I can’t believe it has been 30 days since I started as your Senior Rabbi at Congregation Kol Ami. The time has flown by so quickly. In this short time, I have begun to get to know some of you on a more personal level. I continue to do the beautiful work of having one on one meetings to learn your needs, hopes and dreams, and special talents that you bring to this community. I invite you, if you haven’t already, to set up a meeting with me soon.
I am also learning that Kol Ami was not built in a day. The 30 years that Rabbi Eger created this beautiful community, is a reminder that it will take time for us to find our groove and re-create in ways that we find meaningful for this next phase of Congregation Kol Ami. I invite your sacred partnership so that together as one community we can make some amazing things happen. I have many huge dreams for the community, and they can only happen with a dedicated partnership from you, our congregants, friends, lay leaders, and committed Kol Ami volunteers.
Over the next few months I will be introducing the concept of “Relational Judaism.” A book by the same name, penned by Dr. Ron Wolfson, teaches about how spiritual communities are strong due to the strength of relationships between congregants and leadership and clergy, relationships from congregants to congregants, and relationships between congregants and their spiritual journey. My goal is to create opportunities this year to strengthen each of these core ideas. I look forward to building together a stronger connected Jewish community where you are both seen and heard.
I invite you to join me for this week’s shabbat service, we welcome back Lisa Edwards, and we will explore The Jewish people and Moses’s Journeying. Shabbat Shalom!
Rabbi Lindy Reznick
Shabbat Service Friday, August 2 | 7:05 PM Join Rabbi Reznick and piano accompanist Lisa Edwards with music arrangement by Joshua Finkel, in-person at Kol Ami or online on our YouTube channelor on our temple website. Purchase a prayerbook, Mishkan Tefillah, available inprint or inkindle versions.
Community 12 Step Thursday, August 1 | 7:00 PM A monthly Jewish 12-Step Meeting on Zoom with host Avi de Turenne. Zoom link will be sent upon registration. RSVP
MOKA Annual Summer Pool Party Sunday, August 18 | 1:00 PM Men of Kol Ami's annual pool party at Don Klein's house. Bring friends. a towel and sunscreen and enjoy a relaxed, casual, fun day of sun and swimming, drinks, and dining. Register here >
Hollywood Bowl Picnic and Pink Martini Concert Saturday, August 24 | 6:00 PM Join us at the Hollywood Bowl for a picnic and the Pink Martini Concert. The Hollywood Bowl’s favorite globetrotting “little orchestra,” helmed by pianist Thomas Lauderdale, returns to the stage at the start of their 30th anniversary year for big, bold, genre-defying songs that traverse time and geography. Featuring lead singer China Forbes. For more details / Registration
Book Circle: "The Boston Girl" Saturday, September 7 | 3:00 PM | Zoom Led by Dr. Jane Drucker, the next book to be read and discussed is "The Boston Girl" by Anita Diamant. This is an unforgettable novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told by a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. Register
2024/25 Check out the new page on our website with the all the dates for the Jewish holidays in the upcoming year. You can access this page at any time through our website navigation (on the main menu, under "Pray"), as more, richer content will be added about the Jewish holidays all year round.
Membership Directory The Kol Ami Membership Directory is back and is up and running. Participation in the directory is open to Kol Ami members only and is exclusively for those members who opt in to sharing their contact information with other members by submitting the registration form. Your information will not be shared if you do not choose to participate.
Members of Kol Ami already have an account established on our website. Setting up your directory page is a very easy process. You may easily register at
Lost & Found We have a number of items in our Lost and Found in the temple: Green Hat Black Cardigan Various Kippot Various Earrings Two Pairs of Prescription Glasses Collar Chain Clip Black Tallit Case
If you feel that one or more of these items may belong to you, please contact membership@kol-ami.org and we’ll be sure to get your property back to you.
We keep the following members in our healing prayers: Aaron Aronow, Michael Becker, Bryce Linsenmayer, Andrew Ogilvie, Ivan Rosenberg, Richard Ross, Lowell Selvin, Miles Senn,Henry Somerfeld, Steve Weiss, Gib Winebar
