To help get better connected with Your Jewish Sonoma County here's a listing of every Jewish organization in Sonoma County and how to contact them.

Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust
B'nai Israel Jewish Center
Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide
Chabad Jewish Center
Congregation Beth Ami
Congregation Ner Shalom
Congregation Shir Shalom
Congregation Shomrei Torah
Hillel of Sonoma County
Jewish Community Center, Sonoma County
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
Jewish Community Free Clinic
Jewish Family and Children’s Services
Remember Us: The Holocaust Bnai Mitzvah Project
Russian River Jewish Community
Seb Jews Email List
Sonoma Jewish Connection
Sonoma State University—Jewish Studies Program

 

Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust

Address: SSU, 1801 E. Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Phone: (707) 664-2273
Website: www.sonoma.edu/holocaust
Email: alliance@sonoma.edu
Contact: Christyne Davidian, President

The Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide co-sponsors the Lecture Series, supports SSU’s Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide in providing programming to the larger community, including K-12 teachers, and collaborates with other community groups working with issues related to the Holocaust and genocide.

B'nai Israel Jewish Center

Address: 740 Western Avenue, Petaluma, CA 94952
Phone: (707) 762-0340
Website: www.bnaiisrael.net
Email: office@bnaiisrael.net
Rabbi: Ted Feldman
Contact: Phyllis Feibusch, Administrator

B'nai Israel Jewish Center is an independent congregation offering an inclusive and welcoming setting in which those wishing to identify with the Jewish community will find a home. With a special emphasis on education at all age levels, BIJC seeks to provide a spiritual, cultural, and social setting in which the varied expressions of Jewish life can blossom.

Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide

Address: SSU, 1801 E. Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Phone: (707) 664-4076
Website: www.sonoma.edu/holocaust/center
Email: centerh@sonoma.edu
Contact: Myrna Goodman, Director

The Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide is an academic institute housed in the Department of Sociology at Sonoma State University. Its purpose is to provide education about the origins, nature and consequences of the Holocaust and other historical and modern genocides.

Chabad Jewish Center

Address: 2312 Bethards Drive, Suite 8, Santa Rosa, CA 95405
Phone: (707) 577-0277
Website: www.JewishSonoma.com
Email: info@JewishSonoma.com
Rabbi: Mendel Wolvovsky
Contact: Rabbi Mendel Wolvovsky, Director

The Chabad Jewish Center is dedicated to serving all Jews throughout Sonoma County with Ahavat Yisrael, an unconditional love and concern for every Jew, regardless of background and affiliation. Innovative programs and services for young and old are available.

Congregation Beth Ami

Address: 4676 Mayette Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95405
Phone: (707) 360-3000
Website: www.BethAmiSR.org
Email: office@BethAmiSR.org
Rabbi: George Schlesinger
Contact: Carolyn Metz, Executive Director; Patty Bernstein, President

A vibrant, growing campus for Jewish living where the joys of Jewish values and rituals are made accessible and relevant to the everyday lives of our members. A flourishing, prospering Conservative Synagogue affiliated with the United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism enjoying the wholehearted support, commitment and involvement of all our members.

Congregation Ner Shalom

Address: 85 La Plaza, Cotati, CA 94931
Phone: (707) 664-8622
Website: www.nershalom.org and www.youtube.com/nershalom
Email: shalom@sonic.net
Spiritual Leader: Irwin Keller
Contact: Barbara Lesch McCaffry, President; Irwin Keller, Shaliach Tzibor

We are a spirited and diverse community of people from a wide variety of backgrounds. Together we explore Jewish-centered paths of ritual, learning, song, community-building and mindfulness. We welcome visitors, new members, interfaith families, LGBTQ families, families with special needs–and you.

Congregation Shir Shalom

Address: 252 West Spain Street, Sonoma, CA 95476
Phone: (707) 935-3636
Website: www.shir-shalom.org
Email: info@shir-shalom.org
Rabbi: Bella Bogart
Contact: Mark Hummel, President

Like myriad Jewish communities everywhere, Congregation Shir Shalom is busily weaving its own notes into the multi-layered melody that is Judaism. Sow the seeds of Your Jewish Identity at Congregation Shir Shalom.

Congregation Shomrei Torah

Address: 2600 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa, 95404
Phone: (707) 578-5519
Website: www.shomreitorah.org
Email: fran@shomreitorah.org
Rabbi: George Gittleman
Contact: Fran Brumlik, Executive Director

Shomrei Torah is a progressive Reform Jewish community that blends the traditional with the innovative. We are a diverse, inclusive and socially conscious congregation providing entry to Jewish life through worship, study, social action, fellowship and play. Our religious school (STaRS) welcomes children into our nurturing, joyful and hands-on education program..

