High Holy Days Brochure 2017 - 5778

High Holy Days | 2017 | 5778 May God renew us for a good year!

Welcome to our High Holy Day celebrations and thank you for being a part of our Chizuk Amuno community.

We invite you to join with us in the many services and programs outlined in this booklet.

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Selihot: An Evening of Music and Preparation Saturday, September 16 Join with our community to prepare for Rosh HaShanah & Yom Kippur.

8:00 p.m. Havdalah & Dessert Reception

We gather to enjoy the sweetness and light of Havdalah following the conclusion of shabbat and enjoy a dessert reception.

9 p.m. Selihot Service (Service of Forgiveness)

Selihot is a unique and moving late night “Service of Forgiveness� that starts the High Holy Day season. It is a spiritual and evocative evening that challenges us to reflect upon our past deeds and experiences and encourages us to consider personal and religious goals for future growth and change.

Before our Selihot Service begins, the Torah Scrolls in the ark are publicly changed into their white High Holy Day covers which symbolize the freshness and purity of the coming New Year.

During the service, a string quartet will accompany Hazzan Perlman and the Chizuk Amuno Choir in celebration of the rich and mysterious music that helps us welcome the High Holy Days. The evening concludes with the familiar sounding of the Shofar.

Rosenbloom Religious School Family Selihot Service: Stepping into the High Holy Days (Grades K-6)

Sunday, September 17 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Our Family Selihot Service welcomes our parents and children Grades K-6, plus siblings and friends, in an interactive family friendly experience, led by Rabbi Seltzer. Join with your friends as we prepare for the New Year and participate in our community shofar blast. We will dress the Torah Scrolls in their white covers, share our personal prayers, sing the songs which mark this important time of year, and enjoy some holiday sweets!

High Holy Day Service Descriptions NOTE: During our Rabbinic Transition, there will be one Krieger/ Stulman combined service in the Krieger Auditorium shared by Rabbi Deborah Wechsler and Rabbi Paul Schneider along with Dr. Larry Amsterdam and Dr. David Roffman. The Sanctuary service will be shared by Rabbi Wechsler, Rabbi Schneider, and Hazzan Perlman.

Sanctuary

Rabbi Deborah Wechsler - Rosh HaShanah Day 1 Rabbi Paul Schneider - Yom Kippur Morning Hazzan Emanuel Perlman The Sanctuary services provide an inspiring and evocative setting for personal prayer and reflection, complemented by Hazzan Perlman and The Chizuk Amuno Choir. English readings and reflections, as well as a sermon and teaching are interspersed throughout the services to enrich and inform each person’s experience.

Krieger Auditorium

Rabbi Paul Schneider - Rosh HaShanah Day 1 Rabbi Deborah Wechsler - Yom Kippur Morning Dr. Larry Amsterdam & Dr. David Roffman, Ba’alei Tefilah The Krieger Auditorium services provide a warm and participatory setting for personal prayer and reflection. English readings and a sermon are interspersed throughout the service to enrich and inform each person’s experience.

Second Day Rosh HaShanah All of our clergy, our Ba’alei Tefilah, and our entire community join together in the Sanctuary for an uplifting, spirited and joyful service, including multiple shofars blown from all over the Sanctuary.

Important High Holy Day Seating Information n Stulman Service Seat Holders

During our Rabbinic Transition, there will be one Krieger/Stulman combined service in the Krieger Auditorium as Rabbi Schneider will join Rabbi Wechsler leading the Krieger Auditorium and Sanctuary Services. Those who usually attend the Stulman Auditorium service are invited to select either the Sanctuary or Krieger Auditorium service for 2017.

