Once a year, hundreds of people gather together to plug in, power up and make a difference in a single day: Super Sunday, on November 13, 2011 from 9:30am-4pm. It's the Jewish Federation's annual community-wide phone-a-thon, and the impact you can help us make is enormous.

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Governor Announces Special Session for November; More Cuts Loom

As state revenues continue to fall, Governor Gregoire has announced she will call the legislature to Olympia after Thanksgiving for a 30-day special session beginning on November 28. Legislators will address a multi-billion dollar hole in state revenue with up to $2 billion in cuts. While additional cuts will likely be part of any solution legislators adopt, the idea of enhancing revenue may be considered as well. In the days following Gregoire's announcement of a special session, Senator Ed Murray and Derrick Kilmer wrote an Op-Ed on the challenges facing legislators and just last week, The Seattle Times editorialized in support of some additional revenue, drawing on ideas from Representative Reuven Carlyle.

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For the fifth year in a row, teens set up to make a difference in their community through J-Serve, the national day of Jewish teen service. This year theme was Paint Out Hate; therefore, teens took to the streets of Belltown to paint out graffiti. Seattle Paint Out helped organize the event. J-Serve is a collaboration between all of the areas Jewish youth movements and organizations including Stroum Jewish Community Center, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, NCSY/JSU, BBYO, USY and NFTY. It is a teen driven and led event.

See the story on Q13 Fox.

JEWISH TEENS PAINTING OUT HATE
For two teens planning this event, this work was started 35 years ago in another country fighting hate and anti-Semitism

Over 100 Jewish teens from across greater Seattle will make a difference in their community on May 1, 2011 by painting out hate, literally. The teens, members of the J-Serve team sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, are working with Seattle Paint Out in the Belltown neighborhood painting out graffiti.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle is now accepting nominations for the 2011 Pamela Waechter Jewish Communal Professional Award. This award is granted annually to honor outstanding local Jewish communal professionals for extraordinary contributions to the greater Seattle Jewish community. The deadline for nominations is Friday, April 22, 2011.