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JTNews - March 25, 2011
JTNews - March 25, 2011
New violence
suggests end of calm
between Israel and
militant Palestinians
Uriel Heilman
and Marcy Oster JTA World News Service
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Violence between Israel and
militant Palestinians rose sharply this week with a bomb-
ing in central Jerusalem and a dramatic increase in rocket
attacks on southern Israel.
In a terrorist attack on Wednesday afternoon, a bomb
planted near a telephone pole exploded near Jerusalem’s
International Convention Center, Binyanei Ha’uma, kill-
ing a 59-year-old woman and injuring more than two
dozen people.
Earlier, rocket attacks from Gaza on Tuesday and
Wednesday struck the Israeli cities of Beersheba and
Ashdod, injuring one man.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces struck targets in the Gaza
Strip, including what the Israeli Air Force described as
the rocket launcher from which a Grad rocket was fired at
Ashdod on Tuesday night. In one of the Israeli air raids,
four members of Islamic Jihad traveling in a car were killed.
In another, four Palestinian civilians were killed in an area
from which mortar shells had just been fired.
The killing of civilians prompted a statement of regret
Dani Weiss Photography
from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who
Althea Stroum, at an event for the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s women’s division, in 2007. also said, “It is regrettable that Hamas continues to inten-
tionally rain down dozens of rockets on Israeli civilians
Althea Stroum: ‘The end of an era’ even as it uses civilians as human shields.”
The sudden escalation in attacks, coming with Israel still
Joel Magalnick Editor, JTNews “They passed on how and why they reeling from the March 11 attack in the Jewish West Bank
In many ways, it was Althea who felt it was important to give to the com- settlement of Itamar in which five family members were
was the soul of the Stroum family, munity to other people that weren’t stabbed to death, raises fresh questions about the sustain-
the matriarch who with her late hus- Jewish,” Marsha Glazer, Althea’s daugh- ability of the calm that has prevailed between Israel and
band planted the philanthropic seeds ter, said of her parents. “No matter how militant Palestinians since the end of the Gaza war in Jan-
of Seattle’s Jewish community, and much you have, you can always give to uary 2009.
whose name can be found engraved another person.” Since the cease-fire that ended that war, known in
on the Seattle area’s cultural land- Joyce Rivkin, Althea’s niece, said Israel as Operation Cast Lead, rocket fire on south-
scape. Althea Stroum died on March family came first for Althea. ern Israel has been sporadic and mostly carried out by
14, just days after the 10th anniversary “She always had a very positive atti- groups other than Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.
of the loss of her husband, Samuel. tude about everything,” said. “That’s But the mortar and rocket attacks in recent weeks,
She was 88. something that I noticed about her and which have included the use of more sophisticated, lon-
Both Althea and Sam Stroum were tried to incorporate in my life.” ger-range missiles known as Grads, have been the work
known for their philanthropy, and With only 14 years between Rivkin of Hamas — a sign that the shaky cease-fire between
those charitable values were simply a and Althea, the two participated in many the Palestinian terrorist group and Israel may be fall-
given in their family. activities together, especially after Sam ing apart.
“I believe that both of us did get the died. “I see the escalation is already here in a number of fronts
values instilled by our parents,” said “She loved to go to the theater and — in the South and also in Jerusalem,” Interior Minister Eli
Cynthia Stroum, one of Althea’s two opera and dance, and she would always Yishai said at the scene of Wednesday’s explosion in Jeru-
daughters and a former U.S. Ambas- take me there when I was young,” Rivkin salem, according to the Jerusalem Post.
sador. “It runs through the family. It said, “and we did those sorts of things In the South, Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom threat-
wasn’t something that we really thought toward the end of her life.” ened a new operation in the Gaza Strip.
about — it just was.”
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Humility and tzimtzum ecumenical experience in Seattle (M.O.T., “Saudi student enjoys kosher food,” Feb.
25). Now more than ever we need people-to-people relationships to dispel stereotypical
images that are so prevalent.
Rachel Nussbaum The Kavana Cooperative This year AFS of Greater Puget Sound is hosting approximately 50 students from
At a conference earlier that have taught me, supported four continents in our local communities. Current students in Seattle public and private
this year, I heard a denomi- me, and enabled me to arrive at schools come from Sweden, Moldava, Brazil, Russia, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Tajik-
national leader now close to this point, I am also aware of a istan, Switzerland, Chile, Australia, Malaysia, Portugal, Italy, and Saudi Arabia and stay
retirement ask whether the deep tension — a behind-the- with local volunteer families.
young leaders who are going scenes tug of war, a generation We are looking for host families for students who will arrive in August for the 2011-12
outside of traditional insti- gap — between “old school” school year. It’s not necessary to have a child in school, though it’s great if families do
tutional frameworks under- and “new school” leaders. have high school students. Single parents and empty nesters can make excellent hosts.
stand “who published the I wonder what is going on. Students arrive with full medical coverage and their own spending money.
siddurim that they are using, How might we probe the gen- As a host family you will learn more about your own community and country through
and who gave them their erational divide that exists the eyes of a student as well as creating family around the world. It’s a great introduc-
training and credentials.” among Jewish leaders today? tion to studying abroad for your own children. Please contact AFS now at afs.org or our
This comment echoes the findings of a Can we learn to talk across the multigen- local hosting coordinator ([email protected]) if you would like to expand your horizons
recent study by the AVI CHAI Foundation erational divide in ways that are productive by hosting a student.
