May 2010
Iyar/Sivan 5770
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May 2 – Lag B’Omer Picnic, Garden Planting and JLC Graduation
May 15 – Movie Night “A Serious Man”
May 22 – Shavout Celebration
June 6 – Annual Meeting
July 31st Dashiell Manoff Mortell Bar Mitzvah
Save the date!
July 31st Dashiell Manoff Mortell will have his Bar Mitzvah, at Island Center Hall. The celebration and service will begin at 12:30 All are invited email your RSVP by July 10 to Dinah Mortell at Malibudiva@aol.com
BABIES!
Dee Axelrod announces the birth of grandchild, to her daughter, Joan Talarico, and Justin Grace on April 11, weighing in at 8 lb 4 oz. Edward Hoyt Hawk Henry Grace is a Tulalip tribal member and Jewish.
Arik Labowitz announces the birth of Judah Sky Labowitz
in Hebrew, Yehuda Or
He is named for our grandfathers – Izak and Joseph (the “Yud” from Yehudah and the “J” from Judah). Izak was Aliza’s zadie who came from Poland and lived through the war. He was a loving and generous grandfather. He and Aliza’s grandmother lived for their children and grandchildren. Joseph was Arik’s zadie who also came from Eastern Europe and lived near him in Florida. He was always very sweet with children and proud of his grandsons. Judah/Yehuda comes from Hoda’ah which means gratitude. We are so immensely grateful to have this beautiful, healthy, strong and sweet boy as our son. Sky because he was born on the spring equinox, and the sky opened up when he came into the world. Or means light in hebrew. The light in the sky and the light that his birth brought to us and to all who know him.
LAG B’OMER
Lag B’Omer Baked Potato Potluck, Garden Planting and JLC Graduation Sun, May 2. 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. The Rosenkotz’ farm. All of Shir Hayam invited! JLC would like to invite the whole Chavurah to join us for our Lag B’Omer picnic and to help celebrate the achievements of the JLC students. We will begin the day by planting a garden to feed our homeless neighbors. Once it grows, you are welcomed to join the Chavurah group who will work with the Compass Center in Seattle this summer to make and serve a healthy meal to 100 people. Please bring a fixing for our bake potato bar. Butter, sour cream, chives, bacon bits, flax oil, salsa…. Bring something to put on the baked potatoes! Green salad and Potatoes will be provided! Potluck will follow Graduation festivities.
THE CHAVURAH GOES TO THE MOVIES: “A SERIOUS MAN” – rated R
Showing at 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 15, followed by potluck dessert, and discussion at 8 p.m. Where? Anita and Phil Rockefeller’s home: 6207 NE Tolo Road – BI Please rsvp to Sharon Rutzick 842.8453 so we’ll be sure to have enough coffee and seating. This film, which was written, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, tells the tale of a modern Job trying to understand what God wants from him. Set in Minneapolis, “a shtetl at the edge of the prairie,” this film may puzzle, delight, or infuriate you.
Just to get a sense of the many different reactions to it, here’s a couple of sites to glance at: pajiba.com, CinemaBlend.com, A. O. Scott’s film review in the New York Times and the blogs that follow. Perhaps these different points of view can best be summed up by the titles of three reviews in the Israeli paper Ha’aretz: “The Coen Brothers Most Jewish Film to Date,” “The Coen Brothers Just Don’t Get Jews,” and “A Must-See for Israeli Jews.”
There will be a dessert potluck. If you’d like to bring a bag with your dinner to eat during this early show, please do. And if you’ve already seen the film and would like to come for the discussion only, that will begin around 8 p.m. Jon Garfunkel and Sharon Rutzick, who give it two thumbs up, will toss out some questions to get the discussion going. We’d love to see and hear your takes on it.
SHAVUOT CELEBRATION
Saturday, May 22 AT 6 P.M. at the Rosenkotz’s home 7439 Coyote Farm Lane – BI Our Shavuot celebration will have A BLINTZ BAKE-OFF/POTLUCK DINNER! Blintzes filled with whatever you choose to put in, dairy highly encouraged. Followed by the traditional late-into-the-night study of………. JEWISH JEOPARDY! And closing with……HAVDALAH!
