We are offering a weekday evening minyan during the week for our community to say kaddish together. Join our sacred ‘zoom room’ to be with each other and create space for memory. Click here.

Six Wednesdays, 7:00 – 9:00 pm

July 7, 14, 21, 28 and August 25

Are you an engaged or newly married couple? Then this series is meant for you. The Chuppah and Beyond program will help you build and strengthen the foundational tools for a successful, happy lifelong relationship, while simultaneously building a community with other couples. This semester, Senior Rabbi Emeritus Stephen Pearce, DD and PhD, who earned his doctorate in counselor psychology at St. John’s University, will lead this group, while bringing in guest speakers and additional clergy. Topics covered include:

• Recognizing the challenges of communication
• Managing conflict and staying connected
• Financial Planning and differing approaches to money
• Maintaining intimacy, friendship, and commitment
• Lessons from a successful marriage

Cost:

Congregant cost: $200 per couple

Non-congregant cost: $300 per couple

REGISTRATION NOTE: If you have an account in our system already, please just mark yourself down as registering. Registration fees are paid in full by 1 person in the couple. Please email Ariana Estoque at [email protected] with your partner's name to be added to the registration.

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Join us for In-Person Friday Night Shabbat Service this Friday, July 9th, at 6:00 pm!

Led by Rabbinical Student and Emanu-El Director of Education Leo Fuchs and Cantor Arik Luck in the Main Sanctuary.

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 to allow attendees to social distance if they are more comfortable doing so.
• 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. We're so excited to welcome you back into our beautiful sanctuary.

Click here to watch on our website livestream page. Or click here to participate via Facebook Live, you don't have to join Facebook to participate. To follow along with prayers, click here for a free online Mishkan T'Filah prayer book.

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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Torah Study with Rabbi Ryan Bauer, followed by Mourner's Kaddish and Healing Prayer. To participate, click here.

"The Most Fun You Will Ever Have In A Cemetery"

Historical tour of Home of Peace Cemetery and Hills of Eternity

Two options, limited 25 spots per session:

Sunday, July 11 – 1:00pm (Register Here)

OR 

Monday, July 19 – 1:00pm (Register Here)

Join Emanu-El historian, Judi Leff, for a tour of the fascinating and beautiful Home of Peace and Hills of Eternity cemeteries in Colma. Hear about the famous and lesser known luminaries who helped shape the Jewish community and the entire city of San Francisco. We will visit the final resting places of Levi Strauss, I.W. Hellman, Wyatt Earp, Julie Rosewald and others. Come hear about scrappy boxers, irascible newspaper publishers, sharpshooting champions, politicians, pranksters, and thespians galore.

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We are offering a weekday evening minyan during the week for our community to say kaddish together. Join our sacred ‘zoom room’ to be with each other and create space for memory. Click here.

Join us for In-Person Friday Night Shabbat Service this Friday, July 16th, at 6:00 pm!

Led by Rabbi Sarah Joselow Parris and Cantor Arik Luck in the Main Sanctuary.

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 to allow attendees to social distance if they are more comfortable doing so.
• 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. We're so excited to welcome you back into our beautiful sanctuary. 

Click here to watch on our website livestream page. Or click here to participate via Facebook Live, you don't have to join Facebook to participate. To follow along with prayers, click here for a free online Mishkan T'Filah prayer book.

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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Torah Study with Rabbi Jason Rodich, followed by Mourner's Kaddish and Healing Prayer. To participate, click here.

After this past year, isn’t it time to PLAY? Bay Area 20s & 30s are invited to join in for an afternoon of sunshine and chill park games on July 18, 1pm-3pm. Time to break out of your pandemic bubble–meet new friends, and maybe even see familiar faces! Registration required by Friday, July 16 at 12pm.

We will be playing somewhere in Golden Gate Park – stay tuned for an email on Friday, July 16 with exact location.

Wear comfy clothes you can lounge and play in!

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"The Most Fun You Will Ever Have In A Cemetery"

Historical tour of Home of Peace Cemetery and Hills of Eternity

Limited to 25 spots per session:

Monday, July 19 – 1:00pm (Register Here)

Join Emanu-El historian, Judi Leff, for a tour of the fascinating and beautiful Home of Peace and Hills of Eternity cemeteries in Colma. Hear about the famous and lesser known luminaries who helped shape the Jewish community and the entire city of San Francisco. We will visit the final resting places of Levi Strauss, I.W. Hellman, Wyatt Earp, Julie Rosewald and others. Come hear about scrappy boxers, irascible newspaper publishers, sharpshooting champions, politicians, pranksters, and thespians galore.

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