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september 16, 2011 17 elul 5771 volume 87, no. 19
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It promises to be a joyous 5772 for our entire communityas JFS will move into the new building, adjacent to our
existing Jessie Danz Building creating an actual
campus in the heart of Capitol Hill that will allow JFS to
better meet the needs of family, friends and neighbors,
today and well into the future.
This campus is the result of incredibly generous community
support of the JFS Family Matters Campaign in response
to the need for services that seems to grow every year,
every month, every day. You made this building possible
(as well as opening doors for enhanced and expanded
programs that are already serving community members
in need). The names of donors making gifts of $10,000
or more to the JFS Family Matters Campaign will be
inscribed on a permanent donor wall in the entrance of
the new building in heartfelt appreciation and recognition
of their commitment to communityour community.
After all, family mattersalways has, always will.
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For information about how to add your name to thedonor wall and be part of the future of JFS,please contact Shelly C. Shapiro, Major Gifts Officer,(206) 861-3148; e-mail [email protected].
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Have you ever been sitting at a Rosh
Hashanah or Yom Kippur service and
asked yoursel, Why am I eeling some-
what distant rom the wording o theseprayers? Or Why do I eel so distracted
here and the service is so lengthy?
You are not alone. As a psychothera-
pist and a Jewish author, Ive heard rom
thousands o diverse Jews (rom the very
religious to the not-very religious to the
extremely not religious) who told me they
elt bored or dgety at times during High
Holiday services in previous years.
Fortunately, there are some highly
eective ways to connect more deeply
with the proound themes and lie-chang-
ing insights that can be ound in the Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur services o
nearly every congregation. Here are a ew
easy-to-utilize steps on how to make these
careully choreographed Days o Awe
more meaningul to you or a member o
your amily who eels bored or discon-
nected rom High Holiday gatherings:
Let the music move you. Te services
will come alive or you i you allow the
beautiul melodies, the talented voices,
and the intense sounds o the shoar to
take you to a place o proound waking
up. Rather than ocusing on what people
are wearing or whose kids are misbehav-
ing, or even whether the rabbis sermon
is perect, let yoursel be lied up by the
soulul melodies that connect each o uswith hundreds o years o passionate and
vulnerable Jews who have poured out
their eelings o longing, sadness, joy, and
gratitude at similar services during pleas-
ant years and tragic years. As you listen
closely to the music and the call o the
shoar, imagine yoursel surrounded by
many generations o ancestors asking you
lovingly, Nu, how are you? How is your
beautiul soul navigating this complicated
world that is so challenging?
Do some personal preparation. During
the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah, pick
a phrase or a theme rom the High Holiday
prayer book that makes you curious about
the mysteries o lie or helps your soul nd
its true purpose o doing some good in large
or small ways. Rather than getting bent out
o shape by some harsh phrase rom the
prayer book you dont like, choose instead
to ocus on phrases and themes that you
select consciously to inspire and motivate
you in the days and weeks surrounding the
High Holidays. For example, what is a vow
you made in the past year (to yoursel, to
a loved one, or to someone at work) and
that you now realize you havent ully kept?
What will it take or you to change that vow
and create something new that is much
more likely to be kept? Take charge o your breathing and your
ocus. Ive ound in my own lie and in
counseling many dierent types o Jewish
women and men that one o the best ways
to enjoy the High Holiday services and get
more insights rom them is i you notice
your breathing whenever possible during
the lengthy services. Silently say Hineni,
here I am, a powerul ocusing phrase
that you can utilize whenever you eel dis-
tracted, tense, or rustrated. I you remem-
ber to breathe smoothly and ully as you
open up your creative mind with these
words, you may be surprised at how you
start to become less stressed and more
centered, not only at High Holiday ser-
vices but throughout the rest o the year.
Let your heart speak your deepest truth.
At various points during the Rosh Hasha-
nah and Yom Kippur services, you will
be given the opportunity to say out loud
or to speak silently the truths, concerns,
and aspirations you carry in your heart.
In addition, you are being encouraged to
speak these truths to the mysterious Source
o Lie that is beyond human comprehen-
sion. Yet we eel especially close to th
mysterious One at these holiday gathe
ings. Whether you are a strong believer
a loving Presence or you wrestle with mandoubts, these Rosh Hashanah and Yo
Kippur services ask you to dig deeply in
your own heart and admit honestly, T
is where I have missed the mark, Tis
what I notice and appreciate about the gi
in my lie, and Tis is what I am longin
to improve in the coming year. You w
probably nd that having the chance
slow down and connect with the still, sma
voice within as you express these prooun
truths is time well spent.
Look or opportunities or prog
ress, not perection. One o the beaut
ul things about Jewish holidays such
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is th
in Judaism we always have the chance
wake up anew, to ask or guidance, and
improve how we deal with our toughe
personal, amily, and work-related cha
lenges. But we are not being asked to b
perect, nor are we condemned or bein
human and having our struggles. As yo
sit in the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kipp
services, make sure to treat yoursel wi
Fiv wys to b mor prsnt t Hih Holidysrvics this yr
Leonard FeLder, Ph.d. Specil to JTNews
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I have been a rabbi for 50 years. For the
last 30 of those years, I have been known
as the author ofWhen Bad Things Happen
to Good People, a book that suggested a
different understanding of Gods role in
all the misfortunes that occur in our world.Between those two roles, I have had
countless conversations with people who
had reasons to be angry at God, some
because of tragedies and disappoint-
ments in their own lives, some because
of the Holocaust, some because of fam-
ines, oods or genocide in other parts of
the world. I have spoken to any number of
people who have stopped believing in God
altogether because of all the terrible things
that keep happening (its interesting how
angry people get at God for not existing),
and others who still believe in Him but
refuse to pray to him.
In the opening chapters of the book of
Deuteronomy, last of the ve books of the
Torah and the one we read in synagogue
during the weeks before the High Holy
Days, Moses does something completely
out of character. He expresses anger at
God. He complains that God has treated
him unfairly.
Moses has spent his entire life, at con-
siderable personal sacrice, bringing the
word of God to the Israelites. He has
endured their complaints and their devi-
ations from Gods ways, and instead of
rewarding him for his efforts, God has
decreed that the people who have made his
Is it sin to b nry t god?
rabbi haroLd S. KuShner JointMedi News Servicelife miserable for all these years will get
live in the Promised Land and Moses him
self will never even set foot in it.
Whenever I would read that surpri
ing outburst on Moses part, I would attr
bute it to his advanced age and fatigue. Ba few years ago, I heard a lecture by Pr
fessor Aviva Zornberg of Jerusalem o
the subject of Moses anger at God. Sh
suggests that Moses did that deliberate
as a way of giving the Israelites permi
sion to vent their anger at God, which the
promptly do.
God must hate us to have made u
wander in this desert for 40 years. If Go
loved us, He would have let us rema
in Egypt and sent the Egyptians into th
desert.
