Come join us for traditional davening and pleasant company every Saturday morning at 10:30 am. Rabbi Zach Golden leads the davening and delivers a sermon (Rabbi Hollander is away this Shabbat), followed by a kiddush lunch with bagels from our friends at Boichik Bagels.

To learn the building code or inquire further, please write to golden@dernister.org.

Read more about the experience of our heimish service here.

Get together and speak in Yiddish with your friends and neighbors here in LA. We will be gathering at 7 pm at a new location, a residence in West Hollywood. Write to golden@dernister.org to sign up.

We will gather at Der Nister's Rooftop Sukkah for Kabbalat Shabbat and dinner together. This is your chance to enjoy an evening in LA's highest Sukkah!

Please note that space is limited, and our rooftop is not accessible. Register here.

The new Jewish year is a time of reflection for where we’ve been and where we’re going as people. One dimension of this is personal: what do we regret and how do we change going forward to do better by those we love? 

The ever-changing world around us prompts other important questions:

How do we bring our ideas to reality? There is a sense of possibility around us, calling on us to act, but what constitutes action? Must we use the new tools of our time, even though they are, at best, untested? 

Join us in exploring our time-tested spiritual technology, thinking deeply before we are released into a new year and the welter of calls to action that the new year will surely bring.

Der Nister’s High Holiday services are filled with traditional song and chant and draw from our deep wells of thought and poetry. Consider it your home for renewal and community.

We can’t wait to see you at Downtown’s Jewish Center.

Register here

The new Jewish year is a time of reflection for where we’ve been and where we’re going as people. One dimension of this is personal: what do we regret and how do we change going forward to do better by those we love? 

The ever-changing world around us prompts other important questions:

How do we bring our ideas to reality? There is a sense of possibility around us, calling on us to act, but what constitutes action? Must we use the new tools of our time, even though they are, at best, untested? 

Join us in exploring our time-tested spiritual technology, thinking deeply before we are released into a new year and the welter of calls to action that the new year will surely bring.

Der Nister’s High Holiday services are filled with traditional song and chant and draw from our deep wells of thought and poetry. Consider it your home for renewal and community.

We can’t wait to see you at Downtown’s Jewish Center.

Register here

The new Jewish year is a time of reflection for where we’ve been and where we’re going as people. One dimension of this is personal: what do we regret and how do we change going forward to do better by those we love? 

The ever-changing world around us prompts other important questions:

How do we bring our ideas to reality? There is a sense of possibility around us, calling on us to act, but what constitutes action? Must we use the new tools of our time, even though they are, at best, untested? 

Join us in exploring our time-tested spiritual technology, thinking deeply before we are released into a new year and the welter of calls to action that the new year will surely bring.

Der Nister’s High Holiday services are filled with traditional song and chant and draw from our deep wells of thought and poetry. Consider it your home for renewal and community.

We can’t wait to see you at Downtown’s Jewish Center.

Register here

The new Jewish year is a time of reflection for where we’ve been and where we’re going as people. One dimension of this is personal: what do we regret and how do we change going forward to do better by those we love? 

The ever-changing world around us prompts other important questions:

How do we bring our ideas to reality? There is a sense of possibility around us, calling on us to act, but what constitutes action? Must we use the new tools of our time, even though they are, at best, untested? 

Join us in exploring our time-tested spiritual technology, thinking deeply before we are released into a new year and the welter of calls to action that the new year will surely bring.

Der Nister’s High Holiday services are filled with traditional song and chant and draw from our deep wells of thought and poetry. Consider it your home for renewal and community.

We can’t wait to see you at Downtown’s Jewish Center.

Register here

The new Jewish year is a time of reflection for where we’ve been and where we’re going as people. One dimension of this is personal: what do we regret and how do we change going forward to do better by those we love? 

The ever-changing world around us prompts other important questions:

How do we bring our ideas to reality? There is a sense of possibility around us, calling on us to act, but what constitutes action? Must we use the new tools of our time, even though they are, at best, untested? 

Join us in exploring our time-tested spiritual technology, thinking deeply before we are released into a new year and the welter of calls to action that the new year will surely bring.

Der Nister’s High Holiday services are filled with traditional song and chant and draw from our deep wells of thought and poetry. Consider it your home for renewal and community.

We can’t wait to see you at Downtown’s Jewish Center.

Register here

The new Jewish year is a time of reflection for where we’ve been and where we’re going as people. One dimension of this is personal: what do we regret and how do we change going forward to do better by those we love? 

The ever-changing world around us prompts other important questions:

How do we bring our ideas to reality? There is a sense of possibility around us, calling on us to act, but what constitutes action? Must we use the new tools of our time, even though they are, at best, untested? 

Join us in exploring our time-tested spiritual technology, thinking deeply before we are released into a new year and the welter of calls to action that the new year will surely bring.

