229-244-1813 (Shul) / 229-269-8680 (Rabbi Cell) • Rabbi’s e-mail: mosheelbaz46@gmail.com
קהילת טמפל ישראל
ESTABLISHED 1908
RABBI MOSHE ELBAZ הרב משה אלבז
Join us this Sabbath evening, help us make a minyan!
Synagogue Events
- Friday – 7:30 p.m. – Shabbat Services
- Saturday – 10 a.m. – Torah Study (Parashat Ki Tavo)
- Sunday – 10:30 a.m. – Challah Baking for Rosh Hashanah
Upcoming Holidays
Rosh Hashanah
- 22 September (Monday) – Erev Rosh Hashanah
- 23 September (Tuesday) – Rosh Hashanah
- 24 September (Wednesday) – Rosh Hashanah
- 25 September (Thursday) – Tzom Gedaliah
- 27 September (Shabbat) – Shabbat Shuva (Parashat Vayeilech)
Yom Kippur
- 1 October (Wednesday) – Erev Yom Kippur (Kol Nidre)
- 2 October (Thursday) – Yom Kippur
Sukkot
- 6 October (Monday) – Erev Sukkot
- 7 October (Tuesday) – Sukkot (1)
- 8 October (Wednesday) – Sukkot (2)
- 9 October (Thursday) – Sukkot (3 – CH”M)
- 10 October (Friday) – Sukkot (4 – CH”M)
- 11 October (Shabbat) – Sukkot (5 – CH”M)
- 12 October (Sunday) – Hoshana Raba
- 13 October (Monday) – Shmini Atzeret
- 14 October (Tuesday) – Simchat Torah
IN MEMORIAM: Bronze Memorial plaque forms available include English & Hebrew names and are available to order locally. Please send a $500.00 donation to be included with the order.
TREE OF LIFE: To honor family/friends with a Tree of Life Leaf that can be engraved locally – Please send your order to Rabbi with a $150.00 donation per leaf. Chanah Wilson is a member of the board and handles the Tree of Life & other dedications.
If you have knowledge of a member/friend who is ill, or in the hospital, the rabbi would like to know and make it known to our congregation for e-mail communications. In addition, we’ll announce the sad news of the passing of members/friends in Valdosta and in the neighboring communities.
* All Yahrtzeit weekly announcements will be made twice. On the previous week and on the actual week. To place a Memorial Plaque for a loved one, please contact the rabbi (need the name in English & Hebrew, date of death) – it takes 3 months for the order to be completed – ($500.00)
A Yahrtzeit memorial lamp, will (if available on the large bronze tablets) be lit in the Synagogue. On the appropriate date, a Mourner’s Kaddish may be recited.
Yertzeits
SEPTEMBER 6-12, 2025 — 13-19 ELUL 5785
Sol Hartnig (9/7) Paul Stern (9/7)
Ida Broomberg (9/7) AnnaRainbow (9/11)
Rabbi Morris Joseph Miller (9/8)
Julius Steigman (9/11)
SEPTEMBER 13-19, 2025 — 20-26 ELUL 5785
Janet Levin Schwartz (9/13) Nathan Polonsky (9/13)
Sara Gilman Hackel (9/13) Nettie Levin (9/16)
Esther Polonsky (9/19) Bernard Weinstein (9/19)
SEPT. 20-26, 2025 27 — ELUL-4 TISHREI 5786
Rose Dunn Azrael (9/21) Fanny Druck (9/23)
Saul Abraham Bienstock (9/23)
Lillian Epstein (9/24) Esther Braverman (9/26)
Isaac Elbaz (9/22) Louis Shuman (9/17)