Monday night, August 12th
Arrive 6:45 pm, start at 7:00 pm, chanting Eicha around 8:00 pm
IN-PERSON ONLY, in the Courtyard at Kehilla
***See below for an online observance option
We grieve for Gaza. We grieve for Palestine. We grieve for Israel. We grieve for the dead. We grieve for the wounded. We grieve for the children left without parents, and for the parents left without children. We grieve for those held hostage and those held captive. We grieve for the aid workers and the peace-seekers and builders whose labor has become rubble. We grieve for the earth burned and scarred and saturated with our siblings’ blood.
We need to grieve together.
Join Kehilla’s spiritual leaders in a reflective and expressive space to hold our grief, in art and in song.
This space to hold our personal and collective mourning will move into the traditional chanting of Eicha, the book of Lamentations, which bewails the destruction of the first Temple, painting vivid pictures of ancient horrors, the likes of which we’ve seen again on October 7 and the days since in Gaza and the West Bank. Chanters: Alex Madonik, Natalie Boskin, H’ Shulamit, Binya Koatz, and Jon Rodney.
For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.
- Eicha / Lamentations 1:16
Entrance to the Kehilla event in the Courtyard is on Fairview Ave through the gate. An accessible entrance is through the ‘bus stop door’ on Grand Ave.
*** Join Beyt Tikkun for an online or in person observance of Tisha B’av, Monday, Aug 12, from 6:30-8:30 pm.
Co-sponsored by Rabbis for Ceasefire and Shomeret Shalom. More information and register here.
For in-person attendance, please adhere to the COVID Public Health Protocols:
Please read the full Kehilla COVID Public Health Protocols here (updated January 1, 2024).
- Anyone experiencing ANY symptoms of potentially contagious illness should remain at home and access Kehilla events virtually.
- All people over the age of four attending in-person Kehilla events or services are expected to be masked indoors when not eating: N95, KN95, KF94 or comparable masks required.
- In keeping with our health and safety protocols, Kehilla will provide maximum air filtration and ventilation. Doors and windows will be opened whenever possible.
See a more detailed accessibility description of Kehilla on our website here.
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