Congregation Emanu-El

Rabbi Ryan Bauer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Service - May 27, 2022.

Rabbi Jonathan Singer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Service - May 20, 2022.

Rabbi Sydney Mintz joins in conversation with HIAS Community Engagement Director, Joe Goldman at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - May 13, 2022.

Israeli musician Shimon Smith speaks at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Services - May 6, 2022.

Rabbi Jason Rodich delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Services - Aprill 29, 2022.

Rabbi Beth Singer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - April 22, 2022.

Rabbi Sydney Mintz delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Services - April 8, 2022.

Joy Sisisky speaks at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Services - April 1, 2022.

Cantor Marsha Attie, Rabbi Beth Singer, Rabbi Sydney Mintz and Cantor Roslyn Barak discuss the women who have inspired their work at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Services - March 25, 2022.

Rabbi Sydney Mintz delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Services - March 18, 2022.

Rabbi Jason Rodich delivers a poetic sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Services - March 11, 2022. For a list of ways that you can help people affected by the war against Ukraine, visit emanuelsf.org/ukraine-crisis/

Rabbi Ryan Bauer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Services - March 4, 2022. For a list of ways that you can help people affected by the war against Ukraine, visit emanuelsf.org/ukraine-crisis/

Rabbi Jonathan Singer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Services - February 25, 2022. For a list of ways that you can help people affected by the war against Ukraine, visit emanuelsf.org/ukraine-crisis/

Rabbi Beth Singer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Services - February 18, 2022.

Rabbi Sydney Mintz delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Services - February 11, 2022.

Rabbi Ryan Bauer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Services - February 4, 2022.

Rabbi Jonathan Singer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Services - January 28, 2022.

"We stand in allyship and solidarity with the children of Abraham, ever reminded that when one member of the community suffers, all suffer." Michael Pappas, Executive Director of the San Francisco Interfaith Council gives a statement at Emanu-El's Shabbat Services - January 21, 2022.

Rabbi Beth Singer delivers a sermon at Third Baptist Church's Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday Morning Service, part of our Annual MLK Weekend Pulpit Exchange - January 16, 2022. Book mentioned in sermon: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Rabbi Jason Rodich delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Services - January 21, 2022.

Reverend Amos Brown from Third Baptist Church delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's MLK Commemoration Shabbat Service, part of our Annual MLK Weekend Pulpit Exchange - January 14, 2022. Book mentioned in sermon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.

"We can’t waste time wanting to dance but not doing it. Feeling afraid. Waiting for the next opportunity. Don’t be a wallflower, be that spark, the one that starts the dance floor before anyone else even has the chance." Manny Yekutiel speaks at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Services - January 7, 2022.

Rabbi Jonathan Singer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's New Year's Eve Shabbat Service - December 31, 2021.

Rabbi Beth Singer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's Kabbalat Shabbat Eve Service - December 24, 2021.

Rabbi Ryan Bauer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's Shabbat Service - December 17, 2021.

Rabbi Sydney Mintz delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - December 10, 2021.

Cantor Marsha Attie - the Candle Blessing for Erev Shabbat Friday night services

Laney Segal delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's Teen-Led Chanukah Shabbat Service - December 3, 2021.

Rabbi Jason Rodich and Rabbi Sydney Mintz deliver a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - November 26, 2021.

Rabbi Ryan Bauer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - November 19, 2021.

Rabbi Beth Singer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - November 12, 2021.

Rabbi Sarah Joselow Parris delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - October 29, 2021.

Rabbi Ryan Bauer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - October 22, 2021.

Rabbi Jonathan Singer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - October 15, 2021.

Rabbi Sydney Mintz delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - October 8, 2021.

Rabbi Jason Rodich delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - October 1, 2021.

Rabbi Jonathan Singer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Sukkot Festival Service - September 24, 2021.

Listen to Naomi Tucker, Founder and Executive Director of Shalom Bayit speak on domestic violence in the Jewish community.

Listen to Congregation Emanu-El's 2021/5782 Kol Nidre sermon from Rabbi Ryan Bauer.

Rabbi Lawrence Kushner delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - September 10, 2021.

Listen to Congregation Emanu-El's 2021/5782 Rosh HaShanah Day sermon from Rabbi Sydney Mintz.

