HNT

B’Yachad Family Learning
2018-04-29 09:30 - 12:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
3rd – 5th Grade Students and Parents
Please go to this evite to RSVP and for the full schedule:
http://evite.me/CbRWTF7qzw

Congregations for the Homeless Shelter Meal
2018-04-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Eastside Men’s Shelter, 515B 116th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
As a member of Congregations for the Homeless, which strives to mitigate the pain of homelessness by providing meals and basic needs, HNT aspires to provide at least one monthly meal for 80 men during the colder months.
How you can help:

Help prepare one or more dishes for the meal on April 25, captained by Women’s League
This is a great activity for families, friends, your book group, or chavurah, and HNT will provide organizational support. It’s all done potluck-style with food you can buy or make at home. You can drop off your food or stay to help serve and talk with the residents. You choose the date that works for your group. Please email Rebecca@h-nt.org to volunteer to organize a group of friends to take a meal.

Teen Feed
2018-04-22 17:30 - 21:00 | University Lutheran Church, 1604 NE 50th St., Seattle, Washington, 98105
Volunteers are needed to help prepare, cook, and serve food. Shifts start at 5:30 PM, and we need 10 or more volunteers for a successful event. RSVP to teenfeed@h-nt.org.
If you would like to receive monthly Teen Feed reminders, email Rebecca@h-nt.org. Want to help, but aren’t available this month? Please consider a donation to Teen Feed. Donations may be sent to HNT, Attn: Accounting, PO Box 574, Mercer Island, WA 98040.

Shtilim Visit to the JFS Food Bank
2018-04-22 13:15 - 15:00 | Jewish Family Service, 1601 16th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122
Ever wonder what a food bank is? Want to do a mitzvah? Join us to tour the JFS Food Bank, help package bulk food and learn about what the food bank is and who it helps. For those of you in FRS, please bring a dairy/pareve lunch to eat in the Youth Lounge and then we will caravan over to the food bank.
No cost (financial donations or non-perishable donations for the food bank are appreciated). A special Kol HaKavod, way to go, to Morah Kathy Packer and Sarah Hasson for help in organizing this engaging mitzvah opportunity! Please go to this site to reserve space by April 18:
https://hnt.wufoo.com/forms/shtilim-jfs-food-bank/

Garinim Celebrate Israel
2018-04-22 12:15 - 14:00 | Magnuson Park Hanger 30, 6310 NE 74th St, Seattle, WA, 98115
Celebrate Israel, part of NWIsraelFest, is a community-wide celebration bringing together Jewish organizations from all over the Puget Sound region. From culture to history, identity to heritage, and food to entertainment, #NWIsraelFest explores and celebrates all things Israel. Join your Garinim friends after FRS at 12:15.
We will caravan to the event together. Go to www.jewishinseattle.org/nwisraelfest for more information. Let us know if you are joining us by registering with this Wufoo by April 18: https://hnt.wufoo.com/forms/nwisraelfest/

Shabbat for Kids
2018-04-21 10:30 - 12:15
In Classroom 4 and Gan Danny
This special Shabbat program is for all students in pre-gan through 5th grade at HNT. Please RSVP to attend at:
http://evite.me/8chEVZ9reW

TGIS Dinner
2018-04-20 18:00 - 20:30
TGIS builds community and creates new friendships! A special pre-oneg starts at 5:30 PM for those wanting to schmooze before the service. The expense for TGIS per family is included in the FRS tuition for third through fifth graders and their immediate family.
Please contact Dr. Krigel at eliyahu@h-nt.org with questions or Nadine Strauss at nadine@h-nt.org for mitigation.
Please sign up by April 17 at:
https://hnt.wufoo.com/forms/tgis-thank-gd-its-shabbat-april-20/

High School Shabbat
2018-04-20 18:00 - 20:30
Join the entire HNT community as we celebrate this year’s graduating high school seniors with a special Shabbat Service and festive dinner. If you have a graduating senior, please RSVP
yes or no at h-nt.org/HSS-RSVP and fill out our survey at: h-nt.org/HSS-Booklet by Thursday, April 12
Make the celebration even better by getting involved! Know a name we missed? Want to volunteer? Like to make a donation to help keep this event affordable for everyone? Email Rebecca@h-nt.org or call (206) 232-8555 x207.

