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April 29, 2025
April 29, 2025
Kol HaLev Synagogue and Art With A Heart Event
Sunday, May 4, 10:00am
3000 Falls Rd, Mill #1
It’s time to start thinking about Shavuot (receiving Torah and 10 commandments)
$18 payable onsite. We will be working with clay as a connection to the 10-commandment tablet.
Registration required. Please RSVP khlinterg@gmail.com
This Shabbat
This Shabbat
Kabbalat Shabbat
Friday, May 2, 7:00pm
CHC Chapel and virtual
The prayer leadership cohort will be leading Friday night services. Come support your friends!
Join us on Thursday nights if you would like to be part of this endeavor.
Note: Omer counting will be done during the service on Friday nights.
There will be no separate meeting to count.
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Shabbat Morning Service
Saturday, May 3, 10:00am
CHC Chapel and virtual
Join Rabbis Emily and Steven with Cantorial Soloist Mara Yaffee this morning in prayer and celebration.
(Please remember that the chapel is a fragrance-free zone.)
Counting the Omer
Counting the Omer
Every Night through Saturday, May 31
(except Friday Nights!)
8:00pm–8:30pm — virtual
Come when you can - every night or any night! We're always happy to see you!
We will say the blessing and discuss the energy of the day according to the kabbalistic tradition.
Continue the process of liberation every night for 49 days, until Shavuot.
We will not be meeting on Friday nights because we will be counting during Shabbat services.
This Week
This Week
World Zionist Congress Elections
The World Zionist Organization is holding elections for its Congress, which will meet in Jerusalem in October to make decisions on policy, leadership, and the distribution of more than $1 billion in funds for Israel and diaspora Jewry.
The elections are now open, with a deadline of May 4, and most adult American Jews are eligible to vote. There is a $5 fee to help cover costs.
Our parent organization, Reconstructing Judaism, is endorsing the Hatikvah slate, which calls for immediate negotiations for peace in Gaza, a path toward a broader peace, and civil rights for all residents of Israel. It is the only one of 22 slates to do so.
Click here to vote. For an article explaining what’s at stake, click here.
Ongoing Events
Ongoing Events
Community Gathering
Wednesday, April 30, 7:00pm - virtual
A chance to reflect and connect with friends in a sacred space. Need some more support? Want closer connections with your
community? Please join us in a compassionate environment for sharing and listening. We need each other now more than ever.
All are welcome!
Please note - during Counting the Omer, Community Gathering is being held at 7:00pm.
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Service Leadership Workshop with Rabbi Emily
Thursday, May 1, 6:00pm - virtual
The first Friday of every month a member (or some configuration of members) from our
prayer leadership group will be leading services. Enjoy this opportunity for learning and creativity. If the structure
of the services feels random or hidden from you, come, learn, grow, and explore with your KHL friends.
Save the Dates!
Save the Dates!
JUFJ National Day of Action
Thursday, May 1st
On May Day - also known as International Workers day - hundreds of rallies will be held across the country, including one in Baltimore to "Stop the Billionaire Takeover." Jews United for Justice is joining our local May Day rallies in support of workers and immigrants who are fighting back against cruel federal policies designed to tear families apart and destroy local communities. JUFJ has put out a call for action to participate in May Day events scheduled for Thursday May 1st in DC, and information about those events can be found here. For anyone interested in participating in Baltimore May 1st events, JUFJ's Baltimore labor partners are also organizing a series of marches and more information can be found here.
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Speaking Across Differences
Minicourse taught by Benjamin Sax
Wednesdays, May 7, 14 and 21, 7:00pm-8:30pm
Online via Zoom, Free - Register Here
This course will interrogate the question of what it means to dialogue during a time of political violence, persecution,
gaslighting, and oppression. Very often we teach that tolerance is a virtue in dialogue, yet should we also
be tolerant of intolerance? How does that work?
The concept of tolerance in philosophy is often elusive and, at times, replete with paradoxes and antinomies. How
does our dialogical obligation to the Other reconcile our civic responsibility to oppose what we perceive to be unethical
and irresponsible beliefs, behaviors, or policies? Can we dialogue when we perceive our Other as either complicit with, or
worse a perpetrator of the very worldviews that support and condone hatred and violence?
