Upcoming events

Join us for a literary study of the text of the Torah, aided by the keen eyes of the classical commentators. This class is co-sponsored by IKAR.

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.

Come spend some of our time enjoying events and experiences with those in our age group.

After Services, come learn with your fellow teens! Join us once a month for a lunch and learn session with clergy, educators, and facilitators.

Funny Girl! Sat Nov 23 4-7 PT / 5-8 MT / 6-9CT / 7-10 ET Virtually Neighbors is having a Watch Party! (with a brief intermission) ALL and ALWAYS online. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84758987502 Meeting ID: 847 5898 7502 Please RSVP to Amy [email protected] so we have an idea how many people to anticipate! Can you invite friends? YES!!!! Please do! (IKAR membership is not required.) Our vision is a Virtual Dinner Theater, which means everyone can eat and drink whatever works for them! We deeply and personally get various dietary needs, so adapt or ignore these movie-themed suggestions as necessary. Turns out we can order pickles from The Pickle Guys on Essex Street, knishes from Katz’s Deli, and cheesecake from Junior’s. When Nick orders in French, Fanny says she would have just asked for beef and potatoes – making corn beef on rye another option and probably what Amy’s Great Uncle Jerry (z”l) would choose. One of Fanny’s famous lines is, “I’m a bagel on a plate of onion rolls!” Bagels, anyone? Onion bagels? In the movie, Fanny’s family’s bar serves beer, pastrami, and matzo ball soup – among other things. So, basically, if you are into Ashkenazic Lower East Side fare, this is your dinner and a movie, movie! We can read about Fanny Brice in The Original Funny Girl, by Herbert Goldman. She reportedly loved a good Coronation Cocktail. 2 ounces of dry vermouth 1 ounce fino sherry 2 dashes maraschino liqueur 3 dashes orange bitters Lemon twist There is also the “Funny Girl Cocktail” floating around the internet. ½ ounce dry sherry ½ tsp rosewater Pink champagne or sparkling wine No pre-reading or food ordering or cooking required, but ALL of the options for really getting into the movie are encouraged. **If you need anything to be able to fully belong and participate, please let us know!** [email protected] 651-285-2872 or Liddy 651-470-1310 Note: We will always have captions turned on, but the captions with the movie will likely be pretty hit or miss. We do not currently have an ASL interpreter, but we will find one if our community needs one. If there is a better way to make the movie accessible for all of us, please let us know. In Funny Girl Barbara Streisand’s Fanny Brice, famed Jewish comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s, rises to fame as a Ziegfeld girl. The story follows her career and personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein. Funny Girl is a 1968 American biographical-musical film directed by William Wyler and written by Isobel Lennart. It is loosely based on the life and career of comedienne Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein. A major critical and commercial success, Funny Girl became the highest-grossing film of 1968 in the United States and received eight Academy Award nominations. Streisand won Best Actress, tying with Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter). In 2006, the American Film Institute ranked the film No. 16 on its list commemorating AFI’s Greatest Movie Musicals. Funny Girl is considered one of the greatest musical films ever made. In anticipation, Amy is getting Barbra Streisand’s 970 page (WHAT?) memoir My Name is Barbra, published Nov 6, 2023, from the library. We’ll see how far she gets! Maybe there’ll be a chapter on this movie!

A little intentional silence can go a long way.  Join Devorah Brous and Dr. Barry Goldstein on Shabbat morning before services, 9-9:30 am for a guided mindful meditation. Location: Shalhevet Rooftop. Grab your coffee and ready your soul with the sacred sound of communal silence.

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.

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

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.

We come together to prepare and serve dinner twice a month to residents at PATH, a transitional home for veterans on Cotner in West LA

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.

Join fellow IKARites for an evening of singing and Havdallah. The location will be provided upon RSVP.

Join fellow TRIBErs in a moderate-level hike in Malibu. Lay led by Kayla Morris. Hike Description: Length: 3.1 miles Difficulty: Moderate Parking available Restroom available Dogs are welcome but must be on leash. For more information, please contact [email protected] 

Shalom~ YOU are invited. All beings that can hold sacred and safe space for others to tap into belonging, are invited. All transwomxn, genderqueer, and non-binary people… All grandmas, daughters, mamas, aunties…if YOU are looking to journey in sacred community, then YOU are welcome to this intergenerational ritual. Because we all need a fertile, sacred space to glean wisdom and heal, we gather together monthly in the garden for the newMOON, to pause and turn inward. Rooted in ancient Jewish ritual, we gather when it’s dark to tap into the fertile void. Learn the monthly themes of the Hebrew calendar while we make herbal bath salt. Come unearth soul medicine and set an intention for the month ahead. *ACCESS: We aspire to keep this sacred space accessible to all. Please let us know your access needs. It is our practice to burn herbs during our rituals. Most circles are held outside, please bring a mask if herbal smoke is a concern for you, and let us know in advance when you register and we can diffuse oils. Our newMOON circle is rooted in a lineage that has been gathering for 19 years. WHERE: PRIVATE HOME – address/event details provided upon registration. WHEN: The garden is open for a healthy potluck. Each of us will bring something healthy to share (for example please bring, a hearty garden soup, or stir-fry greens, or a vegan dish, etc). 6:30pm-9:30pm SaltBowl Ritual

Join our monthly Minyan Tzedek Green Action meeting to build our environmental education and advocacy power. We’re working with local and national partners to save the planet, firmly rooted in our Jewish spirit and values.

Sing your heart out to your favorite Hebrew chant with us! Whether you are an expert or a first-timer, we welcome you! Lay led by Antonia Lassar. Light snacks are provided. For more information, please contact [email protected] *This event is fully indoors*

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 class is co-sponsored by IKAR.

Let’s enter Shabbat together with a sweet, spirited Kabbalat Shabbat service. Daven with us in person or on YouTube, our website, and Zoom. RSVP for our kosher, vegetarian community dinner (suggested donation $25).

After Services, Jessica will discuss her debut novel Olive Days, which follows a young mother in an Orthodox Jewish community of Los Angeles whose quest for authenticity erupts in a passionate affair following a night of wife-swapping. About the Author: Jessica was a finalist in the 2024 and 2020 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards and placed second in the 2020 First Pages Prize. Her stories and poems have been published in journals including Air/Light Magazine, The Beloit Fiction Journal, Midwestern Gothic, Crucible, Drash, and Anemone Sidecar. Join us before the program for Kabbalat Shabbat Services and RSVP for our kosher, vegetarian community dinner (suggested donation $25).

After Services, join fellow IKARite Liz Naftali Hirsh in discussing her book, Saving Abigail: The True Story of the Abduction and Rescue of a Hamas Hostage, Three-Year-Old Abigail Mor Edan. Liz is Abigail’s great aunt and she tells this deeply personal story of the abduction and rescue. The book is her way honoring her family’s legacy and raising awareness about the ongoing fight to free all of the hostages held in Gaza. It is a story of survival, loss, and courage.