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
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
Rosh Hashanah Eve Monday, September 6 at 6:30 PM Members will recieve a link to the service. Non-members and extra tickets can be purchased here
Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Tuesday, September 7 at 10:00 AM Rosh Hashabah Morning Service 10:00 AM Torah Service 11:30 AM Members will recieve a link to the service. Non-members and extra tickets can be purchased here
Family Service Tuesday, September 7 at 1:00 PM Open to all families. Register Here
Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Wednesday, September 8 at 10:00 AM Members will recieve an link to access the service online. Let us know you come in personhere.
Non-members can purchase in-person ticket and online accesshere .
Shabbat Shuva Friday, September 10 at 6:30 PM
Join Rabbi Eger and Cantor Linsky for the sacred Shabbat Shuva service at Kol Ami. Register here
Tashlich Sunday, September 12 at 10:30 AM at Will Rogers State Beach, Tower 10 two lifeguard towers south of the parking lot entrance at Temescal Canyon Road and PCH.
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.
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.
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
