Our community yearns to learn about tefillah. To deepen our understanding of Jewish prayer, we are launching Tefillah Notes as an ongoing initiative this February. Each week, someone in our community will choose a particular prayer or psalm from the Shabbat morning service, explore it, and then put together Tefillah Notes with commentaries that will allow all of us to consider that prayer from multiple perspectives (you'll fill in a straightforward online form to set it all up). We'll collect the Tefillah Notes online and distribute them in shul, so all of us will have the opportunity to learn each week (look for the Tefillah Notes corner in the weekly email). With the new addition of a tefillah section to our library (take a look, and remember: library use only!), any one of us can put together a source sheet or deepen our own learning on the liturgy we say together every week. We hope you'll join this initiative- by picking up the Tefillah Notes to read or by volunteering to create one (or more!) yourself. Want to learn more? Or get involved? E-mail Ann Silver and Jonathan Ehrlich at tefillahnotes@beth-jacob.org.

The Tefillah Notes page at Beth-Jacob.org is now up;

The venerable Kol Ya'akov has gotten a facelift, and should have already arrived in your home! The current issue is also always available at Beth-Jacob.org/KY (bookmark it now!), or via the link in the top right section of each week's e-mail (such as this one).

The move to a pared-down, streamlined, monthly print newsletter is designed to help get the Beth Jacob info you want into your hands in a more timley manner. We will be refining the format in the coming months; let us know what you think by taking the super-short survey at Beth-Jacob.org/NewKY!