Upcoming events

After our online Minyan on Monday mornings we open a short Grief Garden Circle, a sacred listening space, from 8.30-9.00am.  Please join us there if you are holding grief. To join our weekly Grief Garden Circle, click here Have questions? Please email [email protected] Schedule a 1-0n-1 Grief Support with Dev here: https://cal.com/devorah-brous/grief-support?duration=60

We are an intergenerational circle of men who support one another in becoming the men we want to be in the world. We focus on deepening our connection to Judaism, building community at IKAR, and forging bonds of brotherhood.

What is the Grief Garden? Please join Dev Brous, a certified trauma-informed Compassionate Bereavement Care grief counselor, and herbalist. Join this safe, reflective space to hold, and to be held as we “garden” grief. Here, we share reflections on what we’re learning from grief through embodied weekly prompts that connect people to nature-based Jewish healing practices. To sign-up, please fill out this form. Here’s the link to join the Grief Garden FS2S What’sApp: https://tinyurl.com/2eacz8nc Schedule a 1-0n-1 Grief Support with Dev here: https://cal.com/devorah-brous/grief-support?duration=60  

Minyan Tzedek at IKAR invites TRIBE (20’s-30’s) and Boomers (60+) to come together for an evening of intergenerational service at OBKLA, where we’ll come together to prepare meals and support neighbors facing food insecurity across Los Angeles. This is a chance to roll up your sleeves, do meaningful hands-on service, and connect across generations in the spirit of shared Jewish responsibility and community care.   Afterward, keep the evening going and walk together to Founders Ale House for drinks from 8-9pm to schmooze, debrief, and build community together.

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 us for a virtual literary study of the text of the Torah, aided by the keen eyes of the classical commentators. This series is co-sponsored with Hadar.

Please join us for some singing with song leader extraordinaire Rabbi Jonathan Bubis. We will meet on the patio, so long as weather permits.

Through IKAR’s PATH Meals collaboration, a small group of volunteers will serve and enjoy warm meals with the veteran residents who are temporarily housed at P.A.T.H. Cotner residence.

Wind down and get ready for Shabbat. 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 (60+).

Every Saturday morning at 9am, join Dev Brous and/or Dr. Barry Goldstein for a meditation session on the Shalhevet rooftop. And find your way to sip some homemade herbal tea blends, FromSoil2Soul, near the coffee station in the kitchen.

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. 6/13/2026 Liam Avi Bachrad 6/20/2026 Levi Hochman 6/27/2026 Milo Reid Greenberg-Creel 7/25/2026 Michael Goldstone 8/1/2026 Jonah Pulde 8/15/2026 Jonah YoonWoo Kend 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 11/21/2026 Bo Mandell 11/28/2026 Ezekiel Mataan Brous-Weber 12/5/2026 Samuel Rafael Marquit 12/19/2026 Finch Rhodes

Join us for an evening with Jamie Kress, President and CEO of Keshet, and Asher Gellis, Founder and CEO at JQ International in conversation with Rabbi Hannah Jensen. Light snacks and drinks will be provided and we will usher in the new week by marking Havdallah following the discussion.

How do we move forward when the future feels unknown and frightening? Imagination and climate storytelling can be powerful organizing tools to help us tell the story of — and then build — the world we want. Join Rabbi Laura Bellows, Dayenu’s Director of Spiritual Activism, and Dayenu California Organizer and Rabbinic Fellow Savannah Lipner for an immersive in-person gathering at the IKAR event space in Los Angeles. This 3-hour workshop weaves together two things our movement desperately needs: spiritual depth and organizing power. Through Midrash, storytelling, and song, we’ll draw on the wisdom of our tradition to metabolize grief, renew our sense of purpose, and strengthen the bonds that sustain this work over the long haul. Then we’ll roll up our sleeves with political education on California’s most pressing climate campaigns and hands-on skill-building you can bring straight back to your community. Whether you’ve been organizing with Dayenu for years or you’re just starting to ask how your Jewish values connect to this crisis, you belong here. No prior Jewish learning experience is required. All are welcome.

