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B”H

Chabad-Lubavitch of Washington State

would like to wish the entire Jewish community a Wonderful and Blessed Passover.

A pAssover MessAge froM the lubAvitcher rebbe o.b.M.

Changing the Unchangeable
Passover, the Season of Our Liberation brought
about a complete change from abject slavery to
complete freedom, from utter darkness to brilliant
light. This is also the kind of change which takes place
in nature in the spring, when the earth awakens from
its winter slumber, and is released from the chains
and restraints of the cold winter, to sprout and bloom
until the stalks of grain begin to fill.
It has often been emphasized that every detail in
Torah (meaning “instruction”) conveys instruction
and teaching; certainly a matter connected with
a festival, and a comprehensive festival such as
Passover, in particular.
One general instruction that may be derived from
Passover, specifically from the connection of Yetziat
Mitzrayim [the Exodus from Egypt] with the month of
Spring, which is applicable to each and every Jew in
his daily life, is the following: Human life, in general,
is divided into two spheres: the personal life of the
individual, and his accomplishments and contribution
to the world. In both of these there is the spiritual life
and the physical life.
The Jew’s task is to “liberate” everything in the
said spheres “from bondage to freedom,” that is
to say, to take all things out of their limitations and
“elevate” them to spirituality (and more spirituality),
until every detail of daily life is made into an
instrument of service to G-d.
Even such things which apparently one cannot
change — as, for example, the fact that G-d had
created man in a way that he must depend on food
and drink, etc. for survival — he nevertheless has the
power to transform the physical necessity into a new
and incomparably higher thing: One eats for the
purpose of being able to do good, to learn Torah and
fulfill mitzvot, impacting humanity as a whole, thus
transforming the food into energy to serve G-d.
Moreover, in the very act of eating one serves G-d,
for it gives the person an opportunity to make a bracha
[blessing] before eating, and after, and so forth.
We find something akin to the above in regard to
the month of Spring: At first glance, there is nothing
man can do about it. After all, the laws of nature were
established by G-d ever since He created heaven and
earth, and subsequently ordained that “so long as
the earth exists...[the seasons of] cold and heat, and
summer and winter, shall not cease.” Nevertheless,
a Jew observes and watches for the spring month in
order to “make Passover to G-d your G-d.”
In other words, in the phenomenon of spring
he perceives and discerns G-d’s immutable laws in
nature. And more penetratingly: That it was in the
month of spring — precisely when nature reveals its
greatest powers — that “G-d your G-d brought you
out of Egypt,” in a most supernatural way.
In all spheres of one’s daily life a person encounters
conditions and situations that are “Mitzrayim” —
restraints and hindrances — which tend to inhibit and
restrain the individual from developing in the fullest
measure his true Jewish nature.
The hindrances and limitations are both internal —
inborn traits and acquired habits; as well as external
— the influences of the environment.
One must free himself from these chains and direct Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
his efforts towards serving G-d. If, on reflection, a person Lubavitcher Rebbe OBM
finds that spiritually he is still on a low level, so that he
can hardly be expected to make a complete change
from slavery to freedom and from darkness to a great May G-d help every Jew, man and woman, in the
light — there is also in such a case a clear message in midst of all our people Israel, to make full use of the
the festival of Passover. For, as has been noted, Yetziat powers which the Creator has given each of them to
Mitzrayim was a change from one extreme to the overcome all difficulties and hindrances — to achieve
other: From abject bondage to the most depraved a personal exodus from everything that is “mitzrayim,”
idol worshippers, the Jews were not only liberated in order to attain true freedom, by attaching oneself to
from both physical slavery (hard labor) and spiritual G-d through His Torah and His mitzvot…
slavery (idolatry), but soon afterward — on the seventh Including the mitzva of remembering the
day of Passover — they were able to declare, “This is Redemption by day and by night, and from individual
my G-d,” as if pointing a finger; subsequently, they redemption to the collective redemption of the
reached Mount Sinai, heard G-d Himself proclaim, “I Jewish people as a whole, to merit the fulfillment of
am G-d your G-d,” and received the whole Torah, the the prophecy, “As in the days of your liberation from
Written as well as the Oral Torah — an extraordinary Egypt, I will show you wonders,” at the coming of our
transformation from one extreme to the other. righteous Moshiach, speedily indeed.

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For information on service times and seders in your community, visit our Web site
for links to all of the Chabads in Washington: www.chabadofseattle.org

shluchiM And representAtives of the lubAvitcher rebbe o.b.M., wAshington stAte

Rabbi and Mrs. Sholom Ber Levitin
Regional Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of
the Pacific Northwest
Rabbi, Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch
Rabbi and Mrs. Mordechai Farkash
Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Bellevue
Rabbi, Eastside Torah Center
Rabbi and Mrs. Zalman Heber
Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Pierce County
Rabbi and Mrs. Eli Estrin
Director, University of Washington Campus Activities
Rabbi and Mrs. Zevi Goldberg
Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Snohomish County
Rabbi and Mrs. Shimon Emlen
Educator, Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder
Rabbi and Mrs. Yechezkel Kornfeld Rabbi and Mrs. Avroham Kavka
Educational Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific Northwest Administrator, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific
Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Mercer Island Northwest Director, Gan Israel Day Camp
Rabbi, Congregation Shevet Achim Rabbi and Mrs. Shmulik Greenberg
Rabbi and Mrs. Elazar Bogomilsky Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Clark County
Director, Northwest Friends of Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi and Mrs. Yossi Charytan
Director, Friendship Circle Head of School, Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder
Rabbi and Mrs. Sholom Ber Farkash Rabbi and Mrs. Yisroel Hahn
Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Central Cascades Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Spokane County
Rabbi and Mrs. Avrohom Yarmush Rabbi and Mrs. Cheski Edelman
Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Whatcom County Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Thurston County
Rabbi and Mrs. Avi Herbstman Rabbi and Mrs. Sholom Ber Elishevitz
Educator, Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder Educational Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Bellevue

a special fund for the needy has been set up at chabad for passover.
if you would like to donate or know someone in need, please contact us.
In memory of Shmuel ben Nisan O.B.M. — Samuel Stroum — Yartzeit March 9, 2001/14 Adar 5761
Sponsored by a friend of Samuel Stroum and Chabad. For more information on any of these events and/or service times in all Washington State locations,
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Spreading the truth,
post-Goldstone Op-Ed
Joel Lion JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) — With Richard
Goldstone himself admitting that the
infamous Goldstone Report was criti-
cally flawed, this is the best opportu-
nity we have had in two years to bring
to light the misconceptions of Opera-
tion Cast Lead.
In his April 2 Op-Ed in The Wash-
ington Post titled “Reconsidering the
Goldstone Report on Israel and War
Crimes,” Goldstone rebukes the very
principles linked to Israel following the
report submitted under his name to the
U.N. Human Rights Council.
Let me make this abundantly clear:
Israel abides by international law. Does
that mean that Israel is perfect? No.
But as Goldstone’s Op-Ed states,
while Hamas “rockets were purpose-
fully and indiscriminately aimed at
civilian targets,” investigations pub-
lished by the Israeli military and rec-
ognized in the U.N. committee’s report
that was chaired by former New York
judge Mary McGowan Davis, “civil-
ians were not intentionally targeted as
a matter of policy” by Israel.
Reading Goldstone’s words that
Israel “has the right and obligation to
defend itself and its citizens against
attacks from abroad and within” and
that the U.N. Human Rights Coun-
cil has a “history of bias against Israel
[that] cannot be doubted,” it is amaz-
ing how much he sounds like any one
of us 18 months ago.
What caused Goldstone to do a 180
wasn’t a change of heart but an under-
standing of objective and undisputable
facts. The ironically named “fact-find-
ing mission” wasn’t interested in wait-
ing for Israel, as a democratic country,
to investigate itself. Instead, the only
“facts” it found were unsubstantiated
allegations against Israel. The legacy
of the Goldstone Report is that in
the topsy-turvy world of the United
Nations, Israel is guilty until proven
innocent and Hamas is innocent until
proven guilty.
In October 2009, I wrote for the
JTA news service that “Goldstone does
not differentiate between a democracy
using force to defend its civilians and a
terror organization targeting innocent
civilians on purpose.” While Richard
Goldstone has debunked the notion
that Israel was intentionally targeting
civilians, significant damage has been
done.
It won’t be easy for people to accept
the truth, but the steps needed are sim-
pler than we may think.
“I’ve learned a lot about cultures, and different societies and languages.” —Michael Rogozinski, executive chef at The Summit at First Hill, on his culinary travels.
What starts as an Op-Ed in The
Washington Post is important momen-
tum. Israel’s enemies were quick to use
the Goldstone Report as ammunition
in the fight to delegitimize the Jewish
State. Now that Goldstone himself has
begun to take away that weapon, we
can finally win the fight armed only
with truth.
This battle will take place in all
forums — from the United Nations
and U.S. Congress to the blogosphere
and message boards. In the two years
since Operation Cast Lead, the inter-
national status of Israel and the Jewish
people has been tarnished by the most
insidious of lies and false claims. The
Goldstone Report was seen by many as
the final nail they needed to build the
coffin for the Jewish State, and it almost
succeeded.
Israel’s enemies may need lies and
propaganda to fight us, but all we need
to fight back is the truth. The objective
truth, whether it is in Gaza or onboard
the Mavi Marmara, exonerates Israel
while weakening its enemies.
In my reaction to the Goldstone
Report, I wrote that “such reports not
only harm nation states in the war
against terror, but harm the prospects
for peace in the Middle East.” For over
two years, lies about Operation Cast
Lead have been circulating every mes-
sage board on every website, and they
all lead back to one source: The Gold-
stone Report.
The Goldstone Report, as Prime
Minister Netanyahu says, “must be
shelved once and for all.” The United
Nations, as a legal body, is capable of
repealing or revoking past declarations.
In 1991, Resolution 4686 was passed,
which revoked the outrageous resolu-
tion claiming that “Zionism is racism.”
Now that the full facts have come to
light, coupled with the admission from
Goldstone himself that his findings
were flat out wrong, the international
community must condemn the Gold-
stone Report and send it to the ash bins
of history.
It is time for Israel, the Jewish people
and our friends to embark on a true
“fact-finding mission.” If the Gold-
stone Report was the darkest moment
before the dawn, let us work together to
ensure that the dawn is coming.
Joel Lion is the spokesperson and
consul for media affairs at the
Consulate General of Israel in
New York.
Encountering peace:
The bombs bursting in air  
Gershon Baskin The Jerusalem Post
JERUSALEM — It’s difficult to think
about peace when missiles are flying from
Gaza into Israel, and when innocent civil-
ians on both sides are regularly forced to
take cover.
Yes, it’s true that Hamas and its prox-
ies in Gaza intentionally shoot at Israeli
civilians, but it’s also true that many inno-
cent civilians inside Gaza end up paying
with their lives — killed by Israeli bombs.
Go and explain to their families that their
deaths were not intentional. Israelis hate
it when someone calls what is going on
a “cycle of violence,” because it implies a
built-in assumption that Israel is also an
aggressor, while it perceives itself as an
innocent, passive target of Hamas aggres-
sion. For each new round of violence it is
impossible to argue about “who started
it,” since each side will choose a different
starting point.
It’s so easy to engage in this competi-
tion of suffering. The politicians on both
sides love it. Indeed, they revel in it, with
their fists clenched and their flatulent rhet-
oric threatening more of the same. More
firepower creates more deterrence, they
say. And as we run for the shelters (those
who have them) — the 1.7 million people
in Gaza don’t have a single shelter, because
it is true that their government doesn’t
care about their needs — we continually
fail to think of a better way.
I know the Hamas charter calls for our
destruction, and is itself a horrible, anti-
Semitic crime against humanity, but I
seriously doubt if you could find even 50
Hamas members who can tell you what is
in that document. Most don’t even know
such a document exists.
I talk to people from Gaza every day. I
spent this past weekend with a good friend
from Gaza who I managed to bring to
Jerusalem. He is a journalist from Rafah,
married with three young children. He
has spent time in Sderot, as well as on one
of the kibbutzim nearby. He meets many
Israelis and, like a majority of Gazans, is
not happy with the present reality. He, like
the Israelis he meets, wants a decent life
for himself and his family. Most people in
Gaza wish for the same.
It’s so easy to fall into the trap the
Hamas military leaders have created for
us. We play their game with such excel-
lence; we do exactly what they provoke us
to do. Of course there has to be an Israeli
response to Hamas rocket fire, for no gov-
ernment can tolerate having its civilian
population attacked by a neighboring ter-
ritory. But I wonder if any of our generals
have ever thought of a different approach.
The Hamas strategy is aimed at increas-
ing its support, while its public appeal is
waning. The Palestinians are sick and tired
of Hamas’s rule, but when Israel attacks
them, such flagging enthusiasm disap-
pears. It’s the natural response.
For some reason, our military people
think that if we make the Palestinian public
suffer, they will take it out on their rulers.
Yet it never happens. The best Israeli strat-
egy has always been to use force, and when
force doesn’t work, use more force. And
the Israeli public loves it. We don’t put
names to them; we don’t see the pictures
of destroyed families. All we know is that
some Hamas person was killed; it doesn’t
really matter if they were non-combatants,
because we all know Hamas uses them as
human shields, and why didn’t they just
run away? And besides, they all hate us
anyway, so they must all be Hamas sym-
pathizers.
Why haven’t our leaders developed
a strategy based on weakening Hamas’s
control of Gaza? Could it be, as recent
Wikileaks documents suggest, that there
are people among Israel’s leadership who
find it quite convenient to have Hamas
next door? A strategy to weaken Hamas
would have to be one that empowers the
moderates, and the current government of
Israel has either decided there is no such
thing, or that empowering them might
actually lead to peace.
In the case of peace, Israel will have to
stop building settlements, Israel will have
to compromise over Jerusalem, and Israel
will have to agree to the establishment of
a Palestinian state on most of the West
Bank, and compensate the Palestinians
with parcels of land inside Israel proper
in exchange for land we wish to annex. So
since we have a government intent on not
making peace with the Palestinians, why
not ensure that we have Hamas in con-
trol of Gaza? As long as rockets hit south-
ern Israel from time to time, international
pressure to make peace with the Palestin-
ians decreases every so often. All we have
to do is tell the world that moderates don’t
exist, or that they’re too weak, or that the
area is really controlled by Hamas, and
the only thing that prevents it from taking
over the West Bank is the continued Israeli
presence there.
We’re constantly getting better at this
— we have moved from Cast Lead to an
Iron Dome, and we are protected. So we
can continue to delude ourselves — just
as long as we continue to use our muscles
instead of our brains.
The writer is co-CEO of IPCRI, the Israel/
Palestine Center for Research and Information,
and is currently in the process of founding the
Center for Israeli Progress.
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letters to the editor

