High Holidays 5785

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Introduction and What's New This Year

Dear Community Members,

Young Israel Shomrai Emunah (YISE) is excited to invite you to join us for High Holidays services this year. Building on previous years’ successes along with valuable insights from your responses to a survey we conducted shortly after last year's services, we are making a few small changes this year:

  • House Minyan
    Thanks to the popularity of last year’s Neitz Minyan, we are offering full Rosh Hashanah services (Maariv, Shacharis, Musaf, and Mincha) in The House, featuring Neitz scheduling in the mornings. Please see the Service Alternatives section.
  • Social Hall Layout
    Last year’s survey results indicated that while most Social Hall Minyan attendees preferred the new table-based layout, a significant minority would prefer to go back to chairs without tables. To facilitate accommodation of both preferences, we are designating small sections on both sides of the mechitza without tables. Please see the seating chart for more details.

We are committed to continuing to evolve to make our services as inspiring, uplifting, and accessible as we can for our community. Please send any feedback to seats@yise.org.

You can read more details about the various aspects of the High Holidays services and seating process in the sections linked below. If you are ready to sign up for your seats, please visit our online signup form. (Step-by-step instructions for logging on to use the form are in the "How to Log In" section, below. If you are unable to access the form, you may print out the paper form, fill it out, and mail it to the shul office.

We look forward to davening with you as the year 5785 arrives, may it be with blessing.

Sincerely,
YISE High Holidays Seating Committee
Isaac Moses, Chair

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Service Alternatives

  • Ashkenazic
    Rabbi Rosenbaum and Rabbi Postelnek will alternate between the Belonofsky and Social Hall minyanim. Seating charts for all three Ashkenazic minyanim are available here.

    • Belonofsky Sanctuary
      Led by Judd Lifschitz and Rafi Katz.
    • Social Hall
      Led by Yehuda Shinensky and Richie Broth.
    • House
      Rosh Hashanah services in a smaller setting. Morning services will meet at 6:20 am in the YISE House in order to arrive at the amidah at sunrise ("neitz"), and will proceed at a pace similar to the later minyanim. Evening services will be at the same time as those of the other minyanim.
  • Sephardic
    • Franco Family Beit Midrash
      Led by Rabbi Yehoshua Levy.

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Seat Assignment Details and Timeline

YISE is committed to providing a place to daven on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur for everyone who needs one. If reservation rates present financial hardship, please contact the Treasurer, President, or Rabbi for arrangements. No one will be turned away. We will also do our best to meet seating preferences. Accordingly, we request that you purchase your seats by Rosh Chodesh Elul (September 4, 2024).

Until Rosh Chodesh Elul:

  • Full members who purchased or reserved seats last year have first priority to retain the same seats.
  • Full members’ seating preferences will be honored first, followed by those of associate members, followed by those of non-members.

After Rosh Chodesh Elul:

  • Preferences will be honored on a first-come, first-served basis.

Seat assignments will be sent out about a week before Rosh Hashanah. While requests for seats will still be accepted after that date, we might not be able to accommodate preferences or family seating blocks.

Full members who purchased seats last year and who do not intend to use them this year, but who want to retain them for next year may reserve them for $35.

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Prices

Seat prices are as follows:

Both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
Full Members Associate Members Non-Members
Adults $105 $130 $145
Students* $85 $100 $125
Children** $45 $60 $80
Family max $425 $500
One Holiday Only
Full Members Associate Members Non-Members
Adults $70 $85 $100
Students* $55 $70 $85
Children** $30 $40 $55
Family max $280 $325

* Students are ages 13 to 18 and college and yeshiva students.
** Children are ages 6 to 12.

Payment may be made by credit card directly through the online registration form, by credit card called into the YISE office, or by check mailed to the YISE office.

As a general practice, we request that YISE members be current in their financial obligations including the payment for past seats and past years' dues (i.e. charged to you before 2024). Recognizing the many variables that may be present in various households, the treasurer (treasurer@yise.org), president (president@yise.org), or Rabbi Rosenbaum may be contacted to discuss deferred payments or other arrangements to accommodate the affordability of your reservation. These discussions will be held in strictest confidence and with every effort made to welcome you for all High Holiday services.

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Childcare

For Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur 5785, the Youth Department is pleased to offer High Holiday child care services for children ages 2-9. This year we are excited to be offering expanded child care ages and times to give our members a wider range of options for all parents to be able to daven with the congregation.

YISE members who purchase two adult seats will be eligible to reserve complimentary child care services.* The fee will also be waived for any child who has their own seat in shul. Otherwise, the fee is $15 per session per child.
* At least one adult seat for single-parent households

You may choose from the following sessions:

Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Thursday, October 3 9:00 am – End of services
Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Friday, October 4 9:00 am – End of Services
Yom Kippur Shacharis Saturday, October 12 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Yom Kippur Mincha/Neila Saturday, October 12 4:15 pm – 7:15 pm

Child care will be held at YISE in the upstairs youth classrooms and at the YISE House next to the Shul and/or at the Yeshiva. More details will be provided as we approach Yom Tov. A parent must be onsite in the YISE building when a child is in childcare. For the safety of our children, no exception to this rule will be made. Registered children will be linked to parents and their seat locations so that parents can be contacted should a need arise.