Explore Vietnam – Hosted by Leanna Wolfe in Van Nuys, address provided upon RSVP! 7:00 PM Shmooze & Wine, 8:00 PM Presentation Please join the Travel Circle for an in-person adventure to Vietnam with host Leanna Wolfe.

This virtual 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. At every meeting, we will consider a short piece by Anne Lamott, which will serve as a springboard for practical exercises and conversations that incorporate our tradition’s wisdom and our own. Together we will set new goals for approaching our aging with insight, grace, purpose – and humor. Recommended age 55+.

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].

Join Minyan Tzedek Community Organizing on Zoom for updates on our legislative advocacy and local justice campaigns, and learn ways to plug into our organizing work.

We are an intergenerational circle of men who support one another in becoming the men we want to be in the world. We focus on deepening our connection to Judaism, building community at IKAR, and forging bonds of brotherhood. Please register here by 1:00 pm on the day of any meeting you wish to attend.

Taste of IKAR is a curated event series designed to give our community a tangible “taste” of the kind of vibrant, creative, and soul-nourishing programming we will be able to offer in the new IKAR Center. Each gathering brings to life a different dimension of what’s to come—food, music, learning, art, and meaningful connection—offering an experiential glimpse into a future filled with dynamic Jewish life.

Join us for a discussion after dinner with author Dr. Sara Glass (author of Kissing Girls on Shabbat) and Lani Santo, CEO of Footsteps. We will discuss what it takes for LGBTQ+ individuals to make the complex journey towards an authentic and self-determined life after leaving ultra-Orthodoxy. Bio for Sara: Sara Glass, PhD, LCSW, is a therapist, writer, and speaker who helps members of the queer community and individuals who have survived trauma to live bold, honest, and proud lives. She lives in Manhattan, New York with her three children. Find out more at https://www.drsaraglass.com/. Overview of Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Educated, about one young woman’s desperate attempt to protect her children and family while also embracing her queer identity in a controlling Hasidic community. Find out more at https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Kissing-Girls-on-Shabbat/Sara-Glass/9781668031223. Footsteps blurb: Footsteps is the only organization in North America providing comprehensive services and programs to people who have chosen to leave their ultra-Orthodox communities and build self-determined lives. Footsteps provides a range of services, including social and emotional support, educational and career guidance, workshops and social activities. Find out more at https://www.footstepsorg.org.

Our annual Pride Shabbat returns to Pico-Robertson for an evening of food, ritual, and powerful conversation. Daven with us in person at 6:30pm PT at Shalhevet (910 S Fairfax Ave) or on YouTube. Then join us for a conversation with Dr. Sara Glass, author of Kissing Girls on Shabbat, and Lani Santo, CEO of Footsteps, discussing LGBTQ+ identity, chosen family, and building a self-determined life after leaving ultra-Orthodoxy. Co-Sponsored with JQ.

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! 6/20/2026 Levi Hochman 6/27/2026 Milo Reid Greenberg-Creel 7/25/2026 Michael Goldstone 8/1/2026 Jonah Pulde 8/15/2026 Jonah YoonWoo Kend 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 11/21/2026 Bo Mandell 11/28/2026 Ezekiel Mataan Brous-Weber 12/5/2026 Samuel Rafael Marquit 6/20/2026 Levi Hochman 6/27/2026 Milo Reid Greenberg-Creel 7/25/2026 Michael Goldstone 8/1/2026 Jonah Pulde 8/15/2026 Jonah YoonWoo Kend 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 11/21/2026 Bo Mandell 11/28/2026 Ezekiel Mataan Brous-Weber 12/5/2026 Samuel Rafael Marquit 12/19/2026 Finch Rhodes

This event is for IKAR members only.   Join us for an energetic evening of Israeli dance, led by IKAR community member Susan North Gilboa as part of our Taste of IKAR series, hosted by the Capital Campaign team. Whether you’re a seasoned dancer or brand new, all are welcome to join in the fun. Throughout the evening, there will be an opportunity to learn more about The IKAR Center and ask questions about our vision for the future. As we work toward our goal of 100% community participation, every gift truly makes a difference. The evening will conclude with a clear fundraising ask. A light snack and drink will be provided; no meal.

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.