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Again this year we will be having the Yom Kippur Food Drive. Bags will be placed under your seats on Rosh Hashanah. They should be brought back to the synagogue on Kol Nidre or Yom Kippur filled with non-perishable food.
High Holiday Schedule 2007/5768
 Hilary Leboff, Executive Director I wanted to inform you of a few important items that will help to make your High Holidays at Shir Ami a pleasant and spiritual time for everyone.
As always we advise you to enter into the parking lot from the eastbound side of 332. You will not be allowed to make the U turn off of 332 into our parking lot. If you require handicapped parking or handicapped seating please call me at the Temple office so that I may send you a parking permit. Handicapped seating is for the family whose name is on the reserved seating paper. Please do not sit in these seats.
PLEASE REMEMBER THERE IS NO SAVING OF SEATS, MAKE SURE YOUR ENTIRE PARTY ARRIVES TOGETHER. OUR USHERS HAVE BEEN INSTRUCTED TO GUIDE MEMBERS TO ALL AVAILABLE SEATS.
If you will be out of town and want to attend Holiday services, let me know so that I can send away for tickets for you and your family.
I know that in these hard financial times many of our families need assistance from the Synagogue this is the case for your family please contact Hilary Leboff at the Temple office, or by e-mail at Hleboff@shiramipa.org.
The entire office and administrative staff of Shir Ami would like to wish you and your family a happy and healthy New Year.
SELICHOT
Saturday, September 8, 2007
“Songs of Repentance, Songs of Forgiveness”
THREE SERVICES OFFERED TO SHIR AMI FAMILIES
FOR ROSH HASHANAH AND YOM KIPPUR
Thursday, September 13 and Saturday, September 22
Please note that there are now three services to respond to the variety of spiritual needs of our Shir Ami congregants.
At 8:45 AM, families with toddlers-through second graders are invited to a short but beautiful Holy Day service, complete with singing, stories and the reading of Torah.
At 10:15 AM, there will be services geared to adults and families with children Bar/Bat Mitzvah age and older.
At 1:15 PM, there will be services for families with children in elementary school grades 3-7. This service, though a full worship experience, will be somewhat shortened to accommodate younger family members. Rabbi Strom will deliver his full sermon to adults and children who wish to stay in the sanctuary. All other children will participate in special High Holy Day projects, supervised by parents and teachers, during this time.
All services will be led by our clergy and will take place in the Main Sanctuary. Tickets are necessary for all services.
TASHLICH
September 13, 2007 at 3:45 PM
Years ago, our ancestors developed the custom of walking to a nearby body of water on Rosh Hashanah afternoon, reciting prayers and singing songs, then emptying their pockets and shaking their clothing free of the sins they believed had accumulated during the previous year. Often they would toss crumbs of bread to the fish, whose never-blinking eyes reminded them of God’s eternal watchfulness.
At Shir Ami, Tashlich is a very important part of the High Holy Day season. We gather together at the bridge by the Boat House in Tyler State Park, sing, pray and send our wrongdoings symbolically on their way as we toss bread crumbs into the NeshaminyCreek.
Tashlich is a marvelous opportunity for families to participate together in enlarging the meaning of the Holy Days. Though brief and informal, it is rich with music, poetry, fellowship and (we hope) sunshine. Won’t your family join ours for this very special Rosh Hashanah observance.
--ROSH HASHANAH DISCUSSION GROUP with Rabbi Strom
Friday, September 14 at 10:15 AM
“Sorry Sems to be the Hardest Word”
YOM KIPPUR HEALING SERVICE
Saturday, September 22 at 3:00 PM
We are pleased to offer our congregants an opportunity to participate in a special healing service on this most sacred day in the Jewish year. Won’t you join us for uplifting prayers, inspiring music and soulful mediation on Yom Kippur afternoon at 3:00 PM in the Chodorow Family Life Center.
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