Women's Assembly re-imagines traditions at Parliament of the World's Religions
10/18/2015 12:52:43 PM
"Maeera Yaffa Shreiber, a University of Utah professor, author and a lay leader at Congregation Kol Ami, said she recently attended an Orthodox Hasidic synagogue for the final of a sequence of Jewish holidays, which concludes with the Day of Celebrating the Torah."
Religious leaders weigh in on organ donation
04/05/2015 12:50:26 PM
"Anything we can do to further life is a blessing, is a mitzvah, is a commandment," said Rabbi Ilana Schwartzman, leader of the Jewish Congregation Kol Ami in Salt Lake City. "We know we live on in the memories of the people we knew in the world and in the acts of good we do in this life."
https://www.ksl.com/?sid=34070731&title=religious-leaders-weigh-in-on-organ-donation
Celebrate miracles and share light, Herbert says at menorah lighting ceremony
12/17/2014 12:49:23 PM
"SALT LAKE CITY — More than 150 people gathered in the Capitol rotunda Tuesday evening, the first night of Hanukkah, to continue the Jewish tradition of lighting a menorah."
Religious roots: Catholic, Episcopal, Jewish, Congregational and other pioneers in Utah started in the late 1800s
07/19/2014 12:48:04 PM
"The first Jewish community in Utah began with a small group meeting together in an LDS meetinghouse in 1854. The first formal congregation was incorporated as B’Nai Israel (Children of Israel) in 1881, according to the Utah Jewish Genealogical Society’s website at ujgs.org."
Raising awareness about the Rwandan genocide
06/08/2014 12:46:56 PM
"Twenty years ago, Edouard Kayihura and Chantal Mudahogora were living their normal lives in their native Rwanda. They did not know each other at the time but one fateful day in April 1994, their lives changed forever in one of the most horrific ways imaginable. Today they are both survivors of the same tragedy that will link them forever.
Both spoke Sunday at an event held at Congregation Kol Ami in observance of the 20th commemoration of the genocide that occurred in 1994 against the Tutsi population in Rwanda. In 100 days, nearly 1 million Rwandan Tutsis — and Hutu who were opposed to the ideology of killing Tutsi — were slaughtered."
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865604772/Raising-awareness-about-the-Rwandan-genocide.html
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