As we have for several years now, here in the Columbus Jewish community we will be honoring JDAIM, Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month, this February. JDAIM (originally JDAM, the “I” for inclusion was added later) was started in 2008, at a gathering of the Jewish Special Education International Consortium in Minneapolis, MN. The goal Read More
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Building a Shelter of Peace in the Face of Fear
On January 15th, while we were marking Tu b’Shvat with a Shabbaton focused on what Judaism has to teach us as we live into and through unsettling times, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and three other people with whom he was making Shabbat were held hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. After two weeks to Read More
Reconnecting Earthlings with the Earth: Forging a Path for Thriving Life in the Midst of Climate Chaos
Kehilat Sukkat Shalom invites you to join us for a Tu b’Shvat Shabbaton!Reconnecting Earthlings with the Earth: Forging a Path for Thriving Life in the Midst of Climate Chaos Date and Time: January 15th, 2022: 10am-3pm The day will begin with a short Shabbat service to help us “Ground in Gratitude.”An optional Tu b’Shvat Seder Read More
Human Rights Shmita-Shabbat
For many years Kehillat Sukkat Shalom (formerly The Little Minyan) has joined with the organization T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights in honoring the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948. The service is always held on the Shabbat we Read More
Community Chanukah Message 5782
Juggling Hanukkah and the American winter holidays always seems to me like the perfectreflection of the challenge of being Jewish in America: walking in two worlds, not totally in syncwith everything around me. This year, with Hanukkah coming on the heels of AmericanThanksgiving and still in this time of Covid reality and persistent questions about Read More
Join Our Shmita Hive!
This Rosh haShanah 5782 marked the start of a seventh year sabbatical known as Shmitah. The tradition goes back to the covenant our ancestors made with The One as they first entered the land of Israel after wandering through the desert for 40 years. Shmitah is mentioned in the Torah multiple times. In Exodus, we Read More
At the Gates of 5782
From Erev Rosh haShanah 5782: “Whether you are a longtime member or visiting for the first time, we’re so glad you are here. My name is Jodi Kushins and I’m the current chair of this small but mighty kehilah. Our community prides itself on joyfully connecting our contemporary lives with the ancient teachings we have 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?”
Dvar Torah: Moses’ Urgent Message to the Israelites
Jacob de Wit painting from 1737, commissioned for the Amsterdam town hall. It depicts Moshe appointing the seventy judges. Our parsha today is Devarim, the first Torah portion in Deuteronomy. Moshe delivers a speech, or sermon, to the Israelites, knowing that he will die soon. When we first meet Moshe, he is a man of Read More
What does it mean to defund the police? by Debra Seltzer
What does it mean to defund the police? Paisha Thomas from Faith in Public Life opened her comments by asking us to consider the city budget as a moral document, and the fact that one-third of our city’s budget is allocated to policing. Other cities have begun the process of diverting some of those funds Read More