Newsletter

LAST CLASS! Exploring Prayer in the Month of Elul
Thursday, September 2 at 9:30 AM

Prayer is not an innate gift or hereditary trait, it is a spiritual skill that, like a muscle or instrument, requires practice, repetition, and discovery. On the Thursdays that lead up to Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Ross Levy will lead via  Facebook  and YouTube Live, a series of live warm-ups for our praying selves, so we don’t go into the HHD cold, but already on the path of reflection, repentance, and an openness to crafting who we wish to be in the coming year.
Watch Previous Session: Axis 1: Vertical  |  Axis 2: Horizontal ​​​​​​​

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Schedule Change
On Friday night September 3, Shabbat services will be online only from our homes. 

And there will be no Saturday AM services on September 4.

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High Holy Days Are Less Than Two Weeks Away!

Registration is now open for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, including extra tickets, sponsorships and Yizkor Scroll of Memory listings.
Please visit kol-ami.org/hhd to make sure you are all-set for the High Holy Days, (Rosh Hashanah is Monday, September 6!)
REGISTER HERE

We have already sent out the links to access Rosh Hashanah services. If you didn't get yours, make sure you have renewed your membership. If you have renewed your membership and did not get your link, contact hhd@kol-ami.org

The deadline for becoming a sponsor or adding names to our Yizkor Scroll of Memory is Sept 2! Time is running out to honor your loved ones’ legacy in our Yizkor Scroll of Memory. This is an opportunity for you to memorialize beloved family and friends who have died. Each individual name entry is a $25 minimum contribution. A full-slide memorial is available for $136 which includes one digital photo. We are able to add your loved one(s) to the Scroll through 12:00 NOON on Thursday, September 2, 2021. The deadline is approaching so it's best to do it today!  Please click here to make sure you're all set for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Family Service
Tuesday, September 7 at 1:00 PM

Open to all families. Register Here 

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Summer Sova Food Drive
SOVA is a nonsectarian program of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles, dedicated to alleviating hunger and poverty in the community through food distribution and offering a wide range of supportive services. Every year in July and August, Congregation Kol Ami joins the effort of helping with food donations. As we go back to in-person service, we ask you to pay your personal tribute toward a world without hunger. Whether you come for Shabbat Service, or every other time you come to temple bring donated groceries to put in the Sova barrels inside the building: Pasta, toiletries, tuna, salmon, peanut and almond butter, canned goods etc. 

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Social Justice Corner
We've all seen the awful images of the unfolding refugee crisis in Afghanistan. Make no mistake, the sitiuation is dire indeed. There are few opportunities for Afghanis to even apply for refugee status at the moment, much less actually get out of the country safely. It's the very early days of what will be a long and challenging time ahead. We're all watching and wondering what we can do to help. In the coming days, weeks, and months, there will be urgent need for the basics of resettlement: housing, mental health care, legal services, etc. We'll be sharing info about organizations in LA that will be doing that work soon.

But right now the greatest need is for advocacy, to get as many endangered Afghans as possible out of the country and into the pipeline for refugee status as quickly as possible. Please ask your legislators to do so. And of course, donating to HIAS, a Kol Ami partner and the oldest Jewish immigrant aid organization in the country, is an obvious step. 

Here is the HIAS "Afghan Crisis -- How You Can Help"  web page with more. Please check back frequently, as it will be updated almost daily.

Upcoming State Assemblymembers Lobby Meetings
District 46 - Adrin Nazarian - Monday 8/30, 4:00pm
REGISTER HERE

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Refuah Shleimah: A Speedy Recovery
We keep the following members in our healing prayers: John Altschul, Sophie Belzberg, 

Richard Bernard, Jeanne Cole, Francine Epstein, Greg Facktor, Paul Morgan Fredrix, Ben Reback, Johanna Schorr, Lowell Selvin, Janene Sneider, Henry Somerfeld, Cathee Weiss

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