Temple Beth Abraham

Weekly Text Study
2025-11-05 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-10-29 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-10-22 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-09-24 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-09-17 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Paulista Brazilian Kitchen and Taproom, 4239 Park Blvd, Oakland, CA, United States
All levels of learning are welcome. You do not need to know Hebrew.
But please bring some kind of Chumash/Tanach/Bible with you.
No RSVP is needed. Just show up!

Bet Sefer
2025-11-04 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-10-30 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-10-28 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-10-23 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-10-21 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-10-16 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-10-09 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-10-07 16:00 - 18:00 and 4 more dates | CA

Morning Minyan
2025-11-03 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-10-30 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-10-27 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-10-23 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-10-20 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-10-16 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-10-13 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-10-09 08:00 - 09:00 and 2 more dates | Chapel, 327 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA, 94610, United States
Our morning minyan meets every Monday and Thursday in the chapel and lasts approximately one hour. We use the older Conservative Siddur (prayerbook) for daily prayer compiled by Rabbi Morris Silverman.The service is always followed by a light breakfast in the social hall lovingly prepared by minyan regulars.

Adult Haftarah Trope
2025-11-02 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-10-26 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-10-19 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-10-12 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-10-05 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-09-28 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-09-21 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-09-14 11:30 - 12:30 | Chapel, 327 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA, 94610, United States

Adult Alef Bet Class
2025-11-02 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-10-26 10:00 - 11:00 | Chapel, 327 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA, 94610, United States

NO Mah Jongg this week
2025-11-01 12:45 - 14:15 | Outside of Chapel, 327 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA, CA, 94610, United States
Contact Karen Bloom for details Blooms21@hotmail.com

Shabbat Mishpacha for ages up to 5 years old
2025-11-01 10:00 - 11:30 | Gan Classroom-Gimmel
Little ones up to 5 years old gather to enjoy songs, prayers, socializing and playground fun! Service begins at 10:30am in Gan classroom Gimmel, but gather at 10am to enjoy a snack. You are invited to join the congregation for Lunch after the service.

T'fillat Y'ladim
2025-11-01 10:00 - 11:30 | CA

Shabbat Services
2025-11-01 09:30 - 12:00, 2025-10-25 09:30 - 12:00, 2025-10-11 09:30 - 12:00, 2025-10-04 09:30 - 12:00, 2025-09-27 09:30 - 12:00, 2025-09-20 09:30 - 12:00, 2025-09-13 09:30 - 12:00 | Sanctuary, 327 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA, 94610, United States
Our Shabbat service is available in our sanctuary and online at https://TBAoakland.org/stream.
Our Shabbat service is both Conservative and egalitarian. The siddur (prayerbook) we use, Shirat Avraham or The Song of Abraham, was written by TBA’s Rabbi Mark Bloom as “a siddur dedicated to those who wish to increase the meaning and accessibility in traditional Jewish prayer.”
We invite all to join in a Shabbat Kiddush following the service.

A Taste of Text Study
2025-11-01 09:00 - 09:30, 2025-10-25 09:00 - 09:30, 2025-10-18 09:00 - 09:30, 2025-10-11 09:00 - 09:30, 2025-10-04 09:00 - 09:30, 2025-09-27 09:00 - 09:30, 2025-09-20 09:00 - 09:30, 2025-09-13 09:00 - 09:30 | CA

Wasserman Fund Speaker-Rabbi Linda Bernstein speaking about Mitzvah Power Academy Project
2025-11-01 | CA

Kabbalat Shabbat
2025-10-31 18:15 - 19:15, 2025-10-24 18:15 - 19:15, 2025-10-17 18:15 - 19:15, 2025-10-10 18:15 - 19:15, 2025-10-03 18:15 - 19:15, 2025-09-26 18:15 - 19:15, 2025-09-19 18:15 - 19:15, 2025-09-12 18:15 - 19:15 | Chapel, 327 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA, 94610, United States
Join us as we welcome the Shabbat. Singing and participation is encouraged in this warm uplifting service, which is both conservative and egalitarian. The Siddur we use is, The Song of Abraham, written by our own Rabbi Mark Bloom. "A Siddur dedicated to those who wish to increase the meaning and accessibility in traditional Jewish prayer". For more information see http://www.tbaoakland.org/pages/variety_of_services

BBYO meetings-Check chapter messages
2025-10-29 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-10-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-10-15 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-10-08 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-09-24 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-09-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Baum Center, 341 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, 94610, United States

TBA Board Meeting
2025-10-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Zoom

Adult Alef Bet Class
2025-10-26 11:00 - 12:00 | CA

Shalom Play with Jewish Baby Network
2025-10-26 10:00 - 11:30 | Social Hall-RSVP a must TBAoakland.org/Shalomplay
Shalom Play(formerly Kindergym) is a joyful, donation-based play program designed for children under 5 from families raising Jewish children—proudly sponsored by PJ Library and Temple Beth Abraham.
If you have a beginner walker or a speedy little mensch who’s climbing, running, and jumping off everything, this kvell-worthy space is for you! Our spacious, activity-filled room is packed with fun:

Climbers, slides, rocking horses, cozy coupe cars, see-saws, fire trucks, and push cars for beginning walkers
A small trampoline, puzzles, a ball pit, and painting easels
Jewish music and stories, parachute play, singing, and a closing Havdalah circle to bring a sweet Shavua Tov or other Jewish holiday specific activities!