"We change and reform and grow because we remain in search of something. What is that something?" Listen to the 2nd Day Rosh HaShanah sermon from Rabbinic intern, Leo Fuchs.

"New Year, Same Me. Just Cooler." Hear the sermon from our teen-led Rosh HaShanah service.

Rabbi Stephen Pearce speaks on the many ways that Jews self-define and practice (or do not practice) Judaism in modern times.

Listen to Congregation Emanu-El's 2021/5782 Erev Rosh HaShanah sermon from Rabbi Jonathan Singer.

"Let us have empathy and understanding, let us be gracious to those seeking refuge."

Rabbi Ryan Bauer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - August 20, 2021.

Rabbi Beth Singer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - August 13, 2021.

Rabbi Sydney Mintz delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - August 6, 2021.

"Let us keep the lights of goodness, hope, faith, truth, ethics, burning through the days and nights to come. We must not fall into the trap of reacting from fear."

"If you think that the denigration of another human is an okay thing to sacrifice because you're waving a flag to protect land, you're no longer in the Jewish story."

Rabbi Rodich reflects on the words of Levinas, "To encounter the face of another human being is, in a way, to get a glimpse of the divine and to be commanded to care for and respond to that face — especially the face of another that suffers."

What counting days really means in our time is that it is up to us to make our days count.

Rabbi Ryan Bauer shares his thoughts on the murder conviction of Derek Chauvin.

"People are the thing about a country that is precisely beautiful and lovable and worthy of celebrating."

Rabbi Jonathan Singer explains how themes from the Torah can help us learn from the past and build a better future for Jewish culture in Israel.

Rabbi Ryan Bauer reflects on a trip he took to Egypt and what he realized about Jewish culture while there.

"Pesach is our holiday of liberation, but we cannot be fully liberated until we have fought for the freedom of those who are still enslaved."

Shabbat sermon from March 19, 2021.

Shabbat sermon from March 12, 2021. Led by Rabbi Ryan Bauer with special guest Mark Hetfield, president/CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS).

"We let ourselves forget that we remain the targets of other people’s hate." For those wishing to gain some context on this issue, below is a link to an OpEd written by JCRC Director Tyler Gregory. In addition, the following resources provide important insights into and support for JCRC’s work: https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/332106/a-jewish-community-playbook-on-ethnic-studies/ And a Hartman podcast interview: https://www.hartman.org.il/identity-crisis-44-how-california-jews-grappled-with-a-new-curriculum/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/identity-crisis/id1500168597?i=1000508309651 Rabbi Beth also encourages each of you to register on the JCRC website for a Forum this Wednesday on this issue: https://jcrc.org/news-events/events/public-briefing-on-ethnic-studies

This special service honors the 10th anniversary of Debbie Friedman's yahrzeit and features Rabbi Sarah Joselow Parris and Cantor Arik Luck.

Rabbi Ryan Bauer delivers the January 22 Shabbat sermon.

Reverend Amos Brown of Third Baptist Church in San Francisco delivers the Martin Luther King Jr. sermon in collaboration with Congregation Emanu-El and its MLK Commemoration services.

Rabbi Ryan Bauer delivers the sermon from the January 8, 2021 Shabbat service.

"And yet as we get ready to be vaccinated and embrace that which we have so missed, may we consider not just rejoicing but striving to live with a renewed awareness of the preciousness of what we have and what we share with other human beings-seeing the holy in each other, being more gracious and seeking shlemut - peace and a sense of wholeness. "

“You can read the Torah portion a hundred times and hardly notice that it opens with a line of people, including Israelites, at the food bank, all experiencing food insecurity.” Sermon by Rabbi Beth Sermon on December 25, 2021.

Rabbi Jonathan Singer delivers a sermon at Emanu-El's One Shabbat service - December 11, 2020

Rabbi Sarah Joselow Parris delivers a sermon at Emanu-El's One Shabbat service on November 20, 2020 "Although there is much around us that is not how we would like it to be this Thanksgiving, I believe that it is especially important this year to ground ourselves in sincere gratitude, and place an extra special emphasis on what Thanksgiving is about at its core."

