Come spend time in the Sukkah!
Beginning Wednesday night on Erev Sukkot, we will have a Sukkah up in the backyard of Kehilla! We would love folks to come and spend time there. All are welcome in […]
High Holy Day Sermons 5778/2017
Our High Holy Day Sermons are now available to read online: Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon by Howard Hamburger (coming soon) Rosh Hashanah Morning Sermon by Jessica Shen-Wachter Kol Nidre Sermon […]
Yom Kippur Afternoon Sermon by Rabbi David Cooper: On “Sumud,” Uncertainty, Hope, Losing and Winning
In the summer of 1967, as a teenager, I was on tour in Israel just after the Six Day War. I arrived as a committed supporter of Israel in every […]
Sign up to Volunteer for Simchat Torah!
On Thursday October 12 at 6:30 pm, Kehilla, Chochmat HaLev, Aquarian Minyan and Beyt Tikkun come together at Kehilla to end and begin the Torah and to dance, dance, dance […]
Kol Nidre Sermon by Rabbi Dev Noily: “I Will Sing for People Who Might not Sing for Me”*
When I was 12 or 13, I came home one day wearing my friend Steve Rogers’ necklace. It was a leather string with painted ceramic beads on it. And right […]
Rosh Hashanah Morning Sermon by Jessica Shen-Wachter
As a Chinese American Jew, for as long as I can remember I have been passionate about social justice. I remember meeting with my principal as a fifth grader because […]
“Tai: A Yom Kippur Sermon” by Aurora Levins Morales
[The theme of Kehilla Community Synagogue’s High Holy Days was “spiritual audacity” drawn from these words by Abraham Joshua Heschel, written in 1963: “The hour calls for moral grandeur […]