Minyan jobs revealed
Weekly jobs are assigned to all members in rotation on our three-month schedule. Most weekly jobs are assigned to several members.
- When families are assigned jobs, only one adult is expected (however many adults there are in the household).
- If you expect to be away or are otherwise unable to do your assigned job, you must find a substitute to perform your assignment and tell the noodge listed on the calendar.
- It's perfectly acceptable to call people you don't know as well as those you do (read about how to swap jobs).
- You may ask for an exemption or help with jobs in certain circumstances.
Regular weekly jobs
- Service set-up
- Service clean-up
- Kiddush setup
- Kiddush cleanup
- Mini Minyan services
- Kids' Kiddush (setup and cleanup, and Junior Minyan Support)
- Greeter
- Hallway supervisor
- Post Service supervision (PSS)
- Clean-up Sweeper
Setup, Cleanup and Post Service Supervision crews should refer to the map of Minyan areas at Hebrew College:
Click the map for a larger map
Occasional jobs for simchas/chagim
Simchas
Shushering (ushering and "shush"ing) for simchas
Chagim
- Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
- Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah
- Purim
- Snack setup and cleanup (mostly for Purim and Simchat Torah)
Missed Jobs Policy
When a member does not perform an assigned job for any reason (without arranging for a swap and notifying the noodge), the member must make up the job within a reasonable period of time. (In the event that a member arranges for a swap and notifies the noodge, responsibility for performance of the job switches to the substitute.)
Communication:
- As soon as you become aware that you missed a job, be in touch ASAP with the Jobs Supervisor regarding plans to make it up.
- If you become aware that someone missed a job, please let the Jobs Supervisor know.
- Any job missings, and loop-closings should be communicated to the Jobs Supervisor.
Ways to make up a job:
- If another member filled in to do the missed job, the job-misser contacts the member who did the job and offers to take a future job for them (effectively swapping jobs).
- If no one filled in, the job-misser can fill in when a make-up opportunity arises, such as shiva, illness, or another emergency that precludes someone from being able to complete their job.
- A member may make up a missed job by volunteering on the spot when the Moderator asks for volunteers to do a job.
Note:
- The Jobs Supervisor will inform members who have missed jobs when make-up opportunities arise.
- If a member fulfills their obligation in the above ways, it is the member's responsibility to notify the Jobs Supervisor. The Jobs Supervisor will maintain a list of members who owe jobs.
- In addition, each January the Jobs Supervisor informs all families who are on the list of those owing jobs of that status to remind them.