Congregation Bet Chesed High Holiday Services Information

The High Holiday Services this year (other than the concluding service for Yom Kippur) will be held at the Leland Community Center, 4301 Willow Lane. The location is off Wisconsin Avenue near the heart of the Bethesda business district. The concluding service will be held at the FAES building, which is one of our regular venues.

Dates and Times

Tickets and Room Setup/Takedown

Prayerbook

Children

General Information on Congregation Bet Chesed

Directions

Dates and times:

At the Leland Community Center:

Rosh Hashanah evening service: Wednesday, September 12 at 8 PM, followed by an oneg (refreshments).

Rosh Hashanah morning service: Thursday, September 13 at 10 AM.

Kol Nidre: Friday, September 21 at 8 PM

Yom Kippur morning service: Saturday, September 22 at 10 AM, followed by an open discussion with the Rabbi.

At the FAES Building

Yom Kippur Yizkor and Neilah (concluding) service: Saturday, September 22 at 5:30 PM, followed by a light break-the-fast.

Tickets and Room Setup/Takedown:

Tickets will be required for everyone except NIH Clinical Center patients. Tickets must be ordered by Friday, September 7 to allow time to mail them. For members, they are provided as a benefit of membership. For others, the requested donation (for those able to pay) is $125 per person or $175 for a family.  

We will need to set up the room at the Leland Center before the evening services and put the chairs away after the morning services. Accordingly, everyone receiving tickets (who is physically able) is being asked to select one of four times to help in this activity: Rosh Hashanah evening (setup), Rosh Hashanah morning (takedown), Kol Nidre (setup) or Yom Kippur morning (takedown). This involves arriving about an hour before services to help set up, or staying up to an hour after services to help take down the room. Please select your time when you order your tickets.

For tickets, please send your donation, your selection of setup/takedown time, and a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Charles Walters, 6509 Goldsboro Road, Bethesda, MD 20817. Information on tickets can also be obtained by calling Amy Walters at (301) 466-9459.

For information on Congregation Bet Chesed, see our web site at http://www.betchesed.org, or call Rabbi Brenner's study (301-762-4241) or Stan Klein (301-881-4087).

Prayerbook:

We will use the gender-neutral version of the New Union Prayerbook for the Days of Awe. A limited number of copies will be available for NIH patients. Others are expected to provide their own copies. (The older non-gender-neutral version can also be used by adjusting for the changes in the English translations.)  Rabbi Brenner is getting High Holiday prayerbooks under an arrangement with the Central Conference of American Rabbis. To get a copy, write a separate check for $36 per copy to "Rabbi's Fund". Mark the memo section "High Holiday Prayerbook." Mail the check with your check for the tickets. We will have the prayerbook copies at the services.

Children:

There will not be a separate childrens' service, and we have not arranged for babysitting. Children are our future. Parents are encouraged to bring children to the regular service, but for young children, parents may need to parent.

General Information on Congregation Bet Chesed:


Information about Congregation Bet Chesed can be found at http://www.betchesed.org/about.html, or by calling Rabbi Brenner's study (301-762-4241) or Stan Klein (301-881-4087).

We send out information mostly by email, although we send by postal mail for those who don't have email. To get on our mailing list(s) please send an email to Stan Klein (Stan Klein's email address ) with subject line "CBC List Request," and provide your name, postal address, phone number, and email address. Please keep us up-to-date on your addresses.

Directions:

To Leland Community Center:

The center is located at 4301 Willow Lane. (The location is 5 Blocks east of Wisconsin Avenue near the heart of the Bethesda business district.)

From Rockville and north:

Take Rockville Pike south. It becomes Wisconsin Avenue. After passing the intersection with East West Highway (on the left) and Old Georgetown Road (on the right), Willow Lane is at the 4th traffic light. Turn left onto Willow Lane, using the left turn lane at the light. (The street signs will also show the street to the right a few feet beyond the left turn lane, which is Bethesda Avenue.) The Leland Center is 5 blocks from Wisconsin Avenue at the end of Willow Lane. Parking is available in the Leland Center parking lot.

From Chevy Chase and south:

Take Wisconsin Avenue north. Willow Lane is 4 blocks north of Bradley Boulevard, just after the Farmers Market. Turn right onto Willow Lane (which is also roughly opposite Bethesda Avenue). The Leland Center is 5 blocks from Wisconsin Avenue at the end of Willow Lane. Parking is available in the Leland Center parking lot.

To the FAES Building (for Yom Kippur Yizkor and Concluding Services):

The location is the FAES (Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences) Social and Academic Center. The building is a large house at the corner of Old Georgetown Road and Cedar Lane, just north of the NIH campus. The address is 9101 Old Georgetown Road. It is on the same side as the firehouse, but across Cedar Lane. There is parking in front of the building.