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Te head o a small Seattle-based prisoner aid program, Jewish Pris-
oner Services International, is breathing easier or now ollowing
the dismissal o a long-running lawsuit.
Te 9th U.S. Circuit Court o Appeals reversed itsel on April 15 and
threw out a case brought by Dennis Florer, 45, serving time or stealing
a truck at an auto dealership and using it to run down a sales represen-
tative in 2003. His record also includes multiple cases o eeing rom
police and, in one instance, trying to run down a police ocer while in
a truck with his wie and two small children as passengers in 1999. He
also has a long disciplinary record in more than two decades behind
bars, including at least one accusation o white supremacist activity at th
prison in Clallam Bay.
In 2006 Florer accused JPSI o reusing to provide him with a ora
Jewish calendar and other Jewish materials through the groups chaplainc
program. His lawsuit or unspecied damages claimed that JPSI and i
chairman, Gary Friedman, acted under color o state law because Fried
man was a chaplain under the groups contract with the prison system.
In 2007 Judge Ricardo S. Martinez dismissed the lawsuit, but
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anniversary celebration on July 5. More than 40 members and friends came to the beachfront at Golden Gardens for a picnic and a rousing rendition of Happy Birthda
Kavana was founded as an all-encompassing Jewish organization that incorporates prayer, learning and social justice and has closely tracked its programs to fulll
members needs. As was tting, Nussbaum, after her remarks, handed out a survey.
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I can only imagine what my grandather
experienced as a Jew in the Ukraine beore
he immigrated to America in 1905. In my
earliest memories he is very old; my mother
was the last in a large amily. In his musty
Victorian house in New London, Connecti-cut, there were antimacassars on the stued
chairs, a wood-burning stove in the kitchen,
and a crank-operated washing machine.
Te attic oered cobwebbed curiosities to
explore, and there was American history on
the roo: A widows walk or a whaling cap-
tains wie to watch or his topsails.
On a New England summer day in
1954, my grandather told me about Israel.
I was 9 and discomted by his unkempt
white beard.
In Israel, Jews ght. Jews win, he told
me, his eyes welling with tears o joy.
I quickly understood; in the world he
lef behind, Jews dared not ght and could
not win.
Now Im a grandather with no illu-
sions about my power to inuence my own
grandchildren. My grandather probably
elt the same about me. Yet his love or
Israel is seared in my memory. Te moral
imperative or a Jewish state pulsed rom
him to me like a jolt o electricity.
It lives on. His generation sent the early
pioneers to eretzIsrael. I will give voice to
the righteousness o their bold project as
long as I live. With all my heart, I will play
a part. Grandpa, you can count on me.
I am a member o speakers bureau or
the pro-Israel activist group StandWithUs.
I sell Israel to high school students. Omar
is a Palestinian boy sitting in the ront row,
curly hair, and skin the color o a mocha
latte. Hes riendly and well liked.
Understandably, afer my talk, he is
sullen. Im not prepared or his sweeping
accusation.
Why did you steal our country? he
asks. What country? I reply.
He knows I have him, so he restates the
question. Why did you steal our land?
o prepare mysel or this task I have
read everything rom the scholarly argu-
ments o Alan Dershowitz to the blogs o
Richard Silverstein, and much in between.
Im conversant on UN Resolution 242,
Oslo, Camp David and aba; but I am
unprepared or this question.
Zionist pioneers bought the land, I
oered, but his eyes made it clear there was
nothing I could say that would make a di-
erence to him. Lawyers say there are three
trials: Te one you prepare or, the one yo
argue, and the one that plays in your hea
afer its over. Selling Israel to 16-year-o
high school students is no dierent. I hav
been thinking about Omar and the oth
10th graders ever since.How do you talk about Israel to a tee
ager raised in the leay suburbs o Seattl
whose context or my presentation is like
nonexistent? Where do you start explainin
the history, orah, two Diasporas, the Man
date, ve wars, and the utility o the UN?
Lincoln wrote, I slavery is not wron
nothing is wrong.
In one clear sentence he renders poin
less and immaterial all arguments or con
tinuing slavery. In my mind, this is the ke
I have no hope o selling Israel by recitin
endless minutiae about reugees, settl
ments, and armistice lines. My only hop
is to appeal to their sense o what is man
iestly moral and immoral, so that even
16-year old with a tabula rasa between h
ears can eel it in his gut. I must make the
choose. Not between rich and poor, stron
and weak, but between right and wrong.
Tis is a monumental task. Our scho
children are cosseted young Siddhartha
Brahmans kept unaware o unpleasa
realities. Tey have been taught that a
people are basically good and all cultur
equally valuable. Tey have learned to di
trust the powerul and successul, wh
they believe, a priori, must have robbe
some oppressed underdog in som
colonial enterprise (how else did they g
rich?). Lie should be air, and i its no
somebody must do something about it
can only hope to shock them into rethin
ing how the world works.
Perhaps David Mamet, in his powe
ul new book, Te Secret Knowledge, h
asked the right question. Imagine you a
stranded in a oreign airport just as Wor
War III has started. You are given tw
choices: You can board an airplane o
Israel or another or Syria. Who amon
you would choose Syria? Not Chomsky o
Finkelstein, or the weirdly anti-Israel Jew
in the BDS movement. No, you wou
ght with every shred o inuence an
argument you could muster to get you
sel and your amily on the plane to Israe
Now, ask yoursel why.
I Israel, the nation that respects huma
lie and hungers or peace, is not mora
nothing is moral.
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WhAt We should Ask oF ourselves
In response to Simcha Shtulls comments on Israel controlling the lives of 2.5 million Pal-
estinians (Israel must act, Letters, June 24).
This is a topic of discussion that can have many different views. Everyone has their opin-
ion on how to solve the tension between Arabs and the Jewish people. For many Arabs who
are living peacefully as Israeli citizens, they dont see much of an issue. Sure there can berelationship problems, but who doesnt have that?
For the most part there is actually a sadness among Israelis, Jewish and Arab, because
they want to have the friendships that were had long ago.
I am an American who spends much of my time traveling to Israel and often bringing a
group of friends with me. I have traveled the borders, visited and stayed in the Jewish com-
munities in the Shomron region of Israel, and have met with many people who talk about
their idea of solving the conict.
When I read letters that talk about the oppression of Palestinians I have to wonder if the
writers spend much time here in Israel or even stay in the contested areas. Have you met
with your brothers and sisters who live in these areas?
