Kol Ami — The Northern Virginia Reconstructionist Community

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Sunday Virtual Minyan
May 30, 2021    
9:00 am - 9:45 am
Join us for online minyan as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community.
Pizza and Talmud
May 30, 2021    
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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 .
31 May
May 31, 2021    
8:30 am - 9:15 am
We invite you to join us online as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community. Our minyan [...]
Wednesday Virtual Minyan
June 2, 2021    
8:30 am - 9:15 am
Join us for online minyan as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community.
Friday Virtual Minyan
June 4, 2021    
8:30 am - 9:15 am
Join us for online minyan as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community.
05 Jun
June 5, 2021    
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Join Morah Andrea Cate two Saturdays each month for song, worship, movement, teaching moments, and ruach (spirit!) aimed at sparking the joy of Shabbat in our next generation.  Shabbat is a gift that we are given each week.  Come celebrate Shabbat joy and traditions with our Kol Ami community!  Perfect for young ones age 1-7 and their loving adults. We have returned to in person Tot Shabbat programming at an outdoor venue with pandemic precautions in place. Click the above link for more information.
Mincha Bat Mitzvah of Ava DeCourcey
June 5, 2021    
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Join us for an afternoon service as we celebrate the Bat Mitzvah of Ava DeCourcey.  
Sunday Virtual Minyan
June 6, 2021    
9:00 am - 9:45 am
Join us for online minyan as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community.
Annual Meeting & Celebration
June 6, 2021    
4:30 pm - 6:15 pm
Annual Congregational Meeting. Members are invited to come vote on next year's budget and leadership slate; as well as hear an update about what we know (and don't know) about plans to "reopen." It won't be the same without you so please save the date!!
Jewish Children's Education Program
June 6, 2021    
5:00 pm - 6:30 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
June 6, 2021    
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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 .
07 Jun
June 7, 2021    
8:30 am - 9:15 am
We invite you to join us online as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community. Our minyan [...]
Wednesday Virtual Minyan
June 9, 2021    
8:30 am - 9:15 am
Join us for online minyan as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community.
Friday Virtual Minyan
June 11, 2021    
8:30 am - 9:15 am
Join us for online minyan as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community.
Pride Shabbat
June 12, 2021    
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
June is LGBT Pride Month. It marks the anniversary of the 1969 uprising at New York City's Stonewall Inn, an event that galvanized the modern LGBT liberation movement. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people declared we would no longer be ashamed of who we were, and would live with pride This year, Kol Ami will have its Second Annual Pride Shabbat. We invite all members of our community, LGBT and allies, young and old, to join together for this special Shabbat service. We will sing, pray, study the Torah, and celebrate being a Jewish community where all of us, whoever we are, feel welcome and can live with pride. Our rabbi emerita, Leila Gal Berner, will be appearing on video as our guest speaker. Visitors are welcome- Click the above Zoom link for registration information.
Sunday Virtual Minyan
June 13, 2021    
9:00 am - 9:45 am
Join us for online minyan as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community.
The Future of American Judaism w/guest speaker Ron Kampeas
June 13, 2021    
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Join Kol Ami for a provocative discussion about the future of American Judaism featuring guest speaker Ron Kampeas, Washington Bureau Chief, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA).  His discussion will talk about trends in Jewish voting. The Democratic-Republican split in the community for decades has been 75 percent voting Democratic and 25 percent voting Republican, with some variations. Democrats are endeavoring to keep the majority of what they see as a key voting bloc, and Republicans want to make inroads. How might those numbers change in coming years?
Pizza and Talmud
June 13, 2021    
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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 .
14 Jun
June 14, 2021    
8:30 am - 9:15 am
We invite you to join us online as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community. Our minyan [...]
Wednesday Virtual Minyan
June 16, 2021    
8:30 am - 9:15 am
Join us for online minyan as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community.
Friday Virtual Minyan
June 18, 2021    
8:30 am - 9:15 am
Join us for online minyan as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community.
Shabbat Morning Service led by Herb Levy
June 19, 2021    
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Shabbat morning services will be led by Herb Levy and Yonah Levy. Yonah Levy teaches mindfulness and meditation, is a whole-life coach and workplace wellness consultant. This service will blend familiar Shabbat singing with guided meditation as we wrestle with the conundrum of the red heifer in this week's parsha. Click the above link to access the service program.
19 Jun
June 19, 2021    
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Join Morah Andrea Cate two Saturdays each month for song, worship, movement, teaching moments, and ruach (spirit!) aimed at sparking the joy of Shabbat in our next generation.  Shabbat is a gift that we are given each week.  Come celebrate Shabbat joy and traditions with our Kol Ami community!  Perfect for young ones age 1-7 and their loving adults. We have returned to in person Tot Shabbat programming at an outdoor venue with pandemic precautions in place. Click the above link for more information.
Sunday Virtual Minyan
June 20, 2021    
9:00 am - 9:45 am
Join us for online minyan as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community.
Pizza and Talmud
June 20, 2021    
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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 .
21 Jun
June 21, 2021    
8:30 am - 9:15 am
We invite you to join us online as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community. Our minyan [...]
Wednesday Virtual Minyan
June 23, 2021    
8:30 am - 9:15 am
Join us for online minyan as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community.
Friday Virtual Minyan
June 25, 2021    
8:30 am - 9:15 am
Join us for online minyan as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community.
Shabbat Morning Service led by Rabbi Gilah Langner
June 26, 2021    
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Join Rabbi Gilah for a Shabbat morning service celebrating Famous One-Liners!  Parashaht Balak has the most famous of them all – Mah tovu ohalecha Yaakov / How goodly are your tents, Jacob, your dwelling places, Israel.  We’ll be featuring the world Shabbat premiere of a new melody for the Yotzer Ohr blessing, composed by Nathan Wright.  Come join us for this special moment, and for a tribute to Nate’s many contributions to Kol Ami, before he heads off to college.  You’re encouraged to bring other favorite one-liners as well – sometimes one line is the jumping off point for a spiritual journey of the heart.
Sunday Virtual Minyan
June 27, 2021    
9:00 am - 9:45 am
Join us for online minyan as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community.
Pizza and Talmud
June 27, 2021    
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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 .
28 Jun
June 28, 2021    
8:30 am - 9:15 am
We invite you to join us online as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community. Our minyan [...]
Wednesday Virtual Minyan
June 30, 2021    
8:30 am - 9:15 am
Join us for online minyan as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community.
Friday Virtual Minyan
July 2, 2021    
8:30 am - 9:15 am
Join us for online minyan as we get the day off to an inspiring start with prayer, blessing, and spiritual community.
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