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Worship Event 

of the Week

Shabbat Shulchan
We are looking forward to making Shabbos together at 6 p.m. this Friday, November 8, at All Souls for our monthly Shabbat Shulchan — an informal service followed by our seudah, our festive Shabbat dinner.

Please note: We will not be in the lobby or in the Bragg sanctuary due to a concert being held in Bragg that evening. We will be down at the end of the hall in the Conover social hall. So that we have food enough for everyone, please RSVP your attendance to engagement@

kolamikc.org.

Upcoming
Kol Ami Event

Community Coffee
Our next community coffee is at 10 a.m. Tuesday, November 19, at Broadway Café (4106 Broadway Blvd.). Come to visit or to work in good company. All are welcome, so bring a friend! Please RSVP to  engagement@

kolamikc.org.

Yahrzeit 
This Week

November 9
Richard Chessler – grandfather of Miranda Ferguson

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



At the time of this writing, I/we have no idea as to the outcome of what I see as the most important election — certainly the most important election in my lifetime. I do think, regardless of the outcome, that there will be a couple of truths to consider.

The problems that have plagued our country for many, many years prior to this election will still be our problems afterward. We at Congregation Kol Ami will need to do what we can ... Click here to read the rest of Rabbi Doug's blog post.

This Week's Torah Portion
Parashat Lech Lecha
(Bereishit/Genesis 12:1-17:27)



The Parashah includes both Isaac and Ishmael, along with Ishmael’s mother, Hagar. It is in our sacred text that we read of G-d promising that a great nation will come from Ishmael, much like his father Avraham. It is a story we read on Rosh Hashanah, a universal story of shared humanity and dignity within very diverse communities. Let this be the year that we take that lesson to heart.  

Weekly Feature

In My Opinion...
By Wynne Begun

Jews do well in a democracy. We flourish with certain guarantees, such as separation of church and state. Christian nationalists are planning to impose their belief system on the citizens of our country, with the result being second-class status for us.

We need the right to control our own bodies. The Torah allows abortion to save the life of the mother. Because of the recent Dobbs decision, women have died.

In a democracy, we have equal protection under the law, including the right to love who we choose. People who love another person of the same sex need to have the opportunity to live in the open and express who they are without fear.

During the last two centuries, Jews were persecuted and killed in countries that were authoritarian and fascist. Restrictions on how we could make a living or where we could live, pogroms that took our lives, and the ultimate devastation of the Holocaust — all of
this haunts our collective memory.

We have lived our lives assuming these restrictions on life and liberty could not happen again. Please remember that Jews do well in a democracy. With our basic rights assured, we can do anything, be anything and continue influencing the world with our inclusive Jewish values. Without our basic rights, we are silenced.