examining the impact of Jewish leaders in and mutually respectful? Is this a matter of Pat Griffith
their 20s and 30s. In that study, American not acknowledging one’s years, of not want- AFS GPS Volunteer
Jewish history scholar Jack Wertheimer ing to hand over the power to make changes Seattle
writes, “For their part, younger Jewish to a rising youthful leadership that works in
leaders would do well to reexamine their ways different from the established ways? True obstacles to peace
views of the establishment. For all its weak- Are young leaders not acknowledging or The recent outrageous massacre of innocents in Itamar, an Israeli settlement in the
nesses, it played a major role in educat- paying tribute to their formative years, their Samarian Hills, when terrorists infiltrated the home of Udi and Ruth Fogel raises serious
ing them.” In both of these comments, I own stories of emergence, the precedents questions. This horrific act illustrates that “settlements” are not the obstacle to peace as
detect a hint of resentment toward young upon which they built their lives and “inno- some would have us believe.
leaders, and an accusation that they/we vative” communities? It has been reported that the savage killers started with Yoav, the Fogels’ 11-year-old,
(I’m a 34-year-old rabbi who started a new I ask my older colleagues: Can your gen- then Elad, his 4-year-old brother. Yoav’s throat was slit as he was reading in bed, and Elad
community in Seattle) are acting without eration of Jewish leaders take pride in the was stabbed twice in the heart. Then the attacker murdered Ruth, knifing her as she came
appropriate humility. legacy you are leaving, even if younger lead- out of the bathroom. In the next room they killed Ruth’s sleeping husband, Udi, and their
On the other hand, when I started ers carve out new paths rather than follow infant daughter, Hadas. Apparently they did not notice the last bedroom, where two other
the Kavana Cooperative five years ago, I directly in your footsteps? Can you accept boys, Ro’i, 8, and Yishai, 2, were asleep. When 12-year-old Tamar came home shortly
heard something altogether different: My that we might not want to assume the after midnight from a Friday night youth group, this horrific slaughter was discovered.
generation did not want to align with the mantle of your existing institutions — even What explains such unspeakable evil? What sort of human being deliberately butch-
“establishment,” so we made calculated if you were willing to hand over the reins? ers a sleeping baby, or plunges a knife into a toddler’s heart?
decisions neither to adopt a synagogue And, without being presumptuous, we The atrocity in Itamar recalls the 2002 terror attack at Kibbutz Metzer that left five
model nor to affiliate with any denomi- know that some existing organizations may victims dead, including a mother and her two little boys. It brings to mind the murder
nation. This desire to acknowledge gen- falter without a new, rising leadership. Can of Tali Hatuel and her four daughters, who were shot at point blank range as they drove
erational differences by forging new paths you demonstrate the principle of tzimtzum, from Gaza to Ashkelon in 2004. It is reminiscent of the bloodbath in a Jerusalem yeshiva
has been reinforced by the world of Jewish contraction, in order to make space for new three years ago, in which eight young students were gunned down. The civilized mind
philanthropy, which in recent years has ways of organizing and new forms of lead- struggles to make sense of such savagery.
supported a number of innovative proj- ership? Can I convince you that preserving For years the Palestinian Authority has demonized Israelis and Jews as enemies to be
ects that aim to change the Jewish world. Judaism is more about the values and ideals destroyed, vermin to be loathed, and infidels to be terrorized with Allah’s blessing.
All of this leaves me in a bit of a quan- we share than any particular institutional Children who grow up under Palestinian rule are inundated on all sides — in schools,
dary. I am keenly aware that I am who framework or established model? mosques, on radio and TV, in summer camps and popular music — with messages that
I am today by virtue of my upbringing I ask my peers: How might we express glorify bloodshed, promote hatred and lionize “martyrdom.” This toxic incitement that
during the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s in a small, our gratitude to those who have paved the pervades Palestinian culture of hatred and violence is well documented.
southern Jewish community, where I was way for us and demonstrate appropriate Their propaganda is not only dangerous, but deadly as well.
shaped by all of the major Jewish insti- humility? How can we absorb the depth of It is ironic to note that at the moment of the Fogel family murder, the West Bank town
tutional forces of the 20th century: A wisdom from people who have served the of Al-Birch celebrated a public square named in honor of Dalai Mughrabi. It was Mughrabi
synagogue (which happened to be both field over time, have lived with an innovative who, 33 years ago, led a PLO terror squad on a savage rampage on Israel’s coastal road.
Conservative and conservative), an after- spirit and created their own communities in Thirty-eight innocent Jews, including 13 children, were murdered on that day.
noon Hebrew school, a Jewish Commu- their day — even without making their With current policies toward Israel and the Israeli people as indicated above, how
nity Center, a Jewish federation, summer choices our choices? Can we build bridges can the Palestinians hope to achieve an independent viable state living side by side with
camps, and more. But the Jewish world between the tendency to reject mainstream Israel in peace?
has changed rapidly and dramatically over Judaism as outdated and the reality that, for Josh Basson
the past decades. Today I am nurtured the majority of American Jews, these insti- Seattle
Jewishly by a loosely connected national tutions are and will remain at the heart of
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ing,” and “empowerment.” inchoate new ventures, “insiders” and Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum is the spiritual Reprinted with permission from Sh’ma
While I acknowledge that my success “outsiders.” In our own ways, we might leader and executive director of the Kavana (www.shma.com) January 2011 as part
is due to the individual mentors and to the focus on the shared task of making Judaism Cooperative in Seattle (www.kavana.org), of a larger conversation on leadership
many institutions — both old and young — relevant and meaningful in the future. and a proud member of Generation X. succession.
