Calendar
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
7:00 PM Intro to Judaism
7:00 PM Board of Trustees Meeting
Thursday, September 18, 2014
6:30 PM Israel - WeHo HIV/AIDS Task Force
Friday, September 19, 2014
8:00 PM Shabbat Services with Rabbi Eger and Cantor Saltzman. Special guest Rabbi Jonathan Klein
Saturday, September 20, 2014
7:00 PM Selichot program at temple
Sunday, September 21, 2014
6:00 PM Adult Hebrew Class
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Refuah Schlemah
Please keep the following people in your prayers:
Paul Morgan Fredrix
Jeannette Kaufman
Allison Knapp
Rick Leed
Tom Royer
Jules Selvin
Lowell Selvin
Edie Siteman
Bob Weiner
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Margie Haber and Susan (Roberts) Haber on your wedding last weekend.
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Welcome New Members
Stacy Orbach
Leonard Selig
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NEW KOL AMI GRIEF GROUP FORMING
Kol Ami will be offering a grief support group for anyone who has lost a loved one. If you have experienced a recent loss or have grief that has not diminished with the passing of time, sometimes called unattended grief, this group is for you.
Temple member Larry Levi will be the facilitator; he trained at Our House, a grief support center in West LA, and co-led grief support groups at that facility for three years. Additionally, he has worked as a volunteer specialist at Camp Erin, a grief support camp for children sponsored by Our House.
Larry is a licensed psychotherapist, but this support group is not group therapy and is not a substitute for therapy - although that can be beneficial when one is grieving. The philosophy of this group, derived from the Our House philosophy is three-fold: it helps to share grief in healing ways; it is important to ask for help from others; it is beneficial to honor and maintain a loving connection to the memory of the person who died.
Please RSVP to Larry at 310.492.5005. This group is free for Kol Ami members, $25/meeting for non-members (no one will be turned away due to lack of funds). The group will meet at Kol Ami monthly for 6 months, on the first Tuesday of the month from 8-9:30pm, starting October 7th.
For more information:
http://www.ourhouse-grief.org/
http://www.larrylevi.net/grief/
http://www.larrylevi.net/blog/
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SOVA High Holiday
The High Holiday Food Drive supporting JFS {SOVA Community Food and Resource Program will take place between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Hunger and food insecurity affect nearly two million people in the Los Angeles area alone. The overwhelming size of the problem necessitates a meaningful response from all of us. Currently, JFS {Sova is distributing over three million pounds of food annually. Each of the nearly 12,000 individuals coming to SOVA's pantries each month leaves with nearly 25 pounds of food. If you donated the equivalient of two full grocery bags this year, your tzedakah would feed one person for a week. On behalf of JFS{SOVA and our synagogue we thank you for your generosity. Together we can make a difference.
Please pick up a bag at our Rosh Hashanah services this year and return it back to us full on Yom Kippur.
PLEASE JOIN US
Kol Ami will be meeting at SOVA the 2nd Sunday of each month.
NEXT DATE: Sunday September 14, 2014 8:30 AM - NOON LOCATION:
1140 N. La Brea
West Hollywood, 90038
(1 block south of the synagogue)
if you are interested in joining us or for other volunteer opportunities at SOVA.
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PLEASE remember to bring food and personal items every time you come to the temple.
HELP US REFILL OUR BARRELS
SOVA needs disposable razors, canned pasta, canned soup and peanut butter. Please pick some of these on your next shopping trip to donate to SOVA.
PLEASE JOIN US
Kol Ami will be meeting at SOVA the 2nd Sunday of each month.
NEXT DATE: Sunday October 12, 2014 8:30 AM - NOON LOCATION:
1140 N. La Brea
West Hollywood, 90038
(1 block south of the synagogue)
if you are interested in joining us or for other volunteer opportunities at SOVA.
Thank you and remember, SOVA is here to serve you if you are in need. For more information, please visit their website at: jfsla.org/sova
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Greetings!
We look forward to celebrating this year with
 everyone! There is still time to get your tickets, become an Oneg and or/ flower sponsor, or honor a loved one with an inclusion in the Yizkor book. Please call the office at 323/606-0996 for these or other questions.
Join us to kick off the High Holy Day season with Selichot this Saturday night, September 20, with a great "Nite at the Improv." We will explore themes of Selichot through improvisation, the Biblical stories of the High Holy Days creating our own modern Midrash.
It begins with Havdallah at 7 p.m. at Kol Ami; services are at 9:15 on the rooftop. |
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The Universal and Particular 
Next week we will be observing Rosh Hashanah. I look forward to greeting each of you at our magnificent High Holy Day services at the Artani Theatre at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) in Little Tokyo, Downtown Los Angeles. Our New Year's observances are different than many other cultures. Most are big celebration with fireworks, parties of wild abandon and some even parades. Our New Year begins with introspection and culminates at Yom Kippur, our day of atonement. Our ancestors recognized that if we are going to really start afresh in a New Year that we cannot bring the hurts, grudges, resentments, sins, and impurities with us into a new calendar.
