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 .
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.
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!!
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 .
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.
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 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 .
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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 .