Dear Shir Chadash Community,
For the last several years, Israel Finger has served as our Weekly Service Coordinator, generously donating his time and energy to recruit and schedule davening leaders and Torah readers from the community and ensure that our Shabbat and holiday services run smoothly. Israel will retire from this role after Rabbi Silver’s last Shabbat at Shir Chadash on June 11. I hope that the next time you see him, you will join me in extending a hearty thanks to Israel for his tremendous service to our community. Please also be sure to thank Josh Lichtman who has volunteered to assume the Weekly Service Coordinator role on an interim basis from June 11-July 30.
With this transition, the Ritual Committee wanted to take the opportunity to streamline and make more transparent the process by which community members can sign up to lead services or read Torah so that everyone who is interested in volunteering knows how to do so. We also want to extend an invitation to anyone who is not currently on our email list of core davening leaders and Torah leyners and would like to be included to join. Finally, if you’re interested in leading services or reading Torah but need to brush up on these skills or even if you’re interested but don’t know how yet, we want to know that, too!
TO SIGN UP TO LEAD SERVICES OR READ TORAH
Going forward, we’ll be sending out a call via the Shir Chadash Weekly Newsletter at the beginning and middle of every month, asking folks to sign up to participate within the next three months. Within the next few weeks, a schedule of confirmed participants will be posted on the Shir Chadash website, so that any member can easily see what’s available and contact the Weekly Service Coordinator to sign up to participate. In the meantime, you can see what’s available and register your interest in volunteering for a slot via these Google Sheets:
