Parking Lot Construction
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...
Support Local Farms … Join the CSA Fall Season
On sale NOW. The fall season provides amazing seasonal produce and local products. Join the Kol Ami Hazon CSA at Congregation Adath Jeshurun. This CSA proudly partners with Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative (LFFC), a non-profit cooperative of over 120 Amish and Mennonite organic farmers. Lancaster Farm Fresh offers a variety...
May 25, 2022: Rabbinic Transition Small Group Meetings
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...
April 28, 2022 ~Rabbinic Transition Update
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
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...
Nicholas Rudnytzky ~ March 18th, 2022
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...
Mask Policy Update
Dear KI Congregants, In keeping up with the recent recommendations from the CDC, as well as the Montgomery County Office of Public Health, and in the spirit of Pikuach Nefesh, the Jewish value of safeguarding life, we are updating our Covid safety protocols. These changes do not apply to our...
Security Assessment Notice
Dear KI Congregants, Early in 2020, we determined that the national rise in anti-Semitism and hate crimes demanded an increase in our security measures. To protect our school children, staff, members and guests, the Board of Directors voted to engage armed security officers whenever our building was open. At that time...
A Message from KI’s Social Justice Committee
Every so often a congregant questions how we decide on the issues we support. We recognize that this important question deserves a considered response. Our committee was established in 2016, and shortly thereafter we decided that we would support positions taken by the Religious Action Center (RAC) which for more...