August 2018
Qigong Workshop with Diana Lion
Kehilla Introductory Yuan Gong series – Aug 14, 21, 28, Sept 4 – 6:30-8:30 PM Fireside Room Register here Nourishing Ourselves Wisely with Qigong – An Introductory Series Come join us for a 4-week relaxing Qigong class series. Qigong is an embodied form of meditation, which acts on all aspects of the body, mind, spirit, and life force. This series is a wonderful way to nourish ourselves as we address what’s happening in the wider world, as well as help…
Find out more »Morning Meditation Sit
With Rabbi Dev. In the Fireside Room (Enter through the Patio entrance on Fairview). Doors open at 7:50 a.m., short teaching at 7:55 a.m., silent sit from 8:00 – 8:30, mourner’s kaddish and announcements at 8:30. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Tot Shabbat – *NEW Earlier Start Time and Flow*
Join Jen, Alon and Jen’s puppet friends. Please bring a vegetarian potluck dish to share. 6:00-6:30 pm Shabbat music and puppets! 6:30-7:30 pm Shabbat blessings and Veggie Pot-Luck Dinner For children up to 5 years old (or older if they enjoy it) and the grown ups who love them. In the Social Hall. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Elul Shabbat Service
Join us for Shabbat morning prayers and torah service as we continue the journey through Elul, our month of spiritual and inter-relational preparation for the Days of Awe. With Rabbi Dev and Julie Nesnansky. Kiddush follows the service. Please bring something vegetarian to share. In the Sanctuary. All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Community Klezmer Band for Simchat Torah
Help make our Simchat Torah Celebration a rockin’ musical success. Join the Community Band! Register now! Open to instrumentalists from Kehilla, Chochmat haLev and Aquarian Minyan. Led by Chochmat HaLev clarinetist Mike Perlmutter and accordionist/singer Jeanette Lewicki with a series of workshops leading up to the event. Participants will learn tunes by ear and from reference charts and recordings. Participants will build on the repertoire from last year, adding some new tunes and working on strengthening ensemble playing and klezmer style. Participants will…
Find out more »Board of Trustees Meeting
(Dinner at 6:15) All members are welcome. Back Classroom (main floor, straight down the hall). All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Qigong Workshop with Diana Lion
Kehilla Introductory Yuan Gong series – Aug 14, 21, 28, Sept 4 – 6:30-8:30 PM Fireside Room Register here Nourishing Ourselves Wisely with Qigong – An Introductory Series Come join us for a 4-week relaxing Qigong class series. Qigong is an embodied form of meditation, which acts on all aspects of the body, mind, spirit, and life force. This series is a wonderful way to nourish ourselves as we address what’s happening in the wider world, as well as help…
Find out more »Morning Meditation Sit
With Rabbi Dev. In the Fireside Room (Enter through the Patio entrance on Fairview). Doors open at 7:50 a.m., short teaching at 7:55 a.m., silent sit from 8:00 – 8:30, mourner’s kaddish and announcements at 8:30. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »‘Folks with White Privilege’ affinity group
The Belonging & Allyship Project is a big and long term initiative to address white supremacy and racial justice internally within Kehilla, at all levels of our organization and community. Goals of the project: 1. For Kehilla to be a place where Jews of color experience belonging, and are able to bring their full selves into the community. This includes building our capacity to support the particular experiences of kids and youth of color. 2. For Kehilla to be a…
Find out more »September 2018
No Tot Shabbat service
Join us again for AM Tot Shabbat on Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 10:30am. *See other High Holy Day dates for Tot Programming.
