JTNews - November 12, 2010
JTNews - November 12, 2010
JTNews - November 12, 2010
the state of the state 8 nights, 8 ways to give j-teen returns! beth el’s new cantor
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Bernel Goldbert/Friends of the IDF
Fanny Wald, a resident of the Kline Galland Jewish nursing home and a Holocaust survivor, dances with Israel
Defense Forces Corporal Uri Elkayam on Nov. 4. Elkayam and a group of singing Israeli soldiers did a concert
at Kline Galland a few days before performing at the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island. The
soldiers raise money for Friends of the IDF, which provides services that include assistance to soldiers whose
families are in dire financial straits and offers help for lone soldiers, people from around the world who come
to Israel to serve in the army.
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“We have something very valuable and very beautiful to offer, which is not going to be forced upon you, but certainly, you should become more familiar with it.”
— Rabbi Shalom Hammer, who is speaking at several local synagogues in November. See page 7.
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The Synagogue Chronicles: Temple Beth El 17
This weekend the Tacoma Reform temple installs its new cantor and education director, Leah Holland. The
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From the Jewish Transcript, November
15, 1984, page 17 Eating disorders in the Jewish community 21
Eating disorders are diseases that have often been swept under the rug, in particular in the Jewish com-
Susan Paley Weaver is announced as munity. But there’s a growing realization that disorders must be dealt with.
the coordinator for the Stroum Jewish
Community Center’s new Northend facil- Seattle’s Jewish fashion plates 24
ity, which had just opened four months A photographic look at Chai Couture, Seattle’s first fashion shows that exclusively showcased Jewish
prior. After much discussion about designers.
whether a center in this quickly growing
area of the Jewish community should exist MORE
and deliberations over securing a site, M.O.T.: Making a difference in science education 13
programs were finally underway. Crossword 13
Community Calendar 14
A View from the U: Our sukkahs, our selves 16
t h e v o i c e o f j e w i sh w a sh i n g t o n
Lifecycles 22
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QFC is Bringing
Hope to the Table
By Eric Miller, QFC Public Affairs Specialist
What’s on your menu for dinner tonight? It’s a simple These are staggering
question that you may not have the answer to just yet, but statistics from the most
for most of us it’s a question that does have an answer. recent Hunger in America
Knowing that there will be something for breakfast 2010 study. So what can
tomorrow and for lunch after that might sound trivial to you do to help? Back in
most of us, but unfortunately it is not something we all can 2002, QFC launched a
count on. In fact, many local families are at risk of hunger. food drive benefiting
Food Lifeline is Western Washington’s largest Food Lifeline and their
hunger relief agency and is dedicated to changing more than 300 member
this situation. In 2010, Food Lifeline helped feed more agencies, of neighbor-
than 685,000 hungry people in our communities by hood food banks, shelters, and hot meal
delivering more than 24 million meals to its network programs. Bringing Hope to the Table continues this
of local food banks, meal programs and shelters. Here year, and QFC is offering many ways to get involved: will donate $1 for every case of selected beer varieties
are some statistics: Customers can purchase and then donate $10 pre- sold in QFC stores during Bringing Hope to the Table.
packaged bags of groceries for neighborhood food banks Enjoying nutritious food not only feels wonderful,
n 37% of the people Food Lifeline serves are children (a savings of more than 30% off regular retail prices). it sets the proper foundation for so many other
and 12% are seniors. Cash can be donated at any QFC checkstand from important things to happen. Please join QFC and
n 47% of the people Food Lifeline serves say they October 31st, 2010 through January 1st, 2011. Food Lifeline as we bring hope to the table of families
have had to choose between food and paying for You can donate your 3¢ bag reuse credit. throughout our community. No one should go hungry,
heat or utilities. Customers can purchase and donate food bank and with your support of this program, we can take a
n 29% of the people Food Lifeline serves say they recommended items, identified by shelf tags and by a step closer to the day when everyone has an answer to
have had to choose between food and paying for special “shopping list” that will be available in your store. the “what’s for dinner” question. Thank you, and have
medicine or medical care. Also, two vendor partners are offering donations a wonderful Holiday Season!
n 42% of the people Food Lifeline serves say they to Food Lifeline: Kendall-Jackson will donate $2 for
have had to choose between paying for food and every case of selected wine sold in QFC stores during *Statistics provided by Food Lifeline
paying for rent or mortgage. Bringing Hope to the Table. Full Sail Brewing Company
Eric Miller is the Public Affairs Specialist for QFC. He can be reached at eric.miller@qfci.com or 425-990-6182.