“It’s an idea of continuation. It’s a dream. Magic.” — Irit Rosenblum, an attorney representing a family who want a grandchild using the sperm of their dead son. See page 24.
Althea Stroum
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A WomAn of VAlor
1922–2011
Former UW President Bill Gerberding once said, “A blindfolded person could throw
a dart at a map of the UW campus with a very good chance of landing on a school,
college or program that was a grateful beneficiary of Sam and Althea Stroum.”
The Stroum legacy will live on in every student their generosity touches.
Althea, you should have the last word. We’ll get you started.
Have you heard the one about…
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Welcome to our new assistant editor The canaries in the Nazis’ coal mine 16
Emily Keeler Alhadeff came aboard on March 14 Gay men in Weimar Germany had it pretty good. But when the Nazis came to power, that changed every-
as assistant editor of JTNews and managing editor of thing. Seattle Men’s Chorus, with a variety of Jewish organizations, are bringing that story to the stage.
Jew-ish.com. Emily has lived in Seattle for about a year,
after relocating from Israel. She holds a B.A. in Eng- Getting a Handel on Esther 18
lish literature and philosophy, a Master of Theological George Handel is probably best known for his “Hallelujah” chorus and his “Messiah” composition, but
Studies and has studied at the Hebrew University of he also wrote a libretto based upon the Purim Megillah. “Esther” will be performed this weekend at the
Jerusalem and the Conservative Yeshiva. In addition to American Handel Festival in Seattle.
JTNews, for which she has been a freelance writer, she is
also a published travel writer and editor. Bringing Yiddish to the young folk 19
Yiddish has experienced something of a renaissance, and one group is trying to bring the resurgence to
up-and-coming generations, which includes an upcoming performance on Mercer Island.
Remember when
learning about charitable organizations and how to best decide who gets what.
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Professor’s
media visibility
hits the
atmosphere •
Also: Breaking
Down Mechitzas
Diana Brement JTNews Columnist
1
Our region has been in a hubbub over
radiation leaks from the earthquake-
ravaged Japanese power plants
and, it turns
out, when you
need to know
if and when
the radiation
is going to hit
Washington,
a local atmo-
spheric scien-
tist is the go-to
guy. He was
rapidly burn- tribe
ing through his 15 minutes
of fame the week we talked.
“I’ve spoken to about 20
reporters today,” Dan Jaffe told me the
afternoon of March 16.
The UW-Bothell professor has studied
pollution carried to North America from
Asia for almost 15 years. This isn’t his first
go-round with a big media story.
“When we first reported we could
detect pollution coming from Asia…in ’98
or ’99, that was a huge story,” he says.
He was surprised by media interest at
the time, but now he’s used to it, adding, “I
don’t really study radiation, but I know a
lot about the transport.”
Unconcerned about radiation here, he
points to bigger pollution worries: “The
two biggest concerns are ozone and mer-
cury,” he says, with Asia’s cars and fac-
tories being “the largest source in the
world.”
Don’t point fingers though. It’s “a
global problem — it all starts at home,”
and American pollution drifts over to
Europe, too.
“Scientists from Europe, China and
Asia get together and try to understand
what’s going on out there,” he says.
Dan does his part by riding his bike to
work every day from North Seattle.
Growing up in Boston, Dan went to
M.I.T. and majored in environmental
engineering. After a stint teaching high
school he resolved to get a doctorate in
order to teach college, and “get to the West
Coast.” With a Ph.D. from the UW he
landed a teaching job in Alaska in 1987.
He moved back to Seattle in 1997 to be the
first atmospheric science professor at UW-
Bothell, where his lab and his research
assistants are still located, working as The
Jaffe Group (www.atmos.washington.edu/
jaffegroup).
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A Contemporary Theatre
pace, and to learn to live without the hov- and swim laps in a freezing lake — looking
ering of Mom and Dad. Family vacations out for your buddy all the while.
are an important element of family bond- Love of Israel: I went to a religious
ing, but they should be part of the summer
experience, not the entirety. I am not sure
Zionist camp. We lived and breathed
Israel! We were wakened each morning
Intiman Theatre
and
Seattle Repertory Theatre
celebrate the life of
Althea Stroum
Althea,
and remember her and her
your memory
husband Sam fondly.
will be a blessing always.
Our thoughts and prayers We are grateful for their
are with your family. love of Seattle and the arts.
We wish their family well.
Althea Stroum
The torch of memory is precious.
z”l
WWwhat’s your jq? Page 9 to value and seek out the experience munity. Campers and counselors live life’s most joyous moments. More-
of Jewish community, whether in together for weeks, removed from out- over, those moments are experienced
Let’s return to the opening ques- the immediate sense of joining other side influences, forming bonds of friend- as integral parts of life in a beloved
tion: What do children bring home Jews in prayer or in the more abstract ship and loyalty that will be, for most, community.
with them from a stay at Jewish sense of identifying with fellow Jews unlike any they have experienced in the Take the step — sign your children up
overnight camp? The analysis indi- in Israel. These acquisitions will past. They grow together, learn about for Jewish summer camp. They will come
cates that they bring, first of all, an enrich the lives of campers now and themselves, and acquire new skills of self- home ready to conquer the world!
increased inclination to practice in their adult future. reliance and peer interdependence.
