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all’s equal underground 5It takes an air raid siren and a bomb shelter to make us realize we’re all the same.

tunnel vision 6Israel’s somewhat surprise discovery of the intricacy of terrorists’ tunnels under the Gaza Strip has changed the name of the game.

bruchim habaim! join us in welcoming our community’s new rab-bis and educational leaders — and congratulating some who have found new homes in the area.

Rabbi Ruth Zlotnick: Temple Beth Am 7Rabbi David Lipper: Temple B’nai Torah 8Rabbi Jessica Yarkin: Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation 9Rabbi Paul Strasko: Congregation Kol Shalom 10Rabbi Yona Margolese: Torah Day School 12Rabbi Shaul Engelsberg: Derech Emunah 12Hamutal Gavish: The Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle 13Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg: Congregation Kol Ami 14Rabbi Micah Ellenson and Rabbi Jaclyn Cohen: Temple De Hirsch Sinai 15Rabbi Adam Rubin: Congregation Beth Shalom 16 northwest jewish Family section hot mess 11Ed Harris thinks it would be a good idea to go on a family road trip.

back to our roots 17A new afterschool program hopes to bring new meaning to Hebrew school.

standing with israel 20A rally in solidarity with Israel last Sunday brought out a strong crowd despite the threats of rain and traffic.

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Shabbat in the ParkLuther Burbank Park, Mercer Island

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FRiDAy 25 JuLy6:15–9 p.m. — Kabbalat Shabbat Honoring Yiddish

Wendy Marcus at 206-525-0915 or [email protected] Service featuring Yiddish poetry, songs, and prayers presented by area speakers and lovers of Yiddish, along with traditional Hebrew liturgy and English readings. An oneg featuring Eastern European treats to follow. Free. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.7–10 p.m. — Shabbat of Learning with Rabbi Jack Bieler

Karen Treiger at or [email protected] Daven with Minyan Ohr Chadash Friday night and be inspired by teachings from Rabbi Bieler of Kemp Mill Shul in Maryland. Free. At Minyan Ohr Chadash, 51st Ave. and Brighton St. S, Seattle.

SAtuRDAy 26 JuLyShabbat of Learning with Rabbi Jack Bieler

Karen Treiger at or [email protected] Rabbi Bieler will teach a shiur after morning services (11:15 a.m.) and teach again at 8:10 p.m. Free. At Minyan Ohr Chadash, 51st Ave. and Brighton St. South, Seattle.Rhodes and Cos Memorial Shabbatonwith Rabbi Marc Angel

206-722-5500Shabbat morning: “Remembering, Reminding, Rededicating: Reflections on the Holocaust in Rhodes and Cos.” At 7 p.m.: “Shalom al Yisrael: How Will Israel Achieve Peace?” Special Shabbat Kiddush sponsored by Harley and Lela Franco. At Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., Seattle.

SunDAy 27 JuLy8:15–9:30 a.m. — Swedish SummeRun and Walk for Ovarian Cancer Research

Rebecca Levy at 206-232-8555, ext. 207 or [email protected] Participate in memory of HNT members Marsha Rivkin, Babs Fisher, and Gail Stulberg. One hundred percent of proceeds benefit the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research. $30. At Swedish Medical Center, 1101 Madison St., Seattle.

11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Community Gathering for Israel

Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle at 206-443-5400 or www.jewishinseattle.org/news-events/news/israel-situation-updateGather with members of the Seattle Jewish community in solidarity with the people and State of Israel and the families of soldiers who grieve, mournful at the loss of all human life and prayerful about a lasting and sustainable end to conflict. Please leave signs and large bags at home. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

tuESDAy 29 JuLy6–8 p.m. — AIPAC Young Professionals Happy Hour

AIPAC Seattle Office at 206-624-5152 or [email protected] or www.aipac.orgSecond happy hour event of the summer, joined by a panel of speakers who experienced pro-Israel activism first hand on Washington campuses this year. At SURF Incubator, 999 Third Ave., 15th floor, Seattle.

thuRSDAy 31 JuLy10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. — A Trip to theBallard Locks

JFS Endless Opportunities at 206-461-3240 or [email protected] or www.jfsseattle.orgTour the Ballard/Chittenden Locks, connecting Lake Washington, Lake Union and Salmon Bay to the tidal waters of Puget Sound. Meet at the visitors’ center. At Ballard Locks, 3015 NW 54th Ave.

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Congregation Kol Ami at 425-844-1604 or [email protected] or www.kolaminw.orgBBQ followed by Havdallah service. Meet the new rabbi, Yohanna Kinberg, and members of the community. Contact the temple for more information and address. Free. At member’s home, Woodinville.

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movie night, complete with s’mores. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale

“The Snow Queen,” “Frozen” tells the story of a fearless princess who sets off on an

epic journey alongside a rugged mountain man, his loyal pet reindeer, and a hapless

snowman to find her estranged sister, whose icy powers have inadvertently trapped

the kingdom in eternal winter. S’mores start melting at 8 p.m., with the movie starting

at approximately 8:30. Free.

At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

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Monotonix,Yonatan Gat has gone off on his

own and produced “Iberian Passage,” his de-

but EP of a gentler sort of rock — gentle being

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to induce injuries and end up with the police

shutting down their riotous shows in Tel Aviv, where they started out. Guitarist-singer

Gat’s new solo work is a far cry from noise rock, threading in melodious sounds pre-

sumably inspired by Iberia with the help of a Portuguese drummer a Wurlitzer organ-

ist. It’s not exactly Vivaldi, but it’s beautiful. Also performing: Selector Dub Narcotic,

Dreamsalon, and The Pharmacy. 21-plus show. $8.

At Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave. NW, Seattle. For more information and tickets

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“yesterday was just a horrible day. i kept thinking, ‘people need shabbat, people need grounded-ness, people need torah.’ that’s my job now as a rabbi, to give that.”-rabbi jaclyn cohen on starting at temple de hirsch sinai. see the story on page 15.

a comment on suicide

After reading a recent article, “Suicide in Jewish tradition” by Rabbi Jaron Matlow

(Rabbi’s Turn, July 11), I wanted to humbly offer a comment to the community.

He wrote: “People who commit suicide cannot be buried in Jewish cemeteries. Tradi-

tional rabbis will decline to officiate at funerals for people who have committed suicide.”

I was worried that readers might come to the conclusion that if one of their loved ones

committed suicide, they would decide to bury the deceased in a non-Jewish cemetery,

which is what the article seems to say is correct according to Jewish law. Just like any other

area of Jewish law, many factors are at play, and for every issue, the applicable law must be

looked at on a case-by-case basis. After doing a bit of research on my own it seems that in

most suicide cases a person should in fact be buried normally in a Jewish cemetery and

it is only in specific cases of suicides were they are buried in a separate area of a Jewish

cemetery. I only wanted to comment that everyone should treat suicide just like every other

area of Jewish law, carefully researching, and most importantly, making sure to take their

case to a rabbi educated in the fine details of Jewish burial before deciding to bury their

loved ones among non-Jews.

uriel cohen

mercer island

safe, but scared

My wife and I just returned from

Israel two days ago where we experi-

enced firsthand what it was like when

the sirens go off. My grandkids, 13 and

14 years of age, were there as well, on

a Bar and Bat Mitzvah tour with their

parents. We were on Highway 1, going

from Jerusalem to Modiin to join some

cousins for dinner when I, the driver,

heard a siren. I fully expected to catch

sight of an emergency vehicle in my

rearview mirror, but instead, noted

that cars were pulling off to the side

of the road with the occupants exit-

ing their cars and crouching down on

the road. We followed suit and stayed

at the side of the road for about five

minutes. There was the distant sound

of an explosion, which I was told rep-

resented an interception of a rocket by

an Iron Dome missile. We were safe,

but it was scary. We had a little taste of what Israelis throughout the country, but especially

in the south, are experiencing every day.

