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.
Want to meet our newest members? Waiting in suspense to hear about the results of the community survey and other activities being conducted by the Long Range Planning workgroup?
If you have answered yes to either of these questions, be sure to mark your calendars for a congregational meeting on Sunday afternoon, February 7, from 3:00-4:30 PM.
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.
Mid-February is wintry but has its share of good cheer, bringing the Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, and Dia de la Amistad (Friendship Day) in Puerto Rico. A special Kabbalat Shabbat service, co-led by Susan Frieband and Michael Jawer on Friday the 12th, will celebrate the value of friends and friendship during these difficult times. A new poem has been written for the occasion by Susan. Please join us, too, for psalms, prayers, and singing together. The mid-winter warmth begins at 7:30.
The service handout and Friday night siddur can be accessed at the above link. Kol Ami's services are open to the broader community. For more information, email .
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 invited to join Shirat HaNefesh for a Shabbat morning service led by Rabbi Gilah as we move from Sinai into a new legal paradigm. We’ll be contemplating how Judaism will be affected by the pandemic and what new paradigms are emerging or likely to develop.
Join us, once a month, as we take a deeper look at an individual prayer. This month we will look at Kaddish. 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.
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.
Don't forget to remember. Why remember Amalek and Hamon? Why the specificity described in parsha Terumah on exactly how to build the Mishkan? What is collective memory? Cantorial Soloist, Lox & Vodka band leader, award winning songwriter Caron Dale returns to Kol Ami for her annual co-led service with Herb Levy. Together, we will build our internal tabernacles as we get in touch with Shekinah, the presence of the One through communal prayer. Visitors are welcome. Please click the above event link for registration information and to access the service handout.
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 1 to 7 as we share greetings, gratitude, prayers, movement, music, and Shabbat joy!! First time visitors, please click the above event link for registration information. We can't wait to share Shabbat with you!
Following up on our MLK Shabbat with Dr. Marc Dollinger, we will be reading and discussing Dollinger’s book, Black Power, Jewish Politics, which focuses on the historic relationship between Jews and African Americans.
The first of four bi-weekly meetings will be held on Sunday, Feb. 21 at 3 p.m.
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.
This week’s Torah portion, Tetzaveh, talks about keeping fires lit in the ancient Temple and the garments the priests wore there. But don’t fret – we’re going to have a discussion that will make this interesting and relevant to modern lives! We’ll also be praying together, singing together, and enjoying a relaxed Shabbat time together in community. It will all be better if we can look forward to the pleasure of your company.
Our services are open to the broader community. For more information email .
Join Kol Ami for a festive online Purim celebration! We'll be showing off our hamantashen and costumes, singing Purim songs, and enjoying a Purimspiel based on Hamilton. You will definitely want to be in the room where it happens! Visitors are welcome- click the above event link to register.
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.
Kol Ami is proud to be a co-sponsor for this event being offered by the Haberman Institute of Jewish Studies.
Deborah Waxman, president of Reconstructing Judaism, will be presenting a lecture entitled "Rooted and Relevant: 21st Century Jewish Life" with us on March 2 at 7:30. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated many changes in Jewish (and general) life. Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., will draw on her experience as an American Jewish historian and leader of the Reconstructionist movement to reflect on continuities, adjustments, and radical disruptions. Please click on the above event link for registration information.
Come worship with Kol Ami as Rabbi Gilah Langner leads a Shabbat morning Learner's Service on Zoom. We’ll spend an hour exploring Jewish prayer with a "learner's mind" -- using guided meditation, writing, text study, and breakout groups to delve into the heart of our liturgy. In our second hour we’ll delve into the story of the Golden Calf in the Book of Exodus. Anne Salzberg will read a passage from the Torah, we'll examine the rich history of art depicting the story, and we'll explore what impatience is all about. Stay on after services for our tish (table) and enjoy Shabbat lunch together with Rabbi Gilah from your home. Our zoom services are open to the broader community. For more information contact: .
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 1 to 7 as we share greetings, gratitude, prayers, movement, music, and Shabbat joy!! We can’t wait to share Shabbat with you! First time visitors, please click the above event link for registration information.
