Upcoming Events
Shabbat Service at 10am & Sarah Ifcher becoming Bat Mitzvah
With Rabbi Dev, Beth Dickinson, Sharon Grodin (Sarah’s teacher) and Debbie Fier. Join us as we celebrate Shabbat and Sarah ’s simcha. Kiddush provided by Sarah’s parents, John Ifcher and Liz Orlin. All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Board of Trustees Meeting
(Dinner at 6:15) All members are welcome. Fireside Room. 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 »Art Committee Meeting
Fireside Room. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
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 Miriam Kantor, Alon Altman and Jen’s puppet friends. Please bring a vegetarian potluck dish. In the Social Hall. All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Elul CHAI Shabbat & New Member Welcome!
Raise your spirits as we raise the roof with singing, dancing and teaching to take us higher on this special all-in Shabbat. With Rabbi Dev, Hazzan Shulamit, Beth Dickinson, Julie Nesnansky, Debbie Fier and Ketzev Kehilla drumming group. Welcoming new and prospective Kehilla members. Followed by a potluck kiddush lunch--please bring a veggie dish to share if you can. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Drumming As Prayer Class
Taught by Debbie 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. At Kehilla, we are creating an intergenerational drum group, called Ketzev Kehilla, (the Beats of Kehilla), and we have been learning some of the rhythms for the Kehilla melodies and also drumming at our Chai Shabbat services. Those…
Find out more »Ben Weinstein’s Bar Mitzvah Project
Please join in community on Sunday, August 27 at 5:30 to witness and celebrate with Benjamin Weinstein and his family as he presents his Bar Mitzvah project. After an immersive year of Bar Mitzvah study, Ben has created a sculpture based on the story in Genesis of the Garden of Eden, and the human choices that changed the garden experience. The sculpture will be on display in the courtyard. Ben will share some reflections on his studies, his choice to work on this story and he will…
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 »Drumming As Prayer Class
Taught by Debbie 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. At Kehilla, we are creating an intergenerational drum group, called Ketzev Kehilla, (the Beats of Kehilla), and we have been learning some of the rhythms for the Kehilla melodies and also drumming at our Chai Shabbat services. Those…
Find out more »Kabbalat Shabbat
Join us to light Shabbat candles and for a song-filled and soulful evening of both spirited and contemplative prayer. Kiddush follows the service. Bring veggie finger-food to share. In the Sanctuary. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Kehilla Administrative Offices Closed For Labor Day
Our offices will be closed in observance of Labor Day, we will re-open on Tuesday, September 5th during our normal business hours.
Find out more »MEPC Meeting
Fireside Room 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 »High Holiday Song Shop and Prayerful Preparation
Join Hazzan Shulamit and our Musical Prayer Leaders for an intimate evening of musical and spiritual preparation for the High Holidays. We'll dive into the meaning of the prayers, taking ample time to sing together and explore how the energy of the music moves within us and in the space between us. Everyone is welcome! 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 »Friday Night Peace Walk with OCO
Join Rabbi David in this walk for peace in our own community led by Oakland Community Organizations’ Ceasefire campaign. Second Fridays are when Kehilla folks are particularly encouraged to come. The Ceasefire campaign is many-sided including the training and mobilization of neighborhood peace interveners, the retraining of police, and a weekly peace walk with local congregations to support a “culture of peace and healing” in neighborhoods at risk. Rabbi David reports that he has done this many times and it…
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 »Yoga for Renewal
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. Co-sponsored by Kehilla. $25 Public/ $20 Members of Kehilla and other Co-sponsoring Organizations with Julie Emden, Embodied…
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. Two She Bears by Meir Shalev A story of village love and vengeance in the early days of British Palestine that is still being played out two generations later. A story rich with the grit, humor, and near-magical evocation of Israeli rural life for which Meir Shalev is beloved by readers, A tale of friendship between men, and of…
Find out more »Board of Trustees Meeting
(Dinner at 6:15) All members are welcome. 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 »Art Committee Meeting
Fireside Room. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Second Annual High Holy Days Art Show