Jewish behaviors in their lives, from The impact of camp on Jewish com- The bonding experience of camp Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally
Shabbat candle lighting to using munity awareness should not come as a not only builds a long-lasting taste renowned educator and Head of School at the
Jewish websites, and to appreciate surprise. A summer at overnight camp and yearning for community; it also Seattle Hebrew Academy. If you have a question
the value of Jewish charity. Secondly, can be many things, but above all it is creates habits of Jewish practice. It that’s been tickling your brain, send Rivy an
they bring an increased inclination an experience in living as part of a com- makes Judaism part and parcel of e-mail at [email protected].
WWhow to find volunteer Page 6 solutions.” particular issue. It is also important, Berk- you there, either you get up at three in the
Moreover, added Beiser, Jews have the ovitz said, to learn about the Jewish per- morning or you say that won’t work, and
they interact with. We’re all committed to historical memory of being slaves in Egypt spectives on the topic and to match one’s you find the work in the world that really
this. We want our children to see that the through the Passover story. This legacy, skills to the task. is going to address the need.”
community is committed to this.” which we are commanded to remember, “The first value for the Repair the Jewish educators who attended the ses-
According to Robert Beiser, the Repair he said, connects us to those who are in World organization is meeting and sions said they often try to incorporate
the World campus director at Hillel at the need of help. addressing real, authentic community components of service and kindness into
University of Washington, Jews have a “As Jews, we reenact that and we put needs,” Berkovitz told JTNews. “Start their classrooms.
lot of experience to bring to social justice ourselves in those places,” said Beiser. off by being honest about what commit- Jeff Stombaugh, a 2nd-grade Judaic
work. In his presentation, “Galvanizing “You don’t find that in a lot of other cul- ments you can really make, and figure studies teacher at SJCS for the last four
the Jewish Community Toward Justice: A tural traditions. We have those historical out what kind of work you can do. You years, said he was impressed that so many
Case Study on Human Trafficking,” Beiser traditions that we can draw on.” start with the needs of the other, which of his peers from across the Jewish com-
told the group that it’s not only modern Rabbi Will Berkovitz, Repair the means, ‘What do you need and when do munity came together to learn about com-
Jews’ history of organizing for labor rights World’s national vice president of part- you need me?’” munity service.
and labor union movements, but it’s also nerships and rabbi-in-residence, co-pre- Berkovitz said that a lot of time is “Really ‘seeing’ other people in the
their statistically higher economic status sented with Ken Weinberg, CEO of Jewish wasted by social service workers who must world is a perspective that I will defi-
in the U.S. and higher rate of college Family Service, a session titled “Who is it spend hours coordinating an individual’s nitely be trying to bring into the class-
graduation, which, he said, is 39 percent Really About? Keeping Ego Out of Service schedule and availability. room,” said Stombaugh. “We are always
greater than the general population. and Social Justice Work.” “For example,” said Berkovitz, “just using components of chesed in the class-
“We’re the right people to be doing The pair stressed the need to choose because someone wants to work with ref- room by acknowledging the kindnesses
this work,” Beiser said. “We have politi- volunteer work wisely, and to prepare for ugees, if the plane comes in at three in we see.”
cal and economic influence and we offer service work by educating one’s self on a the morning, and that’s when they need
NAZI
PERSECUTION
OF
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life. In this crossword puzzle, we quote Rabbi Joshua ben Perachya from the first chapter.
ACROSS DOWN
1 Something a dirty person might draw 1 Composer of the Goldberg Variations
5 Ex-amateurs 2 Found not guilty
9 Respectful address 3 Loyal to the max
13 Economics lead-in 4 ___ polloi
14 Jacob’s first wife 5 Skirt feature
15 Norwegian site of the 1993 Israeli- 6 500 sheets David MacArthur/I Do Weddings
Palestinian peace talks 7 Cheerios grain
The original lineup of Breaking Down Mechitzas, featuring Zach Grashin and Reuben Antolin.
16 Advice, part 1 8 One who may have worn a six-pointed
2
19 Leaving Las Vegas star Elisabeth star
20 Noah’s second son 9 Ridicule An e-mail a while back clued liaison to a group of Japanese exchange
21 Prison near LaGuardia Airport, informally 10 Jacob’s eighth son, who “shall yield us into a couple of local singers students who arrived at Western shortly
22 “___ an arrow into the air . . .” royal dainties” making music under the appella- before the recent earthquake. (All were
24 Not the sharpest tool in the shed 11 Warning
25 I-90, e.g. 12 Code name?
tion “Breaking Down Mechitzas.” able to contact their families.)
26 Scribbled (down) 13 Pas’ mates Reuben Antolin (friends call him Studying in Japan will be a homecom-
28 Played an instrument on a battlefield 17 Title character played by Valerie Harper Ruby) and Zach Grashin have been re- ing of sorts. He spent most of his early
30 Qty. 18 Marksman, at times mixing current popular music and par- childhood there with his family. After high
31 Advice, part 2 23 Skirt feature odying those songs with original lyrics school he spent a year in Israel, “a blast and
36 Potential POTUS 24 King County’s ___-Ride Transit service
38 Hole-punching tool used by a 26 Starbucks offering, slangily
on Jewish themes. They chose their band very eye-opening,” a couple of years pur-
leatherworker 27 Prophetic sign name to be Jewish and “kind of contro- suing music and a year teaching preschool
39 Pink-slipped 28 Not as many versial.” at Congregation Beth Shalom before going
40 Advice, part 3 29 Cinco de Mayo, e.g. A mechitza is a wall or curtain that to university. He has his eye on law school
45 The Bourne Ultimatum org. 32 Supreme Court justice Elena separates men from women in Ortho- in the future with an interest in intellectual
46 Shave sheep 33 Hot-tempered
47 Without trouble 34 Moon walker Armstrong
dox places of worship, but, Reuben says, property law.