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WWgordis Page 8 versation about Israel among American Jews, WWburston Page 6 ston said. “So what you have is a situation
even if the dialogue is critical and weighty. in which a society sees itself under attack
Jews are indebted to Israel is not enough, “Sovereignty is not an end to itself,” Irish Nobel peace laureate Mairead Corri- by the entire world, and the society has had
says Gordis. American Jews have an obli- Gordis said. “There are certain things gan Maguire, who in October was banned no rest and no time to recuperate.”
gation to stay informed on the delegit- you want to accomplish, there are certain from Israel for 10 years following her pres-
imization movement and its potential things you want to do.” ence on a ship that broke the blockade to WWhammer Page 7
consequences, and further, stand up for Those things aren’t up to just Israelis, deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza.
Israel — whatever their particular politics. but Jews everywhere. Israel today is a society that between 2000 “In the religious Zionist world, we think
“There’s StandWithUs and there’s “I think that American Jews should be and 2009 suffered its worst decade in its short we’re now making a positive turn in the
CAMERA and there’s AIPAC and there’s involved in the conversation about what existence, Burston believes. The country’s right direction to be less threatening and to
even J Street,” Gordis said. “And American Israel should and should not be,” he said. election in 2009 was the will of an electorate engage in dialogue in order to demonstrate
Jews who want to counter delegitimization “Israel casts a certain light on Jews wherever that was tired and alienated after two wars, that that’s the kind of people we are,” said
should support those movements and get they are. But American Jews have to recog- suicide bombings, rocket attacks, and the Hammer. “We have something very valu-
involved.” nize that if they have this conversation they upheaval of the Gaza evacuation in 2005. able and very beautiful to offer, which is not
Gordis does not believe that the need to are having it in a period of time when Israel “And then world condemnation that going to be forced upon you, but certainly,
defend Israel’s right to exist should stifle con- is being marginalized as a rogue state.” came in waves and never stopped,” Bur- you should become more familiar with it.”
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Picture books:
1. Simms Taback’s Joseph Had a Little Overcoat 8 gifts that kids in ne
2. Mo Willems’s Knuffle Bunny Free ed would really app
this year: reciate
Middle grade chapter books:
1. A warm hat
3. Ingrid Law’s Savvy
2. Gloves
4. M.T. Anderson’s Whales on Stilts
3. Diapers (all sizes)
High Schoolers:
4. Kids’ books
5. Robin McKinley’s Sunshine (for older teens)
5. Games for all ages
6. John Green & David Levithan’s Will Grayson, Will Grayson
6. Target gift cards
All ages:
7. Game Stop gift cards
7. David Macauley’s Built to Last
8. Movie tickets
8. Marilyn Singer’s Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse
Thanks to Carol Mullin of
Nancy Pearl is the author, most recently, of Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading Jewish Family Service for
compiling this list.
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Pictured above are only some of the members of Team Samurai, post-race
state’s correctional
at the Run Scared 5K to benefit the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society. Team
centers. Many of these
Samurai was formed in memory of Sam Owen, a classmate of these Northwest
people have written Josh
Yeshiva High School students, who succumbed to Burketts Lymphoma earlier
to tell him that his story
this year, a few days after his Bar Mitzvah. The Run Scared 5K was organized
gave them hope and
by NYHS alum Ilana Balint in honor of her father, David Balint, a lymphoma
turned their lives in a
survivor. This was the 4th year the race was run.
positive direction.
8. Shoshana Kaplan— Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle
Shoshana has been a phenomenal volunteer since she started with the
Kline Galland Center Jewish Federation in August. She worked on a city-wide food drive as part of
the Focus and Fight Poverty program around Sukkot, and has spent the last
8th
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By Raphael Kintzer and Josh Voss he served four years
as an officer. After
On November 3, the honorable Akiva the army, Tor applied
Tor, consul general of Israel for the Pacific for a job in the Israeli
Northwest, spoke to the students at Northwest Foreign Ministry. He
Yeshiva High School. With the temporary won the position and
relocation of the Israel consulate to Seattle has since served abroad
for the week, Tor spent time meeting with in countries such as
many constituent groups in the Jewish and Holland, Taiwan and now
general community. For just under an hour Tor in the U.S.
enraptured the students, speaking about his We connected
upbringing, Yitzchak Rabin (whose yahrzeit deeply with Tor. He
was the next day), current Israel affairs, and talked about issues
how teenagers can help Israel. relevant to today and to Courtesy NYHS
Tor’s relationship with Israel commenced our own life decisions Akiva Tor, Israel’s consul general to the Pacific Northwest, left, with
when he was in 10th grade and his family moving forward Northwest Yeshiva High School seniors Juliana Gamel, center, and
visited Israel on a sabbatical from the U.S. after graduating. His Sarah Varon.
