Herzl-Ner Tamid 3700 East Mercer Way Mercer Island, WA 98040 March 2018 H HaKol is theaKol newsletter of Herzl-Ner Tamid Adar /Nisan 5778 CAN WE CREATE A CIVIL DISCOURSE ON ISRAEL: How can we change the level of our discussion? Please join us for Dinner and Discourse at HNT SUNDAY EVENING, APRIL 8 DINNER & DISCOURSE DINNER: 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM, SESSION: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM KEYNOTE SPEAKER: RABBI AMY EILBERG WEDNESDAY EVENINGS, APRIL 11 & 18 DINNER & DISCOURSE DINNER: 6:15 PM - 7:00 PM, SESSION: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM See page 9 for more details and register at: h-nt.org/israel-cd A MESSAGE FROM RABBI ROSENBAUM Pesach for started getting threats. One day she was attacked and almost lost her life. She had to leave the country because of lack of Salvadorans protection from the authorities or anyone else. When she arrived in the U.S. she looked for help in a church. St. Patrick’s Towards the end of our Fall Civil church opened the door to give her refuge, food and safety. She Discourse series, we were visited by has been able to find good people that helped her try to get members of the Salvadoran community. her life back even if it meant starting her life from scratch. At that time, we learned of the great dangers facing people who live in Central America. According When the Salvadorans visited us at HNT, their leader, Marina to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Ortiz appealed to the Jewish community to help them. She Refugees (UNHCR): “The number of people fleeing violence in told me, "you are a community that is successful, influential El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras has surged to levels not and a community with values." In the words of the group’s seen since armed conflicts wracked the region in the 1980s. spokesperson, Elba Moreira: Today they are fleeing violence and persecution at the hands "El Salvador can take an example from the People of Israel that of gangs and other criminal groups as well as acute poverty.” went into Exodus for freedom of their souls and lives. Hopefully To send Salvadorans back to these conditions is inhumane and El Salvador will have the same strength and hope for a future counter to Americans most cherished values. free of violence." El Salvador, in particular, became the second country in the In our Tradition, Passover is not only about what happened world after Syria with the highest number of displaced people to us in the past. It is about creating the world of the future. leaving their homes to escape violence. Here in Seattle, Blanca Our story has inspired freedom fighters throughout history, Ortiz is a vibrant Salvadoran young woman, who left the country including the founders of America and the heroes of the Civil in October 2016 so she could save her life. She had devoted her Rights Movement. life to being an activist for Human Rights in El Salvador and then The local Salvadoran community has appealed directly to us for help. That’s why we are going to provide a letter in English and THURSDAY, MARCH 1 in Spanish from Salvadorans which we encourage everyone to read at the Passover Seder this year. The letter will detail the OPEN BUDGET challenges faced by Salvadorans and suggest ways we can help. MEETING: 7:30 PM Today, there are those who would have the world believe that Synagogue budgets are more than the lights the Jewish people are on the side of oppression. But, we are and the repairs and the food; they are also and always have been on the right side of history, working to indicators of what the synagogue community build a world modeled on the ideals of our own Passover liberation. values. Please come share your priorities at this Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum meeting. HaKol is published monthly, except June/July/ August. Production by HNT staff. The deadline For more information and for HaKol is the first of the month preceding to RSVP, email [email protected]. the month of publication. 