Zornberg goes on to note that, immed
ately after the people express their ang
toward God, we nd something in th
Torah that we have never seen befor
Hear O Israel, the Lord is your God, th
Lord alone. And you shall love the Lo
your God withall your heart.
We had previously been commande
to obey God, to revere and honor God,
walk in His ways, but never before to lov
Him. Zornbergs explanation: You cann
truly love someone with all your heart
you are afraid to be angry at him. Ang
need not terminate a relationship. It nee
not shatter a relationship. Anger, disap
pointment are a part of an honest, health
relationship.
For years, I wondered why the kaddis
a hymn of praise to God with no mentio
of death or loss, was the prayer we aske
mourners to recite at services. I have com
to understand that asking the one person
the congregation with the most reason
be angry at God for what has happened
his or her life to publicly praise God is n
to demand an act of hypocrisy. It is to re
ognize that a prayerful relationship to Go
remains even at a time of pain and anger
Ultimately I would like to think that th
mourner will come to see God not as th
source of his grief but as the source of h
resilience in the face of grief and the insp
ration behind the efforts of friends an
neighbors to comfort him.
I would like to believe that God is n
offended by our righteous anger at th
worlds unfairness, nor does He need o
attery. Just as in our personal lives, the
are few moments more reassuring than th
experience of getting angry at someone w
care about and discovering that our love
genuine enough to survive the anger. W
should nd it reassuring that we can g
angry at God because we expect so muc
from Him, and at the same time recogniz
how much we need and rely on Him.
Harold Kushner is Rabbi Laureate of Temple
Israel in Natick, Mass., and the author of 12
books, notablyWhen Bad Things Happen to
Good People.
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Dear Rivy,
Conession: I have a love-
hate relationship with the
High Holidays. On one hand,I very much look orward to
the season o holiday meals,
get-togethers and keeping
all the amily traditions. On
the other hand I fnd all the
talk o soul-searching a bit
prickly. I am not the most
spiritual o people and am
rankly not keen on all the talk o peni-
tence. I dont think I am a bad person; I
just cant get into the be-a-better-per-
son sermons though o course, being
a better person does resonate with me
who doesnt want to be better?
It sounds like you are in need o a
more-hands-on, less-touchy-eely kind
o navigation or the demands o the New
Year. It might help you to think o soul-
searching less as an intense mystical expe-
rience and more as an enhancement o
everyday human lie.
Consider this tweak o one o those
ubiquitous sel-help pop-ups that pres-
ent themselves irksomely every time you
open your computer. One appeared on
my screen recently oering
the ollowing promise: How
to Make a Good First Impres-
sion Five Pros Share TeirMost Eective Moves. he
ve, by Anne-Marie ONeill,
are to the point and pretty
reasonable. When I rst read
them I thought, Hey, these are
good and wait a minute,
these are Jewish! Tough they
suggest quick techniques or
acing an interview, they are,
i taken truly to heart, meth-
ods o deep sel-improvement. And as our
mantra teaches, sel-improvement leads to
world improvement.
Te ve rst impression strategies are
very much in line with the classic Jewish
practice o Mussar, a path o spirituality
through inner growth. Not too righten-
ing, though denitely on the track toward
an examined lie. Here are the Five ips
to Follow to Make a Good Impression
and the internal work, the Jewish middah
ideals, needed to stretch them beyond the
interview experience.
1. Stop Talking. Ann Demarais, coauthor
oFirst Impressions, reminds us that over-
talking may make you think like you have
impressed others with your erudition and
expertise. Ironically, though, it is listen-
ing that makes others eel good and indi-
cates your interest in them. ry it; make ita practice to pause, and to process, to slow
down and to really listen. rain and dis-
cipline yoursel to vigilantly watch your
airtime are you talking too much?
Are you able to practice actively listen-
ing? Or are you rapidly thinking instead o
your response, ready to jump, the moment
the other takes a breath?
Silence suraces several times in Pirke
Avot, with teachings that speciically
emphasize keeping quiet. Shimon ben
Gamliel reveals that, All my days have I
grown up among the wise and I have not
ound anything better or a person than
silence, while Rabbi Akiva teaches that
the very key to wisdom is silence. Later
in the 12th century, Maimonides, in the
section o Hilchot Deot in his Mishnah
orah, lays out his approach to person-
ality development, reminding us that a
person should never rush to respond and
should not talk excessively. Tis discipline
will surely develop your humility and sel-
control. Its practice will not only help
you make a good rst impression, it will
improve your lie with minimal discom-
ort on the piety barometer.
2. Use a Persons Name, urges sociol
gist Julie Albright, and repeat it oen. D
not stop there, but also nd out the namo amily members. She goes so ar as
even suggest that we should actually ca
enough to ask aer these peoples we
being; all in the name o course, o makin
a good impression. It is here that I a
which comes rst: Caring or others
behaving as i we care or others?
Our tradition actually believes that o
thoughts ollow our deeds and thus, by
means start by trying to impress others b
requently using their name and by th
asking aer their amily members. Bu
why not allow this practice to actually ha
an eect on you? Start with that rst gree
ing o the day. Good morning, Mr. Cohe
Our tradition places pronounced estee
upon those who are the rst to greet t
other, with elders such as Shammai an
o Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, o who
it is said, no one ever greeted him beo
he had already extended a greeting him
sel. Tat our sages go out o the way
prescribe this greet rst policy indicat
its signicant worth and is not merely
How to mk frinds nd imprss popl:Th Hih Holidys dition
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Chavurat Shir HayamHeld on Bainbridge Island, call for locationContact Sharon at 206-842-8453Rosh Hashanah eve: 7 p.m.Rosh Hashanah day: 10 a.m.Kol Nidre:6:30 p.m.Yom Kippur: 10 a.m.Cost: No charge.Rabbi Hanna Siegel will return to help lead
their egalitarian, participatory High Holidaysthis year with the theme Do We Have aChoice?
Eastside Torah Center ChabadHeld at 1837 156th Ave. NE, Top Floor, BellevueContact Rabbi Mordechai Farkash at
425-957-7860, [email protected] www.chabadbellevue.org
Rosh Hashanah eve: 6:45 p.m.Rosh Hashanah day 1:Shacharit: 9:30 a.m.Shofar: 11:30 a.m.Mincha followed by Tashlich: 6:15 p.m.Rosh Hashanah day 2:
Shacharit: 9:30 a.m.Shofar: 11:30 a.m.
