Upcoming Events
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 Donation $18-$36 / family 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 a long Gold Country weekend. Plan 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 »Tot Shabbat
Join us for Tot Shabbat with Jen Miriam, Alon Altman & Puppet Friends! For children up to 5 years old (or older if they enjoy it) and their grown-ups. Come together for a song-, story- and friend-filled welcoming of Shabbat! Please bring a vegetarian potluck dish to share if you can. 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
Shabbat Morning Service & Celebration of Alana Berger Moodie becoming Bat Mitzvah. With Rabbi Dev, Julie Nesnansky, Rabbi Carol Caine (Alana’s teacher) and Debbie Fier. Join us as we celebrate Shabbat and Alana ’s simcha. Kiddush provided by Alana’s parents, Stephanie Berger and Dahlia Moodie. 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 »Tikkun Ha’Nefesh: Spiritual Growth Circle with Rabbi Burt Jacobson
Tikkun Ha’Nefesh: Spiritual Growth Circle with Rabbi Burt Jacobson The word tikkun means healing, fixing what is broken, or transformation. We usually associate this word with the phrase tikkun ha’olam, fixing, healing or transforming the world. Among liberal and progressive Jews, tikkun ha’olam refers primarily to engaging in issues that encompass social compassion and justice. This kind of activity has always been central to the leaders and members of Kehilla. Yet according to Jewish tradition, tikkun ha’olam is only one…
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 »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 »Faith Trio Harvest Dinner
Join us for our Faith Trio Harvest Dinner at Montclair Presbyterian Church, 5701 Thornhill Dr, Oakland. We will gather at 6:00pm and dinner begins at 6:30 pm. Kehilla members and friends are requested to bring salads to our large vegetarian potluck. Families, children and youth are especially encouraged to come. There will be some fun games for children and others. Kehilla members have joined in an interfaith alliance with congregants from Montclair Presbyterian Church and the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California, the “Faith Trio”,…
Find out more »Joyfully Jewish
Joyfully Jewish is our program for kindergartners and their parents who are looking for welcoming, creative, and (of course!) joyful Jewish experiences. Joyfully Jewish meets from 10-11:30am in the back classroom on the main floor of Kehilla. Families will be able to enter directly into the Joyfully Jewish classroom from the entrance on Fairview Avenue, around the corner from Kehilla’s main entrance on Grand Ave.
Find out more »COMBATANTS FOR PEACE PROGRAM
Join Kehilla’s Middle East Peace Committee and other Bay Area Interfaith congregations for an inspiring evening. Hear from visiting Palestinian and Israeli ex-combatants, Mohamed Owedah and Galia Galili, leaders of the Combatants for Peace. See “Disturbing the Peace,” the multiple award-winning film, that tells the story of this remarkable organization of Palestinian and Israeli former fighters, joining forces to work nonviolently for peace and justice. Q & A will follow. See the attached flier for additional information, Combatants for Peace Program
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 School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
Find out more »Brit Kehilla: Celebrating a Community Covenant with our new Senior Rabbi
Save The Date Join us for as we honor Rabbi Dev Noily, Kehilla’s new Senior Rabbi, with a 24-hour celebration filled with blessings, learning, prayer, singing, eating and joy. Click here for more information. If you are interested in helping with the planning and preparation, please contact Michael Saxe-Taller at Michael@kehillasynagogue.org.
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. Join the Kehilla Book Discussion Group as they discuss Fabulous Small Jews, a collection of short stories by Joseph Epstein. All Kehilla members are invited to join us for what is usually a scintillating discussion with scrumptious snacks.The stories are "populated by lawyers, professors, scrap-iron dealers, dry cleaners, all men of a certain age who feel themselves adrift in…
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 »Tikkun Ha’Nefesh: Spiritual Growth Circle with Rabbi Burt Jacobson
Tikkun Ha’Nefesh: Spiritual Growth Circle with Rabbi Burt Jacobson The word tikkun means healing, fixing what is broken, or transformation. We usually associate this word with the phrase tikkun ha’olam, fixing, healing or transforming the world. Among liberal and progressive Jews, tikkun ha’olam refers primarily to engaging in issues that encompass social compassion and justice. This kind of activity has always been central to the leaders and members of Kehilla. Yet according to Jewish tradition, tikkun ha’olam is only one…
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 »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 & Jenny Wong becoming B’Ney Mitzvah
Join us for Shabbat Morning services as we celebrate Max and Steven Schlosberg and their mother, Jenny Wong, 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 »Joyfully Jewish
Joyfully Jewish is our program for kindergartners and their parents who are looking for welcoming, creative, and (of course!) joyful Jewish experiences. Joyfully Jewish meets from 10-11:30am in the back classroom on the main floor of Kehilla. Families will be able to enter directly into the Joyfully Jewish classroom from the entrance on Fairview Avenue, around the corner from Kehilla’s main entrance on Grand Ave.
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 »Ten Essentials of Judaism
Ten Essentials of Judaism 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 Session will meet on Tuesday's from 7:00-9:00 pm in the Fireside Room. Please register here. October 17 Session 1: What is Judaism, Anyway? November 21 Session 2: A Brief History of Judaism Through Our Sacred Texts December 19 Session 3:…
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 »No School!
No school this week!
