Shevat/Adar I 5776

Call 206-567-9414 for event details or see our online calendar here.

February

• 12 Shabbat
• date to be announced – Seder Plate Workshop
• 28 Coord Comm meeting, all are welcome (10am). Contact mailings@shirhayam.org for location.
• 29 Super Supper

March

• 11 JLC
• 19 Purim Party
• 28 Super Supper

April

• 10 JLC – Matzo making & Pesach Preparation
• 25 Super Supper
• 30 End of Passover

CLIP OF ARIK’S KABBALAH SERVICE IN JANUARY

SHABBAT

Shabbat service and Potluck supper Friday evening February 12 at 6pm. Location to be announced.

 

SEDER PLATE WORKSHOP

Date & place to be announced

 

TIKKUN OLAM

Give Refugees Rest—changing the narrative around refugees from fear to welcome

Families and individuals who want to decorate pillowcases for the #GiveRefugeesRest campaign are invited to attend a decorating event at the Eagle Harbor Congregational Church from 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30. Those who have pillowcases to bring are encouraged to do so, but there also will be pillowcases on hand for participants to use.

Decorating materials also will be available, ranging from paints, ribbon, and buttons for those who want to do more elaborate designs, to magic markers for those who want to keep things simple. Craig Spencer will be available to offer guidance to those who want it, based on his experiments with painting on pillowcases.

The pillowcase campaign is organized by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), an international peace group, and the local effort is being coordinated by some of the people who organized the recent candlelight vigil at the Japanese American Exclusion Memorial. It centers around inviting families & individuals people to decorate pillowcases around the theme #GiveRefugeesRest and send or bring them to the governor of their state (in the local case, as a message of support for the position that Gov. Jay Inslee has taken) or to the governor of one of the 31 states that have expressed positions of hostility toward refugees.

The campaign is an attempt to change the narrative around refugees, both those fleeing violence in the Mideast and those fleeing gang violence in Central America, from one of fear and resentment to one of peace and welcome. Like the candlelight vigil, participating in the #Give Refugees Rest campaign is another symbolic statement about fighting intolerance and fear based on a person’s place of birth or their ethnicity.

Completed pillowcases will be collected and displayed at a second event from 6-8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5, also at the Eagle Harbor Congregational Church.  For further information, please contact Marsha Cutting 518-312-9088

TIKKUN OLAM CHARITY SPOTLIGHT

Have a favorite charity? Send in the link and some information about it and I will post it here. This month, we are spotlighting Rosies’ Place. A charity suggested by Dee Axelrod in honor of the yartzeit of her mother, Penny Axelrod. This was her mother’s favorite charity.

Rosie’s Place was founded in 1974 as the first women’s shelter in the United States. Their mission is to provide a safe and nurturing environment that helps poor and homeless women maintain their dignity, seek opportunity and find security in their lives.

Today, Rosie’s Place not only provides meals and shelter but also creates answers for 12,000 women a year through wide-ranging support, housing and education services. They rely solely on the generous support of individuals, foundations and corporations and does not accept any city, state or federal funding. Thanks to these donations, 88 cents of every dollar raised goes directly to services for poor and homeless women.

Next month your favorite charity can be in the spotlight!

LOST AND FOUND

(If you’ve lost or found something at a Chavurah event – let me know and I will post it here)

Lost and found at Tu B’Shvat– a tiny turned maple bowl was left on the altar.  Please contact Zann (z-c@themaskery.com)

STEERING COMMITTEE Minutes

Shir Hayam Coordinating Committee January 17, 2016

Attending: Lisa Weiss, Araya Sol, Paul Travis, Jessica Lang, Nina Rogozen Absent: Carol Shakow  Also present: Terry Cowan

State papers: Denise Brown, SH accountant took care of filling our state papers, which lists our officers.

The coordinating committee’s legal liability: Jessica will look into this.

Annual Meeting:

• New date: May 15, 2016
• We will plan and include a fun activity that helps those in attendance get to know each other in new ways. Nina will find a venue for the meeting. Meeting should be a maximum of three hours; we will possibly have daycare.

Engaging people more in Chavurah activities: We will discuss at a later time vibrancy/ attrition and ways to engage more people at more events.

Jewish Learning Center (JLC):

• Eight – ten children coming this year. Consistent adults include Araya Sol, Zann Jacobrown and Lisa Weiss.
• Araya will obtain ability to use Mail Chimp and keep the chavurah up to date on JLC activities. She and Lisa will be giving parents sign up sheets, including tuition amounts soon.

Committee budgets: We will find out from Denise how much money each committee has left for this year, and tell them. Will also ask them to submit their budget for 2016 — 2017 year by March 20.

Next High Holidays: Nina will compose a simple survey and have it approved by the Ruach committee—with questions about last year’s services and thoughts about those for next year. If we want a rabbi in one way or another we will provide Ruach with names as soon as possible.

Coordinating Committee meeting, all are welcome: 10am 2/28. Contact mailings@shirhayam.org for the location.

 

HAPPENING IN SEATTLE

Scholar-In-Residence Deborah Waxman – Honoring Our Differences: A Jewish Feminine Mystique
February 7 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Rabbi Deborah WaxmanJudaism is more than 3,500 years old and is, in many ways, a male-centered religion. A hallmark of both the Reform and Reconstructionist movements—something that make them fundamentally modern—is the shared commitment to re-center religion to include women in the public realm. Yet religious changes and social changes do not always take place on the same timelines. This talk will explore the role of women in progressive Judaism throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. This final lecture is co-sponsored by the Sisters of Beth Am. Sisters are invited for an intimate coffee and chat with Rabbi Deborah Waxman from 9:15 – 10:00 AM Sunday morning in Social Hall East.  http://www.templebetham.org/learning/scholar-in-residence Organizer Alexis Kort 206-525-0915 alexis@templebetham.org