Dear Members of our KI Family,
We hope this note finds you and yours well. Even as times remain trying for our people and for our post-COVID recovery, we look forward to turning a corner this summer in order to enter the Jewish New Year with fresh purpose.
It’s been a year in which demands have enabled KI to discover some new treasures – daily intimacy in online prayer, weekly friendships nourished by sharing over 7,000 meals since March of 2020, monthly inspiration from Teen Takeovers on Shabbat, and record-breaking numbers of young professionals engaged with KI thanks to Base BSTN. Such highlights are among the dozens of new initiatives and programs that you have made happen, alongside our talented lay and professional leaders who continue to shape a bright future for KI and our broader campus vision.
We now invite your renewed commitment to membership at KI. We are particularly excited to introduce a new model designed to customize your support and your commitment. It aims to prioritize, even more than our currently high rate of engagement, your time, talent, and participation, to supplement your financial contributions. It will promote fiscal transparency – detailing what we value – as we shift from a customer-based dues model to a Sustaining Share model. KI’s continued vibrancy depends on your participation, engagement, and financial support.
We encourage you to begin making your plans to join us for the High Holy Days which begin early this Fall, on Labor Day night. We will be offering three High Holy Day Service options this Fall, to meet changing and expanding COVID-safe needs. We’re delighted to share that Hazzan Saul Wachs will celebrate his 50th year with us this year, and we’re also so pleased to share the news that Hazzan Scott Sokol will be returning to lead a service too (both also online). A third outdoor service, not online, will feature our growing cadre of talented lay leaders. We also plan on offering greater variety in prayerbook options to enrich the spiritual quality of these solemn days. Again, to be clear, services will be both in person and online to meet the diverse needs of our ever-widening circle.
We look forward to welcoming you back to KI this fall and we look forward to a healthy, purposeful 5782 together.
Rabbi William Hamilton
Rabbi Elizabeth Bonney-Cohen
Barnet Kessel
Gordon Bennett
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