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Opportunities for You to Support Town and Village Synagogue
People who participate in the activities of our synagogue community are often touched with the desire to demonstrate their support for our philosophy and goals. They want to know how to become involved. Depending on your means and your temperament, there are many ways you can support Town and Village Synagogue by giving generously of your money, your time or your heart. Read on and we are sure you will find more than one way that appeals to you. Generous gifts from the members and friends of Town and Village strengthen the three pillars supporting the life of our synagogue: Torah (Jewish learning), Avodah (prayer) and Chesed (acts of loving kindness). These gifts can fulfill your desire to carry out the mitzvah of tzedakah, to commemorate special occasions or to honor the memories of loved ones. Your gifts to our special purpose funds are a way to support efforts in which you believe. Common are gifts in multiples of $18 or more. 18 symbolizes ch’ai (life) and is the traditional multiple in which gifts are given. That said, the community is grateful for all gifts. Unless you tell us you wish to remain anonymous, we recognize gifts made at the minimum amounts mentioned in the list that follows by printing your name in our monthly bulletin and in other appropriate synagogue publications.
Jewish Continuity and Education
Adult Education Classes
The rich variety of educational opportunities we offer the community throughout the year enables members to participate more fully in our services and Jewish life and to deepen their understanding of Jewish prayer, tradition and history. To remove what could be a barrier to participation, the synagogue frequently subsidizes or waives course fees for community members in need. Your gifts to Adult Education help us cover these expenses and extend learning even further. From $180.
The rich variety of educational opportunities we offer the community throughout the year enables members to participate more fully in our services and Jewish life and to deepen their understanding of Jewish prayer, tradition and history. To remove what could be a barrier to participation, the synagogue frequently subsidizes or waives course fees for community members in need. Your gifts to Adult Education help us cover these expenses and extend learning even further. From $180.
Camp Ramah Scholarship in Memory of Steve Jacobson
In memory of our former congregant Steve Jacobson, of blessed memory, we make scholarships to Camp Ramah, official camp of the Conservative movement, available to students in our Hebrew School and to other children in the community. Camp Ramah instills Jewish values and positive identification with the Jewish people in those who attend. Your gift to this fund will help a child profit from the Camp Ramah experience. A Day at Camp Ramah: $100; A Week at Camp Ramah: $700.
Cantor Louis Moss Memorial Fund
In the tradition of our beloved Cantor Moss, who served our community for almost four decades, we continue to provide many opportunities such as our adult and children’s choirs, the annual Cantor Moss Memorial Concert and other musical events, to express our Jewish identity through music. Your gift to this fund supports these efforts.
Grayson Library Fund
The Grayson Library, located in our synagogue has a wide variety of material of interest to the Jewish community available for borrowing by members. Your gifts to this fund help us keep our offerings up to date. You can donate library material by consulting with our librarian or the Rabbi, or you can make a financial donation. From $50.
The Grayson Library, located in our synagogue has a wide variety of material of interest to the Jewish community available for borrowing by members. Your gifts to this fund help us keep our offerings up to date. You can donate library material by consulting with our librarian or the Rabbi, or you can make a financial donation. From $50.
Hebrew School Fund
We have a magnificent Hebrew School where students learn with pleasure. Your gifts to this fund help pay for teachers, teaching aids, outings, supplies, educational materials and prizes awarded to our best students.
We have a magnificent Hebrew School where students learn with pleasure. Your gifts to this fund help pay for teachers, teaching aids, outings, supplies, educational materials and prizes awarded to our best students.
Hebrew School Scholarships
It is our principle to work with any family that needs financial help to send their children to our Hebrew School. Additional funds would help us reach out actively to even more deserving families in the community. Those contributing scholarship funds will be honored at the yearly Hebrew School Graduation Ceremony. Should you wish to endow a named scholarship in perpetuity, please speak to the Rabbi. One Year Scholarship: $1800; Semester Scholarship: $900.
It is our principle to work with any family that needs financial help to send their children to our Hebrew School. Additional funds would help us reach out actively to even more deserving families in the community. Those contributing scholarship funds will be honored at the yearly Hebrew School Graduation Ceremony. Should you wish to endow a named scholarship in perpetuity, please speak to the Rabbi. One Year Scholarship: $1800; Semester Scholarship: $900.
Shabbaton
At least once a year, the synagogue invites a noted scholar to share the Friday night and Saturday lunch meals with us and to present a number of lectures on a specific topic. To remove any barrier to participation, the synagogue frequently provides subsidies or waives the Shabbaton meal fees for community members in need of this consideration. Your gifts to the Shabbaton Fund help us cover these expenses and extend learning even further.
