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Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16)
Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben, Ph.D.
Imagine how scary it must have been for our ancestors in Egypt that night. Imagine what they must have been thinking as they watched one plague after another strike the land - from blood flowing in the rivers to frogs and lice overrunning the countryside, to animals dying all around them, from a sudden outbreak of boils to out-of-season thunder and hail in the midst of spring to a plague of locusts swarming in, and over, and under everything.
And if that wasn’t scary enough, this week’s portion begins with the terrifying plague of darkness that covered the land. There is a reason that nearly all of us at one time or another in our lives are afraid of the dark. After all, the very creation of the universe itself begins in our sacred Torah texts as the emergence of light out of the darkness, order out of the chaos of the infinite cosmos.
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Wednesday, February 1
10:00 AM - Noon
Judy Zeidler returns to teach us some basics as well as new ideas for Shabbat dinner. We'll learn how to make homemade hallah and more!
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Monday, February 6, 7:00 PM at KI
Please join us for a screening and discussion of this important documentary.
Click here for more information and to RSVP.
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Tuesdays 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Jan. 24, Feb. 7, Feb. 21, Mar. 13, 2012
Step back from the passion and politics and learn about history.
Israel is an integral part of our lives. No country in the world that elicits more passionate views. To put these in context, join us for this extraordinary opportunity to learn from UCLA’s world-class scholars. These sessions will cover the history of the State of Israel starting from the early Zionist period (1870) to the present.
Click here for more information and to RSVP.
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Sunday, February 12, 9:00-Noon
at Lake Balboa Park
Celebrate Tu Bishvat by caring for nearly 200 trees planted around a beautiful lake over the past 3 years in this picturesque Van Nuys park. We will be mulching, weeding and watering to give these trees a Happy New Year!
To sign up for this event please contact Jody Norris at jodynorris@me.com.
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Led by Rabbi Bernstein
February 24-26
at the Embassy Suites Mandalay Beach
Hotel & Resort, Oxnard
Revive your body.
Refresh your mind.
Recharge your soul.
Breathe!
For more information contact Matt Davidson at matt.davidson@kehillatisrael.org or call 424.214.7454.
Click here to RSVP.
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Join Rabbi Reuben, Rabbi Bernstein, Cantor Frenkel, and fellow KI congregants for the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. on March 4-6, 2012. This is a unique opportunity to hear heads of state, attend workshops on the most pressing issues of the day, and participate as a pro-Israel citizen activist lobbying members of Congress about issues affecting the US and Israel.
A limited number of half-price registrations are available (on a first-come, first-served basis) to KI congregants who will be attending the AIPAC Policy Conference for the first time. Sign up now to attend a series of pre-conference events in L.A. that will be beginning in January.
Those who have attended past Policy Conferences and felt the energy of being in a room with over 10,000 other pro-Israel activists have called the experience “life-changing,” “awe-inspiring,” “empowering,” and “electrifying.” It’s quite simply not to be missed!
To register, or for more information, please click here or contact Rachel Jeffer at rcjeffer@aol.com.
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KI is one of two L.A. synagogues in the Jewish Federation pilot program to help congregants in need by adding a social worker to synagogue staff.
Click here to read the full online article - in which KI is featured - in the Forward, the leading national Jewish weekly newspaper.
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Birthright Israel Foundation/Jewish Federation Appeal
Join the KI Community in support of the Birthright Israel Foundation/Jewish Federation appeal. Each year, tens of thousands of young adults from around the world receive the gift of a free 10-day educational trip to Israel. They return with a stronger sense of identity, a sense of belonging and a closeness to Israel and the Jewish people. This year at the High Holy Days, KI launched a community campaign to support Birthright. Last year over 2,000 people from Los Angeles went on the Birthright trip but 5,000 remained on a waiting list. Your gift will help to insure that more young adults from Los Angeles get to participate in the future. If you know a young adult who has participated in a Birthright trip, this is a chance to pay it forward!
Click here to make a donation to the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles’ Birthright Israel Program. 100% of your contribution for this special Kehillat Israel appeal and a one to one matching gift will go to supporting Birthright Israel trips for our young adults.
For more information on KI’s Israel Matters committee or our Birthright Israel appeal, please contact Rick Entin at rick.entin@verizon.net.
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Click here to register for all K-12th Grade Jewish Experience Center programs (formerly KI (Youth) and Religious School).
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Guidelines for all food served at Kehillat Israel as well as food served at Kehillat Israel events outside the building:
* No foods specifically forbidden in the Torah such as pork and shellfish.
* All meat must be kosher from an approved kosher restaurant or a kosher brand from a grocery store.
* Meat and dairy should not be present at the same meal.
Click here for the KI Kashrut Policy.
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Join us in showing your support!
On Monday, November 8th at morning prayers on Rosh Hodesh Kislev, the Women of the Wall commemorated the arrest of Nofrat Frankel at the Kotel (Wailing Wall) one year ago. Frankel was arrested with a Torah and tallit at the Kotel.
The year that has passed since has brought with it more monthly restrictions and intimidation from the police and more restrictive regulations created by the administrator of the Western Wall. But the past year has also brought...
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10-year project by KI Congregant
Ki congregant Sarah Moskovitz has just completed a ten-year effort to create an English translation of 153 Yiddish poems written by Jews during the Holocaust and hidden in death camps and the Warsaw Ghetto. Moskovitz worked with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in obtaining the relevant archival material.
The compilation, Poetry in Hell, has been produced as a website available for viewing here. In addition to the poetry, the website includes background information on the project.
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Rabbi Reuben is one of five religious leaders interviewed in a short YouTube presentation by Faith Communities for Families and Children. The leaders discuss their shared conviction that God does not want any children to perish as casualties of the justice system.
Click here to watch the presentation.
Click here to see Rabbi Reuben’s article on this topic in the April KI News.
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Change Happens, by Rabbi Lewart
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For information on helping in the ongoing emergency appeals following the Pakistan floods and the earthquake in Haiti, please click the link below.
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our in-house caterer and event coordinator for over 10 years, can share with you all the possibilities of doing any kind of party at K.I.
Please call Bill Zoldan at (310) 230-8640 or at ext. 229 at the synagogue for a consultation.
Please click here to learn more about Parties Plus and your event at Kehillat Israel!
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