49 Basketball player from Big D 35 June 6, 1944
52 Syndicated columnist Landers 37 Sleepover attire, for short
TEMPLE Worship
53 Facing the pitcher 41 Ryder alternative
54 Thoroughly vile 42 Most tightly packed
56 Part of ESL 43 “Get your paws off me!”
De Hirsch Sinai Connect
C nect
57 Wide-ranging
60 Advice, part 4
44
48
R&D site
The Stranger columnist Dan
Learn
63 Fashion magazine 49 Fuel-efficient vehicle
64 Delhi wrap 50 The Jonas Brothers lost the Best New
Temple De Hirsch Sinai serves a large,
65 Peeping Tom, perhaps Artist Grammy to her diverse, multi-campus Reform Jewish
66 Collegiate administrator 51 Cello relative congregation in Seattle and Bellevue.
67 The Golden Gate Bridge has one
68 Pesticide target
53 Component of a Wile E. Coyote trap,
often
We provide community through
55 Unwrap, as a present progressive Jewish ethical, social
56 ___ Grey tea and moral concepts.
58 Rosebud, for one
59 Norse god of war
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It’s not by any means the whole Megil- A Masque.” The English text (the libretto) by March 26 at 8 p.m. at St. James
lah, but like the woman at the heart of the Alexander Pope and John Arbuthnot is Cathedral, 804 9th Ave., Seattle.
Purim story, the Baroque oratorio “Esther” based on Racine’s French translation of the Tickets cost $25 and $40. Visit
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creation for chorus and orchestra. Its translation of Racine’s 1689 play seems to vated the composer to greatly revise and
composer, George Frideric Handel, would have been a hot literary item in its day. expand the work. It’s this later version that
go on to delight London audiences with The librettists did chop off the begin- is usually performed today, making the
much more such entertainment based on ning and the end: No Vashti at the start, Seattle performance a rare opportunity.
scriptural verses — most famously, “Mes- no messy battles at the conclusion. The Some 40 years after Handel’s English
siah,” its frequent December companion, whole thing is bookended by joyous cho- “Esther,” the story underwent another
“Judas Maccabaeus,” and that springtime ruses: Hooray for our gal Esther, pro- round of linguistic and musical adven-
favorite, “Israel in Egypt.” moted to queen and triumphant over tures: This time it was a Hebrew-language
Handel’s “Esther” will be performed Sat., Haman. In between, in one continuous oratorio, based on the same English trans-
March 26 at St. James Cathedral, as a crown- act lasting just over an hour, there’s musi- lation Handel used, based on Racine’s
ing moment in the final weekend of this Courtesy American Handel Festival cal drama in those arias: Haman, a deep popular French version of the Megillah
month’s American Handel Festival in Seat- George Frideric Handel, as he may have bass voice, intones his evil plans (“Pluck story. The composer was one C.G. Lidarti,
tle. The festival has brought together early- appeared had he been an aspiring mountaineer root and branch”); Mordechai, a tenor, Viennese-Italian, not Jewish; the Hebrew-
music scholars, fans of Baroque music, and ready to climb Mt. Rainier. comforts Esther (“Dread not, righteous language librettist, Jacob Raphael Sara-
dozens of Seattle-area music groups for queen”); and Esther, a soprano, of course, val, Rabbi of Venice and Mantua, writing
some 30 performances over 17 days. Using torio performed in a version as close as gets a fine fainting scene on her approach for the Jews of Amsterdam and London.
the rarely heard original 1720 version of the we are likely to get to its original form,” to Ahasuerus. The choruses, “whether of The manuscript of this 1774 score report-
much-revised “Esther,” the esteemed early- according to Handel scholar Graydon rejoicing or mourning, are musically dis- edly was unknown until someone stum-
music specialist Stephen Stubbs conducts Beeks of Pomona College. tinguished and dramatically apt,” as Beeks bled onto it in the Cambridge University
Pacific Musicworks, with the Tudor Choir “Esther” was first performed in a small writes in notes to a Collins Classics CD. Library in 1998. That might be an interest-
conducted by Doug Fullington. theater at the country estate of Handel’s Music piracy goes back all the way to ing follow-up project for the early-music
This performance “will provide the first patron, the Duke of Chandos. Its original Handel’s “Esther”: its first public perfor- scholars and performers involved in Seat-
opportunity since 1720 to hear the ora- name may have been “Haman and Mordecai: mance, from a pirated manuscript, moti- tle’s “Esther.”
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WWjewish giving Page 22 the Jewish Federations, said it had collected term relief, budget allowing. Only money still are said to lag behind places like Cali-
more than $400,000 by midday Tuesday. raised specifically for Japan will be spent fornia, which experiences larger and more
medical officers and water pollution spe- What makes the Japanese situation a on disaster relief. There is no money in frequent quakes.
cialists had reached the suburbs of Tokyo, unique challenge for Jewish humanitarian JDC’s budget for additional nonsectarian, “There’s still a lot that has to be done
and they were in contact with aid workers organizations is the absence of relation- humanitarian work, Recant said. as far as building codes are concerned,”
in the northern part of the country where ships in a country that traditionally has While Japan continues to reel from the said Professor Michael Lazar, a tectonics
the tsunami hit hardest, according to been an aid donor, not a recipient. triple disaster of an 8.9-magnitude earth- expert at the University of Haifa. “There’s
Shachar Zahavi, chairman of IsraAid. Indeed, when the American Jewish quake, a massive tsunami and a subse- an attempt to encourage people to ren-
Several American Jewish organiza- World Service, which led the Jewish aid quent nuclear crisis, experts in Israel are ovate older buildings and make them
tions, including the Jewish Federation in response to the 2004 Asian tsunami, trying to figure out what lessons from earthquake ready, but it really hasn’t
Chicago and the American Jewish Com- was asked what its aid effort would be Japan can be applied to the Jewish State, caught on.”