Please return the card at the end of this booklet or contact Judy Simkin (jsimkin@chizukamuno.org or 410-486-6400) to indicate your preference.

n Your seats for the First Day of

Rosh HaShanah as well as on Yom Kippur eve and morning will remain in the same location as last year. However, subject to the availability of seats in different locations, you have the option of moving to different seats or a different worship service. n On the Second Day of Rosh HaShanah all the members of

our synagogue family, gather together in the Sanctuary to celebrate and worship.

n Reserved seats for the

Second Day of Rosh HaShanah not occupied by 10:30 a.m. will

become available for general seating.

n Elderly and disabled members

who require special assistance

for their comfort in the Sanctuary are able to reserve their seats for the entire Second Day service. Hosts will be located throughout the Sanctuary and balcony to ensure that everyone is assisted and comfortably seated.

n Extra Seats for Your Students

& Relatives We are delighted to welcome your family’s children, high school and college students as well as relatives who may be visiting with you during the High Holy Days. Suggested donation for these extra seats range from $100 to $250.

Questions regarding High Holy Day seating, please contact Judy Simkin, 410-486-6400, ext. 232 or jsimkin@chizukamuno.org by Friday, August 18.

Though seating in the Sanctuary will be open, all congregation members who wish may reserve seats for this communal Second Day service in advance.

Service Honors

Each year we delight in how many of our synagogue members share in the honors of Opening the Ark, coming up to the Torah, and participating in the ritual of our High Holy Day Services. In the Sanctuary and Krieger Auditorium service honors invitations are extended each year in continuing alphabetical rotation.

2017 | 5778 High Holy Day Services

Erev Second Day Rosh HaShanah

Higher & Higher - Shofar Ceremony

Wednesday, September 20 We invite you and your children to bring your own Shofarot and join at 5:45 p.m. in the synagogue courtyard. We will welcome the New Year with a special Shofar Ceremony before Erev Rosh HaShanah Services.

Together we will prepare to greet the New Year about to begin, and sound our many Shofarot to announce the arrival of 5778.

Rosh HaShanah

Erev Rosh HaShanah ~ Wednesday, September 20

Minhah: Afternoon Service 5:45 p.m.

Hoffberger Chapel Ma’ariv: Evening Service 6:00 p.m.

We will usher in the New Year together in the Sanctuary.

Seating will be open for this service. All of our clergy will participate during this service.

Rosh HaShanah, First Day ~ Thursday, September 21 Sanctuary, Krieger/Stulman Services Shaharit: Morning Service Torah Service

…followed by the Sounding of the Shofar Musaf: Holy Day Service

Tashlikh • 5:00 p.m.

9:00 a.m.

9:30 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Our entire community will gather at 5:00 p.m. in the Garden Lounge for friendship and refreshments before walking down to the stream on Phillips Drive to symbolically cast away our sins. Following Tashlikh everyone is invited to remain for Minhah, the Afternoon Service.

Minhah: Afternoon Service 6:15 p.m.

Ma’ariv: Evening Service 6:30 p.m.

We will continue our welcome of the New Year together in the Sanctuary.

Rosh HaShanah, Second Day ~ Friday, September 22

Sanctuary Shaharit: Morning Service Torah Service

…followed by the Sounding of the Shofar Musaf: Holy Day Service Ma’ariv: Evening Service

Rosh HaShanah, Second Day ~ Aliyot

9:00 a.m.

9:30 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

6:30 p.m.

On the Second Day of Rosh HaShanah when our worship service embraces all of us as one synagogue community, we honor members of our congregation for their life experiences in the past year.

• We recognize friends in our synagogue community who have experienced healing in the year gone by, with an aliyah to the Torah.

• We recognize friends in our congregation who have been blessed with the birth of children or grandchildren in the past year.

• We recognize our synagogue members who recently became Bar and Bat Mitzvah.

• We recognize those in our synagogue family who were married or who celebrated their children’s and grandchildren’s weddings last year.

• We recognize our elders who are 90 years of age or older.

Cemetery Memorial Services Sunday, September 24

Yom Kippur

Arlington Cemetery • 10:00 a.m.

Garrison Forest Cemetery • 11:30 a.m.

