esther. Grade 5 and up.
Black Radishes by Susan Lynn Meyer
(Random House, $16.99 hardcover) fol-
lows Gustave Becker from Paris to the
small village of Saint-Georges, where his
family believes they will be safer. Gustave
gets involved with resistance fighters
and begins to take risks, crossing over to
find food and helping those who want to
escape. The title refers to food bribes given
German border guards to remind them of
home. Grades 4-7.
Guardian Angel House by Kathy Clark
(Second Story Press, $14.95 paperback) is
based on the true story of the author’s mother
and aunt, both of whom were hidden in a
Budapest Sisters of Charity convent after the
Nazis invaded Hungary. In this Holocaust
Remembrance Book for Young Readers, the
elder sister describes life in the convent, the
relationships between the nuns and the girls,
and the deepening tension as food becomes
more scarce and the Nazis more suspicious.
Though the end of the war brings knowledge
of many losses, the book ends on a note of
hope and new beginnings. Ages 10-14.
Rita Berman Frischer is the former library
director of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and a
lecturer on children’s literature. She is a
frequent children’s book award judge and
reviewer.