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of the Week

This Friday, July 25 at 6:45 PM, on Zoom, we have the opportunity to come together as a community from wherever we are to make Shabbos with Shabbat blessings and a little Torah. Join us.

Kol Ami Events

Jews Who Read

Book Club
The Jews Who Read Book Club welcomes everyone, members and non-members, to meet on September 7, 2025 at 2 PM in the Small Meeting Room at the Plaza Branch of the KC Public Library. We will read and discuss The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Please RSVP to president@kolamikc.org

​​​​We Wish Mi Shebeirach

A Complete Healing of Mind, Body and Spirit to:

Liz Garrison
Edi Shifrin
Micha ben Sarah
Melvin Michael Slater

Rufus Magobotha
Tzipporah mibet Avraham v’Sarah

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.

Yahrzeits

July 22

Ben Milgrim - Father of Robert Milgrim

Membership

Interested in membership at Kol Ami? Email membership@kolamikc.org

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Rabbi's Week in Review


Last week, I had the honor of being one of the speakers at a program honoring the late Congressman John Lewis. He was the civil rights leader who famously and courageously crossed the Edmund Pettis bridge in Alabama, suffering physical harm to fight against racism in the south, and coining the now famous phrase - “Good Trouble.” Last Thursday was his “Yahrzeit.” I was gratified to see so many different, diverse communities represented, knowing that the way forward for us as Jews is building coalitions with others who have endured historical trauma...Read more

This Week's Torah Portion
Matot-Masei (Bamidbar/Numbers 30:2-36:13)

With this week’s double Torah portion, we finish the book of Bamidbar/Numbers. We read of, in both Parshiot, of people bravely pushing the envelope for change, both the Reubenites and Gadites in Matot, and Zelophechad’s daughters in Masei.

Social Justice News

Virtual Social Justice Opportunities - 

Second opportunity is July 30 
No Kings is offering two more virtual sessions this summer with the theme: One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism—a national effort to train one million people in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design.

Upcoming sessions are: How to Make it Happen on July 30; and What Now? on  August 13. Learn more and sign up HERE.

Urgent Assistance Request

The Migrant Farmworkers Assistance Fund (MFAF) is urgently in need of donations of bags of pinto beans and bags of white rice (NOT canned beans and NOT instant rice, please) for the families working the Lafayette County orchards this year. Please place donations in designated bins at All Souls.

As always, MFAF has an ongoing need for your donations of brown paper bags.