Come and Experience the difference...
A Synagogue... Whose Family Services are about Family, not Entertainment,
with a dynamic Rabbi's Message applying Torah to your daily life in meaningful and positive ways.
Whose innovative Friday Night services Refresh you
through poetry and prayer that process the week under the stars or in our award-winning sanctuary. Traditional Saturday morning services emphasize Torah learning and discussion.
Whose Bar/Bat Mitzvah program takes you on a memorable Spiritual Journey
in which Rabbi Caine personally works with each child and parent to experience this powerful rite of passage as it was meant to be. Your family gets your own Shabbat, with the goal that every child leads the service.
Where All are Welcome
With a growing number of thriving intermarried and diverse families, all seeking a connection to Torah are finding a home at Ner Tamid.
Which is Growing
Ner Tamid has grown in each of the past four years.
Which is Conveniently Located
Easily accessible to Rancho Bernardo, Poway, Scripps Ranch, 4S Ranch, Escondido, Rancho Penasquitos, with members driving regularly from Carmel Valley, Encinitas, Temecula, and Vista.
With a Personalized Conversion Program
which meets you where you're at, based on a personal relationship with Rabbi Caine. Not a "one size fits all" program of requirements, we even have "Making it Official," an abbreviated track for non-Jewish spouses.
Where learning is relevant, rigorous, and fun
Often in small groups in congregant's homes, Rabbi Caine fosters discussion of Torah's connection to personal relationships, science, psychology, and comparative religions. With training in philosophy, religion, Kabbalah, and Jewish thought from Princeton, Harvard, and Stanford Universities, combined with his genuine warmth and love of each congregant, Rabbi Caine brings ideas and texts to match our most serious and provocative questions, even the ones we're not yet asking.
Whose Youth are embraced and fulfilled
Our Sunday and Wednesday religious school for K-thru-7th grades prepares each child in Hebrew, prayer, ethics, Jewish history, and a love of Israel. USY and Kadima Youth groups give space to socialize happily and safely. Our post-Bar/Bat Mitzvah program includes advanced study with Rabbi Caine that is relevant to the life of teenagers.
Which is there when you need us
Rabbi Caine's sensitivity to congregants in their life-cycle events is shown in personalized weddings and baby namings and in caring hospital visits, thoughtful shivah's, and end-of-life emotional support.
and Where Tradition is Embraced as our Tree of Life
Ner Tamid is a Conservative synagogue, in the tradition of Hillel (not of Shammai): the authentic and compassionate Middle Way the Talmud teaches.
