Yom Kippur Day Services
KBS High Holy days services will be led by Rabbi Daniel Fink. For more information, including full schedule and how to reserve seats, click this link.
KBS High Holy days services will be led by Rabbi Daniel Fink. For more information, including full schedule and how to reserve seats, click this link.
A shabbat service will be followed by Simchat Torah, celebrating completion of the Torah cycle with the final lines of D'varim/Deuteronomy and starting anew with B'reisheet/Genesis chapter one. You can see our precious Torah scroll unrolled to its full length and then re-rolled as Dr. Barry Blum describes its remarkable journey from the ashes of Continue Reading »
We'll read & discuss the first chapter in the first book of the Torah - B'reisheet/Genesis 1:1 - 6:8. No prior knowledge is necessary and we welcome a wide variety of views. Watch the livestream on the KBS YouTube Channel. Please email info@konabethshalom.org for Zoom connection details. B'reisheet artwork ©Joanne Fink - gratefully Continue Reading »
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Chayei Sarah (“The Life of Sarah”) opens as Sarah dies and Abraham buys the Cave of Machpelah to bury her. Abraham sends his servant to find a wife for Isaac. The servant meets Rebecca at a well, and Rebecca returns with the servant to marry Isaac. Abraham remarries, has more children, and dies at age Continue Reading »
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 »
Join us on Zoom for Torah Study. This week's parashah is Vayeitzei - (“He Went Out”) - in which Jacob sleeps with a rock for his pillow and dreams of angels going up and down a ladder: the original "stairway to heaven." He continues on his journey toward the home of his uncle Laban, Continue Reading »
"G-d Struggling" Join us on Zoom Monday, December 1, 2025 Shalom fellow KBS learners, Thank you for joining us as we deepen our Jewish learning together. We learned a lot from our first meeting, and are eager to see where we go from here. Thank you to Ruthellen for the prompt that will be the Continue Reading »
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 »
Join us on Zoom for the KBS Torah Study. This week's parashah is Vayeishev / וַיֵּשֶׁב (“He settled”), beginning the story of Joseph, describing his rivalry with his brothers, slavery in Egypt, and imprisonment after his master’s wife frames him for refusing her advances. It also includes the story of Tamar, her husbands, and her Continue Reading »
The KBS Book Club selection is “Drawing in the Dust,” the debut novel by Rabbi Zoë Klein, hailed as “a richly evocative and boundless love story that reverberates from biblical times to the modern world.” Publisher’s Weekly praises “Drawing in the Dust” for its “balanced, compassionate view of both Israeli and Arab traditions.” Join in Continue Reading »
Torah Study: Mikeitz Saturday, Dec 20, 10AM HST on Zoom Mikeitz (“After”) follows Joseph as he interprets Pharaoh's dreams and rises to become second-in-command to Pharaoh. When Joseph’s brothers come to Egypt seeking food during a famine, Joseph accuses them of spying. He insists that they return with their youngest brother, Benjamin, and later plants Continue Reading »