After graduating from high school, Tor returned experiences as an
to Israel to study in yeshiva for two years. He American student,
described his time in Israel as one of his most studying in day schools, and choosing to make school (pun intended).
formative life experiences and encouraged all aliyah after earning a college degree resonated When asked about the favorite part about
of us to spend time in Israel before embarking with us and our peers. He talked about the his job, Tor responded: “Speaking with people
on the next phase of our education. He existential threats that face Israel today, like you.”
returned from Israel to study at Columbia including the attempts to delegitimize Israel His enjoyment and enthusiasm for his
University, where he earned his bachelor’s as a state and the danger of Iran. He was also work was easy to see as he spoke with the
degree in Psychology, and then received a very personable — many of us took advantage NYHS students.
graduate degree from Harvard University’s of the opportunity to ask him questions
Kennedy School of Government. one-on-one after the speech. NYHS student Raphael Kintzer and Josh Voss are seniors at the
Returning to Israel to make aliyah as a president and vice president Juliana Gamel Northwest Yeshiva High School.
24-year-old, Tor enlisted in the army, where and Sarah Varon took Tor on a tour around the
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Yom Kippur
The synagogue doors stand tall and foreign it rustles, between dying and living
tucked away between two back alleys of Berlin which are separate only in our imagination
a city I love but do not quite understand ancestors nestle themselves beside us
cloaked
it’s a pity, this poem but so close to the touch
will not capture the raw, ringing power By Joanna Wright when that microscopic distance hurts too much
of high holy days when we learn that we are not invincible
but there are ways to try, I suppose we are fully alive
because God only knows we find wholeness in bruised places
we answer questions with more questions and traces of the sacred in each other’s faces I cried for my Zayde today
doing our best to wrestle with this beautiful life and he died eight months ago
the meaning of the word Mensch tonight and my eyes know he’s gone
we wear white but the well inside me
I slip through those doors and into a bench in become nothing but soul is still full of tears and his matzoh ball soup
the back row yearning to return to the light, to an
an observer and a participant, I’m a stranger here authentic poet in an imperfect world today, though
in search of a Yom Kippur home beginning to forgive is not just about grief or regrets or missing or forgetting
far away from my own each other and it’s about letting go, letting out, letting in
and as the music starts and the voices rise ourselves to be entered and picked clean
I realize by the moon that knows no ideology
I found it entered
by that energy, divine and indefinable today, we’ve created the hope
These are my people we remember what it means to that there’s a communal safe-keeping deeper
belong to a community than well-kept secrets
it’s not a thought I’ve composed, just grasping at comfort fill a room with broken symphonies no parking meter in spirit’s sanctuary
it’s an ancient sensation, emanating and fill our bodies with those half-built melodies they call it a day of atonement
from the walls of this temple that has known brutal a mix of soil and mysticism but really
history Hebrew words we understand by blood it’s atunement
and from the faces of those around me but cannot translate today we are
glowing with a fervent desire to be bruised by God millions of prayers
the veil between worlds is simultaneously trying to summarize
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Monday afternoons
By Yael Egnal meetings to everyone. At Bellevue
It’s 2:30 on a Monday some of our frequent “clubbers”
afternoon. The bell rings. Most aren’t Jewish, they just enjoy the
kids pack up and go home to do pizza and discussions.
homework or head off to sports Last year, JSU held a Seattle
practice. There is one other Jewish youth group dodgeball
option that makes Monday worth tournament. When you add Sky
waking up for: Jewish Student High and Jewish friends together, it
Union. At 2:33, about 15 kids are becomes one great event. I thought
sitting on the desks in room 503. this event was so great because it
Our advisor Ari Hoffman walks allowed USYers to meet NCSYers
in with three fresh Island Crust and BBYOers to meet JSUers.
