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Apr
23
Sat
2022
2023 10th grade NY trip 4/20-4/23
Apr 23 2022 @ 6:00 pm – Apr 20 2023 @ 8:00 am

NY 10th grade trip: April 20th-23rd, 2023. The balance of $1400 is due by March 31, 2023.

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Oct
4
Tue
2022
Kol Nidre
Oct 4 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Office closed at 1:00 pm.

HHD 2022 – Sounds of the Shofar: Children’s KN Svc (10/4)
Oct 4 @ 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Sounds of the Shofar: Children’s Kol Nidre Service

Led by Rabbis Ryan Bauer, Sydney Mintz and Sarah Joselow Parris. Jonathan Bayer on music.

*This service will be in person for members; 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 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.

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HHD 2022 – Kol Nidre Early Service with Cantor Luck(10/4/22)
Oct 4 @ 5:30 pm – 7:15 pm

Join us in-person for Opening The Gates: Kol Nidre Early Service from 5:30pm – 7:15pm!

Service led by Rabbis Beth and Jonathan Singer. Sermon by Rabbi Ryan Bauer. Music by Cantor Arik Luck.

*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. 
  • 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.

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HHD 2022 – Kol Nidre Late Service with Cantor Attie(10/4/22)
Oct 4 @ 8:00 pm – 9:45 pm

Join us in-person for Opening The Gates: Kol Nidre Late Service from 8:00pm – 9:45pm!

Service led by Rabbis Sydney Mintz and Sarah Joselow Parris. Sermon by Rabbi Jason Rodich. Music by Cantor Marsha Attie.

*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. 
  • 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.

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Oct
5
Wed
2022
Yom Kippur
Oct 5 @ 12:00 am – 11:59 pm

Office closed.

HHD 2022 – Apples & Honey: Yom Kippur Service (Children)
Oct 5 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Join Rabbis Sarah Joselow Parris and Jonathan Singer, and Rabbinic Intern Leo Fuchs, along with Jonathan Bayer for outdoor children's services and activities from 10:00 am – 11:30 am at Presidio Wall Playground! 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. At 10:15 am there will be a musical children's service and story time (aimed at children ages 4-7). 

*This service is open to members and the entire community. Registration is required.

Address: Pacific Ave and Spruce Street, San Francisco, CA 94118 (See link here for a map)

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.

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HHD 2022 – Yom Kippur Service w/ Cantors Luck & Attie (10/5)
Oct 5 @ 10:00 am – 12:15 pm

Join us in-person for Yom Kippur Morning Service: Under One Dome – A combined service of majesty and warmth, contemplation and exaltation, of reflection and renewal – from 10:00am – 12:15pm! Service led by Rabbis Ryan Bauer and Jason Rodich. Sermon by Rabbi Sydney Mintz. Music by Cantors Marsha Attie and Arik Luck.

*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. 
  • 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.

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HHD 2022 – Healing and Reflection in the Redwoods
Oct 5 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Walk towards Healing and Reflection in the Redwoods

Meet at the front gate of the Temple to walk to the Redwoods together.

 Join Rabbi Sydney Mintz and 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.  We are honored to be joined by Jai Uttal, Grammy nominated sacred music composer, recording artistmulti-instrumentalist, and ecstatic vocalist, combines influences from India with influences from American rock and jazz, creating a stimulating and exotic multi-cultural fusion that is truly world spirit music. 

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.

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HHD 2022 – Learning Session with Rabbi Stephen Pearce
Oct 5 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Learning Session with Taube Scholar and Senior Rabbi Emeritus Stephen Pearce, Ph.D

 

The Architectural and Decorative Secrets of Temple Emanu-El

 

With the Temple campus about to undergo the most major renovation and expansion in its 100-year history, this workshop will highlight the outstanding architectural and decorative features that we’ve all walked past without taking a closer look. The Courtyard mosaic reveals the symbol for the Tribe of Ephraim. Is that unicorn? The Hebrew is Re’em and the translation history reveals the secret.

*This virtual event will be held on Zoom.

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