Care and Concern/Inclusion Committee

The Care & Concern/Inclusion Committee facilitates support to Kol Ami members experiencing life challenges, such as illness, disability, grief, death, and loneliness. Support includes:

• Maintaining the congregation’s Yahrzeit list
• Maintaining the congregation’s Healing list
• Providing a  resource guide for social services
• Providing suggestions for most effectively helping others in need
• Supporting Shiva services. See When Someone Dies – Kol Ami Guide
• In partnership with Ritual Committee, organizing an annual healing service
• Ensuring that services and community activities are fully inclusive and welcoming to members and guests
• Other services such as visits and help for community members who are ill or unable to leave their home and sending cards and flowers as appropriate.

The Care & Concern and Tikkun Olam Committees have stepped up their activities significantly during this period of social distancing. To learn more, visit Caring Goes Virtual.

In honor and recognition of the chairs who have with great care and constant concern led our efforts to provide solace and support in the congregation:

Rayna Aylward & Toni Popkin, co-chairs (2019-Present)
Rayna Aylward (2018 – 2019)
Harriet Epstein (2015 – 2017)
Janice Cooper-Levy (z”l), our founding chairperson whose warmth and kindness are never forgotten (2013 – 2015)