One thing I do know for sure, I can throw all kinds of factual reasons why Israel should
not give up land, but you have heard the facts. I would like to only say, giving land to a
people who hate you wont bring peace. Gaza is booming with beautiful malls, water parks
and restaurants, while Sderot, a town on the Israeli side, receives random rocket attacks.
I have experienced them. Itamar, a beautiful community in the Shomron, known for its
organic farming, has endured the random attacks on their citizens during Shavuot. You
cannot reason with this kind of hate that lls the hearts and minds of the Palestinian Arab
leaders.
As an American I have to ask on this Independence Day, should we give back the U.S.
land that was gained in war with Britain? If we are going to ask it of Israel then I believe we
must ask it of ourselves.
I urge the Jewish community to not sit here in the United States and tell your country
what to do. Spend time in Shomron, Sderot and along the borders. Talk to the Israeli people
about life here in Israel. Then give advice.
Israel is an amazing place lled with miracles and the most wonderful people who have
created most everything you have to run your life smoothly.
Lets support them.
ta Za
va, Wa.
Beyond comprehension
As a black American who keeps a watchful eye on Middle East anything, the person from
Seattle who writes: Israel currently controls the lives of 2.5 million Palestinians in the West
Bank. I therefore nd it difcult to understand Wendy Rosens dire prediction (Israel must
act, Letters, June 24). It is beyond my ability to comprehend! Israel is the size of a Q-Tip
by comparison to all of the Islamic nations that surround her and are calling for her destruc-
tion. The Palestinians who are actually Arabs tossed out of their countries have millions of
acres of land to simply return to and yet they want a country... out of Israel?
Allowing another murderous regime in the Middle East within the borders of the ancient
lands of Israel is just stupid! And so it goes with the American Jew born of the 60s, 70s and
80s. My gosh, why dont you go live in Palestine?
Jff m
Gg hab
Will the recognition and creation o
a Palestinian state by the United Nations
Security Council magically end Mideast
unrest? Can the UN ulll the role o theWizard o Oz and help ensure that such
a state truly serves its people? Palestin-
ian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas
has predicted that a Palestinian state will
allow his people to live as a peace-lov-
ing nation, committed to human rights,
democracy, and the rule o law, echo-
ing the sentiments o many in the inter-
national community. (New York imes,
May 16, 2011)
However, some in the Palestinian
community oresee a ar dierent kind
o uture. According to several promi-
nent Palestinian and Arab commenta-
tors and bloggers, this proposed prophecy
will never see reality as long as a corrupt
Palestinian leadership remains in place,
continuing the dishonest nancial deal-
ings that dened past PA President Yasser
Araat and now Mr. Abbas.
Sami Jamil Jadallah, a Palestinian
American and an international legal and
business consultant, recently wrote an
article or Washington, D.C.-based Pal-
estine Note that compared Israeli and Pal-
estinian leaders in light o Israels 63rd
anniversary. He described David Ben-
Gurion as having dedicated his lie to cre-
ating a nation out o the remnant o people
rom over 120 countries and succeeded in
having a state with governing institutions
on day one.
Jadallah harshly criticized Araat,
writing he had dedicated his lie to
political manipulation, lies, raud, cor-
rupting everything around him and ail-
ing his people at every turn, never having
achieved liberation or the return o reu-
gees.
He adds that Ben-Gurion did not
invite his amily and riends and associ-
ates to loot the country as Yasser Araat
did and that he is not aware o any Israeli
leader who became a multi-millionaire
while serving the nation and the people
while in public oce. Araats wie Suha
was reportedly promised $22 million a
year rom PA unds by Abbas ollowing
her husbands death. Abbas himsel lives
in a luxury villa worth $1.5 million.
Indeed it is the lack o accountability
o unds among the Palestinian leadership
that truly raises Jadallahs ire.
What we know is that the Palestin-
ian leadership never bothered to oper-
ate a transparent accountable system and
the PLO was and continues to operate as
a private closed corporation or the ben-
et o very ew selected and sel-appointed
members o the Executive Committee. We
never knew the hows and the whys o the
operation o the PLO and the Palestine
National Congress, he writes.
In 2006, the Palestinian Attorney Gen-
eral Ahmed Al-Moghani revealed that at
least $700 million o PA unds othersestimate up to $1 billion had been stolen
or squandered by corrupt Palestinian o-
cials. Some o the millions were trans-
erred into personal accounts abroad.
Jadallah ends his piece by describ-
ing the current PA government as lack-
ing the integrity, proessionalism and the
competency to achieve the end o occu-
pation. He writes that the PA promises
the people a virtual state with none o the
prerequisites o a modern nation state.
In addition to the questionable nancial
system the PA has in place, ree speech and
ree press under Abbas are also extremely
problematic. Human Rights Watchs April
6 report, No News Is Good News: Abuses
Against Journalists by Palestinian Secu-
rity Forces, highlights the way in which
Abbass PA security tortured, beat and
arbitrarily detained journalists.
Te report also cites the Palestinian
journalism watchdog MADA, which doc-
umented the number o physical attacks,
arrests, detentions, arbitrary conisca-
tions o equipment and other violations o
journalists rights by Palestinian security
orces this year increased in both Gaza and
the West Bank in 2010 by 45 percent rom
the previous year.
MADA also called or an immediate
investigation into a severe attack on Pal-
estinian journalists covering a youth sit-in
in Hamas-controlled Gaza on March 15,
2011. Te youth demanded an end to
internal political strie between Fatah and
Hamas. Internal security personnel at the
event attacked and beat the journalists
attempting to cover the event.
It is thereore not surprising that the
majority o Palestinians living in Jerusa-
lem would rather remain citizens o Israel
than become Palestinian citizens, i given
the choice ahead o the PAs bid or state-
hood. A poll conducted by Pechter Middle
East Polls ound that 35 percent o Pales-
tinians living in east Jerusalem would opt
to remain citizens o Israel, while 30 per-
cent would choose Palestinian citizen-
ship. Te remaining 35 percent declined
to answer or did not know. Te study
also ound that 40 percent o Palestinians
would likely move to Israel i their neigh-
borhood became part o Palestine.
