Worship Events of the Week Erev Shabbat Service We are back together at All Souls this Friday, April 5, at 6:45 p.m. to celebrate Shabbos — with beautiful music on this first Shabbat of the month, and in community for Oneg Shabbat, Shabbat joy.
Study Session On Saturday, April 6, at 9:30 a.m., we have Torah study at the home of Fay and Rabbi Doug and via Zoom as well. If attending in person, you must RSVP to rabbidoug@kolamikc.org. For the Zoom link, click here.
Kol Ami News
Donate Paper Bags When you come to All Souls, you may bring your gently used paper grocery bags with you. We donate them to Migrant Farmworkers Assistance Fund for food distribution to farmworkers and their families. Thank you.
Bring Joy (Oneg) to Our First-Friday Shabbat Services We invite volunteers to bring simple vegetarian treats to share the first Friday-night service of the month. (Kol Ami provides challah and grape juice.) Please respond to worship@kolamikc.org to get on the Oneg Shabbat calendar. — Kol Ami Worship Committee
Community News Sad News With sadness, we mourn the recent death of Karene Copeland, daughter of longtime Kol Ami congregant Evelyn Young z”l. Karene visited us often from her home in New York to visit Evelyn, and was always a welcome presence whenever she came to Kol Ami. Funeral and interment were held in Miami last week. May Karene’s memory always be for a blessing.
Yahrzeits This Week April 2 Fan Weinstein Weisman – grandmother of Ellen Karp
April 9 Martha Stern – mother of Stan Stern
We Wish Mi Shebeirach A complete healing of mind, body and spirit:
Karen Chisholm Robert Clinton Harriet Greenwald Karla Jacobs Shayndal Chana bat Bayla Riva Robert Allen Slater Louise Swartz Joel Zitron
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
Fay and I saw a wonderful movie last week, The Taste of Things. A gourmet, Dodin, and his cook, Eugenie, develop a beautiful romance over 20 years, with food being at the center of their lives. The dialogue is sparse, but it is the sounds made in the cooking involved and the spectacular meals (extravaganzas involving many, many courses) that take center stage in the film.
Experience hands-on demos and tastings of Eastern European Jewish brunch favorites — blintzes, chopped herring and more — with special guest and teacher Lois Balk. The intimate cooking class starts at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 7, in the kitchen at All Souls. Click here to reserve your spot by April 4. Questions? Email Brad Ordo at kehilahvp@kolamikc.org.
Kol Ami to Host a Second-Night Seder
Kol Ami’s second-night Passover seder takes place Tuesday, April 23, at Guadalupe Center (1015 Avenida Cesar E Chavez, in Kansas City, Mo.), near KC's downtown Crossroads District. (Guadalupe Center has free adjacent parking.) Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and the seder begins at 6 p.m.
The four-course seder meal is vegetarian (not vegan) and is catered. (Attendees are asked only to bring their own wine/juice.) Karen Engebretson will provide musical accompaniment.
The cost is $25 for those 12 and older, $15 for those aged 6-11, and free for children 5 and younger. Seating is limited; register no later than April 18 — click here. Questions? Email Brad Ordo, kehilahvp@kolamikc.org. Community Event
Protect LGBTQ+ Kids in Missouri Missouri politicians have introduced 35 pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ bills. Keshet, which "works for the full equality of all LGBTQ Jews," invites Missouri residents to attend its Missouri LBGTQ+ Legislative Information Session, Wednesday, April 10, at 1 p.m.CDT, to learn how to take action. Learn about the bills that affect LGBTQ+ people the most and how they can be stopped before becoming law. For information and to register, click here.
This Week's Torah Portion Parashat Shemini (Vayikra/Leviticus 9:1-11:47)
We read this week about permitted and prohibited foods. While we have different rationales for kashrut — more humane, healthier diet — the commandments surrounding it fall under the category of nonrational. Its purpose is to seek out holiness before G-d.
Kashrut, and even more restrictive diets such as vegetarian or vegan, can create a sense of intention about what we eat, and a sense of gratitude regarding where we receive our food. In a sense, eating becomes a spiritual practice.
Our mailing address is: Congregation Kol Ami 4501 Walnut Street ℅ All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church Kansas City, MO 64111
