Shabbat
Saturdays • 9 am
Before Services: Guided Mindful Meditation
Every Saturday morning at 9am, join Dev Brous and/or Dr. Barry Goldstein for a weekly meditation on the Shalhevet rooftop. And find your way to sip some homemade herbal tea blends, FromSoil2Soul, near the coffee station in the kitchen.
SHABBAT
Saturdays • 9:30 am • NEXT: Feb 14
Shabbat Morning Services
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. Join us on January 17th for Sephardi/Mizrahi Shabbat. 2/7/2026 Adult B’nai Mitzvah Cohort 2/21/2026 Dov Weinberg 3/21/2026 Zahava Smith 5/16/2026 Lilah Bokman 5/23/2026 Wolff Lakota Ellis 6/6/2026 Bear Karuna & Theo Hirschel Bender Miller 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
Kabbalat Shabbat
Friday, Feb 20 • 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Kabbalat Shabbat Services & Dinner with Rob Kutner
Let’s enter Shabbat together with a sweet, spirited Kabbalat Shabbat service. Daven with us in person or on YouTube and Zoom. RSVP for our kosher, vegetarian community dinner (contribution amount $25). Rob Kutner is an Emmy-winning writer for TV and animation (The Daily Show, CONAN, Teen Titans Go!) and an author for Macmillan, Random House, and Marvel. He has studied at the Pardes Institute, and been named a “SuperJew” by TimeOut New York. Check out his latest book, The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting.
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Bite Size
Saturday, Feb 28 • 11 am to 12 pm
Bite Size Shabbes (0-5)
For families of all types and stripes with kids ages 0-5 (kids – don’t forget to bring your grown-up!) Whether you’re a rookie or a ringer, we invite you to tap into the age-old wisdom of Shabbat with your family. Join us as we slow down, reconnect, and rock out with our favorite clergy. What better way is there to end the week? Contact [email protected] for more information.
By: Beth Weisman
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Kabbalat Shabbat
Friday, Mar 6 • 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Kabbalat Shabbat Services & Dinner
Let’s enter Shabbat together with a sweet, spirited Kabbalat Shabbat service.  After Services, there will be two dinner options following services:   -Everyone is invited to stay for community dinner at the IKAR Event Space.  -TRIBE will gather for Shabbat dinner at the Office Patio for people in their 20s and 30s.  We never want cost to be a bearer in attendance. If you need assistance, please email [email protected].
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Kabbalat Shabbat
Friday, Mar 20 • 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Kabbalat Shabbat Services & Dinner
Let’s enter Shabbat together with a sweet, spirited Kabbalat Shabbat service. Daven with us in person or on YouTube and Zoom. RSVP for our kosher, vegetarian community dinner (contribution amount $25).  
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Bite Size
Saturday, Mar 21 • 11 am to 12 pm
Bite Size Shabbes (0-5)
For families of all types and stripes with kids ages 0-5 (kids – don’t forget to bring your grown-up!) Whether you’re a rookie or a ringer, we invite you to tap into the age-old wisdom of Shabbat with your family. Join us as we slow down, reconnect, and rock out with our favorite clergy. What better way is there to end the week? Contact [email protected] for more information.
By: Beth Weisman
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Kabbalat Shabbat
Friday, Apr 10 • 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Kabbalat Shabbat Services & Dinner
Let’s enter Shabbat together with a sweet, spirited Kabbalat Shabbat service.  After Services, there will be two dinner options following services:   -Everyone is invited to stay for community dinner at the IKAR Event Space.  -TRIBE will gather for Shabbat dinner at the Office Patio for people in their 20s and 30s.  We never want cost to be a bearer in attendance. If you need assistance, please email [email protected].
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Kabbalat Shabbat
Friday, Apr 24 • 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Kabbalat Shabbat Services & Dinner
Let’s enter Shabbat together with a sweet, spirited Kabbalat Shabbat service. Daven with us in person or on YouTube and Zoom. RSVP for our kosher, vegetarian community dinner (contribution amount $25).  
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Bite Size
Saturday, Apr 25 • 11 am to 12 pm
Bite Size Shabbes (0-5)
For families of all types and stripes with kids ages 0-5 (kids – don’t forget to bring your grown-up!) Whether you’re a rookie or a ringer, we invite you to tap into the age-old wisdom of Shabbat with your family. Join us as we slow down, reconnect, and rock out with our favorite clergy. What better way is there to end the week? Contact [email protected] for more information.
By: Beth Weisman
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Lunch & Learn
Saturday, Apr 25 • 1 pm to 2 pm
Lunch & Learn: Footsteps – Author, Dr. Sara Glass
Join us after lunch in the Beit Midrash for a conversation with author Dr. Sara Glass to discuss her new book, “Kissing Girls on Shabbat”.   About the Book: “A searing testament to the strength in claiming one’s destiny” by The Washington Post, Dr. Sara Glass’s Kissing Girls on Shabbat is a memoir of growing up in the Hasidic community of Brooklyn’s Borough Park and the long path towards embracing her queer identity. Footsteps is the only organization in the US that supports, advocates for, and affirms individuals who have left or are contemplating leaving ultra-Orthodoxy. The ultra-Orthodox community is the fastest growing segment of the Jewish population in the US.
Bite Size
Saturday, May 16 • 11 am to 12 pm
Bite Size Shabbes (0-5)
For families of all types and stripes with kids ages 0-5 (kids – don’t forget to bring your grown-up!) Whether you’re a rookie or a ringer, we invite you to tap into the age-old wisdom of Shabbat with your family. Join us as we slow down, reconnect, and rock out with our favorite clergy. What better way is there to end the week? Contact [email protected] for more information.
By: Beth Weisman
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Pride Kabbalat Shabbat
Friday, Jun 19 • 6:30 pm to 9 pm
PRIDE Kabbalat Shabbat Services & Dinner Program (Co-Sponsored by JQ & NuRoots)
Let’s enter Shabbat together with a sweet, spirited Kabbalat Shabbat service. Daven with us in person at 910 S. Fairfax Ave or on YouTube. Celebrate Pride with JQ, IKAR, and NuRoots! Join us for Shabbat services, a plant based dinner, drinks and entertainment. All ages welcome. The panel after dinner will not be streamed.
Bite Size
Saturday, Jun 27 • 11 am to 12 pm
Bite Size Shabbes (0-5)
For families of all types and stripes with kids ages 0-5 (kids – don’t forget to bring your grown-up!) Whether you’re a rookie or a ringer, we invite you to tap into the age-old wisdom of Shabbat with your family. Join us as we slow down, reconnect, and rock out with our favorite clergy. What better way is there to end the week? Contact [email protected] for more information.
By: Beth Weisman
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Lunch & Learn
Saturday, Nov 14 • 1 pm to 2 pm
Lunch & Learn: Dov Waxman
Dov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies and former director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining UCLA, he was the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies, a Professor of Political Science, and the director of the Middle East Center at Northeastern University. He was previously an associate professor at the City University of New York, an assistant professor at Bowdoin College, and a visiting professor at the Middle East Technical University. He has also had visiting fellowships at Oxford University, the Hebrew University, Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University. He graduated from Oxford University and received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His research and writing focus on the Israel-Palestine issue, contemporary antisemitism, Jewish politics, Israeli politics, Israel-Diaspora relations, U.S.-Israel relations, and U.S.-Middle East relations. He is the author four books: The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (2006), Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (2011), Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (2016), and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (published by Oxford University Press in 2019). His writing has also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Forward, The Atlantic, Time, Slate, Foreign Policy and many other places.