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Congregation Kol Ami is a Reform synagogue in Frederick, Maryland, United States. ==History== The congregation was founded on February 21, 2003, by a group of eight families as the Reform Jewish congregation in Frederick. Services are held at Unitarian-Universalist Church on Elmer Derr Road. In 2004, the congregation received a Torah for use in worship. In 2005 Kol Ami hired Student Rabbi Daniel Sikowitz. The same year, Kol Ami began its religious school.〔http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-833541601.html〕 In November of that year, Kol Ami had been accepted as members in the Union for Reform Judaism. In 2007, Kol Ami offered and Rabbi Dan Sikowitz accepted the position as first rabbi in Kol Ami's short history. In October 2007, a group of women at Kol Ami celebrated their bat mitzvahs. The women, who varied in age, were older than the traditional age for such a celebration, but had never had such an opportunity themselves since the tradition was not popular when they were that age.〔http://www.gazette.net/stories/100807/frednew151504_32376.shtml〕 In 2008 Kol Ami received a Torah saved from the Holocaust from Lviv, Ukraine.〔http://www.kolamifrederick.org/aboutus/history/〕 It was the first Torah scroll of the congregation, and they paid $20,000 for it.〔http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=72262〕 Members of the congregation, some of whom are of Ukrainian descent, assisted in writing the Torah.〔http://wjz.com/local/torah.synagogue.frederick.2.693682.html〕 The congregation frequently participates in social action programs such as the Frederick food bank.〔Saying a prayer for the hungry and the homeless, Ron Cassie, Frederick News-Post, November 15, 2008 ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kol Ami of Frederick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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