About Us,
About Our Rabbi
and
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Young Israel
of Orange County
was founded in February 2008 by
approximately twenty families who sought to pursue our dream for establishing a
normative contemporary Torah-observant spiritual community, in the heart of Orange
County in Irvine,
California, built along the guiding principles of the
National Council of Young Israel.
Within our first three months, YIOC
immediately experienced profoundly rapid growth, literally doubling in
size -- and then tripling by three months later -- growing to more than sixty households, including young marrieds,
established professionals and entrepreneurs, college students, and recognized
leaders in the Orthodox, business, and professional communities of Orange
County, California. Now in our fourth year, we have grown to a
congregation of more than 80 families and household memberships, and many others
participating. With a strong love for Israel, recognizing the central
role that Eretz Yisrael plays in the spiritual lives of Jews everywhere – and
with a deep commitment to Torah learning, personal Jewish growth in Torah
knowledge and practice, and performing acts of Chesed (kindness) – in a
community bonded by a love of the Torah of Israel, the Land of Israel, and the
People of Israel, the Young Israel of Orange County
rapidly has expanded the possibilities and options available for Jews wishing to
explore or embrace Torah-observant ("Orthodox") Judaism in Irvine, the most
vibrant Orthodox community in Orange County, California.
(Our
Mission Statement)
And check out all our
latest news, programs, social events, and services
FAQs
Q: What makes your Shul
different from other local Orthodox shuls?
Q: How
Open and Friendly Is
Your Shul to Newcomers or Less Observant?
Q: Is
there a dress code for attending Shabbat services at YIOC?
Q: What time are Shabbat
services?
Q:
What about, uh, food? Y'know -- Kiddush, nosherei,
stuff?
Q: What about my
driving to Shul
on Shabbat? You see, I'm not exactly "100%
Orthodox" -- but I am trying to find something warm and traditional that
emanates from the people and the heart.
Q: Do you have anything
uniquely for women?
Q: Do you have a Bar Mitzvah/ Bat
Mitzvah Training program?
Q: Howzabout programming for kids
/ teens?
Q: How about programs
for me
to learn more Judaism?
Q:
Is
Irvine my best choice,
among other O.C. cities and localities, for Jewish life?
Q: OK --
what's it gonna cost me?
Q: OK -- sounds great. What's my
next step?
Q:
What makes your Shul
different from other Orthodox congregations in Orange County?
A:
Our Tefilah (prayer service)
reflects contemporary American Torah-observant practice in a
normative
context. For example, a dramatic percentage of our mitpal'lim
(worshippers) arrive in Shul on Shabbat morning to daven Shacharit. We
sing robustly, and our davening is marked by a certain ruach and
ta'am (spirit and flavor) that emanates from the audible participation of
the congregants, the "daveners." Even those who are less strong
in Hebrew-reading learn the catchy contemporary tunes and traditionally soulful
melodies that we sing from week to week. Moreover, consistent with the
policies of National Council of Young
Israel, all of our congregational lay officers are Torah-observant.
Our Rav is a
nationally prominent
rabbinical leader and speaker, whose
books,
writings, and
commentaries influence Jewish thought
-- even among prominent rabbis --
throughout the United States.
His Shabbat sermons and Torah classes are uniquely dynamic, often deeply moving
-- even as they emanate from the heart and not from notes -- and he is
nationally sought-after as an
acknowledged expert on a wide range of
Jewish and
public
issues. Our prayer services include a wide range of variegated melodies that
you will be humming in no time, and we vary our melodies to keep weekly davening
robust and fresh. Most importantly, what makes
YIOC so special is the accepting
culture of our respective congregants. You will sense that difference almost immediately.
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Q:
How Open and Friendly Is
Your Shul to Newcomers or to People Less Observant?
A:
Young Israel of Orange County
is remarkably
free of "cliques." Like "Cheers," it is a shul where "everyone
knows your name." As a
defining
founding principle, we also are dramatically free of "synagogue politics."
From the moment you walk into YIOC, you feel the difference --
the chevra (collegiality) and acceptance. Your finances do not
define you as a person. Your prior Jewish experiences may provide texture but do
not define you. Both our Rav and our Rebbetzin often recount their roots,
growing up in families that were respected not for their modest finances but for
the sterling dimensions of their parents' characters. You will feel that difference.
