Dear Kol Rinah Family,
There's a lot in this email this week--read to the bottom!!!
Last Shabbat, it was such a pleasure to welcome 5th year rabbinical student Ariel Ya'akov Dunat to Kol Rinah as part of a JTS Student Ambassador Shabbat. Ariel spoke and taught beautifully throughout Shabbat. You can read their Shabbat morning d'var Torah here.
The world, the Jewish people, and the Conservative movement, need more rabbis, and need more people to consider becoming rabbis. Is there anyone you know who you could imagine becoming a rabbi someday? I'd be happy to give them a nudge or chat with them about it. Let me know.
I want to share two other articles and a podcast with you this week. In their weekly podcast, Rabbi Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi talk about the escalating war in Lebanon with Hezbollah. I found it helpful in understanding the ways Israelis are thinking about this, and it's worth a listen.
One of the hardest sets of ideas to disentangle and speak and think clearly about is antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and Zionism and pro-"Israelism." This article from the Forward makes a really thoughtful attempt at clarifying the ways these ideas overlap and yet can be distinct. I also love the visual representation. It's well worth the read, and even printing out to save and refer to. I'm curious to hear if you find it helpful.
Finally, I'm sending this out not the moment before Rosh Hashanah, but a few days before so that you can read it before Rosh Hashanah. It's an ode to synagogue staff superheroes for all that they do before, during and after the High Holidays. If you see or speak with our Executive Director Stacey Hudson, our Director of Operations and Finance Meir Zimand, our Experiential Learning Specialist Karen Kern, our KoREH (Religious School) Director Cindy Kalachek, our Executive Assistant Nancy Greene, or our maintenance staff of Octavio Vargas and his team, please say thank you them!
There is a ton happening this weekend!
It's the last Shabbat of 5784. Come sing Shabbat in and the year out with Karen Kern and I tonight at our musical Kabbalat Shabbat at 6pm.
Candle lighting is at 6:41pm.
Tomorrow morning, we'll start at 9am. I'll be leading Torah Talk at 10:10am. I'll be teaching and speaking about a relevant halakhic fiction and the bigger message of it.
Shabbat ends at 7:37pm.
Saturday night we'll gather for Selichot, the service that welcomes and kicks off the High Holiday season. We'll start with havdalah at 8pm. After that, to get us into the spirit and to open our hearts, I'll be teaching some more material from Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi on teshuvah, which I'm really excited about (we did some very moving learning with similar but different material Wednesday evening!).
At 9pm, we'll start Selichot, I always love this service--it features some of the most intense singing of the entire year. Come join us to begin the process of turning and returning.
Sunday morning, September 29 at 9:15am, Prof. Shira Billet of JTS will be with us to teach on What is the Machzor Thinking?" or Liturgy as Philosophy: The Siddur and the High Holiday Machzor in Jewish Thought.
This class is sponsored by the Hereld Institute for Jewish Studies of JTS and the Leo and Sara Wolf Adult Education Fund of Kol Rinah. Details here.
Also, as a reminder, if you'd like to borrow a machzor for the High Holidays (we'll have plenty here for anyone coming in person), you can come by the office during business hours or pick them up in the lobby this Sunday from 9:15-11:15am.
Sunday, September 29 will be Sababa, a festival of Jewish arts and culture, taking place this year on the Millstone Campus of the J and Jewish Federation. Many organizations, including Kol Rinah, will have tables there.
Camp Ramah in Wisconsin will also be at Sababa! If you're interested in learning about Ramah, meet them at their table there, or be in touch with them to schedule a time to meet. Details here. I'm also happy to talk about Ramah and other Jewish camps, and connect anyone interested to people with experiences at a range of camps.
Monday, September 30, the Shalom Hartman Institute will be holding a virtual day of learning from 8am-11pm CDT to "honor the shloshim (30 days after the death) of the six hostages murdered last month, show solidarity with the 101 hostages still in captivity, and call on the Israeli government and the international community to prioritize their return. In learning together, we will comfort one another and the mourners, think critically and morally about the challenges before us, and inspire one another to act and create a revolution for good." Details and registration here.
All of our High Holiday information is now online here. If you know people who are not members who are planning to come to services, please have them fill out the guest registration form, so that we can welcome them smoothly and have nametags for them!
We also need lots of help in all ways on the holidays. If you would like to participate or help in any way, you can always just email me and I'll forward your interest to the appropriate folks.
The St. Louis Jewish Community coming together for an a commemoration of October 7 on October 7, 2024 at 7pm. Registration and more info are here.
For more and collected Israel information, see this page on our website, as well as the Jewish Federation of St. Louis's Israel Resources page.
Every Shabbat and festival morning, we are still reciting a prayer for the State of Israel, a prayer for Israel Defense Forces soldiers, and a prayer for hostages, who have now been in captivity 357 days.
May the one who makes peace in the heavens make peace over us, and over all Israel, and over all who dwell in the world.
Shabbat shalom,
Rabbi Noah Arnow
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