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Our Services

Our worship is conducted largely in Hebrew, but our weekday prayer book (Siddur Sim Shalom – the red book in our Daily Chapel), our Shabbat & Holiday prayer book and Chumash (Siddur Lev Shalem  and Etz Hayim, respectively -- the red books at your seat in the Sanctuary) contain wonderful English translations, transliterations and commentary. Ours is both a traditional and a modern liturgy, recognizing both the patriarchs and matriarchs of the Jewish people.

Daily Services

 

Our evening services are conducted each Sunday, Monday & Wednesday at 7:00 PM in the Cowen Daily Chapel at the OJC. 

Our Tuesday and Thursday evening services take place in the Cowen Daily Chapel at 6:00 PM to facilitate the participation of the bar and bat mitzvah-age students in our Kulanu program.

Evening services enable those mourning a loved one to fulfill the daily obligation of saying Kaddish in the presence of at least 10 members of our community. 

Making a minyan is one of the highest mitzvot any Jew can perform, as halacha dictates the exclusion of the Kaddish and other parts of our liturgy in the absence of a minyan.

Please help by attending evening services just one night a month.

Shabbat Services

Our weekly Shabbat services take place Friday at 7:00 PM during the summer months and 6:00 PM during the winter months, and on Saturday morning at 9:30 AM in the Walerstein Sanctuary. 

Our Erev Shabbat services are festive and musical and are particularly fun for our youngest congregants. And the "kavanah" (spirit) of our Saturday morning Shacharit, Torah and Musaf services is energizing and joyous.

Our Saturday morning services are followed each week by a delicious Kiddush lunch to which the entire congregation is invited.

Holiday Services

Please refer to the OJC Calendar on this website, or click here to subscribe to our weekly e-letter, OJC News You Need to Know, for details on our Holiday services throughout the year.

These services take place in the Walerstein Sanctuary, and on the High Holidays, when attendance is particularly robust, additional services are offered in the Cowan Daily Chapel and elsewhere in our building.

 

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