In the tradition of our ancestors, we gather inside the hallowed gates of our congregation’s cemeteries to recite psalms, prayers, and personal memorials during the Days of Repentance between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. Services are conducted by our clergy, accompanied at Arlington Cemetery by voices of the Chizuk Amuno Choir.

Kol Nidre ~ Erev Yom Kippur, Friday, September 29

Holocaust Memorial Service Sunday, September 24

Sanctuary and Krieger/Stulman Services Shaharit: Morning Service Torah Service Yizkor Memorial Prayers* Musaf: Holy Day Service

Holocaust Memorial Garden at Chizuk Amuno • 1:00 p.m.

To honor the memories of our loved ones who perished in the Shoah, our beloved departed whose graves we cannot visit, we will hold a special Memorial Service in the courtyard. Please join us to honor the legacies of those we will always remember.

Sanctuary and Krieger/Stulman Services Minhah: Afternoon Service in the Hoffberger Chapel Kol Nidre & Ma’ariv: Evening Service

5:45 p.m.

6:15 p.m.

Yom Kippur, Saturday, September 30 9:00 a.m.

10:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

11:30 a.m.

*During the Yizkor service we will use our publication, Wings of Memory, in which we honor the memories of our loved ones.

Our entire community will complete our observance of Yom Kippur and the High Holy Days together in the Chizuk Amuno Sanctuary.

Seating will be open for these sessions and services.

Yom Kippur Food Drive

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As you reflect on the past year and on the one that is nearing, consider putting Isaiah’s message of social responsibility into action by making a contribution of non-perishable food items to the bins in the lobbies.

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In the Haftarah for Yom Kippur, the prophet Isaiah implores Jews to fast not just by refraining from food, but by taking meaningful social action.

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Sunday-Thursday, September 24 -28 Minhah: Afternoon Service Neilah: Concluding Service – Sanctuary Be sure to bring your shofar!

Family Neilah Service – Krieger Auditorium

4:45 p.m.

6:15 p.m.

6:45 p.m.

Yom Kippur Study Sessions: “The Book of Jonah” 2:45 p.m. During the break between morning and afternoon services many congregants choose to spend the day at the synagogue in study or quiet reflection. For those who wish to use this time for study, four talented teachers and members of the congregation will each be sharing their understanding of the unique book of the Bible that is read every Yom Kippur afternoon.

Ellen Friedman Jonah’s Upside Down Logic Dr. Barry M. Gittlen Jonah and the Irony of Successful Prophecy Judy Meltzer The Book of Jonah: A Big Fish Tale Rita Plaut Jonah: Prophet or Rebel?

Ask the Rabbi

3:45 p.m. Each year on Yom Kippur afternoon we meet in the sanctuary for a question and answer session with the Rabbi. Participants ask about theology, Jewish tradition and customs, current events, and any other pertinent questions they want to ask the rabbi. It’s a fun and insightful hour to which everyone is invited.

Israel Bonds

On Rosh HaShanah, join Jews around the country by making an investment and purchasing an Israel Bond to show your support and love for Israel.

For more information, please contact Sheila Sandbank, grandmasheilax2@hotmail.com or 410-484-5016.

College Outreach High Holy Day Package

Deadline: September 1 Our college students receive gifts of snacks and a greeting from Rabbi Wechsler. If you have not yet submitted your Chizuk Amuno college student’s address please e-mail it to Bonnie Ziegelstein, bonnieroy3@verizon.net.

This effort is supported by the Adult Bat Mitzvah 2006 College Outreach Fund

Buy Your Lulav and Etrog!

Order your Lulav and Etrog set from Israel through Brotherhood representatives, Marvin Spector, 410-484-8939 or Michael Moranz, 410-486-0277 by Monday, September 18 or return the enclosed form. $45 per set. Please make your check payable to Chizuk Amuno Brotherhood.