“The hour calls for high moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1963 The Art Gallery Committee invites all Kehilla members to submit two dimensional artwork or framed writing for our Second Annual High Holy Days Art Show. Any piece you create, or have created in the past, that resonates in your heart as a reflection of this year’s theme: “Facing our Times with Spiritual Audacity,” will be accepted for the exhibit. For visual work, feel free to write a…
Find out more »Selichot Evening Service
Gather at 7:30pm. Service at 8pm. 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. Selichot 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 Sharon Grodin,…
Find out more »Erev Rosh Hashanah
Erev Rosh Hashanah services at Scottish Rite Center, 1547 Lakeside Drive, Oakland. For both adults and children, start at 6:30pm. Sermon by Howard Hamburger. 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 Rabbi Dev Noily, Sharon Grodin, Hazzan Shulamit and Kehilla’s Musical Prayer Leaders. All events…
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 »Kol Nidre Service (for grown ups) at Scottish Rites Center
Kol Nidre Service (for grown ups) at Scottish Rites Center, 1547 Lakeside Drive, Oakland. Judaism’s most cherished prayer sung once a year, Kol Nidre, kicks off a day of collective introspection. Sermon by Rabbi Dev. 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 with the…
Find out more »Family Kol Nidre Service (for children and family) at Kehilla
Family Kol Nidre Service (for children and family) at Kehilla, 1300 Grand Avenue, Piedmont. Led by Rabbi Gray Myrseth. Geared for children in grades 1 to 6; everyone welcome. Join Kehilla School’s new Director, 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 experience of this holy time together. All events at Kehilla are…
Find out more »Toddler Kol Nidre Service (for babies and tots) at Kehilla
Toddler Kol Nidre Service (for babies and tots) at Kehilla, 1300 Grand Avenue, Piedmont geared for tots, babies and the grown-ups who love them. 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. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free. Tickets available soon. For more event information, click here.
Find out more »Yom Kippur Morning Services at Scottish Rite Center
Yom Kippur Morning Services at Scottish Rite Center, 1547 Lakeside Drive, Oakland. Main Sanctuary Service (all ages welcome) at 9:30am Services open with a meditative soundscape by Debbie Fier, continuing with Sharon Grodin, Rabbi Dev Noily, Hazzan Shulamit Wise Fairman and Kehilla’s Musical Prayer Leaders. Guest Sermon by Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man Torah Reading: Numbers 19 – Looking at what lies ahead and meeting fear and opportunity Youth Service (geared to 6th – 8th graders) 10:00 - 11:00am All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click…
Find out more »Yom Kippur Afternoon Workshops at Kehilla
Please check back. Workshop offerings will be updated soon. NOTE: These workshops are free to all. No registration necessary. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »MEPC Meeting
Fireside Room 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 Administrative Offices Closed For Sukkot
Our offices will be closed in observance of Sukkot, we will re-open on Friday, October 6th during our normal business hours.
Find out more »Sukkot Shabbat
Join us for a Sukkot Shabbat Service. Kiddush to follow. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Saturday Morning Tot Shabbat!
Join us for Tot Morning Shabbat. With a special emphasis on babies and children up to 3 and their grown ups - but children up to 5 are welcome! Led by Jen Miriam Kantor, Alon Altman and Jen’s puppet friends. Gather for songs, prayers, and stories and end with challah and grape juice and bring a snack to share if you’d like. In the Back Classroom, Main Floor. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what…
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 during Sukkot. WHERE: Locations and Hosts are as follows: El Cerrito/Richmond: Laurel Zien & David Levine Berkeley: Dolores Taller Oakland North: Bracha & Don Stone Oakland East: Allison Rodman & Amy Mueller WHAT: The hosts will provide juice, coffee and tea. Guests are asked to bring vegetarian brunch items to share.…
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. A Mother's Reckoning by Susan Klebold For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan Klebold’s (one of the Columbine shooters) mother, has lived with the indescribable grief and shame of that day. How could her child, the promising young man she had loved and raised, be responsible for such horror? And how, as his mother, had she not…
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 Administrative Offices Closed For Simchat Torah
Our offices will be closed in observance of Simchat Torah, we will re-open on Monday, October 16th during our normal business hours.
