Open Temple

Open Temple www.opentemple.org
Re-enchanting Judaism in Venice, CA.

We are an emerging community dedicated to Jewish engagement and the need for Jewish relevance and discovery within our contemporary lifestyles. - See more at: http://opentemple.org/us/vision/ .Ize3VaOs.dpuf

09/28/2026

Rabbi Lori Shapiro doesn’t shy away from the shadow work, the wrestling, the questioning, the parts of ourselves (and our tradition) that don’t come with easy answers.

At Open Temple, that wrestling is the point.

We’ve never believed people fell away from Judaism because of ideology. They fell away because the door felt closed.

So we built a different kind of door, Radical Ritual, Spiritual Expression, even a colorful bus rolling through Venice to meet people exactly where they are.

Whatever brought you here, there’s always a seat for you; you are welcome here.

Keep following to learn more about Soul Journey and Open Temple’s Happenings.

Send us a DM if you would like to start a conversation, and we will fill in your curiousity from there.

Jewishlycurious

Your sukkah is your personality, so be bold with it. Hang the weird ornament. Paint the pumpkin rainbow. Invite the frie...
09/28/2026

Your sukkah is your personality, so be bold with it. Hang the weird ornament. Paint the pumpkin rainbow. Invite the friend who laughs too loud.

Sukkot Love is happening at Open Temple House all week: dinners, friends, and a sukkah full of personalities (human and otherwise).

Tell us in the comments: what’s your sukkah’s personality? 👇

Want in? DM us and we’ll send you the details.

VeniceBeach BeBold

You crawl inside the Jewish Christmas Tree. You eat in it, sleep in it, make art in it, fall a little bit in love in it....
09/27/2026

You crawl inside the Jewish Christmas Tree. You eat in it, sleep in it, make art in it, fall a little bit in love in it. For eight days it holds you, like a womb made of palm fronds and string lights, and you walk out a little bit new.

That’s Sukkot. And we’d love for you to feel it from the inside.

Join us for dinner in the sukkah at Open Temple House:
Mon, Sept 28
Wed, Sept 30
Thu, Oct 1

Bring a vegetarian dish and your Jewish joy. We’ll bring the stars.

RSVP at the link in bio.

VeniceBeach SukkotUnderTheStars

09/22/2026

At Open Temple’s Creative Torah Academy, Jewish learning doesn’t just happen at a desk it happens through rhythm, movement, art, and a whole lot of imagination. Torah, Jewish civilization, and tradition, taught the way kids actually connect with the world.

Keep following to see what Jewish education looks like here at Open Temple.

VeniceCA Jewishlycurious

09/21/2026

If any of these sound like you, welcome, you’re one of us.

At Open Temple, it’s exactly where your Jewish Soul Journey gets to begin. No checklist, no gatekeeping, just an open door and a lot of curiosity to bring.

Come as you are. Light the candle whenever you’re ready. We’ll be here either way. 🕯️

Follow along, come say hi here, your way in is already open.

This year, we’re taking it to the water.Riptide Kol Nidre — Rabbi Lori, the Open Temple Band, and YOU, on the sand just ...
09/16/2026

This year, we’re taking it to the water.

Riptide Kol Nidre — Rabbi Lori, the Open Temple Band, and YOU, on the sand just south of the Venice Pier as the sun goes down.

Kol Nidre is the prayer that releases you from promises you couldn’t keep. We think it lands differently with the tide coming in.

Sunday evening. Reserve your spot and we’ll send you exactly where to meet us. Link in bio.

09/15/2026

So many people come to us carrying the same quiet story: they walked into a Jewish space once and felt like they didn’t measure up. Not observant enough. Not raised right. Not “real” enough.

We want to say this clearly: that feeling was never the truth. Judaism was never meant to be a gate you have to earn your way through.

If you’ve felt this, you’re not alone and you’re not too late, too lost, or too “not Jewish enough” for us.

Tell us in the comments: when did you first feel like you didn’t belong?

09/14/2026

We can see the beauty that surrounds us.

It’s in a seagull perched over a skylight. It’s in a wall of books that’s been read and re-read. It’s in the ordinary corners of a room that somehow feel holy when the right people fill them.

Today, for High Holiday Ritual Lab 5787, we’re exploring Magnificent Obsessions — the things we return to again and again, the fixations that quietly shape who we are, and what it means to bring all of that, unfiltered, into ritual.

Shanah Tovah, friends.

May this year be sweet, the honey-on-your-wrist kind. May it be wild the kind that cracks you open instead of shutting y...
09/12/2026

May this year be sweet, the honey-on-your-wrist kind.

May it be wild the kind that cracks you open instead of shutting you down.

And may it be wide open doors flung, hearts unguarded, room enough for whoever you’re still becoming.

However you Jew, however you found your way to us — we’re glad you’re on this journey alongside us.

L’shanah tovah u’metukah. A good and sweet year, to all of you.

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