Mincha followed by Kabbalat Shabbat: 6:45 p.m.Yom Kippur eve:
Mincha: 3 p.m.Kol Nidre: 6:30 p.m.Yom Kippur:
Shacharit: 9:30 a.m.Yizkor: 11:30 a.m.Mincha: 5 p.m.Fast Ends: 7:19 p.m.Cost: No charge, everyone is welcomeTraditional and contemporary services. Multi-
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AdditionAl HigH HolidAy servicesThese following synagogues were not included in the previous edition
The dates for High Holidays this year are: Selichot: Saturday, September 24 nRosh Hashanah: Begins the evening of Wednesday, September 28 through Friday, September 30
Kol Nidre: Friday, October 7 n Yom Kippur: Saturday, October 8
To see all synagogues listings, visit www.jtnews.net/holidays5772
West Seattle Torah LearningCenter
Call for location
Contact Rabbi David Fredman [email protected] or 206-254063 or seattlekollel.org
Rosh Hashanah eve: 7:15 p.m.Rosh Hashanah day 1:Morning prayer service, Torah reading and
shofar blowing: 10:30 a.m.Evening prayer service: 8 p.m.Rosh Hashanah day 2:
Morning prayer service, Torah reading and
shofar blowing: 10:30 a.m.Kol Nidre: 6:30 p.m.
Cost: Free, but donations welcome.Your shofar is waiting. Festive meals to follow
each of the Rosh Hashanah services (butplease RSVP).
loving-kindness and see i you can con
nect with the mysterious Source o Lovin
kindness that ows through your heart n
only on these holy days but throughout th
coming year. May it be a good and health
year or you and the people whose lives yo
touch with your caring and your creativit
Leonard Felder, Ph.D. is the author of 12 book
including Here I Am: Using Jewish Spiritual
Wisdom to Become More Present, Centered,
and Available for Life (Trumpeter Books/
Random House, 2011). For more information
on how to use Jewish mindfulness methods fo
daily growth and re-focusing during stressful
moments, log onto www.hereiamremedies.com
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With its diverse genres, dramatic mel-
odies, and timeless character, ew songs
have etched themselves into modern musi-
cal consciousness like Queens Bohemian
Rhapsody. Imagine, or a moment, that
in place o its classic guitar solo, the songpeaks with the coarse, mournul bellow o
the shoar, the rams horn instrument that
captures in its echoed cry what words ail
to articulate.
Without the shoars time-penetrating
inuence, it is possible that contemporary
music would lack undamental elements,
says John Sinclair, who during the 1970s
opened the rst 24-track studio in Europe.
It was in that studio that Queen recorded
and mixed Bohemian Rhapsody.
Now a lecturer in almudic Logic and
Jewish Philosophy at the Ohr Somoyach/
anenbaum College o Judaic Studies in
Jerusalem, Sinclair says he is not a big an
o [contemporary] Jewish music because
it sounds about as Jewish as Led Zeppe-
lin wearing tellin. Instead, he suggests
investigating original Jewish music that
o the emple period.
Over 2,000 years ago, a 12-man chorus
and a 12-instrument (including the
shoar) orchestra o Levites played music
and psalms as an inextricable component
o the emples daily worship service.
While some o the orchestras instru-
ments like the lyre have allen out o ash-
ion, the shoar has continually served an
integral role in Jewish worship since the
time o the emple. Aside rom its place
in the orchestra, the shoar was used to
announce the holidays and Jubilee year,accompany processions, signiy the start
o a war, and was blown with trumpets on
the High Holidays.
Historical musicologists, who study the
development o music styles over time,
assume that emple music was mono-
phonic, containing a single melody with-
out harmony. emple music used the
seven-note diatonic scale.
Everyone knows the diatonic scale,
says Sinclair. It was made amous by that
great musicologist Julie Andrews in her
unorgettable contribution to Western
culture: Doe, a deer, a female deer.
According to Sinclair, who in addition
to Queen recorded Elton John and co-pro-
duced a quadruple platinum album with
two op 10 hits rom the 80s group For-
eigner, says the shoars inuence made
its way into other music orms aer the
second temple was destroyed in 70 CE.
When the Romans burned the house o
God and exiled the Jewish people, they also
exiled our music, he says. Tey took it into
captivity and made it sing or a new master.
Early Christians incorporated music
they heard in the emple into their own
practice. As Christianity developed in
Rome, the orchestral psalms o the Levites
blended with Grecian inuences to orm
the Gregorian chant, which had a single
melody, based on a diatonic scale.
Te mesmerizing quality o the chant
comes rom an exquisite longing always
to return to the root note o the scale, th
tonic to return to doe, Sinclair says.
Gregorian chants laid a oundation
Renaissance music, which built on emp
musics monophonic orm by adding ha
monies and multiple layers o interwovemelodies. Te subsequent Classical perio
employed instrumental melody-dominate
homophony, adding chordal support
emple musics single-melody orm. Mo
popular music today uses melody-dom
nated homophony, with one voice accom
panied by chordal instrumentation.
Contemporary genres jazz, blue
rock, pop, hip hop blend eatures
ethnic and cultural olk rhythms wit
components o the emples, and the sh
ars, musical legacy. While it is difcult
isolate the exact eect o the shoar, it h
surely le its mark on songs like Boh
mian Rhapsody. Containing a capell
ballad, opera, and hard rock sections, th
song is an elemental depot o all mus
cal orms built upon emple music, eve
ending graceully on doe.
In the words o Sinclair, Music ca
come to us like a amiliar voice caressin
our souls with the shared knowledge
our deepest sadness, and it can y with o
highest elation. Music consoles and exal
only because it, itsel, can connect to th
two extremities o eeling.
From th shofrs wil to Frddi Mrcurys solo
Jacob naSh JointMedi News Service
Carl leNDer
Freddie Mercury led Queen into musical glory
with countless powerful rock ballads that may
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JERUSALEM (JA) Among the
amiliar customs o Rosh Hashanah is the
dipping o apple pieces in honey but
what is its origin?
King David had a cake made in a pan
and a sweet cake (II Samuel 6: 15, 19)given to everyone. Hosea 3:1 identies the
sweet cake as a raisin cake.
Honey also may have been used in the
cake, but the honey o ancient eretz Yis-
raelwas made rom dates, grapes, gs or
raisins, because the land at the time had
no domestic bees, only Syrian bees. o
extract honey rom their combs, it had to
be smoked.
During the Roman period, Italian bees
were introduced to the Middle East, and
bee honey became more common.
he orah also describes Israel as
eretz zvat chalav udvash, the land ow-
ing with milk and honey, although the
honey was more than likely date honey, a
custom retained by many Sephardic Jews
to this day.
oday, Israel has some 500 beekeepers
with some 90,000 beehives that produce
more than 3,500 tons o honey annually.
Kibbutz Yad Mordechai is the largest pro-
ducer o honey 10,000 bottles a day.
Dipping the apple in honey on Rosh
Hashanah is said to symbolize the desire
or a sweet New Year. Why an apple? In
Bereshit, the book o Genesis, Isaac com-
pares the ragrance o his son, Jacob, to
sadeh shel tapuchim, a eld o apple
trees.
Scholars tell us that mystical powers
were ascribed to the apple, and peoplebelieved it provided good health and per-
sonal well-being.
Some attribute the using o an apple to
the translation o the story o Adam and
Eve and the orbidden ruit that caused the
expulsion rom paradise.
