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Havurah Shalom 825 NW 18th Ave Portland OR 97209-2333 Non-Profit Org. US Postage PAID Portland OR Permit No. 2180 Address Service Requested September 2017 Volume 39 Issue 11 Address label here Erev Rosh Hashanah Dinner Erev Rosh Hashanah Dinner RSVP Form From the Rabbi. Page 1 From the Education Director..Page 1 Tikkun Olam Updates...Pages 2 & 3 Maavar End-of-Life Workshops....Page 4 Literary Update....Page 4 Steering Report......Page 5 High Holiday Gatherings.....Page 5 Benefit Concert for Tanzania..... Page 6 High Holidays Schedule of Services.Page 7 Bulletin Board......Page 8 Tributes...........Page 8 B nai Mitzvah Project Info....Page 9 Tikkun Olam Tzedakah Project...Page 10 Calendar....Page 11 Erev Rosh Hashanah Dinner RSVP.Page 12 Wednesday, September 20, 2017 First and Last Name(s) of Attendee(s): From the Education Director Dinner at 6:00 pm Services at 8:00 pm Number of Adults (Ages 12+) Cost adjustments for the dinner are available. Contact the Havurah office for information. $36.00 Each Number of children ages 4 to 11 Dinner will include dairy-free and gluten-free choices. $12.00 each You are invited to bring wine/juice to enjoy with dinner. Wine glasses and corkscrews will be provided. $ $ Number of children ages 3 & under No Charge Reservations are required by Wednesday, September 6 Please mail the completed form (right) with payment to the Havurah office Consider an extra donation to help others attend Total Enclosed $ Number of Gluten-free meals Number of Dairy-free meals OR register online at www.havurahshalom.org/form/rh2017 12 From the Rabbi Inside this Issue Receiving Each Others Faces: Why and How Havurahniks Should Improve our Kabbalat Panim As I am writing this we are in Parashat Re eh, the end of Deuteronomy. In 15:10, there is a purportedly unnecessary phrase: "You will surely give to him person in need] and you should not PART I [the feel bad in your heart when giving him, because on account of this word/thing (hadavar hazeh), Adonai, your God will bless you in all your deeds and in every mission of your hand." Talmudists get very excited about hadavar hazeh and a lot of ink is spilled to explain what exactly the word/thing is that will bring us so much blessing. More on that fascinating etymological and spiritual journey next time! They end up talking about how important it is for us to greet/receive each other (kabbalat panim) intentionally. "One should greet every human with a friendly countecontinued on Page 9 nance... if a person gives to his/her I Reminding One Another n his classic work, The Path of the Just, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato begins by declaring, I did not compose this treatise to teach people that which they do not know, but rather to remind them of what they already know. I reflect upon this passage every year during this time. This season of which we are currently in the midst, culminating in Yom Kippur, is one of remembering. In fact, an alternative name for Rosh Hashanah is Yom Ha-zikaron: A Day of Remembrance. Rather than striving to become someone new, we instead can utilize these weeks to remind ourselves of who we truly are. Certainly, as we reflect on our lives, examining where we have hurt others and considering how we can refine ourselves, we learn new things. But in my experience, the most critical learning we do is that of remembering who we most genuinely aspire to be. And collectively, now perhaps more than ever in most of our lifetimes, we are asked to remember the world we aspire to co-create. What a time to begin this journey together, Havurah and its new rabbi. And while there will be much that is new on both of our ends, the new will be animated and sanctified by its alignment with that which is primary and essential within each of us. Certainly for me, as I begin this new chapter, I find myself reflecting on what sent me down the rabbinic path in the first place. As I started out, I would frequently ask myself: How can my service help alleviate suffering in this world? Now more than ever, this question resonates. Teshuvah, the foundational exercise of this season, means literally, returning. While often translated as repentance, at its heart it involves a reawakening to how we intend to live and treat others, and a reorientation of our compass in that direction. Remembering who we are is no easy task. It demands honesty, compassion, and a sincere dedication to change. And when violence and narrowness are emboldened in the world, we must Continued on Page 6

