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Calendar
Note: Items in Green are broader community events
that we thought might be of interest to some Kavana participants. While you are
certainly encouraged to attend these events, they are not officially sponsored by
Kavana and we cannot take responsibility for their content. For more information,
please contact the sponsoring organizations directly.
May
- Saturday, May 10th -
Kavana Family Shabbat
- enjoy Kavana's monthly series to help
provide the fundamental building blocks
- Jewish values, history, Hebrew,
observance and a connection to Israel –
to children and parents alike in a
casual, camp-like atmosphere. 9:30am
- Wednesday, May 14th -
Living Room
Learning - come join Rabbi Rachel
Nussbaum for a study of the Parashat
Hashavuah (portion of the week).
7:30pm
- Saturday, May 17th -
Kavana Shabbat Morning
Minyan - While mostly Hebrew and
traditional, all levels are welcome to join us for our Saturday morning adult
service - including a Torah service and lunch. This will be a traditional
(mostly Hebrew) service with lots of singing and lots of spirit followed by lunch. 10am-12:30pm.
- Sunday, May 18th -
Kavana
Prep and Practice: Lag B'Omer/Shavuot -
tune into and learn how to celebrate these
two spring holidays. Join us for a morning filled with
crafts, cooking, education and more.
10-12:30pm.
- Tuesday, May 20th
-
Nextbook: Susan Stamberg - Jewish Mothers
- NPR’s Susan Stamberg hosts an evening of
comic and dramatic readings, directed by
Shana Bestock, with music by the Kosher Red
Hots. Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya -
7:30pm
- Friday, May 30th -
Kavana Potluck Group Shabbat - Join
us for a meaningful and spirited
Kabbalat Shabbat service followed by a
vegetarian potluck dinner. 6:30pm
June
- Saturday, June 14th -
Kavana Family Shabbat
- enjoy Kavana's monthly series to help
provide the fundamental building blocks
- Jewish values, history, Hebrew,
observance and a connection to Israel –
to children and parents alike in a
casual, camp-like atmosphere. 9:30am
- Saturday, June 21st -
Kavana Shabbat Morning
Minyan - While mostly Hebrew and
traditional, all levels are welcome to join us for our Saturday morning adult
service - including a Torah service and lunch. This will be a traditional
(mostly Hebrew) service with lots of singing and lots of spirit followed by lunch. 10am-12:30pm.
- Sunday, June 22nd -
Kavana Book
Club - focusing on Maimonides by
Sherwin B. Nuland - 11am.
- Friday, June 27th - Kavana Shabbat in
the Park - more info coming soon...
July
- Friday, July 25th - Kavana Shabbat in
the Park - more info coming soon...
August
- Friday, Aug 1 - Sun Aug 3 - Kavana
Camping - Lake Easton State Park. More
info coming soon - but get your smores and
guitar ready to go!
- Friday, August 22nd - Kavana Shabbat in
the Park - more info coming soon...
Note: Events subject to change. We will also be adding more to the calendar
over time. Our programming is open to all who are interested (some charges
may apply).
Event descriptions and instructions
Kavana
Book Club -
- What: Come and check out our monthly book group - started this fall. Led
by Jeremy Derfner
and Hannah
Pressman, we'll be discussing a wide
range of books that touch on Jewish themes,
both fiction and nonfiction, the classics
and what's hot off the presses.
- Where: The location will be sent
to those who RSVP.
- RSVP info: We'd like to hear from
you if you want to be a part of this
exciting new program! (Didn't make it to
previoius Book Club meetings? Not a problem!) If
you plan to attend the future sessions,
please send an email to
kavanaseattle@gmail.com . If you're
interested in the group, but can't make
upcoming
dates, still let us know of your interest so
that we can keep you tuned into what's
happening. Thanks, and happy reading!
Upcoming books:
- June 22nd – Maimonides by
Sherwin B. Nuland (Schocken, 2005) "A little
gem of intellectual biography." -Ray Olson,
Booklist.
- Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance
man before there was a Renaissance: a
great physician who served a sultan, a
dazzling Torah scholar, a community
leader, a daring philosopher whose
greatest work——The Guide for the
Perplexed——attempted to reconcile
scientific knowledge with faith in God.
He was a Jew living in a Muslim world, a
rationalist living in a time of
superstition. Eight hundred years after
his death, his notions about God, faith,
the afterlife, and the Messiah still
stir debate; his life as a physician
still inspires; and the enigmas of his
character still fascinate.
- Sherwin B. Nuland——best-selling
author of How We Die——focuses his
surgeon's eye and writer's pen on this
greatest of rabbis, most intriguing of
Jewish philosophers, and most honored of
Jewish doctors. He gives us a portrait
of Maimonides that makes his life, his
times, and his thought accessible to the
general reader as they have never been
before.
- This book is the second in Nextbook/Schocken's
Jewish Encounters Series. For more
information about this book, see:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/25/AR2005112501315.html.
Another link to check out is:
http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/feature.html?id=187.
Book Group Facilitators:
- Jeremy Derfner
is a staff writer at the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation. Before coming to Seattle,
he was in the Ph.D. program in American
history at Columbia University. Before that,
he was a journalist in Washington, D.C.
- Hannah
Pressman is a doctoral candidate in
modern Hebrew literature at New York
University. A former Wexner Graduate Fellow
and MacCracken Fellow, she is currently
serving as the 2007-2008 Hazel D. Cole
Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University
of Washington. Focusing her research on the
role of confession and religious-secular
dynamics in Israeli literary
autobiographies, Hannah has presented her
work at the National Association of
Professors of Hebrew and the Association of
Israel Studies conferences. Her reviews of
contemporary Israeli literature have
appeared in Lilith Magazine. Hannah is
thrilled to be in Seattle and part of the
Kavana community this year!
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Kavana Men Cook - Sounds a little like Cave Men Cook….
BUT we promise much more. Calling all those with an XY chromosome to learn cooking
techniques for Jewish cuisine from food & wine aficionado and excellent
cook Eric LeVine (who grew up watching
Julia Child instead of Bugs Bunny and now runs
Cellartracker.com). Sessions
will include prep, cooking, eating and learning. It will be done in a Kosher home.
If you're a vegetarian or "fishetarian" let us know. Eating dinner
and drinking fabulous wines will be a part of every session.
E-mail us to RSVP and we'll send you
the address. The cost of $20/class
for partners and $30/class for
non-partners covers food and wine.
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Living Room Learning
- Come join us for Living
Room Learning. Led by Rabbi
Rachel, we’ll study the portion of
the week (Parashat Hashavuah). Very
important to know – this class is open
to all levels/backgrounds – you do not
need to be a rabbinic scholar to attend.
The class will be ongoing every
Wednesday from 7:30-9pm. It’s drop-in
style and the location will be Rabbi
Rachel's living room unless otherwise
noted. If you're interested, just email
and we'll send you the weekly update - as well
as put you on the distribution for
regular reminders on the locations.
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Kavana Shabbat Morning
Minyan - Come join us for our Saturday morning service -
including a Torah service - followed by lunch. This will be a
traditional (mostly Hebrew) service with lots of singing and lots of spirit.
All are welcome to this service. If there are people interested in reading torah, leading part of
the service or giving a d'var torah, again - please
email us. There is also an
optional contribution of $5 to help defray the cost of lunch. Please
RSVP ASAP
so that we can gauge numbers in order to finalize the location and plan lunch.
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Kavana Potluck Group Shabbat -
Let go of the stress of the week and
relax into Shabbat. Kabbalat Shabbat. Service starts
at 6:30pm, potluck dinner starts around
7:30pm, lingering longer & singing after
dinner until whenever. Kids welcome. The only cost is the food
you bring for the potluck. FREE
(Potluck). Please
RSVP for location and so that we can
gauge numbers.
