Sukkot
Tashlich
For the second day of Rosh Hashanah, we will be gathering at the Thayer Homestead parking lot at Choate Park, 2B Oak St., Medway. Everyone will stay in their cars for this brief service, which will be broadcast via FM radio (we will send you the frequency in a few days). You can open your windows to hear a live shofar blast. We will conclude with Tashlich, where people will walk to the pond and throw in their sins (we’ll use millet seed to avoid hurting the wildlife). We will provide the seeds in separate containers. We’ll remain socially distant during this part, and we’ll provide hand sanitizer. Please have a mask to use.
This service will start at 2:00 on Sunday, Sept. 20
Challah Class
HHD Schedule 5782
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Wednesday, September 15
7:30 pm – Kol Nidre
Thursday, September 16
10:00 am – Yom Kippur Morning
1:00 pm – Study Program with Rabbi Amy Scheinerman
4:30 pm – Yom Kippur Afternoon, Healing, COVID Remembrance, Yizkor and N’ilah Services
Prayer text will be displayed on screen during services
Tzedek Reflection
JOIN US for a continued conversation from our last “White Nationalism, Antisemitism and Otherness” Reflection to hear about current voting advocacy activity in our lives and congregations and welcome renowned speakers:
Rabbi Tiferet Berenbaum – Rabbi of Congregational Learning,Temple Beth Zion, Brookline. As an African American Jew, Rabbi Berenbaum’s experience places her at the intersection of race and religion. Her work focuses on supporting individuals in knowing themselves and one another deeply, growing Jewishly and working for a kinder world.
Lisa Danetz – Public policy consultant on voting rights and election administration issues, whose recent clients including the Democracy Fund, Brennan Center, and Voting Rights Lab. Former legal director of Demos, a NY-based public policy center.
Andrea Miller – Founder of the Center for Common Ground and the Reclaim Our Vote initiative, leading the national effort against voter suppression and ensuring that every voter’s voice is heard on Nov. 3
Ending Voter Suppression: 60 Days and Counting
Wednesday, September 2
7:00 – 8:30 pm
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You will receive a Zoom link for this event upon registration
S’lichot
Mark your calendars for this great program with our friends at TBT!
In the award-winning short documentary film Joe’s Violin, a donated musical instrument forges an improbable friendship between 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Joe Feingold and 12-year-old Bronx school girl Brianna Perez, showing how the power of music can bring light in the darkest of times and how a small act can have a great impact.
Sisterhood Brunch
HHD Honey
Temple Etz Chaim Sisterhood is proud to present our annual Community-Wide Rosh Hashanah Greeting Fundraiser. Sending Rosh Hashanah greetings is a heartfelt way to emphasize the Jewish unity that lies at the core of the High Holidays and a way to create meaningful connections within our own community.
You should have received an email with a sign-in link. If you can’t find it feel free to email Margot.
HHD 5781
Family Shabbar 20200814
Each year, we honor our Kitah Gimmel (3rd grade) class toward the end of their first year of formal Hebrew study. We provide each member of the class a siddur (prayer book), which they will use throughout Hebrew School, at their B’nei Mitzvah, and beyond. The students have each been given a cover for their siddur, which they have decorated with their Hebrew names. At the service, we give them their Siddur and with its cover.
Each student will be recognized and will speak about their Hebrew name. We hope that the members of our community will join us for this service to honor the accomplishment of this class and to wish them well in their continuing Jewish education.