Upcoming KI Events

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“A Curatorial Conversation” - Sunday, February 5 at 1:00 p.m. — Closing event of WORDworks exhibition -  illustrated exploration of the wide world of a curator’s work, featuring Aaron Goldblatt, the “Tree Canopy Walk” architect (Morris Arboretum) and Emily Greenberg, architectural preservation historian and chair of the FLW Beth Sholom Preservation Foundation. Free community program   Information: 215-887-2027

 

Music Arts Recital — Sunday, February 5 at 3:00 p.m.  Ryu Goto, violin. 

  

 

“Mapping the Bible in the Age of Discovery” Thursday, February 9 at 7:00 p.m. at KI.    - Professor Zur Shalev, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Haifa and Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania —  Free and open to the public.

 

Cultural Council —No meetings in January or February.  Thursday, March 8 at 11:30 a.m. — Dr. Joel L. Schwartz, the “Stressless” Shrink—”Humor—the New Addiction.”  It’s Purim!  Wear a funny hat and win a cookie!   Reservations by Thursday, March 1: KI Members—$12; guests—$15.  All payments at the door—$17.  Send checks to KI, Attn: Cultural Council.  Info: KI Office (215) 887-8700.  Sponsored by the Rosenau Fund. 


Special Friday Evening Shabbat Services at 8:00 p.m. 

February 17 — “Yehudah Amichai, Citizen Poet”
Evonne Kruger and Rabbi Sussman 

March 9 — ”Stalin and the Jews” - Rabbi Sussman 

PowerPoint presentations by Joan Myerson Shrager

  
   

 

 

 

 


College Connection 

Don’t forget to send your college student’s information to
the Clergy Office — 215-887-8702
 

 

 

Effective June 18, 2011

the KI on the Air Broadcast

has moved to

WWDB 860 A M.

Same time — 10:00 a.m. — new station!

 

Services in the Weeks Ahead:  Click here

Open Forum on Scheduling and Format of Youth and Family Services
for High Holy Days in September 2012

 

Town Hall Meeting: Sunday February 5, 9:45am-11:00 am — Sanctuary

 

Please join clergy, and the chairs of the Religious Practices Committee and the Religious School Committee for this open forum.  The committees seek feedback from fellow congregants about redesigning the service as well as modifying the timing and location, based on the availability of synagogue space.

 

 

PURIM IS COMING!! 

Purim Carnival — Sunday, March 4—noon to 2:00 p.m.
K/G Auditorium & Lobby 

Purim Celebration — Wednesday, March 7
Dinner at 6:00 p.m. (reservations & information—215-887-8700)
Service at 7:00 p.m.
“Hey, hey, It’s the Megillah: Far Out, Man!”
Featuring The Jewveniles
 

Our new Shin.  We have a new Shin prominently on display above the Ten Commandments in the Sanctuary.  Shin stands for the first Hebrew name of God as it appears in the Torah, Shadai, and is attributed to Abraham.  The Hebrew term, Shadai, means “Almighty.”  The same letter is placed on the outer case of every mezuzah, which adorns the doorposts of Jewish homes  Our shin symbolizes the presence of God in our Sanctuary and in our lives..
 

Given by Bernie Liebowitz in honor of Helen Schneeberg.

 

 


 

What is Shelanu?  Shelanu is Hebrew for “our,” as in “Our KI…For today and

tomorrow.” It is the official name of our congregation’s Endowment Campaign, which will launch in the Fall. Together we will keep KI strong.  Click here to visit our Shelanu page

 

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Have you ever needed a handy resource book on quick facts about Israel? The ISRAELOLOGY Program purchased a small quantity of “Israel: Pocket Facts” produced by StandwithUs for distribution to the KI family. Please feel free to take one or even several. Copies are available in the main office, on the literature rack outside of the cloakroom and in the Meyers Library. 

 

Social Action 

 

 

 

 

Desperate for donations — Need is increasing and supplies at the food bank are very low.  Bring non-perishable food items to KI, for the Interfaith of Eastern Montgomery County Food Cupboard in Abington. Collection bin is in the Main Lobby at KI.
 

 

Help JRA Pack and Deliver Food to Needy Families — Next packing/delivery day is Sunday,February 19, 2012. More information, www.jewishrelief.org or (610) 660-0190.  

  

Cooking for Sharing Is Caring—Men and women volunteers needed to help assemble meals in the K/G kitchen for clients of the Klein JCC home-delivered meal program from  9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, February 28, 2012.  Information: Diane Miller  (215) 464-1381 

 

KI-Lowell Elementary Partnership— .Volunteer Tutors Needed for eager grade school children at Lowell Elementary School.  If you can read or do simple arithmetic problems the students at Lowell School would love your help and attention. Scheduling is flexible, but during the school day. Help in the library or office is also welcome. Contact Margie Curtis Cohen (margie7610@comcast.net)
or Debbie Zlotnick (dzlotnick@comcast.net) for more information.  

