Calendar
Thursday,
April 23rd, 2015
7:00 PM
Intro to Judaism with Rabbi Sabine Meyer
Friday,
April 24th, 2015
8:00 PM
Celebrate Israel's Independence day at Shabbat Services with Rabbi Eger and Jeremy Gimbel
Sunday,
April 26th, 2015
9:00 AM
Religious School is in session at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills
Thursday, April 30th, 2015 7:00 PM Game Night at Triangle Square Thursday, April 30th, 2015 7:00 PM Intro to Judaism with Rabbi Sabine Meyer Thursday, April 30th, 2015 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Friday, May 1st, 2015 6:45 PM Shabbat Refuah: a service of healing and hope with Jeremy Gimbel Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 9:00 AM Religious School in session at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 7:30 PM Free Screening of the film, LETTER TO ANITA with director Andrea Meyerson here for in person Q&A Tuesday, May 5th, 2015 7:00 PM Pillar 1 Meeting Engaged Community Interwoven with Each Other
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Please keep the following people in your prayers:
Marilyn Ader
Marlene Bram
Brian Garfield
Margie Haber
Jeannette Kaufman
Jack Levin
Tom Royer
Lowell Selvin
Edie Siteman
Bob Weiner
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| Religious School will meet Sunday, April 26th at 9 AM at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills. |
 You too, can easily volunteer at SOVA!
Kol Ami meets at SOVA the 2nd Sunday of
each month.
Our next meeting is:
May 10th
8:30 AM - 12 PM at 1140 N. La Brea
Please email
Ed Casson at:
if you are interested in volunteering.
Thank you, and remember, SOVA is here to serve you if you are in need. Visit their website atjfsla.org/sova. |
If you are unable to make it to Services and would still like to join us for worship, you can.
for Friday night services, and enjoy the spiritual experience of Kol Ami at home.
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Rabbi Eger Online
 Have you visited Rabbi Eger's blog recently? There are new posts regularly, so be sure to visit often.
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Happy Birthday Israel!
Tonight we begin the celebration of Yom Haatzmaut, Israel's 67th Independence Day. Happy Birthday Israel! It was 67 years ago that the modern State of Israel was born. But it was really a rebirth of our ancient nation state, reborn after 2000 years!
The Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel reads:
THE DECLARATION: ERETZ-ISRAEL (the Land of Israel) was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books.
After being forcibly exiled from their land, the people kept faith with it throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and for the restoration in it of their political freedom.
Impelled by this historic and traditional attachment, Jews strove in every successive generation to re-establish themselves in their ancient homeland. In recent decades they returned in their masses. Pioneers, ma'pilim (immigrants coming to Eretz-Israel in defiance of restrictive legislation) and defenders, they made deserts bloom...
Continue reading on Rabbi Eger's blog
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Kol Ami is extremely proud to announce that we will be honoring Tobi Rosen and Tara Eisner and Jeff Seymour as the recipients of the 2015 Shomer Tzedek "Guardian of Justice" Award.
 Kol Ami honors Jeffrey A. Seymour for his long-time charitable work, his support of the Jewish community, especially the Hebrew Union College, his service on a number of public and private boards and committees and his impressive professional achievements. Seymour co-founded the California Coalition for Public Higher Education and West Hollywood Library Foundation's Board of Directors. He has also founded Seymour Consulting Group (SCG), a governmental relations firm specializing in areas of planning, zoning and land use consulting as well as public policy analysis and ordinance studies.
 We are so proud to honor Tobi Rosen and Tara Eisner for their decades of service and dedication to Kol Ami and the larger Jewish community as well as for their beautiful example of family. Tara has devoted her career to nobly caring for hundreds of seniors ensuring their personal welfare and has served on numerous boards in the Jewish community. Tobi has served on the Kol Ami Board for eight years. During that tenure, she has chaired our Professional Practices Committee, worked on many of our galas and silent auctions and has been a regular in our annual Purim Schpiels. They are devoted mothers and grandmothers and long-time members of our congregation.
