Friends,

Kol haKfar -- the downtown egalitarian minyan -- meets this Friday 2/5 to celebrate Shabbat and enjoy our monthly community meal, which will be vegetarian/milchig. Since space is tight we're cutting off RSVPs at 25 for the meal. First come, first served. All are welcome for tefillot. If there's spillover with a bunch of people who can't make the meal, perhaps those folk can host their own mini-satellite dinner. We'll coordinate over email if there's interest.

Please RSVP to kolhakfar@yahoo.com and say what you can bring. Side dishes are the key to happiness. Kosher wine is also nice.

Zachary Thacher, 6:30pm
41 Grove St, 4B -- between Bleecker and Bedford, just west of 7th Avenue South

Shavuah tov,

Kol haKfar

Our schedule:
Feb 19 -- Benjamin Pollack and Ben Wolf
March 5 -- Paul Fischer, with dinner
March 19th -- Carrie Kingsley in Union Square
April TBD

Friends,

Thanks to Leora Singer for hosting and cooking a delicious meal last Leil Shabbat, especially since it wasn't an official meal night. Also, special shout outs to Max Gross for the kosher wine tasting and to our newest member, Jared Weinstein, for bringing yet another bottle of scotch. It was a merry evening, never mind the orange vodka that showed up at some point.

Friday night is Tu B'Shevat. There are two options downtown. If people would like to gather as a Kol haKfar crew, post your plans to the Kol haKfar wall on Facebook. All events require tickets in advance.

Stanton Street Shul -- hosts a dinner and program starting at 6pm. Go to the website to sign up. 180 Stanton Street, right by Clinton -- LES.

Chabad of Soho -- I know nothing about this new Chabad, but it seems worth checking out. They have a fun sounding celebration with drinks following "short" services. Kiruv time!


Our schedule:
Feb 5 -- Zachary Thacher in the West Village, with dinner
Feb 19 -- HOST NEEDED! Please email kolhakfar@yahoo.\com
March 5 -- Paul Fischer, with dinner
March 19th -- Carrie Kingsley in Union Square

Friends,

Kol haKfar, aka "Voice of the Village" -- the downtown egalitarian minyan -- meets this Friday evening for prayers and a social kiddish at lovely Leora Singer's apartment. Please feel free to bring a tasty snack to share. Also, we'll need to end the evening around 9ish.

Leora Singer, 6:30pm
5 East 22nd St (corner of 22nd and Broadway) Apt. 30c


Our schedule:
Feb 5 -- Zachary Thacher in the West Village, with dinner
Feb 19 -- HOST NEEDED! Please email us: kolhakfar@yahoo.com
March 5 -- Paul Fischer, with dinner
March 19th -- Carrie Kingsley in Union Square

To host, please email us.

Also, Asher Weiss is playing at The Local 269 Saturday, January 23rd, at 8pm SHARP. Come celebrate the new decade with new songs.

The Local 269 / 269 E. Houston St. @ Suffolk

-----Announcements-------

Meals every month: We host dinners the first Friday of the month. Please bring side dishes or beverages, we'll work with the host to provide a main course. Kosher observance level varies by host. Want to help with set up or planning? Please email amanda@alum. swarthmore.edu
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Learn to Lead: To schedule a musical training session, please email benjamin.pollack@gmail.com or jsschecter@gmail.com
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Host the minyan: Please email us here, or at kolhakfar.hosting@gmail.com to host the minyan.

Friends,

Welcome to the new(ish) year. I hope it's a happy and healthy one for all. Big thanks to Carrie Kingsley for hosting an amazing Chanukah party last month. My personal highlight was the delicious food and the impromptu Salsa dance lesson. After all, they have Chanukah in Puerto Rico. Que rico!

This Friday (1/8) the lovely Laura Nova hosts us in her incredible apartment in the sky for a night of prayer, socializing and dinner. She's serving a Vegetable Moussaka, so she asks people to bring anything they like; North African or Mediterranean themes are appreciated. We're also looking for people to bring salad, fruit, challot, kosher wine, etc. Please RSVP to kolhakfar@yahoo.com to indicate what you can bring.

Laura Nova, 6:30pm
383 Grand, Apt. M11-03 (Seward Park building)

Our schedule going forward:

Jan 22 -- Leora Singer by Madison Square Park
Feb 5 -- Zachary Thacher in the West Village, with dinner
Feb 19 -- we need a host!
March 5 -- we need a host who can also do dinner!
March 19th -- we need a host!

Friends,

In honor of Shabbat and Chanukah, Carrie Kingsley will host a festive gathering at her place as replete with homemade latkes after davening. So yes, that means we'll be having three community Shabbat meals in a row. Crazy but real.

Please RSVP indicating what you can bring to this dairy/vegetarian meal. If you get this note via Yahoo or Facebook, please email us at kolhakfar@yahoo.com. Also, we need hosts for January 8th and 22nd. Please volunteer! The more divine sparks, the better. (Which is basically the Jewish way of saying instant karma. Sort of.)

