The Yamim Noraim set the spiritual and emotional tone in our lives for the year. We are fortunate to have Rabbi Zwickler, Rabbi Bleicher (incoming assistant rabbi), and Rabbi Sharbat (incoming Sephardic assistant rabbi), as well as our wonderful Baalei Tfillah, in all of our minyanim, to enhance our davening. Thankfully, we have many extremely dedicated members involved in various committees, currently contributing hours of their time so that we may enjoy our chagim. We are all beneficiaries of their chesed and selflessness.
The Seating Committee, in particular, will be spending much of their summer tackling the challenge of seating approximately 1,000 people. In order to assist them in this daunting task, we are asking you to return the enclosed seating application no later than August 1st, specifying your requests clearly. Please consider the committee’s difficult job and understand that you might ultimately need to be flexible regarding your seat assignments.
We would kindly ask all members to please be sure that their accounts are current. If you are in need of special consideration in this area, please contact Anne Goldberg, Mitch Cohen, Joel Rich or Jeff Braverman. All details will remain confidential.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation and understanding.
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOADED A SEAT APPLICATION FORM.
You may fill out the form directly on your screen - there is a print button/email button at bottom of form. Please return via email, fax or mail. Thank you.
Once again our Youth Department will be offering age appropriate Play Groups on Rosh Hashana and babysitting only on Yom Kippur.
Play groups ages 3- 5/ K-Grade 2/ Grade 3-5 (Daveninig play grous)
Pre-Registration A MUST. Price is for all or any of 3 days.
Cost: $15/child or $40/family. Day of drop off $20/$50
Please fill out and return REGISTRATION FORM
For more info, please contact Chanie at aabjdyouth@gmail.com
GUIDELINES 2011 HIGH HOLIDAYS SEATING
1. Applications will be processed and seat assignments will be made on August 1, 2011 for all members who satisfy the following requirements.
(a) Application with accompanying payment for seats received by the Shul by 8/1/11
(b) Members with past due accounts (amounts billed prior to 6/1/10) must either
I. Pay your past due account in full or
II. Speak to our Executive Director (Anne Goldberg) or a member of the hardship and collections committee (Larry Schiffman or Joel Rich) to make alternate payment arrangements.
Failure to satisfy these requirements could result in loss of priority for seat assignments in 2011. Applications submitted without payment and/or resolution of past due accounts will not be processed, and will be returned to the applicant.
2. Priority for seat assignment (where priority includes the allocation of seat and a preference for the same or similar locations as the previous year) will be given as follows for applications satisfying the above requirements.
(a) Members & their families (including visiting extended family) who had seats in 2010.
(b) Members & their families (including visiting extended family) who did not have seats in 2010.
(c) Non-family guests of members visiting for the High Holidays who had seats in 2010.
(d) Non-family guests of members visiting for the High Holidays who did not have seats in 2010.
(e) Non-members living in West Orange.
If there are more applications for any of the above priority ranking categories than available seats, we will allocate seats on the basis of a lottery.
3. Seats will not be sold to children below 4th grade.
4. Members who buy seats for purposes of retaining their priority ranking in future years and do not attend during either Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur, may not give their seats to others. The Shul will ask permission to use such seats for the year for people for whom seats are not available.
5. CHILDREN IN ISRAEL OPTION: If your child will be attending Yeshiva in Israel, an option to retain the child’s seats for future years at a special rate is available. See chart on application. This seat, however, will be used as needed by the Shul during the current year.
We are happy to inform you that this year’s BAALEI TEFILLAH are:
Sanctuary/Auditorium:
Doni Israeli Larry Cohen (Tkiat Shofer)
Steve Schwartz
Beit Medrash:
Rich Sobin Gary Eisenberg (Tkiat Shofer)
Rabbi Chaim Block
3rd Minyan: Shmulie Pineles
Jack Becker Charlie Feldman (Tkiat Shofer)
If you have any further questions, please call:
Carol Goldberg: 973-736-3655
Meyer Reichman: 973-736-6414
