• Shabbat Services

    KBS serves the community with Shabbat Services on the fourth Saturday morning of each month at 10:30 am, followed by kiddush and a potluck oneg. No pork or shellfish, please. Members and guests of the Congregation conduct the services, and visitors are always welcome.

  • Shabbat Services

    KBS serves the community with Shabbat Services on the fourth Saturday morning of each month at 10:30 am, followed by kiddush and a potluck oneg. No pork or shellfish, please. Members and guests of the Congregation conduct the services, and visitors are always welcome.

  • Shabbat Services

    KBS serves the community with Shabbat Services on the fourth Saturday morning of each month at 10:30 am, followed by kiddush and a potluck oneg. No pork or shellfish, please. Members and guests of the Congregation conduct the services, and visitors are always welcome.

  • Shabbat Services

    KBS serves the community with Shabbat Services on the fourth Saturday morning of each month at 10:30 am, followed by kiddush and a potluck oneg. No pork or shellfish, please. Members and guests of the Congregation conduct the services, and visitors are always welcome.

  • Shabbat Services

    KBS serves the community with Shabbat Services on the fourth Saturday morning of each month at 10:30 am, followed by kiddush and a potluck oneg. No pork or shellfish, please. Members and guests of the Congregation conduct the services, and visitors are always welcome.

  • Shabbat Shuva Service

    No reservations necessary. All are welcome to this Shabbat Service led by Rabbi Daniel Fink with Rabbi Shari Joy Berman and Aviva Plaut joining to read from this week's parashah, Vayeilech. Following services, stay for our Kiddush & Kibbitz potluck. Bring a dish to share, if you can (but no meat or shellfish, please)

  • Shabbat Service – Toldot & Israeli Dancing

      The KBS monthly Shabbat service is led by Aviva Plaut and will include readings from the week's parashah, Toldot – Breisheet/Genesis 25:19–28:9 – which introduces twin brothers Jacob and Esau and the sale of a birthright for a bowl of lentil stew. Following the service & our "Kiddush & Kibbitz" potluck, Tamar Elias will Continue Reading »

  • Shabbat Service – Vayishlach – led by Rabbi Shari Joy Berman

    Join us for a special Shabbat service, led by Rabbi Shari Joy Berman. To mark the 21st anniversary of her adult Bat Mitzvah, R. Shari will read from the same Torah portion she had in 2004: וַיִּשְׁלַח / Vayishlach, B'reisheet/Genesis 32:4-36:43, which includes Jacob's reconciliation with his estranged brother Esau, and the most famous (… the Continue Reading »

  • Torah Study – Shemot

    The Burning Bush by Mayim Eliana Ebert Shemot  שְׁמוֹת (“names”) is the first Torah portion in the Book of Exodus. It describes the bitter enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt; a royal decree that all Hebrew boy babies be killed; how the newborn Moses is rescued in a basket on the Nile, and adopted into Continue Reading »

  • Shabbat Bo Service and Creative Writing Workshop

    Aviva Plaut & Una Greenaway will lead this month's service which will include readings from parashah Bo by Rabbi Shari Joy Berman. Aviva will deliver a d'rash inspired by themes in the Torah portion - a dramatic chapter that includes the last of the Ten Plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians before Pharaoh agrees to let Continue Reading »

  • Torah Study- Beshalach

    "Song of Miriam" - William Gale Beshalach בְּשַׁלַּח (“When He Let Go”) describes the splitting of the Red Sea and the song the Israelites sing upon crossing through. In the desert, God sweetens bitter water and provides manna and quail. The portion ends recounting the victory of the Israelites against an attack by the Amalekites. Continue Reading »

  • Shabbat – Purim – Magic !

    Join with KBS members, friends and guests for a Shabbat service at New Thought Center of Hawai`i in Kealakekua. Dr. Barry Blum leads the service, joined by Rabbi Shari Joy Berman who will read from this week's parashah, Tetzaveh / תְּצַוֶּה ("you shall command"), in which the Israelites are instructed to prepare for sacred rituals Continue Reading »

  • Shabbat Hagadol

    Join with KBS members, friends and guests for a Shabbat service at New Thought Center of Hawai`i in Kealakekua. Dr. Barry Blum leads the service, joined by Rabbi Shari Joy Berman who will read from this week's parashah, Tzav / צַו ("command"), in which the Israelites are further instructed to prepare for sacred rituals in Continue Reading »

  • Shabbat Service – Kedoshim

    "K'doshim" (2011) by Barbara Mendes from "Women of the Book" The KBS monthly Shabbat service will be led by Aviva Plaut, with Rabbi Shari Joy Berman reading from Parashah Kedoshim (Vayikra/Leviticus 19:1-20:27), in which the Israelites receive instructions on how to become - and stay - a holy community. Following services enjoy our Kiddush & Continue Reading »