SHUL REVIEW: Yakar — Downstairs Minyan (Friday and Saturday)

September 26, 2014

SHUL REVIEW: Yakar — Downstairs Minyan (Friday and Saturday)

Rating: 5/5 — Beautiful harmony that is perfectly resonant in their space.

Friday Night: The room reverberated from the power of the harmony. If you want a more upbeat minyan, check out the upstairs minyan instead, as tempos occasionally lagged.

Saturday: Similar qualities with a ten-minute kiddush break and thirty-minute optional classes replacing a traditional sermon — one in English, one in Hebrew.

Both of Yakar’s minyanim seem to be great. Among my favorites in Jerusalem.

Orthodox, Carlebach melodies, front-to-back mechitza.
Location: 10 Halamed-Hey Street, Jerusalem (separate men’s and women’s entrances).