Newsletter

Join us online for Shabbat services this Friday, September 11 at 6:30 PM led by Rabbi Denise L. Eger, Rabbi Max Chaiken, and accompanist Lisa Edwards. You can participate in services on our website, our FaceBook page, and our YouTube channel.  For an updated, online prayer book, click here. 

This week's streaming Shabbat services are being sponsored by Carol Kravetz and Iris Weil in honor of their upcoming wedding!
You can sponsor a service or program in honor or in memory of someone by clicking here.

Join us for our Virtual Oneg on Friday at 7:30 PM following Friday night services! Join here.

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Selichot, Forgiveness and the Great Honey Cake Bake-Off Challenge

Saturday Sept. 12, 7:00 PM  ​​​​​​​
Do you have all of the ingredients for the Great Honey Cake Bake-Off Challenge? See recipe by clicking here, and register to join us by clicking here today!

The High Holiday season begins this Saturday at 7:00 PM with Rabbi Denise L. Eger and Rabbi Max Chaiken leading Havdalah and then Chef Julia Rhoton will teach us how to make the best Rosh Hashanah Honey Cake ever. Chef Julia will take us step-by-step through this amazing online baking experience. While we are baking our honey cakes, we will have time to reflect on the Journey of the Heart toward the New Year, forgiveness and sing together the traditional Selichot prayers. Register here.

The High Holy Days season is almost here! We look forward to beginning 5781 together, our Jewish New Year. This year we will do so by taking A Journey of the Heart. These will be the most unique High Holy Days of our lives as we celebrate online. While we cannot travel physically to be together, we can, and we will, take the journey through the Holy Days together - to lift our spirits, renew our souls, and open our hearts wide to forgiveness, love, and hope.

There is still time for you to become a sponsor, purchase additional tickets at a discounted members-only rate, and honor your loved ones' memory with a gift to our Yizkor Scroll of Memory.

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Can't find your hard copy of our High Holy Day Machzor (prayerbook)? CCAR Press is offering a 20% discount on Mishkan HaNefesh: Machzor for the Days of Awe. Purchase your own print books using code MHN2020. Discounted Kindle ebooks are also available. See all High Holy Day resources. 

We are excited to see you in person at our Tashlich at the Beach. Come to Will Rogers State Beach on Sunday, September 20 at 3:00 PM for our first socially-distant, in-person event of the New Year as we observe Tashlich together! Rabbi Eger and Rabbi Chaiken will greet you at Tower 10, just two lifeguard towers south of the parking lot entrance at Temescal Canyon Road and PCH. For more information, click here.

We're also trying a new way of safely gathering in-person for prayer in the new year! On the first day of Sukkot, Saturday October 3 at 10:00 AM, we will conduct our Shabbat awakening service from our Sukkah, using our parking lot as our prayer space! This service will be a hybrid experience, and will still be streamed online to our Facebook page, YouTube channel, and our synagogue website for those who are not able to join us in person. For those interested in attending in person, reservations are required, and you can click here to register!

Morning Music & Mindfulness with Rabbi Max Chaiken

Thursday, Sept. 10, 9:30 AM

Join Rabbi Chaiken on our Facebook page or our YouTube channel.

Join our Tzedek (Justice) Council THIS Sunday,
September 13th at 1:00pm on ZOOM
to Combat Voter Suppression and Make a Difference as Election Day Nears!

Even if you do not have a post card kit, please join us as we share opportunities to make a difference leading up to the November Election as we raise our voice to Get Out The Vote (GOTV)! We'll have info about Get Out the Vote efforts, phone banks, becoming a poll-worker and more. You'll also hear about upcoming election related programs, including a virtual West Hollywood City Council Candidate Forum on September 16th, and joining our partners at RAC-CA on Oct 6th for a virtual discussion about Prop 15. Click here join us in our justice efforts THIS Sunday and in the year to come!

West Hollywood City Council Candidate Forum

Wednesday, September 16, 5:00 PM
Please join us for a special West Hollywood City Council Candidate Forum: a Community Dialogue on Dignity, Justice, and Tolerance; hosted by ICAN, the Israeli-American Civic Action Network, and Congregation Kol Ami, West Hollywood’s Reform Synagogue. Register here.

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Rabbi Eger was featured in an article for ShoutOutLA this week! Check it out here.

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Read Rabbi Chaiken's Torah Commentary published this week on ReformJudaism.org! "Facing Mortality and Choosing Life"

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Support Kol Ami with every Amazon and Ralphs purchase!

Click here to find out how.

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Your clergy and staff across the Los Angeles Jewish community are committed to supporting our entire community even when we cannot be close to each other physically. Social distancing does not mean social isolation. This website contains a compilation of resources, activities, and media in order for you and your children to remain connected to Jewish community and Torah during this challenging time.

The Kol Ami Mitzvah Corps is available to visit you at home or in the hospital, bring a hot meal or run an errand. Call the office at 323-606-0996 and you'll be contacted within 48 hours by one of our Corps members.  If you are interested in joining the Mitzvah Corps, please contact the office at  323-606-0996 or email us . 

Congregation Kol Ami
1200 N La Brea
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90038