COMMITTEES AND CHAVUROT AT KOL SHOFAR    —There's so much going on! _________________________________ WE WANT YOU! Whether you’re a new or returning member, we want you! GET INVOLVED – KOL SHOFAR KIDDUSHES NEED YOU! To learn more about how you can help, see our Kiddush page. Come volunteer your time and share your talents as we reach across and beyond the synagogue to make a meaningful difference in the world. Wonderful opportunities are listed to the right, and additional programs will be listed in Kol Shofar’s email announcements and on our Helping Hands Volunteers page. Volunteering at your shul is A GREAT WAY TO GET INVOLVED! We need your helping hands. To learn more about where we can use volunteers, contact the office, and check the Volunteers  page.    BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF CARING Following is a list of some of the ways we at Kol Shofar can get to know each other better. For information about these activities or to let us know your ideas to increase connectedness, contact Hagar Ben-Eliezer at 415.388.1818, ext.111 or programs@kolshofar.org. New Group! Jewish Singles 40 plus Meet new friends & Schmooze. For info on future events, please contact Daphne Lipton at 246-2831. Baking Chavurah: A Chavurah for Kol Shofar members to engage with one another in discussions while baking cookies and cakes for upcoming Shabbatot The vision is that like-minded folks will get a chance to do a mitzvah for our community by preparing desserts for future kiddushes while enjoying one another's company and engaging one another in impromptu discussions. My experience in the kitchen is such that I can easily envision elevating one another, while we do the mitzvah of helping to feed our extended Kol Shofar family. (Baking and freezing works wonderfully well). I am always open to hearing from Kol Shofar's membership to poll the thoughts and desires of others. This group is open-ended, always welcoming new participants, having each session's attendance limited only by the kitchen space. If you are interested and have preliminary input, please contact Barbara Schwartz through the directory or by calling the office. We have already baked desserts for a kiddush of over 300 attendees! We baked hamentashen for our wonderful Purim Fest, which were all sold: profits went back to Kol Shofar, of course! We are not afraid to try new and different (and, sometimes complicated) recipes like rugelach, but we also bake multiple selections at each monthly session.  There are baking 'slots' for people of all skills so jump right in and join the indescribable experience of our version of "kitchen davening"…….have you ever thought you could have a religious experience with a kitchen mixer and measuring spoons? No? Come by sometime when we are in session. Contact the front office for our monthly schedule. We usually meet on a Thursday.                                             ~Barbara Schwartz. ------------------------------ Baking Chavurah Photo Gallery Click here for behind the scenes with the baking chavurah! Come join in the fun! ------------------------------. Dear Friends,     No one organizes like our Barbara Schwartz. Today was such an incredible experience for all who participated. We not only baked, but shared family stories and recalled loved ones, whose recipes we still treasure and use.  To be a part of such a diverse group of women with a common goal was really awesome.  Thank you all for being "our community".  This is  really what Kol Shofar is all about.  ~Tessa Kol Shofar Brotherhood Sunday Softball with the Brotherhood Cheer on the Kol Shofar Brotherhood each Sunday this summer. The boys of summer are back! Come toss the ball or just sit back and watch everyone welcome. Contact Aaron Parker for dates or to get involved. Brotherhood Photo Gallery Click here for photos of our recent games with Rodeph Sholom. Next game: TBA Join us for the Kol Shofar and Rodef Sholom's Co-Ed Softball Game! A relaxing day picnicking, playing in the park and enjoying meeting new people. Bring your glove, lunch and friends and family. To sign up to play, please contact Aaron Parker About Kol Shofar's Brotherhood: Aaron Parker & Max Perkoff are starting a Kol Shofar Brotherhood – a place for men to gather, talk, connect, have fun, grow, learn, and serve the community. We don't yet know how it will evolve, so please join us in creating it. For those who want to join a men's group