It is your character that identifies
you at
YIOC. (Under the rules of
National Council of Young Israel, a person may not be honored by a Young Israel
congregation simply because she or he is wealthy.) You can be single,
married, divorced. You can be Torah-observant, not-yet-Observant, growing,
and searching. If your Hebrew is weak, we have a Siddur (prayerbook)
just for you (and Hebrew-reading classes, too). Your accent does not matter. We honestly don't care.
Our Shul has been blessed, from its inception, with a sincerely friendly and
warmly accepting orientation that emanates naturally from within people's
hearts. You can tell the difference so quickly. That is where our Shul's
wealth lies: in the people who comprise our congregation. You will find,
too, a great interest in ideas at our Shul. Many of us are young marrieds
starting families, others have been married longer and have teens. Some of
us are "empty-nesters," and others are Single Adults. Yet, a common social
bond finds that conversations at our monthly Shabbat community lunch and in other social
settings tend towards ideas rather than discussions of things . . . or of
people. You will experience the
difference
immediately.
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Q:
Is
there a dress code for Shabbat services at
YIOC?
A: No one is asked to dress a certain way
for Shul. When you show up to enter our House of G-d, you already are making a
powerful statement. You are demonstrating a devotion level that is sacred.
So . . . come as you may,
consonant with your own cultural morés and sense of style. Women, too, dress as
they deem appropriate. Please just enjoy the spirituality and come in with pride and
joy!-- and make new friends at YIOC.
No one among us is judging -- and we are just so thrilled and honored that you
have chosen to daven with us.
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Q:
What time are Shabbat
services?
A:
Please click the "Minyan"
button on this website for our times. (Please click
here for a complete
list of Friday Night times including Candle-Lighting, Mincha, and Kabbalat
Shabbat.) We
start on time, and we usually finish davening on Friday night by 80 minutes
after we started Mincha. We begin on Shabbat mornings at 9:30 a.m. and
usually are done around 12:20 pm, depending on whether the Torah
portion is a bit longer, whether a unique celebration is happening, or what-not.
(Please click here
for Shabbat afternoon times including Mincha-Se'udah Sh'lishit-Maariv-Havdalah.)
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Q:
What about, uh, food? Y'know: Kiddush, nosherei?
A: Every
Shabbat's morning services are followed by a traditional Kiddush collation, and
once every month we have a
great in-house-catered
Kiddush-Lunch (including Challah for Lechem Mishneh,
High-Quality Cold Cuts, Chopped Liver
spreads,
Green Salad, Pasta Salad, Classic Deli Salads,
Hummus, Salsa, Alternating Extras, Homemade Desserts, and stuff).
The food is so good that two-thirds of us typically hang around as a congregational community, making a full sit-down Shabbat lunch of it in the
beautiful elegance of the lovely facility where we daven.
In fact, we sing several
z'mirot
together, bentsch together -- there absolutely is nothing else like
it in all of Orange County,
California. And we get to spend time with each other,
just enjoying company and making new friendships. Who knows? -- maybe our
Monthly Kiddush/Lunch is one of the secrets to our sense of community and the absence of
social cliques or synagogue politics at YIOC. Even so, we all like eating
Shabbat meals at home
sometimes, inviting guests --
or being
invited. And if you are among those of us who prefer eating
Shabbat lunch at home with your invited guests -- whether on one particular
Shabbat or on every Shabbat -- that's great also.
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Q:
What about my driving to Shul on
Shabbat?
Am I gonna get
"looks"? You see, I'm not exactly "100% Orthodox" -- but I am trying to find
something warm and traditional that emanates from the people and the heart.
A:
We cannot emphasize this enough (so we begin with bold-face font for
this one): Young Israel of Orange County
sincerely welcomes and thus is
warmly open to every Jew, and even every
aspiring
Jew, who wants to experience a normative Torah-observant Shabbat
experience. No one -- from our Rav, on down --
ever will ask (or, actually, even wonder) how you got to
Shul, where you eat your meals in Orange County, or anything like that.
And, come to think of it, no one among us even would think to wonder. It
is outside
our
congregational culture to poke around and to judge.
It is the aspiration of every Torah Jew to live within walking distance of
shul, and several of our members have made the effort to fulfill that
aspiration. When we have our own structure some day, our private shul parking
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Q:
Besides davening; do
you have other programs, groups? F'rinstance, anything uniquely for women?
A:
Absolutely. We sponsor a wonderfully robust
YIOC Womens Group that
operates around a three-part focus: (i) great women's social programs;
(ii) unique women's educational programs; and (iii) chesed
(kindness) efforts, which includes focusing on bikur cholim (visiting
the ill) and assisting in the needs of women in our congregation with babies or
expecting 'em soon. Our YIOC Womens Group
was founded in June 2008 at a brunch of more than thirty women. It's a
great group, lots of wonderful women of varied backgrounds and generations.
