L'shana tova! We are looking forward to being together for Shabbat! Please invite your friends! If you have any questions, please contact the organizers at tikkunleilshabbat@yahoo.com.
Time: 6:30 PM - PROMPTLY!
Place: The Festival Center
1640 Columbia Rd NW
Washington, DC 20009
We will meet in a covered outdoor space at the Festival Center in Columbia Heights for a songful, soulful Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma'ariv, followed by potluck dinner (approximately 8 PM). TLS will provide dessert! Please RSVP on OneTable! Covid protocols below.
POTLUCK DINNER:
Please bring a vegetarian entree or salad/side to share. There will be one table for hekhsher-only (i.e., kosher-certified) vegetarian items and another table for vegetarian items. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN REUSABLE PLATE AND UTENSILS (including serving utensils). TLS will supply plates and utensils (for those who can't bring their own), challah, grape beverages and dessert!
SUPPLIES
We will provide masks and hand sanitizer. We will provide siddurim (prayer books) for services.
COVID SAFETY PROTOCOLS:
VACCINES
All TLS attendees aged 5+ must either be (1) fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19 or (2) ineligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine due to age or medical reasons. Attendees must attest to their vaccination status (or ineligibility), either by RSVPing or when arriving at an event.
MASKS
If we are indoors, masks are required for all attendees above the age of 4 (including service leaders). We will attempt to maintain distancing between families/pods.
ATTENDANCE
All attendees must attest that (1) they have not been feeling sick, (2) neither themselves nor anyone in their immediate family/pod has had COVID in the past ten days (i.e., first symptoms or first positive test within the past ten days), and (3) they do not believe that they or any immediate family/pod member have been exposed to COVID in the past ten days; or, if they have been exposed, they have tested negative at least five days from their most recent exposure. For the safety of the community, if you are feeling sick, or if you or an immediate family/pod member have tested positive for COVID in the past ten days, please do not attend. We urge anyone who tests positive for COVID within two weeks after the event to alert the organizers (tikkunleilshabbat@yahoo.com).
Save the date for upcoming TLS’s:
September 22, 6:30 pm
October 20, 6:30 pm
November 17, 6:30 pm
Volunteer with TLS
We are so grateful to everyone who has stepped up to volunteer to continue TLS. We also want to grow our volunteer pool to lessen the burden on everyone (Many hands make light work!), so please volunteer for any of the tasks! We are especially needing bottomliners, davening leaders and policymakers. Please email tikkunleilshabbat@yahoo.com to volunteer.
- Bottomliners - with a partner, make sure the logistics of 2 TLS meetings happen (recruit volunteers for set up, clean up, greeters, supplies)
- Bottomliner of bottomliners - make sure there are bottomliners for each TLS meeting and that they know their roles
- Tikkun Olam - help with infusing social justice into TLS programs in new ways
- Day-of tasks - be willing to volunteer to do set-up, clean-up, greet, etc.
- Davening leaders - lead davening sometimes
- Leadership cultivator - find and train people to take on these roles in the future
- Holidays - volunteer to help plan Selichot, Simchat Torah, and/or Purim
- Policymakers - decide on things like covid policies, reusable dishes, and other fun and exciting things like that.
- Dish washers - take reusable plates home to wash