Friday in the Foyer Kabbalat Shabbat Service

Welcome Shabbat “up close” with family and friends in Har Zion’s beautiful foyer. On comfortable couches and chairs under the colorful Engen Tapestries, our voices will blend together pleasingly in a new hamish intimate space. See you there!

Lighting Shabbat Candles

Lighting Shabbat candles is an important part of the Friday evening Shabbat service, and, starting April 18, 2025, you will have the opportunity to light Shabbat candles before the service. Bring your own, or we will provide one.

With our start time of 5:30pm, you’ll be able to come after work and join our intimate, 45 minute service, and still have time afterwards for a Shabbat dinner. But also note that, on some Fridays when we have special programs, the service may be held in the sanctuary, and perhaps it will begin at 6:30pm.

Click here for the YouTube recording of our first Friday in the Foyer in January.

For this week’s parashah, candle lighting and havdalah times, see HebCal. (Note these times are for River Forest. If you live somewhere else, you might want to change the settings for your zip code. Even locally, the times can change a bit.)

In person and streaming (Zoom, Har Zion Facebook, and Har Zion YouTube). Click here for more information, including links to an online version of the siddur.

If you need the password to attend by Zoom, please email (office@wsthz.org) or call (708-366-9000) the temple office during regular office hours.

Monthly Community Shabbat Evening Meals:

Click here for details.

(The image at the top of this page is the mosaic Star of David in the Har Zion front lobby, in front of the doors to the sanctuary.)