Pizzas. This is the beginning of It really upsets me when kids
my favorite hour spent at school. think if you are in one Jewish youth
And I’m not just talking about the group you can’t be in another. And
pizzas. it seems like there is an unspoken
At the Bellevue High rule that states each youth group
School JSU some of our favorite is rivals with the others. Okay, so
discussion topics are “Glee,” they may all have to compete for
movies, current Jewish events and new members, but in reality they
Ari’s stories from his youth. Every serve the same purpose: Making
week there is something new to lifelong Jewish friends, learning and
discuss, something new to learn, Courtesy JSU exploring Judaism, and last but not
and something new to enjoy. Members of the Bellevue High School Jewish Student Union, with advisor least, having a great time.
After graduating from the Ari Hoffman on the right. JSU is a big part of my high
Jewish Day School in 2009, I have school experience and I hope
severely missed being surrounded the clubs will increasingly have a
by Judaism. I attend Camp positive effect on the schools and
Solomon Schechter and BBYO, and love them I realized there was a popcorn and a cotton the community. As I said before, JSU leaves me
with all of my heart. But having a chance to candy machine. something new to think about and to discuss,
learn and be Jewish at school is remarkable. I think that JSU is so amazing because whether it is a profound current event or the
I still remember the high school club fair not every Jewish kid is lucky enough to go to musical numbers from “Glee.”
my freshman year. At the beginning of every summer camp or youth group like I am able
school year, each club gets its own table to to. JSU gives Jewish kids — and non-Jewish Yael Egnal is the JSU city president. She’s a
promote itself. When I got to the main hallway, kids — a chance to explore Judaism cost-free, sophomore at Bellevue High School.
I was surprised that the Jewish Student Union while still having fun. I mention non-Jewish
table had a huge line. When I got to the front, kids because recently we have opened up our
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When Ellen Lettvin One organization she
took the newly cre- reached out to was the PSC.
ated post of vice presi- “I worked on several proj-
dent of science and education ects with them,” she says.
at Seattle’s Pacific Science So when the Science
Center almost two years ago, Center created this new posi-
she made what looked like tion in 2008, naturally they
a sudden departure from a approached her and she
career in academic research to accepted.
one in education. “By being involved in edu-
The truth is, she told me cation and outreach I could
recently, is that the change tribe make more of a difference,”
came gradually, an outgrowth of her previ- she says.
ous job as assistant director of the Univer- Ellen, who recently com-
sity of Washington’s applied physics lab. pleted treatment for breast cancer,
After getting her bachelors, masters described one of her best days at work
and doctorate at the University of Michi- recently at PSC’s Discover Awards meet-
gan — plus a research stint at Stanford — ing, “a big deal,” where children who come
Ellen came to the UW, doing a lot of work to the center’s summer programs are recog-
in conjunction with NOAA. Trained as nized for “curiosity, ingenuity, teamwork”
as well as inspiration or stewardship.
“There were hundreds of kids and par-
ents at this event, age 4 to 14. They were so
Across Down excited and so proud,” she says. “It was fun
1. “No other ___ before Me...” 1. Aladdin’s discovery to be there and see them all thriving.”
(Exodus 20:3) 2. Unscrews Ellen and her husband Peter are mem-
5. Fran Drescher stereotype 3. Loses weight bers of Temple Beth Am where her son
8. Righteous gentile Sendler 4. “___ 3” (Liev Schreiber film) Alexander had his Bar Mitzvah last year.
13. “Angels in America,” e.g. 5. “___ Nathan’s Jewish Holiday
Raised Conservative in Brookline, Mass.,
14. Yours and mine Cookbook”
16. Elected MKs 6. Torah ___ (Jewish texbook
and Ann Arbor, she had drifted from reli-
17. ___-do-well publishers) gious observance until her father died in
18. Gaza Strip, e.g. 7. He might be studying for his bar 2003.
19. Put in a stake mitzvah “A friend suggested I find a minyan,”
20. ___ Jewish Sports Hall of Fame 8. Bad boy Boesky she says, and the experience connected her
