Services

Shabbat Shalom and L’Shana Tova Temple Beth Shalom Members and Friends!

We have information on the upcoming Rosh Hashanah services for you. Our observance begins with Erev Rosh Hashanah this Friday, September 11 at 7:00 pm. The Rosh Hashanah Morning Service follows at 10:00 am on Saturday, September 12.

We hope to see everyone from our community as we gather together to welcome 5787. If you are unable to join us in person at the synagogue, we hope you will join us on Zoom.

Erev Rosh Hashanah: Friday, September 11 at 7:00 pm
Rosh Hashanah Morning Service: Saturday, September 12 at 10:00 am

Contact us for the Zoom Link.

L’Shana Tova!
May 5787 bring health, peace, joy, and blessings to our entire community.

Hello Temple Beth Shalom Congregation and Friends, coming up is our final Summer, Lay-Led Shabbat Service, and it is another great one!  On Friday, August 21 Bert Devorsetz is sharing his birthday as well as his traditional Reform Jewish Shabbat service leadership with us, so it will be uniquely special.  

Dear Temple Beth Shalom Congregation and Friends, we eagerly look forward to sharing the 2026/5786-5787 High Holidays with you!  Rav Guyster is busily planning a season of prayer, contemplation, and music for you.  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 let us know as soon as you can with confirmation of what dates 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.

Remember to RSVP to Sandi Grinker if you are attending the Brotherhood/Sisterhood-sponsored Selichot Dinner and Service on September 5.  Sandi is at sandigrinker@gmail.com or 863-207-7440.

Sharon Johnson is kindly coordinating the Yom Kippur Break Fast on September 21 again.  Please support her efforts and contact her at WB2LfY@msn.com or 516-241-4512.

Hello Temple Beth Shalom Congregation and Friends, we have another wonderful experience planned for Shabbat morning this week.  On Saturday, August 8 at 11:00 am the Grinker family brings you a service and Oneg Shabbat filled with warmth and friendship as they have for many Summers.  Deborah Grinker will lead the ritual portion of the service with her thorough knowledge of the service and songs, and Sandra Grinker will give a talk on life as a Jew and as an Orthodox Jew.  That is sure to be relatable and interesting!  Following the service, Sandi arranged a lovely luncheon for us, so come by to share in it with us and to thank the Grinkers.

Hello Temple Beth Shalom Congregation and Friends, this week comes another opportunity to see your synagogue’s Board leadership and longtime members at work in a lay-led Shabbat Evening service on Friday, July 24 at 7:00 pm.  Our Board Trustee, Dr. Krystal Rose and and our President, Uriah Rose will lead us in prayer and show us how they open their hearts and minds to doing the mitzvot.  Another great team that we have among us!  Please come to experience this with us together.  Zoom is also available as an alternative. Please contact us for the link.

Hello again Temple Beth Shalom Congregation and Friends, we meet again on Saturday, July 11 at 11:00 am for another in our series of Summer Shabbat Lay Services.  Some more of our experienced and dear congregational service leader team, Arlene Greenberg and Lee Ann Martinez, have a Shabbat Morning Service coming up for you.  Arlene’s and Lee Ann’s services with us are always full of warmth, relaxation, and meaning — join in to soak that up, and support them and Temple Beth Shalom.  We will once again be simultaneously onsite and on Zoom, contact us for the link.

Hello Temple Beth Shalom Congregation and Friends, our next service is tomorrow/Friday June 26 at 7:00 pm.  Margo Fleisher and Elliott Bond will again lead our service, this time a Shabbat Evening Service.  We’re delighted to announce our scheduled speaker is Prof. Bobby  Baum.  His working title is “You Irritate the Hell out of Me”, but advises the message is how we can disagree but still maintain relationships.