Rabbis' Voice Articles

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Building Sacred Community

What is Kol Rinah? 

Kol Rinah is our ambitious vision and nearly completed new facility that will help Kol Rinah build a sacred community today, tomorrow and for generations to come. 

And Kol Rinah is so much more. 

Kol Rinah is twice-daily minyanim led by our congregants. 

Kol Rinah is our Chesed Committee, which supports congregants going through difficult times by calling people, sending meals, setting up homes for shiva and visiting the sick. 

Kol Rinah is KoREH, creating an engaging, active, and innovative approach to supplementary Jewish education for our next generation. 

Kol Rinah is our traditional Shabbat morning services with full Torah reading, opportunities for celebrating simchas, coffee bar, participatory lay-led and clergy-led prayers, Torah Talk, sermons and weekly kiddush lunch with lots of schmooze time. 

Kol Rinah is our Early Childhood Center, creating Jewish connections for young children and their families as we raise a generation. 

Kol Rinah is our staff, board, officers, and committees that ensure that we have the resources, smooth operations and governance we need. 

Kol Rinah is our Friday night services, with a wide and sophisticated musical repertoire bringing moments of joy and introspection at week’s end. 

Kol Rinah is our multigenerational population, all of whom bring their own wisdom, perspectives and joy.

Kol Rinah is our multiple opportunities for engagement on the High Holidays, from learning, to different styles of services, to family gatherings, to a moment when our whole congregation gathers together to hear the shofar. 

Kol Rinah is our Sisterhood and Brotherhood, creating opportunities for fellowship for male and female identified folks associated with our congregation, while serving Kol Rinah in so many helpful and generous ways. 

Kol Rinah is our sweet, small and radically inclusive USY chapter. 

Kol Rinah is our serious commitment to kashrut, and our professional and volunteer mashgichim (kosher supervisors). 

Kol Rinah is our rich intellectual life of scholars-in-residence programs, classes with rabbis and congregants, book groups, Verein learning group, our love of Israel and our many community learning opportunities. 

Kol Rinah is our developing social justice team helping us to serve and work to make our community and world more just. 

Kol Rinah is the never-ending quest to build, sustain, and improve our synagogue, going deeper, reaching higher. 

Kol Rinah is striving to create, find, notice and appreciate moments of God’s presence in our lives, community and world. 

Kol Rinah is all of us and the web of relationships between us through which we feel seen, known, cared for, and mutually obligated to see, know and care for others. 

And in the years to come, Kol Rinah will be so much more.