What it means to be a Kadima Member
Thank you for your interest in Kadima! Your membership supports the existence and flourishing of this active and progressive community.
Please note that Kadima Membership is required to register youth in Kadima School.
Kadima is a progressive Reconstructionist community integrating alternatives in Jewish learning for all ages, celebration and work for social justice. Kadima is a premier progressive Jewish organization in the Pacific Northwest with members who live in and out of the region. A trailblazer on many social fronts, Kadima was founded to fight racism and antisemitism, promote and live gender liberation, and work to create peace and justice in Israel/Palestine and the region. Since, Kadima has evolved around all these issues as well as developing work for disability justice, indigenous sovereignty, homelessness, and labor justice. Kadima makes a strong connection between social activism and Jewish spiritual traditions, ethics, culture and history. We strive to operate using these evolving derech eretz/community guidelines.
As a Reconstructionist community, Kadima uses metaphor, poetry and a relevant, accessible liturgy to welcome members whose beliefs and practices span a spectrum from theistic to humanistic. We are a Jewish community for Jews, friends and family of Jews, people who are Jew-proximate, people who are Jew-curious, people who have Jewish heritage, and people who are none of the above but are Jew-positive.
Multicultural households are welcome, including non-Jewish partners and family members. Everyone is encouraged to celebrate and learn more about progressive Judaism.
Kadima seeks to integrate a wide range of Jewish experience into its priorities and practices. It is committed to making its programs and community accessible to its members and to those searching for a Jewish home.
As challenging and complex issues arise in the Jewish and general communities, Kadima aspires to function as your progressive Jewish salon, where it's safe to discuss and debate issues, including on Israel, the work of achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace, spirituality, Jewish identity, and arts and culture.
Your membership is not merely a ticket to activities--our doors are open to all every day already. Rather, it is a way to support our Jewish community and participate in the service of doing, communing, collectivizing, and probing, wrestling, commemorating, and celebrating. It is being a part of the mitzvah* of helping to create and sustain Jewish life for those who want it, need it, and are enriched by it.
*Mitzvah literally translates to "thing that is obligated or commanded" though R' David offers context that today we might translate mitzvah as "the acts we ask of one another to make this community work for everyone in it." If there is a some way in which Kadima is not working for you, asking us to do something about it is a mitzvah and gives us the chance to do a mitzvah.
Please note that Kadima Membership is required to register youth in Kadima School.
Kadima is a progressive Reconstructionist community integrating alternatives in Jewish learning for all ages, celebration and work for social justice. Kadima is a premier progressive Jewish organization in the Pacific Northwest with members who live in and out of the region. A trailblazer on many social fronts, Kadima was founded to fight racism and antisemitism, promote and live gender liberation, and work to create peace and justice in Israel/Palestine and the region. Since, Kadima has evolved around all these issues as well as developing work for disability justice, indigenous sovereignty, homelessness, and labor justice. Kadima makes a strong connection between social activism and Jewish spiritual traditions, ethics, culture and history. We strive to operate using these evolving derech eretz/community guidelines.
As a Reconstructionist community, Kadima uses metaphor, poetry and a relevant, accessible liturgy to welcome members whose beliefs and practices span a spectrum from theistic to humanistic. We are a Jewish community for Jews, friends and family of Jews, people who are Jew-proximate, people who are Jew-curious, people who have Jewish heritage, and people who are none of the above but are Jew-positive.
Multicultural households are welcome, including non-Jewish partners and family members. Everyone is encouraged to celebrate and learn more about progressive Judaism.
Kadima seeks to integrate a wide range of Jewish experience into its priorities and practices. It is committed to making its programs and community accessible to its members and to those searching for a Jewish home.
As challenging and complex issues arise in the Jewish and general communities, Kadima aspires to function as your progressive Jewish salon, where it's safe to discuss and debate issues, including on Israel, the work of achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace, spirituality, Jewish identity, and arts and culture.
Your membership is not merely a ticket to activities--our doors are open to all every day already. Rather, it is a way to support our Jewish community and participate in the service of doing, communing, collectivizing, and probing, wrestling, commemorating, and celebrating. It is being a part of the mitzvah* of helping to create and sustain Jewish life for those who want it, need it, and are enriched by it.
*Mitzvah literally translates to "thing that is obligated or commanded" though R' David offers context that today we might translate mitzvah as "the acts we ask of one another to make this community work for everyone in it." If there is a some way in which Kadima is not working for you, asking us to do something about it is a mitzvah and gives us the chance to do a mitzvah.
Kadima Membership Structure and Commitments
Membership in Kadima has two parts:
- Each household is asked to give a meaningful annual amount commensurate with their income, access to wealth, and financial stress level. Please see the charts below to determine where on the Annual Membership Dues sliding scale you belong.
- Community engagement! We ask that each member expect to contribute a minimum of 10 hours to the community per year. This could include cleaning up after services, doing data entry, organizing a Kadima contingent at rallies, becoming a Board Member, showing up to help make a minyan (a quorum of 10 of us) which enables us to say a mourner's kaddish - the prayer for mourning and honoring the dead -- and anything that helps Kadima function and thrive.
NOTE: You may give more than your suggested level! When more households that give higher amounts, we have more flexibility to accommodate households who are less resourced.