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May 11 July 11 -- Draznin-Nagy Bat MitzvahNancy Draznin has requested the following invitation be forwarded to members of the Jewish Community of the Palouse: “Please join our family when we celebrate Sophia Rose Draznin-Nagy being called to Torah as a Bat Mitzvah on July 11, 2009, at 10:00 AM at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse, located at 420 East Second St., Moscow, Idaho. A luncheon will follow at 12:00 Noon, in the Genessee Idaho City Park. Please respond by June 27th to Nancy Draznin at 208-310-3252 or at motherwise@genesee-id.com." April 09 April 29 - Israel Independence Day Israel Independence Day, Yom Ha'atzma'ut, is on Wednesday,
April 29, 2009 (which corresponds with the 5th of Iyyar, 5769). April 19-26 -- Yom Hashoah & U.S. Days of Remembrance YOM HASHOAH, Holocaust Remembrance Day, will be Tuesday,
April 21, 2009 (which corresponds with the 27th of Nisan, 5769). The United States Congress established the Days of Remembrance as the United States annual commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust. This year, those days will be April 19 - April 26, 2009. For more information, see http://www.ushmm.org/remembrance/dor/calendar. April 13 - Holocaust Survivor PresentationNoémi Ban of Bellingham, WA, a Holocaust survivor who has spoken in our area in the past, will be giving a presentation at Genesee High School in Genesee Idaho on April 13, 2009, at 7 PM. All are welcome and there is no charge. Driving DIRECTIONS from MOSCOW: Going south towards Lewiston on Highway 95, after 14 miles you will see Uniontown Road and a LEFT turning lane with signs to Genessee. Turn LEFT and continue East on Genessee-Juliaetta Road. After 1 mile, you will enter the city and you can turn LEFT (going uphill) at Elm or Tamarack or Cedar. You will see the High School. April 03 April 11 -- Passover Potluck A JCP Passover Potluck will be at the K-House on April 11, starting at 5 PM. If you wish to attend, you must RSVP to schreck2020@msn.com. And the DEADLINE to RSVP is Tuesday, April 7. Provide the following when you email your RSVP: (1) Your name, phone number, email address, and the number of adults and children you will be bringing. (2) The FOOD that you would like to bring. (No shellfish or pork.) (3) Any allergy or food concerns you have. April 8 and 9 -- Chabad Passover Seders Chabad of Spokane has reserved the 1912 Center in Moscow for a Passover Seder on both the first and the second night of Passover, that is, Wednesday, April 8, AND Thursday, April 9. To RSVP, you may contact Rabbi Hahn - Chabad of Spokane - at either his email address, rabbihahn@gmail.com or at his phone number, 509-443-0770 or 509-990-7878. You can also find information about Chabad at the following website: http://www.jewishspokane.com/. Each Seder will begin at 7:00 PM and will be a traditional Passover Seder meal, with a full kosher meal, four cups of wine/grape juice, shemurah matzah, and all the trimmings. The cost will be $15 per adult, $10 per child, and $5 per college student. (The actual costs are being subsidized by Chabad). However, no one will be turned down due to lack of funds. February 04 February 9, 2009 - Tu BiShevat - Jewish Arbor DayThis year, Tu BiShevat falls on February 9, 2009. This holiday is also known as "New Year of the Trees" or Jewish Arbor Day. The holiday is observed on the fifteenth (tu) day of the Jewish Month of Shevat. Scholars believe that Tu BiShevat was originally an agricultural festival, marking the emergence of spring. After the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.C.E. this holiday was a way for Jews to symbolically bind themselves to their former homeland by eating foods that could be found in Israel. In the sixteenth and seventeenth century Kabbalists created a ritual dining experience for Tu BiShevat similar to the Passover Seder. Today, Tu BiShevat has also become a tree planting festival in Israel, in which both Israelis and Jews around the world plant trees in honor or in memory of a loved one or friend. See http://urj.org/holidays/tubishvat/index.cfm? Also see http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/TuBishvat.htm. Also, you can find a MULTIMEDIA TU B'SHVAT website at http://www.aish.com/tubshvat/tubshvatdefault/default.asp. January 16 Jan 27, 2009 - International Holocaust Remembrance Day In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly
designated January 27 as an annual international day of commemoration
to honor the victims of the Nazi era. This date marks the anniversary
of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. Although I could not find any local Holocaust-related events, radio or television programs, there are several related movies released in the US, and they may be showing on the Palouse at this time. (1) "Defiance" is based on the true story of the three Jewish Bielski brothers who escaped from Nazi-occupied Poland into the Belarussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, built a village and protected over 1200 people -- the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II. It stars Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber. It is currently showing in Lewiston. (2) "The Reader" is about a woman (Kate Winslet) on trial for Nazi War Crimes years after World War II. It a story about truth and reconciliation; and about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another. It also stars Ralph Fiennes. (3) "Adam Resurrected" is an adaptation of the novel by Israeli Yoram Kaniuk. In 1961, Adam Stein, a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel, confounds his doctors and amazes his fellow patients by reading minds. Before the war, Adam was a popular entertainer in Berlin. Sent to a concentration camp, Adam survives by becoming the Commandant's "dog." Years later, a boy who thinks he is a dog arrives at Adam's mental institution. And Adam and the boy begin a journey together. It stars Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, and Derek Jacobi. RELATED BOOKS available through the public libraries: (1) "Adam Resurrected," by Yoram Kaniuk; translated from the Hebrew by Seymour Simckes (through Moscow Library). (2) "Defiance: The Bielski Partisans," by Nechama Tec (in the UI library). (3) "The Bielski Brothers" by Peter Duffy. (4) "Escape to the Forest," by Ruth Yaffe Radin; illustrated by Janet Hamlin (a juvenile book about a young Jewish girl living with her family in Lida who suffers the horrors of first the Russians then the Nazis, but later flees to join the Bielski partisans). Also note that YOM HASHOAH in the US and Israel falls on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 (which corresponds with the 27th of Nisan, 5769). December 31 Holocaust Movie - Jan 9, 10 & 11 at Kenworthy in MoscowThe Kenworthy Theater will be showing "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," a story set during World War II, about the eight-year-old son of a concentration camp commandant whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences. Based on the novel by John Boyne. To date, the novel has sold more than 4 million copies around the world. In both 2007 and 2008 it was the best selling book of the year in Spain. It has also reached no.1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and been no.1 in the UK, Ireland, Australia and many other countries. The movie is scheduled to be shown Friday and Saturday, January 9-10, at 5:40 & 8:00 PM, and on Sunday, January 11, at 4:40 & 7:00 PM. Admission is $6 for adults. KFS passes are accepted for Sunday movies only. The film is appropriate for high school and middle school aged students. You can read more about the book at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_in_the_Striped_Pyjamas.
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