At least once a year, the synagogue invites a noted scholar to share the Friday night and Saturday lunch meals with us and to present a number of lectures on a specific topic. To remove any barrier to participation, the synagogue frequently provides subsidies or waives the Shabbaton meal fees for community members in need of this consideration. Your gifts to the Shabbaton Fund help us cover these expenses and extend learning even further.
Chesed
Bikur Cholim
Chesed (Acts of Loving Kindness) takes many forms in our community. Among these are Bikur Cholim (the mitzvah of visiting the sick), Tzedakah, delivering food to the sick and homebound, training and providing volunteers for Shabbat ORE – a Shabbat lunch program that serves homeless or recently homeless Jews, collecting warm winter clothes for those less fortunate and organizing Shabbat and Holiday services in community institutions and hospitals. Your gifts to the Chesed Fund support these efforts and others.
Chesed (Acts of Loving Kindness) takes many forms in our community. Among these are Bikur Cholim (the mitzvah of visiting the sick), Tzedakah, delivering food to the sick and homebound, training and providing volunteers for Shabbat ORE – a Shabbat lunch program that serves homeless or recently homeless Jews, collecting warm winter clothes for those less fortunate and organizing Shabbat and Holiday services in community institutions and hospitals. Your gifts to the Chesed Fund support these efforts and others.
Mi Shebeirach Fund
It is customary to recite a Mi Shebeirach, a prayer for recovery and good health in the synagogue at the reading of the Torah. When having a Mi Shebeirach recited, you may wish to give a gift in the name of the person for whose good health you are praying.
It is customary to recite a Mi Shebeirach, a prayer for recovery and good health in the synagogue at the reading of the Torah. When having a Mi Shebeirach recited, you may wish to give a gift in the name of the person for whose good health you are praying.
Rabbi’s Tzedakah Fund
This tzedakah fund targets the needy in our community and beyond whom we try to help feed, clothe, shelter, educate and treat medically. The Rabbi, at his discretion disburses your gifts to the Rabbi’s Tzedakah fund as needs for Chesed arise.
This tzedakah fund targets the needy in our community and beyond whom we try to help feed, clothe, shelter, educate and treat medically. The Rabbi, at his discretion disburses your gifts to the Rabbi’s Tzedakah fund as needs for Chesed arise.
Synagogue Community
Annual Fund
Building Fund
Wear and tear on our building create the need for both major and minor repairs. From time to time, new programs create the need for renovations. Your gifts to this fund help us keep the building in good condition and add to the ways in which the structure can support the needs of our community.
Wear and tear on our building create the need for both major and minor repairs. From time to time, new programs create the need for renovations. Your gifts to this fund help us keep the building in good condition and add to the ways in which the structure can support the needs of our community.
Candy Shabbat
Candy Shabbat is an occasional sweet-filled Oneg (reception) following Friday evening services. Your gifts to the Candy Shabbat fund will underwrite the cost of refreshments.
Kiddush Fund
The community Kiddush with refreshments, held after services on Saturday mornings and on many Festivals, provides an opportunity for everyone to celebrate together and to socialize. Your gifts to this fund help underwrite the cost of refreshments at these events. Groups often band together at the Angel level to provide significant portions of the funds required for a kiddush on a specific Shabbat. Support at the Sponsor level provides all of the funds required for a kiddush on a specific Shabbat. Sponsors can either ask the Synagogue to organize the kiddush, or work with any approved kosher caterer. Supporters: Angels: From $50; Sponsors: From $600
The community Kiddush with refreshments, held after services on Saturday mornings and on many Festivals, provides an opportunity for everyone to celebrate together and to socialize. Your gifts to this fund help underwrite the cost of refreshments at these events. Groups often band together at the Angel level to provide significant portions of the funds required for a kiddush on a specific Shabbat. Support at the Sponsor level provides all of the funds required for a kiddush on a specific Shabbat. Sponsors can either ask the Synagogue to organize the kiddush, or work with any approved kosher caterer. Supporters: Angels: From $50; Sponsors: From $600
Condell Kiddush Fund
A special fund to help embellish T&V Kiddushim and enable the synagogue to offer kiddush meals after Shabbat services.
A special fund to help embellish T&V Kiddushim and enable the synagogue to offer kiddush meals after Shabbat services.
Special Occasions
In honor of Aliyot
Aliyot (honors) in the synagogue include being called to recite the blessing for a portion of the Torah reading or being asked to carry, lift or wrap the Torah. Receiving such honors is considered a simcha (occasion for celebration) and people often make a donation to the synagogue to commemorate the event.
Aliyot (honors) in the synagogue include being called to recite the blessing for a portion of the Torah reading or being asked to carry, lift or wrap the Torah. Receiving such honors is considered a simcha (occasion for celebration) and people often make a donation to the synagogue to commemorate the event.
