Newsletters

Worship Events
of the Week

Shabbat Service
We make Shabbos together this coming Friday, November 1, at 6:45 p.m. at All Souls, celebrating in our Kol Ami community with beautiful music.

Adult Study
On Saturday, November 2, at 9:30 a.m., we continue our study of the how and why of prayer at the home of Fay and Rabbi Doug and on Zoom. We look forward to our discussions continuing, particularly on why we pray what we pray.

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

For the Zoom link, click here.

Upcoming
Kol Ami Event

November
Community Coffee
Save the date of Tuesday, November 19, for our next community coffee. We meet at Broadway Café (4106 Broadway Blvd.) at 10 a.m. Come visit or work in good company. All are welcome, so bring a friend! Please RSVP to  engagement@

kolamikc.org.

Yahrzeit
This Week

​​​​​​​November 4
Charlene Fleischer – friend of Brad Ordo

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

Robert Clinton
Kenneth Dantzler
Alan Dietchman
Renée Dietchman
Megan Garrison
Harriet Greenwald
Yale Krugman
Steve Sackin
Jean Shifrin
Melvin Michael Slater

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



As I write this, we are one week away from elections. I have and will continue to express my concerns regarding the outcome of the election. In that regard, a reflection or two.

As I have stated on numerous occasions, and will continue to remind everyone, no one is required to agree with me to be part of the Kol Ami community. I have to confess to my own sense of fear as to possible outcomes of the election. 
 
Please understand that ... Click here to read the rest of Rabbi Doug's blog post.

This Week's Torah Portion
Parashat Noah (Bereishit/Genesis 6:9-11:32)



Our exegetes, our Torah commentators, discuss and disagree as to whether Noah was a righteous person compared to anyone in any era or was only a righteous person compared to others during the time in which he lived. Maybe another way of asking the question is, during a time in which righteousness seems more out of reach, do we lower our standards for living lives of righteousness at our peril.

Social Justice News

MFAF Service Night in Lexington
(Photos courtesy of MFAF)



​​​​​Eleven Kol Ami volunteers went to Lexington, Mo., Monday, October 21, to help with the Migrant Farmworkers Assistance Fund service night. In the photo above, many hand out homemade cookies in the parking lot, while several inside make food bags for MFAF’s next food delivery in November.



The Lafayette County Health Department gave out 56 vaccinations in the course of the evening. Here, two women and their children get their COVID and flu shots.