Te creation o a Palestinian state via
the UN will in no way end the Mideast
conict, but will only add another dimen-
sion o instability to the region. Nor will
it serve the interests o the Palestinian
people. As o today, there is no serious
oundation or a stable democratic Pales-
tinian state, devoid o the corruption that
brought about the Arab Spring in the rest
N llw brick ra rPalstinian UN bi
anav silveRman Spcil to JTNws
o the Middle East. How can the interna-
tional community even consider that such
a state be created at this time?
For the Palestinians to live in reedom
and democracy, they must have honest
leaders, a sound electoral process, demo-
cratic institutions, transparent account-
ing, and a air judicial system. Under
Hamas and Fatah, the Palestinians have
none o these critical elements. Only lie
Abbass yellow brick road to the UN w
lead to nowhere.
Anav Silverman is an educator at Hebrew
Universitys Secondary School of Education in
Jerusalem. She previously worked as an
international correspondent at Sderot Media
Center.
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Eighteen-year-old high school student
air Bitton o Beersheva, Israel claims he
elt reborn upon nishing an afer-school
math class oered through a projectknown as the Michael Program. Te pro-
grams Israeli creators, Menny Barzilai and
Yuval Aloni, believe that every person can
achieve anything and characterize their
curriculum as a human-potential, science-
based, skill-driven, sel-reliance-promot-
ing, and liestyle-changing program.
I was brought to the world on 3
December 1993, wrote Bitton in a letter
to Yossi Ivgi, his mentor and a acilitator
in the Michael program, about his gradu-
ation, but the air who [is] speaking with
you now [was] born on 21 March 2010.
From July 719, Ivgi will bring a dozen
soon-to-be 12th-grade high school stu-
dents rom Beersheva to Seattle, its sister
city, on a dual mission with Rabbi Mark
Spiro, executive director o Seattle-based
LivingJudaism. Te students will meet
some o the Northwests top entrepre-
neurs as well as train Spiro to be one o the
rst acilitators or the program here.
Its a new paradigm to discover the
best way or a human being to live, Ivgi
toldJNews. Not by the spiritual way, but
the actual way, on the ground.
In their time here, the students will do
their best to show o some o the skills
theyve learned in the program to local
students and parents.
Te kids will also meet with executives
at Boeing, Costco, Microsof, venture-cap-
ital company Maveron, Nordstrom, and
Starbucks.
Tey are learning about the qualities it
takes to be successul and innovative, how
to utilize their talents, skills and creativity,
and they are getting a taste o some o the
best entrepreneurial qualities o Seattle,
Spiro toldJNews.
For what is being called the Partners
in Potential trip, the second year the two
have done this, Spiro and Ivgi will host a
couple o inormal and open community
meetings with the students as well as visit
local landmarks like Snoqualmie Falls and
the Pike Place Market and attend a Mari-
ners game. Tey will also spend a ew days
at Camp Solomon Schechter.
In his work at LivingJudaism, Spiro
teaches core Jewish principles that help
people be more successul in their work
lives, marriages, and riendships. He is
also a lie coach or individuals who want
to achieve more in their lives.
I will be teaching [the students] a
number o sessions, said Spiro. Tis
part o the Michael Program will be part
o the training that will launch here in the
United States.
Spiro decided to team up with Ivgi
while Ivgi was in Seattle or another Liv-
ingJudaism program called Wounded
Soldiers, a program that ormer LivingJu-
daism executive director Chaim Levine
now runs independently. At that time,
Ivgi, himsel wounded during his service
as a ormer Israeli Deense Forces pilot or
21 years, rst ocused on his own healing
and then began to counsel other wounded
soldiers back to mental health.
He earned a graduate degree in coun-
seling and is now working on his doctorate
in conict resolution at a Beersheva hospi-
tal, where he researches how the most suc-
cessul patients develop coping skills while
under extreme prolonged stress.
Ivgi is also executive director o
Mashav, Israels Agency or International
Development Cooperation within its
Ministry o Foreign Aairs. He calls the
Michael method and the programs devel-
oped in Mashav the solutionary (sic)
approach.
Students mainly need help with sel-
esteem, believing in their own abilities,
getting motivated, taking responsibility,
and changing their habits, he said.
According to Mashavs research, the
Michael Program attracts no less than 60
percent o its students rom disadvan-
taged homesrom the lowest socio-eco-
nomic levels.
Michael Program subjects include arts
and sel-expression, speed reading and
memory improvement, scientic theory,
math, emotional intelligence and lie-prep-
aration skills, learning habits, and more
while maximizing the eect o the mentor
or acilitator o each 35-student group as
being one o the most important environ-
mental actors in a students success.
Facilitators, said Ivgi, must never judge
a student or his ideas.
o be able to connect with everyone
with no issues and no judgment, Ivgi said,
and not to criticize, but to accept every-
one, and to understand that the level o
connection in a human being can create a
change in a human being.
Ivgi believes this idea is so undamental
that anyone aspiring to be a acilitator in
the program must have the quality o what
he calls naiveness. Tis idea is the sub-
ject o his book, titled Te Second Naive-
ness, set to be published later in 2011.
In Israel, the Michael method is a
14-week afer-school program that meets
one night a week or our hours. Studen
must commit to being on time and to
ishing the program.
Although the program descriptio
states that the spiritual oundation orm
the basis o consciousness, the Micha
program teaches a scientic hypothes
called the Gaia Principle, which asser
that the whole earth is a super organism
that seeks to protect its own survival an
that o all orms o lie on it. Because we
are interconnected, states the theory, w
are all responsible or each others welar
both animate and inanimate objects.
We are not dealing with God, sa
Ivgi. Were taking science as the majo
understanding o how the world is wor
ing.
Mashav wants to create a network
Michael method ranchises in vario
countries. International revenues wou
help to und educational activities in di
advantaged communities in Israel.
Israel, the Michael Program is a or-pro
enterprise with royalty payments th
recycle back into the Michael organiz
tion there.
Ivgi believes that this model o teachin
lie and learning skills based on the scie
tic method and applied determination
a revolution whose time has come.
A revolution means it doesnt matt
what place you are, you can jump ro
the bottom o lie to the top o lie, sa
Ivgi. People have the ability to make th
kind o change, not by positive thinkin
but actual hard work, taking responsib
ity and having the right skills.
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Correction
In the story about up-and-coming early childhood programs (New programs bring
Judaism to the tiniest learners, June 24), Chava Mirel was listed as a co-director o the
emple Bnai orah Solomike program. Leyna Lavinthal is the head o the preschool and
Mirel will be a music specialist.
