Membership Application 2025-26 - Form

Temple Sholom Membership Application

Welcome to Temple Sholom! We’re delighted that you’re interested in joining our congregation. As part of the membership process, we’d like you to fill out this profile. We’ll add the information to our database of membership demographics, so that we can more effectively plan for the Temple’s future. Also, we’ll give your name to the chair people of any committees in which you’ve indicated an interest.

Please enter your email - if you have provided it to us before, we can link to your prospect account and pre-fill some information.

Membership Name

How would you like us to address correspondence to you? E.g. Steve and Sarah Kellerman.

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

Town

State

Zip Code

Home Phone

How did you become interested in Temple Sholom?

What would you like to gain personally from membership in Temple Sholom?

Member 1
Member 1 will be the primary person on the account

First Name

Last Name

Date of Birth

Gender

Specify Other Gender

Preferred Pronouns

Cell Phone

Business Phone

Occupation

Interests

Jewish?

Is this person Jewish?
(We have many interfaith families in the congregation and welcome non-Jewish partners to be members along with a Jewish partner.)

If not Jewish, what Religious Affiliation, if you care to share?

Previous Synagogue?

Have you previously belonged to a Synagogue? If so, please give us its name & location

Can you Read Hebrew?

Can you Speak Hebrew?

YesNo

Can you Chant Torah?

YesNo

What is your Hebrew Name?

What is your Mother's Hebrew Name?

What is your Father's Hebrew Name?

Anniversary (if applicable)

Previous or Current Experience as a Volunteer (where and in what capacity?)

Member 2
Member 2 will be the secondary person on the account

First Name

Last Name

Date of Birth

Gender

Specify Other Gender

Preferred Pronouns

Cell Phone

Business Phone

Occupation

Interests

Can you Read Hebrew?

YesNo

Can you Speak Hebrew?

YesNo

Can you Chant Torah?

YesNo

What is your Hebrew Name?

What is your Mother's Hebrew Name?

What is your Father's Hebrew Name?

Please detail previous or current experience as a volunteer (where and in what capacity?)

Your Children
Children that are 25 years and younger are considered members of your household

Child 1

First Name

Last Name

Birth Date

Hebrew Name

Child 2

First Name

Last Name

Birth Date

Hebrew Name

Child 3

First Name

Last Name

Birth Date

Hebrew Name

Child 4

First Name

Last Name

Birth Date

Hebrew Name

Please share some information on your child(ren)'s previous Religious School Experience

Child 1

Have they attended Religious School before?

YesNo

If over 13, have they had their Bar/Bat Mitzvah?

YesNo

If post bet mitzvah, have they had their Confirmation?

YesNo

What secular school do they attend?

Child 2

Have they attended Religious School before?

YesNo

If over 13, have they had their Bar/Bat Mitzvah?

YesNo

If post bet mitzvah, have they had their Confirmation?

YesNo

What secular school do they attend?

Child 3

Have they attended Religious School before?

YesNo

If over 13, have they had their Bar/Bat Mitzvah?

YesNo

If post bet mitzvah, have they had their Confirmation?

YesNo

What secular school do they attend?

Child 4

Have they attended Religious School before?

YesNo

If over 13, have they had their Bar/Bat Mitzvah?

YesNo

If post bet mitzvah, have they had their Confirmation?

YesNo

What secular school do they attend?

If you are interested in signing your child(ren) up for Religious School, proceed to this link once you've completed this form. https://www.sholomnj.org/form/religious-school-new-student-enrollment.html

Congregational Involvement
Getting involved in Temple activities is the best way to settle into and make friends in the congregation. Please place a check beside any activity that seems interesting, and that committee’s chairperson will contact you. (Please respond for both Member 1 and Member 2.)

Member 1

Member 2

Is there any interest or skill that isn't addressed? If so, please tell us about it

Yahrzeit Information

Please give us the names of those in your families or close to you who have died and for whom you would like to have the Yahrzeit recited and memorialized at the Shabbat services following the anniversary of their death.

Indicate whether you keep the English or Hebrew date; if the Hebrew date, please let us know if the date is before or after sundown.

Name

Relationship to mourner

Mourner

Date of Death

Hebrew or English?

HebrewEnglish

Before or After Sundown?

BeforeAfter

Name

Relationship to mourner

Mourner

Date of Death

Hebrew or English?

HebrewEnglish

Before or After Sundown?

BeforeAfter

Name

Relationship to mourner

Mourner

Date of Death

Hebrew or English?

HebrewEnglish

Before or After Sundown?

BeforeAfter

Have you made arrangements at a cemetery?

YesNo

If so, please supply the name and location

Are you interested in cemetery space at Mount Lebanon in Iselin, NJ?

YesNo

Have you made other arrangements in the event of your death? Please describe them.

Temple Sholom Membership Agreement

I/We elect to join Temple Sholom and become part of the Temple Sholom community. We agree to pay our yearly obligations for Dues, Religious School fees (if applicable) and any supplemental fees assessed to the membership. I/We understand our membership becomes effective upon a positive vote of the Temple Board of Trustees to accept it. Our membership will continue until such time as it is terminated for cause by the Board of Trustees or until Temple Sholom receives in writing notice of my/our resignation. The acceptance of my/our resignation by Temple Sholom will be subject to the satisfaction of all outstanding financial obligations.

I/We also agree to pay the sum of $2,200 toward the Temple Building Fund that is payable over 6 years; $2000 if paid entirely in the first year of membership. If you have documentation that you paid a Building Fund at another congregation, please submit and it will be applied towards your Building Fund commitment.

I/We wish to be billed for Dues and other regular payments

I/We will pay the Building Fund commitment

over timethis year

Please send my statements

via email to Member 1via email to Member 2via postal mail

Member 1 Signature

Please write your name and the date (MM/DD/YYYY) in the box above. Your name typed above will be treated as a signature. By signing this, you agree that the above information is accurate.

Member 2 Signature

Please write your name and the date (MM/DD/YYYY) in the box above. Your name typed above will be treated as a signature. By signing this, you agree that the above information is accurate.

*No one will be refused membership in our congregation for financial hardship. Please contact Treasurer Steven Saltzman (treasurer@sholomnj.org) if you have any questions or concerns regarding payment.

Welcome to the Temple Sholom Community!