Te word honey, or dvash in Hebrew,
has the same numerical value as the words
Av Harachamim, Father o Mercy. Jews
hope that God will be merciul on Rosh
Hashanah as He judges us or our years
deeds.
Moroccans dip apples in honey and
serve cooked quince, an apple-like ruit,
symbolizing a sweet uture. Other Moroc-
cans dip dates in sesame and anise seeds
and powdered sugar in addition to dip-
ping apples in honey.
Among some Jews rom Egypt, a sweet
jelly made o gourds or coconut is used to
ensure a sweet year and apples are dipped
in sugar water instead o honey.
Honey is also used by Jews around the
world not only or dipping apples, but
in desserts. Some maintain in the phrase
go you way, eat the at, drink the sweet,
sweet reers to apples and honey.
Te recipes below will help make your
Rosh Hashanah sweet.
Chicken with Honey Fruit Sauce
3/4 cup apricot jam
1-1/2 cups orange juice
1-1/2 cups red wine
1 Tbs. ginger
2 tsp. garlic powder
1-1/2 tsp. thyme
2 Tbs. honey
2 tsp. corn starch
2 tsp. cold water
6 oz. apricots
6 oz. prunes
3 to 4 pounds cut-up chicken
Preheat oven to 350. Grease a baking
dish. Place chicken parts in dish.
Set aside.
Place apricot jam, orange juice, red
wine, ginger, garlic powder, thyme
and honey in a saucepan. Bring to
a boil. Reduce heat and simmer to
reduce to 3 cups. Stir in corn starch
and water, then blend. Add apricots
and prunes. Pour over chicken.
Bake in preheated oven 45 minutes
or until chicken is done.
Makes 6 servings
Apples and Honey Cake
2 cups four
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
3/4 cup sugar or sugar substitute2 tsp. cinnamon
1/8 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. cloves
3 cups grated, unpeeled apples
2 eggs
1-1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup non-dairy creamer or parve whipping
cream
1/2 cup honey or honey substitute
Preheat oven to 325. Grease a bund
pan.
In a mixer or ood processor, blend fou
baking soda, salt, sugar, cinnamon
nutmeg and cloves. Add apple
Add eggs, vanilla, oil, non-da
creamer or whipping cream, an
honey and blend slightly. Pour int
greased bundt pan. Bake 45 min
utes or until a toothpick inserted int
the center comes out clean. Coo
beore removing rom pan.
Sybil Kaplan is a journalist and food writer in
Jerusalem.
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I was an advanced Hebrew school student.Mymother used to tell me how, when I was in kinder-
garten at our little Conservative shul, I walked up to
the chalkboard one day and wrote the word brother-
hood. So I got moved up to the rst grade. It was the
same class.
But rom then on, as the older kids moved on, I
went with them, through Bar Mitzvah training (hal
the kids, their parents eeling theyd ullled their reli-
gious school duties, had dropped out by the time mine
rolled around) and the 10th-grade Conrmation trip
to New York. I made out with my longtime crush
Melanie on that trip in a room lled with sleeping
sophomores. It had been her idea. She was older, ater
all. Now that were all grown up and shes living with
her dozen or so kids in an ultra-Orthodox enclave in
Israel, it makes me wonder i I was as good a kisser as
I thought I was.
But my aptitude goes way beyond the age dier-
ences o a ew months. I can recall a warm summer
day, just as I was entering the second grade (thats
grade 3 in Hebrew school years) and my parents
explaining to me that now, instead o just going to
Hebrew school on a single aternoon, I got to go three
days a week! Including Saturday mornings! So much
or cartoons. I screamed. I cried. I pleaded. For even
as a young child, I knew long beore my classmates the
one thing that eventually came to nearly every Jewish
kid: Hebrew school sucked.
Ill admit I learned plenty: How to watch the clockas the second hand turned slowly, slowly, slowly until
that hour and 45 minutes was up. The recitations o
any prayer in the siddur, though each psalms signi-
icance or what exactly those Hebrew words meant
never really was passed down to us. I learned
how to be patient and punctual as I would wait,
usually in the dark, or my dad to pick my car-
pool and me up long ater everyone elses par-
ents had carted them home or a warm dinner.
That lesson, incidentally, has not stuck with me.
But a ew things rom those interminable
classes did. We had a citywide Bible bowl when
I was 11 or 12. I wiped the foor with everyone
at that thing, even the Orthodox kids. I con-
vinced the Hebrew school principal that I one
day wanted to be a rabbi and she believed
me. I voluntarily participated in Hebrew High,
youth groups, and many years o Jewish over-
night camp. I spent a year in Israel in college
and made riends that I still talk to and see and,
in one case, wake up next to each morning. But
will you nd me at synagogue every Shabbat?
Dont count on it.
As my own son gets ready to enter the second
grade, the question o whether he should go to
Hebrew school is very much a question. Should
I actually send him and allow him to make his ow
religious choices when he reaches the age that he ca
do so, with knowledge and context to back it up? Omore important, will he hate it as much as I did?
As they say, Ldor Vdor, rom generation to gen
eration.
When I think backon all the crap I learned in Hebrew school,
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Daniel Septimus, 33, has just taken on therole of director of congregational learningat Temple De Hirsch Sinai. Jew-ish manag-
ing editor Emily K. Alhadeff talks with himabout the future of education at the templeand across Reform Judaism.
Emily K. Alhadeff: Tell me about your Hebrew
school experience.Daniel Septimus: I grew up at a large Reorm con-
gregation in Houston, Texas, where they joke that we
have mega-synagogues, like mega-churches. We had
an unusually large class. It was the largest class in the
history o the synagogue and there was something
about the bond o that class that made a proound
dierence in my lie. And Im still really good riends
with everyone. It was a very positive experience. Not
to say that the instruction was o high quality 100 per-
cent o the time, or maybe even 50 percent o the time.
E: Did you have an inclination to become a rabbi
back then?D: No. When I was in kindergarten my parents
told me I used to play rabbi. I vaguely remember
doing that. But that was the end o it. And then in col-
lege when I was taking Jewish Studies courses, thats
where it began to come together. But the seeds were
planted earlier through youth group and in my syna-
gogue lie.
E: How did you decide to go to rabbinical school?
D: When I entered college I thought, I want to
help people. I want to be a part o peoples lives. And
I want something thats ullling and meaningul. I
considered medical school, but I also had this reli-gious connection and a strong Jewish identity by that
time. Things came together and I started talking to
rabbis in several movements, and landed where I am
today.
E: Whats your vision for education in the Reform
movement?D: I think the Reorm movement realizes that the
American Jewish landscape is changing. Hebrew
became more important to Reorm Jews in the last 50
years, as did the reestablishment o the State o Israel
and some o the cultural trends in America o identiy-
ing with your culture and your religion. I think those
things have pushed the movement to experiment. Is
mid-week Hebrew school the model or the uture?
