Upcoming events

Calling all Queer IKARites! Come together to enjoy a day filled with community, conversation, and maybe even a few glasses of wine.

After our online Minyan on Monday mornings we open a short Grief Garden Circle, a sacred listening space, from 8.30-9.00am.  Please join us there if you are holding grief. To join our weekly Grief Garden Circle, click here Have questions? Please email [email protected] Schedule a 1-0n-1 Grief Support with Dev here: https://cal.com/devorah-brous/grief-support?duration=60

What is the Grief Garden? Please join Dev Brous, a certified trauma-informed Compassionate Bereavement Care grief counselor, and herbalist. Join this safe, reflective space to hold, and to be held as we “garden” grief. Here, we share reflections on what we’re learning from grief through embodied weekly prompts that connect people to nature-based Jewish healing practices. To sign-up, please fill out this form. Here’s the link to join the Grief Garden FS2S What’sApp: https://tinyurl.com/2eacz8nc Schedule a 1-0n-1 Grief Support with Dev here: https://cal.com/devorah-brous/grief-support?duration=60  

Poetry can often heal, elevate the soul and awaken the heart. Come join IKAR’s Jewish Poetry Circle as we read Jewish poets — the Oneg Shabbos poets of the Warsaw Ghetto, Medieval Sephardic poets, Israeli and Jewish-American poets up to the present—the historical context of their writing, spiritual relationships, personal agonies and joys. The Circle is not an academic writing class but rather an informal experience of a committed group of participants to explore and hopefully bond with Jewish poetic expression and with each other.

Daven with us at 9:30am PT in person at Shalhevet (910 S Fairfax Ave) or virtually on YouTube.

Join us for a virtual literary study of the text of the Torah, aided by the keen eyes of the classical commentators. This series is co-sponsored with Hadar.

It is the nature of human beings to create stories. Yet, when it comes to our own lives, when we tell ourselves our own stories – whether by way of resume, family history, screenplay or any other form of autobiography – we also record our relationship with our own self. Spiritual biography is different.  In this short course, based on the method created by Kathleen Dowling Singh in The Grace in Living, we will engage, together and separately, in recording our encounters with the sacred, using them as lenses through which to understand our evolving relationship with the Divine. Please commit to attending the whole series of classes.

Daven with us at 9:30am PT in person at Shalhevet (910 S Fairfax Ave) or virtually on YouTube.

Join us for pizza as we celebrate the end of Pesach! We are an intergenerational circle of men who support one another in becoming the men we want to be in the world. We focus on deepening our connection to Judaism, building community at IKAR, and forging bonds of brotherhood. Please register here by 1:00 pm on the day of any meeting you wish to attend.

Every Saturday morning at 9am, join Dev Brous and/or Dr. Barry Goldstein for a weekly meditation on the Shalhevet rooftop. And find your way to sip some homemade herbal tea blends, FromSoil2Soul, near the coffee station in the kitchen.

We welcome everyone to our Shabbat morning services at 9:30am PT, no matter their level of observance, experience, or familiarity with Hebrew. Daven with us in person at Shalhevet, or join us virtually on YouTube or Zoom. Childcare is available during Services for kids ages 2-5. Stay afterward for our kosher, vegetarian community lunch. 5/16/2026 Lilah Bokman 5/23/2026 Wolff Lakota Ellis 6/6/2026 Bear Karuna & Theo Hirschel Bender Miller 6/13/2026 Liam Avi Bachrad 6/20/2026 Levi Hochman 6/27/2026 Milo Reid Greenberg-Creel 7/25/2026 Michael Goldstone 8/1/2026 Jonah Pulde 8/15/2026 Jonah YoonWoo Kend 8/22/2026 Noa Ellis Goldstein 8/29/2026 Archer Mekor Sroka 10/10/2026 Myla Vener 10/17/2026 Ayla Morchower 10/24/2026 Samuel Ethan & Joshua Gabriel Goldstein 11/7/2026 Lucille (Luci) Halpern-Fingerhut 11/14/2026 Henry Posalski 11/21/2026 Bo Mandell 11/28/2026 Ezekiel Mataan Brous-Weber 12/5/2026 Samuel Rafael Marquit 12/19/2026 Finch Rhodes

Limudim inspires children and families to love Judaism, engage deeply with our tradition, and imagine a just community and world.

Meet at Santa Monica Lifeguard Station 26 promptly at 1:00 pm (2600 Ocean Front Walk, Santa Monica, CA 90405). Enjoy the sunshine while making a positive impact! Join fellow TRIBErs for a beach clean-up at Santa Monica Beach. We’ll provide trash pickers—just be sure to wear a hat, sunscreen, and bring gloves if you’d like.

