Shema Yisrael Invites You to Our High Holidays Services
For the eleventh year we are once again offering a full schedule of High Holiday services for
everyone in the community who wishes to attend. There is never a ticket charge but ticket
reservations are necessary.
The Open Synagogue is a unique independent Jewish institution with a year-round program that
is supported entirely by voluntary contributions from people just like you. The tax-deductible
donation you make, with your request for High Holidays tickets, insures that this rich community
tradition continues. In the true spirit of these holidays we ask that you consider a generous
contribution.
For immediate reservations please click the Reserve Tickets Now button on this page.
We offer two very different services from which to choose:
Our full schedule of Traditional egalitarian services is
offered over the two days of Rosh Hashanah and on Yom Kippur. They
are led by one of contemporary America’s most influential
religious thinkers, Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin and Cantor Edgar
Neiss.
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Traditional Services Rosh
Hashana |
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| Sept.29 |
6:45 pm |
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| Sept. 30 |
8:45 am - 1:00 pm |
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
| Oct. 1 |
8:45 am - 1:00 pm |
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Our Reform/Jewish Renewal services are offered only on the
first day of Rosh Hashanah in the morning and on Yom Kippur in the
morning. They will be led by Bob Bahr and Cantor Herb Cole. Dr.
Eugen Schoenfeld will speak at our Reform/Jewish Renewal services
and on the second day of Rosh Hashanah at our Traditional morning
service.
| Reform Services Rosh
Hashana |
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| September 30 |
10:45 am - 12:45
pm |

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When you order your tickets please indicate, on the request form, which worship services
you will be attending, either our Reform/Jewish Renewal services or our Traditional services.
Each ticket you request is valid for all services during the entire holiday, but remember you
must have a ticket to participate in our services.
This year we have prepared a specially printed memorial book for both of our Yom Kippur Yizkor
services. If you wish to remember your loved ones in our special memorial book please add $18.00
for each name you would like to memorialize.
Follow the prompts after you click the Reserve Tickets Now button.
For our memorial book you must complete your "In Memoriam" requests by Friday, September 26, 2008.
The High Holidays begin Monday evening, September 29. 2008.
All of our worship services will be offered at Unity of Atlanta, at 3597 Parkway Lane, Norcross 30092,
which is about four miles outside of 1-285, off Peachtree Industrial Boulevard near Holcomb Bridge Road.
This beautiful, and inspirational center, is easily accessible from all parts of the metropolitan area.
Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin Continues Shabbat Morning "Mystical Torah" Study
Our Shabbat Study Circle about "The Mystical Torah - Conversations About Deuteronomy", led by the
noted teacher, scholar, and author, Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, continues twice each month on Saturday
morning beginning at 10:30 AM.
The program follows our Shabbat morning worship, which begins at 9:30 AM at JF&CS,
4549 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd, which is at exit 30 off I-285. You may come early for the worship
service or just for the study circle. They are separate programs.
The initial dates for Rabbi Salkin’s Shabbat Study Circle at Shema Yisrael are August 23,
September 13, September 27, October 4, October 18, November 1, November 29.
The emphasis of our new Torah study program is on how Jewish mystics have interpreted the Torah.
"While we will study the Torah through all its diverse lenses," Rabbi Salkin said, "we will
primarily be looking at the Hasidic commentators, especially the writings of Sefat Emet, who
was the nineteenth century Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib. We will be looking at how the Torah speaks
to our inner lives through a different perspective, especially Kabbalah."
More information about Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin is at
www.judaismmatters.org
Shema Yisrael - The Open Synagogue
The Shema Yisrael Mission
The Shema Yisrael mission is to be a synagogue embracing all that is Jewish.
We seek to nurture an inclusive and caring spiritual community reflecting Klal Yisrael
(The Peoplehood of Israel) and are dedicated to the premise that "we can worship G-D in holiness
only as we serve one another in love."
Shema Yisrael is also committed to fostering cooperative efforts to bring together
Atlanta Jewry through a wide range of educational, social, and cultural experiences.
Shema Yisrael believes that American Jewry is on the brink of an exciting era. The challenge,
as we see it, is whether American Jews, living in the most accepting and generous society in Jewish history,
can create dynamic compelling communities that are capable of welcoming everyone.
We seek to be an inclusive and welcoming community for singles, families, and senior adults:
for the knowledgeable Jew or the Jew just beginning his or her Jewish journey.
Central to our commitment is the belief that it is possible to create a viable Jewish
worship community out of the diverse strands of Jewish experience and that begins with the acceptance
of one Jew for another.
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