Special Got Shabbat Dinner with Tomer Cohen
Friday Night, March 7 (Following Services at 6:45-ISH-PM) | SIGN UP KI is delighted to welcome Tomer Cohen of the Harvard Kennedy School to speak at our Got Shabbat dinner on Bridging Divides: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Peace Building in Israel. Dinner includes wine, juice, challah (except on Passover!), and catered meal including fleishig (meat) entrée, vegetarianThrough the Eyes of Ariel Bibas’ 5-Year-Old Best Friend
Through the Eyes of Ariel Bibas’ 5-Year-Old Best Friend Young Yoav wrote letters to his best friend, Ariel Bibas, telling him how much he missed him and couldn’t wait for him to come back to Kindergarten. He’d buy him some sweets and a Batman cape. Yoav’s mom recalled, “Each time he asked me if Ariel
Daily Letter 416: A Beacon
A BeaconKibbutz Manara stands on the Lebanese Border. Founded in 1943, this small Kibbutz, whose name means Lighthouse, has always seen itself as a beacon. We visited last week. 75% of its homes have been incinerated as this one pictured below. And yet, as one of its founders, Rachel Rabin, sister of the late Prime
Celebrate Purim at KI!
Thursday, March 13 - Friday, March 14 SIGN UP HERE Get ready to celebrate! Join KI this Purim for a kid's puppet show and dinner, Megillah Reading, and our first-ever hoedown afterparty! Come in costume (cowboy and western costumes encouraged but not mandatory), bring your groggers, and brace yourself for a toe-tapping, knee-slapping, freyliche Purim! There will be aGot Shabbat with Special Guest Gadi Ezra
Friday, February 7, 6:45PM – SIGN UP HERE Join us in welcoming Gadi Ezra, a human rights attorney and a Special Forces veteran, who has served as National Public Diplomacy Unit Director at the Prime Minister’s Office. Gadi has lectured at Tel-Aviv University School of Law and headed the laws of war desk at the Israeli MFA, where
Shabbat Weekend with Scholar Arnold Eisen
KI is most honored to welcome Arnold Eisen, one of the world’s foremost authorities on American Judaism and chancellor emeritus of The Jewish Theological Seminary and professor of Jewish Thought, for Shabbat weekend on January 3-4. On Friday: Eisen will join us for Got Shabbat, our Friday night Shabbat dinner for all starting at approx.Daily Letter 364: Persistence
One part originality. Nine parts persistence. This is how Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks described our people’s uncanny capacity to survive, indeed to flourish, through our first-4000 years. One of the most powerful examples of persistence is the weekly Newton Center gathering every Sunday morning at 11 am. It’s part of an international network that brings fresh weeklyShabbat with Rabbi Yitz and Blu Greenberg
Friday, November 22, 6:45PM Dinner (following KICKS) and Saturday, November 23 Special Shabbat with Rabbi Yitz and Blu Greenberg REGISTER for Shabbat Dinner in Room m8 | ZOOM Link for Online Join us in welcoming Yitz and Blu as they share their personal reflections of life post October 7th. Dinner includes wine, juice, challah, andStand Up Nation Lessons with Aviva Klompas
Aviva Klompas, one of fiercest advocates for Israel and the Jewish people in recent memory and author of Stand Up Nation, returns to KI for Shabbat on December 14, 2024.On that Saturday, Klompas will deliver a rousing and charging sermon on what the year behind us has meant for our people and how we can