Taught by: Rabbi SAM Luckey From Elul (the month before Rosh Hashanah) through Sukkot (the harvest festival after Yom Kippur) and Simchat Torah (the party for finishing and renewing the Torah reading cycle), Judaism goes big for this annual waterfall of holy times. What is it all about? This will be a class -- with […]
Join for Morning Meditation – VIRTUAL ONLY at 7:45am. Look for the password to join Meditation in the Kehilla Weekly Email. A meditation sit led by Rabbi Dev Noily. Join us for sitting practice, framed by the weekly Torah portion and the season in Jewish time. All Morning Meditations (Wednesdays & Fridays) will be online ONLY.
The Homeless Action Committee meets every other Wednesday online, please contact Sue, sgreenwaldwork@gmail.com for more info and the link to attend this meeting.
A meditation sit led by Rabbi Dev Noily. Join us for sitting practice, framed by the weekly Torah portion and the season in Jewish time. Wednesday & Friday meditations will continue as virtual meetings. Zoom room opens at 7:50am, short teaching at 7:55am, silent sit from 8:00-8:30am, followed by mourner’s kaddish and time to share […]
Join Hazzan Shulamit Wise Fairman, Julie Nesnansky, Debbie Fier as we welcome Shabbat with music, prayer and community during Elul, our month of spiritual preparation for the High Holy Days. RSVP & Register Here *Closed Captioning (CC) provided for this service.
Please join Jen Miriam and Alon Altman for Tot Rosh Hashanah Morning Services on Tues., September 7 at 9:30am!
Join Avi Rose and Wren Ganin-Pinto for a celebratory online Shabbat morning service, as we prepare for the High Holy Days and explore parashat Nitzavim. RSVP & Register Here *Closed Captioning (CC) provided for this service.
Guest Sermon by Corrina Gould Main Service: 7:00 pm, Zoom WEBINAR Welcome the new year, celebrate the birthday of the world, and gather with our community as we face this moment together, and begin to draw on the practices of this season to sustain us and uplift us in difficult times. Sermon by Corrina Goud, […]
With Jen Miriam and Alon Altman. Enjoy a Rosh Hashanah experience with puppets, music and lots of fun for our youngest celebrants and the grown-ups who love them. Get tickets for this event here! Kehilla members receive High Holy Day tickets with membership. Members, please check your email for Zoom links to this service. Did […]
Main Service: 9:30 am, ZOOM Webinar Led by Howard Hamburger and Hazzan Shulamit Wise Fairman, with teen sermon by Anthony Rose-Strochlic and Musical Prayer Leaders Julie Nesnansky and Debbie Fier. Bring (optional): Tallit/prayer shawl and challah, wine or juice for Kiddush and Motzi after services, plus shofar, kazoo or horn! Get tickets for this event […]
Join Musical Prayer Leaders Beth Dickinson and Wren Ganin-Pinto with Rabbi Gray Myrseth for stories, songs, and a fun, kid-centered experience that includes Shofar sounding, a Torah story, and other Rosh Hashanah traditions. Designed for children in grades 1 to 6, and open to all ages. Get tickets for this event here! Kehilla members receive […]
Chanting: 9:15 am, ZOOM Meeting Gathering, chanting, and settling in begins at 9:15 a.m. Main Service: 9:30 am, continuation of ZOOM Meeting We invite you to a morning of sacred song and teachings, mindfulness, prayer, healing, and shared community experience. Led by Rabbi Chaya Gusfield and Buddhist teacher Eve Decker. Bring (optional): Tallit or prayer […]
Join us for blessings over wine and challah, followed by time to reflect and an opportunity to get to know each other. Get tickets for this event here! Kehilla members receive High Holy Day tickets with membership. Members, please check your email for Zoom links to this service. Did you already get tickets for this […]
Service: 5:00 pm, Socially-Distanced/Outdoors at West Berkeley Shellmound Join Jews On Ohlone Land, Kehilla Community Synagogue and Jewish Youth for Community Action for an outdoor, socially distanced, family friendly, community Tashlich ritual. Tashlich is the tradition of casting into the water the mistakes we’ve made over the last year, and cleansing ourselves to begin anew. […]
We’ll gather at 5:15 at the West Berkeley Shellmound (following the main program). After an opening activity, we’ll walk together to the Berkeley Marina, pausing along the way for learning and activities. We’ll rejoin the main group near the Adventure Playground, just east of the Cal Adventures West Dock, for tashlich. Any young people who […]
Join us for 40 Days of Teshuva, bringing Jewish spiritual practice into the fight for racial justice – Film screening and Discussion, that documents the 40 days of mourning Black lives leading up to Tisha B'Av in 2020, at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. The film offers a powerful model for integrating Jewish spiritual tools […]
A meditation sit led by Rabbi Dev Noily. Join us for sitting practice, framed by the weekly Torah portion and the season in Jewish time. Wednesday & Friday meditations will continue as virtual meetings. Zoom room opens at 7:50am, short teaching at 7:55am, silent sit from 8:00-8:30am, followed by mourner’s kaddish and time to share […]
Join us for POC Shabbat with Ruthie Levin, Kehilla’s People of Color organizer. POC Shabbat – Beloved community, this space is for Black, Brown and Indigenous folks, and folks who identify as People of Color. Join us as we slow down, embody self-care and step fully into our time of rest. We’ll light our candles […]
