Come hear Sally Abed and Nadav Shofet, two leaders of Standing Together, talk about the organization’s work – its successes, its challenges, and its hopes for the future. At Community Church of Sebastopol.
Join us for a joyful, exciting, musical, and inclusive Family Shabbat.
Zoë Lewis is an multi-instrumentalist entertainer from a bygone age. Singer-songwriter-storyteller-juggler. A joy-filled, family-friendly concert.
Nitzanim hosts Family Experiential Learning and B. Mitzvah Academy
Join us in-person at Ner Shalom, or virtually via Zoom, as we gather in community for Transgender Day of Remembrance.This gathering will be a space to explore the everyday ways of resistance that we all – queer and allies alike – can engage in, to say that we are not going away and that we demand a future where trans lives are celebrated and all people are safe.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
Join us for an informative discussion about Israeli policies and HEAL Palestine, an organization focused on transforming lives and strengthening resilience.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
Yiddish Tish explores Yiddish literature and culture in the original. Yet miraculously no previous Yiddish knowledge is required.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
We wake up and celebrate the Shabbat with a morning minyan.
Would your older teen or adult with a disability enjoy a way to experience the Jewish holidays in a family-friendly environment? If so, you and your teen/adult are invited to join us for eight sessions celebrating the Jewish holidays through art, music, movement, and story. We have interfaith families as well as families who are new or who are returning to Judaism.
Join us for the Festival of Lights!!
Join Rabbi Irwin to explore what the concept of Covenant raises, including what it means for our own sense of peoplehood.
Join us for a joyful, exciting, musical, and inclusive Family Shabbat.
Nitzanim hosts Family Experiential Learning and B. Mitzvah Academy
Eyes on Gaza grapples with the painful subject of Israel's current devastating war on Gaza. The class will be facilitated by Beverly Voloshin.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
Join us for a joyful, exciting, musical, and inclusive Family Shabbat.
Join us for a relaxed Shabbat morning!
Eyes on Gaza grapples with the painful subject of Israel's current devastating war on Gaza. The class will be facilitated by Beverly Voloshin.
Currently our emphasis is on immigration, pro-democracy and and trans issues. You are welcome to join us in these endeavors or take the lead on issues of your choice.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
Nitzanim hosts Family Experiential Learning and B. Mitzvah Academy
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
Would your older teen or adult with a disability enjoy a way to experience the Jewish holidays in a family-friendly environment? If so, you and your teen/adult are invited to join us for eight sessions celebrating the Jewish holidays through art, music, movement, and story. We have interfaith families as well as families who are new or who are returning to Judaism.
Eyes on Gaza grapples with the painful subject of Israel's current devastating war on Gaza. The class will be facilitated by Beverly Voloshin.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
Nitzanim hosts Family Experiential Learning and B. Mitzvah Academy
with Peter Krohn, John Kornfeld, Rhonda Findling and Elaine Leeder.
Inheritance of Memory brings together the voices of Holocaust survivors and their children in a deeply moving anthology of memoir and testimony.
This kaleidoscope of family stories conveys what reading one story cannot: that the Holocaust nightmare unfolded in vastly different ways and at different times depending on where you lived in Europe; that Jews fiercely resisted Nazi persecution and eluded capture in countless ways, legally and illegally; and that they journeyed all over the world seeking safe haven.
The survivors speak of loss, endurance, courage, and hope. Their children share how they came to understand their parents’ experiences—and why telling these stories matters.
As the generation of survivors grows smaller, remembrance becomes an urgent responsibility for us all. This collection stands as an act of witness and preservation, ensuring that these personal histories remain part of our collective memory.
A powerful contribution to Holocaust literature, Jewish history, and World War II testimony, Inheritance of Memory honors the voices of those who lived the history—and those who now safeguard it.
Join Ner Shalom members Peter Krohn, Rhonda Findling, and Elaine Leeder, along with editor John Kornfeld, as they share their stories in what promises to be a moving experience.
The Book is available here and will be available for purchase at the event.
Elaine (Sneierson) Leeder is President of the Board of Congregation Ner Shalom. She has over 50 years experience as a professor, dean, scholar, activist and author. She has written 8 books . As co-editor of Inheritance of Memory she also documents her experience with intergenerational transmission of trauma.
Peter Krohn lived in Milano Italy from 1937 -1939. His parents had the foresight and good fortune to leave Berlin in 1934. In 1939 they managed to get a Visa to Canada just three weeks before they would have been deported to a camp by Mussolini. Peter and family had a few rather frightening encounters with Nazi officers and the Italian Carabiniere. He lost over 100 relatives during WWII. Even when physically safe in Canada, Peter has written about how fear followed him like a shadow in the inheritance of Memory anthology.
Rhonda Findling is a retired Counseling Faculty from Santa Rosa Junior College, where she counseled students in programs for first-generation, isadvantaged students. She founded the College’s program for formerly incarcerated students. She has published numerous articles over the years in various publications. She and her spouse live in Sebastopol, and have two adult daughters.
