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 join via the Zoom website instead, go to https://zoom.us, click "Join a Meeting" and then enter the following:

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

Service Times:

SERVICE TIMES (friDAY, march 5 - THURSDAY, march 11)

Torah Study on Shabbat morning, March 6, will be hosted by Shai Robkin and take place on Zoom 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.

Shabbat Services & Info