CALENDAR
Tuesday, June 2nd
Moroccan Craft Lantern
Night with JIMENA
POSTPONED UNTIL AUGUST 3RD.
Friday, June 3rd
6:45 PM
Early Shabbat Services with Rabbi Denise Eger and
Student Rabbi Jeremy
Gimbel
Sunday, June 5th 8:30 AM Last SOVA Volunteer day at La Brea Location! Sunday, June 5th 2:30 PM Sunday, June 5th 3 PM Vox Femina presents VOX Rocks WeHo Free Community Concert at Kol Ami RSVPTuesday, June 7th 6:30 PM Minyan Rotation Tuesday, June 7th 7:30 PM Conversations with Rabbi featuring Avi Issacharoff on Palestinian Affairs RSVP Friday, June 10th 8:00 PM Gay Pride Shabbat Services with Rabbi Denise Eger and Student Rabbi Jeremy Gimbel Saturday, June 11th 10:00 AM Torah Study Saturday, June 11th 12:15 PM HIV+ Shabbat Lunch Saturday, June 11th 8:00 PM Community Shavuot at Stephen S. Wise Temple Sunday, June 12th 9:30 AM
Shavuot Yizkor Service at Kol Ami with Rabbi Denise Eger
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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 note that all Saturday Morning Shabbats are canceled moving forward until further notice.
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Please keep the following people in your prayers:
Jeannette Kaufman
Steve Reissman
Tom Royer
Lowell Selvin
Michael Silverman
Max Snow
Cathee Weiss
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Condolences to Keith Rand and his family on the death of Keith's beloved aunt, Sandy Ashkenazi.
Condolences to Jerry Primack and his family on the death of Jerry's beloved mother, Ann Primack.
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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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FORMAL NOTIFICATION
KOL AMI MEMBERS ONLY
This is a formal notification
advising Kol Ami members that elections and the
Annual Congregational Meeting will be held on:
Thursday, June 23
at 7:00 PM
at Kol Ami,
1200 N. La Brea Ave
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Early Registration for the 2016-2017 Religious School Year at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills is now open!
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Kol Ami has partnered with Benefit as a fundraising tool!
Benefit is a free iPhone or Android phone app that can be used to pay for your everyday purchases.
- You can pay online or at the store.
- Up to 27% of your purchase goes directly back to Kol Ami.
- Retailers include Whole Foods, Amazon, Target, Starbucks, and many more!
Download the app and add Kol Ami as your beneficiary to start giving. Find more information in the app or at www.benefit-
mobile.com. Feel free to share this news with family and friends. The more people who participate, the more funds we will raise!
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Once again, a college campus shooting causes death and chaos in the halls of academia. This morning on the campus of UCLA in Westwood, Los Angeles, CA a violent murder-suicide took place. Two men are dead. The reasons we do not yet know. But even in a state with some of the strictest gun control laws, gun violence happens all too often.
Our hearts grieve for the dead and their families who will forever be changed by these senseless deaths. Our hearts go out to the thousands of Bruins, students, Professors, Teachers, and staff who were locked down on campus during the violence. Thank you to all the first responders including the LAPD, LAFD and FBI and Campus Police who worked so quickly to find the shooter and his victim and clear the campus. Tomorrow is June 2nd, National Gun Violence Prevention Day. The events at UCLA today are a sad reminder that our country has a long way to go to prevent gun violence. I will be wearing orange (#WearOrange) tomorrow as a sign of solidarity for all the victims of gun violence and with the nationwide effort to say it is time to challenge the NRA's policy of blocking any and all reforms to reduce gun violence in our country. As a rabbi, I am sure that the wanton use of guns to perpetrate such violence is not what the Bible intended. I prefer to teach "Love your neighbor as yourself" as my guide for ethical living. I hope you will join me in wearing orange on June 2nd and living out that moral demand - to love your neighbor as yourself. #WearOrange
- Rabbi Denise L. Eger
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Join us for this momentous opportunity to learn the facts from someone who's been on the ground, reporting the real stories in the on-going Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Rabbi Eger is proud to have such an prestigious scholar and journalist sitting across from her in this newest installment of the "Conversations with the Rabbi" series.
Avi Issacharoff is the Times of Israel's Middle East analyst. Until 2012, he was a reporter and commentator on Arab affairs for the Haaretz newspaper. He also lectures on modern Palestinian history at Tel Aviv University.
A fluent Arabic speaker, Avi was the Middle East Affairs correspondent for Israeli Public Radio covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Iraq and the Arab countries between the years 2003-2006.
With Amos Harel, he wrote "The Seventh War - How we won and why we lost the war with the Palestinians" which the Institute for Strategic Studies awarded for containing the best research on security affairs in Israel. Their second book, entitled "34 Days - The Story of the Second Lebanon War," won the same prize.
