April 2008
Adar II/Nisan 5768
SHIR HAYAM EVENTS
See member’s calendar
or call 206-855-7924 for event details.
If you do not remember how to log in to the members only area use the following instructions:
1. Click the member area link on the upper right corner of the web home page
2. When asked you to enter your Username and Password, click “Forgotton your password?” link
3. Fill in your email address (the one you used when you originally signed up)
4. Click submit button
5. Go to your email inbox and you will have received a “New Password Requested” email from Shir Hayam Community Forums Mailer
6. Open email
7. Click on link in the email and follow the instructions EXACTLY
If you need any help, please call or email Paul Travis or Rachel Kerbrat for help.
MISHEBARACH
Our blessings and wishes for continued healing to Sheryl McCloud
Blessings and healing to Craig Jacobrown following his auto accident.
CELEBRATE YOUR MOTHER – Earth Day
Earth Day, Saturday, April 19, at Pritchard Park, 10 am to 2 pm
Free t-shirts to first participants who walk, paddle, or bike to the park AND weed!
Service hours credit for students (8 max).
This weed removal (mostly ivy) event is co-sponsored by the Weed Warriors, the Watershed Council, the BI Japanese American Community, The BI High School Honor Society, the BI High Earth Service Corps, the Interfaith Council, Associated Bainbridge Communities, the BI Parks Department, Friends of
Pritchard Park and Ron’s Walkers.
Directions: from Winslow, go west on Wyatt Way (via Madison) and curve around Eagle Harbor. Keep going on Eagle Harbor Drive until just past Taylor (3 miles), where there will be signs for parking.
Bring: work gloves, garden tools, rain gear, drinking water, good cheer, and we’ll provide some lunch, thanks to T & C and Safeway!
For more info: Len Beil 780-2111 lenbeil3@msn.com
2008 theme: the Bainbridge Weed Warriors and the Watershed Council are striving jointly to increase understanding of the interconnectiveness of the watersheds, the shorelines, the salmon streams, native plants, and invasive plants—they are all connected to the web of life.
PASSOVER
Two opportunities to open your home:
Several people have offered places at their seders to graduate students at Bainbridge Graduate Institute, but it’s not too late to get one for your very own if you feel so inclined. Contact Robin Simons, 780-4353 or r.a.simons@msn.com.
If anyone would like to offer hospitality to their seder or if anyone would like an invitation to a seder, please contact Sharon Rutzick at 842.8453 or srutzick1@comcast.net.
HEALTH CARE STUDY CIRCLE REPORT
On Tuesday, March 25th six of us met to address the pressing issue of health care reform. Using an excellent curriculum prepared by Cedars Unitarian Church, we kicked off our study circle with a set of readings and graphs that outlined some of the major flaws in our current system (unequal access, spiraling and prohibitive costs, obscene profit taking by drug and insurance companies, uneven quality and delivery of care, etc.). Using a questionnaire in our study packets we assessed our existing knowledge of, and attitudes on, the issue, and then we discussed the material in the readings. We adjourned after two hours with a fresh stack of readings in preparation for next month’s meeting.
The goal of the study circle is to become better informed about health care so that we can effectively push for change. Other groups on the island are participating in similar health care circles and, later this summer or fall, all the groups will convene a forum with our legislators at which we will engage in an educated discussion of the issues and push for specific changes.
This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in grass roots democracy. All are welcome! We will meet five more times: 4/22, 5/13, 6/3, 6/24, and 7/15 All meetings are on Tuesdays at 7:00 pm. Please See member’s calendar
or call 206-855-7924 for location or for more info and to get a study packet for the next meeting.
ADULT BOOK GROUP
See member’s calendar
or call 206-855-7924 for event details.
BAT MITZVAH
The congregation is invited to join Sallie Marx for her Bat Mitzvah, Saturday May 17th. See member’s calendar
or call 206-855-7924 for event details. Kiddush lunch following.
Please RSVP April 18th at smarx704@q.com or (206) 780-1699, if you would like to attend the service. Also if you would like to donate to Sallie’s mitzvah project where she is running in the race for the cure, please visit and search for her name in the “find a participant link.” She has raised nearly $5,000 for breast cancer.
TIKKUN OLAM CORNER
If you have a favorite charity that you would like to profile here – please let me know.
THE BREAST CANCER SITE is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on ‘donating a mammogram’ for free (pink window in the middle).
This doesn’t cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising. Here’s the web site! Pass it along to people you know and don’t forget to click on the Hunger site, the Literacy site and the others – check the tabs across the top of the webpage.
Click here to donate – it’s FREE
JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE is a diverse and democratic community of activists inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, and human rights. We support the aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians for security and self-determination.
We seek:
• A U.S. foreign policy based on promoting peace, democracy, human rights, and respect _for international law
• An end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem
• A resolution of the Palestinian refugee problem consistent with international law and equity
• An end to all violence against civilians
• Peace among the peoples of the Middle East
Click here for more information
SEEDS OF COMPASSION came about through a collaboration of the Kirlin Foundation and the Venerable Tenzin Dhonden to focus world attention on the following:
• Our communities need thoughtful, creative adults who are actively engaged citizens.
• Our global society needs people equipped to communicate across cultures and address differences through understanding and collaborative problem solving.
