Submission #396

Submission Information

Form: STEP 2 - JRF Salutes Legacy Book - Congregational Information Form

Submitted by Anonymous

Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 5:41pm

74.92.126.138

Congregation's Official Name: *

City: *

What is the name of the city in which this congregation is located?

State/Province: *

In which state or province is your congregation located?

Your Name:

What is your name?

Year of Founding:

In what year was your congregation founded?

Current Officers:

Karen Landy, Rabbi; Sandy Nazzaro, Membership Chair; Dan Schneider, Treasurer;

Please name your congregation's current officers and their positions.

About Your Community:

Havurat Shalom is a community of families committed to providing a Jewish identity and education for
its members, in a manner that is relevant to our contemporary lives.  What do we offer?
    We provide an open and inclusive community for adults with and without children.  We welcome families
of mixed heritage.   Families who have been, or are members of any other Jewish congregation, or have not
recently or, in fact, ever, practiced Judaism in a structured way are also welcome.  Havurat Shalom is able
to offer a warm, extended family to single parents, as well as single adults. Since the group functions on a
cooperative basis, the active participation of every member is necessary. A wide variety of activities is offered,
reflecting the varied interests of the members of the group. These include monthly shabbat services,
discussions (havurah), tzedakeh activities, social get-togethers, excursions to cultural events and
children's workshops.

A Cooperative – Members are key
    Every member is asked to contribute their individual perspectives and background, creating a constantly
evolving expression of Judaism. This rich diversity is manifested in the composition of holiday services
and celebrations, some of which are written by members. Traditional Jewish practices are observed
with modern interpretations and forms of expression.

Music
    Music is an important part of our Havurat Shalom traditions. Elliott Jacobowitz, pianist, leads an ensemble
including flautist Esther Taylor and acoustic guitarist, Jonathan Weiss. They offer accompaniment at Shabbat
and High Holy Day services.

Spiritual Style
    Our Shabbat and holiday observances are led by Rabbi Karen Landy, a Reconstructionist Rabbi. On the
High Holy Days Rabbi Karen is joined by our long time Chazzan, David Hastings, in leading our services.
This year our congregation adopted the siddur, Mishkan Tefilah, a wonderful prayerbook including
Hebrew, English and transliteration of all prayers, in addition to thoughtful and inspirational additional
readings. For the High Holy Days, we use a text that has been developed by the congregation over thirty
years, including some original contributions by our religious school children, some of whom now have
children of their own.

Religious School
    The Religious School of Havurat Shalom provides a curriculum which includes Hebrew language training,
cultural and ethnic education and holiday celebrations. Classes are taught by experienced teachers with
small groups of 8-12 children per class. Grades 3-6 meet once a week for 90 minutes. Our early-entry
program, Grades K-2, “Jumping Into Judaism”, meets once per month. For information on the Religious
school program, please follow this link. Click here and our lead teacher, Morah Sue Stein will contact you.

Please provide a paragraph or so about your community. Who's a part of it? What sets your congregation apart?

Now, please give us some information about your photos

In the boxes below, please type the name of each Photo, using the naming instructions from the e-mail. File naming instructions: Congregation Name.State.Category.(#).jpg For instance, if Congregation Beit Tikvah in Maryland has a picture that represents Tikkun Olam, it should look like this: CongregationBeitTikvah.MD.TikkunOlam.jpg If Congregation Beit Tikvah in Maryland has 2 pictures that represent Tikkun Olam, they should add a number after the Category to let us know which picture of Tikkun Olam we are seeing. It should look like this: CongregationBeitTikvah.MD.TikkunOlam.1.jpg. Please also give us the caption that should go along with each photo.

Photo 1 Name:

Photo 1 Caption:

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Photo 2 Name:

Photo 2 Caption:

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Photo 3 Name:

Photo 3 Caption:

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Photo 4 Name:

Photo 4 Caption:

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Photo 5 Name:

Photo 5 Caption:

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Photo 6 Name:

Photo 6 Caption:

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Photo 7 Name:

Photo 7 Caption:

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Photo 8 Name:

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Photo 9 Name:

Photo 9 Caption:

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Photo 10 Name:

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Areas of Engagement

Regions

Learning

Submission #396