First Thursdays: Post-Election Wrap-Up: What does it mean for us as Jews?
Post-Election Wrap-Up: What does it mean for us as Jews? Presented by Rabbi Lance Sussman This session will be presented via Zoom only. On Tuesday, November 5, 2024, American’s went to the polls for the 60th time to elect its next president. The two major candidates were former President Donald J. Trump and Vice President […]
The Rosh Chodesh Experience: Cheshvan
The Rosh Chodesh Experience: Cheshvan Savoring the simple, and celebrating the everyday sacred. This evening will be focused on gratitude and making the mundane holy. Snacks & libations, too! $15 per person. Registration required by October 30. Doors open at 6:30 pm for mingling; Program starts promptly at 7:00 pm. This series is for Kol Ami congregants […]
Boomers Book Club: Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
June 29 – Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them. In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the […]
Boomers Book Club: Hotel Cuba
April 27 – Hotel Cuba, by Aaron Hamburger The Boomers will gather remotely to discuss Hotel Cuba by Aaron Hamburger. From the award-winning author of The View from Stalin’s Head, a stunning novel about two sheltered Russian Jewish sisters, desperate to get to America to make a new life, who find themselves trapped in the sultry, […]
Boomers Book Club: A Gentleman in Moscow
February 16 – A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day […]
Boomers Book Club: The Women
December 15 – The Women, by Kristin Hannah From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah’s The Women ― at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light […]
Boomers Book Club: One Hundred Saturdays
November 3 – One Hundred Saturdays, by Michael Frank The Boomers will gather remotely to discuss One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank. The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the author over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of […]
First Thursdays: How Jewish Music Became Mainstream
How Jewish Music Influenced the Music of Mainstream America with Ira S. Miller, Ph.D. Whether the source comes from Jewish Folk Songs or our Liturgy, Jewish music has found its way into America’s Popular Music and even some classical music we grew up with as Americans. Sometimes ideas or philosophies from a Jewish source inspire […]
Labor Day (Offices Closed)
Offices and school closed.
Winter Break / Chanukah (Offices & School Closed)
Offices and school closed.