What’s Happening For Shabbat: January 2023 Edition

January 13

🎙 Kehilla’s POC Shabbat is for People of Color & their Loved Ones, starting at 6pm with services and followed by kosher-style dinner, with Ruthie Levin & Bekkah Scharf. By Lake Merritt. Sounds dreamy! Contact Ruthie Levin, POC Organizer at ruthie@kehillasynagogue.org if you would like to co-lead, lead, or create. Info here and then register here.

🎻 Chochmat HaLev in South Berkeley is hosting hybrid (in-person indoors & Zoom) Shabbat services at 7pm. Come early for a potluck at 5.30pm! Register because they hit capacity frequently. Services are meditative, heart-opening, chanting, inspiring music, lighter on the Hebrew. KN95/N95/double surgical mask required. Stay late (or come late!), around 8.45pm for a gathering of HeartSpace, a new group of 30-ish somethings folks to build community. Eva Orbuch is hosting this one!

🌿 Wilderness Torah will be at Urban Adamah for a spirited, song-filled (with instruments, meditative Shabbat service, 6.30-8pm. Masks required. Outdoors in West Berkeley so bring layers! Sliding scale 0-$54, register here. If you have little ones, come early for their tots program with Melita Silberstein.

🌁 Andddd one more option if you want to head to the city for Emanu-El’s classic Late Night Shabbat, exclusively for folks in their 20s & 30s. 8pm schmooze, then a Reform-style service, followed by an oneg (festive food, drinks, and music). This happens every month, and tends to attract big crowds! Register here, masks not required.

January 20

🌉 The Kitchen is hosting its usual “Shabbat PM + Dinner” at 6.15pm at The Friends School in the Mission (v close to BART!). Instrument- & Hebrew-filled services (sweet mix of Sephardi/Mizrahi and Ashkenazi melodies) and a vegetarian dinner afterwards. Indoors, masks optional. Register here for tix that cover dinner.

🎼 Base Bay in Rockridge is collaborating with Niggun Collective again for song-filled singing (full liturgy in Hebrew, transliteration provided, lots of ya-da-dai). Indoors with outdoor options for dinner. Masks & rapid test required beforehand. Live nearby and want to host? Email R’ Frankie (frankie.sandmel@moishehouse.org) and they’ll help connect you to OneTable and other resources to get set up. 6.30pm, singing wraps by 8pm. Register here.

🏡 And after singing at Base, head literally next door to Moishe House Rockridge for a candlelit community Shabbat dinner and food drive (bring cans!). Indoors, masks optional. More details on Facebook and DM for their address.

🌊 Or head over to West Berkeley, where Moishe House Berkeley is also hosting a Shabbat dinner, 7-9pm, which will be inside unless it’s “unseasonably warm”! Rapid-test beforehand. Email mohoberkeley@gmail.com for address.

🎼 Chochmat HaLev will hold a meditative Shabbat service on Zoom, 5.30pm. Led by Zvika Krieger & Lior Tsfarty, there’s always sweet music and time to drop in! Free but donations welcome. Register here.

January 27

🎶 Kehilla will be online for Liturgically Traditional, Radically Inclusive Kabbalat Shabbat aka Rad Trad Kab Shab, song-FULL and full liturgy w/ transliteration, all are welcome. 5.30-6.30pm.

🎻 Chochmat HaLev will hold a meditative Shabbat service on Zoom, 5.30pm. Led by Zvika Krieger & Lior Tsfarty, there’s always sweet music and time to drop in! Free but donations welcome. Register here.

🥘 Maybe you want to host your own Shabbat dinner? OneTable has resources & financial support (even for groups as big as 30 people). Or find a dinner to join…more info here or reach out to lia@onetable.org.