You are joyfully invited to join the Hill Havurah’s Chizuk Class of 5782 as they affirm their decisions to have become adult members of the Jewish community. While confirmation is a long-standing tradition in many Jewish communities for tenth grade students, our community has chosen to call their ritual Chizuk, or Strengthening, highlighting the strength of their self-motivation and excitement for their Jewish journeys. This year, our Chizuk class includes eleventh grade students, as we tabled last year's program because of the pandemic.

Please join us for a Shabbat morning service on Saturday, June 4th from 10:00 am until noon, followed by an informal reception, in Parish Hall at Reformation (212 East Capitol Street NE). As we prepare for Shavuot -- our festival of gratitude for Torah -- beginning later that evening, the Chizuk students will share their own torah throughout the service, and we will bless them as a community on their way. In affirming their Judaism as young adults, these young people will lift up our own journeys with the Torah and its mitzvot. In their commitment to a relationship with our mitzvot and our Torah, these young people will lift up the festival of Shavuot in community with all of us!

For those of you not joining us in person, this service will be livestreamed; in order to view the livestream, just go to the Hill Havurah YouTube page from any smartphone or computer. If you experience technical difficulties with the livestream, switching browsers can sometimes help.

If you'd like to borrow a Shabbat siddur from us in advance of the service, you can contact Alan at alan.shusterman@hillhavurah.org.

If you'd like to join us in person, please register here in advance.

Please note: If you need to use the outside elevator to get upstairs or downstairs into the building, email Alan at alan.shusterman@hillhavurah.org in advance to arrange for it to be unlocked for you.