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Hebrew Immersion
Playgroup (HIP) - For ages 0-3 (inclusive)
- Fridays from 10:00-11:00a running from
April 4th through May 30th. Please
RSVP ASAP (space is limited). A
parent or caregiver must stay with the
child for that hour. It's open to ages 0
– 3 yrs (inclusive). The program will
focus on exposure to Hebrew language
through games, songs and directed play.
It will be taught by JCC educator Nurit
Rothenberg. Cost: $50 partners
and/or JCC members; $100 for
non-partners/non-JCC members.
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Kavana
Summer Camp:
- What: A Kavana summer day
camp, with Hebrew language content and
Jewish community. Campers will spend a lot
of time outside playing and swimming, and
also spend their time learning Hebrew,
making art, journal writing, creating drama
games, playing with new and old friends, and
challah baking on Fridays! The camp will be
run by Aviva Richman, a talented,
experienced informal Jewish educator who has
created and led award-winning and engaging
programs for children in the past.
- Who: Children entering
grades 1-4 in the fall.
- When: 2 one-week sessions
– July 14-18 and July 21-25 – from 9:00 am –
3:00 pm each day. (Campers can attend
machaneh/camp for one or both weeks.)
- Where: Queen Anne location
(details t.b.d.)
- Registration information:
Please email us with the following
information to register.
- Child's full name
- Birthdate
- Grade in fall 2008
- Parents' contact info (e-mail,
home/work/cell phone)
- Which session(s) they are
registering for – July 14-18, July 21-25
- Kavana partner or non-partner
- Cost: to complete the
registration, please be sure to
pay online or by
check : $125 per week for Kavana
Partners; $250 per week for Non-Partners.
- Questions: please don't
hesitate to be in touch with us at
kavanaseattle@gmail.com. Looking forward to
a fun summer together!
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Teams/Team Meetings - Kavana is a cooperative.
That means that we rely on the time, energy, creativity and passion of the participants
to make this community truly sing. Below are the upcoming team meetings:
- Holiday & Shabbat Team - Please join Lisa Porad, Danyel Fisher and others
to discuss the Kavana holiday calendar. Our next discussion will flesh out what
we want for our High Holiday experiences as well as summer Shabbats. We are
looking forward to a lively discussion/debate on what we as a community would like
to see for our communal and personal holiday celebrations. We want to make sure
that the holidays reflect our community and not just the few on planning duty. Please
RSVP and
we'll send location information.
- Technology Team - Technology is a critical tool for Kavana's success - whether
it's internal technology or the external website. Please
let us know if you'd like to help think about and implement technology as
a way to best enhance the Kavana community.
- Family Education Team - Again - if you're interested in helping think about/set
the tone for and brainstorm on Kavana's education program, please
let us know. We are thinking of some pretty different ways to help
families gain solid Jewish fluency and literacy and could use people passionate
about learning to help us.
- The People & Financial Development Team - Now beginning to take shape,
this team has lots of ways for you to lend your talents. On the PEOPLE side of things,
we are the team that will (among other things yet to be defined) welcome new people
into Kavana and help create our traditions around life cycle events (births, deaths,
& other significant events). On the FINANCIAL side, we will assist in writing
some grants to support our exciting new work. We would love to hear if you are interested
in helping out in one or more of our tasks. We are looking for a core group of people
to be on this team. Please
let us know of your interest in supporting this important aspect of creating
Kavana.
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Pay for Events
Please note: We want to make sure that our events are accessible to whomever is
interested, regardless of financial capacity. Therefore - if you need any
assistance in paying for events, please let
us know (or email Rabbi Rachel
directly to discuss) Or - if you want to make a
contribution to help defray costs, don't be shy.
Also - please know that, especially as a start-up, it's important that you pay if
you RSVP for an event and don't cancel at least 3 days in advance. We base
purchase and catering quantities on the RSVP number and incur the costs.
(Online payment is through PayPal's system - but is just like any other online,
secure, credit card purchase and does not require registration)
Pay by check (this saves us processing fees) - send it to:
Kavana - P.O. Box 19666; Seattle, WA 98109
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