Nisan/Iyyar 5779

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

May

• 2 Yom HaShoah
• 4 Coordinating Committee Meeting
• 17 Shabbat
• 19 Annual Meeting
• 27 Super Supper

June

• 2 Coordinating Committee Meeting
• 24 Super Supper

COMMUNITY

We celebrate the high school graduations of two remarkable young people – Bayla Rosenkotz from Bainbridge High School/Running Start and Adam Rappaport from North Kitsap. Bayla will be attending Western Washington in Bellingham and Adam will be going to Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Congratulations to them both and Mazal Tov to Julie and David and Carol and Bill on this milestone.

And another wonderful accomplishment by one who grew up in our chavurah, Hallie Rosner, who will be receiving her Masters in Social Work from the University of Washington and hopes to work in Seattle. Mazal Tov to Hallie and to her mother, Robin Simons.  

In May, Collyer Church will be honored by the Los Angeles County Bar Association for his achievements as a Real Estate attorney there. Mazal Tov on this wonderful recognition of your work.  Enjoy the trip down, Collyer and Joanna!

Continued healing to our wonderful Linda Golden – we were thrilled to have her spirited singing at our Seder.   This in addition to Dick and she mounting an exhibition of her paintings at Treehouse AND celebrating their 50th Anniversary. Yesher Koach and Mazal Tov to them both, writing ever more Golden Tales.

MAY SHABBAT

We will be celebrating Shabbat on Friday, May 17th at Carol & Mel’s home. Look for the details by email soon.

PASSOVER

Shir Hayam celebrated a beautiful spring Seder at Seabold Hall with special shout outs to Steve Soltar for his warm, engaging leadership, to Carol Shakow who organized the Seder, to members of the Coordinating Committee who supplied wine, soups, salad, updated Haggadahs, and all the fixings for the Seder plates, to Dick Golden for his rap retelling of the Passover story, accompanied by Jon Garfunkel’s guitar.  And here’s Steve, in his own words…

I had a wonderful time at our Shir Hayam Seder and I want to thank everyone for coming and taking part. Your willingness to take part beyond simply reading the Haggadah to pose questions and to share your responses, observations and knowledge made for an evening of learning and getting to know one another better that enriches our community. Besides the food for thought, the food on our plates was very enjoyable thanks to all. even the lamb shank bones were extraordinarily memorable!

Again, my thanks to the organizers who planned, set-up and brought us all together. Everyone stepped up to help clean up afterwards and this was very much appreciated. Finally, my thanks to Joanna Church who captured some very nice images when I thrust my camera upon her at the very last minute. I’ve attached a few.
Shalom
Steve

ANNUAL MEETING

Shir Hayam will hold it’s annual member’s meeting on Sunday, May 19th at Seabold Hall. 10:30 – 1:30. Details coming soon by email.

HAPPENING IN SEATTLE

Yom Hashoah: Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration 

Sunday, May 5, 2019 2-4 pm | Seattle Art Museum, Plestcheeff Auditorium | Free and open to the public Register Now  

Actress Samara Lerman presents her one-woman play, Cyla’s Gift. When the ghost of her grandmother starts visiting her at night, Samara is compelled to travel through interwoven family stories of survival. Cyla’s Gift is one woman’s exploration into her grandmother’s life journey as she seeks to connect, process, and share in the only way she knows how – storytelling.

The performance will be followed by a memorial candle-lighting with Holocaust survivors and the Holocaust Center’s Student Leadership Board, music by Kesselgarden, and remarks from Rabbi Hassan, Sephardic Bikur Holim.