Community Yom Hashoah Event
A Day of Holocaust Remembrance
(Yom HaShoah) will be held Sunday (4/15) at 3:30 p.m. at Stroum Jewish
Community Center, 3801 East Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
The community wide interfaith event, sponsored by the Washington
State Holocaust Education Resource Center, will stress humanitarian and
educational aspects of remembering Holocaust victims.
Featured speakers are Terry Bergeson, state superintendent of public
instruction, and Hubert G. Locke, Dean Emeritus of the Evans School of
Public Affairs at the University of Washington.
For more information contact Laurie Warshal Cohen, co-executive
director, Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center,
206-441-5747 or lcohen@wsherc.org. The Web site is www.wsherc.org.
Torah
from the Couch
Sunday
April 15th @ 7PM in the shul basement.
The 20's group is
hosting a showing of "Hiding and Seeking", a film for Yom Hashoah
(April 15th is Holocaust Memorial Day). Everyone is welcome to
attend.
Movie Info:
The powerful and moving documentary "Hiding and Seeking"
gets to the heart of what religion and faith are really all about.
Menachem Daum, although himself an orthodox Jew, is concerned that his
two even more conservative sons - yeshiva students living in Israel -
are becoming isolationist in their attitudes towards the gentile world.
To prove to them that there are good gentiles in the world, he takes
them and his wife on a trip to Poland to have them meet the people who
risked their lives by hiding the boys' maternal grandfather and two
uncles from the Nazis during World War II. In fact, the boys and their
mother owe their very existence to the extraordinary compassion and
heroism of this "goyim" family. Although Daum was raised to see
virtually all non-Jews as enemies, his life experience has taught him
that people are people and that good and evil do not break down along
sectarian lines. It is this humanistic philosophy that Daum hopes to
impart to his sons.
Torah Classes
Torah classes resume this week on Tuesday (4/17) at 7PM. We will review Parashat Shemini, laws of Kashrut and Yeshua's stance on Kashrut. Then we will forge ahead into Parasha Tazria/Metzorah, which have some interesting moral lessons about community ethics. Come and learn!
Rosh Chodesh Stitch Circle
Wednesday, April 18th @ 7PM, at the Shul library
Please contact Malkah (malkah@maaleh.org)
if you plan to attend.
Bat Zion Melavah Malkah
Saturday, April 21st @ 7PM, location TBD (we need someone to host this
one, otherwise we will cancel this month's Melavah malkah)
Please contact Malkah (malkah@maaleh.org)
if you plan to attend.
Topic: "Understanding Tiferet and Mashiach - Learn How To
Infuse Your Life with the Beauty and Compassion of Yeshua"
Also, come with 3 favorite recipes and we will talk about a
cookbook
fund-raising project that we can bring to the UMJC conference for the
SMILE project.
Synagogue Finances
Our reserve cash has been slowly
declining over the last few months, and the synagogue is in need of
your tithes and offerings. Our synagogue is growing spiritually, with
many things developing and on the horizon. We need member support to
keep the physical operations running with a decent buffer to handle
unexpected events. Please consider catching up with your tithes, and
also a special Passover offering. At each holiday it was a Torah law
to bring a special offering to the Temple. When we give back to God
what is His, our harvest will be great.
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