John Kornfeld grew up in Los Angeles in a tight-knit community of Holocaust survivors. He earned his A.B. degree in English from Princeton University; his M.A. in Education from Sonoma State University; and his Ph.D. in Education from Indiana University. He spent 16 years as a K-12 teacher, and then a quarter century as Professor of Education and Associate Vice President for Undergraduate Studies at Sonoma State University. He retired in 2020.
Join us for a joyful, exciting, musical, and inclusive Family Shabbat.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
What does our tradition teach us about the vulnerabilities and potencies of widowhood?
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
We wake up and celebrate the Shabbat with a morning minyan.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
Nitzanim hosts Family Experiential Learning and B. Mitzvah Academy
Join us for a joyful, exciting, musical, and inclusive Family Shabbat.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
Would your older teen or adult with a disability enjoy a way to experience the Jewish holidays in a family-friendly environment? If so, you and your teen/adult are invited to join us for eight sessions celebrating the Jewish holidays through art, music, movement, and story. We have interfaith families as well as families who are new or who are returning to Judaism.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
We wake up and celebrate the Shabbat with a morning minyan.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
Nitzanim hosts Family Experiential Learning and B. Mitzvah Academy
Join us for a joyful, exciting, musical, and inclusive Family Shabbat.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
Would your older teen or adult with a disability enjoy a way to experience the Jewish holidays in a family-friendly environment? If so, you and your teen/adult are invited to join us for eight sessions celebrating the Jewish holidays through art, music, movement, and story. We have interfaith families as well as families who are new or who are returning to Judaism.
Nitzanim hosts Family Experiential Learning and B. Mitzvah Academy
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
We welcome Sahara Cohen-Parikh as an adult in our community and in K’lal Yisrael.
Join us for a joyful, exciting, musical, and inclusive Family Shabbat.
Would your older teen or adult with a disability enjoy a way to experience the Jewish holidays in a family-friendly environment? If so, you and your teen/adult are invited to join us for eight sessions celebrating the Jewish holidays through art, music, movement, and story. We have interfaith families as well as families who are new or who are returning to Judaism.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
Join us for a relaxed Shabbat morning in nature.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
Join us as we explore the wonderful world of Jewish literature, non-fiction, and Jewish authors.
This month’s book: Fagin the Thief
by Alison Epstein
Yiddish Tish explores Yiddish literature and culture in the original. Yet miraculously no previous Yiddish knowledge is required.
We wake up and celebrate the Shabbat with a morning minyan.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
We welcome Samson as an adult in our community as he comes of age and joins K’lal yisrael.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
Join us to scuff up our new floor. In community!!
Join us for a relaxed Shabbat morning!
We welcome Mack Kelley as an adult in our community and in K’lal Yisrael.
We will welcome another beautiful Shabbat together with prayers, music, poetry and each other.
Currently our emphasis is on immigration, pro-democracy and and trans issues. You are welcome to join us in these endeavors or take the lead on issues of your choice.
Nitzanim hosts Family Experiential Learning and B. Mitzvah Academy
Join us for a joyful, exciting, musical, and inclusive Family Shabbat.
Yiddish Tish explores Yiddish literature and culture in the original. Yet miraculously no previous Yiddish knowledge is required.
Come help us take our Sukkah down for the year!
Join us for a short and lively morning service, to chant the end and the beginning of Torah, and to dance and unroll the scroll around the room.
Join us to welcome Shabbat in the Sukkah and to mark Shemini Atzeret, the festival that closes Sukkot.
The Board of Directors for Ner Shalom will meet at the shul. Members may attend if they wish to observe.
For more information, call the office 707-664-8622
Join us as we explore the wonderful world of Jewish literature, non-fiction, and Jewish authors.
This month’s book: “My Russian grandmother and her American vacuum cleaner,”
a memoir by Meir Shelev
On this night of Sukkot we celebrate our trancestor Joseph. Join us for music, dancing, games, and queer found poetry.
Join us for a preview of coming highlights of the 2026/27 B.Mitzvah Academy School Year
Would your older teen or adult with a disability enjoy a way to experience the Jewish holidays in a family-friendly environment? If so, you and your teen/adult are invited to join us for eight sessions celebrating the Jewish holidays through art, music, movement, and story. We have interfaith families as well as families who are new or who are returning to Judaism.
Celebrate the end of Shabbat with joy, music, and a talent show!
We come together in the Ner Shalom Sukkah to welcome the ancestors, offer our prayers that the coming year might harvest a better world, and to begin to pray for rain!
Come help us build our Sukkah!
Registration Required. In person and in the High Holy Day Zoom Room.
We move deeper into our practice of teshuvah, finding the path back to our hearts, repairing our relationships with self, others, and Earth.
Registration Required. In person and in the High Holy Day Zoom Room.
Led by Reb Irwin and our spiritual leadership and musical teams, this is a serious night, in which we contemplate the mark we each make on this world and on each other, and whether it is all that we would wish.
Our Community Wide Shabbat Shuvah Apple Press for the New Year
