Let Our People Go: Join the Protest, Bring Your Kids & Fight for Justice
by Hillary Brooks, Sam Davis, Rachel Kotok and Laura Weide Want to do more than sign online petitions to fight racist mass incarcerations and deportations, but can’t go to weeknight […]
Wear Your Pronouns! – Another Way to Help Everyone Feel Welcome at Kehilla
Compiled for use at Kehilla Community Synagogue You’ll notice a new addition next to our name tag station. We now have pronoun stickers that you can add to your […]
Growing My Activist Voice
A message from Hazzan Shulamit During the past week, I’ve had several opportunities to be more visible as an activist clergy person in the public realm, and I thought it […]
Growing My Activist Voice
A message from Hazzan Shulamit During the past week, I’ve had several opportunities to be more visible as an activist clergy person in the public realm, and I thought it […]
A Message from Kehilla School’s Director
by Rabbi Gray Myrseth This past Shabbat morning, I had the honor of addressing our community with a few words of Torah. I wanted to share a few excerpts from […]
Finding Yes
by Esther Ehrlich “What do you think?” I ask. It’s Sunday evening and Neal and I are sitting at our kitchen table. I’ve just shown him the email that I […]
Supporting theTrans-Gay Caravan
by Julie Litwin The Kehilla Immigration Committee has volunteered to assist a young trans activist, Valeria, who is part of a caravan of trans and gay youth from Central America […]
Economic Justice Committee Report
by the Economic Justice Committee At the request of Kehilla’s Economic Justice Committee (EJC) the synagogue joined Oakland Community Organizations (OCO) in 2005 after surveying the congregation to learn which […]
Executively Speaking: A Brand New Year
by: Michael Saxe-Taller It’s amazing but here we are, only a couple weeks away from the start of another new year. That means that it is time to take stock […]
Facing Our Times With Spiritual Audacity – Yamim Nora’im / Days of Awe 5778
by Rabbi Dev Noily Last year we gathered for High Holy Days with the election just weeks away and the water protectors holding ceremony at Standing Rock. This year […]