Hillel of Sonoma County

Address: 85 La Plaza, Cotati, CA 94931
Mail: PO Box 3143, Rohnert Park, CA 94927
Phone: (707) 795-5464
Website: www.sonomahillel.org
Email: director@sonomahillel.org
Contact: Lindsay Folkerth, Director

Sonoma Hillel is devoted to creating exciting and innovative social, cultural, educational and religious activities for college students in Sonoma County. Any student may participate in Hillel—no membership is required. Hillel is committed to a pluralistic vision of Judaism that embraces all movements (and no movement at all).

Jewish Community Center, Sonoma County

Address: 1301 Farmers Lane, Suite C103, Santa Rosa, CA 95405
Phone: (707) 528-4222
Website: www.jccsoco.org
Email: office@jccsoco.org
Contact: Beth Goodman, Executive Director

The JCC's mission is to build and strengthen the Jewish Community by serving diverse interests and needs. In our effort to reach out to all Sonoma County Jews and their families, regardless of age, lifestyle or level of commitment, we offer many wonderful and varied programs that provide cultural, educational spiritual and recreational opportunities.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin
and Sonoma Counties

Address: 1301 Farmers Lane, C103, Santa Rosa, CA 95405
Phone: (707) 568-6207
Website : www.sfjcf.org
Email: BarbaraL@sfjcf.org
Contact: Barbara Levinson, Development Assistant, Sonoma Region

The Jewish Community Federation is at the center of our vibrant Jewish community. With your help, we support the organizations, program and services that address the needs of our Jewish family – locally, in Israel and around the world. Together, we do a world of good.

Jewish Community Free Clinic

Address: 490 City Center Drive, Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Phone: (707) 585-7780
Website: www.Jewishfreeclinic.org
Email: Outreach.jcfc@gmail.com
Contact: Donna Waldman, Executive Director

The Jewish Community Free Clinic is almost entirely run by volunteers including medical doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, medical assistants, social workers, interpreters, receptionists and administrative personnel. We offer FREE medical care for anyone without medical insurance.

Jewish Family and Children’s Services

Address: 1360 N. Dutton Ave. Ste C, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Phone :(707) 571-8131
Website: www.jfcs.org or www.parentsplaceonline.org
Email: anitaw@jfcs.org
Contact: Diana Klein, Director; Anita Whitehead, Office Administrator

Jewish Family and Children’s Services offers help and hope to 60,000 individuals throughout the five-county West San Francisco Bay Area. The agency’s mission is to alleviate suffering and help people of all ages develop and maintain their highest level of functioning through the provision of comprehensive professional and volunteer social services.

Remember Us: The Holocaust Bnai Mitzvah Project

Address: 2777 Yulupa Avenue, #273, Santa Rosa, CA 95405
Phone: (707) 570-2883
Website: www.remember-us.org
Email: remember@sonic.net
Contact: Gesher Calmenson, Director

Remember Us offers a simple invitation to children preparing for bar/bat mitzvah - remember one child who was lost in the Holocaust before having the chance to be called to the Torah.

Russian River Jewish Community

Address: P.O. Box 2274, Guerneville, CA 95446
Phone: (707) 869-3273 or (707) 632-5545
Website: www.rrjc.org
Email: info@rrjc.org
Contact: Sonia Tubridy, Coordinator or Natasha Pehrson, President

The RRJC is an educational and cultural institution in west Sonoma County which provides an opportunity for people with diverse backgrounds to explore Jewish culture and join in fellowship with others of the Jewish faith.

Sonoma Jewish Family Connection

For families with young children that live in Sonoma County, and would like to make new Jewish friends, form playgroups, or celebrate holidays with other families. Everyone welcome! All gender identities, sexual orientations, interfaith, not-of-faith, or those of great faith welcome.
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Seb Jews Email List

Email: SebJewsAnn-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

An announcement group for the Sebastopol Jewish Community.

Sonoma State University – Jewish Studies Program

Address: 1801 E. Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Phone: (612) 382-4202
Website : www.sonoma.edu/jewishstudies
Email: ezra@sonoma.edu
Contact: Michael Ezra, Director

The Jewish Studies Program at Sonoma State University is an interdisciplinary program that uses Jewish education to foster inter-religious tolerance and give students the tools to understand the influence that religion has had on the history of the world and the influence it will have on its future.