Come schmooze with other Mishpachas (families), let your little ones explore, and enjoy a warm kehillah (community) atmosphere. Siblings are welcome!
We offer secure parking and on-site security so you can relax while your children play. Pre-signup is appreciated to help us prepare, but drop-ins are always welcome—b’rachot (blessings) to all who join!
Attendees do not need to be Temple Beth Abraham members—however this a wonderful opportunity to tour our grounds and learn about our onsite Jewish preschool and vibrant community.
Dates:
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Sunday, December 21, 2025Last candle
Sunday, January 25, 2026Sunday, February 22, 2026Sunday, March 22, 2026Sunday, April 19, 2026Sunday, May 31, 2026

Mechina Share A Shabbat - start with dinner in social hall, then service, then dessert
2025-10-24 17:00 - 19:30 | CA

Men’s Club Preps & Serves Dinner at CityTeam
2025-10-19 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-09-21 17:00 - 19:00 | CA
Anyone 14 and older can volunteer: http://tbamensclub.cityteam.volunteerhub.com/

Adult Hebrew with Susan
2025-10-19 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-10-12 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-10-05 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-09-28 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-09-21 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-09-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Chapel, 327 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA, 94610, United States

Mah Jongg - Come, learn & play
2025-10-18 12:45 - 14:15, 2025-10-04 12:45 - 14:15, 2025-09-20 12:45 - 14:15 | Outside of Chapel, 327 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA, CA, 94610, United States

Shabbat Services with the Bat Mitzvah of Ariella Palchik
2025-10-18 09:30 - 12:00 | Sanctuary, 327 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA, 94610, United States

TBA Book Club-"one Hundred Saturdays" by Michael Frank
2025-10-16 19:30 - 21:00 | zoom-Contact Judy Glick at bookclub@TBAoakland.org
Thursday,October 16, at 7:30, to discuss the nonfiction book, One HundredSaturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World, by MichaelFrank (Author), andillustrated by Maira Kalman. The book is available in a hardbackedition, is 222 pages, and was published in 2022. It may be found at theOakland and Berkeley libraries, as well as viaLink+:
https://csul.iii.com/search?/XOne+Hundred+Saturdays&SORT=DZ/XOne+Hundred+Saturdays&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBKEY=One+Hundred+Saturdays/1%2C6%2C6%2CB/frameset&FF=XOne+Hundred+Saturdays&SORT=DZ&1%2C1%2C

FromAmazon:
Oneof Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winnerof the National Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and SephardicCulture * Recipient of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable BookAward * Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal
The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversationswith the author over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world ofJewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent ofher community, and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell thetale. With nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had neverbefore spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came toher Greenwich Village apartment one Saturday afternoon to ask her a questionabout the Juderia, the neighborhood on the Greek island of Rhodes where she’dgrown up in a Jewish community that had thrived there for half a millennium.
Neither of them could know this was the first of one hundred Saturdays over thecourse of six years that they would spend in each other’s company. During thesemeetings Stella traveled back in time to conjure what it felt like to come ofage on this luminous, legendary island in the eastern Aegean, which theItalians conquered in 1912, began governing as an official colonial possessionin 1923, and continued to administer even after the Germans seized control inSeptember 1943. The following July, the Germans rounded up all 1,700-plusresidents of the Juderia and sent them first by boat and then by train toAuschwitz on what was the longest journey—measured by both time and distance—ofany of the deportations. Ninety percent of them were murdered upon arrival.
Probing and courageous, candid and sly, Stella is a magical modern-dayScheherazade whose stories reveal what it was like to grow up in anextraordinary place in an extraordinary time—and to construct a life after thatplace has vanished. One Hundred Saturdays is a portraitof one of the last survivors drawn at nearly the last possible moment, as wellas an account of a tender and transformative friendship between storyteller andlistener, offering a powerful “reminder that the ability to listen thoughtfullyis a rare and significant gift” (The Wall Street Journal).

