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Current Shabbat, Minyan, and Holiday Services During the Coronavirus

Prayerbooks for Online Services

If you would like to download prayerbooks so you can participate in any of our services, the Rabbinical Assembly is generously providing the PDF’s of them. We ask that you please honor their requests of not distributing them, that you only print up to three copies for personal use, and that they are only used during this unique time.

To download

Click here to go to the download page.
The books you will want to get are:

  • Siddur Sim Shalem Shacharit Weekdays
  • Siddur Lev Shalem Kabbalat Shabbat and Evening Service
  • Siddur Lev Shalem Shabbat Morning

Morning Minyan

Zidell Chapel CNS

Daily Morning Minyan – Online & In-Person

Monday-Friday: 7:15am start time (7am Rosh Chodesh)
Sunday: 9:00am
Feel free to join us 15 minutes earlier for schmoozing.

On Mondays, Thursdays, and other days when Torah is read, we are back in person for the reading of the Torah in the Zidell Chapel. We do need people to show up in person these days to make sure we have a minyan. You are still able to Zoom in and join us online.

On all the other days of the week, the service will be solely on Zoom as we have been doing since the beginning of the pandemic.

Please email Priscilla Kostiner for further information: lamalo@comcast.net

Here is the login: https://zoom.us/j/774655517
Password: Neveh

Use the book: Siddur Sim Shalom Shacharit Weekdays
Click here for the list of pages used in the service

Please click here for a short video about how to turn down your mic volume in Zoom.

Shabbat Services

Kabbalat Shabbat

Fridays, 6:15pm, Stampfer Chapel

Please join us for our weekly Kabbalat Shabbat Friday night services.

Click here for the order of service.

Click here to join the Stampfer Chapel livestream.

Family 4th Friday Shabbat w/ Rabbi Eve
4th Friday of every month, 5:15pm, Offsite

Rabbi Eve Posen leads this interactive home service that welcomes Shabbat through song and stories for families with children ages 0-10. Click here to RSVP and receive location details.

Shabbat Morning Service

Saturday, 9:30am – Stampfer Chapel
P’sukei d’zimra – the preliminary service – begins at 9:15am

Please join us for our Shabbat Morning Service.

Click here for the order-of-service.

Click here to join the livestream

Kiddush Club (K-3rd Grade) – 1st & 3rd Saturdays, 10:30am, Room 102

Continue the fun and warmth of Tot Shabbat with Kiddush Club. We sing, dance, hear a Torah story, and more! 1st Shabbat of the month with Morah Sarah Rohr; 3rd Shabbat with Gershon Liberman. Followed by Kiddush lunch with the congregation.

Tot Shabbat (ages 0-5 years) – 1st & 3rd Saturdays, 10:30am, Zidell Chapel

Experience the joy of Shabbat! A fun and engaging service for families with kids 5 and under led by early childhood educators. Join Shabbes Mouse and friends for our liveliest Shabbat service. Enjoy singing, dancing, storytelling, and more! Followed by Kiddush lunch with the congregation.

Masking is required in line with the Foundation School and ALIYAH policy.

Zidell Chapel CNS

Downstairs Minyan Shabbat Service – 2nd, 4th, & 5th Saturdays, 9:30am – Zidell Chapel or Zoom

Join our Downstairs Minyan for a lay-led service in the Zidell Chapel or on Zoom.

Click here to join via Zoom

 

Our vaccination/Covid policy:

  • Masks are optional and encouraged.
  • Vaccination is strongly recommended for all who will be in the CNS building for more than 15 minutes.
  • Only come if you are feeling healthy and remember to bring your own kippah and tallit.

Use the book: Siddur Lev Shalem Shabbat Morning

Join our live-stream for Friday night Kabbalat Shabbat and Saturday Shabbat morning services.

Video Live-Stream – High Definition

CLICK HERE IF YOU ARE HAVING ISSUES WITH HEARING THE LIVESTREAMED SERVICES

Shalom Chaverim!

You do not have to go through the CNS website to get to our stream, here are the direct url addresses which you can bookmark on your computer or your phone.

Main Sanctuary: https://iframe.dacast.com/live/d49fe3f7bc3c9c0d0e293322920d42d3/bce57601-744a-081f-556e-601d738c81bdhttps://iframe.dacast.com/b/116323/c/480714

Stampfer Chapel: https://iframe.dacast.com/live/d49fe3f7bc3c9c0d0e293322920d42d3/74cb9426-a8ed-11a0-4dc3-207d420c6ae5

We monitor the livestream during services and hope to keep it up and streaming well. We sometimes have issues on our end, and we apologize in advance for any inconvenience.  If you’re having issues, the first step is to try and fix it on your end, as during Shabbat we might not be able to get out the message if we are having an issue. The issue could be with either your internet connection, software, or equipment.

If the video freezes there are several possible reasons and fixes.  I’ll list them all in no particular order;

1)    Insufficient bandwidth. 

The internet right now is overburdened with many people at home live streaming everything.  The connection that had enough bandwidth yesterday might not work today.

Who else is online at the same time?  Live interactive gaming and multiple people watching movies at the same time can eat a lot of bandwidth.

2)    Reboot your device, and reboot your internet router.

Rebooting your router clears up connection issues, which affect your bandwidth and speed.  Your computer benefits from a total reboot now and then (your phone too).

3)    Make sure your software updates and security updates have been done BEFORE you need to live stream.

What a pain updates are!  They don’t ask permission and take over your device’s bandwidth and processor power.  Make sure your computer won’t try to do two things at once, this will definitely get in the way of live streaming.  In Windows 10 you can pause updates.

4)    Browser and other Security Settings

Each browser has it’s unique quirks.  If you can’t get the live stream to play it’s usually that you have to give permission for the website https://iframe.dacast.com to send you streaming audio and video.

On Firefox you have to click the padlock in the address url bar and give full permissions.  In Chrome you sometimes have to go into Settings to allow video and audio streaming.  I can’t give you information about every browser but somewhere you might have to change browser settings.

Your own computer firewall or security software might be blocking our live stream.  You have to go into the settings for your security software and either “whitelist” the website or when a popup warning appears tell your software to trust the live stream.

We can’t provide live tech support on Shabbat, but if you have issues connecting reach out to the office and we’ll try to get you answers.

Ed

For more information

Fred Rothstein, Executive Director
frothstein@nevehshalom.org, 503.246.8831

Liza Milliner, President
president@nevehshalom.org

Rabbi David Kosak
dkosak@nevehshalom.org

Rabbi Eve Posen
eposen@nevehshalom.org

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