mittee, are funneling money to IsraAid for for Japan, the answer was none, because which lies on two fault lines, the Carmel A scenario in which Israel’s nuclear
disaster relief in Japan. AJWS only works in developing countries fault and the Dead Sea fault. facility at Dimona, in the Negev Desert,
In Tokyo, the Chabad center commis- and has no partners in Japan, spokesman Israel experiences tremors every so would face the kind of meltdown sce-
sioned a bakery in Sendai, one of the cities Joshua Berkman told JTA. often, but the last time a ruinous earth- nario situation Japan that is seeing now
battered by the tsunami, to bake bread for The JDC found itself in a similar situ- quake struck the area was in 1927, when is much less likely, Lazar said, because
its residents and surrounding areas. The ation. the West Bank city of Nablus suffered seri- Dimona is far from the tectonic lines that
center also trucked several tons of food “We had no programs in Japan prior ous damage. An 1837 earthquake destroyed cross Israel.
and supplies to Sendai, Chabad officials to the earthquake; we just worked with much of the northern Israeli cities of Safed “But,” he cautioned, “it’s hard to tell
said. The officials estimated that Chabad’s the local Jewish community,” said Will and Tiberias and left thousands dead. how an earthquake would disperse.”
relief in Japan is costing approximately Recant, an assistant executive vice presi- Israeli building codes have been
$25,000 per day. dent at JDC. updated for better earthquake safety com- To donate to a Jewish earthquake relief fund,
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Pichette will portray the older Gad, a Miller said she is very excited to see the ing Heggie, Coleman, and the directors of
Dance Company will do an on-stage man who deeply suffered for the love he new translation of “For a Look,” in par- the two acts that will put the artistry and
interpretation. had lost and the decades of persecution ticular with the stage direction and cos- the Holocaust into context.
“It’s about the furthest thing you can he lived through even after the war. Bari- tumes. “This becomes a community-wide
think of a choir standing on risers and tone Morgan Smith, now an internation- “I think it has a huge audience ahead of lesson that we can all learn from,” Miller
singing,” Coleman said. ally known opera singer who trained with it,” she said. “The message is going to go said. “It’s more than a Jewish thing, it’s a
The second act, however, will be the Seattle Opera’s young artist’s program, out in a much more diversified way than thing of human rights.”
much more solemn. “For a Look or a reprises his role from the 2007 concert as Music of Remembrance could do.” Seattle Men’s Chorus, the Jewish Fed-
Touch,” a piece originally written for a the ghost of Manfred. Seattle Men’s Chorus partnered with eration of Greater Seattle, the Pride
five-piece orchestra and performed in The chorus, initially behind a screen, the Holocaust Center to provide the edu- Foundation and the Holocaust Center col-
2007 by Music of Remembrance, has will appear first as prisoners in the con- cational background, including a 28-panel laborated to co-sponsor the exhibit and
been recast by composer Jake Heggie for centration camps and then reappear out of traveling exhibit from the United States the educational aspects of the program
the men’s chorus. makeup “in present-day terms as a genera- Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Nazi Per- to show that freedoms people have today
“For many years I had wanted to com- tion of gay men who have gone on beyond secution of Homosexuals 1933-1945,” will may not always exist.
mission the work that highlighted the the Holocaust and today are, in a sense, be on display and open to the public at “I don’t think we can ever assume
persecution of homosexuals,” said Mina fighting some of the same battles,” Cole- McCaw Hall for the week leading up to that the rights we have will always be
Miller, executive director of Music of man said. the concerts. there, because I believe that’s what they
Remembrance. “This piece is very close to While the second act of the perfor- Simon, prior to the performances, will probably thought during the Weimar
my heart. It means a great deal.” mance is much heavier than the first, Cole- compare the ideology and propaganda of period,” Coleman said. “The present-
“For a Look” is based upon the true man said he believes the audience will that era to today. day [gay] community owes something
story of two young men, Manfred and appreciate its beauty. “The concept is that yes, this hap- to this period in time when this dis-
Gad, who fell in love but were separated “I’m hoping people will see the art of pened in the past, but how does that crimination and extermination to some
and sent to concentration camps. Man- the love that is lost and regained when relate to today and the laws that we’re degree took place, and how the human
fred, who was also Jewish, perished, but Gad accepts who he was and the love that voting on and not voting on?” Simon spirit of this gay population was able to
Gad survived and today, now in his 80s, he had,” Coleman said. “That’s why we said. “It’s really bringing those lessons live through that…and in a sense bring
still lives in Germany. called the concert ‘Falling in Love Again,’ up to today, and persecution of homo- us to where we are today.”
The piece has been expanded, with because Gad had to, in a sense, fall in love sexuals today, especially in schools and
Heggie writing two new movements again with himself, with his relationship bullying.”
