QueerKAR Open Coffee Hour

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  

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.

Joined IKAR in the past year and want to meet more congregants? This is the party for you! Come for a night of community and schmoozing. Hear from one of our clergy members, and our CEO and founder, Melissa Balaban.

$10 IKAR Promo Code: IKAR10 Ahavat Chinam: Boundless Love will be a community-wide Selichot concert event — an evening to sing together, reflect together, meet one another, and enter the High Holiday season with a renewed sense of connection, possibility, and shared purpose. By bringing these communities together under one roof, Ahavat Chinam hopes to offer something increasingly important: an opportunity to experience the Los Angeles Jewish community not as separate congregations or institutions, but as one diverse and interconnected community. The gathering is designed to create new relationships, strengthen existing ones, and celebrate the richness and diversity of Jewish life in Los Angeles as the community prepares together for the High Holidays. Featured Performers: Peter Himmelman, Moshav, Craig Taubman, Danny Maseng, MAALA (Duvid Swirky & Nachum Peterseil), Mostly Kosher (Leeav Sofer & Janice Mautner Markham), Sally Dworsky, VBS’s Cantor Jacqueline Rafii, HAMAKOM (Jenni Asher), Gidon Shikler, Mikey Pauker, Samson Nderitu Ahavat Chinam is being created in partnership with a growing coalition of Jewish communities and organizations from across Los Angeles, including: B’nei David Judea • Nefesh • IKAR • Sinai Temple • Temple Beth Israel (TBI) • Happy Minyan • Der Nister • HAMAKOM • Valley Beth Shalom (VBS) • BAIT • SIX11 • Neshamah This event is produced by Duvid Swirsky and Nachum Peterseil of MAALA.