Shabbat Service Friday, October 7 at 6:30 PM Join Rabbi Ross Z. Levy, Student Rabbi Frankie Salzman, and piano accompanist Lisa Edwards for our services in-person at Kol Ami or online on our Facebook page, YouTube channel, or on thetemple website. To access a free online flipbook of our prayer book Mishkan Tefillah book, click here.
As the gates of Heaven close on another High Holy Days, we give thanks for our Kol Ami Community who came together in love, joy, prayer, and holiness. Thank you to all who participated in our services by reading Torah and Haftarah, a prayer or carried the scrolls.
We thank all of you who gave or made a High Holy day pledge to support our on going work. If you did not and would like to make your gift now. Please click here.
Thank you to our clergy, staff, musicians and production team for their efforts in making this a beautiful holy day season. Our offices will remain closed Thursday, October 6, 2022 to give our staff some much needed rest and will reopen Friday, October 7, 2022 at 10 AM.
Join Congregation Kol Ami as we welcome in the festival of Sukkot with a wonderful Moroccan-themed evening under our sukkah. We are excited to partner with JIMENA, an organization of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, for this event. We'll highlight the history and identity of North African Jewry and enjoy the evening with some backgammon and of course, welcoming in the holiday with kiddush. Dinner is $20 per person. Hope to see you there!
Join the Kol Ami Tzedek Council as we support the Religious Action Center's Every Voice, Every Vote campaign by filling out postcards encouraging people to get out and vote. This meeting will walk you through the steps of filling out voter participation postcards. It's really very easy! If you'd like to go ahead and order your own postcards, click this link
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM We hope you'll join Rabbi Levy this series of adult education classes focusing on the five different megillot (scrolls) that are read over the course of the Jewish holiday calendar. Jews typically read from the book of Ecclesiastes on Sukkot due to its focus on the ephemeral nature of life. As we sit and dine in temporary huts, we are reminded that nothing is truly permanent and that we are all impacted by changing tides and seasons.
This class will dive into the book of Ecclesiastes, perhaps the most existential text in the Hebrew Bible, and discuss its traditional connection with Sukkot as well as how its ancient words speak to us today.
Sunday, October 16, 2022 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Come and join Congregation Kol Ami for a joyous celebration of Simchat Torah!
This will be the final opportunity to enjoy the Kol Ami sukkah as we gather beneath its canopy to celebrate the joy of Torah and community.
To help us lift our hearts and spirits, we are thrilled to welcome back facilitator Diana Lynn Wallace, who will lead us in a drum circle using an assortment of drums, shakers, and other percussion instruments. Everyone will have the opportunity to participate and bring their unique sound to the celebration. We hope to see you there! REGISTER HERE
Meet the candidates for West Hollywood City Council 3 vacancies Moderated by former CBS Los Angeles anchor Elsa Ramon. Co-Sponsored by Congregation Kol Ami and ICAN.
Thursday, October 20, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Join our monthly online lunch & learn here on Zoom! You bring the lunch, Rabbi Eger will bring the learning, just like she would in Downtown LA!
A Monthly Morning Torah Study. Join our monthly Torah study group exploring the weekly portions alongside the traditional Haftarah readings, the prophetic passages that pair with our annual cycle of sacred study. Join us to learn, connect, and engage with the words of our Hebrew prophets alongside Torah itself! No experience required. REGISTER HERE
Saturday, October 22, 2022 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM Our ongoing HIV+ Support Group known as the Kol Amigos. Facilitated by Rabbi Eger, this confidential group is open only to those with HIV/AIDS.
Our Introduction to Judaism® online course will begin next on October 23, 2022. We offer this 18-session course annually for those who want to gain a deeper understanding of Jewish life through a Reform lens.
This course is open to all, and is perfect for interfaith couples, those raising Jewish children, spiritual seekers, individuals pursuing or considering conversion, and Jews who want a meaningful chance to reconnect with their Judaism as an adult.
Topics include: holidays, life cycle celebrations, theology and core beliefs, Hebrew, prayer, the Torah and other sacred texts, history, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Zionism and Israel, the American Jewish experience, and the tapestry of the Jewish people today.
Our classes are dynamic and interactive, and will be taught by Rabbi Denise L. Eger, Rabbi Ross Levy, and Student Rabbi Franklyn Salzman.
For questions about this course, or any of our programs, please feel free to contact us by email to membership@kol-ami.org
Please join temple members Jane Drucker and David Glickman at The Book Circle on October 29th on zoom at 4 PM as we discuss My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his family’s past.
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Autobiography: “A powerful story of the meaning of family and tradition inside a little-known culture” (San Francisco Chronicle).
In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics, gifted storytellers, and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born. REGISTER HERE
Congregation Kol Ami 30th Anniversary Trip to Israel May 30, 2023 - June 7, 2023
Join Rabbi Denise L. Eger on Kol Ami’s 30th anniversary trip to Israel! Explore the homeland of the Jewish people, its ancient history, and Israel’s vibrant modern sights and sounds.
Kol Ami’s friends and family will travel to Israel for an 8-day trip to Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel. Our trip begins in Jerusalem on May 30, 2023, winds our way north to the Galilee, and finally ending in the bustling city of Tel Aviv on June 7, 2023. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
Congregation Kol Ami has adopted a Code of Ethics as a holy, respectful, mindful and safe way of interacting with one another. We join with other Reform Jewish communities dedicated to creating safe and sacred spaces. The Code of Ethics was created by a working Task force of our Board of Trustees, adopted by our Board and subsequently adopted by the congregation at our Annual meeting in June, 2022. You can view the Code of Ethics on our website at here.
Refuah Shleimah: A Speedy Recovery We keep the following members in our healing prayers: John Altschul, Richard Bernard, Marca Gay, Stephen Hochstein, Tim Jordan, Heidi Kebbas, Peter Mackler, Keith Rand, Ivan Rosenberg, Paul Schouten, Lowell Selvin, Miles Senn
Kol Ami requires proof of vaccination including at least one booster for all events for all those eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine. If you are not yet eligible for a booster, you must provide proof a negative test within 24 hrs of the event. While masks are optional at indoor events the Los Angeles County Health Department strongly recommends that you wear a mask indoors. At Kol Ami we are mindful that there are many people who are immune compromised and as an act of loving kindness (Chesed) and compassion (Rachamim) we recommend you wear a mask except when eating or drinking indoors.
To learn more about Kol Ami's COVID-safety policy please click here.
