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Beth Jacob Congregation of Kitchener-Waterloo

Beth Jacob Congregation has been serving the Jewish community of Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge for more than a century. Founded in 1908, Beth Jacob is a modern Orthodox synagogue with congregants from different observances.

Dear members, friends and our community family of Beth Jacob,

Over the past week, your executive has been in discussions over how to respond and provide religious and community programming in the face of the Covid-19 Corona Virus.  
During this period, we have been taking cues from our Regional, Provincial and Federal public health officials, as well as the WHO and keeping an ear as to what our other community Synagogues, Churches and community centres are doing to keep their members safe.  As we are all well aware, the situation seems to be changing by the hour.

After a special meeting, your executive has decided that it is in the best interest of our members to temporarily suspend all religious and community programming at Beth Jacob for the foreseeable future.  This includes, but is not limited, to all religious services, such as Thursday morning minyanim, Friday Evening prayer and Saturday Shabbat services.

This decision has been made in the interest of reducing community spread of the Covid-19 Corona Virus and supporting the government call for social distancing.

We do not know how long this pause will be.

Your executive does, however, commit to continuous monitoring and communication with our membership through e-mail.  We will be meeting as an executive again in two weeks time to assess the situation and appraise our congregation.

During this time, we will be making appropriate arrangements to ensure that our Shul building will be maintained.  Margo will be keeping reduced office hours, working Mondays to Thursdays in isolation, to ensure that member and community administration can continue to be available.

Although we are without a Rabbi at the moment, our board and many members of our community want to ensure that we maintain our sense of community.  During these unprecedented  times, if there are members who need support with daily challenges, such as arranging grocery shopping, due to self quarantine or shut in, please contact our office and we will ensure that we can ask for a volunteer to assist.  

Sincerely,
Amichai Tsarfati

Chametz forms now available at Beth Jacob Synagogue.  

For a link to the PDF version of this form, please click here.

For a link to the PDF version of this schedule, please click here.