ANNUAL MEETING
Please plan to attend. Sunday, June 6 10:00 – 12:00 at Robin Simons’s house
7505 NE Coyote Farm Lane 780-4353
- Approve budget for next year
- Vote for new Coordinating Committee members
- Learn how to use Big Tent – the new Shir Hayam online communications site that will replace the Forums – Yes, it’s true: you asked for it, you got it! So many people had trouble with the Forums that we’re moving to a new site. Only at the Annual Meeting: a tutorial! BRING YOUR LAPTOP if you have one.
And, of course, noshes served!
TIKKUN OLAM
From Taylor/Stanleys:
Help the environment, food justice, sustainability and Ariana Taylor-Stanley’s next project. She is working with a group that is planning a huge day of garden building in Seattle May 8th (the goal is at least 100 new garden beds in people’s back yards, and 10 fully sponsored food justice gardens built for people without the means to make their own garden or other forms of access to healthy fresh food). The event is called Spring into Bed. The fundraising element is aimed at getting the resources together to build the 10 food justice gardens, and having funds left over afterwards to build more subsidized food justice gardens throughout the year. Here is a link to the projects website Spring Into Bed
From Nina Rogozen:
On June 26th I’ll be participating in the Jack Vernon Walk to Silence Tinnitus – a fundraising walk for the American Tinnitus Association where I am the editor of the magazine, Tinnitus Today. This is the second year of the event, and it is an important way to help ATA try to silence tinnitus forever.
Please visit the Walk page to make a donation to this important cause. Join my personal team by clicking here. With just a few clicks you can help people who struggle with tinnitus get a little closer to a quieter life. It’s cool. ATA’s friend William Shatner got his horrible tinnitus from an explosion on a Star Trek lot. He has a team too!
LOCAL BUSINESS NEWS
New at the Integrated Wellness Center (offices of Julie Rosenblatt, Carol Shakow, Andrea Goldman and Jon Garfunkle). Please help us welcome Justin Hughes, LMP. Justin is offering Massage, Pilates Reformer, Pilates Integrated, and Group
Mat class. “Pilates invigorates the mind and elevates the spirit”. Justin is a wonderful practitioner and we are so happy to have him join us in our building. Next time you are wanting a massage for yourself or to give as a gift, or if you are
ready to try Pilates, give him a call at 206-920-3996 – evening appointments are available.
In our Bainbridge Community-For the most beautiful, amazing, exquisite handmade Mezuzahs go to Hollydays, it is located in the Winslow Green. She also has some of the nicest cards with Jewish themes I have ever seen.
HAPPENING ON BAINBRIDGE
Book Reading – Sunday, May 16, 3:00 p.m., Eagle Harbor Book Company, 157 Winslow Way E., Bainbridge Island, (206) 842-5332
Small Things: Words from my namesake By Trude Lisagor, Bainbridge Island
In 2009, shortly after her mom passed away, Trude discovered a cardboard box containing a worn, cloth-bound journal. Inside, she found short personal essays written by the grandmother she had never met. This collection of words from her namesake, which reveals the wisdom gained by a Jewish immigrant from Nazi Germany, leapt from the pages and into Trude’s heart. In Small Things, Trude shares these essays along with her own reflections. Read more about it here:
Small Things
FROM THE IFC
6/6/10 (Sunday): *Baccalaureate: The 2010 High School Seniors’ Baccalaureate will be hosted by the Interfaith Council on Sunday, June 6th at 3 p.m. Location to be determined. Seniors will come dressed in their caps and gowns, and the service will be followed by refreshments. Come and celebrate their achievements!