We will consider a variety of views and try to chart a new dialogical path together by examining how different philosophers,
political theorists, historians, and theologians have broached these questions during their own times of political peril.
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Lag Ba’Omer
Thursday, May 15, 6:30pm
Led by Jennifer Zunikoff at CHC
As we travel from the Exodus to Sinai, from Passover to Shavuot, we need nourishment to keep us moving. On Lag B'omer (Thursday, May 15th), let's take a break to take stock of where we are along the path. Jennifer will guide us through a gentle process of sharing our stories with partners and listening with our hearts to the challenges we have experienced and the strength that has brought us to this moment on our journey.
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Kolot Halev Annual Concert
Thursday, May 15, 8:00pm
This should be a wonderful concert and will include one of Cantor George's compositions!
Click here for more information and to purchase tickets.
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Annual Congregational Meeting
Sunday, June 22, 10:00am
More information to come.
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ALEPH Conference
Monday, June 30 - Sunday, July 6
ALEPH, the organization associated with Jewish Renewal that Rabbis Emily and Steven attended
for Rabbinic Ordination, is having their big gathering here in Baltimore! What a treat! The
conference is June 30th- July 6th over July 4th Shabbat. We are trying to gauge interest in
Kol HaLev attending. There are discounts available for groups of 8 or more for the week of
learning, as well as circumstances we can figure out if we have a group interested in attending
for shabbat. Please email Rabbi Steven if you are interested in joining KHL for this endeavor.
Community Information
Community Information
May Birthdays
We wish a very happy birthday to our members and friends who are celebrating in May: Ayelet Unguru, Edna Garte,
Jennifer Zunikoff, Rabbi Emily Stern, Deborah Shapiro, Ben Bocian, Edith Querido, Paul Cronan, Quinn McCabe,
David Rosenberg, Gary Haber, Dylan Dalsheimer, Rabbi Jan Dodi, Nora Frenkiel, Kenneth Albert, Toni Pollin.
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May Yahrzeits
We remember our loved ones and friends whose yahrzeits occur in May: William Rosenthal, father of Linda Silvern;
Barbara McMonigle, friend of Barbara Bluestone; Herbert Gewirtz, father of Susan Gewirtz and grandfather of Michael Martin;
Leonard Pondfield, father of Jodie Silver; Ann Rosenthal, mother of Linda Silvern; Lev Zuskin, son of Morey Zuskin and Lauren
Zuskin and brother of Ellie Jean Zuskin; Craig Feldman, brother of Paul Feldman; Gertrude Danziger, mother of Gina Danziger;
Shendel Rubenstein, great grandmother of Sheldon Pearlman; Michael Stysley, father of Paul Stysley.
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🎶 High Holidays Choir 🎶
This High Holidays, we are starting a choir organized by Mara.
Any interest in joining? Email Rabbi Emily.
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Kabbalat Shabbat Service in Your Home!
Would you like to invite Kol HaLev to your home for Friday night services? R' Emily will come with her guitar and lead a short
Shabbat service followed by a potluck! It’s really intimate and fun to be together in a comfortable and cozy environment.
Please email Rabbi Emily if you are interested in having us to your home on the second Friday of any month!
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Have you gotten your Mitzvah Cards yet?
For any occasion, simcha, or offering of condolences, consider
purchasing a card from KHL, showcasing our beautiful Torah mantle!
Please contact Alan Silver if you would like to purchase Mitzvah Cards.
Alan can also be reached at 443-996-3445.
10 cards (with envelopes) for $36.
Or a single card for $5.
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Stay Informed!
We have adopted text messages to provide important information about KHL and KHL events.
Add 410.346.9989 to your contact list so that you will know the text is from KHL.
You can opt out of our sms messages by replying STOP. You can also “unsubscribe” by logging into the member portal,
hovering over “My Account,” choosing “My Subscriptions,” click edit, uncheck the sms subscription, click save.
We are also using Instagram and Facebook for publicizing KHL, so we encourage people to subscribe!
Website
Website
For more about Kol HaLev, our people, services, programs, and events,
check out the updated Kol HaLev website at www.kolhalevmd.org!
Newsletter
Newsletter
Contributing to the Newsletter: 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.
Rabbi Emily Stern: 516-835-9995, rabbi@kolhalevmd.org
President Alan Silver: 443-996-3445, president@kolhalevmd.org
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