WWfrozen sperm Page 24 as long as he didn’t leave explicit instruc- option of freezing their sperm or eggs donor and also of ensuring that her baby
tions to the contrary. in order to see their lineage continue would have supportive grandparents. But
technology? Who gets to decide? “This notion of presumed consent, in the event of their death. Though the with no written instructions from Cohen,
“Where we are with reproductive that we can assume that a man would army rejected the idea, it received media the hospital keeping his sperm refused to
technologies is a result of the fact that want to have genetic children after his attention. release it. Following a long legal battle, a
we have refused to accept infertility as death, that was really pushing the enve- Then, one night the following year, Tel Aviv court in 2007 ruled in his fam-
a fact,” says Vardit Ravitsky, an Israeli- lope at the time in comparison with Rosenblum got a phone call from a hys- ily’s favor.
born assistant professor in the bioethics other countries,” says Ravitsky. But terical woman. Her son, 19-year-old So far, the potential mother’s IVF treat-
programs at the University of Montreal the ministry refused to allow a man’s Keivan Cohen, had just been killed by a ments have not been successful, though
faculty of medicine. “Today, the idea mother or father similar access, con- sniper in Gaza. His mother wanted the attempts are ongoing. But Rosenblum
that I have a right to have a genetic child cluding that parents have no legal stand- hospital to save his sperm, which can retains an almost giddy faith in the ability
is much more accepted than in the past. ing regarding their children’s fertility, survive for 72 hours after death. The of technology to triumph over cruelties of
To extend that one generation to genetic “[n]ot in their lifetime, and certainly not woman had read about Rosenblum and nature and fate.
grandchildren maybe is not that far- when they are dead.” begged for her help. Speaking of Cohen’s mother, she says,
fetched.” For years Rosenblum, the Ben-Yaa- Rosenblum rushed to file an affidavit “No psychiatrist can help this kind of a
Ravitsky was a participant in the Israeli kovs’ lawyer, has been fighting to give and succeeded in having the young man’s woman to recover from the loss of her son.
Ministry of Justice discussions that led to bereaved parents in Israel the power that sperm extracted. But this is giving a new hope. It’s unbeliev-
the country’s guidelines on posthumous the guidelines denied them. Through a newspaper ad, Cohen’s able. It brings her back to life.”
reproduction issued in 2003. The guide- In 2001, she campaigned for the parents found a woman who was plan-
lines were notable for allowing a dead Israeli army to adopt what she called ning on becoming a single mother and Reprinted from Tabletmag.com, a new read on
man’s wife or partner to access his sperm a biological will, offering soldiers the who liked the ideas of using a known Jewish life.
WWyiddish theatre Page 19 honesty, by their pathos,” Mlotek added. “edu-tainment.” Translations of the Yid- culture and its influence on musicians like
Mlotek, the performance is “an overview “It’s beautiful to tears, and at the same dish into English and Russian will be Cab Calloway and George Gershwin.
of how Yiddish song sounds itself in every time it’s joyous.” projected onto screens, and the two will Mlotek hopes that the performance will
moment of Jewish and American life.” Mlotek’s sidekick, Folksbiene star Rab- explain the songs and talk about the tradi- appeal to Seattle’s population beyond the
“The songs are like windows into our bani, is an acclaimed comedienne, singer, tion of Yiddish song. Jewish sector. “What I’m hoping [is] we’re
whole world,” he said. “You have real and actress. “A lot of the songs are from the early going to bring is a fresh look at what this
moments of family life being expressed — “Daniella is a dream,” said Mlotek, who Yiddish theater because the theater was that music is,” he said.
the separation of the family, the coming to noted that Rabbani went from not knowing forum,” said Mlotek. “A lot of Jews went to As for Antebi, “It’s exciting and proud
America...What it was to experience the Yiddish to performing in it. “She’s a wonder- the theater to see their lives depicted.” to bring a performance of this caliber to
Statue of Liberty for the first time...What ful comedian. She looks at life the way it is. What’s more, said Mlotek, “Yiddish the JCC,” she said. “This is an opportunity
it meant to go out West. What it meant to The comedy is just a mirror of natural situa- had influence on American pop culture as for people to not only learn about Yiddish
embrace a new country. tions that — when you look at them hard — a whole.” One of the performance high- culture but also see something they will
“The songs really bring these moments the humor comes. That’s one of her gifts.” lights is when Mlotek and Rabbani expose not have a chance to see, unless they go to
in history to life. By their vibrancy, by their The multimedia performance is labeled the infiltration of Yiddish in American New York.”
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Sometimes family extended beyond
her actual family, as well. Daniel Weiner,
many of their peers, was both a team effort
and a way of life.
“They were active in the Jewish and
senior rabbi of Temple De Hirsch Sinai non-Jewish community, but they always
FR E
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Camp Wahoo! bers, said his relationship with Althea said Richard Fruchter, CEO of the Jewish
• French Language extended beyond that of rabbi and con- Federation of Greater Seattle. “They were
• French Culture gregant from the moment he arrived in emblematic of that era of givers — they
• Sailing & Kayaking Seattle a decade ago. were titans of their time.”
• Fencing & Sports “She was kind of like a surrogate grand- And with that generosity, Althea
• Cuisine, Theater mother for me and for my children,” Weiner exuded a tangible warmth wherever she
& Art said. “Althea really reached out very warmly went.
and intently to me and to my family early on, “When she walked into a room, you just
so that even though they were older when I knew it,” Fruchter said. “She would always
got here, I really had an incredible opportu- tug my arm and tell me the latest joke that
nity to develop a personal and warm rela- she had — and they were always funny —
tionship with her, and her with my family.” and she always had a gleam in her eye.”
