Oakland synagogue for Purim services

March 8, 2016 10:13 AM

I'll be in Oakland, CA this year over Purim and would like to attend services. Can you recommend a synagogue I can attend? Conservative preferred but would do Reform in a pinch. I'll be near Jack London Square on the waterfront and without a car, so something close would be ideal. Thank you & chag Purim sameach!
posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell to Religion & Philosophy (4 answers total)

Check out Temple Sinai. They're close to public transportation. Reform. There are services Erev Purim, complete with a reading of the Megillah. (Followed by Pizza Bar.)

It's a nice place, although if you crash a bar mitzvah on Saturday morning, people will look at you funny. Ask me how I know.

The East Bay JCC is doing a Purim Festival on the 20th. It's at the Berkeley branch. Bit of a schlep, you can take the 58L bus to BART, then get off at Berkeley Station, then get the 18 towards Albany.

Have fun!
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 12:29 PM on March 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

There appears to be exactly one conservative synagogue in Oakland.
posted by kickingtheground at 1:24 PM on March 8, 2016 [2 favorites]

There's Netivot Shalom in Berkeley.
posted by Anne Neville at 6:35 PM on March 8, 2016

There appears to be exactly one conservative synagogue in Oakland.

... and it appears to be not so far from Jack London Square. The 58L bus will get you most of the way there.
posted by Betelgeuse at 7:12 PM on March 8, 2016