Pictured in the photo are my two grandchildren, Nate and Evan Sigmon, my wife Shainie,

and me with hands over our heads.

michael schuffler, md

Finding equality in a jerusalem bomb shelterAARon D. PAnKEn JTa World news Service

NEW YORK (JTA) – When the siren sounded, the Rolling Stones’ tortured 1969 track “Gimme Shelter” popped into my head, oddly enough.

That haunting song offered a stunning reminder of the endless horrors of war, reawak-ening a sleepy world with a vivid musical picture of human pain in times of combat. Merry Clayton’s evocative vocalization of disturbing lyrics over a harsh musical background focused global attention on the awful realities of the Vietnam War.

Nowadays, though, one hardly requires a song to experience war — live news feeds, endless web-sites and constant e-alerts satiate us with such input constantly. Such has cer-tainly been the case with the ongoing Gaza-Israel crisis of the past weeks. Often ignored amid the images we see, however, are the more human sides of military conflict.

Last week in Jerusa-lem, I witnessed this more

human side. It started in a crowded lecture hall when the alarming, warbling music of the first siren in the city immediately captured the attention of all present. Quickly, though not very quietly, we filed into the “miklat” — the shelter located in the basement of almost every building in Israel.

Many Israelis do this with a practiced nonchalance learned over many wars and missile attacks. They roll their eyes at the inconvenience, remark on the fact that a little siren can take precedence over even the most important conversation or event, chuckle at morbid jokes and generally riff on the annoyance of such happenings.

It is, I suppose, a way of normalizing the abnormal — if quotidian life can continue even in the face of the fear, then the victory of Hamas, Hezbollah or whoever the present enemy may be is thereby restricted and limited.

In the shelter, the most remarkable equality reigns. Babies, young children, teens, sol-diers, the elderly are all there — the entire cycle of life walks down those stairs to seek safety, with all its glories and challenges blatantly displayed. Those bedecked in yarmulkes or dressed in the black suits and hats of the Haredi Orthodox stand alongside those who live Reform, Conservative, secular or more postmodern lives, along with Israeli Arabs, Druze, Christians and others.

Some pray, others recite Psalms, some chat, but most sit quietly and await the “all clear.” For a few minutes, the divergent, contradictory and competitive streams of life in Israel all converge, and human safety becomes the sole communal objective.

Walking on the street in Jerusalem when the alarm sounds, the scene is even more pro-found. As people move to their private shelters, whoever happens to be on the street is welcomed in, no questions asked. Shopkeepers, normally reticent to share their precious stockrooms with strangers, welcome passers-by into their inner sanctum without hesita-tion. Doors everywhere fly rapidly open, and the true value of “hakhnasat orhim” — wel-coming the stranger — happens all over the country.

On buses and in cars, the same principle holds true, for wherever one stops, one is wel-comed. Such shared vulnerability unites the country, reminding everyone of their inescap-able linkage to state and people, shared government and collective fate.

This particular night, I happened to be with a group of our North American students who had come to Jerusalem just days before to begin the first year of their studies to become rabbis, cantors and Jewish educators. It was surreal for them, to be sure, these young vis-itors so recently transplanted into a new and foreign culture at a very challenging time.

Along with a palpable nervousness, what emerged with them as we left the shelter together and dispersed into the balmy Jerusalem night was a sense of being at one with their people. A people sheltered together, against whatever the world might tender.

Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, Ph.D, is the president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. JEWISHSOUND.ORG

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tunnel vision: why hamas’ tunnels are the new front in the war with israeluRiEL hEiLMAn JTa World news Service

Until this latest war, if you asked most Israelis about the threat from Gaza, they would probably start talking about Hamas rockets.

But that has changed over the last few days of fighting, for two reasons. One, the much-heralded success of the Iron Dome missile defense system has all but neutralized Hamas’ rocket threat. Two, and far more troubling for Israelis, they have woken up to the true extent of the subterranean threat from Gaza: the tunnels that snake underneath the densely populated coastal territory into Israel proper.

The tunnels discov-ered by the Israel Defense Forces are reinforced by concrete walls and ceil-ings. Some are 90 feet deep and extend more than a mile in length, terminating inside Israel not far from residential neighborhoods. Israeli troops have discov-ered phone lines, electric-ity wires, pulley systems and stockpiles of explosives and weapons in the tunnels.

Many of the tunnels have multiple branches and a

multitude of exit points, which explains why the precise number the IDF says it has found keeps fluctuating. As of Tuesday, the number was 66 access shafts as part of 23 tunnels.

The “terror tunnels,” the IDF said in a statement, are meant “to carry out attacks such as abductions of Israeli civilians and soldiers alike; infiltrations into Israeli communities, mass murders and hostage-taking scenarios.”

It seems that the extent to which the ground underneath the Gaza-Israel border resem-bles Swiss cheese has caught the IDF — and the Israeli public — by surprise.

Before Israel launched its ground invasion on July 17, the Israeli government seemed reluctant to send troops into Gaza and pay the price in Israeli blood, Palestinian collateral damage and international censure that a ground invasion probably would entail.

But now that Israel has awakened to the true extent of the tunnel threat and Israeli troops are already fighting and dying in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems determined to have the IDF destroy as many tunnels as it can.

“The operation will be expanded until the goal is achieved: restoring quiet to the citi-zens of Israel for a long period,” Netanyahu said Monday, keeping things vague enough so as not to be boxed into a corner.

If the war ends before the tunnel threat can be addressed adequately, the IDF’s job in Gaza will have been left unfinished. Though Israelis are agonizing over the death toll on their side, they don’t want those soldiers to have died in vain.

This is seen inside Israel as a war of necessity, not of choice.But with the Palestinian death toll soaring since the launch of the ground invasion,

international pressure for a cease-fire is growing. While Israel’s eagerness for a cease-fire and well publicized efforts to avoid civilian casu-

alties bought it some time early on, the escalating violence and rapidly mounting Pales-tinian civilian deaths — including several well-documented cases of Israeli strikes killing children, wiping out multiple members of the same family and targeting a hospital — are shifting international opinion away from Israel’s favor.

It remains to be seen how long Netanyahu can withstand the pressure, or how the fight-ing that lies ahead will affect the calculus.

For its part, Hamas doesn’t appear to want to stop fighting either. It views every Israeli death as a triumph and every Palestinian civilian death as fodder with which to build inter-national criticism of Israel.

But now the existence of tunnels through which terrorists can infiltrate the country again threatens to bring the war into Israel, and that’s a frightening thought for Israelis.

The country still well remembers the Maalot massacre of 1974, when Palestinian terror-ists slipped across the border from Lebanon and took more than 100 children hostage at a school in the northern Israeli town of Maalot. More than 25 Israelis were killed during that incident, which ended when Israeli troops stormed the school building.

With the Israeli death toll rising fast, this war already has turned into a nightmare for many Israelis, particularly those burying their loves ones. But there’s a reason IDF troops are still pushing hard in Gaza: They’re working to avert something worse.

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meet rabbi ruth Zlotnick: hoping to continue beth am’s legacy of social justiceDAn AznoFF Special to JTnews

Despite the fact that she grew up 3,000 miles away from Seattle and speaks with an East Coast accent, Rabbi Ruth Zlot-nick believes she will be coming home in August when she takes her place on the bima as the new senior rabbi at Temple Beth Am.

