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Please join us for our joyous, musical, and meaningful services for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. As always, our in-person family services are open to those who are not yet members of Or Shalom. We are making our online services available to all who are interested. In lieu of tickets, your donation is appreciated.

Family Services

Or Shalom invites families with children to our family services, in-person and outdoor in the courtyard of the First Unitarian Universalist Center at 1187 Franklin St, San Francisco. Services are free to all, but registration by September 3 is required to attend. You can register here.

We invite all families, regardless of membership status, to attend our family services.

Kol Nidre Service - 9/15/21 at 5pm

Yom Kippur Morning Service - 9/16/21 at 9am

Main Services

Our main services will be available through YouTube Live and will feature professional, multi-camera views. Rabbi Katie, Alison, our Music Ensemble, and those with honorary roles will be on-site, leading services together.

Kol Nidre Service - 9/15/21 at 7pm

Yom Kippur Morning Service 9/16/21 at 10:30am

Yizkor & Ne'ilah Service - 9/16/21 at 6:30pm

Other Services

Rosh Hashanah Day 2 at Ocean Beach at Taraval -9/8/21 at 4pm. This one-hour service is centered around 100 blasts of the shofar, several rounds of meditation, and the tashlich ritual. Please register to attend.

Healing Service via Zoom - 9/10/21 at 6pm. After Shabbat blessings, Rabbi Katie will recite many blessings of healing for body, mind, and soul for those in need. Zoom link + passcode SHALOM

Embodied Spiritual Practice via Zoom - Saturday, 9/11/21 at 10am, During this two-hour online workshop, explore our theme, Turning & Returning, through movement, meditation, prayer, and poetry with Gail Gurewitz and Rabbi Katie. For all levels and abilities. Register here for link.

Sukkot - Join us in person for Sukkot, Friday, September 24 at 5pm at Pine Lake in Stern Grove. Please register to attend.

Simchat Torah - Or Shalom and Ner Tamid will offer a Simchat Torah service via Zoom. More details to follow.

Since we will not be conducting a food drive this holiday season, please consider a donation to Mazon, A Jewish Response to Hunger.

Thu, September 23 2021
17 Tishrei 5782