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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Join us in-person for YIZKOR NEILAH HAVDALLAH on September 16, 2021 at 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm!

Led by Rabbi Ryan Bauer along with all Emanu-El Clergy. Sermon by Rabbi Sydney Mintz.

*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.

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Join us this Friday, September 17, at 6:00 pm in the Main Sanctuary for In-Person Friday Night Shabbat Service, featuring a special guest speaker!

Led by our clergy and featuring Executive Director of Shalom Bayit, Naomi Tucker. As we head into Sukkot, Naomi Tucker will share how we can partner with Shalom Bayit to build a Sukkah of peace, given the reality of domestic violence in our Jewish 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 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 Sarah Joselow Parris, followed by Mourner's Kaddish and Healing Prayer. To participate, click here.

A Zoom seminar – " The Spiritual Teachings of the Sefat Emet".

Text:

The Language of Truth, trans. & ed. Arthur Green (Jewish Publication Society).

Available in paperback on Amazon

The Sefat Emet is the pinnacle of Hasidic spirituality.

Background:

Only a very, very, modest familiarity with Hebrew but a serious interest in learning more will be needed.

Time:

Starting Saturday, September 4, from 10:00 – 11:00am

Zoom invitations to be sent out at 9:45am each morning to those who sign up.

If interested, please contact Ariana Estoque, [email protected] or at 415-750-7552

Join us for In-Person Shabbat Morning Service in our Martin Meyer Sanctuary along with one of our b'nei mitzvah celebrants! 

To best ensure we can provide a safe and sacred experience, please note the following:

• This service will be in the Martin Meyer 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 to into our beautiful sanctuary.

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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Community Sukkot Celebration

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Here Not Here: An Artist Talk by Shimon Attie

Experience the joy of Sukkot with your community. The evening will include a presentation by the internationally renowned artist, Shimon Attie (and twin brother of our own Cantor Attie), as well as music and a brief service. Shimon Attie's new project, Night Watch, will travel the San Francisco Bay shoreline from September 17-19. All are encouraged to experience the floating installation, and then meet the artist and learn more about his powerful work. Please note: the service will take place outdoors in the courtyard sukkah and the presentation will be indoors in the Martin Meyer Sanctuary.

EMANU-EL'S COVID POLICY

Congregation Emanu-El continues to strive to maintain an environment that promotes the health and well-being of our congregants, employees, those who visit our synagogue, as well as the public at-large. As part of this effort, we have made several changes to our existing high holiday plans in response to congregant feedback and the current status of COVID-19 and the Delta variant in our community. When attending our in-person offerings, we ask for your compliance with the policies and procedures of Congregation Emanu-El, which will be updated to reflect most current best practices, addressing COVID-19 and the prevention thereof, to follow health hygiene and respiratory etiquette, and to respect different comfort levels around physical forms of greeting such as handshakes and hugs.

Upon arrival to Emanu-El, you will be asked to present proof of vaccination or a negative PCR COVID test taken within 72 hours of the event.

ABOUT NIGHT WATCH

Shimon Attie's floating art installation combines contemporary LED-technology with a historic mode of water transport – a barge – to create a sophisticated and layered artistic and sculptural work of art. Night Watch will activate and animate the San Francisco Bay as both a literal and metaphoric site and landscape for escape, rescue, safe-passage, and the offering of safe-harbor for those most vulnerable. The artwork engages one of the most urgent issues of our time – that of welcoming or closing our doors to asylum seekers. See the schedule below for specific viewing times and related public programs throughout the city. A retrospective exhibition of Mr. Attie’s work will also be on view at the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, from September 18-October 30.  

NIGHT WATCH SCHEDULE 

Friday, September 17: Angel Island + Fort Mason and Rincon Park (San Francisco)

Saturday, September 18: Fort Mason and Warm Water Cove (San Francisco)

Sunday, September 19: Oakland Estuary + Brooklyn Basin (Oakland)

Night Watch Viewing Schedule

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