Raised in a suburb of New York City, the new spiritual leader for the Reform congregation in North Seattle was attracted to the synagogue because of its rich history of tikkun olam.

“There is not a major difference between the person I am when I conduct services and the wife and mother I try to be at home,” Zlotnick explained. “Given the opportunity to learn about the role Beth Am has played in the social issues of our

time, I knew immediately that this was the type of congregation that I would want to join, even if I was not the rabbi.”

Early in her career, Zlotnick quickly made Relational Judaism the focus of her rabbinical responsibilities. She urged members at the Central Synagogue in New York, the large Reform congrega-tion where she served as director of life-long learning in the early 2000s, to become aware of the need for social change, and joined forces with groups dedicated to positive changes throughout the urban community. She was associate director of programs at Synagogue 2000 (now Syna-gogue 3000) before that.

Zlotnick continued to lead by exam-ple when she moved across the river to serve as senior rabbi at Temple Beth Or in Washington Township, N.J. in 2008. She played an active role in the secular com-munity during her six years at the small suburban synagogue by serving on the Rabbinic Council of Garden State Equality and the Gun Violence Prevention Advo-cacy of New Jersey.

“Jewish learning happens at all levels from our earliest days until the last days of our lives,” she said. “Judaism helps us con-nect as a community. It allows us to look beyond our individual needs to see the bigger picture, both as a religion and as a responsible member of society.”

Zlotnick said that given her experience, Beth Am and its 875 member households feels like the right fit. Beth Am president Bryan Rutberg could not agree more. He said several outstanding candidates sub-mitted applications for the senior rabbi

post when it opened last year, but Zlot-nick’s words jumped off the page.

“The depth of her thinking, the clar-ity of her purpose, and the nuances of her personality put her at the top tier of the 42 applications we received,” Rutberg said. “There was just something grounded in the way she wrote and the passion she evoked during the interview process. She makes it easy to share your feelings, know-ing she understands exactly what you’re trying to say.”

According to Rutberg, the selection committee told the board they were espe-cially impressed with how the rabbi was able to weave words from the Torah and Talmud into her philosophy for Reform Judaism in today’s society.

“Her first concerns are with the spiri-tual health of the community. That is the priority we wanted to find in our next rabbi,” said Rutberg. “She captivated us with her rachmones [sympathy]. We all had the feeling she understood our com-munity. She wanted to be part of the solu-tion.”

Before she took her place with the clergy in uptown New York, Zlotnick earned her bachelor’s degree in reli-gious studies from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. and a master’s in the philosophy of religion from Yale. She received ordination from the Hebrew Union College–Institute of Jewish Reli-gion in New York in 2001.

Zlotnick comes to Seattle with her husband, Richard Cicale, and daughter Suzannah. She predicted that the family

cat, Norton, will have the most difficult transition to the West Coast. Zlotnick described Norton as “an old city Cat who does not like changes to his routine.”

As for herself, Rabbi Zlotnick is look-ing forward to the next chapter of her life and hopes she will be will be remembered in years to come for maintaining the path toward social justice and equality that was the foundation of the Beth Am congre-gation when it was established almost 60 years ago.

“The size and the intellectual environ-ment [of the congregation at Beth Am] make this move feel like one we have been destined to make,” she said. “The con-gregation and the community reflect the values that we hold as sacred in our own lives.

“Besides,” she said with a grin, “I am addicted to coffee. And I’ve heard there are more than a few places to get a good cup of coffee in the Northwest.”

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meet temple b’nai torah’s rabbi david lipper:hearing people’s storiesJoEL MAgALniCK editor, JTnews

Rabbi David Lipper believes in the power of storytelling. He tells of a new documentary in which its producers built a large box and filled it with pen, pad, a video camera and one question: What does God mean to you?

“Over the course of a year, they recorded or photographed people’s reflec-tions, images, discussions, whatever they

had inside the box, and created this film,” Lipper said. “I think congregations need to do that.”

Lipper will spend one year as interim rabbi at Bellevue’s Temple B’nai Torah, following the retirement of its senior rabbi, Jim Mirel, and the departure of its associate rabbi, Yohanna Kinberg. Lipper comes into a temple that has experienced pain — some from losing Mirel, whose tenure spanned 29 years, and some from losing Kinberg, who after 10 years at the temple was passed over for the senior rabbi position.

“Most of the pain is that people haven’t had the chance to really grieve,” Lipper said. “By listening and talking to people and hearing stories and struggling through their losses, we’ll heal that.”

As a part of the Reform movement’s team of interim rabbis, Lipper’s job is to spend a year (though sometimes rabbis must be on hand for two) as a transition between a rabbi that has left and whoever takes over. The interim is not in the run-ning for the job, and in most cases does not want to be. In Lipper’s case, he has spent the past five years doing interim work. Prior to that he spent 22 years in pulpits in Wisconsin, Texas and Ohio.

Though he considers Houston home, after his three kids were out of the house, his wife Dora decided she didn’t want to be on her own with her husband away so much. Last year, they sold the house and she began to come on these year-long assignments with him.

“At some point we’ll find a home base again,” he said.

Having now made the cross-country trek from his last assignment in Connecti-cut to Bellevue, Lipper said he has a much larger job than keeping the bima warm for a member’s Bar Mitzvah, for example.

“Most of my job is going to be refocus-ing the staff toward best practices, areas where they can really use their skills and talents,” he said. “Most of what I want to do is help this team of people come together, because they’re all new.”

Aside from Cantor David Serkin-Poole, who has been at TBT for more than three decades, nearly all of the temple’s staff lead-ership has come on in the past two years.

“Everybody needs to sit down at the table and figure out what we can do best,” Lipper said.

From the outside, this may not sound like the work of someone who must give a Shabbat sermon each week or comfort a

family following the loss of a loved one. But he holds a certificate in non-profit manage-ment, and “all kinds of other experience along the way,” he said, not to mention a secret weapon: His mother just retired this month after 35 years as administrator at a synagogue in Houston.

“You learn a lot…about the inside of a synagogue when you’re inside the syna-gogue,” he said.

Plus, Lipper said, as a leader with a quickly approaching end date, he has the luxury of honesty.

“A lot of the time settled rabbis will say they never really get to be brutally honest with their congregants or their leader-ship, and so they endure some frustra-tion by not being able to speak their mind, because they’re always concerned about the next contract or the next rotation,” he said.

“Sometimes you have to be honest and sometimes that honesty is painful for communities who see themselves very dif-ferently from within than an interim rabbi might see from the outside.”

At the same time, he’s able to use his year as an opportunity to hear from congregants about why they belong to a

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meet herzl ner-tamid’s rabbi jessica yarkin: Falling in love with american judaismJAniS SiEgEL JTnews Correspondent

Rabbi Jessica Yarkin began her love affair with America in her teens when she realized that she was undeniably attracted to its openness, religious freedom, and willingness to accept many religious points of view.

So, after making a few family trips here and spending two summers at U.S. Jewish camps, Yarkin, who hails from London, finally made her way across the pond seven years ago at the age of 25 to begin

her Jewish career as a program associate at the large University of Florida campus Hillel, where she worked for a year with current Jewish Federation of Greater Seat-tle executive director Keith Dvorchik.

Today, at the age of 32, Yarkin is making her way to Mercer Island to become Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation’s new director of congrega-tional learning.

Along with her British accent, sharp wit and articulate style, the recently ordained rabbi told JTNews that she actu-ally doesn’t miss much about England except for the weather. She looks forward to the Northwest’s soggy seasons.

“I fell in love with Americans, really,” said Yarkin from her car, mid-trip some-where outside of Los Angeles, where she has been living. “I consider this my geo-graphical soul mate. I always wanted to live in America.”

