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…
