eKoleinu Weekly: Jewish Holiday Schedule for 2024/25 Now at kol-ami.org
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July 24, 2024 | eKoleinu | 18 Tammuz 5784
Dear Kol Ami,
I cannot thank you enough for the incredible warm welcome I have received since arriving in July. I want to remind you that I am interested in getting to know each one of you personally. Please do reach out via e-mail or call the office if you would like a coffee date, or a one on one meeting with me. I look forward to learning more about you and your connection to Kol Ami.
This past week I had the blessing of completing an 18 month Fellowship with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. It was amazing to gather at Pearlstone Jewish Retreat Center outside of Baltimore with over 40 Rabbis and Cantors for a week of deep learning, uplifting prayer, and meditation in order to empower us to deepen our spirituality and our communities spiritual offerings. I am deeply grateful to IJS for their incredible training of clergy, the insightful learning, spiritual fellowship offered to us and our communities for ongoing spiritual practice. Over the next year together we will learn more about their incredible offerings which are extended to each of you as well, daily online meditations, weekly free yoga classes, and affinity groups. They also have many opportunities for deeper learning should spirituality be something you care about.
Join us this Friday as we celebrate our last Shabbat with David Kaminski as our accompanist. He’s been joining us for the month of July. Lisa Edwards will join us again in August for Friday night services. Please know that I am experimenting with many different musical and spiritual offerings on Friday nights this summer. So come as much as possible to let me know what feels like a wonderful fit for you and for Congregation Kol Ami. The plan is once we find a groove to offer a variety of Shabbat experiences for all to enjoy.
I cannot wait to see you this Friday night! Please consider this your personal invitation from me to spend Shabbat with Kol Ami. When you come please come introduce yourself to me as well!
Wishes for an early Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Lindy Reznick
Shabbat Service Friday, July 26 | 7:05 PM Join Rabbi Reznick and piano accompanist David Kaminski with music arrangement by Joshua Finkel, in-person at Kol Ami or online on our YouTube channelor on our temple website. Purchase a prayerbook, Mishkan Tefillah, available inprint or inkindle versions.
Book Circle: "The Ritual Bath" Saturday, July 27 | 3:00 PM Dr. Jane Drucker will host a discussion on "The Ritual Bath" by Faye Kellerman. The book centers around an LA detective and a highly religious Jewish woman and the investigation of a horrific crime within an ultra orthodox religious community.Register Here
Bowling with MOKA Sunday, July 28 | 4:00 PM Come bowl with the Men of Kol Ami at Lucky Strike Lanes in Hollywood and maybe join us for a nosh afterwards. Click here for more info
Hollywood Bowl Picnic and Pink Martini Concert Saturday, August 24 | 6:00 PM Join us at the Hollywood Bowl for a picnic and the Pink Martini Concert. The Hollywood Bowl’s favorite globetrotting “little orchestra,” helmed by pianist Thomas Lauderdale, returns to the stage at the start of their 30th anniversary year for big, bold, genre-defying songs that traverse time and geography. Featuring lead singer China Forbes. For more details / Registration
2024/25 Check out the new page on our website with the all the dates for the Jewish holidays in the upcoming year. You can access this page at any time through our website navigation (on the main menu, under "Pray"), as more, richer content will be added about the Jewish holidays all year round.
Membership Directory The Kol Ami Membership Directory is back and is up and running. Participation in the directory is open to Kol Ami members only and is exclusively for those members who opt in to sharing their contact information with other members by submitting the registration form. Your information will not be shared if you do not choose to participate.
Members of Kol Ami already have an account established on our website. Setting up your directory page is a very easy process. You may easily register at
Lost & Found We have a number of items in our Lost and Found in the temple: Green Hat Black Cardigan Various Kippot Various Earrings Two Pairs of Prescription Glasses Collar Chain Clip Black Tallit Case
If you feel that one or more of these items may belong to you, please contact membership@kol-ami.org and we’ll be sure to get your property back to you.
Mazal Tov Mazal Tov to our members who will be celebrating his birthday this week: David Levy (TODAY! July 24), David Wexler (July 27), Marty Handman (July 28) and Sophie Bennett Belzberg (July 30)!
Share your happy news with the community! Send your simchas for eKoleinu to Adam at membership@kol-ami.org