Making identifications
Referencing your article on “Washington’s newest congresswoman” (“Where she stands:
Washington’s newest congresswoman on Israel,” April 1), I suggest in the future you indicate
at the top of your articles whether they are news reports or editorials.
Your reference to AIPAC as a “hawkish” organization is totally inaccurate. AIPAC sup-
ports the government of Israel that is in power at the time, whether it be on the right or left
of the political spectrum. J Street should have been identified as a left-wing, liberal, progres-
sive organization that attempts to influence their policies and ideas on peace on the govern-
ments of U.S. and Israel.
Ed Epstein
Mercer Island
A moral compass
Akiva Segan says it is inflammatory to use words such as “unspeakable evil” and “savage”
to describe the terrorists who entered the home of a young Israeli family in the middle of the
night and stabbed to death the parents and three of the children including a 1-month-old baby
girl. (“Inflammatory Words,” Letters, April 1.) If Segan cannot see the evil in their actions,
then he must have no moral compass.
Segan says there is no difference between these intentional murders and the deaths of Pal-
estinian civilians killed by Israeli missiles targeting Hamas. It is interesting that just this past
week, Richard Goldstone, the chair of the committee that originally criticized Israel’s actions in
Gaza, published a letter in the Washington Post “reconsidering” his own report. He says that
subsequent investigations show “that civilians were not intentionally targeted [by Israel] as a
matter of policy” and “that the crimes allegedly committed by Hamas were intentional goes
without saying — its rockets were purposefully and indiscriminately aimed at civilian targets.”
He also states that Israel has an obligation to defend its citizens.
I understand that Segan wants to obfuscate the facts and suspend moral judgment in his
blind defense of terrorists. What I do not understand is why the JTNews found it necessary to
print his letter.
Rochelle Kochin
Seattle
The constant struggle
Thanks for printing Akiva Segan’s letter (“Inflammatory words,” April 1). There is so much
hatred in the world.
Mr. Basson’s description of Palestinians as savages is not going to help break down barri-
ers and walls, nor lead to the face-to-face dialogue and negotiations necessary to achieve a
two-state solution and peace. It certainly doesn’t show any sympathy for the vast majority of
Palestinians who are not terrorists, but struggle to live their daily lives, and have so struggled
for several generations, in an oppressive apartheid-like environment.
Fred Ferate
Austin, Texas
A proper education
I commend Edward Alexander for his perceptive op-ed article (“A gentile critic of the new
anti-Semitism,” April 1). It was right on the mark.
Alexander rightly points out that the resurgent anti-Semitism is not just the physical vio-
lence of Jew hatred of young Muslims, but the ideological violence is the work primarily of left-
ists, self-identified anti-racists, humanitarians, and liberals (including Jewish ones).
What amazes me are liberal misguided Jews taking a pro-Palestinian Arab stand at the
expense of Israel’s existential national interest. Why do they ignore their stated goals to
destroy Israel? Why do they deny Israel’s right to exist on a tiny sliver of land in their ances-
tral homeland? Fortunately, the majority of Americans support and favor Israel’s right to exist.
Israel made a blunder in not enforcing the Oslo Accords agreement made with Palestinians
under Yasser Arafat to stop incitement to violence against Israel.
Professor Bernard Harrison is to be applauded for his book, The Resurgence of Anti-Sem-
itism: Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion (2006) and for agreeing to speak at the University of
Washington on this extremely important topic. I hope his audience was properly educated from
his extensive knowledge on this subject.
Josh Basson
Seattle

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By Ruth Peizer Six degrees of anti-Semitism 6
U.S. Special Envoy Hannah Rosenthal talks about the ever-morphing mutations of the chronic illness called
Dos harts iz a halber novi. anti-Semitism.
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It’s back! Passover comes with a Price 13

Five Women to Watch is coming April 29
If there’s a woman in our community that you think is deserving of honor
and praise, whether it be in Jewish circles, career, or making a difference in the
world, let us know! Email editor@jtnews.net with her name and a short explana-
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Seeking Judaica and kosher vendors
This year’s community-wide Yom Ha’atzmaut and Lag B’Omer celebration
takes place on Sun., May 22, and will include an Israel fair. Organizers are seek-
ing artists and Judaica and kosher food vendors to participate. To register, con-
tact Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org.
A critically acclaimed “comedy-hyphen-drama” about the Price family’s last seder together.
The flowers still bloom 17
And Israelis still grapple with tragedy and identity, as David’s Grossman’s new novel shows.
Remains of the holiday 22
A father encourages his daughter to remember, if nothing else, the meaning of Passover: that until we’re
all free, no one is free.
Mexican Matzoh Brei 26
The much loved and hated Passover staple finds itself embroiled in controversy: to fry with sugar or salt?
This year, try serving it with guacamole. (The horror! The horror!)
Water for chocolate 30
A Passover cooking expert weighs in with advice on how to substitute just about any kosher-for-Passover

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Zero Bridge 37
Jewish-Muslim filmmaker Tariq Tapa’s Zero Bridge may or may not be essentially Jewish.

Arab Spring 38
It’s springtime for the Arab world, and Israel had better clean house before it gets left out in the cold, some say.

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A large group from the Washington-Oregon Israel Bond delegation got together Emily’s Corner: A different exodus 35
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The six degrees of anti-Semitism On bus ads and BDS

Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
Seven months after starting her new
appointment, Hannah Rosenthal received
a gift: Former White House correspondent
Helen Thomas.
“If Helen Thomas, coming out of the
Jewish Heritage Festival at the White
House, had just said, ‘Tell them to get the
hell out of Palestine,’ it would not have
cost her her job,” said Rosenthal, the U.S.
Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism.
“That she followed it up with, ‘Tell them
to go back to Germany and Poland’ made
it a whole different statement.”
It became immediately obvious to
Thomas’s colleagues that she had crossed
a line.
“She was the first woman in the White
House press corps, she’d been there since
President Kennedy, she had amazing sto-
ries to tell, she had respect from the press,”
Rosenthal said. “They did not back her.”
Such hard-won victories are not always
so easy to attain, said Rosenthal, who visited
Seattle on April 7–8 as a guest of the local
chapter of the American Jewish Committee.
There is no question that anti-Semi-
tism is on the rise, Rosenthal said — in this
country, FBI figures bear that out — but its
face is changing.
“I run across people all the time that
think anti-Semitism was a disease that was
cured when Adolf Hitler killed himself,”
said Rosenthal. “It is not a disease, it is a
chronic illness, and it has mutations and it
is ever morphing.”
The worldwide increase in anti-Sem-
itism was worrisome enough to mem-
bers of Congress, including the late Tom
Lantos (D–Calif.), a Holocaust survivor,
that in 2004 it created an office within
the U.S. Department of State to moni-
tor and report on the phenomenon. Pres-
ident Obama appointed Rosenthal, a
former director of the Jewish Council on
Public Affairs, an umbrella organization
for Jewish community relations councils
across the country, in November 2009.
She took over from Gregg Rickman, an
appointee of former President Bush.
Rosenthal has been criticized as being
anti-Israel because of her ties to progressive
organizations like New Israel Fund and J
Street. She rejects such criticism, and said
anyone who hears her speak will discover
otherwise. Regardless of others’ opinions,
she said the leeway she has been given to
educate other envoys within the State Dept.
on clearing up misconceptions about anti-
Semitism and Israel has shown the Obama
administration’s commitment to her post.
When Rickman was appointed, “his
office was in a satellite office and he was
kind of alone unto himself,” Rosenthal said.
“When they appointed me they brought
Joel Magalnick
Hannah Rosenthal, the U.S. Special Envoy to
Combat Anti-Semitism.
me into the State Department, totally inte-
grated into everything that goes on there.”
Her data can be found in reports on
more than 75 countries, as well as the soon-
to-be-released International Religious
Freedom report and a human rights report
that was released earlier this month.
Rosenthal said that in her travels she
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Hannah Rosenthal, the U.S. Spe-
cial Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism,
says the boycott, divestment and
sanctions movement against Israel’s
policies in Gaza and the West Bank is
a complete failure.
“The problem with calling a boy-
cott is, it had better work,” Rosenthal
said. “Do you hear it discussed in the
halls of power here?... Are you hear-
ing governments wanting to divest
their savings? No. It’s not working.”
BDS has gained traction on col-
lege campuses, and in the larger
community in Washington State it
has led to attempts to boycott Israel
products from the shelves of grocery
co-ops — with one success in Olym-
pia. Advertisements critical of Israel’s
treatment of Palestinians that were
set to appear on the sides of Seat-
tle Metro buses were canceled by
King County prior to their start date,
with lawsuits still pending and a new
policy on advertisements that bans
political speech issued on April 8.
Rosenthal said that while she can
appreciate non-violent protest, the
people doing so don’t always see the
bigger picture. Sometimes, she said,
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Uncovering Seattle’s hidden kosher restaurant

Janis Siegel JTNews Correspondent
Some might say that The Summit At Pink Door in the Pike “The sweet-smoky flavor and the melt-
First Hill has been keeping one of its most Place Market. ingly tender fish were light and yet it was
valuable assets a secret. Once a month, a Rogozinski said also substantial,” Davis said. “It reminded
small but happy group of restaurant-goers that running a kosher me of great smoked fish you’d have at
in Seattle’s Jewish community has been kitchen is not hard, Sunday brunch, but here it’s dressed up,
savoring the gourmet dining experience but it takes patience served warm, and really would make a
provided by The Summit’s world-class exec- and planning. wonderful Shabbat meal.”
utive chef, Michael Rogozinski. But now “We have between The fish was smoked in-house by
that the word has begun to spread about eight to 10 hours a Rogozinski, who said he used his neigh-
Rogozinski’s Bistro Night, which features an day of supervision,” bor’s chopped-down cherry tree as an
international wine selection, salads, desserts he said, referring to opportunity to claim the wood for use in
and a three-entrée prix fixe dinner menu, the Va’ad oversight. his kitchen.
good luck in getting a reservation. “We are friends, and The smoked fish is also a delectable
In addition to the cuisine, the entire we are partners.” treat for all of the residents who eat there.
Summit kitchen is fully kosher and super- Keith Krivitsky, They benefit from the Bistro Night menu,
vised daily by dedicated Va’ad HaRabanim vice president for Chef Michael Rogozinski which usually finds its way into the daily
of Greater Seattle staff. In past months, the Center for Jewish A fan favorite: Cherry wood-smoked black cod with shoestring potatoes Summit resident meal offerings.
including at its most recent dinner on April Philanthropy at the and roasted vegetables. “Right now, for Passover, we’ll do
5, the menu has featured dry-rubbed prime Jewish Federation  of almost 400 to 500 pounds of different
rib roast, rib-eye steak, roasted whole game Greater Seattle, who observes kosher was on par with really good non-kosher smoked fish,” said Rogozinski. “We even
hens, cherry wood-smoked black cod, and eating laws, invited a large table of friends restaurants. According to Davis, the rib- do our own lox and smoked salmon here,
Prince William Sound salmon wellington. to enjoy bottles of wine, sample the eye steak with onion-balsamico marma- but the salmon is only for special holi-
It’s all a treat for the kosher-observant, who entrées, and share sumptuous desserts. lade was “flavorful and tender, and the days because the process takes four or five
don’t otherwise have a kosher meat restau- “The fact that this is the only kosher caramelized onions added a nice flavor days.”
rant to eat in locally. meat-eating-out option was a key reason counterpoint.” Rogozinski and his staff want to have
“There’s enough talent here that we for coming,” Krivitsky said, “but more Commenting about the desserts, Davis Bistro Nights at the Summit every month
can pretty much do whatever you want,” than that, this is some of the best restau- found the dark chocolate ganache with or two. They notify the community
Rogozinski, the Summit’s director of culi- rant food I have had in a while. The prime raspberry sauce and spicy glass pineapple through synagogues and an email list.
nary services for the last seven years, told rib I had last time was out of this world, tiles “was so rich — yet not heavy, it was bal- “We have this opportunity to…show
JTNews during preparation for the April and the fried chicken they served this time anced and had tremendous mouth-feel.” off a little bit,” sous chef Duitch said. “To
Bistro Night. “Almost everything is natural, was amazing.” But by far, the best dish that evening, the community that hasn’t come and seen
organic, and homemade. We splurge and Elizabeth Davis, a self-described kosher she said, was the cherry-wood smoked what we can do, [they’re] missing out.”
we just charge a few percent over cost.” foodie, said the food served at Bistro Night black cod.
That evening, Rogozinski served Chil-
ean, Italian and Californian wines, each
specially paired with a course and included
in the total cost.
“It’s the only place you can get a kosher
‘three-for-$30’” said Chris Eager, dining
Healing. For over 100 years
Childhaven has been
room manager, referring to regular res-
taurant promotions throughout the Seat- Hugs. a safe and caring place
tle area.
Guests eat in the well-lit Summit dining
hall, at tables set with linens and flowers.
Hope. for the youngest victims of
abuse and neglect.
“Kosher food used to be an excuse and
it’s not an excuse here, for anything,” said
Jeremy Duitch, sous chef at The Summit.
“It’s nothing but top-notch product. We
don’t miss out on anything. If it’s available,
Join us on May 5th
we go get it.”
Raised in Guatemala, Rogozinski for our
infuses his roots into his cooking style,
using dried chiles, cilantro, cumin, cinna- Celebration Luncheon
mon and clove, in the savory dishes.
featuring renowned
He moved to the U.S. after an appren-
ticeship at the Guatemala City Westin child therapist
Hotel. From there, he took an apprentice-
ship at the Houston Four Seasons. After Dr. Bruce Perry.
graduating from the Culinary Institute of
America, he moved to Paris and studied
at Le Cordon Bleu. He moved to Seattle
in 1993, where, coincidentally, his mother
was born and raised.
“I’ve learned a lot about cultures and
different societies and languages,” said
Rogozinski, who speaks English, Spanish
and French.
In Seattle, Rogozinski has worked at Sza-
mania’s in the Magnolia neighborhood, Ray’s
Boat House, and the downtown Sheraton www.childhaven.org
hotel. He was also the executive chef at The
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Does moderation work if you’re in Paris?

