Panim Hadshot Weekly Enewsletter Oct 31-Nov 6, 2006

Panim Hadshot Weekly Enewsletter Oct 31-Nov 6, 2006
Weekly Panim E-Newsletter: Monday, Oct. 31, 2005
New Faces of Judaism
E-Newsletter: Weekly Update on the Activities of Panim Hadashot
Monday, October 31, 2005; 21 Tishrei 2005; Portion of the Week, Noach
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Panim Hadashot, New Faces of Judaism is a new Jewish endeavor of learning, celebration, and outreach. Panim Hadashot is the winner of the Levitan Innovation Award and is endorsed by the Union for Reform Judaism and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. Panim Hadashot is a 501c3 non-profit organization. For general information go to www.panimhadashot.com.

Contact us: Program and event information:
Dorothy Glass at 206 280-3715, and dorothy@panimhadashot.com.

Learning, Exploring, Questioning Judaism call our Founder and Rabbi, Dov Gartenberg rabbidov@panimhadashot.com. 206 525-0648.

Email Recipients: Please send correspondence, subscribe and unsubcribe requests to dorothy@panimhadashot.com.

In Brief:
1. Changes Coming in the Panim Hadashot Program: A Brief Message from Rabbi Gartenberg (see below)
Shabbat Around Seattle continues to grow, Shabbat Afternoon Programs are next.
Announcing Havruta: Interpersonal Jewish Learning
70 Faces of Torah moves to the afternoon
2. This Coming Shabbat at Panim Hadashot Shabbat afternoon*, Nov. 5th:
Jews by Choice Discuss Their Journeys, Sat. 2-3:30pm
70 Faces of Torah Interactive Torah Reading for Families; Sat. 4-5:30pm
*Shabbat around Seattle is full on Nov. 4th.
3. Special Programs During the Month of November
Check out opportunities for learning, feasting, and fellowship with Panim Hadashot in November
4. Support Panim Hadashot's Innovative Community Wide and Innovative Approach to Jewish Life.
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1. Changes Coming in the Panim Hadashot Program: A Brief Message from Rabbi Gartenberg

To friends at Panim Hadashot,
As our activities and our impact grow we continue to receive feedback from people touched by our approach. In the programatic front I have learned a couple of lessons.

First, there is a real hunger for a rich Shabbat home experience. That is the reason why our Shabbat around Seattle program continues to be popular and expanding as more people ask Panim Hadashot to host a Shabbat feast at their homes. We will continue to refine Shabbat around Seattle and will offer more wonderful festival feasts like the Rosh Hashannah seder we held at Talaris on the first night of Rosh Hashannah.

Second, Panim has offered both Shabbat morning and Shabbat afternoon programs during the past year. We have concluded that Panim Hadashot's unique approach would best serve the community by concentrating our unique gatherings of learning and sacred feasts on Shabbat afternoon. Later this week we will unveil our new programming schedule that will show a concentration of programs and events on Shabbat afternoons. On the High Holiday our Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur afternoon programs received very positive feedback. So we have applied the lesson from those days to our Shabbat afternoon program, offering simular interactive and interpersonal learning experiences on themes and texts that show Judaism's greatness, depth, and enduring relevance. 70 Faces of Torah, our unique interactive Torah reading will move to once a month on Shabbat afternoons. New learning programs that emphasize interpersonal study and theme based study will be introduced.

We recognize that many people involved in Panim Hadashot attend synagogue on Shabbat mornings, attending Bar and Bat Mitzvahs and enjoying the diversity of prayer services our community offers. We honor and support that commitment. We will focus on growing our Shabbat afternoon experience which enables us to focus on learning and the unique celebrations that end the Shabbat.

We are in the last stages of refining our revised program emphasis. The new program descriptions will be posted on our web site later this week.