Find out more »Selichot Evening Service
Selichot is our portal into the Days of Awe and the process of teshuva, of turning inward with love and curiosity to face ourselves with clarity and truth. Slichot limbers up our ability to ask for forgiveness. Before we enter the great hall of Rosh Hashana, we gather in the intimate circle of Selichot – just us – to begin the tender and life-giving practice of looking deeply and clearly at our lives. Join Rabbi Dev, Sharon Grodin, Hazzan Shulamit…
Find out more »Drumming As Prayer Class
Taught by Debbier Fier, Kehilla Musical Prayer Leader & “Heartbeat of the Service” Drumming is an active form of meditation. It provides a wonderful way to be present, express yourself and learn how to drum with a group in sacred community space. We will take time to go inward using mindfulness tools, and then learn hand drum technique and play some rhythms. It is a powerful experience to drum in a circle with others and carry the beat together. At…
Find out more »Qigong Workshop with Diana Lion
Kehilla Introductory Yuan Gong series – Aug 14, 21, 28, Sept 4 – 6:30-8:30 PM Fireside Room Register here Nourishing Ourselves Wisely with Qigong – An Introductory Series Come join us for a 4-week relaxing Qigong class series. Qigong is an embodied form of meditation, which acts on all aspects of the body, mind, spirit, and life force. This series is a wonderful way to nourish ourselves as we address what’s happening in the wider world, as well as help…
Find out more »MEPC Meeting
Fireside Room All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Morning Meditation Sit
With Rabbi Dev. In the Fireside Room (Enter through the Patio entrance on Fairview). Doors open at 7:50 a.m., short teaching at 7:55 a.m., silent sit from 8:00 – 8:30, mourner’s kaddish and announcements at 8:30. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »‘White Parents of Children of Color’ affinity group
The Belonging & Allyship Project is a big and long term initiative to address white supremacy and racial justice internally within Kehilla, at all levels of our organization and community. Goals of the project: 1. For Kehilla to be a place where Jews of color experience belonging, and are able to bring their full selves into the community. This includes building our capacity to support the particular experiences of kids and youth of color. 2. For Kehilla to be a…
Find out more »Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
Find out more »Elul Kabbalat Shabbat
Join Hazzan Shulamit, Debbie Fier, and Julie Nesnansky for the final shabbat of 5778! A song-filled and soulful evening of spirited and contemplative prayer, weaving in themes and melodies for the High Holy Days. Kiddush follows the service. Please bring something veggie to share. In the Sanctuary. All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Elul Shabbat Service at the Climate March in SF with Rabbi David
We will observe the last Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah on Sept. 8 with a short service before the action: “Rise for Climate, Jobs & Justice.” This is an action across the country and we will gather near the local convening point of the march on the Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco. (We do not have exact details yet, but plan to be there at 9:30 although this may be subject to change.) For more on the action and to sign…
Find out more »Protest at the Richmond Immigration Detention Center
Let Our People Go: Protest at the Richmond Detention Facility at the Richmond Detention Center (5555 Giant Highway) Join Kehilla Immigration Committee and Our Family Coalition, FOR JUST ONE HOUR (11 am-Noon). This is a multi-faith, accessible-for-all-ages action to call for an end to the detention/deportation and mass incarceration of our communities and neighbors. Bring signs and noisemakers to let those being interned—and forced to work—know we have not forgotten them. Let's show up now! If not now, when? We will be out…
Find out more »Erev Rosh Hashanah Service