JNews regrets the error.
yiddish lesson
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Az a tate git dem zun parnose, lakhen zey beyde; az a zun
git es dem taten,veynen zey beyde.When a father gives to his son, they both laugh; when a son gives to
his father, they both cry.
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Sometimes aith is everything: It solves all problems, it creates happiness. At least thats what Rabbi Lazer
Brody, one o the ever-happy Breslev Chassidim believes.
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Though Greece turned back the boats headed toward Gaza to once again try to break the blockade, the
organizers are hailing the eort as a victory.
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Jew-ish in print: Meet the second cohort o our 10 Under 40 series appears here.
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The director o Jconnect, Hillel at the University o Washingtons young adult program, never expected to
ollow this path. But his lie certainly prepared him or it.
Kih Jun
Hes a musician. Hes an acupuncturist. Hes a black belt in Kung Fu. And in his spare time Keith makes
sure that others can keep the same balance in their lives that he does.
Jry dush
Sure, people make jokes comparing Jewish Republicans to the Loch Ness monster or some other fgmen
o their imagination. But Jeremy, chie o sta or the highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress, is
no joke.
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How many people do you know cook proessionally in their spare time while attending Stanord? Or
make huge meals or riends as a way o creating community? Or open their own restaurants so they can
do it on a larger scale? Thats Dave.
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Have you heard o Whitney? Legendary accessory designer Henri Bendel has. Hes started to carry her
jewelry designs. So have many women in hard-to-reach areas o Chile and Peru, where Whitney studied
and learned her crat.
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David Bezmozgis, who emigrated to Canada rom the ormer Soviet Union as a child, tells the story o
another amily that did the same thing. We review his frst ull-length novel, The Free World.
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Rabbi Lazer Brody has shoulder-length
graypeyot, a long gray beard, a white-knit
kippah topped with a tassel in the style o
Breslev Chassidim, and a nose that extendsnormally beore taking a sharp turn to
the lef. Despite his age, Brody conjures
an image o a playul, innocent child in a
snow hat. In halting Hebrew, he asks his
assistant i he can talk to a journalist.
Breslev Chassidim, the religious ol-
lowers o Rabbi Nachman o Breslev, who
are known or their impermeable happi-
ness, personal conversations with God
and ecstatic dancing, are a rarity in Seat-
tle. Rabbi Brody was brought to Seat-
tle by congregants o Sephardic Bikur
Cholim, Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath
and Congregation Shevet Achim. He pre-
sented several talks over the weekend o
June 24 on the topic oemunah, popularly
translated as aith.
Brody travels the globe sharing the
message o his spiritual guide, Rabbi
Shalom Arush, whose books he has trans-
lated rom Hebrew into English. Arush
has published several books in the spirit
o Rebbe Nachmans teachings, including
Te Garden of Emuna, Te Garden of Peace
(or men) and Womens Wisdom. Brody
hosts his own teachings through CDs and
his blog, Lazer Beams.
Personally, Im interested in gur-
ing out ways that Judaism can inspire
and challenge me, said Randy Kessler, o
Shevet Achim, on why he helped bring the
Breslev rabbi to Seattle. Kessler had read
Te Garden of Peace and was intrigued by a
Jewish perspective on relationships, some-
thing with which he had not been terribly
amiliar beore becoming observant.
Instead o asking the question, Why
have a Breslev Chassid come and speak to
our shul, the question is, Why not? said
Kessler.
Originally rom the Washington, D.C.
area, Brody turned to Rebbe Nachmans
teachings afer a near-death experience
while ghting with the IDF in Lebanon in
1982. Something was missing, he said.
Brody casts aside philosophy in avor
o a aith-based spiritual Judaism based
largely on Nachmans teachings and Kab-
balah.
I your connection with God is based
on intellect, explained Brody, tomorrow
morning somebody can come, and hes an
atheist with a stronger intellect than you,
and he can conuse you with all these ques-
tions and you lose aith. Tats why we put
intellect aside and we plug into God with
simple emunah.
Brodys talks at the Shabbaton in
Seward Park received a record numbers o
attendees, with each meal and talk seeing
between 100 and 150 people. On Sunday
at Shevet Achim, his talk on How to Pros-
per in a Recession drew substantial num-
bers again.
Brody emphasized our levels o achie
ing nancial success: One needs emuna
that God is the source o absolutely ever
thing; the husband needs to illuminate h
wies soul, that is, uphold a good ma
riage and in turn, the wie must do th
same; one needs to personally grow an
develop; and last but not least, one has
work. But the overall message is that ever
thing comes rom God, everything ha
pens or a reason, and God is listening.
Larry Adatto, a member o Sephard
Bikur Holim and one o the Shabbaton
organizers, said he has wrestled with h
own aith issues.
I knew that aith was my bigge
downall, my biggest shortcoming, and a
the things that I was doing wrong in m
lie I could trace them all back to my lac
o aith, Adatto said. So Ive been lookin
or some way to help me improve.
Had he improved? Adatto, wearin
a baseball cap with Lie is Awesom
stitched in rainbow colors, broke into
grin. He gave an example: As a dentist, h
used to worry about the money his pra
tice lost when clients would cancel o
short notice or didnt show up. Tis an
iety aected his sta and himsel. Now
he trusts that every loss will make itse
up. And it has, so he says: It comes bac
somehow.
Jack and Adina Almo were also instr
mental in bringing Brody to Seattl
Adina, who hosted approximately 12
women in her home Saturday afernoon
hear Brodys take on creating a soulma
union, said she and Jack began readin
Arushs books at the behest o her mothe
who was on a spiritual journey ollow
ing the death o her parents. Accordin
to Adina, one day Jack said, We need
dn wrry, b hy, hemunah
emily K. alhadeff, assistnt editor, JTNws
RaNDY keSS
Congregation Shevet Achim vice preside
Gregg Berretta with Rabbi Lazer Brody, holdi
Rabbi Brodys latest book, The Trail
Tranquility.seattle
Coming soon-ish
The new
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1Remembering the eel-
ing o ear and isolation
that haunted her as a
child in Rochester during herown mothers battle with breast
cancer, Anna Gottlieb became
a an and donor o the cancer
support organization Gildas
Club rom its earliest days in
New York. Visiting the original
acility, named or the late Sat-
urday Night Live comedian
Gilda Radner, she really ell in love and
decided to open a Seattle chapter.