Diana Brement JTNews Columnist

1
The challenge of being Another planned on fasting for Torah in Bellevue, where she grew up.
a dietician, says Lorren three days before her wedding. She and Shena practice what they
Negrin, is how people “I couldn’t have my friends preach, in case you wondered.
perceive her profession as a doing this,” Lorren says, and “Our philosophy is that you can eat
bunch of people saying “we started teaching them healthy anything you want…in moderation,” she
want you to go on a diet.” weight-loss and maintenance says. “I still eat cookies, I still eat Reese’s
But, really, she explains, methods (one friend lost 30 Peanut Butter Cups, but I don’t have five,
“I’m all about moderation and pounds). From there she I just have one.”
no diets.” jumped to helping “everyone,

The Seattle Pacific Univer-
sity grad who did her intern-
ship at Oregon Health &
Sciences University in Portland, recently
started her own business, Say I Do Nutri-
tion Services with partner Shena Wash-
burn (www.sayidonutrition.com).
“I’m at the age where a lot of my friends
are getting married,” she says, and she
couldn’t help noticing that in their efforts
to look “beautiful and gorgeous” in their
wedding gowns, many of those friends
were engaging in some, frankly, odd
weight-loss techniques.
“One friend ate Doritos, but spit them
out,” Lorren recalls. Another ordered Mex-
ican dishes without chips, tortillas, rice or
beans — “basically chicken and lettuce.”
Happy Passover
May you and your family know
peace, happiness and prosperity.
not just my friends,” she says.
Lorren also works part-
tribe
time at Harborview Medical
Center where she sees a range
of patients with illnesses from
diabetes to heart disease, along with obese
children and babies who aren’t eating.
Before Harborview, she worked at Kline
Galland for a while.
The two dieticians have been giving
a lot of talks recently. One is coming up
on May 1 at the Eastside Torah Center’s
“Spring Spa for Your Body and Soul”
workshop (www.chabadbellevue.org).
When not working, you’ll find the New-
port High School alumna doting on her
Yorkie puppy and going to hockey games.
She’s an active member of Temple B’nai
2
Don’t we all love Paris in the
spring? Olympia residents Harold
(Hal) and Inge Marcus do, and
will travel there and to Israel on the Amer-
ican Technion Society Mission from May
29 to June 10. They will take in the splen-
dors of Paris and the wonders of Israel all
in support of the Technion Israel Institute
of Technology, Israel’s leading science and
technology university.
As vice-chair of ATS’ Northwest chap-
ter (North Pacific region), Hal serves on
the ATS international board of governors
and the national board of directors.
An industrial engineer by training, he
has a long commitment to bringing medi-
cine and science together with technology
and engineering. In 1995 he and Inge cre-
ated the Marcus International Exchange in
Industrial Engineering to foster interdisci-
plinary research between Penn State’s Col-
lege of Engineering and the Technion.
“My husband and I admire the Tech-
Courtesy Hal and Inge Marcus
Hal and Inge Marcus of Olympia will be leading
a trip to Israel and Paris for Friends of the
American Technion Society.
nion for the critical role it plays in building
Israel’s economy, particularly its high-tech
industry,” says Inge, who retired from
Tacoma’s Pacific Lutheran University as
an assistant professor of biology. She is
also in ATS’ North Pacific Chapter, and is
a member of the President’s Council at St.
Martin’s University.
“Technion’s laboratories are state-of-
the art,” she notes, “its faculty boasts Nobel
Prize winners, and its often-interdisciplin-
ary approach is exhilarating.”
But back to Paris. Hal says the trip
will be “very eye-opening,” especially “for
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The empty seat at the seder table
Rivy Poupko Kletenik JTNews Colulmnist
Dear Rivy,
It’s as if I’m paralyzed
when I think about this year’s
Pesach. I am unable to plan or
to get up my usual excitement.
Like you, this year brought
the passing of a parent and I
now face the reality of being
the oldest at my family’s table.
I do not feel ready to be the
next generation — the leader
of the next seder. Any words of wisdom to
get me to a better place?
What comes immediately to mind is
a song that used to play when our kids
were little. It was on a tape along with
other Jewish songs that were quite fun
and lively. But then it would begin to play
Moshe Yess’s “The Zaidy Song.” It always
changed the mood. Suddenly the previ-
ously dancing, jumping, happy kids were
morose and tearing up.
“Turn off the music!” they would cry.
It then became standard practice to
always skip that song. There would be the
frantic scream as it started to come on,
“Run! Fast forward it! Fast forward it!”
The song told the story of a Zaidy, a
grandfather, who lived with his family.
He would tell them stories about Poland
and persecution, teach them Torah and
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the story of the slavery in
Egypt. Zaidy would make kid-
dush Friday night and lead
the seder. Zaidy would make
them laugh and cry. And then
the kids went off to camp one
summer and Zaidy was gone.
He had passed away. Here are
the lyrics from the last stanza,
And now my children sit in
JQ front of me
And who will be the Zaidy
of my children?
Who will be their Zaidy, if not me?
Who will be the Zaidy of our children?
Who will be the Zaidy if not we?
It still makes me cry. Find it on You-
Tube — you can cry too. What an existen-
tial angst of a song. Ironically, my father, a
true Zaidy, loved that song. He would sing
it to the kids over and over, and they would
cry out, “Zaidy, Zaidy, stop singing!” In his
own way, he was trying to prepare us.
A seder without our parents present
is assuredly a coming-of-age experience.
Though their place is empty, their pres-
ence still fills the room. For now, we can
close our eyes and still see them; their spe-
cial Hagaddah, their kiddush cup in hand,
and the certain lilt of the accents from time
gone by echoing yet in our memories as their
voices sing the melodies of their childhoods.
ps
The reality, that
the stories we heard
from them year after
year must now be
told through us, is a
sobering one. That
something will be
lost in translation is a
given; just how much
is the test of time.
There is no way I
can tell my father’s
story of how matzoh Courtesy Rivy Kletenik
was made back in Four generations of the Poupko and Kletenik family during patriarch Baruch
Velizh; the holi- Poupko’s last Pesach, at the Kline Galland Home.
ness of how the men
would don white kittels and go out to fields be the one to run it back and forth across
to harvest the wheat, all the while sing- the raw matzoh dough, creating lines and
ing Hallel, and how my father would ride lines of holes, ensuring that the dough
on the sled with the buckets of water, the would not bubble up and rise. How can I
mayim shelanu, taken from the Dvina tell that story the way he would tell it?
River that ran through the shtetl. They For that matter, how can I give over
would break the ice on the river, lower the poignancy of my mother’s rendition of
the buckets and then haul them up to the the exhilaration of the mitzvah of baking
house to remain there overnight — water matzot; the magic of rising early to bake
used for matzot must spend the night the special matzoh baked on erev Pesach
having already been drawn before being itself, called matzot mitzvah, because
kneaded into matzoh dough. it was baked at the very same time the
Can I describe the improvised tool Pesach offering would have been brought
fashioned from a watch gear attached to in the days of the Temple? These stories
the end of a stick that my father would
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Congregation Beth Shalom 12 p.m. — Torah for Women Congregation Beth Shalom
Fridays 7:30–10:30 p.m. — He’Ari Israeli Dancing Eastside Torah Center 7:30 p.m. — Parshas Hashavuah
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Stroum JCC 8 p.m. — Weekly Shiur (Note Day Change) Jewish Family Service 8–9 p.m. — Deeper Dimensions of
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5–8:30 p.m. — Camp-Style Shabbat Service
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ext. 204 or www.campschechter.org
The entire community is invited to a camp-style
Orly Feldman at
Shabbat service. Dinner: $14/adult $10/child. At
Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
Sunday 17 April
10 a.m.–4 p.m. — Pre-Pesach Car Wash
Ari Hoffman at ncsynewsletter@seattlencsy.
com or 206-295-5888 or www.seattlencsy.com
NCSYers will wash your car for Pesach! Inside and
out! This is also a great volunteering opportunity. At
Sephardic Bikur Holim, 6500 52nd Avenue S, Seattle.
6–8 p.m. — Spaghetti Dinner and Chametz Fest
Irit Eliav at iriteliav@bethshalomseattle.org or
206-524-0075 or www.bethshalomseattle.org
Enjoy that last bit of chametz before Pesach and
support the youth department at Congregation Beth
Shalom. RSVP to Irit Eliav. $12/adult, $8/children
under 12. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th
Ave. NE, Seattle.
Wednesday 20 April
8–10 p.m. — Holiday Bizarre: Easter in Egypt
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A farcical holiday romp that takes Passover, Easter
and current world events, sticks them into a funky
musical comedy blender on high, and dishes out
hilarious blasphemy. E. Bunny, hip hop star, joins
Jesus, Moses, Pharaoh, and others in this new “egg-
citing” episode. $12. At Ethnic Cultural Theatre, 3940
Brooklyn Ave. NE, Seattle. Shows also on Thursday
and Friday at 8 p.m.
Thursday 21 April
10 a.m.– 4 p.m. — Hillel UW Passover Blood
Drive
Help save lives by donating blood. The Puget Sound
Mobile Blood Center will be at Hillel before, during and
after Thursday’s Passover lunch. Kosher-for-Passover
snacks and drinks will be available. Make reservations
at www.hilleluw.org/blooddrive. At Hillel UW, 4745
17th Ave. NE, Seattle.
11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. — Hillel UW Passover
Lunches
206-527-1997 or www.hilleluw.org/passover
Hillel lunches are a Seattle Passover tradition.
Don’t miss a great meal and wonderful community
experience. All food supervised by the Va’ad
HaRabanim of Greater Seattle. $8/students, $15/
community and Jconnect with prepaid online
reservations, or $18 at the door. At Hillel UW, 4745
17th Ave. NE, Seattle.
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Friday 22 April 7 p.m. — Freedom Shabbat start of the weekend. Chappy hour starts at 7 p.m.
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and service begins at 8 p.m. Melt away the stress of
Lunches This special Shabbat will connect the Passover story the week with a little Shabbat. At Temple B’nai Torah,
15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
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Hillel lunches are a Seattle Passover tradition. Seattle. For undergraduates and Jconnectors. $15/ Saturday 23 April
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community and Jconnect with prepaid online “Chappy” Hour and Services Temple Beth Am presents The Last Seder, a critically
reservations, or $18 at the door. At Hillel UW, 4745
acclaimed play by Jennifer Maisel about the last seder
17th Ave. NE, Seattle. ofeldman@templebnaitorah.org
Nosh and schmooze with other Jews and toast the XXPage 12
Community Passover
Events at Hillel UW
Passover Lunches snacks and drinks will be available.
Thursday, April 21 and Friday, April 22 Reservations can be made at
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Hillel lunches are a Seattle Passover Monday, April 18 7:00 pm XXPage 11
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in the Price family home. Includes wine and dessert
reception with cast and director. Tickets $15, $10/
Carol Benedick at
students and seniors. Order at http://jew.sh/cXQ3. At
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Wednesday 27 April
Art Feinglass at
2 p.m. — Challah!
Lori Weinberg Ceyhun at
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Janna at admin@wsherc.org or
Educator Rivy Poupko Kletenik and her daughter
Gilah will teach the story of challah and how to make,
knead, separate, braid, bake and bless, including a
spelt challah for the dietary and health conscious.
Marjorie Schnyder at
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Recipes included. Space limited; register in advance.
$8/Washington State Jewish Historical Society
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Academy library, 1617 Interlaken Blvd., Seattle.
7–9 p.m. — Israel Matters Series
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Along with the usual landmarks, the ATS
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donation. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St.,
Bellevue.
dialogue with Holocaust survivors. Commemoration
Saturday 30 April
8 p.m. — The Last Seder Staged Reading
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A reprise of the April 23 production. At Temple B’nai
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Sunday 1 May
10 a.m.–1 p.m. — The Art of Caregiving
and a panel discussion with three survivors involved
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“How Jewish Tradition Can Inform Our Caregiving
Journey” featuring Rabbi Richard Address,
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recommended, as space is limited. Purchase tickets at
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At REI Seattle store, 222 Yale Ave. N, Seattle.
The trip visits the Marais, the old
Jewish quarter, where Jewish sites, trendy
boutiques and pastry shops now mix. The
Holocaust Museum, a meeting with the
chief rabbi of Paris and the Great Syna-
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the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
Mussar with Rabbi Ira Stone, Dr. Alan Morinis, Rivy
Poupko 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
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Commemorate Yom Hashoah and continue the
conversation to support Israel’s desire for peace.
Free. At Congregation Kol Shalom, 9010 Miller
Road, Bainbridge Island.
1–3 p.m. — Yom HaShoah Holocaust
Remembrance
The Israel portion includes a midnight
walk to the Western Wall and celebrat-
ing Shavuot in the Negev. But for Hal and
Inge, the visits to Technion are probably
the most exciting part.
“To actually be in the labs with the
professors and have them explain their
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Featuring With My Own Eyes, a film preview and a
includes a reading of names, laying stones in
remembrance, kaddish by Rabbi James Mirel and a
performance by the Seattle Jewish Chorale. Free. At
4:30–6 p.m. — Yom Hashoah: Holocaust
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Sneak peek at the Holocaust Center’s new
documentary film featuring local Holocaust survivors
in the film. A candlelighting ceremony prior to the
discussion will honor those killed in the Holocaust.
Refreshments follow program. Co-sponsored by
Jconnect and Hillel UW. Free and open to the public.
At Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.
There may still be time to go, but the
next best thing might be the video at
www.ats.org, under the “events” tab, and
you can learn more about the organization
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Passover comes with a Price
Emily K. Alhadeff Assistant Editor, JTNews
When the Price girls show up at their
parents’ house for Passover, their mother
Lilly opens the door and laments, “You’re
early! You’re all early.”
Hardly an expected greeting from a
mother whose four daughters have taken
the pilgrimage home for one of the most
important and celebrated Jewish holidays.
But Lilly’s reaction sets the stage, so to
speak, for what’s to come: A heartwarm-
ing, sad, hilarious and realistic look into a
family that’s coming to grips with memory
and reality.
The Last Seder brings together Lilly
and her husband Marvin, who is suffering
advanced stages of Alzheimer’s, and their
four unique daughters for the last Passover
before Lilly sells the house. Amidst pack-
ing boxes the family comes to terms with
the end of an era.
“This is a comedy-hyphen-drama, and
that’s really a fair way to describe it,” said
Art Feinglass, the director of Jennifer Mai-
sel’s The Last Seder.
The play’s cast of experienced actors are
all members of Temple Beth Am. Feinglass
is in the process of forming the Seattle Jewish
Theater Company, which will perform three
to four Jewish-related plays per season. He
and the players are pleased with the response
the play has garnered so far: half the tickets
were sold within the first five days of sales.
With this kind of response, Feinglass says he
is optimistic about his budding theater com-
pany. He also noted that this success would
not have been possible without the sup-
port of Rabbi Jonathan Singer of Beth Am
and Rabbi Jim Mirel of B’nai Torah, where
another production will take place.
In their rehearsal classroom at Temple
Beth Am, the cast gathered around to
share their experiences about the produc-
tion as it enters its final weeks.
“This is like the Tevye stories that
became Fiddler on the Roof,” Feinglass
Temple Beth Am players Navarre Moore, Ken Shiovitz, Carol Sage Silverstein and Jo Merrick rehearse
a scene from The Last Seder.
said. “You have different daughters, each
one confronting a different aspect of late
19th-century challenges.” In this version,
“one daughter’s a lesbian, one daughter’s
a workaholic, one daughter’s trying to find
her art, and one runs away all the time.”
“I think it’s fair to say dysfunction
doesn’t have to be a bad thing,” said Jo
Merrick, who plays oldest daughter Julia.
Dawn Cornell, in the role of second-
oldest daughter Claire Price, described the
essence of the family as separate nuclei.
“You’re the gay one, I’m the workaholic,
you’re wandering, you’re searching, and
I think this is the first time in a long time
that we’re coming together and under-
standing each other.”
“It’s not really a dysfunctional family,”
said Floyd Reichman, who plays Lilly’s
neighbor and romantic interest, Harold.
“It’s a family that really can’t find them-
selves and therefore lacks this cohesive
force that a lot of families manage to sus-
If
you
go:
The Last Seder’s performance
at Temple Beth Am is sold out, but
a staged reading will take place
on Sat., April 30, at 7:30 p.m. at
Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th
St., Bellevue. Free.
times to tell when they were speaking as
characters and when they were speaking
about themselves.
“I dreaded Passover, on so many levels,”
said Cornell. “You love the traditions, you
love being part of it, but it’s like, if Aunt
Mabel asks me one more time, ‘When are
you gonna have a baby, Claire, when are
you gonna get married, Michelle?’”
The cast members agree wholeheart-
edly that they internalize their roles and
tain. They’ve all gone off in their own find the performance cathartic.
opposite directions and forgotten about “I think there are a lot of people in the
what it is to be a family.” cast who are experiencing aspects of their
Listening to their emotional and
thoughtful reflections, it was hard some- XXPage 15
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own lives,” Feinglass said. “It’s blended.
The characters have been infused by the
actors and the other way around.”
The group, until now boisterous, grew
We applaud the
quiet and pensive. Several cast members
shared that they see their own personal NYHS Class of 2011!
trials and tragedies reflected in their char-
acters.
“My mother was schizophrenic,” Mer- Some of the great colleges, yeshivot, and
rick said. “So for me, I’m watching my Israel programs to which our students have
mother’s situation.” been accepted:
“We were probably all in tears the first
time we read it,” said Feinglass. On the first
Baer Miriam
read, “I was crying, and a bunch of other
Brandeis University (5)
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we cried again. We should be bored by this Drexel University Otniel Want to know where they end up?
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has seen six trends in hatred of Jews:
• Traditional, old-fashioned anti-Semitism
such as cemetery desecrations and graffiti on
Jewish institutions. The conspiracy theory
of Jews killing Christians to use their blood
in religious rituals has changed to Jews now
kidnap people to steal their organs.
• Holocaust denial, which is grow-
ing, Rosenthal said. “There is a sense of
urgency that I think we all feel in address-
ing it because Holocaust survivors and
camp liberators are in their 80s, 90s and
sometimes 100s, and they’re not going to
be with us much longer.”
• Holocaust glorification, meaning a “need
to finish the job,” Rosenthal said. It has
begun to appear in Eastern European
cities, but is also growing in neo-Nazi par-
ties in Germany, as well as the Middle East,
where much of it comes from Egyptian TV
and Al Jazeera.
• Holocaust relativism, which conflates
the Holocaust with other oppressions or
genocides. “Never before and never since
the Holocaust have we seen a government
employ its best minds and talents and cul-
ture into building killing factories, and how
that can happen needs to be understood,
and it needs to be understood from the par-
ticular and the universal messages that come
out of that,” Rosenthal said. “The Holocaust
remains something that the world has to
realize represents the possible.”
But, she added, her challenge comes from
avoiding the conflation “without trying to
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never good for the Jews,” Rosenthal said.
“We are absolutely despised, but we’re not
the most despised.”
Much of that sentiment, which focuses
on ethnic purity and national identity,
is directed toward Muslims and ethnic
minorities. What alarms Rosenthal is
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“how clear the language is that these polit-
ical parties are using, which once upon a
time would have been completely unac-
ceptable,” she said. “We all know what
happened the last time someone said we
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it’s best to simply not disagree.
“Israel is not perfect and in fact there
are human rights violations against the
Palestinians. But to single them out and
Arts & Crafts not talk about Congo — you’re not going
Creative Programming to buy an engagement ring for your girl-
Interest Groups friend? Not talk about Sudan, not talk
Singing about Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Burma? What’s
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respect what you’re doing if the only
and so much more… country you’re picking on is Israel.”
In fighting these campaigns, Wendy
Rosen, executive director of the Seattle
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need to protect the purity of our nation.”
She and her colleague Farah Pandith, the
U.S. Special Representative on Muslim
Communities, have worked closely
together both in the U.S. and abroad to
drive home the point that discrimination
and hatred toward each other’s communi-
ties is unacceptable.
The State Dept., through Rosenthal and
Pandith, has also embarked on an initia-
tive using social media tools to stop big-
otry and promote mutual respect across
ethnic and religious lines, among others,
called 2011 Hours Against Hate. The pro-
grams are designed for people under 30
and have begun to gain ground in Azer-
baijan and Turkey, where they were first
introduced in February.
• Opposition to Israel policy that crosses
the line into anti-Semitism. “The most
common statement I say on this job is,
‘George Mitchell is the Special Envoy on
Middle East Peace and I am the Special
Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism,’” Rosen-
thal said, but the two issues are so inter-
twined that she often jokes to Mitchell that
she’s doing his job.
“It’s very hard to separate the two,”
she said.
The U.S. government has very specific
guidelines on defining anti-Semitism, and
the section that relates to Israel uses what
Rosenthal called former Soviet political pris-
oner Natan Scharansky’s three D’s: Demon-
ization of Israel as a country; delegitimacy
of Israel, or denying its citizens’ right to self-
determination; and holding a double stan-
dard to Israel that demands behavior not
expected of other democratic countries.
“If there is a rally that is criticizing a
policy of the state of Israel, does that make it
anti-Semitic? Of course it doesn’t,” Rosen-
thal said. But, she added, “the fact that they
have rallies in opposition to Israel and not
Burma and not China and not Vietnam
and not the Congo and not Sudan — the
list goes on of human rights abuses…. That
they only do it to Israel is singling out Israel
and holding Israel to a different standard
than all other countries, and that is not
objecting to a policy of the state of Israel.
That is hating the collective Jew.”
chapter of the American Jewish Commit-
tee, said that using the word anti-Semi-
tism has been an unsuccessful tactic.
“It does not resonate,” Rosen said.
“Those arguments will shut down conver-
sation.”
Though the bus ad issue gained inter-
national attention, Rosenthal noted that
the BDS movement, while it should be
answered, should be kept in perspective
relative to other ways people are isolat-
ing and demonizing Israel.
“We have to realize we are giving it
a whole lot of our resources and atten-
tion, and it is an unsuccessful strategy,”
Rosenthal said. “We are identifying it as a
priority and it’s getting our attention and
our resources, and other things aren’t.”
— Joel Magalnick
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The mindset of the Israeli people, in the guise of a family

Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews
The pain is physical, it’s emotional, and
it’s constant as Ora and Avram hike Isra-
el’s northernmost reaches. But it’s impos-
sible for them — and us — to ignore the
beauty of the spring, the budding flowers
through verdant fields. The detail woven
throughout David Grossman’s To the
End of the Land (Knopf, 2010, $26.95),
an expansive and intimate journey by
two former lovers as they once again get
to know each other, is only the surface
of what becomes more than just a walk
in the woods. It’s the history of a family
told through the violent recent history of
a country — and vice versa.
Given the timing and subject matter
of the story — Ora’s son Ofer has vol-
untarily returned to the army during the
Arab revolt in 2000, and it was he who
was supposed to have been hiking with
his mother — it’s difficult to write about
the story without some mention of the
author. As he was completing the book,
Grossman’s son Uri was among the few
soldiers killed in the 2006 Lebanon war.
Much has been written about 21-year-old
Ofer’s stand-in role as Uri, but Grossman
writes in the afterword that though he had
hoped this book would protect his son,
“After we finished sitting shiva I went back
to the book. Most of it was already written.
What changed, above all, was the echo of
the reality in which the final draft
was written.”
Still, so much of the story
centers around this son who
isn’t even there. Grossman
deftly gives us bits and pieces
about the family’s secrets, so
to explain more gives away
too much. But his presence
puts into play this sprawling
novel so representative of
the modern psyche of Israel
writ small.
To the End of the Land
is actually a story in three acts.
The first and third are really most inte-
gral to the story while the second is a way
to bridge the two. What’s disappointing
about this structure is that it introduces
the second section’s protagonist Sami,
Ora’s family’s longtime driver and an
Israeli Arab who grudgingly delivers Ofer
to the sendoff of the campaign against his
people. Sami then drops the befuddled
Ora and the semi-catatonic Avram on the
side of the road and drives off in a cloud of
smoke, never to be heard from again. We
never get closure.
But that’s a minor quibble in a story
that has more depth, more realism, and,
to be honest, more pages than most con-
temporary novels. In the first part, during
the Six Day War in
1967, we meet young
teenagers Ora, Avram
and Ilan, who have
been abandoned in a
medical clinic while
the rest of the coun-
try hides in their bun-
kers. Through various
waves of fever-induced
hallucinations and faint-
ing spells, the three estab-
lish a relationship that, as
they grow older, becomes
much more complicated
both emotionally and sexually. Nearly
three decades later, as we meet them again,
Ilan and Ora’s marriage has fallen apart.
They haven’t seen Avram, once a poet and
masterful linguist who now can’t get a
handle on functioning society, in close to
20 years. And it seems oddly coincidental
that he calls Ora on the same day Ofer gets
discharged from the military. She drags
him on her shoulders down three flights
of stairs while he detoxes from a sleeping
pill-induced stupor and takes him on the
weeklong hike instead.
Once Sami dumps them on the side of
the road, the novel turns from straightfor-
ward narration to true storytelling. If he
hadn’t mastered the craft before, Gross-
man’s weaving of present with the past,
sometimes from paragraph to paragraph,
works as only someone skilled with the
written word can make it work. Jessica
Cohen’s translation from the Hebrew, it
should be noted, makes the transition to
English just as seamless. A drawback to
this method is that Grossman oftentimes
shifts us from Ora’s head to Avram’s and
then back, when conventional writing
courses admonish us to keep to a single
perspective.
As they walk, Avram begins to wake
from the sleep that has enveloped him for
nearly his entire adult life, and Ora finally
begins to understand the mindsets of all of
the men in her life, from her lovers to her
estranged husband to her children, and
that she can’t always protect them all. We
learn about the conception of her children,
their births and the revelations attendant
to both; we see tender moments between
husband and wife and otherwise mundane
events that make each family unique; we
learn, eventually, that secrets, no matter
how dark and how long they are kept, will
eventually, somehow, see the light of day.
Grossman can be graphic, whether it’s
in the realm of sex or violence, but noth-
ing is gratuitous. Just as shockingly as the
story begins, so it ends. What is, is, and
that’s that. But the flowers still bloom.

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April 21 at 7:30 p.m., April 22 at 12

p.m. and April 23 at 8 p.m.
Leonard Slatkin leads Seattle
Symphony
Seven-time Grammy award-winning
conductor Leonard Slatkin will lead the
Seattle Symphony in Tchaikovsky’s
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64.
Joined by world-renowned pianist Jean-
Yves Thibaudet, the program includes
Cindy McTee’s Double Play and Gersh-
win’s Concerto in F. Pre-concert talks
begin one hour prior to the performanc-
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performance on April 23 for an “Ask the Artist” with Slatkin.
At the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium at Benaroya Hall, 200 University St.,
Seattle. Tickets from $17 to $107.

This Passover, April 23 at 4:30 p.m.

The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian’s Journey

give the gift of hope from Prisoner to Peacemaker

Author event
In a book that allegedly answers the oft-pondered ques-
tion, “Where are all the Palestinian peace activists?” Sami
Al Jundi, with the help of Seattle-based filmmaker Jen
Marlowe, tells the story of overcoming a life of obstacles
and violent opposition to becoming a non-violent activist
for peace among Israeli and Palestinian youth.
At the Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Ave., Seattle.

April 24 at 4 p.m.
Benefit for Peace and Healing in Palestine and Israel
Concert and Fundraiser
A house concert featuring more than a dozen musicians and artists will raise
money for musician and massage practitioner Sheila Fox to help heal women in
the Jordan Valley, Bethlehem and Jerusalem with the Jordan Valley School Build-
ing Project. $15 suggested donation. RSVP to 206-898-5090. At 1158 17th Ave.
E, Seattle.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle helps countless
people overcome hunger, poverty and despair. And we
continue to fund programs that sustain Jewish identity
and enrich our community.
Help us put our Jewish values into action.
April 27 at 7:30p.m.
Eric Alterman: No Progressive Presidency – Yet
Speaking Engagement
Nation columnist, CUNY professor, Senior Fellow at the
Center for American Progress and now author of Kabuki
Democracy: The System Vs. Barack, Eric Alterman
comes to Town Hall to argue that the Obama admin-
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the U.S. political system is set up to hinder progres-
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Tickets are $5 through brownpapertickets.com or at the
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Make a difference. April 28 at 7 p.m.
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The Last Sephardic Jew, Eleizar Papo’s time-traveling documentary from modern-
day Jerusalem to the Jewish expulsion from Toledo 500 years ago, will screen at
the SIFF Cinema. Director Miguel Angel Nieto will be in attendance to introduce
the film and answer questions. The film is in Spanish and Ladino with English
subtitles. At SIFF Cinema, 321 Mercer St., Seattle. $10 admission at the door.
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Happy
Passover

About the artist

The images here and on the cover of this week’s JTNews come
from Will Deutsch, in his series “Notes from the Tribe.” Will had an
epiphany that the popular canon of Jewish art — Chagall prints, metal
wall sculptures, and dancing Chassidim — needed a refresher, and he
decided he was just the man for the job. On the cover is a print called
“Afikoman” while the rest can be seen here.
This artwork can be found at www.haggadot.com, a new site
that allows you to download Will’s and many more different styles
so you can create your own beautiful Haggadah for your seder.

