Pizza and Talmud is a class/weekly dinner and conversation for those in our community from post-bat/bar mitzvah age until college age. Pizza and Talmud has returned to in person learning- outdoors with Covid precautions in place. New teenagers are welcome to join any time, whether you just want to check us out or consider coming regularly. If there are questions, please feel free to send an email to .
Bring in 2021 with your Kol Ami family at this pop-in, open house style, New Years Day gathering.
Please click the above event link for RSVP information.
Get your secular new year off to a hopeful - and musical - start when Mike Jawer and Robin Cook co-lead Kabbalat Shabbat on Friday, January 1. Some new melodies and orchestrations will be shared, not to mention some aphorisms to inspire us into 2021.
Our services are open to the broader community. For more information, contact .
Jews and Science Fiction, led by Herb Levy. Bring in the new year and celebrate Science Fiction Day on Jan. 2, the birthday of Isaac Asimov, perhaps the best known Jewish science fiction writer.
We'll look at the major contribution Jewish writers have made to Science Fiction, but also look at the seminal role Jews have played in comics. We'll also touch on the role Jews have played in stories by non-Jewish writers.
This program is part of our 2021 Adult Education series. Visitors are welcome and can receive the Zoom link by clicking on the event link above and following the instructions.
Pizza and Talmud is a class/weekly dinner and conversation for those in our community from post-bat/bar mitzvah age until college age. Pizza and Talmud has returned to in person learning- outdoors with Covid precautions in place. New teenagers are welcome to join any time, whether you just want to check us out or consider coming regularly. If there are questions, please feel free to send an email to .
Rabbi Bruce Aft will be leading a weekly lunchtime Torah study on Zoom, focusing on the commentaries of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. No prior Torah knowledge is necessary-- come as you are!!
Visitors are welcome but must preregister. Click the above event link for more information.
Due to a family emergency, Reggie Harris will not be able to join us live on Saturday morning. The service will instead feature pre-recorded performances that Reggie is preparing for our use. To help Kol Ami observe the birthdays of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel and the first parsha in Shemot (Exodus) that begins the story of Moses, Herb Levy & Leslie Lesner will lead this service featuring pre-recorded performances by Reggie Harris.
Reggie combines spirituals and roots music, historic inspiration, and moving original songs, often in the themes of unity and social justice. Knowing this, audiences have bestowed upon him a fitting slogan: "Songs of Joy, Hope, and Freedom."
Our services are open the wider community. For registration information, click the above event link.
Our Tot Shabbat services with Morah Andrea Cate have moved to Zoom but are still filled with story and song and connection to Jewish Community. Join her two Saturdays each month with your children from ages 0 to 6 for some rhythm and ruach. First time visitors, please click the above event link to fill out the registration form.
Join us, once a month, as we take a deeper look at an individual prayer. This month, with Rabbi Gilah Langner's guidance, we will look at the Aleinu: Why so many versions? And what's all that stuff in the middle? This program is part of Kol Ami's 2021 Adult Education programming series. Visitors are welcome and should click on the above event link for registration information.
Feel free to join us starting at 9am for our Morning Minyan service, or log in at 9:45 exclusively for the study session.
The Jewish Children’s Education Program (JCEP) provides our children with strong connections to Jewish traditions, culture, and ethics as well as prayers and the Hebrew language. We will be meeting virtually until it is deemed safe to meet in person. For more information please email our JCEP Director, Dayna Davitz, at .
Pizza and Talmud is a class/weekly dinner and conversation for those in our community from post-bat/bar mitzvah age until college age. Pizza and Talmud has returned to in person learning- outdoors with Covid precautions in place. New teenagers are welcome to join any time, whether you just want to check us out or consider coming regularly. If there are questions, please feel free to send an email to .
Rabbi Bruce Aft will be leading a weekly lunchtime Torah study on Zoom, focusing on the commentaries of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. No prior Torah knowledge is necessary-- come as you are!!
Our classes are open to the wider community. Contact for more information.
On the Shabbat of Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend, please come to a joint Kol Ami -Shirat HaNefesh service led by Rabbi Gilah, with guest speaker Dr. Marc Dollinger, who teaches at San Francisco State University. Dr. Dollinger is author of the book Black Power, Jewish Politics, and his topic will be "1619, 1654, 2020: Jews and Racism." Dr. Dollinger will walk us through primary sources in American history to get to the heart of American Jewish support, complicity, and benefit from institutional racism. Not for the faint of heart, Dr. Dollinger's material will ask us to look honestly and unflinchingly at our past, present, and future. Visitors are welcome but must preregister to receive the Zoom link. Please click the above event link for more information.
