Join us for a Tot Tashlich Picnic at Alameda Beach near the Sand Castle Picnic Area. BYO picnic blanket and snacks. For tots ages 0-5 and their families. Contact R' SAM with questions and to rsvp: rabbisam@kehillasynagogue.org 

Sanctuary opens at 6:15 pm. Main service starts at 7:00 pm. Tickets are required for nonmembers (All Access or Virtual Only). 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 […]

Sanctuary opens at 9:00 am. Main service starts at 9:30 am.   Tickets required for nonmembers (All Access or Virtual Only). Led by R. David Cooper and Hazzan Shulamit Wise Fairman, and musical prayer leaders Julie Nesnansky and Debbie Fier, with Avi Rose. Torah Service with Sharon Grodin. Ketzev Kehilla, our prayerful drum orchestra, will open services […]

Join Jen Miriam and Alon Altman at the Lake Temescal North picnic area!  Enjoy a Rosh Hashanah experience with puppets, music and lots of fun for our youngest celebrants and the grown-ups who love them. Family Service: 11:00 am, In-person at Lake Temescal Join Natalie Boskin, Musical Prayer Leader Beth Dickinson, and Jenna Kemp on […]

Sanctuary opens at 9:30 am. Main service starts at 10:00 am. No tickets required. A contemplative service with sacred song and teachings for our Kehilla Community and beyond. This service also offers a special invitation to Jewish and all clergy and spiritual leaders to be held and nourished in this time of renewal. Led by […]

No tickets required. Join Jews On Ohlone Land, and Kehilla Community Synagogue for an outdoor, family friendly, community Tashlich ritual. Tashlich is the tradition of casting into the water the mistakes we’ve made over the last year, and cleansing ourselves to begin anew. We will gather at the newly-rematriated West Berkeley Shellmound at 1900 Fourth […]

We’ll be holding contemplative space for grief and reflection in the Kehilla courtyard on 10/7, from 3:30 - 7:30 pm, similar to (and different from) a Shiva gathering. You’re welcome to come by for a few minutes or a few hours. We’ll recite the mourner’s kaddish every hour on the hour: at 4:00pm, 5:00pm, 6:00pm […]

In-Person service at the Scottish Rite Center. Room opens at 4:30 pm. TOT service from 5:00-5:45 pm. Tickets required for nonmembers (All Access or Family/Tot only). Jen Miriam and Alon Altman bring their warm, loving and puppet-filled world to a musical Kol Nidre/Yom Kippur experience for little ones up to age 5 and their grown-ups. For in-person […]

In-Person service at the Scottish Rite Center. Room opens at 5:45 pm. FAMILY service starts at 6:15 pm. Tickets required for nonmembers (All Access, Family/Tot only, or Virtual only). Join Musical Prayer Leader Ore Ganin-Pinto, and Red Karpman and Sonia Brin, current and past Kehilla School teachers, for a special family experience of Kol Nidre. Enter into […]

More info and tickets here.  Multi-Access service at the Scottish Rite Center. Sanctuary opens at 9:00 am. Service starts at 9:30 am. Tickets required for nonmembers (All Access or Virtual Only). Service led by Rabbi Dev Noily and Hazzan Shulamit Wise Fairman with musical prayer leaders Julie Nesnansky, Beth Dickinson and Debbie Fier. Torah service with Rabbi SAM […]

Online Workshops.  2:00-2:50 pm. No tickets required. Because it’s late in the calendar year, Yom Kippur will end earlier (at nightfall) and Yom Kippur afternoon practice time will be shorter following morning services at the Scottish Rite Center. We return to Kehilla for the afternoon/evening. Workshop Options: A Movement Practice to Reflect and Refresh with […]

Multi-Access at Kehilla Synagogue (in the Social Hall).  A special teaching by Rabbi David J. Cooper from 3:00-3:45 pm No tickets required. Beyond Sectarianism: Empathy – Especially Now Building high sectarian walls and imposing strict ideological litmus tests disables our ability to make common cause where we can, and hampers our powers of empathy when […]

Join the Kehilla Klezmer Band, plus members of Saul Goodman’s Klezmer Band, for a 2nd night of Sukkot jam. Held at the Cheeseboard Collective Pizzeria, 1512 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley

The Sacred Land Committee is dedicated to honoring the heritage of the Lisjan Ohlone people and our own Jewish heritage. We are seeking to bring the unceded land (called Huchiun) of the Lisjan Ohlone people, on which Kehilla rests, into harmony with Indigenous and Jewish values. On the third Friday of each month we will be refurbishing the outside spaces (like the courtyard, and front and back gardens) and reconnecting with the land and its spirit. […]

Sukkot is a meditation on the transience and impermanence of shelter and life, a collective memory of the time our people were homeless and struggling in the face of the unknown. To make this holiday and theme meaningful to us here and now, we have convened a panel of unhoused and recently housed Oakland activists, […]

A Simchat Torah Bash w. Kehilla Community Synagogue & Chochmat HaLev!   Services will be indoors and music will be outdoors. Sliding Scale: $10 to $36 per person. Purchase tickets for Simchat Torah Here! Join Urban Adamah, Kehilla Community Synagogue, Chochmat HaLev, and friends for another year of joyous and multi-generational celebration of Torah! Thanks to the Kehilla […]

We invite anyone who identifies as white, whether or not you've been to these meetings before! We work experientially on de-centering whiteness at Kehilla and in ourselves -- so that Kehilla is more welcoming for people of color. Email us for the Zoom link: wfdwhitenesscontact@kehillasynagogue.org. Info at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R5AyZAuK4CLpvQU7mJwDjqDjpCzXNg5C/edit