… It doesn’t matter if you’re not a member of a Kehilla member-led team. … You might know someone who is active and would like you to interview them—or maybe you do a lot of member-led volunteering and could ask another Kehillan to interview you, so that all you have to do is talk. Or maybe you have great photos of a committee event or …
Back in 2008, Joseph and Rita Sklar, along with Jay and Ruth Koch, were looking for ways to connect with other Kehilla members. The organizers landed on the idea of a book group and picked a book that Ruth suggested …
… The BIPOC Congress produced the Make Space/Take Space statement, the core of which provides a concrete practice intended to be used at every Kehilla gathering. …
At this time last year, I didn’t expect to find myself banging on a pizza pan outside Santa Rita, Alameda County’s jail. It had been a long time since I had been active politically. …
… The nature of death is that it can’t really be predicted. We must gather with little notice to serve our community. …
As a kid, I watched the TV news with my mom nightly as she made dinner, and I remember seeing late 1970s network news coverage on Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization and hearing the word “terrorist” for the first time. …
…While on their sabbatical in January, Kehilla Senior Rabbi Dev Noily visited the rural Palestinian community with their wife and son…
On Wednesday February 15, about 75 activists gathered on University Avenue in Berkeley during rush hour to express that not all Jews are Zionists and… Read More »Kehillans Co-Organize Against Billboards Calling Anti-Zionism Antisemitism
Inspired by the spirit of youth-led resistance, the Chavurah for a Free Palestine collaborated with the local chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace to organize a winter fundraiser for the Palestinian Youth Movement-Bay Area…
“I would dare say that the creation of an ethnic Jewish majority state in historic Palestine has not made Jews any safer and it has also made things considerably less safe for Palestinians, to put it mildly… … and that is not to downplay the very real history and current reality of antisemitism throughout the world…
I’m inspired by Palestinians who demonstrate *sumud* (steadfastness) every day as they resist Israeli oppression and dispossession. Rabbi Burt inspires me as he continues to suggest different ways for us to think about this difficult work and how we can best support our Palestinian brothers and sisters…
It is with great excitement that I welcome you to Committee Connection: a new format of the Kehilla committee newsletter now available on the web. Our incredible social justice, community care, and affinity groups are Kehilla’s special sauce…
“I would love to see the stigma, the ugly, ugly, ugly, stigma of homelessness be taken off and seeing us for who we really are: artists, doctors, teachers, and most of all, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons.” …
Being a part of the Chevra Kadisha, having clear practices and rituals, touching, cleaning, dressing and caring for one who has passed, in community… It has been one of the great honors of my life…
Since May, volunteers from Kehilla Community Synagogue, the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California (ICCNC), and Montclair Presbyterian Church, three religious organizations who work together as the Faith Trio…
The idea for a series of classes about Jews of Color came about during meetings of the BIPOC* (Black, Indigenous & People of Color) Council, a subgroup of Kehilla’s Belonging and Allyship Initiative. The Jews of Color (JoC) participating realized they wanted to compare notes and learn more…
This gave Laurel the brilliant idea for Ditty’s virtual closet: to ask members to hold onto medical equipment they no longer were using so it could be loaned to other members when needed…
