Member Benefits

Become a 5786 Or Zarua Member! 

Click here to register for your 5786 Or Zarua membership! 

OZ Member Benefits include:

1. High Holiday Service and Family Service tickets for you, your children and grandchildren of all ages for the High Holidays (Rosh Hashanah Days 1 & 2, Kol Nidre, Yom Kippur).  Unique to Or Zarua!

2. Attendance at Or Zarua programs, services and offerings:

• Shabbat Morning Melody, Meaning, and Mindfulness services 

• Musical Kabbalat Shabbat services 

• Holiday services/celebrations -  Sukkot, Interfaith Thanksgiving and MLK Weekend, Chanukah, Tu Bishvat, Purim, Passover, Yom Hashoah, Shavuot, etc.

• Poetry Workshops

• Scholar in Residence, special guest speakers

• Creativity/Interest group gatherings (art, music, genealogy, photography, book circles,  film group, walking group)

• Yoga, Qigong, Gentle Movement, and Meditation Workshops

• Tikkun Olam work  (LGBTQ advocacy, Anti-Gun violence, Peace work, Prison reform, Welcoming the Stranger, etc.)

• Social Justice Discussion and Action Group

• Wise Aging Groups, Dreaming your Dreams and other special workshops

• Torah, Talmud, and Text Study 

• Song, Silence and Sanctuary - Interfaith Singing Evenings- First Thursday of the month

• Interfaith Social Justice Activities with Old Haverford Friends, Bethel AME of Ardmore and our other Interfaith Partners

• Parents of Interfaith Couples Discussion and Support Group

• More groups that YOU suggest! 

4. Individualized Benefits

• Full Access to our Or Zarua Community Board of communications (OZCB)

• Pastoral Care by Rabbi Shelly -  R. Shelly is fully available and quickly responsive for all of your pastoral needs

• Gemilut Hasadim - Rabbinic and Community support for you and your family in times of need.

• Life Cycle Officiation by Rabbi Shelly at reduced fee for weddings, baby namings, unveilings, and B’nai Mitzvah officiation.