Our services are held at the Temecula United Methodist Church, 42690 Margarita Road in Temecula. Services are on the first and third Friday evenings of each month. We begin at 7:00 PM with an oneg shabbat immediately following. We do encourage families to come to all of our regular services. We have two student rabbis - Rachel Timoner and Joshua Samuels - who officiate at our services. Our cantorial soloist, rotating each month, adds a new dimension to each service. Everyone is welcome. Please join us.
Our home is in the beautiful Temecula Valley, one hour drive southeast from Los Angeles or one hour north from San Diego off Interstate 15. The valley boasts many wineries, hot air ballooning, and sky diving as its pastimes. Music concerts, festival, and the Pechanga Indian Reservation are all here. We have just purchased 4.5 acres of land in the French Valley and we hope to have our own new home built by Passover 2007.
Congregation Havurim was formed on June 19, 1994. We became incorporated with non-profit status from the state and federal governments in 1995, and affiliated with the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ) in 1997. We are egalitarian and dedicated to nurturing Jewish spirituality and education. We are a mixture of Jewish backgrounds. Instead of looking for the differences in each of us, we celebrate the common ground that we agree upon. Our storng social calendar affords our congregants an opportunity to celebrate together and develop a Jewish bond.
Congregation Havurim's mission is to foster a vibrant, thriving Jewish community within the Temecula Valley, that meets the religious and cultural needs of our membership. We offer a warm, caring reform environment for Jewish practice through creative programs and events that form the individual's and family's spiritual and social needs. We also provide an outreach to the community through donations to food banks, teaching our Bar and Bat Mitzvah candidates to do a service project that is beneficial to the community and to our congregation, and meeting with those of different faiths to foster understanding and compassion for one another's beliefs.
