Security Fund Update
Thank you to those who have answered the call to donate to the OVS Security Fund. If you have not already, please click here to make your pledge. With your help, we will continue to improve our building to ensure the safety of our community.
2019 / 5780 High Holydays Schedule of Services
Selichot & Breakfast Sunday, September 29
Services and Breakfast 7:30 am
Ziara Sunday, September 29
Ziara at Greenwood Cemetery 10:30 am
Ziara at Arlington Cemetery 12:00 pm
Erev Rosh Hashana Sunday, September 29
Evening Services 6:45 pm
Candle Lighting 7:06 pm
1st Day Rosh Hashana Monday, September 30
Morning Services 8:30 am
Youth Services (School Wing) 10:00 am –
Click Here for Form noon
Shofar is sounded ~11:00 am
♦“Shofar Blow-Out” ~12:45 pm
Free, Fast & Fun Service 5:45 pm Mincha/Tashlich/Arvit 6:45 pm
Candle Lighting no earlier than
7:59 pm
2nd Day Rosh Hashana Tuesday, October 1
Morning Services 8:30 am
Shofar is sounded ~10:30 am
Free, Fast & Fun Service 5:45 pm
Mincha/Arvit 7:00 pm
Rosh Hashana ends 7:57 pm
Shabbat Teshuvah Saturday, October 5
Morning Services 8:37 am
Shabbat concludes 7:53 pm
Erev Kippur Tuesday, October 8
Mincha 6:45 pm
Candle Lighting - Nerot Kippur 6:54 pm
Kal Nidre Service 7:10 pm
Yom Kippur Wednesday, October 9
Morning Services 8:30 am
Youth Services (School Wing) 10:00 am –
Click Here for Form noon President's Remarks 12:00 pm
Yizkor ~12:30 pm
Learning session with Rabbi ~12:30pm
Hazzan Sultan
Musaf 1:30 pm
Mincha 4:30 pm
Concluding Services (Neila) 6:45 pm
Rabbi’s Remarks “As the Gates Close”
Family Tallit Ceremony ~7:00 pm
Concluding Shofar Blast – 7:40pm
Yom Kippur Concludes
Break-the Fast Meal 8:00 pm
Erev Sukkot Sunday, October 13
Evening Services 6:45 pm
Candle Lighting 6:48 pm
1st Day Sukkot Monday, October 14
Morning Services 8:37 am
Mincha/Arvit 6:45 pm
Candle Lighting no earlier than
7:41 pm
2nd Day Sukkot Tuesday, October 15
Morning Services 8:37 am
Mincha/Arvit 7:00 pm
First days of Sukkot conclude 7:39 pm
Hoshana Rabbah
Erev Shemini Atzeret Sunday, October 20
Shacharit 8:15 am
Candle Lighting 6:39 pm
Mincha/Arvit 6:45 pm
Shemini Atzeret Monday, October 21
Morning Services 8:37 am
Yizkor ~10:30 am
Mincha 6:30 pm
Arvit for Simchat Torah 6:45 pm
Dancing with the Torahs
Yom Tov Candle Lighting no earlier than
7:33 pm
Simchat Torah Tuesday, October 22
Shacharit 8:37 am
Mincha/Arvit 6:45 pm
Conclusion of Holiday 7:31 pm
For Guest or Visitor Tickets, please click here and bring the completed ticket form with you to the OVS Office.
For More Information, please contact our Executive Director, Adam Kofinas, at 404-633-1737 or adam.kofinas@orveshalom.org
♦All children are encouraged to bring their shofar and try out to be “Best Shofar Sounder” in OVS!
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Rabbinic Search Update
Updates on the Rabbinic Search will be posted periodically on this site. Click below to read each update in detail:
OVS Strategic Plan
As an outcome of the 2017 annual meeting, the OVS board launched a formal initiative to better understand the needs of our Keilah, the results of which were presented at the 2018 annual meeting on Sunday, December 9th, OVS members can see results of the report by logging in to their account on this site and then clicking on this link.
Your Path to Spanish Citizenship Begins at OVS
When Luis Portero, an attorney licensed to practice in Spain and served as counsel for the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain during the parliamentary process of approval of the Law on granting the Spanish citizenship to Sephardim, presented at OVS last spring, he discussed the process of getting the law enacted, of which he was a major contributor, and presented on the steps involved in applying for Spanish Citizenship through this program. A copy of his presentation, including a detailed walkthrough of the process, can be found here.
Or VeShalom is proud to be a guide for you through this process. Note that the program ends on October 1, 2019, so get started today. To find out more and begin the process, click here.
OVS Featured in NY Times Article by Joan Nathan
In her New York Times article on Monday, November 26, Joan Nathan highlights OVS Sisterhood's long-standing tradition of Bureka Tuesdays. Join us this upcoming Sunday for our annual Hanukkah Bazaar and try a Bureka for yourself.
Thoughts from OVS Leadership
Rabbi's Kassorla's D'vrei Torah
Messages from Michael Bouhadana
OVS Founders Map Project
We are happy to announce that the 
OVS History Committee has concluded its two-year project of identifying, on an Atlanta city map, early OVS members’ residences and businesses located on Atlanta’s Southside. To learn more and find out how to purchase a copy of the map, click here.
You are invited to examine the map reproduced on glossy photographic paper and the accompanying booklet.