Morning Service: 10:00am, ZOOM Meeting Healing Service: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Practice in the power of this single Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – the Shabbat of Turning. Shabbat prayers led by Howard Hamburger and Julie Nesnansky through the Amidah. Then from 11:00am-12:00 pm, the Healing service will be led by Rabbi […]
Middle School Program (6-8th): 4-5:30pm High School Program (9th-12th): 5:45-7:15pm Join Natalie Boskin in person in Kehilla’s courtyard for our 5782 teen High Holy Day teen program! 5782 is a “shmitah year”—but what does that mean? And how does an ancient cycle of resting the land relate to our world today? We will use our […]
A community gathering for tots (ages 0-2 ish years) and their big people. Havurah means "a friend." Havurot means "friends." So HavurTot must mean "friends with tots!" (It starts with a gutteral ch, like challah.) Bring a blanket and food and snacks for your family. For exact location, with questions, or to RSVP, email Rabbi SAM: rabbisam@kehillasynagogue.org
Update Time Change to 4-6pm Until further notice we will shelter-in-place, we’ll be hosting our meeting via Zoom on the second Sunday of the month. New participants are welcome. If you are interested in getting the Zoom link, have questions or want more info, please contact coordinator-wclig@kehillasynagogue.org If you are working class/low income and have […]
Taught by: Rabbi Gray Myrseth Join SVARA as we offer up daily learning to support your spiritual preparation this Elul in Mishnah Collective: Days of AWE-some Edition! We’ll explore a section of the Mishnah (Torah 2.0!) that addresses questions of teshuva (restoration)—where it comes from and how it works. SVARA is a traditionally radical yeshiva […]
Taught by: Rabbi SAM Luckey From Elul (the month before Rosh Hashanah) through Sukkot (the harvest festival after Yom Kippur) and Simchat Torah (the party for finishing and renewing the Torah reading cycle), Judaism goes big for this annual waterfall of holy times. What is it all about? This will be a class -- with […]
This meeting will be held via Zoom; the Sunday before we meet, you can request the Zoom meeting link from Bessie here: bescitrin@gmail.com. All Kehilla members are welcome to join us online for our customary meetings on the second Monday of the month at 7pm. For additional information about the Book Group, contact Jamie at mcgrath1jamie@gmail.com.
Tot Service: 5:30 pm (Zoom Meeting) Jen Miriam and Alon Altman bring their warm, loving and puppet-filled world to a musical Kol Nidre experience for little ones up to age 5 and their grown-ups. Get tickets for this event here! Kehilla members receive High Holy Day tickets with membership. Members, please check your email for […]
Family Service: 6:30 pm (Zoom Meeting) Designed for children in grades 1 to 6; everyone welcome Join Kehilla’s Director of Youth Programs, Rabbi Gray Myrseth, for a special family experience of Kol Nidre. Enter into the holiness of Yom Kippur with stories, songs, and family activities on the theme of teshuvah (literally “turning,” but also […]
Main Service: 6:30 pm (WEBINAR) Sermon by Rabbi Dev Noily. Services led by Avi Rose and Hazzan Shulamit Wise Fairman with musical prayer leaders Beth Dickinson and Debbie Fier. Candle lighting by our Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) team for the Arc of Change. On this holiest night of the Jewish year it’s our custom […]
Story Time with Rabbi Gray - 9:30am (Zoom Meeting) Get tickets for this event here! Kehilla members receive High Holy Day tickets with membership. Members, please check your email for Zoom links to this service. Did you already get tickets for this event? Please check your email for the event links (also check your SPAM). […]
Main Services: 9:30 am (WEBINAR) Main Services begin with a 10 minute “Mikvah in Sound” with Debbie Fier on hand pan. Morning D’var Torah by Fresh “Lev” White. Service led by Rabbi Dev and Hazzan Shulamit with musical prayer leaders Julie Nesnansky and Debbie Fier. Torah service with Rabbi Gray Myrseth. Haftarah with Anna Talhami […]
Yom Kippur Afternoon Workshops: 2:45pm-3:45pm (each as Zoom Meetings) Offerings By: A Movement Practice to Reflect and Refresh with Sandra Razieli Becoming Allies with Palestinians with Rabbi Burt Jacobson Stepping In: Building a BIPOC Community with Ruthie Levin QiGong & Meditation with Diana Lion Learning Session with Rabbi David at 4:00pm Get tickets for this […]
Yizkor at 5:45pm (Zoom Meeting) Led by Victoria Alara Alcoset with Wren Ganin-Pinto, Hazzan Shulamit and Debbie Fier. Get tickets for this event here! Kehilla members receive High Holy Day tickets with membership. Members, please check your email for Zoom links to this service. Did you already get tickets for this event? Please check your […]
Ne’ilah at 6:45pm (Zoom Meeting) Ne’ilah will be in a Zoom meeting where we’ll see each other’s faces. Led by Howard Hamburger, Hazzan Shulamit, Debbie Fier, Julie Nesnansky, and Beth Dickinson. Before Yom Kippur ends and the gates of teshuvah swing shut, we gather our strength and courage to delve deeply inward, to pour out […]
A meditation sit led by Rabbi Dev Noily. Join us for sitting practice, framed by the weekly Torah portion and the season in Jewish time. Wednesday & Friday meditations will continue as virtual meetings. Zoom room opens at 7:50am, short teaching at 7:55am, silent sit from 8:00-8:30am, followed by mourner’s kaddish and time to share […]
Please join us for our next 1st/3rd Friday Kabbalat Shabbat on October 1, 2021.
