Testimonials
"Community Shabbat is rejuvenating, connective, and inclusive. I feel welcome and like my being there matters. I can be with my friends and make new ones in this space. I feel comfortable showing up and I feel excited to be a part of it each month."
- Olive, Community Member
"Community Shabbat is a beautiful way to ground in prayer and community. The DIY nature of Community Shabbat feels very magical and soulful. So happy that I’ve found a spiritual community! "
- Community Member
"It [Community Shabbat] is such a nice, grassroots vibe, shabbat community. I have good jewish community around the east bay but each institution feels a little misaligned in one way or another. Community Shabbat is free from external pressure, and has a nice mix of political, spiritual, and playful. "
- Community Member
“I am not the typical attendee for Community Shabbat. I am an older, white, Canadian, straight, cisgender, non-Jewish male. Yet Community Shabbat has been one of the most open and welcoming groups I've encountered in my time living in California (40 years and counting). My life has been enriched by this incredible group of people - I am a better person for having met them.”
- David, Community Member
“Community Shabbat provides a vision for growing the future. It is a beautiful, nurturing community created by the people who want to be in it and of it. There are no other spaces like this in the area; we need it and more.”
- Olive, Community Member
"Having a Jewish space that brings ritual integrity and anti-Zionist values is very special. Community Shabbat feels very for the people and I really appreciate that!"
- Community Member