but are unsure whether this is for you, please come help us make it into the sort of group you've always wanted but haven't known where to find. We may share stories, insight, experiences, and questions - about our roles and responsibilities in the community as men, husbands, partners, fathers, grandfathers, brothers, and sons; about our relationships with God and Torah; about our personal journeys. We may do mitzvah projects, host father-son and father-daughter events, poker-nights, or baseball games. We'd like to build a community of friends, a group of role models for the boys in our community, a band of brothers. Please contact Aaron Parker to sign up and for more info. Kol Shofar's Walking Sisterhood (AKA Not Your Mother's Sisterhood) Come to walk with the Women of Kol Shofar this summer! If you're looking for connection with women who have stories, insight, and questions to share –- come join us. Saturday afternoons at 2:00 PM. Contact Illana Zauderer-Parker for further information. About Kol Shofar's Sisterhood: If you're looking for connection with women who have stories, insight, and questions to share – about our roles as Jewish Women, our roles as Wife, Partner, Mother, Grandmother, Sister, Daughter; about our relationships with God; about our roles and responsibilities in the community; about the Torah; about our personal journeys - come join us. Looking to make some friends and chat a bit longer than the "hellos" we have limited time for at Kiddush? Come join us. Maybe eventually the Sisterhood will play poker together, sell Hamantaschen, volunteer to do a dance routine for the KS Fundraiser, build a Habitat for Humanity House with all our daughters, play baseball with the Brotherhood...bring your ideas and join us. Contact Illana Zauderer Parker through the directory or by calling the office. FINE ART COMMITTEE To learn more about this new committee, click here. CHAVURAT REFU'AH If you are a health care provider and would like to explore healing, you might be interested in our Chavurat Refu'ah. CHEVRA KADISHA Kol Shofar provides mourners with a variety of services and community support. For more information, plus information on our upcoming training, click here.... COALITION SUNDAY LUNCH This program is on hold for now. GEMILUT CHESED – This committee helps people when they are sick or have other special needs. For more information about assisting with home-delivered meals, bikur cholim,etc, or if you need assistance, read more. GREEN CHAVURAH Kol Shofar’s Green Chavurah is a dedicated and enthusiastic group of individuals, committed to transforming the synagogue into a model of eco-sustainability. KIDDUSH HELP To learn how you can help with Kiddushes, see our our Kiddush and Kitchen pages. KOL LIMUD Email Discussion Group – A Yahoo! Group for Kol Shofar members. Congregants discussing all kinds of subjects online. Contact Steve Schiff, onlinetalk@kolshofar.org. MASA Our Journey Into Our Future – Kol Shofar's Steering Committee for Strategic Planning. For more info... PANIM EL PANIM—COMMUNITY ORGANIZING There are many ways to be involved in our wider community., and work with the Marin Organizing Committee. For information... please see our Panim el Panim page. PARENT ACTIVITIES associated with youth programming and education – contact osholin@kolshofar.org for more information about ways you can get involved as a parent. Also, we have a Beit Binah committee –  – a great way to deepen your relationship with the synagogue, AND your child's education.  PURIM SPIEL PARTICIPATION – We follow Jewish tradition in putting on hilarious plays (usually musicals) on Purim. There are lots of ways for everyone, adults and kids, to participate. We've already started organizing for the 5770 purim Spiel! Contract Tracy Rice, by calling 415.388.1818, ext 101 or emailing trice@kolshofar.org. RITUAL COMMITTEE – See the SERVICE RITUALS AND PRAYER MELODIES page. SHABBAT SWAP – Looking for a Shabbat meal, or do you have an extra seat at your table? Send a note to Matt Mercurio at KSshabbatswap@yahoo.com. TIKKUN OLAM ACTIVITIES – we have many activities that serve the larger community. It’s a great way to help others, and also to make new friends.  Participation on synagogue committees or chavurah is a great way to connect and also to help keep our congregation going. If you are interested, contact Karen Hirsch, our board's President for more information board@kolshofar.org.