Livestreaming Services
Rabbi Kaiman and Jodi Salomon, Executive Director, in consultation with our leadership at Shearith Israel, the Rabbinical Assembly, USCJ, and experts at the CDC working on COVID-19, have updated guidelines for the next phase of combating this illness.
Congregation Shearith Israel is suspending all in-person services and programs. Many Conservative congregations are considering this a sha'at d'chak - a time that is a particular stress. One of Rabbi Kaiman's teachers in Jewish law, Rabbi Elliot Dorff, holds by this opinion. This legal category permits certain practices that would normally be forbidden. The relevant example is forming and participating in virtual minyanim.
All services are being held virtually on Zoom via the button below. We will count participants participating in these livestreamed services as part of a minyan, or prayer quorum, allowing members to recite full prayer services including Mourner's Kaddish.
To be a part of services, visit the following Zoom link at the appropriate time.
Livestream Services via Zoom - Gather Here
To download the prayer book for weekday and Shabbat services, click the "Download Siddur Sim Shalom" button.
Download Siddur Sim Shalom Weekday and Shabbat Services
Service Times:
SERVICE TIMES (friDAY, november 27 - THURSDAY, december 3)
Please note: On Thanksgiving Day (Thursday, November 26), Morning Services will begin at 8:30am, and Evening Services will take place at 5:30pm.
Torah Study, hosted by Rabbi Jonathan Crane, will take place on Zoom on Shabbat morning, November 28 at 9:30am. Click the link below to participate.
Shabbat Morning Torah Study (via Zoom @ 9:30am) - Gather Here
REMEMBER: Shearith Israel has a minyan twice a day, seven days a week. Yahrzeit begins the previous evening. Please participate in our virtual services (at the "Livestream Services Here" link above) to support your fellow congregants saying Kaddish - YOU might just be that key tenth person!
Shabbat Services:
For information on our weekly Shabbat services, candle lighting times and more, click the button below.
Wed, November 25 2020
9 Kislev 5781
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