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Located in Washington’s San Juan Islands doctoral fellowship at the UW named in zations that ranged from Hillel at the Uni-
memory of Althea’s sister. Noegel said that versity of Washington to National Council
the Stroums were a big reason his family for Jewish Women to the Federation to the
settled in Seattle. Jewish Studies Program at the UW, which
“The Stroum family were just so warm was recently renamed for the Stroums, to
and welcoming to myself and to my wife,” the Jewish Community Center, which also
Noegel said. “We became good friends bears the Stroum name.
over the years.” “We would enjoy the opportunity to
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Stroum. The two were married soon after. zilai agreed.
Though money was tight in the early years, “She was always smiling. Always after
as Sam’s fortunes grew, so did the couple’s events, it was important for her to come
commitment to philanthropy. to me and say, ‘Wow, it was terrific,’” Bar-
“They grew up poor, and wanted to give zilai said. “For me it was impressive when
back,” said Cynthia Stroum. somebody at the age of 84 or 85 or 86
After her father’s death 10 years ago, would come to the events and then look
Cynthia said her mother made a conscious for me to tell me she enjoyed it.”
decision to keep going with her life.
“Sometimes widows just sort of stay at
Judy Neuman, CEO of the Stroum JCC,
echoed those sentiments. Asp
Experience a home and wither away,” she said. But with
Althea, “there were more reported sight-
“Althea was a very special member of
the SJCC family. She attended and enjoyed
Fu
summer of
Special
ings than Elvis: Tap dancing here or at the many of our programs like our Jewish lev
symphony or at the opera.” Touch series, annual meetings, Circle ofCamps run f
Friendship, Cynthia called her mother’s passing the
end of an era. Seeing her mother’s friends
Friends luncheon,” Neuman said. “When-from 9:30 a.m
ever Althea walked into the ‘J,’ she broughtearly pick up
Fun and at the memorial service on March 17 was
“reminiscent of a very different time in
with her a sparkle and an ease that made all
of us working here feel special and a part of
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WWalthea stroum Page 30 brings Jewish scholars to campus to speak “Although Sam Stroum did not himself
about their areas of study. Several books have a college education, he and Althea life
her extended family.” that resulted from those lectures were put were committed to making the dream of
It was because of Althea that Henry Fried- on display. a college education possible for others.
man, unable to create a library of survivor tes- “The pride that she felt in the outcome They believed in sharing their bounty and Birth
timonies on his own, went forward to become of support that [the Stroums] were giving making the world a better place,” said Nathan Isaac Stellman
a founder of the Washington State Holocaust to the Jewish Studies Program in the Nancy Winship, Brandeis’s senior vice Brett and Dana Stellman of Everett
Education Resource Center in 1988. UW Press was really palpable,” Burstein president of institutional advancement. announce the birth of their son,
“Not only did she suggest that I start said. “Having the books there as physical Althea Stroum leaves behind her two Nathan Isaac, on January 16, 2011, at
it, she said, ‘Look, we’ll be there for you, objects…evoked very strong feelings on daughters, Cynthia Stroum and Marsha Swedish Hospital in Seattle. Nathan
with money.’” Friedman said. “She had the her part, and you could see that.” Glazer, son-in-law Jay Glazer, three weighed 5 lbs., 11 oz. and measured
foresight to encourage other people to do Though the family heavily supports grandchildren, five step-grandchildren, 19-1/2 inches.
things, and this I felt we lost with Althea.” the UW, a scholarship for students that and three great-grandchildren. Remem- Nathan’s grandparents are Sue and
Years ago, a luncheon attended by the Stroums created for Sam’s hometown brances can be sent to the Sam and Althea Phil Miller of Kirkland and Linda and
former UW president William Gerberding of Waltham, Mass. awards full tuition to Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the Michael Stellman of New York, N.Y.
and regent Bill Gates, Sr. honored Althea Brandeis University to four graduates of University of Washington or the Stroum Nathan is named after family friend
for the annual Stroum lecture series, which Waltham High School each year. Jewish Community Center. Mitchell Nathan and his maternal
great-grandfather Irving Klachuk.
at the Seattle Hebrew Academy. Camp planet,” May said. “You have to use team-
WWsummer camps Page 13
Invention, a national science-based camp, work to create shelters and things that will
we want to build relationships with new will have its first home in the Seattle area help them survive in this environment.”
parents, get them onboard and help them during the week of Aug. 22–26. The fact that this camp is scheduled
establish their Jewish identity and Jewish “This is a way of having kids focus for right before the school year begins is a
journey,” Duitch said. on science in a very fun way,” said Rivy good transition from lazy summer to rigor-
Financially speaking, the schools will Poupko Kletenik, SHA’s head of school. ous study, May said.
see modest revenue from the program, “The most important thing an elementary “It gets them back into that thinking
“but that really just helps cover the cost of school can do for students is help them get part of the brain,” she said.
maintaining the field,” Adler said. engaged in science and love science.”
“There’s some income…which is good The camp is open to any child, grades VVisit www.sjcc.org for registration information
for any nonprofit in this economy,” Frockt K–6, and will have different activities on the Stroum JCC summer camps. Early-bird
said. But, she added, “I think there are based in science, technology, engineer- pricing ends April 4. To register for the Seattle
other benefits that come to the school ing and math, and designed for different Hebrew Academy science camp, visit
through this.” learning abilities. http://jew.sh/OUn4. Early-bird pricing
This year is the first in a three-year plan “Any child can feel successful, but it’s ends March 30.
by the JCC with a goal of “running almost really going to meet the need of our high-
nine weeks of camp and serving over 100- end learners,” said Katie May, SHA’s prin-
plus kids in both sites,” Duitch said. cipal.
After the last session at the JCC camp “They transform the classroom, using
ends, a new one-week program will begin a lot of recycled materials, into another
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