Does it still make sense to ask kids to come to school
to learn Hebrew and to sit in a classroom? Is there a
hybrid out there? And the Sunday program, theres
one in Caliornia that is moving more to camp-style
experiential learning. They asked, What were the
most infuential experiences growing up in Jewish tra-
dition? Number one that came up? Camp. How do
you take that camp experience and bring it to reli-
gious education, but not use the old religious school
model? So the movement is grappling right now with
Where should we go?
E: As the new congregational learning director
Temple De Hirsch Sinai, whats your vision for th
congregation?D: I believe in a visionary approach to educatio
which means something called holistic ethos. T
parts all t together. For example, the three maj
points o entry or education are early childhood, re
gious or day school, and adult education. But ho
do all those things t together? I believe i you don
engage the parents, youre going to lose. Otherwi
Changing the Message
Temple De Hirsch Sinai Associate Rabbi DanielSeptimus at his Bar Mitzvah in Houston, Texas aCongregational Emanu El, February 15, 1992.
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youre going to have kids who say, Eh, Im doing this
because my parents want me to do this, not because
my parents really believe in it. Some kids will get
it and will love it and theyll be the exception. With
adult education, sometimes we orget that education
continues ater religion school, and there are needs
or people whose kids are growing up, versus people
who have kids in religion school or early
childhood age. My goal is to create pro-
grams that have ongoing connections, or
or people who come in at dierent entry
points, to be able to connect.
E: So, lets talk practical application.
How is this year going to be different
than other years?D: For example, were in the process
o putting together a proposal based on
an early childhood study the Federation
did a ew years ago, which talked about
the need to step outside o our organi-
zational walls, and to get into neigh-
borhoods and create a chavurah style o
programming. Like a parent education
group, where people who have babies
gather together, or to provide childbirth
classes rom a Jewish perspective and
post-birth gatherings to talk about the
experience. With questions like, what doyou want this childs Jewish lie to look
like? How can the synagogue acilitate
that or you?
In other words, we can no longer rely
on the programs inside the synagogue
walls to draw people in. We have to
go out and reach them where they are.
Thats where I think the Jewish commu-
nity is going.
Another example is our kesher pro-
gram or sixth and seventh graders. Its
a trimester program in sixth grade, so
weve got Holocaust education, toler-
ance, and healthy relationships. Each
trimester is going to have a parent-
teen dialogue component and most
likely a parent edu-
cation component to
it. We want to make
sure the parents have
the tools to respond
to the needs o their
changing teens. And
creating dialogue with
trained acilitators is
going to be helpul.E: But how is that
Jewish education?D: Each o those
p a r e n t - t e e n d i a -
logues will be related
to Jewish topics. For
example, the toler-
ance curriculum is
going to be talk-
ing about what we
learned in the irst
unit, but bringing it
to the present day.
Were ocusing on
how were created
in the image o God.
In Jewish texts we
have so many texts
that talk about while
we may have di-
erences, we respect
other points o view. The healthy relationships unit is
going to ocus much more on the concept obtzelem
Elohim [creation in the image o God] and talk about
why relationships are important in Judaism. Juda-
ism is a relational kind o religion. How do we create
healthy relationships to acilitate that kind o dia-
logue in our society that very much needs it?
E: At that age, some kids dont get why theyr
there. They feel like theyre forced into it and they
being pulled away from what they really want to b
doing. Do you have to go back to the source and r
form everyone from preschool on?D: I think its a change in what we say, in a wa
You go to Hebrew school not to train or your Ba
Mitzvah.
E: But theyre still going to think that.
D: You cant change everyone. Thats the honetruth. Thats the message some o them get at home o
rom their riends or what they come up with in the
own minds. But I think you can change more peop
i you talk about becoming a responsible adult
the community. Learning Hebrew and learning ho
to lead a service is about being a participant in ou
community. And thats not said enough. We have
change the message. It starts at early childhood. Bu
i a child enters at third grade because their paren
want them to have a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, you almo
have lost. It is very hard to change the message. An
thats why we need stronger early childhood pro
gramming that gets the parents engaged and the kid
engaged rom an early age.
E: What are the chances you can get all those pa
ents on board? A lot of adults dont want to chang
What do you do about them if they have no relatio
ship to Judaism?
D: Some o them never will engage. What h
worked in terms o strategy is building a culture
learning and engagement and ritual at an earlier stag
Its saying, this is who we are. I dont think we d
that enough. Most parents do want an entry poin
The question is, are we providing the right entry poi
or them? Are we providing it early enough that we
engaging them? It goes back to the relational mode
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Jew-ish managing editor Emily K. Alhadefftalks with Rabbi Olivier BenHaim of Bet AlefMeditative Synagogue about an integrativeapproach to Jewish education, and donuts
and hot chocolate.
Emily K. Alhadeff: Tell me about your Hebrew
school experience growing up.Olivier BenHaim: I was born and raised in France,
where I was part o a scout movement that is Jewish,
religious and coed. Its a group that started during the
Second World War as a Jewish resistance group and
continued as a scout movement. And it was Orthodox,
because France doesnt know o any other denomina-
tion other than Orthodox. Throughout the year we
did Sunday Jewish education, and I really loved it.
E: What did you love about it?
O: Some Sundays were indoors, some Sundays
were outdoors. For me the outdoors was really impor-
tant. At that time I was dreaming o becoming a pho-
tographer. I did that or many years, even ater my
parents divorced and we moved cities. And I was
always spiritual, as long as I can remember.
E: So now youre a rabbi of an alternative sort of
congregation. Many of your congregants hadnt been
back to synagogue since their Bar or Bat Mitzvahs.What kinds of stories do you hear from them?
O: Most o what I hear is that people elt they were
orced to go through this process. Most o the time
they were dropped o and they didnt eel that their
parents were really involved beyond you have to do
this Because. They had little to no connection with
their rabbi, little to no connection to what was going
on, or why they had to sing those prayers. Most o
the time they were challenged by the theological con-
cepts in and o themselves. They didnt have a belie
in God in any way and were not turned on by what
they heard in their synagogues.
But what I understand is that they mostly sur-
vived those years because o the riendships they
created. And thats what got people to keep on
going. There were people who told me the reasonthey kept going to Hebrew school was that their
synagogue had a youth program where they got to
play basketball. But you couldnt play basketball
unless you went to Sunday school. So they dragged
themselves so they could go and play basketball
with their riends.
A lot o our members are returning ater being
in the ashrams, ater being in the Buddhist tem-
ples, even the Su communities, the Dervish com-
munities. You name it. People have been longtime
spiritual seekers and have explored dierent paths.
Most o the people are at rst really upset when I
talk to them about the divine within and the divine
maniest in nature and culture. Their rst reaction is,
Why wasnt I exposed to that kind o understanding
growing up? Theres a lot o resentment and anger,
unortunately.
E: Whats your approach to teaching youngpeople?
