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 work at ICE’s NW Detention Center in Tacoma. KIAC is a major focus for Shir Hayam’s Tikkun Olam efforts in 2020. Learn about immigration issues. Find out how you can participate. 

When: Sunday, Feb 2 at 10 AM Where: Hosted by Robin Hruska and Mike Orr

TU B’SHEVAT SEDER

Come celebrate the New Year of the Trees with a Tu B’Shevat Seder and tree planting. Trees and shrubs will be available for you to take home and plant in your yard. 

Sunday, February 9, 1:30 pm at the Rappaport’s
Please click on the sign up doodle poll if you want to bring something for the Seder.  https://doodle.com/poll/pdic46pqg8uutdz2

Questions? More Information? Email Carol Rappaport

SHABBAT

Potluck Shabbat on Friday, February 21st at the home of Jeff & Denise Brown. 6:00 pm, candle lighting, potluck dinner, followed by songs and a parasha discussion – Parashat Mishpatim Exodus 21:1-24:18. All are welcome.

BOOK CLUB – Crucial Conversations

Conflict scared me, and my coping strategy was to retreat into silence.  Fortunately, I came across the book, Crucial Conversations, and as I read it, I thought, Oh, this is how people communicate.  Crucial Conversations gave me the tools I needed to talk to people in high stakes situations.   I found it was helpful in my interactions with my husband, daughter, and friends as well as pretty much everyone.

 I am offering a book club centered around this book, Crucial Conversations.  If you are interested in joining the group, we will be exploring and practicing ways to connect with people during tough situations. We will study skills and practice hypothetical or real time situations in a supportive setting. It will be a 4-6 week course, every other week.  (You can help decide how many sessions you want.)  I will suggest chapters to read before each session.  If you are busy and don’t have the time to keep up, that will be okay as we will be breaking down, discussing and practicing these strategies each session.  So, you’ll still get a lot out of the classes, even if you can’t keep up with the reading. 

 Please let me know if you are interested in joining the group.  It will be on Mondays or Wednesdays starting around the middle or end of February. The book costs about $10 on Amazon in paperback.   You will need to get your own book. Please email me to let me know if you would like to participate, and what day works best for you.  Also, if your home is available for use some or all the days. Click here to contact me – Terry Cowen.

SUPER SUPPER

For anyone interested in helping Denise Brown with monthly Super Suppers, please contact her here. Paul Travis contributed a salad and helped setup and serve this past Monday, January 27. Jane and Bob Greenberg participated in the November and December Super Suppers.
The following dates are available:

• February 24
• March 30
• April 27
• June 29
• July 27
• August 31
• September 28
• October 26
• November 30* (break down dining room)
• December 28

Attendance has been hovering around 30 guests. Time commitment is approximately 2 hours.

COORDINATING COMMITTEE

Upcoming Coordinating Committee meeting is Sunday 2/9 11 am at Carol Rappaport’s house. All members are welcome at CC meetings.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH AT BIMA

The 400 Year Return: In Search of Identity Sat, Feb 8, 7:30 pm Karen Vargas presents on her personal quest to Africa to find identity.

smARTfilms: Black Excellence

Tues, Feb 11-Mar 10, 2pm & 7:30pm
Five weeks of black excellence in film curated by Sade McInnis.
• Feb 11 – I Am Not Your Negro
• Feb 18 – Fences
• Feb 25 – Precious
• Mar 3 – Do The Right Thing
• Mar 10 – If Beale Street Could Talk

HAPPENING IN SEATTLE

Family Papers” Book Talk with Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Join the Sephardic Studies Program at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and the Seattle Public Library for a conversation with Dr. Devin E. Naar and Dr. Sarah Abrevaya Stein about her new book, Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century. Tuesday, February 4, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Note: Seating for this lecture is first come, first served, and no RSVP is required. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. We cannot guarantee late seating.

About the book

Explore the intertwined histories of Sephardic Jewry through the personal correspondence of the Levy family from Salonica. In “Family Papers,” Stein weaves together a narrative of the Sephardic diaspora through the lens of one family during the most tumultuous moment in European history.

About the author

Sarah Abrevaya Stein is the Maurice Amado Endowed Chair in Sephardic Studies and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. She is also co-editor (with David Biale of UCD) of Stanford University Press Series in Jewish History and Culture and co-editor (with Tony Michels and Ken Moss) of Jewish Social Studies. She is the author or editor of nine books, and her books and articles have won numerous prizes, including two National Jewish Book Awards, the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.