Religious Services
Daily Minyan
Our daily minyan gathers for morning and evening services currently on-site and on livestream. Weekday services are held at 7:30 a.m. on-site and 6:00 p.m., and Sundays at 9:00 a.m. and 6 p.m. On national holidays when the building is closed at 9:00 a.m.
Aliyot on Shabbat or at Daily Minyan
Celebrating Shabbat each week, and gathering for prayer every day, we enjoy marking special personal and family occasions by sharing them with our synagogue family. We also enjoy honoring members of our community with Torah honors as individual expressions of gratitude and belonging. If you would like to receive an aliyah to the Torah or some other synagogue honor during a Shabbat Morning or Daily Minyan service, please be in touch with Judy Simkin in the Rabbinic Office, 410-486-6400 ext. 232. We’ll do our best to provide you a timely Torah honor, subject to each weekly schedule.
Shabbat Services
At Chizuk Amuno, Shabbat is a day to rejoice in the gift and experiences of our lives, to connect with our synagogue community, not only as an end to the week but also as a beginning to the week ahead.
Shabbat Evening
Kabbalat Shabbat Services are held each Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. on-site. We welcome Shabbat in friendship, with song, and traditional davenen as we come together, taking leave of the busy routine of our week.
Shabbat Morning
Shabbat Morning Services are held currently at 9:30 a.m., in person and on livestream where our rabbis and Hazzan lead us in a warm and engaging service of traditional prayer and davenen. Our services include Torah study and the consideration of Jewish values and ideas for our lives and our world. We strive to provide a sacred place for personal prayer and reflection. The service is occasionally enhanced by the participation of our synagogue choir. Each week our service embraces members who come to celebrate individual and family milestones. Most weeks parallel family services for children and adults also available.
Festival and High Holy Day Services
On all Jewish holidays we come together as a community in celebration and prayer at our festival services. During the High Holy Days, services are traditionally held throughout the synagogue, including services in the Sanctuary, the Krieger Auditorium, the Stulman Auditorium, and family services for young families in the Esterson Auditorium, Hoffberger Chapel, and school Gymnasium. Special programs and religious services are also offered for children and students in preschool through high school.
List of all of our Shabbat offerings:
At Chizuk Amuno, Shabbat is a day to rejoice in the gift and experiences of our lives, to connect with our synagogue community, not only as an end to the week but also as a beginning to the week ahead.
For all ages:
- Sanctuary Service
Shabbat Morning Services are currently held at 9:30 a.m., in our Sanctuary, in person and on livestream, where our rabbis and Hazzan lead us in a warm and engaging service of traditional prayer and davenen. Our services include Torah study and the consideration of Jewish values and ideas for our lives and our world. We strive to provide a sacred place for personal prayer and reflection. The service is occasionally enhanced by the participation of our synagogue choir. Each week our service embraces members who come to celebrate individual and family milestones.
- NEW this year! - Shabbat Unplugged
Please join us as we welcome Shabbat in an "unplugged" musical style. Using our voices and the accompaniment of acoustic guitar, this joyful and spiritual service will be a shared experience of harmonious communal singing.
November 3, 2023
January 5, 2024
March 15, 2024
May 3, 2024
- Shir Shabbat with Rabbi Ben Shalva and the Shir Shabbat band
Join us in song on Friday nights for a joyful, instrumental participatory Shabbat service for all ages. Come dressed casually, enjoy hors d’oeuvres and wine at 5:30 p.m., then at 6 p.m. share in our spirited, one-hour service filled with singing, clapping, and great music.
2023: August 25, October 6, November 10, December 15
2024: January 12, February 16, March 8, April 19, May 17, May 24, June 14
- Amuno Minyan
Intimate, very participatory, congregant-led Shabbat morning minyan. Congregants lead tefillot (prayers), read Torah, and give divrei Torah (sermons.) The Amuno Minyan meets 4-6 times a year. - Camp Shabbat @ Shul
Wear your Shabbat whites, and meet at the Rosenbloom amphitheater for Shabbat outdoors. Held once a year in June, it is led by Rabbi Wechsler and Leslie Pomerantz on the guitar! - Summer Shul
During the summer months services are lay-led, casual, and participatory. They are held in the round. Leave your traditional Shabbat attire in the closet and break out your sandals (and socks if you must!)
For children and families with young children
- Family Service
A place where students can lead the prayers, feel close to God, and connect to the larger Chizuk Amuno community. Led by Rabbi Seltzer, participation in the Family Service gives children a comfortable place to learn by doing. Specifically geared towards students in grades K-4 and their parent(s).
Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. Hoffberger Chapel
(Beginning October 14) - Torah for Tots
An interactive family service with singing, dancing, praying, snacks, stories, and so much more, led by Michelle Gold, Director of Goldsmith Early Childhood Center. Specifically geared towards families with children from birth to five years old. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m.
2023: October 14, 28, November 11, December 9
2024: January 27, February 10, March 9, April 13, May 11, June 8
- Tot Shabbat
Fridays, 9:30 a.m.
Friday morning pre-Shabbat experience for infants and toddlers with their adult caregivers. Melissa Berman, Young Family Coordinator, leads this participatory musical session geared towards young children under 4.
2023: September 8, 22, October 6, 20, November 3, 17, December 15
2024: January 5, 19 February 2, March 1, 15, April 5, 19, May 3, 17
