Last Sunday the Social Justice Committee distributed $10,000 collected through a Facebook fundraiser to residents of the Regina Rose Apartments, who have been displaced from their homes for two months due to unsafe conditions. Residents were forced into motels or makeshift accommodations with friends and family, incurring unexpected expenses while...
Part of this week’s Torah portion, Re’eh, from Deuteronomy 13 contains an extensive discussion of false prophets. Determining true and false prophecy is just as much modern as it was an ancient problem. Prophecy, is not just a matter of predicting the future, indeed even from a Biblical perspective, clairvoyance...
Jewish Relief Agency (JRA) is seeking volunteers to assist with packing and delivering boxes of food and critical household goods to families in need in our community ahead of the upcoming Rosh Hashanah holiday. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, JRA re-engineered our program model to allow individuals and families to volunteer...
Dear members of Keneseth Israel, My name is Viveka Hall-Holt, and I currently serve as a summer intern for Interfaith Philadelphia and am a rising senior at St. Olaf College. I am reaching out to you about a research study that I am doing which includes a short, 20 minute anonymous...
Dear fellow congregants, I hope this finds you happy and healthy. I am looking forward to spending August developing plans for this year’s Inclusion Committee. I do hope you have followed the experiences of Inclusion at KI during the past months: the LGBT+ Pride Shabbat, the ADD Shabbat, the panels on COVID,...
Artist, Rochelle Dinkin, KI member and member of the TJM Artists’ Collaborative invites the KI community to a celebration event, September 9th from 4:30 to 7:00pm for her current one person exhibition at PAFA. Details below. The PAFA Alumni Gallery is pleased to present “The Mystical Heroine Revisited”, an exhibition of...
The IRA Charitable Rollover provision allows individuals who have reached the age of 70 1/2 to donate up to $100,000 annually to charitable organizations directly from their individual Retirement Accounts (IRA) without treating the distribution as taxable income. Your gift can be designated toward membership, the Spring Fundraiser, a general...
From Warriors to Guardians: Reimagining Community Values in Policing May 4th from 6:00 to 7:30 PM Please join us for an important program on policing presented by KI members on the Eastern Montco Interfaith Coalition (EMIC) and Arcadia University. Presenters will include Eddie Graham, President of the Cheltenham Area Branch of...
Fair Districts PA Presents Program About the Dangers of Gerrymandering – Watch Here! By Rachel Goff, Social Justice Committee Member The Social Justice Committee hosted William Gross, a speaker form Fair Districts PA, on Jan. 25 who examined the dangers of gerrymandered districts. Gerrymandering, Mr. Gross pointed out, reduces competition,...
Moral Compass: Artists Respond to Crises Temple Judea Museum exhibition January – March 2021 KI MEMBERS RESPOND TO THE PANDEMIC: MUSIC SOOTHES THE SOUL – Fran Schwartz We are all searching for ways to fill these long pandemic days, weeks and months. Whether it is reading, exercising, watching TV, socializing outdoors,...
