Current Dues Rates and High Holiday Seating

How do billings for Dues and Seat Reservations work?

Dues:

(Updated for 23-24)

Every Membership Unit (consisting of two adults or one unmarried adult, plus any children up to age 24) will pay Annual Dues according to the following schedule based on age:

• $1,350 per adult over age 35 (36 and above)
• $250 per adult 27-35
• $150 per adult 26 and under (but note that children up to age 24 are free on their parents’ account)
  

In addition to annual dues, all Membership Units must pay an annual Security Fee of $150.

The Har Zion Development Fund supports capital expenditures associated with improving and maintaining our property and facilities. The pledge of $1,000 per adult is required and may be paid over five years for all new Membership Units where at least one adult is over age 35 or when at least one adult in the household reaches 35. Development Fund is only assessed one time per Membership Unit.

Voluntary Fees support these organizations:

• $20 Jewish Theological Seminary
• $25 Perelman Jewish Day School
• $18 Camp Ramah
• $60 Har Zion Men’s Club
• $60 Har Zion Sisterhood

Important Notes:

• If both spouses are Jewish in a married couple, both spouses must join.
• In the case of a married couple where only one spouse is Jewish, the non-Jewish spouse has the option of whether or not to join.
• In order to get the membership discounted tuition rate for NCCECE or camp, all adults in the membership unit must be paying $1,350 dues each, even if they are under 36.
• Special discounted dues rates may be available for college students and newly married couples.
• Membership dues exemptions or discounts may be granted for serious economic hardship (a confidential process is available for this purpose).

Please contact Emily Berton in Har Zion’s office at 610-667-5000 x109 or eberton@harziontemple.org for further information.

High Holiday Seat Reservations (Optional and Encouraged):

During the High Holidays, as during any other time of the year, members and visitors may sit wherever they are most comfortable, subject to seats which may be reserved during the High Holidays. Reserved seats are encouraged due to high attendance during the High Holidays and because the entire community benefits from the seat reservation contributions.

Membership Units may choose to reserve as many seats as they would like for family and guests. The required contributions per reserved seat are:

• $450/seat in Section I
• $80/seat in Section II
• $18/seat in Section III

For Membership Units choosing not to reserve any seats, there is no seating contribution – just Dues, Security Fee, Development Fund (if appropriate) and any optional fees.

Ready to reserve the same seats as you had in the past? Please contact Emily Berton in Har Zion’s office at 610-667-5000 x109 or eberton@harziontemple.org.

New to Har Zion and want to select seats to reserve? Or continuing at Har Zion, but want to reserve seats other than where you sat in the past? Please contact Emily Berton as noted above.

What will High Holidays look like, and how will seating work?

We will issue admission tickets for each adult in every Membership Unit, as well as for all children age 18 thru age 24 in the Membership Unit. If the Membership Unit contributed to reserve seats, each ticket will show which seats were reserved so locating family members should not be difficult. Throughout the expanded sanctuary, all reserved seats will be labeled with names as we have done in the past. In addition, we will clearly mark which seats are reserved versus unreserved so that individuals without reserved seats can easily see which open seats are available for them. We ask that Membership Units without reserved seats please try to arrive together. Arriving together will help avoid the complications of trying to hold empty unreserved seats for family members who will arrive later.

As it has only been one year since we transitioned to the optional reserved seating model, we respectfully ask for your continued cooperation, courtesy, understanding and support for the ultimate goals – openness, engagement, inclusion, compassion, communal prayer, spiritual observance and growth, personally and as part of modern-day Conservative Judaism.