This Shabbat will be a new experience for our SOJC community. Since we put the highest regard for our community's health and well-being, we have made the very difficult decision to cancel live Shabbat services.

Instead, we will gather together to celebrate Shabbat and come together for prayer via Zoom, a live-stream app. We will now stream Friday night and Saturday morning services until further notice.

We know that we have a resilient community, and we will learn how to come together to learn and pray while maintaining a safe distance during this time of crisis.

We again reiterate the advice we’re hearing from health professionals and the CDC: 

• Stay home as much as possible, and if you need to go out, avoid gatherings large and small! 
• Not only if you are in a high-risk category (over 60 or immunocompromised). Even young and healthy people can become unwitting vectors for the virus, which can be present in your system even with no symptoms.
• The children and adults in our community are understandably going to want to interact with their friends in the coming weeks. We recommend avoiding as much in-person contact as possible. Have play dates for kids via FaceTime or Skype and call friends on the phone.
• Stock up on groceries, medications and necessary household goods.
• Avoid touching frequently touched surfaces in public, and wash your hands for at least 20 seconds (or use hand sanitizer if that's all that's available).

Below is some information about how we will remain connected for the foreseeable future. Please bear with us as we work as fast as we can to move our physical gatherings into a virtual space. We’re all learning a lot very quickly and we appreciate both your patience and your willingness to explore new and unfamiliar technology.