Before Services: Guided Mindful Meditation

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. Stop by our Capital Campaign Lunch Table to learn about the IKAR Center and how you can support our future. 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 11/28/2026 Ezekiel Mataan Brous-Weber 12/5/2026 Samuel Rafael Marquit 12/19/2026 Finch Rhodes

Join us for a craft, and then drum and dance your way through our always awesome family service. Don't forget to bring your Shabbat dinosaur!

In On Courage, former White House senior advisor Ami Fields-Meyer offers a deeply reported manual for how ordinary people defy authoritarianism. Written with Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin and built on original interviews with more than 100 dissidents, activists, and theorists across five continents, the book expands their acclaimed New Yorker essay “So You Want to Be a Dissident?” into a practical case that even under repressive conditions, each of us holds power to help defeat autocrats — at a moment when nearly three out of four people on earth live under authoritarian rule, the highest rate since the late 1970s. Fields-Meyer joins Rabbi Sharon Brous to discuss the people at the heart of the book — a Hong Kong student who risked everything for democracy, a Caracas mother who broke with the movement that raised her, Americans who faced serious risk for dissenting in their own workplaces — and what our tradition asks of us as the walls of history close in. Location: YouTube Live Stream & Shalhevet Beit Midrash (Rooftop Classroom)  

Please join us for our first brunch in our event space. At this brunch, we will gather information from you about your primary interests so we can better craft our future programs. After the High Holy Days, our Sunday brunch will happen monthly. We want to engage you with ideas, humor and beauty. So some brunches will have speakers; some will draw groups together by shared interests; and some will have a specially curated Jewish Studio Project created and led by Ann Bohrer and/or Ross Berman. Orot Interests Survey: We want to gather information from you about your primary interests so we can better craft our future programs. – Fill out the interest form HERE. Twenty-five percent of IKAR (and growing) is over age 60. It’s time for us to give our demographic the full attention it deserves – as people with that unique blend of wisdom and experience, fragility and resilience, dreams and aspirations that mark this stage of our lives. And so, we present Orot. Orot, the Hebrew word that means “lights,” is a fitting new name for IKAR members age 60 and older. Orot helps its cohort explore aging consciously, affirmatively and thoughtfully, using the Jewish tradition to harvest meaning from our lives and supporting the process of determining what we want to experience and share in our remaining years. But that is only part of Orot. Lights blaze most brightly when they are together. So finding new friendships and supporting community is a primary goal. We will gather in settings designed to encourage friend-making and community building, adding smaller gatherings and classes, facilitated introductions and quiet surroundings.