Annual Appeal Campaign

Each year, as the High Holy Days approach, we take time to count our blessings, review the year that is coming to a close, and join in prayer with our community for a happy, healthy, and prosperous year ahead. That is what we should be doing on our sacred space. And so, once again, we will not be asking you for your annual appeal gift to our synagogue from the pulpit during our prayers.

We hope, instead, we will be able to just say “thank you,” for the generous response to our campaign requests which you will receive this summer.

We are truly blessed with the extraordinary generosity of so many of our members in response to our annual appeal, and, for this support without which we simply could not continue, we are extremely grateful.

This year, as we rebuild and renew our vision, and add new leadership to our synagogue community, I hope we can count on each and every one of you! Every single gift matters!

Every single member of Chizuk Amuno, every parent or grandparent of a child in one of our schools, every single one of us matters, and every single dollar we contribute makes a difference! Please join us in our goal to reach 100% participation!

Beth Goldsmith, Vice President for Development

For Our Children and Teens on Rosh HaShanah

W

e hope you will participate in our joyous family-centered High Holy Day services and activities.

Please note that space is limited and

prior sign-up is required for Torah for Tots, Family Service, and Middle School Kol Nidre Service. You may register for these services on the Worship page of our website, by returning the attached card, or by e-mailing ehaas@chizukamuno.org.

Childcare for Our Youngest Friends both days of Rosh HaShanah Childcare for our youngest children (6 mos-5 yrs old) on both days of Rosh HaShanah begins at 9 a.m. in the Goldsmith Early Childhood Education Center wing and concludes when the congregational services are concluded.

First Day of Rosh HaShanah Thursday, September 21 For Grades K and Below

11:15 a.m. Torah for Tots

Registration required

A high energy, interactive service with Michelle Gold that includes song, dancing, snacks, and stories.

For Grades K-4 and Families

10 a.m. or 11:15 a.m. Family Service Registration required

An interactive service with Rabbi Stuart Seltzer, including story-telling, prayer, and shofar-sounding.

For Grades K-4

10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Camp Tishrei

A variety of experiential holiday activities including games, drama, prayer, shofarblowing, and movement for students only, led

by Chizuk Amuno teachers and college alumni.

Timing for “Camp Tishrei� will coordinate with the times for the Family Services to accommodate students who wish to go to both.

For Grades 5-8

10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Middle School Explorations

Second Day of Rosh HaShanah Friday, September 22

For Grades K and Below

11:15 a.m. Torah for Tots

Registration required

For Grades K-4 and Families

10:00 a.m. Family Service Registration required

Exploratory holiday programming including games, discussions, food-tasting, prayer, and shofar-sounding.

For Grades K-4

For Everyone

10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Middle School Explorations

5:00 p.m. Tashlikh

Our entire community will gather at 5:00 p.m. in the Garden Lounge for friendship and refreshments before walking to an outdoor ceremony to symbolically cast away our sins.

10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Camp Tishrei For Grades 5-8

For Our Children and Teenagers Yom Kippur Services, Programs, and Activities Erev Yom Kippur Friday, September 29

Yom Kippur Morning Saturday, September 30

Neilah | Yom Kippur Evening Saturday, September 30

For Grades K-4 and Families

Childcare for Our Youngest Friends on Yom Kippur Childcare for our youngest children begins at 9 a.m. in the Goldsmith Early Childhood Education Center wing and concludes when the congregational services are concluded.

6:45 p.m. Family Neilah Service

6:15 p.m. Family Service

Registration required An interactive Kol Nidre service with Rabbi Stuart Seltzer, including story-telling, prayers, and parent-child interaction.

For Grades 5-8

6:15 p.m. Middle School Prayer Experience For Grades K and below 11:15 a.m. Torah for Tots, Gym Registration required A participatory gathering for middle school students only, led by Morah Erica Allen, featuring Kol Nidre rituals, prayers, and discussions.