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 »Economic Justice Committee Meeting
Fireside Room. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Art Committee Meeting
Fireside Room. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Docent Tour & Tikkun Olam at 2 Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries
Join the Chevra Kadisha committee Docent Tour & Tikkun Olam at 2 Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries on Sunday, October 22, 2017 from 11:30am - 3:30pm. RSVP and purchase your tickets here by September 15th Donation $18-$36 / family Kehilla Transit $61 / person Jackson & Moke Hill Walking tours, Tikkun Olam and more to explore in Gold Country. Tikkun Olam cemetery clean up: brush clearing, weeding, raking leaves... as needed. Drive/Carpool Option On your own: Come for the day or make it…
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
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 Miriam Kantor, 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 »Shabbat Service at 10am & Alana Berger Moodie becoming Bat Mitzvah
Join us for Shabbat Morning services as we celebrate Alana Berger Moodie becoming Bat Mitzvah. Visit this site later for more details. 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 »Shabbat Service at 10am & Ruby Cohen becoming Bat Mitzvah
Join us for Shabbat Morning services as we celebrate Ruby Cohen becoming Bat Mitzvah. Visit this site later for more details. All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Saturday Morning Tot Shabbat!
Join us for Tot Morning Shabbat. With a special emphasis on babies and children up to 3 and their grown ups - but children up to 5 are welcome! Led by Jen Miriam Kantor, Alon Altman and Jen’s puppet friends. Gather for songs, prayers, and stories and end with challah and grape juice and bring a snack to share if you’d like. In the Back Classroom, Main Floor. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what…
Find out more »MEPC Meeting
Fireside Room 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 »Friday Night Peace Walk with OCO
Join Rabbi David in this walk for peace in our own community led by Oakland Community Organizations’ Ceasefire campaign. Second Fridays are when Kehilla folks are particularly encouraged to come. The Ceasefire campaign is many-sided including the training and mobilization of neighborhood peace interveners, the retraining of police, and a weekly peace walk with local congregations to support a “culture of peace and healing” in neighborhoods at risk. Rabbi David reports that he has done this many times and it…
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. We will be selecting the books for the coming year. Please send suggestions of books to Joseph Sklar at jsklar3826@yahoo.com When suggesting a book, it must have "Jewish" associated with the book, which is loosely defined as having Jewish content, by a Jewish author, or interest to Jews. Please also provide information about the availability of the book through…
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 »Economic Justice Committee Meeting
Fireside Room. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Art Committee Meeting
Fireside Room. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Shabbat Service at 10am & Max and Steven Schlosberg becoming B’Ney Mitzvah
Join us for Shabbat Morning services as we celebrate Max and Steven Schlosberg becoming B'Ney Mitzvah. Visit this site later for more details. All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Conversion Group
Led by Rabbi Dev Noily and Sharon Grodin Kehilla’s conversion group is the communal portion of a process of individual inquiry that each participant anticipates will lead to adopting Judaism. Kehilla’s spiritual leaders, Rabbi Dev Noily and Sharon Grodin, are available to guide participants in their reading, selection of classes, and experiences that inform their education toward discernment about this decision. The group is not an “introduction to Judaism” class, but rather a forum where participants reflect on and share…
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 Administrative Offices Closed For Thanksgiving
Our offices will be closed in observance of Thanksgiving, we will re-open on Monday, November 27th during our normal business hours.
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 »Shabbat Service at 10am & Clio Petty becoming Bat Mitzvah
Join us for Shabbat Morning services as we celebrate Clio Petty becoming Bat Mitzvah. Visit this site later for more details. All events at Kehilla are scent-free. Click here for information about what it means to be scent-free.
Find out more »Saturday Morning Tot Shabbat!
