The Charlotte Jewish News - September 2013 - Page 15 Open Gates for Prayer ... and Open Doors for High Holiday Worship This year, Havurat Tikvah’s September takes on the speeial shine of a Silver Anniversary. If you’re looking for a plaee to wor ship, we invite you to join us for our 25 th year of lay-led High Hol iday serviees, as well as a year long sehedule of Shabbat and holiday eelebrations, edueational and soeial programs, and tzedakah projeets. As always, we weleome new faees and have no High Holiday fees for first-time guests, eollege students, and members; free ehild- eare is available for holiday serv iees. Our Rosh Hashanah serviees begin on Thursday, September 5 at 10 AM in the Avondale Presby terian Chureh Fellowship Hall at 2821 Park Road. We’ll end the morning with a pot-luek luneheon (kosher, dairy/parve, and peanut- free) and then meet again for a mid-afternoon Tashlieh serviee (time and plaee to be announeed). Serviees for the 2nd day of Rosh Hashanah start at 10 AM on September 6 in the Aitken Class room on the Avondale Presbyte rian Chureh eampus. Onee again, we’ll eonelude the serviee with a pot-luek luneh and a ehanee to share New Year’s greetings with old friends and new aequain- tanees. A full sehedule of Yom Kippur serviees begins with Kol Nidre on Friday, September 13 in the Avon dale Fellowship Hall. Please ar rive by 7 PM for seating by 7:15. We reeonvene on Saturday at 10 AM in the Fellowship Hall for Yom Kippur morning prayers, ending with a Yizkor/Healing serviee (12:30 PM, time approxi mate). We eome together again at 6:15 PM for a non-traditional Mineha gathering. This year’s Mineha eelebrates Havurat Tik vah’s history with a foeus on member stories, holiday memo ries, and group diseussion. We follow this with a 7 PM Neilah serviee and a festive break- the-fast pot-luek (kosher, dairy/parve, and peanut-free). If you’d like to join us for the holidays please eontaet us through our website, by email, or by phone (see information below). And onee the High Holidays are over, we invite you to join us for other September aetivities: a eommunity Sukkot pienie at 6 PM on Saturday September 21 (eon taet us for information about loea- tion) and a joyous Simehat Torah eelebration on Thursday, Septem ber 26 at the Fellowship Hall on the Avondale Presbyterian Chureh eampus. Dr. Charlie Brown, Haz- zan at Gastonia’s Temple Emanuel will lead us as in song and danee. Havurat Tikvah is an affiliate of the Jewish Reeonstruetionist Fed eration, providing a eomfortable, family atmosphere where all Jews Temple Solel Religious School Prepares for Second Year Temple Solel, a Reform eon- gregation in Ft. Mill, SC, is eur- rently registering students for weekly religious sehool elasses for the 2013-2014 sehool year. Classes are set to begin in Sep tember and will run till early June. Temple Solel has deeided to give parents another option by holding elasses on weekday evenings instead of the traditional Sunday, to allow for families to have more time together on the weekend. Temple Solel’s Religious Sehool offers programming for Kindergarten through 12 th grade with B’nai Mitzvah training. Using the ISJL Edueation Cur- rieulum, students revisit key eon- tent areas with inereased sophisti- eation as they progress through the eurrieulum. For more information or for registration, please eontaet our Religious Edueationdepartment at info@templesolelse.org or vist our website templesolelse.org. ^ TEMPLE SOLEL High Holidays at Temple Solel Temple Solel will again be eel- ebrating the High Holidays, with a Reform lay led serviee, using the fully transliterated Maehzor “On Wings of Awe.” Yom Kippur serviees will be offieiated by a visiting rabbi. All serviees will be held at St. Philip Neri Chureh in Fort Mill. For admission informa tion, please eontaets us at info@templesolelse.org or 803- 619-9707. • Erev Rosh Hashanah: Wednes day, September 4, 7 PM • Rosh Hashanah Serviee: Thursday, September 5, 10 AM • Shabbat Shuvah: Friday, Sep tember 6, 7 PM • Erev Yom Kippur: Friday, Sep tember 13, 7 PM • Yom Kippur: Saturday, Sep tember 14, 10 AM Temple Solel holds Shabbat serviees the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month at St. Philip Neri Chureh on Munn Road, Fort Mill, SC 29715. For information eall Russ Cobe, 803-619-9707.« ean feel weleome. If you are inter ested, we invite you to visit, get to know us, and to beeome part of our eongregation of nearly 60 households. For more information about any of our aetivities, eheek out our website, www.havurattikvah.org, or eontaet our new member ehair, Brian Feinglass, either by email (membership@havurattikvah.org) or by phone (980-225-5330). You ean also find Havurat Tikvah and Havurat Tikvah Teens on Faee- book. ^ Jewish Reconstructionist Movement In Association with the Roconstructionist Rabhinical College havuroh^’liope CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL Gome explore academic excellence for your child. Start exploring: charlottecountryday.org OPEN HOUSES: Junior Kindergarten—Kindergarten: October 8, 7 pm Junior Kindergarten—Grade 4: October 15, 7 pm Grades 9-12: November 7,1:30 pm For more information and to RSVPgo to.- charlottecountryday.org/cjn