Yarkin will settle in Bellevue with her husband, a Bay Area-native who works at the eBay offices in Bellevue.

Yarkin will be teaching adult education classes and overseeing Herzl-Ner Tamid’s B’Yachad program, a religion school that encourages parents to learn simultane-ously while their children are in classes there.

“I’m getting to teach the Livnot pro-

gram with some of teenagers and that’s an area I really, really love,” said Yarkin. “I love to sing, and I play piano and I love music and choral singing. I love the-ater and drama and improvisation. That’s something I’d really like to do with teens and adults, as well.”

Yarkin’s parents practice Modern Orthodoxy, the largest denomination in England, and her mother is a Jewish edu-cator. They love the fact that she’s a rabbi now, she said, and they are very proud of her, although they miss her a lot. Yarkin Skypes and emails her family often and travels home to England every chance she gets.

In a country ruled by the Queen and Christianity, Yarkin said she often felt marginalized.

“Not that I really encountered anti-Semitism in England,” she said, “it just wasn’t quite as vibrant. People are less proud of their Jewish identity, in gen-eral. It’s a Christian country, and you feel excluded if you don’t celebrate Christ-mas.”

Yarkin spent a weekend with the syn-agogue earlier this spring where she met many of the members, and delivered a d’var Torah on Shabbat. She also held a Torah text study for an adult group.

“Rabbi Yarkin brings a great gift for

connecting with children, teens and adults,” said Herzl-Ner Tamid senior rabbi Jay Rosenbaum. “[She has] passion, energy and humor and a great talent for teaching Judaism in a most engaging way. The congregation has already responded very enthusiastically to Rabbi Yarkin.”

“This is a learned community with people that are thirsty to be challenged,” said Yarkin. “The questions that were asked of me were intelligent, deep points.”

She was equally impressed by the syna-gogue’s celebratory side.

“I had the great experience of seeing their Purim shpiel, and that’s what really sold it for me,” she said. “They had a live band and it was one of the best Purim shpiels I’ve ever seen – ever!”

After graduating from the Ameri-can Jewish University in Los Angeles this spring, she began looking for a happy community to work with — one not in crisis with a healthy and well-functioning congregational life.

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synagogue and how they got there, which is how they move forward.

“The biggest thing that I try to do with congregations is I encourage people to tell their sacred stories,” he said. “As people tell those stories, I think they appreciate where they are a little bit more.”

But Lipper realizes that with this work he must also be completely present for a congregation he’s only beginning to get to know. In fact, a congregant had passed away the morning we spoke.

“What I have to do is be the rabbi for a family whom I have not even met yet,” he said. “I do that often and fairly well. It’s a challenge. Most of it has to do with lis-tening — being a good listener, and tell-ing stories.”

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meet rabbi paul strasko: looking forward to peace at Kol shalomDiAnA BREMEnt JTnews Correspondent

“We have been back all of three weeks,” said Rabbi Paul Strasko when we spoke last week. The newly appointed rabbi of north Kitsap’s Congregation Kol Shalom, located on Bainbridge Island, and his wife, Sandra Andrews-Strasko, have returned to the Northwest after living in Europe and Israel for the past eight years.

The Montana native took on rabbini-cal studies as a third career, after study-ing music performance and composition, and then working in technology. Moving to Seattle in 2002, he became active as a lay service leader at Temple Beth Am and decided to become a rabbi. He studied at Abraham Geiger Kolleg in Berlin and Potsdam, Germany, as well as in Jerusa-lem at the Steinsaltz Institute and Hebrew Union College.

Strasko then had three posts in Europe, as student rabbi in Dusseldorf, an assistant rabbi in Geneva (requiring him to learn to speak French in three months) and finally as the community rabbi in Duisberg, Ger-many for the past two years.

As the sole rabbi for a community of 2,700, Strasko learned a tremendous amount, but was also required to be rabbi, cantor and religious education director, often working 80 hours a week. Despite the number of Jews, participation was low and the community, consisting largely of elderly refugees from the former Soviet Union, was rife with ethnic and national-istic conflict.

“I once had to break up a fistfight” in synagogue, Strasko said.

“In two years I did 55 funerals,” he added. “The burnout was not sustainable.”

During a Seattle visit last summer, the couple began thinking about new possi-bilities.

Rabbi David Fine, local director of the Union for Reform Judaism, recom-mended him to Ira Fielding, president of Kol Shalom, which was actively looking to fill a vacancy created by departing rabbi Mark Glickman. It took a “whirlwind” few

weeks to hire Strasko.“It is a healthy spiritual community,”

Strasko said. While the congregation is affiliated with the Reform movement, many congregants come from a Conserva-tive background, which fits what Strasko calls his “post-denominational” style. For a new rabbi, “They’ve given me amazing flexibility,” he said.

His to-do list for Kol Shalom includes leading high quality services with the help of their cantorial soloist and student rabbi and developing strong youth and adult education. He calls his approach “inreach,” working to develop programs aimed toward the congregation’s 67 fam-ilies. Some growth may come that way, he said. “I think we could become a 100-family congregation.”

Attracting membership is a challenge in an area known to have the lowest levels of religious affiliation in the country.

“We are competing with Mt. Rainier and the Olympics,” he says, but “a good synagogue” provides “relief from the relentless intrusion of social media into our lives.”

Strasko is grateful that his position is part-time, as he is writing a book and

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Sometimes parenting is a hot messBy Ed Harris

Seattle residents like to complain that they never know for sure when summer will finally start. I, however, have a sure-fire technique for picking the last cloudy, overcast, unseasonably cool day of the season: The precise moment we leave town for our annual family vacation.

For several years now, our travel itinerary has been dominated by our son Izzy’s dance schedule. The last two summers he trained for five weeks with the Chicago Ballet, staying in a college dorm downtown and, when not dancing, having a great time with other teens from around the country. The fact girls comprise about 95 percent of the participants in dance programs

is probably a trivially insignificant detail I suspect he has failed to notice, focused athlete that he is.

I doubted Izzy was homesick while away. My wife, however, suggested we should go visit him, just in case he forgot he had parents, and thereby spend our precious vacation time and money in a concrete jungle in the sweltering Midwest. She tossed off this idea with the casual insouciance of one suggesting we turn the hot tub to the highest setting to see how long we might withstand the roiling waters until we faint.

Sure enough, Chicago in July — both visits — was straight out of Dante’s Inferno, except the humidity exceeded even the Italian poet’s imagination. At least we had the solace of seeing Izzy every day, for about five minutes, before he would tell us he had plans with his new friends that evening. That’s the problem with raising well-adjusted children: They drop you like a hot potato three days after the Bar Mitzvah. Ah, the injustice.

This year, Izzy decided to take a break from ballet and participate in two weeklong dance conventions, the first in Los Angeles, and the second in Las Vegas. We drove, figuring 50 hours spent confined in a space more cramped than the lunar landing module and surrounded by junk food would be a great family bonding experience.

The first warm, sunny stretch of gorgeous weather began — you guessed it — the

day we left on our trip. We spent our first night on the road in Ashland, Oregon, where we were welcomed by air baked to a toasty 104 degrees. I happened to notice on CNN the temperature hit a high of 114 that same day in Las Vegas. Of course, as those foolish enough to live year-round in the Southwest like to say, it’s a dry heat, which is about the same consolation as being told the safe that fell out of 10-story window and flattened your loved one was in fact a small one, as far as safes go.