Registration required

For Grades K-4 and Families

10 a.m. or 11:15 a.m. Family Service, Esterson Auditorium Registration required

For Grades K-4

10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Camp Tishrei For Grades 5-8

10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Middle School Explorations For Grades 9-12

10:30 a.m. Teen Gathering

Bring the entire family for an uplifting concluding Yom Kippur Service. Following the Family Neilah Service, we will parade into the Sanctuary to join for Havdalah and the final shofar blasts. We invite you to bring your own shofar if you have one. There will be light sticks for everyone!

We hope you will participate in our joyous family-centered High Holy Day services and activities as well as participate in adult services. Please note that space is limited for Torah for Tots, Family Service, and Middle School Kol Nidre Service.

You may register for these services on the Worship page of our website, by returning the enclosed card, or by e-mailing ehaas@chizukamuno.org.

Stulman Service Attendees!

During our Rabbinic Transition, there will be one Krieger/Stulman combined service in the Krieger Auditorium as Rabbi Schneider will join Rabbi Wechsler leading the Krieger Auditorium and Sanctuary Services. The Krieger/Stulman service will have Dr. Larry Amsterdam and Dr. David Roffman as Ba’alei Tefilah.

Please indicate which service you would like to attend by completing and returning this card or email Judy Simkin, jsimkin@chizukamuno.org at the synagogue.

Friendly Hosts & Greeters Needed!

We need volunteers to serve as hosts for services during the year, both Shabbat and High Holy Days, and as hallway greeters.

Please help us greet our congregations and guests warmly. m I/We will host at the following service(s) q Shabbat q Erev Rosh Hashanah q Rosh Hashanah Day 1

q Rosh Hashanah Day 2 q Kol Nidre q Yom Kippur

Name(s)

Name(s) ______________________________ Number of Seats _________________

Phone

Select one :

E-mail

Krieger/Stulman Service ___________________

For further questions, please contact Sheila Sandbank at grandmasheilax2@hotmail.com or 410-486-7922 or Fran Glushakow Gould, franny1912@ yahoo.com or 443-691-0133

Sanctuary Service ________________________

Youth Service Reservations

Children must be accompanied to these services by at least one parent or adult. Please note: Middle School Kol Nidre Service is for students only. We will accommodate reservations on a first come, first served basis.

Lulav & Etrog Order Form Order deadline: Monday, September 18, 2017

Cost per set: $45. Please enclose a check covering the cost of the total number of lulav/etrog sets ordered. Orders and checks should be sent to: Chizuk Amuno Brotherhood, Attn: Lulav & Etrog, 8100 Stevenson Road, Baltimore, MD 21208.

Please e-mail ehaas@chizukamuno.org or return this card by Wednesday, September 13 to the Religious School Office.

Name(s)

Name of parent(s) attending

Phone

Children/names and ages

No. of sets

Total enclosed $

E-mail __________________________Phone ______________________ RH1

RH2

Kol Nidre

YK

m 10 a.m. Family m 10:30 a.m. Family m 6:15 p.m. Family m 10 a.m. Family m 11:15 a.m. Family m 11:15 a.m. Torah for Tots m 6:15 p.m. Middle School m 11:15 a.m. Family m 11:15 a.m. Torah for Tots m 11:15 a.m. Torah

for Tots

Early pick up will be Monday, October 2 between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

Otherwise, they can be picked up the first morning of Sukkot at services.

Please be sure to afix proper postage

Please be sure to afix proper postage

Chizuk Amuno Congregation Seat Requests

Chizuk Amuno Congregation Hosts & Greeters

8100 Stevenson Road Baltimore, MD 21208

8100 Stevenson Road Baltimore, MD 21208

Please be sure to afix proper postage

Please be sure to afix proper postage

Chizuk Amuno Congregation High Holy Day Youth Services

Chizuk Amuno Congregation Brotherhood - Lulav & Etrog

8100 Stevenson Road Baltimore, MD 21208

8100 Stevenson Road Baltimore, MD 21208