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MAKE A MATCHING GIFT DONATION TO KADIMA! Two anonymous donors, in collaboration with members of the Board of Directors, have pledged donations to a challenge fund totaling $11,000. Between now and March 31, any gift to Kadima will be matched dollar for dollar by a contribution from this fund! Donate today and double your gift! SEE THE DONATION BUTTON AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE.
February 5, 7:00 pm
EREV SHABBAT / SABBATH EVE POTLUCK
Vegetarian/Dairy Potluck (A stove available for heating food)
Kadima House
Please RSVP to office@kadima.org or (206) 547-3914
We’ll make blessing for candles, children, wine, and challah; have a ‘kumsitz’ getting to know each other, and have fund learning and singing Shabbat zemirot.
KADIMA HOUSE
12353 8th Ave NE, Seattle 98125
Intersection of 8th Ave. NE and NE 125th St.
Map to Kadima House
Metro Bus 41 schedule
SUNDAY PROGRAM AT KADIMA HOUSE+
February 7 , 10:30 am to Noon
BEING MUSLIM IN AMERICA
with Dilar & Imran Hafiz
Co-authors with Yasmine Hafiz of, The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook
Dilara Hafiz is the former Vice President & Youth Director of the Arizona Interfaith Movement. She is a Muslim of Pakistani descent and the product of an interfaith marriage (her father is Muslim and her mother is Christian). She and her two teenagers, Yasmine (19) and Imran (18), are the co-authors of The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook (www.theamth.com) – an entertaining, educational, non-proselytizing guidebook to the basics of Islam from the American teen perspective.
Imran Hafiz is a senior at Squalicum High School in Bellingham. He is extensively involved in clubs and activities at his school, including Teen Court, Speech and Debate, Breakdancing Club, and Do Something Volunteer Club. He is also an avid musician, and hosts a drum circle in his area called Weapons of Mass Percussion.
+We’ll likely meet in the Seattle Jewish Community School — follow the signs.
KADIMA HOUSE
12353 8th Ave NE, Seattle 98125
Intersection of 8th Ave. NE and NE 125th St.
Map to Kadima House
Metro Bus 41 schedule
ISRAEL AND PEACE PROGRAMS WEEK
GAD BARZALAI & NEVE GORDON:
What Tools Can End the Israeli Occupation? A Constructive Debate Between Israelis
Thursday, February 18, 7:30 pm
Prospect UCC, 1919 East Prospect St., Seattle 98112
(The location of Kadima’s High Holy Days services)
Neve Gordon has endorsed boycott, sanctions and divestment from Israel, stating that such tactics will ensure that ‘Israel can be saved from itself.’ He is a senior lecturer on Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University, author of Israel’s Occupation: Tracing the Technologies of Control, and editor of From the margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights. He is past director of Physicians for Human Rights/Israel, an active memeber in Ta’ayush/Arab-Jewish Partnership, and he serves on the Advisory Board of the Public Committee against Torture in Israel.
Gad Barzilal is opposed to boycott, sanctions and divestment from Israel, believing those tactics are counter-productive to resolving the conflict. He is the Chair of Jewish Studies and a professor in the University of Washington Jackson School of international Studies, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Israeli Association of Law and Society, is active in international, Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian human rights organizations, and has advised senior politicians and NGOs on issues of of law and politics. He is the author of Communities and Law: Politics, and Cultures of Legal Identities.
RESOLVING THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT: Moderated ’Town Hall- discussions provide a safe community setting for thoughtful discussion, dialogue and debate on issues critical to the future of the Jewish people and Israel.
MARK BRAVERMAN & RABBI YOHANNA KINBERG:
The Conflict, Jewish Spirituality, Tradition & Psychology
Sunday, February 21, 4 – 6 pm
Hillel at the UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle 98105
The complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict challenge us to explore whether the conflict impacts us spiritually, psychologically, and in our relationship with powerful religious and cultural sources.
How do Jewish religious and cultural traditions inform our perspectives on peace, justice, and hope for a workable solution to the conflict?
Does the history of struggle between Israelis and Palestinains affect our relationship to Judaism? Does discussion of Jewish spiritual, religious, and cultural perspectives relevant to the conflict affect our relationship to Israel?
Do our traditional, cultural, and historical sources provide tools for responding to the conflict?
Read about Mark Braverman and Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg here.
HOLIDAY!
PURIM CELEBRATION with kids and grown-ups
February 28, 10:00 – Noon, during Sunday School hours
At Kadima house, not SJCS. Follow the signs.
For everyone — parents, please plan to join us for the morning.
Crafts, face painting, hamantashen, a sing-along, a Purimshpiel, and preparing mishloach manot (Purim baksets) for Jewish Family Service clents.
Click here for information about all of Kadima’s programs, celebrations and classes.
Kadima launches…
A NEW PRE-KINDERGARTEN CLASS
Enrollment is Open!
For Tots ages 4-5 years old.
• NEW Kadima Pre-Kindergarten Program
Click for more information: Pre-K Flyer.
For tots ages 4-5 years, a program that encourages parent participation. For single parents, inter-faith parents, same-sex parents… for all parents raising Jewish children. Preschool Enrollment and Registration Form.
KADIMA ALSO OFFERS…
• Modern Conversational Hebrew
For 3rd-9th grades; Beginning level through Teen Talk Hebrew.
• Twice monthly Sunday classes for K-7th grades
Visit Kadima’s website for more information about our Sunday School and B’nei Mitzvah program, or contact Sharron Lerner, Education Director, at slerner@kadima.org, or the office at (206) 547-3914. Click here to download a Kadima Schools Enrollment and Membership Registration form.
CONTACT KADIMA: (206) 547-3914 / office@kadima.org