23. Milton Himmelfarb output 9. Gossiper Barrett with “a repository of memories and tradi-
24. Trickster 10. 19th century German Orthodox tions and things that were part of me… It
25. An end to Zion? leader Jacob was that moment I realized that I wanted
28. French prime minister Pierre 11. Chelsea Mezvinsky, ___ Clinton my son to have a Bar Mitzvah.”
33. 12 or 13, for Jewish adulthood 12. Total
2
Courtesy ellen letvin
36. Years on end 15. Eilat sight
Ellen Lettvin Four years ago Maddy Berkman
37. Certain drums 21. Jewish deli bread
38. Rugs 22. Quirky lost a close friend to an inopera-
41. Male and female 26. Alan Menken won an Oscar for his an oceanographer and engineer, Ellen’s ble malignant brain tumor. Sydney
42. Patron from “The Little Mermaid” expertise is in “remote viewing,” using sat- Coxon was only 11 at the time, and it left
43. Second Temple period, e.g. 27. Piglike ellite data to model ocean wave patterns. Maddy and her friends at a loss as to what
44. “Cuando El ___ Nimrod” (Ladino 29. Stinging plants While there, she decided the public to do with their grief.
song) 30. Jewfros, e.g. ought to know more about the publicly Then, Maddy remembers, “one of my
45. “Saturday Night Live” Actress, 31. Actor Liebman or Silver funded work going on at the lab. friends read an article in the newspaper
1999-2006 32. “Milk ___ Honey” “I felt there was an untapped need” about Seattle Children’s guild program.”
49. Third king of Judah 33. Capital of Ghana for the lab to reach out to the commu- The hospital was seeking new guilds, and
50. Shortly before? 34. Some synagogue fundraisers nity, she says, and to develop more “tech- so the Pink Polka Dots Guild, the brain-
51. Penne, e.g. 35. Author, “Fear of Flying”
nology transfer, finding linkages to local child of Maddy, Kelsey Josund and Sierra
55. She played Lucille Bluth on 39. Hebrew letter, literally “mouth”
“Arrested Development” 40. Compass dir.
businesses” leading to commercial appli- Ales, was born.
60. Gastroenteritis cause 41. Elijah of Vilna, for short cations, “which would be mutually advan-
62. Emulate Rembrandt making “The 43. Built tageous.” XXPage 14
Jewish Bride” 46. More like some wines
63. ___ Island Jewish Hospital 47. Common Jewish profession
p enin g!
64. Former Vermont Gov. Madeleine 48. Revere
ra n d o
65. French judge Cassin 52. Item to leave on a grave g The original from queen anne
66. Not fooled by 53. Patriarchs’ living quarters
67. Barely beats 54. Lingo
68. Bear’s lair 56. British historian Kedourie
69. ___ Bank 57. Breaks a commandment
58. Teen spots?
59. A question of timing
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and pink polka dots Courtesy Maddy Berkman 9:30–10:30 a.m. – SJCC Tot Shabbat Congregation Shevet Achim (at Northwest Yeshiva
had always been From left to right: Sierra Ales, Kelsey Josund, Adora Svitak and Maddy Berkman, Stroum JCC High School)
one of her favorite at the TEDx conference in Redmond, organized and hosted by Adora. 11 a.m.–12 p.m. – Tots Welcoming Shab- 10 a.m – Jewish Mommy and Me
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“Most of the guilds at the hospital another part of the building. Scheenweiss Study Class
raise money for uncompensated care, but Maddy is a junior at Seattle Academy Congregation Beth Shalom (2nd Saturday of Chabad of the Central Cascades
our guild is considered a junior specialty of Arts and Sciences while Kelsey and month)
guild,” Maddy explained, allowing it to Sierra are students at Shorecrest High. 10 a.m. – Morning Youth Program Tuesdays
support Olson’s “really groundbreaking An active member of Temple Beth Am’s Congregation Ezra Bessaroth 11 a.m.–12 p.m. – Mommy and Me
work” in developing scorpion venom to youth group, Maddy is also in the bee club 10:30 a.m. – Adult Torah Study Program
create a tumor marker. at SAAS where there’s a hive on the roof. “I Temple B’nai Torah Chabad of the Central Cascades. Call for
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tournament plus a benefit concert by the the day we spoke. Congregation Beth Ha’Ari Beit Midrash Eastside Torah Center (at Starbucks Bellevue
Brian Waite band. PPD has raised over $300,000 to date. 6:30 p.m. – Avot Ubanim Galleria)
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Obituary
Longtime community activist was devoted to the rights of
women and the Jewish community
Merrily McManus Laytner: Relations Council, during which time she additional $6.4 million for the second-line In 1999, just before her first bout with
August 27, 1942–October 24, 2010 served as chair, co-founded a statewide Operation Exodus campaign. ovarian cancer, Merrily formed her own
Merrily McManus Laytner was born in organization (the now-defunct Washing- Her proudest accomplishment during development consulting firm and counted
Seattle on August 27, 1942 and, although ton Association of Jewish Communities) this period, however, was to co-found with among her clients the Cascade Land Con-
born to Jewish parents, did not know she and helped design and implement annual the late Shirley Bridge, Michele Rosen, servancy, Museum of History and Indus-
was Jewish until she was 9 years old. In the statewide political action/Jewish cultural Janet Gray, Karen Mayers Gamoran, the try, Woodland Park Zoological Society,
4th grade, her teacher told his class how he conferences. For these accomplishments, late Babs Fisher, Lucy Pruzan and others Seattle Girl’s School, Artist Trust, Multi-
was a refugee from Europe and of the great she was awarded the Spitzer Family Young the Women’s Endowment Foundation, a faith Works, and the International Snow
suffering he had endured. When Merrily Leadership Award. supporting foundation that provided the Leopard Trust.
