Weekly Announcements for May 23, 2025
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June 21st Interim Meeting:
Agenda, Documents, & Registration
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Friends will gather on Saturday, June 21st for Interim Meeting in-person at the BYM Office & Friends House and online via Zoom. The agenda, advance documents, and registration are now available. Several action items are on the agenda, and BYM Monthly Meetings are encouraged to discern their corporate position on these actions in advance of the Meeting. Items on the agenda include:
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A proposed revision to the Committee Charge for BYM Peace & Social Concerns
- Proposed changes to the Manual of Procedure
- First reading of the 2026 budget (no action will be taken at this meeting)
- First reading of 2025 revisions to Faith & Practice (no action will be taken at this meeting)
Friends are invited to enjoy a picnic lunch and hospitality at the BYM Office before proceding to the Friends House Miller Center for Meeting for Business.
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A Tender Time: Now Available on Kindle!
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The BYM publication A Tender Time: Quaker Voices on the End of Life is now available for purchase as a Kindle e-book. In addition, Friends living outside the United States can now order a copy of A Tender Time through the Amazon Print on Demand service. We encourage Friends in the U.S. to continue to purchase copies from Quaker sellers, such as the FGC Bookstores or Pendle Hill Bookstore, or directly from BYM. However, we are excited to make the publication more widely available for e-readers and audiences outside the U.S.
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Quaker Scam Alert: The Clerk is NOT Asking You to Buy Gift Cards!
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BYM has been hearing reports from local Friends that they have been receiving Quaker-related phishing emails. The email may look like it's coming from a monthly meeting clerk making a request that requires confidentiality, with email as the only response they can accept. If you respond, they will ask you to purchase gift cards (promising reimbursement) without telling anyone. These are not legitimate emails. Please mark as SPAM and delete, and please do NOT engage the author of these emails.
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Join Ramallah Head of School on Zoom, June 7
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Quakers for Peace in Palestine & Israel invite you to a special Zoom event with Head of Ramallah Friends School Rania Ma'ayeh. Founded by Quakers in 1869, Ramallah Friends School plays an essential role for
the students and their community on the West Bank in Palestine. Learn about the school and how you can support its work with Rania.
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| Stony Run to Host Parfaite Ntahuba and David Bucura, June 1
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Stony Run Meeting invites you to a discussion of current programs and events in Burundi and the wider African Great Lakes Region on June 1 at 9:00am with David Bucura of Friends Peace Teams, and Parfaite Ntahuba of Friends Women's Association in Burundi. With the decimation of USAID and other U.S. foreign aid programs, our Quaker siblings around the world need our support now more than ever. Join Stony Run for this important event in-person or online via Zoom.
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From the Desk of the General Secretary
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Friends -
Our hearts are heavy so often these days. On Wednesday, six miles from where I sit a young Jewish couple was executed in an act of shocking antisemitism outside the Capital Jewish Museum, which currently has an exhibit on the Jewish history of protest that includes pictures of Jewish-Americans protesting the attacks on Gaza. The event was for young diplomatic professionals engaging in humanitarian work in the Middle East. 5,800 miles from where I write to you today, children in Gaza are starving to death as an 11-week blockade of humanitarian aid drags on. It's hard to know how to hold the enormity of all this pain.
For many years, my spiritual life has been deeply enriched by the accompaniment of my anam cara, my spiritual friend, Yalta - a woman here in DC whose fierce love of Torah, justice, and Judaism constantly calls me into closer relationship with Spirit and my own Quaker tradition. After hearing this week's horrific news, Yalta spoke about last week's parsha (the weekly Torah portion) that points to how reluctant we should all be to kill someone (much less collectively many someones) for justice or for revenge. As Yalta said, this holds true for a lone gunman as well as for a state apparatus.
In my travels throughout our Yearly Meeting, I have had the great joy to meet the many Jewish-Quakers who are part of BYM Meetings as well as the many Palestinian Quakers among us. I do not have all the right words and perhaps my inbox will be flooded with angry replies to the inadequacy of my words today, but I cannot let that keep me from saying to our Jewish and Palestinian Friends - I see you, my heart aches for you, and I will continue both to hold you in my prayers and to work for peace and our shared liberation.
With loving care,
Sarah Gillooly
General Secretary
Baltimore Yearly Meeting
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