Our Mitzvah Day Comfort Bags are thoughtfully filled with essential items and comfort objects for children and teens being placed in emergency foster care. Each year, we assemble 500 comfort bags, requiring over 20,000 individual items. If you have a connection to a company that can donate any of the items below in any quantity, please email MitzvahDay@orami.org. Shop from our Amazon Registry or purchase items and bring them to Or Ami. DUFFLE BAGS Comfort Objects o Fleece Blankets o ...

L’Shanah Tovah — Happy New Year! In just a few days, on Friday evening, September 11 for Erev Rosh Hashanah and Saturday, September 12 for Rosh Hashanah Day, we’ll be together again at the Fred Kavli Theatre, filling the room with music, prayer, and each other’s company as we welcome 5787. We’re so glad you’re joining us in person, and we want getting there and settling in to be easy, so here’s everything you need. See the full schedule of services and times. Getting here GPS address: 2100...

L’shanah Tova. Welcome to the High Holy Days 5787. Whether you’re joining us from your living room, a college dorm, a hospital room, or wherever this year finds you, we are so excited to worship with you! The best way to livestream Yom Kippur services with us is at oramiLIVE.com. Here you will find 5 ways to help you enhance your home experience for the High Holy Days: Look over our schedule of services ahead of time. View and/or print out the complete schedule of services and events. Read...

L’Shanah Tovah — Happy New Year! In just a few days, on Friday evening, September 11 for Erev Rosh Hashanah and Saturday, September 12 for Rosh Hashanah Day, we’ll be together again at the Fred Kavli Theatre, filling the room with music, prayer, and each other’s company as we welcome 5787. We’re so glad you’re joining us in person, and we want getting there and settling in to be easy, so here’s everything you need. See the full schedule of services and times. Getting here GPS address: 2100...

L’shanah Tova. Welcome to the High Holy Days 5787. Whether you’re joining us from your living room, a college dorm, a hospital room, or wherever this year finds you, we are so excited to worship with you! The best way to livestream High Holy Day services with us is at oramiLIVE.com. Here you will find 5 ways to help you enhance your home experience for the High Holy Days: Look over our schedule of services ahead of time. View and/or print out the complete schedule of services and events. Read...

What happens when strangers gather for Shabbat? Around candlelight, challah, and conversation, homes become sacred space and community begin

A ritual for before dipping the karpas into the salt water, we pause to reflect on what it means to hold both sweetness and sorrow.

When life feels faru’a - unrestrained and uncertain - Torah invites us to gather ourselves again. A reflection on Ki Tissa, leadership, the golden calf, grief, and the grounding wisdom of Rabbi Dr. Andrea Weiss.

We didn’t just play games. We practiced being Jewish. At Or Ami’s retreat, teens mentored younger campers through “Deal or No Deal,” Human Scrabble, and a Jewish Olympic torch ceremony, learning to balance nitzachon with chesed. In a moment of rising antisemitism, that kind of joyful Jewish leadership matters.