O: What is critical to me is creating excitement
within the kids. My goal is when the child goes home,
they tell their olks, I like Judaism. When they think
Judaism I want them to think un. I can do a puppet
show or 20 minutes to explain the story o Purim,
then call that a day. Then have donuts and hot choc-
olate. For the younger kids, when they go home they
think puppets, hot chocolate, donuts.
E: Youre bringing the basketball game into the
classroom.O: Thats right. Make the basketball game the
place or learning.
E: What about your Bar Mitzvah program?
O: I dont like starting with the negative, but the
impetus to start that program was, How can I crea
something that is not what these people are talking
me about?
For me, the Bar Mitzvah program is lets talk
I got one book on Jewish history, one on mitzvot
tell them, Go home, read the paragraph. When yo
get into the classroom lets talk about what you rea
So we can have an hour-and-a-hal discussion abo
what does it mean to keep kosher? How do
that work in your lie? Whats the essence o kee
ing kosher? We talk about healthy eating, habits
eating, you are what you eat.
When I sit down with them to learn how to chan
the shma or the veahavta, rst we talk about wh
that means. Beore you go in ront o the communi
and chant the veahavta, I want you to be okay wi
saying words that you believe in. So we have the mo
remarkable conversations about God, the univers
what it means to love. Should we love? How do w
love? To me, thats the excitement.
Nondual school
Emily K. Alhadeff at her Bat Mitzvah candle lightingceremony, after she changed out of her dress into a supercool baggy Banana Republic t-shirt and jeans. Groton, Conn.April 16, 1994.
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E: Explain your selection process for the Bar Mitzvah
program.O: I meet with the parents and the kids together. They
interview me, I interview them. Then I have a one-on-one
with the parents there with the student. I ask them about
themselves, about school, to give me a sense o how they
are. Then I ask them, Why do you want to be here?
And when kids are 10, 11, they tell you. I they say its
because my grandather wants me to, my mother wants
me to, then I tell them thats not going to work or me.Its not something you should do with external pressure.
Because it wont work.
I tell them, you dont have to be here. Maybe youre not
ready now. Its breaking a traditional barrier, but maybe
in our day and age we might want to look at moving the
Bar Mitzvah age to later. I nd that most kids get most
o what they need when they start at 12 or 13 and go
through a two-year process. Its a rite o passage. And
sometimes youre just not ready.
E: What would you say your philosophy is?O: To me, I see the Jewish community as an oasis,
where people can let go and gather together with a com-
munity o likeminded spiritual seekers. I think thats what
matters. Thats what gets me excited. I see it as integrating
all the generations in this spiritual container that supports
everybodys evolution and healing. I dont want to start
with a place o ear, just because were so araid were
going to lose it. Because what happens? We lose it. I we
create this kind o community that is all-inclusive and all
encompassing, that would make a dierence.
E: Its kind of nondual.O: Very much.
How can I createsomething that is not
what these people are
talking to me about?
PickledBy Joelle Abramowitz
My experience as a Hebrew school student was
a little spotty, with some lessons more memorable
than others. Sometimes we would rotate through
the class reading aloud about some story rom
the prophets, and now I cant really rememberanything rom those classes. But sometimes we
would learn about a topic with more depth,
something that might actually change the way we
would think about some aspect o Judaism or our
lives more generally.
Looking back now, I regret that I didnt
come away with more rom my Hebrew school
education. Perhaps theres only so much you can
try to teach a 12-year-old kid and hope that it
sticks. At least you can hope that it piques their
interest and inspires them to want to learn more
on their own or when theyre older. As a 25-year-
old now, I have recently ound mysel recalling
experiences I had and wanting to learn more
about my relationship with God, about halachah,
and among other things, about pickles.
Growing up, we would almost always have
pickles at dinner and any trip to a Jewish deli was
not complete without pickles, but it really wasnt
something I gave much thought to. During my last
year o Hebrew school our class took a eld trip to
New York City with the rabbi and cantor to go to
the Jewish Museum, to buy halvah rom a shop on
the Lower East Side, to eat at the Second Avenue
Deli when it was still on Second Avenue, and what
no synagogue trip to New York should be without,
to eat Gusss pickles rom barrels on the sidewalk.
The trip was both a gastronomical and cultural
experience, and I remember nding it remarkable to
see so many o the oods Id grown up with in my
home to be in their natural environment in a place
where they really seemed to be in the right context.
Fast-orwarding more than a ew years, I nd
mysel recalling my previous pickle experiences
and wanting to learn more about the process,
wanting to embark on a journey into the world
o pickling. The problem was that I was a little
bit terried I had never pickled at home, the
process was unamiliar, and the ear o botulism
loomed. Nonetheless, with my handy home
canning kit, some encouraging words rom riend
with pickling experience, and an excess o CSA
produce, I set orth on my rst pickling experienc
managing to successully seal my pickles in their
jars while only splashing mysel with a marginal
amount o boiling vinegar.
Like many other ideas introduced during my
Hebrew school education, I might not have been
interested in learning about the history o pickles
or how to pickle at the time, but the introduction
has served to spark my interest later in lie.
Despite that introduction, it was still dicult to
get started learning something new in unamiliar
territory, and it might not have happened at all
had it not been or my riends pickling enthusiasm
or the vegetables accumulating in my rerigerator.
Im excited to report that ater my rst pickling
project, some spicy dill zucchini pickles, Im only
just beginning on my pickling journey. Im excited
to see where Ill end up, and Im certainly not
sad about all the pickles Ill potentially have to
eat along the way. The same goes, more or less,
or the questions about Judaism sparked during
my Hebrew school experience. And whatever
happened with the zucchini pickles, you ask?
Theyre still pickling, but Ill keep you posted on
how they turn out when theyre ready.
Joelle Abramowitz is a Ph.D. candidate at
the University of Washington in economics and
jew-ishs resident gastronomist economist. Follow
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They say that educating a child
properly takes 50 percent skill, 50
percent prayer and 50 percent tears.
This equation expresses two things:
First, my lie-long rustration with all
things math-related. Second, and per-
haps more importantly, the diculty
and struggles that go along with trying
to mold a living being into a mentsch.
Truth be told, I still revel in the
act that I do not have to go to school
today. One o my earliest extant pieceso writing is a note excusing mysel
or not doing my homework. I signed
it, Elies Mom. So while my experi-
ence in school can only be described as
Alcatrazian, I am desperately hoping
that none o my children experience
the same.
I grew up as the third o seven chil-
dren in a relatively small East Coast
community. My oldest brother was
born with cystic brosis, a nasty dis-
ease (i diseases are ever anything but
nasty). In short, I became a bit o a
lightning rod or his ears and rustra-
tions. My parents somehow managed
to shepherd me through school despite
my persistent run-ins with school
authority gures. They did this with an
incredible amount o patience, coach-
ing, and above all, awareness. They
were (and still are) eminently aware o
my strengths and weaknesses, my skills
and oibles.