Rabbi Ryan Bauer delivers a sermon at Congregation Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - November 13, 2020

Rabbi Beth Singer delivers a sermon at Emanu-El's One Shabbat service, November 6, 2020. Quote: “You may be a Republican or you may be a Democrat or neither of those, but our tradition teaches that what unites us is that each of us, created by God, can be a person of faith.”

Rabbi Ryan Bauer Post-Election Meditation by Congregation Emanu-El

Rabbi Jonathan Singer delivers a sermon at Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - October 30, 2020

Rabbi Ryan Bauer delivers a sermon at Emanu-El's One Shabbat service, October 23, 2020

Rabbi Sydney Mintz delivers a sermon at Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service, October 9, 2020.

Rabbi Sydney Mintz delivers a sermon at Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service. September 11, 2020.

Rabbi Ryan Bauer delivers a sermon, August 28, 2020

Rabbi Jason Rodich delivers a sermon at Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - October 2, 2020

Rabbi Lawrence Kushner delivers a sermon on the subject of "Our Town." - September 25, 2020

2020.09.28 - Rabbi Sarah Parris by Congregation Emanu-El

2020.09.28 - Rabbi Beth Singer by Congregation Emanu-El

2020.09.28 - Rabbi Jonathan Singer by Congregation Emanu-El

2020.09.27 - Rabbi Ryan Bauer by Congregation Emanu-El

2020.09.20 - Rabbi Ryan Bauer by Congregation Emanu-El

2020.09.19 - Rabbi Jason Rodich by Congregation Emanu-El

2020.09.18 - Rabbi Sydney Mintz by Congregation Emanu-El

Your Own Personal Tashlich Moment - Pikuach nefesh, preservation of life, is the highest mitzvah. In order to keep everyone safe, we are asking that you observe Tashlich in safe, family pods and refrain from large gatherings. We offer a Soundcloud Tashlich service for you to use anytime during the 10 Days of Awe, at any body of water. Please do not congregate at Baker Beach on Rosh HaShanah Day.

Rabbi Sarah Parris delivers a sermon at Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service - August 7, 2020 "With no end to shelter in place in sight and statistics all around us indicating that we will be living this way well into the foreseeable future, we need to find new ways to break through this loneliness and isolation and seek out the sense of belonging that we need and crave."

Rabbi Jason Rodich delivers a sermon at Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service 2020.07.31 "We say what is true, even if what is true is painful. We lament and thereby invite—or even demand—God’s attention on our collective suffering, and we remind ourselves of what we want our future to be like."

Rabbinic Intern, Leo Fuchs delivers a sermon at Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service. 07.24.2020 "We, too, have unresolved, unconscious elements in our lives that seem to stop us from crossing over to a better place."

Rabbi Sarah Joselow Parris delivers a sermon at Emanu-El's One Shabbat service, July 17, 2020 "It is only through mutual learning, reflecting, and lifting each other up that we can truly build a more just society together."

Rabbi Sydney Mintz delivers a sermon at Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service, July 10, 2020 Full Title: Sources of Comfort and Hope though Covid19: Zelophechad's Daughters, Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman and Carl Reiner

Rabbi Jonathan Singer delivers a sermon at Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service on 4th of July weekend - 2020.07.03 "Our problems arise when we act out of fear - pachad - as Balak did, instead of being guided by a sense of awe or radical amazement as Herschel taught - realizing we exist surrounded by God’s presence. And when we do not guarantee freedom from fear of harm out of fears that are irrational or hateful we know we are not the America we need to be nor the Jews we need to be."

Rabbi Ryan Bauer delivers a sermon 2020.06.19 at Emanu-El-s One Shabbat service

Rabbi Carla Fenves delivers a sermon at Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service Jun 12, 2020

"We may not be guilty but we are responsible." Rabbinical intern Leo Fuchs delivers a sermon to Congregation Emanu-El; June 5, 2020 at the One Shabbat Service via Zoom.

Rabbi Jonathan Singer delivers a sermon via zoom at Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service 2020.05.30

Rabbi Jason Rodich delivers a sermon via Zoom at Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service, May 23, 2020

Rabbi Carla Fenves delivers a sermon via Zoom for Emanu-El's One Shabbat Service 2020.05.16