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Bob & Becky Zimmerman

Mike, Beth, Bauer & Grant Zimmerman
Esther, Rabbi Yossi, Yehudah, Yonah Mordechai, Happy Passover!
Raziel & Moshe David Malka
Sharon Zimmerman & David Tutton
Susan & Josh Stewart Aaron & Edith DicHtEr
Linda & David Stephen, Gina, Marisa &
Lauren DicHtEr
Stahl robin, Max &
& Family The Eastern Family Denielle
wishes to extend to the entire community a ZAMbrowSky
Happy and Peaceful Passover

Sam & Sharon

Richard, Stacey, Joshua, Emily & Zachary
David, Deena, Max & Isabelle

Passover GreetinGs!
Stephen, Robin, natalie & Bob Malin
& Sara Boehler Lori Goldfarb &
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Emily & Elan Shapiro Herb Bridge
Keith, Linda, alec & Kylie Goldfarb
Lindsay, Barry Melissa, todd & Brandon reninger and Family
& Elle O'Neil Kevin Malin

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Bob & Becky Minsky

Caryn & Gary Weiss
Dick & Marilyn Abbi & Adina
Brody Wendi Neuman

Passover
and Family Alexandra & Daniela
Stan & Iantha Sidell Kevin Minsky & Natasha Sacouman

Greetings
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Passover Greetings Mark, Leslie, Leah & Hannah Sidell
to all our friends and Scott, Pam, Sydney & Emma Sidell
business associates!

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Irresistible Passover pastries: Who knew it was possible?

Linda Morel JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) — With all the
restrictions, are decent desserts even pos-
sible during Passover?
“My particular talent is working around
restriction,” says Paula Shoyer, author of
The Kosher Baker: Over 160 Dairy-free
Recipes from Traditional to Trendy (Bran-
deis University Press, 2010).
Her cookbook contains a chapter on
Passover baking, as well as many sensa-
tional recipes sans flour or yeast — Pass-
over taboos. Flourless Chocolate Cake,
Marble Chocolate Matzoh and Mocha
Matzoh Napolean are some of the book’s
gems.
Shoyer, whose magical touch is with-
out peer in the Passover dessert genre,
calls them “my gift to the Jewish people.”
More than anything, Shoyer wants the
eye rolls to stop upon hearing the words
parve desserts — pastries made without
dairy products. She laments that kosher
bakeries year after year for Passover offer
the same dry brownies, sponge cakes,
coconut macaroons and vanilla rolls with
jam inside.
Shoyer started baking for fun during
college. She brought back chocolate from
a trip to Belgium in 1984 and began exper-
imenting with it in recipes.
During her 20s she moved to Geneva
and landed a job at the United Nations. In
Switzerland, she tasted some sensational
desserts and decided to reinvent them as
dairy free without sacrificing their but-
tery flavor.
Then in her 30s, while living in Paris,
Shoyer received her pastry diploma from
the Ritz Escoffier Ecole de Gastronomie
Francaise. She returned to Chevy Chase,
Md., and started Paula’s Parisian Pastries
Cooking School.
In The Kosher Baker,  Shoyer wor-
ried the Passover chapter was too heavily
weighted with chocolate pastries.
“Can you have too much chocolate?”
asked one of her friends.
The following recipes are from The
Kosher Baker. All are parve and kosher for
Passover.
Key Lime Pie
(Three-Step Prep, Doable But Requires
Planning)
Crust:
4 Tbs. parve margarine
2 cups ground walnuts (walnuts can be purchased
ground or can be prepared from 4 cups of walnut
halves ground in a food processor but not as fine
as flour)
3 Tbs. light brown sugar
8- or 9-inch pie pan
Filling:
5 large eggs, plus 3
yolks
1-1/2 cups sugar
7 limes, or 14 Key limes
1/2 cup (1 stick) parve
margarine
1 drop green food color-
ing, optional
Meringue Topping:
2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
Candy thermometer
2 large egg whites
1. Preheat oven to
350º.
2. To make the Krista Garcia/Creative Commons
crust: Place the
margarine in a
medium microwave-safe bowl and use a double boiler). Zest three of
heat for 45 seconds or until melted. the regular limes (or six of the Key
Add the walnuts and brown sugar; limes) and add to the bowl. Stir to
mix until combined. Place this mix- combine. Juice the three zested
ture into the pie pan and press to limes, plus the remaining limes to
cover the bottom and about 1 inch obtain about 1/2 cup of juice. Then
up the sides. Place in the oven for 15 stir juice into the egg and sugar
minutes. Remove from oven and set mixture. Cook uncovered over sim-
aside. Leave the oven on. mering water for about 25 minutes,
3. To make the lime cream filling: Place stirring occasionally, until a thick
the eggs, yolks and sugar in a heat- mixture forms. Be patient and do
proof bowl and set over a medium
saucepan with simmering water (or XXPage 28

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Letter from Dad: The seder’s story of justice through the ages
Kim Goldov Special to JTNews
A younger Kim Goldov, right,
with his father at his family’s
March 29, 2010 seder in 1964.

d,
our seder table. Instea
Dear Hanah, ye ars of life th at you are missing from ll as in ev ery
first time in your 19 You there, and we
here, wi
This year marks the nts at Lewis & Clark.
yo ur fel low stu de w fre e. W e will eat our favor-
you are celebrating
with
ce sla ve s in Egypt, but are no ssover
e story of how we we
re on to recount what Pa
year past recount th sso ve r so ng s. Th is year though I want
d sing our favorite Pa
ite Passover foods an Jewish
Grandpa Karl rejected
This time, relatively few of
is to me and our fam
ily.
a rel igi ou s ho me . Grandma Lori and r fam ily never our people made the crossing of a
not grow up in ew school. Ou
You know that I did rri ed . W en dy an d I did not go to Hebr W e did n’t cel- modern Red Sea and as I say —
on after they were ma “agnostic.” Courtesy Kim Goldov
religious practice so ild ho od . My da d described himself as r. Ev ery ye ar of on this very day of Pesach you are
ch e: Passove
all the years of my they existed, save on
went to synagogue ha rd ly ev en kn ew Au nt He dw ig, witnessing the waves of retribution smashing to bits the sinister man and
Jewish holidays an
d Uncle Bob,
ebrate the cycle of and I, our parents,
th is ho lid ay wi th our family; Wendy th wh om my parents found sp
e- his people. Write down this year in your memories to be passed on to future
my life, we celebrat
ed
d ma ny no n- Jew ish friends wi inu ed to ce le-
an nt generations.
dma and Grandpa, dparents were gone
, we co
Mutti and Vatti, Gran ve r tra dition. After our gran For the ones who did not survive will you please rise in their memory…
ng ou r Pa sso
cial meaning in shari keep an
moved away. ous Jewish world, but we who are witnessing the triumph of justice let us say:
brate to ge th er un til I
mp let ely dis co nn ected from the religi Boruch ateh ii eluhenu melech ho-oulom sheche-onu vekimonu vehigianu
stic family, co
So why did an agno o words:
nc Passover?
of it up, I could use tw lassman haseh.
unwavering observa
e
o- pa rt an sw er for you tonight. To sum let Va tti explain. S.G.
h. I have a tw tter yet, I’ll
Good question, Hana qu es tio ns , so let me try to explain. Be tti , Va tti , Uncle
at just begs more years after Mu
Hitler and justice. Th da y, on Ma rch 29 , 1945, less than 12 th e S.S . Volen- Grandpa Karl’s little family was lucky. They escaped with their lives, and even managed to bring over
ter wa s wr itt en 65 years ago to st, cro ssi ng th e At lantic Ocean on
This let nding Holocau Dachau
rl escaped the impe Bergen-Belsen and many of their possessions, some of which will grace our seder table tonight. They escaped with something
Bob and Grandpa Ka wa s lib era ted , bu t before Buchenvald, else that is not as plain to see. Despite firsthand knowledge of the horrors that had befallen his relatives,
hs after Auschwitz
dam, just two mont community and people, my father was not hateful, vengeful or self-righteous. His moral compass led him
were liberated. 3/ 29/1945 to care about all injustice and all peoples, pollution of the planet, and life in general.
My parents fought for rights and freedoms of black people (the politically correct term of their day).

e 3,000 At our seder table, we sang Negro spirituals. They protested the Vietnam war. I was 11 years old when the
Ladies and Gent
lemen, n of Israel som
ni gh t to ce leb rate the salvatio e going Israel Six-Day War broke out. Later, I remember my father being upset when settlements were made in
You are assemble
d to the years you ar
fix in yo ur m emories for all the recently occupied territories. To him, this too was injustice.
nt you to
years ago. I wa My life is different from that of my father’s. We celebrate a full cycle of Jewish holidays, perform
tness
followi ng: en allowed to wi
to live the
y of m an ki nd have mortals be in g the Jewish music, and belong to a synagogue. We sent you to a Jewish primary school and gave you Hebrew
e hist or er
Few times in th an race. Consid
an ge d th e de stiny of the hum hw hi le to lessons so you could read from the Torah at your Bat Mitzvah. I have personally moved to where I can
the big events wh
ich ch edy, it is wort
ws pla ye d in our present trag r an ces- appreciate religion and even ponder the meaning of God. As far as my moral compass goes, though, I am
unfortunate ro
le the Je position as ou
se de r th at we are in the same ao h. still solidly in my father’s camp. My Jewish identity and desire for peace and justice in the world makes
remember on th
is very sing in on Phar
the Red Sea clo
wh en th ey sa w the floods of Jewish history,
start- Israel an important focus. Like my father, I believe that the building of Jewish settlements in the occupied
tors were r
e in fa m ou s op pressors in ou ws in the territories was a mistake; from when I was 11 to the present day. I believe that Israel must find a way to
I doubt that all
th utors of the Je
, th en Ha m an , then the persec ish Inqui- bring the settlers back into Israel proper and end the occupation.
ing with the Eg
yptians finally the Span
re su lt of th e Bl ack Plague and st ru ct ions Hanah, in several months, you are hoping to go on a trip to Israel. I’m not sure what experiences you
es as a calculated de
early Middle Ag ish ness, scope and
compare d in fie nd will have there, but I hope you make it an opportunity to learn more about Israel, its people, the occupa-
sition could be s lieutenants.
lty of Hitler and hi tion and the Palestinian people. I hope you start thinking about what you can do to help bring peace and
with the cr ue
justice to that part of the world.
Eight years ago, a community seder was held for 250 guests at the Park Hotel in Netanya, Israel. A
25-year-old suicide bomber came into the dining room and blew himself up, killing or wounding over 100
people. Most of the victims were seniors. Several
were Holocaust survivors. Hamas claimed respon-
sibility for the attack. What could make people
like this so crazy and so cruel? Many Palestinians
supported the attack. What were they thinking?
A little over a year ago, the IDF attacked Gaza
The Consulate General of

ISRAEL   killing over 1,400 people. Many more were left

to the Pacific Northwest

San Francisco homeless. Did this have to happen? Many Ameri-

can Jews, including the Conservative movement,

stated at the time that it was unavoidable. How
can that be? What are the fundamental steps that
must be taken to end the hatred and bloodshed?
Well, I’ve written enough. I hope I didn’t
bring you down or scare you. But we do need to
taste the bitter herbs while we celebrate our free-
dom from slavery, and we must know that none
of us are completely free until we are all free.

Love,
Dad

www.israeliconsulate.org
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Three Commandments of environmentalism

Martin Westerman JTNews Columnist
We skeptical humans have
always greeted novelty with
suspicion. We prefer what
makes us feel safe and com-
fortable, not what challenges
us. That’s why concepts like
global climate change, carbon
trading, waste-free business,
and social equity confound
us. It’s easier and more com-
forting to believe that climate
change is a hoax, carbon cap and trade
hurts business, we’ll always create waste,
and some people deserve (a lot) more than
others.
But imagine 3,300 years ago when we
Hebrews were about to exit slavery in
Egypt. How many must have felt rising
panic and demanded, “Whoa, Moses!
What are you thinking? Don’t be dragging
us into the unknown!”
Just outside Pharaoh’s cities, they
stopped short at the Sea of Reeds. Moses
held his hand over the water, but it took
Nachshon ben Aminadav wading into the
sea before it would part: One more exam-
ple of the need to marry vision with action.
And one more in 40 years’ worth of chal-
lenges Moses faced with his people. The
Torah has to remind us three dozen times
to treat strangers with kindness, because we
were once strangers in the land of Egypt.
It’s one of myriad require-
ments and commandments.
And when each appeared, most
people probably viewed it with
suspicion, or disdain. When
Moses disappeared up Sinai for
the Ten Commandments, for
example, they reverted to idol
worship. Most had been poly-
theists, few took a weekly day
off, and coveting the neighbors’
earth property, including wives, was
part of tribal life.
So while the Torah’s con-
cepts are all good ideas, they were origi-
nally newfangled — even heretical. One
could say they ran against human nature,
if not against the nature of human behav-
ior. Yet we found something so promising
in these new directions that, for millen-
nia since, we have used them to inspire
and rally ourselves. We’ve made them
our frameworks for creating personal and
community relationships, for organizing
societies and forming governments.
Old habits die hard: We still believe the
shortest distance between two points is the
one we’ve most traveled, even if there’s a
shorter route we can learn. We still kill,
steal, blaspheme, antagonize, and refuse
to rest. But Torah, and other great works,
provide sets of ideals toward which we can
strive, and against which we can measure
our conduct and progress.
Now the planet we took for granted
is doing terribly unexpected things, and
people we have trusted in the past are
acting extraordinarily disastrously. Who
would have imagined earthquakes and tsu-
namis wiping out Bali, New Zealand, Haiti
and northeast Japan in such quick succes-
sion? Who could have imagined the irony
of Japan being destroyed by atom bombs,
and embracing nuclear electric power at
the risk of new nuclear devastation? Who
could have imagined the Exxon Valdez
and BP Gulf oil disasters, the Union Car-
bide Bhopal catastrophe, Chernobyl,
mine cave-ins, and the hundreds of other
unpleasant industrial surprises we’ve expe-
rienced in just the past few decades?
In the response, environmental state-
ments can get strident (as with the cur-
rent polar bear campaign), which can
make observers skeptical. But for the most
part, they’re authentic: Industrial poisons
are rampant, glaciers are melting, climate
is changing, humans do cause species
extinctions. We can mitigate, even reverse
these trends. But we’re up against the same
obstacles that have blocked change agents
dating back to times of Torah, Hammu-
rabi’s Code and before: Beliefs and habits
are established, we’ve “always” done it this
way; why should we change?
So, let’s answer a question with a ques-
tion: Is poisoning ourselves a good thing?
Or melting glaciers, changing climate,
or erasing other species? Scientists have
found evidence of five mass extinctions
over the past 540 million years, when more
than 50 percent of all animal species disap-
peared. Over Earth’s 4.54 billion year his-
tory, there may have been more than 20.
Basically, we humans are living between
extinction periods. Does it make sense for
us to bring on another prematurely — or
to keep things healthy, and buy ourselves
(and our descendants) as much time as
possible? If we choose health, I suggest
we abide by three “commandments” bor-
rowed from Cradle to Cradle authors Wm.
McDonnough and Michael Braungart:
• Make waste equal “food” (for other
consumers and processes),
• Use current solar income (not ancient
fossil fuels),
• Celebrate diversity (of crops, flora
and fauna).
Maybe for this, we can suspend our
skepticism.
Author and teacher Martin Westerman writes
and consults on sustainable living.
He can be contacted with questions at
artartart@seanet.com.

