Kol HaLev Weekly Bulletin

This Shabbat

Kabbalat Shabbat

Friday, February 6, 7:00pm

CHC Chapel IN-PERSON and Virtual

We hope you join Marcie Weinstein, Beth Bugnaski, and Helene Miller in the Chapel to welcome in Shabbat this week! 

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Shabbat Morning Service

Saturday, February 7, 10:00am

CHC Chapel IN-PERSON and Virtual

We can't wait to see you for Shabbat morning service with Rabbi's Emily and Steven as well as Cantorial soloist Mara Yaffee.

For this week's Torah service, 3 alliyot will be chanted from Parshat Yitro - the giving of the 10 commandments!

Please remember that the chapel is a fragrance free building.

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Annual Repro Shabbat

Saturday, February 14

 This Shabbat is the annual Repro Shabbat, dedicated to learning about where the laws for Reproductive Rights 

come from in the Torah. This initiative is headed by the National Council for Jewish Women, and Marcie Weinstein 

will be leading our discussion on this topic. 

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KHL Board Meeting

Sunday, February 15, 10:00am

All are welcome!

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Kol HaLev’s Sunday School for All Ages!

Art with a Heart

Sunday, March 1, 12:00pm-2:00pm

Church of the Holy Comforter

We will have an interfaith program making tote bags with families from various

religious establishments around Baltimore. Rabbi Emily will teach a little about Purim. 

Please RSVP to Laurie.

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Prayer Group with Kol HaLev and Church of the Holy Comforter

Monday, March 2, 6:00pm

CHC Chapel

All are welcome to join Rabbi Emily and Rev. Anne in a safe space for prayer. Everyone is welcome to leave a prayer on a bulletin board at CHC even if you can't make it. We will gather all the cards and pray together. Prayers can be personal and/or global. 

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Trivia with The Church of the Holy Comforter

Saturday, March 7, 2:00pm

RSVP to Alan by March 1st if you will be joining the KHL team. The event is free but there will be a collection 

for the TJ (Trivia Jockey) who not only hosts the event but writes all the questions. 

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New Members’ Shabbat - New Date!

Saturday, April 4, 2026, 10:00am

At this special Shabbat morning service, we will honor new members of KHL with a group aliyah.  

More information to come!

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Community News

Faith in the Public Square: Safeguarding our multireligious democracy

Tuesdays, February 3 and 10, 7:00–8:30pm

**Date change due to inclement weather**

ICJS Library, 956 Dulaney Valley Rd., Towson, MD 21204

What does it mean to be religious in America today? What do we do when our religious freedom brushes against

the boundaries of someone else’s? What does faith freedom for all look like? How are we supposed

to engage when we’re told our differences keep us apart? 

We are often told that the United States was founded upon the idea of religious liberty, but what was the goal,

and what does that mean for all of us in 2026? 

In this three-week series for Fellowship for Congregations alumni and any member of their congregation, we will take

time to explore the history and law, dive into the way religious liberty is playing out in the national landscape today,

and discuss why it is essential in an interreligious society. 

Click here to register.

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'The Magic Lantern'

Thursday, February 12, 5:30pm, The Avalon Theatre

Saturday, February 14, 6:30pm, Regal Gallery Place Theater

The Magic Lantern is an amazing story about a woman, Marijke Brown, who, after receiving a strange letter, discovers that she was one of 500+ infants and children who were rescued by the Dutch Underground during the Holocaust. For the last 30 years, she and her son Eli Brown, the filmmaker, have explored this mystery and the roots that were a mystery to her. 

All DCIFF screenings are followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers. In addition to the director, 

Elizabeth P.W., who is the film’s composer and a very well-known musician, will be sitting on the Q&A panel. 

The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam talks about this story and the woman who is featured in the film, on their website.

Click here to view the trailer of the film or to purchase tickets. Use code MAGICLAN to save $4 on tickets.

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Food Drive

Due to increasing food insecurity, we are collecting non-perishable foods for donation. When you come to services, 

please consider making it your practice to bring donations, and we will bring it to a Maryland food bank location.

Click here for a list of items that are needed most.

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Container Drive

One of our members, Jodean Marks, is contributing food to an outdoor fridge in the B'more Community Fridge Network and needs empty containers in which to put food (e.g., containers for guacamole, hoummos, or potato salad; microwaveable takeout containers, single-serve beverage containers). Please bring empty, rinsed containers to KHL.

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Contributing to the Newsletter

The deadline for all newsletter submissions is Sunday at noon and

must have prior approval from Rabbi Emily. Thank you for your cooperation.

The weekly KHL newsletter goes out on Tuesdays. If you’d like to put an item in the newsletter, please clear it with Rabbi Emily and Alan Silver by noon on the previous Sunday. Suitable items include KHL activities, some CHC activities, and events of particular interest in the larger Jewish community. Please provide a complete paragraph (or several paragraphs) with all relevant information. 

As a rule, the KHL newsletter does not reprint content from other sources, whether print or digital.  A summary and a link to the content may be provided instead. If you have material that you think is vitally important to reprint in the KHL newsletter, please provide proof of permission from the author(s) and publisher.  The relevant information on copyright law is available here.

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