September 2008
Elul 5768/Tishri 5769
SHIR HAYAM EVENTS
See member’s calendar
or call 206-855-7924 for event details.
Please watch your mailboxes for times and locations in our High Holiday/Membership/Cropwalk/JLC mailing coming out soon.
HIGH HOLIDAYS
Shalom Chaverim,
As the New Year of 5769 approaches, we are filled with joyful anticipation even as we realize the complexities of the world, the nation, and our individual lives. The annual renewal of our commitment to life and love and learning has sustained us through dark times and allowed us to find strength in community. Our Jewish path and practice ask us to examine our inner world as well as critiquing the outer world so that we can wake up to who we are and bring the conscious breath of now into all that we say and do.
The themes are already integrated into the liturgy for the Yamim Nora’im, the Days of Awe, but I find it helpful to choose a specific focus that highlights our journey together. This year, the phrase, “Life Is a Story,” calls to me. There are so many levels to this idea, beginning with the unique experiences that create and determine who we are. There are also the stories in the High Holy Day Torah readings that help us to understand the evolution of the Jewish people and how we give voice to ongoing revelation. Some of our stories limit us and some of our stories liberate us. During our ten days together, we will explore many levels of meaning to the lives that we live.
One reason that this theme appeals to me is because it involves you. I would like you to begin thinking about the stories in your lives and how they have shaped you. Consider the challenges and struggles as well as the miracles and successes. Take a look at yourself as an individual and at your participation in Shir Hayam. What has brought you to this moment, defined you, and sustained you? There will be moments in our services when you will be invited to share a 1-3 minute vignette that has been significant to you in the past year or earlier in your life. Or you might want to share a Hassidic story or a poem that describes what you are feeling. These services are for you, to strengthen who you are as individuals and as a community. I welcome emails with your ideas and what you would like to contribute. HannaT@telus.net. All are invited to participate, including your precious children.
I look forward to being with you again this year and I pray that our time together will give us a taste of what it means to bring heaven to earth and open our hearts to holiness that resides in each of us. From that place we can move forward in our lives, one day at a time, with renewed courage, faith, and compassion.
Many Blessings,
Rabbi Hanna Tiferet
Rabbi Hanna Tiferet Siegel will help lead our services this year and would like to work with members of our community. We already have a machzor, and Shir Hayam people have worked closely in the past with guest rabbis, such as Larry Gerstenhaber. It is an opportunity for both Hanna and our community. If you have any particular writings, music, or poetry that you would like to offer for the services, suggestions, or would like to work with Hanna on a part of the services, please contact either Julie Rosenblatt (842.5013) or Sharon Rutzick (842.8453). With participation, our lay leadership learns, gains confidence, and is strengthened.
TIKKUN OLAM CORNER
Bainbridge CROP Hunger Walk, JOIN THE TEAM or Donate to someone who has CLICK HERE
Please be part of the Shir Hayam team on Sunday afternoon, September 28, as we join islanders of all faith traditions in our 13th annual CROP Hunger Walk. The walk benefits the Helpline House food bank, Fishline, and the hunger fighting projects in the U.S. and overseas. The Walk will begin and end at Eagle Harbor Church this year. Registration starts a 1:30 followed by the Walk at 2:00 p.m.
Over the last 12 years our community has raised $368,920 through our Walk, including $81,706 for Helpline House and Fishline. All donations this year will be matched, for the fifth time, by our anonymous donor.
CROP Hunger Walk 2008 Restaurant Day
These Bainbridge Island restaurants will donate a portion of their September 25th profits to the CROP Hunger Walk: (Be sure to mention that
Bainbridge Island BBQ
Blue Ocean Cafe
Cafe Nola
Casa Rojas
Commuter Comforts
Doc’s Marina Grill
Four Swallows
Mora Iced Creamery
Harbour Public House
Island Pizza
New Rose Café
Pegasus Coffee House and Gallery
Richie’s 305
San Carlos Restaurant
Sawatdy Thai Cuisine
Streamliner Diner
Teriyaki Town
That’s a Some Pizza
For more information about our CROP Hunger Walk Click Here
Contact Denise Brown or Rachel Kerbrat if you have questions.