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are of a previous generation. Is it really
possible to tell them over?
Yet we are told by the Haggadah that
each of us is obligated to see one’s self as
having come out of Egypt. The task for
each of us sitting at the seder is to assume
the mantle of Israelite slave refugee; bear-
ing witness to the bitterness of the oppres-
sion, to the triumph of ten plagues, and to
the drama of the miraculous splitting of the
sea. Our tradition was confident that we
would be able to transcend the bounds of
our specific moments in history and be able
to the savor taste of freedom baked into the
matzoh at our very own table in time.
In the book, The Gates of the Forest,
Elie Wiesel draws from the work of Abba
Kovner and tells us of the distanced
decline through the generations:
We no longer have the power to go
to that forest and to light the fire there,
the ancient prayer has already been for-
gotten and we do not even know the
location of the place. But we do know
what happened, we know the story and
that we can tell it and it must be suffi-
cient. And it was.
This telling of stories is a potent gift.
It can bridge vast distances of time and
place. And so in this regard we have hope.
We are empowered by our heritage to tell
the story, generation to generation, dor
l’dor. Overwhelmed, overcome and feeble
though we may feel, it will be, I hope per-
haps slightly more than sufficient.
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 at
rivy.poupko.kletenik@gmail.com.

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Matzoh Brei: Don’t be a slave
to traditional recipes
Ozzie Nogg Special to JTNews
Food blogger Debby Koenig (“Words
to Eat By”) confesses that though she
hates Passover with its “stick-to-the-
roof-of-your-mouth matzoh, crumbs-
all-over-your-shirtfront matzoh,
halt-all-intestinal-activity matzoh,” she
considers the “only saving grace of this
cardboardy so-called food is that it’s the
main ingredient in matzoh brei.” Fried
matzoh. I sympathize with Ms. Koenig’s
position, though a cardboardy piece of
matzoh slathered with unsalted butter is
one of my all-time, anytime favorites.
Just as cooks at Purim spar over
Kirkland Hamantaschen dough (cookie vs. yeast)
Performance and filling (sweet vs. savory), so too
Center do they battle at Passover over various
matzoh brei methods. Soak the matzoh
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York Times) that he (Gehry) could make
only one dish — matzoh brei — which he
learned from watching his mother.
“I take the matzohs out, run them
under the tap and then crumple them,”
Gehry said.
“Do you make the matzoh brei look
beautiful?” Bittman asked. “Do you
arrange it in an architectural fashion?”
Gehry answered, “No.” (Listen. The
guy probably depleted his creative juices
designing the undulating Guggenheim
Museum in Bilbao or, closer to home, the
Experience Music Project.)
We’re told that when the Israelites dashed
from Egypt with only flat bread in their
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tasted like barley cakes steeped in oil and
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fact, pretty soon our seders might need to
add a fifth question: Why is this matzoh brei
different from all other matzoh brei?
Here’s one possible answer.
Mmmm….
Mexican Matzoh Brei
(from Yum Recipes, by way of The Boston
Globe)
Guacamole filling ingredients:
1/2 ripe avocado, peeled, pitted, and coarsely
chopped.
2 Tbs. sour cream
1 tsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice
Omelette ingredients:
1 matzoh, broken into 2” pieces
3 eggs, lightly beaten
Kosher salt and pepper to taste
1 Tbs. butter for pan
1/4 cup shredded Monterey Jack or cheddar cheese
1 small jalapeño, cored and finely chopped
Salsa and various toppings (optional)
1. To make the guacamole: Stir together
the avocado, scallion, sour cream, and
lemon juice in a small bowl. Set aside.
2. To make the omelette: Place matzoh
in a colander in the sink and pour boil-
ing water over it. Let stand 2 minutes.
Squeeze out the liquid and place
matzoh in a bowl. Add eggs, salt, and
jalapeño and mix well.
3. In a 10-inch, nonstick frying pan, melt
the butter. Pour matzoh mixture into
the hot pan and cook over medium
heat, pulling eggs toward the center
of pan with a spatula and tilting the
pan to allow uncooked portions to
flow into empty spaces until set.
4. Sprinkle the omelette with cheese.
Spread the guacamole filling over
half the omelette. Cover pan and
cook over low heat for 5 minutes.
Fold omelette in half and slide onto
a serving plate. Divide it in two and
serve at once. If desired, garnish with
salsa and/or grated cheese, black ol-
ives plus more sour cream.
Now let all who are hungry come and
eat. Ole! (Or maybe, oy vey!)
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WWpastries Page 21 saucepan. Add the lemon juice and

This Week’s Wisdom sugar and stir. Cook on medium-low
Extend the Table not stir too much. If the water in the
saucepan or double boiler boils too
heat for 5 minutes, stirring occasion-
by Mike Selinker ally, until the sugar melts. Add the
fast, turn down the heat. Remove the gelatin, whisk, and then remove from
bowl from the heat and whisk in the the heat. Strain into a medium bowl,
margarine in small pieces until the pressing hard to get as much straw-
lime cream is smooth. Add the green berry purée through as possible, and
food coloring, if using, and stir. place in the refrigerator for 20 min-
4. Pour the lime cream into the prepared utes, stirring twice during that time.
crust and smooth. Place the pie on a 4. In a large bowl with an electric mixer
cookie sheet and bake for 20 minutes, on high speed, whip the whipping
or until the outside edges of the lime cream until stiff. Remove the straw-
cream are set (the inside can remain berry purée from the refrigerator and
wobbly). Let cool and then place in fold in the whipped cream in four
the refrigerator for at least two hours. parts. Scoop the mousse evenly into
5. To make the meringue topping: In the ramekins and smooth the tops
a small heavy saucepan, bring the with the back of a spoon. Cover with
sugar and water to a boil, stirring to plastic and place in the refrigerator for
dissolve the sugar. Continue to cook at least three hours or overnight. You
the sugar until it reaches 230º on the can store covered in the refrigerator
candy thermometer. You can dip a for up to three days.
pastry brush in water and wipe down 5. To serve, remove from the refrigerator
the sides of the pot, if any sugar crys- and place a few of the rum-soaked
tals appear on the sides. While the strawberry slices on top.
sugar is cooking, in a medium bowl, Yield: 8 servings
beat the egg whites with an electric
mixer on high speed until stiff. When Amaretto Cookies
the sugar is ready, turn the mixer (Quick and Elegant)
“Let all who are hungry, come and eat,” the Haggadah says. The concept of “extending the table” urges us
not to turn away those in need of a meal. Here, we make sure others feel comforTABLE by being hospiTABLE.
speed to low and then slowly pour the
cooked sugar into the bowl, down the Parchment paper
side of the bowl, not directly onto the 8-ounce bag slivered almonds (about 1-3/4 cups)
ACROSS DOWN
1 “___ to Be Square” 1 Backyard menace wire whisk. When all of the sugar has 1 cup sugar
4 “Oh yeah? ___ who?” 2 Nirvana album featuring “Heart-Shaped Box” been poured in, turn the mixer up to 1 Tbs. potato starch (flour can be substituted after
7 Instant 3 Letter after chi medium-high and beat for 1 minute, Passover)
10 British police officer 4 Follow closely until the meringue is thick and shiny. 2 large egg whites
12 Comment from Hedwig? 5 One billion years
6. Use a silicone spatula to spread the 1 Tbs. amaretto (almond-flavored liqueur)
14 Pequod captain 6 Superman II general
15 Greengrocer’s stock in trade 7 Actor/playwright Sam meringue all over the top of the pie. 1. Preheat oven to 325º. Line a large jelly
18 It’s north of Mich. 8 Untainted, as food You can use a blowtorch to lightly roll pan with parchment paper. Spread
19 Down in the dumps 9 The Amazing Race network brown the top or place the pie in a 450º the almonds on the parchment paper
20 Type of game played in person, not 10 Money-minded execs oven for a few minutes, watching the and toast for 20 minutes, stirring the
electronically 11 Ark of the Covenant contents
entire time until the top browns. Chill nuts after 10 minutes. When the al-
21 Ooze out 13 What a Toshiba might sit upon
23 Like some Blu-ray players 14 Greek marketplace in the refrigerator. Pie can be stored in monds are golden and fragrant, re-
26 Best Picture of 2005 16 Sucker the refrigerator for up to four days. move the pan from the oven and slide
29 Arduous journey 17 List ender Yield: 8 servings the parchment off the pan. Let cool
31 Use a blowtorch, perhaps 22 Lima’s land
for 5 minutes.
33 Kind of code or rug 24 Created a new draft of
34 Creme-filled cookie 25 You might smack your knee against this at
Strawberry Mousse 2. Place the toasted almonds into the
36 Half a fortnight dinner (Two-Step Prep, But Very Doable) bowl of a food processor fitted with
38 Worthy of taking out 27 Coral or Aral, e.g. a metal blade. Process until the nuts
39 Duet between two Coles 28 Loathsome Shoyer likes to serve this dessert in indi- are ground to a powder. Place the
42 Close to the ground 30 King County city where Oberto and REI are
vidual ramekins. You can also use wine or ground nuts in a medium bowl. Add
45 Band that released “Africa” headquartered
46 Wield a scythe 32 Bambi, for one
martini glasses. the sugar, potato starch, egg whites
48 ___ Tzu (dog breed) 35 Part of many an L. Frank Baum title and amaretto; mix until combined.
50 Italian restaurant offering 37 Record company that heavily advertised their 16 ounces fresh strawberries Paula Shoyer likes to use her hands
52 Quite the humdinger compilation albums in the ’70s and ’80s 1 tsp. rum or cognac to mix the ingredients, but a wooden
54 Treat shaped like a bagel 40 Soul singer Redding
2 tsp. kosher-for-Passover confectioner’s sugar spoon is a neater option. Line two
56 Mailed 41 Graphical representations
58 Beachgoer’s shoe contents 42 Timothy Leary topic
Juice of 1 lemon jelly-roll pans or cookie sheets with
60 512, in Roman times 43 Shout of discovery 6 Tbs. sugar parchment.
62 Informative document, for short 44 British locale of the world’s largest occupied 2 Tbs. unflavored kosher gelatin powder 3. Wet your hands and take walnut-
64 Franchise with shows set in Las Vegas, castle 1 cup parve whipping cream sized clumps of dough and roll them
Miami, and New York 47 Tenor Domingo
1. Remove the stems from the straw- into balls about 1 inch in diameter.
65 State exemplified by a pencil balanced on 49 The Cosby Show family, with “the”
its point 51 Car dealership gorilla, e.g.
berries. Select 6 strawberries, slice Place the balls on the prepared bak-
70 Dairy sounds 53 Not appropriate thinly, and place in a small bowl with ing sheets, about 2 inches apart. Be
71 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off actress Mia 55 0–0, for example the rum and confectioner’s sugar. Mix sure not to overcrowd the cookies;
72 Beatles’ “Sexy” lady 57 Mai ___ to combine and then place in the re- they spread while baking. You can
73 Raiders legend Ken 59 You might stop on or drop one
frigerator. bake in two batches. Bake for 25 to
74 Allowing the selection of one to four stars, 61 Measurements of cleverness
for example 63 They throw to WRs
2. Cut the remaining strawberries in half 30 minutes. Slide the parchment off
75 Untainted, as water 65 Sounds of hesitation and place in a blender or food proces- the cookie sheet onto a cooling rack.
66 Famous sor fitted with a metal blade. Purée 4. Place baked and cooled cookies into
67 Alliance Syr. once belonged to the strawberries completely, scraping an airtight container or freezer bags
68 Broadway lyricist Gershwin
down the sides of the processor bowl and store at room temperature for
69 Sir Mix-a-Lot’s genre
Answers on page 21 or blender so that all the strawberry up to five days or freeze up to three
pieces are puréed. months.
© 2011 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cafe, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle. 3. Place the strawberry purée in a small Yield: about 3 dozen cookies
All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb.
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Miriam’s Song
By Julia Stein
I swept the house clean through nine plagues, and screamed as he flew over our houses
swept when Moses turned the river into blood, on his bloody way to kill the Egyptians’ sons.

swatted at frogs all day in the Egyptians’ kitchen, We were leaving so I baked my bread unleavened,
chased frogs in the bedrooms, whacked at them packed clay crockery, black pots onto a rickety cart.

on the beds, jumped after frogs in the kitchen. Next I wanted to smash the pyramids.
I cleaned off lice from the heads of the Egyptians. We’d built them well. They’d last. A pity.

When my brother sent flies, the Egyptians had me At the Red Sea, after we climbed onto the land and
stand over their meals and beds swatting at flies. saw Pharaoh lead his chariots into a gap

After the Lord killed their cows, we laughed riding between two huge cliffs of water when
even as we smelled that horrible stench. Sam Felder mountains of water crashed down on them,

Then I spent hours wrapping up the boils I swept my home for house and swept three days that I called the women who came with cymbals and drums,
all over the Egyptians’ skin rejoicing. the Egyptians sat in darkness, for only we had light. “Come dance now for we are flying into freedom.”