Calendar September 2017 Tikkun Olam 6 (15 Elul) Wednesday 5 (14 Elul) Kehillah Cluster Meeting 6:00pm Tuesday 4 (13 Elul) 13 (22 Elul) Monday Office Closed for Labor Day 12 (21 Elul) Thursday 7 (16 Elul) 14 (23 Elul) 8 (17 Elul) 7:31pm 1 (10 Elul) Community Minyan 8:24pm 9 (18 Elul) Ki Tavo Community Minyan 8:37pm 2 (11 Elul) Ki Teitzei Saturday 7:18pm Kabbalat Shabbat Service 7:30pm 16 (25 Elul) NitzavimVayeilech Friday 15 (24 Elul) 7:04pm 23 (3 Tishrei) Ha'Azinu 11 Sunday 11 (20 Elul) Steering Committee 6:30pm 3 (12 Elul) 10 (19 Elul) Lev Tahor (Pure Heart) Chanting 7:00pm 22 (2 Tishrei) MACG Housing Community Meeting 1:30pm 21 (1 Tishrei) Shabbat Shuva Meditation & Chanting Service 7:57pm And per Havurah tradition, if you wish to help these things happen, join the committee. Send chair Michael Heumann (heumanncycle@gmail.com) a note or come to the next meeting, September 13. Privilege & Equity Meeting 7:00pm Climate Action Committee. 7:00pm Bnei Mitzvah Logistics 7:00pm 20 (29 Elul) Rosh Hashana Office Closed for Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah Services begin at 9:00am 6:51pm September 13, 7 p.m. At Havurah Shalom Community Minyan Shabbat School 3:00pm Shabbat School New Family Orientation 3:15pm Selichot Service 8:00pm 19 (28 Elul) Rosh Hashana Tashlich Office Closed for Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah Services begin at 9:30am Westside Tashlich 4:00pm Eastside Tashlich 4:00pm 30 (10 Tishrei) 2 Next Meeting: 18 (27 Elul) Hakol Deadline Erev Rosh Hashana 6:54pm Erev Rosh Hashanah Dinner 6:00 pm Erev Rosh Hashanah Service 8:00pm 29 (9 Tishrei) 27 (7 Tishrei) 28 (8 Tishrei) 26 (6 Tishrei) Climate Action Committee Readies Projects The Climate Action Committee is getting back to work after another summer of alarming weather. Check the Tikkun Olam table at High Holidays for a calendar of upcoming events. There will be programs and activities for youth and for adults--for learning and for doing--single sessions and ongoing projects. If you attended the Climate Information and Action Fair in May and with information, events and actions. indicated further interest, you will Others can join this list by contacting soon begin to receive regular e-mails Steve Birkel (sjbirkel@gmail.com). 17 (26 Elul) 25 (5 Tishrei) Yom Kippur Yizkor Yom Kippur Services begin at 9:30am 7:43pm Erev Yom Kippur 6:37pm Kol Nidre Service 8:00pm school supplies or backpacks for the start of the year. We raised money among our friends to give those kids the supplies they needed and a boost to start the school year. PHFS makes a profound difference in the lives of families experiencing homelessness. It helps over 180 families each year, with more than 50 of those families living in the shelter for some period of time. Over 90% of the families move into stable housing, and over 90% of those families are still in housing one year later. The staff treats the families with an incredible amount of respect and dignity, using the latest techniques in trauma informed care. They have an extremely well-run program for volunteers. But that s a bunch of statistics. Let me finish with a story. The last time I worked at the shelter, I saw that one parent needed a 4:00 am wake up call. I thought she needed to wake up to care for her young child, but I was wrong. She needed to wake up at 4:00 am to make it to work. She is just one example of the families being served by PHFS. If you are intrigued, contact Gloria Halper (losninos6@gmail.com) for more information. She can explain the orientation process and put you in touch with the folks at PHFS. John Devlin Book Discussion 7:00pm I started volunteering at Portland Homeless Family Solutions just over a year ago. Once a month, a group from Havurah staffs the PHFS night shelter preparing a meal, playing with the kids, and converting a church gym into a sleeping area for eight families. I had seen the display about PHFS at High Holidays and read about the work of the Havurah volunteers in HaKol. I was intrigued, but I never took the leap too busy, they seem to have enough help, etc. I suspect some of you have had the same thoughts. Last spring, I decided to give it a try. I can still remember my first night at the shelter. The volunteers didn t serve a meal to the families they sat down and ate a meal with the families. The kids were just like any other kids they wanted to run and jump and laugh. Two little girls made some funny pictures of me. I brought them home to my daughter, as my first effort to have her see that there are kids in our community who are not as lucky as her -- my first effort to have her understand her moral duty to help people in her community. I was hooked. I started attending the Havurah night whenever I could, and I started volunteering on other nights as well. Last August, my wife, Rachel, and I learned that the kids living in the shelter would not have any 24 (4 Tishrei) Fast of Gedalia High Holidays Cemetery Gathering Hooked on Helping at the Hollow