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 »Tikkun Ha’Nefesh: Spiritual Growth Circle with Rabbi Burt Jacobson
Tikkun Ha’Nefesh: Spiritual Growth Circle with Rabbi Burt Jacobson The word tikkun means healing, fixing what is broken, or transformation. We usually associate this word with the phrase tikkun ha’olam, fixing, healing or transforming the world. Among liberal and progressive Jews, tikkun ha’olam refers primarily to engaging in issues that encompass social compassion and justice. This kind of activity has always been central to the leaders and members of Kehilla. Yet according to Jewish tradition, tikkun ha’olam is only one…
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 »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 »Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
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 »Joyfully Jewish
Joyfully Jewish is our program for kindergartners and their parents who are looking for welcoming, creative, and (of course!) joyful Jewish experiences. Joyfully Jewish meets from 10-11:30am in the back classroom on the main floor of Kehilla. Families will be able to enter directly into the Joyfully Jewish classroom from the entrance on Fairview Avenue, around the corner from Kehilla’s main entrance on Grand Ave.
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. 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 share some titles with you. Perhaps you will find…
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 »Tikkun Ha’Nefesh: Spiritual Growth Circle with Rabbi Burt Jacobson
Tikkun Ha’Nefesh: Spiritual Growth Circle with Rabbi Burt Jacobson The word tikkun means healing, fixing what is broken, or transformation. We usually associate this word with the phrase tikkun ha’olam, fixing, healing or transforming the world. Among liberal and progressive Jews, tikkun ha’olam refers primarily to engaging in issues that encompass social compassion and justice. This kind of activity has always been central to the leaders and members of Kehilla. Yet according to Jewish tradition, tikkun ha’olam is only one…
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 »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 »Ten Essentials of Judaism
Ten Essentials of Judaism 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 Session will meet on Tuesday's from 7:00-9:00 pm in the Fireside Room. Please register here. October 17 Session 1: What is Judaism, Anyway? November 21 Session 2: A Brief History of Judaism Through Our Sacred Texts December 19 Session 3:…
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 »Tikkun Ha’Nefesh: Spiritual Growth Circle with Rabbi Burt Jacobson
Tikkun Ha’Nefesh: Spiritual Growth Circle with Rabbi Burt Jacobson The word tikkun means healing, fixing what is broken, or transformation. We usually associate this word with the phrase tikkun ha’olam, fixing, healing or transforming the world. Among liberal and progressive Jews, tikkun ha’olam refers primarily to engaging in issues that encompass social compassion and justice. This kind of activity has always been central to the leaders and members of Kehilla. Yet according to Jewish tradition, tikkun ha’olam is only one…
Find out more »No School
No school this week.
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 »No School
No school this week.
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 »Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
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. 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 share some titles with you. Perhaps you will find…
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 »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 »Ten Essentials of Judaism
Ten Essentials of Judaism 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 Session will meet on Tuesday's from 7:00-9:00 pm in the Fireside Room. Please register here. October 17 Session 1: What is Judaism, Anyway? November 21 Session 2: A Brief History of Judaism Through Our Sacred Texts December 19 Session 3:…
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 »Joyfully Jewish
Joyfully Jewish is our program for kindergartners and their parents who are looking for welcoming, creative, and (of course!) joyful Jewish experiences. Joyfully Jewish meets from 10-11:30am in the back classroom on the main floor of Kehilla. Families will be able to enter directly into the Joyfully Jewish classroom from the entrance on Fairview Avenue, around the corner from Kehilla’s main entrance on Grand Ave.
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 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 »Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
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 »Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
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 »Joyfully Jewish
Joyfully Jewish is our program for kindergartners and their parents who are looking for welcoming, creative, and (of course!) joyful Jewish experiences. Joyfully Jewish meets from 10-11:30am in the back classroom on the main floor of Kehilla. Families will be able to enter directly into the Joyfully Jewish classroom from the entrance on Fairview Avenue, around the corner from Kehilla’s main entrance on Grand Ave.
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. 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 share some titles with you. Perhaps you will find…
Find out more »Ten Essentials of Judaism
Ten Essentials of Judaism 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 Session will meet on Tuesday's from 7:00-9:00 pm in the Fireside Room. Please register here. October 17 Session 1: What is Judaism, Anyway? November 21 Session 2: A Brief History of Judaism Through Our Sacred Texts December 19 Session 3:…
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 »Shabbat Service at 10am & Elizabeth Davidson becoming Bat Mitzvah
Join us for Shabbat Morning services as we celebrate Elizabeth Davidson 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 »Kehilla Administrative Offices Closed For President’s Day
Our offices will be closed in observance of President's Day, we will re-open on Tuesday, February 20th 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 »No School
No school this week.
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 »Kehilla School
Kehilla School is from 4-6pm and students may be dropped off as early as 3:30pm.
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 »Joyfully Jewish
Joyfully Jewish is our program for kindergartners and their parents who are looking for welcoming, creative, and (of course!) joyful Jewish experiences. Joyfully Jewish meets from 12-2pm today and then we will join the Kehilla School Purim Carnival at 2pm. Families will be able to enter directly into the Joyfully Jewish classroom from the entrance on Fairview Avenue, around the corner from Kehilla’s main entrance on Grand Ave.
Find out more »Purim Carnival
Join us for the Purim Carnival- all ages welcome! Visit this site later for more details.
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.
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