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"Kol Echad?" What does that mean?
Kol Echad is a triad of Hebrew puns. One translation is "every one." It could also be heard as "every voice," or "the voice of One God."
Kol Echad is a center for adult Jewish learning and outreach, located at the Halpern Center in Vinings. Kol Echad teaches and models a trans-denominational Judaism that matters.
The director and rabbi of Kol Echad: Making Judaism Matter is Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin.
For a bio of Rabbi Salkin, click here.
Rabbi Salkin's new book just published!
We are proud to announce the arrival of A Dream of Zion: American Jews Reflect On Why Israel Matters To Them, which Rabbi Salkin has edited for Jewish Lights. It is a collection of essays, written by American Jews, on the importance of Israel. It is a crucial book for our time. Click here for more info.
What is Kol Echad's mission?
In the first paragraphs of his classic book God In Search Of Man (1955), Abraham Joshua Heschel offers a simply and powerful diagnosis of the challenge to Judaism in our time.
It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with a voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.
Religion is an answer to man's ultimate questions…The primary task of philosophy of religion is to rediscover the questions to which religion is an answer.
Kol Echad: Making Judaism Matter will be a way for Jews and others to ask the deeper questions of life and to offer Judaism as a way into a struggle with those questions. Kol Echad models a Judaism that is relevant, exciting, liberating and thoughtful.
Who is Kol Echad for?
All Jews. Anyone seeking spiritual sustenance in Judaism. Primarily adults whose children have grown, or those who do not yet have children.
How to Contact Kol Echad?
Kol Echad: Making Judaism Matter
c/o The Halpern Center
4381 Beech Haven Trail
Atlanta GA 30080
770-438-2926
info@judaismmatters.org