The most solemn service of the year, Kol Nidre will be co-led this year by Rabbi Gilah Langner, Herb Levy, and Jim North. With Zoom as our medium, we will be davening/praying from a beautiful series of slides prepared by Bayit/Building Jewish, which should make the liturgy more accessible than ever before. Join us for an evening of beautiful song, heartfelt prayer, and reflections on Teshuvah and Racial Justice by Rabbi Gilah.
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 .
Kol Ami will host two children's services for Yom Kippur according to the following schedule:
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. for families with children six and under.
11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. for families with children seven to 12.
Stay tuned for more information and registration instructions!
From Meditation to Text Study, there's something for everyone on Yom Kippur afternoon but you must be a registered High Holiday participant to sign up. Click the above event link for registration information.
This week, Rabbi Gilah will be leading our Shabbat Sukkot service at Kol Ami. We will be davening a joyous Hallel, waving the lulav and etrog, praying to be saved ("Hosha Na! -- the origin of the word "hosanna"). We'll also engage in text study, learning and discussing how our rabbis urged Jews to respond to plagues and other catastrophes in different times and places.
Our Tot Shabbat services with Morah Andrea have moved to Zoom but are still filled with story and song and connection to Jewish Community. Join her two Saturdays a month for some rhythm and ruach. Our virtual services are open to the wider community, please click the above event link to join our Tot Shabbat mailing list and to print our Tot Shabbat postcard.
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 .
This is the last in a series of six Zoom meetings to discuss Rabbi Alan Lew's guidebook to the High Holidays, from Tisha B'Av through Sukkot. Join us for 45-minute discussions and meditation on each of the steps in this ancient journey of transformation. On October 6th, Jason Weiss and Elizabeth Greene will lead a discussion on the Epilogue (Sukkot).
We will gather on October 10 to celebrate Shemini Atzeret, a Jewish holiday many of us do not know much about – but will learn about by experiencing it together. Sometimes considered the last day of Sukkot, and sometimes a holiday in its own right, Shemini Atzeret is a time when we close off the cycle of holidays that began with Rosh ha-Shanah, sweep away the final remnants of the year just past, and fully welcome in and open up to the new Jewish year. Come expecting music, meaningful prayer (including Yizkor prayers to remember our loved ones who have passed on), and the joy and support of your Kol Ami community.
Our services are open to the community at large. Please email Coordinator@KolAmiVirginia for registration information.
JCEP Families and Kol Amites in general are invited to join in for this family friendly, online Simchat Torah celebration! Did you think we wouldn't dance on Simchat Torah? We've invited Mo Brachfeld to lead us in online dance moves -- hand dances, foot dances, we'll celebrate Torah with our rhythm and bodies! Then we'll honor each book of the Torah with our members' selections of a favorite character or teaching. And we'll close with a good old dance party to Israeli pop music. Good for all ages!
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 .
"MYSTIC SERENADE: A Kabbalat Shabbat of Songs, Stories, Light, and Joy, with Rabbi Jack Gabriel this Friday October 16 at 7:30 PM. He’s a one-of-a-kind Folk/Reggae/songwriting Rabbi. He taught mysticism and led congregations from Capetown to Woodstock NY, and from Kailua-Kona HI to Sonoma CA to Boulder CO, where he now writes, sings, and lives. As a leader in the Jewish Renewal Movement, he teaches bite size Kabbalah and user-friendly stories and songs. When he leads a service, you can feel his Reggae heart and his Klezmer soul. Come lively up yourself, with up-with-joy music as we welcome Shabbat! Rebbe or not, here he comes!"
Our virtual services are open to the public. Contact for more information.
Our Tot Shabbat services with Morah Andrea have moved to Zoom but are still filled with story and song and connection to Jewish Community. Join her two Saturdays a month for some rhythm and ruach. Our virtual services are open to the wider community, please click the above event link to join our Tot Shabbat mailing list and to print our Tot Shabbat postcard.
Attention new and prospective members-- want to learn more about what Kol Ami has to offer? Join us for our annual Open House, via Zoom! Meet Rabbi Gilah, our leadership, and get a taste of our warm, inclusive, and vibrant community-- even as we have moved our services online until it is safe to once again meet in person.
Click the above event link to RSVP!!
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 .
It's Kol Ami's New "Shabbat Club"!!
Join Morah Andrea for Kol Ami's new "Shabbat Club" -- an engaging, enriching Shabbat morning experience for elementary school-aged learners and their families. For information click the above event link.
Join Kol Ami for a Saturday morning service led by Herb Levy and Leslie Lesner. We'll wrestle with Parsha Noah, and the flood and seek a new covenant, just before America wrestles with renewing a covenant or making a new one. We'll sing, we'll pray and we'll rejoice in each other's holy company.
Our services are open to the broader community. Please email for Zoom 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 join Jim North at our Kol Ami Shabbat service on October 31, 2020, from 10 a.m. to noon. We will learn and sing together and pray for the future of our country. So many stories in this week’s Torah portion Lech Lecha: travels, name changes, marriages, and God’s promises to Abraham and to Hagar… Richard Ruth will be leading a Torah study and discussion. Come join your community Shabbat!
Our zoom services are open to the broader community. Please email for more information.