The next day, while driving on I-5 (or as they say in California, “The Five”) the tire pressure indicator on our dashboard light went on. My wife, seated in the back, said the car felt like it was bobbing on the ocean. Nonsense, I replied: what she noticed was the high winds buffeting the vehicle. What does a woman know about cars, anyway? Five minutes later we could hear the sound of deflated rubber flapping against the pavement and I quickly pulled to the shoulder of an exit ramp, where I parked on a sloped surface composed of loose gravel. I decided that of all the possible ways to shuffle off this mortal coil, pinned underneath a Honda SUV was not high on my list, so I called AAA road service for a tire change.

Fortunately, the temperature had cooled all the way down to 98 degrees by then. To gain access to our spare tire, I unloaded the entire cargo compartment of our hatchback, the contents of which included a chair, a prop in one of Izzy’s dance acts that we were transporting to the convention. So on his chair sat I, 20 miles south of Sacramento, traffic whizzing by, surrounded by suitcases, waiting for a mechanic amidst a bleak, sweltering terrain. No one said being a parent would be easy.

I wonder what next year holds in store. I hear the Pacific Northwest Ballet puts on a great summer student ballet program. A man can dream, can’t he?

Ed Harris, the author of “Fifty Shades of Schwarz” and several other books, was born in the Bronx and lives in Bellevue with his family. His blog, Fizz-Ed, and additional information about his books are available at www.edharrisauthor.com.

family calendarfriday, July 2511 a.m. — ravenna Jewish Junction PJ library storytimeKate Speizer at 206-315-7429 or [email protected] Library educator Betsy Dischel leads a free community storytime for tots and their caregivers the fourth Friday of the month. At Ravenna Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave. NE, Seattle.

saturday, July 269:15–10:15 a.m. — tot shabbat Alexis Kort at 206-525-0915 or [email protected] or www.templebetham.org/community/familiesSpecial introduction to Shabbat with story, dancing, singing, prayers, and a short Torah reading, led by a rabbi and Shoshanah Stombaugh. Tot Shabbat is held the fourth Saturday of each month. Everyone welcome. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.

thursday, July 3110–11 a.m. — PJ library neighborhood song andstory time at temPle beth amAlexis Kort at 206-525-0915 or [email protected] or www.templebetham.org/community/families

Jewish songs and stories with Betsy Dischel from PJ Library for toddlers and preschoolers. With snacks and an art project. Parents and caregivers connect and make new friends. Free. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.

friday, august 16–7:15 P.m. — Kinder Kabbalat shabbatAlexis Kort at 206-525-0915 or [email protected] or www.templebetham.org/community/familiesDesigned especially for kids 6 and younger, the service begins with greetings, candle blessings, and challah and continues with prayers, dancing, a story, and blessings. Led by a rabbi and Shoshanah Stombaugh. Light dinner for kids before service at 6:15. No RSVP required. Kinder Kabbalat Shabbat is the first Friday of each month and is open to everyone. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.

thursday, august 710–11 a.m. — PJ library neighborhood song andstory time at temPle beth amAlexis Kort at 206-525-0915 or [email protected] or www.templebetham.org/community/familiesAt Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.

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AKIM Israel, Israel’s National Association for the Habilitation of the Mentally Hand-icapped, and the largest provider of services to the disabled, is now moving hundreds of kids and their families to safer cities in the north of the country to keep them stable and calm. Friends of AKIM USA Seattle chapter is helping from our area.

In this photo, children with developmental disabilities sit in a bomb shelter in Ashkelon. Photo courtesy AKIM.

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rabbi yona margolese: moving tds forwardEMiLy K. ALhADEFF associate editor, JTnews

Torah Day School has had no shortage of changes and challenges over the past two years, and it has met each one swiftly and, so far, successfully.

This fall marks another season of change for the little Orthodox elementary school that could. Following a long search, Seattle-based rabbi Yona Margolese will take the helm as interim head of school, with the hope that this will become a per-manent position.

“We needed a new head of school, and they had an ongoing search for a while,” Margolese said by phone from Israel, where he was visiting. “I offered to take that position.”

Margolese is a parent of students in the school and was on the search committee before he threw in his hat. In August of last year, the school, rocked by a scandal and the resignation of its longtime head,

hired Rabbi Moshe Abady of Los Angeles, but he proved not the right fit and left the school midway through the year.

In taking the job, Margolese is leaving an eight-year career at Northwest Yeshiva High School, where he was the student activities and recruitment coordinator and taught intro-duction to prayer, Jewish law, and introduction to Torah.

“It’s very bittersweet for me, actually,” he said.Not only does Margolese bring education and administration experience to TDS, he

also brings a deep experience with relationship building. Margolese is a licensed family and marriage therapist who owns his own practice, Pomegranate Therapy. He has worked

extensively with children, teens, and families, with an emphasis on issues facing Jewish teenagers. As head of school, he wants to look at students not just academically, but emo-tionally, too.

“We’re very big on having the teachers give homework that’s going to be relevant to the students, and not busywork,” he said. “We believe strongly that students should have time with their families.”

When the students leave the school, they should have time to play sports and just “be themselves,” he explained.

Margolese expects to spend the first year of his tenure getting to know the job and what the community wants.

“Year one is always good to learn things,” he said. “My first step is just to learn.”Beyond that, Margolese said he hopes “to find a way to concretize the mission of the

school in a clear and measurable way” and articulate the school’s uniqueness. “TDS has a really diverse group of families,” said board vice president Yossi Babani.

“What that requires is someone who knows the community well. Having someone who is well-rooted here, like Rabbi Margolese, is a huge plus.”

Babani added that Margolese’s experience as a community member, a former TDS board member, a teacher, administrator and family therapist make him situated to deal with students, parents, and teachers effectively.

“We need solid and stable leadership, and we also need a relationship builder,” said Babani. “Rabbi Margolese fits that bill well.”

“It may sound cliché,” Margolese said, “[but] I love Jews. I love people. I see in this posi-tion the opportunity to bring Jews closer together, I think to bring the community together. I would love to be a part of that.”

meet rabbi shaul engelsberg: returning to seattle to lead EMiLy K. ALhADEFF associate editor, JTnews

When Rabbi Shaul Engelsberg moves to Seattle from Detroit next month, he’ll be taking on a new role in the community, but he’s not exactly new.

The Orthodox rabbi lived in Seattle from 1994 to 1999, where he taught Judaics at Seat-tle Hebrew Academy.

“The relationships that I formed in those five years were extremely special,” said Engelsberg.

He’s glad to be returning, this time as head of school at Derech Emunah, the nascent Orthodox girls high school in the Georgetown neighborhood.

The opportunity to come back is “almost hard to put into words,” he said. “It’s very emotionally satisfying for me.”

Engelsberg moved from Seattle to the Detroit area to be near his wife’s family when she fell ill. After she passed away, he remained in Detroit, where he taught at

Yeshiva Beth Yehuda, spending nine years with the girls high school division and giving moti-vational talks at girls high schools, conventions and Shabbatons around the country.

“We have such high standards that sometimes we become discouraged when we’re not meeting our highest ideals,” said Engelsberg of the content of his motivational talks. “It’s impor-tant for every person to realize how great they really are.”

Engelsberg sees Derech Emunah as providing “an outstanding Torah education where every girl comes and grows and becomes the best student possible in preparation for life.”

Derech Emunah is going into its third year, with a projected enrollment of nine or ten girls. Rooksie David has served as head of school until now, and will continue to serve as an educa-tional consultant.

“She approached me with the idea of Rabbi Engelsberg as being the head of school for the long term,” said Derech Emunah board president Jeffrey Alhadeff. “Mrs. David and Rabbi

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meet hamutal Gavish: bringing a holistic approach to jds JoEL MAgALniCK editor, JTnews

Hamutal Gavish has what will be a busy but important short-term goal: To meet and get to know every family of the 180 or so kids who attend the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle.

