Shabbat Shulchan We are back on track this month as we come together at 6 p.m. this Friday, January 17, at All Souls, to make Shabbos with our monthly Shabbat Shulchan. Come for informal worship along with our Seudah, our festive Shabbat dinner. For those attending, please RSVP by clicking here.
Community Event
‘Knead a Night Out’ Jewish Federation's Women's Philanthropy hosts an evening of braiding challah and painting Shabbat candles at 7 p.m. Thursday, February 6, at the Jewish Community campus (5801 West 115th Street) Also enjoy sweet and savory challah-dipping boards and beverages. Tickets, for those 18 and older, cost $36 per person and include two challot and a set of shabbat candles to take home. Learn more or register — by Monday, February 3 — by clicking here.
Kol Ami News
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Facebook: Kol Ami — KC's Urban Jewish Community Yahrzeits This Week January 16 Bell Finkel – great-grandmother of Rebecca Hollister
January 17 Milton Karp – grandfather of Ellen Karp
We Wish Mi Shebeirach A complete healing of mind, body and spirit:
Robert Clinton Kenneth Dantzler Alan Dietchman Renée Dietchman Judy Krugman Yale Krugman Carol Ann Parker Steve Sackin Micha ben Sarah Jean Shifrin Melvin Michael Slater Serena Verden
If you would like a name to continue to be listed or if you have a new name to include, please send an email to healing@kolamikc.org.
Rabbi's Week in Review
I officiated at a wedding this past week in Boca Raton, Florida, a place known for the snowbirds it attracts, many from the Jewish community in the New York tri-state area. It would not have been my first choice, a place that has been referred to as “G-d’s waiting room.” While technically I could be considered to have reached retirement age, I still feel like my job as rabbi is relatively new, and I look forward to many years ahead of ... Click here to read the rest of Rabbi Doug's blog post.
This Week's Torah Portion Parashat Shemot (Shemot/Exodus 1:1-6:1)
This week we begin the Book of Shemot, the Book of Exodus. This story we tell — our enslavement, our status as strangers, and our redemption from bondage — is our guide for how we live as Jews in the world. As we live our own stories, let us honor the stories of others, their struggles and their striving toward redemption, toward a better world. _______________________ Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday, January 20
"We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience." — The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, March 25, 1965
Upcoming Kol Ami Events
Book Club Kol Ami’s book club is back and meets at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 2. The first book will be Temim Fruchter's debut novel, City of Laughter, a story “spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years.” Email haleycferguson@gmail.comwith questions or for more information.
Mah Jongg Club Kol Ami's Mah Jongg Club meets two Monday evenings a month at 7 p.m. Interested in playing? Emailoffice@kolamikc.org.
Happy Hour at Upcycle Piano Craft Mark your calendar for each first Tuesday of the month at Upcycle Piano Craft’s happy hour. David Watson’s large ensemble performs Tuesday, February 4, 4:30-7:30 p.m. RSVP to engagement@kolamikc.org.
Our mailing address is: Congregation Kol Ami 4501 Walnut Street ℅ All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church Kansas City, MO 64111