The Egyptians made us women go into the fields, Before the tenth plague I swept once more,
round up their cattle, drive them into barns, then roasted lamb and cut up bitter herbs we ate Taken from A Poet’s Haggadah, a compendium of poetry all
related to Passover, written by 36 writers and edited by Rick
lock the doors against the pounding hail. remembering four hundred years of slavery Lupert. Order the haggadah online at www.poetseder.com.
The day the locusts devoured the plants that terrible night the Angel of Death screeched

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Pesach recipe substitutes

Eileen Goltz Special to JTNews
At some point during Passover preparations we’ve all tried to convert a mainstream 14 oz. sweet chocolate (German-type) = 3 Tbs. unsweetened cocoa powder plus 2-2/3 Tbs. oil and
recipe into one appropriate for Pesach, only to discover that we don’t have a clue as to what 4-1/2 Tbs. granulated sugar
to substitute for a chametz ingredient. This panic moment is why I started compiling my 1 cup confectioners’ sugar = 1 cup granulated sugar minus 1 Tbs. sugar plus 1 Tbs. potato starch pulsed
complete list of Pesach substitutes. If you have any substitutions you would like to share or in a food processor or blender
want to clarify something listed here, please contact me at eztlog@gmail.com. 1 cup sour milk or buttermilk for dairy baking = 1 Tbs. lemon juice in a 1 cup measure, then fill to 1
cup with Passover nondairy creamer. Stir and steep 5 minutes.
1 oz. baking chocolate (unsweetened chocolate) = 3 Tbs. unsweetened cocoa powder plus 1 Tbs. oil or Butter in baking or cooking use parve Passover margarine in equal amounts. Use a bit less salt.
melted margarine 1 cup honey = 1-1/4 cups granulated sugar plus 1/4 cup water
16 oz. semi-sweet chocolate = 6 Tbs. unsweetened cocoa powder plus 1/4 cup oil and 7 Tbs. granulated 1 cup corn syrup = 1-1/4 cups granulated sugar plus 1/3 cup water, boiled until syrupy
sugar 1 cup vanilla sugar = 1 cup granulated sugar with 1 split vanilla bean left for at least 24 hours in a tightly
covered jar
1 cup of flour = substitute 5/8 cup matzoh cake
meal or potato starch, or a combination sifted
together

J. C. Wright Sales Co.

1 Tbs. flour = 1/2 Tbs. potato starch
1 cup corn starch = 7/8 cup potato starch
1 tsp. cream of tartar = 1-1/2 tsp. lemon juice or
1-1/2 tsp. vinegar
is proud to be serving our customers top of the line kosher products. 1 cup graham cracker crumbs = 1 cup ground
cookies or soup nuts plus 1 tsp. cinnamon
We are the largest kosher food distributor in the Northwest, 1 cup bread crumbs = 1 cup matzoh meal
1 cup matzoh meal = 3 matzohs ground in a food
serving retail stores and institutions throughout processor
1 cup matzoh cake meal = 1 cup plus 2 Tbs.
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. matzoh meal finely ground in a blender or food
processor and sifted
3 crumbled matzohs = 2 cups matzoh farfel
Specializing in the kosher and ethnic foods category, 1 cup (8 oz.) cream cheese = 1 cup cottage
cheese, puréed with 1/2 stick butter or margarine
we continue striving to offer the best selection of products Chicken fat or gribenes = 2 caramelized
onions: Sauté 2 sliced onions in 2 Tbs. oil and 2
while taking great pride in our level of service to the community. Tbs. sugar. Cook until the onions are soft. Purée
the onions once they are golden.
1 cup milk (for baking) = 1 cup water plus 2 Tbs.
margarine, or 1/2 cup fruit juice plus 1/2 cup water

From all of us at JC Wright Sales, 1-1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk = 1

cup instant nonfat dry milk, 2/3 cup sugar, 1/3 cup
boiling water and 3 Tbs. margarine. Blend all the

we wish you and your families a ingredients until smooth. To thicken, let it set in the
refrigerator for 24 hours.

Peaceful and Kosher 1 cup wine = 13 Tbs. water, 3 Tbs. lemon juice
and 1 Tbs. sugar. Mix together and let set for 10
minutes.

Passover Season! Pancake syrup = use fruit jelly, not jam, and add a
little water to thin. I always like to combine the jelly
and water in a microwave-safe bowl and heat gently
before I serve it.
Seasoned rice wine vinegar = 3 Tbs. white
Questions or comments, please contact vinegar, 1 Tbs. white wine, 1 Tbs. sugar, 1/2 tsp.
Chris McPherren salt. Mix to combine. Makes 1/4 cup
Flavored vinegar = lemon juice in cooking or
at 253-395-8799, salad, grapefruit juice in salads, wine in marinades.
Orange liqueur = substitute an equal amount of
or fax 253-395-8836. frozen orange juice concentrate
Water chestnuts = substitute raw jicama
Italian seasoning = 1/4 tsp. each dried oregano
leaves, dried marjoram leaves and dried basil leaves
fine foods plus 1/8 tsp. rubbed dried sage. This can be substi-
tuted for 1-1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning.
Curry powder = 2 Tbs. ground coriander, 1 Tbs.
since 1947 black pepper, 2 Tbs. red pepper, 2 Tbs. turmeric, 2
Tbs. ground ginger. Makes 2/3 cup.
For frying: Instead of chicken fat, use combination
of olive oil or vegetable oil and 1 to 2 Tbs. parve
Passover margarine.

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Baking our Jewish history: Passover nut cake

Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg Special to JTnews
In the fall, the Washington State Jewish
Historical Society will tell the story of
our state’s Jewish history through food
with the publication Yesterday’s Mavens,
Today’s Foodies: Traditions in North-
west Jewish Kitchens. This cookbook will
be filled with recipes from Jewish grand-
mothers — and grandchildren — around
the Northwest that have entertained and
nourished families for generations. A
committee of tasters has been dispatched
to recreate and eat hundreds of submis-
sions, including this one:
“This recipe has been handed down
from Sarah Rosenthal Esac, grandmother
of Michael Eulenberg and the great-grand-
mother of Rabbi Sarah Rubin. Grandma
Esac’s Romanian accent paved the way
for a family riddle invented by her son-in-
law. When the grandchildren asked what
she was baking, Grandma Esac replied, ‘A
not cake.’ Ed Eulenberg’s riddle? ‘When is
a cake not a cake?’ The answer, of course,
is when it is a ‘not cake’ — or this very fine
and moist Passover Nut Cake.”
10 large eggs, separated and at room temperature
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 medium orange, juiced and the rind finely chopped
1/2 lemon, rind finely chopped but NO juice
1 medium apple, grated
3/4 cup Passover cake meal, sifted
1/4 cup potato starch, sifted
1 cup walnuts or pecans, finely chopped
1. Preheat oven to 325°. Beat the egg
whites until foamy and stiff. In a sepa-
rate bowl, beat egg yolks until thick
and lemony in color. Add the sugar
slowly to the egg yolks. Add the orange
juice and the rind, lemon rind, and the
grated apple. Then add the sifted cake
meal and potato starch. Fold in the
nuts, then fold in the stiff egg whites.
2. Bake 60 minutes in an ungreased 10-
inch tube sponge cake pan. When
baked, turn the cake pan upside
down over the neck of a wine bottle
to cool completely.
Tips and Tricks: Don’t worry, the cake
will not fall out of the pan.
Yield: Serves 12

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Soy sauce substitute

This soy sauce substi-

tute doesn’t taste exactly
like the real thing, but it
makes a flavorful alter-
native for Pesach stir-
fry.
2 Tbs. beef broth
1 Tbs. red wine vinegar
1 tsp. balsamic vinegar
1 Tbs. brown sugar
1 tsp. oil
1/8 tsp. garlic powder
black pepper to taste
1/4 cup boiling water
1. Combine all the in- Chris Alexander/Creative Commons
gredients. At this Courtesy Camp Solomon Schechter
point, you can either a) use the sauce uid until it is reduced by half, about More than 50 women from across Washington State, Oregon, Idaho and California came to
as is, leaving for an hour to give the 3 Tbs. Store in a sealed container in Camp Solomon Schechter for the last weekend of March to refresh themselves and connect
flavors a chance to blend, or b) for the refrigerator. Makes 2/3 cup. Use with other Jewish women. Though the women received facials, engaged in Torah and book
a thicker, richer sauce, boil the liq- the sauce within 3–4 days. discussions and did yoga, this brave group took to the challenge and ropes course.

Greetings to you and your family

at Passover!
State Representative
Marcie (Halela) Maxwell
41st Legislative District
Beaux Arts, Bellevue, Issaquah, Mercer Island, Newcastle, Renton

Office n 360-786-7894 Cell n 425-466-8000

maxwell.marcie@leg.wa.gov
www.leg.wa.gov
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A few new Passover haggadot,
and a facelift for an old favorite
We want Sue Fishkoff JTA World News Service
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — Nearing
to extend a its 80th birthday, perhaps it was time the
most printed Passover Haggadah in his-
Happy Passover tory had a major facelift.
Dennis B. Goldstein to our clients, The Maxwell House Passover Haggadah,
& Associates which has had more than 50 million copies
Certified Public Accountants family & friends. published, hit the shelves — and supermar-
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awkward “thee” and
“thou,” replaced by the
more conversational
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but “delivers,” and seder
participants are not
invited to “eat thereof”
but simply to eat.
While American
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H A P P Y P A S S O V E R The impetus for the new translation
was not to address gender issues but to
retell the old tale in contemporary lan-
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for God is indicated by modern theological
HORTICULTURAL
understanding, Rosenfeld says.
“The fact of the matter is, God doesn’t
have a gender,” he said.
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was created as a marketing tool to promote
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Marketing whiz Joseph Jacobs, founder
of the ad agency, got Orthodox Rabbi
Hersch Kohn to certify the coffee kosher
for Passover. The publication 11 years
later of the eponymous Haggadah, still
distributed free in supermarkets with the
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still get to the Promised Land,” Rosen-
feld says.
Another old-new Passover Haggadah
out this year is a new edition of the famous
Szyk Haggadah featuring the magnificent
illustrations of Polish-Jewish artist Arthur
Szyk. Set for April publication, it has a
newly commissioned English text written
by Rabbi Byron Sherwin with Irvin Ungar.
A refugee from Nazi
Europe, Syzk embed-
ded Eastern European
Chassidic imagery in
his intricate and highly
emotional rendition
of the Exodus narra-
tive, creating the orig-
inal version of his
Hagaddah in the mid-
1930s. Jewish survival,
which Szyk viewed as
the pressing need of his
age, also is the theme
of his Haggadah: The
illustration on page 26,
for example, depicts
empires that have tried to conquer the
Jews, from the Assyrians to the Inquisition
to Nazi Germany, with the two tablets of
the law astride them all, signifying the per-
severance, and ultimate triumph, of the
Jewish people.
“Szyk was an activist artist,” said Ungar,
a former pulpit rabbi and San Francisco
Bay Area resident who is curator of the
Arthur Szyk Society. “He believed the Jews
of Europe needed to be rescued immedi-
ately, and he was going to do whatever he
could to motivate the world community to
take action.”
A Passover Haggadah: Go Forth and
Learn, by Rabbi David Silber with Rachel
Furst, is being put out by the Jewish Publi-
cation Society.
If the Szyk Haggadah is gorgeous, this
new work by Silber and Furst is thought-
provoking, delivering new insights into
the seder themes as well as first-rate com-
mentaries on the liturgy.
Silber is an Orthodox Torah scholar
and educator of wide renown, the founder
and dean of the Drisha Institute for Jewish
Education on Manhattan’s Upper West
Side. He has been teaching these lessons
for years, and here he puts them down on
the page in a manner at once scholarly and
accessible.
Furst teaches at Matan, a women’s
institute for Torah studies in Israel, and is
pursuing a doctorate in medieval Jewish
history at the Hebrew University in Jeru-
salem. This is a seder to study and discuss,
but also to use — with the right crowd.
Speaking of the right crowd, kids are
the target audience for Passover Hagga-
dah in Another Dimension by Michael
Medina, with artwork (sculptures and
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Passover
Greetings
The ReTTman Family from
Debra, Peter, Rachel and Zelle Susan & Loki
and
Paula Rettman

Happy Passover!

The
Pesach Sara Kaplan
Volchok Sara Bernson
Sameach David Kaplan & Susan Devan
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Celebrating other exiles
Emily Moore JTNews Columnist
Exile. Banishment. Assimi-
lation. Remembrance. Pesach:
Celebration! Usually we
remember only the exile from
Egypt thousands of years ago
in our Passover celebration
of freedom. But some of the
depth and richness of the full
global Jewish experience in
exile happened at other times
in our incomparably long his-
tory. This year I have been
thinking most particularly of an exile of
Jews from Europe to the Americas in the
era of the Renaissance: The Inquisition
and the story of crypto Jews.
It began in 1412, when Jews were well
established in the merchant class of Spain
and Portugal, making significant cul-
tural contributions in the arts, poetry and
music, and in finance as consultants to
gentry and royalty. At that time, Spain
and Portugal were at the end of centu-
ries of wars attempting to eject the Moors
(Muslims) from the territory and, because
the Moors were also at the core of the Ibe-
rian economy, their exit and the burden
of paying for the wars left the area impov-
erished.
The Crusades were also very costly and
the gentry were looking around for ways
to improve the economic situation. Jews
came under suspicion as the Church tight-
ened its grip on the area with a view to
taking control of the royalty, trade and the
major sources of income for the area.
By the time pious, Catholic, 17-year-
old Queen Isabella acceded to the throne
in the late 1480s, the Inquisition was in full
swing, with all Jews being forced to con-
vert or be tortured to death or killed out-
right. Many Jews fled to Scandinavia or
parts of France and Italy, to live as under-
ground Jews as the Inquisition spread
across Europe. Others became “conver-
sos,” and secretly practiced their faith
in Spain and Portugal while engaging in
elaborate ruses to fool the Church into
believing their conversions were real.
In 1492 Torquemada, the leader of the
Inquisition in Spain and a close confidant
of Isabella and her husband Ferdinand,
exiled all the Jews from Spain. Portugal
quickly followed suit.
Not insignificant to the theme of our
story, Columbus opened the route to the
New World in the same year and within a
decade, conversos fleeing Spain and Por-
tugal took the arduous journey across
the Atlantic, settling in Mexico, Central
America and Brazil, hoping to find free-
dom from oppression just as the Jews flee-
ing Pharaoh hoped to find freedom across
the Sea of Reeds.
It was not to be. The Church rapidly
established itself in the new world under
the flags of both Spain and Portugal. The
Inquisition followed the fleeing Jews,
keeping them underground and practic-
ing secretly until the conversos evolved
into “crypto Jews,” or non-practicing
Jews — oftentimes practicing
Catholics — with oddly tradi-
tional quasi-Jewish practices
passed down in their families.
As more research into these
forgotten Jews comes to light,
some poignant and fascinat-
ing stories emerge.
In Portugal, in the vil-
lage of Belemonte, a group of
about 200 people still prac-
eat tice a very ancient form of
Judaism, half secret and half
“emerged.” The women light
two candles on Friday nights in a vessel
with a cover to hide the light. They bake
and eat unleavened bread at the beginning
of April and celebrate Passover in attics
similar to the ancestral Samaritans (Jews
who believe they are the tribe of Israel that
never left the ancient land, they live at the
foot of Mt. Gerizim near Nablus and cel-
ebrate Pesach as it was done in Temple
times, lamb sacrifice included). They wear
all-white clothes, as in Temple days, and
tell the story of the exile from Egypt in
Portuguese, with only the word “Adonai”
identifying them as Jews.
In the early 1900s, these cryptos and a
similar village in Majorca were visited by
Jews from the outside. The cryptos dis-
trusted their visitors, believing it was a
trick to get them to reveal their Jewish
identities. But when they recognized
“Adonai” in the spoken Hebrew prayers
of the visitors, they finally believed in
their Judaism and were shocked to learn
of the millions of practicing Jews all over
the world.
The Inquisition continued in the New
World for 350 years, to the early 1800s,
making it even more incredible that many
conversos practiced their Judaism in
secret with a passion that invested their
ancestors, some of whom no longer knew
they were Jews, with an internal commit-
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A large population of crypto Jews in she would often kiss. When she died, the
the American Southwest, mostly in New family opened the foot and found a silver
Mexico and southwestern Texas, eschews mezuzah she had hidden inside.
the Catholic tradition of eating fish on Fri- So, in this lovely season of spring and
days, but also refrains from eating pork, celebration of Passover, I would like to
rabbit, venison or shellfish and slaugh- give you a recipe in remembrance of some
ter meats traditionally at home, using a of our brethren who are still with us from
special highly sharpened knife. Just like our past, some converting to Judaism
with kosher slaughter, they bleed the ani- when they realize their past, some saying,
mals completely (saying the blood is car- “I don’t need to convert, I have always
gado, charged, without knowing what that been Jewish, since my exile from Spain,
means) before washing and thoroughly 500 years ago!”
salting the meat. Escabeche is essentially marinat-
Some do have the knowledge that they ing raw fish in vinegar and spices until it
are Jews and pass the “burden” (in a hugely is “cooked” by the acid, much like cevi-
Catholic society) on to their sons on their che. In the Renaissance, fowl were mari-
12th or 13th birthday, saying, “Tue res nated in the same way after cooking, or
judio,” you are Jewish, “somos judios,” we sometimes cooked in a marinade as we do
are Jewish, and pouring water over the today. Here is a recipe for fish escabeche
child’s head to “wash off” their baptism as done in the late 1500s in Spain.
into the church. On Passover, without
knowing why, families will give up regu- Escabeche of Fish or Fowl
lar tortillas and bread and make very crisp
“unleavened” wheat tortillas, which they 1-1/2 lbs of halibut, salmon or snapper
eat for a week. Some have vestigial mezu- Juice of 1 lemon plus zest if desired
zot on their doorposts, little bags filled 1/4 cup sherry vinegar
with earth that they kiss when entering
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WWhaggadot Page 32
paintings) by Emi Sfard and photograph
by Eli Neeman.
Published by Kippod3D, this Hagga-
dah boasts 3-D illustrations and comes
with a pair of 3-D glasses that make the
characters seemingly leap from the pages.
Whoa, are those soldiers really drowning
in the Red Sea?
There’s an English text, some Hebrew
and transliterations of the main attrac-
tions — the plagues, the blessings, the
favorite songs. But this is really all about
the images, which might make some
adults too queasy to tackle the gefilte fish.
It’s a gimmick, but a fun one.
Proceeds will be donated to the children
of Hayim Association, which raises money
for pediatric cancer research in Israel.
WWemily’s corner Page 35 Combine all the ingredients except the
fish. Cut the fish into 2” pieces and
1/2 cup dry white wine marinate in the mixture for about an
1/2 cup orange juice plus zest if desired hour. Heat gently in a non-reactive pan
1 large pinch saffron just until the fish flakes when gently
2 whole cloves, crushed pressed. Chill completely. Serve the fish
1 bay leaf with some of the marinade and spring
1/2 tsp. freshly ground or crushed black pepper greens such as scallions, green garlic
1 tsp. kosher salt or chives.
Serves 6 as a Passover fish course.

