With creative approaches to traditional prayer, a welcoming ethos that nourishes the soul, and a commitment to rigorous study of our tradition, look no further than TBA to find your spiritual home.
Our clergy is the heart of our congregation and each take on unique roles through out our community. Learn more about our clergy and other senior staff members.
There are many prayer opportunities at Temple Beth Am from our Daily Minyan and weekly Shabbat services to Holiday and Life Cycle celebrations.
Our community comes together for minha, Kabbalat Shabbat, and Ma’ariv led by the TBA clergy and/or rabbinic interns. Come in-person, or join on Zoom.
Neshama Minyan
Traditional Kabbalat Shabbat service
Neshama at Home
Part of summer Shabbat offerings. Friday night services held in community member’s homes, surrounded by family and friends, with lots of singing, hamish community, and a feeling of bringing in Shabbat with love.
Shabbat Sovev
Service in-the-round, harmonic, and musically-rich.
Community Shabbat Dinner
Enjoy a warm, comforting and delicious meal as you celebrate Shabbat with TBA – click here for details and reservations.
Shabbat Mornings at TBA feature several offerings for families, children, and our community at large.
Clergy-led Services
9:30 AM, a chance for the community to pray together, as well as celebrate B’nai Mitzvah. If there is a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, clergy-led services will begin at 9:15 AM instead of 9:30 AM.
Library Minyan
9:45 AM, a traditional, lay-led service that is renowned for is participatory davening and inspiring drashot, along with being the primary home for engaging youth in our Torah Club
Tot Shabbat
10:00 AM, for kids age 5 and under.
Family Services
10:20 AM
Text Study
11:05 AM, with rotating members of clergy.
Additional Saturday Shabbat offerings include Mishna Study, Meditation Plus, Shabbat Yeladim drop-off for children, Minha/Ma’ariv/Seudah Shlisheet & Learning, and more.
Our Daily Minyan meets in the mornings and evening both in-person and virtually on Zoom. More information and links to the Zoom meetings can be found on our dedicated Daily Minyan webpage.
From High Holy Days in the fall to every Jewish holiday throughout the year, Temple Beth Am is your home to observe and celebrate.
Our High Holy Days page will be updated for the 2025 holidays soon, but, in the meantime, you can explore the variety of offerings you can expect from TBA on our 2024 High Holy Days page.
From Purim to Passover, TBA is your perfect hub for all things Jewish Holidays. See our upcoming Holiday celebrations here.
Temple Beth Am is home to several community connection groups which hold events and enrich the membership of their attendees! These groups include:
Havurot bring a richness of Jewish experience, personal meaning and interpersonal connection to their members. A havurah is a self-run group of 5-6 families or 10 – 12 synagogue members who gather regularly to celebrate Jewish Shabbat/holidays, lifecycle events; to learn and grow; and to have fun. Typically, a havurah will meet once every 6-8 weeks.
We have TBA members who have been part of a havurah for over 25 years!
Please submit this form if you are interested in being part of a new havurah at Temple Beth Am. Your responses will help us to set expectations and facilitate accommodations among group members. New havurot will meet after the Jewish new year.
YLE stands for Youth Learning and Engagement, the department for all of our synagogue’s programs and opportunities for families with kids. We build community by connecting you with friends, creating space for fun and learning, and embracing you as a whole family.
Our YLE offerings include Family Programming, JLC (our religious school), Youth and Teen Groups, Camp Keshet during the summer, and more!
Temple Beth Am’s Jewish Learning Community (JLC) fosters enriching learning journeys through Judaism’s ideas, rituals, texts, and practices. Our experiential approach encourages real-world application of knowledge and students learn small-group Hebrew instruction and family-oriented experiences.
Temple Beth Am’s Jewish Learning Community offers sessions for students from kindergarten through 8th grade! Learn more about our sessions and getting your child started with JLC on our dedicated webpage.
Pressman Academy is a Jewish Day School located which shares a campus with Temple Beth Am. Pressman offers programming for children starting as young as 2 years-old all the way through 8th grade.
Pressman Academy produces scholars, innovators, tinkerers, critical thinkers and moral decision makers. Each year, nearly 100% of our 8th graders are accepted to their first-choice high school. Our students consistently compete at the highest level in the L.A. County Science Fair, rank amongst the top 30 schools in the state in the California Math League, place in the Middle School Moot Beit Din competition, and demonstrate Hebrew proficiency on Avant testing. But the General and Judaic Studies program at Pressman is about so much more than achievements. We believe that every great teacher changes the world. We believe that learning is fun when it is meaningful and connected to the real world. We believe that a differentiated classroom – where every single child is seen and supported – is a successful classroom. And we believe that joy is essential, because happy, engaged children are learning children. Pressman students excel precisely because of how we approach the work of developing minds.
There is a reason that Pressman Academy is known as the school that develops the hearts and souls of children. Social-Emotional learning isn’t an afterthought here; on the contrary, it’s foundational to the Pressman educational experience. We are proud to have a Wellness Department, staffed by three full time educators and therapists, focused entirely on the wellbeing of our students. From two-year-olds practicing yoga and meditation to our Day School Council program, Pressman students learn how to communicate deeply, understand themselves and their peers, and resolve conflict.
