July 29, 2015 
13 Av

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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

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!

Sunday, 
August 9th, 2015
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Kol Ami Volunteering at SOVA Group 1

Tuesday, 
August 11th, 2015
7:00 PM
Pillar 3 Meeting

Thursday, 
August 13th, 2015
7:00 PM
Pillar 1 Meeting

Friday, 
August 14th, 2015
8:00 PM
Shabbat Services with Jeremy Gimbel

Sunday, 
August 16th, 2015
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Kol Ami Volunteering at SOVA Group 2
Refuah Schlemah
 
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

New! 

The Synagogue Village


 

Currently being developed - the first inter-congregational neighborhood-based Village network in LA; it will be built on a foundation of Jewish values and community. 


 

This venture brings congregations together to create a participatory, intentional community that has the resources, talents, and services to enable Village members to age-in-place.  


 

We are creating a faith-based cooperative community, bridging our individual homes with a network of programs and services designed to support and enrich one another.  


 

Details to come soon!

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 [email protected] or 323-606-0996. 

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.   
Rabbi Eger Online 
 
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Or follow Kol Ami on Twitter @KolAmiLA 


 

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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: [email protected] 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
  

Join us in September for the High Holy Days - remembering Kol Ami is the place that can help renew you, that sacred community, kehilah kedosha, where we can cry and laugh, question and find answers, live and love.


I invite you to begin again. We are almost at the beginning of the New Year, and there is the potential of a new you. It is a season of renewal and reinvention. As we join together to reinvent ourselves, let's join together to reinvent the Jewish future. Let's return home, to Kol Ami, and let it be the hope of sustenance for you and for me.


Our theme for this year's High Holy Day services is "A New Voice Rising." The New Year is a chance to realize a new you; stronger, better, more clear-headed, more joyous, poised to succeed. As we take this opportunity to create our best selves, together, we can achieve a better, less broken, world.


 

Erev Rosh Hashanah and Day One  

Japanese American Cultural & Community Center | 244 S. San Pedro Street

Evening Service - Sunday, September 13, 2015 at 8:00 pm

Morning Service - Monday, September 14, 2015 at 10:00 am

Family Service - Monday, September 14, 2015 at 10:30 am


Rosh Hashanah Day Two  

Kol Ami | 1200 North La Brea Avenue

Morning Service - Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 10:30 am


Kol Nidre  

Harmony Gold Theater | 7655 Sunset Boulevard

Kol Nidre - Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 8:00 pm


Yom Kippur Morning

Harmony Gold Theater | 7655 Sunset Boulevard

Morning Service/Yizkor - Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 10:00 am

Family Service - Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 10:30 am

12 Step Meeting - Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Following Services

 

Yom Kippur Afternoon  

Kol Ami | 1200 North La Brea Avenue

Torah Study - Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 2:15 pm

Afternoon Service/Neilah - Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 3:30 pm 

  
High Holiday Ticket and Response forms will be mailed out by the end of the week. Online forms are now available on our website!  


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 High Holy Day prayer book can be purchased for $42 and picked up at will call at the High Holy Days, or at Kol Ami. Loaner prayer books will not be available at the High Holy Day services, please be prepared and purchase your prayer book today! Order online, call the office at 323-606-0996 or email Kelsi at [email protected].


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 American 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 for the trip: November 18th, 2015. A $450 deposit per person is required. 
More information and the itinerary can be found on our website!


  

Monday, August 3| Dessert Reception 7:30 pm | Program 8:00 pm

Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, Belle Chapel, 300 N. Clark Drive Beverly Hills


Speakers: Stosh Cotler, CEO, Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice 

Jay Sanderson, President, Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles 

Moderated by: Erik Ludwig, Director, Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management at Hebrew Union College  


RSVP to Amanda Price, (213) 765-2117 or [email protected] by Friday, July 31.