High Holidays Services

Our High Holiday Service Schedule for this year will be:

September 22 – Erev Rosh Hashanah – 8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

September 23 – Rosh Hashanah Day 1 – 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (Tashlich at the end of the Seawall at 4 p.m./Pirate’s Den Rosh Hashanah dinner at 4:30 p.m. Click Here for Details. Reservations and payment must be made by September 17)

September 24 – Rosh Hashanah Day 2 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

September 26 – Shabbat Shuva SIMCHA SHABBAT 8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

October 1 – Kol Nidre 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

October 2 – Yom Kippur morning – 10:00 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.

October 2 – Yom Kippur afternoon – 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. with our Potluck Break-the-Fast at the Brigantine Community Center at 6:40 p.m.   Click Here For Details. Call the Temple office for more information.

October 14 – Shemini Atzeret Yizkor – 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

If you are zooming services from home, PLEASE DON’T FORGET TO ask FOR A HIGH HOLIDAYS MAHZOR PRAYERBOOK by contacting the synagogue office.

For those who will be receiving a Torah Aliyah Honor, please find the

Torah Blessings here.

CLICK HERE FOR OUR GUEST POLICY

TASHLICH 

Please join us to share in a brief, communal Tashlich ritual as we cast our sins away into the Atlantic Ocean. We will meet on Tuesday, September 23^rd at 4:00 pm at the end of the seawall.  Please join us after Tashlich at the Pirate’s Den for our Community Rosh Hashanah dinner. Click Here for Details. Reservations and payment are needed prior to the dinner. Please call the Temple office for further information.

If you are feeling ill for any reason, please refrain from attending services in person to ensure a joyous New Year for all. A Zoom link can be provided to you.

L’Shana Tova

Break-the-Fast: Please do not forget to register for the TBS Congregational Break-the-Fast Potluck Meal to be held at the Community Center after Yom Kippur Service on October 2 (around 6:40 p.m.)   Click Here for Details.  Call the synagogue office for more information.

*Don’t Forget! *
Temple Beth Shalom’s Annual Food Drive:
Please bring canned/non-perishable food items to leave in the bin by the front door.  These items will be donated to the Jewish Family Service Food Bank. Any donation is gratefully appreciated. Please be as generous as possible. Thank you.

For more information, please contact the synagogue office at 609/266-0403.

L’SHANAH TOVAH U’METUKAH — A GOOD AND SWEET YEAR AHEAD

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BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!
CELEBRATE SUKKOT WITH US IN OUR SUKKAH!

We are starting the holiday right with a . . .

SUKKAH BUILDING PARTY

Please join us for our Annual Sukkah Building Party!  This is your chance to participate in the happy Mitzvah of building and decorating a Sukkah.  Builders are needed on Sunday, October 5, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. and decorators at 11:00 a.m.  No special skills needed, just a willing body and a joyous heart!

When you are seated in the Sukkah, you may recite the following blessing:

Barukh atah Adonai, Eloheinu melekh ha-olam, asher kideshanu b’mitz’votav v’tzivanu leisheiv basukkah.

Blessed are you, Adonai our G-d, Sovereign of the Universe, who has made us holy through your commandments, and commanded us to dwell in the Sukkah.

Also, please don’t forget the blessing upon your first visit to the Sukkah:

Barukh atah Adonai, Eloheinu melekh ha-olam, shehechianu v’kiyamanu v’higiyanu lazman hazeh.

Blessed are you, Adonai our G-d, Sovereign of the Universe, for granting us life, for sustaining us, and for bringing us to this day.

HAG SUKKOT SAMEACH — HAPPY SUKKOT