Elul 5786

 

Dear KAT Members,

 

We hope that everyone had an enjoyable and meaningful summer!  As we enter Elul, it is time to arrange your KAT Annual Membership, as well as your seating for the upcoming Yamim Nora’im.

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Over the past year, our warm, vibrant, and supportive community has continued to flourish through time-honored traditions alongside fresh new initiatives. Our programming has encompassed inspirational shiurim and tefillot, a wide array of weekday, Shabbat, and chagim social gatherings for all ages, meaningful milestone celebrations, and the dedicated work of our chessed committee, who stands by our KAT family through every circumstance.

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We extend our deep appreciation to everyone who contributed to bringing these events—and so much more—to life, as well as to those ensuring the day-to-day operations and maintenance of our shul run seamlessly. The ongoing participation of each member remains vital to the endurance and vitality of our community, particularly throughout what remains a deeply challenging period for עם ישראל as a whole. 

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Looking ahead, we warmly invite each of you to bring your own energies and ideas to our kehillah, and we look forward to working together to sustain our shared commitment to the shul in the year to come.

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And in that context, here’s the membership drive for the coming year:

 

Each year, KAT depends on raising NIS 150,000 annually through the membership drive and from Yamim Nora’im seating. This amount funds the basic upkeep of the shul (payroll, insurance, utilities and minimal building maintenance).  We fund additional shul activities and special expenses from the proceeds received from the KAT simcha hall. 

 

The price for membership this year will remain the same as in this past year. Membership can be paid in installments of up to 12 payments.

NIS donations to KAT are tax deductible under ‘Seif 46’.

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Annual Membership Dues

 

• NIS 2,140 per family

 

• NIS 1,400 per family that has completed or is making ongoing Building Fund contributions (See here for information about the KAT Building Fund)

 

• Free for newcomers to the neighborhood, new olim and anyone under 30

 

In KAT, no membership request is turned down for reasons of financial hardship.

If you wish to discuss this in strict confidence, please reach out to either myself (medinahk@gmail.com), the KAT Gizbar Yair Blumenfeld (gizbar@ahavat-tzion.com) or any other member of the KAT Vaad (Jonty Blackman, Ilana Fish, Gedalya Shindler, Tali Slifkin, and Sara Wolf).    

 

Yamim Nora’im Seating

 

A few important points:

 

• Membership dues do not include Yamim Nora’im seats, which must be requested and purchased separately from membership dues. 

• In order to purchase seats for Yamim Nora’im you must be a Shul member. 

• Non members will be able to purchase upon availability a few days before Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur.

• Seats will be allocated according to demand and a prioritization scale. The KAT Yamim Nora’im Seating Committee works extremely hard to ensure transparency and the fair allocation of seats. Unfortunately, not all seating requests can be accommodated, and we respectfully ask that you take this into account when communicating with the committee, and that a spirit of ‘hakarat hatov’ is maintained.

 

All instructions and pricing for membership dues and Yamim Nora’im seating are detailed below. 

 

Please ensure that both your KAT membership dues and Yamim Nora’im Seating fees are paid by Motzei Shabbat Elul 16 / August 29.

 

In the meantime, on behalf of the KAT Vaad and Finance Team, we wish you all a Ketiva V'Chatima Tova, for an upcoming year filled with good health, happiness and success.

 

B’vracha,

 

Medinah Korn

on behalf of the KAT Vaad