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TRIBE is gathering for another evening of creativity and community. What to expect: snacks and chatting, a warm up activity (think scribbles and stick figures), and a few options for free art making. All are welcome. No art making experience needed (we mean it!) For more information, please contact [email protected]. *This event is fully INDOORS and lay-led by Nicki Aviel*

We welcome everyone to our Shabbat morning services, 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. Upcoming B’nai Mitzvahs: 11/2/2024 Bodhi Sroka 11/9/2024 Leo Weiss 11/23/2024 Adar “Adi” Lev Goldman 11/30/2024 Franklin Ariel and Cassidy Bulkacz 12/7/2024 Orly Grace Creasey 12/14/2024 Caleb Eamonn Fitzpatrick

Come work together with other IKARites to pack and distribute over 100 Thanksgiving meals! Volunteers will bring food donations, and together, we’ll pack and send our volunteers to distribute meals across our church-partner network. We invite you to join us in sharing the holiday spirit with our neighbors! Here’s how you can participate: 🦃 Food Donation and Meal-Packing (10am-12:45pm): Bring your food donations and join us for onsite activities and meal-packing. We encourage you to stay for the full event! Food Donations: select from the list of items/amounts needed in this registration form that you plan to bring and donate. Meal-Packing: come as you are and help us pack donated food items together into full meals 💵 Financial Support: Donate funds before the event to help complete meals, thank you for the support!

Stoneview Nature Center in Culver City and hike about 2 miles (or shorter if turn around earlier) with this route https://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/6306172669/. The Stoneview Nature Center has free parking, a lovely area to schmooze and hang out and an edible garden to explore.

How do you raise a mensch? Come together with fellow parents to explore how Jewish rituals, wisdom, and values can guide us on the sacred (and really hard) journey of raising Jewish children. It takes a village—and maybe a few thousand years of wisdom too.

Loving your neighbor, who is like you, whose identity you share, is not enough.  You must stretch the boundaries of love to wrap into its embrace the stranger, the people in our society who are furthest away from power.  To counter the frenzy of rhetoric and the aspirations of policy that demonize these human beings, we need to love them fiercely.  We need to love them fully.

One day our dreams will be realized. Just not today. And not tomorrow. And maybe not for many years. But just as hope doesn’t die, dreams don’t die.

There’s an eerie resonance between the Noah narrative and this week.  What does Noah’s Flood teach us about navigating chaos and coming once more to land?

After the death of a beloved child in our community to suicide, we reaffirm our commitment to combatting shame with tenderhearted love, to meeting one another in the dark, to never giving up on each other. May Benjamin Ellis’s memory be a blessing.

Sukkot reflects our people’s ancient narrative, balancing the transience of a wandering nation and the fragility of life with our yearning for home and the Eternal Divine. How does our tradition compel us to relate to those who yearn for home, but who are left to wander?