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4 Sh'vat 5772
Parashat Bo
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Kaplan Quote of the Week

Weekly Quote from Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, z"l (1881-1983)
Religion, like government and language, cannot even begin to be real with less than two minds.... Religion does not begin when an individual human being enters into relationship with a god; there must first be at least two human beings.

From Communings of the Spirit, Vol. I, page 58, Monday, February 24, 1913; used with permission.

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Keddem Congregation is a community-led, Reconstructionist Jewish congregation, passionately committed to infusing tradition with new meaning. Keddem is based in Palo Alto, California, on the San Francisco Peninsula.

Worship, study, community and governance at Keddem are based on the following values: Keddem Congregation is inclusive, egalitarian, participatory, inquiring, innovative, and compassionate.

Bagels, Lox, & Learning—PAST

The January Bagles, Lox, and Learning featured Tsvi Bar-David, on Sunday, January 15th (the third Sunday of the month). See our BLL page for more information.

We hope you joined us in the Multipurpose Room, Kehillah Jewish High School, 3900 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. Bagels and Lox at 10:00 am, talk from 10:30 to 12:00 noon. Contributions for food costs accepted (10% goes to MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger).

Feast of Jewish Learning

Once again, Keddem is proud to be a sponsor of the annual Feast of Jewish Learning, Saturday evening, January 28, at the OFJCC in Palo Alto. Over two dozen classes will be offered, ranging from food to yoga, from ancient history to current events, from dancing to literature. Join us for an engaging evening.

More information is available here

Support Keddem

A community like Keddem needs support: your support. We need your support in three ways:

Donate to Keddem

You can donate to Keddem online or, well, offline. Please send checks to our post office box, below.

Online donation is fast, easy, and secure with your credit card, debit card, or PayPal account.

And, thank you!

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JRF's Kaplan Corner

Mordecai Kaplan's biographer, Dr. Mel Scult, has given us the opportunity to "look over his shoulder" as he works on his next volume of Communings of the Spirit, selections from Kaplan's prodigious diary. Every month, Dr. Scult will send JRF two or three journal entries for publication on the JRF web site. In addition, he is sending JRF audio recordings of conversations he had with Rabbi Kaplan in 1972; these, along with photos and more, will also be available online.

JRF has also created a listserv called "kaplan-corner"; its sole purpose is to inform subscribers that the site has been updated with new journal entries from Dr. Scult.

Check out JRF's Kaplan Corner!

Keddem's Email Lists

Keddem maintains four email lists for announcements and discussion: The Members List, the Interest List, the NewsWire List, and the Discussion List.

For a description of each list and information on how to join a list, update your email address, remove yourself from a list, or post to a list, click here. (As mentioned there, archives are available for all of these lists.)


JRF Logo We are one of over 100 congregations and havurot affiliated with the Reconstructionist movement. Liberal in outlook, yet respecting tradition, Reconstructionism is the newest of the four movements of organized American Judaism. To learn more, click here.  

  Shabbat services, lifelong Jewish learning,
social and holiday events,
and administrative office:
Kehillah Jewish High School
3900 Fabian Way
Palo Alto, California

Phone: (650) 494-6400

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 50758
Palo Alto, California 94303

See the calendar for our office hours.
  Keddem is located in Palo Alto, California, the heart of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area. We're but 30 miles from San Francisco and 17 miles from San José, in the "mid-peninsula" or "south peninsula" area.

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