Panim Hadashot, a New Seattle Area Jewish Education Organization, Receives the Levitan Innovation Award
At the recent Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle Annual Meeting Panim Hadashot (www.panimhadashot.com), New Faces of Judaism, received the Levitan Innovation Award. The award seeks to stimulate and encourage organizations, synagogues, agencies and individuals to develop programming with new and different approaches aimed at fostering and/or increasing engagement in Jewish life in the greater Puget Sound Area.
Seattle, WA (PRWEB) July 1, 2005 -- At the recent Jewish Federation of
Greater Seattle Annual Meeting Panim Hadashot (www.panimhadashot.com),
New Faces of Judaism, received the Levitan Innovation Award. The award seeks to
stimulate and encourage organizations, synagogues, agencies and individuals to
develop programming with new and different approaches aimed at fostering and/or
increasing engagement in Jewish life in the greater Puget Sound Area.
Panim Hadsashot was granted the award for its innovative work on the
“Shabbat Around Seattle” program. As winners of the award, Panim Hadashot will
receive a $10,000 grant to directly support of the program. “We are greatly
honored and excited by this recognition,” said Rabbi Dov Gartenberg, Panim
Hadashot’s Rabbi and Founder. “We would like to thank Dan and Stacey Levitan for
creating this award as well as the review committee for choosing our
organization. We applaud the creation of this award that will spur creativity
and innovation in our community.”
Panim Hadashot views Shabbat as
Judaism’s great innovation and enduring contribution to the world. Shabbat
Around Seattle is a Shabbat-centered Jewish learning and outreach project that
models the Shabbat home experience in homes around Seattle, providing a rich
menu of Shabbat activities that build fellowship and stimulate learning about
Judaism. The program offers a mobile and portable Jewish program that moves to a
different neighborhood each month, creating sacred Shabbat experiences through
feasts, learning, conversation and song, with each program featuring Jewish
learning and dialogue connected to a particular theme. Rabbi Gartenberg, resides
with the hosts and serves as resident teacher, seder co-leader, and Shabbat
co-host. Through Rabbi Gartenberg’s skillful and accessible presence, hosts and
guests renew and deepen their Shabbat practices and gain the confidence to
create beautiful and meaningful Shabbat celebrations in their own homes. Those
interested in participating in the program as a host or as a guest, please
contact Rabbi Gartenberg (e-mail protected from spam bots) to make arrangements
for when the program resumes in September after a summer hiatus.
About
Panim Hadashot: Panim Hadashot (www.panimhadashot.com),
New Faces of Judaism was founded in 2004 by Rabbi Dov Gartenberg and is a new
Jewish endeavor of learning, celebration, and outreach. Panim Hadashot is not a
synagogue. Rather it is a Beit Midrash - a house of learning.
We offer a
welcoming place for a wider circle of Jews and others who are seeking a
passionate and open-minded Judaism. Panim Hadashot conveys a Judaism that is
joyful and humane, spiritually and ethically rich, and encouraging of diverse
forms of Jewish expression.
We offer a welcoming place for a wider
circle of Jews and others who are seeking a passionate and open-minded Judaism.
Panim Hadashot conveys a Judaism that is joyful and humane, spiritually and
ethically rich, and encouraging of diverse forms of Jewish expression. Panim
Hadashot is the winner of the Levitan Innovation Award for our Shabbat Around
Seattle program. Panim Hadashot is endorsed by the Union for Reform Judaism and
the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and is a registered 501(c)(3)
organization.
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