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friday, february <strong>25</strong>, <strong>2011</strong> . www.JTNews.NeT . JTNews iNside<br />
yiddish lesson<br />
by murray mELd<br />
Eyn hant v<strong>as</strong>ht der anderer; tzuzamen v<strong>as</strong>hn zey dem<br />
ponim.<br />
Translation: One hand w<strong>as</strong>hes the other; together, they w<strong>as</strong>h the face.<br />
Moral: Whatever one does alone; two can do better.<br />
BoB LaMacchia<br />
Joel Magalnick, right, current editor of<br />
JTNews, and esther Quint, who served <strong>as</strong><br />
editor of the <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Transcript</strong> from 1948<br />
to 1951. <strong>The</strong> two met during a speaking<br />
engagement at Temple B’nai Torah in<br />
Bellevue for <strong>Jewish</strong> Family Service’s<br />
“endless Opportunities” seniors’ program,<br />
when the current editor spoke about what<br />
he does for the paper. Quint recalled to<br />
the audience her duties at the paper<br />
during her tenure, when she w<strong>as</strong> its only<br />
employee.<br />
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Remember when<br />
From the <strong>Jewish</strong> <strong>Transcript</strong>, Feb. 27,<br />
1981, page 13.<br />
Joel Polsky and Louis Himmelfarb,<br />
students at what is now known <strong>as</strong> Hebrew<br />
High, polish candlesticks once used by<br />
Louis’s great-grandmother, Stella Himmelfarb.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Shabbat candlesticks, given<br />
to the Himmelfarbs <strong>as</strong> a wedding gift in<br />
1915, were part of a local traveling exhibit<br />
called “Judaica on Display.”<br />
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inside this issue<br />
<strong>The</strong> Synagogue chronicles: a home for those who return 7<br />
Chabad-Lubavitch can count ba’ale t’shuva — people who return to traditional Judaism — <strong>as</strong> a large<br />
component of its success in the p<strong>as</strong>t several years. Chabad’s congregation in Seattle’s Wedgwood neighborhood<br />
is proof of that.<br />
a yeshiva with a progressive bent 9<br />
West Seattle’s Kol HaNeshamah congregation just received a grant from the Union for Reform Judaism<br />
to begin something completely different: An in-depth, text- and discussion-heavy learning program with<br />
progressive values.<br />
Film festival previews<br />
<strong>The</strong> Seattle <strong>Jewish</strong> Film Festival launches March 3 with a special party and a host of short films, then really<br />
gets into the swing of things March 12. Previewing this issue:<br />
<strong>The</strong> human resources manager 20<br />
A nameless personnel manager for “the bakery” must accompany the body of a woman killed in a suicide<br />
bombing to her home in Romania.<br />
la rafle 21<br />
A poignant, searing Holocaust drama about the Vichy government’s roundup of children to send them to<br />
Auschwitz.<br />
(rock the) Belz 22<br />
You can fit a lot into four minutes, including a rose-colored remembrance of the shtetl, but it’s never quite<br />
the same <strong>as</strong> reality, <strong>as</strong> we learn in a music video you won’t find on MTV.<br />
vancouver maestro does double duty — in israel 30<br />
<strong>The</strong> conductor of the Vancouver, W<strong>as</strong>h. Symphony Orchestra h<strong>as</strong> been in Israel in the p<strong>as</strong>t week, and he’s<br />
going back again next month to conduct for the symphonette in Raanana.<br />
more<br />
m.o.T.: <strong>Jewish</strong> life for a Saudi 10<br />
celebrations 11<br />
what’s your JQ?: a h’esthery game 23<br />
community calendar <strong>25</strong><br />
lifecycles 31<br />
<strong>The</strong> arts 32<br />
<strong>The</strong> Shouk cl<strong>as</strong>sifieds 29<br />
Correction<br />
Due to an editing error, rabbi and concert emcee Bob M<strong>as</strong>lan’s name (“Backstage with<br />
the three cantors (plus one),” Feb. 11) w<strong>as</strong> misspelled.<br />
JTNews regrets the error.<br />
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