Newsletters

Worship Event
of the Week

Shabbat Study, Service and Seudah
At 9:30 a.m. Saturday, March 16, at the home of Fay and Rabbi Doug (and via Zoom), we celebrate Shabbat together with study, worship and a Seudah, a festive Shabbat brunch.

If attending in person, you must RSVP to rabbidoug@kolamikc.org.

For the Zoom link, click here.

Kol Ami Event

Mah Jongg Club
Interested in playing mah jongg? Kol Ami has an ongoing mah jongg group that meets twice a month. For information, email office@kolamikc.org.

Yahrzeit
This Week

March 16
Belle Pirchesky – mother of Elizabeth Bamberger, grandmother of Elissa Bamberger

We Wish
Mi Shebeirach
A complete healing of mind, body and spirit:

Karen Chisholm
Robert Clinton
Kenneth Dantzler
Harriet Greenwald
Michelle Hills
Karla Jacobs 
Katie Nottingham
Harolyn Richberg
Shayndal Chana bat       Bayla Riva
Michah ben Sarah
Louise Swartz

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 came across an article Sunday from The Washington Post, really an excerpt from the book To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to G-d, Israel, and the Jewish People, by Harvard law professor Noah Feldman. The very, very short point of the article is that we are a loving yet sometimes dysfunctional family. According to Feldman, this is the basis for the present acrimony within the Jewish community toward the Israel-Palestine ... Click here to read the rest of Rabbi Doug's blog post.

This Week's Torah Portion
Parashat Pekudei (Shemot/Exodus 38:21-40:38)



With this Torah portion, we complete the Book of Shemot/Exodus and we complete the building of the Mishkan, the Holy Tabernacle. Nehama Leibowitz aptly observes that the construction of the Mishkah involved all the people, that our communal covenant requires that we come together as a community in our obligation to G-d and to one another. 

Kol Ami News

A New Music Director
By Pat Clinton, Kol Ami board president



We are pleased to announce that Karen Engebretson will be Kol Ami’s new music director. 

Karen is a familiar face (and a familiar sound) at our services. She has been with us since 2014, and has a wide range of experience — accompanying others as well as acting as a soloist, and helping plan and interpret the music we enjoy. She has also played at B'nai Jehudah and Beth Shalom. 

She is excited about this new position and is looking forward to introducing new music in the coming years. We welcome Karen and look forward to her tenure.

Bring Joy (Oneg) to Our First-Friday Shabbat Services

Thank you again to Haley Ferguson and Miranda Klinck for providing a lovely Oneg Shabbat for our Friday, March 1, service. And thank you to Jon Scheinman and Anita Grow, who will provide April oneg treats. 

We invite other mensches to volunteer to bring simple vegetarian goodies (veggies, hummus, pita, crackers and cheeses, cakes, cookies, nuts, fruits, etc.) to share with Shabbat-service attendees following the first Friday-night service of the month. Kol Ami provides the challah and grape juice. 

When you pick a month, we also know we’ll have the pleasure of your company for Shabbat worship and post-service schmoozing. if you’re interested in providing the Oneg in May, please email worship@kolamikc.org.

— Kol Ami Worship Committee