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April 2020

April 2020

Nissan/Iyar 5780 Call 206-567-9414 for event details or see our online calendar here. April (all virtual Zoom Room gatherings) 1 Vos Tut Zich? 5 Coordinating Committee Meeting 6 Kugelettes 8 Vos Tut Zich? 11 Passover Seder 15 Vos Tut Zich? 20 Kugelettes 22 Vos Tut Zich? 29 Vos Tut Zich? COMMUNITY Congratulations to Dee Axlerod for passing her immigration law class in preparation for volunteering for KIAC. Mazel Tov, Dee!! STAY HOME STAY HEALTHY What are we doing to keep ourselves…

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March 2020

March 2020

Adar/Nissan 5780 Call 206-567-9414 for event details or see our online calendar here. March 7 Purim Party Cancelled 30 Super Supper April 5 Coordinating Committee Meeting 11 Community Passover Seder 27 Super Supper PURIM PARTY – Cancelled We have had to cancel our Purim Celebration. MESSAGE FROM CAY I recently visited a memorial to Jews and others murdered in Budapest by a Nazi-aligned Hungarian fascist group in the winter of 1944-45.  Victims were told to take off their shoes on the…

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February 2020

February 2020

Shevat/Adar 5780 Call 206-567-9414 for event details or see our online calendar here. February 2 Brunch with Ray Garrido 9 Tu B’Shevat 9 Coordinating Committee Meeting 21 Shabbat 24 Super Supper March Purim Party – Date TBD 30 Super Supper COMMUNITY A heartfelt Mi Sheberach to Steve Soltar. Our love & best wishes for a full recovery. TIKKUN OLAM – Sunday Brunch with Ray Garrido Ray Garrido, Legal Services Director for Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center (KIAC), Joins Shir Hayam to talk about his…

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January 2020

January 2020

Tevet/Shevat 5780 Call 206-567-9414 for event details or see our online calendar here. January 24 Shabbat/Potluck/Movie Night 27 Super Supper February 9 Tu B’Shevat 9 Coordinating Committee Meeting 21 Shabbat 24 Super Supper COMMUNITY Big thank yous to Carol and Bill Rappaport for hosting a delicious and heartfelt Hanukah celebration and to Robin Hruska and Mike Orr for hosting our first ever “Chinese food and A Movie” on Christmas Day.  Great fun, coming on top of a klezmer concert this month…

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December 2019

December 2019

Kislev/Tevet 5780 Call 206-567-9414 for event details or see our online calendar here. December 8 Bagels, Coffee & Conversation 14 Coordinating Committee Meeting 22 Chanukah Party – First Night of Chanukah 25 Movie & Chinese Food 30 Super Supper January 24 Shabbat 27 Super Supper February 8 Tu B’Shevat 9 Coordinating Committee Meeting 24 Super Supper COMMUNITY Nearly fifty years ago, down to his last few dollars, Leo Fried juried in to a stall at Pike Place Market where he and…

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November 2019

November 2019

Cheshvan/Kislev 5780 Call 206-567-9414 for event details or see our online calendar here. November 16 Havdalah & Movie Night 25 Super Supper December 15 Coordinating Committee Meeting 22 Chanukah Party 30 Super Supper COMMUNITY Mazal Tov Mazal Tov to Terry Cohen and Leo Fried on the engagement of their artist daughter Misty who lives in Ballard. to Marilyn Gottlieb who is again showing her striking artwork at the Florence Biennale this fall, and then visiting, with Dan, their daughter Becky who…

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October 2019

October 2019

Tishrei/Cheshvan 5780 Call 206-567-9414 for event details or see our online calendar here. October 5 Yahrzeit for Anne Vandervelde Stern 8 Erev Yom Kippur 9 Yom Kippur – Service, Yizkor & Meditaion, Neilah, Break the Fast 20  Sukkot 20 Coordinating Committee Meeting 28 Super Supper November Shabbat (date tbd) 16 Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice NW 25 Super Supper COMMUNITY Mazal Tov to our Wonder Woman Cay Vandervelde who just earned a degree in City/Urban Planning from UW while working full…

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September 2019

September 2019

Elul 5779 / Tishrei 5780 Call 206-567-9414 for event details or see our online calendar here. September 6 Shabbat & Kaddish for Shelia Eskin 21 International Day of Peace 22 CROP Hunger Walk 29 Erev Rosh Hashanah 30 Rosh Hashanah October 5 Yahrzeit for Anne Vandervelde Stern 8 Erev Yom Kippur 9 Yom Kippur 20 Sukkot 20 Coordinating Committee Meeting 28 Super Supper SHABBAT & KADDISH FOR SHELIA ESKIN Shir Hayam extends our deepest condolences to the Brown family on the…

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Mid-Summer 2019

Mid-Summer 2019

Tammuz/Av 5779 Call 206-567-9414 for event details or see our online calendar here. August 24 Coordinating Committee Meeting 26 Super Supper September 22 CROP Hunger Walk 29 Erev Rosh Hashanah 30 Rosh Hashanah October 8 Erev Yom Kippur 9 Yom Kippur 13 Coordinating Committee Meeting 19 Sukkot 28 Super Supper COMMUNITY Some History:Many years ago, we got a call from Philadelphia.  A woman named Kathy Penn was calling to say that her husband Tom was finishing his veterinary training there, and…

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June 2019

June 2019

Iyyar/Sivan 5779 Call 206-567-9414 for event details or see our online calendar here. June 21 Potluck Shabbat 24 Super Supper July 14 Coordinating Committee Meeting Shabbat – tbd 29 Super Supper COMMUNITY Congratulations to Eve on the birth of her adorable son Judah Cedar. Mazal tov to the proud grandparents Bill & Sharon. Joy abounds. Congratulations to Savannah Irene Travis for graduating this month summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa national honors society, and with honors from Ohio Wesleyan University.  Her…

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