3700 E. Mercer Way Mercer Island, WA 98040 If you are unable to attend but wish to provide input please contact Nadine OFFICE Monday - Thursday ..................9:00 AM - 5:00 PM HOURS Friday ......................................9:00 AM - 2:00 PM 2 206-232-8555 • [email protected] • www.h-nt.org Daily Minyan: Weekdays 7:00 AM BAR MITZVAH T'FILOT Sundays and Secular Holidays 9:00 AM Everyone is invited to share services and PreShabbat Oneg: Fridays 5:30 PM the kiddush following the Bar Mitzvah Friday, March 2 March 17 • 6:00 PM Services in Upper Foyer • Birthday Shabbat Jacob Javnozon is the son of Martha and Dan Saturday, March 3 Javnozon and the older brother of David and • 9:30 AM Parasha Study • 10:00 AM Services in Upper Foyer Isaac. Jacob is a 7th grader at Evergreen Middle School. He loves to play soccer and has been • 10:30 AM Shabbat For Kids in Room 4 and Gan Danny part of a competitive team for 3 years. Jacob Friday, March 9 • 6:00 PM Services in Sanctuary • TGIS Dinner enjoys riding his bicycle, playing Xbox and Saturday, March 10 watching all Marvell and Star Wars movies. Last summer, as a • 9:30 AM Parasha Study • 10:00 AM Services in Upper Foyer Bar Mitzvah present, his grandfather Marc Javnozon took Jacob Friday, March 16 • 6:00 PM Services in Sanctuary to Alaska for an adventure which included hiking, kayaking, • Rhythm & Jews Musical Instrumental Services bicycling, and more. Jacob really enjoyed his grandfather. As a mitzvah, Jacob decided to donate two food baskets to Saturday, March 17 • 9:30 AM Services in Sanctuary the Jewish Family Service in order to help those in need. We • Bar Mitzvah of Jacob Javnozon welcome his family and friends from Mexico and all across the Friday, March 23 • 6:00 PM Services in Sanctuary United States to celebrate with Jacob. • Rhythm & Jews Musical Instrumental Services March 24 • Anniversary Shabbat Sasha Nelson is the daughter of Melissa and Saturday, March 24 Marty Nelson and the sister of Ariella. Her • 9:30 AM Services in Sanctuary • Bat Mitzvah of Sasha Nelson grandparents are Linda and Michael Morgan Friday, March 30 of Mercer Island, Terry Nelson of Wilkes-Barre, • 6:00 PM Services in Upper Foyer • Erev Pesach – First Seder Pennsylvania, and Sam Nelson z”l. Sasha is Saturday, March 31 • 9:30 AM Services in Upper Foyer • First thrilled to have her great-grandmother, Frances Rogers of Mercer Island, join in the celebration of her Bat Day of Pesach – Second Seder Mitzvah this month. Sasha is in 7th grade at Seattle Country Day School and loves skiing, show choir and dance. Sasha is HIGH SCHOOL SHABBAT representing Mercer Island at the state level in the Reflections Arts Competition for film production. In honor of her Bat Friday, April 20 • 6:00 PM Mitzvah, Sasha will continue her volunteer work with Jewish Join the entire HNT community as we celebrate this year’s Family Service. graduating high school seniors with a special Shabbat Service and festive dinner. If you have a graduating senior, please RSVP SHABBAT TASK FORCE MEETING yes or no at h-nt.org/HSS-RSVP and fill out our survey at: h-nt. Thursday, March 8 • 7:00 PM • Skolnick Board Room org/HSS-Booklet by Thursday, April 12 Make the celebration even better by getting involved! Know a Come help brainstorm ideas for increasing Shabbat morning name we missed? Want to volunteer? Like to make a donation attendance at services. This will be the first meeting of the to help keep this event affordable for everyone? Email Shabbat Task Force. Everyone is welcome! [email protected] or call (206) 232-8555 x207. For questions contact Ilyse Wagner or [email protected] Our Graduating High School Students: PASSOVER COLLEGE PACKAGES Eli Arao Ariela Ikezawa Isaac Rosenkranz Samuel Castellanos Mark Lamin Aliya Schenck Please submit addresses by March 26 at h-nt.org/college Talia Chivo Davi Lazoritz Ethan Sherr Pesach is around the corner, and so are our last college Raviv Cohen Ezra Magaram Daphne Silverstone packages of the school year! If you have an undergraduate Golda Glasser Joseph McLendon Jessica Tischler college student with a new address this spring or if you’ve Mackenzie Goldman Jacob Mintz Carly Tudor never submitted their information, visit h-nt.org/college by Micah Gonchar Harrison Pearl Joelle Tudor March 26 so they can receive some Kosher for Pesach goodies! Since this list is generated by birth date only, please let us know Please note that we cannot send packages internationally. if you notice any names that are missing or should be removed from this list. Want to help put these packages together? We need volunteers! Visit h-nt.org/volunteers to sign up. 206-232-8555 • [email protected] • www.h-nt.org 3 Social Action Opportunities: Helping Vulnerable Communities Save the date for our HNT’s Annual Blood Drive honors the memory and last wish of Ellen Yusim z”l, a teenage congregant whose family was Annual Blood Drive sponsored by our synagogue when they resettled in Seattle Sunday, March 11 from the former Soviet Union. 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM at HNT Ellen succumbed to leukemia at age 16 and it was her final request to have an annual blood drive to help others in need of transfusions. Please remember that you cannot give She understood how her very life depended on donors and wished that gift to be carried forward in her name.