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Prepare or serve Sunday dinners to the needy as part of our interfaith partnership to provide shelter for the homeless in our community. Contact Shana Margolis: shanamargolis@yahoo.com or (415) 254-7196.
Additional date: April 1

The Marin Organizing Committee invites everyone who supports San Rafael's schoolchildren to a Community Action event. San Rafael City School Superintendents and School Board members will listen to families' stories - and see what we can do together, that we can't do alone. Held at St. Raphael's Church Gym - 1100 5th Ave., San Rafael.

All middle school-aged students are welcome to join Sandy Stadtler for a series of discussions focused on philosophy and theory. Through group learning and participation in Shabbat morning services, we will explore Jewish and contemporary understandings about God and prayer.

10:15 a.m.: Services
10:45 a.m. Meet in Kitah 2

Join us for small group conversations facilitated by members of our Panim el Panim group. These conversations will be an opportunity to meet and talk with people that we may not know except by sight and to share issues that are of concern to us, our families, our synagogue and our larger community. People say that Kol Shofar is a warm and welcoming community, and that is indeed one of our strengths. The goal of these community conversations is to build and deepen that strength. Join us!

Help prepare and serve brunch for 20-30 residents and enjoy the meal with them. Please contact Randi Lachter at 415.888.2241 or rlachter@gmail.com with questions.  Or go to: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090c49afaf292-kolshofar1 to sign up!

Rosh Hodesh means the “head of the new (moon)” and is celebrated monthly. Rosh Hodesh is considered a special holiday for women and is a time of rediscovering new and ancient ceremonies. In this group, we will explore text, chanting and movement rituals to explore the intention of each month.

CANCELLED - Come whenever you can during this time frame - we'll be making some new recipes!

What are the components of Jewish identity as well as the changes and differences in Jewish identity among Orthodox, Conservative, and other types of Jews in Israel and in the United States? Rabbi Novis-Deutsch will guide a conversation about these issues and more, helping to claim a relevant common language and its relevance for social justice, intermarriage and the challenges of diversity.

Rabbi Avi Novis Deutsch is the Dean of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary. Ordained as a Masorti rabbi by the SRS in 2003, Rabbi Deutsch also has an M.A. in Jewish Studies from JTS. He served for nine years as a pulpit rabbi at two Masorti congregations in Israel, most recently, at Haminyan Hamishpachti Masorti Kfar Veradim. Rabbi Novis-Deutsch also worked for two years as a Jewish educator in Berkeley and in the Bay Area. He was a Fellow at the Mandel Institute for Educational Leadership and spent eight years in yeshiva study. He lives on Kibbutz Hanaton with his wife and children.

The sit prior to the minyan will be unguided. It will be an opportunity to meditate and prepare for prayer. You may wish to bring a piece of text to share with others but most of the time will be dedicated to personal practice.

This musical, meditative, and participatory prayer experience is a chance to open your heart through song, to sink into the peace and joy of Shabbat, and to find a meaningful personal connection to the Torah portion and to others in our community. “Kol Neshama” means “voice of the soul/breath.” No Hebrew knowledge required.

Please come and join us for a morning of Israeli Cinema and discussion following the film.

Our hope is that by viewing a contemporary Israeli film together we will come to know and appreciate Israeli lives, culture, experiences and values in a fun and community-building way together.

The fourth film in our series is "Footnote". The plot revolves around the troubled relationship between a father and son who teach at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The film won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

This screening is in the Beit Am. Please bring friends and other KS members to the screening. We will have discussion after the film. Free.

Join us in remembrance of the Holocaust and saying Kaddish for those that perished.  Hear the personal stories of survival and heroism from our aging population of Holocaust survivors.  Free community event.

CANDLELIGHTVIGIL MARKS THE END OF REST, THE START OF HOUSING FOCUSED SHELTER

TheMarin Organizing Committee (MOC) will hold a public candlelight vigil onTuesday, April 17 at 6:30 PM at St. Raphael’s Catholic Church in San Rafaelto commemorate the end of Marin’s Rotating Emergency Shelter Team (REST) andthe start of a new, best-practice system to end homelessness, called HousingFocused Shelter.

 Vigilparticipants will gather at the St. Vincent de Paul Society free dining room at6:30 PM and march to the steps of St. Raphael’s church. There, MOC leaderswill highlight the 10-year success of the County’s REST model and also explainthe details of the new, housing focused model which will be formalized in thecoming months.

Congregation KolShofar

cordially invites youto a community event

and presentation tosupport:

Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel

Meet Hand in HandRepresentatives from Jerusalem, Israel:

Noa Yammer, Vicky Makhoul andAlma Saporta

(Alma and Vicky are recentgraduates of Hand in Hand’s integrated Jewish-Arab high school in Jerusalem)

In the context of the ongoing conflict between Arabs and Jews,Israelis and Palestinians, Hand in Hand has created a growing and viable modelfor integrated education and shared society for Israel’s Jewish and Arabcitizens. Now with over 1750 Jewish and Arab students attending its six schoolsand over 6,000 adults participants in joint community programs, Hand in Hand ismaking an impact on ever-larger segments of Israeli society.

For more information, please visit www.handinhandk12.org