Daily Minyan & Shabbat Services

Daily and shabbat Services at csi:

Minyan is held every morning and evening at Shearith Israel. Weekday Shacharit begins at 7:00 a.m. (6:50 a.m. on days when the Torah is read); Sundays start at 9:00 a.m.; most federal holidays at 8:30 a.m. Weekday Mincha/Ma’ariv (afternoon and evening) times vary between 5:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. by season, so please consult the calendar for specific times!  Enter for minyan from our parking lot off University Drive.

Egalitarian services are led by volunteers in the traditional manner of Ashkenazi congregations, and are accessible to everyone no matter their level of knowledge. If you are in mourning after the death of a loved one, observing a yahrzeit (anniversary of the date), or want to join our kehilla for a few minutes of reflection and community, please join us any morning or evening. If you are eager to lift your spiritual life through daily prayer, make the Shearith Israel minyan part of your routine.

shabbat morning torah study

Torah Study, hosted by Rabbi Jonathan Crane, is currently taking place in the large tent in our parking lot on Shabbat mornings at 10:30am. 

Shearith israel Minyan Listserv and WhatsApp

For general davening information and questions, please contact us at sidavening@gmail.com.

We have a newsgroup! Join our minyan newsgroup by emailing siminyan-subscribe@googlegroups.com. Members of this group may post messages on the forum advising others of an upcoming yahrzeit or simcha, notifying the group if a regular attendee will be missing services as well as other minyan-related matters.

For same-day communications about daily minyan, you can join either or both our SIMinyan-mornings or SIMinyan-evenings WhatsApp groups. 

RABBINICAL ASSEMBLY SIDDURIM "CROSSWALK"

We know that congregants may be participating in services from home with a variety of siddurim! Please find a breakdown of page numbers for prayer services across the Rabbinical Assembly's Sim Shalom and Lev Shalem siddurim.

Siddur "Crosswalk" for Shabbat

Siddur "Crosswalk" for Weekdays

PURCHASING OR DOWNLOADING A SIDDUR:

To download the prayer book for weekday and Shabbat services, or to order a prayer book (or an Etz Chaim chumash), click the appropriate button below: 

Download Siddur Sim Shalom Weekday and Shabbat Services

Siddur Sim Shalom / Etz Chaim Chumash - ORDER HERE

WANT TO LEAD SERVICES OR CHANT/LEYN HAFTARAH OR TORAH?

Shearith Israel davening is lay led; we are eager to expand the group of Shearith Israelites who lead services, chant Haftarah, and leyn Torah. To leyn Torah, please contact Andrea Seidel Slomka at shearithisraeltorah@yahoo.com. To lead a Shabbat or Yom Tov service or chant Haftarah, please contact Michael Rich at sidavening@gmail.com. 

Weekday service leaders are chosen on the spot, so we encourage you to just show up and make known your yahrzeit/mourning or other interest in leading.  We welcome the opportunity to help you learn (or brush up on) these skills. Reach out to Andrea or Michael and/or check out our study resource guides: 

• Resources for learning how to lead tefila at Congregation Shearith Israel
• Resources for learning how to read Torah and Haftara at Congregation Shearith Israel

Reflections on Praying with a Conservative Minyan

“…people seemed to daven as if they meant it. They exuded this sense that something could happen in prayer.” –Rabbi Elie Kaunfer. Empowered Judaism 2010, p.8.

“This is really a good tent of Jacob, you know, a place where I am happy to dwell, an honest-to-goodness house of G-d.”-Arnold Eisen, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Conservative Judaism: Today and Tomorrow, 2015, p.25.

Prayer is many things to each of us, often different things on different days. These personal reflections by Conservative/Masorti Jews share their experiences of minyan:

How To Say Kaddish For Your Father in 7 Different Cities by Rob Kutner

Reflections on my Mother’s Death: Minyan by Mark Novak

Thoughts as the End of Kaddish Nears by Baruch Stiftel