Spring Celebration 2023 Raffles #1 – “Reserved for You” – KI Parking Spot for a Year with a Reserved Name Plate #2 – “Flowers for a Year” – Up to 12 Bouquets of Flowers for 12 months #3- “Camp Harlam Plus, Plus, Plus” – $360 towards camp program 12+ days and...
RSVP FOR THE 2023 SPRING CELEBRATION HERE! POSTCARDS ARE DUE MARCH 25th. WE ARE NO LONGER TAKING MEZUZOT FOR THE TIME CAPSULE! As part of this year’s Spring Celebration, Temple Judea Museum artist Leon Chudzinski is creating a three dimensional piece of art to act as a time capsule that...
This coming Friday evening, January 27th, join together with others in the community to recognize International Holocaust Remembrance Day. For the second year in a row, the spiritual leadership and professional choirs of Congregation Keneseth Israel (KI) in Elkins Park will host a very special program designed to honor both...
With the conclusion of Rabbi David’s joyful installation this past Shabbat, it gives us an opportunity to look back on the initial four months of his KI rabbinate, and the opportunities that were offered to our members during this important transition. Many members met Rabbi David in both small and...
Collections are underway! Questions? Contact Jaimie!
Phase Two of our Storm Water Retention Project started today. Several years ago the Greenfaith Task Force of KI and the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford (TTF) Watershed Partnership educated us about the negative environmental impact of water runoff from parking lots taking oil, rock salt and other pollutants into the local creeks. The underground stormwater...
May 25, 2022 Dear Friends: As promised, below are several opportunities for KI members to meet Rabbi Benjamin David, our next rabbi, and for him to get to know us. Please read on, mark your calendars and join us. We are currently planning several small group gatherings throughout the summer...
Dear Friends: This year has been quite a busy one in our Rabbinic Leadership Transition. We have spent the past many months honoring and thanking Rabbi Sussman for his 21 years as our distinguished Senior Rabbi and for his significant accomplishments both within our congregation and the greater community. Concurrently,...
We are obligated at Passover to see ourselves as if we too have escaped from slavery to freedom. So at our seder, past is always present. We relive the journey, the miracle as the Red sea suddenly opens. Then fear- having only moments to decide to chance crossing or stay...
Thank you for inviting me to pray with you this evening. I have been asked, as a Ukrainian-American and a child of immigrants, to talk a little about the situation that is taking place in my father’s homeland. Ukraine is a country in Europe that before this year many people...
