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 Note of Introduction from Kehilla School’s New Director from Rabbi Gray Myrseth

I am delighted to be joining the Kehilla community as School Director! Having grown up in the Bay Area and spent the last five years in rabbinical school in Boston, […]

Kehilla Staff Transition

Posted by on Jul 5, 2017 in Announcements, Staff Writing | No Comments

Dear Beloved Kehilla Friends, I am writing to you with news of a bittersweet change for me. I want to let you know that I will soon be moving out […]

My Jewish Homeland: Oakland, California

by Rabbi Dev Noily On February 15, the New York Times reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “that his government was encouraging a ‘mass immigration’ of Jews from […]

Some Thoughts on Israel’s 65th

Some Thoughts on Israel’s 65th by Rabbi David J. Cooper I wanted to share with you some of my thinking as we enter the month that marks the 65th anniversary […]

Talking to our Kids About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – A Message and Invitation from Rabbi Dev

How do we talk to our kids about Israel/Palestine?  One of the most challenging things I face as a rabbi, an educator and a parent is finding developmentally appropriate ways […]