Kadima Weekly Update November 21, 2007
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Happy Thanksgiving!
SHABBAT SERVICE Saturday, December 1, at 10:00 a.m. Shabbat Morning Service and Josh Blum Bar Mitzvah The Blum-Sterchi family invites you to join us in celebrating the Bar Mitzvah of Josh Blum. University Friends Center th 4001 9 Ave. NE, Seattle Luncheon and music by Shawn's Kugel follow the service.
THANKS FOR GIVING From the bottom of our heart, we thank our troika of professional librarians, Carla Ginnis, Deborah Becker, and Susie Hellerstein for unpacking, sorting, and re-shelving all of the library books last Sunday morning. There were so many boxes of books. Thanks to their awesome volunteerism the Kadima library will re-open on December 2! Thanks, also from the bottom of our heart, to Sharron Lerner for repairing and retrofitting the library carts, cleaning the shelves, and staging a work area for the librarians.
KADIMA EVENTS The Kadima Chanukah festivities on December 2 will include a Holiday Arts & Crafts Sale! Make sure your party schedule includes time to shop! Sunday, December 2, 10:00 am – Noon A number of artists (and a student fund raiser) will have their works for sale. We’d love your participation if you have arts/crafts to sell! Please call or email the office, (206) 547-3914 or office@kadima.org, to reserve a table. ********************************** KADIMA CHANUKAH EVENING-TIME PARTY MARK YOUR CALENDARS; LEND A HELPING HAND! 5-8 pm, Sunday, December 9 University Friends Meeting th 4001 9 Ave. NE, Seattle With special guests the KlezKats, Sharing infectious klezmer and other Jewish musical traditions. Your help is needed!! Program, decorations, food, schlepping- many ways to make this party fun, fun, fun! Contact Rainer at (206) 547-3914 ext. 2 or office@kadima.org. (Kadima Schools, next page)
KADIMA SCHOOLS Sunday, December 2nd 10:00-12:00: Tikkun Olam Chanukah Party plus Dreidle Games and a Sing-along Celebrating the Spirit of the Chanukah Season; the Gift of Giving to Others. Last year was wonderful — Let's do it again! We will be making sack lunches for the residents of Tent City 3, and then our B'nei Mitzvah students will deliver the lunches to Tent City during their regular B'nei Mitzvah class hours. 12:00- 12:30: B'nei Mitzvah class pizza lunch 12:45-1:45: Tent City visit 2:00: Regular pick-up for B'nei Mitzvah students at Sandpoint
OPPORTUNITY TO VOLUNTEER Thanksgiving Volunteer Opportunity This message from Cole Younger, who works for Amore restaurant, was relayed to us: “We are feeding the homeless on Thanksgiving at 2301 5th Ave. (5th & Bell) in Seattle. I am asking for volunteers to show up around 10:00 a.m. We will be feeding until we run out of food or at 5:00 pm Thanks.” (Thanks to Pamela Carter, Chaplain Friedman, David Keyes, and Sharron Lerner for alerting us to this opportunity.)
