Calendar
Friday,
July 24th, 2015
8:00 PM
Shabbat Services with Student Rabbi Jeremy Gimbel
Saturday,
July 25th, 2015
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Joint congregational observance of Tisha B'Av at Leo Baeck Temple
Thursday,
July 30th, 2015
7:00 PM
Game Night at Triangle
Square
Thursday,
July 30th, 2015
5:30 PM
LGBT Meet and Greet with LA City Councilmember,
Mitch O'Farrell at Paramount Theater Lobby 555 Melrose Ave.
Friday,
July 31st, 2015
8:00 PM
Shabbat Services with Nancy Cohen
Saturday,
August 1st, 2015
11 AM to 1 PM
Friday,
August 7th, 2015
6:45 PM
Early Shabbat Services with Rabbi Denise Eger
Saturday,
August 8th, 2015
10:00 AM
Torah Study
Saturday,
August 8th, 2015
12:00 PM
HIV+ Shabbat Lunch
Sunday,
August 9th, 2015
2:00 PM to 7:00 PM
MOKA Annual Pool Party at a private Beverly Hills home!
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Please keep the following people in your prayers:
Marilyn Ader
Marlene Bram
Brian Garfield
Margie Haber
Jeannette Kaufman
Jack Levin
Steve Reissman
Judy Rosenberg
Tom Royer
Henry Schaumberg
Lowell Selvin
Edie Siteman
Bob Weiner
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| Religious School will be on summer break until Sunday, August 30th, 2015. |
 The Kol Ami Mitzvah Corps is available to visit you at home or in the hospital, bring a hot meal or run an errand. Call the office at 323-606-0996 and you'll be contacted with-in 48 hours by one of our Corps members.
If you are interested in joining the Mitzvah
Corps please contact Kelsi at kcopeland@kol-ami.org or 323-606-0996.
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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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ATTENTION: Kol Ami is now volunteering at SOVA twice a month! Starting August 1st, we will be having volunteer groups on two Sundays a month, the second Sunday (our usual time) and now also the third Sunday of every month! We're excited to be offering this new opportunity for you to be involved in healing hunger.
August 9th (Usual Second Sunday Meeting)
8:30 AM - 12 PM at 1140 N. La Brea
August 16th (New Meeting Time!)
8:30 AM - 12 PM at 1140 N. La Brea
Please email Ed Casson at: ecasson@gmail.com 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.
This month's most needed donation items:
peanut butter
cold cereal
canned pasta
oil
coffee and tea
soap (liquid or bar)
razors
toothbrushes
toothpaste
deodorant
shampoo & conditioner
lotion
feminine products
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Transforming the World Using Jewish Values
We strive to be the leading temple for civil rights and social justice, connecting through mitzvah and members being engaged in their community using Jewish values. Kol Ami, as part of the Reform Jewish community, values social justice action/tikkun olam as an essential part of our identity.
As the Religious Action Center (RAC) reminds us, "To be a Reform Jew is to hear the voice of the prophets in our head; to be engaged in the ongoing work of tikkun olam; to strive to improve the world in which we live; to be God's partners in standing up for the voiceless and fixing what is broken in our society." Economic Justice is an integral part of healing the world today. We invite you to engage in the issues regarding raising the minimum wage.
July 24th marks the six-year anniversary of the last federal minimum wage increase. Paid $7.25/hour, a full-time worker makes barely $15,000 a year - literally below the poverty line. U.S. Senator Patty Murray (WA) and Representative Robert "Bobby" Scott (VA) introduced the Raise the Wage Act this year, which would gradually raise the minimum wage to $12 by 2020. Stand with 35 million workers by calling on Congress to pass the Raise the Wage Act now! |
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Reform congregations from throughout Los Angeles County will join together to observe Tisha B'Av, the 9th day of the month of Av. Tisha B'Av commemorates of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and is a day that has been tied to many terrible moments of destruction for the Jewish people throughout our history.
Today, we seek to understand our broken communities, the rifts between neighbors, and the destruction that we face daily, through this same lens. We do this not just to commemorate destruction, but to commit ourselves to acting in partnership with one another to repair and rebuild that which has been destroyed.
Join us for an evening of havdallah, study, prayer, chanting from the Lamentations, and a chance to connect with one another to imagine together a more just and compassionate California and a world redeemed. There will be a Text Study with the esteemed Dean of Hebrew Union College's LA Campus, Dr. Joshua Holo and a Service led by many Reform CA clergy and lay leaders.
All are welcome - bring your friends and family!
Please RSVP to Rabbi Joel Simonds at rabbisimonds@unisyn.org
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The Reform Movement's new prayer book for the High Holy Days, Mishkan HaNefesh, includes such innovative features as:
- fully transliterated liturgy
- study texts that provide background and context
- contemporary poetry
- new translations that capture the beauty of the Hebrew
- original woodblock art by acclaimed artist Joel Shapiro
- and essays by the leading Reform Movement thinkers
The new prayer book can be purchased for $42 and picked up at will call at the High Holy Days or at our temple. Loaner prayer books will not be available at the High Holy Days, please be prepared and purchase your prayer book today! Call the office at 323-606-0996 or email Kelsi at kcopeland@kol-ami.org.
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Travel to Cuba with Kol Ami and witness the timelessness, the beauty, the culture - before it's too late! We're excited to be partnering with Temple Beth Hillel for this one time opportunity to see a pristine Cuba before global markets bring about modernization and change. We'll be spending eight days and seven nights between gorgeous Havana and the bay in Cienfuegos exploring culture, food, music, architecture and Cuba's small but, tenacious and vibrant Jewish community.
Find out what you need to know at our Cuba Trip Informational Meeting! Tuesday, August 18th, 2015 7 PM At our temple at 1200 N. La Brea
Trip dates: April 12th through April 20th, 2016
Deadline to register: November 18th, 2015. A $450 deposit per person is required. |
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