Being stupid and stubborn I thought:
I can do this, she laughs.
I was airly new to Seattle; I wasnt the
person who could write a $25,000 check,
she says. It was a miserable, painul our
years o letter writing and phone calls.
A ve-year corporate sponsorship rom
Sears with support rom the oncology
community really got things going. Now
shes been running the organization, with
its own Capitol Hill building, or 10 years.
Anna and her husband, Charlie
Schmidt they met on a kibbutz in
Israel had moved to Seattle rom the
other Washington, where she worked
or AIPAC, the Justice Departments
Oice o Special Investigations and
or then-Senator Joe Biden.
Having attended grad school
in Oregon, she was pining
or the Northwest. Charlie,who works or Social Secu-
rity, managed to get a transer
and they moved out here with
their daughter, alia (son
Dannywas born here).
What Anna loves about
Gildas Club is that they serve
and support everyone. Shes
always ghting the misper-
ception that its a womens
organization.
We are or the whole amily, any stage,
any diagnosis, she says, also serving sur-
vivors with support and education.
Now they are taking cancer education
program into the workplace and into high
schools. wenty-ve percent o cancer
patients have a child under 18 at home, but
youre unlikely to nd anything about the
disease in school health curricula. Gildas
Club also sponsors a teen essay contest,
the results o which are on their website,
www.gildasclubseattle.org.
Grab a tissue, Anna says.
Fundraising is a constant concern. Te
club is best known or the annual Surviv-
ing With Style ashion shows in Seattle
and acoma, as well as or their gol tour-
naments.
Tis month brings a un partnership
with Seattle Chocolates and Majestic Bay
movie theater. Te chocolate company
owner Jean Tompson had a brush
with cancer has made special choco-
late bars, some o which have golden tick-
ets which entitle winners to a rare tour
o the company. Ten, on July 23 at 9:3
a.m., the Majestic Bay is donating its th
ater or a screening o the original Wi
Wonka and the Chocolate Factory sta
ring Gene Wilder, Gildas Club ound
and Radners husband. Te $20 admi
sion includes the chocolate. Teres mo
inormation about the event and all o G
das Club programs at their website.
2ee Sheffer has worked har
building his business, Signame
rics, these past two decades. No
Hlping vrn tuch b cancr Als: Bringing asuccssul businss t a cls
diana bRemenT JTNws Columnist
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Anna Gottlieb, founder of the Seattle chapter of
Gildas Club cancer-support organization.
CouRTeSY SHeFFeR FaM
Michal, left, and Tee Sheffer on a hike to the to
of Rattlesnake Ledge. The couple should ha
more time for these hikes now that Tee has so
his equipment testing company.
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I knew, o course, that
the Rapture advertised or
this past May 21 by Dispen-
sationalist theologian HaroldCamping would not come
on schedule. Afer all, how
could the beginning o the
end come the day beore Lag
Bomer, which this year ell
on May 22?
Would the Keeper o All
Community Calendars ignore
a dramatic conrontation between Camp-
ings timetable o salvation and the esti-
val day o the great anna, Rabbi Shimon
bar Yohai himsel a spark o the soul-
root o Moshe Rabbenu and eneshed in
latter days in such diverse mortal harbin-
gers o redemption as Rabbi Isaac Luria,
Shabbetai zvi, Rebbe Nahman Bratzlaver,
Teodor Herzl, and Michael Lerner (lets
hear it or tikkun ha-olam!)?
O course not! Moreover, youd think
that the One Who Neither Nods nor Sleeps
would have been more alert to the eschato-
logical portents o the Palestinians Yawm
al-Nakba, which has a lock on May 15.
How could He have missed by a whole
week, no less that opportunity or an
End imes perect storm?
So, when nightall came right on sched-
ule, late Saturday evening, May 21, 2011,
as I gazed at my ngernails in the light o
a havdalah candle, I was the last one to be
shocked at the ailure o the Saints o the
Church to rise up en masse to heaven.
Whence this eschatological skepticism?
Blame it on the almud! On all things mes-
sianic Ive always ollowed the advice o
Rabban Yohanan b. Zakkai, the greatest o
the post-Hurban sages o Yavneh. Coming
o age in the turbulent rst century o the
Common Era, he knew a thing or two
about messianic enthusiasm, and did his
best to quash it among his own ollowers.
Hes quoted as advising: I you are
planting a tree and someone says the Mes-
siah has come, rst plant the tree, and
then go to greet him.
Its not that Rabban Yohanan didnt
trust Gods redemptive promises. He
simply had problems with his contempo-
raries who sought to put God on a human
timetable. In his day, the ollowers o Mes-
siah Yeshua were only the most vocal o
those who believed that the messianic
prophecies o Scripture were about to be
ullled. More importantly, he insisted
against the zealots o his own day that
Gods plan had more to do with the prom-
inence o orah study in Israel than the
orce o Jewish arms.
Hence his proound advice: I the Mes-
siah turns out to be the Messiah, great.
But i hes a disappointment, at least youll
have shade and ruit afer a while!
And what Messiah, when you come
down to it, has not been a huge disap-
pointment? Its practically part o the job
description: Wanted: Attra
tive, charismatic leader, claim
ing Davidic lineage, willing
dash the hopes o the Jews bpackaging his ailure to deliv
as proo o his victory.
Camping would have don
better by his lock had h
ignored the book o Daniel an
read instead that 1956 class
o sociology, When Prophe
Fails, written by Leon Fes
inger, Henry Riecken, and Sta
ley Schachter (yes, all Jewish
Tey studied various Midwestern comm
nities who expected that, on a specic dat
the pilots o ying saucers would come
Earth to collect their specially chosen mem
bers or a better lie on alien planets.
Te main nding o the Festinger stud
is stunning: As the promised date cam
and went, and as newer calculations als
proved wrong, the groups commitme
to their belies ailed to wane. Rather, o
merly secretive conventicles, concerne
with preserving the privacy o their belie
transormed themselves into assertiv
proselytizing sects, seeking to spread th
good news o imminent redemption!