Endless Opportunities with Emily K. Alhadeff
2018-04-19 10:30 - 12:00 | Feinberg Social Hall
Editor of Jewish in Seattle Magazine, Emily K. Alhadeff, Sits Down with Endless Opportunities*
For over ten years, beginning with the biweekly newspaper and continuing with the current bimonthly magazine, Alhadeff provides the Jewish community of Puget Sound with human-interest profiles, arts, food, history, health, and family content that engages our diverse and growing community.
Join us in conversation about the changing trends in journalism and media, particularly as they impact our ability to stay up to date on the advances in our region.
Please RSVP to EO Coordinator, Rabbi Kate Speizer, (206) 486-4983 or rsvpEO@tdhs-nw.org.
* Endless Opportunities is a community-wide program of educational, social, recreational and volunteer activities.

Yom Ha'Atzmaut
2018-04-19

Israel Civil Discourse Series
2018-04-18 18:15 - 21:00, 2018-04-11 18:15 - 21:00, 2018-04-08 17:15 - 21:00
Opening Session
Sunday, April 8, Dinner: 5:15 PM – 6:00 PM, Session: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Two Wednesday Evening Sessions
Wednesdays, April 11 & 18, Dinner: 6:15 PM – 7:00 PM, Session: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Click here to sign up!
Fee: $50 for the series (including all dinners)
We live in an increasingly polarized society. Across America, friends and family have stopped speaking with each other over political differences. In the American Jewish community, Israel once galvanized and united us. In recent years, Israel has been a source of increasingly contentious debate among us. Jews have always disagreed about important moral issues. This is our strength. But, lately, the disagreements about Israel have become intensely personal and increasingly destructive. We live in an increasingly polarized society. Across America, friends and family have stopped speaking with each other over political differences. In the American Jewish community, Israel once galvanized and united us. In recent years, Israel has been a source of increasingly contentious debate among us. Jews have always disagreed about important moral issues. This is our strength. But, lately, the disagreements about Israel have become intensely personal and increasingly destructive.
How can we change the level of our discussion? In this series, we invite members of our community from across the political spectrum to discuss our feelings about Israel in an atmosphere of mutual respect. We will focus not only on the content of what we believe, but on the process of how we can learn to speak more civilly to each other and listen more openly.
Our goals are to increase our empathy for one another, to identify common ground where we can work together and to strengthen our community by learning that there is value in understanding each other more deeply even if it doesn’t lead to agreement.
Among the questions we will explore:
• What does Israel mean to us?
• When we think about Israel today: What inspires us? What are we most proud of? What concerns us?
• What is the nature of the conflict between Israel and its neighbors?
• What are the boundaries of legitimate criticism of Israel within the American Jewish community?
• How should we respond to criticism of Israel from outside the Jewish community?
• What would we like Israel’s future to look like? What gives us hope?

Daytimers Lunch & Film: When The Smoke Clears
2018-04-18 11:30 - 14:30 | Feinberg Social Hall
When the Smoke Clears: A Story of Brotherhood, Resilience and Hope
A 2017 Israeli film in Hebrew with English subtitles
This film tells the true stories of young Israeli soldiers whose injuries leave them fighting for the strength to live. Making breakthroughs and finding meaning by reaching out to those in need, they discover that what didn’t kill them really did make them stronger. This film is being shown in observance of Yom HaZikaron – Israel’s Memorial Day.
Support for the Daytimers Program is underwritten with love by the family of Marv Coe z”l
$8/person for lunch, served 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM, followed by the film
Reserve by the Friday before each film so that we can prepare for you!
RSVP at h-nt.org/Daytimers or call 206-232-8555

Erev Yom Ha'Atzmaut
2018-04-18

Yom HaZikaron
2018-04-18

Cantor's Nosh & Sing
2018-04-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Upper Foyer
Come join us for Nosh and Sing, a fun, casual, enjoyable get-together where we sing Israeli, Yiddish, Ladino and American Folk songs. All are welcome. Please feel free to bring a dairy lunch; Herzl-Ner Tamid will provide the snacks and sweets. Click to RSVP.
Additional dates for 2018 are:

May 8

Please mark your calendar and plan to attend.
Looking forward to singing and schmoozing with you!
Musically Yours, Cantor Brad

Erev Yom HaZikaron
2018-04-17

Eastside Baby Corner Volunteer Day
2018-04-16 17:15 - 20:30 | Eastside Baby Corner, 1510 NW Maple Steet, Issaquah, WA, 98027
First Shift: 5:15 PM – 6:45 PM (10 volunteers)
Second Shift: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM (10 volunteers)
Eastside Baby Corner serves as a diaper bank, clothing bank, and food source for more than 800 kids across King County each week. HNT will be organizing a group to fill orders and sort donations of baby clothes, items and gear. Any kids participating must be ages 14+ or ages 7-13 with 1:1 adult supervision.
Sign-ups for this April project begin in March at h-nt.org/volunteers.

