Shabbat may be the greatest gift the Jews gave to the world. Without it (and union activists) would we even have a week-end?! This January, when we are all in search of healing — from the traumas of 2020 and the tumultuous start of 2021 — the calendar has given us an BONUS Shabbat. And Read More
Category: Torah
January Events at KSS
Following are just a few highlights for January to get you started! And as always, if you have programming ideas you want to share or are feeling inspired to lead, please reach out. The KSS Board looks forward to hearing from you! Jodi Jewish, Grassroots, and Local: Organizing for Justice with Carolina Jews for JusticeSunday Jan Read More
Chanukah – 8 Days for Climate Change
Chanukah begins tonight at sundown. Many take this time to celebrate possibilities – that a small army can defeat a larger one and that right will overcome might. But it is also a time for Jews to imagine a brighter world brought about through energy conservation. As we live through and work to halt climate Read More
Donations to Our Neighbors in Need
As part of our Yom Kippur day of fasting at Sukkat Shalom, our thoughts turn to our neighbors for whom being hungry is not a choice. In the past we have collected food for the Clintonville Resource Center; this year we invite you to make a cash donation to either the CRC or to Local Matters Read More
Marking Time, Making Community
The Jewish people have survived millennia by recreating our traditions and rituals. Sukkat Shalom is blessed to be dually-inspired towards this goal through our connections with Reconstructing Judaism and ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. Reconstructionism teaches us that Judaism is an evolving civilization. As such it is our duty as Jews to find ways to Read More
Taking White Supremacy to Court: The Charlottesville Case
Join us on September 21st at 12pm ET for “Taking White Supremacy to Court: The Charlottesville Case.” Lead attorney Roberta Kaplan and IFA Executive Director Amy Spitalnick will discuss our groundbreaking Charlottesville lawsuit and the broader fight against violent white supremacy at this moment—moderated by former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Yvette McGee Brown, with opening Read More
Plastic Brand Audit – Sunday, September 13
Please join us on Sunday, September 13 for our Plastic Brand Audit. – See below for more information about what and why WHERE: We will meet in the east end of the Henderson Road Kroger parking lot (1955 Henderson Rd, Upper Arlington, OH 43220) at 2PM. We will collect trash from the area around the Read More
Moving Towards and Into 5781
We in Kehilat Sukkat Shalom are excited to announce a new phase of our development as a dynamic grass-roots, community-grown Jewish organization. Earlier this summer, we celebrated the marriage of our beloved Rabbi Jessica Shimberg to her beshert (soulmate) Eric Stillman. Rabbi Jessica has followed her heart to Nashville where Eric serves as CEO of Read More