Yom Kippur begins at sundown with the moving Kol Nidre service and will be led by Rabbi Daniel Lev and former KBS president Shari Berman. Congregation membership includes seats. We ask visitors and guests to purchase seats. Details are available on the Membership/Contribution page. Reserve now to ensure your place at our song-filled and inspiring […]
Rabbi Daniel Lev and former KBS president Shari Berman will lead our High Holy Day services. Congregation membership includes seats. We ask visitors and guests to purchase seats. Details are available on the Membership/Contribution page. Reserve now to ensure your place at our song-filled and inspiring services. We will again be collecting canned goods, soap and […]
All are invited to the Hawaiian Queen Coffee Garden in Kona for a joyful family celebration with music, dancing and fun to mark completing the cycle of Torah readings and beginning it anew. We will unroll and re-roll our historic Torah, dance with the scroll and share a potluck meal (if you can, please bring […]
All Kona Beth Shalom members are invited and urged to attend the annual congregation meeting on Sunday, October 7, 2018 at the home of Ruth Ader in Kona Palisades. According to our bylaws, 25% of the current members of the congregation shall constitute a quorum for this meeting, which will feature relevant reports and a budget […]
Una Greenaway and Aviva Plaut conduct this month's Shabbat service with Vic Greenspan joining Aviva to read from Torah parashah Vayera. Following services, kiddush and a potluck oneg. If you can, bring a dish to share - no pork or shellfish, please. Members, guests and visitors are always welcome.
Congregation Kona Beth Shalom hosts an interfaith memorial to honor the memory of the victims killed last Saturday at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue. The entire community is invited to take part and join together in solidarity against hate.
Former KBS president Shari Berman, visiting from Japan, conducts shabbat services beginning at 10:30 am. Kiddush and a potluck oneg will follow. If you can, please bring a dish to share (no pork or shellfish, please). Visitors are always welcome.
Priscilla Kostiner, who has spent her life as a Jewish lay leader and professional in the Jewish world, visits from Oregon to co-lead Shabbat services along with former KBS president Dr. Barry Blum. Priscilla, Aviva Plaut and Vic Greenspan will read from torah parashah Yitro ( יִתְרוֹ Exodus 18:1-20:23 ) which includes the dramatic chapter of Moses […]
As with other things we use, our Torah must have regular care. In 2006, she was restored by sofer Rabbi Moshe Druin in Florida. Now, in 2019, the scroll needs maintenance again: there are some small rips that could get larger, and the lettering needs to be checked for wear. Happily, Rabbi Druin is coming […]
Rabbi Daniel Lev visits from Oahu to lead shabbat services beginning at 10:00 am, followed by kiddush and a potluck oneg (no pork or shellfish, please). Afterward join Rabbi Lev for a torah study inspired by this month's parashah, Ki Tisa (כִּי תִשָּׂא — Hebrew for "when you take") in which Moses receives new tablets with […]
The Shabbat service this month will be led by KBS board member and Hebrew school teacher Trina Yerlick with special guest Rabbi Rachel Short visiting from Hilo side to deliver a drash inspired by this week's parashah, Tzav (צו - "command" - Leviticus 8:1 - 8:36), in which Moses gathers the community to ordain Aaron and his sons […]
Celebrate the first night of Passover with KBS members, guests and visitors. Get full details and make your reservations here. To ensure your seats, reservations and payments must be received by April 10. Chag sameach!
The April Shabbat service is this Saturday, April 27, 10AM at Hawaiian Queen Coffee Garden, 75-1048 Henry Street in Kona. KBS president Una Greenaway and Aviva Plaut will co-lead, with Vic Greenspan joining Aviva to read from the Torah parasha for the last day of Passover, R'eh (רְאֵה — Hebrew for "see"), Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17. Yehudah Plaut leads […]
Rabbi Daniel Lev visits from Oahu to lead a Shavuot & Shabbat Weekend starting with Kabbalat Shabbat at 6:30pm at Ruth Ader’s home in Kona Palisades. Come prepared to sing along and, if you can, bring a dish to share for potluck dinner afterward (no pork or shellfish, please).
Rabbi Daniel Lev joins us from Oahu to lead Shabbat services. Aviva Plaut and Vic Greenspan will read from Torah parashah Bamidbar (בְּמִדְבַּר - "in the desert" - Numbers 3:14 - 4:20) in which Moses conducts a census of the Hebrew tribes gathered in the desert of Sinai; and it outlines the roles […]
Observe Shavuot with Rabbi Daniel Lev at the home of Aviva and Yehudah Plaut in Kealakekua. A service and freewheeling study session begins at 10AM. At noontime join in a veggie potluck lunch (if you can, please bring a vegetarian dish to share - but no meat or fish …especially no pork or shellfish). After […]
Our usual Shabbat is on the fourth Saturday of the month, but this month KBS is moving the service to the fifth Saturday, beginning at 10AM. Afterward we have kiddush and a potluck oneg. No pork or shellfish, please. Members and guests of the Congregation conduct the services, and visitors are always welcome.
KBS president Una Greenaway and Aviva Plaut co-lead our July Shabbat service. Vic Greenspan joins with Aviva to read from the week's Torah parashah, Pinchas (פִּינְחָס - Numbers 28:16-30:1). Joel Gimpel will present a drash on the parashah, which details the observances - and, in ancient times, the sacrifice offerings - for Passover, Shavuot, Rosh […]
The KBS August Shabbat Service is moving one week earlier so that we can enjoy a visit from Rabbi Sari Laufer of the Stephen Wise Temple in Los Angeles. Rabbi Laufer will deliver a drash inspired by this week's Torah parashah, Vaet'chanan (וָאֶתְחַנַּן - "and I pleaded" - Deuteronomy 5:1 - 7:11) , which includes […]