Torah Study with Special Guest Yael Karanek

Saturdays, 9:30 – 11amwith Eric Strellis and Special Guest Yael KaranekJoin In-person or on Zoom Pleaese join for a unique opportunity to study with Yael Karanek, the co-founder of Toratah, the groundbreaking project to re-gender the entire Torah. This week’s Torah study will follow the usual format and will also include a re-gendered translation […]
Torah Study

Saturdays, 9:30 – 11amwith Eric Strellis Join on Zoom It is a tree of life to all who take hold of it, and whoever keeps hold of it is happy; its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace. – Proverbs 3:17-18 If Torah is our Tree of Life, where are its roots, […]
Shabbat – 1st Fridays

Cultivating the Wisdom of Our Heartswith Lior TsarfatyFridays, 5:30 – 6:30pmOn ZoomMeeting ID 826 946 797Passcode 941869 Join Lior in chants and a meditation circle. Share support, care, and the sweetness of our community as we prepare to enter Shabbat. DONATION INFOOur Shabbat services are supported by donation. Each donation, small and large, allows us […]
God of Vengeance – Back by Popular Demand

An artful adaptation of Sholem Asch’s ground-breaking 1906 play. Presented by the Yiddish Theatre EnsembleDirected by Bruce BiermanEnglish translation by Caraid O’Brien Streaming from Sunday May 2 thru Monday, May 31, 2021 (video 100 min) Back by popular demand for the month of May! This recent production was hailed by audiences as a “Zoom masterpiece”… “a […]
Monday Night Meditation during the Omer 2021

Mondays – 7 – 8:30pm by donation On Zoom The last year has been filled with numbers and counting. Every day the newspapers are filled with charts, percentages, rates of transmission, and the haunting specter of the mounting Covid-19 death toll. But what if, instead of counting our losses, we were counting each day as […]
The Joy of Jewish Dance

With Bruce Bierman & Gilberto MelendezThursday, May 27 | 10 – 11:30am PDT Tickets• Chochmat Members $15• General Public $20• Pay What You Can – If the ticket price is beyond your reach, we still want you to come!Zoom link will be emailed to you the day before the class and 2 hours before the […]
The Joy of Jewish Dance

With Bruce Bierman & Gilberto MelendezThursday, May 20 | 10 – 11:30am PDT Tickets• Chochmat Members $15• General Public $20• Pay What You Can – If the ticket price is beyond your reach, we still want you to come!Zoom link will be emailed to you the day before the class and 2 hours before the […]
The Joy of Jewish Dance

With Bruce Bierman & Gilberto MelendezThursday, May 6 | 10 – 11:30am PDT Tickets• Chochmat Members $15• General Public $20• Pay What You Can – If the ticket price is beyond your reach, we still want you to come!Zoom link will be emailed to you the day before the class and 2 hours before the […]
Dobridens at the Dawn of Klezmer

A Workshop with Mike PerlmutterSunday, May 16 | 11am – 12:45pmIn collaboration with KlezCaliforniaBy donation – RSVP to get the Zoom link Register The term “dobriden” comes from the Slavic for “good day”. These slow and stately klezmer melodies were used to greet guests and to set the mood for various wedding traditions that have since fallen […]
A Feminist Shabbat

Women’s Wisdom: Justice and LiberationA Feminist Shabbatwith Naomi Newman, Jennifer Berezan, Melanie DeMore, Laura Goldman, Yael Yechieli, and Lior Tsarfaty Friday, March 26, 5:30 – 6:30pmOn ZoomMeeting ID 826 946 797Passcode 941869 Lior has gatherered up an amazing group of women to join him for a special Shabbat in honor of Women’s History Month. Naomi Newman is a […]