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March 26, 2023 * eKoleinu * 6 Nisan 5783
Shabbat Services Friday, March 31 at 6:30 PM Join Rabbi Denise L. Eger, Rabbi Ross Z. Levy, Piano Accompanist Lisa Edwards, and guest speaker, Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal 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.
Passover Spiritual Spring Cleaning: Let's Make Art About It!
Sunday, March 26, 2023 3:00 PM- 5:00 PM
In the days and weeks leading up to Passover, Jews around the world scour their homes for every bit of chametz they can find and remove. As we prepare this year, we hope you'll join us for a special art making program of "spiritual spring cleaning" as we check in with ourselves and seek out the inner chametz that might be lurking within our hearts and souls.
Join Rabbi Levy and Interim Director Devorah Servi for an afternoon of text study, art making, journaling, and reflection. All materials will be provided and no art or text study experience is necessary!
Join Rabbi Eger and Rabbi Levy in celebration of the holiday of freedom. Join us as we tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt. Our glatt kosher for Pesach Seder meal will cost $85 per person for Members and $95 per person for Non-Members ($36 for children 12 and under).
Make your reservation today to celebrate Rabbi Eger and Rabbi Levy's last Passover Seder at Kol Ami! Seating is limited!
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
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.
Join Rabbi Levy for the final installment of his series of adult education classes focusing on the five megillot (scrolls) Jews read over the course of the holiday calendar. This series will conclude with a class focusing on the Song of Songs (Shir HaShirim), the Bible's preeminent book of love poetry, which is traditionally read during the days of Passover. We'll explore the vivid imagery and sensual language of the Song of Songs, and the ways that our ancient ancestors grappled with this intimate and very human element of our sacred tradition.
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 6 more reserved 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
J’Accuse Movie Showing Yom Hashoa, Holocaust Memorial Day
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM In observance of Yom Hashoa, Holocaust Memorial Day, Kol Ami will host and co-sponsor with the Israel Civic Action Network a showing of the award-winning movie J’accuse by Michael Kretzmer. The film is about Holocaust denial in Lithuania and features Kol Ami's friend, Grant Gochin, and his efforts to confront the Lithuanian government.
If you were unable to attend and missed last week's Lunch n Learn with special guest speaker Alden Solovy, you can view the class on YouTubehere. CCAR Press is offering a special 20% discount on "These Words: Poetic Midrash on the Language of Torah." Order your copy at http://thesewords.ccarpress.org and use the promo code 20WORDS at checkout. Valid through Monday, April 24.
“There’s a place for us” at the Hollywood Bowl this summer! You’ll be in good “Company” as we watch “Everybody Rise! A Sondheim Celebration” together under the stars. This family-friendly picnic and concert will be open to the entire Kol Ami community - bring a friend! Tickets go on sale the first week of May at Kol-Ami.org.
Refuah Shleimah: A Speedy Recovery We keep the following members in our healing prayers: John Altschul, Dr. Aaron Aronow, Roberta Bennett, Heidi Kebbas, Addie Lelyveld, Peter Mackler, Keith Rand, Ivan Rosenberg, Richard Ross, Lowell Selvin, Miles Senn, Karen Shanbrom, Isabelle Simental-Starr, Doug Workman
