Member Resources
Explore below to access resources and documents that are a benefit of membership. Please be in touch if you are having an issue accessing your accounts or any of the password protected sites. Click the + to expand the topic to read more.
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Hinenu uses Breeze, a membership database, to more smoothly manage dues and maintain information to best serve our members.
On Breeze you can view and manage your own membership information (add birthdays and yahrzeits, change your name and pronouns, link to family members), view a membership directory, and manage your membership dues and other gifts. This software will make it easier to track your own information, and allows our congregation to have all our information, forms, and sign ups in one place.
To log in to Breeze, click here. If you have not set up your membership account on Breeze yet, please contact us.
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Click here to access the Hinenu membership drive, including our bylaws and other documents. The email you registered with should have access to the Google drive. If it does not work, let us know.
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Upon becoming a member you will be added to the Google Group listserv. If you are not getting emails, please contact us.
You are welcome to request to join the members-only Facebook group here.
Anyone can join our Hinenu newsletter with information about what’s going on and upcoming events.
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Click here to add names to Hinenu's prayers for healing list. The names will be read out loud when we come together for services, during the mi sheberach for healing.
Names will be printed out Friday morning at 9am before services. If you submit after that time make sure to share a name yourself during services, and it will be read as part of the list in the next week.
With additional details please email Rabbi Ariana.
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Spiritual care happens in many different ways at Hinenu—in community in services, between members, as we organize and mobilize together, and in 1-1 pastoral care meetings with the Rabbi.
Pastoral care from Rabbi Ariana is a benefit of membership. Members may make pastoral care appointments with Rabbi Ariana on average 4-6 times a year. Non-members are welcome to connect regarding life cycle events or to find pastoral care, and Rabbi Ariana is available to meet once for a half an hour.
Click here to make an appointment.
What happens in a pastoral meeting?
Meetings are confidential, and take place in person at Homewood Friends, on Zoom, or by phone. Pastoral care is open to children as well as adults, individuals as well as couples. 1-1 meetings with children will take place with a parent nearby, in the next room or in public, for the child’s safety. They are typically are 50 minutes-1 hour long. Members an issue or topics they want to discuss.What can I talk about in a pastoral meeting?
Anything you would want to talk to your rabbi about! God, Judaism, politics and faith, prayer, community at Hinenu, relationships, sacred text.What is the difference between pastoral care and therapy?
While pastoral care has a therapeutic element, it is not focused on the in depth work and varied modalities and diagnostics that counseling and therapy employ. Pastoral care works to strengthen or explore relationship with the Sacred (which can be God or community). Rabbi Ariana is not a licensed therapist. Lastly, pastoral care is not used for ongoing care and treatment in the same way therapy is.What access accommodations are available for pastoral meetings?CART captioning and ASL interpretation can be arranged by request. Anything that would make pastoral care more accessible to you is welcome to be shared with Rabbi Ariana who will do her best to make it possible.
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Graduation? Engagement? Celebrating the birth of a little one? We would love to celebrate you! Submit a joy here and we will share out with our community!
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ע֭וֹלָם חֶ֣סֶד יִבָּנֶ֑ה
The world is built with chesed (lovingkindness) (Psalms 89:3)Our community is built and nourished by the care we show one another. Chesed is a fundamental part of that. By filling out this form you are asking for and allowing Hinenu to support you during a time of transition. The world is built little by little when we show up for one another with care.
Sharing Chesed support
Your specific gifts and interests are so needed to share care in our congregation! Click here to share what special skills you can share and sign up for an ongoing role in chesed at Hinenu!Requesting Chesed support
Members of Hinenu in good standing are able to request community care. To sign up to receive chesed support, please fill out this form. After your submit the form, a member of the Chesed team wil followup in 48 hours. If the request is made over the weekend the will be in touch on Tuesday.What is included?
Dropping off meals, running errands, caring for pets (dog walks, anyone?), helping with rides. Please share a maximalist version of what help would be supportive. Your form will be processed by the Chesed Committee and they will be in touch with details. If something might be too difficult to ask the larger community for, they'll let you know. So don't be shy.Who can ask?
Chesed support is available to all Hinenu members in good standing. You might ask for chesed support when sitting shiva/in mourning, during a period of sickness or recovery, in an acute period of stress at work or in supporting family or loved ones.Who can help?
All Hinenu members are encouraged to help when they can. The invitation to the sign up form will be shared with members, and the people requesting chesed support can share with their larger networks!Note: If you are preparing to sit shiva to mourn a loved one, please be in touch with Rabbi Ariana directly.
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The Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund (RDF) is used for mutual aid to support congregants in financial need, community organizations, and congregational activities that she deems need support beyond Hinenu’s budget. It is solely funded by donations. Contribute to the RDF here!
If you are in a situation where a small loan or a one time gift would alleviate pressure in your life, please be in touch with the Rabbi to discuss. Needing financial help isn’t you failing—its capitalism trying to win. The discretionary fund is one of the ways our community gets to care for one another. Disbursements are confidential.
If you have benefited from the RDF and find yourself in a position to make a donation for someone else, please do!