Oct 16th, 2025

ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY

THE TRUE STORY OF TAMARA DE LEMPICKA & THE ART OF SURVIVAL

As we build our schedule for next year, we'd like to hear from you:

(New newsletter coming soon!)

SING IN SHABBAT 
With Leah Gerber

FRI, OCT 17 • 6, 7PM

B'nai Israel & Online (Zoom)

6 PM Musical Service 

7 PM Vegetarian Potluck Dinner

OUT AND ABOUT IN SONOMA COUNTY THIS WEEKEND? 

Windsor

Studio #88, Jamie Blumenthal


Santa Rosa

 Studio # 106, Marsha Connell


Forestville

Studio #75, Gerald Huth


Sebastopol

Studio #47, Amy Smith

Oakmont:


#143 Cathy Hazel

#144 Bill Monaghan

#145 Peter Krohn


#146 Wendy Franklin

#147 David Harris

TORAH LISHMAH 
8th- 12 Grade

Monthly, beginning:
 
SUN, OCT 19 • 10:00 - 11:30 AM

Santa Rosa, or Cotati Coffee Shop

Torah Lishmah means “learning for its own sake.”

The Torah Lishmah class is an opportunity for young people past B.Mitzvah age to continue their Jewish learning on their own terms. Every month students will meet Reb Irwin at a convenient café. (Coffee is on him.) Together we will explore Jewish texts, history, mythology, philosophy – whatever the class decides they’d like to dive deeper into. This is learning for its own sake – not B.Mitzvah prep, not readying for a test. Learning for the pleasure and enrichment that only learning can provide.

Torah Lishmah will meets once per month at Ner Shalom or a nearby coffee shop, Oct - April.

Ner Shalom Members: $450 
Non-Members: $550

BIG EASY JAZZ BAND CONCERT

SUN, OCT 19 • 3 PM

Beth Ami, Santa Rosa

We are hosting the 17 piece Big Easy Jazz Band Saturday afternoon October 19. Playing weekly in Petaluma, they have played together for 10 years and perform a range of contemporary and classic jazz.

Contact our office

with RSVPs for guests

and non-members

BethAmiSR.org

 707-360-3000 office@bethamisr.org

NEW CLASS ON NEVI'IM (PROPHETS) STARTING

MON, OCT 20 • 6 PM
Beth Ami, Santa Rosa

Join us for our new Nevi’im (Prophets) class where Rabbi Koas will lead us in looking at the books of the Prophets. Following Simchat Torah’s celebration of completing this past year’s annual Torah reading cycle, we will be picking up where Deuteronomy leaves off by diving into the Book of Joshua.

As we join the generation that crosses the Jordan to enter the Promised Land under the leadership of Joshua, the children of Israel will encounter a new set of trials, tribulations, and miracles during the conquest of Canaan. This class will be an ongoing endeavor taking place every month on the third Monday at 6:00 as we work our way through the Prophets. Make sure to bring snacks and an appetite for learning more about the history of our people.

JUDA

Judaism Through the Arts

MONDAYS • 3:30 - 5 PM

Chabad of Petaluma

Registration for 2025-26 Now Open

KABBALAT SHABBAT

FRI, OCT 24 • 5:30 PM - 9PM 
Sacred Redwood Grove
West Sonoma County 


Join us in the Grove as we welcome Shabbat together.

A CONVERSATION 
WITH GERSHOM GORENBERG
Israeli Author & Journalist

SUN, NOV 9 • 11 • 2 - 4:30 PM

Shomrei Torah

Gershom Gorenberg is an American-born Israeli journalist and the author of four critically acclaimed books on Israel's modern history, in which he explores and explains the vexing religious and political conflicts that challenge Israel. He co-authored Shalom Friend, a biography of Yitzhak Rabin. Gorenberg is a contributing writer for The Atlantic. His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He has contributed in Hebrew to Haaretz and Maariv. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife, journalist and playwright Myra Noveck.

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