Donate to the Tikkun Olam Tzedakah Project at High Holidays Over this past year, Havurahniks have volunteered countless hours of direct service with two local organizations helping families get settled in new homes. Portland Homeless Family Solutions (PHFS) supports homeless families at the Goose Hollow Family Shelter transition to new homes, and Catholic Charities supports new refugees arriving in Portland. To further support this work, this year's Havurah High Holiday Tikkun Olam Tzedakah Project will be, as it was last year, to collect household items that will be used by PHFS and Catholic Charities in creating Welcome Baskets for the families each organization helps. Oregon s homeless and refugee families have already faced tremendous challenges, but our collective support offers needed supplies as these families start their new lives. This High Holiday season you can help by bringing some of the specific new and unused household items from the Welcome Baskets list below. Containers to put all donated items in will be set up on the fourth floor of the Tiffany Center. Tikkun Olam Committee members will be coordinating the delivery of your generously donated items to the PHFS/Goose Hollow Shelter and to Catholic Charities. Tikkun Olam Learn more about the Sanctuary Committee The Sanctuary Committee has two active subgroups: Community Engagement and Political Action. Activities include: Working with a group of immigrant women through the Clara Vista program, regular support actions at ICE offices, 4 trips to the prison in The Dalles to protest inappropriate detention of immigrants, legal observer work with ACLU, accompanying immigrants to legal appointments, and active participation with IMIrJ (the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice). Above, the Clara Vista Women's group enjoys cultural Jewish food at a getting to know you gathering. Standing center is Fran Berg, left is Kathy Gordon, right is Marjorie Walters. The Clara Vista Cohort Team: Tikkun Adelante Robbin I. DeWeese, Gloria Halper, Fran Berg, Kathy Gordon, Marjorie Walters. PHFS and Catholic Charities Welcome Basket list: This year s incoming Shabbat School Dalet class went on a camping trip in June to explore nature and develop friendships. Photos courtesy Elise Granek. 10 Trash Cans (13-gallon; Kitchen, Bathroom) Household Cleaners Garbage Bags (tall and regular) Sponges Dish Soap Hand Soap Laundry Detergent Shower Curtains Shower Curtain Rings Dust Pan and Hand Broom Dish Racks/Sink Sets Kitchen Towels Bath/Hand Towels (new) Bed Sheets/Twin and Full Size Hangers Pans saucepan, frying, roasting, baking sheets Mixing/serving bowls Spatula set/large mixing spoons Pasta/Colander Drainers Can Openers Cutting Boards Pot Holders Left, the Sanctuary Committee protests at the NORCOR detainment facility in The Dalles. Front row, from left: Cole Brecheen, Gretta Siegal, Bob Brown, Robert Trachtenberg. Back row, from left: Marcia Suttenberg and Monica Moriarty. Equity Committee to set goals & priorities at upcoming meeting EQUITY Meeting date: Wednesday, September 13 at 7 pm We recognize that we need to do more to address equity issues so a group of Havurah members met last winter and early spring, in a two-part series of classes to help us crystalize our concerns and priorities regarding Equity and Privilege. Class members, joined by other congregants, are continuing to meet to concretize plans for moving this work forward. The next planning meeting is September 13 at 7 pm at Havurah. Please join us! Please let us know of your interest, or if you have questions, by contacting Susan Rosenthal (sarosenthall@msn.com). 3

Join Us! Literary Update Havurah Book Discussion Group See the Library in the Cloud The Havurah Shalom Library last year started the conversion to a new cloud-based library catalog system and it was finally completed this summer. You can access the library catalog from the link on the Havurah Shalom website (under the Community tab) as well as the computer in the library. Computer usage in the library is accessible to any member over the age of 19. Please ask in the office for the password for guest access. Supporting the Book Group The Havurah Book Group is going strong and there are new books in the library to support it. The October meeting s book is Best Place on Earth by Ayelet Tsabari, and for the November meeting, the book is Saving the September No meeting in September Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust by Robert N. Rosen. Policy Reminders We respectfully request that you follow the Havurah Shalom Library Policies: Only Havurah Shalom members may check out books. Only 3 books may be checked out at a time and for only one month. A one-time renewal may be arranged by calling the Library chairperson for an OK. Please follow the checkout procedure that is posted in the Library. No food or drink