Worship

Shabbat Evening Services

Our Shabbat evening services are streamed live at 6:00 pm on Facebook and Zoom, led by Interim Rabbi Barry Lutz and Cantorial Soloist Audrey Babcock, using a prayerbook that our members created.

Beginning in April, we plan to hold live services twice a month. See our Calendar for details.

Shabbat Morning Services

We hold Shabbat Morning services, at 10:00 AM, whenever our thirteen year-olds become B’nai Mitzvah.  These services are exceptionally beautiful and moving.  Each young adult leads the service from start to finish, leading prayers in English and Hebrew, chanting from the Torah and Haftarah, and delivering a D’var Torah before the congregation.   We are extremely proud of our unique B’nai Mitzvah experience and the accomplishments of our young adults.

High Holy Days Services

We begin the Days of Awe with a S’lichot service under the stars.  There, the cantor, accompanied by an instrumentalist, leads us in song, and our rabbi offers words which prepare us for the process of repentance.

For Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we use our own prayer book, “Gates of Light.”  With its modern English interpretations of the Hebrew prayers, we have the opportunity to connect deeply to these holy days.  Our rabbi’s sermons are especially moving, warm, and thought provoking.  Our cantor and choir fill the sanctuary with beautiful and uplifting music.

During the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah, hundreds of us gather at the beach for the ceremony of Tashlich to sing, pray, and, with breadcrumbs, symbolically cast our sins into the water.  This is one of our most wonderful events, both spiritually and socially.