We encourage you to reserve, with payment, as early as you can to secure your child(ren)’s spot. Registration is due by Friday, September 20, 2024. For staffing and safety reasons, no walk-in babysitting services will be accommodated. Please register when you purchase your High Holidays seats using the one-stop form.

If you have any questions about childcare, please email Youth Director Sharon Shimoff at sshimoff@yise.org.

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How You Can Help

The High Holiday Committee will be working on setting up spaces for High Holidays services, deploying appeals materials, and returning the spaces to their year-round setup at the following times. You are welcome to come lend a hand! No experience or RSVP necessary.

  • Sunday evening, September 29, after the post-Maariv Tehillim (about 7:30 pm)
  • After services on both nights of Rosh Hashanah and on Yom Kippur night
  • Saturday night, October 12, at 9:30 pm

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Appeals

In response to membership surveys, YISE is reducing the number of in-person appeals during yom tov davening. Please read this letter from our President, appealing for your support for Israel and for our general and youth programming. After that, please respond to our appeals ahead of time:

  • Watch this space for an opportunity to contribute to our Rosh Hashanah Israel Bonds appeal, coming soon!
  • To contribute to our Kol Nidrei and Yom Kippur appeals, please use the one-stop form.

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Rosh Hashanah Greetings

The Rosh Hashanah issue of HaShomer will print the traditional New Year’s Greetings from our members. Since each greeting requires typing or specific lettering and layout, we ask that you please send your greeting by Wednesday, September 4, to give time for this additional work. Questions? Call Simi at the Shul office, 301-593-4465 x103.

The prices are as follows:

  • Eighth-page (2” high x 3” wide) – $18
  • Quarter-page (3.75” high x 3” wide) – $32
  • Half-page (3.75” high x 6.25” wide) – $54
  • Full page (7.5” high x 6.25” wide) – $100

Preferred format is an image file or PDF matching the ordered ad size.

You can send your ad in and pay for it on our one-stop form.

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How to Log In

We realize that our online registration form for High Holidays seats may represent the first time that you are encountering YISE's ShulCloud system, so you may have never logged into your YISE ShulCloud account before. We therefore present this brief but exhaustive guide to logging in.

Summary

  1. Click the Login button in the upper-right.</li
  2. Use the email address you've used for YISE business in the past.
  3. Go through the password-recovery routine if necessary.

In Detail

  1. When you first access the online registration form, you will likely see this message, prompting you to log in. It's right; if you're a YISE member, you should log in.
    "You are not logged in. If you are a member of YISE, please log in, so you can access member pricing. Use the "Login" button at the top-right of this page and the email address associated with your YISE account. For additional help, see this page."
  2. Click on the Login button in the top-right. You will see a prompt for your email address and password.
    Login tool asking for Email Address and Password, with a "Sign in" button at the bottom, and under that, a "Forgot Password" link
  3.  If you know the email address and password associated with your YISE ShulCloud account, enter them and click Sign In. If you log in successfully, the Login button should be replaced by a Welcome button, and the "You are not logged in …" message should disappear.
    "Welcome <blanked-out name>" button
    Yasher Koach! You're ready to request seats.
  4. If you don't know what email address is on your account, look around for a recent email entitled "Outstanding Statement," or check the latest YISE directory to see what email address is listed there.
    If you still don't know which email address in on your account, contact us at seats@yise.org or call the YISE office at (301) 593-4465 to look up your account or add an email address for you.
  5. Once you know what email address to use, you need a password. If you haven't logged on before, or if you don't recall what your password is, click on "Forgot Password" below the Sign In button. You will then get a Forgot Password page.
    "Forgot Password Please enter the email address that you use to log in to your account. We will send you a link you can use to access your account, where you will be able to set a new password."; "Email address" box; "Email Password" button
    Enter the email address for your account, and click the "Email Password" there.
  6. You will receive a "Password Reset Requested" email from "Young Israel Shomrai Emunah <payment@yise.org>." (If you can't find it, check your Spam folder!)
    Image of an email header from Young Israel Shomrai Emunah
    Image of an email body including a "Reset your password" link
    Click on the "Reset your password" link in the email.
  7. You will be taken to a "Change Password" page.
    "Change Password" page with boxes for a new password.
    Choose a password, enter it into both boxes, and click the Change Password button.
  8. The page will update to tell you "Password changed successfully."
    "Password changed successfully"
    Yasher Koach! You now know your email address and password. Go back to Step 1, log in, and request your seats!

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