Membership Forms

Notice

Technical difficulties have caused our membership forms to return error messages or to simply fail to send. We are now redirecting members to alternate forms (linked below) to prevent further difficulties. Our apologies go out to those who faced these technical issues. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Membership Criteria:

For a complete explanation the membership criteria, please go here and review the “Membership” section.  NOTE: By paying your membership dues commitment, you are agreeing that you meet the membership criteria.

Your Dues Go To…

• The Cedars building
• The Rabbi’s salary
• URJ dues (Union for Reform Judaism – these dues are mandatory for all Reform congregations)
• Security at High Holidays
• Technology that enables us to stream our services
• Events

 

How Much to Pay:

Due to ongoing global antisemitic incidents, Temple Shalom has faced an increase in security costs. Additionally, repairs to The Cedars are needed as we approach the 30-year anniversary of our building. These costs are significant. As always, no one will be turned away because of financial limitations, but if you can give a bit more this year, it would help a lot.

The suggested amount to pay is 1.8% of your annual salary. See special rates outlined below:

Students	$108
First-Time Single Member	$270
First-Time Member Family	$450
Affiliate (Members of other synagogues)	$75

No one will be turned away for financial reasons. Please reach out to president@templeshalom.ca and treasurer@templeshalom.ca if you have special circumstances to discuss.

How to pay:

There are multiple ways to pay dues.  Here they are listed in order of preference due to ease of management for the synagogue.

1) E-transfer.  This requires no mailing or paper of any kind.  Paying all at once or making multiple payments through the year are both OK.

2) A single cheque addressed to “Temple Shalom” and mailed to Temple Shalom at 543 Beechwood Dr, Waterloo, ON N2T 2S8

3) Multiple postdated cheques made out and mailed as in #2.

4) Using CanadaHelps is discouraged because of the work needed to unbundle contributions and properly attribute them to the correct members.  Also, CanadaHelps passes on only 96% of what you pay them. To calculate what you should pay multiply your intended contribution by 1.042.  (Ex.: if your dues are $1000 you need to pay CanadaHelps $1,042, so that we receive $1000.

5) Cash is the least optimal way to pay. If the paper trail gets separated from the cash, we do not know the cash’s origin; and snail mail is not safe. If you must pay in cash, please contact treasurer@templeshalom.ca to schedule hand off the cash.

Temple Shalom is registered with CRA as a charitable organization. Receipts for the 2025 tax year will be issued for all funds received by 31 December 2025. Once any payment is recorded into the Temple’s accounting software, you will be sent a tax receipt for the payment by email.  It is critical that you keep your email address up to date with us.  Please send any email address changes to treasurer@templeshalom.ca.