NOTE: This is the 5th in a series of posts linking social and environmental justice issues to the 7 sephirot of the Omer cycle. To read the past four posts, please visit our blog. WEEK 5: Tiferet: Opening to Beauty & Brokenness by Michelle Moskowitz Brown The light of Tiferet is strong, demanding, radiant. Notice colors this Read More
Category: Holiday Celebrations
Meet Aviva Marchione, Our 5784 High Holiday Spiritual Leader
For the third year, Kehilat Sukkat Shalom is proud to welcome a Rabbinic Intern from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) to join us as a Spiritual Leader for the High Holy Days. Our Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur prayer services and social gatherings are enhanced by the presence of guest leaders who bring a new Read More
Meet Our Guest Spiritual Leader for the 5783/2022 High Holy Days
The KSS Board of Directors is proud to announce our Guest Spiritual Leader for the 5783/2022 High Holy Days. Elya Zissel Piazza (they/them) is a student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) while also completing their dissertation in Jewish studies from UC Berkeley. Elya is passionate about community building through teaching and learning, song, ritual, Read More
High Holiday Homecoming: Welcoming Spiritual Leader Alana Krivo-Kaufman
“We are at a moment of reckoning after a year in which the interconnected pandemics of COVID, of racism and state-violence and of climate catastrophe ask each of us individually and collectively — how will we meet this moment?”