Wandering Jews Gatherings (“Wandering from House to House, and Topic to Topic”)

Some members of the Wandering Jews group are attending the February 26 showing of the play “Travelling Light” at the Rose Theatre (see below, in Northwest Area News), and will meet from 10-12 noon on Sunday, March 4, at Stephanie and Henry’s house both to discuss the play, and to hear about Stephanie’s smicha (ordination) experience in Colorado.
For more information, about this plan, or if you are interested in hosting an upcoming Wandering Jews or presenting a topic, contact Henry Werch at 379-0386. 

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Israel and the Iranian Nuclear Threat 
How dangerous a threat to the survival of Israel and its people is the Iranian possession of missile-deliverable nuclear weapons? In light of Iranian threats to destroy "The Zionist State," what can and should Israel do to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear arsenal? What is the role, if any, of the United States in this situation? 

These are questions that will be addressed by a distinguished panel as Program 4 of the Current Jewish Issues Forum held at Congregation Kol Shalom. Panelists will include Steve Leach, a former US diplomat and Ben Kirkendall, a nuclear scientist who worked with the United Nations agency charged with nonproliferation. The panel will be moderated by Lewis Mandell who has been a Professor at Tel Aviv University and who has written a book on Israel. 

This forum will be held on Thursday, February 16, at 7:30 PM and is open to everyone without charge. 
Congregation Kol Shalom, 9010 Miller Road, Bainbridge Island

A play at the Rose in Feb. & March: Travelling Light
February 26, 28 - noon  and March 3, 4 – noon
Estimated running time: 3 hours

How had a twenty-two-year-old layabout made a discovery that would elude every other cinematic pioneer for years to come?

In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph.  Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merchant, and inpsired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of story-telling.  Forty years on, Motl -- now a famed American film director -- looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams.

Music of Remembrance Upcoming Concerts:

Not Martyrs, Not Saints
Time: Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 2:00pm
Venue: Good Shepherd Center
Two contemporary composers, Simon Sargon and Osvaldo Golijov, are on the program, along with the audacious and innovative Erwin Schulhoff, who died in the Wülzburg concentration camp. Artistic Director Mina Miller discusses the varied ways living composers respond to the Holocaust.

Far is My Home
Time: Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 2:00pm
Venue: Seattle Art Museum
Works from three composers imprisoned in concentration camps create a program suffused with a longing to be elsewhere. Artistic Director Mina Miller contrasts SAM’s Gaugin exhibit, and the themes of primitivism in art, and non-European influences, with Haas' Four Songs on Chinese Poetry...

More info at:  http://musicofremembrance.org/~musicofr/upcoming-concerts

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