Events
TuB'Shevat Service and Seder -- Celebration of the New Year for trees. Service will be led by Mark G., Ann Metlay, Herb Cooper-Levy.
Tu B'Shevat Seder: Mark your calendary for this specialKabbalat Shabbat service. We will celebrate the holiday of Tu B'Shevat as a part of the Kabbalat Shabbat service. Tu B'Shevat is the Jewish New Year for the Trees, the first budding of trees in Israel. In recent years, it has been observed as a Jewish Environmental Day. This year, in the wake of the Copenhagen Climate Conference, Tu B'Shevat takes on a more special significance.
This participatory service is marked "K" for kids. This will be a family service, designed to appeal to both Kol Ami Kids (Trademark pending) and adults. Kids who want to part of the service, as readers, should contact Ann Metlay.
In the spirit of the Yom Tov, we are asking that Kol Amites bring fruit and nut oriented food for the Oneg.
On Saturday, February 6, Rabbi Leila will lead a Community-Oriented Shabbat services which should be of interest to families with children from age 6 and older, and all our adults as well. It will be a slightly shorter service than our more fully adult-oriented services and will contain lots of singing, a Shabbat service and an interactive “intergenerational” look at the week’s parsha (Torah portion), Yitro, which explores models of leadership and contains (drum roll and trumpet blasts, please....!) THE TEN COMMANDMENTS! Come one, come all!
Weekly Jewish Children's Education Program.
The February 12 Kabbalat Shabbat service will be special and led by Herb Cooper-Levy. Unfortunately Caron Dale can not make it as she is snow bound and we look forward to her coming to us this spring (date to be determined). The service will be held in the Activity Room (Please double check the Directory Listing when you come inside for last minute changes).
Second, while in the secular USA we live in, it will be almost Erev Valentine's Day, the service will introduce Kol Ami to the Jewish Valentine's Day, Tu B'Av. While Tu b'Av doesn't actually fall until the evening of July 25, 2010 this year, we will approach Love as a joyful spiritual experience.
Kol Amites should dress in white for this Kabbalat Shabbat service. We're inviting any Kol Amite to share 1-2 lines about what Love means to them. We'll include all submissions (by email in advance to Herb) in the service.
Oh, and of course, there'll be chocolate!
Service led by Jane Schulman and Carolyn Gray. We shift the Torah portion this week for an adult preparation for Purim. We discuss the events, themes and historical implications of the Book of Esther. We may puzzle over the traditional celebration handed down through the years.
The service will be held in the Activity Room. Please double check the Directory Listing when you come inside for last minute changes.
A one-hour tisch discussion after services (about 1:00-2:00) led by Richard Ruth -- The service will be held in the Activity Room (Please double check the Directory Listing when you come inside for last minute changes).
Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, taught that there are a lot of good ways to be a good Jew. Prayer is one of these. But how do you get started – particularly if traditional Jewish prayers feel alien or alienating?
In this facilitated discussion, we’ll look together at what prayers (traditional and modern) have meant to us; ideas from the Jewish tradition about what prayer can and cannot do; how to respond when a bat kol (an inner voice) seems to be calling you to prayer, and you’re not sure how to respond; and ways to begin making prayers a meaningful and manageable part of daily life.
Whether prayer feels familiar or unfamiliar to you, comfortable or uncomfortable, known or mysterious – come join us for a Shabbat afternoon nosh and discussion. No prior knowledge of Hebrew, Jewish prayer practice, or particular belief about prayers and praying is required – just curiosity and openness to seeing what might happen.
Weekly Jewish Children's Education Program.
