Welcome to Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives
B’rukhim ha-baim! Welcome to Kolot Chayeinu’s new website! Kolot Chayeinu is a community that grew from a home-based havurah with a dream of a cafe for conversation, learning, and even prayer and this website is our modern-day cafe.
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UPCOMING AT KOLOT
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June 19-20 Rosh Chodesh Tamuz June 23 Shabbat Morning Service Led by Rabbi Lippmann and Cantor Segal, with bat mitzvah of Olivia Hay Rubin, daughter of Jennifer Hay and Josh Rubin, followed by kiddush and lunch AND special class led by Trisha Arlin
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Monday, June 25
7 PM: Kolot meeting about taking action re Economic Justice Join Rabbi Lippmann and a great team of Kolot members who are exploring action to get local banks to give to the community as they are supposed to. At Kolot.
Saturday, June 30
Shabbat morning service, led by Rabbi Lippmann and Cantor Segal, with Torah reading TBA and d’var Torah by Trisha Arlin (and perhaps students in her “Torah on Fire” class).
- 10 am: Breakfast
- 10:30 Service
Shavua Tov!
June 19-20, Rosh Chodesh Tamuz
"The summer (the period of Tamuz) is the "holiday" of the eyes. ...The spiritual sense of sight of Tamuz is the ability to "see through" physical reality to behold its Divine source....to remove the outer "shell" of reality (by means of the power of concentrated sight) in order to reveal reality's inner "fruit" and life force. "
from: www.inner.org/times/tamuz/tamuz.htm
NEW! Ben Baxt's beautiful drash on NASO
NEW! Our Task Force on Race & Racism
A new class: TORAH ON FIRE, after services June 23
Explore prayer and Torah using gesture, theater and text study. Really fun!
Taught by Trisha Arlin Free for members, $60 for non-members.
Children's Learning Program Year End Report
KVELLING!
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Mazel tov to all of our high school and college graduates!
- Linda Eber was awarded Program Staff Member of the Year at the Sephardic Community Center at their annual meeting on June 12.
- Bob Usdin and his team at Showman Fabricators built the Tony award-winning set for PETER AND THE STAR CATCHER.
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Mazel tov to Kolot members Carolyn Silver and Alex Basson on the birth of their new daughter, late Monday night, April 30. Her English name is Phoebe Jeanette Basson, and there will be a naming ceremony to announce her Jewish name sometime in later spring or summer, TBA.
- Mazel Tov to Kolot teacher, tutor, friend & musician extraordinaire Alicia Jo Rabins, and her husband, Aaron Hartman, are the new parents of Sylvia Tallulah Hartman, born 8:03 pm on Sunday April 15.
Barukh Dayan haEmet.
We send condolences to:
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Russell Pearce and Michele Hirshman, Seth and Jacob Pearce, and their extended family, on the death of Russ' stepmother, Judith Ruth Handler Pearce. She died May 9, 2012.
- Cantor Lisa B. Segal and Arthur Strimling on the death of Lisa's grandmother, Helen Paull Rosen, who died at 11:45 (Minneapolis time) May 5, 2012.
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Judy Schneier and Adam White and their children on the April 19 death of Judy's mother, Esther Gertrude Schneier
- Bonnie Breen and family on the deaths earlier this spring of her uncle, Jack Grisar and her nephew, Kevin William Breen.
Our Eulogies and Appreciations for long-time, beloved member, AMINA RACHMAN (z"l).
FEEDBACK OR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WEBSITE? Contact us at website@kolotchayeinu.org
Our Work for Social Justice
Tikkun Olam, the injunction to Heal the World, is an important part of our lives and practice.
- Occupy Judaism: Videos, photos & writings about Kolot Chayeinu at OWS
- Eitz Kehilla Social Justice Facilitation Committee
- Brooklyn Congregations United (BCU)
- Collage of photographs& video taken at the 2011 Children of Abraham Walk
- What's Up, Bnai Mitzvah Social Justice Projects
- The Respite Shelter
Children's Learning Program
Our Children's Learning Program offers monthly Saturday programs for ages 4–6, Monday classes and a Hebrew enrichment program for grades 2–5, and a Tuesday Bnei Mitzvah program. Starting November 5, at 10 AM, on the first Saturday of the month, there is KOLOT K'TANIM, a monthly Shabbat learning and celebration of Shabbat and holidays.
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