6:30 pm at the Scottish Rite Center. Doors open at 6pm. 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. Led by Sharon Grodin, Hazzan Shulamit Wise Fairman, Debbie Fier, Beth Dickinson, Avi Rose, and Julie Nesnansky. Sermon by Rabbi Gray Myrseth. Get Your Tickets Here Sign up to Volunteer for…
Find out more »Rosh Hashanah Services
Get Your Tickets Here Sign up to Volunteer for High Holy Days Here Main Sanctuary Service 9:30 am – 12:30 pm at the Scottish Rite Center. Doors open at 9am. Ketzev Kehilla drumming circle opens our service, continuing with Howard Hamburger, Rabbi David Cooper, Rabbi Dev Noily, Hazzan Shulamit Wise Fairman, Debbie Fier, Julie Nesnansky, and Avi Rose. Teen Sermon: Josh Bernard-Pearl Torah Reading: Exodus 32: 1-12 Family & Youth Service 10:00 am – 11:30 am, Scottish Rite Center (third floor). With Beth Dickinson,…
Find out more »Second Day Rosh Hashanah Service
Get Your Tickets Here Sign up to Volunteer for High Holy Days Here Morning Service 9:30 am – 12:30 pm at Kehilla Community Synagogue. Doors open at 9am. With Rabbi Chaya Gusfield and Eve Decker. Receive the replenishment of contemplative song, story and silence. Rabbi Chaya and Buddhist teacher and musician Eve Decker use the beautiful complement of Jewish and Buddhist teachings, music and spiritual practices to delve deeply into the essence of this holy day. A more intimate service for the…
Find out more »Morning Meditation Sit
With Rabbi Dev. In the Fireside Room (Enter through the Patio entrance on Fairview). Doors open at 7:50 a.m., short teaching at 7:55 a.m., silent sit from 8:00 – 8:30, mourner’s kaddish and announcements at 8:30. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
Find out more »Economic Justice Committee
In the Fireside Room (entrance available through Courtyard). All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Shabbat Shuvah
Practice in the power of this one Shabbat between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur – the Shabbat of Turning. Led by Howard Hamburger and Julie Nesnansky. Kiddush sponsored by Amy Bat Tzipora and Beth Weinberger. In the Fireside Room. All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Third Annual High Holy Days Art Show Reception
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. ~ Psalm 51:8 Please join Kehilla’s Art Gallery Committee and contributing artists at our annual High Holy Days Art Show Reception. The Days of Awe bring us together in a community of spiritual practice that celebrates truth-seeking. See how Kehilla members are lifting up this year’s High Holy Days theme, “Truth.” Come meet the artists, shmooze, and enjoy delightful goodies. All events…
Find out more »Yoga for Renewal
$25 Public/ $20 Members of Kehilla and other Co-sponsoring Organizations with Julie Emden, Embodied Jewish Learning Enter into the High Holy Day season with a gentle Iyengar-based yoga and movement practice, infused with wisdom teachings rooted in Jewish Mystical tradition. Discover your own sensing, moving body as a resource for presence, joy and calm while gaining a deeper connection to yourself on all levels- mind, body, heart and spirit- at this time of return and renewal on the Hebrew Calendar.…
Find out more »Kol Nidre Service
Get Your Tickets Here Sign up to Volunteer for High Holy Days Here 6:30 pm at the Scottish Rite Center. Doors open at 6pm. Geared for adults – all ages welcome (see below for Family & Tot Kol Nidre) On this holiest night of the Jewish year it’s our custom to wear white, to avoid leather, to fast, and to pray wearing a tallit/prayer shawl – the only time in the year that a tallit is worn at night. This service, beginning…
Find out more »Family/Toddler Kol Nidre Services
Get Your Tickets Here Sign up to Volunteer for High Holy Days Here Family Kol Nidre 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm at Kehilla Community Synagogue. Doors open at 6pm. Geared for children in grades 1 to 6; everyone welcome Join Kehilla’s Director of Youth Programs, Rabbi Gray Myrseth, and local treasure and world musician Lior Ben-Hur for this special family experience of Kol Nidre. Enter into the holiness of Yom Kippur with music, story and tradition that brings families into the…