In the long term, her goals may be a little less all-consuming, but they will be no less important for the head of school who arrived in Bellevue not even a month ago. The usual tasks of increasing fund-raising, connecting to the outer commu-nity, and growing enrollment, as well as continuing to implement the education philosophy that both she and the school share, “teaching kids to critically learn, to be owning their own learning, not just to feed them information and to spew back information,” she said.

Gavish comes to JDS from Marin County, Calif., where she ran the Brandeis

Hillel Day School for the past eight years. Prior to that, the native-born Israeli spent 10 years in the Boston area, where as the first

head of school for the Jewish Community Day School of Boston, she grew the school from 20 students to 170 by the time she left.

“It was my first child,” Gavish said. “I was very proud of that school and where it is now and how it came to be.”

Her real first child, incidentally, who was a student at Brandeis Hillel, will enter the 6th grade at JDS in the fall.

Given Gavish’s passion for holistic learning — integrating Judaics and general stud-ies as much as possible, as well as sharing a philosophy of inquiry-based learning, which JDS itself began to implement in the past three years — both she and the board believe her entrance into the JDS community will be a great fit with a smooth integration.

“She had so many of the things that JDS was looking for in a leader at this point in the school’s lifetime,” Jill Friedman, the school’s board president, told JTNews. “We wanted some-body who was visionary.... We needed somebody who has the experience to execute on it.”

That plan has multiple areas, Gavish said, from growing enrollment — “there’s

tremendous opportunity with early childhood, tremendous opportunity with building the middle school further” — to imbuing strong Jewish values into the students to the growth of the learning philosophy.

“The school nationally, hopefully, will be known and other institutions will come to us and see how we really do the process of inquiry in the school, which integrates the Judaics and the general studies,” she said.

Inquiry-based learning is “a process for kids to ask questions. For kids to identify what they’re learning, not to come with an end product,” Gavish said. “When the kids have that, when they do leave school like this, they engage in anything that they do with this go-get-it attitude rather than ‘I don’t know the answer, I’m not going to try.’”

Gavish moved to the U.S. from Israel at the age of 16, and while she knew she wanted to spend her life as a Jewish educator, she focused in her undergraduate years more on math and science. She spent many years working with the Conservative movement’s Camp Ramah, had a few teaching jobs at Jewish schools, then went to the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College to give her the credentials to begin working in administration. Her first administrative position focused more on the Hebrew language and Judaics, however, and she felt that she missed the general studies side of the teaching equation.

“Judaics should be integrated into everything that we do,” she said.That’s how she ended up in Boston, and then in the Bay Area, and now in Bellevue.

Friedman, the board’s president, said Gavish is “one of those people who is warm and loyal and has great relationships with people. We knew that not only from our interactions with her, but her reputation in the community.”

“People say that I lead from behind,” Gavish said. “I use a lot of empathy and active lis-tening.”

She firmly believes in building one-on-relationships, hence the goal of sitting down with every family in her school over the next few months.

That said, “decisions have to be made, it can’t just be that it’s all, ‘Let’s just sit together and figure this out and make a decision.’ But there are many times that people feel their voices are heard, and they might not agree, and we might agree to disagree with you, but I’ve heard you.”

Gavish clearly relishes taking on her new role. As the incoming leader of a school that teaches a wide range of families at different levels of observance and income, given her experience, “what I have here is kind of a blend of Israeli-American, Conservative-Reform, secular-traditional,” Gavish said. “I’m not pegged into any one place, and that’s something I see in this environment as well.”

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meet rabbi yohanna Kinberg: On a new path in woodinvilleDiAnA BREMEnt JTnews Correspondent

Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg used one lead-ership transition to create a career shift of her own — she chose to leave the associ-ate rabbi position she’d held for 11 years at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue when senior rabbi Jim Mirel retired from there this June.

Kinberg will become the rabbi of Con-gregation Kol Ami in Woodinville this fall.

“I wanted to try something different,” she said. Already acquainted with the con-gregation through the annual Reform com-munity’s family Camp Kesher, “I was just thrilled to help a congregation close by.”

Kinberg believes the congregation reflects her own eclectic background and her love of music. “It’s a really good fit for me,” she said. “They’re also really interested in exploring what Jewish community is.”

“We are very excited to have Rabbi Kinberg,” said Kol Ami’s newly elected

president, Donna Lurie. Kinberg comes with experience and “knowledge about all aspects of congregational life, and we hope to tap into that expertise and be able to grow and thrive as a congregation.”

Kinberg lives in Olympia with her husband, Rabbi Seth Goldstein of Temple Beth Hat-filoh, and their two sons. “I spend a lot of time in my car,” she said. Her new job is just a couple of freeway stops north of where she used to exit I-405.

Closer to Redmond than Woodinville, Kol Ami shares a building with Bear Creek

United Methodist Church and features a worship space “designed to be both a sanctu-ary and a church.” Kinberg notes that there’s a competition in Germany now to design a multi-faith space, but “at Kol Ami, this has been going on for a while.” Tapestries on pul-leys are lowered to cover the cross on the wall, the ark is on rollers, and there are Jewish symbols on the doors.

“There’s nothing about the room that doesn’t say ‘Jewish’ once you’ve moved every-thing around, which takes about five minutes,” she said. Plus, “a huge parking lot,” accom-modates High Holiday attendance.

The half-time position lets Kinberg, 41, resume or start a number of community proj-ects. This summer she’s the camp rabbi at Camp Solomon Schechter, a stone’s throw from her home, and she’s started blogging again at www.freerangerabbi.blogspot.com. Look for her class on parenting and parsha to be taught in the community this fall. She’s also hoping Kol Ami can sponsor some classes on holidays and food at a local food market.

Community-based learning lets “all the Jews who are living up here know that we’re here and ready to be a center for Jewish life on the northern Eastside.”

Kinberg wants to help Kol Ami become a place that provides “everything people need for their Jewish life” while keeping the congregation a manageable size. Right now it serves about 90 families with weekly Friday night services and Sunday afternoon religion school. “No one has to get up early,” she says.

Another of Kinberg’s visions is to “help Kol Ami become a place where we nurture ahavat Yisrael [love of Israel] in the community.”

Kinberg is the daughter of a Moroccan-Israeli mother who immigrated to Israel as a teen, and Kinberg retains strong ties to that country. Her parents met in Israel when her Ashkenazi father came to study Hebrew before starting rabbinical school. Rabbi Myron Kinberg served the Jewish community of Eugene, Ore. for many years.

Kinberg will be installed on Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m. Speakers will include Rabbi Jim Mirel, regional Hadassah president Peg Elefant, and Rev. Vincent Lachina of Planned Parent-hood Northwest.

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Like many Jewish leaders over the mil-lennia who were called to serve their flocks, it wasn’t always obvious to the two new clergy now on staff at Temple De Hirsch Sinai, Rabbis Jaclyn Cohen and Micah Ellenson, that the rabbinate was their des-tiny.

Multi-talented and drawn to the worlds of psychology, music, theater, sports, and history, once the two professionals — who had worked together at the Stephen S. Wise Temple in Los Angeles — finally chose rab-binical school, they never looked back.

“Director of congregational learning was the job I wanted and Seattle was the town I wanted to move to,” Ellenson said. “I thought about entertainment, I thought

about teaching, I thought about psychol-ogy, but I was always drawn back to the Jewish world. It’s where my passion really lies.”

The son of Rabbi David Ellenson, the recently retired president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, Micah, 36, was not neces-sarily looking for his father’s blessing over his choice of career, but he got it, none-theless.

