Rabbi Kalender's Greeting

As we look back over Jewish history, we recognize that a healthy and vibrant community defined itself as more than a group of people living in proximity to each another. Those who made themselves part of one of these vital assemblies shared much more than a zip code.

People gathered to pray, study, sing and dance, remember loved ones and celebrate the beauty of life. They recognized that their sense of togetherness was more than a matter of convenience and that the group was an entity whose sum was far greater and stronger than its individual parts. When they formalized their association and built a beit k'nesset (synagogue), they referred to it as a k'hilah k'doshah, a sacred community.

Congregation Olam Tikvah is a k'hilah k'doshah. 3800 Glenbrook Road is a place where people assemble to pray, to learn, to socialize and to mourn. It is a home in which people strive to locate within themselves divine sparks and to share those sparks with others, so that God's light will illuminate the world.  Those sparks are found within each and every individual who allows them to shine forth.

Join us as we, the members of this k'hilah k'doshah, continue to support each other in the holy task of living b’tzelem elohim (in God’s image) and enjoying our sacred community.

Shalom,