I oten wonder, how much o my
struggle with authority had to do with
the stress o dealing with a deadly dis-
ease in my own home? I have no inter-
est in making excuses or mysel, but I
wonder what would have happened i
one o my teachers had considered that
as a source o the reason why this small
kid kept on running o at the mouth?
Deep inside, I desperately wantedsomeone to take me in and mentor me.
Someone to see and understand what-
ever potential I had. Unortunately,
no teacher I had ever understood that,
and as a result, I spent so much time
in detention that my mother eventu-
ally decided to become the school sec-
retary.
As a parent o our mysel, Ive
learned o the essential need to advo-
cate or and interact with my children.
Had my parents not been as involved
as they were, I shudder to think where
Id be now.
Ironically, it was precisely the lack
o mentorship in my own childhood
that led me to a career in mentorship.
Educate a child according to his
way, says King Solomon. Educa-
tion can only be successul when the
educators recognize each individual
as an indispensable individual. Edu-
cators must recognize each childs
unique challenges as springboards to a
bright uture. But we, as parents, must
embrace our job as the role models
and purveyors o Judaic values to ou
children not expecting it to com
solely rom the schools. Ater all,
a child, reality is determined by wh
is seen at home. So i you add consi
tency in messaging to a well-rounde
understanding o the childs indiviual needs, you should come up with
uture onachas, despite the bumps
the road.
At least thats an equation I ca
understand.
Elie Estrin is the rabbi at UWChabad
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UW Chabad Rabbi Elie Estrin, aroundhis Bar Mitzvah in 1993. I have no ideawhat the date of the party was, but Iread Parshat Lech Lecha at LubavitchCenter, in Pittsburgh, Pa., he said.
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A ew Septembers ago I was dining on
the tree-lined patio o Madrids Naomi
Grill, savoring a sweet yet piquant stew
that seemed to embody the spirit o Rosh
Hashanah. When I asked restaurateur
Patricio Felsenstein where he ound therecipe or this honeyed, saron-scented
dish simmered with prunes and the prized
local Marcona almonds, he shrugged, It
could have been anywhere. Chicken tagine
has been around or 1,000 years.
Like his most requested dish, Felsen-
steins kosher Sephardic restaurant seems
a culmination o the occasionally sweet
but mostly sorrowul journey his ances-
tors took as a result o Spains inamous
Edict o Expulsion in 1492.
During that time Jews were arrested or
kashering their ood, celebrating Jewish
holidays, even practicing their religion at
all, so they dispersed to lands as diverse as
North Arica, the Middle East, the Medi-
terranean and, where Felsenstein spent his
ormative years, South America.
Perhaps the only sweet part o these
Jews journey was picking up the culinary
habits o their new homes, combining
sweet with sour, adding nuts and ruits to
meats and salads, and encouraging exper-
imentation with exotic, regional resh
ruits and vegetables. Careully adher-
ing to kosher dietary laws, they amalgam-
ated them with the best o the Spanish,
Moorish and Jewish traditions, orging
the exotic, complicated Sephardic cuisine.
Growing up in Caracas, Venezuela,
where there are ew, i any, kosher res-
taurants, Felsenstein dreamed o moving
back to the land o his ancestors and open-
ing a restaurant that served the bittersweet
Sephardic cuisine. He wanted to provide a
beautiul setting or Jews to celebrate their
heritage, and he wanted to introduce the
cooking style he was so proud o to Span-
iards and visitors looking or kosher ood.Teres a law that makes it easy or a
amily with a Sephardic tradition to return
to Spain, Felsenstein said, while sipping
a glass o sweet mint tea on the tree-lined
patio o his restaurant. And lots o Jews
are coming home.
Fieen years ago Felsenstein and his
wie, Vera, moved to Madrid.
Tere was no money to open a res-
taurant, so he worked with Rabbi Moshe
Bendahan supervising the production o
kosher products such as wine, olive oil,
tuna, cheese and candies.
Te Felsensteins were invited to weekly
barbecues at Masada, a Jewish weekend
retreat and childrens camp in the moun-
tains north o Madrid. It was there they
were served the ormerly orbidden ood.
Soon Felsenstein was barbecuing and
serving the others. He was never happier.
Te Felsensteins and a ew other am-
ilies ounded a synagogue at their chil-
drens school in the suburb o La Moraleja,
Sinagoga del Centro de Estudios Ibn Gabi-
rol.
When Veras parents moved to
Madrid, Felsenstein and his ather-in-
law, Giuseppe Gavison, decided to open
Naomi Grill.
Te name Naomi means My plea-
sure, Felsenstein said, smiling as he
showed visitors around the dining room
which embraces both modernity and
antiquity. Te tables and chairs are hand
carved by the revered artisans o oledo,
and the menus and art on the walls depict
ancient, empty Spanish synagogues,
including the tiny, jewel-like structure in
Cordoba, where the iconic Jewish phi-losopher Maimonides used to pray. o
accessorize the emotion-lled setting is
haunting Sephardic and Israeli music.
But all pales next to the impeccable,
ormerly orbidden cuisine that Felsen-
stein has succeeded in bringing back to
Madrid aer hal a millennium o absence.
When guests sit down theyre served
sweet resh mint tea, popular in Morocco
and unisia. Te decorative brass pitcher
is rom angiers, Morocco.
Beore the restaurant opened, my par-
ents went to the shouk [open-air market]
in angiers and bought all the serving
accessories or the restaurant tagine
and kebab dishes, platters and bowls
so that everything looks authentic, Vera
Felsenstein said.
But it isnt Patricio Felsenstein doing
the cooking. With all o the dedicated res-
taurateurs passion or ood, he had no
ormal culinary training.
I learned to cook in my amily, he
said. We looked high and low or a Sep-
hardic che. In our small Jewish commu-
nity there is a place where immigrants go
to nd jobs. It was ate I ound Ariel Kars,
who is an amazing che.
ry these Sephardic recipes or a beau-
tiul erev Rosh Hashanah dinner or as a
east beore the ast o Yom Kippur.
Moroccan Fresh Mint Tea
7 resh mint sprigs, plus 7 or garnish
3 Tbs. sugar
4 cups boiling water
Pour a small amount o boiling water ia teapot and swish around to warm
the pot. Place mint sprigs and suga
in teapot. Add boiling water. Stee
or 3 minutes. Remove mint springs
Pour hot water inused with the min
and sugar into glass teacups. Ga
nish with remaining mint sprigs.
Serves 4
Chicken tagine
Adapted rom Che Ariel Kars an
owner Patricio Felsenstein, Naomi Grill
Marcona almonds are available in na
ural ood markets such as Whole Food
Mediterranean or Middle Eastern Ma
kets, or in the ethnic sections o supe
markets. Whole, blanched almonds m
be substituted.
