The Care & Concern/Inclusion Committee is organizing High Holiday Goodie Bags, with sweet treats, along with the distribution of the prayer books and holiday supplements. [...]
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 .
Come join your Kol Ami community for the last Shabbat service of the Jewish year 5781. We’ll complete our personal and spiritual preparation to celebrate [...]
Erev Rosh Hashanah brings us into the High Holidays with a single blast of the shofar and the start of a new year. Led by Rabbi Gilah, Jane Schulman, and Jim North, we will gather on Zoom, joyously welcoming the new year and as we contemplate the words inscribed in our new ark -- Hashmi-ini et koleich /Let me hear your voice. There are so many resonances with the times we live in -- how we make our voices heard, how we hear the voice of the other, especially marginalized communities, and how we open up to allow a loving relationship with the divine in our midst.
For the full schedule of High Holiday services, please click HERE. Please register as early as possible, HERE. Zoom links will be sent out a few days before the service.
Rosh Hashanah begins the new year -- and this year is a Sabbatical or Shmita year, according to the Biblical system. We'll read about it in the Torah and have a panel discussion about what a sabbatical year could mean in our own time. Join us on Zoom for a service with traditional favorites and new poetry and prayers, led by Rabbi Gilah, Herb Levy, Jim North, with participation from our musicians, the Kol Amites.
Let's reconnect and reunite at our first-ever outdoor Tashlich Picnic! We'll meet at 5 pm at Lubber Run Park (200 N Columbus St, Arlington), have [...]
This year, the Sabbath of Return between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur falls on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Join us for Shabbat morning services on Zoom, and a special program and discussion led by Rabbi Bruce Aft, David Siegel, and Rabbi Gilah as we bring together personal memories of what happened 20 years ago with reflections on its long aftermath and the current situation. How do we remember the cataclysmic attack? How do our children think of it? How do we disentangle the harm done to us from the harm and unintended consequences of our own actions in response? Kol Ami is delighted to welcome members from four Northern Virginia congregations for the morning service and/or discussion: Fauquier Jewish Congregation in Warrenton, Beth Shalom Temple in Fredericksburg, Congregation Beth Emeth in Herndon, and Shaare Shalom in Leesburg. Everyone is invited to stay on afterwards for a Zoom lunch and to continue the conversation.
Join Kol Ami for a Yom Kippur morning service led by Rabbi Gilah Langner, Jim North, and Jane Schulman. This service is part of Kol Ami's larger schedule of High Holiday programming. For registration information, please click the above event link.
Join Kol Ami on Zoom for a Yom Kippur morning service led by Rabbi Gilah Langner, Jim North, and Jane Petkofsky. This first hour will offer many of the familiar prayers, including the Al Het confessional and the Great Aleinu. The mix of traditional and modern prayers and melodies will bring us toward teshuvah/introspection and return, with subdued, powerful intention. Our Torah service begins at 11:15; the Torah discussion on "It is Not in Heaven" will be led by Dr. Richard Ruth and our Pizza and Talmud teens. Join us to study and discuss, question and explore.
Join Kol Ami for a Yizkor service and led by Rabbi Gilah Langner, Jim North, Jane Schulman and Debbie Linick. This service is part of Kol Ami's larger schedule of High Holiday programming. For registration information, please click the above event link.
Stay with us during Yom Kippur afternoon for more programs in community. Explore the Book of Jonah with Richard Ruth, from 2:30 to 3:30. "Dipping [...]
At our Neilah service on Zoom, we will tell stories of kindness, forgiving ourselves and others in the closing hours of Yom Kippur. The final blast of the shofar comes at 7:54 pm. Led by Rabbi Gilah Langner, Cameron Tarry, Collette Major, Anna Weber, and Jim North.
This Friday evening at 7:30, we'll welcome Shabbat during the happy harvest festival of Sukkot. The lovely voice and person of Maralyn Farber will join Mike [...]
We'll be outdoors in person at our host place of worship, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington for a celebration of Simchat Torah and the [...]
