Register for Davening on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur!

[Book Motzkin, Julia]

**Registration link below**

Hello everyone,

Each year, Harvard Hillel puts forth an enormous amount of logistical and institutional work into ensuring we have spaces to run services, during the yamim noraim and year-round.

Harvard Hillel provides us with space to daven and host social events, sifrei torah to read from, and security, including when Harvard is out of session. This summer, Rav Jason and Hillel staff coordinated with organizations across Cambridge to ensure we could continue normal operations even as Hillel itself was closed over shabbat. 

Harvard staff not only support overall building operations, but also contribute directly to the running of the minyan - even beyond Rabbi Ethan, Hillel staff keep the building open for us, arrange for security and janitorial services associated with our events, and even print the cantabs.

While the Orthodox Minyan doesn’t request dues from its members, it’s crucial that we contribute to maintaining the space and manpower required to keep the Orthodox Minyan functioning. To that end, make sure that you register for high holiday services through Hillel. 

Community members are strongly encouraged to make the full suggested donation to Hillel with their registration. Additionally, though current Harvard students are not required to make donations with their registration, we know that many choose to give tzedaka around this time of year.  We hope that members of our minyan show hakarat ha’tov for everything Hillel provides in many ways, but especially as the costs associated with running a Jewish organization continue to rise, that one of those ways is supporting Hillel’s operations financially.

General Hillel high holiday information can be found here.

Looking forward to a shana tova,

Julia and Maya

Co-Chairs, Orthodox Minyan at Harvard Hillel

Please note: Donations to the shabbat fund are dedicated only for shabbat-related activities of the minyan and do not support Hillel’s overall operation. Please be sure to donate to Hillel more broadly for these purposes.

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Julia Book Motzkin

PhD Candidate | Harvard University

Department of Physics

jb...@g.harvard.edu