May 2, 2019 || 27 of Nisan, 5779 || כ״ז בְּנִיסָן תשע״ט
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CHAI KABBALAT SHABBAT
Friday, May 3, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Join us to celebrate Kabbalat CHAI Shabbat with Hazzan Shulamit, Rabbi Dev, Ketzev Kehilla, and our Musical Prayer Leaders. Join us for a song-filled and soulful evening of Shabbat music and prayer, both spirited and contemplative.
From Rabbi Dev and Shulamit's
longer piece
: 'Our hearts are heavy with the news of yet another white supremacist shooting in a place of worship' – 'We invite everyone to come together in community at our Chai Kabbalat Shabbat...There will be space for grief, anger, and whatever else is present.'
6:30 pm:
Veggie/Parve Potluck Shabbat Dinner in the Social Hall. Please bring something veggie/parve to share that serves 8-10 people for the potluck dinner, labeled to indicate ingredients, or if you’re only attending the service, something for the kiddush oneg after services– many thanks!
7:30 pm:
Kabbalat Shabbat services in the Sanctuary. Kiddush follows the service.
All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click
here
for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
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Shabbat Service and Josie Green becoming Bat Mitzvah
Saturday, May 4, 10am-12:30pm
With Spiritual Leader Avi Rose, Julie Nesnansky, Natalie Boskin, and Debbie Fier. Join us for a celebratory and musical Shabbat morning service exploring Parashat Acharey Mot. Everyone is welcome! Kiddush sponsored by Josie’s parents, Ellen Lake and Chris Green.
Learn more here.
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Tot Shabbat
Saturday, May 4, 10:30 am - 11:15 am
With Jen Miriam and Alon Altman with their Puppet Friends. Especially for the littlest tots (0-3 years) and their grown ups; children up to 5 are welcome! Bring a snack to share at Kiddush if you’d like.
Learn more here.
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Folks with White Privilege Affinity Group Meeting
Sunday, May 5, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Kehilla community members are welcome whether or not you have attended before – we’d love to have you! This is part of Kehilla’s Racial Justice Initiative.
Learn more here.
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Morning Meditation Sit
Wednesday, May 8, 7:50am
With Rabbi Dev. In the Fireside Room
(Enter through the Patio entrance on Fairview).
Learn more here.
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Teens and Adults, let’s do this, one aliyah at a time Join us for Shabbat morning services and share your skills and love of leynen with our community.
See dates and learn more here!!
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Liturgically Traditional, Radically Inclusive Kabbalat Shabbat
Friday, May 10, 6-7:30 pm
A more traditional davenning style of Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma’ariv, the Shabbat evening service: songful and in Hebrew, following the full liturgy.
ALL are welcome to come pray, sing, hum, clap and celebrate building our beloved community. Kiddush and light oneg (ritual snacks) after the service. Please bring veggie finger food to share. Cosponsored by Kehilla and Glitter Kehilla.
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Shabbat Service and
Ezra and Talia Kotovsky become B’nei Mitzvah
Saturday, May 11, 10am- 12:30pm
Join us as we celebrate Shabbat Morning Service and Ezra and Talia Kotovsky becoming B’nei Mitzvah with Rabbi Dev, Hazzan Shulamit, Natalie Boskin, Noa Grayesvsky, and Debbie Fier. Join us for a celebratory and musical Shabbat morning service exploring Parashat Kedoshim. Everyone is welcome! Kiddush sponsored by the parents of Talia and Ezra Kotovsky.
Learn more here.
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Save the date!
Feminism All Night w/Kabbalat Shabbat
Friday, June 7, 6:30 pm - June 8, 4:00 am
Feminism All Night is a communal immersive all night long learning experiment to center feminism. It is a call to the community to engage together in feminism: the political, social, economical movement coming to fully challenge and resist patriarchy while dreaming up and manifesting a visionary new way of existence.
A public gathering to delve deep into feminist learning. Come join to expand your awareness, connect with community, and shift the political tides towards justice.
NOW ACCEPTING WORKSHOP PROPOSALS UNTIL MAY 5
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Kehilla Sings!
Tuesday, May 12, 7-8:30 pm
Continuing on 2nd Tuesdays through September!
A new-ish monthly gathering with Hazzan Shulamit to circle round and sing together. We’ll nourish our bodies, minds, and spirits with nigunuim (wordless melodies), new tunes for ancient prayers, and songs to take out into the streets. Join us for a delicious night of tuning into our souls and to one another. Everyone’s welcome! Donations accepted at the door $5-15.
Learn more here.
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May Book Discussion Group:
Mondays, May 13 , 7-9pm
Girl From the Garden
by Parnaz Foroutan
All Kehilla members are welcome to join us for our customary meetings on the second Monday of the month at 7pm. See our selections for our upcoming 2018-19 meetings
here.
Learn more here.