 

Nothing but Nets—A $10 insecticide-treated net can protect up to four people from contracting malaria in African refugee camps by protecting them from mosquito exposure at night.  Send checks to KI Clergy Office, payable to Union for Reform Judaism, with “Nothing but Nets” in the memo line.

Recycle Old Cell Phones - Bring yours to KI School Office for the Philadelphia Zoo to recycle. You can protect the environment, provide free cell phones for victims of domestic abuse, AND help protect the critically endangered douc langur monkey. 

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**Volunteers needed to transport our congregants who are unable to drive to KI for services and events. **

 
 


KI/WRJ GIFT SHOP.

Sisterhood Gift Shop News -  Let's get ready for Tu B'Shvat on Wednesday,
February 8.   Tu B'Shvat is a time for eating from the seven species and drinking  from the palest to the darkest of wines.  In the KI Gift Shop we can help you find wines - from the palest to the darkest - as well as children's books that tell the story of Tu B'Shvat with Sammy Spider.  And if you like to work with your children or grandchildren in the kitchen, we have a children's cookbook for your collection. The Gift Shop is open when Religious School is in session; Tuesday from 4:00-6:00 p.m. and Sunday from 9:30 a.m.— 12:00 p.m.   Need help at other times? Please call Marlene Glass at 215-206-9204 for an appointment.

 

Sisterhood Gift Shop now open
Tuesdays 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Sundays 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon 

(when Religious School is in session)

New look! New stock! Come see!

 

THANKS FOR THINKING KI FIRST!
 

KI Caring Community offers reassuring phone calls and rides to services (we still need drivers!!), we find congregants who need meal support.  If you are you willing to make and deliver a comforting, home-style meal for a family in need of physical and emotional nourishment, please contact Tracy Werner at cybertkw@comcast.net or see Cantor Levy after services. And, thanks to all of the KI Caring Community Volunteers who are currently giving of themselves to further this initiative.

 

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KI Announcements

 Library hours —Tuesday 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., and to 6:00 p.m. on school days; Wednesday 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; Friday before and after services. 

 

Outreach at KI—Here’s What’s Happening!

Our KI Program — Are you in an interfaith relationship or are your children in an interfaith relationship ?  Are you a non-Jewish parent raising your children as Jews or are you a grandparent with grandchildren growing up in religiously mixed household ? Are you  looking to study Judaism with conversion in mind?   Then "Outreach at KI" is for you!!!!  We want you and your loved ones to feel at home at KI.  For information,  please contact Rabbi Sussman at 215-887-8702 or kirabbiljs@aol.com.

 

Medical Professionals Needed for Health Initiative— Broad Street Ministry is seeking practicing health care professionals (physicians, nurses, dentists, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, gynecologists), retired health care professionals, pastoral counselors, social workers, and psychiatrists to devote their time and skills in providing care on Wednesday evenings or Thursdays during Breaking Bread (a weekly lunch at BSM that hosts 100-200 homeless people). Minimum commitment of 3 hours per month for one year. Contact Kristin Walsh or Laura Markle Downton at (267) 312-7340.

Are you on Facebook?  Join our group – search Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel on Groups to connect to other KI friends – a great way to remember everyone’s name as well.

 

 

Calling all musicians! — Please contact Cantor Levy if you play an instrument and would be willing to join one of our ensembles that play at Shabbat services (215) 887-8702.
 

Did you just graduate from high school? -  Let Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life  know where you are going to college and receive an  invitation to an opening event at your local Hillel. Visit http://hillel.kintera.org/collegechoice for more information.

 

Book Donations to the Myers Library — Donations are appreciated  but it takes a lot of time to process a book and space  is limited. Please, before bringing books to KI, kindly  submit a list of book titles, authors, and copyright  dates.

      
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KI on the Air — WWDB 860 A M.

 

 

10:00 a.m. Saturdays  

We are so happy you are able to join us this Shabbat!

For those seniors and shut-ins who cannot come to KI, there is KI on the Air —WNWR 1540 AM  10:00 a.m. Saturdays — But the radio broadcasts could go silent, and soon.  Work is underway to create an endowment to fund the broadcasts for the future.  In the meantime, we need your help. 

Please donate what you can to KEEP KI ON THE AIR! 

 

 

Do you shop at Amazon.com?  You can help KI with a simple click.  Use the link on our KI home page—www.kenesethisrael.org— to shop at Amazon.com. If you click from KI's website link, KI will receive 5.25% of anything that you purchase. The percentage increases with the number of orders per quarter. When you are shopping, please remember the Amazon link at KI! 

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