Free to all but RSVP requested.
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Divine Election: A Shavuot Experience
June 11th, 2016 at 8 PM
Stephen Wise Temple
15500 Stephen S. Wise Drive
Los Angeles, CA 9007
On Saturday evening, June 11 at 8 PM, you can stand once again on Mount Sinai. Join seven congregations and seven clergy teams to explore the meaning of Shavuot, the message of Mount Sinai, and what revelation can mean to us in our lives.
Hear different perspectives on this seminal memory and transformative experience. Enjoy the rich music of our tradition blended with the voices of our cantors. End the evening with socializing and the traditional slice of sinfully good cheesecake!
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A Free Community Concert at Kol Ami on June 5th at 3 PM!
Rock out with Vox Femina! Featuring music from rock legends to indie rock to top of pop. We'll sing and jam to the music of David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Adele, Lady Gaga, Indigo Girls and many other artists.
Get your groove on as you experience VOX like never before!
This concert is offered free to the public, but RSVP is requested.
This performance is made possible in part by a grant from The City of West Hollywood, City Arts Project
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This event has been postponed until August 3rd, 2016.
Registration is currently on hold and will re-open in July. Please stay tuned for this incredible program. We're excited to work with JIMENA to produce events that teach us about the arts and culture of Jewish communities throughout the world.
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The Final Kol Ami SOVA Volunteer day at the La Brea Location!
June 5th, 2016
8:30 AM to 12 Noon
On June 15, 2016, JFS{ SOVA Community Food and Resource Program will close its service location at 1140 N. La Brea Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90038.
Beginning July 5, JFS{ SOVA will offer expanded days and hours of operation at its service location at 8846 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035 (near the corner of Robertson Blvd.) and at 16439 Vanowen Street, Van Nuys, CA 91406 (near the corner of Hayvenhurst St.).
Effective July 5, the schedule at both of these sites will be:
o Monday through Thursday - 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
o Sundays - 9 a.m. to 12 noon
The current Community Connections services including legal support by Bet Tzedek, employment assistance by Jewish Vocational Service, and benefits enrollment by Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services will continue at both locations with an expanded schedule at the Pico location.
JFS social workers are available on-site every day except Sunday at both locations.
For additional information or answers to questions, please call the JFS{ SOVA office. Phone 818-988-7682.
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Habitat for Humanity's Jewish Coalition
Friday is the annual Hollywood for Habitat build day. Sixteen years ago, Randall Wallace, screenwriter of Braveheart and director of Heaven is for Real, wanted a way to rally the those in the entertainment industry together for at least one day a year to give back to help build hope and homes. It has since turned into an annual event bringing thousands across the city together to transform the lives of hundreds. If you are interested, you can register for this build day!
And Saturday is our annual Power Women, Power Tools build day, also in Inglewood! Join Habitat for Humanity as they put on the hardhats and rally LA's Power Women together for a day of service! Register for this build day!
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Honor two of music's top song writers at a live performance of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical!
Long time Kol Ami member, Allan Rich, and his writing partner, Jud Friedman, are Kol Ami's first ever recipients of the Allan Rich Award for Exemplary Achievement in the Arts and Humanities. Their 25-year career filled with massive hits and numerous awards is a lasting example of modern Jewish artistic brilliance.
We'll be honoring Allan and Jud at the Pantages Theater! Treat yourself to this new Broadway hit, a gorgeous reception at the theater and an inspiring award ceremony. Kick off your summer with this revolutionary event that honors Jewish contributions to our most beloved art forms!
Individual Tickets:
$95 tickets offered in the Far Left Mezzanine
$160 tickets offered in the Left and Right Mezzanines
$195 tickets offered in the Center Mezzanine or Left or Right Orchestras
Ticket Packages:
$600: 2 tickets in the Center Mezzanine and 2 Beautiful: The Carole King Musical souvenirs
$1200: 2 tickets in the Left or Right Orchestras, 2 Beautiful: The Carole King Musical souvenirs and a half page ad printed in the Tribute Journal
$1800: 4 tickets in the Left or Right Orchestras, 4 Beautiful: The Carole King Musical souvenirs and a full page ad printed in the Tribute Journal
Tribute Journal Ads:
$75: Name Listing
$150: Quarter Page
$350: Half Page
$550: Full Page
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Dates: June 20 - 29, 2017
Price for double occupancy: $3,840
Price for single occupancy: $4,640
Deadline to register by is February 21st, 2017.
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Kol Ami's Guatemala Mission trip is right around the corner! Our volunteers set off on June 10th and will be in Guatemala until June 19th. We want to hit our goal of $5,500 before they leave in order to send them with the largest donation possible and we're 50% of the way there!
The funds raised will provide for the children living in Guatemala, paying for housing, education and medical treatments.
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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