Tishrei/Cheshvan 5776

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

October

• 10 Bar Mitzvah – Elijah Stone
• 18 JLC
• 26 Super Supper

November

• 30 Super Supper

Photo credit – Bainbridge Islander September 18, 2015

BAR MITZVAH INVITATION

Dear Shir Hayam community, If you have any stamina left after the holidays this year, please consider coming to Elijah’s bar mitzvah on October 10th.  For details, please rsvp:  http://evite.me/N8tKn9Ttnd

Lilach, Elijah, and the Stone family

JLC

We invite you all to join the Jewish Learning Center (JLC) as we begin an exciting year ahead for children, families, and all people who would like to join in fun and informative activities of Jewish life and learning. If you, or any families you know, would like to be included in the JLC activities, please let Araya Sol know at aurayah@gmail.com.

MEMBERSHIP

Our 2015-2016 membership forms are slowly coming in. Our intent is Membership Commitment by signing the membership form and participation with committees/holydays/projects. We are a small organization & every little bit helps.  Contact Denise Brown at mailings@shirhayam.org or 780-0931 if you need a form or you can print the form here: SH Membership Form15-16

SUKKOT

A celebration of Sukkot at the Rosenkotz home.

 

SHOFAR FACTORY

“Sound the Great Horn!” On Sunday, September 20th, the Price family hosted a fun and informative Shofar Factory workshop. The kids were guided through the step-by-step process of crafting a Shofar.

 

TIKKUN OLAM

Cropwalk 2015 – We didn’t break our record but we came pretty close. Chavurat Shir Hayam raised $2,379 to date for this year’s Crop Hunger Walk sponsored by BI/NK Interfaith Council on Sunday, Sept. 27. Close to 100 walkers participated in the event. There’s still time to donate, if you haven’t already – click here: SHIR HAYAM CROP WALK TEAM.

Thank you again to all those made this year’s walk a success. Close to $600 of the Shir Hayam Team funds will stay in our community to assist those in need at our local food banks. See below for a note from Amber Blake (excerpt), the CROP Walk regional director.

… since 1996, you’ve helped to raise $711,488.42, with $180,428.31 supporting local food initiatives. It’s hard to know what that means to communities, so I wanted to provide some price points to help put it in perspective: That amount provides nearly 36,000 villages with biosand filters so that they can drink clean water; in times of crisis when people must flee their homes, $711,000 links 6,400 families of five access to a month’s worth of nutritious food, oftentimes using sources as close as possible to those in need; in areas devastated by deforestation and desertification, $711,000 allows almost 4.1 million trees seedlings to be planted so that erosion is held at bay and water is stored/filtered. You are making (and have made) a tremendous difference to the vulnerable among us, and to the environment we share!

We are so privileged to have Bainbridge Island as one of 107 walks around the nation this weekend, and one of 1,300 walks held this year. The movement to change the hunger equation is growing, and it’s thanks to the many communities like yours that we can build hope for abundance.

High Holiday – Lost & Found

This golden flower stick pin was found after Kol Nidres services at the FilAm Hall. Please contact Danielle Gordon if it’s yours.

Denise Brown has a small ice cream bowl & a serrated knife left at the Fil-Am Hall at the end Neilah services. Contact her at mailings@shirhayam.org or 780-0931 is these belong to you.

 

HAPPENING ON BAINBRIDGE

Helpline House Seeks Volunteers – With our lovely summer coming to an end and the children back in school it may be time to look at new schedules and time commitments moving into the fall and winter months.

With that in mind please give some consideration to supporting Helpline House’s mission to “help one neighbor at a time”. Helpline House depends on many volunteers to work in the food bank, pick up or shop for food at local markets or participate in special programs like the upcoming Thanksgiving and Holiday Food Drives.

It’s easy to submit an online application at Helpline House.org. or email volunteerservices@helplinehouse.org.   Self-scheduling and regular assignments are available now.  Become one of the volunteers that make our island a better place.

 

From the INTERFAITH COUNCIL

Announcing…
A COMMUNITY DEATH CAFÉ – Tuesday, October 13 7:00-9:00 p.m. At Eagle Harbor Congregational Church

We’re all going to die. So why not talk about it? A Death Café is a group-directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes; just good will, open hearts—and cake!

It’s an INTERFAITH discussion group, not a grief support or counseling session. Led by Rev. Barbara ten Hove, co-minister Cedars Unitarian Universalist Church Space is limited! Pre-registration encouraged! RSVP to Cedars Office by Sunday, Oct. 11: 206-780-0373 or CUUCoffice@cedarsUUchurch.org Co-sponsored by the BI-NK Interfaith Council (Donations accepted to cover costs.) For more information about Death Cafés that are being held worldwide, see: http://deathcafe.com

 

From the JFS

The Dirty Laundry of Domestic Violence

All too often, women are encouraged to keep their abuse a secret, to hide their experiences, to feel ashamed of what happened. Project DVORA strives to create the conditions in the Jewish community that support loving, save and respectful relationships and to build capacity in the community to respond to domestic abuse. The goal is to create change on all levels; personally, politically and culturally. It makes clear that violence against women is not acceptable. Contact Project DVORA for confidential support, (206) 461-3240.