related this to her mother, she was told that, Moving from lay leader to professional seed money and for many years sustained But Merrily’s heart was never far from
like the teacher, she too was Jewish. That in 1984, Merrily was hired as the Jewish Jewish Family Service’s Project DVORA the Jewish community and she remained
encounter with her teacher — the late and Federation’s first Women’s Division direc- as well as other programs benefiting active both as a volunteer and a profes-
beloved Cantor Joseph Frankel of Herzl- tor. During the next five years, she brought women and children. For all this work, she sional fundraiser. Merrily provided the
Ner Tamid — sparked a lifelong involve- a new intensity to that program, adding a was awarded the Shirley Bridge Power of expertise and passion for campaigns
ment with the Jewish community, starting serious dose of feminism to its work. Con- One Award by the Women’s Endowment resulting in expanded programs and beau-
with the youth choir of Temple de Hirsch. tributions increased by 70 percent in three Foundation in 2000. tiful new spaces for Hillel Foundation at
After getting an MFA from the Otis Art years and in 1987 the program was recog- In 1993, Merrily left the Federation the University of Washington, the Union
Institute, Merrily returned to Seattle and nized for having achieved the largest Wom- to become vice president of the Wood- of Reform Judaism’s Camp Kalsman, and
started a family with her then-husband, en’s Division increase in North America. land Park Zoological Society, running the soon-to-be-constructed Jewish Family
Sam Cordova. She became active in the In 1989 Merrily was promoted to the the zoo’s external relations. For six years Service of Seattle. She also drafted a strate-
Jewish community, teaching art classes for position of campaign director, and led she worked to design and implement the gic plan for the Stroum JCC’s Early Child-
seniors at the Jewish Community Center the Federation’s overall fundraising activ- first phase of a $125 million comprehen- hood Development Center. Throughout
while her children were in daycare there. ities during a particularly exciting time sive private/public campaign to address her Jewish communal career, Mer-
Still later, she entered the Jewish Feder- when the Jewish community was absorb- the current and future capital and pro- rily mentored and inspired hundreds of
ation of Greater Seattle’s Young Lead- ing Soviet Jewish immigrants and orga- grammatic needs of Woodland Park Zoo. women professionals, volunteers and lay
ership program and, following Michael nizing the exodus of Ethiopian Jewry. In During that time, many new exhibits were leaders.
Schuffler’s lead, she became active in the 1993, her development team brought in funded and built, and zoo membership
Jewish Federation’s former Community $5 million for the annual campaign and an grew by 33 percent. XXPage 23
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Seniors! Seniors! Seniors! Seniors! Seniors! Seniors!
life
Bar Mitzvah Bat Mitzvah
Benjamin Jacob Chase Sophie Leah Davis Rittenberg
Benjamin will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on November 13, Sophie was called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah, on
2010 at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue. October 16, 2010, parshat Lech Lecha.
Ben is the son of Judy and Brad Chase of Mercer Island Sophie is the daughter of Elizabeth Davis and Rob Jacobs
and the brother of David and Sam. His grandparents are of Seattle and Steve Rittenberg and Cam Gaffney, and the
Marcia Chase of Kirkland, and Dr. Allen and Joyce Sosin of sister of Hannah and Samuel Davis-Jacobs and Katie
Boca Raton, Fla. Rittenberg. Sophie is the granddaughter of Reena and Stuart
Ben is a 7th grader at Islander Middle School. He enjoys Davis of Portland, Ore., Phyllis and Martin Jacobs of Lake
soccer and reading. Oswego, Ore., Phyllis and Jerry Rittenberg of Camarillo,
For his mitzvah project, Ben is donating art supplies to the Calif. and Kathleen and Len Gaffney of St. Augustine, Fla.