Memorial Fund
The Memorial Fund is a way to remember and honor departed family and friends at any time. In addition, many congregation members and friends follow the tradition of giving tzedakah to honor those they are remembering at the Yahrzeit, the yearly anniversary of the death or after attending Yizkor, memorial services on Yom Kippur, Pesach, Shavuot and Succoth in memory of the departed.
The Memorial Fund is a way to remember and honor departed family and friends at any time. In addition, many congregation members and friends follow the tradition of giving tzedakah to honor those they are remembering at the Yahrzeit, the yearly anniversary of the death or after attending Yizkor, memorial services on Yom Kippur, Pesach, Shavuot and Succoth in memory of the departed.
Memorial Plaques
Installed on the sanctuary walls are Memory Boards containing permanent memorial plaques in honor of departed loved ones. You can purchase a plaque in memory of someone and you can reserve a space on a Memory Board in anticipation of a future need. Members $300; Non-Members $500.
Installed on the sanctuary walls are Memory Boards containing permanent memorial plaques in honor of departed loved ones. You can purchase a plaque in memory of someone and you can reserve a space on a Memory Board in anticipation of a future need. Members $300; Non-Members $500.
Prayer Book Fund
The congregation often needs to acquire additional Siddurim (daily prayer books), Chumashim (books containing the Torah and Haftorah readings), Machzorim (High Holidays prayer books), and others used in the services. Your gifts to this fund in memory of loved ones or in celebration of a simcha help cover the cost of these books. Each book purchased through this fund contains a bookplate that commemorates the occasion and honors the donor. From $72.
The congregation often needs to acquire additional Siddurim (daily prayer books), Chumashim (books containing the Torah and Haftorah readings), Machzorim (High Holidays prayer books), and others used in the services. Your gifts to this fund in memory of loved ones or in celebration of a simcha help cover the cost of these books. Each book purchased through this fund contains a bookplate that commemorates the occasion and honors the donor. From $72.
Simcha Fund
Engagements, aufruffs (pre-wedding celebrations), weddings, births, baby naming ceremonies, brit milahs (bris), bar or bat mitzvahs, birthdays and anniversaries are among the s’machot (happy life events) that congregation members and friends often celebrate with a donation to this fund in honor of the occasion
Engagements, aufruffs (pre-wedding celebrations), weddings, births, baby naming ceremonies, brit milahs (bris), bar or bat mitzvahs, birthdays and anniversaries are among the s’machot (happy life events) that congregation members and friends often celebrate with a donation to this fund in honor of the occasion
Simcha Leaves
Outside the sanctuary is a “Tree of Life” to which are attached Simcha Leaves, each a permanent commemoration of a happy event in someone’s life. Your gift to this fund will purchase a “leaf” permanently attached to the Tree of Life and inscribed with a description of the simcha. From $72.
Outside the sanctuary is a “Tree of Life” to which are attached Simcha Leaves, each a permanent commemoration of a happy event in someone’s life. Your gift to this fund will purchase a “leaf” permanently attached to the Tree of Life and inscribed with a description of the simcha. From $72.
Special Gifting Opportunities
Special and more significant gifting opportunities are also available. Members and others have, for example, sponsored Hebrew School teachers, sponsored the Yom Kippur Community Service, gifted ceremonial objects to the Synagogue, provided funding for trips to Israel, and provided funds for the refurbishment of various rooms in the synagogue building. These gifts are often given to commemorate a major lifetime event – a wedding anniversary, wedding, birth and bar or bat mitzvah — or simply to support the community. The Rabbi would be happy to discuss these and other opportunities further with you.
You may make your donation by:
- sending a check or credit card number to the T&V office; 334 East 14th St, NY10003
- logging on to Chaverweb, the T&V software system at https://www.chaverweb.net/COALogin.aspx?key=T25655081119
- sending a check or credit card number to the T&V office; 334 East 14th St, NY10003
- logging on to Chaverweb, the T&V software system at https://www.chaverweb.net/COALogin.aspx?key=T25655081119
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If you do not have an account or need account information, call the T&V office at 212-677-8090.
Other Ways to Show Your Support
While our synagogue needs financial support to carry out its rich variety of programs, we are a community that strives to live the values of Torah (Jewish learning), Avodah (prayer) and Chesed (acts of loving kindness). We invite you to join us in this spiritual journey.
Become a Member of Town and Village
We are a growing conservative community that enjoys welcoming new members to our traditional egalitarian services, so please join us, or encourage your friends and family to do so. Our vibrant, friendly and dedicated membership comprises all economic levels, ages, races, genders and gender preferences. Some of us are steeped in Judaism, others are rediscovering their faith and still others are just beginning their journey.
We are a growing conservative community that enjoys welcoming new members to our traditional egalitarian services, so please join us, or encourage your friends and family to do so. Our vibrant, friendly and dedicated membership comprises all economic levels, ages, races, genders and gender preferences. Some of us are steeped in Judaism, others are rediscovering their faith and still others are just beginning their journey.
