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S'LICHOT SERVICE and screening of the film Paper Clips

S'lichot offers a unique opportunity to deepen our preparation for the High Holy Days. Join us this Saturday, September 21 at 7:40 pm to say goodbye to Shabbat and welcome the new week with Havdalah, followed by a collation sponsored by Ellen Mendel and screening of the film Paper Clips. The acclaimed documentary tells the story of middle school students in Tennessee who set out to collect six million paper clips to represent the Jewish lives lost in the Holocaust.

The evening will conclude with the S'lichot service, raising up in our awareness the inspiring melodies of the High Holy Day season. Come to be with the community. Come to think about what returning to one's truest self really means. Come to remember the melodies which will saturate our time together as we welcome the new year beginning with Rosh Hashanah, Sunday, September 29.

 

HIGH HOLIDAYS 2019 – 5780

Rosh Hashanah September 29, 30, October 1 · Yom Kippur October 8 & 9

PLEASE NOTE:

High Holiday tickets ordered after MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9TH, must be picked up in the Congregation Habonim office, 103 West End Avenue, during weekday business hours. (Tickets ordered before September 9th will be mailed.)

The deadline for submitting Memorial Book listings is Monday, September 9th.

 

Form for Members to request tickets click HERE

Schedule of Services can be found HERE

Form for Memorial Book listings, Bookplates, Leaves for the Tree of Life, & Memorial Plaques can be found HERE. MEMORIAL BOOK LISTINGS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY SEPTEMBER 9th.

Members wishing to purchase additional tickets click HERE 

Non-members wishing to purchase tickets click HERE 

Non-members wishing to purchase tickets to Youth Services ONLY click HERE

 

HIGH HOLIDAY APPEAL 2019

Dear Friend of Habonim,

We hope you enjoyed a much well-deserved rest this summer. Here at Habonim we are busily planning for the High Holidays beginning on September 29th and culminating ten days later with the observance of Yom Kippur. It is during this time that we reflect back on our past deeds, both individually and as a community. We petition God for forgiveness so that we can enter the new year with a clean slate and focus on mending our shortcomings through Teshuvah (repentance), Tefilah (prayer), and Tzedakah (charity) ...

CLICK HERE to read entire letter and for credit card and e-check donation links.

FALL 2019 RELIGIOUS SCHOOL

 

For registration and other information, contact Education Director Rina Cohen Schwarz at [email protected]

 

CLICK HERE  for the 2019-2020 Religious School Calendar

 

CLICK HERE for the 2019-2020 schedule of Shabbat Morning Youth Services at Congregation Habonim

 

CLICK HERE for the 2019-2020 Family Education Schedule (for 3rd - 7th Grade Families)

Religious School at Habonim 

Nursery School Admissions for 2019-2020 School Year

 

Meet Our Clergy, Staff and Board

Rabbi Lisa Gelber

Messages from Rabbi Gelber

Rosh Hashanah 5779 Message 

Yom Kippur/ Kol Nidre Sermon 5779 - This Year I Stand With You

 

Cantor Bruce Halev 

Mazel tov and yasher koach to Cantor Bruce Halev, who was awarded the distinguished honor of Doctor of Music, Honoris Causa by the Jewish Theological Seminary this past April. Cantor Halev has served as the Cantor of Congregation Habonim since 1983. A graduate of the School of Sacred Music of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC), he also holds MA degrees in Near Eastern Studies and in Jewish Education from New York University, as well as an MSW from Yeshiva University. In 2011 he received a Doctorate of Music, Honoris Causa, from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion for 25 years of service to his synagogue and to the Jewish community. Read more

 

 

Rina Cohen Schwarz, Education Director

 

 

 

 

Tina LobelTina Lobel, Nursery School Director

 

 

 

 

Ann Obsatz, Associate Nursery School Director

 

 

 

Welcome from President Richard Verner

On behalf of the members, clergy and staff of Congregation Habonim, I offer you a warm greeting.  We are the Jewish spiritual home to a caring, generous congregation that offers its members a broad variety of opportunities to learn, to share life-cycle events, and to participate in building our compassionate and welcoming community.  We encourage you to read more about us on our website and to visit us to learn about all that Habonim has to offer.

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