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  • Join us for Rosh HashanahServices at a friendly location, with complementary apple & honey. Listen to the sound of the shofar and be ready for a brand new year! Click here to save your Seat at High Holiday Services at Chabad of Poway/ Rancho Bernardo
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Chabad of Poway is a center for Jewish life where everyone is welcome and accepted, regardless of background, knowledge, or affiliation. Here at Chabad, we practice Judaism with love, care, and passion, providing people of all ages with a warm, genuine, and personalized Jewish experience.
Chabad is Celebrating 40 years serving the Jewish Community in North County Inland, Located in the Poway/ Rancho Bernardo community.

We are your Jewish community in San Diego's North County Inland.

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  • Why You'll Love Simchat TorahThere is something genuinely restorative about being unguardedly, uncomplicatedly happy in public. A... Read More
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Upcoming Holiday
Sep. 25 - Oct. 2
Daily Thought
On Simchat Torah we dance with our feet, not with our heads. We are celebrating the Torah, and the Torah is something we study with our heads. But we dance with our feet, not with our heads. If we would dance with our heads, each one would dance a different dance, each in a different space, some with friends but not with others, some as lonesome souls. One head is higher, one is lower, one is here on earth, the other in the clouds or beyond, and some minds know only their own space that no one else can know. But we dance with our feet, and all our feet are here on the same earth—none higher and none...