The Baccalaureate committee needs the following:
1. Clergy and lay members to serve on the committee. We can have our meetings at BHS, but our role is to mentor the students and help them plan their Baccalaureate service, including all of the little details associated with it (inviting speakers and musicians; finalizing, laying out, and printing the program with the associated artwork; communicating with the students and following up with them).
The number of graduating high school seniors from your congregations, including the names of 1 or two outstanding seniors that you would nominate to serve on the Baccalaureate committee and/or to speak or perform during Baccalaureate.
Last year we had just 45 students participate in Baccalaureate. The year before that we had about 100, and the year before that we had about 150 students. Do we have fewer students within our congregations? Do we need to do a better job of promoting Baccalaureate and preparing our high school seniors for this sweet, spiritual celebration of this important milestone in their lives?
You can send this info to patricialahtinen@msn.com
HAPPENING IN SEATTLE
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF starring Harvey Fierstein!
Date: Sunday May 30, 2010
Time: Show starts 7:30pm
Cost: Main Floor: $75; Second Mezzanine $54.
Where: Paramount Theater • 911 Pine Street, • Seattle, WA 98101
PURCHASING TICKETS and supporting the Historical Society. View pre-show program and special exhibit, Our Village Seattle: Family of Strangers, honoring Jewish Heritage Month while enjoying light kosher hors d’oeuvres.
Join us for the Tony Award® winning musical that has captured the hearts of people all over the world with its universal appeal embarks on its North American Tour. Audiences will have a once in a lifetime opportunity to see Jerome Robbins’ original Broadway direction and choreography, complete with the star of the record breaking 2005 Broadway production, Harvey Fierstein. Based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF has been lauded by critics again and again, and won the hearts of people all around the world. Filled with a rousing, heartwarming score, which includes Tradition, Matchmaker, Matchmaker, If I Were A Rich Man and Sunrise, Sunset, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is a timeless classic. No other musical has so magically woven music, dance, poignancy and laughter into such an electrifying and unforgettable experience. Relive a glorious tradition of the musical theatre with Harvey Fierstein in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.
Middle East Peace Camp Registration. July 26th to July 30th 2010- University of Washington Botanic Gardens. The camp was started in 2002 by six mothers who agreed that it was time for Arab and Jewish children, our children, to discover their common humanity. It has become the focus of a growing community working toward mutual understanding of our cultures, and for peace in Israel/Palestine. To register a child for the Middle East Peace Camp, simply go to www.middleeastpeacecamp.org or fill out and send the registration form attached to this email. The priority deadline to ensure a spot is May 3rd!
HAPPENING ON VASHON
You’re invited to a weekend of reflection, learning and community on beautiful Vashon Island. Forming Light, Creating Darkness: Quantum Physics and Kabbalah
A weekend retreat with Rabbi Fern Feldman and Karen Barad PhD
July 9-11, 2010 at Havurat Ee Shalom, Vashon Island, WA
Our tradition tells us that creation arose out of nothingness, and does so at every moment. Through our passions, intentions and actions, and through the very particles of our being, we participate in the ongoing conceiving and birthing of the universe. With texts from Torah, kabbalah, chassidut, and quantum physics, we will consider nondual, gender fluid paradigms for how we engage in creation — in the integrating of immanent and transcendent, dark and light, giving and receiving. We will explore ways in which all existence is alive and involved in the process of creation. In addition to workshop sessions, we will share meals and have Shabbat services together Friday evening and Saturday morning. Led by a rabbi and a master teacher of quantum physics.
Mark your calendars and look for more information on registration, transportation, and accommodations shortly. Or, for more information, please email Rabbi Fern at serakh@baymoon.com. Karen Barad, author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at University of California, Santa Cruz. She has a PhD in particle physics.
Rabbi Fern Feldman received ordination from Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal, and Spiritual Direction certification from Yedidya. She teaches, writes, leads services, rituals and life cycle events, and provides spiritual counseling. She has been exploring the sacred dark in Jewish tradition for many years. In addition, she works as a nurse practitioner in a community clinic. Karen and Fern live in Santa Cruz with their two children, a dog and a cat.
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