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The contradictions of a
Jewish-Muslim filmmaker
Robert Hirschfield Special to JTNews
“Why did you leave me? Why can’t you
come back for me?”
Dilawar, a young, unemployed Kash-
miri Muslim, is praying, as he does after
each of his many calamities in Zero Bridge,
to a godlike figure, his mother, who aban-
doned him, who never answers him. His
voice, actually his voice over, has a plain-
tive, exilic, Jewish ring.
Not surprising, I thought. Tariq Tapa,
the 29-year-old director of Zero Bridge,
winner of the best film award at Leeds Inter-
national Film Festival, the audience award
at the Mumbai International Film Festi-
val, is Jewish, the son of a New York Jewish
mother and a Kashmiri Muslim father.
I was impressed by how Tapa depicts
poverty as the systematic pilfering of the
air of hope that a man breathes. When we
first see Dilawar, he is a pickpocket pacing
back and forth across Zero Bridge in Srini-
agar waiting for his handler, wearing a Red
Sox cap so old and faded it could be some-
thing unearthed from an archaeological
dig. He’s a sort of overaged, overgrown,
Kashmiri Oliver Twist.
Tapa called me from Berkeley to be
interviewed. I was surprised to hear him
say he didn’t see anything Jewish in the
way Dilawar prayed, or in the film itself.
“My work has nothing to do with eth-
nicity,” he said. “I am interested in discov-
ery. That’s why I make films.”
“Yes,” I responded, “but inevitably we
do bring our backgrounds to our art as
we do to our lives. For instance, you vis-
ited Kashmir every summer until you were
almost 10 [when the separatist violence
there put an end to his family’s vacations
in Northern India]. That was part of your
background, and part of the reason you
made Zero Bridge. You could as easily have
gone to Israel, and that would also have
been part of your background.”
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“I didn’t grow up that sense of doubleness, like multiple eth-
speaking about nicities in your life.”
Israel,” he replied. Whatever else Tariq Tapa may be, he is
“My mother didn’t no panderer. I like that about him.
speak Hebrew. We The director arrived in Kashmir to
had no relatives shoot his film without any knowledge of
there. Israel was Kashmiri. (Zero Bridge was shot entirely in
abstract to me.” Kashmiri.) He had no money, no crew. He
I was fascinated The Film Desk relied on his cousin Hilal to help with trans-
by how Tapa was Dilawar, the protagonist of Zero Bridge, and his friend Bani discuss their lations. He had another cousin, Imran,
able to abstract eth- aborted plan to leave Kashmir for Delhi. work as his production assistant. Together,
nicity, yet make a they biked around Srinigar with glue and a
film in the neo-realist tradition that was to crack his resistance by reminding him brush, in a war zone, to affix audition post-
able to transport you inside the skin of his that merely wanting Zero Bridge to make ers to walls casting for the role of Dilawar.
protagonist. noises in Jewish journals was not enough. (Imran was eventually cast as Dilawar.) The
Only later did it occur to me that Tapa, “Any artistic activity requires a sense of two must have resembled characters stolen
over 40 years my junior, is the prod- doubleness,” he said. “Because in the pro- from De Sica’s Bicycle Thief.
uct of a generation in America that is all cess of doing something artistic, you have If I were casting for the part of an itinerant
but post-ethnic. Cyber-rooted, uncon- two natures operating at the same time; Jewish director shooting a film with Chap-
nected to family stories of dark journeys you are experiencing something and you lainesque chutzpah in a land serenaded with
and deep histories, it glides along its own are observing something. Something may bomb blasts and infected with the ill will of
self-made surfaces. At one point, I seemed happen along the way that may complicate two nations, I would choose Tariq Tapa.
State Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson (R–36th) breaks the
middle matzoh as Rep. Sherry Appleton (D–23rd)
looks on during a legislative Passover seder hosted
by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.
Several legislators and staffers from both sides of
the aisle attended the April 12 dinner at Temple
Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia, which tied the Passover
story to refugees of today. Jeanette Lozovsky, one
of two refugees to speak at the event, spent 18
years at Jewish Family Service helping to acclimate
other immigrants and refugees before her
retirement.
“Freedom helps them to achieve what they couldn’t
back home,” Lozovsky told the attendees.
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With Arab Spring, will Israel be left in the cold?

Dina Kraft JTA World News Service
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Unless Israel acts
fast, when the Arab Spring comes to full
bloom, the Jewish State will be left out in
the cold.
That was the essence of the dire warn-
ings issued last week by the high-profile
backers of a new Israeli peace push who
say they seek to propel the country along
the peacemaking path before it’s too late.
With Israel’s diplomatic position sink-
ing and the Palestinians on the cusp of
taking a unilateral path to statehood at
the U.N. General Assembly in Septem-
ber, a group of ex-military men, business
leaders, former security chiefs and diplo-
mats say now’s the time for action — and
they’re trying to do something about it.
“Our ongoing presence in the territo-
ries is a danger to Zionism,” a stern-faced
Yaakov Perry, former head of Israel’s Shin
Bet security service, told a crowded news
conference April 6. “Every minute that
passes makes things worse. “
Urging Israel to make bold decisions or
risk becoming an international pariah, he
said that “Israel cannot disconnect from
the world and become Syria or North
Korea.”
Hinting at U.S. backing for Israel, Perry
said that “All of us have felt this isolation,
and the power of others to back up Israel
is diminishing.”
Perry is one of about 50 prominent
Israelis behind the new Israeli Peace Initia-
tive, a plan that spins off the Arab Peace Ini-
tiative of 2002. The latter initiative, to which
Israel never issued a formal response,
offered the principle of full normaliza-
tion of ties between Israel and the Arab
world in exchange for Israel ceding all ter-
ritories captured in the 1967 Six-Day War:
the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan
Heights and eastern Jerusalem. Israel ceded
Gaza to the Palestinians in 2005.
The new Israeli initiative differs little
from other nongovernmental plans pro-
posed over the last decade or so. It envi-
sions the establishment of a Palestinian
state in the West Bank and Gaza with
some limited land swaps, Jerusalem as a
shared capital, and peace deals with Syria
and Lebanon.
It foresees a demilitarized Palestinian
state with control of its own internal secu-
rity, and resolution of the Palestinian ref-
ugee issue — historically one of the main
sticking points in negotiations — with
financial compensation and a resettle-
ment of refugees and their descendants to
Palestinian areas only with “symbolic and
agreed-upon exceptions.”
The idea, its proponents say, is to get
the government of Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu to act. Netanyahu’s
office has declined to comment on the ini-
tiative; members of the group said he has
received a copy.
The dovish Israeli figures who com-
prise the group say the pro-democracy
demonstrations sweeping the Arab world,
which have toppled Israel’s main regional
ally, Egyptian President Hosni Muba-
rak, are game changers for Israel, and the
Israeli government needs to respond with
decisive action.
“There is a new wind blowing,” Perry
said. “It’s time to change the paradigm we
have had for years about the Arab world.”
Idan Ofer, a leading Israeli business-
man, said he already has begun to feel a
change in his business dealings abroad.
“It was made clear to me more than
once that if the situation here does not
improve, Israeli companies that employ
thousands of people will be hurt,” he said.
Echoing Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s
recent warnings that a U.N.-recognized
Palestinian state could usher in a “diplo-
matic tsunami,” Ofer offered his own stark
assessment, saying that possible economic
sanctions could hit Israel once a Palestin-
ian state becomes a U.N. member.
“The tangible effects will change every-
thing,” Ofer said. “I’m trying to wave a
red flag.”
While this group of critics believes
Netanyahu is waffling, Netanyahu has
said that the revolutions transforming the
Arab world require that Israel move more
cautiously.
Among the new threats Israeli officials
are considering are what would happen if
the Jordanian regime fell and was replaced
by a hostile government along Israel’s
eastern border, and how to deal with an
Egypt that is a less reliable ally. If the
Syrian regime falls to the protests roiling
that country, Israel’s strategic calculus in
the north could change, too.
On the diplomatic front, circumstances
already are rapidly changing. The new
regime in Egypt has taken a harsher line
on Israel, although Amos Gilad, the head
of the Defense Ministry’s diplomatic-
security bureau, said this week that he was
impressed by the stability and achieve-
ments of the new Egyptian leadership.
Perhaps most significantly, the Pales-
tinian Authority is moving closer to a uni-
lateral declaration of statehood. Last week,
both the International Monetary Fund
and World Bank said that the Palestinian
economy is ready for statehood.
Citing the 9 percent growth among
Palestinians last year, the World Bank
commended the state-building initia-
tives spearheaded by P.A. Prime Minister
Salam Fayyad and warned of the dangers
of foreign aid overdependence and Israeli
restrictions on movement in the West
Bank and Gaza.
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Dan
Meridor, considered to be one of the more
moderate members of Netanyahu’s gov-
ernment, spoke out last week against the
unilateral Palestinian push for statehood.
“Borders need to be agreed on by two
parties, not decided unilaterally,” he said.
“Of course, there are political problems
on both sides. But as long as people don’t
come to talk, it’s difficult. We have to say
our goals up front.”
Once a Palestinian state is accepted
by the United Nations, it will be virtu-
ally impossible for Israel to influence what
kind of state it might become, the organiz-
ers of the new Israeli Peace Initiative said.
They stressed the need for Israel to take
initiative now.
“We hope that brave leaders will be
found in Israel, the region and in the inter-
national community who will translate the
Arab and Israeli vision for peace into real-
ity instead of waiting in vain for magic to
take place,” they said in their founding
document.

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Joe Brenner Pioneer Square and later at 18th and Yesler.

May 8, 1925–March 20, 2011 In 1954, using their late father’s recipes, Joe
Joe Brenner, long-time Seattle and Kirkland resident and member of a pioneer Orthodox and his brothers Itsey and Charlie established
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where he retired in 2006 with his wife of 32 years, Joan. A memorial service is planned for May Brothers, first in Seattle on Cherry Street and
8, his 86th birthday, at 10 a.m. at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue. later in Bellevue. Joe, who managed the retail
Born in Seattle, Joe was the youngest son of Abe and Bessie Brenner, Austrian emigrants who side of the business, was the more public “face”
met in Seattle, had six sons and one daughter and started the first Jewish bakery and delicates- of the bakery, as Itsey supervised the backroom
sen in the area. From an early age, all the children worked there at one time or another, baking, baking and Charlie managed the wholesale
delivering and serving retail customers. The bakery, which became a Seattle institution, was deliveries. The enterprise became a pillar of the
founded sometime soon after Abe’s arrival in the city in 1902. It is believed to have been the first Jewish gastronomic community as well as of the
to introduce bagels (as well as other Eastern European baked goods) to the early 20th-century general public. It closed in the late 1990s.
food scene in Seattle. The bagels were first sold by Abe door-to-door by horse and wagon as Joe was a World War II Navy veteran, serving
well as at Pike Place Market from its earliest years, long before bagels became a staple of the
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A frequent prankster and good-natured teaser who usually had a smile on his face, Joe
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the next joke or story — and another good laugh.
Happy Joe supported various Jewish youth, social, religious and philanthropic organizations and
Passover! causes with both his time and donations. He visited Israel several times. He was keenly
aware of human rights and the lessons of the Holocaust and admonished others that these
should never be forgotten.
He was an advocate for the elderly, donating bakery goods and presenting occasional
programs at the Caroline Kline Galland Home in Seattle and other residential institutions. He
was attentive to and popular with children, too. Whenever he could, he visited one young
family member who has lived in a residential group home since childhood. He was the
favorite uncle to his many nieces and nephews and all their friends in part because he often
seemed more like an older brother than an uncle, being young at heart and looking decades
younger than his actual age.
Joe was predeceased by his parents, stepmother Ruth Kutoff Brenner, and brothers
Bernard, Itsey, Dave and Sam.
Joe is survived by his wife, Joan, of Surprise, Ariz.; his brothers, Charlie Brenner of
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