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Q:
Do you offer Bar Mitzvah/ Bat Mitzvah Training?
A:
Absolutely! We conduct a fantastic, progressive Bar Mitzvah/
Bat Mitzvah training program that aims at teaching Jewish values, Jewish ethics,
Jewish pride, and Jewish knowledge to pre-teen boys and girls studying for their
big day. Boys learn to lead a service, so that they can have meaningful and real
knowledge that they will use any Shabbat they like for the rest of their lives.
They learn to read Hebrew, to read from the Torah in the traditional melody, to
prepare a meaningful Bar Mitzvah speech. Also uniquely, they evolve a
personal relationship with Rav and Rebbetzin Fischer -- and that relationship
continues long past the Bar Mitzvah Day. Girls, too, learn to read Hebrew,
to navigate the Siddur and the Jewish prayers, to prepare a meaningful Bat Mitzvah speech, and they learn more substantive
Judaism -- Bible, Jewish history, the Siddur, Jewish traditions -- than they
imagined was "out there." As with the boys, the girls studying for Bat
Mitzvah learn real, substantive, tangible Jewishness and Judaism -- love of
Israel, pride in their heritage, and real knowledge -- that will last them a
lifetime and even enrich them as future Jewish parents.
Also like the boys, girls also evolve a personal relationship with Rav and
Rebbetzin Fischer -- and that relationship continues long past their Bat Mitzvah
Day.
(By the way,
we offer a uniquely discounted Bar Mitzvah/Bat Mitzvah membership arrangement.)
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Q:
Howzabout programming for kids
/ Teens?
A: We sponsor a full-blown
YIOC Youth & Teens Program,
focusing on Teens, and personally directed by our Rabbi and Rebbetzin.
Both are "cool" and, at the same time, role models for young people in a
generation of confusing and confused values. Our families, our
congregants, our Rav and Rebbetzin are incredibly kid-friendly. This is
not a Shul where people glare at children for being kids, or at parents for
bringing them. The Teen program includes our weekly Tuesday Night "Drink
with Your Cup, and Think with Your Kup" at a local Coffee Bean, as well as
special social programs and our groundbreaking
"Open Yeshiva" for Orange County Teens.
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Q:
How about programs
for me to learn more Judaism?
A: If you want to grow in your Judaism,
Young Israel of Orange County offers a dramatic
plethora of options
for you and your family. Rav Fischer teaches a great Chumash-and-Rashi
"roundtable" class every Tuesday night. Attendance began with six people
in March 2008, and -- without any advertising or publicity -- it has continued
growing, now ranging to 15, even 20, people and more. (Indeed, one young married
couple in the 'hood met each other during the course of a few weeks'
Chumash-and-Rashi with Rav Fischer. How's that
for commentary?) Those who start attending the class just keep coming back every
week. Our Rav also teaches Talmud and Halakhic Codes including
Rambam's Mishnah Torah and the Shulchan Arukh Mishneh B'rurah (Jewish laws from the
Shulkhan Arukh for everyday living year-round) every Thursday evening; a course in
Biblical prophets (N'vi'im Rishonim) every Shbabbat afternoon, Halakhah/ Jewish laws and
their unique everyday applications) during the course of the
absolutely best Se'udah Sh'lishit
meal in
Orange
County.
We offer classes in Hebrew Reading and "Siddur Navigation" skills on
Monday evenings, to maximize your options. We have warm
teaching volunteers who will sit with you in Shul during davening to help you
keep your Siddur right-side-up. Rav Fischer has begun a monthly
"roundtable" -- college-seminar-style -- for robust give-and-take around the
table on critical cutting-edge issues in Jewish life. And we run
an every-other-monthly "Saturday Night at the Movies" program at which we show great flicks,
followed by pertinent discussion of Jewish-grounded themes that arise for
consideration from the films. We also offer a strong program for individuals
interested in studying for
conversion to
Judaism. And, if by any chance we do not offer what you are looking
for -- just ask, and we will make it happen for you!
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Q:
By the way, is
Irvine my best choice -- as among all cities and localities in the O.C. -- for
a rich Jewish life?