CALENDAR FOR THE SEPTEMBER 2008 – AUGUST 2009
This is the tentative calendar – there will be changes – See member’s calendar
or call 206-855-7924 for event details.
Cropwalk Restaurant Day 9/25/08
S’lichot- HHD activities for kids and Service/ Discussion for adults 9/27/08
CROP Hunger Walk 9/28/08
Rosh Hashanah 9/29/08- Monday eve & 9/30/08- Tuesday day
Yom Kippur 10/8/08- Wednesday eve. and 10/9/08- Thursday day
JLC Session – 1 10/12/08
Sukkot/ Simchat Torah Celebration 10/19/08
JLC Session – 2 10/26/08
JLC Session – 3 11/9/08
Havdalah 11/15/08
JLC Session – 4 11/23/08
JLC Session – 5 12/7/08
Family Roots Fair/Chanukah Party 12/21/08
JLC Session- 6 1/11/09
JLC Session- 7 1/25/09
Shir Hayam Visioning Meeting 1/25/09
Tu B’Shvat 2/7/09
JLC Session- 8 2/8/09
JLC Session- 9 2/22/09
JLC Session 10 + Purim Celebration 3/8/09
Erev Shabbat 3/20/09
JLC Session 11 3/22/09
JLC Session 12 4/5/09
JLC Session 13- Yom HaShoah 4/19/09
Shabbat Service/Yom HaShoah Commemoration 4/25/09
JLC Session 14 – 5/3/09
Havdalah- Lag B’Omer 5/9/09
JLC Session 15- Eco- Jewish/Peace & Graduation 5/17/09
Havdalah- Shavuot Celebration 5/30/09
Annual Meeting/Picnic 6/7/09
NOTES FROM THE IFC (Thanks to Sharon Rutzick who has taken over for me as the Shir Hayam representative to the IFC ~ Rachel)
Eagle Harbor Congregational Church will host a service of prayer for peace on Sunday, September 21 at 7:00 p.m. The United Nations established Sept. 21 as an “International Day of Peace” in 1981. Eagle Harbor Church’s observation will include ringing the community bell and saying prayers that peace will prevail for each nation. People of every faith tradition and all ages are welcome.
KITSAP COUNTY HADASSAH GROUP FORMING
Several women in Kitsap County are seeking to establish a Hadassah group in the West Puget Sound. Our ground breaking meeting will be on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 12:30pm at the home of Vivian Morrison. All Jewish women are welcome to attend. Sheila Abrahams, Director and Carolyn Hathaway, both of the Seattle Chapter will be joining us for lunch. For additional information, to respond and for detailed directors to her house, please contact Vivian by email viviansm@earthlink.net or by phone 360-779-7619. Address: 1804 NW Lutes Road, Poulsbo (about 3 miles outside of Poulsbo to the north and west, and 3 miles south of the Hood Canal Bridge). Looking forward to an awesome gathering!
HAPPENING IN SEATTLE
MUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE FALL 2008 CONCERT: “Before the Ark” by Simon Sargon, “Found in a Train Station” by Lior Navok, and “The Golem” by Betty Olivero
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 4:00 pm AND MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 7:00 pm
NORDSTROM RECITAL, BENAROYA HALL, 3rd Ave. & Union Street, in downtown Seattle
For info: 206.365.7770 or order online at www.musicofremembrance.org
Music of Remembrance is a Seattle-based nonprofit organization dedicated to remembering Holocaust musicians and their art through musical performances, educational activities, musical recordings, and commissions of new works. Its mission is not religious, nor is its scope limited to Jewish music. Musicians’ resistance during World War II took many forms, and crossed many national and religious boundaries. The concerts represent the diversity of the Holocaust’s victims through the voices of women, men, children, political dissidents, gypsies, and homosexuals. This season’s music brings a focus on complex questions of Jewish identity – through moving music and voices, memory is carried forward, and the transformative power of music moves from the depths of human suffering to the healing beauty of hope and renewal.
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