Der Nister’s High Holiday services are filled with traditional song and chant and draw from our deep wells of thought and poetry. Consider it your home for renewal and community.

We can’t wait to see you at Downtown’s Jewish Center.

Register here

The new Jewish year is a time of reflection for where we’ve been and where we’re going as people. One dimension of this is personal: what do we regret and how do we change going forward to do better by those we love? 

The ever-changing world around us prompts other important questions:

How do we bring our ideas to reality? There is a sense of possibility around us, calling on us to act, but what constitutes action? Must we use the new tools of our time, even though they are, at best, untested? 

Join us in exploring our time-tested spiritual technology, thinking deeply before we are released into a new year and the welter of calls to action that the new year will surely bring.

Der Nister’s High Holiday services are filled with traditional song and chant and draw from our deep wells of thought and poetry. Consider it your home for renewal and community.

We can’t wait to see you at Downtown’s Jewish Center.

Register here

Come join us for traditional davening and pleasant company every Saturday morning at 10:30 am. Rabbi Zach Golden leads the davening and Rabbi Henry Hollander delivers a sermon, followed by a kiddush lunch with bagels from our friends at Boichik Bagels.

To learn the building code or inquire further, please write to golden@dernister.org.

Read more about the experience of our heimish service here.

Join Der Nister, Jewitches and Rabbi Janet Madden for a guided ritual in reclaiming the traditions of our Ashkenazi ancestors.

Ner Neshamot (ner neshomes in Yiddish) is an ancient Ashkenazi practice of creating soul candles for the Holiest Day of the year, Yom Kippur. These candles would be made by Feldmesterin, learned women whose title was cemetery measurer, as they would encircle the local cemeteries, winding threads that would become wicks.

These sacred threads connect the living to the Holy Dead who intercede on our behalf with the One on High during this time of Judgement.

Just one of many practices thrown out with the bathwater in the race to modernise Judaism, we gather to unwind, rewind, and reclaim these traditions in a new and profound way.

Tickets are available in a limited amount. Get them here.

The shmueskrayz is back! Get together and speak in Yiddish with your friends and neighbors here in LA. We will be gathering at 7 pm at a new location, a residence in West Hollywood. Write to golden@dernister.org to sign up.

Rabbi David Kasher of Hadar and our Rabbi Ye’ela Rosenfeld pit the radical philosophies of Rabbi Tzadok HaCohen, Rebbe Nachman and Rav Kook versus the heretical thought of Baruch Spinoza on the concept of Teshuvah, the repentance we do especially before the High Holidays.

We’ll have a musical break in between the learning by Der Goldener Feygl, led by Chloe Resler!

Sign up here

Come join us for traditional davening and pleasant company every Saturday morning at 10:30 am. Rabbi Zach Golden leads the davening and Rabbi Henry Hollander delivers a sermon, followed by a kiddush lunch with bagels from our friends at Boichik Bagels.

To learn the building code or inquire further, please write to golden@dernister.org.

Read more about the experience of our heimish service here.

Come join us for traditional davening and pleasant company every Saturday morning at 10:30 am. Rabbi Zach Golden leads the davening and Rabbi Henry Hollander delivers a sermon, followed by a kiddush lunch.

To learn the building code or inquire further, please write to golden@dernister.org.

Read more about the experience of our heimish service here.

The shmueskrayz is back! Get together and speak in Yiddish with your friends and neighbors here in LA. We will be gathering at 7 pm at a new location, a residence in West Hollywood. Write to golden@dernister.org to sign up.

The Cabaret is back, with the full weight of our soul in tow. We'll sing our hearts out to klezmer and baudy Yiddish song, fill our hearts with wine, enjoy wonderfully weird acts and take in the atmosphere and the company of friends. Join us at Der Nister with our merry crew, Shiri and the Shiribims, host Tirosh Schneider and many more, to celebrate the beginning of the month of Elul.

Doors open at 7 pm, show starts at 7:30 pm. Get tickets here.

Come join us for traditional davening and pleasant company every Saturday morning at 10:30 am. Rabbi Zach Golden leads the davening and Rabbi Henry Hollander delivers a sermon, followed by a kiddush lunch.

To learn the building code or inquire further, please write to golden@dernister.org.

Read more about the experience of our heimish service here.

Come join us for traditional davening and pleasant company every Saturday morning at 10:30 am. Rabbi Zach Golden leads the davening and Rabbi Henry Hollander delivers a sermon, followed by a kiddush lunch.

To learn the building code or inquire further, please write to golden@dernister.org.

Read more about the experience of our heimish service here.