1 Tbs. olive oil
3 cups sliced Spanish onions
2 cloves garlic, chopped coarsely
1-1/2 tsp. ground coriander
1/2 tsp. ground cumin
1/2 tsp. ground ginger
1 cinnamon stick
1/4 tsp. saron threads
1 tsp. brown sugar
1-1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. reshly ground black pepper
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In a large skillet with a heat-proo handle,
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1 cup onions, chopped coarsely
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2 tsp. resh ginger, grated
2 tsp. cumin seeds, toasted,
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1 tsp. saron threads
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1/3 cup sugar
1 Tbs. cinnamon
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First, my conession. And it comes with
a slice o guilt. I never liked the High Holi-
days. In act, as the thoughts o amily and
riend-lled Passover seders would start
to ade each year, I would begin to think
about the impending Days o Awe witha knot in my stomach and a distaste in
my mouth that even the thought o sweet
apples and honey could do little to relieve.
Whats worse is that as a Jewish educa-
tor, I am charged each September to teach
about the meaningulness o these ishrei
days: Te opportunity to reect, to return,
to become a better person.
What was really swirling through my
mind was the idea o sitting through seem-
ingly endless services, uninspiring ser-
mons and a day o asting and praying that
had a sadomasochistic eel to it.
I would ask mysel why the need or the
hours on hours o prayers, many o which
were repeated over and over. And wasnt
it enough to hear the words o Kol Nidre
once? But three times? Really? All while
standing and listening to musical notes
dragged out or what seemed like days.
And I was cynical o the whole spectacle,o synagogues having to move locations to
accommodate larger-than-normal crowds
(reminiscent o college days when on nal
exam day the lecture hall would ll up with
students who had not shown up all semes-
ter or class). And o the ashion shows and
maneuvering or the best seats that money
can buy.
But all o these thoughts changed about
a decade ago, when I was in my late 30s.
Te holidays were approaching, and I was
anything but looking orward to them.
Ten a colleague introduced me to a work
booklet called Where Are You? by Jael
Greenlea, subtitled Te Inventory of the
Soul in Preparation for the High Holy Days.
Each page included a verse rom the High
Holiday prayer Ashamnu. Following the
verse was a trigger or thinking and a hal
page or written reection. Every night I
would read the page and journal.Tat year, as I reected upon the High
Holidays just past, I realized not only
were they meaningul, but I actually elt
rereshed and empowered. I reected on it
aer the holidays and realized something
that had never occurred to me previously:
Every year until that year, I would walk
into services on the holidays and expect to
be somehow transormed. I would enter
the sanctuary on the rst night o Rosh
Hashanah and unconsciously be thinking:
Rabbi, Cantor, do your work. Make me a
better person. Make me eel something.
Only that year, on the cusp o my h
decade, did I realize that this was my
responsibility. I couldnt expect to wa
into the nal exam having not done th
work and then expect to ace the test.
Every year since I have done my hom
work. Beginning the rst day o Elul (tr
ditionally the beginning o the days preparation or the holidays) I have mad
a plan to get me into the mindset o th
challenging work o reection and se
transormation. One year I bought a boo
that included a reading or each day
the month preceding the High Holiday
One year I journalled each night, ocusin
on ways I hoped to do better in the ye
ahead. Another year I read a psalm trad
tional or this time o year each night.
A ew years ago I decided to oc
my preparations on a specic goal an
aspect o my lie that was troubling m
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3. Show Your Flaws, stresses Lucila McEl-
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We are all only human, ew o us have all
the answers, nor is that ever the expecta-
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the teaching o Akaviyah ben Mahalalel:
Know rom where you came and where
you are going and beore whom you are
destined to give account and reckoning
i that isnt enough to shake us right
to our disaected core, then I dont know
what will. Te good impression embodied
in this practice will reect humility and
honesty to those around you. Te lasting
impression on your soul will be immea-
surable and the relie o not having to
know everything? Incalculable.
4. Dont Take All the Credit, asserts Ben
Dattner, an organizational psycholo-
gist, workplace consultant, and the author
o he Blame Game. Being sel-serving
and exaggerating ones accomplishments
do not make a good impression ever.
Channel your inner Ben Zoma, who pro-
claims that the wise person learns rom
every person and Rabbi Chaninah, who
boldly declares he has learned much rom
his teachers and colleagues, but even more
rom his students. Tis quality o making
sure to give credit where credit is due is a
hallmark o redemption. Queen Esther is
ascribed with being privy to the perilous
plot o Bigthan and eresh due to the inor-
mation that she had learned rom Morde-
chai. Trough this action the Jewish people
were saved all because she gave proper
attribution to her source. Bottom line in
the words o Hillel: One who aggrandizes
his own name will lose that name. Redemp-
tion, a good name and humility gained in
one ell swoop a bargain.
5. Look Interested, counsels Joe Navarro,
special agent to the FBI and author o the
book, What Every Body is Saying. A slight
head tilt powerully conveys the message
that you are listening. A quick eyebrow
arch is another small but eective ges-
ture that communicates curiosity. Here is
where a good eye may come in handy.
In response to being asked by his teacher,
What is the best approach to lie? Rabbi
Eliezer answers, A good eye. It takes a
lot to be interested in the other tim
patience and generosity. It is the truly ge
erous person who can listen as the oth
speaks and communicate genuine ca
and interest. Tis stance is not easily ake
it must assuredly ow rom a person
true and sincere inclination. One mo
baby step toward being a better perso
and what more can we ask o anyone
especially at this time o year?
Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally
renowned educator and Head of School at the
Seattle Hebrew Academy. If you have a
question thats been tickling your brain, send
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Tis November, the Washington State Jewish Historical Society will
release its cookbook, Yesterdays Mavens, odays Foodies: raditions in
Northwest Jewish Kitchens, which contains recipes and stories rom am-
ilies throughout the Northwest. Helens Chopped Herring, submitted
by Sandra Lott, was a holiday avorite.
Tis is our amilys avorite appetizer and my signature dish even my grandchildren all love it! I make it or Rosh Hashanah and all
year round or company. Tis was my mothers recipe and Im not sure
where it came rom, but its a classic dish. Its great with crackers or I eat
it straight o o a spoon!
Sandra Lott
Helens Chopped Herring2 pieces challah,
dried (or rye bread
withoutcrust,Bakeinoven200-225
for2-4hours,butbesureitdoesnot
brown)
1smallGrannySmithapple,peeled,
coredandchoppedintochunks
1mediumonion(swee
tifpossible)
3hard-boiledeggs
1tsp.sugar
12-ouncejarpickledherring,drained
Usingaoodprocessor,pulsethe
breaduntilitisveryfne.
Addtheapple,thentheoniona
ndchop.Addtheegg,
sugarandherringandmixuntild
esiredconsistency.
Makes4cups
Tipsandtricks
Te order omixing is importantb
ecauseyouwantthe
breadtobeverypulverized andthea
pple,onionandeggtobe
fnelychopped.
Keepswellintheridgeoralongtimeandreezeswell
.It
iseasytomake;the ingredients are
available allyearround,
whichmakesthisagreatdish.
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