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This chapter features resources for the observance and celebration of Jewish lifecycle events and milestones. This includes birth, adoption, infertility issues, circumcision, bar and bat mitzvahs, weddings and funerals. Need a rabbi to conduct a Jewish ceremony or an interfaith wedding? Check out these pages. Listings include organizations that help with Jewish adoption, infertility issues and holy rituals, including the mikvah, used for spiritual purification. This chapter also lists Jewish cemeteries as well as chevra kadishas, which ensure that the deceased is prepared for burial according to Jewish tradition. Because the Bay Area Jewish community is diverse, this directory provides both the names of those who officiate at traditional circumcisions as well as an organization serving Jews who opt out of circumcision. With alternative ideas given expression, organizations have sprung up in the Bay Area to provide service and support to those seeking new ways of “doing Jewish.”

General Resources

Local congregations, individual rabbis, agencies and organizations provide support, advice, counseling and services to assist individuals and families during various lifecycle events. Synagogues and additional religious organizations are listed in Chapter 4, Religious Life & Congregations. Community agencies and organizations are in Chapter 5.

Rabbi Howard Steiermann*

(415) 695-9155 sfhoward.com hsteiermann@gmail.com

Hosts and guests share in a personalized and heartfelt event. Interdenominational, multicultural, traditional or nontraditional ceremonies throughout the Bay Area.