Please join Jen Miriam and Alon Altman on October 2 for our next Tot Shabbat!
Join Rabbi David & Beth Dickinson for the Last Torah parasha before Simchat Torah, only one chapter, ALL poetry. Ostensibly, this is a poem by Moses to the people as he winds up his life. But the message seems to come from the point of view of the Hebrew prophets of a later century. That […]
ATTN - Tikkun Ha Nefesh: Repair of the Soul, Unpacking White Privilege- Our group is on hiatus as we figure out changing leadership and next steps. We hope to be back with in person meetings after the High Holidays! TIKKUN HA NEFESH (Repair of the soul) HEALING RACISM, UNPACKING WHITE PRIVILEGE Until after High Holidays, […]
Taught by: Rabbi SAM Luckey From Elul (the month before Rosh Hashanah) through Sukkot (the harvest festival after Yom Kippur) and Simchat Torah (the party for finishing and renewing the Torah reading cycle), Judaism goes big for this annual waterfall of holy times. What is it all about? This will be a class -- with […]
Join for Morning Meditation – VIRTUAL ONLY at 7:45am. Look for the password to join Meditation in the Kehilla Weekly Email. A meditation sit led by Rabbi Dev Noily. Join us for sitting practice, framed by the weekly Torah portion and the season in Jewish time. All Morning Meditations (Wednesdays & Fridays) will be online ONLY.
Please email Susan Schulman for the Zoom link: susanschulman60@gmail.com. Any Kehilla connected folks who identify as white, we’d love to have you, whether you’ve ever been to these meetings before or not! We work on de-centering whiteness at Kehilla — so that Kehilla is a more welcoming synagogue for people of color — and on […]
A meditation sit led by Rabbi Dev Noily. Join us for sitting practice, framed by the weekly Torah portion and the season in Jewish time. Wednesday & Friday meditations will continue as virtual meetings. Zoom room opens at 7:50am, short teaching at 7:55am, silent sit from 8:00-8:30am, followed by mourner’s kaddish and time to share […]
This meeting will be held via this Zoom. This online service is songful and in Hebrew (transliteration provided), following the full liturgy. Whether this type of prayer service is new for you, familiar, or intimately known, ALL are welcome! Cosponsored by Kehilla and Glitter Kehilla. Siddur on the Siddur on theHill Join us here
Join Rabbi Dev Noily, Hazzan Shulamit Wise Fairman, and Julie Nesnansky for Shabbat and day 5 of Sukkot! We will include extra psalm-songs of Hallel, a Yizkor/ memorial service, and Tefillat Geshem-- prayers for RAIN! RSVP & Register Here *Closed Captioning (CC) provided for this service.
Dancing into Shmita A Simchat Torah Bash Cosponsored by Kehilla Community Synagogue, Urban Adamah & Chochmat HaLev The Simchat Torah Community Klezmer Band It takes a village . . . to raise a klezmer. Our village has been coming together yearly to raise the ruach (spirit) for exuberant and ecstatic Simchat Torah dance party celebrations. This year’s […]
All members are welcome. This meeting will be held on Zoom, please join us HERE.
Join for Morning Meditation – VIRTUAL ONLY at 7:45am. Look for the password to join Meditation in the Kehilla Weekly Email. A meditation sit led by Rabbi Dev Noily. Join us for sitting practice, framed by the weekly Torah portion and the season in Jewish time. All Morning Meditations (Wednesdays & Fridays) will be online ONLY.
The Homeless Action Committee meets every other Wednesday online, please contact Sue, sgreenwaldwork@gmail.com for more info and the link to attend this meeting.
A meditation sit led by Rabbi Dev Noily. Join us for sitting practice, framed by the weekly Torah portion and the season in Jewish time. Wednesday & Friday meditations will continue as virtual meetings. Zoom room opens at 7:50am, short teaching at 7:55am, silent sit from 8:00-8:30am, followed by mourner’s kaddish and time to share […]
Join us for Kabbalat Shabbat as we welcome Shabbat with music and prayer, and connect with the community. We’ll begin with candle lighting and end with kiddush and motzi– bring candles, juice, or challah to your zoom prayer space if you’d like! Join us here. *Closed Captioning (CC) provided for this service.
Join us for Shabbat Morning Service. For enlivening Shabbat morning of prayer, torah, and community. *Closed Captioning (CC) provided for this service.
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