Enroll Your Children in Our Hebrew School
Because our children are our future, we have created a school for them, recognized as one of the best in the city. Enroll your children in our Hebrew School where children love to learn. Tell your friends and family about the school’s classes that begin at pre-kindergarten and progress through high school.
Because our children are our future, we have created a school for them, recognized as one of the best in the city. Enroll your children in our Hebrew School where children love to learn. Tell your friends and family about the school’s classes that begin at pre-kindergarten and progress through high school.
Attend Our Adult Education Programs
Ranging from single lectures through course series, our Adult Education offerings are broad and eclectic. You are sure to find some enticing offerings, so please do participate and add your voice and experience to the richness of the discussions we have in all our educational forums.
Ranging from single lectures through course series, our Adult Education offerings are broad and eclectic. You are sure to find some enticing offerings, so please do participate and add your voice and experience to the richness of the discussions we have in all our educational forums.
Attend Our Services
At the center of Avodah (prayer and practicing the religion) is attendance at services. We are proud of the warmth, the feeling that we are part of an extended family, the opportunities to participate and the accessibility our services offer. For those who need them, we have transliterations from Hebrew, Braille texts, large texts, hearing devices and sign language translation (upon request). We offer a daily minyan and a Friday night service. During our Saturday morning services we offer a Learners Minyan for those who want an introduction to the prayer service and both Toddlers and Youth Services. Volunteer Your TimeAs important as donations are to fund our activities, actual participation in these activities is even more so. Among the many acts of Chesed performed by members of the community are visiting the sick, collecting clothing for the needy and making and serving meals for the homeless. We invite you to involve yourself in our Chesed activities, rewarding both the community and yourself with your Acts of Loving Kindness.
At the center of Avodah (prayer and practicing the religion) is attendance at services. We are proud of the warmth, the feeling that we are part of an extended family, the opportunities to participate and the accessibility our services offer. For those who need them, we have transliterations from Hebrew, Braille texts, large texts, hearing devices and sign language translation (upon request). We offer a daily minyan and a Friday night service. During our Saturday morning services we offer a Learners Minyan for those who want an introduction to the prayer service and both Toddlers and Youth Services. Volunteer Your TimeAs important as donations are to fund our activities, actual participation in these activities is even more so. Among the many acts of Chesed performed by members of the community are visiting the sick, collecting clothing for the needy and making and serving meals for the homeless. We invite you to involve yourself in our Chesed activities, rewarding both the community and yourself with your Acts of Loving Kindness.
Leave a Legacy
A gift to the synagogue through your estate is a thoughtful way of ensuring that the synagogue community continues to prosper. Your attorney or your accountant will know the changes that must be made to your will to both take care of your family and award the remainder to charities and institutions of your choice.
A gift to the synagogue through your estate is a thoughtful way of ensuring that the synagogue community continues to prosper. Your attorney or your accountant will know the changes that must be made to your will to both take care of your family and award the remainder to charities and institutions of your choice.
How We Use Your Money
In almost all cases we use the money provided to the Synagogue according to the designation you provide. On rare occasions, the generosity of our community in one area may overwhelm our ability to use all the gifts generated. In such circumstances, we reserve the right to apply the funds received to the greatest needs of the community, as we define them. We are sure you will understand this and agree.
In almost all cases we use the money provided to the Synagogue according to the designation you provide. On rare occasions, the generosity of our community in one area may overwhelm our ability to use all the gifts generated. In such circumstances, we reserve the right to apply the funds received to the greatest needs of the community, as we define them. We are sure you will understand this and agree.
Making a Gift
While you can always make your gifts to the synagogue in cash, a contribution of securities can give you significant tax benefits. If stock you have owned for more than one year has appreciated in value, you will be able to use the current value of the stock as your charitable deduction. You will not be required to pay capital gains tax on the appreciation, as you would have had you sold the stock. You can accomplish such a gift by electronic transfer through your broker. When sending checks, please send them to Town and Village Synagogue, 334 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10009. Please include instructions telling us how you wish us to apply the funds. If you need further information on supporting Town and Village Synagogue, please contact Lew Freedman at Lewis_Freedman@yahoo.com
While you can always make your gifts to the synagogue in cash, a contribution of securities can give you significant tax benefits. If stock you have owned for more than one year has appreciated in value, you will be able to use the current value of the stock as your charitable deduction. You will not be required to pay capital gains tax on the appreciation, as you would have had you sold the stock. You can accomplish such a gift by electronic transfer through your broker. When sending checks, please send them to Town and Village Synagogue, 334 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10009. Please include instructions telling us how you wish us to apply the funds. If you need further information on supporting Town and Village Synagogue, please contact Lew Freedman at Lewis_Freedman@yahoo.com
