Jews often mark events, both happy and sad, by making appropriate contributions. These contributions link the event to something larger, carrying a sense of permanence and continuity. Most of us choose to mark significant occasions through contributions to the synagogue — occasions such as births, deaths, yahrtzeits, anniversaries, B’nai Mitzvah, graduations, and other such milestones. Below are the various funds to which you may contribute, knowing that your gift will be both appreciated and put to good use.
If you would just like to make a cash donation to Adat Shalom and charge it to your credit card, use the link above. . . . or . . . Do it the "old-fashioned way" and mail a check to Adat Shalom. In addition to donations to the general fund, Adat Shalom offers a number of contribution opportunities. Please indicate which fund your contribution is for:
You can dedicate prayer books or bibles for general congregational use and have a bookplate inserted with the inscription of your choosing. Chumashim (Bibles) can be donated for $65 each and Siddurim (Prayer Books) for $40 each. Daily prayer books may be donated for $35 each and High Holiday Machzor for $45.
Beyond the mandatory building fund contributions and beyond your Capital Campaign pledge, donations to this fund will help us maintain and improve our building. . . and ultimately, bring down the mortgage.
Adat Shalom’s Holocaust Torah was acquired from the Westminster Synagogue in London by the Schwarz/Perlstein family and dedicated on the occasion of the bar-mitzvah of their son Joel. It has been dated from 16th century, southern Germany. Proceeds from this fund support the growth and development of Adat Shalom’s physical facility. Donors will be acknowledged in a special Holocaust Torah Commemorative Book on display in the Adat Shalom library. Rescuers are $1,800; Benefactors are $360; Sustainers are $180.
Contributions to the Library Fund will be used to purchase books and other materials for the Adat Shalom library. A bookplate will be made for each contribution of $36 in honor or memory of a person or event.
Contributions to this fund help support the various programs of the Adat Shalom community. Special Adat Shalom cards have been printed up and will be sent with a get-well wish, condolence, congratulations, etc. A card will be sent at your request to anyone you designate (if you give us the occasion, and the recipient's name and address).
This fund will enable the purchase of teacher materials, audio-visual aids, and books for the children's library. It is a wonderful way to help support the creative initiatives of the Torah School.
This fund exists for the maintenance of our Torahs as well as the possible purchase of additional Torahs. Torah covers, crowns, and other ornaments will be repaired or purchased with money contributed to this fund. Each $100 donation will be acknowledged to the person being honored or the family of someone being memorialized.
Named for the late Daniel Thursz, an Adat Shalom member and a national leader in the development of informal Jewish education, this fund has two components. The first component supports and helps subsidize Adat Shalom teens attending Jewish programming, such as Israel Quest, No’ar Hadash/JRF youth conferences, Panim el Panim, etc. Many of these programs include matching requirements with the sponsoring organizations. The second component provides support, based on financial need, to members’ children participating in Jewish youth activities, including summer camp, and is administered in a confidential manner.
An appropriate way to say "thank you" for cantorial services rendered, contributions to this fund will support financially stressed Adat Shalom members who wish to participate in organized Jewish life, and will help to sponsor musical training and conference experiences for musicians in our congregation who wish to further their skill and share their talent with the community. Additionally, donations will be used to bring guest artists to the community as well as to bolster our "in-house" talent.
An appropriate way to say "thank you" for rabbinic services rendered, this fund enables Rabbi Fred to give tzedakah to worthy causes and helps supplement important Adat Shalom initiatives. It is also available to families needing temporary financial support and helps send Adat Shalomers to Jewish summer camps, youth conclaves, and trips to Israel. Individuals or families facing financial challenges should contact the Rabbi directly.
The purpose of the Fund is to streamline relatively small, uncontroversial donations by Adat Shalom (up to $250) to other non-profit organizations whose missions and goals are deemed consistent with those of Adat Shalom and to allow the publication of the name of Adat Shalom in support of that organization.
Suggested Minimum Contribution To Simcha Fund Is $10 All Others $18
Support Adat Shalom by making book and music purchases through participating merchants.
At Soundswrite, 10% of any Jewish recordings and other music resources you purchase through the foregoing link will go to the Adat Shalom Torah School. Please help Soundswrite help us by indicating Adat Shalom in the space provided on their checkout form.
At Jewish Contemporary Classics, 20% of sales are donated to Adat Shalom's Torah School. Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc. is the only audiobook publishing company whose goal is to make high quality recordings of this century's great Jewish books fiction and non-fiction. In order to get credit, please mention Adat Shalom in the comments section of the order form or when you use the toll-free number to order.
Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation
7727 Persimmon Tree Lane
Bethesda, MD 20817
E-mail info@adatshalom.net
Phone: 301-767-3333 x106 | FAX: 301-767-3340
Shabbat Services: Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.
We are an affiliate of the
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
and part of the
Chesapeake Region of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
(CRJRF)