Men's Club Poker Night
2025-10-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Baum Center, 341 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, 94610, United States

Simchat Torah Service with Luncheon
2025-10-15 09:15 - 11:45 | CA

No Weekly Text Study Simchat Torah Service
2025-10-15 09:00 - 10:00 | Paulista Brazilian Kitchen and Taproom, 4239 Park Blvd, Oakland, CA, United States

Simchat Torah Evening Family Service
2025-10-14 18:15 - 20:15 | CA

NO Bet Sefer
2025-10-14 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-10-02 16:00 - 18:00 | CA

Shmini Atzeret Service with Luncheon
2025-10-14 09:30 - 12:00 | CA

Office closed
2025-10-14 - 2025-10-15 | CA

Erev Simchat Torah Service
2025-10-13 | CA

WTBA Girls Night Out with potluck and sing-along in the Sukkah
2025-10-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Sukkah and social hall

No Weekly Text Study
2025-10-08 09:00 - 10:00 | Paulista Brazilian Kitchen and Taproom, 4239 Park Blvd, Oakland, CA, United States

Sukkot Service 1st day with Kiddush
2025-10-07 09:30 - 12:00 | CA

Office Closed for Sukkot
2025-10-07 - 2025-10-08 | CA

Build the Sukkah with Men's Club and WTBA
2025-10-05 10:00 - 13:00 | CA
WTBAand the Men’s Group will be building and decorating the sukkah on 10/5 from 10am – 1 pm. There are roles for everyone, so come join our efforts to build abeautiful sukkah for the congregation!

Shabbat Mishpacha Cancelled this month as we celebrate the High Holy Days.
2025-10-04 10:00 - 11:30 | Gan Classroom-Gimmel

Break the Fast sponsored by The TBA Morning Minyan
2025-10-02 19:30 - 20:30 | CA

Neilah (concluding) Service
2025-10-02 18:30 - 19:30 | CA

Service restarts with Martyrology and Mincha Services -tickets required
2025-10-02 16:30 - 18:30 | CA

Study Session with Joseph Gindi
2025-10-02 14:00 - 15:00 | Chapel, 327 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA, 94610, United States

Youth Service for grades 2-6
2025-10-02 09:45 - 11:30 | Social Hall, 327 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA, 94610, United States

Main Service-Tickets are required for entrance
2025-10-02 09:30 - 13:30 | CA

Family Service for ages up to 5 years old
2025-10-02 09:00 - 09:30 | Social Hall-Bring your tickets

Office Closed for Yom Kippur
2025-10-02 | CA

NO BBYO meetings-Check chapter messages
2025-10-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Baum Center, 341 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, 94610, United States

No WTBA-Bingo at Reutlinger Community, Danville
2025-10-01 13:00 - 14:30 | Contact Stacy Margolin at stasch.margolin@gmail.com for details
WTBA sponsors and staffs Bingo at the Reutlinger Community the first Wednesday of every month. Bingo starts at 1:15 and runs an hour at most. Volunteers are asked to arrive at 1:00 to check in and help with passing out Bingo supplies and welcoming residents. Bingo is a fun hands-on activity for the residents and volunteers alike. Everyone goes home a winner!

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Stacy Margolin at stasch.margolin@gmail.com for more information.

Office closes at 1pm for Kol Nidre
2025-10-01 | CA

Morning Minyan
2025-09-29 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-09-22 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-09-15 08:00 - 09:00 | Chapel, 327 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA, 94610, United States
Our morning minyan meets every Monday and Thursday in the chapel and lasts approximately one hour. We use the older Conservative siddur (prayer book) compiled by Rabbi Morris Silverman for daily prayer.The service is always followed by a light breakfast in the social hall, lovingly prepared by minyan regulars.

Adult Adult Hebrew Class/Adult B'nai Mitzvah - Chapel
2025-09-28 10:00 - 11:00 | CA

Morning Minyan
2025-09-25 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-09-18 08:00 - 09:00 | Chapel, 327 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA, 94610, United States
Our morning minyan meets every Monday and Thursday in the chapel and lasts approximately one hour. We use the older Conservative siddur (prayer book) compiled by Rabbi Morris Silverman for daily prayer.
The service is always followed by a light breakfast in the social hall, lovingly prepared by minyan regulars.

NO Bet Sefer - Rosh Hashana
2025-09-23 16:00 - 18:00 | CA

Office closed for Rosh Hashanah
2025-09-23 - 2025-09-24 | CA

Erev Rosh Hashanah-Time to be determined
2025-09-22 | CA

Office Closes at 1pm for Rosh Hashanah
2025-09-22 | CA

Junior Congregation
2025-09-20 10:00 - 11:30 | CA

Bring Food for Alameda County Community Food Bank
2025-09-18 - 2025-10-16 | CA

TBA Board Meeting
2025-09-16 19:30 - 21:00 | in person