is allowed in the Library. Please do not use the Library for childcare. Thank you! Miryam Brewer October 24 7:00 to 8:30 pm at Havurah The Best Place on Earth, by Ayelet Tsabari November 28 7:00 to 8:30 pm at Havurah Saving the Jews, Franklin D. Roosevelt & the Holocaust, by Robert N. Rosen Please RSVP through the Havurah website calendar Suggest Our Next Book Before our next meetings you can submit a suggestion for a book that you have read and liked for the Havurah Book Group to discuss. In order to have your book considered, submit your suggestion, the title and author s name, along with a 2- to 3-paragraph description of the book, to Marjorie Walters marjoriewalters@gmail.com). The group will vote on the suggestions during the Oct. 24 meeting. Maavar New Workshops for End of Life Matters The Ma'avar Committee will again lead a workshop dedicated to helping people talk about end-of-life issues and wishes. A 2-session workshop is planned for October 29 and November 12, from 10 am to noon at Havurah. The workshop is based on The Conversation Project, a national campaign dedicated to helping people talk to their loved ones about their wishes for end-of-life care. While we know no single conversation will cover all the decisions that may need to be made, the workshop can help provide a shared understanding of what matters most to you and your loved ones. This can make it easier to make decisions when the time comes. If you want more information, The Conversation Project has a website (www.theconversationproject.org) that provides a wealth of information and may help you decide if this is something you want to pursue further. If you are interested in participating, please contact Teri in the Havurah office. 4 Having the Conversation: Workshops to Discuss What Quality Means at the End of Life Sunday, October 29 and Sunday, November 12 10:00-Noon At Havurah From the Education Director The Importance of Receiving Each Others Faces Continued from Page 1 friend all the gifts in the world, but their face is sullen, it is like they gave nothing. But one who greets his/her fellow with a friendly countenance, even if s/he gives no gifts, it is like s/he gives all the best gifts in the world" (Avot d Rebbi Nosson, Ch. 13; gender language adapted). The Sifsei Chaim explains that what people want more than anything is for others to show an interest in and care about them. A gift is an indication that the giver thought about the needs of another. (Moadim, 3rd Chelek, p. 275). Thus, on a fundamental level, when we make eye contact or greet somebody, we are noticing their existence, giving the gift of recognizing their humanity. We often don t even realize that we are giving or receiving this care until it doesn t happen when we come to a Havurah service and nobody says hello to us or acknowledges us, for example. Stay tuned for Part II, in which we hazard some guesses about why Kabbalat Panim is sometimes tricky in Havurah and what we can do about it! B nai Mitzvah Project Supplies for the Homeless For my B nai Mitzvah Project I am collecting items to give to those who are living on the streets. My mom and I created Ari's B nai Mitzvah Project Wish List on Amazon of items that we thought folks might need, such as water, nutrition bars, toothbrushes, toothpaste, sanitary pads, hand wipes, etc. We have already received a lot of donations. My mom and I have filled up our car with these items a couple of times and delivered to folks we encountered living on the streets. It has been a great experience and something I hope you can help me continue to do. You can donate something from the wish list and it will be mailed directly to my house. If you do that please make sure you send a gift note with your purchase so I can be sure to thank you! You are also welcome to bring items directly to Havurah on the day of my Bar Mitzvah on 10/28. Thanks for your support! Ari Mesulam Photo courtesy Julia Lager-Mesulam Deborah Eisenbach-Budner 9

Steering Report Bulletin Board Taking comfort in community during rough times Condolences October Hakol In the coming months Havurah Shalom will call to the Torah the following B nai Mitzvah: The deadline for submission of articles, pics, tributes, announcements, etc. is Saturday, October 28 Ari Mesulam Son of Julia Lager-Mesulam and Steven Mesulam Tuesday, October 17 Email submissions to Info@havurahshalom.org The Havurah Office Will Be Closed Monday, September 4 Labor Day Thursday, September 21 & Friday, September 22 Rosh Hashanah Jack Shimshak, father of Rachel Shimshak, Diane Shimshak, and Glen Shimshak, father-in-law of David Barenberg, and grandfather of Max Barenberg. Aaron (Arnie) Fingerhut, father of former Havurah member Doria Raetz. HaMakon Y nachem. May we all be comforted. Please join us in celebration and welcome them to