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 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.

Enjoy Kabbalat Shabbat at Der Nister! Rabbi Zach Golden leads the musical services and Rabbi Ye'ela Rosenfeld will teach us philosophical ideas related to the parshah. Then we eat and the discussion flows. We'll have a fantastic meal from Holy Grill — fish, chicken, rice, veggie options and drinks.

Get tickets here

Film screening for unique documentary on Judeo-Brazilian syncretism. Saravá Shalom (Synagogue of Ancestral Commitments) is a poetic documentary about dialogue between Afro-Brazilian, Indigenous and Jewish mystical traditions.

Filmmaker Alex Minkin will speak with professor Andrea Kogan.

Alex Minkin is a visual anthropologist and cultural activist, focusing his research on the intersections between Jewish and Brazilian cultures. Alex studied at the Archives Project of the Jewish Theological Seminary in Moscow and graduated from the James Striar School of General Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University.

This event, at Bunche Hall at UCLA, is cosponsored by Der Nister

Watch the trailer here.

Film screening and reception for unique documentary on Judeo-Brazilian syncretism. Saravá Shalom (Synagogue of Ancestral Commitments) is a poetic documentary about dialogue between Afro-Brazilian, Indigenous and Jewish mystical traditions.

Filmmaker Alex Minkin will speak with us after the screening along with UCLA professor Bryan Pitts, and will join us for a reception.

Alex Minkin is a visual anthropologist and cultural activist, focusing his research on the intersections between Jewish and Brazilian cultures. Alex studied at the Archives Project of the Jewish Theological Seminary in Moscow and graduated from the James Striar School of General Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University.

Bryan Pitts is a historian of 20th century Brazil. His is the author of Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil’s Military Dictatorship. He has also conducted research on the role of religion in shaping ethnic identity in the Syrian-Lebanese community in São Paulo.

Watch the trailer here.

This event is cosponsored by Kultur Mercado, Jewtina y co, and the UCLA Center for Brazil Studies.

Get tickets here. Sunday, October 18, 7 PM.

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.

Chat with friends in Yiddish at the monthly Shmueskrayz (Conversation Group) in West Hollywood, every third Thursday. Write to Rabbi Golden for the location at golden@dernister.org.

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.

Start the morning at Temple Beth Israel at 9am with coffee and Belle’s Bagels, then kids ages TK–5th grade can join our religious school staff for flag making while adults are in the service.

At 10:15am, we’ll give our youngest children their first Torah scrolls, followed by hakafot and dancing!

Kids will head out for Israeli dancing during the Torah service and return to witness the moment we reach the end of the Torah and begin reading it all over again!

We’ll wrap up with a little nosh, libations for the adults, and more dancing!

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. We will be celebrating the holiday of Shemini Atzeret in addition to Shabbat, which includes a special prayer for rain and the potential for Yizkor if we have a minyan.

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

Read more about the experience of our heimish service here.

Hoshana Rabbah is the seventh and last day of Sukkot, a final extension of the High Holy Days. We gather for Hoshanot and seven hakafot with our lulav and etrog, followed by the striking of the willow branches (aravot).

Tradition teaches that the judgment for the coming year is finalized on Hoshana Rabbah. It is a final prayer for rain, blessing, and a good year ahead.

May your prayers be answered! Chag sameach!

Services at Temple Beth Israel of Highland Park are led by Rabbi/Cantorial Soloist Zach Golden with Rabbi Henry Hollander of Der Nister, and Rabbi David Kasher of TBI (Hoshanot).

Is Kohelet a Biblical version of Stoic philosophy? Or does it maintain some of the hopeful, redemptive spirit of the Hebrew Prophets? Does the scroll preach resignation, or surrender - and what would be the difference? Come join us in the Sukkah at Der Nister for questions like these as we grapple with the most philosophical book in Tanakh, led by two rabbis who love philosophy and Tanakh, Ye'ela Rosenfeld, of Der Nister, and David Kasher of Hadar West.

Come join us for the first of five gatherings around the five megilot run by Hadar West and Der Nister.

Register here

Sukkot asks us to dwell somewhere fragile and open - a structure with a roof you can see the stars through. Sukkat Shlomecha takes that invitation inward: a half-day retreat of Jewish meditation, chant (niggun), and contemplative prayer, held with tea as a quiet thread of hospitality throughout.

Drawing on the custom of Ushpizin (the symbolic ancestors welcomed into the sukkah as guests) we'll explore what it means to make space for what visits us: memory, longing, presence, uncertainty. No experience with meditation or Hebrew prayer required. Come sit in the shelter of the peace we will co-create for a few hours.

Register here

This retreat is cosponsored by the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and Der Nister.

Der Nister’s partnership with our friends at Temple Beth Israel of Highland Park continues, with Sukkot Day 2 services, Hoshanah Rabbah services led by Rabbi Golden, and Simchat Torah featuring the students from TBI’s religious school. Sukkot Day 2 is Sunday, September 27 at 10 AM, Hoshanah Rabbah is Friday, October 2nd at 8 AM, and Simchat Torah is Sunday, October 4th beginning at 9:30 AM. Let us know if you can make it.

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 build the Der Nister Sukkah! The highest Sukkah in Los Angeles gets built on our rooftop. From the wood frame, to getting the schach and decorations from the Flower District, it will be a good time. Come join us from 2 PM to sunset on Thursday, September 24. Let us know here.

