Our name, P’nai Yisrael, means, ‘faces,’ or ‘facets of Israel.‘

The Torah has infinite facets for exploration, discovery, inspiration and fulfillment. 
Similarly, each individual in our community 
represents a unique aspect of the people Israel, 
those who ‘wrestle’ to know God. As a Chavurah, 
we come together in mutual appreciation, respect, compassion and gratitude to learn, worship, celebrate and grow.

If you are seeking an intelligent, soulful and heart-centered approach to Jewish life and worship, we invite you to share our experience and celebrate with us.

UPCOMING IMPACT MEETINGS

Nehemiah Action:

April 8, 2025, 6:30 at MLK, Jr. Performing Arts Center @ Charlottesville High School 1400 Melbourne Road Charlottesville, VA 22901

We are making progress on affordable housing, public transit, and substance abuse. We will have candidates for the Board of Supervisors’ two seats coming up for election. Rabbi Ezra will be giving the opening benediction, and Rabbi Tom will be sponsoring a Tailgate starting at 5:00 in the parking lot across from the entrance. We’ll have subs, chips, cookies, and water. Look for the sign that says CBI and Chavurah. You can bring a folding chair so that you can sit down. Please leave the places closest to the Tailgate and building for people who have difficulty walking a long way.

Nehemiah Action Debrief: 

April 29, 2025, 7pm at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church

Celebration:

June 30, 2025, 6:30 at St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church

For more information, contact pnaiyisrael@gmail.com

Shabbat Services

Saturday April 12, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM

We celebrate Shabbat with our bodies, our hearts, our minds and our souls. We celebrate with a lot of music-instruments and song, with traditional and fresh prayer, with a great deal of participation, with movement, with meditation and with stimulating Dvar Torah. Please join us this Shabbat. 

The service will be followed with a kiddush, and by a vegetarian potluck lunch.

1824 University Circle, Charlottesville, VA in the upstairs Chapel at Hillel. 

For more information, contact pnaiyisrael@gmail.com

Shabbat Services

Saturday April 26, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM

We celebrate Shabbat with our bodies, our hearts, our minds and our souls. We celebrate with a lot of music-instruments and song, with traditional and fresh prayer, with a great deal of participation, with movement, with meditation and with stimulating Dvar Torah. Please join us this Shabbat. 

The service will be followed with a kiddush, and by a vegetarian potluck lunch.

1824 University Circle, Charlottesville, VA in the upstairs Chapel at Hillel. 

For more information, contact pnaiyisrael@gmail.com

kabbalat shabbat by zoom

Friday, May 2, 6:45-7:45 PM

Folks gather by Zoom at 6:45 PM to connect and welcome the Shabbat by lighting their own candles together at 7:00 PM, blessing wine/grape juice, and saying and singing a few other basic Kabbalat Shabbat prayers, including a Healing Prayer and the Mourner’s Kaddish.

Kabbalat Shabbat is a shared service with many who participate leading individual prayers and it’s a great way to connect to begin Shabbat.

For more information, contact pnaiyisrael@gmail.com

Listening HEARTS Circle

Saturday May 3, 2:30-4:30 PM

followed by a potluck meal

Let’s continue with our Purim Heroes & Heroines…

What were their strengths and challenges? 

How are they different from or similar to our own?

At Listening Hearts

We listen, brighten each other, and pray for peace, in our hearts and in our world.

Feel free to bring a song, poem, and/or prayer to share.

Then potluck!

This is a Members and Invited Guests Only event at a members’ home.

For more information, contact pnaiyisrael@gmail.com

JEWISH SACRED DANCE

Sunday May 25, 7:00 PM

We will be gathering at Hillel 1824 University Circle to be vessels of  peace, love, and healing for ALL of us. 

For more information, contact pnaiyisrael@gmail.com