our community. MAZEL TOV! Mazel tov! Miryam & Roger Brewer, Grandparents of Dafna Hershenberg Brewer! Tributes General Contributions Sivia Kaye, in honor of High Holidays and in memory of Harry Karansky, Lily Karansky, Bernard Kaye, and Ann Surick. in honor of their new granddaughter. Havurah Endowment Fund Arleen Slive, in honor of John Neiheisel, Donna Kleiman, and Harry High Holidays Contributions Krulewitch: Pastoral care in action! Evan King and family, in memory of Thank you, Arleen Slive Joanne and Myron King. Joan and Dave Weil, in memory of Jack Shimshak. May his memory be Library Fund a blessing. Debbi Nadell and Steve Birkel, in Carol and Sy Chestler, in memory of honor of Miryam and Roger Brewer, my parents, Golda and Sidney in honor of the birth of Dafna Chestler, and my brother, Herb Hershenberg Brewer. Mazel Tov! Chestler. Susan and Jack Lazareck, in honor of Karen Labinger, in honor of Roger and Miryam and Roger Brewer, in honor Miryam Brewer. Dear Miryam and of a new granddaughter. Roger, mazel tov on your first Arleen Slive and Dick Mastbrook, in grandchild. With love, Karen honor of Miryam and Roger Brewer Labinger. 8 Heidi Linn and Marc Goldberg, in honor of Ken Lerner. Thank you for leading Maia's bat mitzvah service! We appreciate all of your help and support on this special day for us. Rabbi Discretionary Fund Welcoming Rabbi Benjamin to Havurah from Evan King, Alanna, Barbara and Maya Hein. Music Fund Heidi Linn and Marc Goldberg, in honor of Diane Chaplin. Thank you, Diane, for leading the Torah service for Maia's bat mitzvah. We appreciate so much your help and generosity! Return again. Return again. Return to the land of your soul. Return to who you are. Return to what you are. So goes the song composed by Rabbi Shlomo Carlbach z l expressing the essence of the High Holy Day cycle, teshuva, translated as repentance or turning inward to G-d. As we prepare to enter Rosh HaShanah, the head of the year, we turn our attention to what lies before us both individually and collectively. With our hot summer fading away and school already under way for most, it s time to take stock of ourselves, make amends and pledge to do better in the coming year. Although we engage in this ritual every year, this time feels especially new. Members of Havurah Shalom have entered a new chapter in welcoming Rabbi Benjamin Barnett into our midst. We ve just begun to explore this new relationship and beginning for all of us. I m looking forward to the storming and norming process of discovering how we will proceed together as a community accompanied by a new-to-us spiritual leader. When we gather at the Tiffany Center for Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, this year s aliyot will honor those movers and shakers from the past year. The Havurah co-presidents and vice presidents chose to honor groups of people who worked hard to make things happen at Havurah last year. You ll see committee chairs, endowment fundraisers, the L hitraot Joey celebration helpers and many others take to the bima to be honored with an aliyah. You can also look forward to seeing the newly minted b nai mitzvah come up for aliyot at the youth-led afternoon Torah service on Yom Kippur. We are living through difficult, challenging times. What gives me hope is that we are experiencing these trying events bolstered by each other. I think of Havurah Shalom as a comforting and welcoming haven from the stormy world surrounding us. Let us look to each other to find support and connection as we face a hostile environment at times marred by intolerance and bigotry. (I write this shortly after the tragedy in Charlottesville.) On Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, the Musaf service contains the emotional prayer Unatanetokef, where all the ways to die are listed in detail. But at the conclusion of the prayer, we are reminded of the alleviating effects of teshuva, tefillah and tzedakah (repentance, prayer and righteous action) to lessen the decree. In that spirit, let s celebrate our wonderful Havurah community as we return again, refreshed and rejuvenated to do the work that lies before us. L shanah tova! Susan Brenner Avodah Lead, Steering Two High Holidays Gatherings Our responses to the immigrant/refugee crisis Reminisce at the Cemetery Please join us and Rabbi Benjamin for our annual gathering at the Cemetery on the Sunday between the High Holidays. We'll meet on September 24th at 10:00 am to remember those no longer with us. It is always a wonderful and meaningful time to get together and reminisce. If you have any questions, please email me at dave3082@aol.com Dave Weil Yom Kippur Afternoon Tikkun Olam Discussion September 20, 2 pm, 4th Floor Tiffany Center How can we use our history and our experiences to respond as a community to the needs of immigrants and refugees in our midst? We all are either descendants of a colonized society, or the descendants of immigrants and refugees in this country. Join us during the afternoon break on Yom Kippur to discuss how our family experiences might help us relate to what is happening to others around us right now. This will be an interactive and participatory discussion and integrate the work we are doing as a Sanctuary Congregation. 5

