BLOG

I am sitting on the BART train writing my sermon for yizkor on Yom Kippur.  Yizkor , meaning “he will remember” is the service where we...

If you are looking for something different for the upcoming High Holidays, please join me and Congregation P’nai Tikvah in Las Vegas...

Join with the Congregation Beth Emek Sisterhood for an evening exploring women’s rituals to support the modern lives we lead today.  What...

‘But do Israelis even care?” asked my friend, a leader of an international Jewish organization, on Monday. It was the day after Diaspora...

Please join us for a Tikkun Leyl Shavuot* . Tuesday, May 30th from 7:30 until the week hours at a home in Danville.  We’ll study a...

When:  Tuesday, May 30th, 7:30 pm ’til the wee hours Where:  A private home in the Tri-Valley Session topics to be posted in mid-May. ...

Every morning when I awake, I do a quick read of the news on my cellphone to make sure that the world is still spinning and that there...

A friend of the family emailed me that she had a friend who wanted to have an unveiling for her father in Los Angeles the following...

I was pondering the ethical contrast that might exist in a conversation between President Trump and Maimonides*.  Perhaps the...

Join us for our first Shabbat dinner.  We don’t know if there will be 4 of us or 40, but we do know Judith Markowitz will lead us in...

Do you have the Prayerbook Blues? FEBRUARY 5, 2017 / JAMIEHYAMS / EDIT Are you lost when you open a prayerbook? Where did these prayers...

Welcome to  Kehillat Haverim .   Kehillat Haverim  is Hebrew for  a community of friends.   I am creating this blog as a way to grow my...