Our Library - Library of Gratitude

The Library at 384 Harvard Street combines the previous KI library and that of our partner Congregation Mishkan Tefila.  Most of the collection is housed in our main floor Library; many other books are housed in bookcases within the sanctuary or in the Rabbi’s Study or…we are, after all, a Community of Learning.

Our Library is open to all.  Please call the main office or stop in for directions and availability times.

This is not a lending library, but you are welcome to come and read in our comfortable chairs.  We even have coffee.

This Year’s Library of Gratitude book

For more than a quarter century, KI has embraced sending our entire membership a volume of exceptional quality, in the spirit of deep gratitude, to help enrich our inner lives. What we call our Library of Gratitude, (Sifriat Todah) is designed to enrich the inner lives of our members.

This year’s selection, Stand-Up Nation by Aviva Klompas, tells the yet untold story of Israel’s heroic capacity to be a source of help and blessing to the wider world.

Bonus Selection

Because this has been such a challenging year for our people, we’ve decided to add an additional Library of Gratitude selection — one that reminds us of who we are and what we’re fighting to preserve as Jews, today as we have throughout our 4,000 year history. Rabbi Yitz Greenberg’s The Triumph Of Life, centers us, as responsible agents, copartners in bringing Godliness into today’s world.