• These qualities must take root in early childhood.
• When children build from strong foundations emotionally, socially and cognitively, they can develop into compassionate adults.
Click here for more information
SHOE PEOPLE HELPING THE WORLD… Why We Do What We Do
We have a simple mission: to impact as many lives as possible with the gift of shoes. We are partnering with charities and governments around the world to provide a basic (yet indispensable) gift that most of us take for granted.
You can help us in many ways: donating your own shoes, donating cash for freight, hosting a shoe drive, or even donating your time as a volunteer. As shoe industry professionals, we are working hard to use the resources at our disposal to make a difference — but we need your help (and your shoes) to reach out to the world. Click here for more information
RELAY FOR LIFE
The Eitz Or and Shir Hayam teens are teaming up again to participate in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life at Greenlake on May 31-June 1, 2008. It was a fun and very powerful way for us to help out in our community, and we’re looking forward to your support and making it an even greater success this year! More details will be forthcoming, as the event gets closer. If you would like to make a donation now, click here.
BOOK RELEASED
Paul Travis co-authored a book in 2007 which just came off the publishing presses…“LEADERSHIP ON DEMAND: How Smart CEO’s Tap Interim Management to Drive Revenue” has already gotten great reviews. See www.Leadership-on-Demand.com or the national press release at www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb806134.htm.
JOB OPPORTUNITY
Stuart Streichler, a friend of mine who is an attorney, writer and professor living in Winslow, would like someone to assist him in light office work. Due to an old sports injury, he cannot type or do bookkeeping, and would like to hire someone beyond high school age to work with him for several hours a week. If you are interested, please contact him at 206.842.4902 or at stuartstreichler@yahoo.com. Thanks, Sharon Rutzick
HAPPENING IN SEATTLE
Seattle Jewish Film Festival
April 3-13
Opening Night “Bar Mitzvah Bash” Cocktail Party hosted by Tom Douglas. Start at the BAR and end with a MITZVAH at this swanky, not-to-be-missed coming-of-age theme party before the Opening Night Film Sixty Six
APR. 06, 2008
Matzoh Momma Sunday Brunch & Film
Matzoh Momma Catering proudly presents our annual Sunday Brunch with a musical performance by the Jim Mirel Shalom Ensemble before the family film Max Minsky and Me. So much more than bagels!
Centerpiece Screening: “Stand-Up for Jewish Women” with Comedian Judy Gold
Comic Judy Gold performs stand-up before the film Making Trouble, about three generations of Jewish funny women from Sophie Tucker to Joan Rivers.
For more information: http://www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org/
NEXTBOOK Series April Events
David Hajdu
APRIL 17 2008, 07:30 PM
DOWNSTAIRS AT TOWN HALL
ENTER ON SENECA ST. NOT THROUGH MAIN ENTRANCE ON 8TH
Outsiders in the Panels: Jews and Comics
Conventional wisdom places rock ’n’ roll at the dawn of American youth culture, but it was the comic books of the 1930s and ’40s that first created a radical divide between the generations. David Hajdu looks at why Jews—such as Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer, and Stan Lee—dominated the comic book industry, and how they employed comics to express their Jewish experience. Music critic for The New Republic, Hajdu is the author of Positively 4th Street. His new book is The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America.
JEWISH SUMMER CAMP
Is your child a 6th to 8th grader?
Has s/he never gone to an overnight Jewish camp for 3 weeks or longer? Is your child NOT attending a Jewish Day School?
If your child is between 6th and 8th grades, doesn’t attend Jewish Day School, and has never been to a Jewish sleep-away camp for more than 3 weeks, s/he may be eligible for $1800 towards a Jewish camp’s tuition. The Foundation for Jewish Camping is sponsoring these scholarships. They are available for any Jewish camp in the US, and there is also a list of Jewish camping possibilities on the West Coast. If you are interested in more info about these scholarships for your child or children now or in the future, you can access their website at www.onehappycamper.ORG.
Scholarship Info
Do you know or are you a Jewish student in financial need who is attending or planning to attend the UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON? If so, applications for the BEROL-SHINDELL SCHOLARSHIP are available from Hillel at the University of Washington or at your counselor’s office. The deadline for this scholarship’s application is May 3, 2008. Hillel Foundation for jewish Life at the university of Washington 206.527.1997
www.hilleluw.org
FROM THE IFC:
4/12/08 (Saturday): *‘Seeds of Compassion’ Event with an intergenerational choir: A ‘Seeds of Compassion’ intergenerational choir that will sing during the Dalai Lama event on Saturday, April 12. For information about practices in Seattle (Tues/ Thurs/ Fri. nights) contact Janette sourcebalancing@aol.com, 206 300 9062. If we have a group, Mary K who is directing this may be able to come to Bainbridge once.
Join His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other luminaries at Qwest Field from 1:30-3 p.m. for a celebration of Compassion in Action. During the event, programs and organizations from throughout the Northwest will have booths on the Qwest Field concourse to show how you can learn more about compassion, and how you can bring your passion and energy to your community. For more information on the Seeds of Compassion event see http://www.seedsofcompassion.org/event/.
4/19/08 (Saturday): *Earth Day Service Event: The Interfaith Council will sponsor an Earth Day service event on Saturday, April 19th at Pritchard Park. See details above.
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