No place is beyond the possibility of return, of teshuvah. Even from places that feel distant, broken, or devoid of holiness, the path back remains open—if only we are willing to seek. 

Our deepest freedom is the freedom to seek. Our greatest refuge is found in choosing.

These High Holidays, join Der Nister on a journey of teshuvah, of dialogue with the Divine and the sacred act of choosing.

Together, with your neighbors and friends Downtown, we will celebrate with traditional High Holiday services rooted in classic melodies, profound and heartfelt teachings, and poetry in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Whether you are returning after many years or coming for the first time, there is a place for you in this journey.

Register here

No place is beyond the possibility of return, of teshuvah. Even from places that feel distant, broken, or devoid of holiness, the path back remains open—if only we are willing to seek. 

Our deepest freedom is the freedom to seek. Our greatest refuge is found in choosing.

These High Holidays, join Der Nister on a journey of teshuvah, of dialogue with the Divine and the sacred act of choosing.

Together, with your neighbors and friends Downtown, we will celebrate with traditional High Holiday services rooted in classic melodies, profound and heartfelt teachings, and poetry in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Whether you are returning after many years or coming for the first time, there is a place for you in this journey.

Register here

No place is beyond the possibility of return, of teshuvah. Even from places that feel distant, broken, or devoid of holiness, the path back remains open—if only we are willing to seek. 

Our deepest freedom is the freedom to seek. Our greatest refuge is found in choosing.

These High Holidays, join Der Nister on a journey of teshuvah, of dialogue with the Divine and the sacred act of choosing.

Together, with your neighbors and friends Downtown, we will celebrate with traditional High Holiday services rooted in classic melodies, profound and heartfelt teachings, and poetry in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Whether you are returning after many years or coming for the first time, there is a place for you in this journey.

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.

Chat with friends in Yiddish at the monthly Shmueskrayz (Conversation Group) in West Hollywood, every third Thursday. Write to Rabbi Golden for the location at golden@dernister.org.

No place is beyond the possibility of return, of teshuvah. Even from places that feel distant, broken, or devoid of holiness, the path back remains open—if only we are willing to seek. 

Our deepest freedom is the freedom to seek. Our greatest refuge is found in choosing.

These High Holidays, join Der Nister on a journey of teshuvah, of dialogue with the Divine and the sacred act of choosing.

Together, with your neighbors and friends Downtown, we will celebrate with traditional High Holiday services rooted in classic melodies, profound and heartfelt teachings, and poetry in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Whether you are returning after many years or coming for the first time, there is a place for you in this journey.

Register here

No place is beyond the possibility of return, of teshuvah. Even from places that feel distant, broken, or devoid of holiness, the path back remains open—if only we are willing to seek. 

Our deepest freedom is the freedom to seek. Our greatest refuge is found in choosing.

These High Holidays, join Der Nister on a journey of teshuvah, of dialogue with the Divine and the sacred act of choosing.

Together, with your neighbors and friends Downtown, we will celebrate with traditional High Holiday services rooted in classic melodies, profound and heartfelt teachings, and poetry in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Whether you are returning after many years or coming for the first time, there is a place for you in this journey.

Register here

No place is beyond the possibility of return, of teshuvah. Even from places that feel distant, broken, or devoid of holiness, the path back remains open—if only we are willing to seek. 

Our deepest freedom is the freedom to seek. Our greatest refuge is found in choosing.

These High Holidays, join Der Nister on a journey of teshuvah, of dialogue with the Divine and the sacred act of choosing.

Together, with your neighbors and friends Downtown, we will celebrate with traditional High Holiday services rooted in classic melodies, profound and heartfelt teachings, and poetry in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Whether you are returning after many years or coming for the first time, there is a place for you in this journey.

Register here

No place is beyond the possibility of return, of teshuvah. Even from places that feel distant, broken, or devoid of holiness, the path back remains open—if only we are willing to seek. 

Our deepest freedom is the freedom to seek. Our greatest refuge is found in choosing.

These High Holidays, join Der Nister on a journey of teshuvah, of dialogue with the Divine and the sacred act of choosing.

Together, with your neighbors and friends Downtown, we will celebrate with traditional High Holiday services rooted in classic melodies, profound and heartfelt teachings, and poetry in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Whether you are returning after many years or coming for the first time, there is a place for you in this journey.

Register here

Der Nister Downtown Jewish Center and Temple Beth Israel of Highland Park will hold a traditional Selichot prayer service. It will be held at the Der Nister Downtown location Saturday, September 5, 2026 starting with Havdalah at 8 PM.

The Selichot service, which will be led by Cantorial Soloist Zach Golden, is both a spiritual and musical warm-up for the High Holidays. It includes some unique piyyutim (medieval poetic prayers) as well as liturgical sections that are familiar to us from Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services.

Register here to learn more.

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 and shuls across LA for a night of music and Torah at Pico Union Project.

The Jewish people have always drawn their greatest strength from togetherness. Yet too often, labels and divisions quietly separate us — synagogue from synagogue, community from community, one Jew from another.

Ahavat Chinam — unconditional love — asks something simple of us: to meet one another as family. Music removes the barriers words cannot. A melody sung together reaches past difference and creates genuine, unguarded connection.

We welcome Jews of every background. No labels. No divisions. Just community.

Learn more here and reserve tickets using discount code Dernister10 on Thursday, September 3, with doors opening at 7:30 PM.

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 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.