Soul Spark Tonight | Jewish Meditation 9/21 | Memory Care Kol Nidre 9/26 | Kever Avot Services 9/28 | Shabbat Shalom and Shanah Tovah!
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The Jewish New Year of 5786 is coming soon. Do you know where you will be spending the holidays? Learn how to connect with JCoOC in person or online for a meaningful New Year experience.
🕯️While tickets are being sold through TBESOC this year,JCoOC is still creating its own Yizkor memorial slide-show and booklet. Please visit our Yizkor page to update your previous year’s information or have us create a new slide for your family.🕯️
Jewels of Elul 5786: Still, I Believe Click here to receive daily words of wisdom to help us prepare for the upcoming season of repentance and renewal
Advanced Learning Institute:Breakthrough Theologies: Four Women in Contemporary Jewish Thought by Women Scholarswith Leah Hochman, Ph.D.|Mondays, September 15, 22, 29 and October 6at 9:30am PT |Register here
No Tuesday, September 23rd online bereavement support group in observance of Rosh Hashanah. Please join us for our Open Group on Thursday, September 25
Memory Care Kol Nidre at Heritage Pointe | Friday, September 26 at 10:00am | 27356 Bellogente in Mission Viejo | RSVP here
Kever Avot Service 5786 at Harbor Lawn - Mount Olive Memorial Park and Mortuary | Sunday, September 28th, 2025 at 10:30am | 1625 Gisler Avenue in Costa Mesa
Bringing Heaven Down To Earth: Integrating High Holy Day Wisdom into Everyday Life | Sunday, November 16, 9:30-11:30am | Merage JCC - 1 Federation Way in Irvine
UPCOMING JCoOC PROGRAMS
Earthrise Climate Action Festival: WUICAN’s culminating interfaith fall festival dedicated to earth stewardship, restoration, justice and healing | Saturday, October 11 from 11- 4pm | Harbor Christian Church - 2401 Irvine Ave in Newport Beach
CommUNITY Shabbat - Celebrating OC's Cultural Diversity in the JCC Community Sukkah | Friday, October 10, 5-7pm | Merage JCC | Register here
The Sacred Art of Listening with author Kay Lindahl | Sunday, October 26 from 3-5pm | Norman P. Murray Community Center - 24732 Veteran's Way in Mission Viejo
Save the Date for OC Mega Challah Bake | Thursday, November 13 | Registration will open soon
Soul Spark Shabbat Evening Service Rabbi K’vod Wieder, Mikey Pauker and Friends A one-of-a-kind service featuring meditation and wisdom to ignite the soul and help us prepare for the New Year. TBESOC Chapel - 2A Liberty, Aliso Viejo
Saturday, September 20 at 2pm PT TWELVE STEPS AND TORAH JCoOC partners with Our Jewish Recovery (OJR) every Shabbat afternoon for Torah study informed by the wisdom of Twelve Step recovery. Join us on Zoom. For more information and to be added to the Twelve Steps & Torah email list, click here For a full menu of OJR programs and meetings click here
Sunday, September 21 at 9:30am SUNDAYS IN SILENCE AND SPIRIT Monthly Jewish Meditation with Rabbi K'vod Wieder at the Merage JCC. This program is hosted by JCoOC's OC Jewish Meditation and Spirituality Collective. Open to all. Participants new to meditation are welcome. Pre-registration is requested. Register here
Sunday through Thursday at 6:00pm OC EGAL NIGHTLY MINYAN If you are looking for a place to say Mourner's Kaddish, observe a yahrzeit, or participate in an evening minyan, OC Egal meets online five nights a week.Click here to receive the private Zoom link. All are welcome.
If you missed our first class on Nehamah Leibowitz, you may request a recording of that lecture. This week will feature the groundbreaking work of Judith Plaskow.
