November 2, 2012 - The Jewish Transcript

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Opens Friday, November 9
“The Flat”
Film
In his documentary film “The Flat,” Arnon
Goldfinger sifts through the photos, letters
and objects left behind by his grandparents
in their Tel Aviv apartment, and
begins to investigate long-buried family
secrets and unravel the mystery of their painful past. The result is a touching
family portrait and a perceptive look at the ways different generations deal with
the memory of the Holocaust. “The Flat” is the winner of the Israeli Film Academy
Award for Best Documentary. Hebrew with subtitles. Not rated.
At the Landmark Varsity Theatre, 4329 University Way NE, Seattle. For more
information about the film, visit www.ifcfilms.com/films/the-flat. For show times
and tickets, visit www.landmarktheatres.com/market/seattle/varsitytheatre.htm.
Sunday, November 11 at 9:30 a.m.
Hanukkah Faire
Arts and crafts
The Sisterhood of Temple B’nai Torah is holding a Hanukkah Faire to raise money
for the Norm Greenburg Campership Fund. Local artisans from the Seattle
Jewish community will be present selling a variety of crafts just in time for the
holidays, including Al Benoliel, “the mezuzah man.”
At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue. Open to the community,
no entrance fee. For more information, call 425-603-9677.
Wednesday, November 14 at 7 p.m.
The Mirror of America: Jewish Composers on Broadway
Lecture
Another lecture by Dr. Theodore Deacon, “The Mirror of America: Jewish Composers
on Broadway” will focus on how Jewish composers influenced the development
of American musicals over the decades. Deacon expounds upon the
movement that after decades of “bawdy burlesque, vacuous varieties, and racy
revues,” a number of American composers and producers felt the time had come
to reform the American musical comedy. Taking their inspiration from modern
theater and European operetta, these creative visionaries urged Broadway toward
what some considered more “dignified” productions.
At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle. RSVP to 206-525-0915 or
temple@templebetham.org.
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He taught at Yale for 11 years and also
spent six years at the University of Maryland.
Ruderman is a winner of two National
Jewish Book Awards for his work in Jewish
history, mysticism, spirituality, and science,
and was awarded his most recent NJB
award in 2011 for his book “Early Modern
Jewry: A New Cultural History” (Princeton,
2010). He received the National
Foundation for Jewish Culture’s lifetime
achievement award in 2001 for his work in
Jewish history.
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Bright, who especially enjoys digital
forensics investigations, said he became
curious about a liaison position after working
to establish contacts throughout the
North End, including one at the Menachem
Mendel Seattle Cheder in April.
“The second time the rabbi called me at
home, off-duty, I thought, ‘You know, we
have this Community Outreach Section,’”
Bright said. “‘I wonder if they have a liaison
officer that the Jewish community could
contact whenever they have questions that
are not necessarily an emergency … some
way that they could bring up issues or
make requests of the department?’”
He proceeded to contact the department,
learned there was no such liaison,
and asked to be considered should one be
selected. About four months later, he said,
“I got an email back and they were saying,
‘The job’s yours if you want it.’”
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“We sat at the graves and sang Jewish
songs — ‘Am Yisrael Chai,’ ‘David Melech
Yisrael Chai Vikayam,’” he recalled. “The
dead people are listening to our songs, and
they are glad…I imagined that the moment
they were shot, they thought that everything
was lost.
“The dead people taught us a lesson.
There is Am Yisrael, and we belong,” he
said. “It is me being shot, and coming up. I
got my strength, my being a Jew, from the
dead people.”
From there, Mendelevich said, “I suggested
we have to establish an underground
movement to save Am Yisrael.”
Now the head of the religious-Zionist
Machon Meir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Mendelevich
described his first encounters with
Jewish practice.
“Strange people,” he thought, “having
a new year in September. It’s not snowing
yet.” He credits not his classmates, but
God, with bringing him to those first Rosh
Hashanah services. As his fervor to save the
people of Israel increased, it occurred to
him: He had to take on traditional Jewish
observance, little that he knew about it.
“I had a feeling I had to sacrifice something,”
he said. So he called out to God:
“If you make me free from Soviet army, I
promise you to become a believing Jew.”
According to Mendelevich, God came
through on the promise. Even in prison,
after the foiled plot, Mendelevich proudly
identified as a Jew.
“When I got involved in this activism,
I discovered meaning!” he exclaimed. “My
life was joyful, you know?
“Admitting that I am not a Jewish activist
would mean for me to finish my life,”
he said.
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