On Saturday, March 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),   The service will be held in the Activity Room (Please double check the Directory Listing when you come inside for last minute changes).

The Kol Ami Book Club will meet on Sunday, March 7th to discuss Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb.  We will meet at La Casa Restaurant in the Foxchase Shopping Center in Alexandria.  The address is 4551 Duke Street.  We will meet from 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

All members are welcome.  If you have an interest in this book, please join us.

Weekly Jewish Children's Education Program. 

Join the Kol Amites in a rousing musical Shabbat service. We will sing familiar and new tunes with heart, remembering the example of the active participation of the community building the Tabernacle in the desert in this week's parsha, Vayakhel. Wear some crimson, purple or blue (the colors of the yarns and weavings used and let the spirit move you to sing out from the heart. All movers and shakers (you percussion players know who you are) welcome !!!

Led by Jim North, Don Kraus and Leslie Lesner in the Fellowship Hall.  The service will be held in the Fellowship Hall.(Please double check the Directory Listing when you come inside for last minute changes).

The Arlington Food Bank has served record numbers of people and their inventory is running low.  If you would like to donate chometz (or any food) please bring a bag of food to services.

Weekly Jewish Children's Education Program. 

Come one, come all to this fun, community-wide oriented service led by our always creative Rabbi Gilah Langner. We know Rabbi Langner will engage us in active learning and leave us with new knowledge about Shabbat and the Torah parsha. This service is supported by our grant from the Jewish Federation and is geared to the members of all generations. The service will be held in the Chapel. The Chapel is downstairs on the right of the hallway.  (Check the Directory Listing when you come inside for last minute changes). Please bring something to share for oneg. It will be in Rooms 13-15, across the hall.

Weekly Jewish Children's Education Program. 

Steve Barlas and Mark Weisenbloom will lead the alternative service on Friday, March 26 at Steve's house and will start at 7:30 pm. The address is 3560 N. Nottingham St., Arlington, 22207. The phone number is 703-536-4509.

As Steve says, there will be less service, and more "alternative," with the latter being what we hope will be an interesting discussion about Jewish conceptions of G-d. We will light candles, say the motzi over challah and do the Kiddish. We will do all that first and then launch into our discussion, during which we can snack, if you'd like to bring a nosh; but it isn't necessary. Libations, alcoholic or non, to help fuel the discussion would be fine. There will not be a conventional service. What got me thinking about the topic of G-d was Richard Ruth's tisch a few weeks ago, which focused on praying. That left me wondering: who are we praying to?"

Mark will provide an overview, going back to some of the luminaries of the Tanach. I will give a brief discussion of three more recent and influential philosophers: Maimonides, Mordecai Kaplan (the founder of the Reconstruction movement) and Abraham Joshua Heschel. Our thought--myself and Mark--is that this will be an appetizer for a fuller discussion next year in a new round of Kol Ami adult education classes looking at "Jewish Views of G-d: from Maimonides to Barlas."

Again, my thought is that in discussing the thinkers' views of G-d--and I warn you that those views can get complicated--we can noodle around on our own views, and have an interchange which could be rich and constructive. I will have some handouts that evening.

Please come and celebrate with us the Second Night Community Seder.  It will be from 6:30-9:30pm in the Fellowship Hall.  Please bring a dairy/vegetarian dish to serve 8-12 people, and $5.00 to help Kol Ami offset costs, as this is a pot luck seder.  Please RSVP to Laura Roblut at rotblutl@verizon.net.

 The alternative Shabbat Service for April 2nd is cancelled.