Find out more »Yom Kippur Services
Get Your Tickets Here Sign up to Volunteer for High Holy Days Here Main Sanctuary Service (all ages welcome) 9:30 am – 1:30 pm at the Scottish Rite Center. Doors open at 9am. Services open with a meditative soundscape by Debbie Fier, continuing with Rabbi Dev Noily, Sharon Grodin, Hazzan Shulamit Wise Fairman, and Julie Nesnansky. Congregant Sermon by Hillary Brooks. Torah Reading: Leviticus 16: 21-31 Teen Services (geared to 6th – 8th graders) At the Scottish Rite Center Time TBD, with Noa Grayevsky. See…
Find out more »Yom Kippur Afternoon & Evening @ Kehilla
Yom Kippur Afternoon & Evening 2:00 – 4:30 pm Drop off break-fast pot-luck offerings at the Kehilla kitchen (or bring them at 7:45) 3:00 – 4:00 pm Workshops 4:30 pm Yizkor – Service of Remembrance Led by Rabbi David, Hazzan Shulamit, and Kehilla’s Musical Prayer leaders: Debbie Fier, Julie Nesnansky and Beth Dickinson. 5:15 pm A Teaching from Rabbi David J. Cooper 5:30 pm Healing Service With Rabbi Elliot Kukla, Hazzan Shulamit, Debbie Fier, and Julie Nesnansky. 6:30 pm Ne’ilah – Closing the Gates With Howard Hamburger, Rabbi…
Find out more »Yom Kippur Afternoon Workshops @ Kehilla
Yom Kippur Afternoon Workshops The Kotzker & The Besht – Two Hasidic Takes on Truth with Rabbi Burt Jacobson Eighteenth-century Hasidism was a response to one of the worst periods of carnage ever suffered by the Jewish people. The Ba’al Shem Tov refused to be despondent and instead introduced a new Judaism of joy, love, and compassion that gave his people a deep sense of hope and courage. How can the lessons taught by the Ba’al Shem Tov strengthen our…
Find out more »Greening Committee
In Back Classroom - Main Floor. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Kabbalat Shabbat
Join with Hazzan Shulamit, Julie Nesnansky, & Jen Miriam Altman to light Shabbat candles and for a song-filled and soulful evening of spirited and contemplative prayer. Kiddush follows the service. Please bring something veggie to share. In the Sanctuary. All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Shabbat Service
Join Rabbi David and Beth Dickenson as we approach the annual reading of the Torah, we will read from the parashat Haazinu. It is a poem from the time of the prophets but written as if recited by Moses in his last weeks of life. It is a song decrying the worship of false gods and a call to respond to truth. What are the false idols of our time? What are the consequences of worshipping them? The Torah reading will be in three parts—let…
Find out more »Community Klezmer Band for Simchat Torah
Help make our Simchat Torah Celebration a rockin’ musical success. Join the Community Band! Register now! Open to instrumentalists from Kehilla, Chochmat haLev and Aquarian Minyan. Led by Chochmat HaLev clarinetist Mike Perlmutter and accordionist/singer Jeanette Lewicki with a series of workshops leading up to the event. Participants will learn tunes by ear and from reference charts and recordings. Participants will build on the repertoire from last year, adding some new tunes and working on strengthening ensemble playing and klezmer style. Participants will…
Find out more »Board of Trustees Meeting
(Dinner at 6:15) All members are welcome. Back Classroom (main floor, straight down the hall). All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Morning Meditation Sit in the Sukkah!
With Rabbi Dev. in the Sukkah (Outside of the Fireside Room) ~ enter through the Patio entrance on Fairview. Doors open at 7:50 a.m., short teaching at 7:55 a.m., silent sit from 8:00 – 8:30, mourner’s kaddish and announcements at 8:30. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
Find out more »NO Tot Shabbat
Join us at the event on October 1st for a Tot Simchat Torah Celebration at 6:30pm with Jen Miriam and Alon and their puppet friends.