Join Morah Andrea on Zoom monthly for Kol Ami’s new “Shabbat Club” — an engaging, enriching Shabbat morning experience for elementary school-aged
learners and their families. Led by experienced teacher Andrea Cate, we will sing, discuss, pray, question, and explore. We will journey into the Torah portion of the week, building connections to our modern lives and our world. New families, click the above link for registration information.
Kol Ami is proud to join with other congregations in the Arlington area at the Interfaith Service of Legacy and Commitment honoring Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pizza and Talmud is a class/weekly dinner and conversation for those in our community from post-bat/bar mitzvah age until college age. Pizza and Talmud has returned to in person learning- outdoors with Covid precautions in place. New teenagers are welcome to join any time, whether you just want to check us out or consider coming regularly. If there are questions, please feel free to send an email to .
Rabbi Bruce Aft will be leading a weekly lunchtime Torah study on Zoom, focusing on the commentaries of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. No prior Torah knowledge is necessary-- come as you are!!
Our classes are open to the wider community. Contact for more information.
In these fraught times, unity of body, mind, and spirit is essential for us to feel centered – and fully connected with God and our fellow human beings.
This Friday evening, join a moving Kabbalat Shabbat led by Rabbi Diane Elliot, a spiritual teacher, poet, dancer, and somatic therapist who’s based in California’s Bay Area. Before becoming a Renewal rabbi, she trained for over 30 years with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, the creator of Body-Mind Centering, a well-regarded somatic approach. Through awareness and movement, chant and nuanced focus on prayer, Rabbi Elliott will inspire us to become clearer channels for devotion, purpose, and calm. Visitors, please click the above event link for registration information.
The Jewish Children’s Education Program (JCEP) provides our children with strong connections to Jewish traditions, culture, and ethics as well as prayers and the Hebrew language. We will be meeting virtually until it is deemed safe to meet in person. For more information please email our JCEP Director, Dayna Davitz, at .
Pizza and Talmud is a class/weekly dinner and conversation for those in our community from post-bat/bar mitzvah age until college age. Pizza and Talmud has returned to in person learning- outdoors with Covid precautions in place. New teenagers are welcome to join any time, whether you just want to check us out or consider coming regularly. If there are questions, please feel free to send an email to .
Please note the time change for this week only. Rabbi Bruce Aft will be leading a weekly lunchtime Torah study on Zoom, focusing on the commentaries of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. No prior Torah knowledge is necessary-- come as you are!!
Our classes are open to the wider community. Contact for more information.
Come worship with Kol Ami as Rabbi Gilah Langner leads our Shabbat morning service.
Stay on after services for the rabbis’ tish (table) and enjoy Shabbat lunch together from your home.
Our zoom services are open to the broader community. For more information contact: .
Celebrate the new year of trees with Rabbi Gilah, JCEP, and the entire community! Our Tu B'Shvat Seder this year will feature a scavenger hunt, four types of fruits and nuts, the music of Jim North, and a special guest appearance recorded by our Junior Kol Amites and Jason Wright.
Please join us on Zoom for this low-key and nature-centric holiday that reminds Jews of our connection to the earth and the trees that help sustain our lives.
Pizza and Talmud is a class/weekly dinner and conversation for those in our community from post-bat/bar mitzvah age until college age. Pizza and Talmud has returned to in person learning- outdoors with Covid precautions in place. New teenagers are welcome to join any time, whether you just want to check us out or consider coming regularly. If there are questions, please feel free to send an email to .
Rabbi Bruce Aft will be leading a weekly lunchtime Torah study on Zoom, focusing on the commentaries of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. No prior Torah knowledge is necessary-- come as you are!!
Our classes are open to the wider community. Contact for more information.
In observance of Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month, Jewish singer-songwriter Nick May will be leading this creative, family friendly, inclusiveness-themed Shabbat service on Saturday, February 6, beginning at 10:00 a.m.
In addition to playing his original songs, Nick will share how music played an important role in helping him with a speech disorder. The service will also feature a special activity for children led by Jessica Tischler, Special Needs and Inclusion Director at the Pozez JCC of Northern Virginia and author of We All Can Color. This service is open to the broader community. To register, please click the above event link.
Our Tot Shabbat services with Morah Andrea Cate have moved to Zoom but are still filled with story and song and connection to Jewish Community. Join her two Saturdays each month with your children from ages 0 to 6 for some rhythm and ruach. First time visitors, please click the above event link for registration information.
