Schedule for the New Year - 5776

Greetings everyone!

Here's hoping you are having a wonderful summer but are still looking forward to getting together with your Temple Beth Shalom friends for the coming new year - 5776.  I hear that there have been several requests from congregants wanting to know what our schedule will be for the high holidays and beyond and that's a good thing.  So, here goes.

This year, we are particularly blessed with the addition of a second Torah, which has been entrusted to us by the now defunct havurah in Arcata.  This is intended to be a temporary or perhaps more likely, permanent loan to the congregation of Temple Beth Shalom.  Our intentions are to display both Torahs at our high holiday services in Crescent City and then to move the smaller Torah (ours) to Brookings to be available for our Shabbat services at the Curry Coastal Pilot.  Because it is considerably lighter, it will be easier to transport back and forth for services and will be housed at the Grodin's home in Brookings.

Now for the high holiday schedule, we are planning to hold both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services at the Temple in Crescent City (956 "J" street).  Erev Rosh Hashanah will be on Sunday evening, September 13th at 7:00 p.m.  Morning services on Rosh Hashanah, will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, September 14th.  This service will be followed, as is customary, by Taschlich at the "B" street pier.

Erev Yom Kippur services will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 22nd at the Temple in Crescent City and on Wednesday, September 23rd, morning services for Yom Kippur will begin at 10:00 a.m., also at the Temple in Crescent City.

Because of the multiple high holiday services in September, and particularly since they begin on the second weekend of the month, it has been decided not to have Shabbat services in September.  Instead, we will begin our monthly Shabbat services and classes on the second weekend of October.  Erev Shabbat services will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, October 9th and will be held at the Curry Coastal Pilot conference room on Chetco Avenue in Brookings.  On Saturday, October 10th, we will resume Shabbat classes, the subject of which will need to be decided by the congregation during the high holidays.  After our October Shabbat in Brookings, we will resume alternating Shabbat services and classes between Brookings and Crescent City.  So, November Shabbat services/class will be in Crescent City and December Shabbat services/class will be in Brookings.

This should give everyone sufficient notice of our fall schedule and I hope to see all of you at Rosh Hashanah services in about three weeks time.  Whew!  That summer went really quickly.  All the best to everyone!

B'shalom,

  - Marty Grodin