“He said ‘you’ll make an excellent rabbi’ and that he was really proud that I was going down this path,” said Ellenson.

Ellenson was the youth director at Ste-phen S. Wise Temple for four years. That’s where he met his wife, Sara. They have a four-year-old daughter, Lily.

“Micah brings a breadth and depth of pedagogical training and experience that will really help us build on the remark-able success of our educational program,” TDHS senior rabbi Daniel Weiner told JTNews, “and really take it to the next level.”

Ellenson is no stranger to the Puget Sound. Yearly, his family would visit rel-atives in Issaquah and he often visited his best friend who was stationed at the Puget Sound Naval Ship Yard in Bremerton.

“I love the community,” said Ellenson. “I love how diverse it is. Everybody’s so warm and welcoming and friendly.”

Ellenson is overseeing the Jenni-fer Rosen Meade Preschool, the Bridge Family Religion School, all adult learning at TDHS, youth programs, and the temple library.

It’s also Jaclyn Cohen’s first congrega-tional post. The newly married 30 year old will be working with the 22-to-35-year-old TDHS affinity group, The Tribe.

“These are my people,” Cohen said, “the sort of post-college, pre-marriage-with-children age range. We’re all similarly struggling and trying to make sense of this bizarre world and I think Judaism is really an essential part of having to navigate this craziness.”

Officially a member of the “millennial” generation, Cohen said that 9/11 was its “JFK moment.”

“I was a senior in high school on Sept. 11, and that’s when things really shifted,” she said. According to Cohen, the eco-

nomic crash and the housing crisis of 2008 also deeply impacted her peers. The tradi-tional images of marriage, family, and the stability of a home look less attainable to them and have left many in her age range doubtful about the expectation of a pros-perous and predictable future.

“That pattern doesn’t exist anymore and my age group knows that,” she said. “We’re all asking ourselves how we’re going to afford being adults, get a job, pay off our student loans.”

Speaking to JTNews the day after the Israeli Defense Forces militarily entered the Gaza Strip and the shoot-down of a Malaysian passenger jet in the war zone on the border between Ukraine and Russia, Cohen is reminded of just how fragile a peaceful world can be.

“Yesterday was just a horrible day,” she said. “I kept thinking, ‘people need Shab-bat, people, need grounded-ness, people need Torah.’ That’s my job now as a rabbi, to give that.”

Cohen considered becoming a cantor out of her love for music and singing, but ultimately she wanted more. Her vocal styles encompass both the secular and sacred – from a cappella to musical theatre.

“Jaclyn brings incredible energy, sen-sitivity, insight and thoughtfulness and is the whole package,” said Weiner, “not only including that youthful vigor and ideal-ism, but at the same time, a maturity that belies her age that I think will appeal to the breadth of generational cohorts that we have here at the congregation.”

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In 1997, Adam Rubin was in services at Congregation Beth Shalom listening to Rabbi Dov Gartenberg. Rubin was spend-ing the academic year in Seattle before

returning to Los Angeles to finish his Ph.D. in modern Jewish history. He loved the synagogue and the Northwest. What would he have thought if someone told him he’d return to someday to Beth Shalom — not as a congregant but as a rabbi?

“I would have been astonished,” he admitted.

He was happy teaching Jewish studies. He was also part of an egalitarian minyan in Los Angeles that intentionally had no rabbi. But over time, he felt a need for spir-itual leadership. As members got older and started raising families, he felt smaller stand-alone minyans didn’t have capacity to provide childcare and fulfill other needs.

“So I came to feel more and more strongly that there’s a reason why syna-gogues are the main mode of institutional Jewish religion in the United States,” he said.

Rubin built a career as a professor of modern Jewish history at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles. But the work was isolating, leaving him in front of a computer.

“I’m a people person, I like to be in the

community,” he explained. With Hebrew Union College’s requirement for faculty to do community service, he went all over California and beyond, teaching at high schools and with seniors in havurot. He fell in love with the work.

“For a long time I’d been involved in Jewish community life on my own,” he reflected, “but the idea of making it my life’s work made it more appealing.” He entered the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles, and was recently ordained.

It was a natural next step to Beth Shalom. Rubin’s strengths matched the needs of the community and he felt drawn to it.

“It’s a big move for the synagogue,” he said. Beth Shalom has never had a second

rabbi, and he describes it as an indicator of success and growth to hire him and an edu-cation director alongside Rabbi Jill Borodin.

He started work on July 1, emphasiz-ing how warmly welcomed he and his wife, Judith Schleyer, have felt with their two children, Elior, age 4, and Na’amah, 3 months. He’s already learning the ropes from Rabbi Borodin and doing what he calls the “sacred work” of visiting congre-gants dealing with illnesses. He’s looking forward to performing lifecycle ceremo-nies, teaching, and nurturing the syna-gogue’s existing strengths.

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Hey parents, it’s 3:30 p.m. Do you know where your kids are? Maybe at Hebrew school?toRi gottLiEB Jtnews Correspondent

How many people have fond memories of their childhood Hebrew school programs, of sitting in their synagogues’ classrooms or social halls after a full day of English and algebra, going over alphabets and pronunciation and vowels, without understanding much of what was going on? Don’t answer that.

For a little something different, a group of Seattle parents, with the help of the Kavana Cooperative, seeks to change after-school Jewish education from something obligatory to something fun. This fall, they will introduce the Seattle Jewish community to Shorashim, a play-based, camp-like, afterschool environment where kids will be able to engage with and enjoy Hebrew language and Jewish culture.

“There have been so many studies that camp is so impor-tant in developing Jewish identity,” said parent volunteer Abby Calvo. “If we can capture that camp-like atmosphere through the school year and ingrain that into learning, our kids will be all the better for it.”

Among the first of its kind in the country, Shorashim will follow in the footsteps of recently developed programs in Berkeley, Boston, and Atlanta to provide kids with Hebrew fluency, a strong understanding of Jewish culture, and perhaps most important, a passion for Judaism. Shorashim seeks to get kids started as early as kindergarten so Jewish educa-tion becomes an integral part of their elementary school experience.

Led by Calvo and fellow parent volunteers Larry Nicholas, Sarina Natkin and Leslie Sil-verman, Shorashim also seeks to provide a community for families as a whole, with holi-day celebrations and quarterly Shabbat dinners so all family members feel a connection to and ownership of the program.

“Our goal is supplementary Jewish education that’s inspiring, lasting, convenient, dif-ferent and fun,” said Nicholas, whose search for an immersive Jewish experience for his own children was the catalyst for Shorashim.

With the help of Kavana’s Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum, Sho-rashim is developing a curriculum similar to its Moadon Yeladim program, which currently provides a once-weekly “kids’ club” that fuses games, stories, the arts, and discussion to give kids a fuller understanding of Judaism and Hebrew. In its first year, Shorashim will pilot a twice-weekly program on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and is hiring a professional Jewish educator to oversee teaching efforts. Over the next five years, Shorashim’s goal is to expand the program to five days a week

with separate curricular levels for each age group, from kindergarten through 5th grade. This will give parents and children the opportunity to use Shorashim not just as a supple-mental Jewish education option, but also as their primary afterschool care provider.

Shorashim’s pilot year will kick off in October, and programming will be held at the MLK FAME Community Center at 3201 E Republican Street in Madison Valley.

Shorashim has also undertaken a crowd-funding initiative at www.indiegogo.com/ projects/shorashim-seattle-s-emerging-jewish-kids-project to help establish start-up funds and to minimize costs to families in the first year of the program.