A: Absolutely! If you are going to live in
Orange
County (the "O.C.") -- whether because
of its fantastic lifestyle, its wonderful opportunities, a job transfer, or
whatever -- you want to live in Irvine. No
other community anywhere in Orange County
even remotely compares to what
Irvine
offers a traditional Jew. Other O.C. communities may have (at the most)
one "Chabad" congregation, but Irvine
has -- get this! -- Young
Israel of Orange County, two "Chabads" (Lubavitch), and yet
another Orthodox Union shul. That's four shuls.
Moreover,
Irvine has an Eruv that
covers the expanse of the city's "University
Park" community (zip code 92612).
There is
no other Eruv
in Orange County. (When our Rav arrived in Irvine in August 2005, a series of political
obstacles that had delayed the
Eruv's completion for
more than a year serially were overcome.) Naturally,
YIOC's base is located smack in the
heart of the Eruv community.
When our Rav arrived in Irvine
in August 2005, he set three initial priorities for his tenure,
topped by his public announcement in front of 150 people -- before a shovel had
been set into breaking ground -- that he would mobilize efforts to actualize the
construction of a cutting-edge, contemporary Mikveh in
Irvine within three
years. That
Irvine Community Mikveh
-- called the "Community
Mikveh" because the project has been undertaken jointly by
several shuls in Irvine,
from the University Park community to the Woodbridge community, and
is administered and operated by a corporate body independent of any particular
shul -- is slated to open to the public in 2009. Meanwhile, for boys and
girls, there is an Orthodox Jewish Day School only twenty minutes' drive from
YIOC -- the
Hebrew Academy of Huntington Beach in
Westminster. The school is run by Lubavitch, but is not doctrinaire.
(Rav Fischer endorses it, sent his son there, and can discuss the matter further
with you.) The Girls' School runs through high school, from Grades 1-12.
The Boys' School runs from Grades 1-8. Rav Fischer will be delighted to
discuss with you appropriate and excellent options for Jewish High School
options for boys. (Please note that Rav Fischer expressly does
not endorse the local
"TVT" / "Tarbut v'Torah" school as its curriculum currently is
structured. No Orthodox rabbi's family anywhere in Orange County sends any
of their children there, and it would be prudent to consult with Rav Fischer
regarding the school's several lacunae.) Thus, as Irvine has grown -- with four
Orthodox shuls, a
Community Eruv,
a very-soon-forthcoming state-of-the-art
Community
Mikveh, a
Jewish Gift
Store, a multi-faceted
Jewish Community
Center, and options in nearby communities proximate to Irvine for
substantive Jewish Day School
education -- our community has become
the place in Orange County to make a
traditional Jewish life. There is absolutely nothing else in
all of Orange County that even remotely approaches Irvine as the center for
living a Torah-observant life in Orange County.
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Q:
OK -- what's it gonna cost me?
A:
A fair question. So
let's start from the "bottom line": We offer very
generously advantaged membership discounts for (i) New Members, and (ii) Bar
Mitzvah/ Bat Mitzvah Membership Households. Our
philosophy: First and foremost --
Young Israel of Orange County will
welcome you from the get-go. It's not about bucks. We will welcome
your children into our Youth Program. Even if you never contribute a dime,
you . . . and your family . . . and your friends . . . absolutely may come
to -- and participate in -- anything and everything.
Naturally, the "American Way" in Jewish life often finds
families and single-person households opting at some point in time to express
affiliation with a loving and warm Shul that resonates for their souls.
That expression of affiliation typically is expressed, ultimately, by "joining"
a Shul as a "member." It allows you personally to be counted, to know that
you are contributing to tikkun olam -- making a better world --
and to know that you are making a difference by amplifying and augmenting
something greater than any individual. It also helps pay for our programs
and our professionals and costs. You will be thrilled that our
membership options are less expensive than most any other Jewish congregation in
Orange County -- even though we offer a
world-class Rabbi,
a professionally staffed
Youth
Program, a robust
Women's
Group, great
learning and social opportunities for personal growth . . . and the
most spiritually rewarding normative Torah-observant
prayer environment
you will experience anywhere in Orange County, California. And -- if,
confidentially, you cannot afford any of our nominal membership categories -- we
still will welcome you as an honored full-blown member with all the
privileges of membership. As the expression goes: "No one is going to
check your tzitzis." And we mean it.
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Q:
OK
-- sounds great. What's my next step?
A:
Just show up in
Shul! Or just show up at a
class. Or
contact our Rabbi.
Whatever makes you a Happy Jew!
Really -- whatever makes you a Happy Jew.
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Fischer. Study for a Bar Mitzvah at Young Israel. Study for a Bat
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Fischer. Study for a Bar Mitzvah at Young Israel. Study for a Bat
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