Saturday Sept. 12, 7:00 PM Do you have all of the ingredients for the Great Honey Cake Bake-Off Challenge? See recipe here. The High Holiday season begins this Saturday with Rabbi Denise L. Eger and Rabbi Max Chaiken leading Havdalah and then Chef Julia Rhoton will teach us how to make the best Rosh Hashanah Honey Cake ever. Chef Julia will take us step-by-step through this amazing online baking experience. While we are baking our honey cakes, we will have time to reflect on the Journey of the Heart toward the New Year, forgiveness and sing together the traditional Selichot prayers. Register here.
Join us online for Shabbat services this Friday, September 11 at 6:30 PM led by Rabbi Denise L. Eger, Rabbi Max Chaiken, and accompanist Lisa Edwards.You can participate in services on our website, our FaceBook page, and our YouTube channel. For an updated, online prayer book, click here.
Join us for our Virtual Oneg on Friday at 7:30 PM following Friday night services! Join here.
This week's streaming Shabbat services are being sponsored by Carol Kravetz and Iris Weil in honor of their upcoming wedding! If you would like to sponsor a streaming Shabbat services or an online program in honor or in memory of someone, please click here.
The High Holy Days season is almost here! We look forward to beginning 5781 together, our Jewish New Year. This year we will do so by taking A Journey of the Heart. These will be the most unique High Holy Days of our lives as we celebrate online. While we cannot travel physically to be together, we can, and we will, take the journey through the Holy Days together - to lift our spirits, renew our souls, and open our hearts wide to forgiveness, love, and hope.
Sunday, Sept. 13, 1:00 PM With perhaps the most important election of our time just over three months away, we must, as a congregation, raise our voice to ensure that every community across America is able to vote. Please join us in this postcard writing campaign to help make a real difference in the election. Make sure to order a free kit now that includes 30 postcards, instructions, a script, and mailing addresses. Register here.
Sunday, Sept. 13, 7:00 PM Join us for an exciting and uplifting program featuring Cantors and musicians from around Los Angeles sharing inspiration and insights into the music of the High Holy Days. Also featuring a fascinating presentation by Dr. Steve Rothstein featuring his work Symphony No. 1 JUDAICA Days of Awe. Register here.
Wednesday, September 16, 5:00 PM Please join us for a special West Hollywood City Council Candidate Forum: a Community Dialogue on Dignity, Justice, and Tolerance; hosted by ICAN, the Israeli-American Civic Action Network, and Congregation Kol Ami, West Hollywood’s Reform Synagogue.Register here.
We are excited to see you in person at our Tashlich at the Beach. Come to Will RogersState Beach on Sunday, September 20 at 3:00 PM for our first socially-distant, in-person event of the New Year as we observe Tashlich together! Rabbi Eger and Rabbi Chaiken will greet you at Tower 10, just two lifeguard towers south of the parking lot entrance at Temescal Canyon Road and PCH. For more information, click here.
Mazal Tov to Abby Bergman on her heroic completion of the 27 mile Santa Monica Bay Swim from Pt. Dume in Malibu to Palos Verde Peninsula. Only the 4th person ever to complete the swim. And congratulations to her parents, Kim and Natalie Bergman!
Your clergy and staff across the Los Angeles Jewish community are committed to supporting our entire community even when we cannot be close to each other physically. Social distancing does not mean social isolation. This website contains a compilation of resources, activities, and media in order for you and your children to remain connected to Jewish community and Torah during this challenging time.
Refuah Shleimah: A Speedy Recovery We keep the following members in our healing prayers: Richard Bernard, Richard Frank, Neil Romanoff, Miles Senn, Michael Silverman, Henry Somerfeld, Bob Weiner.
The Kol Ami Mitzvah Corps is available to visit you at home or in the hospital, bring a hot meal or run an errand. Call the office at 323-606-0996 and you'll be contacted within 48 hours by one of our Corps members. If you are interested in joining the Mitzvah Corps, please contact the office at 323-606-0996 or email us .
Congregation Kol Ami 1200 N La Brea WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90038