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Lillian Helen Silver RadinskyJanuary 5, 1915–July 7, 2014

Lillian Radinsky passed away on July 7, 2014 surrounded by her family, in Seattle, at the age of 99-1/2. Lillian was born to Abe and Anna Silver in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. on January 5, 1915. She grew up in Chicago and lived in Florida, New York, Houston and Seattle.

Lillian received a full scholarship to the University of Chicago at the age of 16, but she regretfully had to decline the offer in order to go to work in the depths of the Depression to support her family. She also worked at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933. Lillian moved to Seattle in 1934 with her parents and sister Florence.

Lillian married Jack Radinsky in Seattle in 1935. Lillian and Jack had five children, Joseph, Sara, David, Miriam and Moshe. Lillian was a founder of the Jewish Community Center in downtown Seattle. Lillian was also active in the PTA of the Seattle Talmud Torah as well as being active in Mizrachi (AMIT) Women. Lillian later worked for AMIT, traveling across North America, establishing new chapters and raising funds. Lillian was a champion of many Jewish causes and the State of Israel, which she visited frequently.

Lillian is preceded in death by her husband Jack, her sister Florence Maslan, her son Moshe Radinsky, her daughter Miriam Renna, her grandson Joshua Friedland and her granddaughter Devorah Urkowitz. She is survived by her children, Rabbi Joseph (Juliette z’’l), Sara (Paul Friedland), Rabbi David (Barbara) and son in-law Tom Renna, she is also survived by her grandchildren Dena Radinsky, Noah Friedland, Eliezer Radinsky, Tova Cooper, Shira Yosher, Rebecca Cohen, Moshe Friedland, Moshe Radinsky, Daniel Renna, Rachel Pinchot, Jeremy Renna, Shoshana Radinsky, Elizabeth Renna, Benzion Radinsky and Chana Radinsky, 47 great-grandchildren, 4 great-great-grandchildren, her beloved nieces and nephews, and extended family and friends.

The family wishes to thank her caregivers Fe Lantajo and Eva Bacani and all of the caring staff at the Summit at First Hill.

Donations may be made in Lillian’s memory to AMIT Women, The Summit at First Hill, or any other charity of the donor’s choice.

Sidney Earle November 15, 1924–July 6, 2014

Former Seattle resident Sidney Earle passed away in California; beloved husband of Rhona Earle for 66 years; father of Marci Dachman (Kenny), Barbara Earle and the late Steven Earle. Grandfather of seven and great-grandfather of five.

Graveside services were held July 8 in Colma, Calif.

Rhoda Sussman LewisJune 30, 2014

Rhoda Sussman Lewis, 91, passed away at her home in Richland, Wash. on June 30, 2014. Her parents were Joseph and Minnie Sussman of Tacoma, Wash., where she grew up with her three siblings, Leslie, Beatrice, and Joanne. She attended the University of Washington where she studied journalism and was a member of Phi Sigma Sigma sorority as well as an editor for the University Daily. She married Milton Lewis in 1943 and they enjoyed 58 years of marriage before his death in 2001. They were among the founders of and active in Beth Shalom synagogue in Richland. She wrote advertising and was a homemaker known for her clever sense of humor, creative writing ability, and strong and generous spirit. She traveled broadly with her husband, was an avid golfer, skier and water-skier and grew prize-winning roses, enjoying many summers on the Columbia River with her neighbors and friends. She is survived by her sister Joanne Arfin (Bernard) of Palo Alto, Calif.; her children Jeanne Lewis Pantone (Owen Chariton) of Lakewood, Colo., Robin O’Hearn (Chris) of Wenatchee, and Mitchell Lewis of Kennewick; her granddaughter Rachel Chariton of Lakewood; and many nephews and nieces. Her memory will be cherished with love by her family and friends.

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Congregation president Fielding calls Strasko an “amazing man with remarkable experi-ence, who is ordained as both a rabbi and cantor.” His arrival has created “a kind of excite-ment and energy that has galvanized the community.” Fielding cites Strasko’s scholarship and education, his five languages and his musical background, calling him “a perfect complement to our current cantorial soloist.”

Fielding adds that a congregant expressed what they all feel: “Wow. In Kitsap County do we have a rabbi!”

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important, it’s not a rabbi-centric community…the community itself is very participa-tory,” he said.

Rubin is planning a class on the Talmud’s tractate on blessings, and possibly another exploring the environmental and economic symbolism of the shmita year, a traditional agricultural sabbatical cycle, and the relationship of the diaspora to the land of Israel.

But for now he’s exploring his relationship to this land. Gushing about Seattle’s scenery, he said, “I can’t believe we live here.”

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despite obstacles, seattle rally for israel a big successDiKLA tuChMAn Jtnews Correspondent

Hundreds of supporters gathered in downtown Seattle’s Occidental Park Sunday in a solidarity rally in support of the State of Israel. The rally was orga-nized by the Pacific Northwest chapter of Israel advocacy organization Stand-WithUs and cosponsored by Hadassah, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation, Minyan Ohr Chadash, Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, Congregation Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath, Chabad on Campus, Congregation Ashreichem Yisrael, North-west Yeshiva High School, Seattle Hebrew Academy, Torah Day School, NCSY and the Jewish Student Union.

StandWithUs regional director Rob Jacobs opened up the afternoon gathering by introducing the purpose of the rally and instructing participants not to engage the

modest counter-protest cordoned off by a line of local police directly across from the main square.

“We really felt like the conflict had started back in the beginning of July and we were the only major city in the United States that hadn’t yet had a rally to show solidarity with Israel,” said Jacobs.

With the rally’s short notice and sev-eral factors like the I-90 closure and off-and-on rain throughout Sunday morning, Jacobs had not expected many folks to show up.

“It’s fabulous to see almost the entire park filled, which is astounding to me,” said Jacobs. “I was worried that we’d have just 100 people standing in the middle of the square, but we filled it.”

After opening the rally with his own

words about the cur-rent heightened activity between Israel and Gaza, Rabbi Ben Hassan of Sephardic Bikur Holim said a few words of his own with regards to concern for the Israeli people and the desire for peace in the region, including a prayer for peace and safety.

The rally ended with a rousing recitation by the crowd of the Israeli national anthem, “Hatik-vah,” and the American national anthem. As the crowds lingered and began dis-persing, spirited songs continued among

Americans and Israelis, many of whom wore Israeli or American flags around their shoulders.

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Supporters of Israel at Sunday’s rally.

Engelsberg are close friends. She thought he would be a good person to take over.”

Alhadeff is excited at the prospect of Engelsberg growing the small school into a place for 20-30 students. He hopes the school will meet the needs of religious fami-lies who move or send their daughters out of state to all-girls high schools.

“We’re getting someone who is so tal-ented and could teach at any one of schools in the whole country,” said Alhadeff. “He’s

looking to be part of something from the ground.”

When Engelsberg arrives in mid-August with his wife, Feige, and their two youngest children, he will serve an additional role as “masgiach ruchani,” or spiritual adviser, at

Congregation Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath.

As the Ashkenazi Orthodox synagogue continues its search for a rabbi, Engelsberg will step in as a sort of scholar in residence

for the year. There is no confirmation that Engelsberg

is in the running for the job.“This is only until they find a rabbi,” he

said. “I came here to be principal of Derech Emunah.”

“Not only is BCMH the beneficiary of a truly special Jew, but the entire Seward Park and great community will benefit spiritually having Rabbi Engelsberg rejoining our com-munity,” said Dan Birk, BCMH president.

Engelsberg is thankful for the opportu-nity to return to Seattle, where he started his education career.

“The community of Seattle has done so much for me,” he said. “Now to be able to come back in a leadership role, it fills my heart with appreciation and thanks.”

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