Seattle Children’s Hospital art therapy program. A graduate of the Seattle Jewish Community School,
Sophie is a 7th grader at the Jewish Day School of
Metropolitan Seattle. She enjoys dance, spending time with friends, attending Camp Solomon
Schechter, reading and theater.
Death Notice For her mitzvah project, Sophie has been collecting school supplies to be donated to First
Jeanette R.K. Nelson Place, a school and social service organization that focuses on educating and nurturing
January 23, 1918–November 5, 2010 children who face homelessness.
Jeanette Ruth Klemptner Nelson passed away
peacefully in Seattle on November 5, 2010. She was
born at home during a snowstorm in Chicago on
January 23, 1918, and delivered by her father, Dr. Bar Mitzvah
Dietrich (David) Klemptner. She went to Chicago Samuel Judah Sherer
Teachers’ College and later got her B.A. in Science Samuel will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on November 13,
and Education at Northwestern University. She 2010 at Congregation Beth Shalom in Seattle.
taught high school science in Chicago before relo- Sam is the son of Amee and Michael Sherer and the
cating to Seattle after marrying Sidney L. Nelson in brother of Juliana. His grandparents are Gene and Gerry
1941. She taught elementary school in both the Seat- Huppin of Kirkland and Palm Desert, Calif., and the late
tle and Highline school districts for many years, until Abe and Eunie Sherer.
her retirement in 1982. Sam is a 7th grader at Eckstein Middle School. He enjoys
She loved to travel and visited many places, including Israel, Colombia, Brazil, sports, technology, being with his friends and family, and
Peru, Ecuador, Europe, Turkey, India, and the Far East. She enjoyed the opera, ballet, spending summers at Camp Solomon Schechter.
and theater and was an avid bridge player. She was active in League of Women Voters, For his mitzvah project, Sam collected more than 200
a life member of Hadassah, and also served several times as president locally. When new and gently used stuffed animals to give to children of
her daughter was growing up, she was active in Herzl synagogue and ran the gift shop. the Homeless to Renter program and the Ryther Children’s Center. He is also donating a
She also volunteered at the Seattle Science Center and with VITA, as a tax preparer. portion of his Bar Mitzvah money to support a favorite organization, HAMA (Humans and
She is survived by her brother Dr. H. Edward Klemptner of Morton Grove, Illi- Animals in Mutual Assistance), in Israel.
nois, her daughter, Dina (Dale) Tanners of Seattle, her three grandchildren and their
spouses Timna (Chad Smith) of Old Greenwich, Conn., Avi (Christine) of Long
Beach, Calif., and Nadav (Leah Zallman) of Boston, Mass.; two great-grandsons
Jonah and Ezekiel (Zekey), a great-granddaughter on the way, and several nieces and
nephews, including Elaine Hartholz of Seattle. How do I submit a Lifecycle announcement?
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the pain, and like they say in AA, take it a
the basis of her book. day at a time.”
“I think you have to make a commit-
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Her funeral was held at Hillel; more than JFS programs at the same time…
In addition to her professional career, 300 people came to see her off. Devoted meeting the needs of friends,
Merrily was an accomplished artist whose friend Rabbi Dan Bridge presided on that family and loved ones here at home.
paintings and sculptures grace the homes sad and rainy day. Call Irene at (206) 861-3150 or,
of many in Seattle and elsewhere. —Barbara Maduell on the web, click on “Donations”
Merrily was married to Rabbi Anson at www.jfsseattle.org. It’s a 2-for-1
Laytner for 24 wonderful years and
between them shared three daughters: the because giving feels good. that says it all.
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the building shook, and the flash bulbs
popped as seven different designers
and one fabulous flamenco dancer
strutted their stuff down the red carpet
at the sold-out Chai Couture fashion
event.
The models wore the latest creations
from Seattle’s Jewish fashion designers
Butch Blum, Cameron Levin, Rita
Gruzman, Katerina Yedidim, Whitney
Heather Stern and so many others.
Eli Rosenblatt and his Afro-Cuban band
entertained when the lights came back
up, and the punch bowl from Liberty
Bar was empty by the time the evening
wound down to its inevitable end.