NEW THIS YEAR!
Preschool families, please join Congregation Shaarie Torah as we will have a Yom Kippur Mishpacha Service – a one hour service appropriate for families of young children. Led by Beth Hamon.
Please join Congregation Shaarie Torah for their Ruach Minyan Service (formerly known as Family Service/Community Minyan).
This service is an opportunity for adults and/or families with youth 2nd grade and above to join in a modified service which includes prayers, discussions, and creatively examines the themes of the High Holy Days.
Led by our Education Director, Dorice Horenstein.
10:00 am: Morning Service
1:30 pm: Family Jonah Experience
3:00 pm: Afternoon Service
4:30 pm: Memorial/Yizkor
5:15 pm: Neilah Service
6:00 pm: Break-The-Fast Dinner. Reservations required.
Everyone is welcome to attend our services, but there is an expense to the congregation. If you are a guest to our congregation for the High Holy Days, we ask for a $75 donation for a single person for the entire Holy Day season, or $150 per family.
For security reasons we do need to know ahead of time who will be joining us, so please let us know to expect you by September 7th.
Please do not let cost prohibit your attendance. If you are unable to contribute what we ask, please contact our Ezra committee at Ezra@jewishvancouverusa.org to discuss what amount might be more comfortable for you.
Child care is available during all services. To utilize child care, please call our office at least 2 days prior to the date to make a reservation for your child(ren). Cost is $10.00 per child per service to cover costs of the caregiver, snacks and supplies. Payment is due in advance. (Reservation assures sufficient staff at the times required.)
Food donation – The High Holy Days is a time for CKA’s semi-annual food drive. Non-perishable food for donation to a local bank and/or a monetary donation to Mazon: the Jewish Response to Hunger (a hunger relief organization) may be left in the lobby throughout the High Holy Days.
Rosh Hashanah Kiddush and Yom Kippur Break-the-Fast Following Rosh Hashanah morning services, please join the congregation for Kiddush lunch.
When Yom Kippur concludes, please join us in the social hall for our community break-the-fast supper buffet. In order to ensure we have sufficient food, we ask that you register or contact admin@jewishvancouverusa.org before 9/26.
In addition, please make a donation to cover the cost of the meal – $13/adults (13 and older) and $10/child (5-12 years old). Your check made payable to Congregation Kol Ami should be sent to our mailing address Congregation Kol Ami 7800 NE 119th Street, Vancouver, WA 98662.
(Cost should not be a reason to miss this after-service meal; all are welcome.)
All are welcome! Please contact the TES office to make arrangements to attend.
10:00AM Yom Kippur Service
3:00PM Contemplative Music
4:00PM Yizkor
4:45PM Healing Service
5:45PM Special Jonah Reading & Mincha
7:00PM Neilah
Your children will celebrate Yom Kippur through music, movement, and joyful prayer. P’nai Or is Portland’s welcoming Jewish Renewal congregation. Yom Kippur Children’s Service is 10am to 11pm downstairs, concurrent with all-age service happening upstairs at the same location. Childcare is available the rest of the day, with advance registration to admin@pnaiorpdx.org.
Kol Shalom Community for Humanistic Judaism invites you to an interactive and moving service incorporating the wonderful, haunting Kol Nidrei sung by cantorial soloist David Maier and then performed by cellist Jerry Bobbe. -All bodies are welcome.
Potluck Break – Fast dinner to follow service.
$10.00 Adult members / $10.00 Young Adult (19-25) / $25.00 Adult non member
Children through high school free. / Child care available free of charge.
Join Congregation Shaarie Torah for a havdalah you will not easily forget!
Bring your kids to the glow in the dark ending of Yom Kippur Ma’aiv service. Full of light we will say farewell the High Holy Days as our youth lead us in Havdalah and ushering us to the break-fast sponsored by Sisterhood downstairs. All are welcome!
Join us for our Friday Kabbalat Shabbat services–with live music! The 4th Friday of each month.
An event infused with a special kind of spiritual power.
Come add your voice to the chorus of voices at Shaarie Torah as we welcome Shabbat together. Spirited singing, prayers in Hebrew and English, raucous noise and peaceful silence – everything you need to open the gates of Shabbat
Every fourth Friday of the month. A wonderful oneg will follow!
FREE Childcare provided!!!