5/7/2021 Updated Guidelines: If members from two households, who are vaccinated, wish to sit together without socially distancing, they may. This should be limited to two households. Masks must still be worn by all attendees. 4/30/221 • All Shacharit minyanim on Shabbat will begin with Brachot. • Registration is no longer required for Shabbat youth programs. • For now, all mask and distancing guidelines still apply inside and outside. 4/28/2021 • Registration is no longer required for Shabbat youth programs or for any minyanim. For now, all other guidelines apply to all minyanim on campus. • Since Lag Ba'Omer falls this year on Friday, haircuts and shaving are allowed Thursday night, after 8:30pm, if not possible on Friday. There is no tachanun on Thursday at mincha and on Friday. • We are seriously considering a resumption of the 7:15am inside minyan this Monday, May 3. If interested in participating, please respond to this email. In addition, please let me know if you are interested in being a gabbai to help run the davening and assign aliyot. Other minyanim, including 6:45/6:55am, will remain in place. 4/23/2021 • Registration for Shacharit minyanim is no longer required. • Registration for youth programming remains in effect. • All Shul health and safety guidelines remain in effect. SOCIAL DISTANCING IS REQUIRED AT ALL MINYANIM. PLEASE DO NOT GATHER IN THE BACK OF INDOOR OR OUTDOOR MINYANIM. • Persons will be available in the Shul to assist with seating in the Main Sanctuary as needed. • Should seating in the Main Sanctuary reach social distancing capacity, people will be accommodated in the Ballroom or Patio minyan. 4/16/2021 • Effective this Shabbat, April 17, registration for Shacharit minyanim is no longer required. • Registration for youth programming remains in effect. • All Shul health and safety guidelines remain in effect. SOCIAL DISTANCING IS REQUIRED AT ALL MINYANIM. PLEASE DO NOT GATHER IN BACK OF INDOOR OR OUTDOOR MINYANIM. • There will be personnel in the Shul to assist with seating in the Main Sanctuary as needed. • Should seating in the Main Sanctuary reach social distancing capacity, people will be accommodated in the Ballroom or Patio minyan. 4/14/2021 Please note the following updated guidelines and procedures we are implementing: • Effective this Shabbat, April 17, registration for Shacharit minyanim is no longer required. • All Shul health and safety guidelines remain in effect. Click here to review all the guidelines. • There will be personnel in the Shul to assist with seating in the Main Sanctuary as needed. • Should seating in the Main Sanctuary reach social distancing capacity, we will accommodate you at either the Ballroom or Patio minyan. • Registration for youth programming remains in effect. Please see registration link below. Thank you for your understanding. 4/7/2021 You must read the updated guidelines before attending any minyan at Keter Torah. Those who traveled for Pesach should carefully read the guidelines before registering. These guidelines apply to children as well. Registration is only required for Shabbat morning minyanim and youth programs. Click here for updated Guidelines 4/2/2021 Yizkor To Make Your Yizkor Donation, click here Yizkor Guidelines • Yizkor is recited on Sunday, the last day of Pesach. If you cannot be at Shul, it can be said at home. • Yizkor at Shul: The entire Yizkor will be said quietly at all minyanim, with a Keil Maleh for all loved ones made by the Gabbai at the conclusion. To make sure that Yizkor can be said in a safe way, we are requesting that all of those who do not say Yizkor should remain at their seats and read the memorial prayers for the Kedoshim of the Holocaust and the soldiers of Tzahal who died Al Kidush Hashem to themselves. No one should gather outside of the minyanim as typically done. • Yizkor Candle: The yahrtzeit candle should be lit for Yom Tov. One Yizkor light serves adequately to recall everyone for whom we may be saying Yizkor. • Before Yizkor you should make a gift to tzedakakh, as the main function of the Yizkor recitation is to serve as a context in which to pledge charity in the merit of deceased loved ones. • One begins saying Yizkor the first holiday after the passing of a loved one. 3/17/2021 Registration is only required for Shabbat morning minyanim. All guidelines still apply. 3/12/2021 • Please note a change in our policies for those who have been fully vaccinated. Click here, for updated guidelines. • Registration for weekday minyanim, Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat and Shabbat Mincha/Ma’ariv is no longer required; all guidelines still apply. 