Coastside community expands its synagogue to Berkeley
The fool about every town needing two synagogues — one that you go to, and one that you don’t go to — doesn’t concentrate to the Bay Area expanse known as the Coastside, stretching from Pacifica to Pescadero.
In the poop indeed, the reverse is true: The Coastside’s only synagogue has expanded its reach to a sponsor county altogether, and it isn’t even on the coast.
For two decades, Coastside Jewish Community has offered services in Half Moon Bay and Pacifica. Since November, it also has been convocation one Saturday a month in Berkeley, where a number of its congregants tangible. For many of those East Bay members, their affiliation grew out of a relationship with CJC cantorial soloist Julie Batz, who trains b’nai mitzvah students as an except for educator.
Board president Laura Alster-Martin credits CJC’s spirited leaders — Batz and Jhos Singer — for the synagogue’s increase. “They are both so charismatic,” she said. “They’ve brought in a lot of families from the East Bay.”
Source: Jweekly.com