Find out more »13th Annual Faith Trio Harvest Dinner
Join Kehilla, the Islamic Cultural Center, and Montclair Presbyterian for a special evening of shared food and connection KEHILLA FOLKS: Bring a main vegetarian dish to serve at least 6 people in addition to your party. This year’s Harvest Dinner theme will be “Sanctuary” and “Immigration” and fittingly. Held in Kehilla’s Sukkah in Courtyard (entrance on Fairview Avenue). All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Shabbat Morning of Sukkot + Baby Welcome and Blessing
Join Rabbi Dev and Hazzan Shulamit for a special Shabbat service while our joy is amplified by the celebration of Sukkot and the welcoming of Rabbi Elliot Kukla and Abby Weintraub’s new baby. We’ll sing Hallel, extra songs of praise and make hakafot, circular processions with lulavim-- bring one along to shake! Please bring a veggie dish to share for a festive kiddush in the Sukkah after services. In the Sanctuary. Kiddush in the Sukkah in the Courtyard (entrance on…
Find out more »Kehilla Neighborhood Brunches
If you have ever wanted to find out more about the Kehilla members in your neighborhood and to make connections in your local village - come to a Kehilla Neighborhood Brunch! This year our brunch is on the day of the first evening of Sukkot. WHERE: We expect to have hosts for Berkeley, Richmond, South Oakland and the Rockridge/Temescal/Grand Lake/Piedmont area of Oakland. WHAT: The hosts will provide juice, coffee and tea. Guests are asked to bring vegetarian brunch…
Find out more »October 2018
Community Klezmer Band for Simchat Torah
Help make our Simchat Torah Celebration a rockin’ musical success. Join the Community Band! Register now! Open to instrumentalists from Kehilla, Chochmat haLev and Aquarian Minyan. Led by Chochmat HaLev clarinetist Mike Perlmutter and accordionist/singer Jeanette Lewicki with a series of workshops leading up to the event. Participants will learn tunes by ear and from reference charts and recordings. Participants will build on the repertoire from last year, adding some new tunes and working on strengthening ensemble playing and klezmer style. Participants will…
Find out more »Jewish Renewal Community Simchat Torah Celebration & All Ages Dance Party
Kehilla, Chochmat HaLev, Aquarian Minyan and Beyt Tikkun come together at Kehilla to end and begin the Torah and to dance, dance, dance with our community-enhanced Klezmer band led by Mike Perlmutter! 6:30 Holiday Tot Service with Jen Miriam and Alon Altman in the Fireside Room 6:30 Ma’ariv / Evening service in the Sanctuary 7:00 Special Torah Service 7:30 Dancing with the Torah in the Sanctuary with Live Music All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what…
Find out more »MEPC Meeting
Fireside Room All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Morning Meditation Sit with Rabbi Dev in the Sukkah
Gather at 7:50 a.m., short teaching at 7:55 a.m., silent sit from 8:00 – 8:30, mourner’s kaddish and announcements at 8:30. Please enter through the patio off Fairview Avenue. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
Find out more »Open Minds, Open Hearts: Exploring Class Dynamics in our Kehilla Community
A Free Experiential Workshop for ALL Kehilla Members: RSVP by 9/26 maya@kehillasynagogue.org Facilitated by Kehilla member Penny Rosenwasser and members of Kehilla’s Working Class/Low Income Group Please note a sharp start time set for 1 pm. Leave time for parking. ⧫ Get to know your fellow congregants (and yourself!) on a deeper level ⧫ Gain understanding and compassion as we learn about our differences and similarities, and the ways that we have all been influenced by society’s concepts of Jews,…
Find out more »Book Discussion Group
All Kehilla members are welcome to join us for our customary meetings on the second Monday of the month at 7pm. For more information about the Book Group, contact Terry at mcglynnmandel@gmail.com. If you’re looking for other good books with a Jewish theme to read? The Kehilla Book Discussion Group has been meeting monthly since 2008 and we’ve read quite a few. Several people have recently asked for some names of books that we are reading so I am going to…
Find out more »Morning Meditation Sit
With Rabbi Dev. In the Fireside Room (Enter through the Patio entrance on Fairview). Doors open at 7:50 a.m., short teaching at 7:55 a.m., silent sit from 8:00 – 8:30, mourner’s kaddish and announcements at 8:30. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
Find out more »Economic Justice Committee