Join us for Tot Morning Shabbat. With a special emphasis on babies and children up to 3 and their grown ups - but children up to 5 are welcome! Led by Jen Miriam Kantor, Alon Altman and Jen’s puppet friends. Gather for songs, prayers, and stories and end with challah and grape juice and bring a snack to share if you’d like. In the Back Classroom, Main Floor. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what…
Find out more »MEPC Meeting
Fireside Room 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 »Friday Night Peace Walk with OCO
Join Rabbi David in this walk for peace in our own community led by Oakland Community Organizations’ Ceasefire campaign. Second Fridays are when Kehilla folks are particularly encouraged to come. The Ceasefire campaign is many-sided including the training and mobilization of neighborhood peace interveners, the retraining of police, and a weekly peace walk with local congregations to support a “culture of peace and healing” in neighborhoods at risk. Rabbi David reports that he has done this many times and it…
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. We will be selecting the books for the coming year. Please send suggestions of books to Joseph Sklar at jsklar3826@yahoo.com When suggesting a book, it must have "Jewish" associated with the book, which is loosely defined as having Jewish content, by a Jewish author, or interest to Jews. Please also provide information about the availability of the book through…
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 »Art Committee Meeting
Fireside Room. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Conversion Group
Led by Rabbi Dev Noily and Sharon Grodin Kehilla’s conversion group is the communal portion of a process of individual inquiry that each participant anticipates will lead to adopting Judaism. Kehilla’s spiritual leaders, Rabbi Dev Noily and Sharon Grodin, are available to guide participants in their reading, selection of classes, and experiences that inform their education toward discernment about this decision. The group is not an “introduction to Judaism” class, but rather a forum where participants reflect on and share…
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 »Economic Justice Committee Meeting
Fireside Room. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what it means to be fragrance-free.
Find out more »Kehilla Administrative Offices Closed For the Winter Holiday
Our offices will be closed in observance of the Winter Holiday, we will re-open on Tuesday, December 26th during our normal business hours.
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 Administrative Offices Closed For the Winter Holiday
Our offices will be closed in observance of the Winter Holiday, we will re-open on Tuesday, January 2, 2017 during our normal business hours.
Find out more »Kehilla Administrative Offices Closed For Secular New Year’s Day
Our offices will be closed in observance of the Secular New Year's Day, we will re-open on Tuesday, January 2, 2018 during our normal business hours.
Find out more »MEPC Meeting
Fireside Room 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 »Saturday Morning Tot Shabbat!
Join us for Tot Morning Shabbat. With a special emphasis on babies and children up to 3 and their grown ups - but children up to 5 are welcome! Led by Jen Miriam Kantor, Alon Altman and Jen’s puppet friends. Gather for songs, prayers, and stories and end with challah and grape juice and bring a snack to share if you’d like. In the Back Classroom, Main Floor. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what…
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. We will be selecting the books for the coming year. Please send suggestions of books to Joseph Sklar at jsklar3826@yahoo.com When suggesting a book, it must have "Jewish" associated with the book, which is loosely defined as having Jewish content, by a Jewish author, or interest to Jews. Please also provide information about the availability of the book through…
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 »Friday Night Peace Walk with OCO
Join Rabbi David in this walk for peace in our own community led by Oakland Community Organizations’ Ceasefire campaign. Second Fridays are when Kehilla folks are particularly encouraged to come. The Ceasefire campaign is many-sided including the training and mobilization of neighborhood peace interveners, the retraining of police, and a weekly peace walk with local congregations to support a “culture of peace and healing” in neighborhoods at risk. Rabbi David reports that he has done this many times and it…
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 »Kehilla Administrative Offices Closed For Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Our offices will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we will re-open on Tuesday, January 16th during our normal business hours.
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 »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
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 Miriam Kantor, 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 »Saturday Morning Tot Shabbat!
Join us for Tot Morning Shabbat. With a special emphasis on babies and children up to 3 and their grown ups - but children up to 5 are welcome! Led by Jen Miriam Kantor, Alon Altman and Jen’s puppet friends. Gather for songs, prayers, and stories and end with challah and grape juice and bring a snack to share if you’d like. In the Back Classroom, Main Floor. All events at Kehilla are fragrance-free. Click here for information about what…
Find out more »MEPC Meeting
Fireside Room 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.
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