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TEXAS JEWISH POST $ SINCE 1947
ANDRES
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come earners for their families.
Some 15,000 cookers have been
distributed; they have also proven
an environmental boon, slowing
the deforestation of the region and
cutting down the time women have
to spend over open brick fireplaces.
Since each family needs two
of the $15 cookers, Jewish World
Watch (www.jewishworldwatch.
org) has pitched its donation ap-
peal at $30. More than $1 million
has been received to date from some
20,000 contributors, mainly in $30
donations, though there have been
larger gifts.
In the Los Angeles area, nearly
60 synagogues, from Reconstruc-
tionist to Orthodox, have joined up
with Jewish World Watch.
As Andres was talking to a re-
porter, she interrupted herself to
announce jubilantly, "I just got an
e-mail from the United Methodist
Church in Seattle and its members
are sending us $3,200."
Andres, born and raised in Dal-
las, has been an activist since gradu-
ating from UCLA with a degree in
political science. She credits her pa-
ternal grandmother for her sense of
Jewish responsibility toward others,
regardless of race or religion.
"Bubbe left Suwalki in northern
Poland in 1919 and came to Texas,"
she said. "Most of her family stayed
behind and 22 relatives perished in
the Holocaust."
Andres said her grandmother
had three sons, worked in her hus-
band's grocery store, wrote four
books of Yiddish poetry, met new
immigrants at the airport and
helped settle them, and was involved
in the Arbeter Ring, the Workmen's
Circle.
"Her legacy to me was her sense
of social justice," Andres said. "She
was larger than life."
In following that inspiration,
Andres worked for 10 years at the
Jewish Federation of Greater Los
Angeles as the director of its Com-
mission on Cults and Missionaries,
and subsequently as a volunteer for
AIDS Project Los Angeles and in
various other projects, including
the Museum for the History of Pol-
ish Jews.
Andres and her husband, Ben
Tysch, the chief administrator for
the regional Planned Parenthood,
live in Los Angeles with their two
children, Ezra, 10, and Rebecca, 6.
Andres serves on the board of Tem-
ple Israel of Hollywood, a Reform
congregation.
Asked how she manages her many
responsibilities, Andres laughs.
"I really don't know, I'll have to
think about that," she says, adding
after a pause, "It's a bit of a juggling
job, but I'm focused on whatever I'm
doing. I try to give it my all."
Andres says she will use the
$100,000 prize money "to expand
the solar cooker project to more
camps and to publicize the desperate
needs of the refugees."
She and her colleagues are asked
sometimes why they spend their
energies on the suffering in Darfur
rather than focusing on specifically
Jewish and Israeli concerns.
Andres agrees with the answer
provided by Rabbi Harold Schulweis,
the Jewish World Watch co-founder
with Janice Kamenir-Resnick.
"Some people say about the Dar-
fur genocide that it's an internal
matter, that reports have been exag-
gerated," said Schulweis, the spiri-
tual leader of Valley Beth Shalom in
Encino. "These are the same excuses
we heard during the Holocaust. There
is always an alternative to passive com-
plicity. If we now turn aside, that would
be our deepest humiliation."
The Charles Bronfman Prize was
established by the children of the
Canadian philanthropist in honor
of his 70th birthday. Andres is the
fourth person and the first woman
to receive the prize, which will be
formally awarded May 6 in New
York.
One member of the prize se-
lection committee, Israel's former
minister of justice, Dan Meridor,
summed up the basis for this year's
choice.
"The thread woven through Ra-
chel's life and professional career is
that of uplifting others, especially
the neediest, so that all individuals
may live to their fullest," Meridor
said. "Caring for others is among the
highest Jewish ideals, and Rachel's
work fully embodies that ideal."
ROOMMATES
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with Obama and Kram with
Clinton? Was Lynn the sweeter
talker? Did Kram hit the books
too hard?
No, said Goldenberg, whose
boss is backing Clinton; Kram
and Lynn, he added, are more
alike than different.
"They've both got two really
qualified and knowledgeable in-
dividuals; either would be a fan-
tastic liaison to Jews in the White
House," said Goldenberg, who
was then at Michigan State.
Other alumni from AIPAC's
1998 class of summer interns now
hold key positions at the Defense,
State and Commerce depart-
ments.
"AIPAC picks the best of the
best," Goldenberg said.
The roommates remained so
close that Goldenberg's wife set up
Lynn with his current girlfriend.
Lynn noted his friendship with
Kram in a campaign that has oth-
erwise proven contentious. He
said Kram would never question
Obama's pro-Israel bona fides, as
had some Clinton campaigners.
"I know that Josh is aware of
Senator Obama's strong support
for Israel," Lynn said. "I'm confi-
dent he would not be personally
involved in these attacks."
Sometimes, Lynn said, when
encountering Kram — most re-
cently Sunday in Youngstown,
Ohio, a few days ahead of the
state's critical primary — he
misses the day trips, the Frisbee
toss on the National Mall, the
hikes, the barbecues.
But he appreciates the rela-
tive comfort of hotel rooms these
days.
"We slept on twin mattresses
on the floor," Lynn said, his voice
filled with wonder recalling his
first days in Washington. "It's a
good thing we were college stu-
dents."
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