Lecture Series 2024-25

The 2024-25 Kolot Mayim Lecture Series, Kvell at the Well, starts on November 3 at 11 am with Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch, whose talk is titled “Just For This Moment: Stepping Up to Lead.”

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Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch, CEO of Women of Reform Judaism, is a trailblazer in the Jewish community. Her talk will draw from her wealth of experience and insight into women’s leadership. Rabbi Hirsch hosts the popular weekly podcast, “Just For This,” where she invites women leaders to discuss their journeys, challenges, and triumphs.

Rabbi Hirsch previously served as Rabbi of Temple Anshe Amunim in Pittsfield, MA. She was ordained at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, where she was honored as a Wexner Graduate Fellow, a Tisch Fellow, and a WRJ Scholar. Rabbi Hirsch was the founding co-chair of RAC Massachusetts and serves on the National Council of Jewish Women’s Rabbis for Repro Rabbinic Advisory Council. She played a key role in the 2020 campaign to pass the ROE Act in Massachusetts.

A prolific writer on social justice, spiritual practice, and trends in Jewish life, Rabbi Hirsch has contributed chapters to recent publications including The Social Justice Torah Commentary (CCAR Press, 2021) and Prophetic Voices: Renewing and Reimagining Haftarah (CCAR Press, 2023).

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Welcome to Kolot Mayim – Vancouver Island’s Reform Temple

“KM is a home away from home, a wonderful place filled with warmth and community every single service. Rabbi Lynn is a deeply knowledgeable and welcoming Rabbi with lots to offer her congregation! I feel lucky to be a part of the community 🙂 ” Mimi B.

Kolot Mayim welcomes all Jewish people, their family members, and anyone interested in Jewish culture, practice, spirituality and community. We are an inclusive, warm and welcoming congregation; deeply committed to the Reform Movement’s 1999 platform which states:

“Our doors are open to people of all ages, to varied kinds of families, to all regardless of their sexual orientation, to gerim (those who have converted to Judaism) and to all individuals and families, including the intermarried who strive to create a Jewish home.”

With the values of the Reform Movement as our inspiration, Kolot Mayim has become the spiritual home to families and individuals. There are no barriers for anyone regardless of their level of Jewish knowledge, observance or practice.  Kolot Mayim fully supports the right of Israel to exist as a nation state. We trust that when you join us, you too will feel at home.  Our weekly services, High Holy Days, and special events are held at the Jewish Community Centre of Victoria (JCC), 3636 Shelbourne Street, Victoria, B.C., Canada.

We invite you to connect with us online or in person, and look forward to meeting you! 

For more information call 250-704-2503 or email:km@kolotmayimreformtemple.com

Kolot Mayim Reform Temple is a beneficiary of the United Jewish Appeal campaign of the Jewish Federation of Victoria and Vancouver Island. We encourage our members to support this annual campaign.