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? AskCommunity Contact us Learn News Rabbi’s Discussion Education Act Services and Programs Shabbat Jewish Festivals High Holidays Social Action Converting to Judaism Plan Calendar Join Members Access Give Home Temple Israel Temple Israel Website Home ? AskCommunity Contact us Learn News Rabbi’s Discussion Education Act Services and Programs Shabbat Jewish Festivals High Holidays Social Action Converting to Judaism Plan Calendar Join Members Access Give My house shall be called a house of prayer for all people. - Isaiah 56:7 Welcome to Temple Israel We make Judaism and joyful relevant, meaningful A progressive Jewish Reform congregation: Tolerant and multicultural, participatory and flexible, warm and welcoming to Jewish and interfaith families. Community We are an engaging community, open-minded and international. Learn more Education Our educational endeavors seek to enhance the practice of our faith. Learn more Support Support Temple Israel and Reserve Tickets Learn more View details Shabbat Fridays, Services 6:00 pm. Adult Education 5:00 pm. High Holy Days The 10-day period, beginning with Rosh HaShanah and ending with Yom Kippur, is a time of reflection, prayer and participation in our committed community of worshippers. In addition to evening services for both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur/ Kol Nidre, we have a Selichot service, a Tashlich service, a class on a current topic, and speakers. All are welcome. If you are not a member, continually supporting Temple Israel, please let us know that you are coming, introduce yourselves , and honor yourself by contributing $100 per adult attending any and all services for this year’s High Holy Days. You may do this on the website (Give) , specifically as Visitor for High Holy Days. If you have questions or want more information about attending High Holidays at Temple Israel, contact us at president.templeisraelkc@gmail.com Teaser for Shabbat Join Temple Israel for Shabbat News & Announcements Temple Israel is a progressive Jewish Reform congregation: tolerant & international, participatory & flexible and, above all, warm and welcoming to both Jewish and interfaith families. We welcome you with open arms and open minds. We nurture our members’ Jewish identities with dedication to Torah, traditions, and each other. We encourage every member, new and old, to connect with our multi-generational, multi-cultural, diverse community. News & Announcements Sep 10, 2021 Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away exhibition at Union Station. Temple Israel visited , guided by Dr. Andrew Berserson. This unique exhibition in Kansas City perfectly alighned with his research specialty of the Holocaust, and helped us understand how easy it is for common citizens to be drawn into the Banality of Evil. Learn More Jan 27, 2022 Holocaust remembrance and #ExodusAlliance. The Shalom Center has spent – or rather, invested” – the last two months in seeding, sprouting, and growing #ExodusAlliance. That is a multifaith amalgam to carry out a campaign to end financial support for the Corporate Carbon Pharaohs that are bringing on Earth and Humankind the plagues of fire, flood, famine, and disease. Not just to end but to begin – an economy of life. Move Our Money == Protect Our Planet. Why? What ideas underlie that investment of time, energy, and money? 1.We believe that sheer greed drives the fossil-fuel industry’s corporate desire for ever greater profit even when its bosses discover their very business plan is poised to bring misery and death on a huge proportion of our plaet’s life – including human lives and civilization. 2. Their greed is ultimately a spiritual failing. All the world’s great religious and spiritual communities teach that sharing, compassion, and joyful self-restraint are not only the future goal of the human community but that embodying those values in the present is the means to achieving, not only pursuing, happiness. 3. But many in the faith communities have quailed when they realized precisely how crucial and how enormous is the task of embodying those values in this context. How can little me make such a big difference?” 4. We think the answer has two parts: bring together face-to-face groups of people who can trust and give strength to each other, and focus especially -– not only – on the sacred times of fasts and festivals when spiritual awareness is unusually intense. 5. Then we realized that this coming April brings together sacred times for the largest American religious communities – Jews, Christians, and Muslims; that the USA is one of the two societies pouring most CO2 and methane into the world’s air and oceans - –per capita, by far the most; and that the US government was paralyzed in a deadly deadlock. – So we decided to try to galvanize a Great Reawakening of faith communities on an approach that sidesteps formal government and goes to the heart of the disaster – out-of-control money. 6. What could bring together the committed groups of people that could make little me” into effective us””? We have several suggestions, two of which have experience behind them: solar-energy co-ops and Community-Supported Agriculture – CSA’s – local farms, often associated with religious congregations, that pursue restorative agriculture to feed people without ruining Earth. The thirdOiloholics Not-So-Anonymous”has not so far been tried. But when I mention it in conversations with congregations, it strikes a spark. What I mean is congregants who come together acknowledging that they are caught in a system where the Drug Lords of Carbon have forced them to become Carbon Addicts. They want out. So they come together to share what they can do in their homes, transport, food, and readiness to deal with disaster if it strikes their town. 7. This dimension of our lives could be described as: Forming face-to-face groups that can take effective steps out of and beyond the Carbon economy, AND be resilient enough to act if the Carbon Pharaohs bring disasterfire, extreme heat, floods, food failures –- on these organically organized” communities. 8. Passover, with its themes of seeking freedom from Pharaoh whose arrogance and cruelty bring Plagues on Earth and Humankind, is an obvious focal-point for healing from the climate crisis. To see how Passover can do that work, see . And we intend to share in assisting activism for other sacred times: Ramadan, Palm Sunday and the rest of Holy Week, MLK’s death-anniversary, Earth Day. And shortly before and after April, the holy days of Spring Equinox, and of Buddhism and Hinduism that especially interest our global partners, GreenFaith. 9. We want to continue growing #ExodusAlliance for the months beyond. (Dare we then rename it Yontif Alliance”?) That would include the sacred days of Shavuot (truly receiving from Sinai [as Lev. 25-26 say] and acting on the Sabbatical Year / Shmita to release Earth and debtors from overwork, to rest and recover); Tisha B’Av (grieving and healing wounded Temple Earth”; Sukkot (Grow restorative harvest, grow the Vote”” and Hanukkah (One day’s oil meets eight days’ needs”; energy conservation and neighborhood solar co-ops). As you can see, we have begun to plan how to heal Earth and Humanity, heal neighborhoods victimized by coal dust and oil fumes into asthma and cancer epidemics, while at the same time enriching the special meanings of the other coming Jewish sacred days, as we already have for Passover in this work. 10. Moving forward with #ExodusAlliance will need more contributions to The Shalom Center than we have received so far. We implore you, I urge you, to make that possible by contributing a special gift. 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