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4 leTTers JTnews . www.JTnews.neT . friday, ocTober 1, 2010 W letteRS Page 3 Keeping the trust I personally, together with help from others in our own community and the Port Townsend Jewish community and an Edmonds non-Jewish high school teacher, for seven days handed out in front of the Port Townsend Co-op well over a thousand pieces of literature to refute the slanderous, fallacious anti-Israel contentions of the boycotters (see page 7 of this issue). I was always dressed as an Indian, wearing war paint, a full headdress of feathers, and a placard stating “Let Me Tell You About Land for Peace.” In our handouts we asked the co-op patrons to attend the two co-op directors’ board meetings, a Mideast peace symposium, and the Israel deputy consul’s speech in the hope that large numbers would sway the board away from the boycott, when they would make their decision. We were especially pleased by the huge turnout in the packed final meeting, where 50 people lined up and addressed the board. We solicited the congregations and pastors of three evangelical churches, who were very sympathetic and helpful to us by their presence, e-mails and letters. And Prof. Edward Alexander was able to get into the two local newspapers superb articles in support of Israel. The staff and members of the Seattle Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation were particularly gracious and helpful in all this. And we are grateful for the guidance and support given us by Rabbi Marvin Hier’s Simon Wiesenthal Center, Americans for a Safe Israel, the JerUSAlem Connection, and the Zionist Organization of America. Other Seattle-area Jewish organizations assisted and joined in the fray as well. 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Order a signed copy from www.markrichardschuster.com partner or not, We need to talK re: Need Real Partners for Peace (Sept. 17), Josh Basson writes Israel should cancel peace talks, as in the aftermath of another terror <strong>attack</strong> Palestinians aren’t “partners for peace.” The term “partners for peace” is ludicrous and as used by Israel and Diaspora supporters is a code word for maintaining the status quo in Gaza and the West Bank. Sadly, there are many Jews in Israel who will resist, forcibly and bloodily, any realization of a viable, economically successful extant Palestinian state side by side with Israel. Since Hamas, however disliked or loathed, is not a talks participant, the peace talks function without representation from one-and-a-half million Gazan Palestinians; thus the talks are dysfunctional and a fraud. Warring parties don’t have “partners for peace.” When the last apartheid government in South Africa sat down with the African National Congress, the leading anti-Apartheid organization in the late 1980s, it was no picnic. Both sides had been at war, and the South African government called the ANC terrorists. In more recent years when representatives of both sides of the Catholic and Protestant war in Northern Ireland sat down (with the British) to seek a peaceful settlement, there were no “peace partners”: They hated each other, passionately, analogously to many in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In discussing the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with a Jewish Israeli professor this past April during my last Israel teaching trip, the professor stated, regarding the displacement of the Palestinians in 1948 and their decades-long incarceration in refugee (concentration) camps and the Palestinian Diaspora since, “A grave injustice was done.” This injustice has yet to be addressed. But don’t expect to see the conflict negotiated by peace partners. If the western powers, the Palestinian Authority and Israel agree to let all sides be represented at peace talks, that itself will be a huge step forward toward peace. As I heard Amos Oz and Sari Nusseibeh say at a Jerusalem YMCA talk in 2007, “We [all sides to the conflict] don’t have to learn to love each other, but we do have to learn how to be neighbors, since we’re all living here already.” akiva K. segan seattle I believe women take on the role of nurturer first and foremost. So who is taking care of them? 