These two holy days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur work hand in hand. They rely on one another. Rosh Hashanah, the celebration of creation has with it an emphasis on universalism. Its themes are a celebration of human dignity for all people. Yom Kippur, ten days later focuses on the individual, on the particular. It is a time of rebirth for the individual person who at the close of the gates of Heaven at Neilah, can now enter the New Year as a new you! You can't have one without the other because... [read more]
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Please join us for Shabbat Services this Friday, September 19, 2014 at 8:00.
Rabbi Eger and Cantor Saltzman will be leading services with Special Guest Rabbi Jonathan Klein.
Rabbi Klein will speak about animal cruelty and Kapparot He is the executive director of CLUE - Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice and a leader in the protests against the custom of Kapparot--which promotes animal cruelty. His timely sermon will educate us and teach us what we can do to stop this Jewish practice.
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Rabbi Jonathan Klein
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PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR BEAUTIFUL HIGH HOLY DAY SERVICES AGAIN THIS YEAR AT THE JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES.*
Please make sure you have renewed your membership so that your tickets will arrive on time. If you would like to order more tickets you can purchase them online here or in the mail. Please check our website for times and prices Erev Rosh Hashanah Wednesday, September 24, 2014 at 8PM
Rosh Hashanah Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 10AM
Kol Nidre Friday, October 3, 2014 at 8PM
Yom Kippur Saturday, October 4, 2014 at 10AM
We will be home at Kol Ami for 2nd Day Rosh Hashanah and Healing/Neilah Services. |
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TASHLICH
Tashlich will be held immediately after Rosh Hashanah services on Thursday, September 25 at McCarthur Park (as held last year) gathering in the NW corner - to be led by Reva Solomon and Jane Drucker. Everyone is invited to grab a bite to eat after (self pay) at Langers Deli just down the street (as in past years).
From the JACCC Take San Pedro Street to 5th Street make a right. E. 5th Street becomes W. 6th park is on the left.
Directions will also be available at services.
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You can still sign up
RELIGIOUS SCHOOL
at Temple Emanuel
Beverly Hills
Kol Ami is once again teaming up with Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills for our wonderful joint Religious School.
Please remember - your Kol Ami membership dues must be current when registering for religious school. We look forward to seeing everybody back this Sunday. |
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Religious School
This Sunday
September 21 at 9:00 AM
Temple Emanuel
Beverly Hills
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Westside Synagogue Collaborative
Hartman Lecture Series
Please note: Kol Ami is a co-sponsor - these lectures are free for Kol Ami members
Inside, Outside, In Between:
Jewish Peoplehood Today
What does it really mean to be a member of the Jewish community today? What are the core principles and commitments that come with being a member of the Jewish people? How significant are the ties that bind us together, and how does peoplehood rank in the hierarchy of Jewish values?
These questions, and others, are topics the Jewish community of the Los Angeles will explore as the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America partners with synagogues across the Westside for a cross-denominational lecture series. The Hartman Westside Synagogue Collaborative Lecture Series will feature senior scholars of the Hartman Institute addressing core ideas of contemporary Jewish life such as:
- Loyalty: How do we balance between loyalty to ourselves and our communities, and obligations to others?
- Boundaries: Who are the people in the "peoplehood?" How should we be thinking about inclusion, boundary-crossing, and belonging?
- Nation: What is the relationship between people and land?
- Family: How significant are the ties that bind us together, and how does peoplehood rank in the hierarchy of Jewish values?
- Presence: What does peoplehood look like in the public sphere?
- Values: What are the core principles and commitments that come with being a member of the Jewish people?
Series dates: November 2, 2014; December 14, 2014; January 11, 2015; February 8, 2015; March 8, 2015; April 19, 2015.
There is no registration fee for Kol Ami members. Please CLICK HERE for more information and to register. |
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Rabbi Eger Online!
Did you know Rabbi Eger has her own personal blog?
There are new posts regularly, so be sure to visit often. Click Here to start reading.
 You can also follow Rabbi Eger on Twitter@deniseeger or follow Kol Ami @KolAmiLA
 Also don't forget to check into Kol Ami on Foursquare the next time you're at Temple! Check out our loyalty special! Click Here |
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Read Rabbi Eger's sermons online at
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If you are unable to make it to Services and would still like to join us for worship, you can.
Please connect here for Friday night Services, and enjoy the spiritual experience of Kol Ami at home.
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