Hello Temple Beth Shalom Members and Friends, we are looking forward to our Selichot Dinner and Service on Saturday, September 13.  Dinner is at 6:00 pm.  If you are unable to join us for dinner, we’d still love to have you with us for Havdalah and the Selichot service starting at around 7:30.  Also if you can’t be with us in person, we have Zoom available so that you can hear Rabbi Guyster’s teaching, the start of the High Holiday season songs, and the shofar.  Contact us for the Zoom link.

Dear Temple Beth Shalom Members and Friends, we eagerly look forward to sharing the 2025/5786 High Holidays with you!  Our new Rabbi Will Guyster hit the ground running and is lovingly preparing the outlines and studying the parshot for this September and October.  We wanted you to have the schedule so you can prepare to observe and worship with us.

If you are not yet a member of Temple Beth Shalom you are welcome to attend the High Holidays with us, and request you support our efforts to maintain our Jewish community at this time and all year round with a donation ($100 is standard, but we will accept more).  We would love to consider your donation a partial payment of your first year of membership dues.

Please contact us if you plan to attend, and if you will accept one or more of the honors to fulfill on the bimah:

• Yom Tov Candle Lighting
• Aliyah (come to the bimah to give Torah Blessings)
• Hakafah (carry Torah from the bimah around the congregation and back up)
• Hagbah (lift Torah after portion is read)
• G’lilah (assist with dressing Torah and returning her to the Ark)
• Haftarah Blessings (these are a little bit extra for the High Holidays)
• Readings in English — translations of the parsha, Haftarah portion, responsive readings from Gates of Repentance

You will receive a prompt to come up to the bimah, so you won’t have to guess.  Members and early responders will receive priority in assigning honors, but no better way to strengthen your relationship to your synagogue and community than by helping to deliver the service, so let us hear from you.

Hello Temple Beth Shalom Members and Friends, here comes the last of our Summer series of Member-Led Shabbat services, before we begin services led by Rabbi Guyster and the High Holiday season!  This Friday’s service and talk are more great ones.  Margo Fleisher will lead a relaxed and welcoming, traditional Shabbat service beginning on Friday, August 22 at 7:00 pm, and Professor Howard Kerner will present another of his illuminating and inspirational talks about the best that is in us as human beings and Jews.  I hear that he will be talking about achievements by Jewish people and sharing a list.  I hope there is enough paper.