KADIMA BULLETIN BOARD Kadima-nik Ariel Loud performing in two holidays shows: WA Middle School Holiday Jazz Fundraising Concert on Thursday, December 6 at 7pm Location: Rainier Beach High School Performing Arts Center, 8815 Seward Park Ave S. Tickets are $10.00, if purchased by Nov 30, or $12 at the door. If you want advance tickets, please contact Thu-Van Nguyen at 206-324-8058 or thuvan8058@msn.com - by Nov. 28. Pacific Northwest Ballet's "The Nutcracker" at McCaw Hall, Mercer St. If you're planning to take in a show, please consider picking one of the 21 times Ariel performs his role as Cavalry Officer. Box office: 206-441-2424; www.pnb.org. Ariel's shows are: Fri – Nov. 23 Sat – Nov 24 Sun – Nov 25 Fri – Nov 30 Sat – Dec 1 Sun – Dec 2 Thu – Dec 6 Fri – Dec 7 Sat – Dec 8 Sun – Dec 9 Thu – Dec 13 Sat – Dec 15 Sun – Dec 16 Wed – Dec 19 Thu – Dec 20 Fri – Dec 21 Sat – Dec 22 Sun – Dec 23 Wed – Dec 26 Thu – Dec 27 Fri – Dec 28 2:00 pm 7:30 pm 1:00 pm 7:30 pm 2:00 pm 5:30 pm 12:00 noon 7:30 pm 2:00 pm 5:30 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm 1:00 pm 7:30 pm 2:00 pm 7:30 pm 2:00 pm 5:30 pm 2:00 pm 7:30 pm 2:00 pm
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Eli Davis is selling coffee for a service project he is working on with Global Visionaries, a leadership training program for high school students. The kids take part in fundraising for their own trip to Guatemala and raise funds for the supplies needed for the projects they’ll work on. The projects include: construction, hospital care, reforestation, micro-financing, and coffee processing. The kids will be selling Fair Trade shade-grown coffee from the coffee company they’ll work with in Guatemala. Eli will bring French Roast and Dark Roast ground and beans to the Kadima Chanukah sale on December 2. If you want to place an order larger than five bags, please contact Eli ahead of time and he’ll be sure to special order it. For pre-orders: sbkdavis@msn.com. JTNews article about Lawrence Bush The JT News editor, Joel Magalnick, interviewed and wrote an article about Lawrence Bush, editor of Jewish Currents magazine, author, and scholar. Mr. Bush recently visited Kadima and gave a talk and read from his books. Click here to read: 'A bridge between generations' in the JTNews.
SHABBAT SERVICE SCHEDULE Kadima 2007-2008 Shabbat Services - Please Mark Your Calendar: 2007 December 1 2008 January 12 January 26 February 16 April 12 May 10 May 17 June 28 July 5 September 20
Bar Mitzvah of Joshua Blum, 10:00 a.m. Bar Mitzvah of Daniel Metz Bar Mitzvah of Ariel Loud Bar Mitzvah of Corey Greengage Bar Mitzvah of Brennan Freed Bat Mitzvah of Emma Newmark Bat Mitzvah of Heather Kovar Bar Mitzvah of Alex Greenberg Bar Mitzvah of Jacob Sands Bat Mitzvah of Brooke Parsley
COMMUNITY The Seattle Jewish Federation is introducing its new online community calendar at www.PlanItJewish.com. Financing Aging Wednesday, November 28, 7:00 – 9:00 pm Temple B’nai Torah (15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue) Learn about Medicare, Medicaid, long-term-care insurance and other issues related to paying for the care your aging parents need. $10/person. Scholarships available; please ask. For info and registration, contact Adam at (206) 461-3240, ext. 8784 or familylife@jfsseattle.org. Part of the “Caring for our Aging Parents” series. 2007 World AIDS Day Luncheon Friday, November 30 Registration: 11:30 am / Lunch 11:45 am - 1:00 pm Washington State Convention & Trade Center (800 Convention Place, Seattle) Registration: 11:30 am / Lunch 11:45 am - 1:00 pm, or register here: http://www.multifaith.org/Events/WorldAIDS Presented by multifaithworks and various sponsors. www.multifaith.org/Events (Community continued next page)
Israeli Musical Youth Group ‘Dor Sheni’ Saturday, December 1, 7:00 pm th Temple Beth Am (2632 NE 80 St., Seattle); FREE The evening will begin with a Havdalah service led by Shir b'Yachad (We Sing Together), a group of singing, guitar-playing teens. Dor Sheni’s performance will follow the service. Dor Sheni (the Second Generation), is musical youth group from the town of Kiryat Malachi, the Jewish Federation’s partnership community in Israel. The youth (ages 15-19) of Dor Sheni come from families from Morocco, Tunisia and other Mediterranean countries who immigrated to Israel in the 1950s, and more recently from Ethiopia. Study Buddy Literacy Tutoring Program Making a Difference, One Child at a Time Study Buddy is a social justice program sponsored by the Jewish Education Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. The program matches volunteers with children in grades K-8 who need academic support. We recruit, train, and place tutors in schools and provide on-going support to them. For many students, this opportunity to meet regularly with a knowledgeable, caring, and committed adult is the greatest part of the program. Commitment is one hour per week, and before- and after-school hours are available. For more info contact Starr at starrn@jewishinseattle.org or (206) 774-2279.
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