Funds
Adult Education Fund: Advances educational and social programming.
Bikur Cholim Fund: Helps reach out to those in our community who are sick, shut in or otherwise in need of our care.
Cemetery Fund: Maintains our cemeteries in a beautiful, dignified and respectful manner appropriate to a synagogue that values life by remembering its past.
Chesed Fund: Assists with lifecycle events, providing meals to families sitting shiva, or a tree dedicated in a loved one’s name.
Eisenstein Library Fund: Maintains the library and supports the purchase of new books and equipment.
General Fund: Strengthens Adath Israel programs and activities.
Hazzan Katlin’s Discretionary Fund: For the use of our Hazzan to assist, at his discretion, individual, educational and communal needs.
Kiddush Fund: Underwrites the delicious Shabbat Kiddush luncheon program.
Leon Siskowitz Cultural Fund: Supports cultural events, concerts, lectures and speakers.
Levy Youth Scholarship Fund: A scholarship fund for our synagogue youth to attend Jewish related experiences during the school year as well as in the summer.
Mortgage Reduction Fund: Offsets the Adath Israel mortgage.
Rabbi Adler’s Discretionary Fund: For the use of our Rabbi to assist, at his discretion, individual, educational and communal needs.
Religious School Fund: Enriches the programs and activities of the Adath Israel Religious School.
Sacks-Wilner Holocaust Education Fund: Funds the annual Sacks-Wilner Holocaust Education Lecture.
Women’s League: Adath’s chapter in the National Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, providing innovative programming and events designed to educate and delight members of all ages. Our many fundraising efforts have allowed us to fund numerous holiday and synagogue programs and to make large yearly contributions to the synagogue. To donate to WOMEN’S LEAGUE TORAH FUND click HERE. YOU CANNOT DONATE TO TORAH FUND THROUGH ADATH. Torah Fund benefits the Jewish Theological Seminary.
To make a donation by mail, print and mail THIS FORM with your check.
Stock Transfers
For those wishing to make donations or pay their dues through the transfer of stock: Inform the Adath office at (609) 896-4977 of your intention to transfer the stock.
Supermarket Gift Certificates
The synagogue makes 5% on every dollar sold! It is an excellent way for the synagogue to make money without a labor-intensive fundraiser. Please consider purchasing your scrip/gift certificates regularly. Cash or checks only. Sorry, we are unable to accept credit cards for the supermarket certificates. Thank you in advance.
Available Supermarket: Shoprite
Premium Membership
Annual recognition of members who contributed dues in excess of the required amount.
- Platinum – $1800.
- Gold – $900.
- Silver – $450.
Gifts and Memorials
Adath Israel provides many opportunities for donations that commemorate joyous family and congregational events or honor the memory of loved ones. At the same time, these donations contribute to the well-being of our synagogue. In the Jewish tradition, donations recognize anniversaries, weddings, birthdays, births, baby namings, graduations, conversions, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs and other special events or life cycles. By giving, you, your family, and your friends will feel good and you will be helping Adath. Good deeds such as these come in all sizes. The list below is some of the larger opportunities for gifts and memorials that provide recognition in displays throughout the synagogue. Choose yours, and give what is appropriate for you. For details, call the synagogue office, (609) 896-4977.
Tree of Life – Commemorates joyous family and congregational events.
- Rocks at the base of the tree – $750.
- Leaves – $200.
- Flowers (for births) – $100.
- Star of Remembrance – Memorializes deceased family members on the eastern wall of the gallery.
- Stars – $750.
- Rectangles – $200.
Twelve Tribes Stained Glass – Honor loved ones in this beautiful niche in our entrance rotunda.
Bronze Tablets (Yahrzeit Plaques)
- Memorial plates on traditional bronze tablets – $400.
- Entire memorial board – $18,000.
Building Fund – Recognition for members who donate in excess of $25,000 to the Secure our Tomorrow…Today campaign. Boards located throughout the synagogue display the donor’s name, the item donated and the names of those being honored or memorialized.
Adath Israel Capital Fund
Address for Donations: The Adath Israel Capital Fund, PO Box 6913, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-0913