When your stock portfolio is looking good, it makes
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for Temple Sholom High Holiday ser-
vices is $250.
It just seems like synagogues
should be above that kind of clever
marketing. But as Temple Sholom
Membership Director Bekki Harris
Kaplan explains, synagogues are not
run on prayer alone.
"Our costs (for putting on High
Holiday services) are exorbitant,"
Kaplan said. "We fix up the build-
ing, make sure everything is glisten-
ing. We have to move the bima
back into the social hall so everyone
can sit together. Then there's main-
tenance, books and security." But
that's not why Temple Sholom
prices High Holiday tickets to reach
a younger membership.
The bottom line is, we believe
Judaism is a year-round thing,"
Kaplan said. "We really encourage
affiliation." Kaplan brings up the

Many
synagogues seem
to be aware of
this separation-
from-childhood
anxiety.

myth she and membership directors
everywhere would love to debunk
— that synagogues are for family,
and you don't need to belong until
you have kids.
Of course that's not true. But the
thing is, until I have a family of my
own, I'm going to think of my par-
ents as my immediate family. So will
my parents, who were rather upset to
learn that after all they've given to our
synagogue through the years, their
daughter's High Holiday ticket is no
longer provided.
Kaplan gets complaints from many
parents of grown children.
Temple Sholom is now exploring
the concept of a junior member-
ship, of maybe $175, for people up
to age 25 who grew up in the con-
gregation but are not yet ready to
commit.
Sounds like a reasonable compro-
mise to me. I'm going to suggest it to
my home congregation, but see if we
can't stretch that age limit to 30. DI

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for a Latte & Learning session
entitled "The Kol Nidre Story"
at Borders Books & Music
in Farmington Hills
on Monday, September 13,
@ 10:00 am. No charge,
no reservations required.
Our fall classes begin
the week of October 4.
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9/10
1999