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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 at BIMA.

SHABBAT/POTLUCK/MOVIE NIGHT

Shabbats coming up:

January Shabbat at Carol & Mel’s home on Friday, the 24th at 5:30 pm. Potluck supper and short service followed by a movie. The documentary is about a small group of crypto Jews who have lived along the border of Portugal and Spain for many years. They believed they were the only Jews left in the world! All are welcome!

February Shabbat at Denise & Jeff’s on Friday, the 21st. Details to follow in next month’s newsletter.

COORDINATING COMMITTEE

Upcoming Coordinating Committee meetings are as shown below. All members are welcome at CC meetings.

Sunday 2/9 10 am at Carol Rappaport’s

HAPPENING IN SEATTLE

Exploring Dignity – The Power of Hurt Feelings

Sometimes being right can separate us from others.  If the stakes are high, how hard should we fight? Is it worth it?  How do we balance the costs of giving in versus continuing to fight for what we know to be right?  Join Beth Huppin, Director of Project Kavod/Dignity, for a Jewish text-based exploration about contemporary connections between the work of JFS and these questions. We will serve snacks and bagels, or feel free to bring your lunch.

Thursday, January 16, 2020
Noon – 1:00 p.m.

JFS Capitol Hill Campus
1601 16th Avenue, Seattle

Cost: Free

RSVP to Talya Gillman at education@jfsseattle.org or (206) 861-8784.

Osher at the J: A Troubled Alliance – Turkey & the United States

Stroum Jewish Community Center – January 16, 2020 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Learn more about the troubled alliance between Turkey and the United States with Dr. Reşat Kasaba, Director of the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

Speaker: Jackson School Director and Stanley D. Golub Chair in International Studies Reşat Kasaba, an expert in the history and politics of the Middle East, has taught undergraduate and graduate students at the School for over 30 years and is the recipient of a UW Distinguished Teaching Award. His courses cover a wide range of topics including economic history, state-society relations, migration, ethnicity and nationalism, urban history in the Middle East and world history.

Recently, he has been researching the role of education in the formation of modern Turkish identity in the twentieth century.

Register here. *Please feel free to bring your own lunch from 12:00-12:30 PM to lunch and mingle before the talk begins at 12:30 PM.