Khazones, the Ashkenazi Jewish cantorial art — a blend of classical opera and traditional folk prayer, is a special part of Jewish heritage and a key ingredient to a Jewish future filled with transcendent art, culture and spirituality. Khazones Underground, a new record label formed by Dr. Jeremiah Lockwood and Cantor Judith Berkson, is the key driver of the movement to revive this powerful music for the 21st century, which aims to bring to life old recordings from the masters and new ones from the singers of today, many of them pushed to the sidelines in modern synagogue life.

We at Der Nister are very proud to present Cantor Berkson in concert as a benefit for the Khazones Underground. Cantor Berkson is a mezzo-soprano who has collaborated on Yiddish and cantorial music with names no less than Frank London and Theodore Bikel. In addition, Khazones Underground is holding a kumzits, a musical gathering, for area singers who want to share their khazones with each other before the concert.

Come Sunday, August 10th (postponed from June) at 5 pm for the kumzits, and 6 pm for the concert, for a Jewish musical experience that will burrow into your soul. Get tickets here.

Come join us for traditional davening and pleasant company every Saturday morning at 10:30 am. Rabbi Zach Golden leads the davening and Rabbi Henry Hollander delivers a sermon, followed by a kiddush lunch.

To learn the building code or inquire further, please write to golden@dernister.org.

Read more about the experience of our heimish service here.

Join CLUE and their Jewish and immigrant partners for our 3rd annual Tisha b'Av gathering, in Downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, August 3!

This Tisha b'Av, we mourn the destruction perpetrated on our diverse communities by the detention and deportation machine. As Jews and allies, we know that if they come for one of us, they come for us all. Alongside our immigrant neighbors, we will pray with our hearts, lips, and feet in the heart of Los Angeles, accentuating the plight of migrants and refugees while strengthening our solidarity, even as our holy city is besieged by our own government falsely in the name of our safety. Together, we will work to build collective sanctuary!

RSVP at bit.ly/tishabavla

Co-sponsored by @bendthearc, the Boyle Heights Chavurah, @dernisterlosangeles, @ifnotnowla, @weareikar , @jewishpartnership, @kirvapractice, @never_again_action, @picounionproject and @shtibl - more to come!

Not in SoCal? Use this toolkit that they partnered with @Never Again Action to create, to organize an immigration justice Tisha b'Av action wherever you are! bit.ly/TishaBav25-Toolkit

Come join us for traditional davening and pleasant company every Saturday morning at 10:30 am. Rabbi Zach Golden leads the davening and Rabbi Henry Hollander delivers a sermon, followed by a kiddush lunch.

To learn the building code or inquire further, please write to golden@dernister.org.

Read more about the experience of our heimish service here.

Come join us for traditional davening and pleasant company every Saturday morning at 10:30 am. Rabbi Zach Golden leads the davening and Rabbi Henry Hollander delivers a sermon, followed by a kiddush lunch.

To learn the building code or inquire further, please write to golden@dernister.org.

Read more about the experience of our heimish service here.

Philosophy Kabbalat Shabbat is back, Friday, June 25th at 6:30 PM. Rabbi Rosenfeld leads us in discussion on a selected philosopher, Rabbi Golden sings Kabbalat Shabbat and the evening service, and we'll have a catered meal (featuring delicious Moroccan Fish!) through the support of OneTable from Holy Grill. Sign up here.

The Der Nister summer tradition is back, Sunday July 20 beginning at 6 pm. We'll have kosher meat and vegetarian alternatives — contact Rabbi Hollander about coming and contributing to the community gathering.

Come join us for traditional davening and pleasant company every Saturday morning at 10:30 am. Rabbi Zach Golden leads the davening and Rabbi Henry Hollander delivers a sermon, followed by a kiddush lunch.

To learn the building code or inquire further, please write to golden@dernister.org.

Read more about the experience of our heimish service here.

Step into the shadows of prewar Jewish Warsaw, where mysticism, modernity, and the supernatural collided.

Join us for an evening with Professor Samuel Glauber, a leading scholar of Jewish mysticism and modern Polish-Jewish history, as he explores a little-known world where séances, spirit possession, and folklore were not just entertainment — they were windows into deeper anxieties, spiritual resistance, and cultural identity.

From terrifying dybbuk possessions to real-life mediums channeling lost souls, and the surprising role of demonology in Jewish urban life, Professor Glauber will guide us through a time when belief in the otherworldly offered both psychological refuge and political subversion.

Discover how Jewish mysticism took on new meanings in an era of social upheaval, migration, and emerging secularism, all set against the backdrop of one of pre-War Europe’s most vibrant Jewish cities.

This event is put on by Kultur Mercado, and co-sponsored by Der Nister and the Southern California Arbeter Ring Educational Center.

This is part of our running Yiddish witchcraft, mysticism, and the occult series.

Register here

Moderated by Allison Josephs, with panelists Cindy Kaplan, Halle Stanford, and Jeremy Powell. Location details will be provided after registration. Co-sponsored by JITC Hollywood Bureau and JEN-LA.

Register here