🕯️While tickets are being sold through TBESOC this year,JCoOC is still creating its own Yizkor memorial slide-show and booklet. Please visit our Yizkor page to update your previous year’s information or have us create a new slide for your family.🕯️
Friday, September 26 at 10am
Special Kol Nidre Service for those in Memory Care and their families
Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, join Momentum Boost and Israel's Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism for a powerful community-wide commemorative webinar marking two painful years since October 7.
This program features Montana Tucker sharing a moving excerpt from her new documentary, The Children of October 7, and Adrienne Gold Davis speaking on resilience, remembrance, and hope.
This is a special opportunity for Jews around the world to come together. May the memories of all who died so tragically inspire us to live our most sacred Jewish values.
Heroes Commemoration Concert promises to be a memorable evening honoring those who lost their lives on October 7 while saving others. Each story exemplifies a unique aspect of Jewish heroism.
A multimedia stage experience blending live music, and video with impactful documentary scenes, complemented by state-of-the-art video artwork, visual effects, and lighting. We hope you can join us!
CommUNITY Shabbat Friday, October 10, 5-7pm Celebrating Orange County's Cultural Diversity People of all faith traditions are welcome to join
We will share the diversity of harvest traditions and welcome in Shabbat with blessings, a Kosher dinner, crafts and fun activities for kids. Spread the word and bring a friend!
The Interfaith Councils of Greater South Orange County and Laguna Beach invite the community to attend
The Sacred Art of Listening with renown author Kay Lindahl
Sunday, October 26 from 3-5pm
Norman P. Murray Community Center
24732 Veteran's Way in Mission Viejo
VIRTUAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
Enrich your summer with Jewish learning Visit the websites below to access current and past course and special program schedules:
AJU Whizin Center for Open Learning: AJU online learning offers classes for adults seeking to build Jewish skills and knowledge and hosts lectures by internationally acclaimed scholars, artists, authors and geo-political experts. Something for everyone!
Jewish Theological Seminary of America | Podcast | Torah Commentary | Lifelong Learning JTS offers online classes that create live, interactive opportunities for study with top-caliber scholars. Encounter compelling Jewish scholarship that brings the texts and wisdom of our tradition to bear on contemporary dilemmas. Courses delve deeply into specific areas of Jewish text, history, philosophy, religion, arts, and literature.
HUC Connect: HUC Connect invites you to join participants from 55 countries to discover something new about Judaism and about yourself through webinars, courses and podcasts.
Shalom Hartman Institute: Online courses, podcasts and programs that courageously address some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Orange County Community Scholars Program: A colorful array of podcasts and videos of current and past lectures spanning 2001-2025. Jewish scholarship at its finest.
The Jewish Collaborative of Orange County is a creative, collaborative, and compassionate community mosaic dedicated to innovating and supporting local and national programming that enriches the landscape of Jewish life and encouraging individuals and families to connect their passions and purpose with Judaism.
November 10,17,24 and December 1
Mondays - 9:30 am PT | 12:30 pm ET Register here
When you think about biblical women, what images and words come to mind? Temptress? Victim? Women subjugated by husbands or fathers? Close textual reading reveals that these stereotypes are incongruous with the actual lived experiences of female characters in TaNaKh. In this course we will gain some new insights into the extraordinary women that populate the pages of our Holy Scriptures.
Dror Israel: Educating for Hope and Healing in Times of War
Wednesday, November 12 at 7:00pm
Sivan Bamberger, International Development Director for Dror Israel
Hosted at a private home in Orange RSVP HERE
Bringing Heaven Down To Earth: Integrating High Holy Day Wisdom into Everyday Life
Grounded in the Jewish prophetic value of Pikuach Nefesh, JQ offers free virtual monthly and drop-in support groups for LGBTQ+ Jews and allies. Learn more
ExploringJudaism.org is about embracing the beauty and complexity of Judaism and our personal search for meaning and learning. No matter who you are or your experience in Judaism there is something to learn and explore.
JCoOC is an exempt organization in accordance with Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code EIN: 36-4844121
