A Statement From the Social Justice Committee June 1, 2020 To Our Beloved KI Community: We, the members of the Social Justice Committee, have focused our efforts on education and advocacy: Education designed to forge bonds of understanding across difference, and advocacy related to voting. In January of this year,...
God Bless America. 2 God bless America Ideals that I love Through the gas and the glass In the night of our broken laws From our cities to the White House To the police stations Burned and charred God bless America Land filled with scars God bless America Its streets...
I Can’t Breathe I can’t breathe, The knee of oppression Is on my neck. I can’t breathe, The air of my city Is filled with tear gas. I can’t breathe, I am filled with rage And the smoke of burning buildings. I can’t breathe Because the air is filled with...
Dear KI Congregants, Rabbi Sussman recently shared, on his Facebook page, the message from Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, regarding the Reform Movement’s feelings about reopening our houses of worship during this pandemic. I hope you have had time to read his words and I...
I was amazed to learn earlier this week that over 600 people had viewed and liked my posting on Facebook of Rabbi Rick Jacobs’, President of the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ), message that Reform synagogues will stay closed for the foreseeable future in response to COVID-19. “The saving of...
Numbers matter, especially when it comes to the worldwide numbers of the food insecure, due the pandemic. In my recent conversation with Deborah Carver, Director of the InterFaith Food Cupboard (Abington Food Pantry), numbers are heartbreaking and hopefully motivate us to help. She shared “that our food demand has been...
We can all agree that experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic has been a unique, unprecedented, and disconcerting experience. Nearly every aspect of life as we knew has been significantly disrupted. School, work, travel, sports, culture, and faith all have been re-tracked, sidelined or even shut down. It has only been a...
Dear KI Congregants, My Presidency began last June with an expectation that our theme for the year would be one of Tikkun Olam. I have been committed to working on Social Action issues and bringing Social Justice programming to KI since I served as co-President of our Sisterhood over 15...
Rabbi Stacy Rigler thanked us in last week’s eKI for the support we have given her during the 17 years she has been on staff at our synagogue. As a Rabbi Educator, she described how much she has enjoyed being a part of our community. Rabbi Rigler created and directed...
In many places, mostly prematurely in my opinion, people are talking about “opening up” America again. We don’t need to get into that debate here, but I do think we can begin to speculate on what the new normal is going to look like after COVID-19 is relegated to the...
