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    Welcome to Kol HaLev!

    Our services are now online!

    In accordance with recommended health guidelines meant to stop the spread of COVID-19, our services are currently online rather than in-person. We are offering some of our programming via Zoom, including:

    • Shabbat services
    • Board & committee meetings
    • MIndful Jewish Practice

    • Torah Study 
    • Book Group
    • Youth education, and more

    Members: Please check your Weekly Update emails each Thursday for the links/passwords for upcoming events. 

    Non-members: We welcome your participation! If you are interested in attending our online services, please email presidents at Kolhalev dot net (type this into your email's "To:" line, omitting the spaces and replacing "at" with "@" and "dot" with ".") with your full name, email address, phone number, location, and how you learned about Kol HaLev. You can also find our High Holy Days information for guests here.

    Handouts for upcoming Shabbat services (service booklets, service outlines, Torah study material, etc.)  can be downloaded from this folder on Fridays after 4 p.m. 

    Thank you all for your flexibility, creativity and patience. We offer prayers for everyone's good health.


     

    "If you’re searching for a thoughtful, exciting place
    to celebrate your Judaism, Kol HaLev is for you."


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    Kol HaLev is a spirited, supportive Reconstructionist Jewish Community alive with opportunities to experience engaging Shabbat and holiday services, life cycle events, meaningful community service activities and innovative educational programs for all ages. Most services and programs are at The Ratner School in Pepper Pike; please visit our calendar for more information.

    We look forward to welcoming you! Join us and see for yourself why so many are inspired to make Kol HaLev their Jewish communal home.


    ​Pearls of Blessing: Selected Blessings of Rabbi Steve Segar

    Bring home a copy of Pearls of Blessing

    This slim, elegant volume of eighteen blessings, written by Rabbi Steve for the thematic aliyot in our Shabbot morning Torah services, celebrates Rabbi Steve's 18th year as spiritual leader of Kol HaLev. More than 20 current and former Kol Halev members had a hand in taking this book from conception through printing.

    Along with a preface written Rabbi Jeffrey Schein, there's a tribute to Rabbi Steve by the editors (some truly beautiful parts were penned by Bill Scher-Marcus). Thanks to an anonymous donor who underwrote the cost of printing, all proceeds from book sales support our sacred commmunity and its future. 

    Bring home the ruach of Kol HaLev!  Makes a great gift, too! Purchase online here.


     

     


     

    Services and Programs: The Lillian and Betty Ratner School . 27575 Shaker Boulevard . Pepper Pike, OH 44124

    Office: 2245 Warrensville Center Road, Suite 215 . University Heights, OH 44118 . (216) 320-1498

    Kol HaLev is affiliated with the Jewish Reconstructionist Communities and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

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