You’re invited to become a part of the Shomrei Torah community!

Whether you’re steeped in Jewish tradition or exploring it for the first time, we welcome you. If you’re part of an inter-faith household, we welcome your entire family. Whether you’re interested in learning, prayer, community, culture, or social advocacy, you are welcome here.

Our community is diverse and inclusive, comprised of individuals from varied walks of life with different experiences, expectations, and needs. We gather to learn, listen, laugh, worship, play, and volunteer together. Blending the traditional with the innovative, Shomrei Torah provides all community members with plentiful opportunities to embrace and appreciate Jewish life and Sonoma County living, making both more vibrant and robust.

The benefits of membership are many and ongoing throughout the year. Classes, cultural and social events, musical performances, lifecycle events, opportunities for social action, and the joy and satisfaction of belonging to a vibrant and nurturing Jewish community are just some of what you’ll be a part of here at Shomrei Torah.

Shomrei Torah’s Pledge to You and Your Family

• We value inclusion. We welcome diversity of ability, background, color, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, religious practice, and political belief. We celebrate each other for our differences and we learn how to meet each other’s needs such that we all feel respected and are able to participate as fully as we would like.
• We encourage compassionate social advocacy and action. Civic engagement is a Jewish responsibility. As a community, we actively take on issues around equity and sustainability, and partner with others in the region to make positive change here in Sonoma County and the greater Bay Area. We are also proud of our Jewish Community Scholarship program, through which we sponsor two local high school graduates from underserved communities to attend the college of their choice; most of these students represent the first generation in their family to go to college.
• We look out for one another. No one should celebrate or face challenges alone. Whether dealing with illness, a death in the family, or natural disasters, members of the Shomrei Torah community are here to deliver a meal, tackle some errands, offer an ear or a hug, and support you in whatever way you need.
• We love to learn. Our organized educational experiences for adults and children offer regular opportunities to learn together or individually, and at any age. We learn from each other and l’dor v’dor (from generation to generation), from that which has been handed down. We strive to maintain open and curious minds.
• We worship together. Whether you feel most spiritually alive when belting out a joyful song, engaged in deep discussion about the nature of G-d, or lighting Shabbat candles with family and friends, Shomrei Torah strives to provide you with avenues of connection to the sacred and holy.
• We provide a spiritual center and community gathering place. Our building and campus serve as a place of refuge, a place to pray, a place to learn, and a place to connect. Our Santa Rosa facility is here for you, a place you can count on to be a city or regional hub following a natural disaster or simply a great venue for a raucous Purim carnival!
• We celebrate and cultivate Jewish peoplehood. We are committed to the vitality, peace, and well-being of the Jewish people, here in Sonoma County, in the greater Bay Area, in Israel, and all around the world.

How Members Create Our Shomrei Torah Community