Tobi Rosen and Tara Eisner and Jeffrey Seymour will be honored at our "A Supreme Evening" Gala. Featuring Mary Wilson of The Supremes
May 31st, 2015
6:30 PM to 10:30 PM
At the Edison in Downtown Los Angeles
108 W 2nd St #101, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Individual tickets ($350), sponsorship opportunities and Tribute Journal ads are now available online. Please contact us with any questions at 323-606-0996.
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As part of Kalsman Institute's annual Jewish Wisdom and Wellness Festival, Kol Ami is hosting Queer Bodies, Queer Text and Rockin' LGBTQ Identities.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Congregation Kol Ami
1200 N. La Brea Ave., West Hollywood, CA
Free and open to the public
Taught by Merissa Nathan Gerson, Queer Bodies, Queer Text and Rockin' LGBTQ Identities will explore wellness practices that emerge from classic Jewish texts and speak directly to the LGBTQ way of being in this world.
See how Jewish wisdom affirms queer gender expression and sexual orientation through poetry, prayer, and practice. We will help the Torah leave the closet behind! Wellness practices from classic Jewish sources for the LGBTQ & Ally Jewish community. This exciting event is a collaboration between JQ International and Congregation Kol Ami. Bring your whole self, your curiosity, comfy clothes and get playful.
RSVP to Kelsi at kcopeland@kol-ami.org or call 323-606-0996.
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Join us Sunday, May 3rd at 7:30 PM for a free screening of LETTER TO ANITA followed by a Q&A with filmmaker, Andrea Meyerson.
Anita Bryant, a former Miss America pageant contestant, was the spokeswoman for the Florida Citrus Commission in the late 1970s when she began a highly visible anti-gay campaign disingenuously called "Save Our Children." Ronni Sanlo, a married mother of two, had denied her true self for years. When she finally acknowledged that she was a lesbian and asked her husband for a divorce, he responded by taking advantage of anti-gay laws and denying Ronni custody of their son and daughter -an injustice that propelled Ronni into a life of LGBT activism.
In this heart-wrenching documentary, award-winning filmmaker Andrea Meyerson explores the painful legacy of singer Anita Bryant's infamous anti-gay campaign of the late 1970s. Narrated by Emmy-nominated actress Meredith Baxter, LETTER TO ANITA is a fascinating look at a tumultuous period in American society. The film reveals what ultimately happened to Ronni's children, to Anita Bryant's own family, and to Ronni herself. With jaw-dropping archival footage, interviews with Ronni and her son, and the first on-camera interview with Anita Bryant's son Robert Green, LETTER TO ANITA paints a riveting portrait of what anti-gay discrimination can do to families-and how its destructive power can ultimately backfire on itself.
Check out the film's website for more information. RSVP online or call 323-606-0996.
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"Impressive . . . Soffer's style is natural and assured." -Meg Wolitzer, All Things Considered, NPR
Lorca spends her life poring over cookbooks to earn the love of her distracted mother, a chef, who is now packing her off to boarding school. Desperate to prove herself, Lorca resolves to track down the recipe for her mother's ideal meal. She signs up for cooking lessons from Victoria, an Iraqi-Jewish immigrant profoundly shaken by her husband's death. Soon these two women develop a deeper bond while their concoctions- cardamom pistachio cookies, baklava, and masgouf-bake in Victoria's kitchen. But their individual endeavors force a reckoning with the past, the future, and the truth-whatever it might be.
In Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots, we see how food sustains not just our bodies, but our hopes as well. "Bukra fil mish mish," the Arabic saying goes, "Tomorrow, apricots may bloom."
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ONLY 8 DAYS LEFT TO VOTE!
ARZA: Representing Reform Judaism urgently needs your vote! Voting closes on April 30th, 2015.
Today we should fight for something that is worth fighting for: and that is Israel. The soul of the Jewish State is at stake here, and if we don't fight, if we don't rise up and make our voices count, a great deal could be lost." - Rabbi Josh Weinberg
Read Rabbi Josh Weinberg's complete blogpost, Counting the Days and Making Days Count.
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