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Many Stories, Shared Liberation
An Evening with Alicia Garza
May 11 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
sold out
As our movements for liberation grow, how do we strengthen our connections and move in solidarity inside and across communities? How do we resist the forces that try to fracture us? How do we reach out with love and curiosity and build trust? Join Alicia Garza and the Kehilla Community as we explore questions of justice in our time, including the intersections within and between dismantling white supremacy and antisemitism.
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Song of Songs Seder Celebrating Queer Sexuality
Sunday May 19th 2-5 pm
Celebrate queer sexuality & conjure a magic spell at a participatory JeWitchy ritual! Dancing, singing & radical liturgy led by musicians Jewlia Eisenberg and Debbie Fier with dancer, Bruce Bierman. Commissioned by Queer Cultural Center for the National Queer Arts Festival. Kehilla members get 20% off.
Learn more here.
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Looking for a ride from Petaluma to Berkeley on May 11th for Kehilla's Event,
Many Stories: Shared Liberation, An Evening with Alicia Garza - for Aurora, who will be on the stage that evening. Able and willing to help? Please email
dee@kehillasynagogue.org
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Need any house painting?
One of our accompaniment teams is working with a young Guatemalan man who is looking for jobs to supplement his employment as a house painter. He is available to do painting, large jobs or small, interior or exterior. He and a friend have already painted the homes of two Kehilla members who report that the work was done well and at a lower cost than hiring a commercial company. If you are interested, or know someone who is, please contact Kehilla member Dan Alpert at 510-717-8565 or nelsonalpert@gmail.com.
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Annual National Outreach to Abolish the Death Penalty
To contribute to Kehilla's co-sponsorship of the annual Fast & Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty at the U.S. Supreme court, contact Beth Weinberger, bethw0104@mindspring.com.
Learn more here.
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Have you fulfilled your Avodah commitment for this membership year?
We have less than two months left!
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The Youth Spirit Artworks Tiny House Is Coming to Kehillla
Thursday, May 23rd, noon - 6pm in the Kehilla Parking Lot
Join us on the afternoon of May 23rd to learn about this project and tour the Tiny House. Talk with YSA’s Hannah Trumbull and EBHO's Vanessa Riles. Rebuild the world by building homes for youth.
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Passover Action: Donate to the Bay Area Immigration Bond Fund
This Passover, join members of Kehilla, Shaar Zahav, the Kitchen & Mission Minyan to raise money for the Bay Area Immigration Bond Fund, empowering immigrants to fight deportation.
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Photography by Glenn Shor
& Mixed Media & More by Lynn Lazarus
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This is Aurora Levins Morales, a resident poet of Kehilla. You’ve heard me read my work during services for years. Now, other synagogues are using my poetry, too, and asking me to write pieces for them. While it’s fun and rewarding, it’s a disorganized and mostly unpaid way to work.
Learn more here.
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Donate Supplies to Help
People Experiencing Homelessness
Please help Tayla Husbands-Hankin support our homeless population by donating
new
& used
tents, tarps, blankets, warm socks, warm men’s coats, sweatshirts & sweaters! A large box is located by the sanctuary door at Kehilla.
Please fill it with these items only
. Talya will pick up the items periodically and deliver them to people who need them. Questions? Contact Jeanne Finberg,
jeanne.finberg@gmail.com
. Thank you!
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KEHILLA MEMBERS
IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY
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DO I Love You-Leah Korican solo art exhibit
May 3-June 21st at
2440 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland
Leah Korican's art will be on view at Fine Ideas and Art 2440 Telegraph Avenue Oakland. Inspired by women's crafts, she has created a window installation and smaller wall pieces.
Learn more here.
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Queering Jewish Diasporas: Non-Zionist Imaginaries
Sat., May 4 - Sat., May 11 6:30pm
An eight-night multimedia art exhibit and performance series highlighting diasporic Jewish artists creating works that challenge the paradigm that Jewish Liberation=Zionism.
Learn more here.
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Lenore Weiss published
The Glimmerine
: A Children's Book!
The book is an urban environmental fantasy for middle grade readers and their parents and friends—set at the edge of a condo development where we meet 10-year-old Leah who has been labeled as the school weirdo. Why? Because she talks to something hidden inside her backpack. But Leah doesn’t care how much she’s teased. She has other friends.
Learn more here.
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CJM Program - Claude Cahun: Pioneering, Gender-Defying, Jewish Radical
Thursday, May 9, 2019 6:30–8pm at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
Scholars Jennifer Shaw and Tirza True Latimer come together in conversation to explore 20th Century avant-garde artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore’s work, legacy, and Jewish life.
Learn more here.
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The Urban Adamah Residency
MAY 15 or JUN 1 – NOV 30, 2019
What is it? Open to any individual age 21 - 35, the
Urban Adamah Residency
is a program that offers partially subsidized housing in exchange for hosting some Urban Adamah programs and other peer events.
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Hear from our Community Leaders
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Need to book a room at Kehilla for an event or committee meeting?
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Kehilla Community Synagogue is comprised of people of all colors, genders, sexual orientations, including people with a wide range of religious and spiritual persuasions. We are committed to being a safe and welcoming place for everyone in our community.
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