3/10/2021 • Registration for weekday minyanim, Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat, and Shabbat Mincha/Ma'ariv is no longer required. • All guidelines still apply. • You can now register your entire pod with one form (men and women must register in separate pods). • There is no longer a question asking if you are bringing children. If you are bringing children with you to a minyan, please include them in your registration. 3/5/2021 • Please note a change in our policies for those who have been fully vaccinated. Click here, for updated guidelines. • Registration is required for all Shabbat on-campus minyanim and events. • Registration for weekday minyanim is no longer required; all guidelines still apply. 2/26/2021 • Registration is required for all Shabbat on-campus minyanim and events. • Registration for weekday minyanim is no longer required; all guidelines still apply. • Teen Minyan is resuming this week. If it is too cold or raining, the minyan will move to the Beit Midrash. 2/25/2021 • You can now register your entire pod with one form (men and women must register in separate pods). • There will no longer be a question asking if you are bringing children. If you are bringing children with you to a minyan, please include them in your registration. • Starting Sunday there will be no need to register for weekday minyanim. All guidelines still apply. • We have added some capacity at all minyanim but still with distancing and all safety precautions. 2/19/2021 Notes From Rabbi Baum • It is nice to see such a robust registration for Purim, and more people safely coming back to shul for daily and Shabbat minyanim. There are still slots available for Purim, click here to register, password: Purim5781, but please do not request to attend a closed-out minyan. For safety reasons, we can no longer make accommodations. • We understand that many of our members or their families have been vaccinated and are looking for flexibility in anticipation of Pesach. Updated guidelines will be sent after Purim, and will ideally reflect these hopeful changes. • Weekday Minyanim: We would love to have you participate at our various minyanim. You do not have to register for an entire week, and you can inform us on the day of the minyan that you would like to attend. • I look forward to greeting you and your families on Purim outside of our home - drive-by style. • Singing in Shul: We will be re-introducing some soft singing this Shabbat for Lecha Dodi & Kel Adon. • We will be moving all Kriat Hatorah readings to the middle of the room and the Megillah will be read from there as well. • Please use the following links to contribute to the best of your ability. SHABBAT ZACHOR GUIDELINES • We have added additional Torah reading slots for Zachor. The readings will not begin before the times listed below. • A minyan is preferred for these extra readings; however, the reading may take place even in the absence of a minyan. • If you miss these readings, you can listen to the Torah reading on Purim day to satisfy the requirement of Parshat Zachor. In addition, if you miss the Shabbat or Purim reading, it is best to be in Shul on Parshat Ki Tetze (August 21) and listen to that maftir, which is the reading of Zachor. • Anyone who is in quarantine, or, for health reasons, has not been leaving home, should read Parshat Zachor in their chumash. Hopefully, you will be available to hear a “live reading” on Purim, or on August 21. Zachor Readings: • 8:45am in the Ballroom (following 7:30 Minyan) • 10:30am in the Main Sanctuary (following 9:00am Minyan) • 10:30am in the Patio Tent (following 9:30am Minyan) • 11:00am in the Ballroom (following 9:15 am minyan) • 11:00am in the Patio Tent (Those registered for Youth Groups will hear this reading) • 5:10pm in the Ballroom (10 minutes before 5:20pm Mincha) 2/17/2021 • You can now register your entire pod with one form. • At this point, and at least until Purim, you cannot vaccinate out of the guidelines. We hope, with medical consolation, to make some adjustments in anticipation of Pesach. • Some soft singing will resume this Shabbat at Lecha Dodi and Kel Adon. • You can register for weekday minyanim even if you can only attend occasionally. You can also contact the Shul to register on the day before a minyan to attend for shacharit or the day of for Mincha and Ma'ariv. This does not apply to Purim 2/12/2021 Click here for Purim Guidelines 2/5/2021 SPECIAL SAFETY NOTES – MASKS OVER NOSE & MOUTH; DISTANCES OF AT LEAST 6 FEET 1. Anyone who has been overseas or has traveled beyond the immediate region (NY, CT, PA, DE) CANNOT attend a minyan, shiur or program for 14 days after returning to NJ. There is no “testing out” of this requirement. 2. At this point, there is no way to “vaccinate out” of any part of these guidelines.