HANUKKAH PARTY!!!

Come Join the Fun:  Shir Hayam Chanukah Party Saturday, Dec. 4 @ 5:30 p.m. Shir Hayam Zoom Room:   Here’s what’s in store:   Music * singing * stories * reflecting * laughing * lighting candles * enjoying each other’s company   Please bring:  Your family’s menorah and candles.  Thoughts to share about your menorah – its special meaning, its history, or something you love about it.  Thoughts about what Chanukah miracle came your way during these many months of living within the pandemic  A Chanukah story, poem, song, or anything from your Chanukah history or your child(ren)’s.  Also – A Cooking challenge: Cook and bring for “show” and “tell” – latkes or a dessert that is a little unusual. What is your secret ingredient?   Here is one site and an article to look up for interesting and fun ideas: https://www.brit.co/holidays/latke-recipes/ “New York Times, Nov. 24 – Hanukkah dessert that skip the fryer. Dessert recipes with olive oil”   Questions? Call Sharon R. @ (206) 393-7300 OR Nina R. @ (206) 842-6846   See you there!!!

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CULTURAL EVENTS:

UW Ladino Day:

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https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino-day-2021-sephardic-trajectories-archives-objects-ottoman-jewish-past/ In the University of Washington’s 9th Annual Ladino Day celebration, editors of the new book “Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States” discuss the book project, alongside presentations from three contributors to the volume.

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CHECK OUT THIS WILD “Pop-Up Synagogue” in Ukraine:

In Dezeen architectural magazine, this memorial to those who perished at Babi Yar unfolds like a book in the incredible video below:


https://www.dezeen.com/2021/11/07/babyn-yar-pop-up-synagogue-video-iwan-baan/
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News from the Memorial Scrolls Trust, the organization from which our Torah is borrowed:

https://memorialscrollstrust.org/index.php/newsletter/158-mstnewsletter-21-november-2021
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BOOK GROUP FORMING:

We are listed as one of the local book groups on Bainbridge Island…you can receive a 10%  discount or use frequent buyer discount when you buy our book group selection  at Eagle Harbor Books. Or, get it on your kindle.

 Into The Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
                                           By Rebecca Frankel

We hope you will join Carol Rappaport  and Jane Greenberg in reading  this book.  We will then discuss it together. This is a true story and there is some cruelty and sadness in this amazing story. But, there is also much  courage and strength shown by those whose lives we learn about in this non- fiction story.
Please let us know if you plan on reading this novel and joining our discussion so we can plan a date to  talk about this book.

Contact Jane Greenberg and Carol Rappaport for more information.
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Interfaith Council reaches out to Shir Hayam in response to recent defacement of a public sculpture:


As most of you know a public sculpture in Waterfront Park was recently vandalized with a swastika painted on it. In response to that act (the second such act involving a swastika this year) we received the following letter of support from the Good Neighbor members, and Clergy Members of the Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap Interfaith Council (BINK):

Dear Friends,

It was with great sadness we learned of the recent defacement of public art with a swastika in Waterfront Park on Bainbridge Island. As your friends, our hearts break for the hurt that it may have caused. And as your neighbors, we want to say that our voices are louder, and our love stronger, than any prankster-coward who ignorantly inscribed a mark of hate. 

We, the members of the Good Neighbor Group of the Bainbridge Island North Kitsap Interfaith Council and local clergy, share our thoughts with you in the spirit of solidarity, and as a way to convey our commitment to heal the wounds of division. We are interconnected and beautifully woven as a human family, so in the spirit of Ubuntu, when one of us is harmed, it matters to all.

These words are our mark, and although our mark is unseen, it is indelible and fully known by all of us who ascribe to the enduring power of love. 

Shalom,

Your Friends and Neighbors of the 
BINK Interfaith Council Good Neighbor Group
and the BINK Interfaith Clergy Group

Alice McCain
Emily Jane Mockett
Susan R. Anderson
Carole Glen
Dick Goff
Rev. Erin Grayson
Rev. Zackrie Vinczen
Rev. Deanna Vandiver
Rev. Laura Terasaki
Rev. Kent Shane
Rev. Paul Stumme Diers
Rev. Sophie Morse
Rev. Dee Eisenhauer
The Rev. Stephen Crippen
The Rev. Karen Haig
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COMMUNITY NEWS:
The first yahrzeit of the passing of Mel Leiman, z”l, was recently observed by Carol Shakow and their families.  It is with sadness and yet also joy that we remember Mel’s warmth and humor, keen insights and intelligence, electric energy, kindness, and, amazingly, his unflinching optimism.