Te Festinger study proposed as a
explanation the now-amiliar concept
cognitive dissonance. Tat is, as un
damental belies are thrown into ser
ous doubt and publicly proven alse, th
gap between what we know and what w
believe becomes unbearable. We try
close this gap, quite simply, by enlistin
the comort o others who share our di
conrmed belies. Te energy thrown in
making converts consoles us by the visib
success o the mission and enables us
manage eschatological disappointment
ranslated into Jewish messianic idio
this boils down to: Te Messiah is th
Messiah, but the generation is unworthy
Festinger and his colleagues were aware,
course, o the dark corners o Jewish me
sianic ideologies. I doubt, however, th
the current crop o Camping camp-ollow
ers were equally aware o the sorry reco
o Jewish messianism. No doubt, eve
i they were, theyd have seen their ow
Christian version as the exception to th
rule. Afer all, these are Christians!
Whatever. Tis latest Christian mess
anic disappointment and undamenta
ist theological embarrassment shou
not go unnoticed by Jews. And not only
the schadenreude! Tose Dispensationa
ists who woke up on Lag Bomer mor
ing to the mockery o their neighbors (an
egg on their aces) deserve more than ou
bemused pity.
Tey are a warning to the people wh
gave the world the messianic idea th
Moshiach is always coming and we live
expectation o him always. But he is nev
Th raptur will nt btlvis: Wh G laughs
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sketch)33 Hag34 See 53-Across35 One quadrillionth: Prefx37 JFKs successor38 Lara o Tomb Raider39 Trade prohibition41 Home o the Braves43 What a runaway might be missing?45 Small amounts48 Parseltongue speaker49 Discoveryorg.53 With 34-Across, watching ones
weight54 Deeply desire56 Buddy57 Backtalk58 Fitting59 Shaqs alma mater60 Spot on a die61 Rock and Roll Hall o Fame architect63 Real-time ino on an airline website65 ___ continue?67 Gentlemans gentleman68 IBMs Watson et al.69 Once more70 Memorial tribute in verse71 Canadian speed limit sign abbr.72 Black Forest cake, e.g.
This Weeks Wisdom
Plant Treesby Andrew Marc Greene
2011 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cae, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle.
All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb.
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One day Honi the Circle-Maker met a man planting a carob tree. Honi asked, How long until
this tree bears fruit? The man replied, Seventy years. Honi asked, Do you expect to live
another seventy years? The man replied, As my ancestors planted carob trees for me, I plant
these for my children. Inspired by Honi, we have made circles and planted trees in this puzzle.
What will grow from their seeds?
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produced since 19682 Enemy3 Molotov cocktail4 ___ Brockovich5 Orchestra section6 Filet mignon or chateaubriand7 I ___ Rock8 1968 Rolling Stones hit9 Snipers weapon10 With 28-Across and 13-Down, Viking
explorer who colonized Greenland11 Word on Washington, D.C. license
plates12 Devoured13 See 10-Down21 Last entry in a list, requently23 Corrida cheer24 See 1-Down25 Thing27 Steal rom29 Weight30 Blues great James32 Numbers needed by antasy
leaguers34 Im not bad, Im just ___ that way:
Jessica Rabbit36 Hockey great Bobby
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earth
o those who say we never
see miracles or talk directly
with God anymore, I say,
Nonsense. We constantly
stand in their presence; we
just ail to appreciate them.We ll our lives with distrac-
tions, and only notice mira-
cles that hit us over the head,
like tornadoes, volcanoes and
earthquakes, or childbirth,
inatuation and skydiving.
Its like Mel Brooks describing how the
concept o God originated (in Te 2000
Year Old Man): afer lightning killed the
terriying tyrant Phil, Brooks says, We
looked up at the sky and said, Teres
something bigger than Phil.
Abraham Joshua Heschel noted that
yirah (ear, awe, reverence) around natu-
ral phenomena can lead us toward belie
in a greater power. Even or quiet miracles
the growth o living things, the seamless
interactions o ecosystems, our ability to live
on Earth we must disconnect rom noise
and urgency, so we can listen and marvel.
hat s what summer
camps are made or. hey
take advantage o the power-
ul connection between the
great outdoors and Jewish
spirituality. According to out-door educator Rabbi Michael
Comins, nature is the every-
day home o wonder, the place
where most people regularly
and reliably experience awe.
(ejewishphilanthropy.com)
Teres something mirac-
ulous about Jewish overnight
camps. A comprehensive study rom the
Foundation or Jewish Camp shows that
children who attend overnight camps will
have higher engagement in Jewish lie as
adults. Camps generally weave respect or
nature into their joyous, active programs
(www.jewishcamp.org). And a very ew now
build their programs around Jewish eco-ide-
als, such as tikkun olam. In this time o global
warming and resource stress, we hope to
see more. Meanwhile, heres the short list o
those cutting-edge Jewish programs:
JCA Shalom (www.campjcashalom.com),
in the wooded hills above Malibu, Cali.,
or 2nd to 12th-grade kids. JCAS runs a
three-acre, organic vegetable and ruit tree
arm, which partially supplies its dining
service, uses only eco-riendly dining andcleaning products, heats its Olympic-sized
swimming pool with solar panels, and uses
solar electricity to power its ront gate, con-
erence center, retreat house and activity
center. It is developing a green site map o
camp, analyzes its ecological ootprint, and
reduces paper use with online registration
and electronic signature acceptance.
Camp Tawonga (www.tawonga.org),
welcomes 2nd to 12th grade campers to
its uolumne River acreage, just outside
Yosemite National Park. Campers can
hike, backpack, raf, camp and explore
the Sierra Mountain rivers, lakes, valleys
and hills, and learn about and embrace
the natural world. Camp emphasizes
alternative energy production, energy
and water eciency initiatives, recycling
and composting, local ood and materi-
als sourcing such as arm-to-table and
scratch-made, green building includin
milling on-site lumber.
Ramah in the Rockies/Ramah Ou
door Adventure, (www.ramahoutdoor
org/?page_id=20), a new, rustic outdo
program or 818-year-olds on a 360-acranch, 90 minutes rom Denver. Its solid
built base camp includes large, walle
platorm tents where chalutzim (pioneer
campers) and their madrichim (counse
ors) sleep, communal showers and sola
powered toilet acilities. Eco-riend
meals are served in the dining hall an
outdoor pavilions. Day and overnight raf
ing, hiking, biking, climbing and hors
back excursions take participants out
learn adventure and leadership skills, an
gain senses o personal responsibility
the worlds treasures.
