The Church of the Advocate is currently using space at the Chapel Hill Kehillah, a handicapped-accessible facility. DIRECTIONS.

What Is It?
The CHAPEL HILL KEHILLAH is a Jewish Synagogue. The word Kehillah is Hebrew meaning "community."

We are grateful to the People of the Kehillah for sharing their space with us. It provides us room to grow - with a larger space for worship and for education. We have a storage space for vestments, liturgical supplies and educational supplies from week to week, allowing us to retire the trailer for a while.

Sharing space with the People of the Kehillah provides many opportunities for us to learn more about Judaism and Jewish life, and to embrace that part of our tradition and teaching. We hope to share programs and ministry with the people of the Kehillah.

Respecting the Kehillah
The Church of the Advocate and the Chapel Hill Kehillah are entering this new chapter with a spirit of mutual respect and a celebration of each other's faith and faith community.

To respect the worship space of the Kehillah, we have agreed not to have any acitivities on their "bimah" (what we would call the "sanctuary") at the front of the worship space (what we would call the "nave").

The bimah is a raised platform area, carpeted in red. It will be especially important for the children of the Advocate to understand this.

To respect the Kosher customs of the Kehillah, we have agreed to "keep Kosher" in our times of fellowship there. The simplest way for us to do this is to refrain from cooking with meat - no beef, no fish, no poultry. Dairy products may be used - milk, butter, and cheese. Soups will need to be made with vegetable stock, rather than chicken or beef stock. Recipes are posted on the message board.