October 1, 2021 Focus Groups are Upcoming as We Await Candidate Applications Dear Friends: Now that the congregation survey is completed and results have been analyzed, the Rabbinic Search Committee has turned its attention to planning the upcoming Focus Groups. Coordinated by Liz Kaufman-Taylor, Marijke Shenkman and Andrew Altman, these...
We learn from Jewish tradition that we must never be far away from the study of Torah! This past week, Jews all over the world celebrated the holiday of Simchat Torah. We rejoiced together with singing and dancing because we completed the reading of the entire Torah! But as soon...
Next Monday night, September 27 and Tuesday morning September 28, we will be celebrating the last of the Jewish Fall holidays together online. Following Reform tradition, we will celebrate Simchat Torah on Monday night and Shemini Atzeret-Yiskor on Tuesday. Observances will be online only, both for health reasons and to...
Search Process FAQs Why are we conducting a search for our next Senior Rabbi? After 22 years of distinguished service to the members of KI, our Senior Rabbi Lance Sussman is officially retiring from the KI pulpit on June 30, 2022. His last Shabbat on the pulpit will be June...
KI RABBINIC SEARCH COMMITTEE Search Committee Co-chairs Janice Schwartz-Donahue has been a member of KI for nearly 40 years although her family’s connection to KI reaches back to the 1920s. She taught 5th grade in Philadelphia for 39 years and was an active KI Sisterhood member, serving as Sisterhood Co-President...
August 16, 2021 Rabbinic Search – Congregation Survey Report Dear Congregants: We would like to thank those of you in our congregation who took the time to fill out the Rabbinic Search Congregation Survey. The information gleaned will help to inform the Search Committee’s work as we move through this...
Twenty years ago on the morning of 9.11 I was watching TV like I always do with some coffee and an occasional yawn and an outstretched arm. It was a beautiful morning that 9.11. blue sky, crisp air, until the news flashed a weird story about a passenger plane hitting...
From Rabbi Sussman on 9.11~ 9.11.2021 Twenty years ago On the morning of 9.11 I was watching TV. It was a beautiful morning Blue sky Crisp air Until the news flashed a weird story About a plane hitting the North Tower of the World Trade Center without explanation A terrible...
Over the pandemic, one of my sins has been personifying COVID. I have found myself saying COVID has taken away opportunities to be together, to mourn together, to gather in large groups safely. I have found myself saying COVID brings out our selfish natures and COVID is divisive. COVID has...
By the time you receive this message, the weekend of Labor Day 2021 will have already begun. Rosh Hashanah, 5782, will commence on the evening of Monday, September 6. We will gather in person and online to usher in the New Year with solemnity, seriousness and high purpose. A difficult...
