COVID Safety Protocols as of September 2023:
With the COVID numbers increasing, we want to ensure a safe and healthy environment to worship for all of our congregants, guests, choir/musicians, and clergy. To help us do so, we ask everyone to please follow all of these COVID safety protocols for in person events:
With the COVID numbers increasing, we want to ensure a safe and healthy environment to worship for all of our congregants, guests, choir/musicians, and clergy. To help us do so, we ask everyone to please follow all of these COVID safety protocols for in person events:
- Take a home rapid test the day of the Service if you aren't feeling well, were exposed to COVID or just returned from travel.
- Use good judgment about physical contact and if you have any doubts, err on the side of caution. Be understanding if some people prefer to do air hugs, and elbow bumps.
- Stay home if you are not feeling well, or if you have had a recent confirmed exposure of less than 5 days, even if you are still feeling fine. Note: there will be live-streaming available for those who need to, or choose to, watch the services from home.
- Wearing a mask is optional.
- If you test COVID+ within 5 days following a service, immediately contact a Co-President (Jackie Marschall (347) 528-0427/ [email protected] or MarieOrsini Rosen (203) 249-3261 / [email protected]), or email Shir Ami, [email protected] to let us know.
CDC Covid Guidelines and our Shir Ami Guidelines - revised 9/14/21:
As the guidelines continue to be updated by the CDC and as local regulations change, we are taking them into account as well as considering the feedback from our congregants and current information regarding the rapid spread of the Delta variant.
For the safety of all of our congregants, friends and loved ones, we urge you to follow these guidelines whether you are at a Shir Ami event or any other event. It is our obligation as a congregation to be responsible and keep our congregants safe and comfortable. As time goes on, these guidelines may change but for now:
Click here to read the updated CDC guidelines.
As the guidelines continue to be updated by the CDC and as local regulations change, we are taking them into account as well as considering the feedback from our congregants and current information regarding the rapid spread of the Delta variant.
For the safety of all of our congregants, friends and loved ones, we urge you to follow these guidelines whether you are at a Shir Ami event or any other event. It is our obligation as a congregation to be responsible and keep our congregants safe and comfortable. As time goes on, these guidelines may change but for now:
- For outdoor events, fully vaccinated people who get close to each other should wear masks. If you keep safe distances you can be unmasked outdoors.
- in order to keep everyone comfortable, healthy and safe, while at Shir Ami sponsored events, we request that you give air-kisses and air hugs only.
- If you attend indoor events anywhere else, the new regulations in CT require that even if you are fully vaccinated you should always be masked in indoor public spaces.
- Adults/Children who are not fully vaccinated must wear masks and social distance.
- Anyone who has recently traveled or been exposed should do a home test prior to going to a group gathering to confirm they have a negative test. (CVS sells a home test you can use).
- Anyone who isn't feeling well is still welcome to attend our services and classes via Zoom.
Click here to read the updated CDC guidelines.
On April 5th, 2021, Shir Ami members Dr. Jim Roth and Dr. David Radin, joined our board meeting to educate the board on the health risks and ethical considerations associated with a possible in-person gathering. Meant as an exploratory conversation, no decisions were made; yet, we were grateful to both doctors who helped educate us on relevant medical facts which will inform future decision-making. As a board, we are committed to maintaining safety as the highest value, and we shall continue to offer remote options for all worship and classes.
Both certified in internal medicine with decades of experience, Dr. Roth brings a specialty in geriatrics and Dr. Radin in clinical trials and vaccine studies. Both doctors spoke in thoughtful and compelling ways, sharing first hand experience and findings from recent studies. They helped us sort out fact from fiction and evaluate the ethical considerations in making a decision to hold an in person gathering.
We thank both of them for volunteering their time after a long day. The board will continue in conversations on the topic and we will share periodic updates with the congregation.
If anyone else in the congregation holds medical expertise in internal medicine, geriatrics or infectious disease and would like to be part of this conversation, please reach out to the Shir Ami Board ([email protected]).
Most importantly, we thank all of our physicians and care-givers for doing the ongoing work of pikuach nefesh—watching over the lives of so many.
Click here to view the presentation.
Both certified in internal medicine with decades of experience, Dr. Roth brings a specialty in geriatrics and Dr. Radin in clinical trials and vaccine studies. Both doctors spoke in thoughtful and compelling ways, sharing first hand experience and findings from recent studies. They helped us sort out fact from fiction and evaluate the ethical considerations in making a decision to hold an in person gathering.
We thank both of them for volunteering their time after a long day. The board will continue in conversations on the topic and we will share periodic updates with the congregation.
If anyone else in the congregation holds medical expertise in internal medicine, geriatrics or infectious disease and would like to be part of this conversation, please reach out to the Shir Ami Board ([email protected]).
Most importantly, we thank all of our physicians and care-givers for doing the ongoing work of pikuach nefesh—watching over the lives of so many.
Click here to view the presentation.