Join Us For High Holy Days 2009/5770
Temple Beth Tikvah welcomes all individuals and families to join us for High Holy Days services, children’s activities, adult learning and food-filled celebrations.
We are thrilled that Rabbi Alan Berg will lead Rosh Hashanah services, September 18th and 19th. Rabbi Berg will be joined on the pulpit by the talented Cantorial Soloist Brad Smith of Tacoma.
Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur, September 27th and 28th, will be led by Rabbi Laura Rappaport of Boise Idaho, together with Cantorial Soloist Smith. Bend cellist Merle Ross will be playing Kol Nidre on Yom Kippur eve. Ross also will accompany Brad Smith and flutist Lauren Olander in other sacred music.
Please join us, also, in supporting our High Holy Days social-action project, a drive to help provide food and shelter for residents of the Bethlehem Inn, the largest homeless shelter in Deschutes County. Click here for details.
High Holy Days Reservation Information
Temple Beth Tikvah's High Holy Days services are open to everyone and are free of charge for TBT members.
If you are not a current member, you may attend any or all of the above services for a minimum donation of $50 per adult or $100 per family. Should you choose to join TBT in 2009, these donations will apply to your membership. We welcome your participation.
Members and non-members are invited to Break-the-Fast dinner for $15 per adult and $8 per child from 5 to 12 years of age. There is no charge for children under age 5. The charge for families with more than two children will be no higher than $40.
To make your reservations, click here, or call 541-388-8826, and a representative of Temple Beth Tikvah will return your call.
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High Holy Days Messages from Rabbi Laura Rappaport
High Holy Days Schedule
All High Holy Days services will be held in the Sanctuary at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Bend at 680 NW Bond Street.
Click here for a map.
ROSH HASHANAH
Friday, September 18
7:30 p.m.: Erev Rosh Hashanah Service
Saturday, September 19
10 a.m.: Rosh Hashanah Service
2 p.m.: Children's Service
4 p.m.: Taschlich Service at Pageant Park (West end of Drake Park foot bridge)
Tashlich means "casting off." The previous year's sins are symbolically cast off by throwing pieces of bread, or a similar food item, into a large, natural body of flowing water, such as a river, lake, sea or ocean.
Sunday, September 20
2 p.m.: Adult Education: "What Makes the High Holy Days Prayer Book Unique?"
YOM KIPPUR
Sunday, September 27
7 p.m.: Kol Nidre Service
Monday, September 28: Yom Kippur
10 a.m.: Yom Kippur Service
12:30 p.m.: Adult Education: "Study/Discussion of Mi Shebayrach & Jewish prayers for healing"
2:00 p.m.: Children's Service
3:15 p.m.: Afternoon Service
4:45 p.m.: Yizkor (memorial service)
5:30 p.m.: Neilah (concluding service), Havdalah, & final shofar blast. Everyone bring your shofar!
6:30 p.m.: Break Fast Dinner
High Holy Days Clergy and Performers
Rabbi Alan Berg
Rabbi Berg is in his second year serving as Temple Beth Tikvah’s rabbi. Formerly senior rabbi of Peninsula Temple Beth El in San Mateo, California, and of Temple Anshe Amunim in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Rabbi Berg currently lives in Portland with his wife Bonnie. Rabbi Berg previously served as the associate rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel and the first rabbi of Havurah Shalom, both in Portland.
Click here for his complete bio.
Rabbi Laura Rappaport
Rabbi Rappaport, currently of Boise, Idaho, received her BA degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.A.H.L. and rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, Jerusalem and Cincinnati campuses. She is working toward her Doctor of Science in Jewish Studies degree through Spertus College, Chicago. Nationally certified as a hospital chaplain by the Association of Professional Chaplains, Rabbi Rappaport provides pastoral care at Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. She has served congregations in Harrisonburg and Staunton, Virginia; Sun Valley, Idaho; Bainbridge Island, Washington, and Great Falls, Montana. Rabbi Rappaport is published in two rabbinic essay collections:
The Women's Torah Commentary and
The Women's Haftarah Commentary. She enjoys new challenges and tries to avoid doing the exact same thing two years in a row.
Cantorial Soloist Brad Smith
Brad Smith has been leading services at Reform and Conservative congregations for seventeen years, including the last seven as cantorial soloist and choir director at Temple Beth El (Reform) in Tacoma, Washington. He has been baritone soloist with OperaPacifica in Olympia, has sung in the Tacoma Opera chorus, and could not resist the opportunity to be a rabbi — if only in “Fiddler on the Roof.” In recent years he has written and arranged music for both flute choir and synagogue choir. Cantor Smith was born in the Bronx and grew up on Long Island. After earning degrees in physics and astronomy from Yale and the University of Arizona, he worked with computers for many years. He lives in Olympia, Washington, with his wife, Ellen Silverman, and 8-year-old daughter, Miriam.