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friday, ocTober 1, 2010 . www.JTnews.neT . JTnews inside RaCHEL FINKELSTEIN Henry Bloom, left, and his mom leora Bloom, sort non-perishables at Jewish Family Service’s annual food sort. More than 200 volunteers sorted 30,000 pounds of food — more than 20 percent more than last year — during the course of the Sept. 19 event. ladino lesson by isaac azose El arto no kreye al ambierto. The person who has a full stomach does not believe the one who is hungry. JTNews is the Voice of Jewish Washington. Our mission is to meet the interests of our Jewish community through fair and accurate coverage of local, national and international news, opinion and information. We seek to expose our readers to diverse viewpoints and vibrant debate on many fronts, including the news and events in Israel. We strive to contribute to the continued growth of our local Jewish community as we carry out our mission. 2041 Third Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121 206-441-4553 • editor@jtnews.net www.jtnews.net JTNews (ISSN0021-678X) is published biweekly by The Seattle Jewish Transcript, a nonprofit corporation owned by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, 2041 3rd Ave., Seattle, WA 98121. Subscriptions are $56.50 for one year, $96.50 for two years. Periodicals postage paid at Seattle, WA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to JTNews, 2041 Third Ave., Seattle, WA 98121. The opinions of our columnists and advertisers do not necessarily reflect the views of JTNews. Remember when From the Jewish Transcript, November 12, 1973. The news from overseas took a little while to get into our pages back then, but here an Israeli Army Lieutenant, whose wedding was postponed because he was called into duty to fight in the Yom Kippur War, was married in the Sinai town of Sharm-el-Sheikh. tHE voicE of j E w i S H wASHiNgtoN STAff Reach us directly at 206-441-4553 + ext. Publisher *Karen Chachkes 267 Editor * § Joel Magalnick 233 Assistant Editor Eric Nusbaum 240 Account Executive Lynn Feldhammer 264 Account Executive David Stahl 235 Account Executive Stacy Schill 292 Classifieds Manager Rebecca Minsky 238 Art Director Susan Beardsley 239 Intern Lillian Cohen-Moore BOArd Of direcTOrS Peter Horvitz, Chair*; Robin Boehler; Andrew Cohen § ; Cynthia Flash Hemphill*; Nancy Greer § ; Aimee Johnson; Stan Mark; Daniel Mayer; Cantor David Serkin-Poole*; Leland Rockoff Richard Fruchter, CEO and President, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle Ron Leibsohn, Federation Board Chair *Member, JTNews Editorial Board § Ex-Officio Member pubLiSHEd bY j E w i S H trANScript mEdiA inside this issue port townsend co-op rejects bdS 6 <strong>After</strong> hours of speakers and emotional deliberation, the board of the Port Townsend Food Co-op decided that a proposed boycott of Israeli goods should not go through. meanwhile, in olympia 7 One man isn’t taking the Olympia Food Co-op’s decision to boycott Israeli products sitting down. Actually, sitting is exactly what he’s doing — right in front of the store. And he’s not getting up until the board changes its mind. A project comes to fruition 8 <strong>After</strong> eight years of writing and waiting, the Kadima’s Women’s Torah Project is coming to a close. A slate of speakers and participatory events this month will lead to the culmination of the project when the allwoman-scribed Torah is opened for reading. A stinking rose by any other name 9 The Jewish Federation hit a homerun last year by bringing a comedy duo to perform at its campaign kickoff. They hope to repeat the success with writers from the satirical newspaper The Onion. taking the hospice home 26 The Kline Galland Center was allowed by law to open a hospice last year. Now they’ve gone a step further, and are taking the hospice out to the community, giving end-of-life care to Jewish and non-Jewish patients alike. m.o.t.: member of the tribe 10 Lighting the night for lymphoma A view from the u 11 A perennial favorite, rewritten for today’s Israeli audience more dealing with breast cancer 12 fall celebrations 13 the Arts 21 community calendar 22 the Synagogue chronicles 29 the Shouk classifieds 30 Lifecycles 31 Correction In “Navigating the difficult road of sexuality and Orthodoxy,” (Sept. 17) in the Jew-ish insert, Miryam Kabakov’s name was misspelled. JTNews regrets the error. tell our advertisers you saw them in Jtnews! beverly hunnicutt 206-283-0655 Pan Pacific Hotel 206-654-5012 swink style bar 206-682-7070 look for october 15 Fall harvest october 29 the sweet issue
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