Service Attendance Requirements
Service Attendance Requirements
In preparation for Jewish life and to reinforce Religious School learning it is vital that your child has a familiarity with Jewish worship. The more often you attend services as a family, the more natural the words and choreography of prayer will become and the greater will be your family's connection to the community. The following are the minimum number of services to be attended by each student during the academic year:
Grade | Friday/Festival Evening | Saturday/Festival Morning |
8-10 | 6 Total - Can be Evening or Morning | No Tot Shabbats |
7 | 5 - No Tot Shabbat | 5 |
6 | 5 - No Tot Shabbat | 5 |
5 | 5 Total - Can be Evening or Morning | No Tot Shabbats |
4 | 5 Total - Can be Evening or Morning | 3 can be Tot Shabbat |
3 | 5 Total - Can be Evening or Morning | 4 can be Tot Shabbat |
2 | 3 Tot Shabbat | |
1 | 3 Tot Shabbat | |
K | 3 Tot Shabbat | |
Pre-K | 1 Tot Shabbat |
A service attendance card is to be found outside the sanctuary. Please have your child fill the card out and hand it to the rabbi/service leader at the conclusion of the service and encourage them to wish the leader of prayer a warm “Shabbat Shalom!” or “Chag Sameach!”
Summer services, since the end of the last school year, count towards this year. If you attend service at another synagogue, have an official (rabbi, cantor, board member) sign that you were in attendance. And remember, if you were at a URJ camp over the summer… every service attended counts!
Children that fulfill their service requirement will receive a reward at the end of the year.
Sat, July 27 2024
21 Tammuz 5784
Sanctuary & Social Renewal Project
BCRC has launched the Sanctuary & Social Renewal Project, a new fundraising project to take the next step in implementing the BCRC Master Plan. We are moving forward with the first phase, which starts with the addition of a fully retractable, soundproofed movable wall between the sanctuary/social hall. We are also working with a generous donor on designing and building a beautiful new carved wooden ark! We now need your help to raise $35,000 by the High Holy Days to build our new permanent bimah!
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