Please bring the following: Pumpkins to smash and/or vegan compost scraps (no dairy, meat or citrus please – we love coffee grounds and egg shells, though!) Gently worn or new clothing and toys Rain protection items Canned or packaged foods (non perishable) and Halloween candy Helping hands and open hearts Service projects: Smash pumpkins – support our regenerative garden! Pack 150 lunch bags for the food insecure community Assemble hygiene kits Make no-sew blankets for the unhoused community Paint rocks for residents of a local senior community Write welcome home letters and plant flowers for newly housed Marigold magic and take home seedlings Community Lego build Art projects with our program partner Momentum Therapy dog visits from Love on a Leash – pet a puppy And more! Agenda: 1:30 PM: Service projects begin, Music by Continental Drips 1:45 PM: Accessible Yoga with Tami 2:00 PM: ALLWAYZ on Stage performance 2:15 PM: Farm Tour and Pumpkin Hunt 2:45 PM: Rabbi Bill Kaplan Pollinator Garden Dedication and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony 3:15 PM: Community Sing-Along with Julian Friedman, Sammy Blanc and Shemesh Farms Farm Fellows and Community Food Options: Enjoy our tasting table and Fall inspired concessions and our famous farm stand with our latest products and gift sets Pizza vendor Work alongside our farm fellows and community and help us build a kinder world! Tickets: Free, or support this event at one of the following sponsorship levels: $18 – Pumpkin Smasher $36 – “Pe’ah” Forward – includes a free Pumpkin Smash T-shirt $180 – Event Supporter – your name will be recognized at event – includes 2 tshirts T-shirts will be available for purchase for $36 at the event and proceeds benefit our program and community. Get one while supplies last. 1:45 Accessible yoga reservation – 15 spots available (no charge)

With a focus on Shabbat morning liturgy, this class will help folks gain familiarity with the words and melodies that we sing each Saturday morning. No Hebrew skills? We’ve got you covered: prayers will be presented in English transliteration. No musical skills? No worries: we’ll teach the melodies note by note. At the end of this class, you’ll be confidently belting out all the greatest hits.

All the dancing. None of the late night. Home by 10! Leave the kids at home and join us for an adults-only dance party with great music, good people, and plenty of reasons to let loose. Come for one song, stay for twenty. Just come ready to have fun! And when you need a break from dancing, you can learn more about The IKAR Center and share your questions about our vision for the future. Bring your friends. Bring your moves. Be home in time for your bedtime.

Off-Mic Kabbalat Shabbat Services + Community & TRIBE (20’s-30’s) Dinner IKAR Event Space (1729 S. La Cienega Blvd), 6:30pm Services, dinner Join us for a Mizrahi style Kabbalat Shabbat in coordination with IKAR’s Mizrahi-Sephardic Task Force featuring Mizrahi melodies, reflections and food! Our tech-free (off-mic) Kabbalat Shabbat Services will 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, everyone is invited to stay in our event space for our community dinner. Following Services, join us for dinner and Tribers come for dinner, dessert, and board games!

We’re excited to join Temple Beth Am on Saturday, November 7 at 7pm for a concert with the wonderful Rabbi Josh Warshawsky!

This 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. Prior to every meeting you will be emailed a poem in English which will serve as a springboard for practical exercises and meaningful conversations that incorporate our tradition’s wisdom and our own. Together we will set new goals for approaching our aging with humor, insight, purpose and grace. Recommended age 55+.

Most of us first formed our ideas about God when we were adolescents. And if we’re honest, we may not have changed them a whole lot since then. But our tradition has a whole spectrum of ways to get to know, and know about, the Divine, and some of them are definitely for grown-ups. Join Rabbis Panitz and Silver for a text-based class designed to shake out and renew our relationship to/with God. We may be surprised at what we discover. (Note: belief in God is not a condition of entry!)