This Saturday: Lunch Bag Assembly! | Next Week: Lunch n Learn with Special Guest & Gender and Judaism Class
03/08/2023 04:01:15 PM
Mar8
Author
Date Added
Automatically create summary
Summary
March 8, 2023 * eKoleinu * 15 Adar 5783
Shabbat Services Friday, March 10 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 YouTube channel, on thetemple website, or on ourFacebook page. To purchase a prayerbook, Mishkan Tefillah, available in print or in kindle version click here.
Survey deadline has been extended Please complete your community survey by Friday, March 10.Your voice is needed for the planning of Kol Ami’s future. Click here for the survey.
Lunch n Learn With Special Guest Speaker: Alden Solovy
Thursday, March 16, 2023 12:00 PM
Join our monthly online lunch & learn here on Zoom! You bring the lunch, Rabbi Eger will bring the learning!
This month we'll welcome Poet-Liturgist Alden Solovy, who will read from his new book – These Words: Poetic Midrash on the Language of Torah – and will explore the Torah learning behind several of the poems. These Words focuses on 70 powerful words from Torah, which serve as the basis for 70 unique poems exploring the world of meaning contained within them. Alden will also talk about his process to create the book and will take your questions.
Shabbat Scholar in Residence Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal with Lunch
Saturday, April 1, 2023 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal is a scholar of rabbinic Judaism. Her work focuses on aspects of Jewish-Christian interactions in the ancient world, and compares early Christian and rabbinic sources. She is a faculty member at the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and she was an elected member of the Israel Young Academy of Sciences. During the 2022-2023 academic year, she is the Horace Goldsmith Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies at Yale University. Her first book is Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud (Cambridge University Press, 2013; winner of the 2014 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award). Her second book is Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretic Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud (Cambridge University Press, 2019; finalist, National Jewish Book Award, 2019).
Lunch is included. Please register by Thursday, March 30th at noon. REGISTER HERE
Tzedek Council Lunch Bag Assembly for Hollywood Food Coalition
Saturday, March 11, 2023 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Join the Tzedek Council of Kol Ami as we continue our support of the Hollywood Food Coalition by assembling lunch bags for their Sunday lunch distribution program. This is a special opportunity to fulfill the Purim mitzvah of matanot laevyonim (gifts for those in need)!
We made just over 500 lunch bags to be distributed across LA during our last event in January and we're hoping to keep up those numbers! We'll provide the materials so all we ask is that you show up ready to help support this important cause!
Wednesday, March 22 and 29, 2023 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Join Student Rabbi Frankie Salzman for a two-session exploration of gender.
In what ways did the early rabbis understand gender? What rabbinic stories challenge the idea of gender being binary? How do contemporary Jewish thinkers approach the topic of gender? Discuss these questions and investigate your own relationship to gender using Judaism as a guide.
This is open to everyone interested in learning, reflecting, and growing.
Queering Passover with Rabbi Denise Eger. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event
Thursday, March 30, 2023 1:00 PM Rabbi Denise Eger's phenomenal CLGS Jewish Queeries Series presentation on Queering Hanukah generated so much positive feedback that she has agreed to present a mini-series on queering Purim, Pesach, and Shavuot.
The second lecture/discussion in this series will feature a queer approach to Passover.
Please join the Men of Kol Ami (MOKA) for a GAME NIGHT
at a West Hollywood Residence Saturday, March 25, 2023 7:00 PM
Feel free to bring a favorite Game and Your Own Beer or Wine. Non-alcoholic beverages, snacks, and dessert will be served. MOKA welcomes self-identified males and non-binary individuals of all ages. A portion of the charge for each event goes to the MOKA fund which helps perform tzedakah by funding charities and supporting the Congregation.
$15 Kol Ami Members $20 Non Kol Ami Members
Address and parking information will be emailed to confirmed attendees prior to event Please register by Wednesday, March 22, 2023 REGISTER HERE
Special Exhibit: Auschwitz: Not Long Ago and Not Far Away
Sunday, April 16, 2023 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
In observance of Yom HaShoa, join Rabbi Eger and Rabbi Levy for a visit to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to see the special exhibit: Auschwitz: Not Long Ago and Not Far Away. The only West Coast exhibit of its kind. For the first time in history, this Auschwitz exhibition, co-produced by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Spanish company Musealia, is traveling to the Reagan Library to show an extraordinary collection of more than 700 original artifacts of inestimable historic and human value, that bears direct witness to one of the darkest chapters of humankind.
Kol Ami has reserved 18 tickets for Sunday, April 16, 2023, at 1:00 PM. The price of the ticket is a special group rate of $28 a person. This price includes the special audio headset. REGISTER HERE
Rabbi Levy will join Rabbi Micah Greenstein and Rabbi Jeff Dreifus this July as Assistant Rabbi at Temple Israel of Memphis, where he will return “home” to Tennessee.
Join us on Friday, May 26, for a special Shabbat service and oneg celebrating him for all that he has done for our congregation! We wish him well and all the best on his new journey!
Dear Kol Ami Community, In recent days our ReOpening Task Force who has guided our congregation through the Covid crisis met. The committee members, Dr. Neil Romanoff, Neal Zaslavsky, Dr. Lilia Lukowsky, Rabbis Eger and Levy and our Interim Executive Director, Devorah Servi, revised our Covid protocols based on the current situation. Effective immediately 1) We will no longer check vaccinations cards and, 2) We can resume serving food inside.
That said, the committee strongly encourages all members and guests to get the latest available vaccines and boosters including the latest bivalent booster.
Indoor masks are at the discretion of the individual at this time. As we are constantly monitoring the situation in LA County, we will continue to revise our policies based upon the recommendations and guidance of the Los Angeles County Health Department and our ReOpening Task Force on an as needed basis as it is our desire to keep our community as healthy as possible.
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, Dr. Aaron Aronow, Heidi Kebbas, Addie Lelyveld, Cantor Patti Linksy, Peter Mackler, Keith Rand, Ivan Rosenberg, Richard Ross, Lowell Selvin, Miles Senn, Karen Shanbrom, Doug Workman