Eden Village Camp/Jewish Farm Scho
engages 3rd11th-grade campers an
apprentices in organic arming, dairyin
and animal husbandry, natural science, ou
door adventures and skills developmen
g is in h sur
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QFC raises over $170,000 for the 2011
Komen Puget Sound Race for the CureBy Eric Miller, QFC Public Afairs Specialist
On Sunday, June 5th, QFC held the honor o Local Presenting Sponsor
or the 18th annual Susan G. Komen Puget Sound Race or the Cure. It was
a truly inspiring day that united everyone in supporting our grandmothers,
mothers, daughters, sisters, cousins and riends who are ghting and
surviving breast cancer, and also in honoring those we have lost to the
disease. Te mornings atmosphere was as positive and vibrant as any Race
or the Cure I have attended gorgeous weather, delicious ood, exciting
entertainment, dedicated Komen sta and volunteers, and most important
was the enthusiastic crowd o thousands. Seattle Center was the place to be!
Tis marked the 5th consecutive year QFC has been the Races
Local Presenting Sponsor, and it was our goal to expand on the great
success we had in 2010. Our associates showed their passion and
commitment to the cause, to our customers and to each other in a
very big way. We had all 68 QFC stores represented with a team, as
well as one rom the corporate ofce in Bellevue. By Race Day, QFC
was 836 team members strong, up rom 675 in 2010 an almost
25% increase! In addition, QFC raised more than $170,000 or the Race
or the Cure through undraising events at our stores, through our Check
Stand Charity Program, by individual undraising, in registration ees, and
through sponsorship. QFC and many o our wonderul vendor partners
help provide the items or the Survivor Breakast as well. A denite
highlight was the over 900 chocolate covered strawberries, hand-dipped
by our QFC Uptown store team just a block away rom Seattle Center!
QFC was proud to be a part o this incredible community event. Tank
you to every QFC associate, amily member, riend, customer and vendor
or your support o the Komen Puget Sound Race or the Cure. It was a
very special day, and we look orward to another great event in 2012!
Eric Miller is the Public Aairs Specialist or QFC. He can be reached at 425-990-6182 or [email protected].
July 12 at 7 .m.
rba cantll Game of Lies
Autho evnt
Rebecca Cantrell will read from her novel, Game of
Lies, about journalist and spy Hannah Vogel on the
eve of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Vogel goes under-
cover in this whodunit to search for clues about the
death of her mentor, and to get his secret package
out of Germany before her enemies (or her friends?)expose her true identity. Books will be available for
purchase. At Bellevue Regional Library, 1111 110th
Ave. NE, Bellevue.
July 23 at 7:30 .m.
el ronblatt
cont
Guitarist and vocalist Eli Rosenblatt
will perform his diverse repertoire.
Rosenblatts music is influenced by
Afro-Cuban and Klezmer rhythms,
and his songs range from the booty-
shaking danceable to the hauntingmelodies of Eastern Europe.
At Third Place Commons Stage, 17171
Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park. For
more information contact 206-366-3333 or visit www.thirdplacebooks.com.
on wooded land 50 miles north o New
York City. Among other activities, camp-
ers can harvest and grind wheat to bake
their own challah in a solar oven, bake pita
in a clay oven, and make pesto in a bike-
powered blender. EVC/JFS sets a zero-
waste goal, serves kosher organic oods,
and uses eggs, cheese, ruits and vegetables
rom its own arm.
Surprise Lake Camp/Teva Learning
Center (www.tevalearningcenter.org/
seminar3.php), 60 miles northeast o
New York City, or youth ages 715. SLC
works to reduce waste, cut its environ-
mental ootprint, inspire environmental
responsibility, and promote environmen-
tal education and stewardship. Every ses-
sion, SLC connects its campers with eva,
Americas premier, year-round Jewish
environmental education program. eva
programs, including its opsy urvy Bus
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adults each year in community centers,
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For adults, Hazone People of the Bike
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various U.S. regions. Over just a ew years,
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he will be working perhaps a little less
hard over the next two years on closing
the Seattle-based company.
Last year, the very successul multi-
national precision instrumentation man-
uacturer was approached by Agilent
echnologies. Ater what sounds like
some gentle arm-twisting, we got boughtbythe worlds largest instrument com-
pany, ee says.
Signametrics is amous, in a way, in
those type o circles, in instrumentation
in the electronics industry, ee explained
to me. I cant pretend to understand the
technical details, but suce it to say that
their distribution is all over the world.
heir products applications vary
widely rom battery testing or the space
shuttle, to weapons system testing, to
component testing, to medical electronics,
and aerospace such as Boeing and EADS(Airbus), ee says. Any big-name com-
pany you have heard o is using our prod-
uct, rom China to India.
Your iPhone was probably tested with
Signametrics equipment.
We didnt look or anybody to buy
the company, says ee, who holds a dozen
test and measurement patents. hey
came to Seattle [with] their VPs, their big
guns, and talked us into merging with
their operation.
An Israeli native he grew up on Kib-
butz Ashdot Yaakov on the shores o thesea o Galillee ee and his wie Michal
arrived in Seattle about 40 years ago so
he could get a masters in electrical engi-
neering rom the UW. He then worke
or Fluke or 20 years. Michal, who he sa
more people know than me, worke
or Jewish Family Service or many year
More recently, shes been Signametric
CFO and operations manager.
Work is slowing down now, sa
ee, by which he means hes workin
40 to 50 hours a week and not the usu
60-plus. Tis leaves more time or yinhis simple, our-seater Cessna, whic
he takes up to the San Juan Islands at lea
once a week in the summer.
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Norm LevinSeptember 8, 1930May 21, 2011
1960 brought Norman Levin to the Seattle JCC as assistant
director and Camp Benbow director, the Golden Age Club
being his specialty. Having degrees in Social Work and
business, Norm then built and managed convalescent
health-care acilities. He became an advisor and consultant to
governments in healthcare everywhere. He was sought out or
his expertise, which led to world-wide travel rom Russia toHungary to China to Australia and Israel.
Norman was a lietime member o the Actors Equity. He
loved theater, and supported the opera and symphony. (He
co-starred in The Tendertrapwith Cloris Leachman). He was
the president o the Iowa chapter o American National Theater
and Academy. He played the trombone, guitar and piano. He
also taught ballroom dancing.
A sports addict, he loved the Sonics, Mariners and Seahawks as well as the Minnesota
Vikings.
Norm was a voracious speed reader, wrote copious letters to the editor and was a
well-know contributor.
