Shabbat Shalom and Chag Sameach!
KI Community Kabbalat Shabbat (KICKS)
KICKS Events
Davening this week: services start at 6pm in the chapel with Mincha
May 2nd Home-Hosted Dinners
Community Announcements:
BerKalit Live Album Recording: Sunday, April 27, 7:30PM
Weekly Shabbat Dinners
Davening this week: Join KICKS starting with Mincha at 6pm in the Chapel. We'll sing, share words of Torah, and prepare to welcome Shabbat together.
IN PERSON: In the Rabb Chapel at 384 Harvard St. Brookline, MA
ZOOM: Join us for Kabbalat Shabbat Here
Kiddush this week is sponsored by the KICKS Kiddush Fund, so thanks to all who have donated!
If you'd like to sponsor kiddush in someone’s honor, please email us or to make a donation to the Kiddush fund, please send a check to KI with a note in the memo line that specifies KICKS Kiddush Fund. Thanks!
Visit our website or past Divrei Torah given at KICKS.
May 2 Home-Hosted Shabbat Dinner
Join members of the KICKS community on Friday evening, May 19, for a home-hosted Shabbat dinner. We're excited for this chance to get to know each other outside of KI! Dinners will follow KICKS services and start around 7:30pm. [KICKS will begin at 6pm with Minchah.
If you would like to sign up to host, please do so here.
If you would like to sign up as a guest, please do so here.
The deadline to sign up for this dinner is Tuesday, April 29 at 12 noon. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Community Announcements:
BerKalit Live Album Recording
Sunday, April 27, 7:30PM (Doors - 6:45PM) Free Event, RSVP Required
During the concert, BerKalit will live-record the group's next album, BerKalit A Cappella Vol. II. These ten songs capture the richness of Jewish tradition and community as seen through the group's eyes, highlighting the many ways they have seen Jewish music connect, inspire, and evoke deep emotion during these travels. Throughout the concert, BerKalit will teach the audience their own parts, inviting them to add their own voices to the record, which will be heard on the final product!
Concert begins promptly at 7:30; late arrivals may have to wait for a pause between songs to be seated. Concert presented with support from Combined Jewish Philanthropies' Arts and Culture Community Impact Grant Fund and additional support from Congregation Kehillath Israel.
Weekly Shabbat Dinners
KI warmly invites you for Shabbat dinner every Friday evening! Dinner includes wine, juice, challah, and catered meal including fleishig (meat) entrée, vegetarian entrée, sides, seltzers, and dessert. Walk-ins are welcome but registration is strongly requested in order for KI to prepare accordingly. Come be with existing friends and meet new ones as we launch this important community program! Suggested donation $18 per person. Please RSVP Here.
View this week's full schedule of online davening, learning, and community building at KI.
Looking forward to sharing Shabbat with you,
The KICKS Leadership Team:
Stephanie Berkowitz
Gabrielle Gareau
Ira Kirschner
Deb Laufer
Elizabeth Perten
Aron Unger
Please email us with questions, comments, feedback, and to sign up for the listserv: KIKabbal...@gmail.com
Congregation Kehillath Israel
Website: https://kicks.community/
Find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/328611620204/
KICKS is a warm community of spiritually engaged Jews that strives to create soulful, energetic Friday night t'filah and nourishing, inclusive communal activities. We cultivate a traditional-egalitarian davening atmosphere that is committed to powerful prayer experience, within the broader communal fabric of Jewish learning and socializing in Brookline and Boston. We welcome new faces and seasoned ones; people of all ages, backgrounds, genders, and orientations; and encourage everyone to join us in taking responsibility for the group experience.