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Worship and High Holidays
August 18, 2021 | General News | Worship and High Holidays
Making Your Home a Sanctuary with Our Custom Portable Ark
For our members and Neighbors who will worship with us virtually during this year's High Holy Days, we are thrilled to bring a slice of our beloved Sanctuary to you.
July 29, 2021 | General News | Messages From Leadership | Programs and Events | Worship and High Holidays
High Holy Days 2021 & Updated Worship Policies
Our ability to be together in person for services—Shabbat as well as the High Holidays—will always be guided by the most up-to-date medical information from federal, state, and city authorities, as well as from our committee of expert lay leaders. Given emerging data on the Delta variant, the COVID Task Force has made the unanimous recommendation to require masking of all worshipers at all services, regardless of vaccination status.
Read MoreMay 13, 2021 | General News | Messages From Leadership | Worship and High Holidays | Repairing the World
We Pray for Peace in Jerusalem
"'My heart is in the East and I am at the end of the West.' These words of the 12th-Century poet Rabbi Yehuda Halevi capture the feeling of distance and despair I feel in this moment of devastating violence in Israel this week."
Read MoreMay 13, 2021 | General News | Worship and High Holidays | Repairing the World
Reflections from Shani Ben Or Regarding the Outbreak of Violence in Israel
"But more rockets came as the evening progressed, mirroring scenes that the older generation of Israelis can recall from the Gulf War. All night, I hoped I wouldn’t need to wake up my one-and-a-half-year-old boy and run to safety. I prepared a script just in case, to calmly whisper to him if necessary, and imagined every step to shelter so that I wouldn’t panic and forget."
Read MoreMarch 22, 2021 | Worship and High Holidays
Resources for Central’s Early Childhood Virtual Seder
If you are signed up for our virtual seder for families with infants and toddlers, here are some resources that you may want to download.
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