| Rabbi's Name | Rabbi Dov Fischer |
| Orthodox Religious Traditional Values | Modern Orthodox |
| Affiliation | Young Israel |
Location of Shabbat & Holiday Morning Services
Back Bay Conference Center
2nd floor at Irvine Lanes
3415 Michelson Dr. Irvine, CA 92612
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About Young Israel of Orange County
We are a “Boutique” Modern Orthodox Jewish Congregation, based in Irvine, California. Call it “Jewish Orange County” or “Jewish Irvine.” As a “Boutique” congregation, we are smaller, more intimate. Our Rav is easily accessible. Our focus is on warmth and friendship, caring and accepting without judging others.
We are particularly focused on personal growth, learning together, creating communities of learning — learning how to pray, learning how to lead prayers, learning the great texts of Judaism and the great commentaries that bring those texts to life. We pray. We study. We celebrate. And, yeah, we celebrate pretty good when we celebrate.
We are a Modern Orthodox shul in Irvine — Jewish Orange County — now in our seventh year, where you now are needed and always will be needed. Not just for when we need to raise funds and to squeeze money out of you. (We prefer having you with us for a minyan, not for cash. But we do accept MasterCard and VISA.) By us, you matter even before you tell everyone you are quitting the shul
We are a place where you and your loved ones actually matter, and where you and they will have a close personal relationship with the Rav (Rabbi) and Rebbetzin. A shul that started with a hope, a dream, a prayer, and less than a buck.
Now, more than 80 Orange County Jews come every week to attend our uniquely intimate and substantively intelligent classes for pre-teens, teens and adults. Our “signature davening” is on Friday nights, Shabbat Days, and Sunday mornings, and we have fabulous special events and celebrations — and classes every day of the week.
C’mon, wouldja? Consider a shul that always is open on Shabbat morning. That’s we. (And we are good in grammar, too.) We’re the little shul that’s hard to find. With no building (yet) of our own, we hold our main services along Jewish Irvine’s “Synagogue Row” at the Back Bay Conference Center at Michelson & Harvard above the “Irvine Lanes” bowling alley.
No impressive architecture or stained glass windows, but a warm crowd, cold air conditioning, services that mesh with Jewish tradition, and a rabbi who doesn’t believe that humor and religion are mutually exclusive.