Upcoming events

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 3/22/2025 Asher Barnes 3/29/2025 Solomon Kaplan 4/5/2025 Maya Gavriella Berger 5/3/2025 Frankie Hien Kniaz 5/17/2025 Zac Hirt-Eddy 5/24/2025 Kai & Mila Buchler

Please let us know if you’ll be joining Morah Beth, a member of our IKAR clergy, and other awesome IKAR families for our Bite Size Family Shabbes program. We meet from 11am – 12pm in Shalhevet’s rooftop classroom. Please bring a dinosaur if you have one! We hope to see your family there! For 0-5 year olds and their families.

Every Saturday morning at Ikar, join Dev Brous and/or Dr. Barry Goldstein for FREE weekly meditations at 9am on the Shalhevet rooftop. Find your way to sip some homemade herbal tea blends, FromSoil2Soul, throughout Ikar’s Shabbat service

After Shabbat Services, please join Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum in a text study at Shalhevet. Rabbi Elad-Appelbaum is the founder of ZION: An Eretz Israeli Congregation in Jerusalem; and the co-founder and co-head of the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis at the Hartman Institute and Ha Midrasha at Oranim and of the Ritual Center. She is a groundbreaking peace builder and a true rabbinic partner in so many ways. She speaks about peace at a time when very few people are speaking about it.

Join KI, Beth Shir Shalom, and IKAR for an Evening of Blessing, Prayer, and Solidarity with Rabbi Tamar Elad-Applebaum. Rabbi Elad-Applebaum is the founding rabbi of Zion: An Eretz Yisrael Community. She also serves as the Shalom Hartman Institute Director of the Rabbanut Yisraelit Network and Co-Director of the Center for Ritual. Rabbi Elad-Applebaum is a leading voice in Israel and liberal Judaism today and we are privileged to welcome her.

We need prayer and connection more than ever during this time. So every weekday at 8am, we will gather online for a half-hour Zoom of prayer and learning.

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.

Poets, Musicians, Spoken-Word Artists, Comedians, Writers, and Performers of any kind. Please prepare something to share for up to 10 minutes. We want to see your talent shine! ✍🏽🎶🎭🥳 This is your stage to share your voice, tell your story, and connect with our supportive community. All levels of experience are welcome!

Sunday afternoons, March 16, 23, and or 30, 1:00-4:00 pm PST Come to one, two, or all three programs! Consider that your acts of creativity go far beyond everything you’ll ever see or ever know. If you think that only dramatic, revolutionary actions have an impact, you can overlook how simple gestures might change lives. You wield more influence than you can imagine! In these three workshops, we’ll explore viewpoints about compassion, blessing, and community. Using the Jewish Studio Process, a methodology combining practices from the field of art therapy with a reimagined approach to Jewish learning, we’ll strengthen the inherent creativity inside each and every one of us What do you think will happen if you’re more compassionate, more peaceful, and more resilient?

Join us for a Special Evening discussing On Being Jewish Now at the Museum of Tolerance Gather in person for an inspiring conversation with editor, publisher, and contributor Zibby Owens, alongside a distinguished panel of voices from On Being Jewish Now, including Rabbi Steve Leder, Abby Stern, David K. Israel, Amy Ephron, Anna Ephron Harari, Beth Ricanati, Mark Feuerstein, and Rabbi Sharon Brous, and other Jewish notables, including Jeff Astrof, Liz Astrof, Jamie Denbo, Wendy Sachs, Rabbi Sherre Hirsch, and Malina Saval. Together, they will explore what it means—and how it feels—to be Jewish today. This powerful discussion will take place at the Museum of Tolerance, offering a meaningful setting to reflect on identity and community in today’s world. Books will be available for sale at the event, with proceeds benefiting Artists Against Antisemitism.

The purpose of this class is to convene a new group within IKAR committed to exploring our aging and how we can make it richer and more meaningful. Over five sessions, we will take a deep dive into Rabbi Dayle Friedman’s Jewish Wisdom for Growing Older. We will participate in practical exercises and conversations designed to expand our understanding of aging and bring our preconceptions about it to light. Together we will set new goals for approaching our aging with insight, grace and purpose. Recommended age 55+. Participants are asked to commit to the full course of classes.

The IKAR Writers Circle is a space for adult fiction and nonfiction Ikar writers to gather, share their work, and receive feedback. The circle is an intergenerational community that seeks to uplift Jewish writers and authentic Jewish stories removed from the pressures of writing and entertainment industries. Writers will meet once a month virtually, at 7:30 pm, on the last Monday of the month. Have questions? Please email [email protected].

🌱 A Grief Garden 🌱 Got Grief? Join our weekly online Grief Garden: Monday Mournings, at 8:30am-10am, following Ikar’s Morning Minyan. Please join us in community, and register here. YOU are warmly invited. Here is a link to make a sliding-scale  for the energy exchange ($12-$72), nobody is ever turned away for lack of funds.

Join this virtual, interactive circle using the Jewish Studio Process, facilitated by Ross Berman and Ann Bohrer. Explore the power of making process art in community as a tool for personal and collective renewal. All are welcome – no art experience needed. Unlock your creativity.

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 lay-led by Danielle Hammond*

In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society? Join Rabbi Brous in a series of text studies that explore the Jewish sources that form the core ideas behind her new book, The Amen Effect.

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.

Dates: 3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 3/26 No bacon cheeseburgers! No lobster! No chicken parmesan! We know that, but…what else exactly is going on with Kashrut? What can we learn about it in our ancient texts and what bearing does it have on our contemporary lives? Whether you’ve kept Kosher your whole life, or never plan to, together we’ll dive  into this age-old intentional eating practice of ours. Let’s see what we find!

Join us for a discussion with Dr. Michael Koplow, chief policy officer at Israel Policy Forum. Dr. Koplow will provide insights on the latest developments in U.S. policy, strategies for reforming the Palestinian Authority, and evolving regional dynamics. Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Time: 7-9pm PT Location: Address Provided Upon RSVP Please use this link to share with friends: ipf.li/mar26la. IPF Atid events are for young professionals ages 21-39. If you are beyond this age range, please contact our staff for other ways to be involved with Israel Policy Forum.

We are an intergenerational circle of men who support one another in becoming the men we want to be in the world.

Join us for a literary study of the text of the Torah, aided by the keen eyes of the classical commentators. This course will meet at 3:00 PM Eastern | 12:00 PM Pacific. This class is co-sponsored by IKAR.

Wind down and get ready for Shabbat with us! Join our virtual Happy Hour, every Friday at 5pm PST. We are diverse: still working and retired; single, divorced, widowed, and in a relationship; have children, grandchildren, pets, plants, or none of the above; Angelinos and transplants. What we have in common is Ikar, a multitude of experiences, and a desire to spend some of our time enjoying events and experiences with those in our age group. Approximately 60 and above.

After Services, join us for a discussion with Jessica Fein. More information to come.

Minyan Tzedek Educated Activist lay-led, home-hosted book group meets quarterly to discuss selected books and films that help us deepen our understanding of the social issues we work on in our community organizing team. Natalie Foster, President of the Economic Security Project, is one of the leading architects behind guaranteed economic rights and prosperity for all. The Guarantee asks us to imagine an America where housing, healthcare, an inheritance, and an income floor are not only attainable by all, but guaranteed by our government for everyone. Foster blends brilliance, warmth and fierce focus to instill an optimistic confidence that America can choose a better path towards economic and racial justice.