Makom is a dynamic Jewish education program for students in TK - 6th grade. The Hebrew word makom means'"place"- inside and all around us, every place is alive with Jewish learning and growing as human beings. We open the door wide open for creative exploration of Torah, spirituality and prayer, and middot, our deepest values. We will learn […]

Witnessing Manzanar is a chance for multiple faith communities - Nefesh’s Tikkun Collective and Buddhist Chaplaincy students from University of the West - to collaboratively observe Pesach and Shabbat through participation in the 55th Manzanar Pilgrimage, a yearly interfaith gathering of former prisoners, faith leaders, and Native community members to honor the history of the land and […]

Join Rabbi Aaron for a weekly lunch and learn every Thursday on the Parsha (Torah portion) of the week.  12pm on Thursdays at Jewel.

Monthly Kaddish Minyan on Zoom.

Nefesh is a middot-driven community. This means that we, both collectively and individually, are grounded in a practice of intentional focus on the middot, our deepest Jewish values. Mussar is a Jewish spiritual practice around the middot, engaged in developing an internal and external mindful moral compass and ethical life.  Nefesh Mussar is an emergent, […]