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A message from Rabbi Baken
Every year when the High Holidays are approaching, I read excerpts from Rabbi Alan Lew’s book entitled, This is Real and You are Completely Unprepared. In this work, Rabbi Lew offers teachings to help readers ready themselves for this crucial time in the Jewish calendar. He believes the insights we gain from preparing for the High Holidays are spiritual treasures “hidden almost in plain sight.” How are these insights, year after year, both hidden and apparent?
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High Holidays Tickets Update
We have been emailing tickets to those who registered for them, and who have brought their Membership into good standing, since last week. Tickets were emailed to you from orders@simpletix.com (do not use that email to ask questions or make changes). Please check your Spam / Junk folder if you don’t see the email.
If you don't see the tickets in your spam / junk folder, go to https://find.simpletix.com/, to locate your order by the email you registered with. (Note: ONLY the email option will work for your order) You will be able to resend the order to yourself.
If you still don't have any luck finding your ticket via email or SimpleTix website, please email office@wrtemple.org to request help, or call the office at 914-723-7727.
Click here for some FAQs that will help guide you through questions about your tickets.
Please click here to find a schedule of High Holiday services, or to request your service tickets online.
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Volunteers Needed to Usher for the High Holidays
As WRT prepares for the High Holidays, we are looking for members who would like to volunteer to usher. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Nancy Michaels at NancyMichaels311@gmail.com or (914) 725-8310.
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Shabbat and Holiday Services | |
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Shabbat Evening Services (Correction - In Tent)
Friday, September 23 at 6:15 pm (*in-person outdoors or live streamed)
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*If weather conditions move our services indoors, masks are now optional and everyone is expected to be vaccinated and boosted (if eligible). | |
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A new opportunity to celebrate a special moment.
Celebrate an upcoming simcha or honor someone you love by sponsoring a Shabbat or Holiday Oneg at WRT.
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Torah Study
Saturday, September 24 at 9:00 am (in-person in the CJL or Zoom)
Each Shabbat morning we gather informally to read and discuss the week’s Torah portion. The morning begins with a brief Shabbat service at which mourners who wish to say Kaddish are warmly welcomed. The group is led by volunteers, with clergy participation. No prior experience with Torah is necessary.
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Yom Kippur Service
Wednesday, October 5 at 4:15 pm
We will be joined for this service by Rabbi Rick Jacobs, URJ President and Rabbi Emeritus of WRT, who will deliver remarks on the Book of Jonah. Renowned sports anchor Bruce Beck and District Attorney for Westchester County Mimi Rocah, who are both WRT Members, will be reading the Book of Jonah (in English) at this service as well. We welcome you to experience the talents of the full WRT Clergy team, and our special guests, at this culminating service of the High Holidays.
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MRJ, WRJ, the RAC & NCJW - Reproductive Rights
Thursday, September 22 at 7:30 pm
Our fall webinar guest is Sheila Katz, CEO of National Council of Jewish Women. As the CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Sheila Katz leads an organization of more than 200,000 advocates who make change happen at the local, state and national levels.
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*Save the Date- Sukkot Block Party!
Sunday, October 9th
4:30-5:00 – ECC Pizza and Music in the Hut
5:00-7:00 – *Sukkot Block Party* (FKA Sukkah Slam) Join us outdoors for a celebration of the season with live music, activities, food trucks, and fun for the whole family!
7:00-7:40 – Erev Sukkot service in the Wes Sukkah. Welcome the holiday with prayer, song, lulav & etrog
7:45-8:30 – Spirits in the Sukkah (21+) Tasting of Artisanal and Local Spirits with the Clergy.
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Spousal Bereavement Group
Wednesday, September 28 at 11:30 am (Zoom)
This Support Group meets to create community for those in mourning over the loss of a loved one, and to help find comfort and process feelings of loss through caring discussion and in sacred Jewish context.
Led by Jane Slevin, LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist from Westchester Jewish Community Services), and Cantor Laura Stein, LMSW, a social worker who specializes in spiritual care.
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WRT is excited to announce a music series for the 2022-2023 calendar year.
We know that music has immense power to connect us, lift us up, and inspire us, and what better way to be in community than to experience the beauty of music with fellow congregants and leading Jewish artists, cantors, and composers!
To discover the rest of our wonderful artists in this series, please visit the website, https://bit.ly/3MSTYfV
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Tikkun Olam (Repair of the World) | |
To learn more about the ways that the WRT community impacts the broader world through acts of Tikkun Olam, read Repairing Our World - WRT Social Impact Update. In this blog, Sharon Stiefel, WRT's Director of Social Impact and Community Engagement, reflects on WRT's social action programming. and discusses further opportunities to engage in tzedakah, chesed and tzedek. Click here to read. | WRT is committed to pursuing tikkun olam (repairing the world) and tzedek (social justice) for impact locally, statewide, nationally, and globally through direct service, tzedakah, advocacy, and community organizing. | |
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RAC-NY Climate Covenant Bond Act Webinar (Zoom)
Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
REGISTER NOW: Join leaders from Westchester Reform Temple and Reform congregations around the state for a virtual meeting on October 12th, at 7:30-8:30 p.m., to learn about the Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs Bond Act, New York’s first public referendum on an environmental bond proposal in more than 25 years, which will appear on the ballot in November. We need your help to build support! Register here and join us during Sukkot to reaffirm our mutual commitment to protect our world for future generations.
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Do you have a child/children in college?
Please let us know their mailing addresses for this school year, so the WRT Youth Committee can send them holiday gifts throughout the year. Please don’t tell - we want it to be a surprise!
Please provide the following information for your student(s): Name, School, School Address, Move-in date, Winter break dates, Spring break dates, Graduation year. and will they be abroad this year? If so, which semester?
Please email this information no later than MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 to jodiruzumna@gmail.com.
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For WRT members: If you would like to receive notifications of birth announcements and deaths within the WRT community, please email receptionist@wrtemple.org with your full name and email address. Please specify if you would like to be added to one or both of these notification lists.
For more information about Inclusion at WRT, click here.
For more information about Our Jewish World, click here.
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