IAC Yom Hazikaron Event
2018-04-15 13:30 - 15:30 | Sanctuary
The IAC and Brothers for Life are honored to hinivte you to a remembrance assembly for Yom Hazikaron – Israel Memorial Day

God Talk Session #1
2018-04-14 12:15 - 12:45
A Series on God for Skeptics and Believers
With Rabbi Rosenbaum after Shabbat services
Session One: April 14
Prayer Without God
How discussing the purpose of prayer without referencing God can actually lead us to an understanding of God.
Every year, Nance Adler at JDS invites me to give one of the series of God Talks to her eighth graders. It occurred to me that this would be a valuable experience for adults, too. So, at Shabbat services on April 14, May 5, and August 4, I will be giving a series of three God Talks after services.
Here is how it will work. Services will go from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM without a dvar Torah. At noon, we’ll have 15 minutes to get our food at the Kiddush table and come back to our seats for a 30 minute study session on God. “Prayer Without God” will be the April 14 topic.
So, why would I choose to begin a series of God Talks with a session entitled “Prayer Without God”? My experience has taught me that when speaking about prayer, strange as it may seem, discussing God is best left to the end. In fact, it can be very useful to imagine what the experience of saying the words of the prayerbook might be like if we were to temporarily remove God from the picture. After all, today we are very familiar with spiritual practices that do not depend on God at all, like yoga and meditation.
These practices have well defined goals. They relieve stress, they center us, and they help us to experience our day less impulsively, more mindfully. Ask a meditator what she hopes to achieve and she will tell you how useful her spiritual practice is. But ask ‘is what use is daily prayer?’ and many of us will draw a blank.
So, what are the goals of prayer? How might saying the specific words of our prayer book be useful to us in the way we experience our day? Come on April 14, and we will talk about that! And, we may just find that answering this question will lead us to a deeper understanding of God.
Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum

Yom Ha'Shoah
2018-04-12

Erev Yom Ha'Shoah
2018-04-11

Women's League Book Club
2018-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Skolnick Board Room
April book: And After the Fire by Lauren Belfer
Join the Sisterhood Book Club and be part of the discussion! Email smossman@comcast.net for more information. Our next meeting will be Monday, May 7 reading Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart, when we will meet at the HNT parking lot and carpool to Kane Hall to hear the author speak.

Minyanaires Club
2018-04-08 09:00 - 10:30 | Gladstein Chapel
One Sunday a month, the morning minyan gets a little more interactive and a little more ruach-y (or spirited), and mixes in some English readings, too. Enjoy a light brunch after the service. Eat, schmooze and get to know others Minyanaires! All who attend will be entered in a monthly Minyanaire’s Club drawing for fabulous prizes.

American Celebrity & Jewish Identity High School Trip to Los Angeles
2018-04-08 08:00 - 2018-04-12 17:00
We have crafted a new and innovative class and a trip to Los Angeles for teens based on American Jewish celebrity and Jewish identity formation. Due to the huge success of the NYC trip last year, generously supported by Gwenn and Dean Polik, we are excited to be offering a five-day trip experience to LA from April 8-12, 2018.
The trip will be connected to the eight monthly specialized classes taught by Dr. Krigel and guest speakers. A light dinner each session is included in the overall tuition. Please contact Dr. Krigel at eliyahu@h-nt.org for more information. Due to the generosity of Gwenn and Dean Polik, we are able to provide this program to our members for $1,550 for the 8 sessions (dinner included) plus transportation, lodging, and the entire program for the 5-day trip. The cost for non-HNT members is $2,550.
Limited need based financial assistance may be available by contacting Nadine@h-nt.org by October 27
Register today by going to this link:
https://hnt.wufoo.com/forms/la-trip/

Passover Day 7 Services
2018-04-06 09:30 - 12:00 | Upper Foyer

Office Closed
2018-04-06

Office Early Close
2018-04-05 09:00 - 15:00

Passover Day 2 Services
2018-04-01 09:30 - 12:00 | Upper Foyer
