Program Giving Opportunities

Contributions in all amounts help support a wide variety of projects and programs at Central Synagogue. Gifts are a wonderful way to celebrate a birthday, an anniversary, the arrival of a child - or to honor the life of someone who has passed away. Click here for the Program Giving Opportunities downloadable form.

Adult Education

Contributions help a variety of Adult Education classes including Lunch & Learn, Talmud Study and Hebrew Study.

Archives Fund:

Contributions help the Archives Committee collect and process current and historical materials relating to Central Synagogue, its clergy, members and programs.

Caring Committee:

Contributions help volunteers prepare a brown bag lunch and serve a hot breakfast twice each week for homeless men and women.

Clergy Discretionary Funds:

Contributions allow the clergy to make donations as they see fit.

• Rabbi Rubinstein
• Rabbi Michael S. Friedman
• Rabbi Maurice A. Salth
• Cantor Buchdahl
• Cantor Sacks

Eric Wasserman Fund:

Contributions to this fund, established by the Wasserman family, furthers social action activities at Central Synagogue.

General Fund:

Contributions offset ongoing operational costs for Central Synagogue.

Israel Youth Fund:

Contributions provide scholarships that send Central Synagogue youth on educational trips to Israel.

Kehilah Fund:

Contributions to this fund, established by the Stone family, help welcome new members and maintain as congregants those who cannot afford full dues and/or fees.

Library Fund:

Contributions help with upkeep and renewal of the Library collection.

Mildred Ross Fund:

Contributions help underwrite scholarships and special projects for the May Family Nursery School.

Mitzvah Fund:

Contributions aid the general operating budget by providing funds for flowers or food baskets for members who are ill, for those who have suffered a loss and for holiday packages to homebound or ailing members.

Mitzvah Day Fund:

Contributions support the activities of Mitzvah Day, an annual opportunity for congregants to volunteer as a group in the greater community.

Music Fund:

Contributions help assure that beautiful music programming continues to enrich the Synagogue and its members, as well as the community at large.

Nursery School Enrichment Fund:

Contributions provide support for the May Family Nursery School.

Oneg Shabbat/Kiddush Fund

Contributions help defray the costs of Friday Night Onegs.

Prayer Book Fund:

Contributions support the purchase of prayer books for daily, Shabbat and High Holy Day worship services, as well as copies of The Torah-A Modern Commentary.

Prayer books for daily, Shabbat and High Holy Day worship services: A donation of $54 or above includes a bookplate placed in a book.

Yahrzeit Fund:

Contributions support the Synagogue's general operating fund. It is a Jewish custom to make a donation on the anniversary of the death of our dear ones. It is also a custom to contribute at the time of listing a name in the Synagogue's annual Memory Book, distributed during Yizkor on Yom Kippur.

Click here for the Program Giving Opportunities downloadable form.