From the Rabbi Reminding One Another Havurah Sponsored Event Schedule of Services Continued from Page 1 remind each other of what we can be together. That is clearly a challenging mission. But friends, that is the moment in which we find ourselves. I am here at Havurah because this sacred work of remembering the world we aspire to realize is central to our mission. We are human, and so inevitably we forget. But we are here to remind one another. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel taught, Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts. This moment feels like one of pilgrimage: this season in Jewish time, in which we return to the home of our lives with renewed commitment; and this moment in the life of our country and world, in which we are being asked to journey back to, and draw from, the wells of righteousness and compassion. The pilgrimage is indeed endless, but so are the forces of healing and transformation that are activated if we go with sincerity and devotion. May we strengthen one another on these journeys, and support each other s resilience in the face of all that might impede our return. It is an honor to be traveling this path with each of you. As we hear the shofar this season, may we be reawakened to who we are and to the world we aspire to create. And may our journey together for years to come serve as a vessel for light in this world. May we each be inscribed for a good year Le-shanah tovah tikateivu, Rabbi Benjamin High Holidays 5778/2017 Selichot Saturday, September 16 8:00 pm Selichot (at Havurah Shalom, with Rabbi Benjamin) Rosh Hashanah Photo by David Newman It Takes a Village: A Benefit Concert for Tanzania Come dance to the spicy-hot Date: Saturday, September rhythms of Portland s own Pa lante! 16th, 6-10 pm Latin Jazz Quintet, led by Nick Gefroh Tickets ($30) are on sale at: and Francisco Marmolejo! Opening brownpapertickets.com/ for Pa lante! will be the AfroFolk Proevent/3056351 and ject, led by Havurah member/ rafikivp.org musician Jan DeWeese. This will be a Location: 1711 SE 40th Avefun-packed evening that includes a nue, an indoor/outdoor consilent auction and raffle, delicious cert space with ample parking African food, beverages, and a slidenearby show presentation about the work of Kids are free! the Rafiki Village Project. All proceeds from this event will go to support the work of the Rafiki Village Project, a non-profit corporation working on small-scale development projects in rural Tanzania. In the spirit of tikkun olam, David Newman founded the RVP after traveling to Gishaji village in the Hanang district of Tanzania, where he visited with the local people and saw both the poverty and the potential. In collaboration with the local community, the RVP has already brought running water to the local school and medical clinic, renovated classrooms, constructed sanitary toilets, and provided much-needed educational and medical supplies. Learn more about RVP s past and future projects at www.rafikivp.org, or on the Rafiki Village Project s Facebook page. 6 Wednesday, September 20 6:00 pm 8:00 pm Thursday, September 21 10:30 am 11:30 am 12:30 pm 4:00 pm Friday, September 22 9:00 am 10:00 am 11:30 am 12:00 pm Erev Rosh Hashanah Dinner Erev Rosh Hashanah/Evening Service Rosh Hashanah Morning Service Shacharit Family Service (w/children ages 0-10) ends at 10:15 am Torah Service Shofar Service Musaf/Additional Service Tashlich Services at Sellwood Riverfront Park or Commonwealth Lake Park (Potlucks following Tashlichs) Rosh Hashanah Morning Service - Shacharit Torah Service Shofar Service Musaf/Additional Service Yom Kippur Friday, September 29 8:00 pm Saturday, September 30 10:30 am 12:30 pm Services will be at the Tiffany 1:30 pm Center, 1410 SW Morrison, 2:00 pm in downtown Portland, except 4:15 pm as noted. 4:30 pm Access all our High Holiday 5:30 pm information online: 6:00 pm http://havurahshalom.org/ 7:00 pm high-holidays Kol Nidre/Evening Service Deadlines to Remember Sept. 6 Dinner and Childcare RSVPs Sept 18: Lulav and Etrog Orders Yom Kippur Morning Service Shacharit Family Service (w/children ages 0-10) ends at 10:15 am Torah Service Musaf/Additional Service Break Tikkun Olam Discussion (4th Floor) Avodah Mincha/Afternoon Torah Service Yizkor/Memorial Prayers (approximate time) Ne ilah/closing Service Community Break Fast (approximate time) 7