Carrie Kingsley, 6:30pm
145 E. 16th St. Apt 7P
(NW corner of 3rd Ave)

See you Friday,

Kol haKfar

-----Announcements-------

Meals every month: We host dinners on the first Friday of the month. Please bring side dishes or beverages, we'll work with the host to provide a main course. Kosher observance level varies by host. Want to help with set up or planning? Please email amanda@alum.swarthmore.edu
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Learn to Lead: To schedule a musical training session, please email benjamin.pollack@gmail.com or jsschecter@gmail. com
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Host the minyan: Ben Folkinshteyn is scheduling minyan hosts. Please contact him at kolhakfar.hosting@gmail.com to welcome us into your home.

Friends,

Hey there, I'm back from an amazing week in Jerusalem to celebrate my brother's wedding. While it always depresses me to leave Israel, I look forward to seeing everyone this Friday December 4th to celebrate Shabbat and enjoy a vegetarian potluck meal at Benjamin and Ben's lovely spot in Murray Hill at 6:30pm.

B & B maintain a kosher home, so please only bring dairy/vegetarian foods prepared in a kosher kitchen, hekshered packaged foods from a shop, or unprocessed foods such as fruit.

Please RSVP and indicate what you can contribute to the meal. We cap registration at 25 people, so please RSVP early to secure a place.

Benjamin Pollock and Ben Wolf, 6:30pm
154 E. 29th St. Apt. 8A
(SW corner of 29th and 3rd)

Kol tuv,

Zachary and Co.


------Announcements ---------

Meals every month: We host dinners after davening on the first Friday of every month.

We're asking people to bring easy-to-purchase side dishes & beverages, and we'll work with the host to provide a main course. Just pick up a bottle of wine, bag salad or packaged food. We'll do the rest. (Want to help? Email Amanda at amanda@alum.swarthmore.edu)
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Learn to Lead: We're offering one-on-one courses to teach people how to lead Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma'ariv. To schedule a session, please email benjamin.pollack@gmail.com or jsschecter@gmail.com
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Host the minyan: Ben Folkinshteyn is scheduling minyan hosts. Please contact him at kolhakfar.hosting@gmail.com to welcome us into your home.

Friends,

Kol haKfar, the downtown egal minyan, meets this Friday night at 6:30pm for davening and a social kiddish. Please bring a bottle of wine or some snacks to share.

Please email us at kolhakfar@yahoo.com for the address. It's in Greenwich Village.

We meet again December 4th and 18th.

Shavuah tov,

Zachary

Villagers --

Kol haKfar, the downtown egalitarian minyan with more sass than a Diablo Cody screenplay, meets this Friday night 11/6 for very un-Codyesque spirited prayer. Which we'll follow with a fleishig Shabbat potluck dinner, all at Jonathan and Malorie's lovely Lower East Side apartment.

This event is now closed due to lots of RSVPs, but if you want to come and didn't RSVP yet, email us in case we have a cancellation: kolhakfar@yahoo.com.

Jonathan Schecter and Malorie Ferrick's apartment
385 Grand St., Apt L13-04 -- 7pm
(Seward Park building)

Peace and love,

Kol haKfar

PS Diablo Cody is completely unaware of the existence of our minyan. But she's welcome anytime.

Friends,

Kol haKfar meets this Friday in Paul Fischer's lovely abode for an evening of spirited community prayers, to be followed by a social kiddish. Please bring a tasty morsel or drink to share.

Paul Fischer, 7pm
9 Barrow St., Apt. #5F
(between West 4th St and the intersection of Bleecker and 7th Ave South)

A thought for the day: I just returned from a lovely wedding in Montreal. My friend, David, met his b'shert Sigalit at a Jewish "networking party" (read: cheesy singles event) in Boston. Sig had been going to those events for a while but decided she had had enough. Her girlfriends convinced her to go to just one more time, she let herself get talked into it and showed up. Ten minutes later she met my friend David. Eleven months later they were standing under a chuppah in her home town of Montreal. Not bad!

This has nothing to do with Kol haKfar per se, but I thought you'd enjoy the story.

Happy Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan,

Zachary and Co.

Friends,

We're in for a special Shabbat, which is also Shmini Atzeret. Ben and Jennie Folkinshteyn are treating the minyan to a kosher meat dinner at their lovely apartment after davening this Friday night. Please email us for more info.

They keep strictly kosher, so they ask guests to please only bring kosher wine, packaged hekshered parve desserts, un-cut fruit like berries or grapes, kosher challah or non-alcoholic drinks like seltzer or hekshered juice. Since they have limited space, we're keeping the guest list to 23 for the meal. If you'd like to attend, please RSVP to kolhakfar@yahoo.com by Wednesday evening (or until the list is full) and indicate what you can bring. Last thing: since it's a chag we ask people who have Art Scroll siddurim to bring a few extra copies. Our standard hand-outs are for non-chag Shabbats.

We meet again on October 23rd at Paul Fischer's apartment on the Village. We're looking for hosts for November and December. Please email us to open your home to the minyan.

Happy Sukkot!
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