Join IKAR leadership to discuss plans for our community in the next year and to continue to dream about what will be possible in the future. We will be sharing a “State of IKAR” and also facilitating smaller break-out sessions on various topics.

This virtual drop-in class is open to anyone who wants to explore the subject of our aging, with the aim of creating community as we turn towards this largely uncharted terrain. At every meeting, we will consider a short piece by Anne Lamott, which will serve as a springboard for practical exercises and conversations that incorporate our tradition’s wisdom and our own. Together we will set new goals for approaching our aging with insight, grace, purpose – and humor. Recommended age 55+.

Once a month, TRIBE is creating our own Beit Midrash (house of study) for us to engage with Jewish text to find how we can live more fulfilling, meaningful lives as we navigate our 20s and 30s! Each session will take us on a journey of text exploration and introspective work. Part of the session will be studying in hevruta, or with a study partner, and part of the session will be taught by R’ Hannah Jensen. No previous text study required! Join us for dinner, study, and lively discussion. Timeline: 7 PM – Dinner 7:45 PM – Learning (indoor/outdoor)

Limudim brings the spirit of IKAR to our children, blending engaging learning, social justice and spiritual depth and allowing students to experience the joys of Jewish living. Our community is creative and inclusive, welcoming families of diverse backgrounds, affiliations, and lifestyles.

Tuesdays, 11/18/25 through 5/26/26 (except 3/3, 3/31, 4/7) Hybrid (IKAR Event Space + Zoom) Every Tuesday morning, a new story from the Talmud. Taught by Rabbi Brous and Rabbi Panitz in a monthly rotation, we’ll dig into the strange and compelling world of the Talmud, exploring the ways ancient dilemmas speak to modern questions. Join us in-person at the Event Space (coffee and nosh provided) or over Zoom (B.Y.O. nosh) for as many sessions as possible… your Tuesday will thank you.

It is the nature of human beings to create stories. Yet, when it comes to our own lives, when we tell ourselves our own stories – whether by way of resume, family history, screenplay or any other form of autobiography – we also record our relationship with our own self. Spiritual biography is different.  In this short course, based on the method created by Kathleen Dowling Singh in The Grace in Living, we will engage, together and separately, in recording our encounters with the sacred, using them as lenses through which to understand our evolving relationship with the Divine. Please commit to attending the whole series of classes.

Off-Mic Kabbalat Shabbat Services + Community & TRIBE (20’s-30’s) Dinner + Board Games IKAR Event Space (1729 S. La Cienega Blvd), 6:30pm Services, dinner/board games to follow, Dinner RSVP Come together for our tech-free (off-mic) Kabbalat Shabbat Services with a focus on lifting our voices in song as a community. Enter through our alleyway and down the ramp into our event space. For those with accessibility needs, you can be dropped off and enter through the front door. Following Services, join us for dinner and TRIBErs come for dinner, dessert, and board games!

Come to IKAR’s Kabbalat Shabbat, and stay for dinner, dessert, and board games! We’ve got Backgammon, Bananagrams, Codenames, Catan, Monopoly Deal, and Uno, among many others! And please BYO-Game too! 6:30 Kab Shab and Maariv 7:30 Dinner (Register HERE) 9pm to close Board Games

We offer ASL interpretation at our Shabbat Morning service, on the third Saturday of every month this spring (March 21 · April 18 · May 23) — because everyone deserves to be in the room, fully.

We welcome everyone to our Shabbat morning services at 9:30am PT, no matter their level of observance, experience, or familiarity with Hebrew. Daven with us in person at Shalhevet, or join us virtually on YouTube or Zoom. Childcare is available during Services for kids ages 2-5. Stay afterward for our kosher, vegetarian community lunch. We will be offering ASL interpretation today. 5/16/2026 Lilah Bokman 5/23/2026 Wolff Lakota Ellis 6/6/2026 Bear Karuna & Theo Hirschel Bender Miller 6/13/2026 Liam Avi Bachrad 6/20/2026 Levi Hochman 6/27/2026 Milo Reid Greenberg-Creel 7/25/2026 Michael Goldstone 8/1/2026 Jonah Pulde 8/15/2026 Jonah YoonWoo Kend 8/22/2026 Noa Ellis Goldstein 8/29/2026 Archer Mekor Sroka 10/10/2026 Myla Vener 10/17/2026 Ayla Morchower 10/24/2026 Samuel Ethan & Joshua Gabriel Goldstein 11/7/2026 Lucille (Luci) Halpern-Fingerhut 11/14/2026 Henry Posalski 11/21/2026 Bo Mandell 11/28/2026 Ezekiel Mataan Brous-Weber 12/5/2026 Samuel Rafael Marquit 12/19/2026 Finch Rhodes