CALENDAR
Thursday, March 17th, 6:30 PM Purim Rehearsal at Kol Ami
Friday, March 18th
8:00 PM
Shabbat Services with Rabbi Eger and Student Rabbi Jeremy Gimbel
Sunday,
March 20th
No Religious School in session.
Sunday,
March 20th
10:00 AM
Intro to Judaism with Rabbi Sabine Meyer
Sunday,
March 20th
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Purim Rehearsal!!
Tuesday,
March 22nd
6:30 PM
Minyan Rotation
Tuesday,
March 22nd
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Final Purim Rehearsal!!
Friday,
March 25th
7:00 PM
Purim Shabbat Service and Megillah Reading with Rabbi Eger and Student Rabbis Jeremy Gimbel and Michael Shefrin
Saturday,
March 26th
5:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Classic Hollywood Gala!
Sunday,
March 27th
Religious School is not in Session.
Sunday,
March 27th
10:00 AM
Intro to Judaism with Rabbi Sabine Meyer
Tuesday,
March 29th
6:30 PM
Minyan Rotation
Thursday,
March 31st
7:30 PM
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We are excited to debut a new online webcasting system! You can participate in the community and services even if you're out of town or just can't make it to the synagogue.
The new system is a significant improvement in both audio and video quality over our previous system, so if you haven't seen the new broadcast, you haven't seen us. Click here to watch live.
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Please keep the following people in your prayers:
Marilyn Ader
Brian Garfield
Jeannette Kaufman
Ben Reback
Steve Reissman
Ivan Rosenberg
Tom Royer
Henry Schaumberg
Lowell Selvin
Michael Silverman
Edie Siteman
Max Snow
Cathee Weiss
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 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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April 10th
8:30 AM - 12 PM
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
cooking oil
coffee and tea
soap (liquid or bar)
razors
toothbrushes
toothpaste
deodorant
shampoo & conditioner
lotion
feminine products
canned tuna
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 We can't wait for our Purim Shpiel this year!
As always, we're proud of the performers who make it so much fun. And we're very proud of the song adaptions that our Musical Director, Jeremy Gimbel has put together.
This show is going to be A-MAZ-ING and we don't want you to miss it! Since it starts at 7 PM with our Shabbat service, you can watch the live stream from home if you're unable to be here in person.
If you are here, at 7 PM, in person, then you'll get to enjoy the hamantashen, the jokes, the music, and the people. It's going to be so much fun!!
Did we mention it starts at 7 PM?
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Pull up to a beautiful home in the distinguished 90210 zip code, throw your keys to the waiting valet and stride up our red carpet to be photographed with Marilyn Monroe herself! Your night has only just begun!
Our Classic Hollywood themed gala will be a party to remember with live, "vintage celebrity" entertainment, a brass quintet and piano player, passed hor d'oeuvres, a full sit down dinner and open bar, plus prizes for those with the best Classic Hollywood costumes!
Kol Ami's masquerade gala will be taking place at Don Klein's Beverly Hills home on March 26th, 2016 from 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM.
We are so proud to be honoring Michael Becker and Marilyn Ader, PhD! Don't be the one to miss this incredible evening!
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Kol Ami presents a free screening of HAVANA CURVEBALL
Thursday, March 31st at 7:30 PM
This heart-warming coming-of-age story tells of an ordinary American teenager who faces extraordinary challenges when he decides his Bar Mitzvah service project will be donating equipment to young baseball players in Cuba.This beautifully lensed film takes viewers on a deeply felt journey that shows just how difficult and complex it can be to do a simple good deed.
As Kol Ami prepares for its congregational mission trip to Cuba, the story of a young Jewish man who only wants to help, but finds out how surprisingly difficult that can be is an eye-opening opportunity for discussion and discovery.
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Havdalah is a brief ceremony but, an important one because it brings an end to Shabbat with a transition to a new week full of potential and blessings.
Join us as we transition to a new week together with prayers and singing.
Our Havdalah Potluck will be Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 6:00 p.m., at a members home in Studio City.
NO Shellfish or Pork, please. This is limited to 20 people because of space.
Please call Debbie Futrowsky at 310.210-7977 to reserve your spot, let us know what you are bringing and to receive details of the location.
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Registration is now open!
We're so excited to be exploring all the different aspects of ourselves that make us simultaneously unique and similar. Our memories, our passions, our families - the experiences that make up who we are as individuals also come together to make up the fabric our communal Jewish identity.
This weekend will be full of laughter, music, art, food, friendship and faith. It will feature an optional activity to work with local artist, Isaac Brynjegard Bialik. Through art, we'll discuss community and express our unique statement about what makes Kol Ami so special.
Retreat Dates: May 20th to 22nd at Brandeis-Bardin Campus in Simi Valley
Single Occupancy: $425
Double Occupany: $325
Price includes all planned programming, lodging for two nights, meals (Dinner Friday night thru Breakfast Sunday morning) and snacks.
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Congregation Kol Ami needs your help to raise funds for the children living in Guatemala. Funds that pay for housing, education and medical treatments. On our annual mission trip, our members have met families that have touched their hearts. These connections remained top of the mind throughout the year.
Imagine building a home for a family to provide shelter and safety.
Imagine a child walking again with the aid of prostheses and a young girl smiling for the first time after surgery for a cleft palate.
Imagine sponsoring an entire year of education for more than a dozen children.
It is our goal to return this year with the ability to make an even larger impact than before. Donate to our Tikkun Olam service trip and help us improve the Lives of the Children in Guatemala
Our goal is to raise $5,500. and with your help this great mitzvah is possible.
Give now to be the lasting difference in a child's life.
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Building a Greater Los Angeles
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles is FINALLY building homes in Culver City!
Join us on March 30th from 10:00am-11:00am to celebrate this tremendous partnership and find out what ways your synagogue or Jewish institution can get involved in this project.
We are so excited to be finally be building homes in West LA and are really hoping that our Jewish partners will come together to support us in our efforts to address the poverty housing crisis here in LA. And, as you may already know, this is truly a crisis.
With the market here in LA being so unaffordable, and with funds for affordable homes in Los Angeles having been cut by half a billion dollars since 2008, many families are forced to live in substandard housing. Habitat attempts to combat this by building safe, decent, and affordable homes for low-income families in need.
These ten homes in Culver City are just one part of our Building a Greater Los Angeles Campaign, where will be investing $100 million over the next five years to serve 1,000 families in cities such as Inglewood, South LA, Culver City, and Long Beach.
RSVP by March 25th to events@habitatla.org.
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