Raised Orthodox, Norm spoke fuent Yiddish, read and wrote Hebrew, and mastered
Spanish. He taught his sons their Bnai Mitzvah.
He married his wie Karen Hocheld three months ater a blind date that lasted almost 49
years. Five wonderul children ollowed: Adam (Amy), Jason (Aviva), Seth Levin, Adrianne
(Steven) Shoeneld and Alison (Jason) Solam, as well as 10 wonderul grandchildren. He is
also survived by his brother Jules (Rose) and sister Lillian, plus his adorable mother-in-law,
Sybil Levy Tall.
William Richard LewisSept. 12, 1920June 23, 2011
William Richard (Bill) Lewis died at his home in Palm Desert,
Cali., on Thurs., June 23 o natural causes. He was 90.
Bill was born in Lynden, the second child o Lynden
Tribunepublisher Sol Lewis and Aimee Lewis, who also had
a daughter, Dorothy and a younger son, Julian. Bill, an Eagle
Scout, graduated Lynden High School in 1938.
He graduated the University o Washington with honors injournalism in 1942. Hed been advertising director o the UW
Daily, a member o Zeta Beta Tau raternity, and a clarinetist
in the UW Husky marching band.
He married Margaret Alexander o Seattle in 1942 and
served in World War II in the Navy on the U.S.S. Frazierin
the South Pacic, retiring honorably in 1945 as a lieutenant
junior grade.
He and Margaret moved to Lynden. He joined the sta o The Lynden Tribune, becoming
co-publisher with Julian ater Sol died in 1953.
Bill was president o the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association, Lynden Kiwanis Club,
and Lynden Chamber o Commerce. He helped launch the Lynden Pioneer Museum and Lynden
Swimming Pool. He also belonged to Toastmasters International and Rotary International.
In honoring him in 1984 with The Distinguished Service and First Citizen Award, the Whatcom
County Council called him the heart and soul o journalistic endeavor in Whatcom County.
Bill retired in 1984 but continued writing his column, At Deadline. He and Margaret lived in
Sudden Valley, Wash., and Palm Desert, Cali.
He was a lielong skier, sherman, goler, handyman, storyteller and, above all, a boater. He
owned a succession o cabin cruisers, each called The Four Bellesater his wie and three daughters.
He and Margaret ounded Chow Down to Washington, a successul annual University o
Washington alumni undraiser in Palm Desert and he helped organize reunions or the U.S.S.
Fraziercrew and the Northwestern Midshipmans School. In 1992 he received The U.S.S.
Fraziers Lone Sailor Service Award.
Survivors include Margaret, his wie o 68 years; daughters Marilyn Lewis o Port Townsend;
Barbara Morrison (Joseph) o Manhattan Beach, Cali.; Patti Lemlein (Neal) o Boulder, Colo.;
grandchildren Vasily Lewis, Seattle; Alexandra Lemlein, New York, N.Y.; Ryan Lemlein, Boulder,
Colo.; and Maggie Morrison, Manhattan Beach, Cali.
A celebration o Bills lie was held at the Bellwether Hotel in Bellingham on June 30.
Memorial donations may be made to the Lynden Pioneer Museum, 217 Front St., Lynden, WA
98264.
quite here. Te wisdom o Judaism lies in
living in the exquisite balance between
ever-present messianic readiness and
sober resistance to eschatological excess.
o put it in the homey idiom o my
Grandma Chanas avorite Yiddish apho-
rism, which, incidentally comes right out
o Rabban Yohanans card le: Mtracht
un Gott lacht! (We make plans, but Go
laughs).
Martin S. Jaffee currently holds the Samuel &
Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies at the
University of Washington. His award-winning
columns for JTNews have recently been
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Radar: Snapshots of a Post-Ethnic American
Judaism by iUniverse press.
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bring [Brody] out. We need to enhance the
spirituality in the Seattle community.
Adina Almo, a childhood cancer survi-
vor, said she has always been spiritual and
has beneted rom Brodys and Arushs
ideas o ocused prayer.
I always had this kind o inormal dia-
logue constantly with Hashem, she said,
but I like the idea o ashioning tailor-
ing your personal prayers even more
so.
Ruti Younker, a member o Ezra Bessa-
roth, lef the talk uplifed.
Its good to release tension over the
control you think you have in lie, she
said.
Brody appeared to alter when asked
i he had personally experienced a crisis
o aith.
I ask Hashem or aith every single
day, he said. I wish I were perect on
aith I try to be but I go to Hashem
with simple emunah.
I do spiritual Aikido with crises. he
added.
Brody said he uses the momentum that
comes rom the bad to thank and serve
God. Teres no bad in the world, he
said. It always turns out or the best.
Tough he has achieved success as an
internationally renowned speaker and a
growing spiritual guide, Brody shrugs it o.
Im just a mailman, he said. I dont
attribute my success to mysel. I attribute
all my success to my teacher, Rav Shalom
Arush, and I thank Hashem or giving me
the privilege o being the mailman and
bringing these wonderul teachings to th
English-speaking public.
But he does have one message that h
eels it is important to impart: I yo
dont have a smile on your ace, its n
Judaism. Youre missing something, h
said. And that missing element is th
number one: thats emunah. Emunah
going to bring you happiness and inn
peace, and thats what you want in lie. I
not the money. Its not the garbage...ju
go or emunah.
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three-judge appeals panel ruled last year
that Florers accusations might have merit
and remanded the matter to Martinez or
a closer look. Martinez again rejected Flo-
rers claims, citing the standard set in an
8th Circuit appeals case, and this time the
9th Circuit panel agreed.
Tis is the rst time in a decade, Ithink, that we havent had some lawsuit
pending against us, Friedman said.
Overall, Friedman said, the group typi-
cally aids about 40 local, state and ederal
inmates and their amilies in Washington
State at any given time, including read-
justment assistance to convicts who have
served their time.
he annual budget o the group,
ounded as a part o Bnai Brith Interna-
tional, has shrunk rom $250,000 in 1997
under BBI to $155,000 ve years ago to
$70,000 last year, Friedman said.
We are probably the least popular
cause in Judaism, he said.
Nonetheless, the Florer case has drawn
widespread attention among those con-
cerned with all types o religious services
or prison inmates, said Friedman, who
has also served as communications direc-
tor o the American Correctional Chap-
lains Association or the past 14 years.
Across the country, this is going to
beneit chaplaincy programs, he said.