In the Fireside Room (entrance available through Courtyard). All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Shabbat Service @ 10am and Amelia Spong becoming Bat Mitzvah
Join us as we celebrate Shabbat and Amelia's simcha. Please return to this site at a later date for more information. All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Protest at the Richmond Immigration Detention Center
Let Our People Go: Protest at the Richmond Detention Facility at the Richmond Detention Center (5555 Giant Highway) Join Kehilla Immigration Committee and Our Family Coalition, FOR JUST ONE HOUR (11 am-Noon). This is a multi-faith, accessible-for-all-ages action to call for an end to the detention/deportation and mass incarceration of our communities and neighbors. Bring signs and noisemakers to let those being interned—and forced to work—know we have not forgotten them. Let's show up now! If not now, when? We will be out…
Find out more »Morning Meditation Sit
With Rabbi Dev. In the Fireside Room (Enter through the Patio entrance on Fairview). Doors open at 7:50 a.m., short teaching at 7:55 a.m., silent sit from 8:00 – 8:30, mourner’s kaddish and announcements at 8:30. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
Find out more »Greening Committee
In Back Classroom - Main Floor. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Shabbat Service @ 10am and Isaiah Phillips becoming Bar Mitzvah
Join us as we celebrate Shabbat and Isaiah's simcha. Please return to this site at a later date for more information. All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Kids of Color and their POC Parent(s)/Interracial Couple Co-Parents – Potluck Social
The Belonging & Allyship Project is a big and long term initiative to address white supremacy and racial justice internally within Kehilla, at all levels of our organization and community. Goals of the project: 1. For Kehilla to be a place where Jews of color experience belonging, and are able to bring their full selves into the community. This includes building our capacity to support the particular experiences of kids and youth of color. 2. For Kehilla to be a…
Find out more »Ten Essentials to Judaism
REGISTER HERE Join Rabbi Dev for a deep dive into some of the juiciest parts of Jewish practice and life. This monthly class is required for Conversion and Adult B’nei Mitzvah Students and is open to all. All Sessions will meet on Monday from 7:00-9:00pm in the Fireside Room. Sessions & dates are as follows: October 22 - Session 1: What is Judaism, Anyway? November 26 - Session 2: A Brief History of Judaism Through Our Sacred Texts December 17…
Find out more »Board of Trustees Meeting
(Dinner at 6:15) All members are welcome. Back Classroom (main floor, straight down the hall). All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Morning Meditation Sit
With Rabbi Dev. In the Fireside Room (Enter through the Patio entrance on Fairview). Doors open at 7:50 a.m., short teaching at 7:55 a.m., silent sit from 8:00 – 8:30, mourner’s kaddish and announcements at 8:30. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
Find out more »Tot Shabbat
Join us for Tot Shabbat, For children up to 5 years old (or older if they enjoy it) and their grown-ups. Led by Jen and Alon Altman and Jen’s puppet friends. Please bring a vegetarian potluck dish. In the Social Hall. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Morning Meditation Sit
With Rabbi Dev. In the Fireside Room (Enter through the Patio entrance on Fairview). Doors open at 7:50 a.m., short teaching at 7:55 a.m., silent sit from 8:00 – 8:30, mourner’s kaddish and announcements at 8:30. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »November 2018
Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
Find out more »MEPC Meeting
Fireside Room All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Morning Meditation Sit
With Rabbi Dev. In the Fireside Room (Enter through the Patio entrance on Fairview). Doors open at 7:50 a.m., short teaching at 7:55 a.m., silent sit from 8:00 – 8:30, mourner’s kaddish and announcements at 8:30. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
Find out more »Economic Justice Committee
In the Fireside Room (entrance available through Courtyard). All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Shabbat Service @ 10am and Ruby Burg-Naughton becoming Bat Mitzvah
Join us as we celebrate Shabbat and Ruby's simcha. Please return to this site at a later date for more information. All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Protest at the Richmond Immigration Detention Center
