Etz Chayim Palo Alto 2.4.11
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Publisher Description
The Congregation Etz Chayim app was created to help build a closer-knit community: you can join conversations, share photos, learn about events, and find contact info for all members. Congregation Etz Chayim emphasizes spirituality, participation, and lifelong learning in a warm, inclusive egalitarian community. Services, led by Rabbi Ari Cartun, meld Reform and Conservative traditions with elements from across the spectrum of Judaism. Congregation Etz Chayim was started in early 1995 by six families who wanted to create a small community within which to engage in Jewish prayer, learning, celebration and support. We started as an entirely volunteer effort. We now have around 300 household members, our rabbi, and a small congregational staff. The founders chose our congregational name as a sign of our commitment to Judaism, to our community, and to the past. The Torah is an Etz Chayim, a "Tree of Life" providing strength to all who hold it tightly. The symbol of our city is El Palo Alto—"The Tall Tree". Finally, our name remembers Synagogue Wolf Etz Chayim, a German synagogue destroyed on Kristallnacht. Liturgically, our Shabbat, Festival and Holy Day services combine traditions from across the Jewish spectrum. We include more Hebrew than you'd expect in a Reform congregation, and less than in a Conservative one. Our services are shorter and less rigorously tied to traditional observance than you would find in most Conservative or Orthodox shuls. We include alternative readings sometimes akin to Reconstructionist liturgy. And we always engage in exuberant communal singing. (We're sometimes referred to as "the singing congregation!") Our rabbi, Ari Cartun, brings a breadth of experience and perspectives, being schooled in and affiliated with the Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist rabbinical assemblies. Our members are as diverse as the Jewish community. We were raised in Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and secular households, or with no Jewish upbringing at all. We are Jews-by-choice having been raised in another faith. We are interfaith families. We are single, married, in relationships, divorced, and widowed. We have young children, grown children, no children. We are LGBT, we are straight, we are searching. What unites us is our desire for community with other Jews and our active engagement in congregational life. We are participants in services rather than audience members, builders of community rather than wallflowers, Jewish learners rather than passive observers. One of the core values of Etz Chayim has always been education across the age spectrum. We had a family education program even before we had a full-time rabbi. We promote lifelong learning and enourage congregants of all ages to embark on an educational journey, regardless of where they're starting from.
Sep 22, 2017 Version 2.4.11 • Added support for iOS 11 • You can now record, share, and play back videos • You can now search for posts & replies • Fixed a bug where sent messages would sometimes get stuck as "Pending" (and new messages wouldn't display either) • Other bug fixes and performance improvements
About Etz Chayim Palo Alto
Etz Chayim Palo Alto is a free app for iOS published in the Chat & Instant Messaging list of apps, part of Communications.
The company that develops Etz Chayim Palo Alto is GroupAhead. The latest version released by its developer is 2.4.11.
To install Etz Chayim Palo Alto on your iOS device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2017-09-22 and was downloaded 8 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Etz Chayim Palo Alto as malware if the download link is broken.
How to install Etz Chayim Palo Alto on your iOS device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to the App Store.
- Once the Etz Chayim Palo Alto is shown in the iTunes listing of your iOS device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the GET button to the right of the app to start downloading it.
- If you are not logged-in the iOS appstore app, you'll be prompted for your your Apple ID and/or password.
- After Etz Chayim Palo Alto is downloaded, you'll see an INSTALL button to the right. Tap on it to start the actual installation of the iOS app.
- Once installation is finished you can tap on the OPEN button to start it. Its icon will also be added to your device home screen.
