Calendar
Join us in-person for Opening The Gates: Kol Nidre – Service 1 from 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm! We will combine the grandeur and majesty of the Early (classic) Service, with the warmth and intimacy of the Late (contemporary) Service. Service led by Rabbi Sydney Mintz and Rabbi Jason Rodich. Sermon by Rabbi Ryan Bauer.
*This service will be in person for members only, no livestream.
To best ensure we can provide a safe and sacred experience, please note the following:
- All services will be in the Main Sanctuary.
- Capacity is limited; advance registration is required.
- Masks are required at all times inside.
- Please review our COVID-19 on-site event protocols, so you’ll know what to expect and how to prepare.
We understand rules and norms are changing quickly. Our COVID advisory team continues to monitor legal requirements and best practices and may change requirements as the environment changes.
Join us in-person for Opening The Gates: Kol Nidre Service 2 – from 8:15 pm – 9:45 pm! We will combine the grandeur and majesty of the Early (classic) Service, with the warmth and intimacy of the Late (contemporary) Service. Service led by Rabbi Sydney Mintz and Rabbi Jason Rodich. Sermon by Rabbi Ryan Bauer.
*This service will be in person for members, as well as livestreamed for the community.
To best ensure we can provide a safe and sacred experience, please note the following:
- All services will be in the Main Sanctuary.
- Capacity is limited; advance registration is required.
- Masks are required at all times inside.
- Please review our COVID-19 on-site event protocols, so you’ll know what to expect and how to prepare.
We understand rules and norms are changing quickly. Our COVID advisory team continues to monitor legal requirements and best practices and may change requirements as the environment changes.
Join Rabbi Sarah Joselow Parris and Jonathan Bayer for outdoor childrens' services and activities from 10:00 am – 11:00 am at Presidio Wall Park (Julius Kahn park)! Stop by for a bit or stay a while with a blanket and mark the day of Yom Kippur together with other young families.
We will have some activities to share that you can enjoy with your family pod and at 10:15 am there will be a musical children's service and story time (aimed at children ages 4-7).
*This service will be in person for members only, no livestream.
To best ensure we can provide a safe and sacred experience, please note the following:
- Capacity is limited; advance registration is required.
- Please review our COVID-19 off-site event protocols, so you’ll know what to expect and how to prepare.
We understand rules and norms re: Covid-19 are changing quickly. Our COVID advisory team continues to monitor legal requirements and best practices and may change requirements as the environment changes.
Join us in-person for Opening The Gates: Yom Kippur Day Service 1 – from 10:00 am – 11:30 am! We will combine the grandeur and majesty of the Early (classic) Service, with the warmth and intimacy of the Late (contemporary) Service. Service led by Rabbi Jonathan Singer and Rabbi Ryan Bauer. Sermon by Rabbi Jason Rodich.
*This service will be in person for members, as well as livestreamed for the community.
To best ensure we can provide a safe and sacred experience, please note the following:
- All services will be in the Main Sanctuary.
- Capacity is limited; advance registration is required.
- Masks are required at all times inside.
- Please review our COVID-19 on-site event protocols, so you’ll know what to expect and how to prepare.
We understand rules and norms are changing quickly. Our COVID advisory team continues to monitor legal requirements and best practices and may change requirements as the environment changes.
Learning Session with Taube Scholar and Senior Rabbi Emeritus Stephen Pearce, Ph.D
THAT REMINDS ME OF A JOKE
Well-placed humor has enormous impact because it reveals hidden truths, as Shakespeare wrote in King Lear: “Jesters do oft prove prophets." This workshop will explore the power of purpose-driven humor as opposed to random off-the-cuff comments merely meant to get a laugh.
*This virtual event will be held on Zoom.
Learning Session with Emanu-El Scholar, Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
Yom Kippur Day
“The ONLY thing God ever says: 'Come Home’: A re-examination of some of the classical texts on the importance and meaning of Teshuva."
*This virtual event will be held on Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed to you a few days before the event.
Meditation and Healing in the Redwoods
Meet at the front gate of the Temple to walk to the Redwoods together.
Join Rabbi Sydney Mintz, Rabbi Beth Singer, and our musicians as we journey together from the Temple through the Arguello Gate and into the Redwoods for guided meditation, music, silence, chanting and healing prayers. Never been to the redwoods on Yom Kippur before? Join us! Annual tradition of going with Emanu-El to the redwoods? Join us (again!). Love the intimate experience of the healing service of past years? Join us this year to experience sacred space and time in the Redwoods.
To best ensure we can provide a safe and sacred experience, please note the following:
- Capacity is limited; advance registration is required.
- Please review our COVID-19 off-site event protocols, so you’ll know what to expect and how to prepare.
We understand rules and norms are changing quickly regarding Covid-19. Our COVID advisory team continues to monitor legal requirements and best practices and may change requirements as the environment changes.
Translating Our Values Into Action: A Yom Kippur Tzedek Council Program For Members
Join us this Yom Kippur to renew our commitment in transforming our world from how it is to how it ought to be. Dr. Sheryl Evans Davis, Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission will be our keynote speaker, giving a state of the union on homelessness in the Bay Area. Following, we will hear from youth leaders at Youth Spirit Artworks on the impact that local community support has made on their lives. Our activism creates a living Judaism that will endure.
*This service will be in person for members, as well as livestreamed for the community.
To best ensure we can provide a safe and sacred experience, please note the following:
- Capacity is limited; advance registration is required.
- Masks are required at all times inside.
- Please review our COVID-19 on-site event protocols, so you’ll know what to expect and how to prepare.
We understand rules and norms are changing quickly. Our COVID advisory team continues to monitor legal requirements and best practices and may change requirements as the environment changes.
A one-hour community Service led by our teens who will lead us in song, worship, poetry and prose.
Led by Cantor Attie and musical accompanists.
*This service will be in person for members, as well as livestreamed for the community.
To best ensure we can provide a safe and sacred experience, please note the following:
- All services will be in the Main Sanctuary.
- Capacity is limited; advance registration is required.
- Masks are required at all times inside.
- Please review our COVID-19 on-site event protocols, so you’ll know what to expect and how to prepare.
We understand rules and norms are changing quickly. Our COVID advisory team continues to monitor legal requirements and best practices and may change requirements as the environment changes.
We take a meditative, musical journey through the Jewish past as we seek inspiration to push open the gates of a new year of meaning.
*This service will be in person, outside in the courtyard, for members, as well as livestreamed for the community.
To best ensure we can provide a safe and sacred experience, please note the following:
- This service will take place in the Courtyard
- Capacity is limited; advance registration is required.
- Masks are required at all times inside.
- Please review our COVID-19 on-site event protocols, so you’ll know what to expect and how to prepare.
We understand rules and norms are changing quickly. Our COVID advisory team continues to monitor legal requirements and best practices and may change requirements as the environment changes.
