On Sunday, August 23 at 3pm, Rabbi Susan will join author Ami Fields-Meyer at Holocaust Museum LA to discuss his book On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear. An instant NYT bestseller profiled by Rachel Maddow, Heather Cox Richardson, and Jacob Soboroff, On Courage is a deeply reported manual about how anyone can defy authoritarians […]
Both to meet a request from our community for more regular daily prayer practice, and to create a supportive space for mourners who are saying Kaddish, including Rabbi Susan and her family, we have launched a weekly Tuesday Morning Shacharit Minyan. You can join in person at St. Paul's Commons or on Zoom. When: Tuesdays […]
Join us every Thursday at 7:30pm on Zoom for a study of the Parsha (Torah portion) of the week. Register below for the link!
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Join this year's Kol Nidre Community Choir! With Elul comes one of our favorite Nefesh traditions: the Kol Nidre Community Choir. Sally will guide you through learning the language, meaning, melody and harmony of this beautiful Kol Nidre prayer, along with the Avinu Malkeinu, so that you can join us on the bima to sing […]
More than a year after Ruth’s passing, we are grateful that a group of nonviolent parenting educators has been able to bring into the world a project that was so close to her heart: her guide, A Compassionate Guide to Parenting with Nonviolence, created by Ruth Beaglehole with Kim Pesenti. On Ruth’s birthday, we’ll gather […]
Approaching potentially hard conversations with zerizut (energy, alacrity, readiness) Is there a conversation in your life that you are avoiding? Or a conversation you have had, maybe more than once, but it doesn’t go well? Elul is the perfect time to gain new skills, and when possible, to show up to try to repair disconnections […]
Both to meet a request from our community for more regular daily prayer practice, and to create a supportive space for mourners who are saying Kaddish, including Rabbi Susan and her family, we have launched a weekly Tuesday Morning Shacharit Minyan. You can join in person at St. Paul's Commons or on Zoom. When: Tuesdays […]
With Rosh Hashanah right around the corner, join Rabbi Aaron for a shiur (class) to explore some of our tradition's teachings on Teshuva. What makes this work of Cheshbon HaNefesh - accounting of our soul - so challenging? How might our sacred texts aid us in our personal and collective journeys towards redemption in 5787? Date: Wednesday, September 2 […]
Nefesh will partner with Neshamah, Ikar, B’nai David Judea, Sinai Temple, TBI, Der Nister, BAIT, Hamakom, Happy Minyan and Six11 for Ahavat Chinam: A Community Selichot Experience, which will feature performances by Nefesh Musical Co-Directors Duvid Swirsky and Sally Dworsky, Nefesh Band member Janice Mautner Markham, and others! September 3 at Pico Union Project, tickets available […]
Join Nefesh in person in Echo Park, or on Zoom
Both to meet a request from our community for more regular daily prayer practice, and to create a supportive space for mourners who are saying Kaddish, including Rabbi Susan and her family, we have launched a weekly Tuesday Morning Shacharit Minyan. You can join in person at St. Paul's Commons or on Zoom. When: Tuesdays […]