Let Our People Go: Protest at the Richmond Detention Facility at the Richmond Detention Center (5555 Giant Highway) Join Kehilla Immigration Committee and Our Family Coalition, FOR JUST ONE HOUR (11 am-Noon). This is a multi-faith, accessible-for-all-ages action to call for an end to the detention/deportation and mass incarceration of our communities and neighbors. Bring signs and noisemakers to let those being interned—and forced to work—know we have not forgotten them. Let's show up now! If not now, when? We will be out…
Find out more »Book Discussion Group
All Kehilla members are welcome to join us for our customary meetings on the second Monday of the month at 7pm. For more information about the Book Group, contact Terry at mcglynnmandel@gmail.com. If you’re looking for other good books with a Jewish theme to read? The Kehilla Book Discussion Group has been meeting monthly since 2008 and we’ve read quite a few. Several people have recently asked for some names of books that we are reading so I am going to…
Find out more »Morning Meditation Sit
With Rabbi Dev. In the Fireside Room (Enter through the Patio entrance on Fairview). Doors open at 7:50 a.m., short teaching at 7:55 a.m., silent sit from 8:00 – 8:30, mourner’s kaddish and announcements at 8:30. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
Find out more »Greening Committee
In Back Classroom - Main Floor. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Morning Meditation Sit
With Rabbi Dev. In the Fireside Room (Enter through the Patio entrance on Fairview). Doors open at 7:50 a.m., short teaching at 7:55 a.m., silent sit from 8:00 – 8:30, mourner’s kaddish and announcements at 8:30. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Ten Essentials to Judaism
REGISTER HERE Join Rabbi Dev for a deep dive into some of the juiciest parts of Jewish practice and life. This monthly class is required for Conversion and Adult B’nei Mitzvah Students and is open to all. All Sessions will meet on Monday from 7:00-9:00pm in the Fireside Room. Sessions & dates are as follows: October 22 - Session 1: What is Judaism, Anyway? November 26 - Session 2: A Brief History of Judaism Through Our Sacred Texts December 17…
Find out more »Board of Trustees Meeting
(Dinner at 6:15) All members are welcome. Back Classroom (main floor, straight down the hall). All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Morning Meditation Sit
With Rabbi Dev. In the Fireside Room (Enter through the Patio entrance on Fairview). Doors open at 7:50 a.m., short teaching at 7:55 a.m., silent sit from 8:00 – 8:30, mourner’s kaddish and announcements at 8:30. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
Find out more »December 2018
MEPC Meeting
Fireside Room All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Morning Meditation Sit
With Rabbi Dev. In the Fireside Room (Enter through the Patio entrance on Fairview). Doors open at 7:50 a.m., short teaching at 7:55 a.m., silent sit from 8:00 – 8:30, mourner’s kaddish and announcements at 8:30. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
Find out more »Protest at the Richmond Immigration Detention Center
Let Our People Go: Protest at the Richmond Detention Facility at the Richmond Detention Center (5555 Giant Highway) Join Kehilla Immigration Committee and Our Family Coalition, FOR JUST ONE HOUR (11 am-Noon). This is a multi-faith, accessible-for-all-ages action to call for an end to the detention/deportation and mass incarceration of our communities and neighbors. Bring signs and noisemakers to let those being interned—and forced to work—know we have not forgotten them. Let's show up now! If not now, when? We will be out…
Find out more »Book Discussion Group
All Kehilla members are welcome to join us for our customary meetings on the second Monday of the month at 7pm. For more information about the Book Group, contact Terry at mcglynnmandel@gmail.com. If you’re looking for other good books with a Jewish theme to read? The Kehilla Book Discussion Group has been meeting monthly since 2008 and we’ve read quite a few. Several people have recently asked for some names of books that we are reading so I am going to…
Find out more »Morning Meditation Sit
With Rabbi Dev. In the Fireside Room (Enter through the Patio entrance on Fairview). Doors open at 7:50 a.m., short teaching at 7:55 a.m., silent sit from 8:00 – 8:30, mourner’s kaddish and announcements at 8:30. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
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